[n.p., Laguna Beach: Laguna Verde Imprenta, 1982]. One of “around sixty copies” printed by Ward Ritchie. Color-printed initials and two abstract vignettes. With “A Footnote to the Loves of MA” leaf laid in. Toning to first and last leaf and some offsetting from the initials and vignettes. A near fine.....

[n.p., New Hampshire?:]: April 1892. Friedrich Froebel (1782 - 1852), early childhood education pioneer who coined the term “kindergarten,” developed his Gifts between about 1830 and 1850. These twenty activities, which varied in complexity, were intended for young children to preteens. Many of the Gifts could be fashioned through materials.....

[ Honolulu: ]: 1938 ]. This manuscript version of “The Tar-Baby and the Rabbit” was written and illustrated as a gift to “Nancy,” probably the granddaughter of the manuscript’s creator. “When your Mother was a little girl I used to tell her some Uncle Remus stories,” the inscription reads. “I.....

Chicago: Meyer & Brother, 1893. First edition. With frontisportrait and twenty-five full-page engravings. Slight edgewear. Dark blue coated endpapers. Some marginal toning, as usual. A very good, clean copy of this important autobiography of a Black preacher and missionary. Publisher’s reddish-purple cloth stamped in gilt with portrait of Amanda Smith.....

Los Angeles: [Printed by Grant Dahlstrom,] The Zamorano Club, 1970. With eight photo reproductions. A strip of sunning at top edge. With four-page “Note to the readers” by Ruth Frey Axe laid in. A near fine copy. Blue printed paper wrappers titled in gold. 6 x 10 in. 38 pp.....

Los Angeles: Imprenta Glorias, 2008. No limitation given. Designed by Gloria Stuart and printed by John Robinson. Initialed by Stuart on the colophon. A fine copy. Cream-colored Zerkall paper self-wrappers with an additional strip of red Cockerel paper (1954, from the stock of Ward Ritchie). Disbound, as issued. Oblong quarto.....

St. Paul, Minn. Webb Publishing Co., Webb Publishing Co., Fourth edition of both items. All editions and all entries in the series are rare, with only a few physical copies of each in OCLC. None of the copies recorded in OCLC are first editions. No. 1 with forty-seven text figures.....

London: James Hogg & Sons, [1861]. First edition.. A collection of didactic stories for children featuring virtuous figures (both real and fictional) like “Father of Railways” George Stephenson (1781 – 1848) and an elderly man named Bob, the titular character of the chapter “The Story of an African Negro.” When.....

London: Griffith and Farran, 1859. First edition. With four hand-colored plates and three text illustrations by John Gilbert (including a diagram of a steam engine). Dedicated to Stephenson “by one who owes much to his early influence.”. Spots of darkening to cloth, mostly on back cover, and some rubbing. All.....

London: Wiliam Pickering, 1843. First edition in book form. Originally published in monthly parts in 1840. With ninety-four chromolithograph plates, decorated in gilt and “hand-colored in the most sumptuous way” (McLean). Also, with wood block-printed text illustrations in color. The plates illustrate paintings, stained glass, jewelry, furniture, vestments, gold cups.....

[Los Angeles: The Foster Co., Inc., 1930.]. First edition of the author’s final book. With a photo plate of Ellerbe. Introduction by Elsie Noble Caldwell. Toning to edges of boards and to endpapers. Some light contemporary pencil marginalia throughout. A very good copy of an uncommon book. Publisher’s quarter black.....

[n.p. [ca. 1880-1900.]. It is unclear when these folios were made, but the photo plates and signatures themselves are likely ca. 1880-1900. The sentiments that accompany the signatures are very brief. For example the Lucy Stone one reads: "Equal Rights for All;" and the Frances Willard one reads, “For God.....

Washington, D.C. Places, Inc., [1937]. First edition of the book that elevated the theory that Gustave Whitehead (1874 – 1927) achieved powered flight two years before the Wright brothers. With twelve photo plates (including frontispiece) and two maps. With an eight-page appendix that compiles affidavits and periodical articles on Whitehead’s.....