Books, Ephemera & Collectibles #169

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South Boston Books


(978) 331-0895
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Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost: Country and Suburban Homes (1911)

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Distinctive Homes of Moderate Cost Being a Collection of Country and Suburban Homes in Good Taste. McBride Winston & Company (1911) good condition, small stain on the bac...morek cover (see pic).

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GERMANY PREPARES FOR WAR by Ewald Banse (1934) ADVANCED COPY

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GERMANY PREPARES FOR WAR by Ewald Banse, Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co., NY, (1934) A Nazi theory of National Defense. ADVANCED COPY. Dust Jacket with heavy wear. S...moreome notes and articles inside.

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RARE THE WITCH by Mary Johnston (1914) Signed & Owned by WW2 Sergeant

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Good condition, hardcover, signed by Sargent on inside cover. Mary Johnston was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's b...moreest selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.

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The UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY by W. D. Howells (1880) Shakers & Spiritualism

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The Undiscovered Country by W. D. Howells, Published by Houghton Mifflin & the Riverside Press, Boston & Cambridge (1880) William D. Howells (1837-1920) is regarded as th...moree "father" of American realism. Good condition, some slight wear on the outer upper spine. A Novel dealing with Shakers and Spiritualism.

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Plain Home Talk Embracing Medical Common Sense (1898) MEDICAL QUACKERY

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Plain Home Talk Embracing Medical Common Sense by Edward B. Foote, Published by Murray Hill Pusblishing Company, New York (1898) The Habits of Men and Women - The Cause...mores and Prevention of Disease - Our Sexual Relations and Social Natures embracing Medical Common Sense Applied to cuses, prevention, and cure of chronic diseases - the Nataural Relations of Men and Women to Each other - society - love, mariiage - parentage etc. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Good condition with faded spine, slightly loose binding.

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RARE NYMPHOMAINA Sexual Behavior Series Magazine (1961)

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Good condition, softcover, 64 pages, with photographs....more

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RARE GARTER Parade Magazine (1961) NUDES

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Good condition, softcover, sized 6" x 8" filled with nude photographs....more

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RARE Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War by Gibbs (1919) WW1 Army Gunner Officer in France

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Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War by Gibbs, A. Hamilton (by); Gibbs, Philip (with Intro. by) Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston (1919) 313p. 8vo - ...moreover 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Enlistment & training with the 9th Lancers in 1914, serving with them briefly in France before returning home to a commission in the RFA at the beginning of 1915. Returned to France with 379th Battery RFA, ultimately to command it until gassed in the March Retreat, 1918. "He gives a god account of the life of a keen & diligent, but somewhat emotional, New Army gunner officer in France."

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D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British (1901) WAR OF 1812

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D'ri and I: A Tale of Daring Deeds in the Second War with the British. Being the Memoirs of Colonel Ramon Bell, U.S.A. Irving Bacheller, Published by Grosset & Dunlap, Ne...morew York (1901) Set in a long valley south of the St. Lawrence River, this is a tale of the War of 1812. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus seven more Yohn illustrations.

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Fertility in Men; A Clinical Study (1944)

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Fertility in Men; a clinical study of the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of impaired fertility in men. With a foreword by Nicholson J. Eastman. Robert Sherman Hotchkiss...more. Published by J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, London and Montreal: (1944) Good with old library stamp.

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Works of CHARLES DICKENS (1871) A Tale of Two Cities

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Good condition, some wear on outer upper spine, decorative covers....more

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RARE The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White (1912) Expedition to AFRICA

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The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White, Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N. Y. (1912) Illustrated with photographs by the author and two drawi...moreng by Philip R. Goodwin. 8vo. 8" - 9" tall; 440 pages. Good condition. "Mr. White has discovered a new Africa by the simple expedient of finding the real one. The public has been taught to believe that Africa consists of lions, rhinos and native guides. Mr. White has found a real people whose life is highly interesting and whose progress is wonderful. And he has seen, too, the bountiful natural beauties and marvels which lend fascination to this land of the Last Frontier. Illustrated."

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Southward Ho!: A Treasure Hunter in South America by William La Varre (1940) with Dust Jacket

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Southward Ho!: A Treasure Hunter in South America by William La Varre, Published by National Travel Club, New York (1940) First edition, stated of this memoir of prospect...moreing for treasure and adventure from the Yucatan to Patagonia, in Mayan and Incan ruins, over the Andes, up the Amazon, and more. Good with good dust jacket. 15 b/w illustrations from photographs by La Varre.

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The Wooing of a Recluse by Gregory Marword (1927) Western Novel Illustrated by Remington Schuyler

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The Wooing of a Recluse by Gregory Marword, Published by The Devlin-Adair Co., New York (1927) 8vo - over 7¾". Frontispiece and two full page black & white illustrations ...moreby Remington Schuyler. 115 pages. An extremely scarce Western novel enhanced by Schuyler's experienced renderings of Western scenery.

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Pictures With a Purpose-How They Are Made by Charles Kerlee (1939) Photography

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Pictures With a Purpose-How They Are Made by Charles Kerlee, Published by San Francisco Camera Craft (1939) good condition. 8vo. 79 pages. Spiral bound stiff wraps. 24 fu...morell-page fine-grained halftone plates, handsomely reproduced on rich glossy paper stock, from photographs by the author, with his notes on how and why they were made, including planning and composing the photograph, lighting, exposure, printing. etc.; 24 additional ill. from scratchboard drawings offering diagrams on how each picture was made.

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French Antique Book by Andre Felibien (1706) on Classic Painters Ancient and Modern

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Entretiens Sur Les Vies et Sur Les Ouvrages Des Plus Excellens Peitres, Anciens et Modernes. Volume 4. Andre Des Avaux, Published by Estienne Roger, Amsterdam (1706) Text...more is in French. This classic work by French art and court historian Andre Felibien (1619-1695), in which he chronicles the lives and works of ancient and modern painters of his time. Good condition as shown. The marbled flyleaves on handmade paper are nicely done.

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Taming New Guinea: Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate (1921)

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Taming New Guinea by C.A.W. Monckton, Published by The Bodley Head, New York., John Lane (1921) Adventures of a turn-of-the-century British magistrate in New Guinea. Mon...moreckton was his own "surveyor, surgeon, blacksmith, gaoler and undertaker; he had to perform marriages and sail crazy ships up and down the reef-studded, shark-haunted coast." Good condition, rubbed outer cover. Frontis. port. of author, illustrated with photographs, index. 337 pp.

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The Modern Traveller by Joseph Conder (1830) SPAIN and PORTUGAL with MAP

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The Modern Traveller by Joseph Conder (1830) in good- condition, subject is SPAIN and PORTUGAL with fold out map as shown. Sized 4" x 6" each. One of the covers is slight...morely loose - not detached. The labels in volume one is gone.

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RARE Observations in the Orient By A Maryknoller (1919) Account Of A Journey In Japan, Korea, China

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Observations in the Orient By A Maryknoller; The Account Of A Journey To Catholic Mission Fields In Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, Indo-China, And The Philippines by Rev...more. James A. Walsh, Published by Catholic Foreign Mission Society Of America, Ossining NY (1919) First Edition. Octavo; pp; xiii, (i), 323, (xiv), index, ads; frontispiece and seventy-nine black and white plates; pictorial red cloth highlighted in gilt and black; Laid in is a special "Bookmark for Observations In The Orient" with some wear.

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Letters of The Franks Family (1738-1748) American Jewish Colonial Correspondence

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Letters of The Franks Family (1738-1748) The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence. Published by U.S.A: American Jewish Historica (1968) ...moreVery good condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 171 p. Illus. Thirty-four letters written by the author to her son, Naphtali Franks.

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Celebration by Mary Lee Settle (1986) SIGNED First Edition - Leather Franklin Library Edition

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Celebration by Mary Lee Settle, First Edition, Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA (1986) Signed by the author. Set in 1969 London, this is the story of th...moree love affair of Theresa Cerutti, a widowed American anthropologist, and Ewen McLeod, a Scottish geologist who meet in the British Museum. The novel also tells the intertwining tales of the couple's diverse cast of friends -- from a gay British aristocrat to a six-foot-tall Dinka Jesuit - all of whom have had close encounters with death and all of whom choose to celebrate life. Good to VG condition, some ever so slight spotting on gilt end pages. Otherwise no visible sign of wear.

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19th Century SCRAPBOOK - Spanish American War - Harriet Beecher Stowe - Obituaries

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19th Century SCRAPBOOK, good condition, made from book on Connecticut State Capitals. 50 pages, sized 9" x 11". MANY OBITUARIES including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry War...mored Beecher, and MANY OTHERS. One page on the end of the Spanish American War. Many other articles - great reading.

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EIGHTEEN (18) Military & Fortification 10" x 8" Engraved Plates (1797)

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Copper Plates Published 1788-97, London for "Encyclopaedia Britannica; Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature..." Third Edition by Various Contri...morebutors. Sized 10.5" x 8" GREAT SCENES VERY NICE FOR FRAMING. Last grouping we have available from this set.

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The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses by Robert Service (1914) Interesting Read

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The Spell Of The Yukon And Other Verses by Robert Service, Published by Barse & Hopkins, New York (1914) good condition, owner signature. Robert William Service (1874–195...more8) was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as "the Bard of the Yukon". He is best-known for his writings on the Canadian North, including the poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", "The Law of the Yukon", and "The Cremation of Sam McGee". His writing was so expressive that his readers took him for a hard-bitten old Klondike prospector, not the later-arriving bank clerk he actually was.

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RARE 1780 Hand Colored Map of EUROPE

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From "Atlas de toutes les parties connues du Globe Terrestre, dressé pour L'histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les de...moreux indes" Good condition with little to no wear. Smallest of small pin-hole at center of map (see pic). Sized 16" x 10.5". Amazing Map. Not a replica whatsoever. Blank on back.

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