Anecdotes for Little Boys
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. Well-illustrated chapbook with a woodcut on each page. 32mo. [2], 3-8pp. In yellow publisher’s wraps.
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How to Be Saved
American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street: Philadelphia, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Miniature. 8pp. In publisher’s yellow wraps, which are variant from the UF copy both in color and this copy has a woodcut of a fly on the rear wrap.
Jan Harmsen, the Holland Orphan Boy
New York: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, [n.d., between 1847-76]. Features several engravings. Likely published between 1854-57 given the Philadelphia address noted on the rear wrapper. 24mo. [2], [3]-16pp. Relatively scarce in the separate offprint.
The Runaway
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. 32mo. [2] 3-13pp., [3]. In publisher’s pictorial wrappers.
The Sailor’s Son
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. 32mo. [1], 2-7pp., [1]. A brief but heavily illustrated chapbook, featuring a woodcut on each page. In self wrappers.
The Triumphs of Grace.
Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, “take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important.....
The Underground Traveller and His Wonderful House
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street; New York: 375 Broadway, n.d., but see OCLC 905659420 calculating date to roughly 1867]. 32mo. [2], 5-16pp. In publisher’s wraps.
Clara Woodward and Her Day-Dreams
London: Knight and Son, [n.d. circa 1857]. Presumed first edition (per OCLC dating). Featuring four hand-colored plates. A moral story about a girl who dreams/intends to become a “child of god” but perpetually gives into temptation, but after visiting a family member and the death of a friend, Clara finds.....
The Practical Joke, or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St. [n.d., 1856-57]. “I never heard of a lazy child on a Christmas morning”. A pleasant chapbook with five full-page woodcut illustrations. 32mo. [1], 2-16pp. Scarce with one institution located on Worldcat as of October 2020 holding the imprint with.....
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A Window in Thrums [Signed limited]
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1892. First illustrated edition. Signed by both Barrie and the illustrator at the limitation statement. No. 11 of 50 special copies from a total edition of 560. Illustrated with 18 etching by William Hole. xiv, 217 pp. Large 8vo.
Tales of Many Lands
Philadelphia: Wm. G. Wardle, 1845. First American Edition. Scarce first American edition with 4 copies located on Worldcat. The London Spectator in 1839 included the first (i.e. British) edition in its list of books for Christmas presents stating it contained "sketches of common life, and traits of childish character...
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