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The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis, 1908 Book size about 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches with unnumbered pages. Bound in brown cloth with front cover color pictorial paste-on. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated end papers (Different for front and rear). Tissue guarded color frontis and seven color plates by Clarence F Underwood. Decorations by Will Jenkins. One of… Ler mais sobre este item

Bobbs Merrill. Indianapolis, 1911 Book size about 7 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches with unnumbered pages. Bound in olive green cloth with pale green spine lettering and full front cover color illustrated paste-on with deeply impressed gilt lettering. Printed on thick heavy coated paper. Illustrated with full page drawings on every other page by Howard Chandler Christy. One of those… Ler mais sobre este item

The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Indianapolis, 1909 Book size about 7 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches with unnumbered pages. Bound in lilac cloth with front cover color pictorial paste-on. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated with a color frontis and five color plates by Clarence F Underwood. Decorations by Earl Stetson Crawford. One of those early 1900's gift books, this… Ler mais sobre este item

The Bobbs Merrill Company. Indianapolis, 1904 Book size about 5 1/2 by 8 inches with some 78 pages. Bound in a Margaret Armstrong designed green cloth with a repeated red and green holly motif; gilt lettering. Illustrated throughout by C M Relyea and Will Vawter. Printed on thick heavy coated paper. First Printing with the month December on the copyright… Ler mais sobre este item

T Nelson & Sons. NY. No date (Circa 1885), 1885 Small book a bit smaller than 4 by 5 inches with some 12 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied thin cardboard. One full page color illustration plus color decorative borders to all pages. A Sunday School gift book for perfect attendance--the presentation page at the front has not… Ler mais sobre este item

Obpacher Brothers. NY. No date (Circa 1900 or so), 1900 Small book about 4 by 5 inches with some 12 pages. String tie bound thin cardboard covers with color images and imitation birch bark design. All edges gilt. With six internal color illustrations. A lovely little Christmas gift book. Center of book two pages with light foxing and other foxing… Ler mais sobre este item

The Art Lithographic Publishing Co. NY. No date but circa 1890, 1890 Small oblong book about 6 by 4 inches with some 16 pages. Ribbon bound in embossed color illustrated thin cardboard covers. With six chromolithograph color illustrations--smaller images in light blue on the remaining pages. An Easter gift book of very high quality. A bit of light covers soil… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister. London. / E P Dutton. NY. No date--circa 1890, 1890 Small book about 3 1/4 by 4 inches with some 12 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied embossed color illustrated thin cardboard. All edges scalloped. With two full page color chromolithograph illustrations. A Christmas gift book in the usual very high Nister quality. Light wear; foxing… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister. London. / E P Dutton. NY. No date--circa 1890, 1890 Small book about 3 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches with some 12 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied embossed color chromolithograph illustrated thin cardboard. All edges scalloped. With two interior color chromolithograph illustrations. Title page with gilt lettering and decoration. Lovely little Christmas gift book with… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister. London. No date--circa 1900., 1900 Small book about 4 1/2 by 5 inches with some 12 pages. Bound in embossed and colored white thin cardboard. All edges scalloped. With four full page color chromolithographs. Title page decorated and lettered in gilt. Very lovely little gift book in the high quality Nister tradition. Light wear; foxing at the book… Ler mais sobre este item

No publisher, No place, No date (Circa 1890), 1890 Small book about 4 by 5 1/2 inches with some 16 pages including the covers. Ribbon bound white thin cardboard with embossed color chromolithograph illustrated front cover. All edges decoratively cut. With four interior color chromolithograph images. A Christmas gift book. Lovely little book with slight wear. FINE Language: eng Language:… Ler mais sobre este item

The Art Lithographic Publishing Co. NY. No date but circa 1890, 1890 Slightly oblong book about 6 1/2 by 5 inches with some 16 pages including the covers. Bound in string tied color embossed thin cardboard. All edges die cut. With four color illustrations. A Christmas poem. Light wear. Lovely little Victorian Christmas book. NEAR FINE Language: eng Language: eng… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister, London., 1906 Book size about 4 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches with some 84 pages. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated end papers (Same for front and rear). Illustrated throughout with numerous images in color and black/white--both full page and in-text by A A Dixon. Several of the illustrations are dated 1906 but there… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister. London/E P Dutton. NY. No date (Circa 1890)., 1890 Oblong book about 5 1/2 by 4 inches with some 16 pages including covers. Gold string bound in color illustrated cream wraps (Thin cardboard). All edges gilt. Six internal chromolithographs full page and smaller. Very slight wear; previous owner Xmas greeting very neatly on title page. Beautiful copy. NEAR… Ler mais sobre este item

Blackwell-Wielandy Book & Stationery. St. Louis. 1912., 1912 Book size about 5 by 10 inches with some 64 pages. Bound in ribbon tie color illustrated wraps including a glassine cover--and, IN THE ORIGINAL BOX. Pages with decorative borders. One of those sentimental gift books so popular in the early 1900's full of uplifting poems and essays from various sources. Originally… Ler mais sobre este item

Barse & Hopkins. NY. 1914. First Edition., 1914 Calendar size about 6 inches wide by 11 inches tall. Bound in cream and green marble pattern wraps with binding of gold ribbon tie at the top. Front cover title in cream on a gilt panel. Calendar consists of a Title Page followed by a page for each month (On thin cardboard)… Ler mais sobre este item

Ernest Nister. London/E P Dutton. NY. No date (Circa 1890)., 1890 Milk chocolate brown cloth with beveled edges. Front cover illustration of a village scene in black, gold and gray; gilt title lettering. Spine lettering in gilt. Slate blue EP's. All edges gilt. Unpaginated (Some 40 pages). 4to. Printed on heavy thick paper the format of the book is to… Ler mais sobre este item