Bidspirit auction | Educational Books & 1944 Atlas

Educational Books & 1944 Atlas - A collection of books and historical ephemera featuring instructional, regional, and reference titles. The group includes: A New International Atlas of the World, War Edition, published by the Geographical Publishing Company, Chicago, 1944. The volume is bound in blue-black faux-leather boards with a debossed gold title plate and central globe emblem. It contains a color plate illustrating the Insignia of U.S.A. Armed Forces for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. A Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue No. 112, titled The Great Price Maker, originally copyrighted in 1905 (reprint). The large format catalog features a red cloth-textured paper cover with a detailed illustration of the Sears commercial building on the reverse. Interior pages provide illustrated listings for early 20th-century merchandise including sewing machines, musical instruments, jewelry, and horse harnesses. A first edition of Soldiers, Sailors, Fliers and Marines by Mary Elting and Robert T. Weaver, illustrated by Jeanne Bendick, published by Junior Books, Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1943. The book features red, white, and blue illustrated boards and endpapers depicting various military headgear. A school primer titled McGuffey?s New First Eclectic Reader: For Young Learners by Wm. H. McGuffey, published by Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co., Cincinnati and New York. The volume features a brown cloth spine and pictorial paper-covered boards. An instructional art book titled The Way to Sketch by Vernon Blake, published by Oxford University Press, 1925. The binding consists of grey-brown paper boards with a blue printed fountain illustration. A regional work titled It?s an Old Cape Cod Custom by Edwin Valentine Mitchell, published by The Copp Clark Company, Ltd. and H. Wolff, New York, copyright 1949. The light blue cloth boards are stamped with a brown whale motif. The interior includes a pencil notation 917.4 M681 Cape Cod Massachusetts - Social life & customs. A textbook titled The Essentials of Agriculture by Waters, featuring maroon cloth boards with a black stamped title.