Vintage rare book: Teddy: Theodore Roosevelt 1919 Memorial Edition, Life and Work, by Thomas H. Russell. It has a tan or gold hardcover with deep pressed gold embossing. It is vintage and rare in the goldtone, most are blue covered. It has 512 pages, 64 of which are illustrations and photographs.It measures 8 and 3/8 inches by 6 and 3/8 inches, and is 1.5 inches thick. It little fraying to the top cover edge and one page inside has a piece missing, it does not go into the print. The binding is s ...click for details
This Sherlock Holmes Detective Stories book by A. Conan Doyle is a 1923 edition published by J.H. Sears & Company of New York. It is a hard cloth covered binding in burgundy and gold. The book is in good condition, the binding and spine are solid, the outside cover has a very few minor marks, more like dots, no writing inside. The corner cover points show a very small amount of wear or fraying. Not much discoloring to the pages, the only real damage is 4 pages at the back of the book have p ...click for details
This is a wonderful rare antique Victorian book titled "Christmas Stories for Boys and Girls". It is published by The Grand Union Tea Company some time between circa 1885 and 1903. The inside front cover has a child's name and date Dec. 23, 1903 and a town in Pennsylvania in pencil. So this book is over 100 years old. It has 3 of these wonderful color lithographs on the inside and the gorgeous ones on the front and back cover. It also has numerous black printed illustrations on eve ...click for details
This book it titled "A Steward In The Methodist Church" by George L. Morelock. It is published by Cokesbury Press Nashville, Tennessee, copyright MCMXXXVI or 1936. The book is a training manual for stewards in the Methodist Episcopal Church. This is a dark blue or navy blue hard cover book with gold gilding on the front and spine. I do not see any writing in the book, the spine and pages are solid, very little wear, just a few discolorations spots to the front cover as shown in the pho ...click for details
This is for 2 books by Victor Appleton II in the Tom Swift Jr. Series, both are copyright 1954 and hardcover. The first is Tom Swift and His Flying Lab and the second Tom Swift and His Jetmarine. Both child's science fiction publications are in very good condition, The spines are solid, no pages missing, and no interior marks. There is one small rub spot on the cover of His Flying Lab, but very little if any fraying. They both have blue covers, but no dust jackets. These are very popular chi ...click for details
Original poems rhymes and acrostics by William Yancey Erwin it a second edition, hardcover book that is privately printed. It has names of the owners inside the cover and a few marks here an there inside. It has a photo of the author and a few decorative illustration inside. It is a 1907 edition, 1906 copyright. It has a bit of fraying to the edges and some discoloration on the cover and pages in just a few places.
This is an old 1915 copy of "The American Magazine for October 1915. It is missing the cover and the front page is a bit torn as are the the edges, and maybe a few pages are missing off the back, I can't tell for sure, however inside are great illustrations for framing and wonderful advertising pieces too. It has a wonderful article by Jerome D. Travers about golfers like Frances Ouimet, Harold Hilton, Walter J. Travis, John Ball, Harry Varden, and Chuck Evans, including great picture ...click for details
This is a wonderful rare first edition antique book by Martha Finley titled Elsie At Vaimede, part of The Elsie Book series, published by Dodd, Mead and Company of New York, copyright 1892. The first page has a couple of light pencil marks on the upper right corner and few minor marks, the rest of the pages have very little, or no discoloration. All the pages are strong and intact, the binding is not loose in any way. The front is maroon cloth board hardcover embossed with pansies and butterfli ...click for details
This is a wonderful rare antique book, part of the Elsie Books series by Martha Finley called " Elsie and the Raymonds". It is a first edition by Dodd, Mead and Company Publishers of New York, copyrighted 1889. It has a maroon cloth board cover that is embossed with pansies and butterflies. The spine has gold embossed letters. It is in pretty good condition for it's age. All the pages are pretty tight and the cover and spine are secure. It does have a dedication on 2nd page that sa ...click for details
This is a wonderful matching pair of vintage bookends that are made out of black clay, glazed very glossy, and then cold painted. Very little of the paint is missing which is unusual for pieces this old. They measure 6.25 inches tall and 4.5 inches long and 2.25 inches wide. These are wonderful old pieces of hand painted pottery. The only damage is the back of one of the antlers has a surface chip, but you can't see it from the front. I do not know the exact age or maker, but they are vintag ...click for details
