Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. Ephemera no binding. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½” x 15 ½” mat size; 5 5/8” x 5 5/8” image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fourteenth illustration found..... More
Rockport, Maine: Down East Books, 2000. Kelly Paul BRIGGS. Ephemera no binding. SIGNED by the ARTIST. Original art: 15 ½” x 15 ½” mat size; 5 5/8” x 5 5/8” image size. Original illustration art from Lighthouse Lullaby by mid-coast Maine author and artist Kelly Briggs. The fifth illustration found..... More
London: D. Bond, printer, 1774. Samuel and Nathaniel BUCK. Ephemera no binding. Archival matting with a hand-applied gilt border. Matted print measures 14” x 21”; print sheet measures 11 3/8” x 18”; engraved image within the plate line measures 7 ½” x 14 ½”. Hand-colored copperplate engraving from the publication..... More
London: D. Bond, printer, 1774. Nathaniel and Samuel BUCK. Ephemera no binding. Archival matting with a hand-applied gilt border. Matted print measures 14" high by 21" wide; the printed sheet measures 11 3/8" high by 18" wide; the engraved image within the plate-line measures 7 1/2" x 14 5/8" This..... More
![Item #1654 Happy Jack Squirrel's Thrift Club, W.S.S. [War-Savings Stamps]. Thornton W. BURGESS](/pictures/thumb/1654-1.jpg?v=1673716682)
[Massachusetts]: The Massachusetts War Savings Committee, 1918. Harrison CADY. Wraps. [WWI] [JUVENILE]. Harrison CADY, illustrator. Along with a Happy Jack’s Thrift Club, Pat. 1-13-17, printed lapel pin. Cover title: Happy Jack’s Thrift Club W.S.S. War-Savings Stamps 12mo (7 ½” x 5”); [22]pp; tan stiff wrapper, border and title on front..... More
Boston: White-Smith Music Publishing Company, 1909. String. 4to; 29pp; stiff brown wrapper printed in green, brown twisted cord tie binding; scores for 4 songs; small spots and ownership in ink to front wrapper, a few marginal pencil marks; very good plus. Held in 9 WorldCat libraries, High Voice and Low..... More
Camden, Maine: Dunton Brothers, 1869. 4pp; horizontal and vertical fold; wear with separation at center fold, light chipping of edges, a few spots; very good minus. The Camden Herald newspaper is a mid-coast Maine, Knox County paper founded in 1869. More
Camden, Maine: Dunton Brothers, 1870. Wraps. 8pp; two horizontal folds; some spotting and chipping of edges; very good. The Camden Herald newspaper is a mid-coast Maine, Knox County paper founded in 1869. This Extra reports on the Legislature includes legislation passed relating to: attorneys, banks, cemeteries, coroners, fishing, highways, industry..... More
San Francisco: Cardinell Vincent Co., 579 Market St. No date [c. 1915]. Wraps. [VIEWBOOK] [POSTCARDS]. 48mo oblong (3 ½” 5 7/8”); [24] postcard pages; mottled brown stiff wrapper, embossed lettering, pictorial pastedown on front in a border; publisher on rear wrapper; 24 sepia half-tone divided-back postcards, none removed; binding tight;..... More
[No place listed]: Cities Service Oil Co., Arkansas Fuel Oil Company, 1945. wraps. 8vo; 50pp; color pictorial wrapper, punched hole with string for hanging; two staple binding; illustrated; light wear to wrapper; very good. Almanac style farm book with helpful information on farm maintenance and repairs, recipes, and first aid..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1886. Ephemera no binding. [ETCHINGS] [ILLUSTRATION] [POETS]. Envelope flip-wrapper 6 ¼” x 7 ¾”; individual author envelope-style wrapper with flap, approximately 5 5/8” x 7 ¼”; cover leaf and plates are 5 ½” x 7’; plates are printed in sepia on thick chain-laid paper, plate..... More
New York: Palmer Cox, 1885. Wraps. 12mo; [10pp]; pictorial front wrapper printed in black and red; advertisement for Willimantic Six Cord Spool Cotton to verso front wrapper and rear wrapper; illustrated title page; chipping and small closed tears to edges, age toning of paper, fly spotting to front wrapper, fragile..... More
![Item #1283 The Favorites [Framed Print]. Nathaniel CURRIER](/pictures/thumb/1283-1.jpg?v=1619483149)
New York: Currier & Ives, 33 Spruce Street, No date [1896-1907]. [Nathaniel Currier]. Ephemera no binding. Varnished wood frame 17 1/16” x 12 15/16”; print with margins 14 1/8” x 10”, within the print border 12 x 8 3/8”; hand-colored lithograph; in frame as found; damp staining to margins, foxing..... More
No place noted: No printer noted, 1928. Ephemera no binding. [ENGRAVING] [FRAMED PRINT]. 13 3/8” x 11 ¾” framed, mat opening 7 1/8” x 5 5/8”; etching signed with the artist’s name and “first impression,” dated lower right margin; new archival mat and backing, original framer’s label replaced on backing..... More
Seymour Eaton and Edward Stern & Co. Inc., 1907. Seymour EATON. Wraps. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 16mo (6 3/8” x 5”); 12pp; glazed color pictorial wrapper, two bears baking on front, and two bears presenting their baked goods to Mother Goose characters on rear wrapper; 2 staple binding; small b&w vignettes in..... More
Berlin: W. Leipzigerstr. 25, [1902]. Boards. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM]. 64mo (3 1/8“ x 2“); pale blue boards, chromolithographed onlay of a woman holding a length of fabric; edges stained red; calendar to front pastedown; note pad with perforated left edge; pencil in sleeve on fore-edge; light scuffing to boards; very good..... More
Moodus, Conn. Prof. F.C. Fowler, 1894. Wraps. Second edition, first published in 1891. 24mo (5 ¾” x 3 3/16”); 32pp; pale green wrapper printed in dark green, vignette of dove on front, wood-cut pictorial rear wrapper of a laboratory; two staple binding; pictorial of Fowler’s Medical Laboratory on verso front..... More
Boston: Published for M.M.O.P. Co., 1879. Wraps. [OPERA]. [Murphy’s Miniature Opera Pinafore]. 12mo; 31pp; pale green wrapper, rear wrapper advertises M.M.O.P.; opera text; creasing to wrapper corners, close tear to upper left corner front wrapper, age-toning of paper; very good minus. Playbill for Murphy’s Miniature Opera Pinafore [M.M.O.P.], The Children’s..... More
[Portland, Maine]: No publisher noted, [1897]. Staplebound. [ADVERTISING PREMIUM] [COOKERY] [CALENDAR]. 6 ¼” x 2 15/16”; color printed recto only; calendar complete and stapled to front; unused, near fine. A calendar advertising premium for Glenwood Ranges, whose motto was “Make Cooking Easy.” The Weir Stove Co. of Taunton, Mass. made..... More
No place noted: Drawing, 1845. Hannah. Ephemera no binding. [SCHOOL GIRL DRAWING]. Hannah. The Capitol, 1845. 6 ½” x 8 ¼”; hand-drawn Capitol building within a border, 4 1/8” x 5 ½”; pencil drawing, signed in script with the date; light age-toning of paper and some smudging of pencil; near..... More
Berlin: Hans Andres, 1936. Ephemera no binding. [EPHEMERA] [SOUVENIR] [PHOTOGRAPHS] [MINIATURE]. English translation: Berlin in the Olympic year 1936, 26 original glossy prints, text in 3 languages. 25 small glossy black & white photographs, verso numbered along with owner’s notes identifying place; light curling due to storage; house in a...... More
Fort Worth, Texas: Mary Daggett Lake and Wm. J. Marsh, 1936. Limited Edition. Sheet Music. [SHEET MUSIC] [BLACK AMERICANA] [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]. Limited edition: No. 91/300. SIGNED and numbered by the publishers on the rear wrapper. 4to; 5pp; cream colored stiff stock; original title and credits set within a decorative..... More
London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1894, Feb. 20. Stiff wraps. [PAPER DOLLS]. Complete paper doll set. 9 5/8” x 6” stiff board envelope printed in blue with gilt accents; separation at folds, heavy soiling; good. One 9” paper doll and 4 chromolithographed dress costumes all of stiff..... More
New York: R. W. Gardner, Manufacturing Pharmaceutical Chemists, No date [c. 1903]. Staplebound. 4to; [28pp]; color printed book die-cut in the shape of the state of New Jersey; stiff wrapper printed by chromoxylography; 2 staple binding; printed recto only; advertising booklet for the R. W. Gardner company; small edge tears..... More
![Item #1319 [SEWING JOURNAL] Freshman Domestic Art. Lavena METCALF](/pictures/thumb/1319-1.jpg?v=1620758242)
1909-1910. Wraps. [MANUSCRIPT] [SCHOOL GIRL] [NEEDLEARTS] [SEWING]. 8vo; 34 leaves, 11 blank; brown stiff glazed stock with tied brown shoelace binding; verso front wrapper brand name “’A’ Mounting Book, Manufactured by W.J. Schermerhorn & Co., 12 West 33rd Street, New York”; age-toned tan leaves; ownership in neat script to first..... More