Author: American Sunday School Union

Scenes of Childhood : for Children Four or Five Years Old [With] the High Born English Boy & the Pilgrim in Many Lands

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union : 1848

Seller ID: 31193

Condition: Very Good-

Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 48 pages; Slim, small format HC in original brown cloth with decrative vignette and rules stamped in blind to boards; title lettering and gilt decorative design to spine - a little rubbed. Three 16 page tracts collected in one volume. 1848 date given in copyright; prior owner inscription at front dated 1857. Soundly bound and generally neat with light shelf rub to boards at tips and edges. Some modest spotting and soiling to contents - more so in the first tract from which the volume takes its title. Charming woodcut headers to each of the 16 "Childhoo...
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The Book of One Hundred Pictures

By: American Sunday School Union

Price: $49.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union : 1861

Seller ID: 29567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Woodcuts; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 104 pages; An exceptionally well preserved copy in original dark brown cloth with deeply impressed patterns, lettering and decorative borders in blind to boards and with gilt struck title lettering a bit dulled at sine. Snugly bound and fresh with just a whisper of rub to cloth at corners. 1864 Christmas gift inscription to front endpage. Themed groupings of single page narrative vignettes, each headed by a pictorial woodcut. 4 page publisher catalog appended at rear. VG++ to NF
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The Infant's Magazine, 1833 [12 Issues, January - December, Bound As One]

By: American Sunday School Union

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union : 1833

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 48537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

Woodcuts; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 192 pages; 1833 American Sunday School Union. Small format HC in quarter leather backed spine and marbled paper covered boards. Title lettering and ruling in gilt to spine, a little dulled. Bound together in a single volume, the 12 monthly issues of the diminutive monthly magazine, with each month given a separate title page illustrated by woodcut. Additional in-text woodcuts here and there throughout. Marbled paper over front board flaking and rubbed with some area of surface loss. Boards slightly rounded at corner tips. Expected light general toning and occasion...
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Union Questions, on Select Portions of Scripture from the New Testament; Volume I Containing the Life and Miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ

By: American Sunday School Union

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union : 1831

Seller ID: 19554

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Very Good

Map, folding; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 154 pages; Small format volume bound in 1/4 sheep over marbled paper boards. Folding map of palestine at front. Copyrighted in 1831, this is presumably the 1st edition. Leather spine unlettered but supple and with only light rub to ends and surface. Boards lightly rubbed edges. Contetns complete and clean with just the expected mild toning. Bookplate of a Liberal Arts College Philosophical Society. Solid neat copy. VG
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Prayer : its Nature and Design, With Forms Suitable for Children and Sunday-Schools.

By: American Sunday-School Union

Price: $29.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union : 1865

Seller ID: 47695

Binding: 1/4 leather in case

Condition: Good+

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 86 pages; Circa [1865] American Sunday-School Union, 122 Chestnut St Philadelphia. 16mo small format HC in quarter red leather backed spine and marbled paper covered boards. Leather lettered vertically in gilt at spine. Light shelf rubbing to ends and corners. Crayon scrawl to front endpage and a stray crayon or two in page margins. Copyrighted 1831 but with wear to the type and the printer address at 1122 suggests the book was printed in the mid 1860's G++ to VG-
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The Teacher's Parting Gift to a Sunday-School Boy

By: Union, American Sunday School

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union : c.1835

Seller ID: haz.eb5279

Binding: Paper over Boards

Condition: Very Good

24mo 5" - 6" tall; 36 pages; [n. D] Circa 1835-1840 American Sunday School Union (at 146 Chestnut St. , Philadelphia) HC leather backed with marbled paper over boards. Partial title stamped in gilt to slim leather spine. 36 pp. Boards rubbed and slightly rounded at corners. Light rub to leather spine and tiny chip at base of spine. Snug sound binding; mild soiling to front end pages. No marks. Rear blank end page missing. Woodcut frontis illustration. About VG
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Early Dew Upon the Tender Plant, or Easy Scripture Lessons for Young Children, With Questions and Practical Instruction for Each Lesson

By: Union, American Sunday-School

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union : 1853

Seller ID: 37797

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Woodcut frontis; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 198 pages; Bound in light brown cloth over marbled paper covered boards. Cloth spine fraying at joints but holding; fraying and nicking at spine ends. Hinges splitting at endpages with cords showing. Several pages chipped at corners. Worn but decent; uncommon. Good only
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Jessica's First Prayer

By: [Stretton, Hesba ] and American Sunday School Union

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union : 1868

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 15324

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

Woodcut plates and headpieces; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 87 pages; Publisher's pebbled brown cloth with plain double ruling in blind to boards and decorative titles in gilt to spine. Illustrated with tissue guarded frontis and several plates from woodcut. Binding sound and contents complete. Prior ownership gift inscription in pencil to front free endpage is dated 1869. Cloth rubbed and lightly abraded at spine ends. Corners a little bumped and nicked. Intermittent patches of toning and or foxing to the moderately toned page stock. Sound copy of this popular but very uncommon early Victorian...
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Author: American Sunday School Union