Non-fiction
Atomic Age,Public Education,History of Science and Technology
Upton, New York: Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc, 1949. A late 1940's promotional booklet for the Brookhaven National Laboratory, educating the general public about atomic energy and radiation. Provides a fascinating window into a time when science and technology were rapidly advancing: "It is said that we are living.....
Price: $225.00
juvenile] [children's literature
New York: Nelson Doubleday, Inc, 1960. 160 pp. Pink applied stamped cover with printed dust jacket, illustrations and pictures throughout-style varies depending on story. A collection of children's stories by various authors, this volume (40) includes: With Dorothy in Oz by L. Frank Baum, Roger and the Fox by Lavinia.....
Price: $25.00
Black Beauty,Humane Education,Animal Welfare,Equestrian,Horse Welfare
Providence, Rhode Island: Humane Education Committee, Late 19th-century. A printed circular published around the same time of the publication of Black Beauty, which triggered an animal welfare and humane education movement in the United States and Great Britain. This circular, published by a humane education committee in Providence, aims to.....
Price: $275.00
Holocaust,WWII,First-Hand Accounts,Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
N.pl: N.p (U.S. Army?), 1945. A visceral first-hand account of the horrors encountered by Americans who liberated the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in 1945, penned by a colonel in the U.S. Army. The booklet includes graphic photographs of the liberated camp and text originally penned by Miller in his letters home.....
Price: $325.00
children's morals] [American Sunday-School Union] [religion] [juvenile
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, c 1848. 51 pp, Marbled cover, The Cottage Girl 35pp, Frontispiece of female praying at bedside, full text; Ann and her Mother 16pp, full text with one image on first page; bound together, June 2016 OCLC-2. 5 3/4" x 3 1/2" heavy cover wear, light foxing.....
Price: $20.00
Rhetoric and Public Speaking,Language and Gesture
Chicago, Illinois: North American Institute, 1930. A brief guide to using hand gestures, published as a part of a series on public speaking. Includes photo illustrations of the gestures for ease of reference. Interesting for just how precise some of the directions are: Fingers should be easily separated, in some.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Juvenile Delinquency,Child Labor,Schools,Law and Order,Agencies,Community Building,Women in Research
United States: 1928 to 1968. A superlative research collection exploring the topic of juvenile delinquency in twentieth century America, comprised of eighty (80) items. Published by agencies, researchers, and community initiatives, the items provide a kaleidoscope of viewpoints through which to see the issue of juvenile delinquency. Themes include: a......
Price: $6,800.00
Labor Unions,United Rubber Workers,Labor in the 1960s
[Akron, Ohio]: United Rubber Workers, c.1965. "Vision Needed for Labor's Future": a printed book of inspirational quotes from politicians, poets, social leaders and religious figures throughout history, demonstrating the ongoing struggle labor unions and social advocates face c.1965. Published by United Rubber Workers, AFL-CIO, CLC, a labor union founded in.....
Price: $125.00
Shipwrecks and Disasters
Norwich, England: S. Wilkin, 1825. A guide to assisting shipwreck survivors, published about a decade before the famous "Grace Darling" event and providing modern readers with an evocative view of shipwreck disasters from the time: "No species of calamity excites more interest and compassion, than Shipwreck, when its miseries are.....
Price: $325.00
Women's Work,Home Economics
Chicago, Illinois: American Washer and Ironer Manufacturers' Association, 1946. A guide to laundering and stain removal from the American Washer and Ironer Manufacturers' Association. Interestingly, the target audience for this booklet is not the average housewife, but rather the "housewife-in-training" -- home economics students. A nice example of an industry.....
Price: $125.00
History of Oregon,Civil War,Pony Express,Famous German-Americans
Portland, Oregon: Fred Lockley, [1924]. A brief historical monograph self-published in 1924 by Fred Lockley, an American historian and journalist known for his interviews of early Oregon settlers as well as a host of well-known public figures ranging from Harry Houdini to Thomas Edison. The subject of the monograph, Col.....
Price: $100.00
juvenile, poetry, Paris children
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1923. 59 pp. Applied illustrated cover over cloth spine, color illustrations by Barbara Haven Brown. A story of brother and sister, Jean and Jeanette, and their daily routine. A poem begins with the time of day, beginning with eight o'clock and is then followed.....
Price: $50.00
storms
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. unpaginated. Illustrated applied cover, color illustrations by Margaret Bloy Graham, 1953 Caldecott Honor Book. A little boy in the country watches a storm and asks his mother about the thunder and lightning. a young man in the city watches a storm from his window.....
Price: $25.00
Ethics and Morality,History of Publishing in Philadelphia,Printers and Publishers
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Mathew Carey, 1792. Early American edition. The first volume of an abridgment of treatises on morals and ethics by James Beattie, published in Philadelphia by Mathew Carey in 1792. A second volume was published in 1794 (not present here). First published in England in 1790. Interestingly, the adverts.....
Price: $100.00
Hydrotherapy,Alternative Therapy,History of Physiotherapy,Homeopathic Treatments
New York, New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1851. Later American edition, first published in England in 1723, of an early treatise on the potential healing properties of water. This would later be referred to in the 19th century as the alternative medicine of hydrotherapy, sometimes referred to as hydropathy. Using.....
Price: $325.00
Roots of MAGA America,History of White Supremacy in America,Civil Rights Movement,Racism in the American South
Marietta, Georgia: The Thunderbolt, c.1970. A horrifically racist anti-interracial marriage pamphlet penned by Rev. David K. Stacey and published by The Thunderbolt, a white supremacist serial published to promote "The White Man's Opinion". Uses religion to justify racist ideologies. The rhetoric and arguments used in the text mirror MAGA talking.....
Price: $375.00
Hypnotism in the Medical Field
Newark, New Jersey: Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey, 1910. A brief monograph on hypnotism, reprinted from the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1910. Penned by a physician, it explores whether hypnotism could be viewed as a legitimate treatment for certain afflictions. As might.....
Price: $150.00