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Souvenirs (Keepsakes)

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• Collectibles

• Americana
• Gift books

• Keepsakes (Souvenirs)
• Mementos
• Memorabilia

• First Editions of Boswell, Johnson, and Other Authors, Early Printing, Americana, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts (exhibition and sale catalog for books and autographs owned by Amos Ettinger and others; 1938), by Parke-Bernet Galleries (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Young Lady's Offering: or, Gems of Prose and Poetry (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1851), contrib. by L. H. Sigourney, Mrs. Hemans, Eliza Cook, L. E. L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sarah Stickney Ellis, Mary Howitt, and Caroline Sheridan Norton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Affection's Gift: A Christmas, New-Year, and Birth-Day Present (2 parts (first by Winslow, second by Sandford) in 1 volume; New York: Leavitt and Allen, ca. 1854), contrib. by Hubbard Winslow and Elizabeth Sandford
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Bibliographical Check-List of Christmas Books (Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1937), by Walter Klinefelter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Annuals and Gift-Books: A Bibliography With a Descriptive Introduction (Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1912), by Frederick W. Faxon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Gift, ed. by Eliza Leslie, contrib. by Edgar Allan Poe (full serial archives)
• The Keepsake (partial serial archives)

• The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (London: Jarrold and Sons, ca. 1915), ed. by George Goodchild (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Gift Book (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), ed. by George Goodchild (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Defenders of Democracy: Contributions from Representative Men and Women of Letters and Other Arts From Our Allies and Our Own Country (1918), ed. by Militia of Mercy (U.S.) Gift Book Committee (Gutenberg text)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by G. Robertson and Co., ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Melba's Gift Book of Australian Art And literature (published for the Belgian Relief Fund by Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1915), ed. by Franklin Peterson, contrib. by Nellie Melba (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Princess Mary's Gift Book (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, ca. 1914) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Queen's Gift Book: In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), contrib. by Queen Mary, John Galsworthy, Arthur James Balfour, J. M. Barrie, E. F. Benson, John Buchan, J. E. Buckrose, Hall Caine, Joseph Conrad, Ethel M. Dell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Jeffery Farnol, Beatrice Harraden, Joseph Hocking, Leonard Merrick, Jerome K. Jerome, John Oxenham, Gilbert Parker, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Neil Munro, E. Œ. Somerville, Martin Ross, Marjory Royce, H. C. McNeile, Maud Diver, Ernest Thompson Seton, and Mrs. Humphry Ward, illust. by William Llewellyn, A. S. Cope, Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer, Harry Rountree, Archibald Webb, J. H. Hartley, William Hatherell, C. M. Padday, W. Russell Flint, Ernest H. Shepard, L. Raven-Hill, S. Abbey, Arthur Rackham, Fred Pegram, Edmund Blampied, Gordon Browne, Eugene Hastain, Claude A. Shepperson, C. E. Brock, W. Heath Robinson, G. Barrow, Leo Cheney, M. E. Gray, Charles Robinson, Dudley Hardy, and Leopold Bates
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Told in the Huts: The Y.M.C.A. Gift Book Contributed by Soldiers and War Workers (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1916), contrib. by Arthur K. Yapp, illust. by Cyrus Cuneo
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • copy with different greetings in front; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Canada in Khaki: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (London: Pub. for the Canadian War Records Office by the Pictorial Newspaper Co. (1910), 1917) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Canada in Khaki No. 2: A Tribute to the Officers and Men Now Serving in the Overseas Military Forces of Canada (Toronto: Musson Book Co., ca. 1918) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)

• Bill Blackbeard: The Collector Who Rescued the Comics, by Jenny E. Robb and Alec Longstreth (page images at Ohio State)

• Practical Technology for Archives (2013-) (full serial archives)

• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Directory (partial serial archives)

• First Editions in American Juvenilia, and Problems in Their Identification (Chicago: Normandie House, c1939), by Gustav Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Introduction to Object ID: Guidelines for Making Records that Describe Art, Antiques, and Antiquities (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1999), by Robin Thornes, contrib. by Peter G. Dorrell and Henry Lie (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Mystery of Cabin Island (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1929), by Franklin W. Dixon, illust. by Walter S. Rogers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Grandma's Attic Treasures: A Story of Old-Time Memories (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: Griffith and Farran, 1882), by Mary D. Brine, illust. by George T. Andrew (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890-1939 (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, c2024), ed. by Federico Botana and Laura Cleaver, contrib. by Angéline Rais, Hannah Morcos, and Danielle Magnusson (PDF at Project MUSE)

• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques Throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Plea for Art in the House, With Special Reference to the Economy of Collecting Works of Art, and the Importance of Taste in Education and Morals (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, ca. 1876), by W. J. Loftie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• The Connoisseur (1901-1992) (partial serial archives)
• The Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full serial archives)
• Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book-Hunter (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883), by John Hill Burton, contrib. by Katherine Burton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and pa e images)
• The Book Hunter (based on the second edition of 1863; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by John Hill Burton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.