Art Of Procuring Pleasant Dreams

Founding Father and all-around Renaissance man Benjamin Franklin considered and wrote about many topics. In this essay from 1786 on restful sleep, Franklin advises exercise before meals, moderate eating ("…full feeding, occasions nightmares and horrors inexpressible; we fall from precipices, are assaulted by wild beasts, murderers, and demons, and experience every variety of distress"), and fresh air in the sleep… Read more about this item

American Roots, October 2014. Hardcover. Very Good - Cash. Minor rubbing and edge wear to cover, with light reader wear to pages. Still great condition. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

American Roots. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Detroit: Blue Ox Press, 1937. Limited Edition. Original Wrappers. Fine. pp: 7, colophon; title-page vignette and tailpiece by Paul McPharlin. Bound in blue wrappers, sewn, with a cover woodcut of Franklin. 9.5" x 5.75" One of 250 copies printed for the Fine Book Circle in May, 1937.

American Roots. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Detroit, MI: The Blue Ox Press, 1937. limited edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. Very thin small octavo. Slight wear to edges of cover. All letterpress printed. Blue paper with printed title and image of Franklin on cover. 6 page interior, not stapled or stringbound, simply folded and laid in order. Title page includes an image, printed in blue,… Read more about this item