2 Picture Puzzle: Dual Purpose

N.p. N.p. n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue pictorial paper over boards. No pages (as issued). Very good. Bit of edgewear. "Book" opens to reveal two side-by-side puzzles, with all pieces present and in superb condition. The left pastedown puzzle shows four small floral arrangements, while the right pastedown puzzle is titled "National Wildlife Conservation Series" and depicts nine wildlife stamp scenes. Each image in this latter puzzle bears the copyright data "1948 National Wildlife Federation, Washington, D.C." but it is unclear whether this organization was the publisher of this bibliographically-challenged "book." Unusual and quite handsome. .

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Book number: 6448

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Children's Games

Piggy Wiggy

New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers with tan cloth tape spine added. (10pp). Full-page color illustrations. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and faint soiling, though internally "Near fine" -- bright and lovely. No. 440 in this series of picture books on "Linenette" stock, marketed as the "Fun and Frolic Library" or the "Mischief Makers" series. Brief text printed in blue at bottom of each page. Undated, but circa 1940. A tight, nice copy. .

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Book number: 35670

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Keywords: Children's

Pine Homes and Pine Interiors

Minneapolis, The Barta Press, 1930. Paperback. Preface by Joseph Everett Chandler. 4to. Stiff cream string-tied wrappers with gilt lettering and front wrapper sepia-tone steel engraving. (Ca. 50pp). Numerous sepia-tone illustrations, map. Very good. Mild wear to outer wrappers (only), else internally near fine. Intriguing promotional booklet for Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke Company, "Manufacturers and Merchants of Pine Lumber," featuring an actual plate-marked steel engraved image of a charming interior pine-walled living room. "Pine in the Early American Home" takes the reader room-by-room through a classic colonial home, highlighting of course the extensive use of pine throughout, while "Pine in the Eighteenth Century American Home" and "Pine in the Modern American Office, Hotel, Club and Shop" chapters go into further detail and it all closes with the hard-sell "Shevlin Pine" chapter talks up this company, explaining and showing where and how it sources its pine. Laid in loose at the close (presumably as issued) are three inserts addressing "Pine," "Colonial Pine Treatment" and "Color Reveals the Beauty of Knotty Pine." Colonial architecture experienced quite a revival in the early 20th century and of course Shevlin, Carpenter & Clarke sought to capitalize on this. A delightful and impressive sales pitch. Accompanied by the prospectus for Russell Hawes Kettell's "The Pine Furniture of Early New England," 4to, wrappers, a 5-page excerpt from this 1929 Doubleday, Doran & Company classic that "shows Title page, Table of Contents page and four specimen pages from the book itself" -- interesting, relevant, unusual. Very good. .

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Book number: 47146

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Keywords: Colonial Americana Architecture

Playboy 1975 Annual Report

Chicago, Playboy enterprises, Inc, 1975. Paperback. 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 28pp. Numerous color illustrations, charts. Fine. A tight and attractive sole printing of this firm's breakdown of assets, liabilities, net sales and revenues, earnings before income taxes, etc. preceded by a summary of the firms various publications and other endeavors. Unusual. .

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Book number: 39654

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Film & Theater

Playful Puppies

New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers with tan cloth tape spine added. (10pp). Full-page color illustrations. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and faint soiling, though internally "Near fine" -- bright and lovely. No. 442 in this series of picture books on "Linenette" stock, marketed as the "Fun and Frolic Library" or the "Mischief Makers" series. Brief text printed in blue at bottom of each page. Undated, but circa 1940. A tight, nice copy. .

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Book number: 35667

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Keywords: Children's

Playful Puppies

New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers (10pp). Full-page color illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear and faint soiling, though internally "Near fine" -- bright and lovely. No. 442 in this series of picture books on "Linenette" stock, marketed as the "Fun and Frolic Library" or the "Mischief Makers" series. Brief text printed in blue at bottom of each page. Undated, but circa 1940. A tight, nice copy. .

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Book number: 35668

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Keywords: Children's

Please Bring Back My Book: A Checklist for Books

South Orleans, MA, Erma J. Fisk, 1980. Paperback. Wide 64mo. Stiff pictorial wrappers, stapled. (20pp, rectos only, printed on card stock). Illustrations. Near fine. Clever "book" that's actually two side-by-side perforated heavy stock bookmarks, each featuring black and white bird illustrations -- thus a total of forty bookmarks. "This book belongs to" followed by a blank line is printed at the bottom of each 1 3/4" X 5 3/4" bookmark, while a stub from each remains attached to the book, on which is printed "Loaned to" and line, "Date" and line, and "Title" and line. For those who loan out so many books they can't keep track of who borrowed what, an easy way to turn your collection into a lending library. First and likely sole edition. .

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Book number: 31564

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Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books

The Practical Home & School Educator Containing Courses of Reading and Study with Outlines and Questions Arranged to Accompany the New Practical Reference Library

Chicago, The Dixon-Hanson Company, 1908. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown pebble-grained cloth with black spine lettering and rules. 222pp, (2pp). Illustration. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, with spine lettering badly rubbed; text block evenly, moderately age toned as usual. A tight, fairly attractive second printing of this teacher's A to Z (literally, Agriculture to Zoology), soup to nuts guidebook featuring chapters on every conceivable subject taught -- with front flyleaf bearing the Friends of the Chicago Public Library 1986 membership card of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop and one-time president of the Chicago Public Library. Interesting copy of an uncommon title usually found in worn, inferior condition. .

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Book number: 43861

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Literary Criticism Education

Prehistoric Cultures of the Southeast

Washington, DC, United States Department of the Interior, 1941. Paperback. 16mo. Stiff tan wrappers. 31pp. Maps, illustrations. Very good. Slightest bit of mild edgewear. Tight, attractive first edition of "History No. 4" in the "National Park Service Popular Study Series. .

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Book number: 26382

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Native American

Prenatal and Postnatal Mortality in Cattle

Washington, DC, National Academy of Sciences, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 130pp. Tables. Very good. Errata slip laid in. Slight bit of edgewear. Tight, nice first edition. .

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Book number: 23680

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Natural History

Preserving America's Past

Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1983. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 199pp. Numerous color illustrations. Near fine/very good. First edition of this beautifully illustrated study. .

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Book number: 5428

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: ILLINOIS MIDWEST Antiques & Collecting

Pretty Pussies

New York, Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. (10pp). Full-page color illustrations. Very good. Bit of mild edgewear and faint soiling, with tape stain running along spine -- though internally "Near fine" -- bright and lovely. No. 441 in this children's series of picture books on "Linenette" stock, marketed as the "Fun and Frolic Library" or the "Mischief Makers" series. Brief text printed in blue at bottom of each page. Undated, but circa 1940. A tight, nice copy. .

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Book number: 35673

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Keywords: Children's

Primitive Painting: An Anthology of the World's Naive Painters

Zagreb, Yugoslavia, Spektar, 1981. Hardcover. Folio. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 320pp. Numerous color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Lovely first edition, clean and tight. .

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Book number: 2827

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Art

Private Pilot Basic Kit

[Denver], Sanderson, 1976. Paperback. Small 4to. Complete 3-volume set in slipcase. vi, (ca. 300pp); v, (ca. 150pp). Three parts: 1.) "Private Pilot Manual." Green decorated cloth. 2.) "Private Pilot Workbook." Stiff glazed decorated wrappers. 3.) "Reference Materials." Stiff glazed decorated folder, left side containing loose "Workbook Materials" and right side containing loose "Final Exam Materials" -- numerous maps, charts, certificate and so on. Clothbound book, softbound book and folder are all near fine, and the usually-scribbled folder loose materials are completely untouched. Slipcase is very good, with just the slightest bit of shelfwear. Edition not ascertainable. .

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Book number: 27735

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Keywords: Aviation

Private Memoirs of an Officer of the Dragoons

London, At the Sign of the Blue Nose, 1898. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff plain black wrappers. 73pp. Very good. Wrappers slightly edgeworn and irregularly age toned; some text pages rather age toned along edges. Tight and decent, this early 20th century erotica is limited to 1025 copies. Like most such titles, the publisher, place of publication and year of publication are rightfully suspect -- a New York publisher of such underground material might list a location far-removed (often by an ocean) and even a year decades-removed in order to circumvent pornography laws. Sometimes seen in lush leather binding, this copy is bound in a stereotypical plain wrapper. .

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Book number: 39697

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Erotica Military History