[Rarebooks] FS: 10 Juveniles 1799-1885

Tue May 17 13:06:06 EDT 2005

1. LITTLE HELEN OR A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A NAUGHTY GIRL. New Haven: 
S. Babcock, ca. 1825. Illustrated by 10 woodcuts. Pictorial wraps. 2 
3/4 x 4 1/4". [16 pgs] Rear panel has advertisement for more "Babcock 
Toy Books". Minor foxing else fine. <A 
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2.  ENGLISH, HARRIET.  CONVERSATIONS AND AMUSING TALES OFFERED TO THE 
PUBLICK FOR THE YOUTH OF GREAT BRITAIN. Picadilly: Hatchard, 1799. 
Illustrated by 12 small vignette oval aquatints . 4to. [[ii]-xi, [3], 
385, [7] pgs] Missing frontis. Original binding but very worn. 
Dampstain affecting first three leaves. Owner's contemporary charming 
bookplate and signature. Dedicated to Princess Amelia, George III's 
youngest daughter. List of subscribers at rear. Abbey, Life, 439. 
$425.00

3.  GREENAWAY, KATE.  MARIGOLD GARDEN. London: George Routledge and 
Sons, n.d. (1885). Illustrated by Kate Greenaway printed in colours 
by Edmund Evans. First edition. Pictorial paper covered boards, front 
and rear, with brown cloth spine. 4to. [60 pgs] Good. Two previous 
owners' inscriptions at half-title page, one from Orley Whitcomb to 
Marguerite Whitcomb dated 1885 and one from mMarguerite Whitcomb to 
the Palmer children, dated 1944.  So Marguerite owned it for 60 
years. Several signatures loosening. Minor shelfwear to extremities. 
$125.00

4. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS, A. Boston: 
Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Illustrated by Billings. First 
edition. Contemporary three-quarter red leather with marbled boards 
and end-papers, t.e.g . Both boards starting at hinges (front board 
nearly detached) and worn at extremities. Two owners' inscriptions, 
one dated January 1, 1852. This is the first issue of the first 
edition, with "lifed" on page 21, line 3. Contents fine. Peter Parley 
to Penrod, p. 6. BAL 7606 <A 
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$650.00

5. HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. TRUE STORIES FROM HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 
Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. First impression of first 
edition. Red cloth, decorative red and gilt spine . 16mo. Very good. 
Owner inscription dated 1851. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. 
No comma after 'way' first page of Preface. 335 pages only. 
Illustrated. Bal. 7655,1. <A 
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$230.00

6.  LEAR , EDWARD.  BOOK OF NONSENSE, A. New York: Miller, (1863). 
Illustrated by 111 fine chromolithographed plates. First American 
edition. Original green pictorial cloth gilt. Oblong 8vo. Very good. 
 From the tenth London edition. Rebacked with original spine 
laid-down. Original end papers with faint dampstain which very 
slightly affects next page, both front and rear. A few minor finger 
marks. No foxing. Bright and clean and tight inside and out.  $230.00

7. MARTINEAU, HARRIET. PLAYFELLOW. CONTAINING "THE SETTLERS AT 
HOME", "THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE", "FEATS ON THE FIORD", "THE 
CROFTON BOYS, THE. London: George Routledge and Sons, ca. 1875. 
Illustrated by hand-colored plates. Decorative green and black front 
board and spine, gilt lettering on front board and spine. 8vo. [502 
pgs] Very good. Small white library bookplate on paste-down dated 
1877, from the Sturgis Libray in Barnstable MA, the oldest public 
library in the United States. Two small library stamps on title page 
but uncirculated. Front inner hinge weak. Light foxing to end papers 
and fore-edge. Corners slighty bumped <A 
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$75.00

8. OVERTON, ROBERT. NAUGHTY CHILDREN. London and New York: W. 
Hegelberg, ca.1880 . Illustrated by chromolithographs. heavy card 
stock, including leaves. 4 1/12 x 5" oblong. As New/Very good. 
Exquisite chromolithographs in the manner of Kate Greenaway and 
Walter Crane. Two of the poems are about "little n****r boys" with 
typically racist pictures. This book retains its beige colored dust 
jacket with line drawings of a group of little girls, repeating the 
colorful image on the front board. The dust jacket has one small chip 
and a few short tears with no loss. Very scarce. <A 
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9. STRONG, REV. J. . D. WILFUL WASTE. Boston: D. Lothrop and Co, 
ca. 1860. Illustrated by woodcuts. Royal blue cloth with hand-colored 
pastedown of boy and girl on front board. 3 x 4 1/2". Fine. Two pages 
roughly opened (willful waste?). The protaganist is a little girl 
called Anna Copley. <A 
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10. VERY, LYDIA. L. RED RIDING HOOD. Boston, MA: L. Prang & Co, 
1863. Illustrated by chromolithographs. First edition. [16 pgs] Fine. 
Author (also illustrator) was sister to New England transcendental 
poet, Jones Very. Original shape book of Red Riding Hood. Colors are 
bright, the book is clean and tight. Said to be the first American 
shape book. The front cover has a tiny (1/4") scrape on Red Riding 
Hood's cloak. Rare juvenile. <A 
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