Rhyme Sheet: Second Series; Bog Love, no. 11
by Shane Leslie
London: The Poetry Bookshop. The Poetry Bookshop, London. Measures 14" x 6 1/2" with top of page stating Rhyme Sheet: (Second Series) and bottom [No. 11]. A poem, Bog Love, written by Shane Leslie is accompanied by two decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. as new.
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Company Dye Test Sample and Formula Book with Swatches by Dying Procedure by Fabric Company
by Donald R. Lewis
Lowell MA: Lowell Bleachery, 1926. Wear from use.. A manuscript chemical formula and sample book for 1926 sorted by product type e.g. sulfur color type with a typed explanation as to the process followed by examples of the type of color e.g. Sulfur Colors by the active ingredient e.g. Thionel Black G ext and the name of the... Read More
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A Telegram Message delivered by "Sopie" the Scrub-woman of New York
by Sophie Lichtenfels
New Jersey: Bible,Book and Tract Rooms, 1902. 14 pp. Printed soft cover, stapled. A Telegram message by Sophie, delivered at Hamburg, New Jersey, March 2, 1902. Reported by Pastor H.J. Roberts, copyrighted by Sophie Lichtenfels. Written in a German accent, "De Lord has given me a telegram to deliver to you peeples dis morning" Sophie lived near her church... Read More
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The Wind of Privation or The Sun of Mercy? Radio Address by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Philadelphia, PA: American Friends Service Committee, 1940. Minor stains and missing surface litho on front. Staples rusted.. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) was an American author and aviator. However her and her husband, Charles Lindbergh, are perhaps most well-known as the parents of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., a baby who in 1932 was kidnapped for ransom from their home... Read More
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Handmade Book with Original Watercolor -- "Annual report of the B.V.C. for year ending August 10th 1893
by L.M.
N.pl, 1894. Very good. Light toning, dust soiling.. A sweet handmade book with an original watercolor of a wintry river scene on the upper cover, with handwritten information inside: the "Annual report of the B.V.C. for year ending August 10th 1893". The "organization" appears to be a group of friends that vacation together at a lake house. Includes... Read More
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The Crimes We Commit Against Our Stomachs ... Why Some Foods Explode in Your Stomach
by R. W. Lockwood
New York, NY: Corrective Eating Society, INC, 1917. General wear.. A short booklet from the Corrective Eating Society about why some foods cause an upset stomach and how to change one's diet to minimize stomach issues. The booklet starts by proclaiming that "no discovery of the past fifty years in the field of health investigation exceeds in importance... Read More
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Zingo and the Magic Beasts
by Hugh Lofting
Jersey City, New Jersey: Colgate & Co, 1926. Fine to very fine.. One of several illustrated booklets about a cheeky monkey named Zingo, written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, the creator of the Dr. Doolittle books for children. The tale advertises Colgate's tooth products. Lofting's colorful and distinctive illustration style is the undeniable highlight of the series. 12mo... Read More
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American Women's Club of London, Informational Pamphlet and Curtsey Member Pass
by American's Women's Club of London
London, 1924. Overall condition is good.. The guide to the American Women's Club of London house gives a quick view into their work and the space. 16 pages. The first two pages give an overview of the facilities, cost, as well as a brief description of the American Women's Club philanthropic activities. The remaining pages of the booklet... Read More
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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751
by Robert Louis Stevenson
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1921. 302 pp. Cloth cover with applied printed paper title, frontispiece, heavily illustrated and decorated by Louis Rhead. An exciting tale of David Balfour, who after his father dies, goes to live with his miserly old uncle. The uncle brings him to the port one day where he proceed to sell the boy. ... Read More
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Henry Brown
by Lawrence Lovechild
Philadelphia: George B. Zieber, 1847. 16 pp. wraps. Title page and seven (7) full page hand colored illustrations. The tale of a hard working carpenter's son who strove to do well in all ways, observed by an neighboring lawyer who adopted him as his own, helped him develop into a successful congressman, who subsequently married the lawyer's lovely daughter.... Read More
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A Big Temptation
by L. T. Mead, M.B. Manwell & Maggie Browne
London: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton. Fine. No. 1948. 48 pp. with pictorial litho on board book. In-text and full page gray-tone illustrations throughout. Content includes Kurus: The King of the Cannibal Islands, The Other Carews and The Big Temptation. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2
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A Big Temptation
by L. T. Mead, M.B. Manwell & Maggie Browne
London: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton. Fine. Arthur A. Dixon. No. 1948. 48 pp. with pictorial litho on board book. In-text and full page gray-tone illustrations throughout. Content includes Kurus: The King of the Cannibal Islands, The Other Carews and The Big Temptation. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2".
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Schnittmuster zu Püppenmutterchens Nähschule (Sewing School Patterns for your Dolls)
by Agnes Lucas
Berlin: Maier, c1890s. Minimal cover wear. Wear on first sheet cover.. A A paste board folio with applied litho illustration on front cover containing eight (8) single fold sheets with applied litho on each depicting the finished garments for the uncut doll pattern within. Also includes a number of cut-out patterns, many of them have been... Read More
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Everyday Children: David and Susi Black and White
by Lucy W. Peabody and Marjorie Woodbury Smith (illus.)
North Cambridge, Massachusetts: Central Committee of the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1928. Very good. Spine split, visible in gutter between pp. 12-13.. A scarce children's book from 1928, promoting international friendship, tolerance, and racial equality among early learners through the story of a black child and a white child who grow to become friends: "When David and... Read More
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Kinder Lieder [Children's Songs]
by Alfred Guttmann and Karl Lutge
Berlin: Deutscher Arbeitersängerbund [German Workers' Singing Association], 1926. 24 pp, Kinder Lieder: Erstes Heft, zwei- und mehrstimmige lieder und Kanons für kleine und große kinder, which roughly translates to: First Edition, two- and three-part songs and canons for young and old children. The front cover is printed in two colors, with the title and border design in blue and... Read More
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Homewood & Cottages, an Inn Brochure
by Burton Prentiss Lyman
Portland, ME: Bradford Press, 1930. Age toning. Inscribed on title page.. Homewood & Cottages was an Inn and vacation rental cottages located in Yarmouth, Maine, run by Burton Prentiss Lyman. According to the brochure it is situated just eleven miles east of Portland, ME, on the shores on Casco Bay. A converted old homestead serves as the inn's... Read More
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Let's Tell the Whole Story About Sex" -- Guide to Sex Education for Parents in the Early 1950s
by Edward B. Lyman
New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1952. Very good. Light toning.. An early 1950s sex education booklet in the form of transcribed conversations "between parents and their children [that] were written by a prominent Catholic layman for nonsectarian use. They are distributed by the American Social Hygiene Association as one example of the helpful material on... Read More
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A.B.C. No. 2 Bella Waltz Sheet Music
by E. Mack
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1865. 5 pp including covers. Cover illustration depicts engraving of by Lauderbach, of a young child learning from and ABC book. It is the No. 2 song from Recreations for Young Pianists. Twenty-six Progressive Pieces. The individual selections adorn the border of the illustration. Caption at base reads Respectfully dedicated to Miss Bella Lee by... Read More
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Women's World Magazine, Promotional Booklet - Horoscopes - An exposition of Occult Laws of Stars and Planets Affecting the Lives and Destinies of Men and Women
by A. W. Macy
Chicago: Cruver Manufacturing Co, 1913. Cover separated and detached but present.. 28 pp. booklet. Illustrated wraps. The cover depicts an astronomer gazing at the heavens. Designed with advertisments printed on the left and the introduction and horoscopes by sign printed on the right hand page. The horoscope pages are in color and present an overview for those born... Read More
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The Digest of Hygiene: Mother and Daughter
by M.A. Horn, ed
Hollywood, California: Hygienic Productions, 1953. Good. Large water stain with warping.. A sex and puberty education booklet published for mothers to share with their pubescent daughters, Covering all subjects ranging from menstruation to sex, marriage, venereal disease, pregnancy, abortion, and menopause. Also addresses masturbation, "Should you bear more children?", the causes of "frigidity", "Keeping Health and Beauty after... Read More
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Little Songs Of Long Ago "More Old Nursery Rhymes
by Alfred Moffat and H. Willebeek le Mair
Augener, 1912. Unpaginated. (65p.) Stamped Illustrated Hard Cover. An illustrated collection of traditional nursery rhymes with accompanying music. Full page relevant illustration verso with muscia and verse recto. Measures 11 1/2" x 8 3/4
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![Pompei" [sic] -- A Victorian Souvenir Book of Hand-Colored Engravings of Pompeii's Frescos and Tile Works](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/199/142/1316142199.0.m.0.jpg)
Pompei" [sic] -- A Victorian Souvenir Book of Hand-Colored Engravings of Pompeii's Frescos and Tile Works
by L. Majolino
Naples, Italy, 1871. Very good. Scattered foxing, extremities rubbed, remains of previous modern adhesive label to front pastedown.. A superb souvenir album created by an English or American tourist c.1871, showing the strong hold the ruins of Pompeii held over the touristic imagination in the Victorian era. From the beginning of the century, no European Grand Tour was... Read More
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Sunshine Cut-Outs: Every Day Series
by M. and F. Hoopes (illus.)
New York, New York: Stoll & Edwards Co, 1926. Good to very good. Toning, minor dust soiling, short tears, including larger tear along bottom of spine.. A scarce uncut paper doll book from the "Sunshine Cut-Outs" every day series, depicting the dolls June, Jack, Anna Louise, and Mary Jane. Includes seven (7) dolls (four are June in different... Read More
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Sky-Hi
by MARA
USA: Personal History Agency, inc, 1952. 4to. Unpaginated. A die-cut Terry is grommeted to front cover allowing him to tumble about space, giving the reader an introduction to Terry's trip, as he fell off the edge of dreamland and visits the universe including the pop-up sun and each of the fanciful planets in the Solar System. Includes information on... Read More
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Steel
by Marguerite Engler Schwarzman, Th. D. Luykx (illus.)
New York, New York: Georges Dupleix, 1937. Fair. Toning, light dust soiling, a couple nicks. Wrappers brittle and separated as a result from spine. Text block paper brittle but holding.. An illustrated children's book about the wonders of steel-making and how it has led to various technological innovations throughout history, by the prominent educator Marguerite Engler Schwarzman. features... Read More
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