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16 pages. Contents: Silk ball dress with tulle trimming; satin and gauze ball dress; Chasing a Moth; Some Social Customs; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring goods, fassementerie; China crape paletots, black grenadine suits; watch-case simulating a beetle; fan with satin stitch embroidery; crape, lace, and gros grain Bertha; Small Superstitions; On Domestic Scape-Goats; Hannah - continued; The fashionable season; sayings and doings; Aigrettes for hats, etc.; Desiree, by Justin McCarthy; The Fisherman's Darling; Lent - Ancient and Modern; Infinitely Little People; Family breakfasts and dinners; Alice Cary - write-up with illustration; Nice full-page illustration entitled "The Fisherman's Darling"; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Street and House Dresses; A Chapter for Novelty-Seekers; A Word in Season for the Old Coal Man, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of some fellow-travelers; New York Fashions - evening toilettes, polonaises, woolen suits, bonnets and hats; Personal; Crochet shawl; crochet and netted cape; crepe de Chine Fichu; woolen plaid Bedouin; Americans in Paris; Gros Grain Suit - front and back illustrations; Silk and Cashmere Vest-Polonaise - front and back illustrations; Propinquity; Du Chaillu in the North; Testamentary Curiosities; Sayings and Doings; Paris Fashions; Ladies' and Children's Fall and Winter Suits; Polish Customs; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; A Street Band - great illustration; embroidered work-box; case for tatting, sewing utensils; netted guipure insertions; needle-work border for handkerchiefs; Green; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's toilettes; The Eye; Recovering from Illness; New York Fashions- wedding dresses, the trousseau, etiquette of weddings; Personal; The Scene-Painter's Wife; The Mapleton Mystery, by Annie Thomas; Embroidered clothes rack; Crochet fraises for children; watch and jewel case; cambric cravat ends; crochet cap crown, toilette cushion cover; Promenade Toilette; Insertions for Lingerie; Afghan customs; Paris fashions; Debenham's Vow - continued; Harry's Anti-Society - great large photo; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
Features: Safely displaying your collection; A French Christmas; Jean Johnson Miniatures of Brielle, NJ; Vicki Cleveenger's Antebellum World; Jean Robert - a visit with St. Nick; Tasha Tudor customs to adapt for your holiday traditions; Sandra Henry Wall's Insid-out creations; Ralph Williams creates vignettes; Royce Piro's Dollmaking; An Eye-Catching Christmas shoppers' display; Pam Bright created Santa's house; Joyce Prager, Sue Schulman, Mayme Griffin, Connie Hurlburt, Tina Strauss and Debbie Sobel work together; Mary Eccher's elegant buffet dishes; Joann's Puppet Theater in the Park; A natural approach to Christmas; A Scroll leg table; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Fastest Ox Train on the Santa Fe Trail!; Fringe Benefits of a Prospector; They Called Him Elza - Elza Lay of the Wild Bunch; Navidad en la Villita - little known Christmas customs practiced in the Southwest; Rolling Stone - running away from home; The Hall Murders; Joseph (Joe) McCoy Scouts Texas; Greatest public library - the cemetary; The Trap - it opened up the west; Wild Old Days!. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
Useful guide for foreign women with information on community services, marriage, citizenship, family law, adjustment, education, employment, language, housing, children's eduction, cross-cultural children - all kinds of useful advice. (now rather dated bacause of many legislative and social changes, but a snapshot of Greece c.1979) 109p. Very good (some notes added - new phone numbers inserted). (Has stamp of bookstore in Athens, Greece) Book
Folio 208p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
Folio, 208p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
96p. Illus (col) Book
Series Ancient Culture and Society A survey of labour, agriculture and manufacturing in the ancient world. Translated from the French by Janet Lloyd. 126p. maps, plates. .bibliography .index Neat tight copy with some underlining. Book
368 pages including index, black and white illustrations and 26"x23" fold-out map entitled Map of the Northern Interior of British Columbia by author, dated 1907. Map in excellent condition. Reprint of 1906 publication by The Bodley Head in London. Contains two additional prefatory sections documenting the life of the author and some early historians of British Columbia. Represents an enlargement of a paper the author had prepared on Aboriginal History, embodying facts which, on account of the light they threw on the manners and customs of the natives in pre-European times, he thought it well to preserve for posterity. Gift inscription opposite copyright page, else unmarked. Contents lightly yellowed. Minor lean to spine. Very light wear to book. Attractively illustrated dust jacket shows light edge wear with half inch tears to top and bottom edges of front panel. An excellent copy. Book
Pages 193-224. Features: Col. John Hatch George - article with full-page illustration of Mr. George; Men of Old Nottingham at the Battle of Bunker Hill; The N.H. Seventh at Ft. Wagner; In Battle and in Prison - A Reminiscence of the War of the Rebellion, by William E. Stevens; Manners and Customs in Hopkinton - No. 2 - Religious, Commercial, Political; Malaga. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Magazine
pp. 358, (1). Issued in three numbers in one volume, the second and third with half-titles. The first and third numbers include bookseller's advertisements. End of the third number indicates the end of the second, and last volume. First signature bound out of order. LACKS one leaf in first signature. Age stain. 8vo. 200 mm. Original full leather binding, very worn. Front board detached. Original leather spine label. Raised bands. Spine worn. Pencil manuscript ownership of George M. Keim on title page. George May (1805-1861) also know as George M. Keim of Reading, Berks County, PA. Born in Reading, Berks County, PA, March 23, 1805. Uncle of William High Keim. Democrat. Chief burgess of Reading, Pennsylvania, 1833-34; U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania 9th District, 1838-43; mayor of Reading, PA, 1853. Died June 10, 1861. Interment at Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, PA. Also early manuscript initials, S.P.A. with Susanna Abington crossed out. Presumably issued also as vol. 2 of Bell's 1783 ed. of Moore's work, originally published at London in 1781. Evans 18036. Hildeburn 4321. Hardbound. Good. SCARCE. EVANS1
181 pages, illustrated, map, notes, index. eng
Very Good Turkish Paperback. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Turkish. [6], 20 p. Türk ailesi ve çocuk egitimi.
499p. + Plus Index and three color folding charts of Army Insignias. Numerous drawings, charts and photographs. Inked ownership of Robert H. Deardoff. Tall 8vo. Original full tan cloth binding, decorated with officer's hat on front cover. Top edges slightly faded. Original dust jacket, worn and torn. Nice example. WWII 1
Very Good English Paperback. Pbo. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 72, [1], [4] p., bibliography. Folkloric traditions and beliefs of Tortum District of Erzurum City. Tortum'da halk inanmalari. Âdetler ve taslamalar.
335 p. A combination of 3 classic studies (1925-1933): Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, & Sex and Temperament. Hardcover Good condition
A clean, umarked copy in excellent condition. Bibliographic label on inside of front boards. 158 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 220 pages. Black and white photos.
192pp.; text clean and tight Clean Copy. In Russian
Very good clean copy, pages and tight. Used
505p. Hardcover Very good condition good