Springfield: Published by G. and C. Merriam, 1833. First edition. Mathematical Boy Genius. Colburn (1804-1839), the “American lightning-calculating boy.” His extraordinary calculating powers became evident when at the age of 6 he could calculate amazing figures. His father took him to various institutions in America and then to Europe showing..... Read More about A Memoir of Zerah Colburn; Written by Himself. Containing an Account of the First discovery of...

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First English edition. ‘must always appeal to children young and old’. A modern fairy tale, here in the first edition in English, translated by Mary Alice Murray. “Her satisfying English-language version of the puppet’s wayward progress to real boyhood largely avoided ‘translatorese’” (Grolier 100). A...... Read More about The Story of a Puppet or The Adventures of Pinocchio. Translated from the Italian by M. A....

An original drawing by the eccentric and compulsive hoarder Langley Collyer, who, with his brother Homer, lived in a Harlem brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue filled with a lifetime's accumulation of books, paper, and garbage. Read More about Drawings, two sided. with some damage. Friends identified by name on the larger more complicated...

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883. Later edition (First was 1872). Read More about What Katy Did. A Story

Boston: G.W. Cottrell, n.d. (c. 1850-1870s). Read More about Set of Uniformly bound series on Works including The Token of Friendship, or Home. The Centre of...

New York: Published by The Century Co, [1894]. First edition. With Palmer Cox Drawing. The fourth book of the popular Brownie series. Not only is there a charming pen-and-ink Brownie vignette by Palmer Cox laid in (9 x 9 cm.), but a substantial portion of the large pictorial dust jacket..... Read More about The Brownies Around the World

New York: Published by The Century Co, [1893]. First edition. The third book of the popular Brownie series. Read More about The Brownies at Home

New York: Published by The Century Co, [1887]. First edition, second issue, with de Vinne seal on copyright page. The First Brownie Book: With an Original Drawing. The first book of the immensely popular Brownie series. This copy is accompanied by a an original Palmer Cox pen-and-ink drawing for the..... Read More about The Brownies: Their Book

London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co, 1893. Crane, Walter. First Crane Edition. Read More about The Old Garden and Other Verses

Saint Paul, Minn: Printed by the Banning Press…For Unity Church of St. Paul, [1891]. First edition of his first book. First Book. Scarce. Longtime minister of the First Parish in Cambridge and preacher for Harvard College, the author later wrote several well known and popular whimsical essays including “The Pardoner's..... Read More about Miss Muffet's Christmas Party. A Tale Written for and Read to the Children of the Unity Church...

London: Charles Baldwyn, 1824. Cruikshank, George. First edition, first issue, with "creditor" for "debtor" on p. 32, l. 10; and with the "Dead Rider" plate at p. 58, later suppressed. Printed by T. White, Johnston's Court, Fleet Street. Read More about Italian Tales. Tales of Humour, Gallantry, and Romance

Boston: Published by Cummings and Hilliard ... Stereotyped by T.H. Carter and Co, 1823. Fourth edition. Read More about First Lessons in Geography and Astronomy, With Seven Plain Maps, and A View of the Solar System,...