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Hide & Seek. Rolling a Hoop. Playing with Dolls.

Wee Elsie's picture book. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., © 1877. 4to. 80 pp.; illus.
$75.00

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Uncommon sole edition

Binding: Publisher's brick-colored cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in black and gilt withthree affixed CHROMOLITHOGRAPHIC illustrations of children at play.

• Binding as above, spine and extremities moderately worn, small spots of light discoloration mostly confined to spine and edges. Pages faintly age-toned with intermittent light spotting; six images with early hand-coloring as above. Really, a very pleasing copy anda covetable gift for anyone who appreciates the joys of childhood. (30281)

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A Landmark ofAmerican Nursing Education

Weeks-Shaw, Clara S. A text-book of nursing. For the use of training schools, families, and private students. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889. 12mo. Frontis., 396, [10 (adv.)] pp.; 1 fold. chart., 1 col. plt., illus.
$97.50

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• Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and vignette of an invalid, spine with gilt-stamped title; minor wear to edges and extremities, spine with small area of discoloration at head. Ex–social club library with one of its most attractive bookplates on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, small inked numeral on dedication page, no other library markings. Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (27183)

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A Guide to Youth in TheirFIRST Attempts at Prayer

Westminster Assembly (1643–52). The shorter catechism: Composed by the Assembly of Divines ... containing the principles of the Christian religion; with Scripture proofs. Albany: Websters & Skinners, 1814. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). 70, [2 (blank)] pp.
$125.00

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Very few institutions hold actual hard copies of this edition, as opposed to microform; OCLC locatesonly two U.S. institutional holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.

• Shaw & Shoemaker 33653. Later paper wrappers, lightly dust-soiled. Front flyleaves with early pencilled inscriptions; first page of preface with rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin. Foxed; upper corners bumped yet paper untattered. (25893)

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A Time Capsule

Wharton, Edith. American and British verse from the Yale Review. New Haven: Yale University Press; London: Hymphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). 52, [2] pp.
$100.00

• Garrison B15. Publisher’s printed paper–covered boards, darkened, most notably over spine. Front free endpaper with pencilled owner’s name. Pages slightly age-toned.

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Charming Cloth Covers

Wharton, Edith. French ways and their meaning. New York & London: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). xi, [3], 149, [1] pp.
$200.00

• Garrison A28.I.a. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover stamped with a French country scene in white, red, and gold, spine with gilt-stamped title; original box lacking, cloth a bit rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with spine title dimmed. Front free endpaper with inked owner’s inscription dated 1919. Faint waterstaining to outer margins of pp. 21–35.

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Rewritten Mother Goose onSalmon Pink Paper

Whitney, Adelaide Dutton Train. Mother Goose for grown folks. A Christmas reading. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1860. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). Frontis., iv, 111, [3], 6 (adv.) pp.
$275.00

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Binding: Publisher's deeply waved terra-cotta cloth of Krupp's style Wav6, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped frame.

• Binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, p. 43. Binding as above, corners/edges slightly rubbed and spine pulled at top; interior with an upper corner bumped. A very attractive, clean copy. (26714)

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