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.
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.
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.
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.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. 32mo. [2] 3-13pp., [3]. In publisher’s pictorial wrappers.
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.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. A miniature chapbook with four woodcuts. Miniature. 8pp. Self-wraps. Without separate wraps (though it is unclear that all copies included wraps as the UVA copies no wraps as well). Scarce in miniature.
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.....
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.
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.....
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.
New York: Vanguard, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first printing with white shorts on cover page, 1937 date on title page, and no stated further printings.
1869: Griffith and Farran, London. First Edition. First edition. A lovely uncommon volume with four hand-colored plates. Kay Spen was the pseudonym of both Henry C. Selous and Patty Caroline Sellon. Halkett pg. 281 and Wolff 6239 attribute this work to Selous, however, the Cambridge University library states “Kay.....
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...