Preview Times: Thursday, May. 9, 5 PM --8 P.M. & Friday May 10, 2 - 6:30 P.M.

This sale will consist of a large group of quality early Children’s books, along with other Historical items of interest.  Early prints, & Ephemera, trade card albums, postcards, maps, scrapbooks, and much more.

Partial list: Children’s books: Lg. collection of Beatrix Potter including 1929 1^st ed. “The Fairy Caravan” & 1956 1^st ed. “Tale of Faithful Dove” in "dw", many others, 1928 “Wind in the Willows”, 1952 “Charlotte’s Web” in "dw", Edward Lear 1871 1^st ed. “Nonsense Songs, Stones, Botany & Alphabets”, many more, Illustr. Picture books, Fairy tales etc., Tasha Tudor, K. Greenaway, Denslow, Dr. Seuss, Dahl W. Crane, etc. etc. Signed KD Wiggin, Horn Book, 1924-26 vol. 1,  #1 bound,  Harpers Young People, 1880 w/K. Greenaway, illustr., Etc. Other Books: Signed ltd. Ed. J. Hilton, “Goodbye Mr. Chips”, S. Crane “The Red Badge of Courage”, N.Y. 1895, Mark Twain books,  “Frankenstein”, M. Shelley, Bos. 1922, decorative bindings, etc.Ephemera: Trade card albums, postcards, travel ephemera, maps, guidebooks, calendars, pamphlet:” The Evils Suffered by American Woman”, C.E. Beecher 1846, small broadside: “The Mormon Order of Enoch” ,1874, Unusual Civil War: “The Daily Citizen” Vicksburg, Miss. 1863 (1 sheet newspaper) Re: Civil War backed with early wallpaper stating “This is the last wall paper Citizen and is excepting this note from the types as we “Yankee Printers” found them. Copies will be valuable in years to come as a curiosity", Rare Milford NH 1838-Framed Reward of Merit with Historical hand written note & hand drawn plan of school to be built by student, (A must see!), Sheet Music: (Oz) Ray Bolger (Tin Man), sheet music w/autograph of Bolger, tipped inside, Titanic/Fashion: portfolio of Lady Duff Gordon’s original designs, 1917 (She was a Titanicsurvivor), 1897 unusual paper folding sample book, Tolkien’s: Illustrated magazine cover, 1951 by P. Baynes, (Dr. Seuss), Early magazines w/examples of his work etc. Prints & Posters:  Large framed Cunard travel poster, Illustr. K. Shoesmith, 1843 hand colored Indian print,  “Jtcho-Tustinnvggee”, from T. McKinney’s “History of Indian Tribes of N.A., 2 Audubon: “Royal Octavo” bird prints, ca. 1840, Lg. early Valentine, WWI Poster, and other early prints.