Author Archives: Ray Boas

1939 – THE IMPENETRABLE SECRET – MISCELLANEOUS ANTIQUITIES – NUMBER FIFTEEN THE IMPENETRABLE SECRET – PROBABLY INVENTED BY HORACE WALPOLE – AN EXPLANATION OF THE SECRET. WITH A NOTE ON THE ORIGINAL BY W. S. LEWIS Privately Printed, Farmington, CT, … Continue reading →

1882 – SOUVENIR OF WHITE MOUNTAINS – ACCORDION FOLD-OUT 15 IMAGES Published by Chishold Bros., of Portland, Maine, this pocket souvenir measures about 5 3/4 inches by about 4 inches with embossed covers. The print pages are about 5 1/4 … Continue reading →

COIN SILVER – IS IT A VERMONT MARK? A COLLECTOR’S DILEMMA – DAVID PERRIN Published by the author, David Perrin, Charlotte, VT, 2005. Hardcover measuring about 8 1/2 by 11 inches with 204 pages, mainly color illustrations (just a couple … Continue reading →

1899 to 1904 – EIGHTEEN (18) THOS. COOK & SON TRAVEL TOUR BOOKLETS I do not know how long I have had this collection, but I just cannot break it up, so am offering this collection of Thos. Cook & … Continue reading →

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT’S COPYHAWKERS & WALKERS IN EARLY AMERICA “Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players, and Others, from the Beginning to the Civil War” By Richardson Wright (editor of House and Garden), J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1927 Second Edition, … Continue reading →

1923 – WONDER MOVIES by VICTOR M. EARLE – TRANSFORMATION BOOK Illustrated by Benjamin Seielstad Hardcover, measuring about 8 by 13 inches, pictorial boards. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York. Please note that years ago there was so … Continue reading →

1828 – LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD – FIRST US APPEARANCETHE ATLANTIC SOUVENIR The Atlantic Souvenir; A Christmas and New Year’s Offering. Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Carey 1828. Green printed boards, book block measures about 3 3/8 inches by about 5 1/2 … Continue reading →

In the early to mid-1980s I collected and put away as many Mr. Peanut souvenirs and collectibles as I could. At that time I was going to my kid’s school fairs with my original Bartholomew Peanut roaster and dispensing popcorn … Continue reading →

COLLECTION OF 8 (Eight) – “LITTLE LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS” – MINIATURE BOOKS I had a very large lot of 28 titles of the “LITTLE LITTLE GOLDEN BOOK” series that I sold in November of 2018 on eBay. In searching in … Continue reading →

1940-1948 AMERICAN COLLECTOR MAGAZINE – NINE YEARS 107 ISSUES I have a run from 1940 through 1948, but with only the April 1946 missing. Nine years complete except for the one issue – thus a total of 107 issues. Edited … Continue reading →