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A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 88 pages.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Illustrated by Anita Jeram. 8 3/4"w x 9 7/8"h.
136 pages. The place is Shanghai, the year 1937. The author is seventeen, the little girl of A Time of Cicadas all but forgotten. Absorbed in her own life, with its new problems and new opportunities, she is totally unprepared for the outbreak of war with Japan. She falls in love and, desparately ignoring the coming of war in the Pacific, gets married. She and her husband plan to move to Canada but before they can escape the Japanese overrun the country and occupy Shanghai. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
38 pages. Includes three pages of black and white photos, a one-page statement to readers from Hank, and piano sheet music, lyrics and guitar chords for these songs: My Sweet Texas Blue Bonnet Queen; The Drunkard's Son; The Answer to'The Galveston Rose'; Just a Faded Petal From a beautiful Bouquet; Journey My Baby Back Home; Your Sad Kiss Good-Bye; Little Buddy; No Golden Tomorrow Ahead; The Night I Stole Old Sammy Morgan's Gin; Broken Hearted; My Two Timin' Woman; You've Broken My Heart; Somewhere Along Life's Highway; My Filipino Rose; Wasted Love; Out on that Open Range. Somewhat above-average wear. Few light pencil marks. A worthy vintage copy of this great Hank Snow collectible. Book
37 pages. Includes one-page tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, one-page note from Hank Snow, four pages of black and white photos of Hank Snow, and piano sheet music (with lyrics and ukulele chords) for these songs: I'm Movin' On, The Golden Rocket, The Law of Love, Just Waiting For You, I Cried But My Tears Were Too Late, My Kaluah Sweetheart, Star Spangled Waltz, Headin' Home, In Memory of You Dear Old Pal, You Pass Me By, The Rhumba Boogie, Bluebird Island, I'm Movin' On No. 2, The Anniversary of My Broken Heart, and The Only Rose. Few minor scribbles on front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this great Hank Snow compilation. Book
36 pages. Includes piano sheet music, lyrics and ukulele chords for these songs: Rub-A-Dub-Dub; Yesterday's Girl; Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart; I'd Have Never Found Somebody New; Whoa! Sailor; You're Walking on My Heart; I Saw My Mother's Name; A Lonely Heart Knows; When You're Lovin', You're Livin'; You Don't Have the Nerve; I'll Sign My Heart Away; The New Wears Off Too Fast; Cryin' In the Deep Blue Sea; (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart; Swing Wide Your Gate of Love. Also Includes five pages of nice black and white photos with supporting text. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy of this great Country and Western collectible. Book
302 pages. Features: Paris by Night; Sole Devotion - some women can't get enough shoes; Tweed Mon Amour; Shape - the latest haute couture collections; Designer Hubert de Givenchy; Perfect Fall Shoe; Kelly Klein and her underwear book 'Underworld'; Young Girls Do Wear Plaid; Party - perfect dress for every possible occasion; The Lean Season - sound wardrobe advice; Are breast lump biopsies necessary?; and more. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this excellent issue. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Lady's Summer Dress; Imitation Stained Glass; Lovers versus Husbands; Manners Upon the Road - of pot and kettle; New York Fashions - summer foulards, French muslin dresses, polka-dotted grenadines, flannel polonaises, French fancies, household matters, refrigerants; Personal; cashmere and java canvas wall-pocket; netted and bead work-basket; cane wind screen; summer hats and bonnets for young and old ladies; Were They Vagabonds?; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' summer dresses; For the Ugly Girls - No. IX; Paris Fashions; To the Bitter End - continued; Our Flower Garden; The Common-Sense of Dress; Illustration "Between Love and Riches"; Geneva and the Arbitration; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages plus 8 page supplement. Features: Ladies' and Children's Winter Suits; Mince-Pies, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions; ; humor; and more. Average wear. Top half of page 787 missing; Paris Modes; Ladies and Children's dresses; A Siberian Breakfast-Table; The Thanksgiving at Johnny Guptill's, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Family life in a fashionable restaurant; useful recipes; Two illustrations of Thanksgiving-Day in the Northwest by W.L. Sheppard - "Dinner Waiting" and "No Dinner to Wait"; Full-page illustration "Family Life in a Fashionable Restaurant", by Sol Eytinge Jr.; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Love in the Winter Palace, or, the Czar Nicholas as match maker; Full page illustration "At Her Post", by Gaston Fay; The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia - illustration. Supplement contents: Blade-O'-Grass, by B.L. Farjeon - part I - with many illustrations. Small illustration clipped from first page of supplement. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's suits; Friendship versus love; Manners Upon the Road - of porches; New York Fashions - plain-basque suit, spring suits, capes, corsages, the watteau postilion, upper skirts, polonaises with capes, lower skirts and kilting; Personal; Fans and Jet Jewelry; Ball and Evening Coiffures; Lady's knitted girdle; embroidered crepe de Chine scarf; gentleman's knitted chest protector; lady's knitted and crochet house shoe; knitted and crochet overshoe; flannel sole for house shoes; lilac velvet and satin cravat bow; black gros grain cravat bow with fringed ends; tapestry border for rugs, cairs, etc.; Cross Purposes - a Valentine Story; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Nice full-page illustration "The First Installment - half past eight on Valentine morning; Wonderful full-page series of illustrations depicting "Cupid's Adventures", by Frank Bellew; London's Heart - continued; Nice illustration "Going to the Matinee" shows happy family in carriage; Some Old Dresses; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Dolly Varden Walking Suit - front and back; Shopping; Manners Upon the Road - of dream-children; New York Fashions - Dolly Vardens, camel's-hair polonaises, batistes, linen chambery, pongee foulards, spring stuffs, washing fabrics, grenadines, trimmings, mantles, spring shawls and scarfs; Personal; borders for chairs, curtains, etc.; knotted braid purse; lamp-chimney brushes; crochet and needle-work insertions for lingerie; To the Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Suitable dresses; Otter Hounds - with illustration; Violins; Paris Gossip; Useful Recipes; Americans in Europe; Making Love; Love Letters of Eminent Persons; humor. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring house and street dresses; The Love of Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of snow; New York Fashions - the spring suit, misses and children's clothing, boys' clothes; Personal; Necessaire for sewing utensils; tatted and crochet collars; cover for sofa-pillow - gold or silver embroidery; corners for album-covers, cushions, etc.; border for trimming lingerie; work-basket with stand; tassels for work-baskets, curtains, etc.; mignardise and crochet cover for toilette cushions; point lace and crochet cover for toilette cushions, etc.; Gold Beads; Some toilettes at Washington; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' and children's walking and house dresses; Color in Rooms; Illustrations - "Comedy of Married Life" - shows bull confronting man and woman; How it was Done; English Gossip; Sabres and Skirts; Peonies; Useful Recipes; To the Bitter End - continued; Who Will My Husband Be? - text and large illustration of women pouring water through the end of a key; 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 Winter Wrappings and Suits; Statuary in Transparency; Etching on Ivory; Husband and Wife; Disturbances among old Furniture; New York Fashions - winter wraps; further hints about dresses, evening dresses, garniture and coiffures; Personal; Double Christian Names; Gros Grain and Camel's-Hair House Dress; Gray Poult de Soi Dress; Velocity of Nervous Transmission; The Flower of Bernay - a short story of Bernay de L'eure; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold image "Ladies' Winter Dresses"; English Gossip; Palm-Trees and Their Products; Lost for Love - continued; Passementerie borders and rosette for trimming dresses, wrappings, etc.; A Tour in Switzerland; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of an Evening Toilette; A Good Word for Children; New York Fashions - carpets, furniture; Personal; Lovely embroidery; Mortmain - I; Useful Recipes; Sayings and Doings; Full-page illustration by Lumley entitled The Rival Schools shows well-dressed young ladies of rival schools meeting at a corner; The Laddery of Love - a full-page illustration by Wm. B. Myers shows young, formally-dressed couples chatting along an ornate stairway; Jacko & Co; Obligations; The Lovels of Arden (continued); Finishing Touches - an illustration by Mrs. A. P. Stephens shows a bride being dressed; Five-inch by Four-inch clipping from last page; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Walking and Morning Dresses; Etiquette of Address; New York Fashions - silks and satins, items about dresses, trained casaques; Personal; Embroidery design for cigar-cases, port-folios, etc.; Point Russe Embroidery on Java Canvas for Antimacassars; Wicker-work and Netted Basket; Squares in Netted Guipure; Sofa Pillow with Crocheted Stripes; Point Russe Embroidery for mats, ooilette cushions, etc.; Gobelin Embroidery on Silk for Slipper; Medallions in Point Russe and Application for Cigar-Cases,; Crochet and Tapestry Lambrequin; Sweet Seventeen; Love versus prejudice; Saying and Doings; The complete art of Plain Sewing - Two pages with dozens of illustrations and text; Goose and Gander; Debenham's Vow - continued; Riding Habit; Full page compilation of eight different illustrations of different Belles (women) i.e. The Dumb Belle, Morning Belles, etc.; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: General instructions for Knitting and Crochet Work; Girls' Crochet Hoods; New York Fashions - winter bonnets, chatelaine braids, head-dresses, jet and gold, feather trimmings; Personal; Girl's Crochet Boa; Crochet under-skirt for child from 1 to 3 years old; Embroidered borders; First Love; Lovely fashion hoods - but there is a small clipping from this page (741); Paris Modes; Schiller's Nose; Sayings and Doings; Felt Round Hat; Velvet Round Hat; Artot Bonnet; Children at Church; Bonnets; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Gossip; crochet and netted fanchon with ruche trimming; velvet muff with knitted strips; Netted trimming for fanchons, fichus, etc.; Lady's Knitted Vest; Crochet Stitches for Hoods, Fichus, etc.; Blunders of Old Masters; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Redingote; Watch case; Giving of Charity; New York Fashions - Repellents, Pique Cloth, Fancy Cloths, Tartans, Bonnets, Round Hats; Personal; Corset Making; Many illustrations of corsets - including one for a child from 1 to 2 years old!; Muslin and Lace Collar and Bow; Pelerine with Bow; Jacket with Oriental Embroidery; A Woman's Friendship; Penny Wise and Pound Foolish; Bound to John Company - continued; Love Warmed Over; Useful Recipes; Alpaca Blouse Waist with Lilac Satin Trimmings; Wattean Blouse Waist; Cap for Elderly Lady; The Marriage Mart; Engagements; Caps, Corsages and Collars; Lawn Aprons for young girls; Debenham's Vow; Carlotta Patti; Street Costume; Full-page illustratoin entitled "In Tow" shows finely-dressed ladies walking on the beach followed by their gentleman friends; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
75 pages. Great colour and black and white photos of the band, together and individually. Includes the following songs: Goodbye; Green Monkey; Hat Trick; It's Life; Molten Love; Muskrat Candlelight/Muskrat Love; Rainbow Song; She's Gonna Let You Down; Submarine Ladies; Willow Tree Lullaby; Wind Wave. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
162 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover illustration of redhead by W.T. Benda; Nice color Jell-O ad inside front cover by Guy (Giro) Rowe; Victrola ad features illustrations of Martinelli, Bori and Ruffo; One-page ad for the New Hudson Sedan; Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Surrenders to the American Legion - fascinating photo-illustrated article written by the man who returned him to the U.S. (part 1); The Letter - story by W.S. Maugham; An Appeal to Decent Drinkers - fascinating article by Gifford Pinchot on the morality of supporting the trade in illegal alcohol during prohibition; The House of the Arrow - mystery novel; The Internationalist - love story; Tuberculosis - Cured by the Sun - article by Paul H. de Kruif, Ph.D.; The Play Actor (fiction); To Stop War Draft Wealth - remarkably prescient article by Marquis James proposes that if wealthy classes knew their factories would give them little profit if war started, these classes would see that no war occured; The Dog-Barking Navigator (fiction); The Masons and the Ku Klux Klan - the controversy over Masons also being members of the Klan; Diamond Dick - and the First Law of a Woman, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Stalin - Russia's Leading Politician - fascinating early photo-illustrated look at the man who dominated the Soviet Union for decades; Tongues of Flame - a novel of conflict; France's Only Statesman - photo-illustrated article on Joseph Caillaux; Araby - a Tale of the Isles of the East Beyond the East; Home is the Sailor - new stories of Phoebe and Ernest and their children; My Life, by Mary Garden - true talk about matters personal (with photo); The Dream - fiction by H. G. Wells; Who Deserves a Servant? - an interesting and thoughtful article on the subject of domestic workers; One Born Every Minute - fiction; Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, by Henry Holt; Nice red and black one-page Campbell's Vegetable Soup ad; One-page illustrated Chevrolet ad for the Superior Utility Coupe; One-page orange and black ad for the Goodrich Balloon Cord tire; Nice one-page two-color ad for Royal Typewriters is illustrated by David Robinson; Nice one-page photo ad for Listerine features quizical young lady and caption "This can't apply to me!"; Resinal soap and ointment ad; Forhan's ad with baseball theme; Classy one-page L.T. Piver ad; Nice 2/3-page Coke ad features lady in white coat and dress; One-page photo ad for Fleischmann's Yeast; Great one-page Thopson-Barlow Co. ad features young model in the Madame X Reducing Girdle; Orange and black ad for Way Sagless Spring Co. inside back cover; Nostalgic back cover ad for Mulsified shampoo features curly young lady's hair being inspected by her beau. Approx. 0.75" x 3" of loss to upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound and complete copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Magazine
1st edition. Hardback in dustjacket. Fine/VG. 13542. eng
Book shows light wear to covers only with some edge wear. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 100 page fanzine with lots of b&w pics, many large format and great, several two-page layouts: Hendrix in bed, with heart painted around navel, with two topless blondes, smoking, shaving, with lots of gear on; good show.
6 pages. Includes sheet music for piano and voice. Gorgeous color cover portrait of Miss Grace Nelson. Spine Taped. Prior owner's details atop front cover. Above-average peripheral wear. A worthy copy Sheet music
Encres 1978, In-8 broché couverture bordeaux. 420 p. Bon état.