I've been interested in early science fiction and am putting myself through a unfocused and not to thorough crash course in whatever I can get my hands on. My wish list at paperbackswap.com is ninety books long and I particularly enjoy turning the crap books I've culled out of my selling shelves into things I actually want to read. If you haven't heard about paperbackswap I highly recommend it.The book in the cardboard wrapper is not for reading but was an impulse low bid that went through. Its a copy of Stanfield House by Lucy Ellen Guernsey in absolutely crap shape.
The binding is split and multiple pages are loose plus I'd guess there is about zero interest in Ms. Guernseys, religious domestic fictions these days. I bought it for this:
See that little sticker? 
It's a bookseller label from William J. C. Dulaney and Co. in Baltimore, MD. While not as artistically interesting as some others I've seen, it's still an interesting little bit of history
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