Best Selling Books by John Grossman

This document summarizes research conducted in 1998 by the Rand Arroyo Center on an exploration and assessment of the ability to insert mechanzied forces in enemy-controlled terrain.

Generously quotating from poetry, nursery rhymes, and popular authors, Banks recounts the love affair between the Victorians and their cats--personified as the epitome of domestic virtue. Full-color photographs throughout.

A colorful assortment of two hundred antique postcards, greeting cards, advertising giveaways, and other ephemera from the Victorian and Edwardian eras offers a unusual study of the darker side of Christmas past, a holiday marked by dissipation, drunkeness, and other rowdy misbehavior.

This book contains 30 of the most beautiful and fascinating lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels. The 12 x 14.5 perforated pages tear out easily and are fit for a 16 x 20 frame with mat, so they can be hung as centerpieces.

A glimpse into a bygone era with some of the most beautiful and fascinating lithographed images ever printed on cigar box labels.

This scrapbook is a unique and joyful celebration of Victoriana. Neither a facsimile nor a reproduction, it is a collection of lush compositions that have been created out of exquisite cards, calendars, and other artwork from a century ago. Full color.

Over 100 poems from the Victorian era on the virtues of home and family, the seasons, proper behavior, animal friends, patriotism, and silliness.

A charming collection of die-cut Victorian cards & ornamental envelopes from the John Grossman collection, featuring excerpts from poems and romantic verses. Cards are presented in a decorative hardbound keepsake book.

A charming collection of die-cut Victorian cards & ornamental envelopes from the John Grossman collection, featuring quotes & excerpts celebrating Mothers. Cards are presented in a decorative hardbound keepsake book.

A compilation of Victorian collectibles celebrates Christmas with a medley of antique holiday greeting cards, paper toys and games, rare ornaments, and text on the lore, legends, and history of Christmas

29 scores with guitar and/or piano accompaniment.

Families can record five years of Yuletide memories in this album decorated with Victorian ephemera that is divided into such themes as Holiday Greetings, Trimming the Tree, Parties and Festivities, Santa Claus, and more. 25,000 first printing.

Another special group within the Grossman Collection are materials documenting the history of the greeting card industry based in and around Worcester, Massachusetts, in the 19th century. This special collection contains greeting cards, fancy scrap, lace paper, original production art and business documents. It documents an early chapter in the development of a greeting card industry in America and indicates a working relationship between two Worcester businessmen: George C. Whitney, a Valentine manufacturer, and E. A. Timme, a printing die maker.