[Rarebooks] F/S Two very unusual pieces of printed & manuscript ephemera

[Garry R Austin]

We offer for your consideration the following at the net prices attached 
below and postpaid in the US.

(Newspaper Broadside) Courier Supplement. Memorial Sermon Delivered at 
the Opera House, Fort Collins, Sunday May 30, 1886 By Rev. E. N. Elton. 
                             $75.00
10.5" x 17"; Full margined with a hint of toning in the upper half, very 
good; Broadside; Sermon based on the Declaration of Independence & the 
Golden Rule. How in America these principals have reinforced Equal 
Rights; Reviews American History, Colonization; Rise of Slavery; The 
Civil War; Current challenges in the Nation come from the Mormons; 
Anti-Mormon; Excesses of Wealth; Influence on Government; Pro-Labor;  
Rev. Elton was a late 19th century Baptist minister in Colorado.

J. A. J. Practice Makes Perfect; How To Kiss; Manuscript instructions on 
stationery c1860-1875. Embossed bust of a woman top right on the 
stationery, that measures 7" x 4.25"; Three full pages of instructions 
with the caution "Don't Be In A Hurry" oft repeated. Detailed 
instructions by this 19th century "ladies' man"; "don't jump up like a 
trout after a fly"; her head lies carelessly on your shoulder, you are 
nearly heart to heart..." "her lips are almost open lean lightly 
forward..."  This appears to be unpublished and not just a piece copied 
from an "advice book" of the period. The letter was folded else very 
good; Quite unusual!                         $75.00

Austin's Antiquarian Books
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Wilmington Vt 05363
802 464-8438
mail at austinsbooks.com
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