This Week’s Vintage Finds #138
Hi everyone! I promised yesterday that despite the fact that I didn’t do any vintage shopping over the week-end, I’d still have some vintage finds to share today. An estate sale I attended last week-end had an enormous number of books for sale, and by the time I arrived, just after noon, they had lowered the price from 1 book for a $1.00 to 4 books for a $1.00. Yay! My kind of sale.
Don’t you just love old books?
I like to stage my antique booth with at least one stack of red books. This one has the added benefit of containing poetry, a fairly good seller for me.
With authors like Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickenson, and Robert Louis Stevenson, it’s sure to sell quickly (cost: 25¢, value: $5-7.00).
Are you a Frost lover, like me?
You may enjoy my post about the Robert Frost Stone House Museum.
An interesting compilation of articles from old publications, like “Scribner’s Monthly,” Tales of Old New England addresses topics like ice harvesting, old roads in New Hampshire, and boating on the Charles River. At 474 pages, it’s not a quick read (cost: 25¢, value: $6-8.00).
A sample of the book’s contents.
I’m always on the look-out for quirky books, and this one, printed in 1965, clearly fits the bill (pun intended!). It’s a small book told from the point of view of the pelican adopted by Albert Schweitzer (cost: 25¢, value: $12-15.00, more if DJ in better shape).
A sample of the black and white photos throughout.
Here’s another book related to a famous personality–Laura Ingalls, author of the Little House books. This one contains a series of letters written by Laura to her husband while visiting her daughter in California in 1915 (cost: 25¢, value: $5-6.00). It contains a selection of interesting black and white photos in the center of the book.
Gone With the Wind never goes out of style and blue books make for nice staging (cost: 25¢, value: $5-6.00).
Tom Swift books are considered quite collectible, especially those with dust jackets, so I snatched this one right up (cost: 25¢, value: $15.00, higher if not for staining on end papers and browning of pages).
I loved the cover on this 1913 “series” book about campfire girls (cost: 25¢, value: $6-7.00). Laura Lee Hope (a pseudonym) was also the “writer” of the Bobbsey Twin series.
A Red Cross First Aid book (cost: 25¢, value: $4-5.00).
It contains a small section of full-color illustrations.
And a number of line drawings illustrating the rest of the text.
A librarian at my children’s elementary school used to read Thornton Burgess’s stories to the kids and they loved them (cost: 25¢, value: $2-3.00, more if in better shape).
Published in 1961, it’s filled with delightful illustrations by illustrator, Harrison Cady.
While this book has certainly seen better days, I believe its contents will be of interest to many, especially those of Scottish decent (cost: 25¢, value: $10-12.00, more if in better shape).
Published in 1961, it contains illustrations, identification, and history of over 100 Scottish tartans, like this Keith and Austin tartan.
And this MacFarlane tartan. I think a series of these framed would look lovely.
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Ooo, I love old books too, and looks like you scored on all of those! The one on the pelican story sounds pretty interesting actually!
I love love love old books! The Tom Swifts are some of my favorite.
What a great haul, Diana! I actually own some of those same books. I love your idea of framing the tartans.
Great book haul. I always have a few books in my booth too.
Old books always fascinate me and I love the variation of the ones you found! The wording and the illustrations are always something I love. My mother taught in a one room country school and she used Laura Lee Hope books to read them and some others and I still have them.
Your book finds are wonderful. I love he book about Tartan’s and the blue Gone With The Wind is something I would buy for sure!!
I will need to try to showcase old books in my booth. Hands down my favorite is the Laura Lee Hope book since I devoured the Bobbsey Twins books as a child.
I am another lover of old books. You made some nice purchases with these. I really like the Thornton Burgess storybook. Great to read to the grandkids. Great illustrations.
What a great collection of old books! There is nothing better than a beautiful stack of books, although I use my iPad for reading when I travel, the lure of holding a real book, turning its pages, even the smell of an antique book is simply delicious!
I agree, Lidy! Nothing like a beautiful old book 🙂
Loved your post on the 20 fave farmhouse crafts & DIYs. After 600 posts, over 3yrs–wow. You “stage” the pics of your finds and make them really neat looking.
So glad you liked that post, Bev 🙂 and my staging–you’re sweet to say so!
I too love old books! I have a few in other languages – don’t even know their titles, but I love paging through them. I’m also a Robert Frost fan, and loved your post on visiting his place.
Framing the tartans with info would sell to families seeking family info!
Great collection of old books. I always enjoy the information you give with your finds.
Oh my gosh! You and I must be kindred souls! Love so many of these.
I love books! You really found some good ones. Nothing beats great covers or great illustrations.
🙂 gwingal
There is nothing like old books! I love the look, the feel, and the design of vintage books. The illustrations in that wildlife book are awesome! I’m like you in that I search for the unique and eclectic. Many of your selections here would have caught my eye as well. I sell quite a few copies of that Red Cross book. It seems to turn up quite often here. I love, love, love old children’s series books. I used to read all of them I could get my hands on when I was a boy. It started with the Hardy Boys and just grew out from there.
Oh my gosh, Eddie–I was the same way. We had a small library in our town, so I basically read whatever I could get my hands on and that was lots of old series books–Nancy Drew (of course), Cherry Ames, the Dana Girls, Bobbsey Twins, etc..Nothing like an old book, really 🙂