Creating Your Vintage Hallowe'en - The Folklore, Traditions, and Some Craft Makes By Marion Paull can be ordered online at Barnes & Noble or at Amazon.com. It's published by CICO Books. I recently ordered it and found it quite charming. It's a small book--about 6 3/4" x 7 1/2" and about 1/2 inch thick--a hard cover with 144 pages. It's full of lots of great Vintage Halloween imagery--from old time postcards and other ephemera.
It also comes with a charming paper JOL ribbon bookmark inside. The contents include a history of Halloween, celebrations, symbols of Halloween, divine superstitions and then collectibles.
The endpapers are a nice spooky scene of tons of flying witches and moons. There are some crafts, activities and recipes sprinkled through the book--including balloon ghosts, haunted house lanterns, cobweb tablecloth, grinning jack o' lantern, caramel apples, witch costume, and a pumpkin trick or treat bag (shown below).There's even a section on old-time Halloween pranks.
I wasn't expecting this, but was pleased to see that my website, Vintage Halloween, was listed with several others in the back on page 144 as a place to be "overwhelmed by gorgeous vintage Hallowe'en style."
Here are some sample pages from the Amazon.com listing:
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