Philadelphia, Pa. G.M. & W. Snider, 1832. [4], 180 p.; 20 cm. Original brown cloth spine and plain green paper over boards. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper: Nathaniel P. ???. "The principal occurrences related in the following pages, are here re-modelled from a work of fancy, bearing another..... More
London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., 1953. Hardcover. 128 p., color frontispiece and 7 leaves of color plates: many in-text and full-page illustrations; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with black spine title; color illustrated front cover; white back cover. Illustrated dust jacket in mylar cover, repeating the cover illustration..... More
Philadelphia: N. Snellenburg & Co., 1891. Illustrated Sketches and Stories for Young America by George M. Vickers was issued by the Philadelphia department store Snellenburg & Co. in 1891 as an advetisement for the store. These pictorial boards (27 cm. high), long-since removed from the book, have the title of..... More
Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1925. 2 advertising inserts printed on both sides. One (16 x 10 cm.) advertises the mail order department on one side and the stationery department on the other. The other (10 x 16 cm.) advertises a "Special Book Service" to provided buyers with information..... More
Detroit: Standard Accident Insurance Co., 1910. Hardcover. [60] pages of rules paper; 11 cm. Flexible green cloth with logo for the Standard Accident Insurance Co. in black on the front. Information about that insurance company on paper lining front and back cover. Inside the front cover is a space left..... More
Concord, N.H. Hoag & Atwood, 1831. Paperback. 16 p.: woodcut illustrations; 11 cm. "Second Series--No. 10" -- on front wrapper (p. [1]). In prose and verse, without music. Contents: Address to Children -- For a Little Child -- The Little Pilgrim -- Heaven and Earth -- God Every Where --..... More
Ville Franche: Paulus Pinceau, 1702. Paperback. 31, [1] p.; 19 cm. Signatures: A-D4 (4to). Plain wrappers (not original). Woodcut title vignette of three heads with wings (printer's device?) and initial letter. "11" in ink in upper right-hand corner of title page. Knuttel, 14824. A very scarce pamphlet relating to the..... More
New York: National Publishers, 1965. Paperback. [40] p. (1 folded): color illustrations; 32 cm. Stapled. This is the souvenir program for the opening of the movie about Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy, based on the book by the same name by Irving Stone. Includes maps of Rome and Florence;..... More
New York: Random House, 1061. Hardcover. [2], iv, [2], 208 p.: illustrations; 26 cm. Hardback with illustrated cover. Illustrated endpaper. Small printed bookplate of former owner on front fixed endpaper. Contents: Let's Haunt a House by Manly Wade Wellman -- The Wastwych Secret by Constance Savery -- Jimmy Takes Vanishing..... More
New York: Paull-Pioneer Music Corp. 1942. Paperback. Victory Edition. 10, [2] p.: illustration; 22 cm. Stapled. No date of publication; the latest copyright date included is 1938. "Victory Edition" suggests that this was published after the U.S. entered World War Two. Contains lyrics to 75 popular songs, the first 5..... More
Chicago: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1940. Fuqua, Robert. Paperback. 146 p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Cover art by Robert Fuqua and Paul Maxwell; illustrations by Robert Fuqua, Julian S. Krupa, and C.L. Hartman. Contents: Sons of the Deluge by Nelson S. Bond; Adam Link in Business by Eando Binder [Earl Andrew Binder..... More
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. 187 p.; 22 cm. Brown cloth with gilt spine title. No dust jacket, as issued. First published in 1901. Contents: The Natives of Hawaii: A Study of Polynesian Charm by Titus Munson Coan -- The Races of the Phlippines: The Tagals by the..... More
New York: American Bon Marché, 1898. 1 trade card 11.5 x 15 cm. Chromolithographed illustration on one side of flowers in a glass bowl, within a frame. The other side has an advertisement for a sale on "Holiday Goods" at the American Bon Marché, 50 & 52 W. 23rd St..... More
Dayton, O. American Mechanical Toy Co., 1913. Paperback. 80 p.: illustrations; 17 x 26 cm. Green wrapper printed in red, black, and orange with front wrapper illustration of a man and a boy building an inclined chain railway. Catalog with drawings of parts and tools that could be purchased separately..... More
Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. Hardcover. [2], iv, 615, [1], 4 p.; 22 cm. Contemorary half calf with six spine compartments beween double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red leather label in second compartment. Marbled paper over boards. Publisher's catalog on 4 pages following text. Bookplate on front fixed..... More
Washington, D.C. Gales and Seaton, 1832. Hardcover. 861, [1], lxxxiv pages; 34 cm. Contemporary half calf with gilt-tooled spine title; marbled paper over boards. Marbled endpapers. Series titles: American State Papers. Documents, Legislative, and Executive of the Congress of the United States, From the First Session of the First to..... More
New York: American Wheelman, 1896. Paperback. 274 p., 1 leaf of a color plate: many illustrations; 33 cm. Stapled; lacking wrapper. Issued weekly -- states "Published every Thursday." Includes a wealth of information about bicycles, racing, and clubs; as well as: an interview with Helen Baldwin and information about other..... More
Philadelphia: William McCarty, 1813. Hardcover. "Printed by William & David Robinson, Trenton." [4], 380 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary full tree calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title "American's Guide." Handwritten paper labels with red borders over third and sixth compartments with..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie. 1911. Hardcover. 190 p.: full-page and in-text illustrations; 26 cm. Maroon cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles and decoration. Edges of boards are bevelled. Top page edges gilt. Decorated endpapers. Title page in red and black. Series title on cover: Nouvelle Collection des Classiques..... More
Rochester, N.Y. Stecher Litho. Co., 1919. Price, Margaret Evans. Paperback. [12] p.: chromolithographed illustrations and line drawings by Margaret Evans Price; 35 cm. Chromolithographed wrappers. "No. 301" -- on front wrapper. Printed in blue and red. A charming story about twins living in Newfoundland, whose mother knits them angora clothing..... More
Philadelphia: Academy of Music, 1924. 16 p.: illustrated advertisements; 26 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark green. This is the program for the Nov. 19, 1924, performance of Anna Pavlova (spelled Pavlowa) with Laurent Novikoff, Alexandre Volinine, Hilda Butsova, and others. They performed Don Quixote (Novikoff/Minkus), with Pavlova dancing Kitry..... More
Austin, Texas: Book Club of Texas, 1989. [4] p.; 29 cm. With: order form and envelope. The Book Club of Texas was first established in 1929 by Stanley Marcus. It published seven tooks before disbanding in 1941. In 1989 it was re-established with the goal of publishing two books a...... More
New York: Marion Press, 1900. Hardcover. 94 p.: tables; 18 cm. Light blue cloth with dark blue stamped cover title: The Packer Collegiate Institute 1899-1900. Some pages are unopened. The Packer Collegiate Institute is a college preparatory school founded in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy. It has always been..... More
Leeuwarden, Netherlands: Karst Tjallings, 1702. Paperback. 7, [1] p.: 19 cm. Signatures: A4 (4to). Woodcut title vignette. Not in Knuttell or Worldcat. A response to "Aanmerkingen op de Memorie van den Fransche Resident Barre, Aan de . . . Staaten Generaal . . . den 31. Maart 1702" (Gravenhage: Meyndert..... More
Philadelphia: Apollo Orchestra, 1917. [4] p.; 18 cm. Folded card with front cover illustration printed in blue. Program for the closing public rehearsal of the 1916-1917 season on May 6, 1917, at 715 N. Broad St., Philadelphia. "Invitation Rehearsal" -- on front. An illustration of an American flag and the..... More