[Quebec, Canada?]: np [Campbell Typ.?], May,1861. Small broadsheet, printed on blue paper. 26 x 15.5 cm. Lovely image of the hotel with people strolling on the sidewalk in front of it, and a horse-drawn carriage in the street. Printed below the illustration is a list of hours for meals at..... More
NY, (NY): Long & Carter, Printers, 131 Front Street, Corner of Pine, 1839. Broadside. 33 x 25cm. Text printed in blue, enclosed in a decorative blue border, with vignettes of a steamboat, eagle and railroad at top and a steamboat and canal boat at bottom. In the center is a...... More
![THE AMERICAN HUB! / [vignette of metal hub] / The Public is Invited to Examine this / VALUABLE...](/pictures/thumb/65270.jpg?v=1611894852)
Cleveland, Ohio: Viets & Savage Printers, 184 Superior Street. nd [1860-67]? Broadside. 31 x 20.5 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type. Some faint, old staining and scattered foxing. Signed in type by the inventor and patentee, Charles Leavitt who describes the quality and reasons the metal hubs..... More
Montgomery. AL: [Printed at the Advertiser?], nd [ca. 1875]. Printed broadside, 22 1/2 x 8 inches, a visually appealing display broadside employing several sizes and styles of type, including display types, and printed in red and blue, the whole enclosed within a blue border. "A reliable Democratic Journal! Devoted to..... More
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Bethlehem, PA: Times Print, [1880]. Bifolium. 22 x 14 cm. Title with image of hotel front cover. Two internal pages print, on one side, the Dinner Bill which has been neatly overwritten in red ink in a fine hand adding additional offering for Monday Evening June 28, [18]80, with the..... More
Kalamazoo, Mich. H.G. Bulkley, nd [1852?]. Advertising circular. 34 x 10 cm. Printed in various sizes and styles of type. Some overall toning, but a very nice example. Bulkley declares that his kiln "dries thoroughly and cheaper than be any other Kiln," and thus eliminates the need to keep a...... More
NP: np, [1877] from testimonials. Broadsheet. 26.5 cm. Printed title, followed by image of a vignette of a man holding the reins on two horses standing on a number of small trees which are attached to the scraper to keep it level. Text below the illustration gives more details of..... More
[Philadelphia: 1863]. Broadside. 25.5 x 20 cm. Old fold lines, with wear at edges, stains along left margin, not effecting text. Fourteen rules "For the Government of the Free Military School." No copies located OCLC. More
All in original printed wrappers (several with storage soiling, one with circle stains). Still a very good lot. a. Jurisdictional Statement. In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1958, Ruby Fredericka Shuttlesworth, by her next friend, F. L Shuttlesworth, Appellants v. Birmingham Board of Education of Jefferson..... More
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition. 4to. 17, 119 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title-page, 6 full-page lithographs with some tidemarks, 7 fullpage engravings, and 99 woodcut illustrations in the text. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt on front board and spine, slightly faded. Cloth rubbed through on spine..... More
St. Louis, MO: Published by Cutter & Trump SW corner Main and Olive Streets, 1884. 20 X 14 cm.. 47, [1] pp., illus. Brown cloth with gilt stamping on cover. Wear on edges. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. It was issued in paper and cloth our first time having..... More
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[Meredith Village, NH: ca.1857]. Original drawing book belonging to W.W. Stevens, with approx. 18 pages of illustrations and sketches in pen & ink, pencil, and watercolor, many with political content, plus 2 small watercolors laid in. Light green stitched paperwraps, 22 x 28 cm. Sketches protected by tissue guards of..... More
Philadelphia, (PA): Published by Godey & McMichael, 101 Chesnut St. [1843]. First edition. 27 x 36 cm. 12 pp., three plates, lacks plain yellow wrappers. Illustrated title page detached, text and plates toned and soiled in margins, old tidelines, edges of leaves frayed, stitching perished. BAL 14938. More
Charleston, (SC): W. Riley, November 1844. First edition. Large 8vo. v, (2), 550 pp. Speculation helped create the Panic of 1837 which was followed by five years of recession, during which time business and farming bankruptcies were common and banks across the nation failed. The Bank of South Carolina and..... More
Folio ledger 8.5 x 14 inches. 31 pp. [utilizing numbered pages: 6-21, 50-59, 100-101, 125, 127, & 129, rest blank], a record of payments for various expenses made from the Y.U.B.B.A. bank account, revenue from gate receipts during the season, Oct. 1909 - July 1910, plus a list of bills..... More
(Calcutta, India): Brahmo Tract Society, 1886. First edition. 24mo. (2), 101 pp. Sen (1838-1884) was a Bengali Hindu philosopher and social reformer who incorporated Christian theology in Hindu thought; he was disappointed that his 1870 speaking tour in England, designed to present his cross cultural thoughts on religion, was not..... More
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Bakersfield: Kern Valley Printing Works, 1908. Oblong red lettered white paperwraps (soiled, some wear to edges), with a small illustration of the Kern County Court House on the front cover. 18 x 26 cm. (98)pp. Promotional history of the area, its businesses and leading citizens, with numerous photo illustrations. OCLC..... More
Chicago, New York: George M. Hill Company, 1900. First and only edition. 32 x 22cm. 29 leaves. Red cloth spine with illustrated boards. Some wear and paper loss along edges of boards, some mottling to spine, otherwise a bright clean copy. Gift inscription on flyleaf. More
Indianapolis [IN]: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, (c1903). Second edition, second state, but the first Bobbs-Merrill printing of Baum's first book in the Oz series, originally published by George M. Hill as "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" in 1900. Square 8vo (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches). 259, (2) pp. Color illustrations..... More
Chicago, Akron, Ohio, New York: The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1903. First edition. 29 x 24 cm. [58]pp., illustrated in color. Illustrated yellow boards with green spine, a bright copy. Dust jacket with some rubbing, light soiling, chipping and tears along edges. More
Chicago, New York, London: Rand, McNally and Company, (1903). First edition. 30 x 23 cm.. 80, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. Green cloth with decorative front cover, a bright copy. Dust jacket shows some wear with tears and shallow chipping around edges and a triangular piece missing from upper rear panel..... More
[Various places: 1861-63]. A collection of 42 pamphlets, numbered 20-60 (with a few supplements, and a few numbers lacking) all in original self-wrappers, some untrimmed and unopened. All in very good condition. The Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by the U. S. Government in July, 1861 "to..... More
[Concord?, N.H]: 1863. Broadside. 25 x 15cm. Sixty-seven names listed, drawn from a pool of 224. No record of a Monitor in Exeter, but we find several in Concord, although not in 1863. Laid down on an archival sheet, reinforcing wear and separation. More
Autograph letter, signed, from John M. Kumler, Co. D, 15th U.S. Infantry, to his cousin Kate. Two sheets of lined paper, folded to 7.5 x 4.5 in., 7 pp., approx. 900 words. First page of each sheet bordered with a red and a blue line on two sides, old fold..... More
[G.O. 171, W.D., A.G.O. June 9, 1863]. Single sheet of lined paper, 9.5 x 7.5 in., 2 pp., approx. 220 words. A manuscript copy, in a clerical hand, signed [secretarial] by E.D. Townsend. Blind embossed stamp of the Capitol building and "Congress P & P" in upper left corner, docketed..... More