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Scotia, NY: Americana Review, [no date]. Soft cover. VG. The first issue of the journal of Americana..they were not dated, only numbered. 8vo, stapled wraps, [20] pages (not including covers.) Condition is VERY GOOD : lt. discoloring to the blue/green paper covers, sm. chip at fore edge bottom corner, sl. yellowing to page edges. A collection of ads for toys selected from catalogs and magazines from the period. Back cover has an 1880 ad for the Mechanical Locomotive "Vulcan.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1973. First Edition . Hardcover. LIKE NEW/VG+. 1st edition [stated], INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR [PAT KANE] on the half-title page; foreword by Charles F. Montgomery; introduction by Derek de Solla Proce. 4to, red cloth with black titles, 207 pages, glossary, annotated bibliography. NEAR FINE book / VERY GOOD+ jacket: jacket has slight yellowing to white, slight edgewear and a slight fading to the red titles on the spine. A very nice copy of this important resource on American clocks.

Des Moines, IA: Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1971. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 1st edition (no additional printings), 8vo, spiral-bound stiff illustrated wraps, unpaginated, includes 24 plates on the recto with illustrations of china with description on the verso page opposite. Condition is VERY GOOD+ with slight edgewear to covers and a blue marker spot on bottom page edge.

Southampton, NY: Cracker Barrel Press, 1970. Reprint Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Undated reprint, circa 1970s, of the original edition published for the Tercentenary Commission of the State of Connecticut Committee on Historical Publications (Yale University Press, 1933). 8vo, stapled wraps, [16] Pages, b/w photographs of chairs. Condition: VERY GOOD, with some toning to edges of front cover, internally clean and tight. Nothing better in the world than a Connecticut-made Hitchcock Chair.

Old Sturbridge Village, MA: Old Sturbridge Village / Meriden Gravure Company, 1955. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. No additional printings or editions noted, 8vo, stapled pamphlet wraps, 32 pages, blue and white illustrations. Condition: NEAR FINE: no visible wear. The fascinating story of young America as found in old blue Staffordshire.

Trowbridge, Wiltshire, UK: Baros Books, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st edition (no additional printings noted). 8vo, blue boards, 149 pages, b/w photographs throughout, bibliography, index. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket: small stain to top page edge, otherwise looks unread. The author discusses the history and development of visiting cards and their cases with more than 300 illustrations of the various cases and the materials of which they were made (silver, mother-of-pearl, ivory, lacquer, papier mache, Tunbridge wear, etc) and the decoration with which they were embellished, reflecting the social history of the Regency and Victorian periods (from the jacket). Georgette Heyer would have made great use of this book.

Guildford, Surrey, UK: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Antique Pocket Guides. Guildford, Surrey: Lutterworth Press, 1983. 1st ed, 16mo, stiff wrappers, 64 pages, b/w illustrations throughout (110 to be exact), listing of silversmiths known to have made card cases, index. Condition is NEAR FINE with just an old price sticker on rear cover. Nostalgia at its finest, now we just get a "beep" when someone leaves a text message or voicemail.