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London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. Arthur Rackham. No Binding.

Racine, WI: Western Publishing Company.

This photo postcard from 1973 depicts four men, dressed in 1920s-style attire, relieving themselves along a wall in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico. Produced as a humor or novelty postcard, it reflects a playful approach to visual comedy aimed at tourists and collectors. While the card references Mazatlán, the primary focus is the.....

New York: Platt & Munk, 1912. A Very Good Hardcover, An anthology of stories and poetry for early readers. "Prattles for Our Boys and Girls" is a delightful and engaging book filled with enchanting stories, charming characters, and valuable life lessons, crafted specifically to captivate and entertain young readers. It.....

Boston, Massachusetts: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1932. This booklet sits at the intersection of American industrial history and corporate advertising, appealing to collectors of Edison material, early technology, and insurance ephemera.Subjects: Thomas Edison, John Hancock Insurance, Industrial History, American Innovation, 1930s Advertising, Corporate Promotion, Inventors, Great Men Narrative.....

New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1917. Illustrated by Mary La Fetra. A Fair Soft cover. Stiff pictorial wraps; Heavily worn; illustrations clean with some soling on outside edges are printed on linen. Wraps attached but weak. Gift inscription in pencil.

New York: Prometheus Books, 1987. Lionel Abel was a prominent American dramatist, critic and translator, credited with coining the term “metatheatre” and translating Jean-Paul Sartre into English. In Important Nonsense, Abel offers incisive essays on major intellectual figures such as Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kojeve and Russell, revealing his lifelong engagement with.....

Boston: Page Co.;, 1914. Illustrations by Walter S. Rogers. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. The Young Pioneer Series #4.  First Edition, First Printing.Ref: Mattson, 330.

New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Hardcover Hardcover. The author captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people, the animals, the land itself.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1961. First Edition with code b.10.61. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several.....

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. Humorous tales of male-female relationships in the late 19th-century illustrated with numerous drawings.Background Information:George Ade, an influential American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright, rose to prominence during the early 20th century. He achieved widespread recognition with his column "Stories of the Streets and of.....

New York: Duell Sloan Pearce, 1950. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Conrad Aiken is the great 'shadow figure' of American Modernism—a close friend of T.S. Eliot and a Pulitzer Prize winner who was often the first to introduce Freudian psychoanalysis into American fiction. This 1950 collection is significant.....