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The Story of Lewis Carroll. Told by the Real Alice in Wonderland...with a Diary and Numerous Facsimile Letters written to...
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1899.
Price: $100
The Island School. A story of school life and adventure.
London: Aldine Publishing Company, [1895, 96].
Price: $850
![Edwin J. Brett's Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Greece. Complete in Two Volumes. WITH: [ ... Adventures in Australia. Complete.]. Boys' Adventure, Bracebridge Hemyng.](/pictures/thumb/242229.jpg?v=1534805781)
Edwin J. Brett's Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Greece. Complete in Two Volumes. WITH: [ ... Adventures in Australia. Complete.].
London: "Boys of England" Office, 1899. Harkaway Series Nos. 12 & 13. Both books were originally issued in parts (21 & 12 pts, respectively), "but here reissued as one of the sixpenny volumes in the Harkaway series of complete novels." (James & Smith).
Price: $500
The Young Apprentice, or The Watchwords of Old London.
London: [Edwin J. Brett, "Boys of England Office"], [ca. 1890]. Original 65 weekly numbers.
Price: $300
![Cheerful – Daring – Wonderful Ching-Ching [With:] The Wild Adventures of Jam Josser & Eddard Cutten at Home and Abroad. Boys’ Adventure, Edwin Harcourt Burrage.](/pictures/thumb/242224.jpg?v=1534805780)
Cheerful – Daring – Wonderful Ching-Ching [With:] The Wild Adventures of Jam Josser & Eddard Cutten at Home and Abroad.
[London: W. Lucas (?), ca. 1890]. Weekly penny parts. A collection of Ching-Ching adventures from “the boys’ Charles Dickens,” Edward Burrage (1839-1916). Ching-Ching rivaled the popularity the Victorian-era boys’ adventure hero Jack Harkaway.
Price: $400
Young Tom Wildrake’s Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
London: Published by George Emmett, at the Office, Hogarth House, St. Bride’s Avenue, [ca. 1885]. Early edition. James & Smith tentatively attributed this boys’ adventure to George Emmett, who appears here as the publisher. The illustrations, at least one of which is signed “Phiz,” have been attribited to Hablot Knight.....
Price: $350
A Spelling Book, formed upon an easy, systematical plan, and designed for small children and beginners.
Windsor[, Vermont]: Printed by Oliver Farnsworth, 1815. First Edition. In referring to Bradley’s “An Improved Spelling Book,” similar in format to this one and published the same year, Nietz informs us that “this book was different from many others in several respects. First, Bradley frankly acknowledged that ‘the extracts have.....
Price: $550
A CLASSIC
Peter Poodle Toy Maker to the King.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1906. First Edition. A CLASSIC.
Price: $850
War Paint, An Indian Pony.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Brown, paul. First edition. With a fine sepia pencil portrait of War Paint's head with feather hanging down and a warm inscription "To Laura Adams [sister of Fredrick B. Adams, Jr.] May you count many co--- Very sincerely Paul Brown '36."
Price: $1,250
Home and its Pleasures: Simple Stories for Young People.
London: Addey and Co, 1852. First edition.
Price: $125
INSCRIBED TO HER SECRETARY
The Dragon Fish.
New York: John Day, [1944]. First Edition. INSCRIBED TO HER SECRETARY. INSCRIBED by Buck to her secretary of 30 years, "To Mrs. Shaddlinger and her children. With warm regards, Pearl S. Buck"
Price: $250
The Water-Buffalo Children.
New York: John Day, [1943]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] with appreciation and good wishes. Pearl S. Buck."
Price: $250
Yu Lan: Flying Boy of China.
New York: John Day, [1945]. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to her secretary’s daughter, Jackie Shaddlinger, "For Jackie [Shaddlinger] Pearl S. Buck."
Price: $250
The Age of Chivalry. Part I. King Arthur and His Knights. Part II. The Mabinogeon; or, Welsh Popular Tales.
Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1859. First edition, with frontispiece inserted and both printer and stereotyper's names on copyright page.
Price: $500
Costume Plates
A Geographical Present: being Descriptions of the Several Countries of Asia, &c. Compiled from the Best Authorities. With Representations of...
New York: published by William Burgess Juvenile Emporium [R. & G. Wood, Printers], 1831. First edition. Costume Plates.
Price: $200
Inscribed by Burroughs to 'Jane'
Tarzan of the Apes.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [co. 1914]. Reprint. Inscribed by Burroughs to 'Jane'. Inscribed by Burroughs to Maureen "Jane" Farrow on the ffep, "… with all good wishes from her old friend and admirer, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzana, California, January 31, 1938." Maureen O'Sullivan Farrow (1911-1998) played Jane alongside Johnny...
Price: $7,500
An Abridgment of the New Robinson Crusoe; An Instructive and Entertaining History, for the Use of Children of Both Sexes...
New York: printed and published by I. Riley, 1811. "Next to Defoe’s original version, the most popular adaptation was Campe’s New Robinson Crusoe … published in two volumes at Hamburgh in 1779. It was in the form of a dialogue between a parent and his children. To make Robinson Crusoe’s.....
Price: $375
Instructions Chretiennes pour les Jeunes Gens; Utiles à Toutes Sortes de Personnes; melées de plusieurs Traits d'Histoire et d'Examples Edifians...
Montreal: Publié pour A. Bowman à L'Imprimerie de lane et Bowman, No. 7, Rue St. Francois Xavier, 1816. Imprimées sur la Quatrème édition d'Avignon revue et corrigée.
Price: $100
Story of Jack Halyard, the Sailor Boy; or, The Virtuous Family.
Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt & Son, 1845. Improved edition.
Price: $100
The Hunting of the Snark. The Annotated Snark by Martin Gardner. The Designs for the Snark by Charles Mitchell. The...
Los Altos, CA: William Kaufmann, Inc, printed by the Stinehour Press, [1981]. The Cenntenial Edition. No. 219 of 395 copies. Colophon signed by Martin Gardner, Charles Mitchell, Selwyn H. Goodacre, and Roderick Stinehour.
Price: $250
Davy and the Goblin, or, What Followed Reading "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1886. First Edition, First State with Corewa not Korea on p. xi of publisher's ads at back. It was one of the first "imitations" inspired by Lewis Carroll's two books, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Price: $250
History of Fair Rosamond, otherwise Eleanor Clifford; and her Royal Paramour, Henry the Seond, King of England, with an Affecting...
Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, [ca. 1880's]. Facsimile of this chapbook, this bearing the numerals “ix. 3” along the lower margin.
Price: $50