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

Highland, IL: 1983-1985. Two black three-ring binders (29cm) filled with manuscript and printed recipes and accompanying chromogenic snapshots. Some wrinkling and soil to contents from use, else Very Good. Binding I: Relating entirely to the Bouquet Garni School of Cookery founded by Joy Bullivant, a graduate of the Cordon Bleu..... 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, by the..... More

Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985. First Edition. Quarto (12.5" x 10"); 203pp, including chronology for the Cone acquisitions. Eighty-one reproductions of the pieces in the collection; over 50 documentary photographs.Publisher's red cloth-covered boards with silver lettering. No jacket, as issued. Very faint curve to front board, else as new..... More

San Francisco: multiple publishers, 1939–1991. Sixteen pieces of material related to the American Communist Party, including pamphlets, flyers, and periodicals. Several items toned and creased; a few instances of foxing. Very Good. Small archive reflecting several decades of Communist Party activity in California’s Bay Area, including during the McCarthy Era..... 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

New York: multiple publishers, [1970s]. Binder with around fifty pieces of ephemera related to the illustrator Edward Gorey and the bookseller / publisher Gotham Book Mart. Boards bound in brown wax cloth; “GOREY MISC” label at spine. Spine cracked, though binding remains sound. Several items toned or creased due to..... 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 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

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