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Picture Painting and Drawing Book ©1922 Saalfield Publishing Co. 25 x 20 cm. A coloring book, with instructions for mixing primary colors to obtain secondary. Some of the black-and-white drawings have been colored in. Paper pamphlet with heavy cardboard cover, cut in pattern. (1964) $8.00. Children. Poetry for Children, 1880. This book was approved for Boston Public Schools. Would you like to bet how many children could handle this level of poetic excellence today? (0015) $17.00. Children's. Scenes of Wealth, or views & Illustrations of trades manufactures, produce & commerce for the amusement and instruction of tarry at home travellers with copper-plate engravings, by Rev. Isaac Taylor, 1826. Hartford, CT: Oliver D. Cooke & Co. For children, takes them all over England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland to show how goods are made, and how England's 19th century economy works. Fascinating glimpses into life in this era. Straw work at Dunstable, cable making at Deptford, lace making at Buckingham, malt for beer at Reading, mineral waters at Cheltenham, china at Worcester, pins at Gloucester, sugar trade at Bristol, the mines at Redruth, bullocks at Devonshire, pipe clay at Teignmouth, sail-cloth at Bridport, hogs at Hampshire, hops at Farnham, gunpowder at Battel, turnery-ware at Tunbridge, (whale) oil at Hull, paper-making at Maidstone, coals at Newcastle, buntine and shrouds at Sudbury, potatoes in Ireland, (with description of destitute poverty then prevalent in Ireland.) and much more. 168 pp. 11 x 18 cm. Marbled paper on board, with a "new" paper spine (perhaps 100 years old), cover well worn at edges, front hinge cracked, pp. 91-92 two-thirds missing, bottoms of several pages frayed, poor. (4997) $49.00. Children's Shirley Temple in "Stowaway" A 20th Century Fox Production ©1937 Akron, OH: The Saalfield Publishing Company 32 pp. 24 x 25 cm. Authorized edition #1767; Children's book about film starring Shirley Temple, Robert Young and Alice Fay, directed by William A. Seiter. Paper booklet with photo of Shirley Temple and a Chinese man on cover. Edges worn and curled, several cracks in cover surface. Pages have small stains on them. Fair. (3451) $19.00. Children's/Fiction/Movies. St. Nicholas Magazine, December, 1923, vol. LI, No. 2 Concord, NH: The Century Co. Christmas issue is packed with ads for books, games, toys for boys and girls. Lead article: "Santa Sylvia" by T. Morris Longstreth; "Christmas With Uncle Wilbur" by Ralph Henry Barbour; "A Boy's Trip to an East Indian Volcano" by Derk Bodde, aged 13. “The Christmas Song" by Florence Bowen Hult. ~168 pp. 17 x 25 cm. Paper magazine, 1 cm blemish on title, front cover, spine chipped 1 cm. Very good. (5246) $15.00. Children's Three Children, The, or An Illustration of the Benefits of Sabbath Schools by a Travelling Preacher 1841. New York, NY: Sunday School Union of the Methodist-Episcopal Church. From diary of a traveling preacher are stories of three children who learned scripture, read religious books; they were not afraid to die, and at least two did. Testimony to effectiveness of Sabbath Schools. Maudlin spirit of mid-nineteenth century religion. 36 pp. 8.7 x 13.6 cm. Paper booklet, cover worn, lightly soiled, very good. (5191) $15.00. Religious/Children's Weihnachtsglanz im Heidenlande. Bilder und Erzählungen aus der Heidenmission für die amerikanische Jugend gesammelt [in German] By Graebner, Th. ca. 1900. New York, NY: Ernst Kaufmann, 22-24 N. William Street. A book for children about evangelical work being done "im Heidenlande." Greenland, with Eskimos. In India, with tigers. In China. In wild Africa. With illustrations. 64 pp. 15 x 21 cm. Paper on board with tape spine, illustration on cover shows black and white children around a Christmas tree. Cover soiled and worn. Fair. (5301) $15.00. Children's/German. Youth's Companion, The, The Companion for all the family, May 27, 1920. New England Edition. 1920 Boston, MA: Perry Mason Co. Cover illustration from "The Barn Burners" in the Companion for June 3. "New Tales of Ajumba" By Thomas S. Miller, Part I. "Shopping for Ethel" by Elizabeth Weir. "Future Arctic Work" by Donald B. MacMillan. "From the Main Truck" by Charles Boardman Hawes. "The Coming of the Flowers" A little outdoor play in one act, by Lotta Adele Gannett and Harriet Lee. Current Events: Assistant Secretary of Labor Post cancelled the deportation warrants issued against alleged members of Red, or Communist organizations. Secretary of the Navy Daniels criticizes Admiral Sims for failing to cooperate with his superiors. President Wilson has asked the Admiral to suggest bold, independent plans for meeting the submarine menace. The downfall of the Carranza regime in Mexico was rapid. Eugene V. Debs was unanimously nominated for President at the Socialist Party convention in New York. Debs is now in confinement for violation of the war-time espionage act. In Russia the combined Polish and Ukrainian campaign in Southern Russia proceeded rapidly and successfully; the Bolsheviki have been obliged to evacuate Kiev. Full-page two-color Cream of Wheat advertisement shows Black Mammy holding a magazine up for white children to see. On magazine is full-page picture of the black male cook in a Cream of Wheat ad. Caption: "Mammy's Beau." Also ads for Grandmother's Marmalade, Shuman "Knockabout" suit for boys, Baker's Extracts, Slade's Extracts, Hebron Academy, Burrill's Tooth Powder, Worcester Academy, Abbot Academy, Good Year Lawn Hose. Back page features full-page ad for Automatic Flour, with color picture of a strawberry shortcake. 16 pp. 27 x 38 pp. Paper periodical, folded horizontally, good. (7401) $16.00. Children's
COOKBOOKS: Cooking and Homemaking. See also all the cookbooks masking as advertising, or vice versa….
American Cereal Co: America's Cereal Foods and How to Cook Them, with World's Fair Souvenir Coupon! 1894 Chicago, IL: American Cereal Co. Advertising booklet includes souvenir coupon for FREE complete set (12 pictures) of our beautiful panorama, "The Procession of the Seasons" as it was shown at the World's Fair. Ad for Pettijohn's California Breakfast Food. Back cover, full-color ad for Quaker Rolled White Oats. Letter to the American Housewife introduces this small cookbook. How to cook cereals. Recipes for Quaker Breakfast Porridge, Fried Pudding, Griddle Cakes, Quaker Oats Rolls, Quaker Oats gruel, Quaker Buckwheat Cakes, Quaker biscuits, breakfast gems, plantation gems, waffles, crullers and doughnuts, "F S" Rolled or Cracked Wheat, Cracked Wheat Blanc-Mange, Farina Ice Cream, Johnny Cake, Southern Batter-Bread. centerfold features full-color pictures of eight "F S" products 68 pp. 11.5 x 17 cm. Paper booklet, cover soiled, small chip in lower left front corner, closed tear in back cover, 2 x 2 cm chip missing from lower left corner of back cover. Fair. (7260) $20.00. Cookbooks/Advertising Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes, Developed by the Bureau of Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture 1927 Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture. Compilation of 70 menus and about 300 recipes broadcast from October 1926 to June 1927 in the "Housekeepers' Chat" programs of the radio service. Menu for Thanksgiving Day includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, Brussels sprouts, cranberry jelly, lettuce salad, pumpkin or squash pie. Recipes include celery fritters, stuffed eggplant, mock duck, scrapple (a hog's head may be used); rhubarb betty; many more. Emma B., who owned this book, added her own recipe for Ambrosia, in 1933, on the last page of the book. 86 pp 15 x 23 cm. Paper booklet, owner name on title page: "Emma B., 99 Reeb Ave. Received Oct. 1930". Marks highlight Thanksgiving menu. Handwritten recipe at back of cookbook. Good. (7345) $16.00. Cookbooks Baker's Chocolate: Choice Receipts by Parloa, Maria 1893 Dorchester, MA: Walter Baker & Co. Chocolate beverage recipes, chocolate layer cake, chocolate, Vienna style; chocolate glacé, chocolate biscuit, description of chocolate as the perfect food. 32 pp. 9 x 15 cm. Paper booklet, very good. (2739) $15.00. Cookbooks/Advertising Baking Book; General Foods Cooking School of the Air by Barton, Frances Lee ca. 1932 Battle Creek, MI: General Foods. Gay Party Salads; Two Upside Down Party Cakes; Creole Fudge Loaf; Fig Tapioca; Norwegian Prune Tapioca; Coconut Cherry Divinity; Burnt Sugar Pie, and many more recipes. 15 x 22 cm. Loose leaf booklet with two rings, heavy cardboard cover. Very good. (5439) $19.00. Cookbooks Cape Cod Cook Book ©1956 Cotuit, MA: The Picture Book Press. Features photos of Cape Cod scenes, recipes for clambake, lobster stew, fish chowder, lobster Newburg, fish shortcake, liver loaf, spider corn cake and more. 64 pp. 13 x 20 cm. Paper booklet, 2 cm closed tear in cover, cover soiled, with ink numbers written on it. Fair. (3238) $15.00. Cookbooks Ceresota Cook Book 1912 Minneapolis, MN: The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co. Includes chart which compares nutritional value of flour --like Ceresota white wheat flour-- to meat, rice, potatoes, etc. Suggestions for sifting, mixing, mixing moist biscuit and oven heat. Includes recipes for Huckleberry Muffins, Waffles, Bath Buns, Ceresota Griddle Cakes, White Mountain Muffins, Pop-overs, Flannel Cakes, Poor Man's Biscuit, Scotch Scones, Jumbles, Cinnamon Crisps, True Lovers' Knots, Poverty Cake, Lily Cake, Flake Fritters, Suet Dumplings, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson's own recipe for Webster Cake, more. 32 pp. 15 x 22 cm. Paper booklet , cover features color picture of small boy carving a loaf of bread with the blade toward him, in a lethal looking pose. Very good. (7325) $17.00. Cookbooks Choice Receipts Arranged for the Gas Stove, compliments of The Peoples Gas-Light Company to their consumers who purchase complete equipments for cooking with gas by Andrews, Miss 1893 Philadelphia, PA: The United Gas Improvement Co. Some think that gas is an expensive fuel for cooking, but this book will show how to cook with gas. Contains 350 recipes for baking, boiling, frying, broiling, sauteing, simmering. Includes Force-meat Balls, Yorkshire Pudding, Swedish Timbales, Frizzled Beef, Fritters, Koumyss, Indian Pudding, much more. 110 pp. 13.5 x 19 cm. Dark brown cloth on board with gilt lettering, blind-stamped design, light stain and light wear to cover, two 1893-era coupons inserted in book. Very good. (5789) $20.00. Cookbooks Eating the Russian Way, by Gould-Marks, Beryl, illustrated by Geoffrey Walker, first edition 1964 New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Rich collection of Russian recipes--Blini, Tvorozhniki, several kinds of Borsch, Shchi, Okroshka, Pelmeni, Hussars' Roast, and many more. 128 pp. 13 x 19 cm. Black cloth on board with gilt decoration. Very good. (3235) $20.00. Cookbooks/Russian Family Companion, The; Containing Many Hundred Rare and Useful Receipts, on Every Branch of Domestic Economy; Second Edition by J.R. Wells, M.D. 1846 Boston, MA: J.R. Wells, M.D. Recipes for making tea, coffee (with shavings of isinglass or dried fish-skin); how to boil a calf's head; cures for apoplexy, cancer (carrot poultice), ear ache (a roasted onion in the ear), dropsy, bleeding lungs (eat salt); tips on boiling molasses; Cheap paint for a barn; how to preserve potatoes till spring; how to destroy bed bugs, rats, mice; how to remove stains from Broadcloths; Directions for washing calicoes; To keep moths out of carpets, sprinkle tobacco or black pepper on the floor before you put the carpet down. 72 pp. 11.4 x 18.2 cm. Paper booklet binding carefully hand stitched, original blue paper cover replaced by a later cardboard cover, pages foxed, poor. (5981) $27.00. Cooking/Medical Fleischmann's Yeast: Excellent Recipes for Baking 1910 New York, NY: The Fleischmann Company. Valuable suggestions for using Fleischmann's Yeast: "Our yeast contains Pure Tapioca Flour"; kneading; rising; making loaf; baking; cooling. Recipes for White Bread, Milk Bread, Graham Bread, Rye Bread, Gluten Bread, Parker House Rolls, Graham Muffins, Sally Lunn, Children's Rusks, Oven Scones, Bohemian Houska, more. 52 pp. 12 x 15 cm. Paper booklet, slight soiling of cover, very good. (7326) $16.00. Cookbooks Good Housekeeping Cook Book; Recipes and Methods for Every Day and Every Occasion, Tested, tasted and approved by Marsh, Dorothy B.; Norris, Katherine; Mansfield, Adeline 1933 New York, NY: Good Housekeeping. 254 pp. 12 x 19 cm. Depression-era Cook Book: Frontispiece features photo of Thanksgiving Dinner served at Good Housekeeping Institute. "You can trust every recipe." Recipes for gas range and electric range, use of automatic refrigerator. Stocking your pantry shelves. Recipes for snow pudding, meringue glacées, caramel dessert, Lime grape marshmallow whip, Apricot turnovers, Crabmeat soufflé, Italian spaghetti and meatballs, much more. Decorated white cloth on board, no dust jacket, very good. (3504) $15.00. Cookbooks Grandma's Cook Book, Designed to meet present day conditions: Live better, at less expense 1932 Ashland, MD: American Trade Council. Depression-era cookbook skips expensive or unhealthy foods. Includes recipes for Gumbo soup, Creamed Codfish, Terrapin stew with cream, Calf's Brains on Toast, Boiled Calf's Head, Heart and Liver, Broiled Sweetbreads, more. 95 pp. 18 x 26 cm. Paper booklet. Cover shows Grandma trimming crust of a pie. Text block printed on cheap newsprint, which is browned and crisp. Owner's name on title page: "Emma Buchanan". On last page Emma wrote recipe for Crumb Macaroons, with other notes. Fair. (7346) $16.00. Cookbooks Home Helps, a Pure Food Cook Book; a useful collection of up-to-date, practical recipes by five of the leading culinary experts in the United States: Mrs. Mary J. Lincoln, Lida Ames Willis, Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer, Mrs. Helen Armstrong and Marion Harland; Cottolene shortens your food, lengthens your life. 1910. Chicago, IL: N.K. Fairbank Company. Cottolene, "Nature's Gift from the Sunny South" shortening made with cotton seed oil, is used in many recipes. Sago pudding, coffee jelly, steamed Indian pudding, Water ices, frappé, invalid cookery, spiced gooseberries, oyster chowder, oyster shortcake, fried oysters, creamed oysters, much more. 80 pp. 12 x 19 cm. Paper on board. Cover illustration shows woman holding a casserole, fresh from the oven. Edges of cover worn, good. (2481) $18.00. Cookbooks/Advertising Hood's Cook Book, Number Three, Respectfully dedicated to the ladies of the United States, and presented free of charge to every housekeeper; with Calendar picture, 1896 Lowell, MA: C.I. Hood & Co., Apothecaries Marvelous combination of household hints, recipes and testimonials to cure for running sores, scrofula, varicose veins, impure blood, nausea and water-brash. After you've read the testimonials, you may not be interested in the recipes. (Perhaps a Nineteenth century weight-control technique?) 32 pp. 11 x 18 cm. Paper booklet, cover lightly soiled and stained. Good. Picture of young girl from calendar, calendar pad missing. (2937) $19.00. Cookbooks/Advertising Horn of Plenty, The; an Anthology of Distinguished Recipes by a Connoisseur of Cookery; An Atlantic Monthly Press Book by Harvey, Peggy ©1964 Boston, MA Little, Brown and Co. 284 pp. 16 x 24 cm. Arroz con Pollo; Yams Aux marrons, Flambé à Fort-de-France, Pflutters Alsacienne, Cuban Bread, Mousse of Lobster, Galantine, Spitted Grouse, Dodine de Canard. Purple cloth on board with black cloth spine, very good. No dj. (3603) $15.00. Cookbooks. |