Softcover. Very good. Hand-made calendar composed of 12 sheets of 7" x 5.25" cardstock, two-hole punched at top for hanging. Small printed calendar page affixed to each sheet below an original cyanotype photograph measuring about 3.25" x 4.5" (sizes vary slightly). Most photos have a penciled caption written on the..... Item #22393
Softcover. Very good. 7" x 11" strong-tied photograph album containing 35 snapshots (3.5" x 5") corner-mounted one per page, rectos only. A small album without captions, but with good documentary content. The first two images are a nice Juneau street scene and a shot of the Alaska Air Transport Terminal..... Item #22421
Chicago: Mrs. T.M. Starr, 1896. Softcover. Very good. Fourth edition. 48 pp. 6.5 x 5 inches, in original stapled wrappers. A very good copy, with some chipping to the spine, ownership signature on front cover. Title continues: Including Concise Instructions for Coloring with Transparent Oil Colors and for Enameling Over..... Item #21706
Very good. 5" x 7" photograph on an 8" x 10" mount, showing a booth--likely at an agricultural fair--promoting the packaging and marketing services of the Raisin City Packing & Vending Co. of Fresno. Accompanied by the business card of company president J.H. Caesar, with a signed note on the..... Item #22110
Carte de visite photograph of Frances Coryell (here spelled Coryel), "a Hindoo girl buried alive by her heathen parents," sold to raise funds for the Women's Foreign Missionary Society. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was a Protestant woman's missionary organization founded by Methodists in Boston in 1869. The story of..... Item #21179
Four-page circular, 5.75" x 9", urging the reader to "send us your photograph...and we will produce a highly-finished permanent enlargement equaling a rich steel plate engraving." Inside are numerous testimonials to quality of the product, and on the back is a promise of free gift with your first purchase --..... Item #21937
Twenty-seven (27) 8” x 10” photographs showcasing high-end vehicles for rent from the Iowa Garage in Pasadana, California, owned by former race car mechanic Eugene Lajunie (b. 1885). Each photo is accompanied by a typed caption giving the model number, color, some specifications, and the price per day to rent..... Item #20563
Istanbul: Cumhuriyet Matbaasi, 1939. Softcover. very good. 11.25' x 7.5", unpaginated, but ca. 200 pp, consisting entirely of reproduced photographs, each with a caption (in Turkish). A good copy with creasing and chipping to wrappers, one crack in binding. An interesting and uncommon assemblage of images documenting the public appearances..... Item #22341
Very good. Four photograph albums containing a total of 558 mounted images documenting military training and service in Japan in 1920s and 30s, all in very good condition. Although we acquired these albums together, they appear to have belonged to different people. Most, if not all, were officers. One album..... Item #20997
11" x 14" photograph showing members of the American Samoan Delegation--headed by famed Machu PIcchu explorer Hiram Bingham--being received by local chiefs, as a Samoan man films the proceedings. A slightly different version of this image (with the Samoan photographer removed) was published in a 1931 U.S. Government report with..... Item #21940
New York: Scovill & Adams Company, 1893. Hardcover. Near fine. Eighth edition, 48 pp + [20] pp (ads). Scovill Photographic Series No. 7. A near fine copy in original brown cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Small bump/indent to fore edge of both boards, previous owner's name and date..... Item #22276
5" x 10" cloth album (labeled in the back as a "Ward's Album for Unmounted Photographs") with thirty-six 2.25" x 6.75" photographs inserted each side of 18 thick cardstock leaves. A few of the images have some hand-coloring. Leaves were original mounted on cloth stubs, but the cloth has deteriorated..... Item #21909
Japan Hydrogen Industry Co, Ltd. [Onahama, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan], 1947. Cloth album, 12 x 8.5 inches, containing 33 silver gelatin photographs mounted to rectos only, with printed captions in English and Japanese on facing pages. Very good. In the aftermath of World War II, the Allied powers recognized the importance..... Item #20999
Accordion-style lacquer album in wooden boards, 5.5" x 7.5", with 108 images mounted on both sides of 24 panels. Image size ranges from 2.25" x 2.25" to 4.25" x 6". One board damaged (see images), photos generally very good, though with varying degrees of contrast. This fascinating album was compiled..... Item #22079
Two large photograph albums containing more than 400 photographs from a prominent sporting family in Edwardian and Interwar Britain. Members of the family played cricket and polo, raised horses, participated in fox hunting and steeplechase events, and visited the estates of similarly inclined members of their class. Major Pascoe William..... Item #20821
Seattle Light City Boundary Project, [1967]. Boundary Dam, located on the Pend Oeille River in Northeastern Washington, supplies a substantial portion of the hydroelectric power used by Seattle residents. A concrete, double-curvature arch dam rising 340 feet from bedrock, it is 740 feet long at the top, 32 feet thick..... Item #20994
Very good. Flexible leather binder containing 29 black and white, 8" x 10" photographs inserted back-to-back in clear sleeves. Stamped in gilt on the cover with the name of the owner/recipient, James Stubbers, as well as the Hiram Walker name and logo. Each photo has a typed caption. Fine condition..... Item #21448
Real photo postcard showing the interior of a Western railroad depot with considerable character and detail. Very mild crease to one corner, a touch of wear to the edges; near fine. Although someone has written "Texas RR" on the back, and there are signs posted relating to the Denver &..... Item #21612
Hardcover. Very good. Accordion-folded album containing nine original albumen photographs of Madeira, including a four-panel panorama of Funchal. Images measure 6.5 "x 9" and are backed with linen; red cloth album measures 6.75" x 9.5" (oblong). Some fraying to boards, final photograph creased at the edge; all else very good..... Item #19770
London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1918. Softcover. good. Third edition. 5" x7.25", pp 26, [7] ads, in original cardstock wrappers, wth later cloth tape on spine. Ownership stamps on cover and title page, a few penciled brackets in the margins. Instruction on a popular style of portrait photography that "removes..... Item #15182
New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [108] pp, with 51 b/w illustrations from Baltz' photographs. Ex-library, with typical markings. One corner of rear board bumped, otherwise nice condition -- clean, tightly bound, unmarked, with minimal handling wear. No dust jacket. One of the most..... Item #22021
San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped..... Item #22279
1913. Softcover. Good. 6" x 10", oblong, in embossed cardstock wrappers tied with rawhide. [54] pp, illustrated with 23 original gelatin silver photographs tipped on to the rectos. Staining on front cover and first four leaves, most photographs with foxing around the edges, TWO PHOTOS LACKING. Good. The Mexican Petroleum..... Item #21346
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. ix, 156 pp, with illustrations, selected bibliography, chronology, index. Fine. Dust jacket shows minimal shelf wear and one small (1/2 inch) tear at head of spine. This book "offers a stimulating panorama..... Item #844
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1845. Hardcover. Good+. Second edition (first published 1844). 4to, pp. xi, 108, 216, with coloured frontispiece and three plates (one double-page) containing 136 figures. Original brown cloth boards show moderate wear and soiling, spine cloth dulled. Hinges a bit wobbly, some foxing to endpapers and..... Item #22547
