“Baby Blossom: Stories and Pictures for Little Folks”
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I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people every day. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. I also wrote a book: http://bit.ly/ozEmdL
Ask me anything
May 21, 2013
May 21, 2013
“This Is It, Michael Shayne” by Brett Halliday. Published by Dodd, Mead, 1950.
May 18, 2013
May 14, 2013
“Books and My Food: Original Recipes and Literary Quotations For Every Day in the Year” from 1906
April 29, 2013
Found these coupons (circa 1915) from Velvet Tobacco. You could redeem them for prizes like table cloths, book cases, boy’s shoes and more…
April 27, 2013
Clipped and trimmed illustrations from trade cards, found in “Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales” published by Roberts Brothers, no date listed, circa 1890.
(Source: forgottenbookmarks.com)
April 25, 2013
April 25, 2013
“Mother Goose - The Old Nursery Rhymes” illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published by Century & Co.,1913
April 25, 2013
“Andersen’s Fairy Tales” published by Jacobs, circa 1900
April 25, 2013
“Shakespeare’s Love Story” by Ann Benneson McMahan. Published by A.C. McClurg, 1909.
March 13, 2013
Here’s another vintage bookplate I cleaned up so you can use -
March 5, 2013
“Body’s Rapture” by Jules Romains, 1937. Great endpapers as well.
March 5, 2013
