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 to moderate cover wear.
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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 a $1 initiation fee and annual dues of $5, the society would provide the members five benefits. First, a "year... 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 follow?" (cover). Provides valuable insight into the vales and social morays of 1953. The subjects addressed include: the meaning of... 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 alphabet, as well as her name, location and date, September 3, 1889. The rest of the journal can be broken... 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 had found that he had been arrest illegally. . A collection of 6 illustrated letters with 24 pages written... 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 Century. She epitomized the evolution of women into independent thinkers also promoting the current fashions of the day. Costumes include... 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 canker hold on us" (p. 4). The publication goes on to shame Nudism as exhibitionist, dangerous to children and families,... 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 was an American women's rights activist who dedicated her life to education who founded the first school for women's higher... 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 situations. The rhyming narrative represents the animals point of view on how they are often treated unfairly by the 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 fetus, are described to have Pseudocyesis. The most famous example is generally cited as Mary Tudor, though even earlier examples... 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 oblivion, and with him all the surroundings that made him what he was... and in his place has come a... 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 about a man on the moon. Murdock himself would late go on in life to become an educator and high... 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 Fire Girls logo. Inside, a printed logo with Sue's name in manuscript ink has been pasted to the front pastedown,... 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 S. P. at center. Sally Philbrick, Deerfield [MA] penned on end papers. Measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2
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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 stating Van Horn Reservoir (Springfield, Mass) named after him . Also includes inscription " property of H.C. Rowley pd Van... 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 the alcoholic blues ... Prohibition that's the name, Prohibition drives me insane. I'm so thirsty, soon I'll die, I'm simply... 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 of verse that reads, "Blushing like the fragrant rose, / Here loves passion I disclose, / Gathered from love's fairy... 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 the book is a facsimile of the sketchbook while the 101 pages at the beginning is the author's writing. 6... 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 as "Free reading room, cheap lunches served, low priced lodgings, gospel meetings, distribution of bibles, papers and tracts". Done in... Read More
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Patent Cider Mill - Woodcut of Horse Powered Cider Mill
by Nathan Booth, patent holder
Cheshire CT, 1837. Light margin wear. Else fine.. A 15.5" by 11.5" 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 the device and operation in detail. Offered to the subscriber to build or sell mills to individual, town or county rights. Nathan... 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 Apples into Pumice. The narrative describes the device and operation in detail. Offered to the subscriber to build or sell... 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 in the new."), doodled evergreen boughs and candles, and a message in pencil that reads "From Polly Palmer Nelson Franconia... Read More
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Denison's Make Up Guide: For Amateur & Professional
by Eben H. Norris and Buckton Nendick
Chicago, IL: T.S. Denison & Company, 1923. The condition is very good. There are some sings of wear, but pretty minimal.. Part stage make-up tutorial, part catalogue, this guide attempts to cover as many possible characters and necessities that could be wanted to put on a performance. 64 pages, the first 24 are dedicated to the make-up design for possible characters, for example from a basic "Old Man Type" to "The Indian" or "The Chinaman". Each design comes... Read More
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Peeps Into Fairy Land. A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories, No. 633
by Introduced by F.E. Weatherly; Stories by Edith Nesbit
London and New York, Printed in Bavaria: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1896. Very good. Minor toning and spotting, one or two short tears. One small moveable fragment missing from first pop-up opening, not significantly affecting movement or effect. Remnants of tape. Binding worn.. First (sole?) edition of an enchanting and engaging look into "Fairy Land" via a clever use of pop-ups, in very good condition. Illustrations by Eveline Stuart Hardy. Tells several fairy stories with... Read More
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A Book of Old Ballads; Selected and with an introduction by Beverley Nichols
by Beverley Nichols
London: Hutchingson & Co, 1934. A 279 pp felted cloth cover with gilt stamp. I containsth 41 ballads Some of the ballads are: "The Knight and the Shepard's Daughter", "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne", "May Collin", " Brave Lord Willoughbey", "Sir Lancelot du Lake", " The Child of Elle" and "The Three Ravens". Included are 16 full color illustrations. This book was bound with unopened pages, that were then cut at a later date, as such some of... Read More
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