A conversation between Tom and Ashley:
T: [pushes aside balloons] What’s going on here?
A: Just getting ready for my birthmonth!
T: Don’t most people just have birthdays?
A: Who are these “most people”?
T: Enlighten me…
A: I’m making an elist for my “birthday” if you insist. [jazz hands]
T: I’m sure we’ll be able to retire on that – not sure how many people want to read about ponies.
A: So you’re not getting me a pony?
T: [walks away]
-fin-
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Boston: Rust Craft, (No date - circa 1950). Unbound. Small greeting card. Approximately 3.5" x 4.5". Sender has written a brief note on the back of the card, else fine with original envelope. Cute, of its sort. More
Chattanooga: The Chattanooga Medicine Co., 1896. Softcover. Small octavo. 32pp. Stapled decorated wrappers. Punch hole in upper left corner, pages toned, else near fine. A long-running almanac, *OCLC* seems to locate only one copy of this issue. More
![Item #410613 [Photo Album]: Merrimack Valley Cake Club](https://betweenthecovers.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/410613.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1474611002)
Massachusetts: [circa 1975-1980]. Hardcover. Folio. Measuring 9.5" x 14". Blue leatherette album with gilt decorations. Contains 150 color photographs measuring around 3.5" x 4.5", without captions. Slightly bowed front board with some edgewear else near fine with fine photographs. A photo album kept by a woman who was involved in..... More
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Philadelphia: The Pickering Press, 1947. Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 10.5" x 12". Two deckled edges. A touch of wear at two corners, else near fine. Hand set at The Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. *OCLC* locates one copies. More
(New York: Sons of the Revolution, 1921). Softcover. First edition. Very good in lightly browned staple bound wrappers with a few small tears on spine and creases in front cover. Includes Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem "Unguarded Gates." More
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1971. Hardcover. First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some tears and age-toning. Signed by the author, "June 1972 With love, Eric Carle," and below it he has drawn a cheerful sun. A nice copy of this children's book, with all of..... More
(New York): New Directions Books, (1960). Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. A bit rubbed at the spinal extremities, else near fine. New Directions Paperback 86. More
[1991-1992]. Hardcover. Three-ring photo binder. 70 pp., with over half the pages unused. Textured padded boards with gilt trim. Fine. A scrapbook of actor Tom Cruise's 1992 basketball-themed 30th birthday party that includes 18 photos of various celebrities, including Cruise and his former wife, Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, along with four..... More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. Hardcover. First edition. 221pp. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped, edges modestly rubbed, near fine in foxed, very good dustwrapper with black spots on rear panel. More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1982. Softcover. First edition. Stapled green printed wrappers. 28pp. Fine. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on March 10, 1982. More
Boston: Ticknor and Company, (1881). Hardcover. First edition? 24mo. 307pp. Illustrated. Brown cloth elaborately stamped in black and in gilt, all edges stained red. Poems and portraits by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Dean Howells, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell..... More
(London): Faber and Faber, (1998). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. More
New York: G. Schirmer, 1918. Hardcover. First edition. Illustrations by Helen Therese Damrosch. Thin small folio. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards with applied illustration. Edges of the boards rubbed and the paper a little worn through, else a very good copy. Presentation stamp from the publisher on the front fly..... More
Berlin: Gerb. Mann Verlag, 1967. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Red cloth gilt. Scrapes on the edges of endpapers where tape has been removed, else near fine. Inscribed by the subject of the book: "For Mrs. Florence Soldine(?) with kindest regards. H.P. Kraus. New York, Nov. 28, 1967." More
New York: The Library of America, 2014. Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 74, [4]pp. Green cloth gilt. Fine, without dustwrapper as issued. More
Philadelphia: The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1934. Softcover. Offprint. One leaf folded to make four pages. Small tears at the bottom margin, age-toning along the edge of the front page, very good. More
London: Encore Publishing Co., (1959). Softcover. First edition. Very slightly rubbed, else a very near fine copy in wrappers as issued. The uncommon true first edition of Pinter's first play. More
New York: The Typophiles, 1950. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine. One of 600 copies. More
Boston: Published by Otis Clapp, 1859. Hardcover. First edition. 12mo. (5" x 5.75"). Original blue cloth spine and front board decorated in gilt. A nice, about fine copy. History for children of the Massachusetts city. More
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[Wyoming, New York?]: 1920. Unbound. Tall narrow broadside. Measuring 3.5" x 20". Old horizontal folds, else very near fine. A few words added in ink, and a couple of small corrections, presumably by the author. Account of Matilda Deyo's 105th birthday party along with a narrative by Mrs. Deyo herself..... More