Mischief in the Mountain
Montpelier, Vermont, U.S.A. Vermont Life Magazine, 1984. Hardcover. Hardcover. A collection of weird stories and strange facts about Vermont, published by Vermont Life Magazine. Near fine, tight copy in crisp dust jacket.
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Model Puzzle Cuckoo Clock
Brighton, UK: Litor. Softcover. Quarto sized in heavy card stock, color illustrated covers. 8 pp. plus 8 pp. story booklet staped at center. A cut-out book with which one could make an old-fashioned cuckoo clock without use of glue or scissors by punching out the perforated pieces and folding. Generally.....
Monthly Cottage Instructor No.I April 1830 through No. V August 1830 plus No. XIV May 1831
(London): Printed by J. Bradford, 1830. Leather_bound. 24mo. in original paper covered boards over three quarter leather, covers well worn. 1837 Sunday School presentation inscription front free endpaper. The first five installments in this monthly publication whose "..object...is to promote the good of your soul; chiefly by a practical and.....
Mother Hubbard's Melodies
New York: A.L. Burt, (1930). Hardcover. Slim 8vo. hardcover in light blue decorated cloth with tipped on color illustration. No date (circa 1930). 146 pp. Color frontispiece and with illustrations throughout the text by Goron Browne, R. Marriott Watson, L.L. Weedon and others. Very good, Christman 1930 gift inscription front.....
(Musical Instrument catalogue) William Voit Co. Importers of Musical Instruments Wholesale Catalogue for 1930
New York: William Voit Co., 1930. Softcover. 40 pp. in printed, illustrated wrappers. Illustrated throughout with photographs and engravings of instruments, bows, parts. Tippe in are a "Discount to the trade" pricing slip and an unused order blank is also laid in. Generally fine, touch of fade to the top.....
Musical Life in Boston in the Eighteenth Century
Worcester. Ma: American Antiquarian Society, 1940. Wraps. Printed stiff wrrappers. 23 pp. Offprint from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 49, Issue 2 , mOctober 1939, pages 293-313. Fine.
My Dial Book of Cowboys
Atlanta: DeJournette, 1963. First edition. Softcover. Oblong oversized toy book (9 1/2" x 16" closed), one of four in the series, all quite scarce. Color illustrated covers with flap at top. The book opens to show the "story" which children could alter by turning the cardboard dials in each of.....
The National Temperance Almanac and Teetotaler's Year Book for 1875
New York: National Temperance Society, 1875. Softcover. Papmphlet of 72 pp. in printed wrappers. 4" x 6". Illustrated with full page engravings indicating the various evils of drink. Compelet and internally cean, spine mostly lacking.
Naval Anecdotes : Illustrating The Character of British Seamen. and Recording the Most Impressive Examples of Their Skill, Valour, Fortitude, and Magnanimity...
London: James Cundee, 1806. First edition. Leather_bound. Octavo in original full calf, spine stamped in gilt. (2) engraved frontis, xv, 544, (1, final blank lacking). First edition. Foxing to the endpapers, frontis and title and contents pages, only occasional light foxing to the text. Binding is well worn and rubbed.....
New And Complete Hieroglyphical Bible Being A Careful Selection Of The Most Interesting And Important Passages In The Old And New Testaments Regularly Arranged From Genesis To Revelations. To Which Is Added, The Life Of Our Blessed Saviour And The Holy Evangelists.
London: Dean & Munday, 1815. 24mo in illustrated paper covered limp boards. 138 pp. Frontis woodcut engraving of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and illustrated throughout with small woodcuts. The covers are extremely worn and soiled; 1868 gift inscription on the front endpaper which in this case.....
New Big Book of Logos
NY: Harper Design Intl, 2003. Soft Cover. Thick, oversized volume in color illustrated softcovers. 384 pps. with index. 1000s of corporate and product logos each illustrated in full color and with information on the corporate clinet and the designer. A fine, fresh, unused copy.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
NY: St Martins Pr, 1994. Hardcover. Hardcover, 1358 pps. with bibliography and appendix list of contributors. Massive, definitive single-volume of jazz reference including: performers, history, jazz terms and topics, instruments, stayles, festivals, record labels and much more. A fien fress copy in bright, crisp dust jacket with a minor flaw.....
New Mexico Historical Review Vol. X No.4-October, 1935
Albuquerque, NM: New Mexico Historical Society, 1935. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers. Seqentially paginated 249-355 with index + viii )contents for all 1935 publications). Fine, some toning about the edges. This issue contains: "Onate a Maurauder?" by G.P. Hammond; "Bourke on the Southwest VII" by L.B. Bloom; "Kit Carson, Catholic" by.....
The New Quotable Woman
New York, New York, U.S.A. Facts on File, 1992. Revised. Hard Cover. The revised edition. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Cloth, 714 pps. with career and occupational index, ethnicity and nationality index, biographical index, subject index. The definitive treasury fo notable quotations by women from Eve to Anita Hill...
The Nursery: A Monthly Magazine For Youngest Readers (Volume VII and VIII, )
Boston: John J. Shorey, 1870. Hardcover. Hardcover in gilt lettered and decorated dark green cloth. Fine, all gilt bright, Christmas 1874 gift inscription to a youmg girl from her grandmother on first interior blank; family bookplate front pastedown. Volumes VII and VIII bound together. 188 and 188 pp. plus single.....
Oriental Literature (Edition de Luxe) in four volumes
New York: Colonial Press, 1900. Revised. Hardcover. Four volumes. Dark brown cloth hardcovers with paper spine labels. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece gravure engravings with tissue guards. A tight, generally fine set, labels a bit embrowned, small tasteful bookplate front pastedowns.....
The Oxford Companion to the English Language
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 1992. Hard Cover. Hardcover, 1184 pps. with index of persons. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET.
Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 1995. First American. Hard Cover. First printing. AS NEW IN DUST JACKET. Cloth, 543 pps. Keyword index. Nearly 5000 quotations in a rollicking collection of humorous quotes drawn from pundits from Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Groucho Marx and Monty Python.
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
NY: Oxford Univ Pr, 1997. Hard Cover. Hardcover, 694 pps. with index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Paintings and Sculpture from The Kress Collection
Washington D.C. National Gallery of Art: Smithsonian Institute, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Softcover. 205 pps with illustrations. Very good in slightly oversized printed wrappers. Some wear about the edges of the wraps.
Paper Dolls from the 1920s: Ready to Cut Out and Dress
New York: Merrimack Publishing Corp, 1983. Staplebound. Softcover in stiff, bright, illustrated covers. 16 pp. Illustrated with full color drawings. Four uncut paper dolls with period attire. Fine, bright, crisp example with very little wear to spine.
Paper-Cuts by Chinese Folk Artists
Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1955. Softcover. Set of 12 post cards each with a bold wood block print in single, varying colors. In original folding self wrapper also illustrated with wood blocks; inner front wrap has two paragraph description while rear inner cover has list of titles of the 12.....
Par Excellence, A Manual Of Cookery
Chicago: St. Agnes Guild, 1888. Hardcover. Hardcover. Advert endpapers plus one page of illustrated ads at front (one for chandeliers and the other for corsets) +162 pp. with index. Adveristing pages interspersed throughout. Book of choice recepies "contributed and approved by the best housekeepers skilled in cuisine, the whole carefully.....
Path Into The Unknown: The Best of Soviet Science Fiction
New York: Delacorte, 1968. First American edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 191 pp. Introduction by Judith Merril. Anthology of "new wave" Soviet science fiction characterized by a wide range of themes, deeper study of social and moral problems and the the desire for variety.....
Peek-A-Boo Jack
Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros. 1927. Hardcover. Die cut hardcovers in color illustrated paper covered boards. Unpaginated (16 pp.) illustrated with small color drawings. About very good, cover somewhat toned, some chipping and loss to the spine strip (as appears to be usual with this series), some light discoloration to the.....