Children's Non-Fiction & Reference from OLD WORKING BOOKS & Bindery (Est. 1994)

Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Illustrated by port of 4 eldest children, b/w illustrations from The Fireside Weekly Sunday School and Weekly Bible Readings, manuscript reproductions. 2nd printing (N2) of First thus edition. c.1849, c.1934 posthulmously published. Burgundy leather and marking ribbon, gilt print & dec spine and topboard, black ruled text blocks, a.e.g. Super Royal 8vo. pp. 128. Fine/No jacket,… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Illustrated by author. First (N1) edition. Green cloth, orange endpapers. 4to. pp. 79, [1] colophon. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. SPQR (Senate and the people of Rome). ISBN: 0395822793..

Lexington MA: Battle Green Publications, 1970. Illustrated by Anne Ives b&w line drawings. Stated 4th printing edition. c.1963. Oblong 4to. pp. [32]. Fine. Cover title: Lexington Massachusetts April 19, 1775. Sixteen pictures to color with stories of the day Lexington became the "Birthplace of American Liberty". Story verso, illustration recto throughout. No marking or ownership. Scarce..

Boston & Toronto: Little Brown & Co (Atlantic Monthly Press Book), 1978. Illustrated by author in b & w. Stated first (T09/78) edition. Little Brown Reinforced Binding 156183. Blue linen, black spine print and topboard toad (or frog), red endpapers. 4to (26cm). pp. 64. Index. Near Fine/Very Good+/Unclipped price in mylar. Trace rubbing at edges and folds of jacket, unread… Read more about this item

New York & Washington: Brentano's, n.d. Illustrated by 206 text illustrations by Fedor Flinzer. Stated 23rd edition. c.1870? Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, Breslau. Illustrated grey linen. 8vo. pp. 132. Very Good/Lacks jacket. Clean internally no writing or ownership; foxed impression of possible jacket flaps to pastedowns. Old vertical crack to bottom board. [26th Edition 1921, ca.1920ish]..

U.S.A: American Educational Press, Inc, 1946. Illustrated by B&W photos throughout. Revised edition. c.1934. Little Wonder Book 308. Stapled wraps. 8vo. pp. 36. Very Good. Several straightened dog ears; foxing starting; light cover soil; joint rubbed..

New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, (1880). Early [1884] edition. Original brown cloth and eps, beveled boards, gilt stamped spine. 8vo. pp. 552, 12 Publisher Ad: Some Early Novels. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Light cap and corner wear, overall toning. Small bookseller ticket of W. B. Clarke and Garruth, Booksellers and Stationers, Boston, Mass. rear pastedown. Quill inscription… Read more about this item

London: T. Nelson & Sons, Paternoster Row, 1880. Translated by Mrs. Campbell Overend French. Illustrated by Color frontis with tissue guard, and one color and 9 b&w plates. Later edition. c.1861. Original green blind-stamped cloth, decorated gilt, thick paper issue. 16mo. pp. 270. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Trace cover wear; one bumped corner, previous quill owner (John Voysey 1881),… Read more about this item

: Librairie Nationale D'Education et de Recreation (Eugene Ardant et Cie) Illustrated by Frontis, 9 labeled and 4 in text. c.1896. Original red linen paper decorated gilt and black. 8vo. pp. 143. Very Good/No jacket, as issued. Archival repaired edges and color. Cap wear, toned pages, glued ticket "Prix d'assiduitŽ" [attendance prize] on ffep. Editor at the Department of Public… Read more about this item

London: Printed for E. Parker (Knight, Printer, Upper Holloway, Middlesex), 1838. Illustrated by Steel engraved double frontis and text woodcuts. Later edition. c.1807, 1836. Original dark green blind-stamped cloth with gilt print spine, original yellow eps. 16mo (17.cm). pp. vi, 362. Index, Glossary. Very Good. Cap and corner crushing. Known as Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, it was the go to textbook… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Lippincott, Gambo & Co, 1854. Illustrated by Double black and white frontis and 16 text drawings and plates (collated). First edition. Original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt decorated spine. 16mo. pp. 198. Very Good. Light board wear, light foxing throughout. Nephew of Samuel Woodworth and sometimes pseudonym Theodore Tinker. Accurate period glimpse of England and Wales: food, salt, lead… Read more about this item

Halifax: William Millner, 1862. Illustrated by Steel engraved double frontis and text woodcuts. Later edition. c.1807. Original Brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine. 16mo. pp. 576. Very Good. Small owner ticket and script owner, overall page toning, chipped head. Known as Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, it was the go to textbook for thirteen editions and revisions. Sections: Mechanics; Astronomy; Hydrostatics;… Read more about this item

London: William Tegg & Co, 1852. Illustrated by Steel engraved double frontis and text woodcuts. Stated 5th edition. c.1840. Original Royal blind-stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine and topboard emblem, marbled eps, aeg. 16mo. pp. 203, 36, 2 ads, 4 Hamiltonian System Catalog. Very Good+. Light cover wear, no ownership. Sixty delightful shorts such as The earwig, Who filled… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Allman, 1847. Illustrated by Steel engraved double frontis and text woodcuts. Later edition. c.1807. Original dark green blind-stamped cloth with gilt decorated spine and topboard emblem. 16mo. pp. 533. Very Good. Cap tears, foxing starting about plates. Known as Joyce's Scientific Dialogues, it was the go to textbook for thirteen editions and revisions. Sections: Mechanics; Astronomy; Hydrostatics; Pneumatics;… Read more about this item

Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co, (1851). Illustrated by engravings. First (NAP) edition. Blind-stamped red cloth gilt decoration. 12mo. pp. 142, [2] Ads, [4] blank. Good/No jacket, as issued. Previous period pencil owner. Cover wear, foxing progressing. This copy has 34/40 engravings and only one is seemingly missing (Jackal) and there are only 27 indexed animals. Also wrote under Theodore Tinker..… Read more about this item

New York: Hyperion Books For Children, 2004. Illustrated by Bryan Collier in color. Stated First edition. Disney publisher review letter from Dana Torres laid in. Square 4to. pp. [40]. As New/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Author and illustrator note. ISBN: 0786808179..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, (1946). Illustrated by Port frontis, text line drawings and reproductions. First edition. Golden cloth. Cr.4to. pp. 46, [1]. Bibliography. Very Good/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Short jacket tears with light soil and toning..

New York: Schocken Books, 1979. Illustrated by Shepard color and b&w reproductions. First (N1) edition. Illustrated brown paper covered boards. 4to. pp. 256. Bibliography, Index. Fine/In like jacket/Unclipped price in mylar. Children's illustrator and creator of Winnie the Poo, Ernest Howard Shepard 1879-1976. ISBN: 0805237445..

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1930. Illustrated by Color throughout. First thus edition. Adapted from Lippincott's Citizenship Readers Book II. Red-orange illustrated cloth, and end papers. 8vo. pp. 186. Near Fine/No jacket, as issued. Minor board wear, archival hinges added. Brilliant copy, internally fine..

New York: The Platt & Monk Co., Inc, (1948). Illustrated by color, maps, flags, story grams verso, full line connected map of Johns. First (NAP) edition. Orange cloth decorated black, double fold pages. 4to. pp. [14 folded leaves]. Very Good+/Lacks jacket. Light edgewear, internally near fine. Recto: John in England, Jean in France, Giovanni in Italy, Johann in Austria, Ivan… Read more about this item