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Tall plastic comb bound 15 3/4" by 6 1/2" Cardboard covers. Consisting of six groups of six cardboard panels, each with text by Kent Salisbury and a color illustration by Adrina Zanazanian which can be turned and combined to make thousands of different stories.
Spine of plastic comb separated in places but binding functionally intact. Light shelf wear to covers

George Grey is thought to be a pseudonym for Franklin D. Roosevelt himself. Booklet in stiff paper cover. Small octavo. [iv] 58 pp. Bound in hard cover library binding of blue cloth over boards. Bookplate of the Forbes Library to front fixed end paper. Evidence of circulation record removed from rear end papers.The author, who conceals his identity under the name George Grey, fixes upon the President's first ten days in office as a turning point in American, and perhaps world, psychology; and in the pages following develops that argument in swiftly striking language. - from the Editor's Note.

Hard cover. Octavo 241 pages plus seven photographic illustrations. Green cloth over boards with black lettering. Interesting ink stamp to front free end paper dated 1933 and referring to the National Industrial Recovery Act, from the Cragin Simplex Corp. maker of tennis rackets. Cover shows some shelf wear with slight fading to spine.
The story of tennis in Baltimore from 1879 onwards and containing a 29 quatrain "Tennis Player's Rubaiyat" reportedly written in the 1890s.

Stated first edition. Had cover. Octavo. [x] 365pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Light blue cloth over boards with gilt to spine and embossed signature in dark blue to front. Some offsetting from dust jacket. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with some chipping to edges and original price of $3.00 to front dust flap.The first of Eleanor Roosevelt's autobiographies describing her life up until the presidential election of 1924.

Hard cover. Octavo. 233 pages. Publisher's blue cloth. NO dust jacket. Previous owner's name to front free end paper otherwise clean throughout. Tight binding Shelf wear to cover with fading to spine. A newspaper clipping of a letter to the Times regarding Roosevelt's 1920 nomination for vice-president is laid in. Earle Looker was an author, journalist and a speechwriter for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Hard cover. Octavo. [viii] 2. 192 pages with 26 illustrated plates by Peter S. Newell. Green cloth with color designs to both covers and spine. Gilt titles. The book is in fine condition and the cover art is bright. Hand written inscription to front free end paper dated 1896. One page loose.
The book captures the adventures of a young boy, Tommy, as he experiences the wonder of his toy animals coming to life.

Hard cover. Small octavo. Paper over boards. [viii] (9)-92pp, [xxiii] 1 pp. A 23 page prospectus of a new edition of "Accum's Treatise on Adulterations of Food and Culinary Poisons" at rear. Title page with color diagram of a wine press. Lacks front free end paper. Front hinge separating with some loose gatherings and one leaf torn near binding.
From the preface "My principal intention in this Treatise has been to give a concise description of the art of preparing the several varieties of Wine which may be made from fruits of domestic growth, to enable those who possess no knowledge of the subject to proceed with facility and success." Gabler G6930.
Accum was an extremely accomplished chemist, and member of the Royal Academy of sciences his publications were, in his own words,.."it has been my purpose to express all necessary rules and instructions in the plainest language, divested of those recondite terms of science, which would be out of place in a work intended for general perusal.

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Joseph Cranston Jones. Green cloth over boards with gilt design and lettering. 8vo. [xii] 151pp. Some offsetting of silhouettes otherwise near fine in a dust jacket that is separated with about a 35% loss of upper spine. Now stabilized in a Brodart sleeve.