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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ABC Petits Contes par Jules Lemaître de L’Académie Française Avec des Images de JOB
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
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
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
Bath--Maine 1847 1947 Centennial
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
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
The Book of Sports
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
A Bound Collection of French Fashion Plates: L’Illustrateur des Dames, Rue du Fauborg St. Honore,3 Paris
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
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
A Business Directory of the Subscribers to the New Map of Maine, with a Brief History and Description of the State, Prepared by William Willis; also, Valuable Statistics and Advertisements.
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
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
Calendar for the Year 1913, Compliments of Augusta Marble & Granite Works, Dealers in Foreign and Domestic Marble and Granite. Designs Furnished on Application, 11 Bridge St., Tel. 189-11, Augusta, Me.
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
Calendar for the Year 1928, Compliments of Brown-Hawke Co., Hardware, Stoves and Ranges, Waynesburg, Ohio
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
Cantiques de Saint-Suplice. Augmenté du Supplément de Saint-Roch
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
Carte-de-Viste of the American Artist and Illustrator Charles Dana Gibson at his easel,
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
Catalog of Automobile Accessories, Number One, Automobile Supplies and Hardware, Sample Our Service
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
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
Child’s Sunshine
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
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