Laconia, NH: John J. Lane. Undated, ca. 1892. 32 pp, illustrated with portraits and courtroom scenes. Original pictorial wrappers are missing a few large chips, and there is some staining in the text--mostly minor, but more significant on four pages (though not affecting legibility); good. On July 25, 1891, the..... Item #19813
[Germantown, PA]: [Germantown Print Works]. Textile. Good. An appealing illustrated broadside on cloth bearing a very early appearance of the famous "I cannot tell a lie" cherry tree story. Collins (Threads of History) says it was printed by the Germantown Print Works in Pennsylvania, ca. 1806. The story itself, which..... Item #20532
India: Tourist Traffic Branch, Ministry of Transport, 1954. Softcover. Near fine. Stapled booklet, 24 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs. Part of the "See India" series of tourist guides. Clean and sound, with light handling wear to wrappers. Includes a short history of the city and details on places of..... Item #17723
Charlotte, NC: Mint Museum, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 9 x 12 inches, 39 pp, with 24 illustrations (12 in color). Clean and sound, with some handling wear. Includes work by Walter Darby Bannard, Ed Blackburn, Linda Blackburn, Ken Carder, Dale Chihuly, Connor Everts, Herb Jackson, Harvey Littleton, Sybren..... Item #741
Elisabeth Franck Gallery, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8 x 10 inches, 40 pp, with 16 color illustrations, chronology. Clean and sound, with light handling wear. Text in Spanish and English. "A new and determining factor in this latest work [of Jörg Madlener's] is the use of strong black..... Item #740
Madrid: Galeria Juana Mordo, 1975. Softcover. Very Good-. Exhibition catalogue. 9 x 11 inches, 54 pp, with approximately 20 illustrations (majority in color). Some shelf wear, some wear at spine, binding tender, contents clean. Text is in Spanish. Includes biography, bibliography, and chronology. Item #1960
Disbound ledger, 15 x 9.5 inches, 378 pp, covering the period from December 22, 1865 to March 5, 1866. Boards not present, gatherings loose, but complete (i.e, all pages from 1 to 378 present; it is possible there were originally more pages), clean and easily legible. The Seventeenth Precinct of..... Item #21162
Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1898. Soft cover. Good. 44 pages. Descriptive text only; NO MAP. Wrappers are chipped, torn,and taped at the spine. Internals very good. Includes sections on the geology and geography of the area, with attention to the rivers, climatic conditions, roots to the Klondike, original..... Item #12340
Monterrey, Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Monterrey/DIMART, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Auction catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, approximately 50 pp, with 22 full-page color illustrations. Museum stamp on front endpaper; else fine. Dust jacket shows very light shelf wear. Text is in Spanish..... Item #684
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. Reprint of the 1904 edition. More than 100 pages illustrating the systematic paleontology of the Miocene deposits of Maryland. Some soiling to covers. Contents clean and tight. Item #12693
Mesa, AZ: Chamber of Commerce. Softcover. Near fine. Undated travel brochure, probably 1940s. 4 x 9 inches when folded, with a two beautiful two-panel cover illustration of a woman in cowgirl attire picking oranges, with a fertile valley in the background. Inside illustrated with both color and b/w photos showcasing..... Item #21239
Helsinki: Nordiskt Konstcentrum, 1987. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8 x 9.5 inches, 68 pp, with illustrations (about half in color). Light handling wear, sticker residue on front cover. Includes work by Sólveig Adalsteindóttis, Hulda Hákon, Vignir Jóhannsson, Hannes Larusson, Kjartan Ólasom, Jón Oskar, Elin Rafnsdóttir, Ásta Rikhardsdóttir, Erla Thorarinsóttir..... Item #617
Paramus, NJ: Bergen Community Museum, 1973. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 11 inches, approximately 40 pp, with approximately 40 illustrations. Clean and sound, with light shelf wear to wrappers. Includes work by Elinor Blank, Ray Friedberg, Dorothy Glazer, Rose Hertzberg, Marion Lane, Judth Peck, Celia Selikoff, Peter Tilgner, and..... Item #1443
New York: McLoughlin Brothers. Hardcover. Very good. Undated, but located in a McLoughlin Brothers catalogue of 1915, where it appears as item no. 146. 7.5 x 10 inches, cloth spine and color pictorial boards. [128] pp. Chromolithograph frontispiece ("Leap Frog"), attractive decorative border in red on each page, additional illustrations..... Item #14718
New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1966. Softcover. Very Good. 112 pp, with illustration, folding map, in original color illustrated wrappers. Light handling wear, spine toned, internals clean. Includes information on tourist attractions and places of interest including Nandi Hills, Srirangapatna, Sringeri, Hampi and the Vijayanagar..... Item #2640
Detroit, MI: Nash Motors. Soft cover. Very Good. Undated, but c. 1952. 70 pp, consisting of 158 historic photographs, with brief descriptions of each car pictured. Comb binding. Comb is damaged at the foot of the spine, covers have light edgewear. Contents clean. Item #12164
Washington, DC: The National Geographic Society, 1909. Softcover. Good. 90 pp + ads, with many b/w illustrations from photographs. Moderate wear and soiling, but sound and complete. Includes a report on the National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909, as well as articles on photography in glacial Alaska, the Discovery..... Item #18854
New York: Century Co. Softcover. Very Good. 5 x 7.5 inches, 21 pp, with illustrations, in attractive illustrated wrappers. Light shelf wear, small internal tape repair to spine; text clean. A catalogue of books published by the Century Co., including both new publications and backlist. Item #2488
[Concord, NH]: [1918]. Two items -- a handbill or small broadside (11.25" x 6") titled "What's Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander! Do in 1918 What You Were Urged to do in 1898. Stand by the Administration that is Waging the War!" and a circular (11.25" x...... Item #21374
Alfred S. Amer & Co. Ltd, Proprietors. Softcover. Very good. Undated, ca. 1920. Four-panel folding brochure with very nice cover art, illustrated internally with drawings in color and b/w half-tone photographs. Some general handling wear; very good. Text promotes both the hotel and New Orleans ("the City of Romance") and..... Item #21430
Minneapolis, MN: Brooks Press, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 283 pp, with frontispiece, illustrations, index. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering. Slight rubbing to extremities, lowers corner bumped; text clean, binding tight. A compilation of poems, stories, and essays intended to instill pride and a sense of their own history..... Item #21197
Washington DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 8vo, pp xxvi, 1103. Original green printed boards with black cloth spine. Ex-Library, with related stamps on first few leaves, slight remainder of library pocket on last blank page, but overall clean and attractive. Report on hearings to consider S...... Item #20449
Dallas, TX: Taylor Publishing, 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. Unpaginated, approximately 100 pp, with b/w illustrations from photographs. Very mild crease to bottom right hand corner of front cover, very light wear to edges; contents clean and sound. Yearbook/pictorial history of the Reserve Command Armored Division at Fort Hood. Includes photographs..... Item #1550
San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1970. Softcover. Very Good +. 15 pp, with illustrations, in original illustrated wrappers with stapled binding. "Fifty-seven items have been chosen for exhibit. For the interest of the general book-lover we have tried in this handlist to give a few hints as to the nature..... Item #173
Sidmouth and London: J. Harvey and Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1836. Softcover. Very good. xvi, 25 pp, in original sewn wrappers Minor soiling and wear to front wrapper; near fine. A separately published extract, with added 16-page preface and 7-page appendix, from A Narrative of the Visit to the American..... Item #20694
