Jamestown Cook Book. Tried Recipes compiled by Members of the Ladies' Aid Society of Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA
by The Ladies' Aid Society of Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk, VA
Norfolk: Burke & Gregory, Printers, 1907. hardcover. Good. Hardcover, grey cloth boards with black lettering & decoration to front boards, floral endpapers, frontispiece of church, full-page ads throughout, 194 pp. Contributors' names noted by each recipe. Both hinges exposed, general wear to covers, some toning to pages. Previous owner has marked some interesting pickle recipes: Mustard Pickle, Cream Chow-Chow,and Seven-Year-Old Pickle in Two Days. Perhaps most interesting is that this cookbook has a recipe for Lollypop. "According to... Read More
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Tested Recipes [Cookbook]
by The Ladies of the First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma: The Ladies of the First Lutheran Church, Tacoma, Washington, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. Stiff card covers bound by three rings, leaves are a card stock weight, 8vo, 136 pp. Display advertisements throughout and inside both covers (one of which is for the new 1929 Zenith Washer, which is the only indication of an exact year.) However, there is one recipe for Hoover Pineapple Dressing, which only uses pineapple juice instead of the fruit. This would make me... Read More
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An Oxford Odyssey
by Theobald, John
Janus Press, 1955. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Van Vliet, Claire. Signed by Author(s). Stapled wraps, 8vo, 45 pp. Blue-grey wrappers with black lettering on front cover, illustrated by Claire Van Vliet with three woodcuts, and an additional Janus Press logo at colophon. Toning to wraps at spine and a little at edges, 2.5" diagonal crease to corner of rear cover and last page. This rather unassuming chapbook is the first to come from the Janus Press, one of... Read More
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Reliable Recipes Compiled by The Rector's Guild of St. John's Church, St. Paul, Minnesota
by The Rector's Guild of St. John's Church, St. Paul, Minn
St. Paul: Griggs, Cooper & Company, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover, white oilcloth boards with blue & black lettering and decoration, 7.75" x 5.5", 191 pp. including index, two ads precede text block, and are on the verso of blank pages for your own recipes. Recipes are not signed by contributors, although there is a list of the women who collected and contributed the recipes at front. One handwritten recipe, and a few markings to text. Good... Read More
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The Twig Cook Book
by The Twigs, a group of organizations working for the benefit of The Ohio Valley General Hospital
Wheeling, West Virginia: The Ohio Valley General Hospital, 1921?. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange oilcloth boards with blue lettering & decoration to front cover, 9.25: x 6", ads as front & end matter, thumb-indexed, contributors' names by each recipe, 196 pp. Rear cover has paper pieces stuck to it from the oilcloth, else a nice copy. Gift inscription from what appears to be 1921 on front endpaper. Could be 1911, but that seems too early for the woman's outfit... Read More
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Cookery Craft
by The Women of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Grants Pass, Oregon
Grants Pass, OR: The Women of Bethany Presbyterian Church, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Oilcloth over card covers, black lettering on front cover, 8-5/8" x 6", 184 pp., ad copy at header and footer to most pages, some larger display ads, contributor's names to most recipes. Rubbing and soiling to covers, wear and some fraying to oilcloth at edges, pages with some use but generally clean, solid binding. Good condition. Although most recipes are from residents of Grants Pass, other contributors from... Read More
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The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner, three and twenty years in captivity among the Moors
by Thomas Pellow, Robert Brown (Editor)
T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, 379 pp., plate illustrations including some folding. Rebound in 20th century buckram binding with gilt lettering to spine, else a very nice & clean copy.
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Let's Sing, Songs for Little Children
by Thompson, Burnette
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ingerman, Stryker. Pictorial coral cloth, oblong 4to, 48 pages, illustrated throughout by Stryker Ingerman; boards show light wear, title page slightly toned, otherwise a well kept copy. A delightfully illustrated vintage song book.
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Logging Railroads in Skagit County: The First Comprehensive History of the Logging Railroads in Skagit County, Washington, USA
by Thompson, Dennis Blake
Northwest Short Line, 1989. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8x1x11. Still in original shrink wrap. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.
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Minor Poets: Criticisms Newly Discovered and Collected
by Thompson, Francis; Connolly, Terence L. (ed.) [Crowley, Aleister]
Los Angeles: Anderson & Ritchie, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Full brown cloth boards with gilt lettering, 10-1/2" x 8", 82 pp., hand set by Caroline Anderson, presswork by Earl F. Myers. Hammer and Anvil watermark on endpapers leads one to assume this is one of the 40 copies on Hammer and Anvil (there were an additional 160 copies on Whitehead and Alliger paper). Very minor scuffs. Contains a criticism of Crowley's "Soul of Osiris.
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The Miracle Makers: Some Boulevards to Enchantment
by Thompson, J.G., Jr
Oakland, California: Magic Limited - Lloyd E. Jones, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt under red dust jacket, illustrated with photos showing trick maneuvers, 306 pp. Minor fading to jacket spine panel, light wear to jacket; tan stain to bottom of rear endpaper and rear flap. First edition. Very good in very good jacket. J.G. Thompson, Jr. (1910-1975) collected the best effects from most of the leading practicing magicians of the... Read More
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Eloise: A Book for Precocious Grown Ups
by Thompson, Kay; Knight, Hilary (illus)
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1969-04-30. hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8x0x11. Knight, Hilary. Signed. White illustrated boards under illustrated jacket priced at $4.95. Book itself quite nice, DJ has chip to head of spine (no lettering loss), light wear. Not dated, but DJ price and the SBN (no "I") on the copyright page puts this at late 1960s to very early 1970s. Signed (name only) by Kay Thompson on front endpaper. Just one of the best... Read More
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Memoria Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory, etc. etc
by [Thomson, Charles] Grey, Richard
London: John Stagg, 1737. Hardcover. Fair. Full contemporary calf binding with five raised bands on spine, gilt border to boards, title page printed in red & blank ink. Third edition. With the ownership signature of Charles Thomson, who was Secretary of the Continental Congress. Previous owner has written in pencil that it was from his library, and there is an old newspaper clipping about collectible signatures laid in. Old ink price of 8/6 to front endpaper. Spine ends chipped, front hinge... Read More
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Our Life of Magic [Includes "My Life of Magic"]
by Thurston, Howard; Shepard, Jane Thurston; Olson, Robert E.; Temple, Phil
Phil Temple Publication, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering under illustrated dust jacket; small reproduction of an original Thurston poster laid in as issued. Fine in fine jacket. This is partially a reprint of Howard Thurston’s scarce 1929 memoir My Life of Magic, but also includes a previously unpublished manuscript by his daughter Jane Thurston Shepard, as well as a “scrapbook†(articles, photos, etc.) contributed by Olson & Temple. Howard Thurston (1869-1936) was the most... Read More
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Glory's Net
by Tilden, William T. 2nd
Doubleday Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with white lettering under illustrated dust jacket. White stain to edge of front board & larger triangle to rear board, else very good condition. Dust jacket has rubbing & green stain from cloth on reverse, but presents well. Tilden was one of the greatest tennis players of all time--largely forgotten now because he was jailed for having sex with boys. This is "a tennis romance with all the... Read More
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The Ship that Sailed to Mars: A Fantasy.
by Timlin, William M
A true one-hit wonder, this was Timlin's masterpiece of illustration, lettering and fantastic literature.> Vellum spine over grey paper-covered boards under grey dust jacket. All plates present. Very good condition in front and rear panels of original jacket. The spine of the jacket was replaced and hand re-lettered/re-drawn by previous owner, hole in rear panel filled. Original flaps present, wear & tear at folds. >
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Anatole
by Titus, Eve
New York: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill, 1956. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Galdone, Paul. Blue cloth boards with black lettering on spine & drawing of Anatole on front cover; 4to; 32 pp. Clean and solid book with some toning to edges of boards; dust jacket has noticeable edgewear, one piece of tape to front cover, chip to top of rear panel and three chips to edge of spine panel; price-clipped. First edition (no additional printings listed) of this... Read More
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The Mad Women of Magliano: An Imaginary Journal
by Tobino, Mario; Colquhoun, Archibald (trans)
London: Derek Verschoyle, 1954. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. Burgundy boards with gilt spine lettering under illustrated jacket. DJ is price-clipped to front flap, short closed tear to front panel, and small chip to rear; but quite nice and a striking image. Previous owner has written name, date, and place in a very small & neat hand to inner margin of title page. Minor foxing to page edges. Tobino worked in a mental institution for 40 years.
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Until Now (The Fortune Poets, No. 15)
by Todd, Ruthven
London: The Fortune Press, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Undated, but either 1942 or 1943. Full black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 7-5/8" tall, 52 pp., printed at Sevenoaks by Knole Park Press Ltd. White discoloration to part of bottom edge of boards, dust jacket has toning to spine and toward edges, 1" closed tear to front panel, original price of 6s. intact. Early book of poetry from Todd, who was a poet, alcoholic, and mystery novelist... Read More
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Footprints in the Snow
by Tokutomi, Kenjiro; Strong, Kenneth (trans)
Pegasus, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth boards with silver lettering to spine under white illustrated dust jacket. DJ price-clipped, removing some of the text of front flap. Previous owner has written name, date, and place in a very small & neat hand to inner margin of title page.
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Francisci Toleti S.R.E. Cardinalis, Institutionis Sacerdotum Libri Septem. Cum Tractatu de Septem peccatis Capitalibus, & Bullae Coenae Domini dilucida expositione, etc
by Toledo, Francisco, cardinal [Francisci Toleti]
Venice (Venetiis): Apud Hieronymum Polum, 1600. Soft cover. Good. Full contemporary vellum binding, remnants of paper label to spine, 7-7/8" x 6", (96), 662 pp., double column text, title page printed in red & black with woodcut vignette. Very good condition except for 1" x 0.5" chip to spine at central cord. Ownership inscription "ex libris Chrostophori Rechlinger Augustani" dated 1601, with a Latin quotation from Cicero (piety is the foundation of all virtues.) Francisco de Toledo (1532-1596)... Read More
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Harlem Gallery: Book I, The Curator
by Tolson, Melvin B.; Shapiro, Karl (intro.)
Twayne Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Inscribed by M.B. Tolson on front endpaper to Reginald and Dolores Wilson. Hardcover, full grey cloth boards with black lettering, green and orange dust jacket, 8-1/4" tall, 173 pp. Some rubbing and fading to DJ, but generally a very nice copy. Tolson was a disciple of the Harlem Renaissance movement; Reginald Wilson was a civil rights activist for most of his life, from his time as a Tuskegee Airman to founding the first... Read More
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The Broken Commandment (UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series | The Japan Foundation Translation Series)
by Toson, Shimazaki; Strong, Kenneth (trans)
University of Tokyo Press, 1974. First Edition. hardcover. Near fine. 0x0x0. Black, white, and yellow pictorial boards under matching dust jacket priced 2800 yen. Previous owner has written name, date, and place in a very small & neat hand to inner margin of title page, else a fine copy; DJ has minor toning to spine panel.
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Ships Aflame!
by Toussaint-Samat, Jean
J.B. Lippincott, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Full beige cloth with red lettering under illustrated dust jacket priced at $2.00, 8vo, 312 pp. DJ has shallow chipping to top edge with one 1/2"x2" chip along top of rear panel; book itself near fine except for corner of front endpaper clipped (probably removal of PO's name.) First edition, NAP. An adventure novel involving terrorists, the inventor of a new fire extinguisher and the horror of fire at sea.
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The Bartender's Book
by Townsend, Jack; McBride, Tom Moore
Viking Press, 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Full blue cloth with white & black lettering and decoration, 8-1/4" x 5-1/2", 148 pp. Edgewear to boards, light stain to rear board. Gift plate "With best wishes to French's on the opening of Oregon for sale of liquor by the drink." from White Rock Bottle Co. in Portland. Measure 15 (1952) allowed liquor to be sold in Oregon by the drink, ending one of the last effects... Read More
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