Saturday, October 14, 2006

MORE BOOKS-These are very old; some are weird AND old

Note: I can take send digital photos of any book you are interested in...

1. "The Greatest of Expositions", the Official View of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. b/w photos of the exhibits, printed in 1904. This book's spine is detached, but all pages are intact. Fascinating historical pictures. Could be repaired. .

2. "A Book of Unusual Soups", Mary Chambers, 1930, a New Jersey library discard. What a gift for a cookbook collector! Hardbound, 5x7+, good cond, some wear on spine.

3. "Stories from Shakespeare", Boston, 1890, hardback, some discoloration on front, inscribed in ink from a teacher to a student in 1895. spine partially loose.

4. "Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" by Jerome K. Jerome, printed in NY in 1898, first ed. Hardback, spine faded, sturdy cond.

5. "A Dead President Makes Answer to the President's Daughter", by Anton Shrewsbury Jenks, pub. by The Golden Hind Press NY 1928. It seems to be a refutation of an earlier book "The President's Daughter". Strange. Worn edges, nice paper in lining.

6. "Flight of a Tartar Tribe" by DeQuincey. by Wauchope. Small hardback, fair condition

7. "Ben King's Verse", ed. by Nixon Waterman. 1905, 2nd ed. ...this is verse, mostly old-fashioned, folksy dialect. ..a real curiosity.

8. "The Works of Honore DeBalzac"..The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau and the Middle Classes in one book, printed in 1901. Worn. Part of limited edition of 1000.

9. "Ain't Love Gland?", by Kate Townsend, a Physiological Guide to Mating, illus. w/drawings by Dorothea Parrot. 1936 1st. ed., ....fascinating descriptions off characteristics of people according to their supposed glandular excesses or shortages....

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