Complete Set of "Little Bessie's Country Stories" by Thomas Miller
by Thomas Miller
New York, New York: Sheldon & Company, 1869. Good to very good. Some light surface wear/rubbing to bindings. Internally fine.. First edition of a complete set of "Little Bessie's Country Stories" by Thomas Miller, published by Sheldon & Company. They were issued in September 1868 (despite the 1869 imprint) alongside six other titles, similarly bound in highly attractive... Read More
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Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Land Promotion
by Miss Della A. Neal, Parish Delegate
Louisiana Building, 1882. Letter folds, age toning and edge chips.. 4 pp promoting the city of Lake Charles and the surrounding area. The cover depicts an image from a photograph of tropical fruit and verses by Longfellow and Townsend. Presented by Miss Della A. Neal, Parish Delegate. Includes information on Rivers, Timber, Prairie, The lay of the land,... Read More
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Three Tiny Pigs
by Momberger, William
New York: McLoughin Bros. 30 Beekman, 1864-1870. Mama Lovechild's Series. 7 leaves including wraps. Each page printed on one side. Hand colored engraving of anthropomorphic or humanized pigs and wolf. A rather gruesome depiction. Measures 6 3/4" x 10 1/2". Surface wear and toning throughout. 3/4" margin tear front cover
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Visit to the Menagerie, Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series
by Momberger, William
McLoughlin. 6] leaves, [6] leaves of plates. 18 chromolithograph illustrations. Cover illustration of running lion. Rhyming story is titled Visit to the Zoological Gardens. The first illustration depicts children on sedan chair riding an elephant. Numerous animals depicted. Measures 10 3/4" x 9". Back cover promotes New Picture Books for Little Children. 71 & 73 Duane St., NY. Light... Read More
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Announcement for The Coil and Static Club of the United States
by Dr. S. H. Monell
New York, NY, 1900. General wear.. A single-fold brochure announcement of a medical society Monell was forming, called the Coil and Static Club, whose purpose was to "carry out a practical plan for keeping an up-to-date revision of clinical methods and new work constantly at the command of all physicians who use Therapeutic Apparatus." At the charge of... Read More
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Helping Children Develop Moral Values
by Ashley Montagu
Chicago, Illinois, 1953. Very good. Minor dust soiling, a little rust staining from previous paper clip on front cover.. A parenting education booklet focusing on how to instill desirable moral values in children: "We all want our children to be 'good'. How can we know and how can we help them to know what standards of conduct to... Read More
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School Notebook of Lila Morann, School Girl form Norwich CT
by Lila Moran
Norwich, CT, 1883-1905. Lila Moran (Morann) was born in c1872 in Connecticut to Samuel (c1847-?) and Eliza (c1848-?) Moran. She had a brother, William (c1870-?), and a sister Prudence Jane (c1868-?). . A school notebook belonging to Lila Moran, a young school girl from Norwich, CT. The first few pages of the journal see Lila practicing writing the... Read More
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Illustrated Letters by Anna Morey on her Grand European Tour
by Anna Morey
Sept - Nov 1855. Anna Morey was the daughter of Dr. Thomas Chadborne. She married an American inventor, Charles Morey on February 5, 1849 in Boston. Charles was killed on December 30, 1856 by a guard at Rue de Clichy, a debtor's prison, on the day he was to be released. Tragically Morey was being release because a judge... Read More
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Fluffy Ruffles: The "It Girl of 1907 - Paper Doll
by Wallace Morgan
New York: J. Ottmann, 1907. Edge wear on envelope. 4 hats lacking.. A 10 34/" easel back die-cut paper doll with five costumes, one hat and the original envelope. The character first appeared as a comic strip in the New York Herald and its European counterpart the Paris Herald. Fluffy was considered the "New Woman" of the 20th... Read More
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Facts About Nudism: The Real Truth About the Nudist Movement
by Hugh Morris
New York, New York: Padell Book Co, 1935. Very good. Toned. A passionate anti-nudist monograph, stating in its introduction that "on the whole, the people who comprise a majority of the Nudist movement are nothing but sexual perverts, as it shall be proved in the following chapters ... Nudism must be stamped out now, before it takes a... Read More
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An Address before the Emma Willard Association and a collection of School work by Helen Harrison Hadley (nee Morris) from her time at Vassar College
by Helen Harrison Hadley (nee Morris)
Poughkeepsie, NY, 1901. This grouping or 21 works begins with an address made by Helen Harrison Hadley to the Emma Willard Association at their annual banquet in November 1901. The Association's mission was to unite the graduates of the Troy Seminary in a friendly alliance, and to co-operate in promoting the cause of higher education among women. Emma Willard... Read More
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Sketches at the Zoo from a Comic Point of View
by R. K. Moumsey
England: Raphael & Tuck & Sons, No. 1095, 1894. Edge wear on covers. Sewing repair spine.. 13 pp. (pagination includes inside covers) Cover title only. Chromolithograph wraps. "There's no place in the wide, wide world as funny as the Zoo".., And so it begins, a profusely illustrated book with several captioned vignettes per page with animals in human... Read More
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Prospectus for Monograph on Pseudocyesis (False Pregnancy)
by M. Pauline Klinger, M.A., and George Davis Bivin, Ph.D.
Bloomington, Indiana: The Principia Press, Inc, 1937. Fine; some light marginal browning. Two-hole punch to left-hand margin. Creased where previously folded.. A prospectus for a monograph on Pseudocyesis, or false pregnancy, published in 1937 by The Principia Press. Women who appear to be pregnant and exhibit all of the same signs and symptoms, but do not carry a... Read More
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Boyhood Days on the Farm: A Story of Young and Old Boys by Charles Clark Munn, 1907
by Charles Clark Munn
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1907. A 403 paginated book that pays homage to the ideal of the New England country farm boy and what boyhood life on a New England farm in the early 1900s was like. In the preface the author writes: "The old time type of New England farm boy is fast passing into... Read More
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Composition Notebook for the Winter Term of George F. Murdock
by George F. Murdock
Stow, MA, 1880. General wear.. A composition notebook for twelve year old George F. Murdock during the winter term of his "3rd Class". It has thirteen (13) short essays, short stories, and/or sample letters with subjects ranging from Paul Revere, a description of what is in the classroom or seen from his window, and a short story of... Read More
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Camp Fire Girls Binder of Sue Murphy of Hood River, Oregon, with Letters from Pen Pal Kathleen Wyatt in Chesham, England
by Sue Murphy
Hood River, Oregon, 1952. Very good.. A binder filled with ephemera and manuscript material that comprises a remarkable record of one girl's time as a Camp Fire Girl in the mid- to late-1940s in Hood River, Oregon. Belonging to Sue Murphy, the binder (11" by 9.5") is made of green cloth and has been hand-painted with the Camp... Read More
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Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar...Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners decorated with dear folk art by student Sally Philbrick
by Lindley Murray
Concord, [NH]: Hill and Moore, 1819. Significant wear.. 106 pp. paper on board. Abridgment of Murray's English Grammar, with An Appendix, containing exercises in orthography, in parsing, in syntax, and in punctuation. Designed for the Younger Classes of Learners. The reverse of the title page has a 3" pen and ink and ochre watercolor heart with the initials... Read More
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The English Reader: or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers. Lindley Murray E. and G. Merriam Brookfield
by Lindley Murray
Brookfield, 1826. E. and G. Merriam. 250 pp. Subtitle: Designed to Assist Young Persons to Read with Propriety and Effect, to Improve their Language and Sentiments, and to Inculcate Some of the Most Important Principles of Piety and Virtue with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principle of Good Reading. Leather cover, owned by Sumner Vanhorn, a pencil note... Read More
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The Alcoholic Blues
by Music by Albert Von Tilzer, with lyrics by Edward Laska
New York, New York: Broadway Music Corporation, 1919. Good to very good. Light dust soiling, a couple nicks or short tears.. Printed sheet music with lyrics for a post-WWI blues song called "The Alcoholic Blues", lamenting the war and Prohibition: "I love my country, 'deed I do, But oh, that war has made me blue ... I've got... Read More
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Blushing like the Fragrant Rose" Fine 4to-sized Hand-colored Early 19th-cent. Valentine
by M.W.
England, 1840. Very good. A little toned with a couple spots, letter folds.. A fine, hand-colored Valentine, depicting a country gentleman looking up to his beloved in her window. She leans over to give him a love letter. A large urn with wild roses decorates the scene, with church in the distance. At the foot is a stanza... Read More
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Julia Newberry's Sketch Book or The Life of Two Future Old Maids. Tracy D. Mygatt W.W. Norton & Company New York
by Tracy D. Mygatt
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1934. 101+ pp. Gilt on black fabric cover, black and white illustrations in back of book, frontispiece of two women. The author tells the story of two women, Minnie and Julia in 1868. Julia creates a sketch book of there life and insistence of the two of them never marrying. The end of... Read More
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Promotional Materials Relating to Lake Superior System of Missions
by J. H. Nason
Superior, WI: Lake Superior System of Missions, Nov-00. General wear. Letter folds.. Four promotional fundraising items providing information on the mission. The first item is a printed on letterhead from Nason, describing his mission and specifically requesting help for the upcoming 1900-1901 winter campaign to the logging camps, as well as some of the services provided there, such... Read More
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Patent Cider Mill - Woodcut of Horse Powered Cider Mill
by Nathan Booth, patent holder
Cheshire CT, 1837. Light argin wear. Else fine.. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan Both, 1837. A 4" x 5 1/4" woodcut of the horse powered device and the horse. Designed after the Box Coffee Mill for the purpose of grinding Apples into Pumice. The narrative describes... Read More
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Patent Cider Mill - Woodcut of Horse Powered Cider Mill
by Nathan Booth, patent holder
Cheshire CT, 1837. Age toning and margin wear. Affixed at top to mount board.. A 15 1/2" x 11 1/2" broadside promoting a Patent Cider Mill, a new invention by Nathan Both, 1837. A 4" x 5 1/4" woodcut of the horse powered device and the horse. Designed after the Box Coffee Mill for the purpose of grinding... Read More
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New Year's Greeting Card Handmade by Child with 1905 Calendar
by Polly Palmer Nelson
Franconia, New Hampshire, 1905. Very good. light toning, dust soiling, spotting.. A handmade self-standing friendship token, made by an eleven-year-old girl for a friend to celebrate the 1905 New Year. Made form a miniature 12-month calendar pasted to a piece of card, with a stand on the back. Includes a message in pen ("Ring out the old, ring... Read More
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