Americana
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Zoltar Fortune-Telling Deck
$12.95 Add to cartThe iconic and animatronic mystic Zoltar offers words of wisdom to bring you much happiness with this wise and all-knowing fortune-telling deck.
- Specifications: Deck contains 100 authentic mini fortune
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Stall, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0762487518
- Language: English
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Ancient Carpenters’ Tools: Illustrated and Explained, Together with the Implements of the Lumberman, Joiner and Cabinet-Maker in Use in the Eight
$22.95 Add to cartClassic reference describes in detail hundreds of implements in use in the American colonies in the 18th century. Over 250 illustrations depict tools identical in construction to ancient devices once … [more below]
- Author: Mercer, Henry Chapman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: June 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0486409589
- Language: English
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Sears, Roebuck Home Builder’s Catalog: The Complete Illustrated 1910 Edition
$24.95 Read moreAll across America during the great building boom of the early 20th century, one of the most popular sources for home-building materials, fixtures, and trimmings was the Sears, Roebuck catalog for hom… [more below]
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 18 2009
- ISBN10: 0486263207
- Language: English
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Ohio Curiosities: Quirky Characters, Roadside Oddities & Other Offbeat Stuff
$16.95 Add to cartThe definitive collection of Ohio’s odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Ohio residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
- Series: Curiosities
- Author: Gurvis, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0762764082
- Language: English
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The Tools That Built America
$13.95 Add to cartThis is the fascinating story of early American woodworking, as told by a master craftsman. Author Alex Bealer enthusiastically describes and clearly illustrates a wide array of implements used by fro… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Bealer, Alex W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437531
- Language: English
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American Barns and Covered Bridges
$11.95 Add to cartWhen this book was first published in the mid-1950s, the author was concerned that such functional structures as the American barn and the covered bridge would soon give way to progress and be replace… [more below]
- Series: Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0486425614
- Language: English
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Selling Thread in Unique Cabinets: Spool cabinets of the Reif Collection
$24.99 Add to cartSteve Reif, a Kalona Iowa native, grew up in a family which operated the small town’s historic general store. The business often received point of purchase displays. For many years, Steve had noticed
- Author: Reif, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1947161245
- Language: English
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Turn-Of-The-Century Farm Tools and Implements
$12.95 Add to cartPublished in 1898, this abundantly illustrated trade catalog advertised tools, fertilizers, insecticides, and other essentials for the turn-of-the-century garden, farm, greenhouse, lawn, orchard, poul… [more below]
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archives
- Author: Henderson & Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0486421147
- Language: English
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American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill–an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking image… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142499
- Language: English
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Friedrich
$20.00 Add to cartThe beauty of nature and man’s loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous pai
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560712
- Language: English
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Cocktails Across America: A Postcard View of Cocktail Culture in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
$24.95 Add to cartCocktail culture boomed in the United States after Prohibition, starting with the jazz-filled cocktail lounges and elegant supper clubs in New York City and, as rail and automotive travel advanced, fl
- Author: Lapis, Diane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1682681440
- Language: English
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The 1942 Sears Christmas Book
$19.95 Read moreFor generations, the much-anticipated arrival of the Sears gift catalog signaled the start of the holiday season. This faithful facsimile of the retailer’s 1942 Christmas edition offers a nostalgia-in… [more below]
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0486838005
- Language: English
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1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue
$29.99 Add to cartThey were Amazon and Walmart combined–the one place to shop for Americans who needed everything–clothes, furniture, tools, jewelry, musical instruments, books, and more
Imagine it’s the end of the- Author: Sears Roebuck & Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 07, 2018
- ISBN10: 1510735054
- Language: English
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A Museum of Early American Tools
$11.95 Add to cartThis absorbing and profusely illustrated book describes in detail scores of early American tools and the wooden and metal artifacts made with them. Informally and expressively written, the text covers… [more below]
- Series: Americana
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 14 2002
- ISBN10: 0486425606
- Language: English
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The Clock Repairer’s Handbook
$16.99 Add to cartProvides all the necessary information to troubleshoot any clock’s problems and to make sure your clock continues to run in perfect order for generations to come–from tools and equipment to strike an… [more below]
- Author: Penman, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 1602399611
- Language: English
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1923 Catalog Sears, Roebuck and Co.: The Thrift Book of a Nation
$24.95 Read moreStep back into the roaring twenties with the iconic American retailer Sears, Roebuck and Co. This facsimile of the rare 1923 “Thrift Book of a Nation” catalog embraces the thrift aesthetic — products… [more below]
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851168
- Language: English
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Montana: A Paper Trail
$85.00 Read moreMontana: A Paper Trail is a story of two journeys. Thomas Minckler has spent a half century on a journey to collect 19th- and early 20th-century letters and documents, vintage photographs, rare books,… [more below]
- Author: Minckler, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0917298217
- Language: English
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Clock Repairing as a Hobby: An Illustrated How-To Guide for the Beginner
$16.99 Add to cartIt covers the theory behind clock movement and design, including the particulars of escapements, pendulums, balance wheels, and even the sheet music for popular chimes. The American striking clock, th… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Harold C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2007
- ISBN10: 160239153X
- Language: English
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American Axe: The Tool That Shaped a Continent
$24.95 Add to cartFrom hand-forged axes of the Viking conquests to the American homesteader’s felling axe, this is a tool that has shaped human history like few others. American Axe pays tribute to this iconic instrume… [more below]
- Author: McLeod, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 163586139X
- Language: English
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The 1945 Sears Christmas Book
$24.95 Read moreThe much-anticipated arrival of the Sears gift catalog in American homes marked the start of the holiday season during the mid-twentieth century. This facsimile of the Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s 1945 Ch… [more below]
- Author: Sears Roebuck and Co
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0486849139
- Language: English
