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London: Aurthur Hall, Virtue, & Co. 25 Paternoster, 1852. 1st. Hard Cover. Good. WITHOUT PLATES, STILL A FIRST EDITION OF AN UNCOMMON TRAILL BOOK First edition. 4-1/2 x 6-7/8 inches, [6], xi [3 list of illustration], [1]-350pp., [351]-368pp appendix, 32pp ads, 1 blank. All 12 plates called for are removed. NO PLATES in this copy.Original embossed pale cloth with faded spine and gilt type on spine. , plain light yellow endpapers and gilt pager edges. Corners worn and spine top and bottom crushed with tears on spine ends and most of back spine torn along back cover. Internally the pages are clean with virtually no foxing. Good condition. Edited by Agnes Strickland.TPL 3316 Written after The Backwoods of Canada (1836), it is her second Canadian book. "Agnes made a contract with a London publisher, Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company, for Catharine's children's story Canadian Crusoes: a tale of the Rice Lake plains (1852), in which three young offspring of pioneers heroically survive two years on their own… Read More

London: Hildesheimer & Faulkner, 1892. Early edition. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" . 18pp. Solied covers, inside end papers reinforced, new end paper at back and agetoned paper, otherwise good condition overall.Short collection of mostly religious lullabies, illustrated with numerous sepia drawings. Undated but late nineteenth century. Colour picture of a baby in its cradle attended by two young girls on the front cover.Unpaged. Illustrated in sepia throughout.Contents: A Child's Prayer, Little Bell, Sleep Baby Sleep, Grace for the Child, and We are Seven. This is circa 1892. First or early edition, published 1892 according to British Library.

Boston: The Horn Book Inc, 1968. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. First edition. 8 x 10-1/2 inches. xvii(1),[1]-295pp.(1). Hardcover with worn dustwrapper with some marks and tears, good condition otherwise. Inside Exlibrary markings on both front paper removed left front inside cover and back end papers with library card affixed, otherwise good condition. Biographies and selected bibliography of artists and authors (A Supplement to Illustrators of Children's Books, 1744-1945 and Illustrators of Children's Books, 1946-1956) With illustrated articles by Marcia Brown, Adrienne Adams, Grace Allen Hogarth and Rumer Godden. Biographies and selected bibliography of artists and authors. Jacket torn at head of spine. Over 452 biographical sketches describe the illustrators active from 1957 to 1966 and introductory essays comment on recent trends.

Boston: Horn Book, 1965. 1st, 3rd issue. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Third printing. 8 x 10-1/2 inches. xvi,(3),[4]-527pp.(1). Hardcover with worn dustwrapper with marks and tears, good condition otherwise. Inside Exlibrary markings on both front and back end papers otherwise good condition. More than 250 black-and-white illustrations are sprinkled throughout all sections of the book. Content includes comprehensive chapters on the history and development of illustrated books for children, in Europe and America. Part One: History and Development and discusses contemporary techniques in graphic reproduction; Part Two: Alphabetic list containing over 250 biographies of illustrators living at the time of publication.; Part Three: Bibliographies, one of illustrators, the other of authors, and their works; Part Four: Appendix. First edition 1947. Second printing 1961.

various: various, 1958. No binding & hard cover. Mary Elizabeth Quackenbush Brush (1857-1940) was an American children's author. Born in Herkimer, New York, southeast of Utica, she was the daughter of Isaac and Mary Ann Rasbach Quackenbush. Her ancestors were among the very early settlers of the state, several having served with the Continental army in the Revolutionary war. She attended Herkimer schools and graduated from the old Madame Platt's Academy, Utica. In October 1877, she married Abram Stephen Brush, a native of Nyack, New York, and a graduate of Harvard Law School. They had 3 had three children: Henry Raymond Brush; Louise M. Brush; and Donald Livingston Brush. Her brother was Henry Marcus Quackenbush (1847-1933), an American inventor and industrialist who founded the H.M. Quackenbush Company widely known for its air rifles and for the invention of the metal, spring-jointed Nutcracker. Mary E.Q. Bush collection contains over 12 items dating from 1883 to 1958, specifically, 6 books, 4 b&w… Read More

Toronto, London UK: Printed for Wm. Warwick & Son, by Dudley & Burns, 1888. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. SCARCE COLOUR PLATE OF SIR JOHN MOORE'S RETREAT TO CORUNNA(Sir John Moore) Retreat to Corunna coloured frontis by R. Beavis coloured plate. Paper size: 12" x 8 1/4 inchesImage size: 9 1/2 x 6 inchesBooklet; 12 x 8 3/8 inches. 4pp, light salmon paper wraps in poor condition, coloured frontis, [641]-704 plus 1 page of ads. All insides including coloured frontis in very good condition.The Boy's Own Paper, August, Part 114, 1888Boys' Own Paper was printed in London, UK however, also printed in Toronto by the publisher W. Warwick and Sons.The Papers are actually identical to the British Editions, except they have a 4 page "cover", which is dated 1 month later than the contents, and which contains ads for Toronto businesses. Few episodes of British military history have been as dramatic as Sir John Moore's retreat to Corunna. March of Death is the full story of that adventure and a gripping tale… Read More

1977. No binding. Susan Cheever is a novelist, non-fiction author, journalist, literary historian, teacher, and biographer. Cheever was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1983. She graduated from Pembroke College in Brown University. Her father was a celebrated American novelist and short story writer. This collection contains approximately 44 pieces with about 150 pages dating from the 1950's to 1977. Collection contents;1) Two transcripts of poems, 2) Signed check, Susan Cowley [Cheever], 5 June 1968. 3) 1 Christmas card from John and Mary Cheever, with envelope, not signed.4) Envelope signed by John Cheever, post-marked 20 September 1973, first day issue 5) Willa Cather. Ts., 1 p., signed by John Cheever, chapter 1, first 3 paragraphs of The Wapshot Scandal, n.d.6) Typescript [9] pp., begins "Most of the employees at the Maryville Letter Factory...." by Benjamin H. Cheever (novelist), son of John Cheever and Susan Cheever's brother, with a TLS to Robie Macauley, Fiction Editor, Playboy, 15 December 1977.7)… Read More