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Beautiful copy of this scarce edition.","brand":"Charles, Louis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39944427798678,"sku":"Q057","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Q057.jpg?v=1622318666"},{"product_id":"jimmy-corrigan-the-smartest-kid-on-earth-issue-no-1-a-contributing-volume-to-the-acme-novelty-library","title":"Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, Issue No. 1 (A Contributing Volume to the ACME Novelty Library)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover stapled wraps, 6.5 x 9.5, n.p. The first standalone Jimmy Corrigan “Indefensible Attempt to Justify the Despair of Those Who Have Never Known Real Tragedy.” Considerably rare, highly collectible, and in disappointing condition--pages wavy from moisture, occasional dampstaining around the edges, but not particularly obtrusive. Good+ overall.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ware, Chris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40460807045270,"sku":"Q094","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Q094.jpg?v=1628358501"},{"product_id":"adventuring-with-toys-activities-of-a-fourth-grade-unit-of-work-lincoln-school-curriculum-studies","title":"Adventuring with Toys, Activities of a Fourth Grade","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnit of Work, Lincoln School Curriculum Studies. Hardcover cloth 8vo, 242pp. Illustrated in black and white. Ex-library with the usual interior treatments, but no markings on the outside. Good with rubbing and fraying to the cloth. Includes some eerie photos of students dressed as bunny rabbits and in other self-fashioned costumes for their play, “Toyland.” Units also focus on primitive, wooden, and otherwise handmade toys.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eakright, Jessie Blendall; Bess M. 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Scarce in dust jacket!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"O'Hara, David","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40961845526678,"sku":"Q152","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Q152.jpg?v=1634431784"},{"product_id":"one-hundred-hieroglyphic-bible-readings-for-the-young-compiled-by-the-editors-of-the-childrens-friend","title":"One Hundred Hieroglyphic Bible Readings for the Young, compiled by the editors of the \"Children's Friend\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRed pebbled cloth 4to, 10 x 7.5 inches. (2), 100pp (in roman numerals). No date given. Gift inscription dated 22 December 1868 on the front flyleaf; attributed in OCLC to William Carus Wilson and printer William Mavor Watts, dated 1869. Gilt stamped beveled boards, all edges gilt. Very Good with mild rubbing and soil\/darkening around the edges. Intermittent foxing, most prominent on the outer leaves. Rev. Wilson was the founder and editor of \"The Children's Friend,\" and notoriously Charlotte Bronte's inspiration for the loathed Mr. Brocklehurst in '\u003cem\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/em\u003e.' Finely engraved rebus renditions of Bible quotations in a handsome publisher's binding, a nice example of pictorial engraving and illustrated children's Bible stories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile] (William Carus Wilson, ed.)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151192002710,"sku":"Q457","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Myproject-1_12.jpg?v=1663889645"},{"product_id":"a-new-hieroglyphic-bible","title":"A New Hieroglyphic Bible","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith 400 Cuts. Blakeman \u0026amp; Mason's edition\u003c\/em\u003e. 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A nice, rare example of the ever-charming hieroglyphical Bibles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, illustrated]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42454452306070,"sku":"Q596","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Myproject-1_23.jpg?v=1675541198"},{"product_id":"the-bible-emblem-anniversary-book","title":"The Bible Emblem Anniversary Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e...by the compilers of \u003cem\u003eThe Floral Birthday Book\u003c\/em\u003e; illustrated by William Foster; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Hardcover 16mo, 5.5 x 4.5 inches, 135pp + 62 blank leaves of lined paper interleaved between the calendar pages. Deep ink blue coated boards with gilt-stamped title, red inked edges. Near Fine with rubbing to corners and spine ends, offsetting to endpapers. Flyleaf signed Albert J. Charlwood dated 1889, otherwise unmarked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \"birthday book\" with each day of the year bearing a color engraving illustrating symbolic imagery, accompanied by excerpts from the Bible and popular literature. Notably quotes a number of women authors, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Shipton, Jean Ingelow, Amy Lothrop (pseud. Anna Bartlett Warner), and Dora Greenwell. A handsome and understated production in excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foster, William (illus.) [juvenile]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42501915213974,"sku":"Q620","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Myproject-1_12_9a22f24f-c5aa-4d43-b591-8bd8da98575e.jpg?v=1678667882"},{"product_id":"happy-origami-the-japanese-art-of-paper-folding","title":"Happy Origami: The Japanese Art of Paper Folding","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover, 8 x 11 inches. Heavy card wraps bound with yellow cord, intended to allow the pages to be removed without damaging the images. A collection of 12 color printed backgrounds with diagrams and instructions on a facing leaf of onionskin paper, 24 leaves total. Sold with a selection of loose papers, intended for children to create fold objects and figures to complete the scenes. This copy has been completed with neat origami (mostly glued but some stapled to the scenes) and has a few extra papers laid in. Very Good condition with expected rubbing and shelfwear. A classic by master origamist and designer Tatsuo Miyawaki.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tatsuo Miyawaki","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42530987770006,"sku":"Q639","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/products\/Q639.jpg?v=1679782799"},{"product_id":"set-of-24-hand-colored-abc-riddle-rhyme-cards","title":"Peter Puzzlewig's Comic Round Game of Alliteration (Alliteration; or, a Prime Plan and Merry Method of producing a Plain and Perfect Pronunciation) ABC card game","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e[Albany: Pease \u0026amp; Warren, 1853].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eComplete alphabet on 24 cards (letters I \u0026amp; J and U \u0026amp; V share), approx. 3.5 x 3.25 inches each. Comic vignettes with tongue-twisting rhymes lithograph printed with hand coloring. A touch of fingersoil and handling wear, overall Very Good without any major damage or marking. A very rare set; OCLC locates 1 copy, at the American Antiquarian Society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWry and darkly comical at times, the alliterative game could be played by any 2 or more players: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e“\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCounters are distributed to the players. To start the game each player puts two counters into a pool. A player reads the first tongue-twister: if he hesitates or laughs he must pay two counters to the pool; if he is able to read the tongue-twister clearly he collects a counter.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe game was originally published as a booklet, \"Prime plan and merry method of producing a plain and perfect pronunciation,\" by David Ogilvy in London ca. 1844, when it appears advertised in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePeter Parley’s Annual\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Richard H. Pease adapted a number of educational English games for the American audience and published them under \"Pease \u0026amp; Warren, wholesale and retail dealers in fancy goods… stationed at the Temple of Fancy\" in Albany, NY. Always popular, this particular iteration of alliterative ABCs was recalled by a certain reader of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAmerican Notes and Queries \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ein response to a \"verbal snares\" post: \"Your set of illiterative (sic) nonsense lines (Vol viii p.295) reminds me of a card game closely associated with my youth entitled “The Don't Hesitate Game” … Pictures accompanied each letter illustrative of the text. The mode of repetition changed now and then purposely to increase the tendency to hesitation.\" The contributor listed as many lines from the game as he could remember and petitioned other readers to respond if they remembered the others--to which he received a positive response. There was also an American variation (substituting \"Yankee\" for \"Yorkshire Yeoman,\" etc.) published under \"Alphabetical Alliteration and Articulation\" by Worthy Putnam in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (1858, p.23).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, ABC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42547633455254,"sku":"Q702","price":350.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/Q702ABC.jpg?v=1682443867"},{"product_id":"my-little-darlings-pictorial-abc","title":"My Little Darling's Pictorial ABC","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrilliant color ABC on [16] pages, including wraps. 10.5 x 6.75 inches. Common repair stitching along the spine with associated abrasion colored to match the yellow wraps. Attributed to William J. Rigney, who authored the earlier \"My little darling's abc illustrated,\" which had the same text. A vibrant ABC with alphabetically suited imagery packed into each letter's vignette, in addition to the designated noun. An image of [Queen] Victoria under \"Q stands for Quills\" and a vulture by \"V is a Violet.\" But poor old \"X\" is just a picture of the letter on top of a tablecloth patterned as a flame, \"X is a letter like this X, you will find.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McLoughlin Bros. 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An account of animals that appear in the Bible, largely citing their appearances in scripture and providing some context by describing the animal's temperament and purpose. On several occasions, illustrations are offered for figurative animals: \"There is no animal now called Behemoth, and the Hebrew word is used because the translators of the Bible did not know to what animal it belonged...\" Such accommodation was also made for the \"Common Ass,\" \"Onager, or Wild Ass\" and \"She Ass,\" which is not really distinguished in its illustration; wondrous lengths are also taken in the \"Leviathan\" illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnattributed, copyright entered by Paul Beck. An early American Sunday School Union (founded 1824) publication that appears written to a more ambitious level of scholarship and reading comprehension than many of their later offerings. With endearing woodcuts attractive to all ages, and physical descriptions suited to young children (color, size, etc), the meat of the publication and its survey of Bible references, history, and nuances of translation, seems suited to a more mature reader. The volume concludes with an explication of the animal imagery adopted for the A.S.S.U. \"Knowledge of the Lord\" publisher's device, and quotes from 'The Union Primer' (\"which it is hoped... will be circulated over the whole country...\") in a gentle self-promotional nudge to the audience of parents they were intently courting. Scarce; 13 copies in OCLC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, American Sunday School Union]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42764609061014,"sku":"Q984","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/Untitled_2.jpg?v=1695933408"},{"product_id":"new-national-primer-cover-title-the-national-primer","title":"New National Primer (cover title: The National Primer)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOuter pictorial wraps laminated to plain blue wraps with naively stitched cloth spine covering. 12mo; 23, (1) p. A fair to good copy with repaired horizontal tears across pages 5-10; foredges generally riddled with short edge tears requiring extra delicate handling. Chipping to wraps and six letters torn from the outer rear wrap, exposing the blue foundation. Contents complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA generously illustrated primer with several alphabets, syllable and short word lists, short stories and proverbs, with an extra emphasis on military history. Notably, only boys are pictured in the schoolroom illustration on the last page--their \"Infant Primer\" also featured girls. 4 pages dedicated to the Revolutionary War Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, and naval engagements during the War of 1812; 4 pages with profiles of prominent figures like the early presidents, plus less enduring (to modern sense) figures like Stephen Decatur and Winfield Scott. The copyright is dated 1840, however, the profiles include William Henry Harrison's death and John Tyler's presidential sucession in April, 1841. OCLC records 13 copies with the same discrepancy but the NY address at 74 Chatham St., which they occupied 1843-1856. The address on this imprint is 169 Broadway, occupied 1842-43, dating this printing c.1842.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, ABC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42764609093782,"sku":"Q985","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/Untitled_10.jpg?v=1695912249"},{"product_id":"the-a-b-c-book-with-pictures-of-birds-cover-title-pictured-alphabet","title":"The A, B, C, Book, with Pictures of Birds (cover title: Pictured Alphabet)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWraps, 18pp. 108x66mm. Very Good with light soil and nudging at the corners. Neatly stitched along the spine and extra-illustrated on the rear wrap with a rather good drawing of a bird. Beautiful painted wallpaper-lined wraps. 18 total woodcuts. 'American Primers' records an 1842 printing (021) and notes its absence from Gilman's \u003cem\u003eNorthampton Imprints\u003c\/em\u003e bibliography. Earliest recorded edition, OCLC lists 2 copies (AAS, Morgan). Rare and wonderful ABC chapbook with a perfect touch of wallpaper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Butler, J. H. [juvenile, alphabet, chapbook, ABC]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42814714019990,"sku":"Q1019","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/last-59.jpg?v=1697839107"},{"product_id":"copy","title":"The Picture Book; or Familiar Objects Described","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNew Haven: Sidney Babcock, ca. 1840. Printed wraps, 93x58mm, 16pp. Very Good with light foxing. Toy Books Series. 18 woodcuts throughout, including a very charming chair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, chapbook]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42828990054550,"sku":null,"price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/msc-8.jpg?v=1698449071"},{"product_id":"the-instructive-game-of-magic-spelling-with-bewitched-letters","title":"The Instructive Game of Magic Spelling with Bewitched Letters","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn original box, 4.5 x 6.25 x 1 inches. A Good copy with one letter \"T\" tile produced in facsimile to form a complete set of cards; color printout photos of the original 4-page instruction book. Small abrasion and some discoloration to the box; contents very neatly preserved by its previous owner, still bright and crisp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe game has 22 large cards with a picture of an animal, its name, and its point value. It also has a large quantity of smaller letter cards, with which to spell the animals' names. Each player starts with one animal card face up, and the letter cards are dealt out equally to each player for their own face-down stack. Each player in turn reveals the top letter card of their stack and places it face up on the table. When someone sees that they can spell the name of an animal card on the table with the letters on the table, they call out that animal. They collect its card, and it's replaced with a new animal card. At the end of the game, the player with the most points in the animal cards they have collected wins. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/boardgame\/388819\/magic-spelling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eBoard Game Geek\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McLoughlin Bros. 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This iteration of the popular game was issued in a small plain box--the most economical option for consumers, but also the least robust, making this a formidable survivor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milton Bradley [word games, educational ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959659073686,"sku":"Q1080","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/hcab-68.jpg?v=1702436962"},{"product_id":"conette-a-game-of-skill-milton-bradley-4044","title":"Conette: A Game of Skill (Milton Bradley #4044)","description":"\u003cp\u003e8 x 10.5 x 1.75 inches. Complete with four paper cones in each color and two chromolithograph hand catapult cutouts. One of the hands is glued at the wrist and the paper cones have some expected creasing and soil, otherwise in Near Fine condition with minor rubbing to the box and faint tidemark to the lower right corner. 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Old Bamberberger's of Newark sticker on the bottom of the box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milton Bradley [word games, educational ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959659171990,"sku":"Q1083","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/hcab-74.jpg?v=1702436831"},{"product_id":"bradleys-phonetic-word-builder-number-one-milton-bradley-8000","title":"Bradley's Phonetic Word Builder, Number One (Milton Bradley #8000)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNear Fine with minor rubbing and abrasion to box, 4.75 x 6.5 x 1 inches. An excellent example of a later Progressive Era primary teaching aid. As described in the 1923 \u003cem\u003eBradley's School Materials and Books Catalogue A:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e8000 An individual seat work that teaches the word families. Correlative to any system of reading taught in primary grades. This splendid \"big type\" builder is a notable addition to available seat work. It provides a system of word building based on the phonetic principle now so generally used. In the box are twenty-five of the most common phonograms, with initial consonants, which, when placed together, form a vocabulary of over two hundred words. The phonograms and consonants are printed from plain, bold face type, in letters ¼ inch high, on heavy manila cards. They are printed both sides, are large enough to be conveniently handled, and may be easily read by the teacher at a glance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBradley's Phonetic Word Builder is thoroughly in keeping with the progressive element in education, and should find a place in every primary school.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milton Bradley [teaching aids, educational ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959659204758,"sku":"Q1084","price":135.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/hcab-71.jpg?v=1702485773"},{"product_id":"bradleys-picture-sentence-builder-milton-bradley-8010","title":"Bradley's Picture Sentence Builder (Milton Bradley #8010)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBox in Good condition with rubbing and abrasion around the edges, 4.5 x 7.25 x 1 inches. This appears to be a mismatched set-- the \"Picture Sentence Builder\" cards are advertised as being printed in Roman, and constituting an advancement from the script cards suggested for earlier studies. Still a nice set of cards. \u003cem\u003eCatalog excerpts from Bradley's School Materials and Books Catalogue \"A\" 1923.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milton Bradley [word games, teaching aids, educational ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959659237526,"sku":"Q1085","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/hcab-125.jpg?v=1702492372"},{"product_id":"bradleys-self-verifying-phonetic-cards-milton-bradley-8266","title":"Bradley's Self-Verifying Phonetic Cards (Milton Bradley #8266)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA complete set of 12 cards and 24 slips printed in two colors, housed in a box, 4.25 x 5.5 x 1 inches. Good to Very Good--rubbing and abrasion to box, cards a little grubby and discolored. \"An unusually attractive and effective form of Phonetic seat work\" designed by Nellie York Troidl with words selected from Edward L. Thorndike's \"famous list of the 1000 most widely used words in the English language.\" Nellie Troidl (c.1884-1962) was a graduate of the Iowa State Normal School and taught in the Buffalo and Niagara counties in New York from 1906. She patented several educational assessments and learning aids related to arithmetic and phonetics, and also had an interest in drawing. \"She had served as president of the Buffalo Branch, National League of American Pen Women and as president of the state chapter. 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(Please note, the photos show a few blocks originally misplaced with the wrong gift, but both sets are complete and correct). The blocks are original to the boxes, rarely intact as issued.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Milton Bradley Kindergarten Material [teaching aids, educational ephemera]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42959659368598,"sku":"Q1089","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/005C7205-5472-4FD3-A169-902658D4E18B_195813fc-90e8-4de5-a178-fa21ba110b70.jpg?v=1702424249"},{"product_id":"pictorial-primer","title":"Pictorial Primer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrinted by J. 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It appears opposite a vignette of a “Poor Woman” which mentions her husband “was killed last spring in the war,” presumably the Mexican-American War.  Intended with some application to British society, the printed alphabet includes the \u0026amp;, $ and £ signs and currency conversions are listed by state on the last page. Several pages of weights and measures for quite an assortment of materials–including book sizes! OCLC lists 1 copy at the Free Library of Philadelphia. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAmerican Primers \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e745 lists a variant with “Pictorial reader and speller” as the running title. Provenance note tucked in: \"Pictorial Primer Belonged to Sarah B. Worcester b. June 5, 1853 d. 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Some of the vocabulary is fairly advanced for a primer, which also incorporates references to industry and trade, including the gold mines in California, an outline of metal alloys, a description of sheep sheering, etc. The trio of frontis woodcuts shows girls and boys in their respective classrooms and a vignette titled \"Amusements\" which shows children playing baseball.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[juvenile, primer]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43161902940310,"sku":"Q1226","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-915.jpg?v=1709051078"},{"product_id":"the-childs-book","title":"The Child's Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eCloth embossed boards with gilt title, 12mo. 99pp followed by a section of hymns pp 53-71, (1) index. Profusely illustrated in b\u0026amp;w.  Rev. Emanuel Greenwald, D.D. 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After a stretch of blank pages, the last 30 pages are dedicated to automobiles—28 original drawings and 12 pasted cutouts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eSeveral drawings are done on the backs of typescript selling points for the Kansas City 'Journal-Post' aimed at women. The penultimate selling point may be the most compelling for our young artist's mother: \"The Journal-Post, realizing that the public is becoming more and more airminded, publishes a complete Aviation Column every Sunday.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eAircraft makes\/models represented include Curtiss, Ford Express, Stinson Detroiter, Sikorsky, and some rarities like a Boeing 204 Flying Boat (and other “Flying Fish”). Several of the drawings show art on the planes, including a New York skyline nose painting on a craft labeled NC-001 and two dice on an NR21 Gee Bee Racer. The later section of automobile drawings show the artist becoming a more proficient draftsman and creative problem-solver: larger drawings are cut out and partially mounted to fold out in a delightfully effective way. A little rough around the edges, but a really substantial collection and all the more charming for its well-loved condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"[original art, juvenile]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43568692199574,"sku":"Q1250","price":285.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/Untitled_12.jpg?v=1714693498"},{"product_id":"grandpapa-peases-illustrated-alphabet","title":"Grandpapa Pease's Illustrated Alphabet","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLarge 8vo (10.75 x 7 inches), [8] single-sided leaves bound with facing pages, hand-colored illustrations throughout. First and last pages laminated to wraps, as issued. Dated 1847-1853 based on the publisher's address. Alphabet examples include racial and ethnic stereotypes typical of the period, and less typical references to Laplander people, Staffordshire pottery and several mentions of Scotland suggesting this was one of Pease's appropriations of juvenile literature from Great Britain. In Good to Very Good condition: Wrappers mostly split down the spine and just hanging on by a thread. Small chip to the top corner of the outer cover and tidemark along the upper edge, moderate expected soil and toning throughout. Rear cover advertises “Pease’s Great Variety Store” within a handsome decorative border, offering “Popular Games for Young People… Biographical Amusements… Historical Amusements… The Modern Game of Dominoes… Professor Punch’s Popular Game of What d’ye Buy…” among other toy alphabets and books. 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An early publication in the \"Dean's Rag Book\" series, with patent numbers and \"quite indestructible\" dogs logo on the rear panel. Charming individual pictures of the objects, creatures, and creations in the garden, including cabbage, sun-dial, dove-cote, bees \u0026amp; beehives. It also contains specific names for flowers (fuchsia, pansy, arum lily, narcissus). 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Vol 1: 359, [350-360], (1)pp. Vol.2: 360 (1)pp. The pagination in volume one repeats 350-360, but the contents are correct. Very Good with rubbing and sunning; spines lined with tissue, labels mostly worn away. The contents remain remarkably bright and clean. Arranged as a conversation between a father, M. de Murval, and his two inquisitive children, Eugene and Agathe, the volumes cover historical topics, natural history, geography, etc. Mentions specific figures like Columbus and Herschel (among the seven planets), and inventions like the hot air balloon (which is illustrated with an immensely charming engraving, \"Invention de l'Aerostat\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lemair, H[enri]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43568692330646,"sku":"Q1253","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/APC_7119.jpg?v=1714665743"},{"product_id":"the-story-book-for-little-folks","title":"The Story Book for Little Folks","description":"\u003cp\u003eGilt stamped cloth 12mo, 126pp. No date, ca. 1850. Color lithograph frontis and eight hand-colored engravings, 9 total color plates. 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Morally driven tales for children with charming illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"American Tract Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43753173090454,"sku":"Q1322","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0315\/9778\/9229\/files\/haec_city-376_94d25dbb-59d5-4826-b104-f986bb87d50b.jpg?v=1717984390"},{"product_id":"the-child-at-home-vol-v-no-3-march-1864","title":"The Child at Home Vol. V, No. 3, March 1864","description":"\u003cp\u003eNewspaper, 14 x 10 inches, [4p] with engraved pictorial masthead and illustrations. Very Good with surface soil and soil and tidemarks at corners, no major damage or tearing. 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No date; gift inscription dated 1852; Greene known to be active beginning in 1849. Very Good with light rubbing around the edges and a small old paper repair in the upper margin of the front cover. Print and coloring is bold and bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdvertisements for \u003cem\u003eGrandmamma \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eGrandpapa Easy's\u003c\/em\u003e series \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003epublished in London by Thomas Dean appeared in the 1840s. An 1846 notice in \u003cem\u003eBent's Literary Advertiser\u003c\/em\u003e puts \u003cem\u003eAmusing Addition: a New Poetical Number Book\u003c\/em\u003e in the Grandpapa \"original sixpenny pictorial toy book\" series. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSeveral publishers in the United States adopted the titles, including Appleton in Philadelphia and Richard Pease in Albany, who substituted his fortuitously slant-rhymed surname. 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Inner wrap and other woodcuts likely by Alexander Anderson, and an early appearance of the popular cat woodcut (p. 12), barely relevant woodcut of an Asian figure in a conical hat with birdcages; and another unusual architectural cut on the inner rear wrap. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA disjointed selection of lessons vaguely rooted in animals and their uses in life and death--from the limits of domestication to the utility of animal byproducts. 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Not in OCLC.One of the candy-wrappered American Tract Society publications reflecting the increased capacity and output after their operations expanded in 1848 to new premises where they could print books with engravings in-house. Experiments with typography were known to follow and the books, still morally rigorous, became aesthetic objects competing for space in an increasingly crowded market of children’s picture books. 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