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New Arrivals and Featured Items
17469 Wilson, Upton Gwynn My 33 Years Of Life In Bed Self-published 1946 Hardback 213 pages. Good. Faint fading on the bottom edge of the front cover. In a good, lightly worn and soiled, dust wrapper. Autobiography of Upton Gwynn Wilson who was paralyzed by a bullet when he was 23 years old. Autobiography $40
17465 Staff, Gardena High School El Arador 1950 Gardena High School 1950 Hardback Good. Extensive autographing 9 x 12 inches, Gardena, California High School yearbook for 1950. There are really nice b&w photo ads in back. Also included is a 6.5 x 5 inch photo of the Summer Girls League Cabinet. Gardena, California, high school yearbook $50
Yearbooks
One of the few loud arguments I heard from my parents as a kid was when my dad discovered my mother had thrown
away a picture of her as a kid standing in front of the log cabin where she was born. He did not approve.
Some familes fight over pictures, some throw them away. Other pictures can be "complicated."
Adopt An Ancestor
Shakespeare 16 Volume Set
17257 Shakespeare, William, The Works of William Shakespeare, Edited By William George Clark and William Aldis Wright, in 16 Volumes George Barrie & Son Circa 1899 Good condition. Volume 10 has a 1 inch gouge on the front cover. Light shelf wear and soiling. This set is copy # 481 of 500 printed on Japanese Vellum Paper, bound in dark blue cloth "silk? "...with 171 engravings on steel after the Boydell Illustrations; and sixty-four photogravures Chiefly from life" The Interlinear edition. Literature, limited editions $300
One person's paper trash is another person's
| Paper Ephemera |
A mostly paper trail of our past existance not normally saved.
We have saved and cataloged more than 500 pieces for your possibly time-wasting entertainment.
The Ephemera Society of America
Abandoned school building, Woodsbend, KY, 1967
Education
Norwegian Head Cheese
...with Bread and Butter, Potato Salad and Beverage, 85 Cents at
16447 The Bison Hotel, Fargo, North Dakota, Circa early 1950s? 4 pages, Good. 9 x 12 inches,
"The Very Best In Scandinavian and American Food."
Restaurant Menus, Ephemera $30
Panama and the Panama Canal
16864 Zi-Chang, Tang, Fundamentals Of Chinese Culture 3 Volumes:
Poems of Tang
Principles of Conflict (Has blotter tissue for the chop)
Wisdon of Dao (Has blotter tissue for the chop)
Hardbacks bound in silk with leather spines, clear plastic wrappers, all in slip cases. Author chop on all title pages.
T. C. Press 1969, Good condition. Lightly worn slip cases. Plastic dust wrappers - wrappers have some wrinkles.
Tang poetry, wisdom of Dao, Taoism, Principles of conflict a rewrite of Sun Zi's "Art of War".
Includes the original 10 x 7 inch prospectus. $800
