Vintage Lutheran Church Gilead Gladstone Nebraska 1959 Anniversary Booklet

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!