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Cold War Atomic Bomb Survivor NY 1951 The Russians have just nuked New York! Guide For Self Help And Neighbor Help for The Injured. This vintage mid century fifty page paperback, Nuclear War medical survival booklet was published jointly by The Civil Defense Commission and the Health Department. It details how YOU can combat Radiation poison, repair and bandage broken people and even those pesky chemical and biological weapons.Unlikely as it sounds. Written with the optimism of a government official, hiding in a secure, but undisclosed location.

This booklet goes beyond Duck and Cover. Printed in a time when words like Red scare, commie, McCarthy and A bomb shelter were common place, many today have no idea just how close we came Penned in a time a half century before the world Trade Center terror.

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Circa: 1951
 

Cookbook Death Warmed Over, Rogak Signed Funeral food, rituals, customs around the world by Lisa Rogak. Author and mortuary collector extraordinaire, Ms Rogak, the author of Pretzel Logic, graciously autographed these new editions of this amazing book. Ranging from Amish kitchen to Ugandan dinning room, 75 recipes of global interest, each with elaborate details on the funeral meal traditions. In fine hand inscribed, To TearDrop Memories, cheers Lisa Rogak.

Celebrating life and loss via memorial meals, this book delves deep into both the why and how each culture remembers it own. Excruciatingly clever, this cook book takes culinary trivia to unimagined heights and seasons with history, religious diversity and at the same time hints at our commonality.


Death, la Morte, the final frontier. Tear Drop Memories . Com is devoted to exploring the mysteries of mourning mementos.
Fine funeral fancies, exit strategies and a myriad of vintage tangible aids to the grieving process abound.
Rare cemetery memorial ornaments, antiquarian books and photographic images post mortem, and just plain bizarre mortuary collectibles grace our not so solemn web site. Delicate memento mori jewelry, celebrate past lives lost.

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Publisher: Lisa Rogak
ISBN: 1580085636  

Death History Man's Obsessions Fears Wilkins Robert Wilkins Death, A History Of Man's Obsessions And Fears 1990 new.
Amazing treatise on fear.
Titled chapters include, premature burial, posthumous indignity, being forgotten and ignominious death.
Amazing post-mortem book with bizarre and ghoulish images.
Barnes and Noble publishers

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Size: New 9 x 6 1/2 Hard Cover w Dust Jacket 250+ pg.
Publisher: Wilkins
ISBN: 0760700370  

Medieval Death by Paul Binski The black plague, Dance Macabre, culture, rituals and more.
This new book published 1991 by the British Museum Press.
A most enthralling detail on European funeral traditions, fears hopes and customs generated by many of our ancestors.
Amazing photos of original purgatory art.


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Circa: 1991
Size: 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 New SC 225 pg.
Publisher: Paul Binski
ISBN: 1234567899  

Long Island Epitaphs Southold, Shelter Island East Hampton New York Edward Doubleday Harris, Ancient Long Island Epitaphs From The Towns Of Southold, Shelter Island And East Hampton New York heritage classic book.
New reprint of the New England Historical And Genealogical Register Boston 1903, a must for any NY student or east ender.
Cemetery tomb and grave inscriptions from both the north and south forks of Suffolk Long Island dating from colonial American 1630's through the Victorian 1890's.
A must for those preserving cemeteries, researching genealogy and family roots or those inflicted with Taphophilia.

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Circa: 1969
Size: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 New SC 106 PG.

ISBN: 0788418122  

After The Funeral Edwin Murphy After the Funeral, The Posthumous Adventures Of Famous Corpses, by Edwin Murphy.
Amazing mix of Lifestyles of the rich and famous and Where are they now?
Except they are dead.
Titles include, Heads, including reports of missing craniums of Hayden, Mozart, Cromwell and Goya.
Hearts, Frankenstein Mary Shelly husband, Richard The Lionhearted, Chopin and Lord Byron.
Bodies, MIA Dorothy Parker, Eva Evita Peron and the rediscovery of Einstein’s brain.
Amazing Barnes and Noble book, new 1998.


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Size: 8 1/2 x 5 7/7 New HC w Dust Jacket 240 pg.
Publisher: Edwin Murphy
ISBN: 0760709246  

Epitaphs Magazine For Cemetery Lovers Taphophilia? Love grave yards? Epitaphs Magazine is just right for you.
This issue, February 2006 celebrates the cemeteries of New Orleans, both pre and post Katrina.
Brainchild of the talented Mind Powers - Douglas, author of Cemetery Walk, this mag. is not your typical bone yard expose'.
Graveyard photography at it's best with feature articles by cemetery preservationists, graveyard photographers and genealogists.
Gravestone art, paranormal articles, If you love marble orchards, you'll Love Epitaph.


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Publisher: Epitaphs Magazine  

Grief, Dying, And Death Therese A. Rando Caregivers book for better coping with Funerals, Loss and severe emotional distress.
Thick softcover 1984 by the Research Press.



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Circa: 1984
Size: 9" x 6" 477 Pages

ISBN: 0878222324  

Meditations and Contemplations Rev. James Hervey 1824 Reverend James Hervey Meditations and Contemplations contains chapters, Funeral Sermon by Revs. Romaine and Dr. Hawker, Tombs In A Letter A Lady, Reflections on a flower garden, Descant upon Creation,, The night, Starry Heavens and A winter Piece.
Great illustrations, including a hand colored cemetery wood cut fold out.
Past owner signed 1843 Jane Stewart's cut fabric used as bookmarks in place.
Good embossed hardcover antiquarian classic.


Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography,
rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books.
Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques,
a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Pet animal collectibles.
Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos.
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Circa: 1824
Size: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" Hc 470 pages
Publisher: Rev. James Hervey  

The Amityville Horror Jay Anson 1978 In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their dream home, the same home where Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers and sisters just one year earlier.


Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography,
Rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books.
Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques,
a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Pet animal collectibles.
Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos.
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Size: 7" x 4" Sc 302 pages
Publisher: Jay Anson
ISBN: 0553116606  

A Practical Discourse Concerning Death William Sherlock 1693 A Practical Discourse Concerning Death by William Sherlock D.D. Dean of saint pauls and Chaplain to Their Majesties seventh edition 1693 for W. Rogers at the Sun Over Against St. Dunstan's church Fleet Street.
Text and pages are in very strong condition, hard card cover detached.

Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography,
Rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books.
Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques,
a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Pet animal collectibles.
Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos.
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Circa: 1693
Size: 7 1/2" x 4 3/4" Hc 352 pages
Publisher: William Sherlock  

Frankenstein Mary Shelly EARLY Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelly.
This early though undated hard cover, has graphic illustrations by Nino Carbe and published by Halcyon House Garden City N.Y.
The Illustrated Editions Company 1932 Frankenstein appears to be the first illustrated version of Mary Shelley’s classic since the original 1831.
Sans dustjacket and in good condition, a rare horror classic.


Tear Drop Memories offers fine Post Mortem photography,
Rare funeral collectibles and interesting cemetery art, vintage Halloween and death related books.
Please visit our other two TIAS web shops ; North Fork Pets And Antiques,
a great shop for antique Victorian bird cages and vintage Pet animal collectibles.
Maidens Memoirs, the place for old Love letters, Victorian scrap Books, vintage diaries and circus freak photos.
Email us for our phone number we are dying to hear from you!
Size: 8" x 5 1/2" Hc 240 pages
Publisher: Mary Shelly