"Why not add twenty years of health?" asks this brochure for Celotex fiberboard insulation. How can you do this? By spending more time relaxing in the great outdoors after constructing an affordable, comfortable, well-insulated summer cottage made of Celotex. "The entire cabin, except the framing, roof, and floor can be..... Item #21640
Softcover. Very good. Two complete and one partial handwritten newspapers or newsletters, each on a single sheet folded to a four-page booklet measuring 6" x 4.5". All four pages are used in the two complete issues; in the third, only slightly more than one page is used. One is illustrated..... Item #22402
Roswell, NM: Burns-Curry Realtors, [1973]. Four-fold brochure with map, illustrations from photographs. 8.5 x 4 inches when folded; fine. Much of this development was completed in the mid-1960s with the expectation of selling homes to people who worked at Walker Air Force Base. After the base closed in 1967, the..... Item #21467
London: Bibliographical Society, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XXI. Quarto, xlvii, 234 pp + plates showing more than 300 facsimiles. Ex-Francis Bacon Foundation library, with their stamp on the front pastedown, sticker shadow on spine; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Item #21848
Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 743 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling to front cover, else fine. Most text in Latvian, some in English. Papers on the Soviet Occupation of Latvia 1940-41 and 1944-mid 50s; Nazi German Occupation of Latvia 1941-45. Item #13584
[Albany, NY]: [Cluett & Sons Pianos and Organs], [1882]. Very good. Trade card, ca. 4.5 x 55 inches, advertising Cluett & Sons Pianos and Organs and a performance of the comic operetta "A Merry War" at Tweddle Hall in Albany, NY. Contemporary newspaper reviews date the performance to 1882, the..... Item #22269
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... Item #20479
Stockholm: Latvian National Foundation, 1985. Softcover. Near fine. 93 pp, in original printed wrappers. Slight cover wear. Clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Includes essays in English, Latvian, French, German, and Russian. Item #14454
Boston: 1830. 104 pp. Original wrappers lacking, replaced long ago with plain paper wrappers with title written by hand as "Trial of Knapp's for Murder of White." Loss of about 10 words to first page, otherwise complete, with light soiling to margins, edgewear, dog-earned pages. Fair to good overall. This..... Item #19815
Cincinnati: Russell & Morgan Printing Company, 1883. Very good. Color lithographed poster, 42" x 14.5". Chipping and soiling at margins, old folding creases, but still presents very nicely. Currently shrinkwrapped on foamcore. Images show horse and foot races and a selection of livestock, including cattle, sheep, geese, pigs and goats..... Item #22920
Evanston, IL: 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Volume 1, No. 1 (January 31, 1914) and Volume 1, No. 14 (May 2, 1914) of "The North Shore Review," a little-known weekly newspaper published in Evanston, Illinois that billed itself as the first paper with an all-female staff. Ironically enough, it was..... Item #22006
Softcover. Very good. Two publications: "The Chief Needs of Adult Blind Persons and the Chief Aims of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind (7 pp); and "A Free Lending Library for the Sightless, Circular of General Information (4 pp). Both published by the Institution in 1904, both with old..... Item #21820
Washington, DC: U.S. News and World Report, 1968. Softcover. Very good. 104 pp. Light cover wear, original address label on front cover. A very good copy of an interesting issue from a turbulent time in American history, with the headlining article titled "A Landslide of Protest. One-Sided Election?" Other topics..... Item #19977
New York: J.Q. Preble. Softcover. Good. Alphabet book. Undated, ca. 1850s. 10.25 x 7 inches, 8 pp printed on one side only, extensively illustrated with hand-colored engravings. A good copy with chips and tears to edges, amateur linen repair to spine resulting in binding being too tight at gutter, with..... Item #23079
Softcover. Near fine. 6" x 10" folder containing 11 loose sheets illustrating uniform styles for doormen, bellmen, and other hotel staff, and one sheet of text describing materials and construction and available modifications. Minor handling wear to folder, else fine. Oddly, this packet has no publication information or brand information..... Item #22068
[Philadelphia]: Ives pr. & stationer, 1862. Folding trade card, 2.5 x 3.75 inches, with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for..... Item #21231
Holliston [MA]: Parker & Plimpton, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Title continues "Also, Statistics of the Town Returns in 1850, as Required by the Act to Ascertain the Ratable Estates within this Commonwealth. Also, Statistics of the United States Census, as Taken and Returned by the Marshall, for June 1850."..... Item #19531
Woodstock, VT: State Board of Agriculture, [1905]. Softcover. Very good. 8 x 11 inches, oblong, in original pictorial wrappers. 99 pp, with dozens of illustrations from photographs. Light soiling and chipping to wraps, foxing to first two leaves, else very good. An attractive promotional that works hard to demonstrate that..... Item #21460
Nice: L'Eclaireur de Nice, 1926. Softcover. Very good. 8 x 5.25 inches, [20] pp, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Light dust soiling and general wear from handling; very good. Scarce program for the 1927 Nice Carnival and related festivities, with text in French and English. Six pages list parades, fetes, balls..... Item #21716
Hawaii Volcano Observatory, Hawaii National Park: Hawaii Volcano Research Association, 1931. 8.5 x 11 inches, 4 pp, with 5 photographic illustrations. Good. Light soiling, old folding creases, general handling wear. The Volcano Bulletin was published weekly by the Hawaii Volcano Research Association on behalf of the Volcanology section of the..... Item #20174
N.D. Votes for Women League. First Edition. Near fine. Undated, likely either 1914 or 1917. Small broadside or window sign, approximately 5.75" x 8.75" printed in black on tan stock slightly thicker than newsprint. Minor corner wear; near fine. The North Dakota Votes for Women League was organized in 1911..... Item #22961
Kansas City, MO: Curtis Folding Grand Stand Co. Softcover. Very good. Undated, 1920s. 3.75 x 9 inches, oblong, stapled self-wrappers, with half-tone photographic illustrations and line drawings. Near fine. Although little known to the general public, William Hanford Curtis (1873-1955) was a legendary figure in the circus world, credited with..... Item #21805
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply..... Item #1652
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
Album containing just under 400 photographs showing an unidentified party's extensive travels in North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia) and Europe (France, Switzerland, Spain) in 1922-23. The photos are all sequentially numbered (1409-1807) and have typed captions in French. The album is labeled "Volumen IV", but we have only this volume. The..... Item #23090
