Love; Friendship
Love and Friendship, Valentine, McLoughlin Bros.
New York, NY: [McLoughlin Bros.], 1870s. A 5 1/2" x 3 3/4" single fold valentine with color lithograph of a young girl (with the appearance of a McLoughlin paper doll) at top. Embossed floral and filigree border decoration. Verse at base reads Here's a greeting for my little dear, Upon.....
Price: $50.00
Silk Mesh,Lace Paper,Embossed Scrap
England: 1850s. A fine lace paper Valentine featuring embossed Victorian gilt scrap of Cupid, a hand-colored lithographed image of a couple inside, and a very delicate silk mesh window. Two printed stanzas of verse inside, with early ink manuscript below reading, "Dear Ada As sure as grapes Grow on the.....
Price: $65.00
Victorian Cookie, Love and Friendship, Oddities
New York: [1890s]. An elaborate cookie created in the shape of a heart with applied cornucopias and a Cupid with a floral garland. Applied gold leaf to bead-shaped border decoration. The cookie was applied to a New York City street map for cooling/stability. The map on the reverse is helpful.....
Price: $450.00
Plaited Hair, Victoriana, Folk Art, Love and Friendship
1870s. A 10" x 8" sheet with a variety of designs of plaited hair from 25 different people held in place with miniature Victorian floral scraps. From a single loop or strands to elaborate weavings of multiple hair chains and loops. Intricate fine weave. Of particular note is that all.....
Price: $750.00
Victorian, Scrap, Prints, Lithography, Hand-colored, Engravings, Prints, Graphic Arts
-1870s. A Victorian scrapbook with fine examples of early (i.e. 1830s and 1840s) scraps, with a range of others that can be dated as late as 1877. Larger lithographic prints have been repurposed as pastedowns, and several other large prints (mostly lithographed, some engraved) have been pasted throughout. Of more.....
Price: $375.00
Rebus, Picture Story, Watercolor, Love Token
A single-fold 6 1/2" x 4 3/4" sheet with a grapevine on the cover titled A Fruitful Theme When opened a hand penned note :Although I've hear you called a "cherry" That notion i Deery. I rather choose to eat you The "apple" of my "eye" But if you only.....
Price: $125.00
carriers greeting, calendar, dolls, paper dolls, love, culture, britian, uk, Buckingham palace, japan, sweden
Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Press, 1910. A three page calendar for the year 1910. The calendar is a Courier Calendar that was produced by the newspaper Cleveland Press. Each page features a doll couple from a different country. The first image of dolls from Britain: the girl doll has blond hair.....
Price: $100.00
Lace Paper,Winged Cupid,Holly
England: 1850s. Octavo-sized lace paper for a Valentine measuring approx. 7" by 4.75". Colored green, it features a winged cupid with bow and arrow in the center, with bright red branches of holly at the foot and an applied scrap reading "My heart is thine". A fine and well-preserved example.....
Price: $90.00
valentines, sailor
A 5 3/4" x 5" die-cut, heart shaped, easel backed valentine with applied parchment with floral and leaf design held in place with rivets.The center has an image of a sailor walking with a pretty young girl. The backgroundhas an ocean scene. The final tier has gray stripe edging.The lower.....
Price: $22.00
correspondence, deathbed, morality, death, goodbye
Alexandria, NJ: 1900. In 1900 Annie Pegg wrote a letter to her husband and two children Sarah and James on her supposed deathbed (she would actually live until 1914 and have another child, Elizabeth). It is unknown if she was actually severely ill or just over dramatic, however the letter.....
Price: $50.00
Sex Education,Birth Control,The American Family,Venereal Disease,Sex Ed in the Roaring 20's,Film Censors,Albert Dezel,Marriage,Sex and Marriage
Chicago, Illinois. Sex Educational Films, 1928. A sex education booklet for married couples in 1928, written in a friendly casual tone. Warns against bringing venereal disease into a marriage, and urges men to "move cautiously, considerately, [and] humanely" on his wedding night in respect of his young wife's "maidenly modesty".....
Price: $150.00
Sex Education,Birth Control,The American Family,Venereal Disease,20th cent. Perceptions of Homosexuality
Chicago, Illinois: Budlong Press Company, 1964. A printed sex education guide for married couples, written from the point of view of a doctor, broken into three parts: "Some Facts of Life" (sex anatomy, modern attitudes towards sex); "The Sexual Act" (desire, coital positions, hygiene); and "Conception and Pregnancy" (how conception.....
Price: $325.00
Adult Sex Education,Marriage,Rhythm Method
Chicago, Illinois: The Budlong Press, 1959. The "Rhythm Edition" of a sex education booklet by sex researcher Bernard R. Greenblat, M.D., published exclusively for general practitioners to give to their married patients. Covers the following subjects among others: modern attitudes towards sex; the male and female sex organs; the sexual.....
Price: $200.00
Original Artwork,Frolicking,Children's Books,Handmade,Watercolors
United States: c.1945. An utterly delectable children's story with original artwork about two young people, Nick and Nan, "lovers atop a strawberry tart, Dancing and singing with love in their hearts". Includes original watercolor artwork for a title-page, upper cover, and thirteen full-page illustrations with hand-lettered rhyming captions. In the.....
Price: $1,800.00
Watercolor, Made by Hand, Genealogy
Wroxham,Norfolk, England: 1972. A large format album reconstructed album illustrated and narrated by Charles Arthur Hannaford. The majority of the content, excluding the narration was created by his father in law and reflected the life of Frank Albert Allchin and his wife Emily Cooper, between the years 1879 and 1929.....
Price: $2,600.00
Children of the World, International Friendship, European Heritage
United States. Dorothy K. Weeblow, 1951. A charming interactive children's book emphasizing international friendship and cultural heritage. The story revolves around six children from European countries (England, France, Italy, Holland, Switzerland, and Norway) who are traveling across the Atlantic on an ocean liner. The young reader is asked to help.....
Price: $125.00
French Language, Hand-colored Valentine
[France?]: c.1810. Regency-era Valentine with hand-colored etching of a lovely young lady holding a bouquet of flowers, above what appears to be an original handwritten sonnet: "Ne vous Affligez point sure votre infirmité / Ô beauté singulière! admirable Entrangère..." ("Do not grieve over your infirmity / O singular beauty! admirable.....
Price: $225.00
doll, teddy bear, independence, anthropomorphic, adventure, friendship
New York: Margaret K. McElderry Book, 1979. 32pp. Dust jacket. Both written & Illustrated by Faith Jaques, the book tells the story of a doll named Tilly, who leaves the her doll house in search of a place of her own. Along the way she befriends a teddy bear named.....
Price: $60.00
Public Health,Sex Education in the Classroom,Public Schools,Health Education
New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1951. A comprehensive description of the "program of education in human relations, including sex relations, in the public schools of San Diego, California" (foreword). Describes the mission of the program, which is to ground sex education into health education for teens, and.....
Price: $200.00
civil war, union, union soldier, battle, death, grief, frienship
Falmouth, VA: c1865. 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" manuscript license to preach. At a meeting of the association of Tolland County convened at Tolland Dec. 28, 1835, the bearer, John Haven, a member of the Theological Institute of Connecticut was examined as to his doctrinal & experimental knowledge of the.....
Price: $175.00
Calligraphic Drawing
Nokomis, Illinois: 1866. Handwritten letter with a fine example of calligraphic drawing depicting a bird in flight holding an olive branch. The letter itself is from a farmer's son to his friend, asking what the friend is studying and relaying family news and offering the above artwork, "a specimen of.....
Price: $250.00
poetry
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1909. 38 unnumbered pp. Pictorial cloth cover, frontispiece, color illustrations and decorations by E. Stetson Crawford, illustrations repeat throughout the book, red, black, and gilt monogram on end pages. Children's poem about school day romances that "are the dearest, after all!." 9" x 6 1/2" 1st edition.....
Price: $60.00
Sex Education,Male Puberty,Celebrity Bodybuilders,Dating Advice,Pickup Artists , ABAA-RBMS-2023
n.pl. Joe Weider, 1959. A booklet published by Joseph Weider, celebrity bodybuilder and self-styled "Trainer of the Stars", giving young men dating advice. Very much in the same vein as VH1's "Pickup Artist" reality television series, the booklet offers impressionable teen boys advice for how to "get" the girl of.....
Price: $150.00