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.
1900 Rare Book - Legends and Fairy Tales of Ireland by Lover and Croker
Author: Samuel Lover and Thomas Crofton Croker.Title: Legends and Tales of Ireland.Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. ...
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1869 Rare Hans Andersen Victorian Edition - Everything in Its Right Place
Author: Hans Christian Andersen. Translated by H.W. Dulcken, Ph.D.Title: Everything in Its Right Place and Other Stories.Publisher: London, George ...
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1896 First Edition - Legends from River and Mountain by Queen of Roumania
Author: Carmen Sylva (H.M. Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell. Illustrated by T. H. Robinson.Title: Legends from River and Mountain.Publisher: L...
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1927 Rare Sangorski Binding - Kwaidan, Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn
Author: Lafcadio Hearn.Title: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, Travellers’ Library, 1927. First Iss...
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1920 Rare Book - Russian Fairy Tales Illustrated by Noel L. Nisbet
Author: R. Nisbet Bain. Illustrated by Noel L. Nisbet. From the Russian of Polevoi.Title: Russian Fairy Tales.Publisher: London, George G. Harrap &...
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1918 Rare Book - Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott Illustrated by Alice Stephens
Author: Louisa M. Alcott. Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens.Title: Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy.Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and...
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1663 Rare Latin Vellum Book – Erasmus Adagiorum Epitome, Antiquity Proverbs
Author: Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam.Title: Adagiorum D. Erasmi Roterodami Epitome.Publisher: Amstelodami (Amsterdam), Joannem Janssonium, 1663....
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1896 Rare First Edition - To Tell the King the Sky is Falling by Alice Woodward
Author: Sheila E. Braine. Illustrated by Alice B. Woodward.Title: To Tell the King the Sky is Falling.Publisher: London, Blackie & Son, Ltd. / ...
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1919 Rare Gift Edition - HEIDI by Johanna Spyri illustrated by Maria L. Kirk
Author: Johanna Spyri. Illustrated by Maria L. Kirk.Title: Heidi.Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott Company, no date (1919). First...
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1895 First Edition in Riviere and Son Binding - My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Author: Andrew Lang. Illustrated by Gordon Browne, T. Scott, and E. A. Lemann.Title: My Own Fairy Book: namely certain Chronicles of Pantouflia, as...
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1893 Rare Book - Sara Crewe by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch.Title: Sara Crewe; or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s.Publisher: New York, Charl...
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1910 Rare Art Nouveau binding - French Medieval Revival Missal of Chivalry
Author: [Catholic Missal]. Illustrated by Marcel Pille and H. Bellery-Desfontaines.Title: Missel Romain de la Chevalerie.Publisher: Tours, Maison A...
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1867 Near fine Red Morocco Binding - The Princess by Alfred Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson. Title: The Princess: A Medley.Publisher: London, Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, 1867 (Sixteenth Edition).Language: ...
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1881 Scarce Book - The Boys’ and Girls’ Book of Enchantment. Illustrated
Author: [Anonymous].Title: The Boys’ and Girls’ Book of Enchantment.Publisher: London, Strahan and Company Limited, 1881. First thus.Language: Text...
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1924 First Illustrated Edition by N. C. Wyeth - Legends of Charlemagne
Author: Thomas Bulfinch. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.Title: Legends of Charlemagne.Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1924. First i...
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1897 Rare Author’s Edition – Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Poems. Pre-Raphaelite
Author: Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Edited by William M. Rossetti.Title: The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.Publisher: Boston, Rober...
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1887 Rare Edition – A Christmas Tree Fairy by Lizzie and Robert Ellice Mack
Author: Lizzie Mack and Robert Ellice Mack.Title: A Christmas Tree Fairy.Publisher: London, Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to New...
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1907 Rare Book - Alice in Wonderland Illustrated by Bessie Pease Gutmann
Author: CARROLL, Lewis (Bessie Pease Gutmann, illustrator)Title: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.Publisher: New York, Dodge Publishing Company, 1...
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1880 Rare Victorian Book - The Lamplighter by Maria Susanna Cummins
Author: Maria S. Cummins.Title: The Lamplighter.Publisher: London, James Nisbet & Co., 21 Berners Street, [c.1880s].Language: Text in English.S...
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1929 Scarce Early Edition Jules Verne - The Lighthouse at the End of the World
Author: Jules Verne.Title: The Lighthouse at the End of the World.Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Limited, printed by the De...
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1652 Rare Vellum Latin Book - Plautus Plays, Plauti Comoediae Superstites XX
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus.Title: M. Acci Plavti Comoediae Superstites XX accuratissime editae.Publisher: Amstelodami (Amsterdam), Typis Ludovic...
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1915 Scarce First Edition - Flower Fairies Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright
Author: Clara Ingram Judson. Illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright.Title: Flower Fairies.Publisher: Chicago & New York, Rand McNally & Comp...
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1919 First American Rackham Illustrated Edition – Some British Ballads
Author: Anonymous (Traditional Ballads). Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.Title: Some British Ballads.Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, [...
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1932 Rare First Wheelwright Illustrated Edition – Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Author: Anna Sewell. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright.Title: Black Beauty. An Autobiography of a Horse.Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & ...
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1873 Scarce Legends of the North – The Guidman o’ Inglismill and The Fairy Bride
Author: Anonymous.Title: Legends of the North. The Guidman o’ Inglismill and The Fairy Bride. With Glossary and Introductions, Historical and Legen...
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1902 Rare First American Edition – The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman
Author: Laurence Housman. Engravings by Clemence Housman.Title: The Field of Clover.Publisher: New York, John Lane, 1902. First American Edition.La...
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1920 Scarce Book - The Princess and the Elf, A Fairy Story by Winifred M. Warne
Author: Skimble Skamble. Illustrated by Winifred M. Warne.Title: The Princess and the Elf. An Original Fairy Story. Publisher: London & New Yor...
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1897 First Edition - A Smile within a Tear and Other Fairy Stories. Illustrated
Author: The Lady Guendolen Ramsden. Illustrated by Bertha Newcombe.Title: A Smile within a Tear and Other Fairy Stories.Publisher: London, Hutchins...
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1856 Rare Book - The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated
Author: Sir Walter Scott. Illustrated by John Gilbert.Title: The Lady of the Lake. A Poem.Publisher: Philadelphia, Henry Carey Baird (successor to ...
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1861–1865 Rare Gaelic Bible –An Tiomnaidh Nuaidh (The New Testament) with Psalms
Author: [Bible in Scottish Gaelic translation].Title: Leabhraichean Tiomnaidh Nuaidh ar Tighearn agus Slanuighir Iosa Criosd, air an tarruing o’n G...
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1956 First Illustrated Edition by Shepard - The Secret Garden by F.H. Burnett
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard.Title: The Secret Garden.Publisher: London, The Reprint Society, 1956. First and ...
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1954 First Edition illustrated by Mervyn Peake- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Author: Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Mervyn Peake.Title: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. With sixty-five illustrat...
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1918 Rare Book - A Staircase of Stories by Louey Chisholm and Amy Steedman
Author: Louey Chisholm & Amy Steedman (compilers)Title: A Staircase of Stories. Chosen by Louey Chisholm and Amy Steedman. Illustrated.Publishe...
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1890 Rare Book - Jane Eyre, An Autobiography by Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë)
Author: Charlotte Brontë (as Currer Bell).Title: Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. By Currer Bell, author of "Shirley," "Villette," "The Professor," &am...
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1818 Rare Masonic Bible - The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
Author: [King James Bible translation].Title: The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Translated out of the Original Greek; and wit...
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1900 Rare Book - The True Annals of Fairy-Land: The Reign of King Herla
Author: Edited by William Canton. Illustrated by Charles Robinson.Title: The True Annals of Fairy-Land: The Reign of King Herla.Publisher: London: ...
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