Search Results: Authors starting with L from Eclectibles

Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1930. 75, 65 pp. Blind stamped leatherette flexible cover, gilt lettering on spine, marbled end papers, colored edges, color and black and white images, 2 color fold-outs of color shading and inscription design. Contains two sections; Modern Styles and Spacing and Decorative Ornament. Includes illustrated and printed examples of the topics discussed. OCLC: 5 (9/28/2016) 7 1/2" x 5" slight wear on cover edges, water stain on bottom right page at beginning of book-does not impact ability to read.

Concord, New Hampshire: National School of Business, 1900. Fine; letter folds.. Printed advertisement for E.L. Glick's National School of Business, with a striking visual: an engraved reproduction of a calligraphic drawing of a horse, made almost entirely of flourishes. Aside from being the proprietor of one of the most successful business schools of the day, Glick (b.1867) was also "a penman of remarkable versatility and skill. The pages of the National Penman, the recognized organ of penmanship in America, has been adorned in successive numbers for many years with Mr. Glick's work, both in handwriting and the more ornate branches of penmanship, and many of the prizes offered by that journal for the finest work in penmanship have fallen into Mr. Glick's hands" (State Builders: An Illustrated Historical and Biographical Record of the State of New Hampshire, p. 375). Measures 9.75" by 9.5"; verso blank.

New York: Robinson, Pratt, and Co, 1843. 420 pp. Leather cover, illustrations, index in back of book. "Illustrated by numerous engravings and designed for the use of schools and academies." The author intends to "explain the elements and doctrines of the science in sufficient detail." Book is broken into four parts. 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" heavy wear in leather cover, top cover beginning to detach, foxing.

London: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton. Fine. Arthur A. Dixon. No. 1948. 48 pp. with pictorial litho on board book. In-text and full page gray-tone illustrations throughout. Content includes Kurus: The King of the Cannibal Islands, The Other Carews and The Big Temptation. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2".

London: Ernest Nister, E.P. Dutton. Fine. No. 1948. 48 pp. with pictorial litho on board book. In-text and full page gray-tone illustrations throughout. Content includes Kurus: The King of the Cannibal Islands, The Other Carews and The Big Temptation. 6 1/4" x 8 1/2

Boston: Lincoln and Edmands, 1831. 115 pp. Applied illustrated cover over blue cloth, frontispiece, illustrations, plates. Contains lessons in astronomy, including diagrams, descriptions, and accounts of planetary and celestial topics. Dictionary at end. 8 3/4" x 5 1/2" wear through, staining, brittle pages.

9.29. Four (4) original watercolor designs are attributed to Jane Langton while a graduate student at Radcliffe. Although not signed they were given to the previous owner by Ms. Langton as her work. Finely detailed well executed art. Created on art board, each measures 12" x 8 1/2" Jane Gillson Langton (1922-) is an American writer and author of children's literature and mystery novels. She both writes and illustrates her novels. Previous owner indicated they came with a note "I made these tiresomely stylized dolls when a graduate student at Radcliffe, about 1946

YMCA, 1918. Fine to very fine. Some rust staining from staples.. An informational pamphlet discouraging servicemen from having sex with prostitutes, published towards the end of the war for the Sex Education Bureau of the National War Work Council of the YMCA. It begins by asserting that "Nearly every prostitute is diseased" (p. 1), and that, given the consequences, the risk isn't worth it; after all, Syphilis "is about the meanest, rottenest disease a man or a woman can have" (p. 2) and "You can't play in the muck and keep clean" (p. 3). Plain talk seems to be the order of the day here, as the pamphlet goes on to align virtue and cleanliness with patriotic duty. It asks the servicemen to reflect on how their actions would make the "women folks" feel at home: "Now think. How would you like to go home to a wife, a sweetheart, or a sister, who, while you were gone, had lived with half a dozen or more white slavers rotten with disease? Do you honestly believe that you have any right to do what you… Read More

New York: Macmillan, 1936. Good +. 44 unpaginated pages, with black and white illustrations, nearly on every other pages. Tells the story of Betsy, a lamb, including her adventures at going to her first party. Cover shows end wear and toning. The interior binding has cracked, but is still intact. End papers separated at backstrip.The interior pages show general toning due to age throughout.. Measures 8 1/4" x 9 1/2

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1927. 244 pp. Stamped cloth cover with applied color paper label showing a boy and girl in the meadow with daisies, black and white illustrated frontispiece and 3 plates The adventures of Nan and Bert and Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey. 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" wear on cover, slight foxing starting, inscribed.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1919. 244 pp. Stamped cloth cover with applied color paper label showing a boy and girl in the meadow with daisies, black and white illustrated frontispiece and 3 plates The adventures of Nan and Bert and Flossie and Freddie Bobbsey as their family travels to Washington. 7 1/2" x 5 1/4" no dust wrapper, slight wear on cover, paper clip rust stains on advertising pages in back, inscribed.

Akron: Saalfield, 1930. cover wear; one back wheel lacking.. An 11" x 12" die-cut polka-dot cat wheeled toy with grommeted wheels. NO. 946 Illustrated by Fern Bistel Peat. Interesting book construction with the cat opening about half way to expose a the actual book. The book measures 5" x 12". The tale of this anthropomorphic stuffed animal and his adventures encountering Mrs. Bunny along the way and requiring a sewing repair job from his owner when he returns. Printed in two colors. No OCLC 3/31/2015.

Cleveland: Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1928. An 10 pp book with heavy stock illustrated covers depicting Santa oversleeping. Printed on pulp or short fiber paper with 3/4 page illustrations on each page. Five (5) full color illustrations, fine line drawn. Each elaborate and whimsical. Includes characters such as King Winter, Snow Landers, Queen of Ice, the North Wind and the snow Elves. Presented by M. T. Garvin & Co. "Lancaster's (PA) Big Christmas Store". Measures 7" x 12 1/2". Text block separated from covers; partial separation on covers at fold. Reinforced with three (3) small tabs of archival tape. Light cover war. Exceptional color on pulp paper.

Cleveland: Goldsmith Publishing Co, 1928. Wraps. Good. An 10 pp book with heavy stock illustrated covers depicting Santa oversleeping. Printed on pulp or short fiber paper with 3/4 page illustrations on each page. Five (5) full color illustrations, fine line drawn. Each elaborate and whimsical. Includes characters such as King Winter, Snow Landers, Queen of Ice, the North Wind and the snow Elves. Presented by M. T. Garvin & Co. "Lancaster's (PA) Big Christmas Store". Measures 7" x 12 1/2". Text block separated from covers; partial separation on covers at fold. Reinforced with three (3) small tabs of archival tape. Light cover war. Exceptional color on pulp paper.

Paris, France: MP Marcel Picardo, 12-Jun-02. A single fold menu for Hotel de L'Empire located in Paris, France. The menu is most likely for their hotel restaurant and is dated June 12, 1902. That night dinners had a choice been Turbot (fish) in a cream sauce or chicken. The hotel was located at No. 7 Rue Daunou and is no longer in existence (though there is a hotel by the same name currently in Paris). The menu also has an advertisement for Redfern, a store in Paris that sold Furs, Robes, Dresses, Manteaux (coats), Lingerie and Trousseaux. Refern was a British tailoring firm founded in 1855 by John Redfern that had several stores across Europe. Its Paris extension was operated as a couture establishment which developed into a leading European Couture house, while its other branches were mostly tailors and/or importers. The Paris branch closed in 1940. The menu, as well as advertisement, have gilded decorative elements with the Refern advertisement featuring a high society lady dressed in a… Read More

Moscow, Russia: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1939. General wear. Stamped on inside front cover "02502/2 So. Calif. Library for Social Studies & Research".. A propaganda booklet extolling on the increase of public education available to citizens of the Soviet Union, particularly when compared to what was available under "tsarist Russia". "Seventy-three percent of the population of tsarist Russia (exclusive of children under nine years of age) was illiterate... at present, illiteracy has in the main been wiped out in the U. S. S. R. In twenty years of Soviet rule, 40,000,000 adults were taught to read and write." The booklet also provides statistics on the amount of school age children who attended school in tsarist Russia and in the U. S. S. R. Additionally it discusses the two previous five year plans for public education education the government had completed and continues on to provided details on the third five year plan which would run from 1938-1942 It states on the title page that the… Read More

London: The Poetry Bookshop. The Poetry Bookshop, London. Measures 14" x 6 1/2" with top of page stating Rhyme Sheet: (Second Series) and bottom [No. 11]. A poem, Bog Love, written by Shane Leslie is accompanied by two decorations by C. Lovat Fraser. as new.

Lowell MA: Lowell Bleachery, 1926. Wear from use.. A manuscript chemical formula and sample book for 1926 sorted by product type e.g. sulfur color type with a typed explanation as to the process followed by examples of the type of color e.g. Sulfur Colors by the active ingredient e.g. Thionel Black G ext and the name of the fabric company. These is followed by various dyed fabric swatches with percentages of chemical used. Followed by information on the next color and/or company until information was recorded on all samples for that procedure. Each section of the book is displayed in that format for all Procedures. There are approx. 200 pages in the book and not all pages are used. It appears blank pages where included for subsequent tests by procedure. The procedures and formula/sample pages include: Sulphur Color Procedure 1-18 Direct Color Procedure 62-76 Diazo Color Procedure 80-81 Ice Color Procedure 100-108 Calanese Color Procedure 109-110 Price to Price Dyeing 112-121 Sample… Read More

New Jersey: Bible,Book and Tract Rooms, 1902. 14 pp. Printed soft cover, stapled. A Telegram message by Sophie, delivered at Hamburg, New Jersey, March 2, 1902. Reported by Pastor H.J. Roberts, copyrighted by Sophie Lichtenfels. Written in a German accent, "De Lord has given me a telegram to deliver to you peeples dis morning" Sophie lived near her church in New York City and felt she was bon a preacher. She gave her meager income to support the missionary outreach program and wished to be a missionary herself (Patty MeGarvey, U.S. Archives of the C&MA, Colorado) 5" x 3" slight staining and small tears on cover.

New York, NY: Corrective Eating Society, INC, 1917. General wear.. A short booklet from the Corrective Eating Society about why some foods cause an upset stomach and how to change one's diet to minimize stomach issues. The booklet starts by proclaiming that "no discovery of the past fifty years in the field of health investigation exceeds in importance as the recent discovery that the stomach and intestinal tract are the seat of 90 percent of all sickness." It continues on to compare the stomach to a furnace, and that while the 'heat' the stomach makes contains the 'spark of life', people are "careless fireman" who have have grown accustomed to eating meals "which have the same effect on the system as dynamite, soggy wood and mud, mixed with a little coal, would have on a real furnace." The booklet stresses that what we eat isn't as import as the combination of what we eat at any given meal, and it is that combination of these different types of food that causes issues. It then continues on to… Read More