Success

9781557094223

$7.95

From the "Quotes of Inspiration" Series. This little collection of over 100 inspirational and motivational quotations from famous Americans is separated into two parts. The first is the Quote section in which there are the most poignant quotes on success; the second is the Unquote section, in which the more humorous side of success is revealed. These little gems are destined to find an honored place in every shop and home.

Uncle Tom's Cabin vol 2

9781429016032

$21.95

Volume Two of the Harriet Beecher Stowe classic. Originally published beginning June 5, 1851 as a serial in The National Era, an abolitionist weekly published in Washington, DC., Stowe‚Äôs anti-slavery novel was finished forty-three chapters and one year later. John Jewett‚Äôs small publishing house published the book on March 20, 1852, a couple of weeks before the serial ended. Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19th century and is credited with significantly advancing the abolitionist cause. Its historical impact was so great that it spawned the mythical story that Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting Stowe near the start of the Civil War, was heard to say, "So this is the little lady who started this great war."

Martine's Handbook of Etiquette

9781557094292

$16.95

This 1866 guide to Etiquette was used right after the Civil War, and contains clear and comprehensive directions for manners, dress & conversation, and includes other such essentials as tips on the art of carving, etiquette of the ball, and 56 rules to be observed in general society.

Mary Frances Cook Book

9781557095886

$14.95

This charmingly illustrated book tells the story of Mary Frances, a little girl who wanted to help her mother. In the kitchen, Mary Frances discovered the Kitchen People, like Auntie Rolling Pin and Toaster Man, who became her teachers. They talked to her, helped her, and shared mysterious secrets she could have otherwise never understood. This nostalgic treasure includes 40 simple recipes kids can make. This classic is part of the Mary Frances Books for Children, a collection of children's instructional craft books, all of which were originally published in the early 1900s. For ages 9-12.

Mary Frances Knitting & Crocheting Book

9781557095978

$17.95

This wonderfully illustrated book tells the story of Mary Frances, a little girl who learns all sorts of things from The Knitting People, fairy helpers who live in her house and surprise her with some delightful lessons on knitting and crocheting. They are such good lessons that almost before she knows it, Mary Frances has made the loveliest hats and sweaters and socks for her dolls. This classic is part of the Mary Frances Books for Children, a collection of children's instructional craft books, all of which were originally published in the early 1900s. For ages 9-12.

Valentine's Day Postcard Book

9781557094872

$6.95

Send someone you love something special. These 10 full-color postcards are beautiful reproductions of Valentine's Day greetings sent during the Golden Age of Postcards from 1912 to 1920. These heart-warming postcards are a timeless way to express good old-fashioned love. Reproduced from actual postcards, the cards are perforated for easy removal from the book and are perfect for mailing greetings to the one or ones you love.

National Cookery Book

9781557095695

$17.95

The first all-American cookbook, The National Cookery Book was compiled for America's Centennial celebration in 1876 in Philadelphia. The Women's Centennial Executive Committee, chaired by Benjamin Franklin's great granddaughter, sent an invitation to women throughout the United States to contribute recipes: of the 950 accepted recipes many were associated with specific states or territories.

American Carnation

9781429013857

$20.95

Charles Ward's 1903 work is a complete reference on the culture of the American carnation.

Appeal in Favor of Africans

9781557095862

$14.95

One of the most important abolitionist works, by one of America's most important women writers. Child, outspoken in her condemnation of slavery, pointed out its contradiction with Christian teachings, described the moral and physical degradation it brought upon slaves and owners alike, and not excepting the North from its share of responsibility for the system. "I am fully aware of the unpopularity of the task I have undertaken," she wrote in the introduction, "but though I expect ridicule and censure, it is not in my nature to fear them."

Greetings from Old St. Louis

9781557095480

$5.95

10 collectible color postcards, reproduced from actual early twentieth century postcards of Old St. Louis are bound together in this charming book. The cards are perforated for easy removal from the book and are perfect for mailing greetings to family and friends.

Insects

9781557095305

$24.95

Originally published in 1922, this book is a layman's guide to insects written by a well-known former curator for the Smithsonian Institutes. Considered one of the twentieth-century's foremost authorities on insects, R. E. Snodgrass is accessible and knowledgeable. Even today, his book Principles of Insect Morphology, first published in 1936, is the best and most comprehensive publication on the subject of insect anatomy.

Greetings from Old Philadelphia

9781557095473

$5.95

10 collectible color postcards, reproduced from actual early twentieth century postcards of Old Philadelphia are bound together in this charming book. The cards are perforated for easy removal from the book and are perfect for mailing greetings to family and friends.

Partnership

9781557094216

$7.95

"You have to treat your employees like your customers. When you treat them right then they will treat your outside customers right" --Herb Kelleher

Home-Made Wines

9781557095879

$9.95

With 18 recipes for homemade wine from the Colonial era, this beautifully designed and printed two-color book contains the recipes and selections from the journal of Thomas Hoggson, a wine connoisseur of New York. It includes recipes for Madeira, Chianti, Blackberry, Peach, and Apple wine, among others, along with a delightful journal from one who truly enjoyed drinking his own stock. A perfect gift for the oenophile or for the fledgling or advanced wine maker looking for a sweet and sparkling 1765 vintage book to be poured over.

Trail of the Green Doll #27

9781429090476

$14.95

Don't look for it! The voice startles Judy and Honey as it seems to come out of nowhere. The girls search the area but cannot discover the source of the voice. The strange voice is the first in a series of events drawing Judy into her latest mystery. Judy takes in Helen Riker and her children Penny and Paul as boarders at her home in Dry Brook Hollow. Penny speaks of a green doll but is scolded by her brother. What Judy does hear leads her to believe that some men stole some type of green doll from Mrs. Riker and that it has something to do with their Uncle Paul Riker. Judy and Horace go with the Rikers to visit Uncle Paul, but he has disappeared, his house has burned to the ground, and his entire collection of jade has been stolen. Judy has quite a mystery to solve. She must find the thieves and Uncle Paul and help Mrs. Riker through a difficult time.

Rise to the Challenge Boxed Set II

9781429094849

$30.00

A curated boxed set of three Inspirational Books: The Emancipation Proclamation, How it Feels to be Colored Me, Quotations of Martin Luther King

Book of Life

9781429014878

$27.95

Upton Sinclair, one of America's foremost and most prolific authors, addresses the cultivation of the mind and the body in this 1922 volume. Sinclair's goal was to attempt to tell the reader how to live, how to find health, happiness and success, and how to develop fully both the mind and the body. Part One: The Book of the Mind covers such subjects as faith, reason, morality, and the subconscious. Part Two: The Book of the Body develops such subjects as errors in diet, the fasting cure, food and poisons, work and play, and diseases and their cures .

Picayune Creole Cookbook

9781557095817

$14.95

Creole cuisine is a distinctive New Orleans style of cooking, combining Spanish, African, Choctaw, and especially, French influences. Fearing that New Orleans culture might be lost, in 1900, the editors of the New Orleans newspaper "The Picayune" decided to collect recipes "from the lips of the old Creole Negro cooks and the grand old housekeepers who still surive, ere they, too, pass away, and Creole cookery, with all its delightful combinations and possibilities, will have become a lost art." This is a facsimile of the second edition published in 1901.

First Christmas of New England

9781557094797

$12.95

This Christmas story, written by the well known author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, is set in Massachusetts in 1620. "Let us look into the magic mirror of the past and see this harbor of Cape Cod on the morning of the 11th of November, in the year of our Lord 1620, as described to us in the simple words of the pilgrims."

A Treatise on Atonement

9781429016049

$20.95

With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.

Poor Richard's Almanack for 1733

9781557095671

$5.95

Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack was first published in 1733. Facing heavy competition from similar publications, Franklin took the unusual and controversial approach of injecting witty, unexpected entries between standard tables of tides, planetary motion, weather predictions and other facts. In the debut edition, faithfully reproduced here, he included under the heading Principal Kings of Europe, "Poor Richard, an American Prince, without subjects, his wife being Viceroy over him, born October 23, 1684, age 49." The Almanack went on to become the most popular book of it's kind in colonial America and was published annually for the next 25 years. This facsimile offers a unique and entertaining look at 18th century American life and humor.

Enemies of the Rose

9781429013765

$10.95

This 1908 volume created under the auspices of the England's National Rose Society is a comprehensive guide to identifying and eradicating pests and diseases affecting the rose.

Rise to the Challenge Boxed Set I

9781429094832

$30.00

A curated boxed set of three Inspirational Books: George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour, Strenuous Life, Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues

Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon

9781429015127

$21.95

From the preface: "During the performance of [these] duties of Post Surgeon at New York, and of Medical Director in Virginia, enatailing on him the care and treatment of the wounded, with the innumerable duties and responsibilities contingent thereon … it was his good fortune to be able to soothe the last agonies of many hundred officers and soldiers of the army, and to bear the parting message of affection and dying blessing to many a bereaved parent or sister..."

Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon

Life of Pauline Cushman

9781429015455

$23.95

This biography of Pauline Cushman was written in 1865 by her friend, Ferdinand Sarmiento, "prepared from her notes and memoranda." Many consider the story exaggerated, but given the nature of the secret work she was doing on behalf of the Union, the lack of corraborative information available at the time may have made her real deeds unprovable. Abraham Lincoln gave her an honorary commission, and she became known as Miss Major Cushman. Pauline Cushman was born Harriet Wood and left her home in Michigan to go to New York City to become an actress. After an unsuccessful career, she eventually met and married Charles Dickinson and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. After the death of her husband Charles in the war and an incident a few months later in Louisville, Kentucky when, after a performance, she was paid to toast Jefferson Davis and was fired by the theater, she found a role as a spy. She was able to infiltrate the Confederate commanders and provide essential espionage back to the Union army. She was captured and sentenced to death, but three days before she was to hang she was rescued by the Union army. After the war, she experienced declining fame and fortune, married Jere Fryer and lived a life of telling and retelling her Civil War story. In 1893, she died impoverished of a drug overdose in a flophouse in San Francisco. She is buried at the Presidio in San Francisco. Her simple gravestone recognizes her contribution to the Union's victory. It is marked, "Pauline C. Fryer, Union Spy."

Greetings from Disneyland

9781557094858

$9.95

Thirty full-color postcards from the 1950s are brought together in this fascinating book. Through facsimile reproductions of these inexpensive souvenirs, a history of the creative vision and process in building this icon of American popular culture is portrayed. Each of the feature attractions of Main Street, Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and Tomorrowland are shown, first through a postcard with the original design for the attraction, followed by a photographic postcard of the attraction. Reproduced from actual postcards, the cards are perforated for easy removal from the book and are perfect for mailing greetings.

Paul Revere's Ride

9781557094889

$9.95

Ten full-color postcards on perforated stock illustrate Longfellow's poem immortalizing Paul Revere's historic 1775 ride from Boston to Concord to warn the American colonists that British troops were on the way. The complete poem is included in the back of the book.

Start in Life: Journey Across America

9781557099228

$12.95

CONTENTS A Suggestion to Persons Seeking a Start in Life 5 Special Advantages 8 Comparison and Warning 10 Across America-- London to Chicago 17 Chicago to San Francisco 29 San Francisco to New Orleans 45 New Orleans to London 63 Information About California 76 Currency 79 Merced 80 Price of Land 83 American Surveys 85 Special Instruction Provided 86 Various Estimates as to what could be done with Various Amounts of Capital 87 Price of Fruit Trees 94 When Fruit Trees Pay 95 Position of a Settler 95 Cost of Board and Lodging 96 Raisin Culture 96 Irrigation 98 Olive Culture 99 Special Openings 100 Potato Growing 101 Cost of Provisions, etc., at Merced 103 Cost of Journey by Sea and Land 105 Analysis of Merced Soils 108 Position of the Vendors 110

Snapshots

9781557090959

$17.95

Suzanne Zuckerman Werner is a survivor of suicide. The day her husband lost his eight year battle with depression was the day her own battle to recover began. About a year into her own journey, through grief, the author discovered the value of writing, writing and puzzling out the jumble of emotion she was feeling. Each of these short pieces is a snapshot of a particular place and time along the way. Each is an effort to make some sense of an act that makes no sense, an effort to know the unknowable, an effort to control the uncontrollable. Snapshots is the story of the author's own unique journey.

Little Maid of Quebec

9781557093387

$9.95

This twelfth book in the Little Maid series takes place in Canada during the American Revolution. The American invasion of 1775 and 1776, with its attempt to conquer Quebec, became a part of the history of the unconquerable Citadel; and Sally and Felice's courage and determination not to help the invaders became a story known to many children of the Province. Included on the book flaps is a charming paper doll of the book's heroine, Sally, complete with costume.

Etiquette of Social Life in Washington

9781557093998

$12.95

Madeleine Dahlgren's 1881 work aims to provide readers with a guide to the peculiar and particular manners and mores of the Nation's capital. Recognizing that official life in Washington, D.C. leads to "perplexing social questions," Dahlgren's work, which went through a number of editions in her lifetime, lays out the special code of social laws that are at work in Washington in the late nineteenth century.

Air Babies

9781557093912

$12.95

A delightful picture book with full-color illustrations on every page depicting charming little figures who are little airplanes with baby faces. The story tells of their adventures and misadventures in the air and their encounters with such other lively characters as Betsie Parachute and Jennie Gyro. With a foreword by Amelia Earhart.

Confederate Receipt Book

9781557093899

$9.95

Only five copies of this receipt book are known to have survived. During the Civil War, Southerners were forced to find substitutes for the food, clothing, and other everyday household items they were used to. This important little book was "designed to supply useful and economical directions in cookery, housewifery, &c., and for the camp."

Our American Cousin

9781557093882

$9.95

The complete script of the comic drama performed at Ford's Theater the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. A facsimile of the original publication.

Aunt Caroline's Dixieland Recipes

9781429010948

$12.95

Drawn from the "treasured memories of Aunt Caroline Pickett, a famous old Virginia cook," the recipes collected in this 1922 volume take the "pinch of this" and "just a smack of that" cookery of the "Old Southern Mammy" and recreate them in a "scientific" manner so that home cooks may create them in their own kitchens. "