Vintage Books

Antique 1912 Postcard Guide and History View Book of Old St. Augustine Florida.

Published in 1912 by H.J. Usina of St. Augustine.

(Fifteenth Thousand)

Softcover book measuring about 5 3/4" wide x 7" long.

38 pages of history and black and white photos, along with 10 postcards included in the back. Postcards are perforated so they can be removed from the book and mailed.

Book shows wear, soiling, and some creases to the upper corner, on the last couple pages and lower right corner of each lower postcard (2 postcards per page at the rear).

Overall fair to good used condition.

Vintage 1953 Knox County, Nebraska farm directory.

Softcover book measuring about 6” wide x 8 3/4” long, with 36 pages.

Lots of local advertising.

List of land owners.

Small tear near the upper left corner of the front cover. Also some some soiling to the covers.

Nice used condition.

Great piece of Nebraska history.

Vintage 1963 Knox County, Nebraska farm directory.

Softcover book measuring about 6” wide x 8 3/4” long, with 36 pages.

Lots of local advertising.

List of land owners.

Nice used condition.

Nice piece of Nebraska history.

Vintage 1951 Knox County, Nebraska farm directory.

Softcover book measuring about 6” wide x 8 3/4” long, with 36 pages.

Lots of local advertising.

Major soiling to the covers, crease down the center of the front cover, and small tears.

 Used condition.

Nice piece of Nebraska history.

Vintage 1957 Knox County, Nebraska farm directory.

Softcover book measuring about 6” wide x 8 3/4” long, with 40 pages.

Lots of local advertising.

Small tear near the upper left corner of the front cover. Also some some soiling to the covers.

Good used condition.

Nice piece of Nebraska history.

Vintage 1957 Fairbury Nebraska Telephone Directory Book.

Town listings include:

Fairbury

Daykin

Jansen

Steele City

Book measures a little over 6 inches wide x 9 1/4 inches long.

30 pages of phone listings and 32 pages of business listings and advertisements.

Used condition with some writing, a few torn pages, age toning and some soiling.

Both front and back are shown in the attached photos.

Vintage 1942 Fairbury Nebraska Telephone Directory Book.

Town listings include:

Fairbury

Jansen

Plymouth

Steele City

Book measures a little over 6 inches wide x 9 1/4 inches long, with 32 pages

Used condition with some writing, a few torn pages, age toning and some soiling.

Both front and back are shown in the attached photos.

Vintage 1956 Fairbury Nebraska Telephone Directory Book.

Town listings include:

Fairbury

Daykin

Jansen

Steele City

Book measures a little over 6 inches wide x 9 1/4 inches long.

30 pages of phone listings and 32 pages of business listings and advertisements.

Used condition with some writing, a few torn pages, age toning and some soiling.

Both front and back are shown in the attached photos.

Vintage 1962 Washington County Kansas Car License Directory Book. Measures about 6 1/4 x 9 inches with an estimated 60 pages.

Shows wear, including soiling to the covers and small tears, some writing on the cover and title page. And some soiling, creasing, and age toning to the interior pages. Last 20 pages or so are starting to separate from the spine near the top, with the last page totally detached.

I love how this even tells what kind of vehicle people owned. Great genealogy reference book!

Vintage Dedication Services 75th Anniversary Booklet for Trinity Lutheran Church at both Gilead and Gladstone, Nebraska. Dated August 16, 1959.

Contains photos of the churches and pastors, church statistics, list of confirmands for both churches, and brief church history.

Softcover booklet with stapled spine. It measures 5 1/2 inches wide x 8 1/2 inches long, with 24 pages.

Condition is very good.

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Vintage Union Pacific Railroad Centennial Coloring Book. Celebrating the driving of The Golden Spike which united our Nation.

The story of how the railroad was built and how it evolved over the years.

Book measures 8 x 10 inches with 16 pages.

Book is unused. No pages have been colored.  Condition is very good with some wear soiling to covers.

Interior pages are very good with age toning along the edges.

Nice collectible coloring book!

Vintage 1974 Jefferson County Nebraska Farm Directory and Atlas. Measures 6.75 inches x 9.75 inches with 32 pages.

Contains an alphabetical listing of rural residents. Also includes a map of each of the 16 townships in Jefferson county, including: Eureka, Washington, Gibson, Plymouth, Meridian, Richland, Cub Creek, Jefferson, Lincoln, Fairbury, Rock Creek, Pleasant, Buckley, Antelope, Endicott, and Newton.

Towns include: Daykin, Diller, Endicott, Fairbury, Gladstone, Harbine, Jansen, Plymouth, Reynolds, and Steele City.

Condition is good with normal wear and some soiling from use.

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1948 Anniversary Booklet Grace Lutheran Church Fairbury, Nebraska.

• The Anniversary Services of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church.
• Fairbury, Nebraska
• The Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Congregation 1923-1948.
• Sunday, the Fourteenth day of November, Nineteen Hundred and Forty Eight.

Softcover book measuring 9 inches x 6 inches with 10 pages.  Not all pages are shown in the listing.

Contains a brief history of the church, ministers and write up on the construction of the new church building. Photos of previous pastors also.

Condition is very good.

Vintage 1959 Sunflower yearbook. Published by the students of Kansas State Teachers College. Emporia, Kansas.

Hardcover book measuring 8.75 inches x 11 inches with 303 pages. Condition is very good with soiling to covers and foxing to end papers..

This item ship to only U.S. addresses.

1983 Jefferson County Nebraska Farm Directory Atlas. Published by Directory Service Company of Boulder, Colorado. Measures 6.75 inches x 9.75 inches with 32 pages. Contains an alphabetical listing of rural residents.

Also includes a map of each of the 16 townships in Jefferson county, including: Eureka, Washington, Gibson, Plymouth, Meridian, Richland, Cub Creek, Jefferson, Lincoln, Fairbury, Rock Creek, Pleasant, Buckley, Antelope, Endicott, and Newton.

Towns include: Daykin, Diller, Endicott, Fairbury, Gladstone, Harbine, Jansen, Plymouth, Reynolds, and Steele City.

Condition is very good with some creases to page corners. Please note:  The white circles over the phone numbers in the second photo was an edit by me to the photo only.  This does not appear in the actual book.

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Vintage and original 1908 Washington, Kansas High School yearbook. "The Senior".

Softcover book with string binding. Measures about 6.5 inches wide x 9.5 inches wide. Approximately 50 pages.

Contains a list of alumni dating from 1885 up through 1907. Photos of the members of the Board of Education, photos of school staff, Senior photos, and Girls' Basketball team, and Boys' Track team. Also includes a class roll of freshman, sophomores, and juniors (no photos), and many pages of local advertising in the back of the book.

Class senior surnames include:
Barley, Creighton, Sharp, Partie, Raplee, Emmons, Yoder, Lewis, Smith, Morrow, and Geistfeldt.

Condition is good with age toning to pages and cover, light foxing to some pages, and corner and edge bumps and tears. Upper right corner corner is missing for the front cover and first few pages.

Includes school faculty photos, local advertisers, class history etc.

Great piece of Kansas history!

Vintage and original 1923 Fairbury, Nebraska High School yearbook, "The Senior X-Ray".

Includes: Senior photos, and sports team photos. Senior surnames include:

Ward, King, Frost, Vanier, Burford, Carstens, Cherry, Chorn, Clarke, Cox, Corp, Cruz, Dabner, Dawson, Distel, Eads, Evans, Ewers, Feith, Forney, Gilmore, Gobel, Gray, Greenwalt, Grissom, Halek, Hall, Hansen, Hanson, Harris, Houck, Hewitt, Holland, House, Hughes, Helvey, Hohensee, Holloway, Humberger, Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Knape, Leager, Lesher, McAlister, McCord, Meenan, Mendenhall, Mong, Murray, Nelson, Reid, Riley, Ritter, Schoen, Scriven, Seachord, Seemann, Shinn, Smith, Snyder, Sowers, Stepp, Stilwell, Strothman, Sturegon, Smith, Tinkham, Torrey, Walker, Walkemeyer, Weier, Wiggins, Tappan, and Zierenberg.

Softcover book measuring 7.5 inches x 11 inches with 67 pages. Lots of local advertising in the back.

Condition is very good with some soiling to covers, corner and edge tears to cover and some interior pages, also some age toning to interior pages.