Washington, DC: Alonzo O. Bliss Company (Successors to the Dr. Perkins Medical Co.), 1892. Octavo (20cm); machine stitched self-wrappers; 24pp. Light wear to margins, stock uniformly browned due to inferior paper quality, faint damp stain to upper wrapper, else a Very Good example. Early trade catalog issued by the..... More
N.p.: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1939. Revised Edition. Octavo (23cm); publisher's limp black cloth lettered in yellow; [8],97pp. Light edge wear, upper cover titling a bit dulled, else Very Good and sound. Health Course originally launched in 1925 for the female workforce at AT&T. "Since that time..... More
New York: Architectural Catalog Co., 1930. First Edition. Folio; publisher's grey printed card wrappers, yapp edges; unpaginated; chiefly photographic plates and pictorial advertisements. Wrappers a bit worn with numerous short closed tears and small chips, light soil and toning; Very Good overall, internally clean and sound. More
Westfield, MA: Westfield Manufacturing Company, [1950 & 1954]. Two printed broadsheets measuring 18x13cm and 13x21cm. Publisher’s cardstock with yellow background, decorative green borders, and black text. Each sheet hole-punched at top margin; one retaining black thread. Sheets bumped lightly along edges and corners; minor scuffing, toning, and creasing throughout. Altogether..... More
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, 1942. First Edition. Large, slim quarto; publisher's pictorial card wrappers illustrated by Wilhelma Cushman; 158pp.; illus. throughout, often in full color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrapper margins, else a Very Good and sound example. Contents include Eleanor Roosevelt's monthly column "If You Ask Me,"..... More
Luverne, AL: Emma Lila Fundaburk, Publisher, 1958. First Edition. Bookplate signed by editor and publisher Fundaburk mounted to front free endpaper. Small quarto. 136pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $7.50 price present. Brown cloth stamped in dark brown. Dust jacket rubbed and wrinkled along edges; a...... More
Barbados: Geo. Whitfield & Company, 1866. Small pictorial broadside receipt (19x12.5cm.) accomplished in manuscript. Previous folds, light soil and wear from handling, else Very Good and sound. Receipt made out to Capt. Robinson on April 16, 1866, by the Barbados general goods business of George Whitfield (1827-1902) on..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Hurlock Bros. Company, Inc., [1940?]. 19 post-bound colored card samples with paper title (8x13 cm). Paper title card rubbed and rough around edges with mild water staining and smudging. Example cards show mild wear and a few with water staining but overall relatively clean. All color names are..... More
Brooklyn, NY: International Trading Company, n.d., ca. 1920s. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's blue-grey photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; 24pp.; illus. throughout, mostly half-tone photographs. Wrappers a bit worn and rather dust-soiled from handling, brief splitting at both spine ends, else Very Good, internally sound. Catalog issued by the rather ghoulish International Trading..... More
New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, n.d., ca. 1885. Two volumes in one; small octavo (18.5cm); publisher's cream pictorial wrappers; 58,[5]-58pp. (complete despite error in pagination); illus. throughout. Wrapper margins a bit chipped and creased with light fading to upper cover spine edge, textblock uniformly browned as usual, else Very..... More
New York: L.A. Liebs Company, ca. 1915. Collection of seventeen pictorial candy box cellophane wrapper samples, measuring from 24.5x22.5 to 29.5x39.5. Fine condition. Collection of candy box wrappers issued in time for the holidays, all the designs either Thanksgiving or Christmas-related, with repeating motifs of lighted candles, poinsettias..... More
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Linwood Company, 1940. Octavo (24cm); publisher's red photo-illustrated staplebound wrappers; [12],16pp.; illus. throughout including halftone photographs, thirty-four (34) fabric samples mounted to early leaves, advertisement for Pei Yang Ginseng Co. of Shanghai, China, printed on rear wrapper. Some rubbing and tiny chips to wrapper margins, else..... More
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N.p. [United States?]: Keating, [ca. 1920s]. Original white printed paper-covered lidded box (7.5x11x4cm) containing ten (of twelve) unused die-cut, folded and moveable bridge party invitations (ca. 6x10cm) with accompanying envelopes (6.5x10cm -- eleven of twelve present). Light dust-soil to box, the die-cut portion on one card creased, else a Very..... More
New York: Newson & Company, n.d. but ca. 1915. Complete set of sixteen (16) picture cards (22.5x30.5cm) printed two-tone in black and orange, housed in original printed envelope. Envelope lightly worn, cards show some scattered finger soil, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Complete set of teacher's..... More
St. Paul, MN?: s.i., 1895?. Land map folded into a bi-fold informational pamphlet (90x95 cm; 23x11 cm); 9 unpaginated panels. All panels generally toned and creased, as expected, with minor rubbing to extremities and one closed tear to top edge of map along middle fold. Overall a Very Good or..... More
Worcester, MA: Norton Company, 1940. Eight volumes; quartos or oblong quartos (chiefly ca. 28x22cm.); all but one spiral-bound printed card wrappers, the last staplebound. Some general edge wear, a few with some soiling, else a Very Good or better collection. The still-extant Norton Company, founded in 1885, is today's largest..... More
New York: M. W. Siebert, 1885. Single folded sheet, printed on all panels with woodcut of a ship to front. Quarto (26 cm); 4 pages, unpaginated. Empty table to last panel. Edges rubbed and a few closed tears at margins; fold to middle; previous owner tape repair to some edges..... More
Scranton, PA: Scranton Lace Company, [1922]. Slim folio (33cm); publisher's grey cord-bound pictorial wrappers; [10]ll. interleaved with printed glassine; seventy-one (71) facsimile lace and miniature bedspread samples. Light wear and some uneven toning to upper cover, one leaf of glassine lightly chipped at fore-edge margin, else a Very Good and..... More
Sinking Springs, PA: The Mutual Fire Insurance Company, 1850. Bi-fold document folded into quarters (42 cm open). Policy title and details to front with manuscript information of policy holder and fees. Description of coverage and length of policy at interior, signed by Harvey as the policy holder and the president..... More
Grand Rapids, MI: Alabastine Company, ca. 1910? Small octavo (15cm); side-stapled pamphlet in illustrated card wrappers; 24pp.; illus. throughout with color samples to pp. 20 and 22 (offsetting). A Very Good or better example. Rear wrapper states that Alabastine paint can be purchased at Smith's Drug Store in Winamac, Indiana. A funny..... More
Manila, Philippines: American Book and News Company, 1906. First Edition. 12mo; brown cloth stamped in dark brown; 55pp. Photo-illustrated. Contemporary hand-written list of places to see in Manila laid in. Light wear and inoffensive staining; Very Good. Uncommon guide to the Capital of the Philippines with mentions of river life..... More
Chicago: Universal Drug & Chemical Company, [1912]. Unused pictorial counter display printed in black on white card stock (24x21cm), eight unused overlapping pink packets of Universal Headache Powder mounted to recto, a stiff card paper "Springlock Easel" mounted to rear. Light wear and finger soil, chiefly to verso, paper scar..... More