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Scarce Perishable Press Ephemera: Laura Evans Hamady, Printer's Devil”
A Beautiful Birth Announcement (PROOFSHEETS)
(A Baby Girl's Birth Announcement – Long Labor for BOTH Parents)!  Hamady, Walter.   Proofs: Laura's birth announcement. [Mt. Horeb, WI]: Perishable Press, 1975. 8vo (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [10] ff.; illus.
$1500.00
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Bang! Bang! Went the Guns”
(A Little Boy's PRESENT, A Century Ago)?  Ten little tin soldiers.  Akron, OH: Saalfield Pub. Co., [1910]. 8vo. [6] pp.; illus.
$85.00
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Poetic Religious Meditations, forChildren
(Now Guess WHY the Front Wrapper Is Blazoned with a CRAB . . . )
Advice and select hymns, for the instruction of little children. Concord: Atwood & Brown, 1847. 16mo (9.9 cm, 3.9"). 16 pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Lovely Production of a Timeless Story
Alcott, Louisa May.  Little women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. 8vo. viii, [6], 428, [4] pp.; 14 plts. (2 double).
$130.00
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A Real Jungle Book
Allee, Warder C., & Marjorie Hill Allee.  Jungle island. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., © 1925. 12mo. Frontis., x, 215, [1] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Tales for the Ageless: ILLUSTRATED Fairy Tales,
Fables, Allegories, & Legends
Andersen, Hans Christian; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Charles Perrault; et al.   Aladdin and the wonderful lamp. Joseph and his brothers. The three bears. The ugly duckling. The sleeping beauty in the wood. The tale of Ali Baba and the forty thieves. Bluebeard. Hansel and Gretel. Jack and the beanstalk. The emperor's new clothes. Pandora's box. King Midas and the golden touch. Beauty and the beast. Dick Whittington and his cat. St. George and the dragon. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949-1952. 8vo (31 cm, 12.1"). 15 vols. Illus.
$2500.00
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The Most FamousFairy-Tale Author of All
Andersen, Hans Christian.  The fairy tale of my life. New York (pr. in Denmark): British Book Centre Inc., (copyright 1954). Folio. 350 pp.; illus.
$100.00

Tom, I don't believe it can be done!
Dad, I'm sure it can
!
Appleton, Victor.  Tom Swift and his photo telephone, or The picture that saved a fortune. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1927]. 8vo. 216, 4 [ads] pp.
$30.00
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Most Salutary & Important Advice”
Atmore, Charles.  Serious advice, from a father to his children, respecting their conduct in the world; civil, moral, and religious. Philadelphia: J.H. Cunningham, 1819. 12mo (13.4 cm, 5.25"). Frontis., 36 pp.
[SOLD]
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DefiningChild” for Baptismal Purposes RARE
Barker, Thomas.  The duty, circumstances, and benefits of baptism, determined by evidence ... with an appendix, shewing the meaning of several Greek words in the New Testament. London: B. White, 1771. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). x, 208, [6 (index & errata)] pp.
$650.00
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A TREASURY
Barnardo, T.J., ed.  Our darlings. London: J.F. Shaw & Co., 1884. 8vo. viii, 424, [2 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$85.00
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Observant & Thoughtful
Barrow, William.  An essay on education; in which are particularly considered the merits and the defects of the discipline and instruction in our academies ... the second edition, corrected and enlarged. London: Pr. for F. & C. Rivington by Bye & Law, 1804. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). 2 vols. I: xxiv, 342, [2 (1 adv.)] pp. II: iv, 412 pp.
$500.00

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To Engage the Mind, By Attracting the Eye”
Bible.  English. Authorized. 1836. Selections.  A newhieroglyphical Bible. With four hundred embellishments on wood. Chiswick: Pr. by C. Whittingham for William Jackson, New York, 1836. 12mo (15.4 cm, 6.1"). 106, [2 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Phinney Thumb Bible, 1839
Bible. English. Selections. 1839.  History of the Bible. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1839. 16mo (4.9 cm, 1.9"). 192 pp.; illus.
$300.00
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Toy” Bible Interesting Stories” &Lots of Pictures
Bible.  English. Authorized. Selections. 1841.  Little picture Bible; containing interesting stories from the Old and the New Testaments. New Haven: S. Babcock, 1841. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). 24 pp.
$175.00
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Three Old Testament Stories, FourNEW
Bible.  English. Selections.  Bible stories and pictures, from the Old and New Testaments. New Haven: Sidney Babcock, [ca. 1845?]. 16mo (9.3 cm, 3.7"). 16 pp.; illus.
$125.00
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“For One Lost Friend a Tear Will Trickle, & a Sigh Ascend”
B[ishop], S[amuel].  Broadside, begins: On the late Rev. James Townley, A.M. rector of St. Bennet Gracechurch, London, and head-master of Merchant-Taylors' School. [London]: W. Wilson, printer, no date [1778]. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
$375.00
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Three Bishops, in Three Bumpers, with Three Cheers
Bishop, Samuel; Mary Bishop; & Mary Palmer Bishop.   Broadside, begins: On celebrating the sixtieth birth-day of Kirkes Townley, Esq. July 27, 1776. Addressed to the two and twenty Townleys. No place: No publisher/printer, 1776. Folio (30.5 cm; 12"). [1] p.
$375.00
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Recibiremos una Inteligencia Inculta y en Breve la Devolveremos Ilustrada
A Plan Rigorous, Classical, &
AMBITIOUS!
Boada y Malmes, Miguel.  [drop-title] Colegio de Santo Tomas de Aquino, bajo la direccion de MigIel Boada y Balmes, sito en la Nueva Guatemala, Calle de la Victoria, No. 17. [colophon: Guatemala: Tipografia y litograpfia del “Noticioso”, 1862]. Folio (33 cm; 13"). [2] pp, with integral blank leaf.
$650.00
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Light Reading of theSpanish Romantic Movement
Bonilla, José Maria, ed.  El Cisne, periodico semanal de literature, historia, moral, costumbres, artes, modas y conocimientes útiles. Valencia: Imprenta a Cargo de Lluch, 1840. 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.25"). 128, 160 pp.; 16 plts.
$500.00
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Two Beloved Stories in aDecorative Binding
Brown, John.  Rab and his friends. Marjorie Fleming. New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., [ca. 1900]. 8vo. Frontis., 78 pp.
$30.00

Memorizing MonarchsRoyalty in Rhyme
Brown, Louisa.  Historical questions on the kings of England, in verse. Calculated to fix on the minds of children some of the most striking events of each reign. Boston: Munroe & Francis, No. 4 Cornhill, and David Francis, 90 Newberry Street, [1823?]. 12mo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). 35, [1] p.
[SOLD]
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A Volume EXTRA ILLUSTRATED & Then Some!
Brown University.  Celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1865. 4to (26.5 cm; 10.25"). [4] ff., 178 pp., [1] f.
$10,000.00
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Burnett, Frances Hodgson.   Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus.
$150.00


An Overview ofEarly American Children's Printing: 12 Intriguing Examples
Carey, Mathew; Catherine Ann Dorset; Hannah More, et al.   Set of American children's books, 1808–28. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner et al., 1808–1828. (Case: 16.8 cm, 6.6"). 12 items, varying sizes and paginations.
[SOLD]
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Alice inAMERICA
Carroll, Lewis [pseud. of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson].  Alice's adventures in Wonderland. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., [10], 192 pp.; illus.
$6750.00
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What to Wear, theDuty of Schoole-Masters, Divorce Sentences, & More
Church of England.  Constitutions and canons. 1603. English.   Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province: And agreed upon with the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at London, anno Dom. 1603, and in the year of the reign of our soveraigne Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the 37. And now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesties authority under the Great Seal of England. London: Pr. by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Small 4to. [60] ff.
$500.00
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THE PAPERS OF LOUISE AMELIA KNAPP SMITH CLAPPE (“DAME SHIRLEY”)     

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Has Any Reader Ever Thought How Strange a Place
the World Would Be without Ships?
Cooke, Arthur Owens.  Ships and sea-faring. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons (incorporating T.C. & E.C. Jack)., [ca. 1920]. 12mo. viii, 121, [3] pp.; 48 plts.
$50.00
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My Own Daughter; Dayspring & Dancer & Gleam
Crossley-Holland, Kevin.  Oenone in January. Gwent: The Old Stile Press, 1988. 12mo (18 cm, 7.1"). 21, [3] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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