R&R Vintage Books

The Wonderful Story of the Century: Its Progress and Achievements by Charles Morris. A.B. Kuhlman Company, 1899. Hardcover, 646pp. 9x7. Olive green boards with gilt, silver and black illustrations and lettering on front and spine. Green-and-white patterned endpapers. B/w photos and illustrations throughout, including frontispiece titled The Marvelous Progress of the 19th Century. Handsome, rare retrospective of world history in the 1800s, released right as the 20th Ce...ntury was about to begin. With chapters on The Threshold of the Century, Napoleon Bonaparte: The Man of Destiny, Europe in the Grasp of the Iron Hand, Great Britain as a World Empire, The Rise of Japan and the Decline of China, Abraham Lincoln and the Work of Emancipation, and dozens more. Many black and white photos and illustrations depict the key people, locations, and battles that shaped the world. In excellent condition. Boards remain clean but for one slight stain at lower right of front, with minimal wear to corners and top and bottom of spine; gilt remains relatively bright. Binding is solid and pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Former owner’s bookplate (From the Library of H.N. Anderson, Jr.) is affixed to upper left corner of front endpaper. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Songs for the Household. R. Worthington, 1882. Hardcover, 258pp. 7x5. Green boards with black embossed patterns on front and spine with gilt title panels on front and spine. Gilt to edges of textblock. Frontispiece illustration with protective tissue leaf. Amazing, beautiful, rare 19th century book of hymns: Lyra Germanica: Hymns for the Sundays and chief festivals of the Christian year sacred poetry; mostly translated from the German by Catherine Winkworth. Per the ...preface, The following hymns are selected from the Chevalier Bunfen’s ‘Verfuch eines allgemeinen Gefang und Gebetbuchs,’ published in 1833. From the large number there given, about nine hundred, little more than one hundred have been chosen. This selection contains many of those best known and loved in Germany, but in a work of this size it is impossible to include all that have become classical in that home of Christian poetry. In excellent condition - gilt on boards and edges of textblock remains bright. Boards show some wear to bottom edges and water staining to bottom of rear. Bindings is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked but for a few smudges here and there. Front free endpaper has cursive pencilled gift inscription 1887. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Cooking the Smart Way by Marion W. Flexner. M. Barrows and Company, 1958. Hardcover, 320pp. 8x5. Yellow boards with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket in protective cover. Great vintage midcentury cookbook featuring nearly 400 unusual and delectable recipes - culled from Mrs. Flexner’s own priceless files; from her friends; from her family. Among them are exotic specialties garnered by Mrs. Flexner on her world travels and adapted to American tastes and American kit...chens. Over 100 separate menus set off individual recipes to their best advantage. And you’ll be delighted with the Kitchen Clinics, a unique feature that makes life easier in all departments culinary, from the selection of pots and pans to buying and serving food that makes the heart grow fonder. Flexner (1900-1992) was a frequent contributor to prominent magazines including Gourmet, Woman’s Day, and Ladies’ Home Journal, and authored several other cookbooks including the well known Cocktail-Supper Cookbook. In very good condition - boards show some very faint rubbing/staining, but binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket has price-sticker-removal mark at upper right corner of front as well as some faint staining to spine and rear, but no appreciable wear to edges. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

The Wonderful Worlds of Walt Disney. Four-volume slipcased set of hardcovers, including Walt Disney’s Fantasyland, Walt Disney’s Worlds of Nature, Walt Disney’s America, and Walt Disney’s Stories from Other Lands. Golden Press, 1965. Each hardcover is 10x8 and 256pp. with golden-and-white illustrated endpapers. Color photos and illustrations throughout. Amazing vintage set for the discerning Disneyana collector, or for anyone who wants to share this magic with a ...special little one. Fantasyland includes stories such as The Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Cinderella, and many more. Worlds of Nature features chapters including The Arctic Wonderland, Animals of the Amazon, Wonders of the Animal World, and many more. America includes stories such as Lady and the Tramp, Paul Revere, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild, Johnny Appleseed, and many more. Stories from Other Lands features Mary Poppins, The Sword in the Stone, 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Bambi, and Zorro, as well as stories from Portugal, Sardinia, Morocco, and other places. Includes a bonus, fold-out 35x15 color poster montage of Disney characters including Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Dumbo, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Mickey Mouse and the gang, and many others. In like-new, apparently unread condition: Boards are pristine, with no signs of wear; bindings are tight; and pages are clean-bright and unmarked. Slipcase has some light wear to edges and corners. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Dinners That Wait by Betty Wason, with line drawings by Margot Tomes. Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. Hardcover, 217pp. 8x5. Green boards with red titles and yellow mushroom illustration on spine. Some b/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in protective cover. Fantastic vintage midcentury cookbook first edition, NOT the 1962 reprint penned by a forgotten heroine of American journalism for the hostess and party-maker. It is a well-known fact that both the cook-...hostess and her guests will enjoy a dinner more if she can spend a leisurely moment with them before eating. But, unfortunately, many a cook is up to her elbows at this time in dinner preparations while her guests try to entertain themselves. Betty Wason’s new cookbook offers a perfect solution to that problem. Every recipe has been tested and timed so that everything can be prepared beforehand for serving at the proper moment. And each step in the 74 complete recipes has been worked out according to a timetable that sees you safely through to after-dinner coffee without so much as an anxious glance. Wason (1912-2001) was an American author and broadcast journalist; a pioneer, with such others as Mary Marvin Breckinridge and Sigrid Schultz, of female journalism in the United States. She worked for and with Edward R. Murrow during World War II, although despite her significant contributions, she and a few others were rarely recognized in the famed group of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. She also wrote numerous books on food and cooking from the 1940s through 1981. In excellent condition boards are clean and bright, showing slight wear to top and bottom of spine. Binding is tight, and pages, are clean, bright, and unmarked though there’s one stain to the long end of the textblock. Unclipped dust jacket has some rubbing to surfaces and wear to corners and edges, including two 1 losses at top of rear and a much smaller loss to outer top corner of front. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Get in Shape by Ida Jean Kain, illustrated by Rafaello Busoni. David McKay Company, 1944. Hardcover, 94pp. 8x5. Red boards with black lettering on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket in protective cover. Amazing vintage diet and exercise guide! This formula for fitness and a good figure will help you to look a little like Ann Sheridan and have almost as much energy as Eleanor Roosevelt. The beauty of getting in shape is that you get your figure back, for... fitness and a good figure go together. Check your measurements by The Beauty Tape and GET IN SHAPE! Book includes its original "Rule-of-the-Wrist Beauty Tape folded and inserted into a slit on the dustjacket’s front flap. Kain (1903-1997) was a nutritionist and author of a newspaper column that appeared regularly in The Washington Post and 100 other newspapers from the late 1930s until her retirement in 1969. In excellent condition - boards are bright and unworn, binding is tight, and pages are clean, unmarked, and only the slightest bit age-toned. Unclipped dust jacket shows some light rubbing to surfaces and wear to edges including a few small chip marks at top edge of rear and top of spine. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Great Captain: The Lincoln Trilogy by Honore Morrow. William Morrow and Company, 1930s Book Club Edition. Hardcover, 668pp. 8x6. Beige boards with blue titles on spine. Dust jacket in protective cover. Three novels about Abraham Lincoln from a renowned authority on our transformative 16th President of the United States. It is fitting that Mrs. Morrow’s Lincoln novels should be gathered together as a trilogy Great Captain. Not only are they important Americana but they... are among the best-loved novels of the last decade. Great Captain is the story of Abraham Lincoln all through his administration from the beginning of the Civil war down to the tragic moment of his assassination. Book One, Forever Free, shows the first years in the White House up to the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Book Two, With Malice Toward None, opens with the year 1863 and closes with the return of Abraham Lincoln to Washington from Virginia after the fall of Richmond. Book Three, The Last Full Measure, brings the chronicle of Lincoln down to the moment of his death. The people who lived in that exciting time are singularly vivid and colorful. There is Lincoln great statesman, greater human being; his most tragic moments lightened by his irrepressible humor; there is Mary Lincoln, excitable and high-strung, but very lovable; there are the children especially Tad. One of the most thrilling characters is the Confederate spy, ‘Lady’ Ford, social secretary to the President’s wife. And the men are strongly contrasted, from the dashing General McClellan to Charles Sumner, the radical, beloved of Lincoln; from Secretary Stanton to John Wilkes Booth, debonair and mad. Honore Morrow is recognized as an authority on Lincoln. To her authentic historical knowledge, she adds the qualities of a great story teller. The personalities of the day come before us in new vitality. The movement of history the Civil War which united them is rich in situation and emotion. Above all, the great figure of Lincoln looms unforgettable, lovable and life-like. Boards are in excellent condition with no appreciable wear or dirt. Binding is tight and pages are clean, bright and unmarked but for penciled numerals on upper right corner of endpaper and former owner’s name and address in ink on inside of front free endpaper. Dust jacket has some age discoloration, wear to edges, and a 2 tear at bottom where front meets spine, but no losses. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Best Recipes from Home and Abroad. Navy Wives Clubs of America, edited by Helen J. Walker. Hearthside Press, 1958. Hardcover, 192pp. 8x5. Grey boards with silver logo on front, silver and yellow titles on spine. Dust jacket in protective cover. Great Cold War-era military wives’ cookbook, with a foreward by Mary Paolozzi, national president 1953-1955 of the Navy Wives Clubs of America. Have you ever decided to try an interesting recipe, only to discover that ingredient...s are not available locally? Or that directions are too complicated to follow? Here’s a new cookbook that guarantees success with every dish. Navy wives and an occasional husband too stationed all over the world have collected fabulously good recipes, used them again and again in their own kitchens, then written down the directions so carefully that anyone can easily follow them. Along with the recipes are practical tips to help you achieve perfection even if you are a bride preparing her first meal. Dedicated to those gallant women, NAVY WIVES, whose lot it is to prepare tantalizing meals while stretching the pay check; to be both ‘Mother and Father’ while Dad is away at sea; to pack and move to a new home with almost no notice. It is our hope that this book will always be part of the ‘hand baggage,’ to be unpacked first in whatever state or country her new home may be. Book is in truly excellent condition boards are pristine, binding is tight, and pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket has some wear to edges including two chip losses to top of front. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

A French ABC by Francine Legrand Dauphin. Coward-McCann Inc., 1947. Hardcover, pages not numbered. 10x7. Red cloth boards with blue cross-hatch pattern and lettering on front, title on spine. Color illustrations on endpapers and throughout the book. No jacket. A lovely alphabet primer in French and English, with adorable color illustrations on every page. The purpose of this book is to teach children (and maybe some adults!) the French alphabet, together with some word...s made up, in each case, of the letter being studied. The idea of teaching an alphabet, together with words and phrases in this way, is not a novel one, but the drawings here are novel in that they most nearly approach the kind of drawing a clever, imaginative child would do for himself if he were able. In fact, the world, as it is expressed in this book, is seen largely as a child would see it, and it is for that reason that the drawings have the freshness and naivete which charms not only children but grown-ups who consent to turn the pages." In very good condition. Boards have some wear and bumping to corners and a faint water stain on the front, but binding is tight and age-toned pages are clean and unmarked. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Marvel Super Special No. 18. Marvel Comics Group, 1981. Stapled magazine format graphic novel, pages not numbered. 11x8. Color pictorial wraps, color illustrations. Rare collectible from the film that launched the Indiana Jones legend! The official comics adaptation of the new hit film from Steven Spielberg & George Lucas Fantastic adventure from the makers of ‘Jaws,’ ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind,’ ‘Star Wars,’ & ‘Empire Strikes Back.’ ...Drawn by acclaimed artists John Buscema (The Avengers, The Silver Surfer) and Klaus Janson (Daredevil, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns) and written by Walt Simonson; cover art by Howard Chaykin (Heavy Metal, Kiss). In excellent condition; shows very faint wear to edge of spine, but wraps otherwise are beautiful and all pages are clean, bright and unmarked. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. Houghton Mifflin, 1990 (1st edition, 1st printing as signified by complete number line including "1" ). SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the title page, and dated March 23, 1990 (five days before the official date of publication). Hardcover, 273pp. 8x6. Black paper over boards with author’s name in gilt script on front, title in gilt on spine. Red endpapers. Dust jacket in protective cover. Rare, signed-at-publication volume of one of the most ...lauded works of Vietnam War literature, which sold more than two million copies worldwide and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award. The Things They Carried works its magic at many levels. On the surface it is a sequence of award-winning stories about a platoon of young foot soldiers caught up in the madness of the Vietnam War. At the same time, The Things They Carried has the cumulative power and unity of a novel, with recurring characters and interwoven strands of plot and theme. Each chapter flows into the next. Each story echoes off other stories. And on a third level, this amazing book is bound together by Tim O’Brien’s own voice and character as a twenty-three-year-old foot soldier and as a forty-three-year-old writer recreating that experience. Though Vietnam is central to The Things They Carried, this is not simply a book about war. It is a book about the human heart, abou the terrible weight of those things all of us carry through our lives. In excellent, never-read condition. Boards show no wear, binding is tight, and pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket has no visible flaws. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

From our sci-fi collectibles vault: Dune: Marvel Super Special No. 36. Marvel Comics Group, 1984. Stapled magazine format graphic novel, pages not numbered. 11x8. Color pictorial wraps, color illustrations. As we prepare for what’s sure to be a mind-blowing rendition of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic from director Denis Villeneuve, consider this rare vintage collectible from David Lynch’s 1984 version. This magazine-format graphic novel collects together all three issues of the Marvel Comics adaptation. Adapted by Ralph Macchio (no, not the actor) with art by the highly acclaimed Bill Sienkiewicz, it brings the story to life with eye-popping color. In excellent condition, with only the faintest rubbing to wraps; pages are clean, bright and unmarked. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.

Amazing vintage Father's Day gift! The Gentleman’s Companion, Vols. I & II by Charles H. Baker Jr. Crown Publishers, 1946. (First editions thus: Original was published 1939 in limited edition by Derrydale Press, and this is the first reprint edition.) Slipcased two-volume hardcover set, Vol. 1 220 pp, Vol. 2 217pp. 6x9. Red cloth boards with gilt details on cover and lettering on spines. Photo frontispieces. A vintage treasure for connoisseurs of food and cocktails: The... definitive period guide to the Life of Reilly, as authored by the leading bon vivant of his day. Volume I is exotic cookery, Volume II is exotic drinking. Including a company of hand-picked receipts, each one beloved and notable in its place, collected faithfully on three voyages and a quarter million miles around the world, and other journeys, and a personally collected regiment of world-famous lively liquid masterpieces from the Orient & Occident, and the South Seas. Books are in great condition. Volume 1 has slight abrasions to edges of pages xvii and xix; Volume 2 has tear to cloth at top where spine meets back cover. Both volumes have gift inscriptions dated 1945 in ink on the front flyleaf, and spines of both volumes are sun-faded. Otherwise, both volumes have clean and unworn boards, tight bindings, and clean, bright and unmarked pages. Original slipcase is in rough shape with tape repairs to top and bottom. As always, feel free to message us if you want more details or photos.