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Half a Year in Children's America of 106 Years Ago!
G6-001. [BOUND VOLUME] THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, July through December, 1902. [Complete original issue, 16 pages, large quarto size, published at Boston, Mass., by the Perry Mason Company]
26 ISSUES bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. A fine run of the classic illustrated young people's weekly, and American favorite since the first issue appeared in 1827. There are articles of every sort, travel, adventure, heroics, hunting, and more, all well-illustrated in the best quality era halftone photos or woodcuts. The lovely Christmas issue is especially charming. A vast variety of advertising, richly illustrated, also appears on these pages, including a special 40 page fully illustrated catalog (see second scan below) of toys, dolls, games, books, and more of interest to young readers (I like the toy train section best, personally!) making it a great reference for the juvenile antiques specialist. Lovely volume from a vanished time of innocence. Extra domestic postage for this heavy volume is 2.50. Note that glare in the photos is the reflection of the camera flash on the glossy magazine stock of this title.
Condition of this issue is internally bright very fine throughout; front board detached, backstrip perishing. . . . 48.00

How to Bat
G6-002. [SINGLE ISSUE] HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, June 9, 1891. [Complete original issue, 16 pages, quarto size, published at New York by the Harper Brothers]
"SOME HINTS AT BATTING" is an interesting baseball article by New York Times art critic William Henderson (1855 - 1937) in which he recounts his days as a ball player on the Princeton team (he graduated in 1876) in the "good old days" of the sport. Two illustrations show the correct and wrong ways of batting. Nice feature Profusely illustrated weekly newspaper for younger readers. Sorry for the poor quality photo; glossy paper reflects and sistorts the camera flash and dulls the overall image quality!
Condition of this issue is fine . . . 10.00

Horatio Alger and Others, A Remarkable Week in American History
G6-003. [SINGLE ISSUE]. STREET & SMITH'S NEW YORK WEEKLY, July 10, 1876. [Complete issue, 8 pages, folio size, published at New York by Francis Street and Francis Smith]
In this issue is a chapter of "Tony the Tramp" by the renowned author Horatio Alger Jr. Among other articles in this enormously successful weekly story paper are a long feature on the brutal exploitation of coal miners in "The Slate-Picker, or the Slave of the Coal Shaft" done up in the "purple prose" of the era. Other era attitudes are show in an ad for a new serial to start next week entitled "The Jew Banker, or the Wolves of Warsaw." Lots more content of note, baby pictures "for the ladies" etc. This is the week when Americans were celebrating the 100th birthday of the United States, and were first absorbing the news of Custer's fatal mistakes at Little Big Horn.
Condition is nice very fine, original state, never bound or trimmed, very slight fold browning on Page One . . . 12.50



Murder Most Foul on the Streets of New-York!
G6-004. [SINGLE ISSUE]. BROTHER JONATHAN, March 25, 1843. [Complete issue, 28 pages, quarto size, published at New York, N.Y., by Wilson & Company]
"MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MR. CHARLES G. CORLISS" heads a 2 1/2 page account of the gunning down of the popular saloon keeper on Leonard Street by a "mysterious woman," with all the details in the Coroner's Inquest, etc. Very detailed coverage of a rare street crime, in this year that murder in New York would capture the public imagination. Much more in this issue including a chapter of the "Life and Adventures of Martini Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, Esq.," possibly the first American serialized appearance. Also, James Fenimore Cooper contributes the little-known "The Brothers, A Tale of the Mohawk." Other reading includes a "Railroad Adventure," the latest excesses of Millerism and the repeal of the charter of Nauvoo, where Mormon cult leader Smith has raised a dangerous private army. Unusual full-page engraved cover depicts various Muses, with a grinning Jonathan at the top holding open a volume of the elephant folio edition of this paper!
"Before "Uncle Sam" personified the United States, the young nation was symbolized by the brash young "Brother Jonathan." The original Brother Jonathan was in fact Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, who acquired this nickname for his help to George Washington in the War of Independence.
Condition is bright VF . . . 15.00



Two Top-Quality Copperplate Engravings
G6-005. [SINGLE ISSUE]. PETERSON'S LADIES' NATIONAL MAGAZINE, July, 1850. [Complete issue, 48 pages, octavo size, published at Philadelphia, Penna. by C.J. Peterson]
A full-page copperplate engraving in the best style of a young Martha Washington graces a good July Fourth article on the "mother of her country." In this explosive decade of upheaval and uncertainty Americans looked yearningly to their past - and created many of the myths about the 18th century that are current to this day. Also in this issue is another full-page engraving of a lovely little girl in an elegant dress "Early At The Glass" admiring herself in the mirror. Much more reading of interest to women of the time, extolling them in what was called at the time "the cult of true womanhood", domestic, subservient, too genteel to participate in the growing new Women's Rights movement - at least in the view of the male editor! One of the great "ladies' magazines" of the nineteenth century, which helped shape the attitudes and fashions of a generation
Condition is fine, disbound, lacking covers and ad pages, as are all, small clip on the final leaf, so priced only at the value of the engravings . . . 10.00



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