New Arrivals
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Infant Care,Parenting Education,Child Growth and Psychology,Public Health
United States and Canada: 1951-1965. A collection of twelve (12) items relating to infant care and parenting education, published in the United States and Canada between 1951 and c.1965. Published by both public health departments and infant food manufacturers to market their products, these guides aim to educate parents in.....
Price: $1,200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Child Psychology,Ability and Ableism,Addressing Special Needs in Children,Psychology,Childhood Growth and Development
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937 [i.e.1942]. A scarce near-complete set of the revised 1937 edition of the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales, an intelligence test first introduced in 1905 for the purpose of measuring cognitive ability in children. It uses five weighted factors (fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing and.....
Price: $500.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Sex Education for Boys,Reinforcing Gender Roles in Adolescence,Masculinity in America
United States: 1907-1935. Four (4) sex education booklets for adolescent boys, covering the topics of how reproduction works, the danger of venereal disease, and the importance of living healthfully. Provides an interesting window into the expectations on teen boys and young men at this time, with a large amount of.....
Price: $425.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Girlhood,Original Drawings by Children
Pennsylvania: 1881-1887. A pocket notebook belonging to a young girl named Rosa Boyer from the 1880s, filled with charmingly naive doodles of people, animals, furniture, and other items she would have encountered in her everyday life: utensils; an embroidery hoop; a basket; a hairbrush and comb; a gas lamp; a......
Price: $300.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Religion and Sex Education,American Perceptions of Purity and Virginity,American Temperance Movement,Women and Temperance
United States: c.1900. Four (4) sex education pamphlets for teen girls and their mothers, promoting purity and abstinence. None actually address the subject of sex, but each vaguely gestures towards it, using terms such as “The Great Learning”. Published by religious groups, the pamphlets align sexuality with deviance, and encourage.....
Price: $400.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Workforce,8-hour Work Day
Washington, D.C. Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. A scarce bulletin issued in 1921 by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. The bulletin notes a recent rise in women entering the workforce, and argues that women are physiologically unable to labor the same number.....
Price: $300.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Military,U.S. Navy,20th Century Career Women
United States: U.S. Navy, 1950s. A recruitment booklet promoting careers for women in the Navy, featuring a photo of a smiling and sharply-uniformed young woman walking towards the camera with battleships in the background. When the booklet is fully unfolded, it reads in large letters, "JOIN THE WAVES". Offers brief.....
Price: $325.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Public Health,Typhoid Fever,Meningitis,Polio,Quarantine
Pennsylvania: 1909. Three (3) printed signs barring entry to a given premises based on state-imposed public health quarantine in Pennsylvania, for the following illnesses: Typhoid Fever, Cerebro Spinal Meningitis, and Anterior Poliomyelitis. The beginning of the 20th century saw a boom in public health policy and science, with a new.....
Price: $500.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Addiction in America,Drugs and War,20th Century American Politics,Public Health
San Francisco, California: Drug Research Project, c.1974. Featuring an image of Uncle Sam smoking a cigar and leaning on an oversized syringe, "Uncle Sam the Pusher Man" provides a frank look at narcotics addiction in America, putting the blame squarely on American capitalism and calling for the de-criminalization of drug.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in Business,Corsets and Undergarments,Women Helping Women
Boston, Massachusetts: Mrs. O.P. Flynt, c.1874. Promotional booklet for the "fashionable dress maker" Mrs. O.P. Flynt, who markets herself here as an "inventor of improved under-clothing for women and children" and the inventor of a patented weather protector garment, "enabling a lady to walk for hours in a storm, through.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, National Lotteries,Lottery in Mexico, Child Labor
Mexico: Lotería Nacional Para La Beneficencia Pública, 1938. A promotional booklet for the 1938 Lotería Nacional Para La Beneficencia Pública (National Lottery of Mexico), published in English. Features an image of a lottery worker (referred to here as "lottery bell boys") gasping in excitement on the front over while reading.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Kindergarten Art,Paper Cutting
Guelph, Ontario, Canada: c.1900. A fine collection of paper cutting kindergarten art created by a woman named Edith McKinnon of Guelph, Ontario, housed in its original accordion-style album. There are a total of seventy-seven (77) examples of geometric paper cutting and fourteen (14) unusual examples of paper cutting with straw.....
Price: $575.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Memo Books,Journals,Planners
New York, New York: Baker & Godwin, Printers, 1860. A memo and record book for the year 1860-1861, advertising "fancy goods" sold by Cyrus J. Lawrence, a wholesale dealer of products such as "Combs, brushes, buttons, threads, jewelry, perfumery, musical instruments, stationery, &c." (title-page). The first approx. 100 pages is.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Firefighting,Safety,Inventories and Record Books
United States: 1903. A detailed inventory and record book spanning the dates 1903 and 1906, appearing to have belonged to a firefighter or building manager tasked with safety management. Largely recorded in ink manuscript, the book begins with an inventory of fire safety equipment (e.g. "Fire pails"; "Automatic fire doors";.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Air Force,Recruitment
United States: U.S. Air Force, [1972]. A guide to career opportunities in the Air Force, published for teens and young adults. Featuring an illustration of a plane on a runway on the front, the booklet aims to paint military service as an exciting and fulfilling career path rife with opportunities.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Birth Control,Sex in the 19th Century,Oneida Community,
Oneida, New York: Office of the American Socialist, 1877. Second edition of a booklet on male sexual continence (i.e. coitus reservatus) by the founder of the Oneida Community, John Humphrey Noyes. Male continence was encouraged among the community's members as both a means of birth control and a means of.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Ornithology,Natural History,Publishing Industry,Bird Conservation
Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, [1916]. Advertising leaflet for two (2) books on ornithology published in 1916 by the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. Includes postage pricing and brief physical descriptions for each work: the fourth edition of Edward How Forbush's "Useful Birds and Their Protection", and the.....
Price: $175.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Muscogee Nation,Native Americans,Oklahoma
United States: c.1903. Two (2) items documenting the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's relation to the federal government at the turn of the century. The first item is a printed record of the allotment patent signed by P. Porter, Principal Chief of the Muskogee Nation, in 1903 (8.5" by 8"). The second.....
Price: $200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Careers in STEM,The American Workforce
New York, New York: General Electric, 1956-1968. A grouping of five (5) publications by General Electric, courting young talent and encouraging teens and young adults to pursue higher education in preparation for fulfilling careers in science and technology. Note that each of the publications encourages critical thinking, and focuses not.....
Price: $450.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Communications Technology,Telephonists and Switchboard Operators in WWII,Signal Corps
United States: Bell Telephone Company, c.1943. A WWII-era promotional booklet from Bell, highlighting the importance of telephones and communications technology to the war effort. Features patriotic imagery throughout, with photographs of telephonists, a telephone line on the front lines,a group of Signal Corps trainees in class, and the Bell Laboratories.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,4-H Clubs,Victory Gardens,Teenagers and the War Effort,Homefront Activities
Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of Agriculture, c.1944. "Your chance to serve": two (2) pamphlets published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for young people, promoting 4-H Clubs as way of supporting the war effort on the homefront. Both affiliated with University of Maryland. They include: "America Calls All 4-H Clubs".....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
United States: c.1943. Two (2) items documenting textile rationing on the homefront during the Second World War, in which cottons and other fabrics were conserved to support the troops abroad. The first item is a printed wrapper used to wrap around a bed sheet for sale by Pepperdell Manufacturing Company.....
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,V for Victory,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
State College, Pennsylvania: Penn State School of Agriculture, 1942. Featuring a "V for Victory" style illustration on the front, this pamphlet encourages American housewives to buy clothing carefully and conserve the clothing they do have, in order to support the troops abroad. At this time, cotton fabric was rationed, as.....
Price: $200.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Family Medicine,Dream Interpretation,Omens and Superstitions,Halloween
Elkhart, Indiana: Dr. Miles Medical Company, c.1930. Advertising booklet for Dr. Miles brand family medicines, treating everything from insomnia and "nerves" to aches, pains, and constipation Verging on "quack medicine", the brand uses this booklet to appeal to women in particular by using entertaining content including dream interpretation ("To dream.....
Price: $175.00