N.p.: ca. 1910, though photographs developed ca. 1950. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior..... More

Philippines: 1944-45. Oblong octavo photo album (17.5x25.5cm); black boards bound with string, handwritten slip reading “Earl’s Navy Pictures” mounted at front with tape; [35]pp. to which are mounted one hundred and fifty-six (156) black-and-white photographs. A number of images have come loose and many more have been reinforced with tape..... More

Iowa City, IA, Spain, Vermont, Tangier: 1970-1977. Archive of fourteen pieces of correspondence from the Iowa poet Marvin Bell (1937-2020) to the late Poet Laureate Charles Simic (1938-2023). Previous mail folds, some wrinkling, else Very Good or better. Collection is comprised of twelve typed letters signed and two autograph picture..... More

[Waterbury, CT?], 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image;..... More

Substantial collection of original amateur artwork and fashion plates dated 1941 to 1945 by a young woman named Gladys Warren (almost all pieces signed "G. Warren," "G.W.," or "Gladys Warren"). The collection consists of nine large format watercolors (56x38cm.); one small format watercolor (32.5x23); four large format pencil sketches (56x38cm.);..... More

Washington, DC et al: 1931-1935. Oblong folio (29x35.5cm.); hand-made album, upper cover fashioned out of a mustard-yellow blanket (or sweatshirt?) of the First National Bank of Decatur, "Bob" embroidered on the far-left; 32ll. filled to completion with two-hundred and forty (240) photographs captioned in white in images (various measurements from..... More

Chautauqua, NY? 1977. Collection of five original theorem paintings accomplished on cream velveteen cloth (ca. 30.5x40cm to 38x45.5cm). Two of the images signed Holly, another signed MP, '77. Some toning and light fraying to cloth margins, occasional staining, otherwise a Very Good, bright collection. Place of creation based on previous..... More

New York: 1949–1975. Collection of three manuscript volumes recording the dinners hosted by NATO ambassador John Chambers Hughes (1891–1970) and his wife Margaret Kelly Hughes (1893–1980). Collection comprised of the following:First volume covering the years 1949 to 1951. Octavo (19cm.); bright green straight grained morocco lettered and ruled in gilt;..... 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, holly, and..... More

New Orleans?: ca. 1960-1965. Large oblong quarto (27x41cm.); brown gilt-tooled leatherette bound with leather strap; [47]ll. to which are mounted 311 photographic snapshots (nearly all black and white and measuring 8.5x8.5cm). Album a bit scuffed at extremities, joints significantly cracked from use and poor quality of leatherette, leaves a bit..... More

Philadelphia: Altemus & Co., ca. 1871. Thick quarto photo album (25cm); full custom embossed brown goat with steel and faux pearl decorative elements, owner's name Smith M. Weed to upper cover in gilt, steel clasps (one missing), all edges gilt; title page printed in gilt, followed by [25]ll. stiff card..... More

V.p.: v.i., 1944-1982. Collection of five pieces of material relating to the career of influential Black dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus (1919-1994). Complete list of contents below. Toning and general wear to margins of poster with small loss at top right-hand corner, rear wrapper of the Dance Observer separated but..... More

[Druskininkai, Lithuania?]: 1968. Large oblong folio (30x41.50cm.); commemorative postbound photo album of brown blind-embossed cloth; [29] grey card leaves to which are mounted 30 original photographs measuring ca.15x24cm (or the inverse) to 30x24cm, all captioned in neat manuscript Russian, though the opening statement on front pastedown in manuscript Lithuanian of..... More