The MFLIBRA Reference Archive
This archive preserves a selection of rare and antiquarian books previously handled by MFLIBRA over the years. Though these volumes have found new homes, their bibliographical record remains part of the continuing history of the book.
1902 Jules Verne - The Moon Voyage From the Earth to the Moon and Round the Moon
Author: Jules Verne. Illustrated by Henry Austin.Title: The Moon Voyage. Containing “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Round the Moon.”Publisher: Lo...
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1925 Rare First Edition- Fairies at Work and at Play observed by Geoffrey Hodson
Author: Geoffrey Hodson.Title: Fairies at Work and at Play.Publisher: London: The Theosophical Publishing House Ltd., 38 Great Ormond Stree...
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1560 Lyon Edition Bound in 16th-Century Vellum Map of Asia - Terence’s Comedies
Author: Publius Terentius Afer (Terence). Commentary by P. Antesignanus Rapistagnensis (Pierre d’Antheigné).Title: Terentius. In quem triplex edita...
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1899 Scarce First US Edition - Crock of Gold by S. Baring-Gould, Illustrated
Author: S. Baring-Gould.Title: The Crock of Gold.Publisher: Boston: L.C. Page & Company (Incorporated), 1899. First American Edition.Language: ...
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1919 Rare First Edition by Jessie Willcox Smith - At The Back of The North Wind
Author: George MacDonald. (Jessie Willcox Smith, illustrator).Title: At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald. Illustrated by Jessie Willc...
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1923 First Edition - The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book by Hilda T. Miller
Author: Rose Fyleman. Illustrated by Hilda T. Miller.Title: The Rose Fyleman Fairy Book.Publisher: London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 36 Essex Street ...
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1930 Rare First Edition - Moby Dick by Melville illustrated by Rockwell Kent
Author: Herman Melville. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.Title: Moby Dick, or The Whale.Publisher: New York, Random House, 1930. First one-volume il...
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1950 Rare Pop-Up Edition - Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May
Author: Robert L. May. Illustrated by Marion Guild.Title: RUDOLPH The Red-Nosed Reindeer. The Complete Story with Pop-up Action Pictures.Publi...
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1944 First Edition - The Jolly Jump-Ups Mother Goose Book By Geraldine Clyne
Author: Geraldine Clyne.Title: The Jolly Jump-Ups Mother Goose Book.Publisher: Springfield, Mass.: McLoughlin Bros., Inc., no date (19448). First E...
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1922 First Gift Edition - Adventures of a Brownie illustrated by Maria L. Kirk
Author: Miss Dinah Maria Mulock (Craik). Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.Title: The Adventures of a Brownie, The Little Lame Prince, and Poor Prin.Pub...
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1880 Rare Victorian Edition - Goethe's Faust in two parts, Illustrated
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translated by Anna Swanwick.Title: Goethe’s Faust: In Two Parts. (Complete in one volume).Publisher: Chicago: B...
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1889 Rare Book - The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe
Author: Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by A. D. McCormick.Title: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym: A Romance.Publisher: New York: New Amsterdam Boo...
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1932 Nice Whitman Edition - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll. Illustrated by John Tenniel.Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.Publisher: Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1932 (...
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1919 Scarce First Edition - Godmother’s Garden Illustrated by Florence Harrison
Author: Netta Syrett.Illustrated by: Florence Harrison.Title: Godmother’s Garden.Publisher: London, Glasgow, and Bombay: Blackie & Son Limited,...
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1884 First Edition - The Princess Nobody by A. Lang Illustrated by Richard Doyle
Author: Andrew Lang. Illustrated by Richard Doyle.Title: The Princess Nobody. A Tale of Fairy Land.Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co., cir...
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1888 First Edition - Jack The Giant Killer color illustrated by Richard Doyle
Author: Richard Doyle.Title: Jack the Giant Killer.Publisher: London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Her Majesty’s Printers, Great New Street, E.C., 1888...
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1880 Rare Book - The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Illustrated
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Title: The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.Publisher: Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, [cir...
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1883 Rare Third Edition - The Tribulations of a Chinaman by Jules Verne
Author: Jules Verne. L. Benett, illustrator.Title: The Tribulations of a Chinaman. Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Riving...
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1914 Rare Book - Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories by Bram Stoker
Author: Bram Stoker.Title: Dracula’s Guest and Other Weird Stories.Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., Broadway House, 68–74 Cart...
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1878 Carmine Edition – The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby, Illustrated
Author: Thomas Ingoldsby (pseud. of Richard Harris Barham).Title: The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels.Publisher: London, Richard Bentley &...
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1850 Rare Bible bound by Bagster - Polyglot Bible, Old and New Testament, Clasp
Author: [Anonymous, English Bible text].Title: The English Version of the Polyglott Bible; Containing the Old and New Testaments: with a Copious an...
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1926 Illustrated Edition – Robin Hood by McSpadden, Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth
Author: J. Walker McSpadden. Illustrator, N. C. Wyeth.Title: Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws.Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1...
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1887 Rare Book - The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines, Photographs Illustrated
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke. Condensed by her sister Sabilla Novello.Title: The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales.Publis...
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1852 Early Illustrated Edition - Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe.Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Negro Life in the Slave States of America.Publisher: London: G. Routledge and Co.; C. H...
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1946 Signed Limited Edition – The Graveyard by the Sea by Paul Valéry
Author: Paul Valéry. Translated by C. Day-Lewis.Title: The Graveyard by the Sea.Publisher: London, Martin Secker & Warburg, 1946.Printer: Offic...
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1868 First Edition - The Story Without an End by Sarah Austin, Illustrated
Author: Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm. Translated by Sarah Austin.Title: The Story Without an End.Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Mil...
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1913 First Edition - Princess Badoura Tale from Arabian Nights by Edmund Dulac
Author: Laurence Housman. Illustrated By Edmund Dulac.Title: Princess Badoura. A Tale from the Arabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustra...
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1926 Rare First Edition - Winnie-The-Pooh Illustrated by Ernest Shepard
Author: A.A. Milne. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.Title: Winnie-the-Pooh.Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, 1926. First American Ed...
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1966 First Edition - The Wind in the Willows illustrated by Tasha Tudor
Author: Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Tasha Tudor.Title: The Wind in the WillowsPublisher: The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New York, ...
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1967 Fine Binding - Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Andersen Illus. Rex Whistler
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Illustrated by Rex Whistler.Title: Fairy Tales and Legends.Publisher: London, The Bodley Head, 1967 (eighth impres...
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1911 Rare First Edition Book - The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett.Illustrator: Maria Louise Kirk.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: New York, Frederick Stokes, 1911. First American...
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1882 Rare First Edition - Fly-Away Fairies and Baby-Blossoms by L. Clarkson
Author: L. Clarkson.Title: Fly-Away Fairies and Baby-Blossoms, or What the Winds are Saying.Publisher: New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. / London: Gr...
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1881 Scarce American Book Exchange Edition - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Author: Charlotte Brontë (published under the pseudonym Currer Bell).Title: Jane Eyre.Publisher: New York, American Book Exchange, 764 Broadway, 18...
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1869 Rare Book on Legend of King Arthur - Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L., Poet Laureate.Title: Idylls of the King.Publisher: London, Strahan and Co., Publishers, 56 Ludgate Hill, 1869. Pri...
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1921 Rare Songs from Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Charles Folkard 1stED
Author: Lewis Carroll (words). Lucy E. Broadwood (Music), Charles Folkard (Illustrations).Title: Songs from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Loo...
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1859 Rare First Edition - Baron Munchausen's Adventures Illustrated by Crowquill
Author: Raspe (Rudolph Erich). (Alfred Crowquill, Illustrator).Title: The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Illustrated by Alf...
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