![Item #4057 [FUNERARY LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN]. A memoir of Isabella Maria L.--, who happily...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4057.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975585)
Birmingham (England): Printed for T. Groom, n.d. (after 1832). Fourth edition. 32mo. 32pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's red wrappers, lettered and decorated in gilt. A trifle rubbed and marked. Early ink gift inscription inside upper wrapper (bottom corner of lower wrapper stained). DREARY JUVENILE CONDUCT OF LIFE TALE..... More
![Item #3585 [MANUSCRIPT]. [JAPANESE FOLKTALE]. "Momotaro" (Cover title). "Nippon Mukashi-banashi"...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3585.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637016679)
S.l. (Britain?): 1920s (ca.). Slim 8vo. 43 unnumbered pages + one full-page drawing. Handmade notebook tied with string, covers of gilt sprinkled card-stock (some surface scratching and wear to extremities; some unobjectionable foxing and staining). Curious homemade manuscript of what appears to be an unpublished English translation of the beloved..... More
![Item #3681 [FRENCH CHILDREN'S BOOK WITH HAND-COLORED PLATES]. Historiettes et Contes a ma Petite...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3681.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643061907)
Paris and Lille: Delarue / Castiaux, n.d. (ca. 1820). 12mo. 1 f. ("garde"), 1 f. (colored frontispiece), 1 f. (title-page), [5]-178 pp., 1 f. ("garde"). With 8 color woodcut plates, all depicting two scenes identified in cursive lettering. Modern sturdy half morocco over comb-marbled boards. Portion of text torn away..... More
![Item #2897 [PRINTED ON LINEN]. [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Pussy Picture Book. Children's Book - Printed...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2897.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1571435645)
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co., ca. 1915? Square 4to., stapled as issued. COMPLETE: 6 leaves (12 pp.) including front cover and back cover, all printed on soft linen. Front and back cover plus 4 other pages printed in color, the rest monochrome (printed in blue/green) allowing for hand-coloring. Very worn..... More
![Item #3277 [CHILDREN'S CHAPBOOK / BOOKSELLING]. The Shipwreck; or, Humanity Rewarded. New Haven -...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3277.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673876896)
New-Haven, CT: Sidney's Press for J. Babcock & Son, 1820. 32mo. (103 x 60 mm). Woocut frontispiece, title-page, alphabet on verso with uppercase roman and italic type, pp. [5]-30 + 1 p. ads for J. Babcock & Son. Contemporary (original?) American "Dutch" gilt floral wrappers, stitched (overcase stitching at a...... More
![Item #4061 [ALPHABET GAME CA. 1840]. Les lettres en action un petit alphabet Mnemonique...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696975622)
s.l. (but Paris): Aubert, n.d. (1840s). Educational game, housed in the original presentation box (185 x 140 x 20 mm); all edges of lid with ornate gilt foil floral border, box edged with green and gilt decorative paper, lower box edged in gilt, and divided internally into two compartments, the..... More
Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market-Street, Brown & Merritt, printers, 24, Church-alley), 1809 (i.e. 1821). Square 12mo. 16 pp. With 8 plates including frontispiece (dated 1821) which has been mounted inside front wrapper as per most copies (one plate loose; final page partially pasted onto the inside..... More
![Item #4007 [AMERICAN CHAPBOOKS 1808-1828]. A collection of 12 chapbooks in original boards or...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4007.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1688424319)
Philadelphia and New York: various publishers, 1808-1828. A collection of 12 chapbooks in original boards or wrappers. Original Rosenbach slipcase somewhat worn but perfectly sound (spine title: "American Children's Books 1808-1828"), now superfluous as all 12 chapbooks are have been preserved individually in mylar sleeves. A collection of 12 early..... More
![Item #3614 [CHILDREN'S BOOK]. Little Slam Bang (i.e. Slambang the Elephant). Helen . Ransom...](https://michaellaird.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3614.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1637016942)
Chicago: P.F. Volland Co., 1928. First Edition. Square 8vo. 39 pp. (small tears in lower margins of pp. 29-32). Original illustrated boards (insignificant smudging on back cover), green cloth spine. NEAR FINE CONDITION. Original illustrated box, reproducing front cover of the book (slight soiling on top and botton, edges a...... More
