Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union. Hardcover. Very good. Undated; OCLC suggests ca. 1827-1838. 5.75” x 3.75”, 101 pp, with engraved frontispiece, in original cloth-backed marbled boards with paper spine label. Very good. “Designed to show the temptations and sins to which boys are often exposed on such occasions,” according to a...... Item #22778
Tacoma, WA: Henry Mill & Timber Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8.5 x 11 inches, oblong. 92 pp, primarily illustrations. Some cover wear, masking tape on spine, but still very good. Uncommon promotional book showcasing the operations of the Henry Mill & Timber Company, with images of the..... Item #21725
Poitiers: Imprimerie de Henri Oudin, 1859. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 452 pp. 8vo, rebound in modern marbled boards with cloth spine. Light wear to edges, scattered foxing, bookplate and unused library pocket on pastedowns, stamp of a Dominican convent in Paris on title page. French-language text on the symbolism of..... Item #3208
Advertising handbill, approximately 8.5 x 5.5 inches, illustrated with a wonderful (or not, depending on your point of view) image of "A Flea Magnified." Some staining, old folding creases. Joseph Fusch trademarked his Eureka Insect Exterminator--guaranteed to kill fleas, flies, mosquitoes, bed bugs, ants , moths, lice, and cockroaches without..... Item #21613
New York: Linda Hyman Fine Arts, 1996. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 16 pp, with 11 illustrations (9 in color). Very light handling wear. Includes work by Joseph Stella, Arshile Gorky, Guy Pene Du Bois, William Glackens, Hilaire Hiler, Georgia O'Keefe, Milton Avery, George Luks, Maurice..... Item #592
Wausau, WI: G.D. Jones Land Co., [1914]. Large folding brochure printed in black and green, with plat map on one side and extensive text on the other. 9"x 5" when folded; unfolds to 18" x 20". Fair to good condition only: rumpled and has staining, small amount of text obscured..... Item #21481
St. Louis: Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. Softcover. Very good. Undated, but ca. 1932. 3 x 6 inches, [6] pp, stapled booklet. Mith minor handling wear, small stain on back cover. Promotes "new lands at low prices" in a region with "a temperate climate wityh long growing seasons, unusually fertile soils..... Item #22030
New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 9.5 x 11.5 inches, 20 pp, with 9 color illustrations. Clean and sound, with light handling wear. Includes work by Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Davies, Red Grooms, Francisco Leiro, Marisol, Raymond Mason, George Segal, James Surls, and Manolo Valdés. Illustrated in..... Item #814
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
[Kansas City]: T.J. Green & Co. Undated, likely early 20th century. Four cards measuring approximately 2.5 x 4.5 inches, each advertising a differrent residential development in Kansas City: Eaton Place, Forest Park, Melba Park, and Chesterfield Each card has brief promotional text ("fine residence lots," "magnificent view, every lot 2..... Item #21482
Very good. Four pieces of ephemera offering the goods of Wright, Bro. & Co. of New York, Importers of Watches. Includes a double-sided printed circular letter (4.75" x 8"), a four-panel folding booklet (3" x 4.75") seeking agents and including a list of watches and their prices, a "certificate" (2"..... Item #21647
Softcover. Very good. Group of four vintage catalogues offering gear and clothing for outdoor pursuits, all in very good condition. Includes: 1) ) Dealers Wholesale Camp Supply Co., Spring-Summer 1967. St. Louis, MO. 8.5 x 11 inches, 56 pp. Army and Camp style mess gear, tents, camping knives, life preservers..... Item #22413
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
[Attica, KS]. Broadside, 15 x 21 inches, on newsprint. Folded for mailing, with address, stamp, and postmark (as well as a few unrelated calcultions in pencil) on verso. Very good. Undated, but the list of participants at the bottom puts it in the 1920s. A somewhat unusual Christmas promotion from..... Item #21879
New York: French Press and Information Service, [1945]. Softcover. Good. 8.25 x 10.75 in., 16 pp, with six half-tone illustrations showing the Saint-Laurent Penitentiary, political and economic map of French Guiana on back cover. Stapled wrappers. Light staining, edgewear, abrasion to wrappers -- good. Written for an American audience, this..... Item #22917
Los Angeles: Pacific Folder Co. Softcover. Very good. Small illustrated cardstock folder containing 11 accordion-folded panels, all but one printed on both sides. Includes 17 halftone illustrations from photographs and four panels of text. Folded size 3 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches. Advertising on the back cover for Fresno Agricultural..... Item #23125
New York: Wild Hare Press, 1982. Softcover. Fine. [16 pp], in original stapled wrappers. A fine copy, #121 of an edition of 450 hand-set and printed in August, 1982 by Barton McNeil & Revan Schendler. "A sampling of printers' devices from the collectio of the White Hare Press. Item #2286
Frankfurt: Galerie Neuendorf AG, 1992. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 9.5 x 12 inches, 100 pp, with illustrations (about half in color). Light handling wear, library stamp on title page, Frankfurt written on front free endpaper and title page; else clean and sound. Includes work by Richard Artschwager, William Copley..... Item #2057
Chicago: Gilbert & Bennett M'f'g Co., 1889. Charming trade card advertising wire netting made primary for poultry yards. 3.25 x 5.25 inches, illustrated with a brightly colored image of a poultry house with clean and spacious netted runs. Mild rippling from old exposure to moisture; good. Detailed text on the..... Item #21877
Austin: John Marshall & Co., State Printers, 1858. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. pp 284, ix (index), in original sewn wrappers. Rear wrapper and final page of index detached but present, some light staining to front wrapper and lower corner of first 40 pp, not affecting text, otherwise quite clean..... Item #21557
[Waco, TX]: [1920]. Softcover. Very good. 9.5" x 12.25" (oblong), string-tied. [16] pages, illustrated. Light soiling, toning, and moderate general handling wear to covers, some light foxing internally. Provides a history of Assumption Parish (the first Catholic church in Waco was founded in 1870) and details of the work accomplished..... Item #22169
Very good. Small archive consisting of: a 7.5" x 9.5" sketchbook titled "F.J. Scholz's Own Design Book," containing 38 hand-drawn designs for gravestones on 12 pages; a single 11" x 13 sheet with 9 hand-drawn monument designs by Charles Scholz dated 1885; two original photographs of monuments; six sales cards..... Item #22730
Softcover. Very good. Eight catalogues ranging in size from 8 x10 to 9 x 11 inches, and expanding from 84 pages in 2001 to 260 page in 2012. All in very good condition, with light handling wear. Burton Snowboards was founded in 1977 by Jake Burton Carpenter (1954-2019), one of..... Item #22401
Very good. Small collection of pamphlets, leaflets, brochures produced in the late 1940s by the World League Against Alcoholism of Westerville, Ohio (7 items), and TEM-Press of Washington, DC (7 items), all addressing different aspects of the dangers of drinking alcohol. Length ranges from 2-6 pages; all are in very..... Item #22710
[Murrieta, CA]. Softcover. Near fine. Undated, 1930s or 1940s. Single sheet printed on both sides, folded to a 4 x 9-inch brochure, with bright color covers, b/w illustrations from photographs inside. "Riverside County" written in pen on front cover; else fine. Fritz Guenther began developing Murrieta’s natural hot springs as..... Item #21382
