Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1849. Hardcover. 12mo, gilt-decorated cloth hardbound in slipcase, clean unmarked text, illustrated, 144 pp. Very Good copy in Very Good slipcase, foxing/soil throughout the book, owner's old signature to front flyleaf, covers with light soil/discoloration, some rubbing/wear to the covers (especially at tips and edges) with.....
New York: Geo. F. Cooledge, Ca. 1850. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5 inches tall), cloth backed printed yellow boards, 48 pp, illustrated throughout and with advertisement pages for various Webster's dictionaries and reference books, very good copy, light wear to cloth and subtle reinforcement of inner hinges with japanese tissue, scarce book.....
New York: Geo. F. Cooledge, Ca. 1850. Hardcover. 8vo (7.5 inches tall), cloth backed printed yellow boards, 48 pp, illustrated throughout and with advertisement pages for various Webster's dictionaries and reference books, very good copy, light wear and soil, minor foxing to top edge, scarce book in better than usual.....
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1857. Hardcover. Early edition (first published 1854) 12mo (5 x 4 inches), original cloth, gilt spine, frontispiece and woodcut title for The Little Ones' Library. 128 pp, a few woodcut illustrations, very good, some foxing.
New York: American Tract Society, 1860s. Hardcover. Copyright 1852, this is likely a later printing from the early 1860s. 8vo, pebbled blue embossed cloth, gilt spine, 288 pp, illustrated with engraved vignettes throughout. VG, light wear to spine ends. Nice songster with verses but no music.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1888. 8.25 x 6.25 inches, very good, light wear and soil, 6 plates in color, on linen!
New York: Lane & Tippett, ND, ca. 1847. Paperback. 12mo (4.4 inches high), gray-green wraps with woodcut illustration on cover, 24 pp, light wear, very good. RARE, only one copy in OCLC at the AAS, dated 1847 by them. Apparently in the collection of the Windham Union Sunday School from.....
Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1868. Hardcover. Early edition, 1868. Purple cloth 8vo, 176pp. Embossed boards with gilt stamped spine title and decoration. In very good condition with sunning to the spine, gentle shelfwear. Previous owner's signature on the front flyleaf; else clean and unmarked.
Paris: Hachette, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1931. Hardcover. Cloth spine, illustrated cover. 4to. 31pp. Text in French. Illus. Good. Soiling to boards and spine, coners worn, heavy age toning to contents.
New York: Walker and Company, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. Inscribed, signed, and dated by Chester Aaron on the titlepage. First edition, 1991. Hardcover, 156 pp., clean unmarked text, Good ex- middle school library copy with typical treatments (stamps, pocket, notaion on the spine of the book), some soiling to the.....
New York: Harper Collins, 1850. Hardcover. Two volumes. 1850. Hardcover, 8vo. in red cloth, with gilt title. 202, 203pp. with engraved frontis and title page in each, illustrated, plus 6p publisher list in Mary Erskine. Good+. Chipping and some loss to spine ends. Mottling and soil to boards. Ownership inscription.....
Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845. Hardcover. Later edition, 1845; first printed 1843. Small 8vo, cloth backed patterned paper-covered boards, 144 pp., a number of woodcut plates. Good copy, general wear and rubbing to binding, corners a bit rounded, some scuffing and abrasions to cloth spine, spine label lacking, contents good.....
Boston: W.J. Reynolds, 1854. First edition. Hardcover. 1854. First edition. Hardcover, 12mo. in tan buckram with gilt spine title. 197pp. with engraved frontis and title page, illustrations, plus several pages of publisher ads. Good+. Loss to spine ends. Lean to spine. Ownership plate and markings to front endpapers. Light foxing.....
New York: Crowell, Ca. 1890. Hardcover. Later printing. 8vo, decorated green cloth, very good, pages a bit tanned.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. First Edition. c.1924. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, illustrated cover. 12mo. 281pp. Illus. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Mild shelfwear, mild soil to edges of text block. Age toning to dustjacket, light soil, light edgewear, foot of spine chipped. In shelfworn original.....
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. Hardcover. No date. ca.1875. Hardcover. Cloth. 16mo. Illus. Very Good. Light general shelfwear, rubbing to edges, mild wear to spine-ends, hinges cracked, former owner's signature on endpaper and flyleaf, light loss to endpaper due to insect damage.
NY and London: Longmans, Green, ND. Hardcover. Ca. 1901-1910. Oblong quarto, pictorial boards, very good, light wear and soil to covers, worse to rear board, half inch abrasion along rear joint, contents good to very good with light finger smudges to some margins, two short repaired tears to fore-edge, inner.....
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1979. Early Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Adoff on the titlepage. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, a bit of rubbing or wear to the edges of the book's covers, light age-toning.....
Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson and Co., 1854. Second printing. Hardcover. 1854, second American printing of this edition of Aesop, done into rhyme by Marmaduke Park. Hardcover, short 8vo., original cloth, gilt title and design. 288 pp., plus ads. Each story with a woodcut vignette. Good. Cloth rubbed and faded; light.....
Garden City: Doubleday, 1946. First printing. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Large square 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, signed on title page by author. Book very good, jacket good only with some wear and loss and taping to its underside. Bright April is a story about a young African-American girl named.....
New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, book good with some discoloration to binding, Christmas inscription from 1950 on flyleaf, book otherwise OK, jacket good to very good, light wear, some rubbing to flap hinges, loss loss to jacket's spine ends, minor wear.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. First edition, 1988. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ dust jacket, front flap of the dust jacket is price-clipped, rubbing and creasing to the.....
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. Third printing. Paperback. Inscribed on the title by Jon Agee. 1990. Third printing. Paperback, 8vo. Unpaginated, illustrated. Fine. Internally unmarked.
Michael di Capua Books / Hyperion, 2006. Third printing. Hardcover. Signed by Agee on the front flyleaf with a small drawing by him above his signature. First edition, 2006. Small quarto, pictorial hardcover in dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust.....
Bethel Park, PA: Skeeter Hill Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Square 8vo, blue cloth in dust jacket. Ex-library copy with minimal library markings, including book plate to front pastedown and sticker to front panel of dust jacket. Minimal wear to book with rubbing and minor tearing to corner.