Non-fiction
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
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
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Homeopathic Medicine,History of Alternative Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri: Luyties' Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1880. October 1880 issue of "Luyties' Homeopathic Circular", a serial issued to promote homeopathic remedies sold at Luyties' Pharmacy. Features an amusing drawing on the front of a messenger striding across the globe carrying various bottles and vials of remedies. Contents include advertisements for.....
Price: $275.00
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
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