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1 (Advertising Fiction) Emily Hayes, [Emma Gordon]. COUSIN JOHN'S EXTRAVAGANT WIFE. A Story. (Promotional booklet for Diamond Dyes & Kidney-Wort). Wells, Richardson & Company, Burlington, Vermont, no date, ca 1880? 32 pages. 5 x 3.5", pictorial color wrapper: 'Class in Economy', girls in park, dyeing Easter eggs, 'Council in Session'. Wright, American Fiction, 2214. Color list, dyeing cotton, basket, ivory, flowers, leather, feathers, hair, carpet, photographs, paints, shoe dressing, wood stain, ink; cure 'for ladies who suffer in silence'. VG. $20.00 2 (Advertising Humor) Cantor, Eddie. CANTOR'S COMICS. Eddie Cantor's Best Jokes Selected from the Pebeco Tooth Paste Broadcasts. Lehn & Fink Products Corporation, Bloomfield, New Jersey, copyright 1936. (32) pages. Portrait, 'Cantor Cantata'. 6.75 x 4.75", red & blue pictorial wrapper. Radio gags with Mad Russian & Parkyakarkus promoting toothpaste. VG. $10.00 3 (Advertising Humor) The Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, Ohio. ECONOMY and BEAUTY in the DECORATIVE ARTS. No. 1. The Sherwin Williams Paints & Colors. No date, ca 1895? (12) pages. 8 comic drawings: peeping house painter, fatty & slim break ladder, tired farmer sits in wet paint, few professionals using Sherwin-Williams Paints. 5.25 x 3.5", printed wrapper. VG. $15.00 4 (Advertising Juvenile) Malena Company, Warriorsmark, Pennsylvania. JACK the GIANT KILLER. Ma-Le-Na Booklet No. 114. Free with Box of Ma-Le-Na. No date, ca 1900. (8) pages. 4 chromolithographs, 4 drawings. 6.25 x 5", color wrapper, Stomach-Liver Pills box. Promoting medicated salve & pills. VG. $15.00 5 (Advertising Juvenile) Malena Company, Warriorsmark, Pennsylvania. RIP VAN WINKLE. Ma-Le- Na Booklet No. 101. Free with Box of Ma-Le-Na. No date, ca 1900. (12) pages. 4 chromolithographs, 9 drawings. 6.25 x 5", color wrapper, Ma-Le-Na box. Promoting medicated salve, Worm Tablets & Stomach-Liver Pills. Staples bit rusty, owner name, short archival tape repair, toned, VG. $15.00 6 (Advertising Juvenile) Malena Company, Warriorsmark, Pennsylvania. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. Ma-Le-Na Booklet No. 100. Free with Box of Ma-Le-Na. No date, ca 1900. (12) pages. 4 chromolithographs, 5 drawings. 6.25 x 5", color wrapper, Ma-Le-Na box. Promoting medicated salve, Worm Tablets & Stomach-Liver Pills. Wrap archival tape repairs, toned, lightly creased, VG. $15.00 7 (Advertising Juvenile) Malena Company, Warriorsmark, Pennsylvania. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. Ma-Le-Na Booklet No. 103. Free with Box of Malena. No date, ca 1900. (12) pages. 4 chromolithographs, 5 drawings. 6.25 x 5", color wrapper, Ma-Le-Na box. Promoting medicated salve, Worm Tablets & Stomach-Liver Pills. Wrap archival tape repair, toned, VG. $15.00 8 (Advertising Juvenile) Malena Company, Warriorsmark, Pennsylvania. WILD ANIMALS. Ma-Le-Na Booklet No. 113. Free with Box of Ma-Le-Na. No date, ca 1900. (8) pages. 4 chromolithographs, 4 drawings. 6.25 x 5", color wrapper, Stomach-Liver Pills box. Promoting medicated salve & pills. Toned, VG. $0.00 9 (Advertising Juvenile) Schultz & Company, Zanesville, Ohio, "The Soap Boilers". OLD MOTHER HUBBARD'S STAR RHYMES. No date, ca 1900? 16 pages. Chromolithographs. 5.5 x 3.25', color wrapper, Star Soap package. Ring-a-Roses, Diller a Dollar, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Little Jack Horner, Old Woman Who Lived in Shoe, To Market, Jack Be Nimble, Mary Had a Lamb, 2 German, Star Soap plugs. VG. $20.00 10 (Advertising Juvenile) The Waterbury Watch Company, George Merritt, General Selling Agent, New York. BOY'S OWN BOOK of Useful & Interesting Information. Copyright, 1885, S.C. Patterson, N.Y. (12) pages. Illustrated: camping, race, prestidigitator, boat parts. 5 x 3.25", color wrapper, boy on bicycle. Queer Feats, Quickest Miles, Nautical Terms, Odds & Ends. VG. $20.00 11 (Advertising Verse) Montgomery Ward & Company, Chicago, Illinois. HERE! I WANT IT! Being an Adaptation of Hiawatha by Longfellow, Altered to Fit the Needs of the Present. Publishing Department, 1895. (24) pages. Drawings: Lake Michigan waterfront warehouse, shipping, meeting, merchandise, reduced price list, herald, train, carriage, mail department. 6 x 3.25", pictorial wrapper. Epic poem promoting reduced prices for hard times. VG. $25.00 12 (African American) Elmer H. Carter, Editor. OPPORTUNITY: Journal of Negro Life. Volume XVIII, No. 10. National Urban League, New York City, October, 1940. Pages (289)-320. Halftones: Channing Tobias, Creed Ward, workers, New York housing; advertisements. 11 x 8", printed wrapper. Dorothy West, Mammy; James E. Alsbrook, Negro Syncopation; Robert E. Hayden, We Have Not Forgotten; Langston Hughes, Big City Prayer; George Crockett, Jr., Wage-Hour Law; Valdemar Hill, Virgin Islander; Frank Horne, New Housing. Library rubberstamp, creased, bit soiled, VG. $35.00 13 (African American) Guste, Robert Ignatius, 1926-2010, New Orleans, Louisiana; Claudine McKay, Art Work. FOR MEN of GOOD WILL. The Catholic Church, the Negro, and the South. Catholic Council on Human Relations, Archdiocese of New Orleans, Second Printing, October, 1961. viii,71 pages. 4 drawings. 7.5 x 5", black & green pictorial wrapper. Addresses fears of integration. Wrap stained, soiled, text clean, tight, G. $25.00 14 (African American) Knight, Etheridge; Gwendolyn Brooks, Preface. POEMS from PRISON. Broadside Press, Detroit, Michigan, May, 1988. Eighth Printing. 30 pages. 8.5 x 5.5", pictorial wrapper. VG. $15.00 15 (Agriculture) Dutton & FitzGerald, Onancock, Virginia. PORTABLE POULTRY HOUSES, PIGEON HOUSES, RABBIT HUTCHES. (Catalog). No date, 1922 testimonials. (15) pages, form letterhead & Env-O-Blank order form inserted. Illustrated: houses, coops, garage, brooders. 8.5 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap soiled, rubbed,, letterhead torn with loss, else VG. $15.00 16 (Agriculture) Fanny Guttery, Charles Rhodes, E.W. Graham, A.V. Meersch, J. Howard Payne, Caroline Drisko, M.A. Nicholls, W.C. Schuman, P.E. Crabtree, T.H. Harris. The BELGIAN HARE GUIDE. Inland Poultry Journal Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, copyright, 1900. 48 pages. Halftones & drawings: hares, hutches, score cards. 9 x 6", printed red wrapper. History, meat, pelts, business outlook, houses, feed, breeding, young, pedigrees, judging, dressing, cooking, diseases, exhibition, shipping, caponizing, England, Black Belgians, Flemish Giants. Rubbed, VG. $20.00 17 (Alcoholism) Jackson, James C., 1811-1895, Physician-in-Chief "Our Home", Dansville, Livingston County, New York. The DRINK-CRAVE - How to Cure. Vegetarian Society, Manchester, no date, ca 1880? 4 pages. Folded sheet, 7.25 x 4.75". VG. $15.00 18 (America First) America First Committee, National Headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, General Robert E. Wood, Acting Chairman. AMERICA FIRST COMMITTEE: AIMS and ACTIVITIES. "The Path to War Is a False Path to Freedom". (Leaflet). No date, but 1940. (6) pages. Red, blue & white. Folded slip, 6.5 x 3.5". Why AFC?, Who is behind?, What Does It Do?, What Does It Stand For?, National Committee roster. Small rust spot, VG. $20.00 19 (American Revolution) GROTON. 1781. 1881. CENTENNIAL MUSIC. For the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Groton Heights, Fought, September 6, 1781. A.H. Chappell, New London, Connecticut. (8) pages. Engraving of battle monument, music & lyrics: Star-Spangled Banner, America, American Hymn by M. Keller. Stitched booklet, 10.25 x 7". Owner name, rubberstamp. Soiled, toned, G. $25.00 20 (American Revolution) Phillips, Daniel L., Griswold, Connecticut. The REVOLUTIONARY MARTYRS of ANCIENT PACHAUG. An Historical Paper Read at the Unveling of a Monument to the Memory of the Revolutionary Martyrs of Ancient Pachaug, Memorial Day, 1903. Copyright, 1903. 15 pages. 8 x 5.5", printed wrapper. Presentation slip inserted. Wrap well soiled, small edge damp, text toned, G. $15.00 21 (American Revolution) The Society of Colonial Dames, The Society of Colonial Wars, The Daughters of the American Revolution & Patriotic Citizens in State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations. DEDICATION of the RHODE ISLAND BAY in the Cloister of the Colonies of the WASHINGTON MEMORIAL CHAPEL, VALLEY FORGE, May the Twenty-ninth, 1921. (8) pages. 8 x 6", printed wrapper, Washington Memorial view. Service, Presentation, Patriotic Address, Committee, Inscription. Trifle soiled, VG. $10.00 22 (American Youth Hostels) Mrs. Richard Hudson, Editor. 1953 AYH HANDBOOK and HOSTELERS' MANUAL. American Youth Hostels, National Headquarters, New York. 144 pages. Maps, few halftones, bicycle advertisements. 6.75 x 4.25", pictorial wrapper. VG. $10.00 23 (Americana) Eisenhower, Dwight D. The FUTURE of the REPUBLICAN PARTY in The Saturday Evening Post, January 30, 1985. Reprinted by permission, Kemper Insurance. (11) pages. Stapled booklet, 8.5 x 5.25. 'Republicanism suffered from false "image" of doctrine designed for rich & privileged . national ticket abandoned traditional principles for reactionary, extremist & racist fringes . ' Faint corner stain, VG. $15.00 24 (Americana) Fawcett, Joseph W.; Eugene D. Rigney, Introduction. JOURNAL of JOS. W. FAWCETT (Diary of His Trip in 1840 Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Gulf of Mexico and up the Atlantic Coast to Boston). David K. Webb Private Press, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1944. 59 pages. 5.75 x 4.25", printed wallpaper wrapper. Unopened. Edges nicked, VG. $20.00 25 (Americana) The American Heritage Foundation. GOOD CITIZEN: The Rights and Duties of an American. An Official Freedom Train Publication. Copyright 1948. 72 pages. Red illustrations, decorations, flags, Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech, Religion, mushroom cloud, 'Made in America'. 7.5 x 5.5", red, white & blue pictorial wrapper. Produced by Advertising Council, Hollywood, white, corporate Board of Trustees, caused controversy in segregated Memphis, Montgomery & Birmingham. VG. $15.00 26 (Amusement Parks) SOUVENIR FOLDER of CONEY ISLAND, NEW YORK by NIGHT. No imprint, but 1934 (postmark & ink note). 20 color halftones in folding strip: Dragon's Gorge,Surf Ave, Luna Park, Steeplechase, Swimming Pool, Noah's Ark, Tunnel of Love, Honeymoon Express, Mammoth Pit, Jack & Jill, Whip, Chute the Chutes, Boardwalk. 4.25 x 6", color tab & slot card folder, address, stamp. Trifle rubbed, VG. $15.00 27 (Amusement Parks) SOUVENIR FOLDER of CONEY ISLAND by NIGHT and DAY.