Search Results: Hobbies/collecting from Trench Books

New York: Greenberg, 1945. Junior Literary Guild . Blue Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Abraham Hersh. Light wear, sound copy; clean and unmarked. Full of activities to keep young boys busy, indoors and out.

Albany, OR: Van Dahl Publications, 1971. Revised Edition . Paperback. Good+. Covers soiled, previous owner's stamp on flyleaf; sound and unmarked otherwise. Illus, information, and prices, on thousand of US postmarks from all over the country. Prices may be dated, history doesn't change (oh wait, yes it does). This is from the days when every post office actually postmarked every letter mailed in their community. Kind of interesting to browse through.

New York: Robert M. McBride, 1927. Second Printing . Green Cloth. EX-LIBRARY. Exlibrary with the usual markings and rear pocket, soiling to a few pages. Rebound in decorative green cloth. Nice copy, evidently not borrowed much from the Bangor Public Library. All kinds of info on what and how to collect, including things like fossils, rocks & minerals, stamps, etc. Drawings and a few photos.

New York: Permabooks, 1950. First Edition . Hardcover. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear/soiling, pages yellowed; sound and unmarked. Pocket sized volume, full of treasure tales."The road to gold is long and cold....".

Chicago: American Library Assoc., 1928. Burgundy Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light wear along one edge of spine, otherwise superb condition; clean and unmarked. A slim volume (60pgs) that outlines, for librarians, how to prepare books and periodicals for the binder. Also gives a bit of information on repairing and caring for books.

New York: A&W Publishers, 1978. Burgundy Cloth. Good+/Good. Gift inscription on flyleaf, minimal wear. Jacket lightly soiled, wear and tear to edges. "Military and civil firearms from the beginnings to the present day...An A - Z directory of makes and makers from 1830". Hundreds of photos, some in color. Oversized, extra postage outside the US.

New York: Simon & Schuster/Plaza Publishing, 1929. Green Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear to covers, 1" tear to title page, pages yellowed. FOURTEENTH SERIES. Nice sound copy, clean and unmarked. A collection of puzzles from the early days of crosswords. Even includes instructions on how to do them. Completed puzzles are shown in the rear of book.

North Brunswick NJ: Boy Scouts of America, 1960. Illustrated Hardcover. Very Good. Light soiling to covers, text clean and unmarked; sound copy. Large collection, with diagrams, of magic tricks that any young scout can do.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. First American Edition . Black Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Exceptional condition, clean and unmarked. The author writes of his obsession with stamp collecting, and how it affected his life.

New York: Frederick Fell Publishers, 1976. Black Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. A sound copy showing some shelfwear, 1/4" stain on front, otherwise unmarked. A collection of dozens of magic tricks including cards, coins, string, table tricks, and mental games.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise a nice copy, clean and unmarked. Loaded with photos, many in color.

New York: Watson-Guptill, 1999. First American Edition . Pictorial Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Light shelfwear, soiling to back cover, unmarked. "Home Decorating Workbook". Deatils on how to decorate your home with fresh flowers. Thoroughly illustrated with many color photos, numerous fold-outs. Somewhat oversized, extra postage outside the US.

New York: Newcomen Society in North America, 1953. Second Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. Light soiling to covers, text clean and unmarked. "Connecticut Origins of Modern Telephony (1878-1953).) Interesting and detailed history, written by the President of the Southern New England Telephone Co, (SNET). Includes a reproduction of the one page New Haven telephone directory, the first in the world. 28 pgs.

New York: Viking, 1973. Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Inscription on flyleaf, otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket shows minimal wear, minor rubbing. Illus with many photos, B&W and color. Lots of history.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971. Blue Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Exceptional condition, clean and unmarked in a lighly worn dust jacket. "The most marvelous firearms produced during the entire 700 year history of shooting". 252 pages of photos, most in color. Oversized, extra postage outside the US.

New York: Coward McCann, 1955. Third Edition . Red Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Moderate wear and soiling; small stain on spine; unmarked. Numerous B&W photos. The pricing is outdated, but there is lots of information, much history here. 398 pgs.

New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1953. Gray Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Minimal wear, moderate soiling to covers; text clean and unmarked. "Four Centuries of the Domestic World in Miniature." Illus with many B&W photos, drawings.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1938. Orange Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Samuel Nisenson. Moderate shelfwear, spine faded, name scratched out on flyleaf, price and date on flyleaf; copyright page and rear pastedown stamped "Dow Air Force Base Library". Fool your friends, be the hit of the party, get yourself in trouble...

Wilmette, IL: Frederick J. Drake, 1950. Burgundy Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Minor wear at one corner; clean, bright and unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling/shelfwear. "A Helpful Guide for Those Who Plan to Build or Modernize, Many Sketches and Plans".

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1945. Blue Cloth. Good+/Good+. Robert Haberstock. Light wear/soiling to covers, otherwise a nice clean and unmarked copy. Jacket complete, shows edgewear and light rubbing. "Planning and establishing a productive country home". One of the original 'back to the land' books.