London: Dean & Son, Ltd., 160a Fleet St. E.C. Place Published: London Publisher: Dean & Son, Ltd., 160a Fleet St. E.C. Date Published: [1894] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover A RARE JUVENILE BOOK IN ANY CONDITION First edition. 9-3/8 x 7 inches, 48 unnumbered pages, 7 pages of ads..... More
London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner. Place Published: London Publisher: Hildesheimer & Faulkner Date Published: [1892] Edition: Early edition Binding: Hard Cover 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" . 18pp. Solied covers, inside end papers reinforced, new end paper at back and agetoned paper, otherwise good condition overall. Short collection of mostly..... More
London: Thomas Dean & Son, Threadneedle Street. Place Published: London Publisher: Thomas Dean & Son, Threadneedle Street Date Published: [1847] Edition: Later edition Binding: Hard Cover SCARCE JUVENILE STORY BOOK WITH 7 COLOUR PLATES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION Later UK edition. 14.5cm x 11.5cm, (5 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches)..... More
Date Published: [1955] to 1977 Binding: No binding Susan Cheever is a novelist, nonfiction author, journalist, literary historian, teacher, and biographer. Cheever was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. She graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University. Her father was a celebrated American novelist and short story writer. This collection contains..... More
Date Published: 1866-1902 Binding: No binding & hard cover Mary Mapes Dodge was an American children's writer best known for her story Hans Brinker (1865). She was also editor of the illustrated magazine Hearth and Home and the phenomenally successful children's periodical, St. Nicholas Magazine. This collection includes 16 items..... More
Halifax: Milner & Sowerby. Place Published: Halifax Publisher: Milner & Sowerby Date Published: 1859 Edition: Later edition Binding: Hard Cover SCARCE 1859 EDITION OF THREE OF EDGEWORTH'S STORIES Later edition. 5 x 3 inces, frontis, 6, [7]-154pp. (6pp ads) original soiled red cloth with elaborate gilt type on spine and..... More
Date Published: 1844 to 188? Binding: Captain Frederick Marryat was a Royal Navy officer, a novelist, and an acquaintance of Charles Dickens. He is noted today as an early pioneer of the sea story, particularly for his semi-autobiographical novels and for his children's novels. He is probably one of..... More
Toronto, London UK: Printed for Wm. Warwick & Son, by Dudley & Burns. Place Published: Toronto, London UK Publisher: Printed for Wm. Warwick & Son, by Dudley & Burns Date Published: 1888 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Soft Cover SCARCE COLOUR PLATE OF SIR JOHN MOORE'S RETREAT TO CORUNNA (Sir John..... More
Date Published: 1954 to 1994 Binding: No binding & hard cover Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet, novelist, editor and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the United States Library of..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. Place Published: London Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green Date Published: 1831 Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover 14x9cm, 240 pages, Bound in quarter leather, marble boards, yellow end papers. The spine is sun faded, rubbed at the edges with a 2cm..... More
Date Published: [1876] Edition: 1st Edition Binding: Hard Cover MANUSCRIPT (NOT COMPLETE) OF A RARE POETRY BOOK Charlotte Aurelia Townsend (née Winder), the daughter of General William Winder and Gertrude Polk of Maryland, was born at Rewastico, Somerset, Maryland, in 1806. Her brother, General John Winder (1800-1865), was the Confederate..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row. Place Published: London Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row Date Published: 1876 Edition: 3rd Edition Binding: Hard Cover 4 1/2” x 6 3/4”. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Green cloth covers with black decorative double border and gold gilt seal in..... More
Boston: Hall & Whiting. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Hall & Whiting Date Published: 1881 Edition: 5th Edition or later edition Binding: Hard Cover SCARCE LATER EDITION ON THIS TITLE Later US edition. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, Rebacked preserving original brown cloth spine, front and back boards. Black and..... More
London: Harvey and Darton. Place Published: London Publisher: Harvey and Darton Date Published: 1826 Edition: 1st Binding: Hard Cover First Edition. Title page dated 1826. 5.5 x 3.5 inches, (2), iv, 168pp., [4pp publisher's ads]. Recased preserving contemporary leather spine with gilt type, and marbled boards, worn corners, with minor..... More
London: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row. Place Published: London Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons, Patterson Row Date Published: 1869 Edition: 1st, 1st issue Binding: Hard Cover 4 1/2” x 6 3/4”. viii, [9]-207p. including 3pp. appendix. Illustrated. Rebacked using original decorative Green elborately embossed cloth with gilt type on..... More
Boston: Hall and Whiting. Place Published: Boston Publisher: Hall and Whiting Date Published: 1881 Binding: Hard Cover 6-3/4 x 4-1/4 inches, (6), [7]-356, [357]-376 appendix) Rebacked, red cloth with gilt title and elaborate black decorations with very minor wrinkling of cloth on back cover, new endpapers and one illustration as..... More
London: Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street and A.K. Newman & Co. Leadenhall-Street. Place Published: London Publisher: Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street and A.K. Newman & Co. Leadenhall-Street. Date Published: [1830] Edition: 2nd Edition Binding: Soft Cover SCARCE CP TRAILL BOOKLET 15 HAND-COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS 2nd edition. 7 x 4-1/4 inches. Original teal green..... More
Date Published: 1925 to 1942 Binding: Hendrik Willem van Loon (1882-1944) was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, illustrator, and award-winning children’s book author winning the first Newberry Medal in 1922 for “The Story of Mankind”. In 1942 he was knighted by Queen Wilhelmina for his contribution to the Dutch resistance..... More
Date Published: 1900 to 1938 Binding: No binding & hard cover Kate Douglas Wiggin was the author of numerous children's books, notably, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm; she also founded the first free kindergarten in San Francisco, and devoted much of her working life to children's welfare and charities. While Wiggin’s..... More