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1 Unknown 1-2-3 Pictures - Real Cloth
Akron, Ohio Saalfield Publishing Cloth Very Good None Jacket 
Cloth book no date, pictures look like perhaps 1940's or 1950's. Saalfield #4721, All pages clear and quite bright, a counting book 1-10. Slight fraying on lower corner, no marks, clean. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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2 Unknown 19th Century Valentine
Card Very Good - 
Approximately 6 1/4" x 4 1/2" when folded. This card is die-cut and embossed with a paper lace frame on the front. There are three small pictures glued on top of the paper lace. The lace is missing two corners and another small piece - about 20% loss. Inside there is an illustration and a two stanza poem. There are four points where the paper connects, the front to the back on the fold. One of these is worn through. Unmarked.. 
Price: 6.00 USD
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3 Unknown 19th Century Valentine
Card Very Good++ 
Approximately 3 1/2' x 5 1/4" when folded. This card is die-cut and embossed with a paper lace frame around the face of a girl. Inside there is an illustration and a poem. I came across it tucked inside an old family bible. Unmarked. 
Price: 10.00 USD
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4 Unknown Book of Sports; General Marion and Other Stories
Leavitt & Allen 125. Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Issued Jacket 
Small (2 1/2" x 4") volume, bound in blue with embossed design on front and back, Spine is gilt, which is worn in the middle, there is a 2' split in the cloth where the spine folds. Corner are sharp. Two books of 16 pages each bound together. Unmarked, pages lightly tanned. Hand-colored illustrations throughout, 11 in the first part, 9 in the second part. Games in the first part include leap frog, stilts, plank and others. The stories in the second part are all about military figues and include General Winfield Scott and General Mercer. No date, circa 1850. 
Price: 125.00 USD
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5 Unknown Easy Primer; Happy Home Series of Primers
Philadelphia Davis, Porter & Co. 1866 Sewn Very Good - No Jacket Issued Jacket 
Approximately 5" x 8', 8 pages, all with color. Contains an alphabet, word list and text about animals. a 4" tear on the front cover has been professionally repaired. 
Price: 75.00 USD
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6 Unknown Good Examples for Good Children
American Tract Society Sewn Very Good ++ No Jacket Issued Jacket 
15 pages, b&w with engravings. 2 3/4" x 4", sewn. Unmarked & clean. No date, circa early 1800's judging by the illustrations and the text. 
Price: 25.00 USD
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7 Unknown Little ABC Book
New York McLoughlin Bros. 1884 Staplebound Near Fine 
Remarkably well preserved nineteenth century linen ABC book featuring a wonderful cover design, block printed with letters colored in red. Orig. soft linen stapled wrappers, with pictorial block print design, colored in red, yellow, brown & green; a few light brown spots to interior, otherwise a fine copy. 
Price: 115.00 USD
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8 Unknown Little Book of Trades; Describing Some Plain Things
New Haven S. Babcock Sewn Near Fine 
No date, mid-1800's. Tiny book, 1 3/4 x 2 3/4", 8 pages, b&w illustrations with text describing various trades (weaver, blacksmith, etc.). Small penciled signature on title page. Back cover advertises, "Toy books of every variety and description". Yellow wraps. 
Price: 100.00 USD
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9 Unknown Little Lessons for Little Folks with Colored Pictures, No. 2
New York Geo. A. Leavitt Wraps Very Good ++ 
Charming small (3 3/4" x 5 1/4") book of lessons, Yellow wraps with decorative front cover in red and black. Back cover advertises other children's books from this publisher. 15 pages with 6 color illustrations printed in oil. Unmarked, Stitched with string, bottom is just beginning to loosen from cover. No date, circa 1870. 
Price: 125.00 USD
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10 Unknown Little Story Books (Boxed)
New York John H. Eggers 1917 Staple Very Good No Jacket Issued Jacket 
4 tiny story books in original box. Each book 2 1/4" x 2 3/4", with 4 three-color illustrations in each. Box has an illustration on the front with this verse ' Here are little story books that I am sending you, I hope you'll like the stories and colored pictures, too!'. Box has darkened with age and is worn at edges. Books are staple bound, titles are "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", "Pied Piper", "Gorgon's Head" and " Ali Baba", all in VG+ condition save for "Ali Baba" which has a tiny bite out of the edge (does not effect text or illustrations). 
Price: 47.00 USD
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11 Unknown Martyrdom of an Empress
New York Harper & Brothers 1902 Hardcover Very Good 
Illustrated with portraits from photographs, one page loose. No author given. Frontis illustration has tissue is place. Former owner's name on ffep. Binding is a mustard color cloth with gold stamping and black & red decoration on front and back covers. Gilt top edge, other edges rough cut. Spine is darkened with some wear at top and bottom. The story of Empress Elizabeth wife of Franz-Joseph. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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12 Unknown McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Readerm Revised Edition Eclectic Educational Series
Cincinnati Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co. 1879 Hardcover Good + 
352 pages, b&w illustrations within. There are several inscriptions on the blank endpapers of the book, front and back. The back blank endpaper also contains a sticker advertising Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root (cures all urinary disorders). The center signature has pulled away from the sewn binding at the bottom. It is still holding firmly and other than this the binding is in very good condition. Brown boards with black lettering and decoration. Burgundy spine. Corners and spine ends heavily worn. 
Price: 25.00 USD
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13 Unknown Mischief; or, Harry and Lizzie
Phildelphia American Sunday School Union Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket Issued Jacket 
Small (3' x 4 3/4") hardcover bound in blue buckram with gold lettering and decoration on the spine. Contains cautionary children's tales bound together as one. Includes, "Mischief" 15 pages,"George Ellis's first Day at School" 16 pages, "Sarah Seymour's Punishment or the Dangers of Trifling With the Truth" 15 pages, "Little Things Not to be Despised" 8 pages, "The Hard Lesson" 8 pages. Each tale has a b&w engraving proceeding it and 2 have a small picture at the end. Firmly bound, very occassional foxing, 2 former owner's names in pencil on blank endpapers, one dated 1879. Light wear at corners and spine ends. 
Price: 110.00 USD
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14 Unknown Nursery Rhyme Land
Racine, Wisconsin Whitman Publishing 1970 Sewn Very Good + Tiffany, Virginia 
Clean, bright copy. Cloth book. Stitchery p[ictures illustrate popular Mother Goose characters. A 'Playpen picture book'. Whitman # 2280:39. Tiny (about 1/8 inch ) nick in the top. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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15 Unknown Snow-Drop
Sam'L Gabriel Sons and Co. Staple Fine Robinson, Gordon 
Linette book #431. Four full color pages by Robinson and 5 smaller two-color illustrations. Interior clean and unmarked. Cover has full color illustration, no date circa 1930's. 
Price: 15.00 USD
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16 Unknown. Sweet Stories For Little Folks Tit Bit Story Series
London Thomas Nelson & Sons Sewn Very Good 
3' x 3 1/2, sewn binding in wraps. Full color frontis, a collection of one-page stories, each with an illustration in green and white or a silhoutte. Pages are unmarked, full-color cover has separated from the book. No date, late 1800's. 
Price: 60.00 USD
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17 Unknown The Animals' Band
London R A Publishing Co. Ltd. staplebound Very Good + 
9 1/2" x 7", enchanting full-color illustrations accompanied by ryhming text. 14 unnumbered pages. No date, circa early 1900's, Book No. 105 'Seal of Artistic Excellence' is the only identifying mark. Unmarked, bright and charming. 
Price: 37.00 USD
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18 Unknown The New Thrils of Freezing With Your Frigidaire Food Freezer Instructions for preparing, packaging, and freezing food the easy Frigidaire way.
Frigidaire Division, General Motors 1949 Staplebound Very Good++ 
40 pages, staplebound, unmarked, illustrated with b&w photographs and charts. 
Price: 8.00 USD
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19 unknown Three Bears
New York Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co. 1930 Staplebound Very Good 
Linenette Series #540, illustrated with full-color and two-color pictures. Unmarked, only light wear, charming. 
Price: 18.00 USD
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20 Unknown Up to Mischief; Pleasure Series; Linen Book
New York Mcloughlin Bros, 1898 Staple Very Good No Jacket Issued Jacket 
Poems about animals with delightful illustrations. The center spread is in full color, other interior illustrations in b&w. Full-color illustration on front and and back cover. 2 pages have small pencil marking. Very light edgewear. 10 pages. 
Price: 65.00 USD
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