Vintage Books

Antique original Madame La Fontaine's How To Write Love Letters. Published by Shrewesbury Publishing Co. of Chicago. Copyright 1914, by Charles Shrewesbury.

A Book of First Aid to Lovers. For Men and Women who desire a Successful Courtship and a Prompt and Happy Marriage.

With Many Model Letters for the Guidance of Lovers under All Circumstances of Courtship, Proposal, Acceptance, Rejection, Jealousy, Quarrel, Making-up, etc., etc.

Softcover book measuring 4 3/4 inches wide x 7 1/4 inches long, with 152 pages.

Condition is good with some soiling and wear to cover.  Tear at top and bottom of spine. Interior pages are good with a few dog eared pages, a couple of page numbers circled in pencil, and some soiling and age toning.

Vintage original Sonderegger Seed Catalog.  German Nurseries and Seed House Garden Book 1914.  Established 1886.  Sonderegger Trees and Seeds that Grow.  Carl Sonderegger, Beatrice, Nebraska. 

Catalog measures a little over 7 7/8 inches wide x 10 7/8 inches long with 96 pages.  Front and back covers are in color.  All interior pages are black and white.  There is an index inside the back cover.  Also includes the original order form and reply envelope.

Condition is good with some wear to the covers, including a small tear along the top and bottom of the spine.

Beautiful bright covers!

The Young Circus Performers.  Vintage 1967 softcover children's book. Printed in the Netherlands for The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio.

Book measures 8 1/4 inches wide x 8 1/2 inches long with 12 pages.  

All illustrations are color.

Good condition with signs of handling and wear, including edge and corner wear, light creases on the back cover, price written on front cover in black marker, and impressions on the front from writing on another piece of paper that had been laid over the top. 

A really cute and colorful vintage children's book!

The Big Bark by Christine Woyke.  Illustrated by Stina Nagel. Book number 2408-2.

Cute story about a little girl name Ann.  On the way to school Ann had to walk past a house with a sign on the gate that read, "Beware of Dog".  The dog inside the gated area had a very big bark, although she was unable to see the dog.  All during the school year she drew pictures of what she thought was a very big dog.  One day the gate is open on her way by and out comes a little dog.  She pets it as it wags its tail.  The dog's owner comes out and explains to Ann that the "Beware of Dog" sign was there when they moved in, not because of their dog named Wags.  After drawing the pictures of the big dog all year, Ann then proceeds to draw a little dog. 

A Tell-A-Tale book by Whitman Publishing Co. Copyright 1975. 28 pages. Hardback. Measures approx. 5 5/8" x 6 3/8 inches. Cute color illustrations throughout.

Condition is very good with some light bumps to corners and some light scuffing to covers.  Pages are very clean with no tears.  There are a few pencil writings on the last page inside the back cover

Super cute book for your collection!

Vintage original 1933 Montana Resources and Opportunities Book. Published by the Department of Agriculture, Labor and Industry. Volume VII, No. IV.

Contents include:

• History of Treasure State
• Geography of Montana
• People and Institutions
• Climatic Conditions
• Recreational Parks and Attractions
• University and Colleges
• Montana's School System
• Water Power Resources
• Public Lands
• State Institutions
• Mineral Industry of Montana
• Agricultural Crops
• Timber Resources
• Modern Transportation Methods
• Counties and Their Resources
• Index

Many black and white photos through the book.

Softcover book measuring 6 1/8 inches wide x 9 inches long, with 127 pages.

Condition is good with some soiling and wear to cover.  Interior pages are good with no marks or tears, they do have some soiling and age toning.

Vintage original Land of 10,000 Lakes Greeter's Guide 1928 by Hotel Greeters of America.  Official publication of Charter Thirteen.

Contains:

• Great period advertising
• Index to Advertisers
• List of HG of A Officers
• Hudson's 1928 Standard Road Map of Minnesota (fold out measuring 16 inches wide x 22 inches long).
• Fishing and Hunting Laws
• Objects and Purposes of the Greeters
• A Suggested Tour of Minneapolis
• Consolidated Map of Bus Lines (single page)
• Principal Towns and Cities in Minnesota
• Minnesota State Highways Mileage Tables
• Summer Resorts of Minnesota

Publication measures 7 5/8 inches wide x 10 3/4 inches long with 48 pages.

Condition is very good with some age toning around the edges of the cover, a small tear to the top of the fold out map, and a small edge tear to the page the map is attached to.

Remarkably wonderful condition for being 90 years old!

Vintage original Breeder's Gazette Equine Magazine for November 1938. Volume CIII, No. 11, 2527. Owned and published by Breeder's Gazette Publishing Company, Inc.  Samuel R. Guard, Editor-Publisher.

Contains articles, photos, display advertising, and classified ads pertaining to livestock.

Publication measures 8 inches wide x 12 inches long with 24 pages.

Vintage original Outdoor Nebraska Magazine for January 1931. Volume VI, No. 1.  The Official Publication of the Nebraska State Game Forestation and Parks Commission.

Cover shows two women with hunting rifles, hunting knife, and hatchet.  The women are also holding a small game animal.

Publication measures 9 1/4 inches wide x 12 1/4 inches long with 24 pages.

Contents include:

• Food Habits of the Pheasant in Central Nebraska
• Winter Feeding of Birds
• Public Fishing Grounds Increased
• Editorial
• Our New Chief (Charles W. Bryan - Governor of Nebraska)
• Game and Park Activities

Condition is very good with some general wear to the covers and name label on the back cover.

Peggy Brown and the Secret Treasure. The Better Little Book.  Number 1423.

This book is in fair condition with wear to the corners and the top and bottom of the spine, which includes a small tear. Binding is tight.

There is no title page or publisher information.  Though no evidence of missing pages.  I'm unsure if this is how the book was made, or if the first couple pages are missing. Starts in at page number 5, which is the beginning of chapter 1.

Still a nice collectible children's book!

Vintage Children's Book, Roy Rogers and the Gopher Creek Gunman. An original story featuring Roy Rogers, famous motion picture star as the hero.  By Don Middleton.  Illustrated by Erwin L. Hess. Authorized Edition.

Hardcover Whitman book copyright 1945.

Book measures 5.5 inches x 8 inches with 248 pages.

Book is in good used condition.  Cover is nice with bumped corners and some wear at the top and bottom of the spine. Pages are clean with some age toning and a few pages with a wrinkle near the top right edge.  There is also a round 1/2 inch long hole running through the lower right corner of pages 225 - 248.

Overall a nice clean book!

Hopalong Cassidy Comes to Rimrock. Starring William Boyd. Vintage softcover children's coloring book published by Samuel Lowe Company 1950.

Each two page spread has a colored image on the left and an exact uncolored image on the right side to color.

Book measures approximately 5 x 5 inches with 28 pages.

Cover shows wear at the corners and spine and some soiling.  Interior pages are good with a few pages having some soiling and some chips along the edges.  None of the pages have been colored.  You can also see a round 1/2 inch long hole, and smaller 1/4 inch hole, running through the outer edge of the center pages.

Great collectible coloring book!

Vintage original 1953 Mueller Water Works Catalog W-96. Mueller Co. Main Office & Factory, Decatur, Illinois.

Hardcover book measuring 8 3/4 inches wide x 11 1/4 inches long. Approximately 150 pages.

Includes a separate net price list book that is housed in a pocket inside the front cover.  Price list book has 63 pages.

Catalog is divided into sections, which include:

• Section 1: Drilling and Tapping Machines
• Section 2: Corporation Stops
• Section 3: Goosenecks
• Section 4: Service Pipe and Service Fittings
• Section 5: Service Clamps
• Section 6: Curb Stops
• Section 7: Curb Boxes
• Section 8: Meter Setting Equipment
• Section 9: Rough Plumbing
• Section 10: Regulators, Strainers, and Relief Valves
• Section 11: Tools
• Section 12: Fire Hydrants
• Section 13: Gate Valves
• Section 14: Tapping Sleeves, Tapping Crosses, Tapping Valves and Split Repair Sleeves
• Section 15: Inserting Valves
• Section 16: Valve Boxes
• Section 17: Miscellaneous Valves and Equipment
• Section 18: Engineering Information
• Section 19: Index

Black and white illustrations and line drawings on most of the pages.

Condition is very good with some light wear to the cover.  Light foxing inside the front and back covers.  Age toning and light soiling to some of the interior pages.  No marks or tears.

The Advanced Edition Palmer Method of Business Writing by A.N. Palmer (Late Editor - The American Penman).  Published by The A. N. Palmer Company of New York, Chicago, Portland, Ore. & Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1949 edition.

Measures 8 7/8 inches wide x 5 3/4 inches tall with 96 pages. 

A Series of Lesson in Rapid, Plain, Unshaded, Coarse-pen, Muscular Movement Writing for Use in Schools, Public or Private, Where an Easy and Legible Handwriting is the Object Sought.

Book is in good condition with ink writing at the top of the front cover, creased and curled corner and general wear.  Back cover has a tiny tear near the center top, and some darkening along the left edge.  Interior pages are very good with some small creased corners and a few dog eared pages. No marks or tears.  Some light soiling on a few pages.

Highly collectible edition!

Choo Choo The Little Switch Engine by Wallace Wadsworth. Illustrated by Mary Jane Chase.

Rand McNally Elf book number 8394. Copyright date of 1954. Original price printed on cover 25c.

Book measures about 6 5/8 inches wide x a little over 8 1/4 inches long with 20 pages.  Condition is good with wear to cover corners and edges, and some scuffing. Also has the 23 stamped on the front cover and an ink scribble starting at the train's eyes down through the bottom of the book. 

Interior pages are good with inscription written inside front cover in ink, name written on title page in black crayon, and a letter T written at the top of the third page in ink. Last page has a small vertical crease along the right edge, along with a tiny tear near the bottom of the crease.

Color illustrations throughout.

Very cute children's story book for your collection!

Playtime Poodles. A Real Live Animal Book. By Helen Wing. Photographs by Albert G. Westelin and Jack Schmidling.

A Rand McNally Tip-Top Elf Book number 8585. Copyright 1955.

The story of mama poodle and her children, Suzette and Bobo. Father had gone to visit his mother and mailed the children gifts.  Suzette received a pocketbook, pink ballet skirt and a silver crown. Bobo received a wristwatch and brass trumpet.  They then decide to write their father a letter and go on to play with the new gifts they had received.

Hardcover children's book measuring 6 5/8 inches wide  x 8 1/4 inches long with 20 pages. Color illustrations throughout.

Condition is  good with some wear to the corners and edges of the covers. Interior is very good with no marks or tears to pages.  Former owners name, address, and phone number written inside the front cover in ink (which I've blocked out with the blue lines, on photo only, not on the book itself.)  And a small "+"  written on the title page in ink.

Very cute children's book for your collection!

Tom and Jerry and The Toy Circus. Story adapted by Samuel Armstrong and Tom Ray. Pictures by M-G-M Cartoons, Inc.

Copyright 1953 by Loew's Incorporated.

Vintage hardcover children's book measuring just over 5 1/2 inches wide x 6 3/8 inches long with 28 pages.

Cute color illustrations throughout.

Condition is very good with bumps to corners, edge wear, and some light scuffing to covers.  Pages are clean with no marks or tears.  Binding is tight.

Click on photos for close up view.

Super cute book for your collection!

Tweety and Sylvester Picnic Problems. Story by Betty Biesterveld. Illustrated by Leon Jason Studio.

Copyright Warner Brothers Inc. Produced in U.S.A. by Western Publishing Co.

A Tell-A-Tale book by Whitman Publishing Co. Copyright 1970. 28 pages.

Vintage hardcover children's book measuring approx. 5 1/2" x 6 3/8".

Cute color illustrations throughout.

Condition is very good with bumps to corners and some light scuffing to covers.  Pages are clean with no marks or tears.  Former owners name written inside front cover in pencil.

Click on photos for close up view.

Super cute book for your collection!

Rand McNally Junior Elf book, The Sleeping Beauty. Illustrated by Vivienne Blake. Book number 8050.

Book measures about 5 x 6.5 inches.  Copyright date of 1951. Original price printed on cover 19c. Condition is good with  scuffing to the cover, some soiling, and wear around the edges of the cover.  No marks or tears to interior.  Some age toning to the pages.

Click on photos for a close up view.

A classic collectible book!

Book Two.  Show Me How To Write (In Manuscript) by Edith Underwood Conard. Illustrated by Gretchen Ostrander Murray.

Vintage hand writing lessons book.  Published by The A. N. Palmer Company of New York, Chicago, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Copyright 1940.

Measures 8 inches wide x 4 1/4 inches long with 48 pages. 

Book is in good condition with a few dog eared pages, crease to lower right corner of the cover, a pencil written "A" inside the back of the book, and a black crayon mark on the back cover.

Fantastic 80 year old teaching aid!

The Mother Goose Book. Illustrations by Mary LaFetra Russell.  Copyrighted 1914 by Samuel Gabriel Sons & Company, New York.  Book number 709.

This is a first edition book. 12 adorable color illustrations (front and back of 6 pages) depicting each nursery rhyme, by Mary LaFetra Russell.

Nursery rhymes include:

• Mary had a little lamb
• Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat
• Jack and Jill
• Handy Spandy
• Bow-wow-wow
• Tom, he was a piper's son
• Little Tommy Tittlemouse
• Jack, be nimble
• Wooley Foster
• There were two birds sat on a stone
• Polly, put the kettle on
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe

Large linen book with stiff wraps measuring a little over 9 7/8 inches wide x 12 inches long.  16 pages including the front and back covers.

Used condition with a crease on the lower right corner of the front cover, split along the top and bottom of the spine, fraying along the spine, edge and corner wear, and some foxing and soiling.  Interior pages have some foxing, some creased corners, and a couple of missing corners. 

The interior pages were originally printed and adhered together (front and back) they have started to separate in the lower outer corner, probably from the pages being turned over the years. 

All pages of the book are shown in the photos. Click on photos to zoom.

Adorable antique illustrated children's book!

Melody Choruses. A Melody publication compiled by the Gospel Publishing House Music Division. Edwin P. Anderson, Music Editor.

Vintage 1963 softcover church hymnal song book measuring 5 3/4 inches wide x 8 1/2 inches long with 164 hymns. 

Includes:

• Hymns
• Topical Index
• Choruses Classified According to Key
• General Index

Condition is good with previous owners name label on title page.  Cover has some soiling and wear. There are a few dog eared pages, a few pen and pencil marks,and some age toning.

Radio Favorites of the Blackwood Brothers. A book of Special Songs, compiled for Radio Programs and Evangelistic Services. Compiled by Blackwood Brothers Quartet. KMA Radio, Shenandoah, Iowa.

Vintage circa 1940s softcover religious song book measuring 5 1/4 inches wide x 7 3/4 inches long with 111 pages. 

Includes:

• Photo of the Blackwood Brothers Quartet
• Hymns
• Index

Condition is good with previous owners name written on the front cover and the title page.  Cover has some soiling and general wear. Pages have some age toning.