Linen Book First Steps (9 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. anonymous. LINEN ABC BOOK - FIRST STEPS. New York: Mc Loughlin Bros. [Published without a date - circa 1890's.] Printed all linen softcoverstapled spine book. Each page has black & white illustrations following the alphabet plus pages with illustrated lessons. Unpaginated (pages notnumbered). [Circa 16 pages including covers.] Color front cover. 8vo (5 7/8" wide x 7 7/8" tall). Linen page edges frayed. Soiled. Dog-eared.Unmarked. Complete. Protected in a clear envelope with a backing board. In fair or better condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No DJ. 1899 Edition. This is 24 ABC lessons, printed on linen. With color cover of two over dressed girls in red dresses. One going shipping, the other sweeping up the toy blocks. McLoughlin # 265 1/2. Some soiling, still a nice copy.

Unpaged - 16 pages including covers. H 19.75cm x L 14.5cm. Printed entirely on limp linen cloth. Simple single-stitch binding, tan string looped through top left corners of book presumably original as it shows some age and fraying at ends, strong horizontal fold to book with some toning/foxing throughout. Covers heavily soiled with some staining, curling and creasing to cover corners, frayed threads along edges of covers as well as interior pages which too have some creased corners. Rear cover features a poem titled "Little Things" within an ornamental border. Front cover features an illustration of a small child on the right taking her first steps with arms outstretched to her seated mother on the left. Chicago's Newberry Library catalog cites their copy as having the same illustration but in black, white, and red; this copy's cover lacks the red and it seems unlikely that it ever had such a color application which corresponds to an online image of a copy owned by the Winterthur's Waldron collection showing the same two-tone mother-daughter illustration. The name "Howard Del" is printed at the bottom left corner of the front cover so perhaps he served as the illustrator. OCLC records several similarly titled books by different publishers but with various member libraries recording variations among cover illustrations, pagination, and content. This copy lacks a publishing date but, however, the Newberry catalog cites their 1899 McLoughlin Bros. edition as having the same pagination and content as opposed to their contrasting 1900 McLoughlin Bros. edition which has only twelve pages and shorter height dimension. The book was, of course, published as a child's alphabet book and reader. Pages 2-8 feature an alphabet of capital and lower case letters in black along center columns with adjacent right and left b/w woodblock style images phonetically associated with each letter, i.e. "A for Anvil," "D for Drum," "Q for Quill," "Z for Zebra," etc. Pages 9-15 feature twenty-five pronunciation and reading lessons. Only a good copy at best but still an intriguing and charming 19th century American juvenile educational reader and lesson book. Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cloth (linen) pages. The "pages" are made of linen and are directly printed onto with b/w illustrations. No copyright or title page, no author or illustrator listed. Appears to be circa 1900. Some of the corners are folded and the front and overall has a mild amount of soiling overall. Also some fraying of the edges.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated Abc Book Printed In Black With Cover In Red And Black, Poem On Last Page Which Is The Rear Cover. Undated But Circa 1885 Based On Clothing Of Woman On Cover. Light Wear, Lower Tips Dog-Eared But Complete, No Chips Or Tears, A Few Light Stains On Front Cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Circa 1890, 8vo, 200 x 150mm, 8 x 6 inches, rag book, upper cover illustrated red and black showing mother watching child taking first steps, a poem printed on lower cover, (14) pages including insides of covers. 4 ABC letters per page, each with 2 black and white images: "A arm, anvil; E egg, ear, eye; W wolf, whip". The ABC is followed by 15 simple reading lessons with vignette illustrations. Covers slightly soiled and darkened, neat name in top margin of upper cover, lower corners dog-eared, edges very slightly frayed, a couple of small light stains on final page. A good plus copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

LINEN B&W. Condition: GOOD. Covers and stitching are loose, soiling, bent page ends--otherwise nice for its type and age Cover is signed by the illustrator, publishers active 1850's -1920 DATE PUBLISHED: 1870S CIRCA EDITION: 15. DEL, HOWARD (illustrator).

Flexible linen cloth. Condition: Fair. Linen pages and stapled binding. Two pages are loose but all appear to be present. Cloth fraying at ends. ; 6 x 8.5"; Unpaginated pages.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1884 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: 18 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: 18 Foster, Howard D., former owner. MB,McLoughlin Bros., publisher.…