Item:  Elbert Hubbard's Scrap Book

Price:  $50.00

Description:  Elbert Hubbard was regarded as the father of the Arts & Crafts Movement in America. Founder of the Roycroft Studios in East Aurora, New York, this shop made furniture, copper, books and all sorts of items used in this movement that today is regarded with love and affection. This book was published by the Sm. H. Wise & Co., Roycroft Distributors in New York City. The thoughts of Mr. Hubbard are well recorded here and very well displayed for readers viewing. This is a first edition.

Item:  Black Bayou by Idwal Jones

Price:  $25.00

Description:  Written in 1941, this first edition has some mold to the outside edge, but the binding is tight and the pages intact. The entire story centers around the Bayous of Louisiana and fishing. In these swamps, all sorts of imagery captures the novelists interest and it is almost as if time stood still. In this world of hanging moss and cypress stumps, the entire book makes one remember the boat trips through the swamps and wish they were back.

Item:  Diddie, Dumps and Tot by Mrs L.C. Pyrnelle, or Plantation Child-Life

Price:  $85.00

Description:  One of the sweetest stories, this 1916, this book shows how children years ago loved their Black American Mammies and Aunties during nursery days and that they would even go to bed and asleep easier for them than their own parents. The book is certainly not a defense of slavery and it does cover both sides of that issue, but is really a well presented and positive view of how caring adults raised generations of children, both white and black. The two races were raised together and did become friends, a positive view in todays world and the positive effects of this book far outweigh the few negative. This 1916 reprint is somewhat changed and updated for the time period and several well done illustrations are found in the book. There is a lot of humor of goats chasing children and events that still happen today.

Item:  McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, 19th Century

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Description:  The companion book to McGuffey's Reader, this book shows 125+ years ago of how children were taught to spell and use words in sentences. This book has a few missing pages, lots of writing, and was obviously a childs book that was used. Many generations learned to read with this and companion books like it. In fact, parents learned from the same book that grandparents learned from and cherished these books. Commonly called McGuffey's Speller & Reader, these books were in normal use until early 20th century in America.

Item:  The Weavers by Gilbert Parker

Price:  $30.00

Description:  An interesting novel on ancient Egypt with effects of weaving, wall tapestries, rugs and all sorts of fabric, "interwoven" into a story that readers found fascinating around the turn of the century. The touch of exotic locations in early 20th century was a necessity to make books desirable to readers, and this certainly delivers on that score.

Item:  The Abridged Academy Song-Book

Price:  $30.00

Description:  The musical offerings in this book are divided into sections of Patriotic and National, School & College, Familiar, Devotion. A wonderful collection of late Victorian music that has become classic to us in the 21st century and still worth listening to today.

Item:  Adam's Roman Antiquities by Alexander Adam, The Manners & Customs of The Romans

Price:  $90.00

Description:  With close to 100 engravings, this book shows everything from laurel wreath crowns to catapults that battered stone walls. This is a very interesting book and is leather bound, in good condition, and has lots of interesting data available here.