Search Results: Children's Books for Younger Children from The Owl at the Bridge

The Mershon Company, Rahway & NY [c1901]. "'Colonel Thorndyke's Secret' is a story so far out of the ordinary that it will not be inappropriate to speak a few words regarding the tale... The plot of the story hinges upon the possession of a valuable bracelet of diamonds, stolen from a Hindoo idol by a British soldier in India. This bracelet falls into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke... The secret concerning the bracelet is told to the Colonel's brother, a country squire, and the treasure is left to younger members of the Thorndyke family. As is well known to-day, the theft of anything from a Hindoo temple is considered an extraordinary crime in India, and when this occurs it becomes a religious duty for one or more persons to hunt down the thief and bring back the property taken from the heathen god. The members of the Thorndyke family soon learn that they are being watched. ...They would give the bracelet up, but do not know where it is hidden... In this quandary the young hero of the… Read More

Leipzig, Alphons Dürr [1882]. Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 23 plates; 20 x 27 cm. "5 Ausgabe"; first published Berlin, Weidmann [1863]. An 1884 gift inscription to an American girl from her German grandmother. Covers worn, slightly foxed; good+. Stock#OB949.

Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, c1892.. Hard Cover. 189 p. : illus. ; 16 cm. First published 1864. Little Prudy Series. It was reported in 1892 that "before the advent of Prudy and her friends, children's books were wearisome, dull and priggish to an extent that the younger generations of today can scarcely realize." Sophie May was once called "the Dickens of the nursery" for her aim at writing books for children as young as six years old. Stock# 39,168. Good, soiled, 1907 gift inscription.

NY, Macmillan, 1928. The Happy Hour Books. Hard Cover. [40] p., color lithograph throughout, 14.5 x 15 cm. Pictorial boards worn, soiled, most of spine missing, closed horizontal tear through center of last two leaves. 37903.

Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. [August 1905]. Hard Cover. Small square quarto, xii, 100 p., b/w illus. throughout; 14.5 x 12 cm. Title continues: and Illustrations of the Original Edition Published and Copyrighted in Boston in the Year 1833 by Munroe & Francis. With Introduction by Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D. Facsimile reproduction of the 1833 Munroe & Francis printing, including the introductory essay "History of the Goose Family" (pp. 3-10). Yellow boards stamped in grey; minor wear & staining, ink inscription, marginal red crayon at pp. 4/5, clipping from Boston Transcript tipped in on rear flyleaf, no dj; good+. stock#710 {dr}.

Concord, N.H.: Published by Rufus Merrill, opposite Gass' American House, 1848. Soft Cover. 24 p., woodcuts; 15.5 cm. Contents: Poetical Alphabet, Birds, Nancy Ray. A Story of a Little Girl Who Lost her rird [i.e. bird], Dog, Cat and Lambs, Crumbs for the Birds, Welcome to Spring, Innocence. Not by Lady Eleanor Fenn; cf. "Establishing Lady Fenn's Canon" by David Stoker in Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 103: 1, March 2009. Some careful hand coloring; staining on 1st & last leaves; good+. stock#OB912.

NY: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Co., ©1925. Hard Cover. [12] p., color illus.; 31 cm. Printed on linen. Title on the color pictorial cover; black & white alphabet and locomotives on inner covers. Stock#LL011. Good+, spine torn at top, edge wear.