Assortment of Vintage Children's Literature

Updated August 28, 2026

This collection features early 20th-century children's and educational volumes including Dorothy Donnell Calhoun's Little Folks From Literature (1915) and Tennyson's Poems of Knightly Adventure (1897). Josephine Van Dolzen Pease's The Book of Food, and A. Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories. Notable inscriptions include a 1917 Christmas gift provenance and late 19th-century schoolhouse marginalia.The Book of Food: 8 inches H x 6.25 inches WLittle Folks From Literature: 6.75 inches H x 4.75 inches WUp Canada Way: 8.25 inches H x 6 inches WPoems of Knightly Adventure: 7 inches H x 5 inches WStack height: 4 inches.All volumes show significant wear consistent with age and use, including scuffed covers, frayed spine ends, and bumped corners. Interior pages exhibit uniform toning and foxing, with a large diagonal tear present in the preface of the Tennyson volume. Covers on the Calhoun books show some staining, and extensive pencil and ink marginalia is present in multiple titles.

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