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 The Frolie Grasshopper Circus.
 [141790] (Children's - Advertising - Quaker Oats - Clowns) [American Cereal Co.].
[Chicago]: [The American Cereal Co.], 1898. 16mo, 15 pages. Self-wraps, stapled. A remarkable and bizarre little item with a profusion of bizarre color lithographed illustrations throughout. OCLC, two copies of this edition. Near fine condition. Essentially an advertising item for children told in simple verse, each page shows the cereal box incongruously incorporated into an acrobatic performance by rather insidious-looking circus clowns, accompanied by science fiction-sized grasshopper performers on tightropes, with Indian clubs, trapezes, etc.. (All of the iron muscles needed to perform these amazing tricks, are of course, a direct benefit of this cereal in one's diet.) One of the last images shows a clown at the circus pointing to a caricature of William Penn who holds his Quaker Oats out for a well-dressed Victorian mother and child. In his other hand, a scroll, with the words, “Pure” - likely, a reference to the public debate that eventually resulted in the passing of the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. A fascinating and visual item. The clowns and their costumes are outstanding. $250
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At Home. [Wilcox Silver Plate Co. - Millicent Sowerby.]
[142164] (Children's - Wilcox Silver Plate Co.) [J. G. Sowerby, et. al].
[New York?]: Published by the Wilcox Silver Plate Co., Meriden and New York, [1880?]. Octavo, [32] pp. First Edition. Printed and illustrated wraps. Printed throughout on various hues of paper stock of pale blue, pale yellow, pale green, and pale pink. Lightly soiled, a very good example. Copiously illustrated with drawings by J.G. Sowerby, and decorations by Thomas Crane. The interior covers are illustrated with four superb engravings of silver plate products manufactured by Wilcox: a tilting water set; a hammered fruit bowl; a cat and bird napkin ring; a pepper box. [Presumably a variant edition from OCLC 25997881.] By default, this item is a children's book with typical Victorian verse, but the illustrations subliminally incorporate a fair amount of the silver plate ware that Wilcox might have sold to its customers. It is interesting to note that one of the poems is entitled “Millicent”, perhaps authored for Sowerby's daughter of the same name. Millicent Sowerby, (1878-1967) became a famous illustrator in her own right. Crane's decorations of Asian motifs with folding fans, Japanese willow, ceramics, etc. sometimes pair oddly to J.G. Sowerby's illustrations in the Kate Greenaway style. $250
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 Tornado Boy.
[141764] (Children's Books - Horses) Thomas C. Hinkle.
New York: William C. Morrow, 1930. Octavo, 252 pages. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with colorful artwork by J. Clinton Shepherd. The dust jacket with one closed tear to upper panel, a thin streak of soil to the spine, an inconspicuous stain to lower panel, price is not clipped. Scarce in dust jacket; this example being most presentable, and with an exceptionally clean binding and book. In the Old West, Tornado Boy is a blue colt stolen by lawless horse rustlers, then captured by Crazy Barney (“...a half-wit negro...” who takes the horse into the desert without food or water), and almost stampeded by cattle before escaping to safety. $125
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 The Story of Little Mary or the Child of the Regiment. [Illuminated 8vo Edition.]
[142089] (Children's Books - Napoleonic Wars) [Anon.].
New York:: C.P. Huestis, Publisher, No. 104 Nassau Street, [n.d., ca. 1850-1852?]. 8vo, 16 pages. First Edition. Publisher's original illus. and printed wraps, sewn. Described by the publisher as the “Illuminated 8vo Edition” the upper cover and eight renderings within are hand-colored in bands of yellows, blues, and pale reds, and greens. At times, the coloring is quite vibrant. Small stains and toning to upper cover with small paper loss to margin; general wear and old gift inscription to (blank) inside cover; a good, presentable copy. Child Mary gets involved in the Napoleonic wars and the 21st Regiment when she is adopted by the Guards as an apparently orphaned child. Growing up with the soldiers, she soon learns that she is not just any ordinary ragamuffin, but is also an officer's child with a future of social promise. The lower wrap lists other books for sale, described as “New Illuminated Toys”. OCLC, [6] $250
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 An Astronomical and Geographical Catechism. For the Use of Children.
[141631] (CHILDREN’S BOOKS) Caleb Bingham A.M .
Boston: Printed by David Carlisle, for Caleb Bingham, 1802. 36 pages. 5¾ x 3½ inches. The Sixth Edition. Contemporary marbled wraps. A very good copy. Shaw and Shoemaker 1900, one copy. OCLC, finds two. Caleb Bingham (1757-1817) was a prominent pioneer of children's textbooks and children's public education in Boston. His published output was substantial. Based upon Jedidiah Morse's “School Geography”, this particular work was intended to be committed to memory and recited verbatim. [DAB] $200
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The Human Side of Animals.
[141442] (CHILDREN’S BOOKS) Royal Dixon.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1918). Octavo, 252 pages. First Edition. Publisher's orig. cloth binding with color pictorial onlay to upper cover. A very good copy, with the publisher's very scarce printed and illustrated dust jacket in like condition. Dust jacket with light soil, light rubbing, tiny perimeter chips, small separation along front flap fold. Illustrated with two color plates by Paul Branson and S.H. Wainwright and also with thirty-two plates from half-tones. Dixon's book sought to create animal lovers by imparting upon his readers that “these lesser creatures exist, as we do, by intellect as well as instinct: that they have their hopes, fears, sorrows, lovers and hates.” Royal Dixon (1885-1962) was a native of Texas and affiliated briefly with the botany department at the Field Museum of Chicago before joining the staff of the “ Houston Chronicle.” $125
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 The Christmas Reindeer.
[70010] (CHILDREN’S BOOKS) Thornton W. Burgess.
New York: Macmillan, 1926. First Edition. First printing. Bound in red cloth. Very good with a like dust jacket which is unclipped and retains original publisher's price to front flap. Color pictorial endpapers. Binding bright and clean. Four tiny holes to joint of front cover. Binding tight and true. Mild remnants of pencil erasure of former ownership to half title page. Dust jacket with some mild rubbing and overall film of light soil. A nice collectable copy. Uncommon Thornton W. Burgess title one doesn't typically associate with the author of Reddy Fox and Johnny Chuck fame. The book is usually found lacking dust jacket and/or in the form of the reprint by the Book League of America in 1929. Where does Santa Claus get his reindeer for the Christmas holidays? An Eskimo boy and girl in Alaska find out as well as learn about Kringle Valley. [Wright, p. 85] $125
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A New History of Blue Beard. Written by Gaffer Bluebeard, For the amusement of all good Boys and Girls. Ornaments with engravings.
[140636] (CHILDREN’S BOOKS) [Charles Perrault].
Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1813. 32mo, 30 pages. Printed wraps. Tiny handsewn mends along spine, front wrap with paper loss, but primarily to unprinted areas on buff covers, else a good copy. Nine woodcut engravings and with alphabets, points and figures in horn book format backing t.p. The tale of Bluebeard was adopted by French philosopher Charles Perrault (1628-1703) from the life of Gilles de Raise, who according to Rosenbach: “[was]...a Breton chief of the 6th century, who dabbled in magic, slew children, and committed other atrocious crimes.” This chapbook also contains a one page untitled poem about Bluebeard and two page story entitled, “The Boy and the Thief.” [OCLC has only PLF's copy, with Welch 986.4. citing it as lacking pp. 27-30. Welch also records MWA's copy, lacking p. [31] and rear cover. Shaw and Shoemaker 29309. Cf. Rosenbach 298.] $150
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 The History of Little Red Riding Hood. [Dunigan's Edition]
[142097] (CHILDREN’S BOOKS) [Perrault].
New York: Edwd. Dunigan, [1839-1843]. Small otcavo, 8 pages. Titled and illus. wraps, sewn. Covers soiled, detaching. Text with smudges and stains, corners of leaves rounded. Remarkably, the eight woodcuts have vibrant hand-coloring and are exceptionally clean. Lower cover with advertisements listing numerous titles available from Dunigan's. OCLC locates two copies. John McLoughlin, Sr. of McLoughlin Bros. purchased Dunigan's printing blocks in the early 1850's, [Wasowicz, AAS]. In this unexpurgated version of the story, Little Red Riding Hood fares no better than her grandmother, and is also torn to shreds by the big, bad wolf. $200
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 The Five Little Pig's Puzzle.
[140775] (CHILDREN’S PUZZLES - PIGS) [R. Bliss] .
[Nww York?]: R. Bliss M'fg Co., 1888. Victorian Children’s Puzzle Game. 6½ x 6½ inches. An excellent example of a rare Victorian game. Complete. Children's puzzle with delightful color lithography onlay showing the five perky pigs and six children in period dress above. Wooden frame box with box top cover. The object of the game is to get the five pigs (five clay marbles) into the feed trough by rocking the marbles of wooden bumpers. The bottom of the game box has a paper label advertising three folding board games, “lithographed in beautiful colors” for “Attack!” “Wild West” & “Detective.” $250
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