Outlines of Physical Geography, Illustrated by Six Maps and Numerous Engravings, Second Edition
by FITCH, George W.
New York: J.H. Colton and Company, 172 William Street, 1855. Second Edition. cloth. Very good +. 12mo; 225pp +[5]pp publisher's ads; blind-stamped decoration in brown cloth over board, gilt title on spine; marbled edges; ownership in pencil on ffep; 6 hand-colored double-page maps, one b&w map; numerous engraved illustrations; rear eps with neat notes in pencil; light bumping to corners, light age-toning of paper; very good plus. A small geography book covering a broad range of subjects in... Read More
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Kiddie Kraft. A Year of Handwork, Stories and Games for Children
by FITCH, Lottie E.
Cincinnati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1938. Boards. Very good. 4to; 128pp; tan pictorial boards, price of $1.50 printed on front; gift inscription to ffep with poinsettia sticker with presenter's calling card, dated 1944; rubbing and light soil to boards and endpapers; very good. Children's handwork activities for every month of the year. The author states in the forward, "The purpose of this book is twofold. First, through telling of the stories to create a desire among the... Read More
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The Zankiwank & the Bletherwitch
by FITZGERALD, S.J. Adair
London: J.M. Dent & Co., Alpine House E.C., 1896. First Edition. Arthur RACKHAM. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Arthur RACKHAM, illustrator. First edition. 12mo (7 7/8" x 5 7/8"); xii, [1-3], 188pp; smooth green cloth over board, gilt-stamped title in a decorative vignette with children sitting atop the title; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; top edge gilt, untrimmed fore-edge and bottom; glue burn on eps; half-title "An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza"; 16 plates (1 uncut), 3 uncut pages; line drawings in text; some... Read More
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Neighbors on the Hill, The Alice and Jerry Books, Reading Foundation Series
by FLACK, Marjorie and Mabel O'DONNELL
New York: Row, Peterson and Company, 1943. Cloth. Very good. Florence and Margaret HOOPES. [SCHOOL BOOK] [WOMEN AUTHORS] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Florence and Margaret HOOPES, illustrators. First edition. 8vo; 192pp; brown cloth over board, pictorial front board featuring a house on a hill; front pastedown has ownership for School District No. 1, Laramie County; color pictorial title page; color illustrations throughout with text; shelf wear and light soiling, orange crayon mark on rear pastedown; very good. A child's reader... Read More
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The Restless Robin
by FLACK, Marjorie
[Boston]: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1937. Marjorie FLACK. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. 12mo oblong (7 1/8" x 10 1/8'); [46]pp; bright green cloth over board, black-stamped lettering and vignette of a flying bird on front; color pictorial endpapers of birds in trees; price tag from "Marston's San Diego" on ffep; gift inscription in pen on verso ffep; color pictorial title page with birds; full page color pictorials throughout; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, chipping and small... Read More
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Fleisher's Knitting & Crocheting Manual. A Complete Illustrated Hand Book Containing Clear Instructions for Every Step-From the Simplest Stitches to Elaborate Garments. An Authoritative Fashion Book of Articles Made of Yarn, Eleventh Edition
by FLEISHER, S.B. & B.W.
Philadelphia: The Fleisher Yarns, 1913. Wraps. Very good +. [HOME ARTS] [NEEDLE ARTS] [ILLUSTRATED]. Cover title: Fleisher's Knitting & Crocheting Manual, Eleventh Edition, Price 25 cents 8vo (9 ¾" x 7"); 206pp; gilt-embossed and grey printed lettering on stiff marbled grey wrapper, vignette of a knitting basket with yarn on front; frontispiece a photographic illustration of the mills; b&w half-tone photographic reproductions throughout; split at head of spine, light wear and soiling to wrapper; very good plus.... Read More
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Marjorie and Her Papa, How they wrote a Story and made pictures for it
by FLETCHER, Robert Howe
New York: The Century Co, 1891. Boards. Very good. R.B. BIRCH. Tall 8vo; 66, [1]pp; glazed ivory colored boards with a pictorial scene in blue and black incorporating the title and publisher's name to front, title in black to spine; b&w illustrations; soling and shelf wear to boards and spine, some light creasing to pages; very good. R.B. BIRCH, illustrator, from designs by the author.
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Wee Jade Button, To the Pekingese Pom-Pom, Much mourned campanion of an alone child
by CAMILLA (Aged sixteen) [Camilla Fligelman]
[No place listed--Switzerland?]: Michael-Slains publication, 1966. Wraps. Very good +. CAMILLA. [JUVENILE] [ANIMALS] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Gerber & Daengeli Inc., Vevey, Switzerland. CAMILLA (Aged sixteen), illustrator. 4to; [16]leaves; stiff manila color pictorial wrapper, red ribbon binding tied through stab holes, 4 vignettes of Pekingese dogs on front; text printed on both sides of the leaves; 8 color plates with tissue guards; light spotting to wrapper interior bright and clean; very good plus. OCLC locates 2 copies one... Read More
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Collectible Glassware from the 40's, 50's, 60's, Sixth Edition, an Illustrated value guide
by FLORENCE, Gene
Paducah, KY: Collector Books, A Division of Schroeder Publishing Co. Inc, 2002. Boards. Near fine. 4to; 239pp, [1]pp publisher's ad; glazed color pictorial boards; color illustrations with text; lightly used.
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The Collector's Encyclopedia of Depression Glass, Eighth Edition
by FLORENCE, Gene
Paducah, KY: Collector Books, 1988. 4to; 221pp + [3]pp index and publisher's ad; glazed yellow pictorial boards; light wear from use. Collector's resource for collecting glassware from the Depression period.
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Little Darlings ABC, Father Tuck's "Ever Welcom" Series
by FLOYD, Grace C., verse
New York, London Paris: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Co., Ltd, 1900. [RHYMING VERSE] [ABECEDARIAN] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Designed at the Studios in England. Edith TAYLOR and Mabel T. TAYLOR, illustrators. No. 2032, Designed at the Studios in England. 4to (11" x 5 9/16"); 12pp; glazed color pictorial front wrapper; alphabet letters with black line and chromolithograph illustrations; light corner wear, lightly age-toned paper, some offsetting of color printing; very good plus. Illustrating the letters of the alphabet are... Read More
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A History of the Game Birds, Wild-Fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and Adjacent States. Including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence
by FORBUSH, Edward Howe
Boston: Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. W.E. BEECROFT and Edward Howe FORBUSH. First edition. 8vo; xvi [ii], 622pp; forest green ribbed cloth over board with blind-stamped border, gilt-stamped spine; 37 b&w half-tone photographic plates including frontispiece and b&w wood-engraved illustrations in text; scuffing to boards, bumping to corners with loss, paper on front hinge cracked but holding tight, early paper repair to table of contents page in bottom margin; very good. Detailed... Read More
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Gigi, The Story of a Merry-Go-Round Horse
by FOSTER, Elizabeth
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1943. Cloth. Fine/very good. Ilse BISCHOFF. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR]. Ilse BISCHOFF, illustrator. 8vo; 118pp; glazed blue cloth over board, vignette of a horsehead in navy over the title on the front, navy lettering on the spine; b&w pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece of a carousel horse; decorated title page; 6 full and 2 double page b&w illustrations, smaller b&w illustrations in text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $2.00, rear flap... Read More
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The Zion's Advocate, Vol. XXIV, No. 10
by FOSTER, J.B., editor
Portland, Maine: Foster & Co., Proprietors, 1851. [NEWSPAPER]. March 7, 1851. Folio (25 1/2" x 19 1/2"); [4 pp]; creased edges, some damp stains, previous owner name on top of first page, folded horizontally and vertically at center, ragged tear in center of paper with loss; good minus. Contents include information about the Fugitive Slave Law, World's Fair, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Indian Appropriation bill, H.W. Longfellow. Single issue contains the Senate's petition to repeal the Fugitive Slave Law,... Read More
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A Day in a Child's Life
by FOSTER, Myles B., music
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. Boards. Very good. Kate GREENAWAY. 8vo; [5], 6-29, [30]; glazed illustrated paper over beveled board with green cloth spine; green plain endpapers; 8 full page color illustrations with color illustrations on title page, content and through musical text; gift inscription to acknowledgement page [3]; light soiling overall to covers, scuffing to cover edges, bumping with paper loss to corners, age toning to pages; very good. Meets all points for First Edition except... Read More
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Geology of the Isles of Shoals
by FOWLER-BILLINGS, Katharine
Concord, N.H.: The New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, 1959. Wraps. Very good +. [STATE OF MAINE] [NATURAL WORLD] [TRAVEL] [NON-FICTION] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. First edition. 8vo; 51pp; pale blue pictorial wrapper, dark blue ink with illustration of a lighthouse on the Shoals; two staple binding; illustrations and small maps within text; sunning to front wrapper with discoloration; very good plus. The Shoals lie offshore of the New Hampshire and Maine coasts. Booklet covers the general features of... Read More
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Good News for Weak, Debilitated Men. The Particulars or a Simple and Certain Means of Home-Cure for those suffering from the Effects of Imprudence, Excesses, Wasting Weakness, Urinary Diseases, Lost Vitality, Nervous Debility, Early Decay, Loss of Memory, Despondency, Gleet, and Premature Old Age. Showing Clearly how any one thus Afflicted may Speedily, Cheaply and Permanently Restore Themselves to Health, Strength and Vigor, by the use of Dr. Rudolphe's Specific Remedy
by FOWLER, Prof. F.C.
Moodus, Conn: Prof. F.C. Fowler, 1894. Wraps. Very good. Second edition, first published in 1891. 24mo (5 ¾" x 3 3/16"); 32pp; pale green wrapper printed in dark green, vignette of dove on front, wood-cut pictorial rear wrapper of a laboratory; two staple binding; pictorial of Fowler's Medical Laboratory on verso front wrapper, recto rear wrapper features a facsimile of a Connecticut State Board of Health license; light creasing to wrapper, sunning to front wrapper, light age-toning of... Read More
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Our Children, Scenes from the Country and the Town
by FRANCE, Anatole
New York: Duffield & Company, 1917. First Edition. cloth. Very good. Boutet de MONVEL. First American printing. 4to; 25pp; quarter bound green cloth with pictorial glazed paper over board; color and black and white illustrations through text; bumping to cover corners and scuffing to board edges, small stain to front cover, light scuffing to boards, light age toning of paper; very good. Clever and charming pictures illustrated this book about French children.
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84 Costumes des Provinces de France
by [Société des Cartes Folkloriques de France]
Vichy, France: Société des Cartes Folkloriques de France, 1950. Wraps. Near fine. R. MARGOTTON. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [POSTCARDS] [FASHION / TRADITIONAL DRESS]. R. MARGOTTON, illustrator. 6 1/8" x 4 1/8" ; 84 cards, numbered; half-bound tweed cloth folder with ties, marbled paper over board, color paper label to front folder; 3 black cloth folder ties; hand-colored, wood-engraved cards, verso is a divided back postcard with labeling and numbering within the series, and four printed lines on which to... Read More
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Maine Register, State Year Book and Legislative Manual, No. 82, Published Annually; Cover title: Maine Register, 1950-51
by FRED L. TOWER COMPANIES, Arthur T. Spring, President
[Portland, Maine]: Fred L. Tower Companies, 1950. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; 1203pp; textured dark brown cloth over board, blind stamped borders to front board, title and AAA Maine Automobile Assoc. logo blind stamped on spine; Dept of Health and Human Services stamp to edges; eps are advertisements; first 64pp on mustard colored glazed stock; pp.837-1092 on pink stock with three tabs: Classified, Manufacturers, Indexes; light scuffing to boards, light; very good. Interesting look at the State of Maine... Read More
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The Woman In The Shoe; Featured in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Production "Lord Byron Of Broadway
by FREED, Arthur
New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp, 1929. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Nacio Herb BROWN. 12 1/8" x 9 1/4"; 7,[1]pp; color pictoril front wrapper; ad for Two Hits from "Devil May Care" on rear wrapper; 1" split at foot of fold; 1" split at top of fold; very good. A Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Picture.
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The Moon Is Low; Featured in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Production "Montana Moon
by FREED, Arthur
New York: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp, 1930. Ephemera no binding. Near fine. Nacio Herb BROWN, music.. 12 1/8" x 9 1/4"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Song Successes From The Foremost Talkies on rear wrapper; near fine. Joan Crawford in Montana Moon.
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Betty Crocker's Parties for Children
by FREEMAN, Lois M.
New York: Golden Press, 1964. Boards. Near fine. Judy and Barry MARTIN. [ENTERTAINING]. Judy and Barry MARTIN, illustrators. Western Printing and Lithographing Company, printers. 4to; 166pp + [2]pp index; color pictorial boards, double loop metal binding, price sticker on front board "$1.95"; pink endpapers; pictorial half-title and double title page; color illustrations throughout; light shelf-wear; near fine. A charming book for adults on how to hold parties for children. The contents include where and when to hold a... Read More
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White Mountain Scenery
by [CHAS. FREY]
Portland, Maine: Chisholm Bros, 1880. Boards. Very good +. Published by Chisholm Bros., Manufacturer's of Chas. Frey's Original Souvenir Albums of all American & Canadian Cities & Sceneries. 8vo; 12 panels accordion-folded; gilt and black stamped aesthetic design to front board; grey chromolithograph pictorial illustrations; light scuffing to edges and a scrape to rear board; one accordion-fold archivally repaired; very good plus. Scenic views, as well as railroads and important buildings. Large illustrations have top and bottom borders... Read More
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Scuttlebutt Goes to War
by FRISKEY, Margaret, Lieutenant Dwight W. FOLLETT, U.S.N.
Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co, 1943. Boards. Very good +. Lucia PATTON. 8vo; 32pp; brown buckram with color pictorial onlay to front board; color pictorial endpapers of letters and envelopes; ownership to front pastedown; illustrations every page; light shelf wear, a few light spots to pages; very good plus. Written during war-time by Margaret Friskey who spun a story from the letters of a sailor in the Pacific war zone. A dog called Scuttlebutt and his life aboard... Read More
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