Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories
by SINGER, Isaac Bashevis
[New York]: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1966. Maurice SENDAK. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. Maurice SENDAK, illustrator. Translated from the Yiddish by the Author and Elizabeth Shub. Later printing. 8vo; [1-4], 5-90pp; white cloth over board, blind-stamped gilt decoration to front, gilt lettering on spine; brown-stained upper edge; brown endpapers; 17 b&w illustrated plates; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with a price of $10.00, light chipping to upper edge, short closed tear to front upper edge, closed tear with old tape... Read More
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The Second Barrel
by SLOANE, Eric
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1969. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Eric SLOANE. [HISTORY]. Eric SLOANE, illustrator. First edition. Small 4to; 104pp; brown cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; pictorial title page; b&w line illustrations throughout; light white spotting on boards; unclipped pictorial dust jacket, small dark stain on front and rear panels; near fine in vg dj. Eric Sloane's (1905-1985) follow-up book to Cracker Barrel. Both are short chapters of Americana, quirks of historical minutia, and the... Read More
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Diary of an Early American Boy, Noah Black 1805
by SLOANE, Eric
New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc, 1962. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Eric SLOANE. [HISTORY]. SLOANE, illustrator. First edition. Small 4to; 108pp; tan buckram over board, line illustration of a school bag on front, lettering on spine in brown; manila colored stock, sepia print; line illustrations throughout; clipped pictorial dust jacket, a photographic pictorial of the artist in his studio on the rear panel; fine in near fine dj. With the discovery of a young boy's diary from 1805, Eric... Read More
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Green-Wood Illustrated. In Highly Finished Line Engraving, From Drawings Taken on the Spot. With Descriptive notices by Nehemiah Cleaveland. Bound with: Mount Auburn. Illustrated in a Series of Views from drawings by James Smilie. Letter Press Description by Cornelia W. Walter
by SMILLIE, James; Nehemia CLEAVELAND
New York: R. Martin, 170 Broadway & 66 Beekman St, 1851. [TRAVEL] [CEMETERY]. 4to; viii, 93pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; and 119pp + 22 engraved plates with tissue guards including map and facing half-title; decorated red Morocco rebacked, 5 raised bands on spine, gilt-stamped vignette on front and rear; all edges gilt; modern endpapers with owners signature on ffep; engraved map of Green-Wood and Auburn cemeteries; heavy bumping of corners with... Read More
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Walks and Talks in Numberland
by SMITH, David Eugene; Eva May LUSE; and Edward Longworth MORSS
Boston: Ginn and Company, 1929. Cornelia J. HOFF. [JUVENILE] [SCHOOL BOOK] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Cornelia J. HOFF, illustrations. 12mo; 182pp; pictorial orange marbled cloth over board, front illustration stamped in black shows two children atop a wall and a third child opening a gate made of numbers; lettering on front and spine; orange pictorial eps featuring children walking to a castle; color vignette of children and a tree filled with numbers on title page; color illustrations throughout with... Read More
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Travels with a Collie
by SMITH, Doris Sawyer
San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1967. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [ILLUSTRATED]. 8vo; ix, [ix], 109pp; black cloth over board, white stamped pictorial of a dog sitting by traffic signs on front, lettering on spine; 8pp b&w photographic illustrations precede the first page of text; clipped blue pictorial dust jacket, author portrait on rear, light hand soiling and rubbing to edges; fine in very good plus dj. The story of the author's travels from the Southwest to the East Coast... Read More
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When Grandma was a Little Girl
by SMITH, Ingrid
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Mela KOEHLER-BROMAN. [JUVENILE] [VERSE] [ILLUSTRATED] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Mela KOEHLER-BROMAN, illustrator. Printed in Sweden. 4to; [20]pp; color pictorial boards on a tan background, illustration of a little girl doing laundry with a scrub board on the front and rear, lettering in black, red cloth shelf back; title page after front pastedown; 9 full page color half-tone pictorials with text on the opposite page; light age-toning; unclipped color dust jacket with a... Read More
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Dickens's Children. Ten Drawings by Jessie Willcox Smith
by SMITH, Jessie Willcox
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. First Edition. Cloth. Very good +. Jessie Willcox SMITH. First edition. 8vo; [46pp]; dark green ribbed cloth over board with gilt stamped wreath, title and author to front board, color illustrated onlay to wreath center; age toning to endpapers; 10 color illustrations on heavy glazed stock, printed recto only; lightly scattered foxing to half-title and fly leaves; illustrations bright and unmarked; light shelf scuffing to cover corners, head and tail of spine;... Read More
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The Singing Twins, The Child's Book of Famous Musicians
by SMITH, Laura Rountree
Chicago: Just Right Books" Publishers, Albert Whitman Company, 1924. Cloth. Fine. Violet Moore HIGGINS. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Violet Moore HIGGINS, illustrator. 12mo; 126, [1]pp; green buckram over board, color pictorial onlay to front board picturing two children singing from musical scores; pictorial endpapers in sepia tones, ownership in neat pen on ffep; illustrated half-title, fp, vignette of two children holding music on title page, pictorial copyright page; 12 full-page color illustrations including fp, small illustrations... Read More
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Our First Book, Learning to Read, Our Basic Reading Program
by SMITH, Nila Banton
Sacramento: California State Department of Education, 1946. Wraps. Very good +. Gertrude Herrick HOWE. 8vo; 48pp [1]; color printed wrapper with title and illustration of children playing on front, title and publisher to back cover, mint cloth spine; 26 full page color illustrations; inside front wrapper sets out books purpose, 3 pages following illustrations with instructions for teacher; age toning of wrapper and pages, one page with corner turned down, Whittier City School stamp to front cover; very... Read More
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Causes and Effects of Impure Water with Hints as to Their Prevention and Cure
by SMITH, W. Frank
Brooklyn, E.D. [Election District]: Daily Star Steam Presses, 55 Greenpoint Ave, 1881. Ephemera no binding. Very good +. [ADVERTISING] [TECHNOLOGY] [MEDICAL] [HEALTH]. 12mo (7 3/16" x 4 9/16"); 12pp; printed blue wrapper, vignette of water pump on front and rear; purple advertiser's stamp on front; publisher's string binding; 2 illustrations advertising the Water Elevator and Purifier same as on rear wrapper; light hand-soiling and light stain to front wrapper, light creasing at lower corner; very good plus. No... Read More
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The Inner Harbor, More Maine Coast
by SNOW, [Charles] Wilbert
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Very good +. First edition. 12mo; 109pp; green buckram quarter bound, green paper over boards, label to spine; untrimmed fore edge; light foxing to top and fore-edge; very good plus. Wilbert Snow was an interesting man, a Mainer born in Whitehead Island, a lobsterman, a teacher, a Bowdoin College graduate, an educator, a poet and governor of Connecticut for 13 days. He returned to Maine after an... Read More
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Sailing Down Boston Bay
by SNOW, Edward Rowe
Boston, Massachusetts: The Yankee Publishing Company, 1941. Wraps. Very good. Edith STEVENS. [MAP]. SNOW, Edward Rowe, Aerial and Island Survey. U.S. Coast and Geological Survey, Chart 246. The Islands of Boston Harbor, 1935. Drawing by Whitman and Howard, Engineers, Edith STEVENS, illustrator. 8vo; 57pp [1]; photographic illustrated wrap with cloth spine; illustrated with black and white photographs; one tipped in fold out map printed in green ink, crease to right side, light age toning of paper;... Read More
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Famous New England Lighthouses
by SNOW, Edward Rowe
Boston: The Yankee Publishing Company, 1945. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 457, [1]pp; navy cloth over board, blind stamped borders, gilt title to front and spine; pictorial endpapers of a lighthouse and sailboat in a storm; 2 gift inscriptions to ffep; color frontispiece; illustrated plates both in color and b&w; 10 ¼" x 17" folded laid-in illustration in navy and green "United States Coast Guard Boston District", from a painting by Larry O'Toole; scuffing to... Read More
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Hand Knits by Beehive for Boys and Girls, Sizes 2 to 6, Book No. 126, Second Edition
by [ROYAL SOCIETY]
New York: Patons & Baldwins, Inc, 1943. Staplebound. Near fine. 4to; 47pp; b&w pictorial glazed stiff wrapper, 2 staple binding; 19 patterns with instructions and pictorial illustrations; yarn shop stamp in red to front wrapper, center leaf has let go of bottom staple but attached at top; near fine. This volume not in a WorldCat library. Black and white photographic illustrations of children modeling knit fashions popular during WWII, and still in fashion today. Styles have charming names,... Read More
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Hand Crochet by Royal Society, Chair Sets, Runners, Book No. 5
by ROYAL SOCIETY
New York: Royal Society, Inc, 1945. Staplebound. Good +. 4to; 35pp; b&w glazed pictorial wrapper, 2 staple binding; 28 patterns for home décor with instructions and photographic illustrations; light damp staining to bottom corner through all layers, some light creasing, ownership in light pen to front, scuffing to wrapper rear and spine; good plus. In 3 WorldCat libraries. Interesting look at home décor in the 1940s, with complete instructions for crochet accessories.
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The Flavor of Cushing, A Cookbook of Favorite Recipes
by CUSHING HISTORICAL SOCIETY
[Rockland, Maine]: Cushing Historical Society, Courier-Gazette, Inc, 1986. Comb-style plastic wraps. Very good +. 8vo; 255pp; light gray glazed stiff wrapper decorated with a compass rose featuring food on the quadrants; black plastic comb-style binding; chapter divisions on stiff yellow stock; a few illustrations in b&w; recto rear wrapper a map of the Town of Cushing with Historical Place Names; small crease to front upper wrapper, light shelf wear; very good plus. Interesting recipes from a small town... Read More
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Bermuda's Best Recipes, Fourth Edition, 700 Texted and Specially Recommended Recipes
by WARWICK BRANCH of the BERMUDA WELFARE SOCIETY
[Warwick, Bermuda]: Warwick Branch, Bermuda Welfare Society, 1947. Wraps. Near fine. [HOME ARTS]. Wrapper title: Bermuda's Best Recipes, a compilation of tested and especially recommended recipes Fourth edition. Small 4to; 199, [1], I-XXIXpp, textured cream-colored wrapper, black lettering and vignette of house with palm trees on front; ad for Esso Standard Oil on verso front wrapper; index of recipes at rear preceding the 29pp of local advertisements; age-toned wrapper, interior clean and tight; near fine. The book... Read More
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Scarbrough's Co-ed Paper Doll with fashions for campus occasions..
by [E.M. SCARBROUGH & SONS]
Austin 1, Texas: E.M. Scarbrough & Sons, 1950. Wraps. Very good. [EPHEMERA] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [PAPER DOLLS]. 4to (10 ¾" x 7 11/16"); 4 leaves; stiff pictorial wrapper printed in black, rear wrapper a mailer with U.S. Postage Paid from Austin, Texas; 2 staple binding; 4 leaves and recto rear wrapper printed with paper dolls and advertising text; uncut paper dolls; light insect damage to edges, sunning to rear wrapper head; very good. Not found in OCLC. Unused advertising... Read More
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Vick's Floral Guide 1897
by JAMES VICK'S SONS
Rochester, N.Y.: James Vick's Sons, 1896. Wraps. Very good +. [HORTICULTURE / GARDENING] [SALES CATALOG]. Small 4to (10" x 7 7/8"); xxx [ii], 37-112pp, numbering of pages is not continuous although none are missing and collation agrees with those in OCLC institutions; color pictorial stiff wrapper, front printed with a wreath of flowers around the title lettering, rear wrapper color pictorial of blackberries in pint containers with a Cornell University testimonial; 3 b&w glazed plates printed recto &... Read More
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Many Thoughts of Many Minds. Selections from the Writings of the Most Celebrated Authors from the Earliest to the Present Time, First Series, Thirty-fifth Edition
by SOUTHGATE, Henry, editor
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1890. 35th Edition. Full leather. Very good +/near fine. [FORE-EDGE PAINTING] [BINDING]. Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh, printer. D. [David] Weinstein, binder. 8vo; 682pp; red pebbled leather blind-stamped boards, gilt-stamped title to 4 raised band spine; tri-color headbands; gilt edges; double vertical fore-edge painting; gilt-stamped dentelles; marbled endpapers; ffep verso has gift inscription dated 1892; light scuffing to joints and shelf soiling of boards, a few finger smudges to front fly-leaf; small closed tear... Read More
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An Attic Philosopher in Paris, or A Peep at the World from a Garret. Being the Journal of a Happy Man
by SOUVESTRE, Emile
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1854. Half Bound Leather. Very good. 12mo; 144pp; half-bound in brown calf with green marbled boards, gilt title to spine; sprinkled edges; lovely double-comb marbled endpapers; a light shelf wear to cover, verso of free endpapers are dark stained from the marbling process with some offsetting to the fly papers; light diffuse foxing; very good. No WorldCat holdings for this year or publisher. Translated from the French; first published in 1851. A... Read More
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The Life of George Washington
by SPARKS, Jared
Boston: Ferdinand Andrews, 1839. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good +. [HISTORY] [BIOGRAPHY]. Cambridge: Stereotyped and Printed by Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Printers to the University. First edition. 4to; xix [iii], [1] 2-562pp; full leather, 4 bands on spine with gilt-stamped lettering; marbled endpapers; copper-plate engraved frontispiece with tissue guards and 13 additional plates; cracking at joints without separation, light shelf-wear, clean and bright interior; very good plus. Jared Sparks (1789-1866) was an American historian and author... Read More
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The Camden Directory 1894-5, Containing a General Directory of the Citizens, Business and Streets, and Other Useful Information
by SPARROW, A.B.
Shirley Village, Mass: A.B. Sparrow, Compiler and Publisher, 1894. 1/4 cloth. Good. 8vo; 142pp; quarter bound black cloth, illustrated advertising paper over board; photographic illustrations as advertisements to pink endpapers, lacking rear free endpaper; short history of the town of Camden, followed by alphabetical listing of merchant's and other businesses with illustrations and photographic reproductions, also inserted ads on color stock; the last 55pp comprise a directory for the town of Rockport, Maine; general wear and soiling, chipping... Read More
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The Art of Cooking and Serving
by SPLINT, Sarah Field
Cincinnati, Ohio: Procter & Gamble, 1934. Wraps. Near fine. 12mo; 252pp; color illustrated wrapper, with title and "With 549 Tested Crisco Recipes" on front; illustrated with color and black and white photographs; light bumping to cover corners, age toning to back cover; near fine. Includes sample menus, cooking tips and table settings. Also published in hardback.
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