Vintage Books

House Beautiful Magazine. 

October, 1944 issue.

Volume 82, No. 10.

In this issue House Beautiful presents The Bride’s House, Fall 1940

Houses include Four Square and Jon Whitcomb’s House.

Lots of great full page ads, including:

Wamsutta Sheets

Towle 

Crane’s Fine Papers

Reed & Barton Sterling

Fieldcrest

Baldwin Piano

Drexel Furniture

Bigelow Rugs

Unitized Wallpaper

International Silver Company

Along with numerous smaller advertisements.

Measures 9 1/4 inches wide x 12 1/4  inches long.  136 pages.

Good used condition with normal wear from handling and storage. 

House Beautiful Magazine. 

June, 1944 issue.

Volume 86, No. 6.

Lots of great full page ads, including:

Gorham Sterling

Jordan Marsh

Libbey Glass

Imperial Tables

Heirloom Sterling

Martex (In color)

Youngstown Kitchens

Mengel Doors

Briggs Beautyware

Kenwood Blankets

Magnavox

Hallicrafters 

Lejon

Kentucky Tavern

Along with numerous smaller advertisements.

Measures 9 1/4 inches wide x 12 1/4  inches long.  104 pages.

Good used condition with scuffing, creases and light soiling to cover and normal wear from handling and storage. 

Vintage 1949 Dormeyer Electric Mix Treasure book for the Power Chef Electric Food Mixer.

Instructions and recipe book.

Softcover book measuring 5 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches with 34 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is used with some soiling and wear. 

Vintage 1950s GE General Electric Portable Mixer instruction and recipe book.

“Mixer Magic” Recipes for your Electric Mixer. 

Softcover book measuring 5  x 7 1/2 inches with 35 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is used with soiling and wear. 

Pages 15-22 at the center of the book, have come loose from the staples.

Vintage 1950s Electric Mixer Cookbook.

“Mixer Magic” Recipes for your Electric Mixer. 

Includes sections for: Cakes; Frosting and Icing; Cookies; Candy, Ice Cream and Desserts; Pies; Bread, Muffins and Rolls; Waffles and Pancakes; and Dressings.

Softcover book measuring 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches with 35 pages. Stapled spine.

Condition is used with some soiling and wear. Front cover has quite a bit of soiling. A few of the pages also have a small scribble.

Popular Aviation Magazine. 

May, 1939 issue.

Volume XXIV, No. 5.

Ziff-David Publishing Company.

T. Claude Ryan life story.

The Story of Attack Aviation.

Measures 8 1/2 inches wide x 11 1/2 inches long.  90 pages.

Good used condition with scuffing, creases and light soiling to cover and normal wear from handling and storage. Cover and first few pages have a dog eared lower right corner.

The Cat that would be King

Vintage Saalfield Softcover Children’s book number 527.

Book measures about 6 x 5 1/4 inches and has 12 pages including the front and back covers.

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with some wear and light soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears. Former owners name written inside front cover.

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Cute cat illustrations.

The Naughty Puppy.

Vintage Saalfield Softcover Children’s book number 523.

Book measures about 6 x 5 1/4 inches and has 12 pages including the front and back covers.

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with some wear and light soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Sturdi Contour Children’s book by Wonder Books 5513.

My Easter Egg Book.

Book measures about 6 7/8 x 8 inches and has a plastic comb spine.

Copyright date of 1966.

Book is in good used condition with some over all light wear.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Colorful illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Tell-a-Tales Children’s book.

A Child’s Friend.

Religious book by Robbie Trent.

Illustrated by Egon Weiniger.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.

Copyright date of 1953.

Book is used with light wear to the covers and an old price sticker on the front cover.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Colorful illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2460.

Authorized Hanna-Barbera Edition of The Flintstones and Dino.

By Kay Rausch Patrinos.

Illustrated by Peter Alvarado, Robert Hefner and William Lorencz.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1961.

Book is used with wear and light soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Cute illustrations.

Vintage hardcover Whitman Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2478.

Mother Goose.

Numerous children’s rhymes.

Illustrated by Marguerite K. Scott.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1955, 1960.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage hardcover Whitman Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2475.

Poppyseed. A freckled dog that lives at the zoo.

By Betty Ren Wright.

Illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1954.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2463.

Animals to See 1 2 3.

By Patricia Martin Zens.

Designed and illustrated y Lois Ehlert.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1964.

Book is used with wear and some soiling to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2485.

Katy Did. About a helpful little girl that didn’t want to go to her first day of kindergarten.

By Jean Conder Soule.

Illustrated by Aliki.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1962. 

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover along with a child’s scribbled name.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2480.

Teena and the Magic Pot.

Illustrated by Louise Jack Myers.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1961.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Sweet illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2477.

Twinkles and Sanford’s Boat.

The story of Twinkles the elephant and Sanford the parrot.

Written by Leo Dorfman.

Illustrated by Mel Crawford.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1962.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2461.

Sneezer. The Little Train.

Written by Estelle McInnes Upson.

Illustrated by Ben D. Williams.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1955.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2467.

The Busy ABC.

Illustrated by Eloise Wilkin.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1950.

Book is used with wear to the covers.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Really cute illustrations.

Vintage Whitman Hardcover Top Top Tales Children’s book number 2479.

My Prayers. 

Illustrated by Rachel Taft Dixon.

Book measures about 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches. 

Copyright date of 1959.

Book is used with some wear and soiling to covers. Also small circular sticker residue spot on front cover.

Former owners name written inside front cover.

Interior pages are clean with no markings or tears.

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Really cute illustrations.

Tom and Jerry in Tom’s Happy Birthday.

Drawings by M-G-M Cartoons, Inc.

Adopted by Harvey Eisenberg and Gene Wolfe.

1955 hardcover Whitman Tell a Tale book.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches. 

Condition is used with wear to the cover edges and spine. 

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Really cute illustrations.

Puddle Jumper. Written and illustrated by Dorothea J. Snow. 

1949 hardcover Rand McNally Junior Elf book about a little trolley car.

Book measures about 5 x 6 5/8 inches. 

Condition is used with soiling and wear to the cover, edges and spine. Also has a clear plastic coating on the cover which is peeling in spots.

The cover is also starting to separate from the inside pages.

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Really cute illustrations.

Socks by Betty Molgard Ryan. Illustrated by Florence Sarah Winship.

1949 hardcover Whitman Tell a Tale book about a little black kitten with white feet, white tipped tail and a white star under his chin.

Book measures about 5 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches. 

Condition is used with wear to the cover edges and spine. Also has a small amount of pink crayon scribble on the last page and inside back cover (shown in the photos.

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Really cute illustrations.

Vintage Model Dairy Whipping Cream Bottle Cap.

Off white background with red lettering.

Cap measures about 1 5/8” in diameter. 

Cap is unused and good condition with sort of a mottled appearance.

Neat advertising piece to tuck in to a journal.