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ONLY TWO Libraries Report Ownership
The infant's annual, with forty engravings. New York: E. Kearny, [1843]. 12mo. Frontis., 28, [2], 5–29, [1 (blank)] pp.; 10 plts.
40 engravings touted.
Click the image for an enlargement. American Imprints locates only the copy at the Library of Congress, and OCLC adds only NYPL!
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Presented to Matilda C. Brown, by her teacher Dec. 25th, [18]46 Elizabeth Shannon [/] Dansville, NY.” The back free endpaper bears a lighter pencilled inscription reading “A reward for good scholarship and correct deportment.”
• Checklist of American Imprints 43-2678. Publisher's green cloth, title gilt-stamped on front cover and spine; binding cocked, cloth with spots of discoloration, corners rubbed, spine gilt dimmed. All edges gilt. Endpapers with inscriptions as above. Foxed. Sewing loosening, with pages starting to loosen. (23780)
Mystery — Scandal? In memoriam Elliott Speer, 1898–1934. East Northfield, Mass.: 1935. Small 8vo. 36 pp.; illus. 
He was shot to death in his study on 14 September by a still unknown gunman using a shotgun! The Northfield Schools Bulletin. Vol. XXIII, January 1935, no. 1.
Craig Walley's relatively recent Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer has resurrected interest in the mystery.
• Original wrappers. Fine. (17126)
AN ARTISTIC
ANTHOLOGY King Christmas. After Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Miss Cassella & others. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., copyright 1881. 8vo. 32 pp.; illus.
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“Do
YOU Know the Secret?” Laughlin, Clara E. Everybody's lonesome: A true fairy story. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., (copyright 1910). 8vo. 121, [5] pp.; 2 plts.
• Publisher's paper-covered boards, front cover as above, in original dust wrapper; binding very slightly cocked, paper just starting to crack along part of back joint, jacket sunned with edges and extremities rubbed, back corner creased, and a few small edge nicks. Front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. (24488)
In Original Boards Lebrun, Henri. Aventures et conquetes de Fernand Cortez au Mexique. Tours: Chez Ad. Mame, 1839. 12mo. xxiii, 288 pp., 3 plts., engr. title.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Provenance: Old signatures of Eustace Barron and Louis Despres, fils.
• Publisher's blue diced paper–covered boards, worn and partly discolored; foxing. Signatures as above. Housed in a cloth clamshell case. (20508)
Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp. 
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the image to the left for an enlargement.
• Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label; clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper a little chipped at edges. (22940)
“The
Railroad Ride”
(“Hurra ho!”)
— Also “The Beggars”The little keepsake; a poetic gift for children. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1857]. 16mo (8.1 cm, 3.2"). 8 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's printed green paper wrappers, with small spots of staining but very little wear. Pages stained. (24566)
Three
StoriesILLUSTRATED Little stories for little children.
New York: Mahlon Day, n.d. [ca. 1830]. 48mo (8.9 cm, 3.4"). 16 pp.; illus.
Illustrated
with 11 postage stamp-size engravings. Due to a printer's error,
page 11 comes before page 10.
• Sewn; without wrappers. Soiled. Age-toned. Title-page chipped, with partial loss of title-page engraving and loss of text on opposite side of page. Very short tears in the margins of a few pages. (4861)
SCARCE
. . . Lucie's pony. Boston:
Henry Hoyt, [ca. 1860]. 16mo. 64 pp. 
• Publisher's purple cloth embossed in blind. Covers discolored and "splotchy." (4558)
Harrisburg
Luther-CatechismusLuther, Martin. Der kleine Catechismus des seligen D. Martin Luthers.... Harrisburg: Gedruckt und zu haben bey Jacob Baab, 1831. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.625"). 125, [1] pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Quarter sheep over marbled paper: chipped and rubbed; remnants of a paper title label on spine. Lightly browned with foxing/spotting as in common; dog-eared with some shallowly chipped corners resulting in no loss of text. Inked ownership inscription on recto of front free endpaper and of front fly-leaf.
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