Very scarce heavily illustrated Victorian children’s picture book issued for the Christmas holiday trade. A three-quarter-page engraving illustrates each page, beneath which is a poetical... Read More
Juvenile book or annual—Chatterbox for 1913—seen here in a brightly gilt American publisher’s trade cloth binding with color onlay and binder’s cancel on upper cover... Read More
Exceptionally well-preserved salesman’s three-part, heavily illustrated sample book, dummy, or canvassing book; issued to promote book sales for the Christmas holidays. The three titles seen... Read More
![Westward Ho. [Autograph Edition]. Charles Kingsley.](/pictures/thumb/3727297_1.jpg?v=1534362508)
A lavishly-illustrated edition of Kinglsey’s Westward Ho. American artist Thornton Oakley (1881–1953) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was familiar with its railroad factories and... Read More
Inscribed and signed by the author, thus: “For Kenneth who shared my desire for another kind of history.” (Kenneth M. Kolb’s bookplate neatly affixed inside... Read More
An Egyptian boy must solve the mystery of who stole the Pharaoh’s treasure or his brother, who stands falsely accused of the crime, must die... Read More
![Fairy’s Pie [Shape Book]. T E. Dougherty; Company.](/pictures/thumb/3726695_1.jpg?v=1534362444)
Advertising booklet—a shape book in the form of a pie—for New England Mince Meat brand of pie filling manufactured by T.E. Dougherty of Chicago and... Read More
![[L. Frank Baum – Oziana] Baum’s Hoof Dressing. The Marvel in Veterinary Science! L. Frank Baum; Baum's Castorine Oil.](/pictures/thumb/3726612_1.jpg?v=1534362425)
If the Tin Man ever made it to this side of the rainbow he would have, naturally, used oil from Baum’s Castorine Company to keep... Read More
Bright collection of children’s Spanish-language chapbooks published in Madrid by S. Calleja, the firm of innovative Spanish children’s publisher Saturnino Calleja Fernández (1853–1915). Many of... Read More
Letter from American novelist and writer Julia Magruder (1854–1907) here writing to an editor, one “Mr. Clemens,” concerning short stories for children. It appears that... Read More
“To Adorn the Nursery” This amusing portfolio of 9 color prints offers a humorous look at childhood. Intended as decorations for the nursery, the prints... Read More
![[A 1923–1925 Collection of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Amateur Theater Performances.]. Various.](/pictures/thumb/372337_1.jpg?v=1534362288)
From Pennsylvania, during the 1920s, here is a group of twelve Harrisburg, Pennsylvania theater programs, including several blackface minstrel shows. The various performances were accomplished... Read More
Bimbo, a cartoon dog, made his screen debut in 1930 as the animated star of Fleischer Studios’ Hot Dog. The career of a hot dog... Read More
