Vintage and Antique Hardcover Book Collection Lot

Updated August 26, 2026

This auction lot features an eclectic assortment of ten vintage and antique hardcover books spanning various historical educational and literary genres. The collection highlights early instructional volumes and reference guides including Brooks Normal Written Arithmetic, The Steel Square by Fred T Hodgson, and The New American Dictionary of the English Language. Religious and inspirational texts feature prominently with an early pocket hymnal, Wadsworths Sermons, a children edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer, and When Day Is Done by Edgar A Guest. Completing the lot are general history and classic literature volumes including a Barnes Historical Series book on the United States and a bright red clothbound edition of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. All volumes display an authentic vintage patina with varying levels of shelf wear weathered spine cloth bumped corners and age appropriate discoloration consistent with historic library or classroom use.

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