Bradley's Tru-Life Paper Dolls: Presenting Modern and Artistic Dress Designing by Means of Fashion Plates and Actual Patterns by Milton Bradley Co - 1916

Springfield, Mass.:: Milton Bradley Co.,, 1904.. Original two-part box with printed paper label, enclosing dozens of educational cards, each with a single simple word in script, printed on both sides (upper case on one side; lower case on the other).. Old ink signature; neat repairs to the box, the top half of which is missing one side and portions of two other sides. . Approx. 4-1/2 x 6 x 1".

(Springfield: Milton Bradley, (ND, but perhaps ca. 1940s). Milton Bradley #4008. This game comprises 10 sets of three cards each, each set consisting of the name of an author, and three of his works. Instructions for playing the game are present. Authors include, Burns, Holmes, Lowell, Longfellow, Tennyson, Thackeray, Dickens, Macaulay, Scott and Shakespeare. Cards are very good in the publisher's pictorial box (edges rubbed). All pieces are complete as to playing the game, although there may be some loss to original packaging inside..

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co. NONE [NONE] [circa 1920]. (hardcover) NP. Very good, no dust jacket. 16mo. Cardboard, paper, wire-ring bound. Front cover has lithographed pastedown with 3 young children painting at a table and the title, 'Little Folks Painting Book'. Painting sheets, paper blanks, some coloured, some loose. There ia an inscription pencilled to the inside rear cover. Light stains to the covers. All of that said, remains a nice copy..

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1921. First edition, 1921. A kit to recreate a toy cardboard model of a Pilgrim Village, presumably Plymouth, Massachusetts. Complete with instruction sheet, a sheet showing suggested colors and eight sheets of buildings and characters for a child to cut out and color, all in the original envelope. The cut-outs are unused and uncolored, with the sheets in very good condition, as is the color printed sheet of suggested colors - all have some dampstaining to the lower margins that do not affect the printed areas. The instruction sheet has a minor dampstain along the right-hand margin and a small margin tear to the left. The envelope is om fair condition with considerable edgewear and three of four edges opened, illustration on front unaffected, small dampstain to back. Hard-to-find item, particularly with all pieces present.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Springfield:: Published by the Springfield Printing Co.,, 1884.. folded to octavo size.. Five-inch tear at one corner; otherwise fine. . Approx. 18 x 16 inches,. Color map.. Engraved and printed by Milton Bradley Co.

Springfield, Massachusetts: Milton Bradley Co., 1926. First edition, 1926. A kit to recreate a toy cardboard model of Jamestown Village. Complete with instruction sheet, a sheet showing suggested colors and eight sheets of buildings and characters for a child to cut out and color, all in the original envelope. The cut-outs are unused and uncolored, with the sheets in very good condition, as is the color printed sheet of suggested colors. The instruction sheet has a minor dampstain along the right-hand margin. The envelope has considerable edgewear and some short chips and tears, illustration on front not affected, large dampstain to the back. Hard-to-find item, particularly with all pieces present.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Philadelphia:: Milton Bradley Co., School Supplies,, June 1, 1917.. Some inoffensive spotting and light staining; very attractive nevertheless.. Two printed cards, 9 x 4 inches each. . Each of these printed cards has samples of basketry materials affixed by sewing, including reeds in various sizes, chair cane in various sizes, and braided rush in various colors.

Springfield, Mass.:: Milton Bradley Co.,, 1929.. publisher's wrappers, hole-punched and inserted in publisher's gilt-lettered binder, with paper samples affixed inside front and rear covers.. Slight use to the lower edge of one of the sets of paper samples and rubbing to one corner of the binder; otherwise fine and very attractive.. 8vo,. Illustrated throughout in black and white.. The paper samples include: Bradley's [die-cut] Butterfly Papers; Bradley's Tru-Tone Papers, Special Colors added to Bradley's Bull's Eye Paper, Bradley Drawing Paper; Bradley's Puratone Art Papers, and Bradley's Tonal Paper.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley & Co, 1882. Framed Chromolithograph. Framed illustration. Very good. American Fire Company: A Sectional Picture Toy by Milton Bradley & Co., illustrated wooden box cover mounted in shadow box frame.. Wooden box cover with chromolithographed illustration of firemen in action. Box cover is worn with a visible vertical crack in the wood and some chipping to illustration. Box cover backed with foam core and mounted in a shadow box frame. Frame is black with flecks of gold, minor blemish along right edge, measures 10.5" x 14.5". Printed label in frame reads: "American Fire Department / Sectional Picture Toy / May 30, 1882 / Milton Bradley." Box cover not examined outside frame. An attractive piece of Americana.

New York: Macmillan, 1938. Includes selections from Masefield's books: Salt-Water Ballads; Poems and Ballads; Pompey the Great; The Everlasting Mercy; The Widow in the Bye Street; Dauber; The Daffodil Fields; Philp the King; Good Friday; Lollingdon Downs; Gallipoli; Reynard the Fox; Enslaved; Right Royal; Ester; King Cole and Other Poems; Odtaa; Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse; The Wanderer; Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes; A Letter from Pontus. 271 toned, clean pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt facsimle signature on front cover and dull gilt titles on spine; a dozen or so pages are bumped at top corner; tanned inside covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Forgotten Song by Eugene Cowles Oliver Ditson Company Boston

Reno, Nevada: Reno Chamber of Commerce, 1927. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Includes original sleeve. Light general wear. 1927 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Reno, Nevada. Early travel brochure. Briefly discusses the area surrounding Reno, and touches on each of Nevada's major cities. Numerous black-and-white photo reproductions of Reno and surrounding area, including countryside and Sparks.--Calvello Books

Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2017. paperback. 9.2 x 5.2 inches. paperback. xiv, 129 pages. This collection of short, illustrated essays by leading and emerging Poe scholars focuses on twenty Poe-related objects from a private collection, which are closely examined as a means of unpacking Poe's family history, literary preoccupations, and legacy. Published in connection with a public exhibition at Johns Hopkins University, October 2016 through February 2017, "The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond.

Evanston, IL: Church League of America, 1950. Pamphlet. Fine. This is a lot of 2 pamphlets from the early 1950s published by the right wing Church League of America based out of the Chicago suburbs from 1937-1984. Both pieces are in fine condition. THOMPSON, Dorothy. "What Is Behind the Immigration Furor?"; News and Views, January 1953, No. 230. Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 4 pp. A newsletter decrying the New Deal and the threat of Communist immigrants. RADCLIFFE, Cy. "A little business fights Big Government". Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 2 pp. A newsletter describing the writer's efforts to prevent his employees from unionizing and the ensuing lawsuit. Includes a photo of Radcliffe captioned "CRUSADER."

Redlands, California: Pure Gold, [1955]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [12p.] Small chips to wrap edges. The Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD) was founded in Redlands, California, in 1906 as a cooperative marketing association representing citrus growers in California. Within a few years, the coop included citrus growers in western Arizona. In 1955, MOD changed its name to Pure Gold, originally the brand name for fruit grown by the approximately 2,500 MOD growers. Sunkist took over the Pure Gold trademark when the co-op closed in 1987 due to housing developments replacing the citrus fields and the shrinking number of packing plants. This booklet explains the history of the citrus-growing culture in California and Arizona and provides information on the variety of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit grown and their cultivation and packaging. A map on the back shows the regions represented by the Pure Gold cooperative. Scarce, none located in OCLC. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumes 22-23 pages 542-558, signed "H. B. A" Leopold Von Ranke a review of his life. by Herbert Baxter Adams;
Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet (Hastings) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[1] Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872. In 1873 Adams traveled to Europe to study and write. In 1874 he then moved to Heidelberg, Germany to pursue the Ph.D. degree. There he was influenced by Johann Gustav Droysen and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, the latter also becoming his mentor. Heidelberg did not then require a thesis from its doctoral candidates, instead it required an oral examination, for which he chose political science for his major field (Hauptfach), with two minors… Read More

handmade exhibit of butterflies gold frame

[Bonn?]: Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, 1953.Oblong small quarto (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 64 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). West German government booklet documenting the June 1953 uprising in East Germany. In English, profusely illustrated.
CONDITION: Lower right corner of front cover clipped, small stain to front cover, closed tear to rear cover, light toning to page extremities. About Very Good.

Number 30. Shelter Lullaby, by Helen Thomas sheet music Boston Music, drawing by Edwina Dumm