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

Baltimore, MD: Eichelberger Book Company, 1910. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's green decorative cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; 160pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Light shelf wear at corners and spine ends, brief spotting to endpapers, else a Very Good copy. Collection of poetry, both sentimental and religious..... 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

Paris: s.i., 1873. Quarto (28cm); publisher's full pictorial black morocco stamped in gilt, all edges gilt; [37]ll. filled to completion with 535 color embossed crests. Binding quite worn and soiled and spine partly perished, several crest examples crudely removed (and not included in the count), most likely lacking one leaf..... More

Hawaii, California, et al: ca. 1895. Oblong quarto (21cm); black cloth crudely rebacked with linen, sheep corners, upper cover lettered in gilt ("Photographs") with added manuscript paper label, "Elizabeth K. Metcalf / U.S.A. & Honolulu"; [25] stiff card leaves to which are mounted a hundred and thirty-three (133) photographs, nearly..... More

Brooklyn, New York, Hicksville, etc: ca. 1920s. One hundred and eight (108) movie advertisement text cards, nearly all hand-painted in white on stiff black card stock and measuring ca. 17.5x18cm to ca. 20x20.5cm.; many with painted pictorial elements or color printed paste-ons. General wear to margins, some placards suffering shallow..... More

New Jersey, 1998. Green plastic three-ring binder with collaged covers and spine. [114] plastic sheaths filled to completion with all dragon-themed mythological summaries, Chinese restaurant menus, poetry, artwork, astrology, dragon boat racing, Stevie Nicks tributes, debates about Christian metal band Stryper, Puff the Magic Dragon, etc.; principally printed from the..... 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..... 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

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

New York: National Aniline & Chemical Co., Inc., ca. 1922. Octavo; publisher's moiré cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; xxxiii; [30]pp.; [2]pp. with 210 dye samples. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus one plate. Tipped-in slip to title regarding the relocation of the company offices in 1922. Light wear; split to top of..... 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

New York: The Nation, 1898. Twenty-two volumes; quartos (30.5cm.); uniformly stitched self-wrappers. Collection comprises the following issues: Nos. 1714 (May 5, 1898), 1716-19, 1721, 1724, 1730-2, 1734, 1736-7, 1746-7, 1751-2, 1754, 1762-3, 1766, & 1770 (June 1, 1899). Condition ranges from Near Fine to Good only, with a few of..... More