Ray Boas, Bookseller

c1910 – LARDER LODGE – VERSES BY B. PARKER and ILLUSTRATED BY N. PARKER – SEASIDE RESORT

Published by: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, London & Edinburgh. Pictorial boards with edgewear as seen in the images – measuring about 9 1/4 inches by 12 3/4 inches. Sepia toned illustrations, and fantastic color chromoliths. Some pages tad loose since not a sewn binding.

This is a story told in verse of a family of foxes that open a boarding house by the sea. In no time at all, they are host to a family of pigs, a family of dogs, a hedgehog and a bear.  Their hopes are of attracting a meal. er, customers.

UNCOMMON – Price $225 – (Order Number eb1705)
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Reprints of illustrations from Scribner’s magazine from roughly the years 1888-1898. Published in about 1898 in a fold over portfolio with cloth hinges and wood veneer boards.  Inside are the black and white prints on sheets measuring about 9 3/4 inches by 13 inches. This is a broken set. Prepared with 50 prints, there are only 43 remaining. Lacking are plates 2, 3, 33, 41, 42, and 43. Plates are semi-gloss on image side (some smudges on edges that can be matted over) and matte finish on the rear. These are illustrations from the magazine, again dated from 1888 to 1898, and include some of the most prominent illustrators of that period, including: Edwin Abbey, F. S. Church, A. B. Frost, Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson, C. S. Reinhart, F. Hopkinson Smith, A. B. Wenzell, A. Castaigne, Daniel Vierge, Will H. Low, Albert Lynch. Images include people riding bicycles, hunting, a men’s social dinner, historical illustrations of famous Revolutionary War scenes, etc. Incomplete set — 43 of 50 plates — full sets seldom seen. Original portfolio case in poor condition

at one point in time a sheet of paper (above) was affixed over the title printing on the wood veneer.

Price – $120 (Order Number eb1562)
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1928 – UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SONG BOOK
and NEW HAMPSHIRE COLORS

Perfect gift for your historically minded UNH student, graduate, or your own collection. Offered together from the original family, whose member attended UNH, are the UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SONG BOOK, hardcover measuring about 7 3/8 inches by 10 1/2 inches with 106 pages of music scores and lyrics, and a softcover 4-page Songsheet – NEW HAMPSHIRE COLORS with words by E. Y. Blewett (Class of ’26” and music by L. C. Swain (Class of ’18)

PRICE – $20 for both items (Order Number eb1696)
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1921 – FINGER PRINT MAGAZINE – 12 ISSUES – COMPLETE YEAR

“A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Science of Finger Print Identification” published by the University of Apple Science, Chicago, Illinois. First published in 1919, and continued to about 1972 from what I can ascertain. Each issue measures about 7 3/4 inches by 10 5/8 inches and shows two folds probably from mailing in an envelope. On each issue some light wear, soiling, few small tears. Great ads for fingerprinting equipment. Included are:

January, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 7 – 8 pages – articles include: Two Experts in the Navy Department, The Modification and Extensions of the Henry System, and more
February, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 8 – 8 pages – articles include: Washington DC fingerprinting, Man Palms Himself into the Penitentiary, and more
March, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 9 – 8 pages – articles include: Walter S. Kaye, Chief of Identity Section, War Department, Thumb Trace Classification, and more
April, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 10 – 8 pages – articles include: Vancouver’s New Chief of Police, Blackmailer Sealed His Own Fate, How to Powder a Latent Print, and more
May, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 11 – 8 pages – articles include: One Finger System (Five Page Article), and more
June, 1921 – Volume 2, Number 12 – 8 pages – articles include: Found Guilty of Burglary on Finger Print Evidence Alone, New Ideas on Contact Photography, and more
July, 1921 – Volume 3, Number 1 – 8 pages – articles include: Finger Prints – Versus Politics, A Home Made Finger Print Camera, and more
August 1921 – Volume 3, Number 2 – 8 pages – articles include: Thumb Print on Glass Causes Man to be Convicted in Burglary Case, The Identification Expert as Witness, and more
September, 1921 – Volume 3, Number 3 – 8 pages – articles include: Finger Prints Lead to Arrest of Two, Convicted on Palm Prints, and more
October, 1921 – Volume 3, Number 4 – 16 pages – articles include: University of Applied Science – Alumni Number (most pages mug shots of alumni), Finger Printing a Nation, and more
November, 1921 – Volume 3, Number 5 – 8 pages – articles include: PRESIDENT HARDING’S FINGER PRINT CARD ON FRONT COVER – THE PRESIDENT IS FINGERPRINTED, Finger Prints on Opened Safe Bring Conviction, and more
December, 1921 – Volume 3, Number 6 – 16 pages – articles include: Annual Convention Digest, and more

Below you see President Harding’s fingerprint card on the cover

and some sample two page spreads

SORRY – SOLD

WATERBURY CLOCKS: HISTORY, IDENTIFICATION & PRICE GUIDE by Tran Duy Ly.

Published by the Arlington Book Company, Arlington, Virginia, 1989. Softcover, 304 pages, about 8 3/8 inches by 10 7/8 inches. Black and White illustrations. Listing it here with illustrations to show the edge wear to the covers. Not affecting the interior or the information you desire, but I am fussy, and want you to see the wear. Illustrated are 1387 various clock models from advertisements. Book starts with some tips and Waterbury Clock Company history. Ly did a number of similar clock books which are highly collectible. No updated price list with this copy.

PRICE —SORRY SOLD – but I have a large selection of clock books, ask for list
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Uncommon Jaffrey Center, New Hampshire Boudoir size mounted photograph on card measuring 5 1/4 by 8 1/2 inches (named Boudoir size). Images found in this size dating from 1850s to 1920s. This image taken by photographer J. A. FRENCH from Keene, NH. Only French is indicated on the rear of the card. In 1871, French bought out the interests of his partner, thus this card is after that date, and prior to 1901 when the Cutter’s Hotel on the right side of the image burned. I found a French image on-line of only the hotel, dated circa 1890. This image is most likely mid to late 1880s.

On the left, The Meetinghouse was raised in 1775, its tower and belfry added in 1822. A floor was added, in 1870 to provide for a school on the lower floor and town use above. To the right of center is the now First Church In Jaffrey UCC. Moving to the right hand building, on Third New Hampshire Turnpike, stood the Danforth Tavern, built in 1792. Later owned by Asa Brigham, it catered to lively stage traffic. After a disastrous fire in 1816, Brigham rebuilt, bigger and better, and of brick this new structure on the site of the old wooden tavern. In 1820 he lost the property to mortgagee holders in Boston. After that date it became the tavern of Ethan Cutter, who became innholder as early as 1826, becoming a popular place as a hotel for summer boarders visiting nearby Mount Monadnock. The hotel burned in 1901, and a home now occupies the spot facing the Common on one side, and Cutter Park along the current Route 124 – Main Street.

PRICE – SORRY — SOLD

Introduction du Comte Carton de Wiart, Ministre d’Etat. Texte de MM. Thomas Braun; Georges Virrès; Georges Garnir; Baudoin van de Walle; Rodolphe de Saegher; Ed. de Bruyn; Jules Destrée; Joseph Demarteau; Charles Gheude. Published by Aux Editions N. E. A, Paris.

Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards and endpapers, there is some deterioration, wear and breaking to the leather as seen in images below. Text blocks measure about 10 inches by about 12 3/4 inches. Color frontispieces/covers, sepia toned illustrations touring you around the country. Purchased from the estate of the original owner with his bookplate on preliminary blank leaf in each volume. Text in French.

Volume I – 204 pages
Volume II – 198 pages
Volume III – 224 pages

PRICE – $100 for the set – (Order Number eb1675)
Shipping – $8.85 (heavy and large) packed in cardboard and with tracking
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Softcover publication from Haskins Laboratories, New York and New Haven. Condition: good, wraps (softcover). The Haskins Laboratories Status Report on Speech Research was published from 1965 through 1995 by Haskins Laboratories. The publication reported on the status and progress of studies on the nature of speech, instrumentation for its investigation, and practical applications. Haskins Laboratories has long-standing, formal affiliations with the University of Connecticut and Yale University

Thirteen issues as a lot, as detailed below.

SR-1 (1965) February, 1965, 106 pages
SR-2 (1965), May, 1965, 65 pages
SR-5/6 (1966), November 1965-June, 1966, 153 pages
SR-7/8 (1966), July-December, 1966, 88 pages
SR-9 (1967), January-March, 1967, 141 pages
SR-10 (1967), April-June, 1967, 118 pages
SR-11 (1967), July-September 1967, 69 pages
SR-12 (1967), October-December, 1967, 155pages
SR-13/14 (1968), January-June, 1968, 200 pages
SR-15/16, (1968), July-December, 1968, 181 pages
SR-17/18 (1969) January-June, 1969, 192 pages (some coffee spotting on foredge)
SR-19/20 (1969), July-December, 1969, 225 pages
and, SR-24 (1970), October-December 1970, 69 pages

covers of the first and last issues listed above

and, showing some soiling on the book blocks, and paper loose on a couple covers

PRICE – $285 – (Order Number 70675)
Shipping – $14.50 (heavy) packed in cardboard and with tracking

I also have these Individual issues available ($25 to $30 each): February 1965; October-December, 1967; January-June, 1968; July-December, 1968; and, July-December 1969.

CLANDESTINE EDGED WEAPONS – By Dr. WILLIAM WINDRUM – 2001 – SCARCE TITLE

I purchased this years ago for resale in my shop and on my websites, but it arrived “damaged” with creases in the cover and a few pages. Not something I wanted to catalogue, so I set it aside only to be found now after many years in a pile. A HARD TO FIND title, and condition set aside, the buyer WANTS THE INFORMATION, and the faults are not serious, especially when I show you instead of simply cataloguing on my websites. Copies on-line are $145 and more.

Published by Phillips Publications, Williamstown, NY in 2001, 74 pages. There is a previous owner’s blindstamp on the title page, and the CREASES / FOLDS are on the front cover, and into about page 33 — BUT, not affecting readability or anything else – I am just fussy, and want happy customers – so sold “as is with all faults” and hopefully you can see the faults in the images below.

Contents include: Thumb Knives; Instep & Penetrating Knives; Clandestine Garrote Knives of World War II; 4 other types of clandestine knives; The Fair Sword, Fairbairn’s Improved Smatchet; The Fair Sword Revisited; and, The CIA’s “Air America” knife.

above you can see the creases across the front cover, and below on the spine

on these images of internal pages, I hope you can see the faint crease(s)

and, from the fore edge of the book block

and, the rear cover

SORRY SOLD
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ROSTER OF VERMONTERS IN UNIFORMED SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1941-1945 – TWO VOLUME SET

By Reginald Cram; Fred E. Steele; and, Arthur R. Greenleaf. Published by Supervisor of Veterans Affairs, Montpelier, VT. VOLUME I (A-L INCLUSIVE), 1972, 995pp; VOLUME II (M-Z INCLUSIVE), 1974, 714pp. Set is hardcover, bound in blue cloth, and would be very good EXCEPT FOR ONE FAULT SEEN BELOW – COFFEE AT ONE TIME SPLATTERED ON VOLUME I – EDGES OF BOOK BLOCK, ONLY, did not bleed inside book block. Thus this set priced down, but informational value is still all there without a problem. We have a second set in our shop, without a coffee stain, for $90, and it includes the small softcover supplement.

the image below is to show you the coffee stain – not visible when set is on the shelf

and, below you can see the stain has not bleed into the pages 

PRICE – $60 — order number eb1661
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