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Text Box: Winchester, MA; Wedgemere Park, a Ten-acre Development of Homes $25,000 to $50,000 ca. 1920 Melrose, MA: Wm. J.L. Roop, 138 West  Emerson St. Advertisement for new high-class development in  Winchester, Massachusetts. Pamphlet shows drawings of four styles of home:  Brittany, brick and stucco, $42,000; Pennsylvania Colonial, stone and hand split shingles, $44,000; Early American Colonial, white washed brick and cypress siding, $37,000; and Tudor English, brick, oak and cypress, $48,000. On back panel is map of subdivision, located next to Winter Pond, two blocks from Cambridge Street (Rt. 3).  Many of these homes still exist, and are now priced from $1 to $2 million.  4 pp. 13.7 x 21 cm. Paper advertising leaflet, very good. (8091) $30.00. Advertisement/Map
National Parks: Glimpses of our National Parks, United States Department of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary Albright, Horace M., Director, NPS 1930	Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office. Photos and information describe America's 22 National Parks during Administration of President Herbert Hoover. Information on facilities, photos of Yosemite N.P., Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Sequoia, General Grant, Mount Rainier, Crater Lake, Mesa Verde, Glacier National Park, Hawaii, more.  Wildlife, flowers, geology.	65 pp.	15 x 23 cm.  Cover photo shows camping scene, photo on back cover shows Old Faithful Geyser at Yellowstone. Paper booklet, cover lightly soiled. Good. (8094) $17.00. Travel
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Slade's:  How to make Salads and Sandwiches by D. & L. Slade Co., Boston, Mass. ca. 1904 Boston, MA: D. & L. Slade Co. Little booklet advertises Slade's Salad Cream, made of purest and most wholesome ingredients; also Slade's Pure Nutmeg, Congress baking Powder and Slade's Pickling Spice. Booklet tells how to make salads.  Another treat:  Baked Beans served with Slade's Salad Cream. Many salad and sandwich recipes. 12 pp. 8.5 x 14.5 cm. Small paper booklet, grey paper cover printed in green.  Fair. (8075) $16.00. Advertising
Shirley Temple on the Movie Lot 1936 Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Co. Photos and text tell of life of young Shirley Temple on the movie lot for Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Shirley and her mother have a bungalow right on this lot, which covers 110 acres.  Shirley in costumes, Shirley with Mother, where Shirley studies; Shirley with playmates ready for camera call, filming "Poor Little Rich Girl". 12 pp. 16 x 19.5 cm. Paper booklet, lightly soiled, good. (8080) $17.00. Biography/Advertising
Farmer Goodall and His Friend by the author of "The Last Day of the Week"  ca. 1842 New York, NY: Carlton & Porter, Sunday-School Union. Author of this book was a Calvinist woman and preface for this edition mentions that, but in coy 19th century fashion, does not provide her name.  Writer of Preface (S.B.W.) notes that several portions of original text have been omitted because they were sentiments contrary to what "we" believe to have been "the mind of the spirit." 204 pp.	10 x 15 cm. Black cloth with gilt title on spine and blindstamped design on cover. Minor wear and rubbing. Bookplate from "Chesterfield Facty Vill." Good. (8090) $40.00. Children's/Religious
Gellert:  Trust in God; or, Three Days in the Life of Gellert 1866 New York, NY: Robert Carter and Brothers. Book prepared for children. Tells about life of Christian Fürchtegott Gellert (1715-1769), hymn writer and poet.  This book tells about three days in the life of this Godly man, during the Seven Years' War, when he lived in Leipzig. 93 pp. + 15 pp. adv. 10 x 15.7 cm. Dark cloth on board, blindstamped "Fireside Library" in design with gilt title on spine. Mottling on cover mostly on front leading edge. On front pastedown is pencilled "Mrs. Sherman and Mrs. Davis Green Hill 1867". Fair.(8082) $48.00. Children's/Religious/Biography 
First Marine Aircraft Wing Newspaper, Korea-Japan, October 15, 1954 1954	Yokohama, Japan: irst MAW. "Freed Marine Officer Relates Experience"  LtCol Herbert A. Peters and Army Pfc. Charles Julius have been released from confinement as POWs in North Korea.Mgen Vernon E. Megee ends tour of Marine units in Japan and Korea. CG of First MAW is BG Marion L. Dawson, Assistant CG is BG David F. O'Neill; Chief of Staff is Col. E.A. Montgomery. Editor is SSgt. Curtis H. Driskell. 4 pp.	26 x 36 cm. Military newspaper, good. (8081) $15.00. Cold War/Korean War

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