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<p>[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 52457, member: 57"]Okay folks, don't fall out of your seats but . . . this is my first (I believe) post on the Finds Thread. The following were gleaned from a total of <u>two</u> estate sales. They are all books, but just take a look at the wide range of subjects and publication dates (5 hardback and 2 softback). Total expenditure was $7 and, yes, they are all in good to very good (the two newer ones being in "excellent") condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>And by the way, does anyone here collect communion tokens????</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Communion Tokens (Their Origin, History and Use</u>) by Mary McWhorter Tenney, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1936. (hardcover with dust jacket), illustrated with several full-page plates, 195 numbered pages plus 9 index pages).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Communion Tokens of the United States</u> by Autence A. Bason, no date, self-published(?), softcover, illustrated, 113 numbered pages, autographed on title page by the author in blue ink cursive handwriting to a particular person. Loose inside the book was a 9-page "Price List #7 of Communion Tokens" (but no date for the list).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Maryland</u>, ["American Commonwealths" series], Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (Riverside Press, Cambridge) 1904, by William Hand Browne. ("Library Rv. [that is not a typo on my part] David C. White" stamped inside front cover), 381 pp (hardcover).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Walls Have Ears</u> (including "The Stockade Story" and "Samuel Fuller, Master Builder of the Mohawk") by Giles Yates van der Bogert, drawings by Werner L. Feibes, copyright 1966 by the Stockade Association, 113 pp (hardcover). This book is about Schenectady, New York.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>A Queen's Progress</u> (An introduction to the buildings associated with Mary Queen of Scots in the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland), David J. Breeze, 1987, softcover, illustrated with photographs, 80 pp.</p><p><br /></p><p><u>Standing in the Sunshine (A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote)</u> by Sandra Coney, 1993, illustrated, Viking Penguin Books (NZ) Limited, 332 numbered pages which includes "References" and "Index" (hardcover with dust jacket).</p><p><br /></p><p><u>The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories [in ten volumes]</u>, Grant Overton Editor-in-Chief, Volume Two Romance, Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London, 1927, 280 pp. (hardcover).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 52457, member: 57"]Okay folks, don't fall out of your seats but . . . this is my first (I believe) post on the Finds Thread. The following were gleaned from a total of [U]two[/U] estate sales. They are all books, but just take a look at the wide range of subjects and publication dates (5 hardback and 2 softback). Total expenditure was $7 and, yes, they are all in good to very good (the two newer ones being in "excellent") condition. And by the way, does anyone here collect communion tokens???? [U]Communion Tokens (Their Origin, History and Use[/U]) by Mary McWhorter Tenney, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, Michigan 1936. (hardcover with dust jacket), illustrated with several full-page plates, 195 numbered pages plus 9 index pages). [U]Communion Tokens of the United States[/U] by Autence A. Bason, no date, self-published(?), softcover, illustrated, 113 numbered pages, autographed on title page by the author in blue ink cursive handwriting to a particular person. Loose inside the book was a 9-page "Price List #7 of Communion Tokens" (but no date for the list). [U]Maryland[/U], ["American Commonwealths" series], Houghton, Mifflin and Co. (Riverside Press, Cambridge) 1904, by William Hand Browne. ("Library Rv. [that is not a typo on my part] David C. White" stamped inside front cover), 381 pp (hardcover). [U]Walls Have Ears[/U] (including "The Stockade Story" and "Samuel Fuller, Master Builder of the Mohawk") by Giles Yates van der Bogert, drawings by Werner L. Feibes, copyright 1966 by the Stockade Association, 113 pp (hardcover). This book is about Schenectady, New York. [U]A Queen's Progress[/U] (An introduction to the buildings associated with Mary Queen of Scots in the care of the Secretary of State for Scotland), David J. Breeze, 1987, softcover, illustrated with photographs, 80 pp. [U]Standing in the Sunshine (A History of New Zealand Women Since They Won the Vote)[/U] by Sandra Coney, 1993, illustrated, Viking Penguin Books (NZ) Limited, 332 numbered pages which includes "References" and "Index" (hardcover with dust jacket). [U]The World's One Hundred Best Short Stories [in ten volumes][/U], Grant Overton Editor-in-Chief, Volume Two Romance, Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London, 1927, 280 pp. (hardcover).[/QUOTE]
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