This book is called Flying Ace Stories by Noel Sainsbury Jr. It has 3 complete books inside: 1. Billy Smith - Exploring Ace or, By Airplane to New Guinea 2. Billy Smith - Secret Service Ace or, Airplane Adventures in Arabia 3. Billy Smith - Mystery Ace or, Airplane Discoveries in South America. This books is published by Robert M. McBride and Company in the USA...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 vintage, p...

This is for 3 wonderful vintage Tom Swift children's adventure books by Victor Appleton II. The first is The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures book 1, Tom Swift and His Flying Lab. Next book 2, Tom Swift and His Jetmarine, and last, book 3, Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship. All are circa 1954 and in excellent, almost new condition. The only marks are a owners name in pencil on the first page of each one. Other then that they are in wonderful condition, even the covers are bright and crisp, with no damag...

This is a lovely set of heavy brass clam or abalone seashell bookends. They would make a great desk accessory or even nice to put towels between in the bathroom. They measure 4.75 inches tall and 4.75 inches across the widest part. They are in very good condition. They are unmarked so I don't know the age or maker.