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Hardcover. Condition: Good. This is an American reprint consisting of two stories bound together: "The Lost Knife", and "A Wet Afternoon" (the illustrations for which are quite similar in style). The book was published in 1884 by Dodd, Mead and Company. Again, it is a reprint . the stories (at least "The Lost Knife") were first published in England, and then there are earlier reprints issued in the United States. Indeed there are several versions of the stories . several binding variants. As we can see from the nature of the illustrations, it is obvious that the plates for the book had been frequently, and heavily used. This was typical of popular juvenile works. According to World Catalog (OCLC), Kate Greenaway contributed the illustrations for this story ("The Lost Knife"). She is not credited in this edition, but the illustrations, at least many of them, are obviously by her hand. The binding on this copy is a generic publisher's trade binding. All the same it has a charm of its own. Dressed in an embossed cloth-covered board binding, colored black on deep ultramarine (blue), the front cover design depicts a boy looking over a fence . behind him is a horse. The boy holds a riding crop. There are flowers in the foreground, and birds roost in the rafters above. The title is lettered in black beneath the boy. In the upper right corner of the front cover is a generic paper paste-down chromolithographic illustration depicting a lovely young girl. TITLE : "The Lost Knife" - bound with - "The Wet Afternoon" AUTHOR : Anonymous - [ but: Richard Handy, as per World Catalog ] ILLUSTRATED : [ Kate Greenaway - As per World Catalog . she is not credited anywhere in this edition] IMPRINT : Dodd, Mead and Company PLACE : New York DATE : (1884) EDITION : American Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Small trade hardcover; Contains numerous line illustrations; 48 pages; 4 1/4" x 6 3/8"; deep ultramarine, cloth-covered boards; the front board is embossed with the details stamped in black. There is a chromolith paper paste-down (color illustration) in the top right corner of the front board, depicting a pretty lass dressed in shawl and bonnet. The rear cover is blank. The spine is blank. The title is lettered in black on the front. CONDITION - GOOD ONLY - This is a previously owned book that remains clean and serviceable. The book has seen much use and has cracked hinges and is considerably shaken. However no leaves are detached, and the whole remains clean and attractive, use considered EXTERIOR : Spine extremities are compressed and moderately abraded, with fraying just starting. Joints are rubbed.Modest surface rub to boards; corner tips are softly bumped. Board edges have a few small nicks. The text-block edges are darkened. BINDING : Much read, the text-block is shaken and hinges cracked, revealing binding thread. No leaves are detached, but the whole is considerably loosened. INTERIOR : Scattered small smudges and spots. Paper throughout is toned. No writing, scribbling or markings. Lacks a rear free end-paper. Kate Greenaway (illustrator).…

Single-sided folded yellow paper sheet. Full dimensions: H 21.7cm x L 9.2cm. OCLC notes poem of 8 stanzas of 8 lines each - however this sheet has, after a prefatory five-line paragraph, a seven stanza poem of 4-4-6-6-6-6-4 lines respectively. Sheet extracted from a book with an 1867 inscription of a Memphis, Tennessee and Oxford, Mississippi dual resident so perhaps two locations of printing possibility and an approximate date. Extrapolating from the OCLC citations, it seems that "The Blind Woman's Appeal" may well have become a generic handout for those afflicted by sight loss and left to panhandling and thus variations/versions migrated around the country during 1860s-1870s. OCLC also notes "A similar work was published, with appropriate gender changes, under [the] title: 'The Blind Man's Appeal.'".…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1184 pages. 6.69x2.31x9.61 inches. In Stock.

First edition. Original boards, 8vo, 40 unnumbered pages. Includes illustrations, some in color. 22 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as "A Girl with a Pigtail Tastes an Apple." A collection of beautifully illustrated children's poems in Yiddish by Herman Gold, with 3 mounted color lithographs and 26 lithographic illustrations in the text, all by Isaac Lichtenstein. Number 44 of 200 copies signed by Lichtenstein. Herman Gold "was the pseudonym of Hillel Gurni. He was born in Brisk (Brest), Lithuania. He studied in the Pinsk yeshiva. At age fourteen he began writing in Hebrew the history of the city of Pinsk for Pinsker Shtot-Luekh (Pinsk City Calendar). He spent several years in Vilna and in Warsaw. In 1905 he emigrated to the United States. He worked in a factory, later as a clerk for Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor) in New York, when it appeared for a short time as a daily under the title Abend-Tsaytung (Evening Newspaper) in 1906" (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur). The illustrator, "Isaac Lichtenstein was born into a Jewish family in Lódz, Poland in 1889 and studied art at the Academy in Krakow. As a young man, he travelled widely, going to Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, where he was among the loose group of emigre artists, mainly of Eastern-European Jewish descent, living and working together at the collection of La Ruche (The Beehive) studios in Montparnasse and known as the Ecole de Paris or School of Paris. Together with Pinchus Kremegne, Henri Epstein, Leo Koenig, Marek Szwarc and Leon Indenbaum, Lichtenstein was one of the artists behind the publication of 'Machmadim' (Precious Ones), a textless Jewish art journal that was first published in 1912.After [World War I], Lichtenstein moved between London, Poland, Paris, and America, where he spent most of his life, reviving the Machmadim Publishing House [the publisher of this work] devoted to the production of artistic Yiddish books" (Ben Uri Gallery). SUBJECT(S): Children's poetry, Yiddish. Children's poetry, Yiddish. OCLC records an un-numbered edition (52406690) but locates no holdings anywhere for this limited signed numbered edition. A gorgeous copy. No markings or signs of wear. Very Good+ Condition. Stunning (BK) (YID-48-120). Signed.…