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Product Description: Benjamin Darling has a unique perspective on the growth of health food culture and vegetarianism in America. Born in 1966 in Southern California, Benjamin grew up in a traditional middle class milieu, in a tract home, on a cul-de-sac, and attending schools named after U...read more

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9781595838438 | Ingram Pub Services, September 30, 2016, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Darling has a unique perspective on the growth of health food culture and vegetarianism in America.

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Product Description: Is there a bustle in your hedgerow?  Does it alarm you?  Are you aware that it is just a Spring clean from the May Queen?  Thankfully, for those whose hedgerows are alarmingly bustled, Led Zeppelin answered this existentially relevant question in the classic rock song Stairway to Heaven...read more

Paperback:

9781595837486 | The Enthusiast, February 10, 2014, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Is there a bustle in your hedgerow?

Miscellaneous:

9781595838667 | Gcr edition (The Enthusiast, March 4, 2014), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Is there a bustle in your hedgerow?

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Product Description: Pies are easy, ice-cream is cool and delicious, and cookies are beloved by children and Santa, but cake is the undisputed queen of dessert world, and in Let’s Bake a Cake, the fourth in our popular series of vintage cookbooks, we celebrate this truth...read more

Hardcover:

9781595836250 | Laughing Elephant, August 10, 2013, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Pies are easy, ice-cream is cool and delicious, and cookies are beloved by children and Santa, but cake is the undisputed queen of dessert world, and in Let’s Bake a Cake, the fourth in our popular series of vintage cookbooks, we celebrate this truth.

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Product Description: We've left cookies for Santa and made things easy as pie - and now the third in our popular series of vintage recipe books I Scream for Ice Cream is ready for the icebox.  Including both recipes for ice-cream and creative things to do with ready-made ice cream, I Scream for Ice Cream is richly illustrated with many charming illustrations from our treasure trove of ice cream imagery...read more

Hardcover:

9781595834393 | Laughing Elephant, July 1, 2011, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: We've left cookies for Santa and made things easy as pie - and now the third in our popular series of vintage recipe books I Scream for Ice Cream is ready for the icebox.

By Benjamin Darling (compiler), Edith Nesbit (other contributor) and William Shakespeare

Hardcover:

9781595833624 | Laughing Elephant, June 1, 2011, cover price $24.95

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Product Description:  Recipe booklets and pamphlets were very popular in the first half of the 20th century and were given away as a premium to help cooks learn to use products (largely foodstuffs and appliances) to best advantage. Given that the recipes carried the brand, justified the purchase, and, if successful, encouraged repeat use of the product, great effort was made to make the best and tastiest recipes possible...read more
By Benjamin Darling (compiler)

Hardcover:

9781595833761, titled "Easy As Pie: For Beginners and Experts" | Laughing Elephant, July 17, 2010, cover price $12.95 | About this edition:  Recipe booklets and pamphlets were very popular in the first half of the 20th century and were given away as a premium to help cooks learn to use products (largely foodstuffs and appliances) to best advantage.

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Hardcover:

9781595833754 | Laughing Elephant, September 1, 2009, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: Shakespeare, and his Elizabethan audiences were very interested in the supernatural - ghosts, fairies, and the various powers of magicians and enchanters. All ensuing views of fairies and fairyland - from Shakespeare's time to the present - are hugely influenced by the Bard's plays and poetry...read more
By Benjamin Darling (compiler)

Hardcover:

9781883211622 | Laughing Elephant, June 1, 2003, cover price $8.00 | About this edition: Shakespeare, and his Elizabethan audiences were very interested in the supernatural - ghosts, fairies, and the various powers of magicians and enchanters.

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Presents a collecton of quotations on conquering fears by such figures as Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tennessee Williams, and the Cowardly Lion.
By Benjamin Darling (editor)

Hardcover:

9780811836180 | Chronicle Books Llc, January 1, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a collecton of quotations on conquering fears by such figures as Georgia O'Keeffe, Eleanor Roosevelt, Tennessee Williams, and the Cowardly Lion.

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Product Description: Document the first years of your new home in the Our House Journal. Fill it with favorite memories of crossing the threshold for the first time, applying the last brush of paint, and throwing the first party - as well as your dreams for the future...read more

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9780811834223 | Spiral-bound edition (Chronicle Books Llc, August 1, 2002), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Document the first years of your new home in the Our House Journal.

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Presents a collection of poems and quotations by fairies and witches from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Hardcover:

9780735202924 | Reissue edition (Prentice Hall Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems and quotations by fairies and witches from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

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Product Description: Vinyl record albums--wow!--they're back. Could it be for the swinging sounds and nightlife nostalgia? Mmmmaybe...but get a load of those covers. Barroom beauties, kittens in Capri pants, seductive sirens--enchantresses everywhere! Vixens of Vinyl: The Alluring Ladies of Vintage Album Covers is a dazzling tour of over a hundred beguiling album covers, designed to appeal to the bachelor audiophiles of the hi-fi era...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Hardcover:

9780811831345 | Chronicle Books Llc, March 1, 2001, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Vinyl record albums--wow!

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A romantic collection of poems and quotes selected from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare is beautifully illustrated in fourcolor by artists such as William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, and others.

Hardcover:

9780735201743 | Penguin USA, February 1, 2000, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A romantic collection of poems and quotes selected from the plays and sonnets of William Shakespeare is beautifully illustrated in fourcolor by artists such as William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, and others.

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Offers a collection of more than fifty popular Christmas songs, both sacred and secular, from 'Silent Night' to 'All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,' with nineteenth- and twentieth-century holiday illustrations
By Benjamin Darling (compiler) and Cooper Edens (compiler)

Hardcover:

9780811822046 | Chronicle Books Llc, September 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of more than fifty popular Christmas songs, both sacred and secular, from 'Silent Night' to 'All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth,' with nineteenth- and twentieth-century holiday illustrations

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Product Description: Tongue in cheek look at keeping safe. Is your irony-o-meter on??

Hardcover:

9780811805452, titled "Let's Be Safe: Containing Such Useful Information As the Avoidance of Strangers and Their Candy, How Not to Be Run over by a Car, and How Generally" | Chronicle Books Llc, May 1, 1994, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Tongue in cheek look at keeping safe.

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In memory of her beloved grandmother, Valerie and her grandfather join forces to celebrate Grandma's life by preserving her tradition of making pies from the pears that are ready to be harvested.
By Benjamin Darling and Daniel Lane (illustrator)

School and Library:

9780027261004 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Valerie and her grandfather preserve the memory of her grandmother by making pear pies together

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Product Description: In the '30s, '40s, and '50s, food companies competed for housewives' loyalty by giving away illustrated recipe booklets. Decorated throughout with cheery color illustrations culled from the original pamphlets, this compendium of the best (and most incredible) cake recipes of the era will amuse and instruct bakers everywhere...read more

Hardcover:

9780811800075 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the '30s, '40s, and '50s, food companies competed for housewives' loyalty by giving away illustrated recipe booklets.

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Collects domestic advice from promotional pamphlets issued in the first half of the twentieth century and includes tips on food, cooking, and entertaining

Hardcover:

9780811800068 | Chronicle Books Llc, April 1, 1992, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Collects domestic advice from promotional pamphlets issued in the first half of the twentieth century and includes tips on food, cooking, and entertaining

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Product Description: What is the meaning behind the image of the breast exposed and touched? Why have artists represented it so frequently, and in so many guises? This book attempts to explain some of these questions while still leaving the mystery of the pictures for us to enjoy!

Hardcover:

9780942139112 | Tale Weaver, December 1, 1990, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: What is the meaning behind the image of the breast exposed and touched?

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Slipping away in the middle of the night to visit the circus, Robert finds a trunk filled with wonderful balloons.
By Benjamin Darling and Tim Solliday (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780881381207 | Simon & Schuster, October 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In the middle of a moonlit night, Robert visits the deserted circus grounds and uses the magic balloon machine in the big top to create a clown, violinist, and two ballet dancers

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Photographs, drawings, and postcards featuring sunsets are accompanied by brief quotations about the ending of the day

Paperback:

9780881381023 | Aladdin Paperbacks, September 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Photographs, drawings, and postcards featuring sunsets are accompanied by brief quotations about the ending of the day

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