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Friday Giveaway: 11 Vintage Classics

I'm giving away these eleven books this week.

To enter, leave a comment below. You can also enter on Twitter , Facebook , 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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Hot Chocolate

 Recipe for hot chocolate:

2 squares chocolate
1 can condensed milk
6 cups boiling water
Pinch salt

Melt chocolate in double boiler, add milk. Cook until thick. Add salt and boiling water.

Found in "The Strollers" by Frederic S. Isham. Published by Bobbs-Merrill, 1902.

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Multiply

Handwritten multiplication tables.

Found in "Great Issues and National Leaders" by Charles Morris. Published by John C. Winston, 1900.

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Please Please Me

Bookmark preaching the benefits of the hamster as a pet.

Found in "Dugout Jinx" by Clair Bee. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1952

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Giveaway winner

This week's winner was MaryAnne Harper, who entered on Facebook.

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

Friday Giveaway: Aristotle's Politics and Poetics - contest closed

Contest now closed, winner will be announced shortly.

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Friday Giveaway: Aristotle's Politics and Poetics

I'm giving away this handsome book this week, Aristotle's "Politics and Poetics" published by The Easton Press. This gift-quality book is clean, bright, unmarked and tight, bound in green leather boards with bright gilt decoration and lettering. Peach watered-silk endpapers; archival quality paper within. Gilt endpapers. Ribbon bookmark. Portraits by Leonard Baskin within. Introduction by Horace M. Kallen.

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

I will select a winner at random from all the entries tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM Eastern. Good luck!

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Caught In The Rain

Name card of Mrs. Samuel Hatch.

Reverse side has this short note:

Dear Mrs. Lowesbury (?)

I am sending you this book which I hope you will enjoy and be ready for another when I go to see you next week. Enjoyed my walk home in the rain which was so gentile. That (?) I did not get wet in the least, and I felt happy to see the rain, which we need so much.

With love sincerely yours

G.A. (?) Hatch

Found in "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott. Published by Little, Brown, 1912.

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Unfinished

Letter (at the least the start of one):

1:00 Sat A.M.

My Dear Dev

Found in "The Poetical Works of John Milton" published by Crowell, no date.



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Sterling

Small metal bookmark, marked "Sterling."

Found in "The Life of Colonel Paul Revere" by E.H. Goss. Published by Howard Spurr, 1909.
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