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No publisher listed but Lever Bros. presumed, No date [c. 1950s]. Staplebound. 17 pp; color paper wrappers; illustrations throughout; clean and crisp; near fine. More
No publisher listed but Lever Bros. presumed, No date [c. 1950s]. Staplebound. 17 pp; color paper wrappers; illustrations throughout; clean and crisp; near fine. More
Tours: Maison Alfred Mame & Fils, No date [c. 1919]. "JOB" Jacques Marie Gaston Onfroy de Breville. Boards. [ABECEDARIAN]. First edition. 4to (11 ¾” x 9 7/8” ); 54pp; color pictorial boards, red cloth shelf back, letters ABC with animals, 2 children and a fairy on the front, anthropomorphic animals parading..... More
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Co., 1916. Staplebound. Folio; [10pp]; chromolithographed glazed wrappers; all pages illustrated in sepia and black, inside wrappers in black and white; a few light creases to wrapper, a few chips to back wrapper; very good. Only 2 listed in WorldCat. More
Kansas City, MO. The Southwestern Milling Company, Inc., 1911. Staplebound. 12mo; 31 pp; chromolithographed wrappers; black and white illustration on title page; staining throughout, scuffing to cover and chipping to edges; good. More
Philadelphia: The Franklin Baking Company, 1920. Staplebound. 32mo; 13 pp; 5 pages of illustrations, 4 pages chromolithographed; chromolithographed wrappers; light staining to front wrapper; both top and bottom corners have loss, colors bright; very good. More
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, No date [c. 1881-1895]. E.A.C. illustrator. Fine Art Works, Bavaria, printer. Stiff wraps. 12mo; [12pp]; shaped die-cut, chromolithographed pictorial, glazed stiff-wrapper, 2 staple binding; 6 full-page chromolithographed illustration, one a centerfold; sepia illustrations on text pages; a few light wrapper creases, small chip to front..... More
No place listed: Bath's Centennial Committee, July 21, 1947. Stiff wraps. 4to; color printed white stiff wrapper, vignette of 2 ships and a world to front; b&w half-tone photographic illustrations; soiling to wrappers, binding tight and pages clean; very good minus. Located in 3 WorldCat libraries. Scarce. Listing of the..... More
Paris: L. Marinet, No date [c. 1933]. 1/4 cloth. 4to; 60pp; illustrated paper over baord quarter bound in cloth with green spine; color illustrations; age toning to endpapers, light edge wear to covers with some chipping, bumping of cover corners with some paper loss, a few closed tears and chipping..... More
National Biscuit Recipes, 1921. Staplebound. 32mo (3 1/2" x 6"); [46 pp]; 21 pages with chromolithographed illustrations; chromolithographed wrappers; fine. Only one listed in WorldCat in the University of Chicago library. More
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, 1887. Staplebound. 4to; [14pp]; bright chromolithographed glazed wrappers; 6 full-page color illustrations with rhyming text, b&w illustrations within text; 1'' closed tear to rear wrapper, owner's name in neat script to rear wrapper, small creases, chips and darkening to wrapper edges, 2'' separation at spine tail..... More
Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, No date [c. 1851-1862]. Cloth. [MINIATURE]. 64mo (3 1/16” 2 5/8”); vi-xi, 12-191pp + publisher’s ad following; brown ribbed cloth over board, gilt-stamped vignette of two children playing with hoops on front cover, gilt decoration and lettering on spine; all edges gilt; pale yellow..... More
Paris: No date [c. 1850-60s]. Wraps. [FRENCH LANGUAGE] [FASHION]. Folio; 38 hand-colored engraved plates, signed by the artist and engraver, folded once horizontally as issued, 3 double page black and white engraved plates; black and white marbled stiff wrappers with green tape spine; tissue guard to front, lacking after last..... More
New York: Street & Smith, 1907. THORPE, Fred. Staplebound. 4to; 32pp; color illustrated front wrapper, ads to rear, two staple binding; light age toning paper, two old small repairs to wrapper, pp 23/24 and 25/26 have archibal tape applied to top edges; very good. Periodical includes a story as well..... More
No place or printer noted: No date [c. WWI 1914-1918]. Handkerchief. 15" x 15 1/2"; silk handkerchief with hand-pulled hem; color printed design with the portrait of King George V, a soldier in WWI uniform, an airplane and ship; light overall soiling, small wrinkles in the silk, stain to hem..... More
Buffalo, New York: Foster, Milburn & Co. Wraps. [ALMANAC] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 12mo (7 7/8” x 5 5/8”); 32pp; yellow pictorial wrapper, 2 children on the front with a large key and the letters “BBB”, store advertising on rear; stamp of “E.D. Graves, Wendell Depot, Mass.” on rear; age-toned wrapper edges..... More
Portland [Maine]: J. Chace, Jr. & Co.; Sanborn & Carter, 55 Exchange Street; Bailey & Noyes, 56 and 58 Exchange Street. No date [c. 1869]. Cloth. Printed by B. Thurston, Steam Book, Job, and Card Printer, Proprietor of Commercial News Room, Publisher of “Portland Price-Current” and “Maine Teacher,” 79 Middle..... More
[Portland, Maine]: No date [c. 1892-1898]. No Binding. 4 ¾” x 7”; wood engraved pictorial on recto, verso advertisement for Bakers’ Goods and Confectionery; fine. Not in WorldCat or Rickards. The obituary for Lewis A. Goudy of Portland Maine appeared in the January 1922 issue of The Cracker Baker, Vol..... More
Ithaca, New York: Ithaca Sign Works, [1912]. Ephemera no binding. [CALENDAR] [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. “Her Favorites”, R. HILL, illustrator, 1908. Folio (13 7/8” x 10 7/8”); glazed embossed stiff white card stock; halftone print laid-on surrounded by an embossed frame; calendar for 1913 stapled to front; small rubbed area with color..... More
No place listed: No publisher listed, c. 1927. Ephemera no binding. Color pictorial, unused calendar for the year 1928, given as an advertising premium for Brown-Hawke Co., Ohio; light bumping to corners; near fine. More
Paris: E. Robert, 189 Rue Saint-Honoré, en face l’Eglise Saint-Roch, No date [c. 1853]. Leather bound. [RELIGION] [FRENCH LANGUAGE]. 24mo (5 5/8 x 3 ¾) ; xx, 416pp ; black goat skin over board, 5 raised bands on spine; gilt-stamped lettering on spine; all edges gilt; gilt dentelles, bronze floral brocade endpapers; wood-engraved..... More
New York: Pach Bros., 935 B'way, No date [c. 1900]. Ephemera no binding. Card measures 8 11/16” x 10 ¼”; mounted photograph is 7 ¼” x 9 3/8”; bottom right card corner chipped, light creasing across bottom of photograph and two light vertical scratches, spotting to rear of card; very..... More
Brooklyn, New York City: The Ready Auto Supply Co., Bedford at Halsey Street. Wraps. [AUTOMOBILES] [TOOLS]. Phone Bedford 8900-8901. Cover title: The Ready Auto Supply Co. Automobile Supplies and Hardware, Sample Our Service, 1225-1227 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, New York City 8vo (9 ¼” x 6 1/8”); 179pp; brown stiff wrapper..... More
Baltimore: None listed [Baltimore & Ohio Railroad], 1927. Second Edition. cloth. Second edition, November 1927. 8vo; [9] 10-210pp; quarter bound in blue buckram, light blue buckram over board, label with title to front cover and spine; illustrated with a map of “The Fair of the Iron Horse Centenary Exposition, The..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1887. Half-bound leather. 8vo; viii, 975, [1]pp; half-bound in black pebbled leather over brown pebbled boards, gilt stamped title to front, 4 band spine with gilt stamped title and owner’s name; all edges marbled; Herald Bindery, Dubuque, Iowa, ticket to front pastedown; pale blue endpapers;..... More
London and New York: The Sunshine Publishing Company, No date [c. 1890-1900]. Boards. 4to; 256pp; color pictorial boards; yellow floral and butterfly endpapers; frontispiece of Santa delivering gifts; pictorial titlepage; profusely illustrated; scuffing to board edges with loss, 1” closed tear to bottom first page; very good. OCLC locates this..... More