Uncle Herbert (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ships quickly. Inscription from family and names on inside cover page. Nice detail and graphics on cover. Binding cracked but pages are in good shape. Mild to moderate shelf/reading wear. Orphans Treasure Box sells books to raise money for orphans and vulnerable kids.

0 366 p. Includes illustrations. Good. moderate shelfwear, slit to right side of spine covering all the way down.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor to Fair. No Jacket. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Poor to Fair(the fly pages in front & back missing - spine has been reglued & pages browning Reading copy only (A Choice Collection Carefully Selected and Arranged).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Collectible first edition presumed Mostly tight and sound but inside front hinge cracked Corner bumps and rubs Spine has bumps and rubs to top and bottom No inside markings or underlining The vertical white line is not on the book it is the fault of my scanner Please see our photo as many book sites use stock images.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cover is rough but good text. Owner's name inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Condition is good minus. Approx half of the front outer hinge is cracked with paper loss. Covers have light wear to the outer corners. Endpapers are lightly foxed. A few scattered spots of foxing to the pages. Owner gift inscription on the front free endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Illustrated paper-covered boards of four figures beside two elephants and red cloth-covered spine. Red lettering on front cover and gilt stamped lettering along spine. Boards are quite worn, especially along edges where they've been exposed. Color illustration remains handsome, if rubbed. Front board is attached by two threads. Binding otherwise is secure. Endpapers are smudged and a portion is missing from rear attached endpaper. Child's scribbles on half-title page, but the rest of the interior remarkably remains clean and in good reading condition. Heavily illustrated. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated Throughout (illustrator). First Edition. a fair hardcover copy of this scarce childrens' title; binding is loose; 2 pages front and back are loose and have pieces missing at edges of those loose pages; ; pencil scribbling inside front and back cover ; ; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED; attractive illustrated covers; Size: 7 x 9".

Condition: fair. Hardcover book with pictures pasted on the covers and a cloth spine, 368 pages. A charming old book of stories and poems with outstanding illustrations, most of them full page. Fair worn but solid condition, back hinge split.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. CLICK READ MORE! First edition (no additional printings listed). Original quarter cloth (spine) and paste-down paper covered pictorial boards (chromolithograph of elephant and calf) , 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 176 pp, nicely and well illustrated with black and white drawings, both full page and in-text, depicting realistically drawn scenes of animals in situ. Hardcover, fair. Boards soiled and moderately scuffed, numbers (in pencil) on rear board, corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, 1/4 inch deep chips off head and foot of spine. Internally textblock detached from binding, paper age yellowed, front and rear endpapers removed (starts with half title page, ends with laid-in ad) , 1 leaf torn in half, smudging on side edges of most pages, occasional bit of foxing, 2 or 3 stray pencil marks, but still a decent reading copy, or suitable, in good conscience, as a breaker. Children's; natural history; nature prints; Victorian.

Hardcover. Condition: Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co. Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1878. . Hardcover. Sm 8vo., 336pp., cover shelf wear to edges and corners, corners bumped, spine tips bumped and chipped and lightly frayed, some rubbing to spine panel, pencil mark to rear cover, light soiling, otherwise good; inside hinge cracked, Former owner's penciled signature on front free-endpaper, foxing to front and rear free-endpapers and pastedowns, few spots of foxing scattered throughout text block in margins, page 29 small tear on lead edge, otherwise pages clean and unmarked. .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Playtime Primer was edited by Uncle Herbert. The book was published by Donohue, Henneberry & Co. in 1894 and appears to be a First Edition though it's not specifically stated as such. It's NOT an ex-library copy but is only in good condition with wear, a spine that I have glued to help shore it up, yellowing pages, and some minor soiling to the bottom of the title page. The book begins with an alphabet section for the first 10 pages, then has some short "essays", poems, and short stories all in nice bold bigger print. The book is 7 3/8" by 9 3/8" and has about 40 pages with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Thank you!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This book is in acceptable condition and is a reading copy. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Softcover. Condition: Good+. Edited by Uncle Herbert. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., (c. 1878). 8vo. 22 pages plus covers on linen, stitch sewn and printed in b&w. Covers moderately worn and soiled, slight fraying of the threads at cover's edges; interior clean, very good condition, alphabet and engravings in rich black and white illustrating instructional stories. Online we found the Publisher's Weekly text for August 17, 1878, listing this book as a new publication. ; Illustrated; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 22 pages.

First Edition. Hard cover. 8vo. Illustrated. 368pp. Illustrated. Good text. Decorative front board. Sound binding. Edgewear. Nice used childrens book. Satisfction guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated boards. Edges worn; corners rounded; surface of spine rubbed off. Pages show some soiling. Many illustrations. 116 pages (numerated as p. 2-4, 224-336). 8 x 6 inches. An anthology of short tales and poems with illustrations throughout. This was edited by Timothy Shay Arthur (1809-1885) under the pseudonym Uncle Herbert.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Uncle Herbert's Speaker and Autograph Album Verses: A Choice Collection Carefully Selected and Arranged" by Uncle Herbert. Sold by subscription only. J.A. Ruth & Co, Philadelphia and Chicago, 1887. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 416 pages. Brown cloth boards, black front titles, gilt spine titles; scrolled wraparound borders. Brown decorative endpapers. Rubbing to board edges and light scuffing to boards; text block is in fine condition without marks, tears or folds, very light toning. ".Nothing that could in the slightest degree prove objectionable has been admitted. All the pieces are pure in language, lofty in sentiment, pithy, bright, sparkling. None dull or prosy. Beginning with the short simple pieces for the "little prattlers", the book gradually runs into those for older children, thus about one-third of the Speaker is given to pieces suitable for children under eight years of age, one-third for children from eight to twelve years old, and the remainder for older ones." This was especially designed for school or parlor recitations and also for fireside amusement. Many of these selections were also chosen with use in autograph albums under the headings: Dedicatory, Sentiment, Love, Humorous, Remembrance, and Miscellaneous. Some of the selections for the recitations and readings are: Beauty Everywhere, Bright Little Dandelion, Flea Powder, Burial of Sir John Moore, Be Pleasant, Good Night, I'm Very Young, It's Not Worthwhile to Hate, Little Brown Bushy-Tail, Katydid, Lake of the Dismal Swamp, The Counter Sign, Make Your Mark, Miss Tidy, Mr. Socrates Snooks, Mamma's Boy, Popping Corn, Presentation Speech, Marco Bozzaris, Sally in Our Alley, The Little Dreamer, Song of the Camp, The Violet, The Oyster Man, The Love of Country, The Lost Doll, A Visit From Saint Nicholas, The Modern Belle, What a Leaf Said, Useful Little Words.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 336 pages, illustrations throughout with many full-page, color illustrated paper over boards with red cloth spine wrap. All edges worn to board, spine wrap loosening, ink gift inscription, scattered soil. Brick and mortar bookshop since 1975!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good condition copy for age. Tired in appearance, rubbed and scuffed. Pages pulling and loosening with some attempted repair, darkened with marks. Good reading copy. Good condition is defined as: a copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original paper-covered boards with green cloth spine. Front cover color pastedown is nice. Edge wear, Very Good Minus.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Lauderbach, Mesnet, et al. (illustrator). Condition: Poor. But this 140-year-old children?s first reader is so rare and interesting that I believe it should be listed and made available. The text pages are not torn or marked up (except page 36 with a penciled-in sentence), but all are soiled and spotted. The signatures are pulling away from the binding, but all pages are present (the final page ? 48 ? says The End). The cover is badly soiled, which shows this primer got used a lot, but the green spine is intact. 8? x 6?, 48 pages, 7 ounces. Both pastedowns have penciled numbers. There is an inscription on the first free endpaper: Frank Hannum, Danville, Illinois, December 25th 1879. This suggests it was a Christmas gift. Ancestry-dot-com shows a Frank Hannum in Danville in 1880 with a birthdate of about 1875, which would have made the recipient of this gift book four-years-old. His father was a grocery clerk. On that same genealogical website Frank Hannum is listed as a newsboy in 1889. Danville had a population of 7,733 in 1880 and 11,491 in 1890. It was a major coal-mining town featuring some of the earliest open pits. XX Primers introduced children to the alphabet and then used simple stories with similar words to teach reading (with parents?, siblings?, and/or teachers? help). What makes this 1877 primer delightful are the illustrations for each letter of the alphabet and for the stories, which always feature children and often an animal they would be familiar with (dogs are the most frequent, followed by horses, cats, cows, oxen, and birds. Hens, bears, donkeys, roosters, and squirrels only appear once. Besides using primarily 1-syllable words, the little stories accompanied by illustrations often provide some grammatical rules as well as guidance to good behavior. One of the strangest is: Do not hit the boy, bad man. If you do, you will go off in a van. Do not go to him, boy, he will hit you in the eye. Other stories follow traditional Victorian sentimentalism: Poor little Nora has no one to love her; she has to work hard every day, and does not get much to eat. Is it not sad? You must all be kind to the poor, for they have a hard life, and do not have the nice toys and food that you have. Will you try not to forget this?

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ernest Noble (illustrator). 1st Edition. Front board illustrated and rear one plain blue; edges and corners rubbed; black spine with paper label. Internally front free end paper smudged, with gift inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Owner inscription on front fly, decorated boards. Good only. Spine cover worn with some chipping, spine ends and corners and edges rubbed.

Condition: Gut. unpaginiert, [25 Bll.] mit zahlreichen Abbildungen; Einband stark berieben und bestoßen. Seiten vereinzelt leicht fingerfleckig. Insges. guter Zustand. /vitrine Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1100 gr. 8°; gebunden, illustrierter Orig.-Pappband;

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. New York: Lippincott, 1877. First edition. 8vo. 96 p. Illustrated. Cloth spine and pictorial paper covered boards. A charming children's book with engraved illustrations on nearly every page. Arranged in "chapter" sections with stories and poems of 1-3 pages long. Hinges cracked and first 18 pages are loose in binding. Pages 14-15 missing. Several pages have small tears. Boards soiled and worn and corners rubbed. Extremely rare. Good.

Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Previous owner's name. ; Wonderful Victorian Chidlren's Book. ; B&W Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 111 pages; Former owner's name on endpaper -- "Mary W. Ball / from Anna Haines / on her 7th birthday", otherwise clean and secure in original pictorial boards; wear at corners and spine ends, rubbed at edge; quite a nice example of this very scarce Victorian childrens book. B&W illustrations throughout, full page as well as vignettes. A wonderful collection of short stories and poems for children. Timothy Shay Arthur (18091885) was a popular 19th-century American writer, famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854). Written with compassion and sensitivity, Arthur's stories articulated the values and ideals associated with "respectable middle class" life in America. Several publishing firms have printed books by Timothy Shay Arthur 's pseudonym "Uncle Herbert," but Lippincott was his publisher during his lifetime. Found no copies listed in OCLC or LC or AAS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Edges chipped and rubbed, exposing boards. Some light stains on rear board. Former owner's impressed seal on front end paper. A few finger smudges within text, else tight, bright and clean. Black and white illustrations. Scarce.

First edition (stated) hard back binding in publisher's original vivid orange cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 9½'' x 6½''. Contains 267 printed pages of text with 4 full-page single-sided colour plates as called for, small monochrome illustrations throughout. 'This book belongs to' filled-in, couple of small fox splashes to the rear pages. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper which was protected in brown paper, now removed, with only small tears to the spine ends, priced 5/-, spine not faded or discoloured. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very uncommon children's book - Maroon cloth on boards with pasted on colorful pictorial to full front showing children by a pond with a toy sailboat. Book is tight and square with some shelf and usage wear to edges and corners. Free of major flaws or markings inside and out other than aforementioned wear. Dozens of short stories, each one with a small illustration, for the young reader.