Vintage Books and Literature

Item # BO1600   $12.00  
"The Wonders of Niagara " Copyright 1914  Booklet with 49 pages, original price was 10 cents.  It is a visit to America's greatest cataract with a description of the points of interest in a region of scenic grandeur and beauty. The back cover has a color picture of the Home of Shredded Wheat in Niagara Falls, N. Y. which is one of the wonders of Niagara.  Good condition overall but some of the pages are browned.

Item # BO1601   $32.00 
"The Home School of Elocution"
or easy Lessons in the Art of Entertaining  1896. This book is a choice treasury of new and popular recitations, readings, original and adapted comedies from celebrated authors and composers including descriptive, pathetic, humorous recitals with music for schools, public exhibitions, anniversaries, and programs for entertainment on special occasions, etc. It has been compiled and edited by Henry Davenport Northrop and richly embellished with full-page photo-type engravings. This is just a fabulous book, the pictures alone are worth the price. The book has 366 pages in it but I believe some of the last ones in the parliamentary rules and practice section are missing. The condition of the book is very sad, the front and back covers are very worn and stained, the binding is broken and some of the middle pages are loose but it still is a wonderful old book.  

 Item # BO1602  $28.00 
"The Cuckoo Clock" by Mrs. Molesworth  Written in Edinburgh in 1877   253 pages  The book is a children's fairy tale, the heroine is a little girl named Griselda and she talks to the cuckoo in the cuckoo clock. Cover good, great picture on cover, binding good but some pages loose, and all are very browned from age. The inside cover has the signatures of someone Christmas 1901

Item # BO1603  $10.00 
"Towner's Male Quartettes"  Copyright 1918  A collection of Gospel, Sacred, and Secular songs composed and arranged for the use of quartettes, choirs, and choruses.  128 pages  cover good, binding loose in  a few places, pages browned  

Item  # BO1604    $15.00   
" What Every Woman Knows", one of the Plays of J. M. Barrie  Copyright 1929    160 pages   The book is a comedy, and one of the classic plays of J. M. Barrie.  cover is in good condition, binding good, pages a little browned. 

Item # BO1605   $14.00
"The Care and Feeding of Children" by L. Emmett Holt M.D.  1916  215 pages    The book is a catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses. The author's aim has been not to alarm the mothers by acquainting her with all the possible diseases and accidents which may befall her child, but to open her eyes to matters which are her direct and chief concer.215 pages Cover faded a little but good condition, binding good, pages browned 

Item # BO1606   $25.00 
"A Treasury of Grand Opera" Edited by Henry W. Simon  1946   403 pages  The book is edited with the stories, history, and music of each of the seven most famous operas: Don Giovanni, Lohengrin, La Traviata, Faust, Aida, Carmen, and Pagliacci. Each opera has the story first, then each a description of each act, then the piano music to each song in the opera. It  is a very attractive book. It is a soft cover book  but comes in a matching protective box. The covers of the book and the box are beautiful. the pages of the book are mint, the cover is worn a little on the bound edge, the box is worn on the edges and there is a small tear on the edge on one end. 

Item # BO1607    $12.00  
"Final Reckoning" by G. A. Henty  Year unknown. This is a story of adventure in Australia, in the early days when the bushrangers and the natives constituted a real and formidable danger to the settlers. 302 pages Covers worn on the edges, pages browned from age, binding in good condition.  

Item # BO1608   $18.00  
"Will Rogers  Ambassador of Good Will  Prince of Wit and Wisdom" by P. J. O'Brien 1935  Lots of great pictures 288 pages The book tell will Rogers life story. It has chapters on his boyhood, when he went to military school, when he was on the Broadway stage and in the movies,  on the radio, and as an ambassador of good will, in politics and flying with Wiley Post.  covers are worn on the edges, pages are browned  but in good condition, binding good.  

Item # BO1609     $25.00  
"Pogo" by Walt Kelly A wonderful little old soft cover book from 1951. It has 182 pages of Walt Kellys comic strips of the characters of the famous Okefenokee Swamp. Some of the names of the comic strip stories are: Every Day has it's Dog, Some old Eggs in a New Basket, How Mice of you to Drop In, and Four-Flushing The Ground Hog. The inside pages of the book are in quite good condition, however the covers and some of the beginning pages are torn. There is also some writing, names and numbers on some of the first pages. What a wonderful book though if you love Pogo the Possum and his friends and the Walt Kelly Stories.

Item # BO1610   $15.00  
"Pollyanna"  The Glad Book by Eleanor H. Porter 1913 The story of a little eleven year old little girl who comes to stay with her Aunt Miss Polly Harrington in Vermont in her big white house up on the hill. 310 pages  Cover is worn on the edges, pages are brown from age, binding good condition.

Item # BO1611 $30.00
"The Leopards Spots" by Thomas Dixon Copyright 1903 465 pages The story is set in the old South from the years 1865 to 1900. Printing on cover worn, one spot on front at bottom, edges worn, binding and pages all good condition

Item # BO1612     $38.00  
"Onkel Tom's Stuga" by Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1897 This is the same book as the famous Uncle Tom's Cabin only this entire book is written in Swedish. The book has 694 pages with  pages of advertising in the back. It also has many fabulous illustrations throughout the book. The covers are worn, the binding is loose and the pages are browned with age, and  part of the picture of the author is torn away on that page but all the rest of the pages are intact and in good shape.

Item # BO1613   $10.00  
"The Collectors Journal" a hobby magazine  June-July 1920 Monthly Magazine by Edgewood Stamp Co.   36 pages  The magazine has chapters on the stamps of the White Russian Army Corps, new issues of postage stamps, coin collecting and paper money collecting, plus an advertising section  in the back that is really interesting.  The Magazine is in good condition, cover has a little tear at the top and bottom, pages browned.

Item # BO1614    $20.00  
"Sweet Love's Atonement" by Mrs. Southworth 1904 This is a novel  The Leopard Spots by Thomas Dixon  Copyright 1903  465 pages The story tells of Plantation life in Horah Hall  in  the old South and how the slaves were sold from one master to another and how their lives changed. 284 pages Covers worn on the edges, back cover has a black mark on it, pages are browned, binding is loose on a couple of pages near the front, there are some names stamped in the inside front cover.

Item # BO1615     $16.00  
"Maggie Miller" by Mary J. Holmes  Year unknown  298 pages  This is a novel about a young girl whose mother died after her birth. Her grandmother was a servant for a rich noblewoman whose daughter had also died in childbirth. The grandmother switched the babies so that her granddaughter would be rich and have a better life. Nice picture on the front cover, covers are worn, pages browned, binding good.

Item # BO1616   $10.00 
 "The Flaming Forest" By James Oliver Curwood 1921  296 pages This is a novel of the Canadian Northwest. David Carrigan, Sergeant in the Royal Northwest Mounted Police has one great purpose and that is to bring in Black Roger Audemard, alive or dead.  The covers and binding are in very good condition, pages browned.

Item # BO1617    $18.00  
Life of Henrik Ibsen by Edmund Gosse  1907  244 pages The history of Ibsen's Life from his childhood and youth and his early influences, his life in Bergen, his satires, his last years, his personal characteristics and his intellectual characteristics.  The leather covers are torn and loose near the binding, the front cover is not attached, the pages themselves are browned but in good condition.