Springfield, Mass. Milton Bradley, [n.d., ca. 1900]. “The Game of Words and Sentences” is a sort of fast-paced combination of a pattern matching game and Scrabble. The instruction sheet directs players to draw letter tiles from the box at random and arrange them on a tabletop in alphabetical order. Any.....

New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, 1827. Second edition, expanded with the appendices by James Mott (1788 – 1868). First published by Mahlon Day in 1825. All editions are rare in commerce. With two appendices by James Mott: “Brief Hints to Parents & General Principles” and “Hints to.....

[London: Stationery Office, [n.d., ca. 1939-1944.]. The publisher and location of the present item are uncertain, but similar recruitment posters were printed by the Stationery Office in London. Richly color-printed with an illustration of a Wrens member saluting. Lettered in black, silver, and gold. Creased, b400ut now stored flat. Pinpoint.....

[New York: Froebel League of New York City, 1912-1915]. The date on the employment contract indicates that Ruth Sibley was hired by the Froebel League of New York City as an assistant in the kindergarten in May 1912. The two letters (between Sibley and Isabella Goodrich Breckenridge, the secretary of.....

San Francisco: Book Club of California, [by Taylor, Nash and Taylor], 1913. One of 350 copies. The Book Club of California published its first book, Robert E. Cowan’s A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, in 1914. Title-page printed in red and black. Slight toning to.....

Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, Printed at the Windowpane Press, 2019. One of ten copies bound in half leather (total edition of thirty copies). Designed by Jodee Fenton at Aubergine Atelier and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman at the Windowpane Press. 36 ff., plus 14 Japanese kozo paper leaves painted on both.....

[n.p., England: ca. 1962]. The latest date that can be seen in the photos is 1962. The full title and summary of the exhibit can be seen on a display in the second photograph in the album: “A Century of Health Visiting” – an exhibition – mainly about Health Visiting.....

[n.p. n.d., ca. 1910]. A unique item. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852), the inventor of the 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 available at home or.....

[Petaluma, California:]: Mixolydian Editions, 2019. Deluxe edition, one of a total edition of forty-eight copies designed and printed by Richard Wagener, numbered and signed in pencil on the colophon by the author and the artist; this copy is lettered “M” and includes an additional eight engravings from the text, each.....

London: Published by R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece and decorative title-page. Some dustsoiling. Spine lightly faded. Clean and fresh throughout despite some offsetting to title-page and frontispiece. A very good copy. Uncommon in commerce. Original red cloth with gilt spine. Twelvemo. xxii, [2], 356, xxiii.....

London: The Folio Society, [n.d., 1961]. Contains an introductory leaf listing the works included and a brief description of each in addition to leaves from twelve different monumental works of European printing from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, each matted on gray card. Some offsetting from the adhesive that has.....

London: Saunders and Otley, 1837. First edition of Harriet Martineau’s (1802 – 1876) assessment of American society developed during her travels between August 1834 and August 1836. In the ODNB, R.K. Webb writes that, “other than Alexis, comte de Tocqueville’s contemporaneous Democracy in America (1835; trans. 1835–40), [Martineau’s Society in America] be regarded as.....

Philadelphia: Instructo Products Co., 1966. First edition. Box (9 x 11 x 3 in.) enclosing forty-nine (of fifty-two) die-cut, color-printed board figures. With a 2-pp. teacher’s instruction sheet on color-printed Instructo Products Co. letterhead and plastic stands for the figures. The figures include backgrounds of home interiors, family members, pets.....