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Friday Giveaway: Eight Vintage Classics

I am giving away these eight books today.

To enter, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram or via email .

I will gather up all the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Good luck!

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Puzzled

Trade card advertising Pond's Extract. This one is a puzzle card, with some hidden images in the background.

Found in "Building The Nation" by Charles Carelton Coffin. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1883.

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Danger In Boy's Town

Six Boy's Town stamps.

Found in "Danger In Paradise" by Octavius Roy Cohen. Published by The Popular Library, 1944.

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Grizzly

Crayon drawing. Written on the reverse side is "Cathy, 1972."

Found in "King of The Grizzlies" by Ernest Thompson Seton. Published by Scholastic, 1970.


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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was Ursula M. Kinsler, who entered on Facebook.

Thanks to all who entered, see you here next week.

Friday Giveaway: Nine Vintage Books - contest closed

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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Friday Giveaway: Nine Vintage Books

I'm giving away these nine vintage books in handsome autumn colors.

To enter, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram or via email .

I will gather up all the entries and select a winner at random tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Good luck!

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Kind Remembrance

Inscription:

To Elizabeth
This book -
Tis a token of kind remembrance;
Of true and affectionate regard:
Let it speak the kind wish my heart bears
To thee; and oft as it shall ?? thy ??
May it bring a thought of the absent;
And speak to thee of a faithful friend.

J

Delhi, Dec 5th, 1853

Found in "Select Poems of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney" published by Carey and Hart, 1852.



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Cement

Note:

Receipt for Cementing Wood

Shellac dissolved in alcohol will cement wood together

Found in "Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts in all the Useful and Domestic Arts" published by James Kay, 1829.


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Lucky, Part 98

Dried and pressed four leaf clover.

Found in "Article Thirty-Two" by John R. Oliver. Published by Macmillan, 1931.

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