Boy by Anonymous: First Edition (49 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Photo illustrated wraps in a typical magazine format. 24 pages. 4to. A few spine splits; light general wear. GOOD Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering and red, black, and gree decoration on spine and cover. Duotone frontispiece. . Worn, one page loose (but present), award label on fep (dated Dec. 21, 1888), else good. FAIR. . Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 126 pp. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Printing. Solid with wear on the edges of the covers and some fraying on the corners. The interior is clean and unmarked. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Scott, Marguerite (illustrator).

Saddle-stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. VG- in wrappers (sl creases/stains to covers). 8vo [12]pp Upper wrapper title. Exterior as noted; slight internal stains and browning; else a very serviceable copy. ca. 1932. ca. New York. 5 Color & 7 b/w Illustrations (including Tipped-in plates).…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good -. 1st Printing. Solid with a spine lean, a corner crease on the front and back covers and the covers show light wear. 4.75" by 3.25" size with linen covers. Has a 1950 day calendar inside with some scout facts in the back, The previous owner's name is on the first inside page, the rest of the interior is unmarked.…

Paperback. 152p., very good first edition PBO in original camp pictorial wraps. Tranny pulp fiction. Crossdressed CD-143.

Paperback. 170p. very good first edition PBO in explicit camp pictorial yellow wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN-59.

Paperback. 180p. + ads, price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Gaytimes Book Club NM-26.

Paperback. 180p. + backlist and ads, very good PBO paperback in bright yellow explicit pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN-3. Third book in the long-running series. Cover artists were usually Craig Esposito or Clemént.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Only a Boy by Anonymous.

Paperback. First Edition. 153p., very good first edition PBO in original camp explicit, pictorial yellow wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN-162. Cowpokes.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. STRICTLY ADULT MATERIAL 149 pages. >> Cover creasing & scuffing; store stamp to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. NUDE painted Cover. (illustrator). Book.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: v. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Series: British Record Society index library. Subjects: Sports for children ; Periodicals. Genre: Children's annuals. Language: English. 1 Kg.…

Paperback. 186p., explicit illustrations, may have old price sticker on cover; otherwise good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-573.

Paperback. 170 pp + ads. illustrated with explicit drawings, very good first printing PBO in explicit pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-543.

Paperback. 186p., explicit illustrations, series number in marker on top edge, light wear else a good first printing PBO in explicit camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-573.

Paperback. 180p., price sticker on cover else a very good first printing PBO in original camp explicit, pictorial yellow wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Finland Books FIN-9.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: v. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. Series: British Record Society index library. Subjects: Sports for children ; Periodicals. Genre: Children's annuals. Language: English. 1 Kg.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 126pp. Two tone frontispiece. Original colour embossed picture to the front board and spine of the book wiht gilt embossed lettering. Light rubbing to the head and tail of the spine with light rubbing to the corners. Light soiling to the boards of the book. Toning to the end papers. School stamp to the half title page. Light soiling to the margin of the odd page. Splitting between pages 96-97 wiher the two halfs of the book are held together with threads. Some spine lean to the book. However the book is well preserved and remains otherwise bound. A very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition (no additional printings listed). Original quarter leather (spine) and marbeled paste-down paper covered boards, 3 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, 19 pp + 2 pp ads, illustrated with frontispiece. Hardcover, fair. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and along edges of boards, scuffed. Internally, a bit wavy, ½ inch chip of lower corner of title page, hinges cracked, an approximately 1 1/2inch wide tan stain along length of gutters on front endpapers, frontispiece and title page, tracing (in pencil) of old coin, and old bookseller's embossed seal on free front endpapers, the usual foxing and tanning throughout, otherwise clean and unmarked. Consists of brief history of the orphanage, followed by a biographical sketch of Michael Daily, an Irish born boy who was one of 50 who came there from the "Long Island Farms" (essentially a rural workhouse) in 1844; in 1846, at age 15, he had a religious awakening, and was from then trained to be a teacher there. He became a Methodist, and worked among his fellow charges, fell ill of pleurisy, or perhaps tuberculosis, and died in 1847. John George Leake (1752-1827) was a New York lawyer who left money in that will to create a home for orphaned children, and assigned his friend, John Watts, to administer the home. The 1843 building was designed by Ithiel Town and constructed by Samuel Thomson in the Greek revival style. In 1891 the Home moved outside the city; the original building is still extent. Rare; only 3 copies on OCLC. Religion; biography; eulogy; child labor.…

Softcover. First Edition. 12 mo. 150 pp. plus ads. PBO. Camp color illustration. Jock Studs Series. JS-138. **OCLC Worldcat** locates one copy at Northwestern University. Very Good, unread in color illustrated wraps with old price sticker on front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket in Protective Sleeve. First Edition. Burgundy binding, silver title. 139 pages includes Glossary. A very nice clean, straight book. Dust jacket bright complete, now protected in a clear mylar sleeve. Scan available.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 144. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered dark blue on spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Neat name on front endpaper, otherwie Very good plus in very good dust jacket, with faint surface wear and not price-clipped. Decent copy. Now in clear, protective acetate wrapper. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition Softback. 24mo. 7 x 10 cm. ORIGINAL COLOURING. White card, overlay cut through silver lace around edges, background engraved couple walking along beech, stuck down boy with bunch of flowers + brown lettering " A HAPPY NEW YEAR ". Blank to rear with blind embossed " MANSELL ". Boy scrap + background loose ( probably as issued. No browning spots on rear from glue ( no residue ). Very clean & unfoxed with sharp edges. VG+.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Combined Edition, Facsimile. 32mo, 30 pages, sewn blue wrappers This was published in 1942 by J. B. Lippincott Company to celebrate its 150th Anniversay. No copy of the 1792 printing of LITTLE BOY could be located, so a different edition was used, and joined to A ROYAL ALPHABET.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DESCRIPTION: First edition 191 pp. 7x5 inches. Title-page illustration; frontispiece engraved/signed by F. Borders after H. Anelay. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine and front cover and blind border design impressions on both covers. ------ CONDITION: Light cracking to front and back hinges. Both joints are strong. Covers lightly rubbed, corners bumped and frayed. Clean unmarked pages, light foxing to paste-downs and free endpapers. Year of publication and an ld price written in pencil on the front free endpaper. ------ ABOUT THIS TITLE: A career guidance work aimed at young boys during the Victorian era, offering advice and practical information for selecting a profession. Unlike "The Boy's Book of Trades and the Tools Used in Them" by Routledge, which was also published in 1866, this book by T. Nelson and Sons is specifically recognized for directly addressing the question of how a boy should go about choosing a trade as a life path. …

Anonymous. BILLY BOY. Samuel Lowe & Co., Kenosha, 1953 (1st edition). Small, thin 8vo., pictorial paper covered boards, 16pp, including the covers. Inside front cover is a moveable, from which the boy's head and limbs unfold; within the text there are several outfits which can be cut out and used to dress the moveable. Fine.…

Stappled Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copies of the first five Collections of Anonymous Boy as self-published by Tony Arenas. Collection #1 through #4 are all 5 8.5" x 11" stapled pages, thus 10 pages of drawings each, variously dated. Collection #5 is 6 8.5" x 11" pages, thus 12 pages of drawings. Each Collection bears a single staple to the upper-left corner of the front page; slight to moderate rust to the staples, with a bit of adjacent rust-spotting to the front and rear pages. Else the pages are unmarked. Rare. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book size about 4 by 5 1/2 inches with some 32 pages. No date but probably published about 1940. An erotic novel about a 16 year old young man's adventures with young girls at his parent's boarding house in the country. With five photographs of explicit sexual activities (Primarily fellatio). Front cover price of 20 shillings which was a huge sum of money at the time. Also shows a publisher street address in London which is almost certainly a fake as these books were highly illegal at the time. Possibly printed in France rather than England. These little World War Two era erotica books are exceedingly scarce. An often read book with soiled cover and other light wear. VERY GOOD.…

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition? Softback. Single 8vo card, frilly edges, colour print Jesus in manger with halloed parents, 3 boy scouts and one cub at foot, star shining through open window + blue lettering on front, blank to reverse. Faint foxing, slight browning to rear else very clean & bright with unrubbed corners. F.…