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Relax! The perfect cold weather afternoon centers around these basic by essential things:

A comfy sofa piled high with tons of pillows, a handmade quilt, some homebaked Gingersnaps, a pot of hot herbal tea with honey and a big mug to sip it from.
... and
a nice big stack of nifty old books.

Take the phone off the hook for the day, Sugar. Life in the Slow Lane is lovely!

This stack of 4 nifty vintage books will keep you amused while the cold wind blows this winter. There are 4 hardcover books in this lot:

'Short Story Classics Volume One' published by P.F. Collier and Son New York in 1905 First Edition copy in lovely condition. The sage green cloth cover and spine are embossed and gilded, printed in black and features Ten engraved portrait illustrations of the American authors who's works are contained in this lovely volume.
Edgar Allan Poe
Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charles Fenno Hoffman
Fitz-James O'Brien
Edward Everett Hale
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
J.T. Trowbridge
W.H.H. Murray
Rebecca Harding Davis

'The Merchant Of Venice' by Shakespeare published by Allyn and Bacon in 1961. This is an ex-library copy and has been used pretty hard by the former students of Muzzy Junior High School. There's a nice front piece print of lovely Portia.

'How Green Was My Valley' by Richard Llewellen published by the MacMillan Company in 1940. This is the second printing, signed by it's former owner in pencil on the first flyleaf page. It's in very nice condition.

'Time Of Peace' by Ben Ames Williams published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1942. This is a first edition copy in nice condition.

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