South Oxford Press/Bob's Books of Oxford

02/25/2026

1904, 1ST & 1ST

12/12/2023

Info for my morning-friends. My home computer is taking a break this morning. After doing most of the usual puzzles my mouse decided to take a break. Battery changes didn't help. Not sure if the problem is the computer or the mouse interface. Going to try to buy a hard wired mouse and keyboard, to see if it that system or the computer itself.

12/13/2021

02/23/2021

Available direct or on Ebay.

02/22/2021

11/27/2020

Our 2021 wall calendars are now available. You can buy them direct (message me) or you can buy them on Ebay.

We have 4 different themes.

3 of the calendars are 8-1/2 x 14 when opened.
They are 1. WORLDS GREAT WATERFALLS, 2. Nature-1, and 3. Nature -2. All are priced at $4.95 plus $1.40 postage.

The fourth calendar is 11"x 17" when opened. It is Nature-3. It's price is $5.95 plus $1.60 postage.

07/19/2020

Just introduced two new Graduation Cards, one for girls a second for boys. You can see both on my listings on eBay. Both have the same cover, but they have gender specific inside illustrations. Only $2.50 each + $o.70 postage.

04/21/2020

South Oxford Press has just introduced a new product line of Post Cards. Packs of 10 cards.

'SAY NO TO MADE IN CHINA - SAY YES TO MADE IN THE USA"

5-1/2" X 4-1/4"

Shipped by First Class Mail.

$5.00 for a pack of 10, plus $0.70 postage.
Payable by PayPal or by Messenger Pay.

Copyright 2020 by Robert G. Yorks

04/02/2020

South Oxford Press has just released a new book titled "Flower-Fairies of the Spring" by Cicely Mary Barker.
Originally published in 1923, this was her first in a series of Fairy books.

8-1/2" x 5.5"; 48 pages; 20 full-color Flower-Fairy illustrations. Staple bound.

The cover is the same illustration as the 1923 cover.

Price, on eBay is $7.95 + $1,60 postage.
I can also take orders on Messenger and accept Messenger payments.

Shipping to U.S. addresses only.

03/28/2020

THE STORY OF THE FIRST BUTTERFLIES.

The Great Spirit thought, "By and by I will make men, but first I will make a home for them. It shall be very bright and beautiful. There shall be mountains and prairies and forests, and about it all shall be the blue waters of the sea."

As the Great Spirit had thought, so he did. He gave the earth a soft cloak of green. He made the prairies beautiful with flowers. The forests were bright with birds of many colors, and the sea was the home of wonderful sea-creatures. "My children will love the prairies, the forests, and the seas," he thought, "but the mountains look dark and cold. They are very dear to me, but how shall I make my children go to them and so learn to love them?"

Long the Great Spirit thought about the mountains. At last, he made many little shining stones. Some were red, some blue, some green, some yellow, and some were[Pg 11] shining with all the lovely colors of the beautiful rainbow. "All my children will love what is beautiful," he thought, "and if I hide the bright stones in the seams of the rocks of the mountains, men will come to find them, and they will learn to love my mountains."

When the stones were made and the Great Spirit looked upon their beauty, he said, "I will not hide you all away in the seams of the rocks. Some of you shall be out in the sunshine, so that the little children who cannot go to the mountains shall see your colors." Then the southwind came by, and as he went, he sang softly of forests flecked with light and shadow, of birds and their nests in the leafy trees. He sang of long summer days and the music of waters beating upon the shore. He sang of the moonlight and the starlight. All the wonders of the night, all the beauty of the morning, were in his song.

"Dear southwind," said the Great Spirit "here are some beautiful things for you to[Pg 12] bear away with, you to your summer home. You will love them, and all the little children will love them." At these words of the Great Spirit, all the stones before him stirred with life and lifted themselves on many-colored wings. They fluttered away in the sunshine, and the southwind sang to them as they went.

So it was that the first butterflies came from a beautiful thought of the Great Spirit, and in their wings were all the colors of the shining stones that he did not wish to hide away.