Search Results: Antiquarian Books from Inga's Original Choices

1938. Illustrated throughout with B&W ads, B&W photographs of Miss Bonnie Duke [Chicago, Illinois] and the following photos of "Local Home Service Advisors": Mrs. Pearl Spencer [Blytheville, Arkansas], Miss Camille Robinson [Walnut Ridge, Arkansas], and Miss Abbie Gibbs [Caruthersville, Missouri]. This cooking class was held at the Kennett [Missouri] Country Club on May 2 and 3, 1938, sponsored by the Dunklin Democrat, the Arkansas-Missouri Power Corporation, and the local electric appliance dealer. Pages clean, unmarked, staple binding sound; some discoloration around staples. Covers with minimal edge wear but with a few stains, small at front, somewhat larger at back. Ads include Westinghouse, Frigidaire, and Kelvinator Electric Ranges; 1938 Frigidaire, Westinghouse and Hotpoint Refrigerators; Westinghouse Water Heaters, Roasters, and Irons. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free… Read More

NY: The American Historical Society, Inc, 1930. Illustrated throughout with portraits [sepia photogravures and B&W photographs]. top gilded pages [345-699 including index] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square; some age discolorations at page edges and mild staining at a few text pages; there is faint to mild staining at pages opposite the gravures caused by the inks used in printing. Dark green boards, black leatherette corners and spine, gilt lettering, clean [a few small faded spots], minor shelf wear at extremities; blue parchment look endpapers. Index includes biographies in this volume as well as those in volume III [available at time of listing 12/7/2012]. Will quote discount for both volumes upon request. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Appears to be First Edition. Hard… Read More

Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1923. One of 5 Adele Doring novels, this one is very rare and hard to find. Red boards, black and blue stamping, small area of fading at bottom corners, 2 shallow dents. Pages [334] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Color frontispiece and 3 full page color illustrations which are bright and beautiful. Binding tight, some staining along bottom edge of boards and pages. First Edition status verified with Zempel/Verkler. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Young, Florence Liley.

NY: John Martin's Book House, 1924. Illustrated throughout with color art reproductions [orange and black duo tone drawings]. Green cloth boards, mostly clean [one small spot at back], colors bright, minor shelf wear at extremities, color paste down [small areas with surface damage], gilt decorations and lettering; decorated endpapers. Pages [unpaginated] mostly clean [a few smudges and stains], unmarked, binding sound, slight lean to spine. PO's book plate at fep. For list of fables see photos. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Appears to be First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Carlson, George L. & W. Fletcher White. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Silver, Burdett & Co, 1930. Illustrated with beautiful color line block and numerous B&W drawings. Pages mostly clean, unmarked, binding tight, 1 page with a tear, one has a corner missing, a few with dogears. Pictorial covers, corners bumped, cover edges rubbed with some fraying, spine repaired with green tape with a 1/2" missing at top. Usual ex-libri markings. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Illus. by Whittemore, Constance. Ex-Library.

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1930. Illustrated with B&W plates which have been reproduced from old manuscripts and prints in the British Museum. Textblock pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square; age discoloration to frontispiece. Medium blue boards, black lettering, mostly clean, shelf wear to extremities [corners bumped, scuffed, some fraying], some general wear. An anthology of verse and prose gathered from the literature about the ancient sport of archery. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Various Artists.

Macmillan Co, 1926. Pages clean, binding tight and square, a few pencilled notes, found two short tears. Brown covers mostly clean, blind stamping, shelf-wear to extremities. PO's name penned on fep, pencilled on endpaper, and several notes on both. One of the Macmillan Pocket Classics. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1920. Subtitle: "Lebensskizzen". Green covers, gold stamping. Pages clean and tight with edges browning. (Beschreibung in Deutsch auf Anfrage.) 16. bis 20. Tausend Auflage ( one of the 16 - 20 thousand printing edition). B&W illuminated capitals at start of each chapter. Printed in Germany by Guenther, Kirstein & Wendler, Leipzig. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. NON price-clipped DJ [$2.75], colors bright, edge wear, short tears, small bit missing. Pages clean [edges slightly browning, a little soiling], unmarked, binding tight and square, one fep missing. Dark red boards, gilt lettering and blue-gray decorations, mostly clean, a little shelf-wear to extremities. The author of The Sun Is My Undoing has written the story of Bell Timson, an oftne unpredictable woman who became one of the fabulous backstage figures of London society. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Full-Leather. Good/Fair.

NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1943. Pages mostly clean, unmarked, binding tight, very slight lean to spine, edge tear to 2 pages. Orange boards, black lettering, clean but with a few marks and spots, a little shelf wear to extremities, lightly sunned spine. PO's gift inscriptions at feps, and half title page. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket.

Cleveland Ohio: Deutsches Verlagshaus, 1882. Text in German. Illustrated with B&W drawings. Subtitle: Für unsre lieben Kinder, gross und klein [For Our Dear Children, Big and Small]. A collection of poems and stories in German. brown cloth boards with elaborate blind stamping. Pages browning but clean, textblock binding sound, fore-edge seam split between frontispiece and titlepage. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Hard Cover. Fair to Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Unknown. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

NY: The University Society, Inc, 1948. Illustrated throughout with numerous B&W art reproductions and 4 pages of flags in color. Pages mostly clean, unmarked, square, binding fairly tight [fore and back edge seams split], one page with 1/2 torn out. Decorated endpapers. Red boards with color paste down [rubbed], bright gilt lettering on spine, shelf-wear to extremities [fraying at corners and edges]. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Various Artists.

NY: Carleton, 1876. Burgundy cloth w/blind stamped border and" Carleton" logo on front cover, gold stamping on spine; Text with illuminated drop caps. Pages [415 plus 4 pages of publisher's promotions] mostly clean, unmarked, binding tight, lean to spine. Previous owner's name with 1876 date. Corners bumped, 2" tear in side of spine, 5/8" x 1/4" piece missing of bottom spine. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Decorative Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Chicago: Chicago-Latrobe, 1932. Illustrated throughout with B&W drawings, photographs, charts and price tables [6 pages w/B&W photos of factory building, machinery, offices and workers]. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square [1 1/2 square piece missing from fep]. Red leather-look covers, gilt, black and silver decorations, gilt lettering on cover slightly darkened, black or darkened gilt, lettering on spine; clean, spine and extremities with a little shelf wear. Bright red endpapers. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Assumed First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Various Artists.

St. Louis, Mo: Pet Milk Company, 1934. Illustrated with B&W photos and drawings. Pages [31 including index] clean, unmarked, staple binding, for two-ring binder, sound. Covers clean, with just a hint of edgewear to extremities. A list of recipes available upon request. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Soft Cover. Near Fine. Illus. by Various Artists. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Eden Publishing House, 1925. Subtitled "Daily Devotions Arranged in the Order of the Church Year". Gift dedication in ink on FEP dated January 30, 1939. Blue covers, blind & decoration on cover, mostly clean, spine sunned but with readable gold stamping, a little shelf-wear to extremities. Pages [400] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square, two pages with discoloration caused by PO's bookmark. The aim of the editors is to make these daily devotions edifying in the wider biblical sense of that term, enriching the mind, warming the heart and stirring up the will to right action. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket.

St. Louis, Missouri: Concordia Publishing House Text in German. 365 pages [clean] plus 13 [blank] decorated pages for notes. AEG [all edges gilt]. 37 days have inscriptions to the book's owner with the earliest one dated September 10, 1843. Therefore one can assume that this copy was published in or before 1843. One frontispiece and several in text full color plates. All other pages have sepia toned border decorations. Ribbon book marker bound in. Gray cloth boards, clean, gilt lettering, blue and lavender flower decorations, a little edge wear at extremities, spine lightly sunned with the gilt lettering faded. Binding is sound with binding showing between ffep and half title page, frontispiece somewhat loose, and binding showing between last page and rear fep. Decorated endpapers [pattern of small gilt flowers. on off white background. Gift inscription [Widmung] in old German Alphabet letters. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book… Read More

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: M. A. Donohue & Co., 1905. Green cloth boards, clean, bright gilt lettering, minor shelf wear at extremities, sunned spines. Pages clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. One volume with tiny spots at top page edges and one volume with small faint moisture mark at top page edges. B&W frontispiece [of author?]. Age discolorations at endpapers, feps and page edges of one volume. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Not Stated Appears to be First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Illus. by Unidentified.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1933. Rare First Edition. Textblock pages [591 including index] clean, unmarked, with no serious weaknesses to binding [fore- and back-edge seam split], a little age discoloration, and minor soiling, at endpapers and feps; soiling at page edges. PO's name pencilled [and erasable] at endpapers. Tear at top of title page with a small section [ca. 1" x 1"] missing. Navy cloth boards, gilt lettering, shelf wear at extremities, staining [mostly faded spots], and general wear. The author was a pioneer in creating a consciousness of the importance of educators understanding the legal framework within which they operate. Included documentation by Teachers College Record re: first edition status. Social Science Studies, number XXVIII. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or… Read More

H. M. Caldwell Co I am offering this early 1900's book for children mainly for the beautiful illustrations. There are 16 color plates [color half-tone prints], mostly clean, bright, unmarked; one page with a one inch edge tear [only at margin, not into image], one three inch edge tear, two inches into image. Several loose pages and those all have some general edge wear. Text is mostly clean and unmarked. Tan boards, green cloth spine, color paste done, stains [only one mild one to paste down], stains at back board a little more severe, shelf wear at extremities. PO gift inscription at fep, dated 1910 and recipients book plate at endpaper. A Great-Grandmother's Book. These subtly colored plates, matted and framed, would look lovely in a nursery. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. . Hard Cover.… Read More