Once a month for three months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect mostly novels, but also occasional poetry collections, essays or short stories. Ma... View More...
Once a month for twelve months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect a mix of subjects like history, art, cooking, science, biography & memoir, travel... View More...
Once a month for three months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect a mix of subjects like history, art, cooking, science, biography & memoir, travel,... View More...
Once a month for six months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect a mix of subjects like history, art, cooking, science, biography & memoir, travel, n... View More...
Once a month for twelve months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect a nice combination of fiction, literature and nonfiction. Shipping is included in... View More...
Once a month for three months you will receive one vintage hardcover book, printed between 1800 and 1975. Each book is carefully selected, wrapped and packaged with care. Books are in good to very good condition with varying signs of use and wear associated with old books. Part of the fun is the vintage appeal! All are complete and intact with no major flaws, such as broken bindings, missing pages, unpleasant odors or excessive soiling. Where dust jackets are present, most are covered in protective mylar. Expect a nice combination of fiction, literature and nonfiction. Shipping is included in ... View More...
Small hardcover in red coated pictorial paper, 7 x 4 5/8 inches, 111 pages, illustrated with drawings by John C. Holden. Wear and chipping along edges, tiny adhesion injury on front board, spine faded, gift inscription inked in front endpaper, otherwise internally clean and bright, sound binding. Irreverent, silly and sometimes clever collection of verse and cartoons about all things oceanographic and some things that aren't really. View More...
Oblong, 4to, 191 pages, illustrated with photographs by William Eggleston, Len Jenshel, Mark Lipson, and David Byrne. Covers rubbed and edge worn, remainder mark on bottom edge, internally clean and sound. One of the quirkiest movies of the 1980's was True Stories, featuring music from Byrne's popular band, The Talking Heads. Introduction by David Byrne, and including story boards, screenplay and loads of photos. View More...
64 pages, black and white illustrated plates throughout; orange, blue and black illustrated paper over boards, a bit of wear at edges, previous owner name in front free end paper, dust jacket with some dust smudging and staining, spine lightly faded, now in protective mylar sleeve. View More...
First edition stated, teal cloth with black illustration matching the dust jacket; oblong, 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches, unnumbered pages, black and with illustrations alternating with text, signed by the author and inscribed to previous owner on title page; previous owner's stamp in front endpaper, faint smudges to front cover of dust jacket. Third book in the trilogy featuring Treehorn, a clever, but repeatedly ignored little boy who just wants to be noticed by his parents. View More...
Pictorial boards, 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches, 194,[4] pages, color photographs. Mild bump to head of spine, otherwise clean and bright in sound binding. A very nice copy. View More...
4to in full blue cloth with gilt stamped titles and decoration, 227 pages, 4 full color illustrations by Arthur Rackham along with 16 black and white in text illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Boards show a bit of rubbing at extremities, internally clean and bright with sound binding. A lovely copy. Mr. Gissing, a gentledog of leisure contentedly residing in Canine Estates with Fuji, his butler (a Japanese pug), on an income of 1,000 bones a year, becomes dissatisfied and leaves home to search for where the blue begins (a purpose to life). Who better to illustrate all this weird and whimsical... View More...
Pictorial paper over green cloth, 16mo, [4], 118, 58, [38] pages, end sheets printed with advertisements are included in pagination; boards are worn, particularly to corners, paper is peeling in places revealing paper board underneath, gilt on spine is dulled, pages are clean and unmarked; sewn binding is loose, although in excellent condition for it's original quality and age; no dust jacket. A wonderful curiosity of it's time filled with fun advertisements and 'twelve charades, all in different styles...and...two easy and effective comic parlor operas". circa 1860-70's 0 View More...
Hardcover in pictorial cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 252 pages, profusely illustrated throughout, pictorial endpapers; boards a little rubbed at corners and spine ends, internally clean and sound, dust jacket rubbed and edge worn, two small chips out of top edge, heavy wear along spine edges, dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. In the 1950s when many Americans found themselves with longer vacations and more disposable income, road trips became a regular event for many families. The Ford Treasury of Station Wagon Living helped turn the family car into a va... View More...
