10 Cakes Husbands Like Best from Spry's Recipe Round-Up
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
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Album of Sydney Views
[Sydney, Australia]: No publisher, No date, [c. 1880s]. Boards. 12mo (7 ½” x 5 ½”)’ [15pp]; 15 accordion-folded glazed panels, grey-tone chromolithograph illustrations within a red border; gilt-stamped pictorial design on blue glazed boards, tan cloth spine; 7 panel birds-eye view map titled, “Panorama of Sydney Harbour from North Shore’;..... More
All Doors Open to Jell-O, America's Most Famous Dessert
Le Roy, New York: The Genesee Pure Food Co., 1917. Staplebound. 18mo; 18pp; 4 pages laid in advertisement; 14 pp illustrations, 10 chromolithographed; chromolithographed paper wrapper; light soiling to front cover and bump to back upper corner; near fine. Four page laid in advertisement for Jell-O Ice Cream Powder, with..... More
Animal A B C, Big Value Series No. 2000
[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
Aristos Recipes Kitchen Wisdom
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
The Babes in the Wood, the Pictures by R. Andre, Little Folk Series
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1888. R. [Richard] ANDRE [William Roger Snow]. Staplebound. 8vo; [14pp]; chromolithographed front and rear stiff wrapper; 2 staple binding; 4 full page color illustrations; 1 1/2" split to bottom fold not involving the staple, some offsetting of illustrations; very good. R. Andre (1834-1907 is as interesting..... More
Baker's Coconut Recipes
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
A Basket of Mischief
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
Bibliotheque de la Jeunesse et de L'Enfrance. Ali Baba, Gargantua, Don Quichotte, Baron de Krack, L'Oiseau Bleu, Riquet a La Houppe; Library of Youth, and Childhood; Don Quixote, Ali Baba, Gargantua, The Baron of Krack, The Blue Bird [seemingly a story of Cinderella], and Ricky with the Tuft
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
Biscuit in Choice Recipes
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
Bo-Peep Mother Goose Melodies
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
Boston
No place: No publisher, No date listed [c. 1880s]. Boards. 12mo (6” x 5”); accordion folded [24pp]; gilt-stamped green pebbled paper over board, black cloth spine, blind stamped rear board; 12 panels of grey chromolithographed illustrations printed one side only including a 6 panel, half-page illustration polyptych titled “Panorama from..... More
Brave and Bold Weekly, September 28, 1907, No. 249; A Madman's Secret; or, The Prisoner of Dead Man's Island
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
British Navy
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
Buy Goudy and Kent’s Find Biscuits and Confectionery for the Children’s Picnic
[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
Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co., Manufacturers and Importers, Drawing Materials, Surveying Instruments, Measuring Tapes, 34. Edition
New York: General Office and Factories, 1913. Boards. 8vo; viii, 566pp; black stamped orange cloth over board; owner’s name in ink and errata slip tipped in on ffep; vignettes printed in yellow, company name in red on title page; first 8pp glazed heavy stock; additional pages added between 24/25, 168/169..... More
The Catalogue of the Centenary Exhibition of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 1827-1927
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
The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. November 1886; to April 1887, Vol. XXXIII, New Series Vol. XI
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
Chiquita Banana's Recipe Book
Pier 3, North River, New York: Home Economics Department, United Fruit Company, 1950. Staplebound. 8vo; 25 pp; color illustrated wrappers; light soiling to wrappers; very good. More
A Circular from the Land Office Descriptive of The Public Lands of Maine; Fold-out map: Plan of the North Eastern Part of the State of Maine Embracing the Settling Lands of the State
Bangor: Printed by Barlett & Burr, 1858. Sewn binding. 8vo; 16pp; sewn binding; yellow wrappers, title to front within a border; light diagonal crease, chipping to wrapper edges, string binding holding but separations head and tail at fold of spine, a few spots to paper; very good. Produced in answer..... More
Colburn’s Condiment Recipes
Philadelphia: The A. Colburn Co., No date [c. 1900]. Stiff wraps. 4 3/16” x 5 7/8” oblong; 24pp; red glazed paper wrapper with company trade mark to front, illustrations of their products to rear; 2 staple binding; text with b&w illustrations; near fine. No library holdings located in WorldCat. Description..... More
Daniel in the Lions’ Den, The Sunday Dumpy Books for Children, No. 1
London: Grant Richards, 1903. Patten WILSON. 1/4 Linen. 32mo (4 15/16” x 3 5/16”); [ix], 10-89, [1]pp; re-bound from the publisher’s original by Julie Stackpole of Thomaston, Maine in quarter-bound green linen with block-printed color paper over board, orange label onlay to spine with title; orange and yellow endbands; full..... More
Der Welt-krieg; English: The World War
Dresden [Germany]: Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, No date [c. 1920-30s]. Stiff Wraps. 4to; 71pp [1]; red pictorial stiff wrappers with color map of Europe on front and world map on rear; stiff leaves; 1 full-page map in sepia, 1 full-page of color maps with 5 insets, and two small sepia maps in text..... More
Die Welt in Bildern, eine Sammlung alles dessen, was den gebildeten Menschen interessiert.; English: The World in Pictures. A Collection of Everything that Interests the Educated Person
Berlin [Germany]: Cigarettenfabrik Josetti G.m.b.H., No date [c. late 1920s]. Pictorial cover. 8vo oblong; 24pp with tissue guards; stiff leaves; color pictorial labels from cigarette packs glued neatly to corresponding description; a few spots to cover, light damp staining to lower corners; very good plus. A diverse collection of colorful..... More
Dr. J. F. True, Specialist, Auburn, Maine, Tape Worm
No date [c. 1897]. Staplebound. 16mo; [8pp]; paper wrapper with portrait of Dr. True on front; 2 staple binding; light spotting to front; very good plus. Advertisement's for True's Pin Worm Elixir with 9pp testimonials from satisfied patients in Maine. More