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	Shepherd of the Hills Harold Bell Wright; Painting of Sammy Lane on the Frontispiece; Copyright 1907 by Elsbery W. Reynolds; Published, Sept. 1907, Publishers A.L. Burt company, New York. The book contains four illustrations by F. Graham Cootes. Worth buying just to treasure the wonderful dedication to the author's wife on the inside pages: “To Frances, My Wife” In memory of that beautiful summer in the Ozark Hills, when, so often, we followed the Old Trail around the rim of Mutton Hollow—the trail that is nobody knows how old—and from Sammy's Lookout watched the day go over the western ridges.” A quotation on the inside pages as a forward: “That all with one consent prasie new-born gawds, Tho they are made and molded of things past, And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.” Troilus and Cressida. Act 3: Sc 3. Of course that would be my sentiment because I have called the Ozark Mountains home for more than 30 years, and have attended more than once “The Shepherd of the Hills”” play in Branson, Mo.
	SOLD Fun with Dick and Jane, written by William S. Gray and May Hill Arbuthnot and Illustrated by Eleanor Campbell and Keith Ward Curriculum Foundation Series 1946-47 Edition Blue, hardcover edition in very good condition. Minor doodles. Book signed to young student "Darrell Wiskur 1946" for which his parents paid 60 cents (".60 pd") Light corner wear Solid interior showing light use Cover: Dick and Jane and dog Spot running to catch a toy plane
	Circulated 1890 CC (Carson City) Morgan silver dollar. If you enjoy history or would like to own a hard-to-find coin either to add to your collection or to hold as an investment.
See on eBay	The Garden of Heart's Delight A Fairy Tale by Ida M. Huntington With Pictures by Maginel Wright Enright Rand McNally & Company Copyright 1911 Sage green cloth cover with wonderful full-color illustration by Maginel Wright Enright: Full-color illustrations inside. Title and author's name, printed with gilt lettering, on the front cover and the spine.
$200	Norman Rockwell Artist and Illustrator: Author, Thomas S. Buechner Inside features 614 illustrations by Norman Rockwell
$1,400.00 Buy It Now A fascinating, scholarly work on California in the 1800's: illustrated. Included: The Constitution of California Intact, undamaged: only aged and discoloration from leeching of the paper acids	California Illustrated Author, Henry Bill Described on the facepage: A Pictorial View of California; Including a Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes, with Information and Advice Interesting to All, Particularly Those who intend to visit the Golden Region By a Returned Californian. Sold only by Subscription New-York: Published by Henry Bill 1853 Dedication reads: To Miss Betta P. Letts Of Wood Lawn Staten Island, This Journal Is Most Respectfully Dedicated, by The Author Copyright information reads: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, By J.M. Letts, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. The author in a "Note to the Reader" writes: I have, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct impression, I have stated such facts only as I knew to be facts, and interspersed them with incidents that fell under my own observation. A season's residence in the mineral regions enabled me to obtain a correct interior view of life in California. The illustrations are truthful, and can be relied upon as faithfully portraying the scenes they are designed to represent. They were drawn upon the spot, and in order to preserve characteristics, even the attitudes of the individuals represed are truthfully given. The first part of this volume is written in a concise manner, with a view to brevity, as the reader is presume to be anxiou to make the shortest possible passage to the Eldorada. The Author
"A stage extravaganza loosely based on the L. Frank Baum's novel Wizard of Oz, with jokes written by Glen MacDonough, featuring songs by Baum and Paul Tietjens and many other interpolated as the show progressed. It opened in 1902, starring the comedy team of David Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow respectively. The production moved to Broadway in 1903, and continued (on the tour or in New York) until 1909." Source: Wikipedia	L. Frank Baum wrote this book in 2004 following the success of the stage production of The Wizard of Oz, which opened in 1902 and ran until 1909. The Land of Oz, a sequel to The Wizard of Oz Author, L. Frank Baum Popular Edition Author of the Road to Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, TIK-TOK of Oz, Etc. Etc. Popular Edition Ilustrated by John R. Neill The Reilly & Lee Co. Chicago 1939 Copyright 1904 by L. Frank Baum, All rights reserved Published, July 1904 287 pages Green cloth binding with pictorial Forward: To those excellent good fellows and eminent comedians David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is gratefully dedicated by The Author. Author's Note AFTER the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasue in reading the story and asking me to "write somethig more" about the Scarecrows and the Tin Woodman. At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years. Finally I promised one little girl who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request,--and she is a "Dorothy," by the way--that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for another story of the Scarecros and the Tin Woodman, I would write the book. Either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of "The Wizard of Oz" made new friends for the story. For the thousand letters reached their destination long since--and many more followed them. And now, although pleading guilty to a long delay, I have kept my promise in this book. L. Frank Baum. Chicago, June, 1904
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	Burlington Northern Railway Labor Agreement AFL-CIO 1970 Employee Booklet This booklet belonged to a machinist who worked at the Eola, Ill., Roundhouse Shop as a fabricator and blacksmith Pages, 150: oil spot on front; good condition—no rips or tears Soft cover: bound with two brads FRONT COVER READS: BN 5/18/70 (b) Agreement Between Burlington Northern Inc. and its Mechanical Employees Represented by System Federation No. 7 Railway Employees Department, AFL-CIO 1. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers 2. Brotherhood Railway Carmen of the United States and Canada 3. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 4. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers 5. Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association Effective April 1, 1970 This booklet contains everything a good employee needs to know about working for the Burlington Northern as a railway employee and member of the AFL-CIO
	Over the Hills of Galilee by Stephen A. Haboush, Published in 1924, The Book Concern (Columbus, Ohio) Pages number 91; gold printing on green hardback cover, having a satin-ripple style surface Condition: old and fragile but in great condition Haboush dedicated the book to his many Christian friends who "by their thoughts and deeds have inspired me on the journey of Life—that Life of which the best is yet to be." In the preface, author Stephen Haboush sets out his reason in writing the book was to provide understanding on the role of a shepherd. With the Bible written by Palestinians, Haboush felt that readers of the Bible in America could not have a deep understanding of the role of a shepherd without cultural background on the shepherd's life. He begins his book with "Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us," the beloved poem set music for a hymn by the same name. The book opens to the 23 Psalm and a retelling of the "Do you love me—Feed my sheep" discourse between Jesus and Peter, the Disciple. Inscribed, March 1, 1926, "To Ruby with love from Annie" Click to read the contents transcribed at this site.
Sold	A PAPER DOLL BOOK OF BUFFY AND HER STYLISH 60'S WARDROBE with MRS. BEASELY, Buffy's Doll Whitman "Buffy" paper doll fashions book. Includes a paper doll of Buffy and six pages of press-out clothing and a press-out Mrs. Beasley doll and cradle. Dated (c) MCMLXVIII (1968) on the front cover. The cover describes Buffy as: “she's the 'little sister' on the CBS Family Affair TV show.” The clothes are the “mini-star Anissa Jones's wardrobe of day-to-day fashions." Weight: 6 oz.
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Shepherd of the Hills

Shepherd of the Hills
Harold Bell Wright; Painting of Sammy Lane on the Frontispiece; Copyright 1907 by Elsbery W. Reynolds; Published, Sept. 1907, Publishers A.L. Burt company, New York. The book contains four illustrations by F. Graham Cootes.
Worth buying just to treasure the wonderful dedication to the author's wife on the inside pages:
“To Frances, My Wife”
In memory of that beautiful summer in the Ozark Hills, when, so often, we followed the Old Trail around the rim of Mutton Hollow—the trail that is nobody knows how old—and from Sammy's Lookout watched the day go over the western ridges.”
A quotation on the inside pages as a forward:
“That all with one consent prasie new-born gawds,
Tho they are made and molded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.” Troilus and Cressida. Act 3: Sc 3.
Of course that would be my sentiment because I have called the Ozark Mountains home for more than 30 years, and have attended more than once “The Shepherd of the Hills”” play in Branson, Mo.

Fun with Dick and Jane

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Fun with Dick and Jane, written by William S. Gray and May Hill Arbuthnot and Illustrated by Eleanor Campbell and Keith Ward
Curriculum Foundation Series
1946-47 Edition
Blue, hardcover edition in very good condition. Minor doodles. Book signed to young student "Darrell Wiskur 1946" for which his parents paid 60 cents (".60 pd")
Light corner wear
Solid interior showing light use

Cover: Dick and Jane and dog Spot running to catch a toy plane

Circulated 1890 CC (Carson City) Morgan silver dollar. If you enjoy history or would like to own a hard-to-find coin either to add to your collection or to hold as an investment.

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The Garden of Heart's Delight
A Fairy Tale by Ida M. Huntington
With Pictures by Maginel Wright Enright
Rand McNally & Company
Copyright 1911

Sage green cloth cover with wonderful full-color illustration by Maginel Wright Enright: Full-color illustrations inside.
Title and author's name, printed with gilt lettering, on the front cover and the spine.

$200

Norman Rockwell Artist and Illustrator: Author, Thomas S. Buechner
Inside features 614 illustrations by Norman Rockwell

California Illustrated
$1,400.00 Buy It Now

A fascinating, scholarly work on California in the 1800's: illustrated.
Included: The Constitution of California

Intact, undamaged: only aged and discoloration from leeching of the paper acids

California Illustrated
Author, Henry Bill
Described on the facepage:
A Pictorial View of California;
Including a
Description of the Panama and Nicaragua Routes,
with Information and Advice
Interesting to All, Particularly
Those who intend to visit the Golden Region
By a Returned Californian.
Sold only by Subscription
New-York:
Published by Henry Bill
1853

Dedication reads:
To
Miss Betta P. Letts
Of
Wood Lawn Staten Island,
This Journal
Is
Most Respectfully Dedicated,
by
The Author

Copyright information reads:
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,
By J.M. Letts,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

The author in a "Note to the Reader" writes:
I have, in these pages, endeavored to convey a correct impression, I have stated such facts only as I knew to be facts, and interspersed them with incidents that fell under my own observation. A season's residence in the mineral regions enabled me to obtain a correct interior view of life in California. The illustrations are truthful, and can be relied upon as faithfully portraying the scenes they are designed to represent. They were drawn upon the spot, and in order to preserve characteristics, even the attitudes of the individuals represed are truthfully given. The first part of this volume is written in a concise manner, with a view to brevity, as the reader is presume to be anxiou to make the shortest possible passage to the Eldorada.
The Author

"A stage extravaganza loosely based on the L. Frank Baum's novel Wizard of Oz, with jokes written by Glen MacDonough, featuring songs by Baum and Paul Tietjens and many other interpolated as the show progressed. It opened in 1902, starring the comedy team of David Montgomery and Fred Stone as the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow respectively. The production moved to Broadway in 1903, and continued (on the tour or in New York) until 1909." Source: Wikipedia

L. Frank Baum wrote this book in 2004 following the success of the stage production of The Wizard of Oz, which opened in 1902 and ran until 1909.

The Land of Oz,
a sequel to The Wizard of Oz
Author, L. Frank Baum
Popular Edition
Author of the Road to Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, The Emerald City of Oz, Ozma of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, TIK-TOK of Oz, Etc. Etc.
Popular Edition
Ilustrated by John R. Neill
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
1939
Copyright 1904 by L. Frank Baum, All rights reserved
Published, July 1904

287 pages
Green cloth binding with pictorial

Forward: To those excellent good fellows and eminent comedians David C. Montgomery and Fred A. Stone whose clever personations of the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow have delighted thousands of children throughout the land, this book is gratefully dedicated by The Author.

Author's Note
AFTER the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz I began to receive letters from children, telling me of their pleasue in reading the story and asking me to "write somethig more" about the Scarecrows and the Tin Woodman. At first I considered these little letters, frank and earnest though they were, in the light of pretty compliments; but the letters continued to come during succeeding months, and even years.
Finally I promised one little girl who made a long journey to see me and prefer her request,--and she is a "Dorothy," by the way--that when a thousand little girls had written me a thousand little letters asking for another story of the Scarecros and the Tin Woodman, I would write the book. Either little Dorothy was a fairy in disguise, and waved her magic wand, or the success of the stage production of "The Wizard of Oz" made new friends for the story. For the thousand letters reached their destination long since--and many more followed them.
And now, although pleading guilty to a long delay, I have kept my promise in this book.
L. Frank Baum.
Chicago, June, 1904

Old Cato

Burlington Northern Railway Labor Agreement AFL-CIO 1970 Employee
Booklet
This booklet belonged to a machinist who worked at the Eola, Ill., Roundhouse Shop as a fabricator and blacksmith
Pages, 150: oil spot on front; good condition—no rips or tears
Soft cover: bound with two brads
FRONT COVER READS:
BN 5/18/70 (b)
Agreement Between Burlington Northern Inc. and its Mechanical Employees
Represented by System Federation No. 7
Railway Employees Department, AFL-CIO
1. International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
2. Brotherhood Railway Carmen of the United States and Canada
3. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
4. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
5. Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association
Effective April 1, 1970

This booklet contains everything a good employee needs to know about working for the Burlington Northern as a railway employee and member of the AFL-CIO

Over the Hills of Galilee by Stephen A. Haboush, Published in 1924, The Book Concern (Columbus, Ohio)
Pages number 91; gold printing on green hardback cover, having a satin-ripple style surface
Condition: old and fragile but in great condition
Haboush dedicated the book to his many Christian friends who "by their thoughts and deeds have inspired me on the journey of Life—that Life of which the best is yet to be."
In the preface, author Stephen Haboush sets out his reason in writing the book was to provide understanding on the role of a shepherd. With the Bible written by Palestinians, Haboush felt that readers of the Bible in America could not have a deep understanding of the role of a shepherd without cultural background on the shepherd's life.
He begins his book with "Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us," the beloved poem set music for a hymn by the same name. The book opens to the 23 Psalm and a retelling of the "Do you love me—Feed my sheep" discourse between Jesus and Peter, the Disciple.

Inscribed, March 1, 1926, "To Ruby with love from Annie"
Click to read the contents transcribed at this site.

Sold

A PAPER DOLL BOOK OF BUFFY AND HER STYLISH 60'S WARDROBE with MRS. BEASELY, Buffy's Doll

Whitman "Buffy" paper doll fashions book. Includes a paper doll of Buffy and six pages of press-out clothing and a press-out Mrs. Beasley doll and cradle. Dated (c) MCMLXVIII (1968) on the front cover. The cover describes Buffy as: “she's the 'little sister' on the CBS Family Affair TV show.” The clothes are the “mini-star Anissa Jones's wardrobe of day-to-day fashions." Weight: 6 oz.