Antique & Collectible Books & Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a copy of the “Cessna Air Crafter 1942”, a yearbook published by the Cessna Employees Club of Wichita, Kansas. Cessna has been producing aircraft since 1927. The book has many black and white and some colorized photographs (some...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1960s deck plan pamphlet for the Greek Lines' T.S.S. Olympia. The Olympia was Scottish-built and launched in 1953, the only passenger ship ever constructed exclusively for the Greek Line. She later became the M. S. Regal...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1943 edition of a French/English travel guide to Casablanca, the capital of Morocco (Guides Maroc Presse). This copy is named to Staff Sergeant Paul G. Humphrey, United States 5th Army. Humphrey noted that he was in town for...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1979 paperback copy of "Firefox 5: Ironmaking, Blacksmithing, Flintlock Rifles, Bear Hunting, and Other Affairs of Plain Living" by Eliot Wigginton. The book was written by Wigginton, a teacher who moved to the Appalachian...

ARTIFACT: This is a hardcover copy of Detlev Niemann's "Price Guide: Orders and Decorations Germany, 1871-1945 (Bewertungs-Katalog: Orden und Ehrenzeichen Deutschland)", Second Edition (subtitle: Orders, Decorations, Award Documents, Miniatures and Cases...

ARTIFACT: This is 1942 publication by the United States Office of War Information entitled "Tale of a City". The short booklet is full of depressing black and white illustrations and the story of Warsaw's fall to the Nazis during World War II...

ARTIFACT: This is a first American edition of George Orwell's "Animal Farm". It was published in 1946, one year after the original publication in Britain. Orwell had a hard time finding any willing publishers for his controversial novel...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1913 edition of "Successful Fruit Culture" by Samuel T(aylor) Maynard. This book was published by Orange Judd Company of New York. The title was originally published in 190There are several black and white photographs and...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1907 (eleventh) edition of "The Nursery-Book: A Complete Guide to the Multiplication of Plants" by Professor L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey. This book was published by Macmillan Company as part of their "Rural...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1880s or 1890s edition of "Caspar the Gaucho, A Tale of the Gran Chaco" by Capitan Thomas Mayne Reid, an Irish-born American author of the nineteenth century. The title was originally published in London in 1880. This...