toy book (21 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Warren, PA: E. T. Hazeltine, 1884. Cover dated 1884. Advertising chapbook for Piso's Remedy for Catarrh, relaying a charming story for children and illustrated with small engravings of both the dog and the product. Pink softcover, 2.5" tall, 16 pages. Product sold by Chas H Morse, Holliston, Mass. A little worn, front cover a little faded, covers rubbed, front cover starting to detach from top about halfway down but still firmly attached, small corner chip, contents a little age-toned but clean, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Good. Miniature.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. New Haven, CT: S. Babcock, 1830. Undated, ca. 1830s. Chapbook doubling as a reward of merit. Softcover, 4.25" tall, decorative green softcover, engraved title page, six additional engravings, 16 pages, plus engravings inside both front and rear covers. Lower spine end chipped without loss of text, binding sound, pages a little age-toned but clean. Names written at top and bottom of inner front cover engraving - Edward Leadbitter [or Leadbeater] by E. R. Guptill - no other markings. Soft Cover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. New Haven, Connecticut: S. Babcock, 1840. Undated [1840]. Part of Babcock's Moral, Instructive and Amusing Toy Books series. Worn. Illustrated with 14 half page plus one full page wood engravings plus engraved title. Blue printed softcover, stitched binding, 24 pages. Covers worn and lightly soiled with some chips to the corners, spine mainly separated but covers still attached, occasional transparent spotting, mainly faint and to the upper margin, some foxing, name in pencil at top of title page. Soft Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. London, Edinburgh and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1830. Undated, ca. 1830s. Two short stories in one book. Chapbook, Pale yellow decorative softcover, 4.25" tall, 8 pages, frontis engraving and two decorative vignettes. Some expected wear from use, sound binding, clean pages, gift notation in pencil on verso of frontis plate - Ida A Leadbitter from her Teacher Addie Stone. Soft Cover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall.

Zustand: Very Good. Colour plates (2) + b/w illustrations. Small quarto pictorial card covers Titlepage + [14]pp. Only copy found is in the British Library which lists the date as 1910. Contains poems and one longer story "Under the Snow". 1 volume. Softcover.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. New Haven, Connecticut: S. Babcock, 1841. Undated [1841]. Part of Babcock's Moral, Instructive and Amusing Toy Books series. Illustrated with six full page wood engravings plus engraved title. Blue printed softcover, stitched binding, 24 pages. Light cover wear, spine separated from bottom to lower binding stitch, pages have some light foxing but are otherwise clean, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1825. Undated [1825]. No. 408, IV Series. Chapbook, blue printed softcover, 4" tall, 16 pages, with decorative front cover (title includes Assyrian rather than Syrian), frontis engraving, two additional small engravings in the text, Christ Precious poem on rear cover. Light shelf soil and minor surface chip to lower edge of rear cover, sound binding, lightly age-toned but clean pages, no names or other markings. Soft Cover. Good. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall.

Zustand: Good. color printed pages [6 pages each with 4 illustrations and four lines of text below each. No illustrator has signed the illustrations sm. Folio Colored pictorial card cover with 2 girls and a dog carrying their toys in the garden lower cover plain green [edges & spine rubbed/bottom of spine split for 2.5"/corner creasing/lower cover foxed] 12pp includes titlepage + 4 pages of green printed illustrations with several pictures and a very few lines of text. Final page with Alphabet & numbers in different sizes. Paper is tanned and edges with fingermarks etc. Pictorial areas mainly free of foxing. Two small tears without loss and not affecting any printed areas. 1 volume. Softcover.

SECOND EDITION 1870, small 4to, 270 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, green cloth, gilt border to upper cover, composite gilt illustration (for the 4 stories) and gilt title to upper cover, gilt title and decoration to spine, 24 pages of colour plates printed by Kronheim, 6 per story each with paper guard, some with several images. 6 pages of text per story, 1st and 2nd stories in verse: Robinson Crusoe, Queer Characters (animals dressed as humans), Aesop's Fables, and Cock Sparrow (How He Kept Christmas). Head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, lower cover with a few small stains and light damp fading to 1 corner, spine gilt slightly rubbed, neat paper repair to front inner hinge, a few pages slightly creased, a few small closed edge tears, a large closed tear to 1 guard, all repaired, 60 mm (2½") closed tear to edge of 1 colour plate, neatly repaired, virtually no loss, occasional slight fingermarks and very slight soiling. A very good sturdy copy. Queer Characters shows animals in human guise with human hands: Dobbin the Blacksmith, Tabby the Piper, Doctor Donkey's Academy, The Artful Fox (in priestly robes trapping the cocks into shutting their eyes to say grace), Towser's Trial, etc. Aesop's Fables contains 21 brief fables in large print on 6 text pages and 21 images on 6 plates, including: The Man and his Two Wives; The Lion in Love; Mercury and the Woodman; The Woman and the Wine Cask; The Blackamoor; The Trumpeter Taken Prisoner. First published in 1868 as stated in Osborne II,1047, probably an error for 1869. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Zustand: Good. Colour plates (6) printed by Kronheim. 265x228mm blue pictorial card wraps (covers rather stained and split at spine but cromplete with some creases & rubbing) 6 pages of text + 6 chromolith pages. Leaves loose though once sewn with very thin thread, now broken, so though paper tanned/foxed with slight edge chips there are no tears. All printed one side only and quite complete. Presentation inscription "Presented to (first name illegible) Sears by Mrs. Danl. B. Lincoln Dec.25 1869". *One of the early Aunt Louisa series with rather pious moral verses but charming Victorian scenes of family gatherings. 1 volume. Softcover.

Dated circa 1875 from British Library accession date (no copies are dated), 4to, 270 x 230 mm, 10½ x 9 inches, green cloth, gilt and black illustration of Crusoe and Friday to upper cover, gilt lettering to upper cover and spine. 24 pages of colour plates including frontispiece printed by Kronheim, 6 to each story, some with several images per plate. General title page and list of illustrations, 6 pages of text to each story, the third item in verse (6 animals dressed as humans: dobbin blacksmith, tabby cat piper, donkey schoolkeeper, artful fox, Towser's trial, naughty monkeys). Text and plates printed 1 side only, all plates with blank guard, each story with half-title. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, hinges rubbed, a tiny split on each, small pale stain on upper cover, a few minor marks to both covers, inner paper hinges cracked but binding sound, no inscriptions, very small bookplate on front pastedown, occasional pale margin spot, small closed tear to 5 blank guards and top margin of 1 text page, neatly repaired. A very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Circa 1870 (dated from Copac), 4to, 260 x 225 mm, 10¼ x 8¾ inches, bright yellow card covers with coloured floral border and lettering in red, blue and black. 6 charming colour plates printed by Kronheim. Each faces a page of 3 10-line verses which recount the fun on each of Lily's birthdays from the 1st to the 6th when Grandfather gives her a Bible. Neatly respined with cream paper strip to cover old stabholes where once sewn with others in an album. Covers otherwise exceptionally bright, stitching starting to work loose, 60 mm (2¼ inch) closed tear and 5 mm (¼ inch) chip to lower edge of 1 text page, otherwise contents also very nice. A very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Zustand: Good. Chromoliths (6 + covers). Quarto 10.75x9.25inches or 272x235mm. Front cover of mother Hubbard in doorway trying her spectacles on her white dog/rear cover dog chasing birds (some creasing to covers which have wrap-around illustration, corner of lower hinge missing about 32x15 mm & smaller area to lower hinge, other small chips and corner losses, traces of old sewing along hinge thread now partly broken) [14]pp. No printed area is afffected and all plates & text are nice. A large toy book in the Santa Claus series. 1 volume. Softcover.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. New York: S. King, 1820. Undated, ca, 1820s. Children's chapbook illustrated with a charming primitive hand colored woodcut on each page with a verse below. Softcover, rear cover orange with printed list of available titles, twelve pages printed on one side only, 4 inches square. Front cover absent, strip of chambray fabric stitched on to replace spine, rear cover edgeworn and soiled, name and a later note - circa 1830 (we disagree and believe 1820s based on our research) - below, some penmanship practice on the final blank page, no other markings, pages generally good with only some minor areas of age-darkening. Soft Cover. Fair. 24mo - 5" - 5¾" Tall.

Dated 1857 from British Library copy, 245 x 165 mm, 9¾ x 6½ inches, yellow printed paper wraps, red lettered, large illustration in red, black and green (papa reading to 2 children), publisher's adverts on lower cover, 8 pages printed 1 side only, the first and last pasted to the insides of the covers, as issued. Each page has a large bold amusing HAND COLOURED illustration on 3/4 of the page, below each is a 7 line verse. The story of a very small elegant man suffering unrequited love for a very large lady with a voice like a lion's roar. She puts him in a hat box, she sits on him when he tries to steal a kiss standing on a chair; he disconsolately goes walking and happens to meet a charming modest little lady who agrees to marry him. Respined in matching paper, restitched, centre page reglued expertly into covers, a few minor marks to lower cover, very small light stain to first 2 pages, small closed tear to lower margin of page 4 just entering 5 mm (¼") into image, neatly repaired, no loss, small faint water stain to same margin, a few pale fingermarks. A very good copy of an uncommon version of a delightful popular tale, first issued for children with 12 different illustrations by Benjamin Tabart in 1807. A copy of our version is in the British Library and 1 in Yale. Not in Osborne, Gumuchian or Oppenheimer Catalogue. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

In Routledge's Shilling Toy Book series, dated 1870 from advert on lower cover. 4to, 260 x 225 mm, 10¼ x 9 inches, bright yellow card covers with colour patterned border and lettered in red, yellow, blue and black. 5 good colour plates printed by Kronheim, including splendid double page at centre. 6 pages of text in verse recounting the superb party dreamed up by the Peacock in response to the Butterrfly's Ball. Neatly respined in cream paper to cover old stabholes where once sewn with others in an album. Covers otherwise exceptionally bright, 30 mm (1½") closed tear to lower margin of double page plate, just affecting image, repaired with archival tape, no loss, pages stitched at the top only, so slightly loose at the bottom. A good clean copy. No. 58 in a list of 59 on lower cover. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Zustand: Good. Chromolith cover + 4 chomolith pages + line illustrations printed in Green or bluish or red-brown. Printed in Germany 4to chromolith cover (corner loss to bottom corners of front cover not affecting any text/upper corner crease & sm.chips along top edge/lower cover plain with ownership inscription/Tuck imprint/logo present) (14pp) edge tanning, sm ink blot to gutter margin not affecting printed area. Though titled Who Killed Cock Robin, the first, and longer part, is titled The Marriage Of Cock Robin And Jenny Wren. 1 volume. Softcover.

Zustand: Very Good-. Full-page color plates (24) by S. Muir sm.4to blue gilt and silver pictorial cloth (corners somewhat worn/newer cloth spine/lower cover marked) All Edges Gilt.Titlepage + contents leaf + half title to each of the stories +6pp +6pp +10pp +10pp + 24 color plates + blank guard sheets protecting the plates though there is sometimes feint offsetting of the plates onto these guard sheets - but that is partly what they are there for.The first guard has offsetting of titlepage but also on the recto feint offsetting of the plate of Eva comforting a weeping Topsy. This plate is present but is wrongly bound in at the end of the Story of Eva & Topsy. Inner hinges are strengthened, there is slight paper tanning, some, mostly marginal,tears but without loss of paper. Contains The Children's Garden + The Story of a Goat + The New Pet + The Story of Eva and Topsy which is an extract from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe on the slave trade. Handsome front cover shows scenes from all the stories within in gilt,silver and black. Owner's name Eddie Baggott Dec 25th 1881. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Dated from imprint circa 1855, 235 x 165 mm, 9¼ x 6½ inches, cream card covers with illustration of Aunt Mavor showing 5 children a list of fairytale titles, adverts to lower cover. 8 very good large HAND COLOURED illustrations, just over half page, small print prose text beneath, printed 1 side only. The first illustration: 7 little boys sitting on each others' shoulders so the smallest can reach the knocker on a large door. Spine expertly repaired from inside, restitched, a few pale small stains on covers, page 1 trimmed close at lower edge with partial loss of last line, still legible, last line trimmed off 2 other pages by original binder but restored neatly by him with no loss of printed text. Occasional small pencil mark to text. A very good copy, no inscriptions. Not in Osborne, Gumuchian or Oppenheimer, 1 copy on WorldCat. The lower cover lists the titles of the first 2 series, ours being No. 11 in a list of 13. Osborne Volume II page 602 is a later colour printed edition published by Routledge, Warne and Routledge in 1860 in a different series engraved by Edmund Evans. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Dated from imprint circa 1855, 235 x 165 mm, 9¼ x 6½ inches, pink card covers with illustration of Aunt Mavor showing 5 children a list of fairytale titles, adverts to lower cover. 8 very good large hand coloured illustrations, just over half page, small print prose text beneath. The first illustration shows the legs of the giant, 2 cows dangling from his left hand. Spine expertly repaired from inside, restitched, lower margins trimmed close, no loss, last line trimmed off 2 pages by original binder but restored neatly by him, so there is no loss of text. Occasional small pencil mark to text. A very good copy. Not in Osborne, Gumuchian or Oppenheimer, 1 copy on WorldCat. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

First edition of Very's Red Riding Hood, generally considered the first shaped toy books published in North America. Presented between wrappers shaped as Red Riding Hood, Very's version retells the Grimm's story in rhyme. Duodecimo. Colour illustrations by the author throughout. Original die-cut wrappers (170 x 62 mm) depicting Red Riding Hood carrying her basket, with the wolf at her feet. With the original envelope (179 x 74 mm). Extremities very gently rubbed, a couple of small dark stains to wrappers. An excellent copy in a lightly stained and worn envelope.