Books - Vintage from Blue & Grey Book Shoppe

From front cover: "Bigger and better than ever! Here's Heloise, the housewife's favorite helper, with more hints and how-to's for everything -- alphabetically arranged to make things even easier." Book - Good+ condition. Red and white cloth over boards with coating. Black text on spine. Bottom front has center "dent". Spine has some of the coating off. Both front and back… Read more about this item

Tombstone, Arizona. The Exciting History of a Valiant Town that Fought Back Against the Perils of Gunfights, Earthquake, Fires, Floods and Depression. Book - Good+ condition. Silver and black heavy cardstock cover. Stapled binding is good. Covers show some wear. Very little edge/corner wear. Text is clean. Includes black and white images and photographs. Please use photos as part of the description. 40 pages.

The story of the Louisiana Purchase. Key players: Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte, Robert Livingston, James Monroe. Book - Good- condition. Light green cloth over boards with red and purple graphic and title on front and spine. Covers have been cleaned, but still look soiled and stained. Corners and spine are very worn. End papers have colored scenes. Front has a pasted… Read more about this item

From front DJ flap: "...Fletcher Pratt re-creates, through actual eyewitness reports in picture and story, the five long years of bloodshed, turmoil, and tragedy which brought the nation through its gravest trial." From back DJ flap: "...these 300 rare illustrations call up the raids and riots; the ruin at Manassas Junction; McClellan's reluctance and the Mud Campaign; the ironclad's foray and… Read more about this item

From the Introduction: "This book is based on the five volumes of my Makers and Finders: a History of the Writer in America, 1800-1915." From front cover: "More than 500 photographs and drawings plus text..." The work is condensed to one-sixth of the original text while retaining its flow. DJ notes that this was a book dividend of the Book of the… Read more about this item

From the Editor's Preface: "...you will find Herbert Hoover writing not as a former President, but as a former Boy. It is a role which suits him well. He has always loved the memory of his own boyhood, with a grave, affectionate, and wisely humorous regard for all boys and girls who are engaged in the serious business of growing… Read more about this item

"Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there be published and bound 6,000 copies of the State papers and all correspondence bearing upon the purchase of the territory of Louisiana by the United States, including the treaty of purchase, 4,000 for the use of the House of Representatives and 2,000 for the use of the Senate. Passed… Read more about this item

According to "British Literature Wiki" Middlemarch is "...a fictional representation of provincial life during the Victorian era. It is a novel that encapsulates all aspects of Victorian life and its social classes where the working class, middle class and country gentry live and interact in a communtiy." New Edition - Complete in One Volume Published by John Wurtele Lovell, Publisher 1881 Fair condition.… Read more about this item

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a classic novel by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens). It tells of Huck's escape from his abusive father and journey down the Mississippi with a runaway slave (Jim). Good condition for a book printed in 1918. No Jacket. Red cloth over boards with Green text on front and spine. Spine is seriously faded and shows… Read more about this item

From Chapter I. The Workshop. - "With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end of my pen I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr.… Read more about this item

From Wikipedia: "King Leopold's Soliloquy is a 1905 pamphlet by American author Mark Twain. Its subject is King Leopold's rule over the Congo Free State. A work of political satire harshly condemnatory of his actions, it ostensibly recounts a fictional monologue of Leopold II speaking in his own defense." There are a few black & white illustrations and a few black… Read more about this item

Nancy Drew mystery. Good- condition. There is some edge, corner, and spine wear to cover. End papers are blue with blue and white illustrations. Front end paper has previous owner's name in red or purple ink. Next page has a very neat name in red or purple ink. Page on back side of back end paper has a sticker for Aberdeen… Read more about this item

From the front DJ flap: "The delightful and amusing adventures of the Bobbsey Family endear these stories to small children." Book - Good condition. Dark green leather cover with black title and image embossed on front cover and black text on spine. There is some edge and corner wear. Orange and white illustrated end papers have a previous owner's name in… Read more about this item

Vintage children's story (copyright 1958). Presented by Weekly Reader Children's Book Club in 1959. Stated First Edition. Good condition. red paper on boards has black illustration on fron cover, a printed "seal" on back cover, and black text on spine. Spine is lightly faded. There is very little edge wear, but significant bottom corners wear, plus wear at spine. The page… Read more about this item

From "Plan and Purpose" page: "Back of this undertaking was a definite purpose, and that purpose was to collect and make permanent a complete account of the growth and development of the social and economic life of the people of the State of Illinois." "Here will be found farmers and factory owners alongside lawyers, teachers and preachers. Here too will be… Read more about this item

Two tales of heroics on the planet Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Very Good condition. Green leather over boards with faded gold text on spine. Small stain at top of front cover. Light bumping to covers. Some edge/corner wear. Top of closed book pages has some speckles. Book has slight twist. Some pages have light age tanning/spots, but most pages are… Read more about this item

From the Foreword: Here the founder of Methodism comes alive in a gripping narrative true to the facts of history but with overtones that intensify the human qualities of the man." "The Burning Thirst" is the first of a new series of reading books for Methodist youth. ... "these books, planned for individual reading, will supplement curriculum materials. The present volume will… Read more about this item

This beautiful book has 102 Bible stories that have both color and sepia-type illustrations. Many are by the fine art masters. Beautiful book in Near Fine condition. I chose that rating as I believe that it has a scratch on the front cover; however, it blends in so well with the leather texture that it is not obvious. This is a… Read more about this item

From the back DJ cover: "The real history of man," Max Miller once wrote, "is the history of religion." To understand the forms and dorces of a nation's life, one needs to know something of its spiritual heritage. For it is only as we develop a "solemn sense of God's superintending providence" that we can match the challenge of our… Read more about this item

From "What is a Ghost Town?": "One of several dictionary definitions of "ghost" is "a shadowy semblance of its former self." We have elected to prefer this somewhat ambiguous phrase, because it accurately describes many towns on the borderline of being dead or alive. Most of the towns described and pictured in this book are "dead" ghosts, but some still have… Read more about this item