Q: Found this book at a thrift store, I can’t find any date. Do you have any information about it? Mulvaney Stories

A: Your book was published between 1909 and 1912. It originally came within a labeled box. It is part of the Vademecum Series.

This book is a reprint and has only nominal value.

Q: Please inform me re: date of publishing and any other interesting particulars. Thank you. The Courtship of Miles Standish

A: Your book is part of the Vademecum Series and was published in 1915. Originally this book came within a labeled box. It is a reprint as are all of the books in this series. It has only nominal value.

Don’ts for Boys and its companion book Don’ts for Girls were first published by Altemus in 1902. Between 1902 and the early 1930’s this title was published in five cloth editions and one ooze calf edition (two formats). (http://henryaltemus.com/images/NS_45.htm)

Today I am adding another variant cover design to the linen cloth format 4. This is the fourth cover of this format now pictured in the database.
Of interest is that between 1909-1912 this format of this title was part of the Jester Life Series. See http://henryaltemus.com/series/series112.htm.

The Colorful Story Books series has six books which contain reprinted Wee Books for Wee Folks stories. Despite their large size (9.75 x 8), they all have dust jackets.

Book #1 Little Sallie Mandy Story Book is shown below. It contains all five of the books from the Little Sallie Mandy Series Henry Altemus Company – Little Sallie Mandy Series 126 and was published in 1903.

Its paper is glossy and it has all of the original illustrations from the Little Sallie Mandy stories.

Today I am adding pictures of the dust jacket for this 1904 non series book written by Florence Morse Kingsley.

There is only one edition of this book.

As noted previously, all Altemus books originally came with either a dust jacket or within a labeled box.