![Item #625773 [Announcement and calender, wrapper title]: The Youth's Companion. A.D. 1879](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/625773.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782872162)
Boston: Perry Mason & Company / Russell & Richardson, [1878]-1879. Softcover. First edition. Oblong 16mo. [8]pp. Illustrated with four fine chromolithographed illustrations after the style of Kate Greenaway. Stitched self-wrappers. A fine copy. A pamphlet listing some of the contents that will appear in *The Youth's Companion* during the upcoming..... More
![Item #624339 [Cabinet Card Photograph]: A Well-Dressed Young African-American Boy Standing at...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/624339.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1789399991)
[Circa 1870]. Unbound. Gelatin silver cabinet card, image measuring 4" x 5¼", on a slightly larger card mount. Uncaptioned and neither the subject or the photographer identified. Sepia-toned, very near fine. Young boy about five years of age stands at vigilant attention. More
![Item #624352 [Cabinet Card Photograph]: Cherubic Tow-Headed Toddler Dressed in Base Ball Gear](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/624352-1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781126495)
Allentown, Pa. O. H. Gernert, [circa 1870]. Unbound. Gelatin silver cabinet card, image measuring 4" x 5½", on a slightly larger card mount. Subject unidentified. Photographer's marks on front and rear of the mount. Just about fine. A fair-haired little boy of approximately three years old, stands completely outfitted for..... More
![Item #624052 [Exhibition Catalog]: One Hundred Years of Little Black Sambo](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/624052.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778769766)
St. Louis, Missouri: Washington University Libraries, (2008). Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Quarto. 63pp. Illustrated from color photographs. Fine in stapled pictorial wrappers. Published for the exhibition in September 2008 at Washing University titled *Little Black Sambo: Children's Literature, Race, and a Century of Controversy*. One of 2000 copies. More
Urbana, Illinois: National Council of Teachers of English, 1978. Softcover. Periodical. Octavo. 917-1044pp. Stapled wrappers. Sunned along the spine of both wrappers and gentle wear at the corner, very good or better. Includes an interview with author, poet and educator Lee Bennett Hopkins. More
[No place: no publisher, circa 1900]. Unbound. Thin card die-cut moveable cut into the shape of a young Black girl with a short yellow dress, a big blue bow and golden earrings, holding a heart to her chest with one hand, and a Golliwog doll in the other. The card..... More
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., (1979). Hardcover. Second printing. Illustrated by Ati Forberg. 112pp. Endpapers and page edges lightly soiled and foxed, spine ends and corners bumped, else very good in a good only edgeworn dust jacket with shallow chips and tears, one-inch gouge on rear panel. More
New York: Collins & Brother, (1847). Hardcover. New edition. 16mo. 180pp. Frontispiece. Green cloth. Illustrated in gilt on the spine. Lacks front fly, else a near fine and bright copy. Novel by the prolific, moralist author Timothy Shaw Arthur, about the economic realities at play on both the domestic and..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926). Hardcover. Reprint. Illustrated by Dorothy Dulin. Blue cloth stamped in blue and yellow. Illustrated endpapers lightly tanned, boards a bit splayed with light spotting and edgewear, spine slightly sunned, about very good. More
New York: Swann Galleries, 1978. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrated. Illustrated glossy wrappers. Prices realized laid in. Top corner a little bumped, a little scattered foxing, thus near fine. More
(New York): HarperCollins, (1995). Hardcover. First edition. 223pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small soil mark on the front panel, and faint creases on the front flap. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "For Susan Brynteson, Long time Freddy fan and demon book collector!..... More
New York: Random House, (1983). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 327pp. Illustrated. Sunning along the topedge, near fine in near fine light rubbed jacket with touch of edgewear. More
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (1990). Hardcover. Illustrated from photographs by Martha Cooper, Arthur Leipzig, and "other great photographers of city play." Afterword by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett. Small quarto. xi, 212pp. Binding slightly cocked and topedge a bit foxed, near fine in very good dust jacket with modest general wear. More
Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, (1949). Hardcover. First edition. 144pp. Illustrated from more than 200 black-and-white photographs and drawings. Endpapers with some offsetting, corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, very good in a slightly tanned very good dust jacket with a light 1" stain on the front panel and modest..... More
New York: Capitol Publishing Company, Inc. for Golden Press, (1965). Softcover. Later printing. Art by Dick Kohfield. Quarto. 96pp. Pictorial wrappers. Pages lightly age-toned, else very good. More
Dennis, Massachusetts: Salt-Works Press, 1974. Unbound. First edition. An assemblage of art works by Edward Gorey and other artists: pamphlets, broadsides, a knitted nose-warmer, a pamphlet sewn into a linen bag (unopened), and various other what-nots, all in the original illustrated shipping box. Box and edges a bit toned, else..... More
Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, (1940). Softcover. Unknown edition. Code "12.44" on copyright page, possibly indicating a 1944 edition?. Illustrated by Eleanor Campbell. Small octavo. Unpaginated. Quarter canvas and illustrated paper wrappers. Top corner a bit bumped, else near fine. More
![Item #625742 [Wire service photograph]: Johnny Gruelle draws Raggedy Andy for Miami, Florida...](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/625742.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1782872162)
[New York] (Miami Beach, Florida: Underwood and Underwood, [circa 1930]. Unbound. Original sepia-toned gelatin silver press photograph. Approximately 7.25" x 9.5". Underwood and Underwood stamp on back. Small tear and chip in right hand margin, with some rubbing that doesn't effect the main part of the image much. The attached..... More
Vancouver: William Hoffer, 1982. Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 85, [2]pp. Illustrated. Pictorial wrappers. Wrappers a trifle rubbed, very near fine. One of 1000 wrappered issues, there was also an issue of 26 hard bound copies. More
Columbus, Ohio: American Education Publishing, 1995. Softcover. Later printing. Quarto. 72pp. Page 23 creased, corners slightly curled, else very good. Children's workbook. More
New York: Hill and Wang, (1963). Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated by Bob Patterson. Juvenile bookplate, boards lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, very good in an about very good dust jacket with a 2" tear on the rear panel, a 1 ½" tear on the front panel and..... More
[No place: The Author, 1965?]. Softcover. First edition. Small octavo. [32]pp. Illustrated by Kate Rowland. Stapled illustrated wrappers. About fine. Heartfelt letters from an eight year old boy and his poodle Pepper encouraging Casey to improve on the Mets recent performances. Self-published, the author reveals in her brief introduction "No..... More
Garden City, New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1927. Hardcover. Later printing. Illustrated with plates. Covers lightly rubbed with spine a bit more so, affecting publisher name, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good or better. More
Boston: The Horn Book Inc., 2003. Softcover. Periodical. Small octavo. 661-799pp. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Rubbing and a few small indentations and creases, near fine. Special issue dedicated to Maurice Sendak at 75 with contributions from Tony Kushner and Gregory Maguire, and a new interview of Sendak by Roger Sutton. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. Child's small, neat bookplate, else fine in lightly and uniformly toned, very good or better dust jacket with a few closed tears. Nicely Inscribed by William S. Stone. Children's book about a young boy in Tahiti. Very..... More