Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1929. Softcover. Very Good-. 39 pp, with illustrations, maps, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers, name on front cover, remainder of removed bookplate on front inside cover; contents clean and sound. A brief history of the Bell System including details about..... Item #21764
1888. Very good. Chromolithograph trade card, 3 x 5 inches, advertising Street & Smith's "Select Series of Popular American Copyright Stories" and their periodical, the New York Weekly, via an illustration of a pink-cheeked young woman and the motto "Love is the Lord of All." The Select Series was a...... Item #21325
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 9.5 inches, 98 pp, with illustrations (6 in color). Light general wear to wrappers including two short tears, light soiling. Stuart Davis' "work is a continuing source of joy and excitement. Below the surface, major forces are at..... Item #812
San Francisco: Agnew & Deffebach, 1862. Softcover. Good. 5.75" x 8.5", 24 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling, small chips to wrappers; very good. An interesting and scarce contribution to the then-ongoing debate over restriction of commercial activity and immoral behavior in California on Sundays. The first Sunday Laws..... Item #21977
Jerusalem: Government Printer, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 59 pp, stapled wrappers. Light abrasion to front cover, upper corner bumped, owner's initials in ink on title page, otherwise unmarked. Chapter I (the first 25 pages) offers "an historical summary of the principal political events in Palestine since 1st January..... Item #21178
New York: Great American Tea Company, 1886. Near fine. Original chromolithograph advertising poster, 22 x 32 inches. A stunning print with exceptionally rich color, archivally backed. Professional restoration to edges and a few small spots on the printed area. Near fine. "Ten minutes for refreshments!" was the well-known cry of..... Item #22219
New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 1996. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 10 x 10 inches, approximately 36 pp, with 15 color illustrations. Very light shelf wear; contents clean and sound. Item #1485
"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
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
[New York]: Geo. Borgfeldt & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very good. [84] pp, extensively illustrated with portraits and views of the company's various branches and departments. Bound in half-cloth and dark-green paper-covered boards with lovely art nouveau design stamped in black, endpapers patterened with the company logo, attractive design features throughout..... Item #21408
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
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 ofthe 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." 51..... 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
New York: Nomad Publishing, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 7 pp, 53 pp, with a map and two tipped-in half tone photographs--one a portrait of Stefansson and one showing him with Robert E. Peary and Adolphus Greely. Wrappers lightly toned, some chipping and short tears to the..... Item #21525
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
