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Will You Hear “Polly's
Lecture to Dolly” or
Dick, William B., ed. Dick's juvenile speaker for boys and girls containing original and selected speeches and recitations for young folks and little children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation[,] successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [©1897, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff.
• Plain light blue wrappers printed in black.
“Adam Never Was a Boy . . .”Dick, William B., ed. Dick's little folk's reciter containing original and selected speeches and recitations for young children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, [Š1896, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff. 
• Publisher's off-white wrappers printed in black and with a list of “some good books” on the back wrapper. Small tear at top edge of front wrapper. A very nice copy. (10458)
One for Tiny TotsDick, William B., ed. Dick's speeches for tiny tots containing a selection of pieces specially adapted for quite young and very small children. New York: Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation[,] successor to Dick & Fitzgerald, n.d. [Š1895, but printed later]. 12mo. 90 pp., [3 (ads)] ff. 
• Publisher's pale blue wrappers printed in red. A fine copy. (7945)
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Bull-Baiting
— Deaf Education — A
Mother’s Horrible Crime(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine...Vol. XII. London:
R. Phillips, 1801. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 644 pp.
A preface to another volume in this series notes that “by means of some new literary connexions in america, we shall possess peculiar advantages in presenting to our Readers, accounts of the most interesting circumstances belonging to the United States”—and it was an American reader, in fact, who owned the present example.
Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.
• Disbound; marbled paper–covered boards much chipped and worn, with joints cracking and large portions of spine leather lost or worn down; sewing going, with some leaves separated. Some signatures uncut; page edges untrimmed and in some cases browned. Occasional edge chips. Volume now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.
For German-American Children — Learn Your
FRAKTUR Letters! Erstes Lesebuch für Kinder. Neu-York: Amerikanischen Tractat-Gesellschaft, [ca. 1850]. 16mo. Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 160 pp.; illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The title-page wood engraving is signed “Whitney” — possibly Elias James Whitney.
• Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped pictorial vignette in blind-stamped frame; cloth with spots of discoloration, corners and spine extremities a little rubbed. Light to moderate foxing/spotting. 
Charming.
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