Grenfell had a wicked sense of humor, too - here's his inscription in a copy of Northern Neighbors I have, 1928: "A Christmas Dinner in Labrador"...
Unlikely. The color-coding is for their modern paperbacks - yellow for literature in German, red for literature NOT in German, magenta for...
Nothing like them in the one book on bookends I can put my hands on right now. I also think they have a hand-made look about them, and very...
If it's random tidbits of unobtainable objects you seek, look no further than:...
Your version of this image, first published in 1769, dates to the second half of the 1800s. Kurtz, the publisher, was active in Reutlinger,...
Collier is usually a reprinter; in this case, Cassell is the earlier publisher, of better quality, but Doré illustrated books are always in demand...
Ah, what HAVEN'T I found in books.... I always flip through as I'm going through a buy to check for underlining or highlighting, and all the...
This is based on traditional Japanese binding methods, no doubt related to the interest in all things Japanese around the time. The original...
I cannot believe this was a bookmark. Far too elaborate, with the dual surfaces, and why would you need a portable bookmark? How often does one...
Maybe gentlemen attendees were expected to have facial hair unless pardoned? Weird.
Big Oscar Mayer factory in my home town, so I saw old wiener whistles all the time at estate sales - 30+ years ago. There are modern ones, too,...
Here's a complete one on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/126125337927 Their pictures show a page from Ezekiel that appears to be the identical...
I think it's a lithograph. There's some techniques in there, particularly the mottled red in the lower left, that would be difficult to do in...
I think what you've got here is photographically printed images cut out and glued to a lithographically printed background, almost certainly from...
In the Victorian era, books were often sold in parts, so you could buy a chapter of Dickens's latest book for a shilling then have them all bound...
Ah, conetops were the Holy Grail to my young collecting mind, but I never found any I could afford that weren't rusted to near illegibility. Sold...
He was there from 1975-77, so I think not. Don't recall him visiting there much afterwards, either, though I went to a few of their book sales in...
My father studied conservation at the Newberry Library in the '70s when deacidification was the big thing. There was a system of washing in...
Nice! I collected cans in the heyday of the mid '70s, in grade school - my dad enjoyed helping by trying new beers, but I got a lot by rummaging...
Motley was popular in his day, but is no longer well-regarded by scholars. There are a LOT of his books out there, though a complete set like this...
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