Fairbank's Juvenile History of the United States.
by Wade, Blanche Elizabeth, and W. W. Denslow
Chicago: The N. K. Fairbank Company, 1911. Wraps. 55 pp. with paper wraps with cover illustration of Lady Liberty reading to young children. Includes 25 full color full page illustrations with Denslow printed signatures. Advertises fairy soap. 5 ¼” x 7 1/8”. Cover wear, separated from text block.
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Catalogue Painters' & Builders' Supply Depot
by W. A, French & Co
Hamden NJ (Opposite Philadelphia PA: Morel Brothers Pros, 1879. Heavy cover wear. Water stain back cover.. 112 pp. polished stock wraps. Black and white illustrated catalogue including Pure Cabonate of Lead, West Jersey White Lead, Kalida White Lead, West Jersey White Zinc, Kalida White Zinc, Colors of all Description, "Chinese Green", Putty in bulk and cans, Linseed Oil, Boiled Oil, Turpentine, Druyers, Varnishes (English and American) Brushes, Window Glass, Cut Glass for Vestibule Doors, Glue, Lubricating Oils, calcimined... Read More
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das Einmaleins (Multiplication Tables) in cheerful verses and images
by Toni Wagner-Schilffarth
Leipzig, Germany: Verlag der Kinderwelt, 1935. Surface wear and light bends on cover. Minor worming first three (3) pages upper right corner.. 18 pp. Illustrated board. Rhyming multiplication verses with relevant illustrations displaying the appropriate number of multiples described in the verse. Witty and charming. Printed in German. Cover and title page only in Sutterlin script. Art Deco influences cheerful illustrations. Measures 10" x 8 1/4'.
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Pookie believes in Santa Claus
by Ivy L. Wallace
London: Wm. Collins Sons, 1954. 22 unnumbered pp. color illustrated hard cover. Beautiful detailed color and black and white illustrations by author. Pookie the rabbit with wings sees Santa Claus and his dilemma trying to convince his friends. Part of Pookie series, first printing 1953. Measures 8" x 10" light wear on cover edges, small amount of foxing beginning on some pages but intact pages with no tears.
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Little Annie Rooney Wishing Book
by Brandon Walsh
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros, 1932. 16 unnumbered pp, illustrated card stock, no. 282. Forward by author. A book for boys and girls about wishes and imagination. Two-color drawings by Darrel McClure with rhyming text on blue pages, Measures 13" x 9 3/4" Light separation and edge tears cover.
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The Message of the Tree
by Zelia Margaret Walters
Elgin: David C. Cook Publishing Co, 1916. 14 pp. wrapper, with 2 illustrations. It tells the story of two children who try to get a Christmas tree for the village, even though all the men who would haul the tree are off at war with a neighboring Lord. Eventually their journey leads to peace between the two warring Lords. There is some slight wear to the edges of the covers, and the binding is has several intact tears. Slight... Read More
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Wie Engelschen seine Mutter suchte
by Magdalene Wannske
Leipzig: Alfred Hans, ca. 1927. Intact tear; one page. Cover wear.. 40 unnumbered page German language story with applied litho covers. Full page color and in-text illustrations in color and sepia tone. It is a fairy tale in verse about a young child looking for his mother. His journey introduces him to anthropomorphic frogs, birds and rabbits. Charming imagery. Measures 7 1/2" x 8".
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Wie Engelschen seine Mutter suchte
by Magdalene Wannske
Leipzig: Alfred Hans, 1927. Intact tear; one page. Cover wear.. 40 unnumbered page German language story with applied litho covers. Full page color and in-text illustrations in color and sepia tone. It is a fairy tale in verse about a young child looking for his mother. His journey introduces him to anthropomorphic frogs, birds and rabbits. Charming imagery. Measures 7 1/2" x 8
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A Delightful and Easy Method for Teaching Children to Read Music with extraordinary facility, by the arrangement of a house on the piano-forte
by L Wardell
1857. A way of learning how to play the piano-forte by L Wardell in which he instructs the player to image a house over the keys. Each key represents a different room or pillar of the house. Wardell claims that "this system has met with astonishing success wherever it has been adopted." Measures 10 1/4" x 4 1/2" There are two separations.
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Receipt for Painting Services Rendered
by David Warner
Springfield, Massachusetts, 1855. Fine; creased where previously folded.. A receipt on company stationary for painting services rendered, dated 1855 in ink, by David Warner, House and Sign Painter, Paper Hanger, and Glazier of Springfield, Massachusetts. Measures 5.5" by 7"; printed on blue paper.
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Little Elephant's Christmas
by Heluiz Washburne
Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1944. 32 pp. Green cover with red applied with red dust jacket. Two color illustration by Jean McConnell. Story about Little Elephant's Christmas day. Fourth Printing. Copyright 1938. Measures 9 1/2" x 7" cover solid, dust jacket tearing on edges and spine, pages intact with slight edge toning. , Three pages have small edge tears. bookseller tag "Wright's Drug Store, Picton, Ontario
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Waterman's Kitchen Furnishing Billhead with engravings of products
by Nathaniel Waterman
Boston: Waterman's Kitchen Furnishing Rooms, 1851. A 6" x 6 /12" illustrated billhead with engraved images of Waterman's products across the top. Products included a shower bath, coffee filter, refrigerator, broiler, lantern and lamp tea-kettle. Caption promotes the Cornhill and Brattle locations and the availability of catalogues containing cuts and description o f products and a list of all articles required in a perfect Kitchen Outfit, for either the City, Suburban, or Sea-side residence. Reverse blank. bottom margin trimmed.... Read More
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The Poetical Geography Designed to Accompany Outline Maps or School Atlas. To Which Are Added the Rules of Arithmetic in Rhyme
by George Van Waters
Cincinnati, OH, 1852. General wear. Inscription on front cover. Damage to back strip.. A textbook, only sold by subscription, that seeks to teach the reader arithmetic and world geography by using verse, often rhyming verse, to help the reader memorize the important terms and formulas. For example, in describing the divisions of land, the following poem is used: "Of land, and its divisions, read the stories; Peninsulas, Continents, Islands, Promontories, And Isthmuses and Capes, and Mountains high,... Read More
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The Transit Unemployed: A Description and Analysis of the Transient Relief Population
by John N. Webb
Washington, D.C.: Works Progress Administration, 1935. Very good. Extremities chipped, minor sunning,dust soiling to wrps. Two loose cancel slips.. A research monograph by John N. Webb, published by the WPA and submitted in partial fulfillment of his PhD at Columbia University. Includes in-depth research into unemployed migrant groups, including demographics (age, education, sex, race, etc.) and salient issues facing these groups, including lack of work and healthcare. Provides an impressive amount of original research and data on an... Read More
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Fine 1903 Portrait of Victorian Woman in Oil on Porcelain
by F.I. Weeks
N.pl, 1903. Very good to near-fine.. A very fine portrait of a woman rendered in oil paint on porcelain, painted by an artist named F.I. Weeks in 1903. The woman, who remains unidentified, wears a pink dress with her brunette hair in neat braids against a mottled brown background. Her clothing and affect date her from the 1860s, leading us to believe that Weeks has copied this portrait from an existing Victorian portrait that he had access to,... Read More
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Secrets of a Healthy Sex Life
by Joe Weider
n.pl: Joe Weider, 1959. Very good to near-fine. Two perforations to left-hand margin where previous owner attempted to two-hole punch.. There's nothing more disgusting than a chain-smoking woman" states this sex education manual published by the celebrity bodybuilder Joe Weider. The booklet addresses impressionable boys and young men reading the booklet seeking advice from an older masculine authority on sex and marriage. Advises the reader not to marry a woman likely to become a nagging wife, or who... Read More
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A[merican] O[ptical] Stereoscopic Charts Cat. No. 1965
by Dr. David W. Wells
United States: American Optical Company, 1915. Fair. Box water-stained, toned, worn. Instructions sheet toned.. A partial set of stereoscopic charts used "for cultivating Binocular Vision and for Treatment of Heterophoria", compiled by Dr. David W. Wells for the American Optical Company. The set includes nine (9) "series" of charts for different uses by a trained refractionist with a DeZeng Phorometer Stereoscope. The cards were a selection by Javal, Dahlfeld, Kroll, Hale and Wells; the author's names appear on... Read More
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Take the Children
by Dorothy N. King (Werblow)
USA, 1951. Light cover wear.. Spiral bound litho on heavy paper covers. The book begins with six children from different lands boarding the ship. The children are actual die-cut 5 1/4" children dressed in regional attire from England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland and Norway. The objective is to insert the appropriate child in the slot in the map of his or her homeland. The last two pages show the children in their appropriate countries. Meausures 7 1/2" x... Read More
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A Collection of Three Farming Ledgers belong to Lewis Wetherbee of Ashby, MA
by Lewis Wetherbee
Ashby, MA, 1873. General wear, toning, and soiling. Binding are loose.. A collection of three farming ledgers belonging to Lewis Wetherbee, a farmer in Ashby, MA. The first is an 'Egg Ledger' and dates from 1846-1873. It begins with a list of items bought by Wetherbee for his family and farm. The list only continues until early 1847 and consists of such items as sugar, tea, pepper, oil, nutmeg, cream tartar and candy. The remainder, from 1849 thru... Read More
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Human Relations Education
by G.G. Wetherill
New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1951. Very good. Minor dust soiling, spotting.. A comprehensive description of the "program of education in human relations, including sex relations, in the public schools of San Diego, California" (foreword). Describes the mission of the program, which is to ground sex education into health education for teens, and outlines the basic curriculum of the program. Published primarily for other educators, it includes further sex education resources in the back. ... Read More
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Discourse on Predestination and Election, preached on an Especial Occasion at Greenwich, Massachusetts, 2nd ed
by W. Fisk, D.D.
Brookfield: E.&G. Merriam, 1831. 32 pp. soft cover with string tied spine. Second edition of Fisk's Discourse based on predestination and election. 9 1/2" x 6" edges worn, staining and toning, tears on edges but no text is lost.
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The Fat Boy's Calorie Guide
by Elmer Wheeler
United States: Avon Periodicals, Inc. in association with Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1953. Good. Extremities worn, some dust soiling.. A guide to calorie counting published in 1953, offering a veritable flight of fat-phobic axioms to motivate the desperate dieter: "Men never get chattie With Girls who are fattie"; "Be shrewd-edit your food"; and "People who edit will never regret it!". The bulk of the text is devoted to meal planning and calorie counting, with charts showing "ideal" weights for men... Read More
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Cartier's Voyage" -- 1950s Watercolor School Cartography Project
by Tommy Whipple
United States, 1950. Good. Water staining, toning, short tears.. A charming school cartography project signed at he bottom by "Tommy Whipple", aged 8 or 9. The project depicts the voyage of maritime explorer Jacques Cartier, the first European to map the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The student drew the map with pencil, then went over it with black ink and watercolor. Components included and labeled in the project: continents and countries; a compass rose; the Equator; the Atlantic... Read More
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Nursery Rhyme Puppet Book
by Nancy Pritchard White
Los Angeles: Jack Built Toy Mf'g Co, 1957. An 11" x 13" litho on press board spiral bound book. Edited and Illustrated by Florence and Bob Dalton, There is one die-cut stage page with proscenium on the front and directions for use on the reverse or "the behind the scenes". There are also eight (8) quarter page nursery rhymes pages with the verse on the left pages and an image of the backs of the heads of the audience... Read More
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Autographed Cabinet Card, Manuscript Sign Verse and pen and ink of "The Captain's Well
by John Greenleaf Whittier
1880. Intact tear on autograph page.. A grouping of materials related to Whittier. The first is a cabinet card with Whittier's signature at base. The second is a 4 3/4" x 7 1/2" page from an autograph album with what seems to be an original verse penned and signed by John G. Whittier, Amesbury 1878. The reverse has an drawing by Alice C. Boynton, Boston MA. The third is a 4" x 4 1/2" piece of shingle with... Read More
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