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

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

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: 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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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