Pictures for the Little Ones

Filed Under Religion, Childrens Books, Pre 1900, Pre 1920, Illustrated | 25 Comments

Publisher: Protestant Episcopal Society For The Promotion Of Evangelical Knowledge

Published Date: 1870

Contains several black and white plates.

Bookseller:

The New Street Book Shop
515 N New Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018 (USA)
Phone: 610 868-3411

After an exhaustive internet search I have not been able to find another copy of this book nor any information about it via Google or Yahoo. If you know anything about this book or it’s approximate value please leave a comment or email us at: rarebookblog@gmail.com

Thank you!

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Thank you Steve Gertz from David Brass Rare Books for the following comment to this post:

Bookmark and use the Karlsruher Virtualler Katalog (KVK) http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/hylib/en/kvk.html
as a primary resource way beyond Google or Yahoo searches. KVK has records for just about every institutional library in the world as well as integrating WorldCat (OCLC).KVK and WorldCat are used constantly by members of the trade to see how rare a title is, to sort out various editions of a title,etc.,etc.
Alas, no records whatsoever for this title, beyond what was apparently a reprint NY: Whittaker, n.d. (c.1900). Based only upon the info provided, yes, the book is rare but with little collectable value; a weak title as a children’s book, illus. book, theological book. Slap $75-$100 on it and see what happens; you can always lower the price. Higher than that? You’ll have to spin and weave quite a tale to pump it up.

Best,
Steve Gertz

David Brass Rare Books

Aug

10

The Arabian Nights
(Illustrated By Rene Bull)

Filed Under Rene Bull, Pre 1920, Illustrated | 18 Comments

Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Company

Published Date: 1912

Contains 20 Coloured Plates

Bookseller:

The New Street Book Shop
515 N New Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018 (USA)
Phone: 610 868-3411

Notes:

We are looking for additional information about this book. No other copy of this edition appears to be available for sale online. Possible first edition?

Contributions:
Thanks to Steve Gertz from Dave Brass Rare Books who kindly contributed the following information:

Info on the book and Rene Bull can be found at:

Arabian Nights Books

and

http://www.theweeweb.co.uk/public/author_profile.php?id=743

OLCL notes a British edition London: Blackie & Son, n.d. 352pp., 15 plates.

Though Bull was an Irish artist the London edition cannot be assumed by using the standard Follow The Flag formula - to be the first edition: Fewer plates than the 1912 NY:Dodd, Mead edition and the Blackie edition is undated. I think it safe to say that the 1912 Dodd, Mead edition is the true first.For further documentation and reference see Houfe, Dictionary of British Book Illustrators & Caricaturists 1800-1914.

Best,
Steve Gertz
David Brass Rare Books