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

New York: Asahel Jones, ca. 1850. Square 16mo (11cm.); publisher's pale pink wrappers printed within typographically decorative border; [24]ll. of blank tissue, presumably once interspersed with gold and tin foil. Wrappers soiled, old vertical fold, leaves foxed throughout, else a Very Good example of a rare piece of dental ephemera..... More

Boston: Wright & Ditson, 1911. First Edition. Octavo. 32 pp. Black and white photographs and illustrations throughout. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges with some minor staining and spotting. Binding sound. Slight marginal stain but otherwise pages clean and unmarked. Scarce trade catalog from the early sporting goods..... More

Providence, RI: Kendall Mfg. Co., ca. 1880-1884. Collection of seventeen (17) chromolithographed trade cards (7.5x11cm or the inverse), some printed on verso, others blank. Stock uniformly toned, a few with faint paper residue or tiny abrasions from having been previously mounted, else a Very Good, bright and sound collection... More

Hollywood, CA: Frederick's of Hollywood, 1962. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers; 47pp.; illus. throughout, many full-color. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, else Very Good and sound. Rear wrapper postally used to a Mrs. Betty Place of Worcester, Mass. Lavish Mad Men-era fashion and lingerie..... More

New Cumberland, PA: Midget Card Shop, n.d., ca. 1920s. Small octavo (15.5cm); publisher's brown staplebound embossed card wrappers; [10]ll. stiff brown stock interleaved with tissue guards; thirty-one (31) mounted card samples. Light wear and very brief soil to upper cover, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Rare..... More

[Portland, ME]: [O.K. Gerrish], n.d. [ca. 1880s]. Collection of seven broadsides, handbills, and pamphlets promoting different strains of fruit on offer by the Portland agent O.K. Gerrish, all but two adorned with woodcut illustrations. Most examples have previous folds and a few small chips, the "Russian Apricot" broadside the most..... More

Birmingham, UK: The Colmore Press, 1910. Side-stapled slim octavo, embossed and printed cream card wrappers (22 cm). Illus. throughout. Wrapper covers lightly stained with blue ink (?) on recto and verso, rubbed and toned at margins with rusting at staples and slight curling to bottom corners. Brief pencil to front..... More

Basle, Switzerland: J.R. Geigy S.A., 1930. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's grey blind-embossed cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in white; [4],44pp.; two-hundred and thirty-six (236) wool samples mounted throughout. Boards slightly warped with light soiling, rear cover and textblock fore-edge a bit foxed, else Very Good, contents bright and sound... More

Greenfield, OH: The Cory-Patterson Mfg. Co., [ca. 1910]. First Edition. Oblong octavo. 30 pp. Photographs and illustrations. Illustrated stapled wraps. Touch of rubbing and creasing to wraps; binding sound; interior unmarked; overall Very Good. Single-item trade catalog promoting "the only perfect Life-Saving canvas or Net in the world..... More

Philadelphia: Vandyke & Downing, 1836. Pictorial printed broadside (15.5x19.5cm.) accomplished in manuscript; top edge adorned with three small woodcut illustrations depicting two types of coaches and a pile of luggage. Small closed tear at top edge towards left-hand corner not approaching text, old paper remnants to verso from having been..... More