Babcock s sidney (4 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Presumed first edition (no additional printings listed) ; looks ca 1840s. Original yellow covers (drawing of girl on front feeding chickens, ad on rear for Babcock's "Toy Books", 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, 16 pp, illustrated title page and five full page woodcuts, handsewn binding, probably done by previous owner. Paperback, good. Front cover creased, foxed and tanned, but otherwise decent and unmarked. Didactic stories to teach charity, obedience, honesty and other virtues: Mary and Her Mother, The Bird's Nest (about a farm boy who destroyed birds and their nests at the behest of his father) , Little Arthur, and The Straw Bonnet. Children's; chapbook; ephemera; Americana; endangered species.…

16 pages plus covers. Stitch-bound paperback booklet: H 11cm x L 7cm. Blue paper covers. No date specified but, per LoC and OCLC, likely circa 1835-1845. Some foxing and toning but otherwise a quite nice copy. Text divided into sections titled as: "The Deliverance of the Israelites;" "Destruction of the Egyptians;" "Bread Rained from Heaven;" "Moses Smiting the Rock in Horeb;" and "Solomon and the Queen of Sheba." Rear wrapper has publisher's advertisement "Babcock's Moral, Instructive, and Entertaining Toy Books, Beautifully Embellished with Superior Engravings, for the Mind and Eye . . .".…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 7 tiny woodcuts. Near Fine. Miniature, Yellow printed paper covers, 2 7/8 X 1 7/8in (1)-8pgs.+cover The story of Mary, who when she misbehaves is bound hand & foot until she comes to her senses, and thereafter, is a quite mild & good natured little girl. Ads on the rear cover for Toy Books of Every Variety and Description.…

LeatherBound. Condizione: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1840 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 22 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 22.…