Health and the Rules of the Game, Wholesome Living Series
by WILLIAMS, M.D., Jesse Feiring and Theresa DANSDILL
Chicago: Benj. H. Sanborn & Co, 1936. Cloth. Near fine. [SCHOOL BOOK]. 12mo; viii, 136pp; blue buckram over board, lettering in black, vignette of two children playing with a ball on the front board; blue silhouette endpapers, gift inscription dated 1954 on front pastedown, shadow from label removal on front pd; color illustrations throughout; light wear to corners; near fine. A small book for teaching health and socialization to elementary age children. The lessons are told in story... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXII, No. 5, October 1937
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1937. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-D), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Camel cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, tape repair to verso front wrapper, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and Popular... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XX, No. 3, August 1936
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1936. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-D), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Camel cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction and True Tales, and Sic Popular Departments. See the Table... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 2, July 1938
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1938. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and Popular Departments. See the Table of Contents... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXIII, No. 1, December 1937
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1937. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-H), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and Popular Departments. See the Table of... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XX, No. 4, September 1936
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 1936. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-D), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction and True Tales, and Six Popular Departments. See the Table of... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXI, No. 5, April 1937
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1937. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-D), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and Popular Departments. See the Table of... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XIX, No. 5, April 1936
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1936. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-H), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction and True Tales, and Six Popular Departments. See the... Read More
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Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXI, No. 1, December 1936
by William T. Dewart, President
New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1936. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); (A-H), 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Luckies cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, small tape repair on verso front wrapper, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and... Read More
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: A New Directions Book, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good +. LUSTIG [Elaine Lustig Cohen]. [Elaine LUSTIG Cohen], dust jacket design. First edition. 8vo; 148pp; black cloth over board, yellow design to front, title on spine; unclipped color printed dust jacket; bumping to front bottom corner, light rubbing to corners, light shelf-wear to dj; near fine in very good plus dj.
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A Business Directory of the Subscribers to the New Map of Maine, with a Brief History and Description of the State, also, Valuable Statistics and Advertisements
by WILLIS, William
Portland [Maine]: J. Chace, Jr. & Co, 1862. Boards. Good +. 8vo; 344pp; blind-stamped brown cloth over board; title to spine; 5pp ads on pink paper to front and 5pp to rear including endpapers, 77pp ads following the directory; wear to cover, corners bumped with loss, light soiling; good plus. Interesting and informative directory for Maine for subscribing business. Includes business listings with owners, political makeup of the counties and towns; statistics; commerce, finance, and history of the... Read More
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A History of The Law, The Courts, and The Lawyers of Maine, from its First Colonization to the Early Part of the Present Century
by WILLIS, William
Portland [Maine]: Bailey & Noyes, 1863. First Edition. Cloth. Good +. First edition. 8vo; 712pp; brown textured cloth over board, gilt stamped spine; embossed stamp on title page for Worcester Law Library, numbered stamp to bottom of dedication page; 19 chalk-style lithographic portrait plates with facsimile signatures and tissue guards, the final one not listed in the Portrait contents but added later in pencil; board edges and corners scraped with loss, front and back hinges cracked but holding,... Read More
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Indian Antiquities of the Kennebec Valley, Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology, Number One
by WILLOUGHBY, Charles Clark
Augusta, Maine: The Maine Historic Preservation Commission and The Maine State Museum, 1980. Faux Leather. Very good. 4to; [16], 130, [10]; faux-leather over board; pictorial marbled end papers with facsimile book plates of the Willoughby's; owner's stamp to recto frontispiece; portrait frontispiece; facsimile of author's hand- written 1892 pages and watercolor illustrations; light foxing to page tops, lightly cocked forward, lacking its dust jacket; very good.
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Don't Waste What Others Want. American Junior Red Cross
by WILSON, Dagmar, illustrator
New York: The American National Red Cross, 1948. Dagmar WILSON. [EPHEMERA] [POSTER] [JUVENILE] [HEALTH] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Lower left corner imprint: LIP & BA Label. Lower right corner: Poster 605 (6-48). 22 3/8" x 14 3/8"; light creasing to bottom right corner; near fine. A bold, graphic poster by the American National Red Cross for the American Junior Red Cross illustrates the progressive destruction of a pastoral landscape by factories. The illustrator, Dagmar Searchinger Wilson (1911-2011) was an American anti-nuclear,... Read More
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Dinner [Menu] for the Visiting Governors of Several States attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
by WILSON, S. David
Philadelphia: E. A. Wright Co, 1936. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 10" x 7 ¾"; [12pp]; die-cut, stiff copper-colored embossed front cover menu in the shape of the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia, yellow and blue twist silk cord and tassel to top fold; all pages printed one side except one; gilt-embossed seal of the city of Philadelphia to first page; light crease to bell hammer else fine. S. David Wilson was the Mayor of Philadelphia at the... Read More
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Polly Parrot
by WINCHELL, Dorothy
Chicago: Junior Press Books, Albert Whitman & Co, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Nell Stolp SMOCK. First edition. 8vo; 32pp; pale-green cloth over board, bright color pictorial paste-on with a parrot to front board; color pictorial endpapers; both color and b&w lithographed illustrations every page with verse; sunning to spine, foxing to front board; very good. Children's story about a pet parrot that escapes her cage and needs to take a bath after her misadventures.
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The Rover Boys on the Farm or the Last Days at Putnam Hall, Illustrated
by WINFIELD, Arthur M. [Edward STRATEMEYER]
New York: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, 1908. Cloth. Very good. NUTTALL. Later printing, between 1909-1916. Series book #12, The Rover Boys' Series for Young Americans. 8vo, vi, 235pp + [4]pp publisher's ads; green cloth over board, white title and author, three portraits of the boys in circles with red backgrounds, four glazed plates including fp; light over all wear with some fingerprints; very good minus. AXE 19. $25.00. One title in the boys' series of books... Read More
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Rover Boys in New York, or Saving Their Father's Honor, Illustrated
by WINFIELD, Arthur M. [Edward STRATEMEYER]
New York: Grosset and Dunlap Publishers, 1913. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. NUTTALL. First edition. Series book #17, The Rover Boys' Series for Young Americans. 12mo; vi, 300 + [12]pp publisher's ads; green cloth over board, white title and author, three portraits of the boys in circles with red backgrounds, four glazed plates including fp; light over all wear with some fingerprints; very good minus. AXE 19. One title in the boys' series of books by the prolific... Read More
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Col. Ellsworth's Funeral March. Composed & Respectfully Dedicated to Francis E Brownell, Esq
by WINNER, Sep. [Septimus]
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 722 Chestnut St, 1861. Ephemera no binding. Very good. [SHEET MUSIC] [CIVIL WAR] [HISTORY]. Folio (13 ¼" x 10 ¼"); 5pp; pictorial chromolithograph of Col. Ellsworth standing on a flag to front wrapper, sewn binding; title page then numbered pages 3-5 printed with musical score for piano with words; light offsetting of ink, scattered foxing on wrapper; very good minus. OCLC lists 19 library holdings, 6 international, although it is not clear if all... Read More
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Complete Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master, Containing a Full List of Calls for All the Latest Square Dances, Including Many of the Old Ones, with Measures of Time and Steps Required. Also a Complete Instructor and Guide to Every Known Round Dance, Figures for the German, Etiquette of the Ballroom, Etc.; Cover title: Modern Quadrille Call Book and Dancing Master
by WIRTH, Prof. A.C.
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co., Publishers, 1902. Wraps. Very good +. [DANCE]. First edition. 12mo; 148 + [10] advertising; color pictorial stiff wrapper printed in red and black, rear wrapper a pictorial advertisement for The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway with a vignette of children sitting on a donkey; title and price of 25¢ on spine; railway ad to verso front and recto rear wrappers; small tear to foot of spine, light hand soiling to wrappers;... Read More
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New England Fireside Monthly, A Strictly First-Class Journal for the Home, Vol. 1, No. 10
by WISWALL, A., editor and W.W. LeSEUR, "General Manager of All Departments
Boston: New England Fireside, 521 Washington Street, 1886. [EPHEMERA] [PERIODICAL]. 4to (12 ¼"x 9 ½"); [I], II-IV, [1] 2-36, V-VIII; tan wrapper, a decorative border and small vignettes printed on the front, rear wrapper is page VIII; seven Roman numbered pages of advertisements; light soiling of wrapper, light diffuse foxing; very good. Not found in OCLC. A regional periodical from New England featuring advertisements, stories, articles on travel, poetry, cartoons, illustrations, embroidery designs with illustrations, a musical composition titled... Read More
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Short'nin' Bread; For Three-Part Chorus of Women's Voices with Piano Accompaniment
by WOLFE, Jacques
New York: Harold Flemmer Inc, 1933. Ephemera no binding. Fine. 10 3/8" x 6 7/8"; 10pp; pictorial front wrapper; fine.
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Over the Range to the Golden Gate. A Complete Tourist's Guide to Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Puget Sound and the Great North-West
by WOOD, Stanley
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., Publishers, 1899. Cloth. Very good. [AMERICAN WEST] [RAILROADS]. 8vo; 283pp; olive cloth over board, gilt-stamped title, pictorial vignettes of the Rocky Mountains, a stream and a Native American head stamped in black on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; two ownership signatures on eps; fp; bookseller's stamp "Barkalow Bros., Union Depot. Denver Colo." on title page; illustrated throughout with lithographs from engravings; wear to boards with loss at corners, lightly age toned paper;... Read More
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Woodward's Country Homes
by WOODWARD, Geo. E. & F. W.
New York: Geo. E. & F. W. Woodward No. 37 Park Row, 1866. Fifth Edition. Cloth. Very good. Fifth edition. 12mo; 166pp, followed by 2pp publisher's advertising; pebbled cloth over board with gilt title on spine; fraying to head and tail of spine, bumping to corners, light soiling on pages; very good. 31 designs plus a chapter on Balloon Framing.
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A Comprehensive Spelling-Book on the Plan of the Pronouncing Spelling-Book
by WORCESTER, J.E. [Joseph Emerson]
Boston: Brewer & Tileston, 1864. Boards. Very good. [SCHOOL BOOK: SPELLING]. Cover title: Worcester's Comprehensive Spelling-Book First edition. 12mo (7" x 4 5/8"); 156pp; mint green board, title, publisher on front with a vignette of children and a teacher in a school room in an oval frame surrounded by flowers on the front, rear board is publisher's ad for "New Series Hillard's Readers;" black cloth shelf-back; ownership in pencil on ffep; text tight; wear to boards, chipping to... Read More
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