The Star Toy Maker: Plans and Directions for Making All Sorts of Clever and Original Toys, Telephones, Kites, Cameras, Windmills, Railroads, etc. by Jack Read

The Star Toy Maker: Plans and Directions for Making All Sorts of Clever and Original Toys, Telephones, Kites, Cameras, Windmills, Railroads, etc., Illustrated from New Special Drawings, Any Bright Boy Can Work from These Plans, Every One Has Been Worked Out by a Boy. Compiled and Edited by Jack Read. Published by W.D. Boyce Co., USA 1907. Assumed First Edition. Number Four of the Star Series. Stapled booklet. 24mo up to 5½" tall. 63 pages including front ads; 2 additional unnumbered rear ad pages for Wizard's Manuel and, Radio Receiving Set. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and pictures. Includes instructions for a wide variety of projects including: a talking machine, potato gun, dog sled, 'how to make a canoe for $1', a wind mobile, shepherds' stilts, a whirligig and a toboggan. In very nice condition particularly for a paper booklet over 110 years old. Toning to pages, light wear to covers with tiny tear top edge; top edge of a few inside pages not completely trimmed and extra paper is folded over.