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Elkhart, Ind.: Dr. Miles Medical Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Soft Cover. Stapled binding. Color cover with chipped lower corner and dampstain. Chipped corner on pp. 1-4, but rest of volume is intact with well preserved pages. Newsprint is darkened and a bit brittle. 32 pp. Almanac reference booklet containing period advertisements for various patent medicines, including liver pills, headache medicine, and Dr. Miles' Nervine for "overtaxed nerves."; 9.5" (24 cm) Tall . more information

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Elkhart, Ind.: Miles Laboratories. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. Ephemera. Stapled binding. Color wraps with light pencilling in margins. Pages are age-darkened. 32 pp. Period advertisements for various patent medicines, including Alka-Seltzer and Dr. Miles' Nervine, among others.; 9.5" (24 cm) Tall . more information

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Elkhart, Ind.: Miles Laboratories. Good with no dust jacket. 1940. Soft Cover. Stapled binding. Color wraps with well preserved pages. Pencilled markings on cover. Pages are age-darkened. 32 pp. Period advertisements for various patent medicines, such as Nervine and Alka-Seltzer.; 9.5" (24 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: De Laval Separator Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1942. Ephemera. Front cover and first page have small (1/4 by 1/2 inch) area cut from lower right corner. Does not intrude into text. Color graphics on wraps. Stapled binding. Interior pages just a bit darkened but not brittle. Very clean copy of a scarce promotional almanac published by the De Laval dairy equipment manufacturing company, makers of separators and milkers. Almanac of information relevant to dairy farmers and rural life, with ads for De Laval products throughout.; 7.00" (18 cm) Tall . more information

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Very Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. World War II vintage coloring book, never used, in fine condition with only minor shelf wear to wraps. Interior coloring pages show children pretendin g to volunteer for the war effort: boys playing at soldier and at being "Home Guard," a girl knitting socks for the Red Cross, pretending to nurse the wounded, and playing "USO." Last page shows boys in a Jeep. Book has not been used.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Elkhart, Ind.: Miles Laboratories. Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Soft Cover. Stapled binding. Color wraps with minor wear to top front corner and back top edge. Pages are age-darkened. 32 pp. Period advertisements for various patent medicines, such as Alka-Seltzer and Dr. Miles' Nervine.; 9.5" (24 cm) Tall . more information

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Lowell, MA: J. C. Ayer & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1912. Soft Cover. Stapled binding, approx. 32pp plus paper wraps. Pictorial wraps are soiled, with minor edge wear. Interior clean with darkened pages. No writing or marks. Much descriptive praise of Ayer's patent medicines; many engraved illustrations throughout. Wraps feature Ayer's Hair Vigor. Published 6 years after Pure Food and Drug Act; makes much of "no secrets to hide" in listing ingredients.; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . more information

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Seattle: The Fantagraphics Books Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Soft Cover. Binding is tight, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean with very slight edge rubbing. 32 pages (unpaginated) plus wraps. Color cartoon panels continuing the adventures of Jimmy Corrigan. Satirical humor for audience of grownups with social commentary that is sometimes veiled and sometimes open.; 6.25" (16 cm) Tall . more information

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Seattle: The Fantagraphics Books Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1995. Soft Cover. Binding is tight, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean with very slight edge rubbing. 32 pages (unpaginated) plus wraps. Color cartoon panels. Satirical humor for audience of grownups with social commentary that is sometimes veiled and sometimes open.; 6.25" (16 cm) Tall . more information

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Berlin. Good with no dust jacket. 1958. Ephemera. No binding as issued, newspaper-style. Illustrated with black and white photos. 24 pages including wraps. Paper is age-darkened. Two lightly pencilled words at top margin on back. Scarce publication in German language focusing on skilled craftsmen in East Germany at the height of the Cold War era.; 11.5" (29 cm) Tall . more information

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Lowell, MA: J. C. Ayer & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Soft Cover. Stitched binding, 32pp plus paper wraps. Pictorial wraps are soiled and slightly edgeworn but intact. Interior clean with moderate wear to corner tips, slightly darkened pages. No writing or marks. Much descriptive praise of Ayer's Sarsparilla and other patent medicines by same company; some ads; many engraved illustrations throughout.; 7.75" (20 cm) Tall . more information

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Buffalo, NY: World's Dispensary Medical Association. Good with no dust jacket. 1882. Soft Cover. Wraps soiled and creased with wear es pecially to corners. Inside pages age-darkened, a few with minor edge wear. 24 pp. plus wraps. Advertising tract, machine-stitched together down the center pages, a patent medicine manufacturing company producing Dr . Pierce's Standard Medicines. Includes some household advice, but mostly sings praises of various extracts, pellets, and other curatives.; 5.75" (14.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Dansville, Livingston County, NY: Austin, Jackson & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1870. Soft Cover. Newspaper-style publication, 20 pages with stitched binding. Pages are very well preserved, with slight age darkening and minor foxing here and there. Displays creases from being folded, but otherwise very sound. No chips/tears, no writing or marks. Assistant editors: James C. Jackson, M.D., Dr. James H. Jackson, Mrs. Fanny B. Jackson, Mrs. Katy J. Jackson. Extraordinary publication promoting changes in women's lifestyle, health practices and medical care that went against the Victorian grain--advocating women riding horses astride instead of sidesaddle, for example. The editor and associates operated "Our Home on the Hillside," an institution that provided the Water Cure or hydrotherapy, a popular alternative approach to health care in the mid to late 19th century.; 12" (30.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Faded blue wraps with light soiling to exterior. Stapled binding beginning to wear with tear at top of book. Some minor edge wear to corners of some pages and general light edge wear to wraps. 96pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened. No writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s and 1950s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Good with no dust jacket. 1939. Ephemera. Stapled binding is tight. Pages clean but age-darkened. Wraps are creased, age-darkened, with light overall wear. 56 pp. Narrative and numerical data on American women's wages in the 1930s.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Ephemera. Faded blue wraps with light soiling and age-darkening to exterior. Stapled binding very sound. Some general light edge wear to wraps. 64pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened. No writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Royal Oak, MI: The Radio League of the Little Flower. Good with no dust jacket. 1933. Soft Cover. Well preserved with some light wear along spine, minor edge rubbing, faint corner crease to wraps. Exterior lightly soiled. Tight binding, clean pages just a bit off-white, no writing or marks except owner's name on front wraps. Includes letter from Coughlin (not original signature) and small promotional flyer for Radio League of the (Shrine of the) Little Flower. Catholic priest Father Charles E. Coughlin was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's most vocal and radical critics during the Great Depression and New Deal era.; 9.0" (23 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Blue wraps with light soiling to exterior. Stapled binding very sound. 128pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened. No writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Undated volume circa 1920s-early 1930s. Stapled binding, 64pp. Wraps a bit faded but still distinctly blue. Pages darkened commensurate with age. A clean volume. Social critique centering primarily around the role of women in British life, although there is a final chapter on ways of advancing sobriety in British society. Feminist-humanist social philosopher. Chapters include "Equal Pay for Equal Work," The Politics of Women, Psycho-Analysis in Relation to Sex, and The Drink Program of the Future. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Ephemera. Faded wraps with age-darkening to exterior. Stapled binding is sound. Small water spot (approx. 1 cm in size) on front of wraps. 64pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened but clean. Line drawing illustrations of primates, artifacts, skulls, artists' representation of early hominid appearance. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Faded wraps with light soiling and age-darkening to exterior. Stapled binding very sound. Some minor edge wear to corners of some pages and general light edge wear to wraps. 64pp plus wraps. Interior pages age-darkened. Owner's name and address stamped on back of wraps. No other writing or marks. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 4.25" (11 cm) Tall . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Undated volume circa 1920s-early 1930s. Stapled binding, 64pp. Wraps faded. Pages darkened commensurate with age. Compact summary of economic principles in pocket-sized booklet format. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanuel Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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Leipzig: B. G. Teubner. Fair with no dust jacket. 1931. Ephemera. Sound stapled booklet-style binding. Wraps are age-darkened with handling wear including edge wear and creasing. Text pages clean but age-darkened. 32 pp. plus wraps. Latin-language writings by ancient authors (Livy, Sueton, Vergil, Ovid included) on Roman monuments, with notes in German language.; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Ephemera. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean and bright. Address label on back. Wraps have light handling wear. 20 pp. plus wraps. Articles for the popular audience on North Carolina wetlands, including the nature of wetlands, regulatory tangle, timber debate, and other aspects of wetlands management on the North Carolina coast.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. Light handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on research concerning marine pharmaceuticals.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General light handling wear. Address label on back. 20 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience on Wilmington, North Carolina, and the lower Cape Fear River, including writing on Wilmington's bright future, beaches, legend and lore.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Ephemera. Stapled booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean and bright. Address label on back. Wraps have light handling wear. 24 pp. plus wraps. Articles for the popular audience on North Carolina coastal tourism, including articles on tourism in the balance, marketing the coast, and profiling tourists.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. Light handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on North Carolina's coastal lakes (Pungo, Phelps, Alligator, and Mattamuskeet).; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages bright and clean. General handling wear with top edge of back torn. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the Big Sweep, annual waterways clean-up project.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on Currituck County, North Carolina; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General light handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on Currituck County, North Carolina and its history and traditions, including decoy carving by artisans such as Jarvis Snow, and the Whalehead Club.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. Light handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on seafood safety, processing plants, inspections, home preparation of seafood.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages bright and clean. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on science education in North Carolina.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Ephemera. Pages bright and clean. General handling wear. Address label on back. 20 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience on land conservation and preservation in coastal North Carolina; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages bright with writing in pencil on back. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the dwindling river herring fishery in North Carolina; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the North Carolina shrimping industry.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General handling wear. Address label on back. 20 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience on coastal weather, including forecasting, history of hurricanes, and fishermen and weather.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General handling wear. Address label on back. 20 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on waterfowl on the North Carolina coast.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Ephemera. Stapled, booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean and bright. Wraps have light handling wear. Address label on back. 24 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience interested in early coastal Indians in North Carolina, with articles on coastal Native American history, archaeology, and reviving an Indian way of life.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General light handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on healthy preparation of fish and seafood.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Good with no dust jacket. 1989. Ephemera. Pages clean and bright. General handling wear. Subscription form has been cut from lower corner of last page. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the oyster industry in North Carolina.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages bright and clean. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the importance of eelgrass and other seagrasses in the ecology of the North Carolina coast.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1990. Ephemera. Pages bright and clean. General handling wear. Address label on back. 8 pp. pamphlet. Articles written for the popular audience on the topics covered by Coastwatch in the 1980s and its direction for the 1990s.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1992. Ephemera. Stapled, booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean and bright. Light handling wear. Address label on back. 24 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience on the blue crab industry in North Carolina, including pieces on the history of crabbing, soft shell crabs, and picking crab meat.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Raleigh: North Carolina State University. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1991. Ephemera. Stapled, booklet-style binding is tight. Pages clean and bright. Wraps have light handling wear. Address label on back. 20 pp. plus wraps. Articles written for the popular audience interested in coastal North Carolina's environmental issues. Articles on "a hotbed for hybrid bass," farm-raised catfish and crawfish, and other aspects of aquaculture.; 11.0" (28 cm) Tall . more information

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Boston, Ma.: D. C. Heath. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1923. Hard Cover. Spanish language reader. Square with tight binding and hinges. Clean, age-darkened pages. Edge rubbing and general light shelf wear to red cloth over boards. This book was used at the United States Naval Academy: Ephemera tipped in: a sheet making reference to naval phraseology in Spanish, and also tipped in at free front endpapers are two grade sheets identified as U.S.N.A.--11-19-37--15,000 on lower left corner. Stamp "Property of Department of Languages" on ffep, and on outer edges of pages (visible when closed). Tape stains on front endpapers where material has been tipped in. 257 pp. Stories by Jacinto Benavente, Armando Palacio Valdés, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, José Echegaray, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Clarín, Felipe Trigo, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, Pío Baroja, Azorín.; 6.75" (17 cm) Tall . more information

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South Carolina: Brookgreen Gardens. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1937. Ephemera. Paper brochure, with 11 black and white photographs of Hume's work and biographic information. Light soiling to exterior, light edge rubbing, else well preserved. Sculptures photographed for this brochure include "Performing Goat," "Jumping Squirrel," "Wounded Crow," "Whippet," "Memorial to a Bird," "Bunny," "Fox Cub," "Cock o' the Walk," "Red Setter," "Baby-Duck Fountain," "Walking Bear Cub."; 7.5" (19 cm) Tall . more information

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London: E. Ascherberg & Co.,. Fair with no dust jacket. 1893. Ephemera. Stapled binding is tight; staples rusty. Pages clean but age-darkened and worn at corner tips. Wraps are age-darkened, edge worn, with soiling to exterior. 31 pp. plus advertisements of other titles in publisher's list. English-language libretto of Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci."; 8.5" (21.5 cm) Tall . more information

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New York: American News Company. Good with no dust jacket. N.D.. Hard Cover. Orange cloth over boards with black lettering and Art Nouveau-style design on spine and front. Edgewear and soiling to cover. Binding tight, front hinge starting, but still a good, square copy. Corners bumped. Pages clean, tanned, brittle commensurate with age and quality of paper. Gilt on spine somewhat rubbed. 311 pp. <br><br>; Late 19th century edition. Scarce volume in Peoples Edition series. Novel about Irish dragoon during the era of Napoleon Bonaparte by Irish novelist Charles Lever (1806-1872). ; Peoples Edition; 7.5" tall; 311 pages . more information

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Girard: Haldeman-Julius. Good with no dust jacket. Ephemera. Light blue wraps still bright, clean. Stapled binding very sound. 64pp plus wraps. Interior pages slightly age-darkened. Fictional portrayal of a French prostitute with satire and sentiment combined in the author's work. Little Blue Books were a popular series of abridged literature and instructional material published by Emanual Haldeman in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s (with some in the 1940s, but the heyday had passed). The intent was to provide knowledge to the "common man" in a compact format for the purpose of self-education.; 5" (12.7 cm) Tall . more information

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