"Trade mark registered U.S. Pat. Office ... Patent applied for.", BEIN Shirley +1069: Inscribed: To Elwood from Aunt Ellen, Christmas 1922., Pagination includes wrapper., Six of the leaves are wide and measure 26 x 18 cm, six are narrow and measure 26 x 9 cm. The verses on the narrow leaves will either begin or complete the poem on the recto or verso of the adjacent wide leaves., and Wrapper title.
Publisher:
Copyright by Regensteiner Corporation, 1922
Subject (Name):
Regensteiner Corporation, copyright holder
Subject (Topic):
Children's poetry and Toy and movable books--Specimens
BEIN Ip B276 P43 1911B: Bound in white boards with gold lettering and decoration on front cover and spine. Inscribed on fly-leaf: "To Dion Boucicault ... from J.M. Barrie Oct. 1911." and Title within Ornamental border.
Publisher:
Hodder & Stoughton
Subject (Name):
Barrie, J. M.--(James Matthew),--1860-1937--Presentation inscription to Dion Boucicault (BEIN IP B276 P43 1911B) and Boucicault, Dion,--1820-1890--Presentation inscription from J.M. Barrie (BEIN Ip B276 P43 1911B)
Wrapped in folded brown paper., Title from ms. note on paper wrapping., A peep show consisting of six leaves (leaves 2 to 6 are numbered), printed on stiff paper, hand-colored and cut out., Depicts a three-dimensional whaling scene with large boats and small, whalers, whales, a shipwreck, and a mountainous landscape in the background and on the sides., and Originally viewed in a box that held the leaves separately in individual planes.
History and lives of all the most notorious pirates and their crews. and Lives and adventures of sundry notorious pirates
Description:
"But little is known of the author, Captain Charles Johnson, excepting that he flourished from 1724-1736, and it is more than probable that the name by which we know him is an assumed one"--Foreword, p. xiv., "The actual history of the little book, the major part of which is here reprinted, is as follows: Its full title is 'The history and lives of all the most notorious pirates and their crews' and the fifth edition, from which our text is taken, was printed in 1735"--Foreword, p. xi., First American ed., Plates printed on colored paper., and Title page within single black rule with title vignette.
Publisher:
Robert M. McBride and Company,
Subject (Name):
Billing and Sons, printer., Fraser, Claud Lovat, 1890-1921, ill., and JJohnson, Charles, active 1724-1731, attributed name.
BEIN JWJ Zan B644 932P: Presentation copy to Carl Van Vechten, signed by both authors. Original dust wrapper. and CVV, p. 25.
Publisher:
Macmillan,
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti--Fiction
Subject (Name):
Bontemps, Arna,--1902-1973--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Campbell, E. Simms (Elmer Simms), 1906-1971, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hughes, Langston,--1902-1967--Presentation inscription to C. Van Vechten, Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from A. Bontemps, and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Presentation inscription from L. Hughes
BEIN Depew Ip K628 906p: Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination., BEIN 2000 2003: Advertising matter on [10] p. at end, not noted in pagination. Bookplate: Henry C. Taylor., BEIN Richards Kipling 881: Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. Armorial bookplate of Sir Charles Oman. Autograph and presentation inscription from the author to Oman. Ms. poem "The coin speaks" in the hand of Kipling on half-title p. Kipling's fingerprint on t.p. Additional ms. stanzas added in Kipling's hand to "Puck's song" and "Rimini." From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling. In case with card and envelope addressed by Kipling to Omar and envelope and TLS from Geoffrey Dawson to Oman., BEIN Richards Kipling 806: Bound in red cloth with raised Ganesha device in gilt on front cover; pale yellow dust jacket with lettering in red; housed in black morocco slipcase. Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling., and BEIN Richards Kipling 1024: Bound in red cloth with raised Ganesha device in gilt on front cover. Advertising matter, final leaf dated 15.8.06, on [4] p. at end, not noted in pagination. From the David Alan Richards Collection of Rudyard Kipling.
A chapbook of Cries, with hand-colored illustrations: The frontispiece shows a street scene in front of John Harris's shop with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background where a fashionable lady and a boy talk to a street-vendor selling goods from his basket. The shop window shows Harris sold medicines as well being a lending library and bookseller. The chapbook includes images and cries of a Georgian street vendors --- chimney sweeps, milkmaids, fish-women, watercress sellers, men making and selling mats and brooms or repairing chairs, sellers of cat and dog meat, swords and standards, nosegays and florists, sellers of live geese and chickens, foods like Banbury cakes or hot gingerbread, potatoes, strawberries, fresh fish, eels, lobsters and flounder, rabbits, matches, and a newspapers, and ending with two watchmen in front of the Watch-House. On the back wrapper is an advertisement for seven other works, "new editions of the following celebrated little works" each priced 1s, 6d.
Alternative Title:
Cries of London and Description of the cries of London
Description:
Title from printed title page., Published with yellow wrappers, the upper cover printed with the title and imprint surrounded by a single fillet border. On the verso: publisher's list of new editions., and With an inscription on flyleaf. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Cities and towns, Occupations, Peddlers, Children's poetry, Picture books for children, and Street vendors
Text satirizes old maids, barflies, politicians, financial dealings, etc. and Original publisher's blue marbled card wrappers. With later bookseller's ticket of Frederick R. Jones of Torquay to verso of upper wrapper and early inked ownership inscription of Raymond Inglis to recto of front free endpaper. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
J. Souter
Subject (Topic):
Counting, Manners and customs, and English wit and humor
Tells the story of a fat man who goes to California to look for gold, and loses weight while there, then returns home, gains back weight and dies.
Description:
Also issued as part of a collected work entitled: Juvenile gem (see BEIN 1990 168).
Publisher:
Philip J. Cozans, publisher, 107 Nassau Street,
Subject (Geographic):
California--Fiction, California--Gold discoveries--Caricatures and cartoons, California--Gold discoveries--Juvenile literature, and California--Juvenile literature
Subject (Name):
Swingle, John--Ownership
Subject (Topic):
Children's poetry, Children's stories, and Picture books for children
