Q: Good evening! Just hoping to get some information on this edition. A Child’s Garden of Verses. No date. 137 pages, 4 color plates, many black and white (looks like) block illustrions. There’s a lot of screwiness out there on amazon and ebay etc. I just trying to be exacting. Thank you in advance for your time.

A: Your book is part of the Wyncote Series.

It originally has a dust jacket.

This series of reprints was first published in 1927 and reprinted until 1933.

Henry Altemus Company published the first edition of this title.

There are five illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green. It cost $1.00. This book is 7 x 4.75.

Here is a 1904 review:

Josephine Baskam (Mrs. Selden Bacon) (1876-1961) was a prominent author of more than forty works. Her books usually featured female protagonists. She was a pioneer in the girl scout movement.

Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) was an illustrator for a number of magazines (Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s Monthly, St. Nicholas Magazine, etc.) as well as books.

See also Non Series #67

This little 63 page book was published in two editions.

First edition:
This is the 1897 book. It was priced at 40 cents. 7.25 x 4.75

Later edition:
This is the post-1900 book. It was priced at 40 cents. Several differ style cover cloths have been seen. No priority difference is known.
This title was published until 1909. 6.25 x 4.375

See also Non Series #101

Q: Hi, I recently picked up a beautiful copy of Hawthorne’s “Twice Told Tales” published by Altemus, but am unable to find any information on it, can you identify it and give me an approximation of its value?
thank you,

A: This book is part of the Vademecum Series and was published in 1897. It originally came within a labeled box. It is a reprint and only has nominal value.

The 1897 Vademecum books came in a number of colors. Some are shown below.

Q: I have a copy of Paul and Virginia, I was told it published in 1890. There is no date of publication in the book. On page four there is an inscription that it is part of a series including
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Lucile
Paul and Virginia.”
The following page is the table of illustrations. The cover is below. Do you know publication date?

A: Your book was published in 1897-1898. It is part of the ten volume Library of Standard Authors’ Series. The books in this series have been seen in several different color covers.