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. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a ... 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. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a b... 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. You will receive a nice mix of picture books, readers, novels & stories, classics and a bit... View More...
Pictorial paper in publisher's pictorial box, 30 pages, 4to, illustrated by Jack O'Hara; a hint of rubbing to boards; name and inscription on front paste down, box is quite edge worn and is now protected in a plastic sleeve. A charming vintage copy of this recipe book for children. Complete with a "Humpty Dumpty Pear Salad" recipe that calls for lettuce, a half a pear, mayonnaise, two red-hots, and a life saver, of all things. Quite a unique look into a 1950's childhood. View More...
Pictorial paper with backed in brown cloth, 12mo, 56 pages, engraved and printed in color by Edmund Evans; boards are a bit worn, especially visible to corners, pages are clean and illustrations are bright. A book of old rhymes with new dresses by the earliest masters. 0 View More...
Reprint. 170 pages, black and white illustrations throughout; pale green boards with gilt titling and black illustration, light smudging and staining to boards and spine, a few pages have a bit of staining at fore edges not affecting text block. From the author of "The Wind in the Willows," this is a beautifully illustrated collection of reminiscences of childhood. View More...
Gray cloth with stamped blue ship on front board, large 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches), 165 pages, illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff throughout printed in blue, pictorial endpapers. Boards faded to tan along extremities with some foxing, internally clean and bright with sound binding; toned dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with a bit of chipping at spine ends. A biography for young people of Norwegian Polar explorer, Fridtjof Nansen. Newbery Honor book of 1941 View More...
Two volume set, patterned dark brown cloth with gilt titles and decoration on spine, 16mo, volume one 211 pages, volume two 210 pages, illustrated with educational engravings; boards lightly edge worn with some chipping along spine, slight ripple to pages, foxing throughout text. Charming little two volume set on the topic of whale fishing and the arctic, written by historian, Episcopal Priest, and first president of Tulane University, Francis Lister Hawks. View More...
First edition. Full red boards with blue lettering and decoration, illustrated endpapers, 9-1/2" tall, 96 pp., illustrated and DJ art by Lynd Ward. Fine with no flaws to note; DJ slightly toned, original price of $2.50 intact. A children's biography of the early revolutionary, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, and founder of Vermont. View More...
Pictorial blue cloth with red illustration and titles, 4to, 80 pages, illustrations throughout by L. J. Bridgman; a well kept copy; sunned dust jacket with 3 1/2 inch closed tear to front panel, now protected in mylar cover. A delightful edition of this nursery classic. View More...
Tan cloth with blue and red decorations and titles, folio, 36 pages, illustrated throughout; a well kept copy; price clipped dust jacket has a chip to the head of spine that obscured the 'the' at the beginning of the title, now protected in a mylar cover. From the jacket, "The whole map of the United States is here spread before our eyes, and its many and interdependent parts explained in a way that gives us a good perspective of our colorful country. View More...
Tan cloth illustrated in blue and red ink, folio, not paginated, illustrations throughout, signed by author and illustrator Mabel Pyne on title page; a well kept copy; dust jacket now in mylar cover. From the jacket, "If you can imagine a March-of-Time done in technicolor, and full of humor, that showed you America from the time of Columbus right down to today [1940, remember], you would have an idea of 'The Little History of the United States.' It doesn't bother much with dates. It just starts when America started, and keeps moving. View More...
Green cloth with black titles and small embossed decoration on cover, 8vo, 552 pages, over 300 illustrations by Ernest Thompson Seton himself; a well kept copy, previous owner's name written twice on front endpapers. The adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by the author of 'Wild Animals I Have Known' and 'Lives of the Hunted'. View More...
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. View More...
Small hardcover, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 44 pages, 1 color illustration, numerous black and white illustrations; gray cloth boards with titles and illustration in green, boards clean and bright with light wear at corners and spine ends, pages clean and crisp, binding sound. The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. In a much small... View More...
Small hardcover, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches, 48 pages, 2 color illustration, numerous black and white illustrations; blue cloth boards with titles and illustration in black, boards lightly faded along edges, wear at corners and spine ends, previous owner's name in front end paper, pages a little toned with age, binding sound. The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the constructi... View More...
