Essential Stitches and Seams, Part 1, Instruction Paper with Examination Questions, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc
by PICKEN, Mary Brooks
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1915. First Edition. Staplebound. Very good +. First edition. 8vo; 30 + 2pp test questions; tan printed wrapper, 2 staple binding; illustrated in b&w; chipping to bottom front wrapper and light soiling, ownership in pencil to front wrapper; very good plus. This first edition in only 3 WorldCat libraries. Founder of the Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mary Brooks Picken was a prolific writer and publishers of manuals... Read More
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Aprons and Caps, 405, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, Scranton, Pa
by [PICKEN, Mary Brooks]
No place listed: International Educational Publishing Company, 1922. Staplebound. Very good. 8vo; 51 + 1pp; blue printed pictorial cover on grey stiff wrapper; 2 staple binding; illustrated; chip to bottom front cover corner and through first 8 pages without loss to text, light age toning of paper; very good. Illustrated instructional construction techniques for sewing different styles of aprons and caps from the famous American author and founder of the school. Included is one instruction for "Maid's Apron... Read More
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Pretty Ratiné for a Dress Like This FREE
by [PICKEN, Mary Brooks]
Scranton, PA: Woman's Institute, 1920. Near fine. 8vo; 1 leaf folded; black and white illustrated folded advertisement for free fabric and pattern from the Woman's Institute; blanks for four names and addresses to enter; green fabric sample affixed to front; near fine. A Woman's Institute student recruitment incentive contest for free fabric and a dress pattern. Founded in 1916 by Mary Brooks Picken, the institute taught women sewing, tailoring, pattern making and other fashion skills. This brochure served... Read More
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Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Department of Dressmaking and Tailoring; Wrapper title: Dressmaking Made Easy
by PICKEN, Mrs. Mary Brooks
Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1916. Stiff wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 64pp; color half-tone pictorial stiff glazed wrapper; portrait of the author; illustrated; advertisement for the Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences discussing the courses available and reasons to enroll; light soiling to wrapper; very good plus.
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The Barren Ground of Northern Canada
by PIKE, Warburton
London: Macmillan & Co, 1892. Half Bound Leather. Near fine. [EXPLORATION] [NON-FICTION]. Maps: Stanford's Geography Established. A Sketch Map of Mr. Warburton Pike's Journeys to the Barren Ground of Northern Canada, London: Macmillan & Co., 10 ½" x 8 ½" paper, 9 ½" x 6 7/16" within the neat line; green coloring; vertical crease to map; near fine. Stanford's Geography Established. Dominion of Canada. Outline Map Shewing the Larger Unexplored Areas, 1890. London: Macmillan & Co. 5 ½"... Read More
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Children of Other Lands
by PIPER, Watty [pseudonym for Arnold Munk or editorial name of the Platt & Munk Company]
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1933. Cloth. Fine/very good. Lucilee W. and H.C. [Holling C.] HOLLING. 4to; [3 + 86]; orange cloth over board with color illustrated onlay with title; 5 full page color illustrations including frontispiece; black and white drawings within text; green endpapers; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket lacking price, back flap advertises 8 other publisher's books; light fading to endpapers; closed tears to top and bottom edges, old tape to front flap... Read More
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The Little Engine That Could, Retold by Watty Piper from The Pony Engine by Mabel C. Bragg
by PIPER, Watty
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., Publishers, 1930. Cloth. Near fine. Lois L. LENSKI. Lois L. LENSKI, illustrator. Second issue. 8vo; [22]pp; red cloth over board, color pictorial onlay featuring a train on a track and black lettering; "Never Grow Old Series" list before half-title includes nine titles ending with The Little Engine That Could and a two-line statement on the front paste-down begins with "No. 358 Made in U.S.A."; both b&w and color illustrations throughout;... Read More
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All About Mickie Long-Tail
by PITT-TAYLOR, Nora
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1926. Lucy RENOUF. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Lucy RENOUF, illustrator. First edition thus. 24mo (5 7/16" x 4 ¼"); [1-6], 7-47 [1]; gray boards, lettering in dark green on front and spine, color pictorial onlay of a baby and monkey; color 8 colored plates including fp; line drawing on title page and in text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, rear panel publisher's ads and price of 40 cents, light hand soiling;... Read More
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Ariel
by PLATH, Sylvia, Robert LOWELL, introduction
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Cloth. Fine/very good. First edition. 8vo; xi [iii], 85pp; lavender ink stamped black cloth over board with publisher's colophon to front cover, author, title, and publisher to spine; fore-edge untrimmed; unclipped dust jacket with price of $4.95, light chipping to corners and head and tail of spine, light stain to rear; fine in very good plus dj.
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Hopgad or the Gnomes of the Black Forest, A Christmas Story for Young Folks
by PLUMB, Master A. Per Lee
Paris: No publisher listed, 1887. Cloth. Very good. F. A. BANNISTER. F.A. BANNISTER, illustrator. Printed in London by the National Press Agency, Limited. 8vo; 31pp; gilt-stamped bright blue cloth over beveled board, gilt-stamped vignettes of flowers, and a fairy on a mushroom to front; all edges gilt; black endpapers; 4 full-page woodcut illustrations in sepia; head-piece each chapter; light scuffing to board bottom edge, black mark and scuff to rear cover, front hinge paper has 2" split... Read More
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The History of the United States, Told in One-Syllable Words, With Colored Illustrations
by POLLARD, Miss Josephine
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, 1910. [JUVENILE] [HISTORY] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Small 4to; 136pp; green cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering to front and spine, color stamped pictorial of 2 drummers and a fifer on front; gift inscription on ffep dated "1921"; fp + 5 color plates; gilt lettering sunned, paper age-toned; very good plus. Miss Pollard, the author of this easy-to-read history book, did an admirable job of breaking apart multiple-syllable and hard-to-read names into one-syllable bites. Seventeen chapters of... Read More
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You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To; Something to Shout About
by PORTER, Cole
New York City: Chappell & Co., Inc, 1942. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Cole PORTER, music. 12" x 8 15/16"; 5, [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Cole Porter's Latest Score -- A Colombia Picture "Something to Shout About" Words and Music by Cole Porter on rear wrapper; very good. A Gregory Ratoff Production starring Don Ameche, Janet Blair, Jack Oakie, with William Gaxton, Cobina Wright Jr., and Hazel Scott, A Columbia Picture.
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Etiquette "The Blue Book of Social Usage." Illustrated with Photographs and Facsimiles of Social Forms, New Edition, Completely Rewritten and Reset Including Military and Post-War Etiquette
by POST, Emily (Mrs. Price Post)
New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, Publishers, 1945. [ETIQUETTE] [HOME ARTS] [ILLUSTRATED]. Dust jacket title: Emily Post's Etiquette, The Blue Book of Social Usage 8vo; xiii, [iii], 654pp; blue cloth over board, gilt stamped title and author to front, gilt lettering on spine; ownership on ffep; 14 plates including fp; lightly age-toned pages, scuffing bottom edge; unclipped blue and gray dust jacket with a prince of $40.00 on front flap, chipping with loss at upper edge,... Read More
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Peter Rabbit, Ruth E. Newton's Chubby Cubs
by [POTTER, Beatrix], NEWTON, Ruth E.
Racine, Wis: Whitman Publishing Co, 1947. Staplebound. Very good. Ruth E. NEWTON. 4to; [11pp with back wrapper last page of story]; linen-like color illustrated paper wrapper, title, author and publisher on front; 11 pages of color illustration followed by text; a few light creases to front wrapper and light scuffing of paper; very good. Unauthorized Peter Rabbit story.
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The Pie and the Patty-pan
by POTTER, Beatrix
London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1905. First Edition. Boards. Very good. Beatrix POTTER. Edmund Evans, The Racquet Court Press, Swan Street, London S.E., [printer.] First edition, Hofer variant boards. 12mo (7 1/8" x 5 ½"); 51 [1]pp; brownish maroon boards, stamped-white border and title, color portrait of a cat onlaid to front within a white-stamped frame; mottled lavender endpapers; partial bookseller's ticket to foot of rear pastedown; gift inscription to half-title dated 1905; frontispiece plus 9 color plates,... Read More
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Wag-By-Wall
by POTTER, Beatrix
Boston: The Horn Book, Inc, 1944. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good +/Fair. J.J. [Julius] LANKES. First edition. 12mo; [32pp]; tan buckram over board with red stamped title, author and illustrator to front; woodcut cottage illustration onlay; decorative endpapers; frontispiece a tipped in photographic illustration of author with a young child, facsimile signature below; illustrations in text; light age toning of paper, a few small spots on page tails, one small (1/8") closed tear to page fore edge;... Read More
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The Theory & Practice of Gamesmanship or The Art of Winning Games Without Actually Cheating
by POTTER, Stephen
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1948. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. Lt.-Col. Frank WILSON. 12mo; x [ii], 13-128pp; pale green buckram, title printed in black on spine; light glue burns on endpapers, ownership in neat ink on ffep; b&w illustrations in text; light shelf scuff to tail spine; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light wear to edges and age-toning; near fine in very good plus dj. Presumed first American edition. Written by British satirist, Stephen Potter, who... Read More
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Finger Plays for Nursery and Kindergarten
by POULSSON, Emilie
Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1893. Later printing. Cloth. Good +. L.J. Bridgman. Later printing. 8vo; [42pp]; gilt-stamped title and author name in a border to tan cloth over board, vignettes in brown and black to front, colophon to front in gilt, title with illustrations to spine; ownership in ink to ffep; b&w illustrations throughout text; 1 1/2'' tear with loss to bottom ffep at gutter, 4 other closed short tears to bottom pages at gutter; good plus. Eighteen... Read More
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In the Child's World, Morning Talks and Stories for Kindergartens, Primary Schools and Homes, Twenty-first Thousand
by POULSSON, Emilie
Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co, 1899. Cloth. Very good. L. J. BRIDGMAN [Lewis Jesse]. 8vo; xiv, 443pp; illustrated tan cloth over board, vignette of a child playing with a cat and kittens to front; 47 full-page b&w illustrations including frontispiece; light fading to cover, lightly shaken; very good. Second issue of this title. Stories, poetry, and teacher's notes on content that is both informative and entertaining. The author, Anne Emilie Poulsson (1853-1939), was an author who went blind... Read More
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Lutheran Brotherhood Bond Kitchen Korner Cookbook
by PRACHT, Gretchen M. editor
Minneapolis: Lutheran Brotherhood, 1963. Staplebound. Very good. 8vo; 80pp; stiff glazed wrapper with illustrations of wood as a background, front wrapper illustrations of old fashioned kitchen; two staple binding; teal and black illustrations to text; owner's name and address to back wrapper in pen; very good. Published by the Lutheran Brotherhood, Life and Health Insurance for Lutherans.
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Christmas in Song, A Treasury of Traditional Songs, Favorite Hymns, and Choice Carols, from All Ages and from Many Lands, Selected for Your Singing Christmas, Compiled and Arranged for Mixed Voices (S.A.T.B.) Unisonal Singing by Theo. Preuss, Price 35 cents
by PREUSS, Theo
Chicago: Rubank, Inc, 1947. Wraps. Near fine. [EPHEMERA] [HOLIDAY: CHRISTMAS]. 8vo (8 ¾" x 5 ¾"); 80pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front and rear wrapper; 3 staple binding; ownership in neat ink on title page; songs and musical scores printed in green; light shelf wear, two creases on rear wrapper, binding tight; near fine. A collection of 108 traditional Christmas songs, both secular and religious.
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The Angora Twinnies, A Child's Story
by [PRICE, Margaret Evans]
Rochester, N.Y.: The Stecher Lithograph Co, 1915. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Very good. Margaret Evans PRICE. First edition, later edition issued as a shape book. Folio (13 ¾" x 7 ½"); 12pp; color illustrated stiff wrappers with 3 staple binding; full color illustrations and in blue ink; split in binding: 1" to head and 4" to tail through the bottom staple, bumping to cover corners with loss, light soiling to bottom wrapper; very good minus. Charmng tall paper... Read More
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Smokiana
by PRITCHETT, R.T. [Robert Taylor]
[London]: Bernard Quaritch, 1890. First Edition. Quarter-bound leather. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 101, [1]pp; quarter-bound pebbled leather and brown textured cloth, gilt-stamped spine and front board; top edge gilt; ownership in pencil and address sticker to ffep; 47 full-page color lithographed illustrations facing a page of text, some illustrations in color; light damp staining to top edge ffep, corners bumped with loss, rubbing of spine and boards, closed tear to tail of spine, light age-toning of paper;... Read More
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Šotci Krále Holce
by PROCHÁZKA, Fr. S. [František Serafínský]
Praze [Prague]: Nakladatelstvi J. Otty, 1906. Viktor OLIVA. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [CZECH LANGUAGE]. V. [Viktor] OLIVA, illustrator. 4to; 79pp; taupe colored cloth over board, gilt-stamped decorative lettering on front and spine, 3 red gnome-style figures on front, publisher's name blind stamped on rear; title page printed in red and black; rubricated drop caps, decorative red titling; onlaid illustrations in blue and red halftone, many with tissue guards; some delamination or bubbling of the cloth from the front board, small cut... Read More
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Middlesex Railroad Rules
by PROCTOR, J. B. [Capt. John Ball]
No place [Boston]: No publisher listed, 1864. Not bound. Very good. Broadside. 7 ¾" x 10 ¼"; pale yellow card stock with black printing; light creasing to corners, light soiling to front surface; very good. Broadside was issued by Capt. Proctor (1824-1910, Worcester County, Massachusetts) while Superintendent of the Middlesex Street Railroad Co. located in Boston. He was elected Superintendent of the RR company in 1858. He was appointed as a commissioner to examine the Union Pacific Railroad... Read More
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