Social Situations
Charm, Recipes, Gender Roles, Women's Work
United States: Association of Adventurers, 1934. Two (2) printed pamphlets from 1934 titled "Adventures in Charm!", offering advice to women who want to become stylish and interesting. The first, titled "Let's Eat!" urges the reader to explore world cuisine, become an interesting conversationalist at the dinner table, and be adventurous.....
Price: $150.00
Fairy Tales, Anthropomorphism, Social Situations
New York: McLoughlin, 1869. 8 pgs. wraps. An illustration and rhyming verse on each page. The story of anthropomorphic cats planning and executing a party with all it's trials and tribulations. Concludes with a Moral. The reverse of the pages are blank and a child has created (traced) an outline.....
Price: $150.00
Dance Card, Leather & Metal Workers,
Vienna: Adolph Müller & Söhne, 1894. An 1894 dance card sumptuously produced by Adolph Müller & Söhne, leather and metal workers based in Vienna. The dance card is made up of three separate components: first, an engraved metal shield with enamel four-leaf clover and gilded brass ribbon bearing the date.....
Price: $375.00
Dance Card
New York, New York: Homer Lee Bank Note Co., 1892. Dance card for the First Annual Ball of the Homer Lee Bank Note Co. Mutual Benefit Association, held in New York's Lyric Hall in February 1892. Includes a program of dances with spaces to write one's dance partners, as well.....
Price: $65.00
Dance Card
[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]: 1887. Printed dance card for the annual Tasker Social held in 1887 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Musical Fund Hall. Includes list of dances with spaces to write one's dance partners, as well as a list of conductors, officers, and the organizing committee. Bifolium (5" by 3.25"), printed.....
Price: $110.00
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820] [juvenile literature
France: Domino Press, 1931. 14 pp. Applied illustrated cover over cloth spine. Edited by Esther Averill and Lila Stanley, full color lithographs by Fedor Rojankovsky. The adventures of Daniel Boone and his encounters with Indians, , hunting, traveling into the wilderness, and war. 14 1/2" x 11 1/4" wear on.....
Price: $110.00
german, phone, telephone, play, pretend, conversation, conversation, conversations
Germany: Junior International, 1970. This book was intended for toddlers, and would show two children having a make believe conversation on a phone. Such as a young girl ordering food from the local baker for her guests - a group of her dolls. The illustrations are colorful and bright. On.....
Price: $18.00
Paper Manufacturers, Letter Writing, Social Conventions , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Holyoke, Massachusetts: Whiting Paper Company, 1909. A brief guide to letter writing etiquette and "the correct usage of fine stationary", advertising products sold by the Whiting Paper Company. It wastes no time establishing tone, and instruct the reader right away that "Papers of brilliant colors are not in good form.....
Price: $375.00
s. and j. fuller, paper toy book, little fanny
A 15 pp book with original slip case. It is The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. Original date 1811. 8th Ed. Includes six (6) of the seven (7) original costumes. Hats lacking. The head has been replaced with a very good watercolor likeness. Wear on.....
Price: $350.00
virtuousness, morals
New York: Merriam, Moore, & Co, n.d. 12 pp. Printed soft cover, illustrations. A pair of books both John White and his Lottery ticket. One has hand sewn binding and repair with hand colored illustration on cover. The other has most of the cover missing but has a unique cloth.....
Price: $40.00
French, teddy bear, school, bear,
Amsterdam: Mulder & Zoon, 1940s. 14 pp. soft cover. French language. An endearing book about a mischievous little bear, named Michou, and the trouble he gets into both at school and at the pool. Illustrations are in both color and black and white. Measures 8 1/2" x 7 3/4" There.....
Price: $18.00
children's books, poetry, verse, animals, pigeon, dove, morality, temptation
? Samuel P. Brown, 1860s. A short little story, that through verse tells of the temptation of a young poor boy, named Jacob. It should be noted that both the cover and title page state "Little David's Temptation", however the title at the start of the poem says "Little Jacob's.....
Price: $85.00
Bears, Social Situations, Early Childhood Learning
New York: McLoughlin, 1874. Gilt enhanced chromolithograph wraps. 6 leaves. 6 full page color plates. The adventures and misadventures of a mother bear and her cubs. Back cover promotes McLoughlin products including info on Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series, Gilt Cover Picture Books and more. Measures 9" x 10 3/4".....
Price: $90.00
Dance Card
Norwich, Connecticut: 1860. A February, 1860 dance card produced for a "Social Levee" held at Breed Hall in Norwich, Connecticut. The event's organizing committee is listed on the second leaf recto. Bifolium (3.75" by 2.5") printed in blue on embossed card with rounded corners. Fastened in lower left-hand corner with.....
Price: $75.00
cartoon, humor, two-facved, politics
1860. A political cartoon depicting a woodcut engraving of a man wearing a top hat sitting on top of a fence. He has two-faces, and as such, he says to the man standing on the right side of the fence "Don't you be alarmed. Ratigan is the last man I......
Price: $100.00
spring, seasons, children at play, german, Lungershausen, Ilse Wende-Lungershausen, Lungers, Hausen
1950s. 8 pp (including covers) Litho on board throughout. German language. A 'funny picture book', that tells the story of three children asking when spring will come again. Along with the children are several animals, such as a chicken, a pig, a snail and a beetle. The watercolor illustrations are.....
Price: $85.00
childhood learning, social situations , German language
ca. 1935. 16 unnumbered page picture book with litho on board covers. Full page color illustrations with two line caption beneath each. A German language book depicting children in difficult or unfamiliar social situations and a bit of an explanation as to how to resolve. Bright colors. Measures 11 3/4".....
Price: $55.00
Christianity, Porn, Premarital Sex, Teenagers, Drinking, Smoking, Texas, Baptist, Lung Cancer
Dallas, Texas: The Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, c.1959. A grouping of seven (7) brochures, five (5) under the title "Teen Talk" presented by the Texas Baptist Christian Life commission and two (2) by the Christian Life Commission of the Baptist General Convention of Texas.....
Price: $275.00
university of maine, turtle, dinner party, party favor
Orono, ME: 16-Mar-05. A program from a small dinner party, entitled "The Turtle Islanders, Thursday March 16, 1905", which most likely refers to Turtle Island in Winter Harbor, ME. On one of the interior pages is a play on the poem "The Lay of the Lobster" which appeared in a......
Price: $110.00
Humor, Cutlery Puns
London: J. King, [1890s]. Two (2) amusing greeting cards designed with cutlery puns: "A Stirring Time to You" - may you always have a fresh spoon when the old one turns rusty..., "A FORK to show you're not fork-gotten...", and so on. Each is crafted out of embossed decorated paper.....
Price: $350.00
Vinegar Valentines, Humor, Job Printing, Gender, Masculinity, Gender Roles, Family and Domestic Work
London: G. Ingram, 1860s. Two (2) large Vinegar Valentines produced by G. Ingram of London. These particular Vinegar Valentines are quite large compared to others produced at the time; one here measures 25.5" by 9.25", while the other measures 21" by 8.25". Most would generally be about a third or.....
Price: $450.00
police, civil rights, law, aclu, non profit, legal., Q & A
Providence, RI: American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Rhode Island, [1965]. A 'Q & A' pamphlet provided by the Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU) on what to do when you are stopped by the police. The pamphlet has been broken up into three sections: 'If You Are.....
Price: $65.00
children's books,
London, Edinburgh, and New York: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1870. 16 pages, bound in yellow wrapper. Cover printed in red ink, with decorative border and floral backing on title. Decorative element on title page with "Packet B" printed in the bottom left corner of the page, engraved frontisepiece. Decorative.....
Price: $28.00
Theosophy, Spiritualism, 19th Century Religions, Occult
London, England: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1891. A glossary of Theosophical terms compiled by the prominent British theosophists and human rights advocates Annie Besant (1847-1933) and Herbet Burrows (1845-1922), with a brief introduction: "The words which are explained in the following short Glossary are some of those which have been found.....
Price: $275.00