A Three in One Book: Jack and the Beanstalk Picture Book, the Ginger Bread Boy Picture Book, Mother Goose Rhymes Picture Book

Kenosha, WI, Samuel Lowe Company, 1942. Paperback. Folio. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. (7pp, 3pp, 6pp). Extensive color illustrations. Good plus. A bit edgeworn, with a spot of damage at upper left corner, but overall tight and attractive; faint ownership signature at bottom of front wrapper. First edition. Unusual novelty item: "Jack and the Beanstalk" is a small 4to and on top, "The Ginger Bread Boy" is a 4to and is in the middle, and "Mother Goose Rhymes is a folio and is on the bottom -- so that even though bound together, the title of each volume may be seen at the same time. Uncommon. Housed in a heavy duty mylar sleeve. .

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Book number: 6463

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Children's

Thrill to Stories of... Young Lust: No. 1

N.p. Sexploitation Comics Group, n.y. Paperback. Small 4to. Glazed pictorial wrappers. (32pp). Extensive illustrations. Near fine. Tight, bright, superb later printing (cover price $1.50) of the first issue of this racy adult comic. .

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Book number: 35647

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Humor & Folklore

Time out for Laughter: An Informal Collection of Cartoons Dealing with Children, School, and Other Matters of Mutual Interest to Educators and Educational Publishers

Chicago, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1953. Hardcover. Oblong 24mo. Pictorial white cloth. 31pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. First edition of this cartoon collection -- from the library of one of the heirs (through the Foresman side) of the publisher. .

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Book number: 23641

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Humor & Folklore Education

Time Life Volume 1: 25 All-Star Television Movies

New York, Time Life Television, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Orange glazed pictorial paper over boards. (Ca. 50pp). Numerous monochrome illustrations. Near fine. Promotional piece intended for distribution to network affiliates. Includes such films as "The Daughters of Joshua McCabe," "The Night Stalker" and "She Lives." Tipped to the front flyleaf is a 2-page mimeographed sales pitch cover letter. .

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Book number: 7725

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Film & Theater

Top's and Yo-Yo's and Other Spinning Toys

Gas City, IN, L-W Book Sales, 1995. Paperback. 8vo. Green glazed pictorial wrappers. 112pp. Numerous color illustrations. Near fine. Date of receipt stamped on title page. First edition, tight and handsome. .

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Book number: 6852

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Keywords: CANDY JARS Antiques & Collecting

Track of the Wolf: Replica Antique Arms & Primitive Americana -- Edition 12

Osseo, MN, Track of the Wolf, 1991. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 369pp. Extensive illustrations. Very good. Bit of edgewear. Fascinating catalogue of antique firearms replica parts, heavily illustrated, from "the Purveyors of Yesteryears Commodities." Fascinating and useful for reference. .

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Book number: 11294

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

Training You to Train Your Hunting Dog

Madison, Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources, 1980. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 63pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Good plus. Minor edgewear. First edition. A good basic manual written and developed by several authors. .

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Book number: 2302

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: bird hunting Fishing & Hunting

Trains Around the World

[London], Octopus Books, 1972. Hardcover. 4to. Cream paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 162pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Near fine/near fine. First edition. .

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Book number: 10695

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Railroad

Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers: Containing the Papers and Discussions on Iron and Steel and Allied Subjects...

New York, American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1916. Hardcover. Small 4to. Half calf with gilt spine lettering and brown pebble-grained cloth. vi, 466pp. Figures, illustrations. Very good. Nonauthorial gift inscription on front pastedown. Probable sole edition of Volume LIII; ownership signature and address of contributor Charles Colcock Jones (see p.306) on the front flyleaf, mining engineer and metallurgist (born 1865). Interesting collection of papers presented at the Institute's 1915 San Francisco meeting and the 1916 New York meeting. .

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Book number: 1312

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Keywords: Engineering & Technology

Transactions of the Grand Chapter of Iowa, at Its Forty-Ninth Annual Convocation, Convened at Cedar Rapids, Thursday, October 9th, A.D. 1902, A.I. 2432

Des Moines, Order of the Grand Chapter, 1902. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers with red and yellow lettering and printing. Pp. 430-618, lxxii, iii. Frontispiece, tables, graphics, illustration. Very good. Spine sunned, else remarkably tight, clean and attractive. Superb copy of this masonic annual, chock full of detailed reports of the doings, finances, deaths, etc. of this state chapter. .

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Book number: 40021

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Keywords: Americana Illinois & Midwest

Transactions of the Grand Chapter of Iowa, at Its Fiftieth Annual Convocation, Convened at Oskaloosa, Thursday, September 3d, A.D. 1903, A.I. 2433

Des Moines, Order of the Grand Chapter, 1903. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers with red and yellow lettering and printing. 138pp, lxi, iii. Frontispiece, tables, graphics. Very good. Spine faintly sunned, else wonderfully tight and bright. Superb copy of this masonic annual, chock full of detailed reports of the doings, finances, deaths, etc. of this state chapter. .

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Book number: 40022

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Keywords: Americana Illinois & Midwest

Transactions of the Grand Chapter of Iowa, at Its Fifty-Eighth Annual Convocation Convened at Cedar Rapids, Thursday, October 12, A.D. 1911, A.I. 2441

Des Moines, Order of the Grand Chapter, 1911. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers with red and yellow lettering and printing. 177pp, cxxvi, iii. Frontispiece, tables, graphics. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) lightly soiled, with mild edgewear, but overall tight and nice. A sharp copy of this masonic annual, chock full of detailed reports of the doings, finances, deaths, etc. of this state chapter. Interestingly, the front flyleaf bears some boldly pencilled notes about a July 30, 1912 meeting of Plaids Lodge, Iowa. .

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Book number: 40023

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Keywords: Americana Illinois & Midwest

Treasures from the Kremlin: An Exhibition from the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 223pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations (many color). Fine/fine. Stunning exhibit catalogue. .

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Book number: 4745

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

Trenes: Album de Cromos

Mexico City, Ediciones Suromex, 1987. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. (15pp). Color illustrations, 4pp (rectos only) color illustrations. Fine. First Mexican edition, tight and nice, of this 1971 Madrid, Spain production. Four leaves of color stamps (eight per leaf) intended to be cut out and affixed to a corresponding ruled box within the text. Each stamp depicts an important historical locomotive -- and none have been removed or clipped out. .

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Book number: 35720

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Railroad Children's

Tributes to Honorable William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to Commemorate the Occasion of His Retirement from the Supreme Court, November 12, 1975

Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy leatherette. x, 232pp. Frontispiece. Fine. Pristine copy of this collection of tributes from numerous representatives, senators and others. Tipped below the frontispiece portrait of Douglas is a small (3½" X 1") clipped "Yours faithfully" (typed) and signature -- apparently the closing portion of a letter. .

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Book number: 11217

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Biography