Physical Culture, Beauty, Ideals. (+ ephemera) by Bailey, Mrs. John - 1892

Evanston, IL: Palmer Publications, 1955. No. 11. Cover photo of Linda Jane Palmer. Includes True Stories"Dreams That Came True" by Mrs. M. L. Johnson; "Space Is But a Thought Away" by Harriett M. Gallagher; "Over the Border" by Anaonymous; "The Headless Man" by Helen Bailey; "The Skeleton Driver" by Mera Gaskill; "Seeing Double" by Mrs. Barbara Hancock; "A Ringside Seat With Death" by John G. Parry; "Better Forgotten" by Betty Hall; "bishop Sheen's Ghostly Straight Man". Articles: "Is Your Unborn baby Expendable?" by Ray Palmer; "Hypnotherapy Versus Dianetics" by Prof. Alfred Luntz; "Governor Johnson's Atomic Bill of rights" by ray palmer; "What Are the Flying Saucers?" by Max B. Miller; "The Dagger Behind the Atomic Cloak" by Marion Kirkpatrick; "A Plot Against Our Lives" by Richard S. Shaver. Fiction based on facts: "The White Gull"… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York : The Macmillan Co. ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd.; [Entirely completed within the Mount Pleasant Press, J. Horace McFarland Company], 1923, 1923. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] ; x, 233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 23-5940 ; LC: SB411; Dewey: 635.93 ; OCLC: 970845 ; green cloth with gold lettering and color photographic vignette ; no dustjacket ; Includes bibliographical references ("Books on roses" p. 227) and index. ; "..[H]aving in 1915 been rought into an intimate relations with the American Rose Society through an agreement to make for it each year an "American Rose Annual", I came into progressive contact with the friends of the rose everywhere. I had all my life been a theoretical rose-lover, but this labor of love for the rose impelled me to make my relationship practical. This increasingly pleasant rose contact has reached into every state and province of the United States and Canada, as well as… Read More

Handcrafted, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. [A unique, lovely, hand-painted book in a fine binding.] 28.5 x 25 cm. [No date, circa 1870-1880.] Bound in fine contemporary red morocco, with gilt lettering and decoration. Boards are heavily gilt ruled, with extra-gilt dentelle. Marbled end sheets. All edges gilt. Manuscript, calligraphic text of Aldrich's poem with hand-painted illustrations. "Painted by Mrs. John H. Van Antwerp, Albany New York." Calligraphic title and 25 botanical plates (many with the names of the flowers on the verso in Martha's hand), with tissue guards. Many of the plates also include lovely images of butterflies, moths, or various insects. Drawn on Reynolds' Bristol Board. The artist has matched the variety of flower with Aldrich's verse. (The artist, Martha Wiswall Van Antwerp died August 30, 1880, and drew this work on Reynolds' Bristolboard; and thus this work must have been created some time in the 1870s. Van Antwerp has signed the book in… Read More