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Text Box: "That's Me All Over, Mable" by Lieut. Edward Streeter, 27th NY Division with 25 illustrations by Corporal G. William Breck, 27th NY Division 1919 New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company . Pore Bill…this is a series of letters Bill writes home to his Dere Mable ("Dere Mable" was the title of his first book). Bill tells of the mystery of the army. Now he is assigned to the artillery, and they practice trying to not hit anything, at which they succeed. Timeless GI humor, with 25 excellent illustrations by another soldier in the same New York division. At the end of the book, there's a return letter from Mable. She's found a new guy, while Bill is away. 69 pp. 12.5 x 19 cm. Illustrated paper on board, cover soiled, spine paper gone, inscription on front flyleaf, "Sincerely, Marion A. Boyden 2/26/19". Fair. (1746) $15.00. Humor/World War I Western USA: Marvels of the New West, A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River; Six books in One Volume, with over 350 fine engravings and maps by Thayer, William M. 1891 Norwich, CT: The Henry Hill Publishing Co. This is a massive collection of the marvels of the newest part of America, including its mountains, rivers, geysers; the marvels of race, about the ancient civilizations here, and Indians today; the marvels of enterprise--early explorers, the building of trans-continental railroads, building cities in the West, the Mormon Settlement, railroad kings, marvels of mining-- gold, silver, copper, lead; marvels of stock-raising, cattle kings; marvels of agriculture; 350 detailed illustrations. 715 pp. 16 x 24 cm. Pebbled and blind-stamped leather on board with gilt title; spine repaired with green binding cloth, back board has 5 x 5 cm missing top layer of leather. Inside hinges cracked. Text block very good. Overall poor. (4839) $26.00. Travel/History Added Thursday, February 25, 2010: Boy's Diary, 1917 Leominster, MA: ephemera. Young boy from around Leominster/Fitchburg keeps diary about five months of the year. He writes about playing in the snow, snow tunnels, snow forts, and sledding, chores, delivering chickens for his father. He goes to dance at hall downtown and the girls get out and dance with nothing on but straw dresses. He wonders why he has to learn to sew. Fourth of July, he has fireworks, skyrockets, caps, torpedoes, Roman candles and sparklers. There's strawberry shortcake and water melon. Ma has all her teeth pulled and it makes her very ill; months later she gets a set of false teeth. Good glimpse of life of a New England boy early in 20th century. ~180 pp. 8 x 13 cm. Red cloth diary, very good. (8008) $19.00. American Originals/Diary Old Times, with Other Familiar Sketches in Prose and Verse: For Young People by M.H. and H.H. (Attributed to Helen Hunt Jackson). 1846 Lowell, MA: Daniel Bixby. Stories originally written for entertainment of the children round author's own fireside. Describes dressing up in Revolutionary period clothing with brocade dress as rich as a flower garden, high-heeled shoes with paste buckles, open dress with yellow satin quilted petticoat, ruffle cuffs and leather mount fan. "Carrier's New-Year's Address" includes hailing the Temperance cause and feeling a growing interest in the Anti-slavery cause. 128 pp. 12 x 14.7 cm. Cloth on board with blindstamped design and gilt title. Very worn, spine faded with small holes. Inside front hinge cracked. Text block lightly soiled. Fair. (8010) $24.00. Children's/History Philip Randolph: A Tale of Virginia by Gertrude, Mary 1850 New York, NY: D. Appleton & Co. In her 1844 Preface, Author Mary Gertrude writes that this tale is intended to convey a moral to the youthful reader; in Philip is shown self-denial and moral courage. Life amongst the Indians in colonial Virginia. 177 pp + adv. 10.5 x 15.4 cm. Brown cloth on board with blindstamped design and gilt title, cover very good, with tape library marker on spine and bookplate on front pastedown from Universalist Sabbath School Library, Marion, Mass. Also on front free endpaper, handwritten in 1850 style, "Sippican S.S. Library No. 98". Good. (8014) $30.00. Children's/Morality Harry Seymour: The Little Boy Whose Feet Would Run Home 1858 Philadelphia, PA: American Sunday School Union. Harry was a happy lad-- and he even had his own pony. But one day his Father sent him away to school, to learn Latin and Greek, and Harry was not happy. So, his feet took him home. The story ends by telling children that they should be happy to run home to heaven. In the nineteenth century, children were very likely to die, and little stories like this were meant to soften that reality, by trusting in God. 35 pp. 9 x 15 cm. Black cloth on board, blindstamped design. Minor chipping. Inscription on FFEP: "Alva Smith Dec. 25th 1863" Next flyleaf inscription "1929: Elwood Alvah Clark". Good. (8007) $16.00. Children's/Religious Governor Cony: Address of Governor Cony to the Legislature of the State of Maine, January 5, 1865 by Cony, Samuel, Governor of Maine 1865 Augusta, ME: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State. At the start of the last year of the Civil War, Governor Samuel Cony (1811-1870) who was elected Governor in 1863, gave this speech to the Maine Legislature. Like his predecessors, he enthusiastically and very capably supported prosecution of the War and preservation of the Union. In this address he notes that bounties paid enlistees in the Army are causing the State to gain heavy debt; he talks about draft dodgers, and one brutal murder. He notes that after three years of war the armies of the Republic have lacked nothing for success but competent leaders, but praises Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas, and also Farragut and Winslow, who commanded USS Kearsarge when she sank CSS Alabama off Cherbourg, France. 32 pp. 14.5 x 22.7 cm. Paper booklet, cover worn, lightly soiled, good. (8017) $30.00. Civil War/History

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