The Loving Cup

This is a "collection of original toasts by original folks." Original illustrated stiff wrappers with cloth lace binding. Contains the early L. Frank Baum poem "Smile." Book is in good condition with toning to pages 18-19, gift inscription, chewed back cover corner, edgewear, rubbing and soil. 64 pages, 5 X 6

• The Loving Cup
• Wilbur D. Nesbit
• P. F. Volland and Company, 1909

Essays on Work and Culture

This antique, 4.5"x7" hard cover book has a green cover with gilt lettering on the front and spine of the cover. The owner's name is written on the inside, foxing, edgewear, darkened spine and soil. 247 pages.

• ESSAYS ON WORK AND CULTURE
• Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Dodd, Mead & Company, 1898

Inside View of Slavery: Or a Tour Among the Planters

Brown cover with gilt lettering on the spine. Front and rear endpapers removed. Spine is worn, with a tear at the top. Fraternity library bookplate on the front innerboard and presentation inscription on the second endpaper. The title page is loose and the pages are browned. 318 pages. Size: 5"x8"

Prefatory Note:

The following work is little more than a record of facts seen and learned during an extensive tour in the Southern States in 1852 and 1853, from a journal made at the time. This tour was made, and the notes had been used by the author as the basis of a series of lectures delivered in several of the New England States, before any other "view" of slavery had been published. Neither its origin nor its preparation has been induced, therefore, by any publication that has preceded it.

The manuscript copy, as originally prepared for the press, contained the entire names of individuals and places. At the suggestion of the publisher many of theses names have been suppressed, or the initials only inserted. But as this has been done solely from a regard for the feelings of those referred to, - many of whom are the author's personal friends, - any one desiring the names, with the view of testing the truth of any statements contained in the volume, can do so by applying to him, or the publisher.

C.G.P.
Windham, Aug. 1 1855

• Inside View of Slavery: Or a Tour Among the Planters
• C. G. Parsons
• John P. Jewett and Company, 1855
• First Edition

A Book of Golden Deeds

This antique hardcover book is bound in white cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt and maroon floral iris decorations. Cover has some soil and edgewear; inner pages clean, foxing to the foredge and some scattered throughout. Illustrated frontispiece portrait of Yonge. This book contains stories from antiquity as well as modern times of "golden deeds" and the men who did them. 254 pages; approx. 4"x7".

• A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS
• Charlotte M. Yonge
• W.B. Conkey Co., 1880

Sketches from 'Texas Siftings'

This antique hardcover book has a dark green cloth cover with decorative black etched borders, detailed gilt cover illustration and lettering, gilt spine lettering.  "Texas Siftings" was a popular illustrated periodical; this book contains selections from the magazine.  Printed bookplate on front inner board reads "Library of Albert P. Brandt, Walton, N.Y., no. 43", and his name is written by hand on front endpaper; else clean, binding tight.  Contains short humorous pieces illustrated with cartoons.  228 pages; approx. 5"x7".

• SKETCHES FROM 'TEXAS SIFTINGS'
• "Sweet and Knox"
• W.H. Caskie, Illustrator
• Texas Siftings Publishing Company, 1882

My Book House

The classic illustrated collection of children's literature in 12 volumes with the parents guide. This set dates from 1953, and are 7.5 inches by 10 inches. The books have some wear and writing, but bindings are generally tight. Pages are bright. Overall Good condition with some flaws. The set was well known for being sturdy. 

Volumes include: In Your Hands:A Parents Guide which has 220 pages; In the Nursery of My Book House, with 224 pages; Story Time with 224 pages; Up One Pair of Stairs with 224 pages; Through the Gate with 224 pages; Over the Hills with 224 pages; Through Fairy Tales with 224 pages; The Magic Garden with 244 pages; Flying Sails with 224 pages; The Treasure Chest with 244 pages; From the Tower Window with 240 pages; In Shining Armor with 216 pages; and Halls of Fame with 300 pages.

• My Book House
• Olive Beaupre Miller, ed.
• The Book House for Children, Chicago, 1953

The Little Book of American Poets

Pages and covers are clean and crisp. Cover is green with gilt lettering and decorations, top page edge is gilt as well. Very Good condition. Includes the work of several poets: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and many more. 306 indexed pages. 4"X6.5"

• The Little Book of American Poets
• Jessie B. Rittenhouse, Ed.
• Houghton Mifflin Company 1915

The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

This antique hardcover book (no date of publication given; presumed circa 1890) is bound in red-brown cloth boards, richly decorated with etched black and gilt designs. All page edges gilt. Cover has edgewear. Owner's name on front inner board. Inner pages browned. Binding a bit loose but holding Wear and soil. Black-and-white plates within. Includes an introduction with a biography of Burns. Decorative red borders on pages. 478 pages; approx. 6"x9".

• THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
• The American News Co., ca 1890s

Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries

This handsome book contains biographies and speeches from prominent statesmen such as the Earl of Strafford, Lord Belhaven, Sir Robert Walpole, Lord Chesterfield, William Pitt, Edmund Burke, and others. 947 pages; 6 inches x 9 inches. Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, gilt spine lettering and raised bands on the spine. Small ex-lib spine label remnants. Bookplate on front inner board. Marbled endpapers. Some foxing. Inscriptions on front endpapers.

• Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most Eminent Orators of Great Britain for the Last Two Centuries
• Chauncey A. Goodrich, ed.
• Harper & Brothers, 1852