School Opens on Butternut Hill
by CADY, Harrison
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co, 1929. Harrison CADY. [JUVENILE]. 24mo square (5 3/16" x 4 ½"); [24]pp; color pictorial wrapper, 2 staple binding; illustrations every page, 12 in color, the rest printed in blue; light rubbing to edges; near fine. This edition, in a wrapper and smaller size, is not located in any OCLC libraries. Not found in Baumgarten. A town full of anthropomorphic animals join in the fun of a "coasting carnival!" Lively and imaginative story, with the... Read More
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Jack Frost Arrives on Butternut Hill
by CADY, Harrison
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co, 1929. Wraps. Near fine. Harrison CADY. [CHILDREN]. 24mo square (5 3/16" x 4 ½"); [24]pp; color pictorial wrapper, 2 staple binding; illustrations every page, 12 in color, the rest printed in blue; light rubbing to edges; near fine. This edition, in a wrapper and smaller size, is not located in any OCLC libraries. Not found in Baumgarten. A town full of anthropomorphic animals join in the fun of a "coasting carnival!" Lively and... Read More
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The New England Butt'ry Shelf Almanac, being a Collation of Observations on New England People, Birds, Flowers, Herbs, Weather, Customs, and Cookery of Yesterday and Today
by CAMPBELL, Mary Mason
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970. First Edition. Buckram. Near fine/Very good. Tasha TUDOR. First edition. 12mo square; 302pp; aqua buckram over board, gilt-stamped title to front and spine; mustard textured endpapers with floral vignette; thick creamy paper; 6 full-page color including fp and b&w illustrations throughout; dust soiling to top edge, light stain to fore-edge; price clipped color pictorial dust jacket, shelf-wear and one closed tear to front; near fine in very good dj. Stories and... Read More
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Terry and the Pirates in Shipwrecked
by CANIFF, Milton
Chicago: The Illustrated Pop-Up Edition. A Blue Ribbon Press Book, 1935. Milton CANIFF. [MOVEABLE BOOK] [POP-UP] [CARTOON] [JUVENILE] [STIGMATIZING ILLUSTRATIONS]. Pleasure Books, Inc., 1935. Cover title: The "Pop-Up" Terry and the Pirates. With 3 "Pop-Up" Pictures. Small 4to (9 1/8" x 7 7/8"); [10]pp; 3 double-page pop-ups; color pictorial boards; fp; small b&w line drawn and titled cartoons in text; bumped upper corner, lightly rubbed edges, boards lightly sunned, rear pop-up has two small scuffs; very good plus.... Read More
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Seeing San Francisco California
by [CARDINELL VINCENT CO.]
San Francisco: Cardinell Vincent Co., 579 Market St, 1915. Wraps. Fine. [VIEWBOOK] [POSTCARDS]. 48mo oblong (3 ½" 5 7/8"); [24] postcard pages; mottled brown stiff wrapper, embossed lettering, pictorial pastedown on front in a border; publisher on rear wrapper; 24 sepia half-tone divided-back postcards, none removed; binding tight; fine. OCLC locates 2 in libraries. Interesting, unused, postcard album from The Cardinell Vincent Co. (c. 1900 to 1920), photographers in San Francisco. The postcards are each titled and a... Read More
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The District of Maine
by [CAREY, Mathew]
Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1814. John G. Warnicke. Map of Maine showing 6 of its 7 counties: Cumberland, Hancock, Kennebeck, Lincoln, Washington, and York. Somerset County was formed in 1809 but not shown on this map.
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Farm Ballads (1873), Farm Legends (1875), Farm Festivals (1881)
by CARLETON, Will
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, Franklin Square, 1873. [POETRY] [BINDING]. Small quartos (4to); tan cloth over beveled board with decorative gilt-stamped fillets around a double black fillet, lettering in gilt, pictorial decoration on each; all edges gilt; dark tan endpapers; frontispiece with tissue guard and illustrated throughout text and with inserted plates. Light shelf rubbing to board edges, a few light spots; all near fine. Three Will Carleton volumes celebrating the American farm, all with beautiful decorative bindings... Read More
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Funtime Crossword Puzzles; Cover title: Funtime Crossword Puzzles for Juniors
by CARLSON, George
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1955. Boards. Fine/very good +. [ACTIVITY BOOK]. 12mo square; [86]pp; textured orange boards, black stamped boy and girl under a puzzle tree, black lettering on spine; pictorial title page; numbered puzzles, solutions in rear; unused; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, publisher's ad on rear, some light edge creasing and chipping; fine in very good plus dj. None located in OCLC. Elementary school-age crossword puzzle book with engaging graphic illustrations. Front... Read More
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An American Four-in-Hand in Britain
by CARNEGIE, Andrew
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; viii, 338pp; gilt and black stamped tan cloth, border of flowers and leaves to top, vignette of a horse in a horseshoe, gilt stamped spine; top edge gilt; green endpapers; b&w illustrated "Artotype" frontispiece, a collotype illustration process; light shelf wear, small red stain to head front board; very good. Carnegie's personal narrative of his sporting passion of four-in-hand coach driving.
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Cakes and Pastries
by CARNEY, Cleve
Chicago: Calumet Baking Powder Company, 1923. Third Edition. Cloth. Good. Third edition; 8vo; 64pp; brown stamped cloth over board; 12 tipped in glazed chromolithographs of prepared pastries; 6 pages for Additional Recipes follow with hand written notes; cover scuffed, corners bumped, head and tail of spine chipped; offsetting and soiling to endpapers, illustrations bright although some soiled; good.
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Bennett Cerf's Book of Laughs
by [CERF, Bennett]
New York: Beginner Books, a Division of Random House, 1959. First Edition. Boards. Near fine/near fine. Carl ROSE. First edition. 8vo; 61 [4]pp; glazed yellow pictorial boards featuring a giraffe; color illustrated endpapers; color illustrations with text; light scuff to head and tail of spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, rear panel features a publisher's ad for "I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books" with an image of the Cat in the Hat, "0275"... Read More
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Illustrated County Edition, Maine Place Names & the Peopling of Its Towns, Washington; Cover title: Illustrated County Edition, Washington. Maine Place Names & the Peopling of Its Towns
by CHADBOURNES, Ava Harriet; Elizabeth RING, forward
Freeport, Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1971. Staplebound. Near fine. 8vo; 76pp; stiff glazed color printed wrapper, b&w photographic illustration of a 4-masted schooner to the front, list of publisher's County Editions to rear; 2 staple binding; map of Washington County to verso front wrapper; b&w photographic illustrations; minimal shelf-wear to wrapper, tight binding; near fine. A look at the towns of Washington County, Maine and a brief summary of their history with photographic illustrations.
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Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns, County Edition: Lincoln, Waldo & Knox Counties
by CHADBOURNE, Ava Harriet
Freeport, Maine: The Bond Wheelwright Company, 1957. [STATE OF MAINE] [HISTORY]. 8vo; 79, [1]pp; glazed blue and white stiff wrapper, title on front, rear wrapper features a publisher's ad for other County Editions; snowman sticker on front; 2 staple binding; county maps on inside wrapper; binding tight; light foxing to edges; no odors; very good plus. An interesting look at the towns in three Maine coastal counties. The author, Ava Harriet Chadbourne, is a Professor Emeritus of Education at... Read More
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The Legend of Befana
by CHAFETZ, Henry
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1958. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. Ronni SOLBERT. Ronni SOLBERT, illustrator. First edition. 12mo oblong; 36, [2]pp; light brown buckram stamped with Befana riding a donkey and moon in blue ink, title in red; color illustrated throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light chipping to edges, small closed tear to rear; fine in very good plus dj. A folk story celebrating Befana, the old Italian woman who delivers gifts to children on Twelfth... Read More
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The Good That Flowers Do: A Gift from the Teachers and Scholars of the Warren Street Chapel
by [TEACHERS AT THE WARREN STREET CHAPEL]
Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, Printers, Congress Street, 1847. Wraps. Fine. 16mo (6 1/8" x 3 13/16"); 17, [1]pp; plain green wrapper; border and vignette on title page; one additional engraved vignette.; light wear to wrapper else fine. This small pamphlet was produced by the teachers at the Warren Street Chapel with an appeal for participation in the annual Floral Procession. The Warren Street Chapel was a charity for impoverished children founded in 1826 by Dr. Tuckerman. The Chapel... Read More
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Easter Hymns
by CHAPMAN, J. E. C., editor
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks, & Company, 1876. Cloth. Near fine. 12mo; 138, [1]pp; gilt-stamped green cloth, title and vignette of cherubim blowing a trumpet and carrying lilies, gilt stamped spine; all edges gilt; brown endpapers; title page in red and black; all verse within black border; ornamental tailpiece; light scruff to spine tail; near fine. Collection of hymns and poems celebrated at Easter and concentrated on the Christian belief of the resurrection of Christ.
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Outbreak 1939, The World Goes to War
by CHARMAN, Terry
[London]: Virgin Books, Imperial War Museum, 2009. Cloth. Fine/very good +. [HISTORY] [WWII]. 8vo; xviii, 446pp; black buckram over board, silver stamped lettering on spine; color pictorial endpapers; b&w photographic illustrations; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light creasing with some color loss; fine in very good plus dj. The outbreak of war with Germany in Great Britain on September 3, 1939, and its effect on the population and country.
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The Village Church
by CHASE, Jessie
Munich & New York: The Art Lithographic Publishing Company, 1890. Wraps. Near fine. Marian CHASE. [GIFT BOOK] [NOVELTY BOOK] [POETRY] [RELIGION] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Marian CHASE, illustrator. Printed in Germany. 48mo oblong (3 15/16" x 4 7/8"); [8]pp; stiff chromolithographed wrapper die-cut in the shape of a church with a bell tower, rear wrapper pictures a small wood fence with garden pergola and tree; publishers red silk ribbon binding; "No. 2472" on title page; lithographic illustrations... Read More
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The French Chef Cookbook
by CHILD, Julia
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, A Borzoi Book, 1968. Second Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good. Paul CHILD. Second printing. 8vo; [xxxvi], 424pp, xviii; [16pp] black and white illustrations inserted; red decorated cloth over board with title, author and publisher printed on spine; clipped dustjacket with 4/68 printed on front flap bottom; navy endpapers; light damp staining to front top edge dj and bottom back edge, light soiling dj; fine in a very good dj.
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Juliette Low and the Girl Scouts, The Story of an American Woman 1860-1927
by CHOATE, Anne Hyde and Helen FERRIS, editors
New York: Girl Scouts, 1944. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Printed from new plates March 1944. 8vo; xviii, 220 + [2]; gilt-stamped green cloth over board; b&w reproduced photographic images; light age-toning of paper, light shelf-wear; unclipped color dust jacket without price, b&w portrait of Juliette Low to front, chipping to edges with loss, light creasing; near fine in very good dj. History of the notable life of Juliette Low and the organization she founded.
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Tony and His Pals
by CHRISTESON, H.M. [Helen Mae] and F.M. [Frances Mary]
Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co., Junior Press Books, 1938. Second Printing. Cloth. Very good +. Second printing. 8vo; 144pp; brown pebbled cloth over board with a silver border around a b&w photographic illustrated onlay; endpapers feature b&w photographic illustration of horses in a coral; b&w photographic illustrations throughout; light sunning of spine, small spot to front board; very good plus. Tony was known as the Wonder Horse and an equine star of early film. He was purchased by... Read More
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The Best in Cooking in Portland
by AFTERNOON GUILD OF STATE STREET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Portland, Maine: Afternoon Guild of State Street Congregational Church, 1954. Comb-style plastic wraps. Very good. 8vo; 41 [8]pp; glazed pictorial wrapper; black plastic comb-style binding; illustrated; community ads; light wear to wrappers; very good. Community style cookbook from Portland, Maine containing advertising from local merchants.
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Mary Meade's Magic Recipes for the Electric Blender
by CHURCH, Ruth Ellen
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1956. New Revised Edition. Cloth. Very good/Good. 8vo; 256pp; yellow cloth over board with red stamped title and author on cover and spine, publisher also on spine; unclipped illustrated dust jacket; light scuffing to cover with paper remnants transferred from inside dj; damp staining to bottom edge of dj, sunning with some color lost, light chipping to edges; very good with good dj.
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La Crocifixsione, [The Crucifixion], Pl. CXL VIII
by CINGIO, Camillo, engraver
Rome: Bartolomeo Zanetti, 1607. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. Camillo CINGIO. [PRINT]. A copper-plate engraving from the book, Considerationi sopra tuta la vita di N.S. Giesu Chriso, [Considerations on the Whole Life of Our Savior Jesus Christ], authored by Bartolomeo RICCI, and published by Bartolomeo Zanetti in Rome, 1607. Double matted print, outside mat dimensions: 13" x 10"; mat opening: 6 5/16" x 4 3/16"; leaf (sheet) size: 7 3/8" x 5". Plate line visible. Bartolomeo Ricci... Read More
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Swanee River Moon; Waltz Song
by CLARKE, H. Pitman
Feist Building, New York: Leo. Feist, Inc, 1921. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. H. Pitman CLARKE, music.. 12 1/8" x 9 1/4"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for 3 "Blue Ribbon" Music Folios on rear wrapper; 1" split at foot of fold; very good plus.
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