Rare books, antique children's books, local & topical postcards, movie star magazines & ephemera!

RARE BOOKS: Important collection of late 18th and 19th century CHILDREN'S BOOKS with a focus on the first half of the 19th century; also authors Twain, Hawthorne, J.F. Cooper, Pyle, Crane, Greenaway, J.W. Smith, Outcault, Harris, Stowe, Rossetti, and others. MANY FIRST EDITIONS. Complete citations for many of the books are shown as part of the photographs;

POSTCARDS: A large collection including ARTISTS (Clapsaddle, Boileau, Brundage, Fisher, Schmucker, Dwig, & others); PUBLISHERS including Winsch, Tuck, PFB, J. Koehler; TOPICS including: Hold-to-Lights, mechanicals, Santas, Halloween, all Holidays, Ladies, animals, actresses; LOCAL SCENIC VIEWS including Greencastle, Chambersburg, Waynesboro, Pen Mar, Mont Alto, Mercersburg, Shippensburg, Hagerstown - including LAUGHLIN & other REAL PHOTOS;

MOVIE MAGAZINES & MISC EPHEMERA: A mammoth collection of 1930s-40s MOVIE MAGAZINES including: ScreenPlay, Movie Classics, Picture Play, Screen Book, Hollywood, Screenland, Modern Screen, Movie Story, Screen Romances, Silver Screen, Romantic Movie Stories, Picturegoer, Shadowplay, Screen Guide - with beautifully ILLUSTRATED COVERS of the Stars(Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Myrna Loy, Mae West, Shirley Temple, & MORE); Movie star postcards & cigarette card collection; Mark Twain Noe prints; other limited edition and art prints;