W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. 4th Edition. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. The established guide to the purposes, methods, and pleasures of research in English and American literature.

USA: Turquoise Moon Press, 2019. A Fine Soft cover. A Hastiness of Cooks is not just for chefs and cooks. Living-history interpreters, battle reenactors, writers of fiction and nonfiction, historical archaeologists, historians, artists, and just about anyone interested in how people cooked and ate in the past will find much.....

Springfield, Mass., Milton Bradley Company, 1921. Illustrated by Harold M. Brett. The Madge Bellamy Edition of Lorna Doone, associated with Maurice Tourneur's 1922 silent film, garnered acclaim for its faithful adaptation of R.D. Blackmore’s novel. Period reviews praised Bellamy’s portrayal of Lorna, highlighting her role's emotional resonance. The film’s atmospheric.....

North Carolina: Duke University Press Books, 2001. A New Soft cover. For readers interested in the intersections of space, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, this book has a wealth of insights to ponder. And for those interested in the complexity, vibrancy, and challenges of today's urban and urbanizing China, this book's.....

London: John Walthoe et.al. 1740. The plate is from a collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, The whole history of navigation.....

Boston and Chicago, International Society of Christian Endeavor, 1897. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE —Rev. Francis E. Clark founded the Christian Endeavor movement in 1881, helping shape one of the most influential Protestant youth and lay organizations of the late 19th century. ‘A Daily Message for Christian Endeavorers’ presents scripture, poetry, devotional commentary.....

Virginia: Col. D. L. Wardle, 1966. No Binding.

Historical Context —During the 1920s, American tourism expanded rapidly with the rise of automobile travel, leading to a proliferation of regional promotional booklets like this example. Natural Bridge, long celebrated as one of the country’s notable geological landmarks, became a focal point for Virginia’s tourism industry.Publications such as this served.....

New York: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition, Thus. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE --The husband-and-wife team of Edgar Parin and Ingri d'Aulaire are pillars of the children's literature pantheon, perhaps best known for their Caldecott-winning 'Abraham Lincoln'. Their work is characterized by a deep commitment to traditional printmaking techniques that were already.....

Subjects: Ephemera → Postcards (divided back, 1900s) Illustration → Gibson-Girl era portraiture Social history → Edwardian fashion & humor; Americana → Early 20th-century popular culture,

New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1953. Book Club Edition. Very Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket. The Boyds of The Black River Is a Story of a Family of Horse Breeding Farmers in The Black River Area of Upstate New York in The Early 1900s.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1946. Later Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Perry D. Frazer's Amateur Rodmaking (1914) is a foundational guide in rod crafting, covering historical context, tools, and methods for building various rods, including split-bamboo. Its detailed, illustrated steps on mounting, winding, and varnishing make it essential for beginners.....

USA: ABC-CLIO, 1992. Hardcover in a Dust Jacket. Dictionary of Native American Mythology includes over 1,000 colorful, sometimes earthy, and always intriguing entries. Using the carefully chosen cross references, readers can quickly access the meanings of hundreds of elements of lore from names, phrases, and symbols to images, motifs, and.....