Titles starting with S from Margolis & Moss

Spain: Productos de Alta Belleza Roberta, c. 1940. This 12 page fold-out make-up guide measures 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. The back pages of the fold-out describe cremes and lotions and contain the price list. The front pages are a guide for applying make-up according to the shape of one's face, nose, eyes, and lips. In Spanish. Excellent condition. Wonderful graphics! ... more information

Baltimore, 1876. 8 pages. 7 x 4 inches. Printed wrappers with a handsome woodcut of the building on front wrapper; a fine, bright copy. A pamphlet promoting this company's fire proof vaults for the storage of valuable jewels and silver. ... more information

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935.. 336 pages. Illustrated by the author. Octavo (8 3/4 x 6 inches); blue cloth with lightly chipped dust jacket; old tape on the back of the jacket. First edition. ... more information

Garden City: The Junior Literary Guild and Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1943. Illustrated by Howard Cook, in bold, vivid colors. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Pictorial red cloth with chipped dust jacket. A lovely, bright copy. First Edition by this noted Southwestern Artist. ... more information

Pennsylvania Railroad, 1939. Railroad promotional for the Golden Gate International Exposition at Treasure Island on San Francisco Bay. (22 pages). 9 x 8 inches, but sent folded into half that. ... more information

San Francisco, 1938. 36 pages. Illustrated. Narrow octavo, 9 x 4 inches. Pictorial wrappers; a fine, bright copy ... more information

New York: Ivison & Phinney, 1856. 500 pages. 8vo, leather backed black cloth; head and foot of spine chipped; light foxing throughout. First edition. Charles Walton Sanders (1805-1889) was a successful educator and extremely successful writer of educational texts. Between 1838 and 1860 Sanders sold 13,000,000 readers and at one time received about $30,000 yearly in royalties. The above is interesting for its specific reference to women's seminaries. ... more information

Mexico: Editorial Jus, 1958. 73 pages. Octavo, quarter calf with red and green leather labels; original wrappers bound in. Third edition. A beautifully bound copy of number 3 of the series "Figuras y Episodios de la Historia de Mexico." [We have seventy other titles from this series uniformly bound. Please inquire]. ... more information

(New York City, circa 1885). This monumental volume was created by the prominent New York photographer, Napoleon Sarony. Each side of the 23 thick board pages contains a matted albumen photograph and four matted advertising cards. Of the photographs, 42 are large portraits of notable actresses. Portraits of Grover Cleveland and his vice president, a portrait of the celebrated coronet player Liberati, and a photograph of the Owen papermaking establishment (possibly the producer of this album) are included. ... more information

Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1921. 55 pages. Small octavo, 7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches. Cloth backed gray boards; paper label; spine faded and spine label with a small chip. First edition, limited to 400 copies. ... more information

Paris: Flammarion, 1936. (34 pages). With 17 full page illustrations in color lithography by Rojan ( Feodor Rojankowsky). Octavo ((8 1/4 x 9 inches). Stiff paper pictorial wrappers. Evenly age browned. Split starting on spine. This wonderful story of an Arctic seal is one of the loveliest of the Pere Castor albums and Rojankowsky's illustrations are spectacular. ... more information

New York: Munn & co., Office of the Scientific American, 1881. 144 pages. 12mo, gilt-printed blue cloth; lightly rubbed Includes 30 pages on Patents, Trade-mark and copyright Laws for 1874. ... more information

N.p.: Earl F. White, 1954. Folding map printed in red and black and measuring 17 x 22 inches. Small stain and separation at one fold. Informative tourist map, written and drawn by White. This copy has the hand stamp "Summit of Pikes Peak. Altitude 14,110 feet. August 5, 1955. ... more information

Keene, N.H.: Printed by John Prentiss, 1826. 4 pages of advertisement + 224 pages. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 inches); leather backed marble boards; covers rubbed but tight; some light foxing; on verso of title page is a previous owners signature, dated 1830. When first published in 1801, this work quickly gained the widest circulation of any arithmetic book to date. An unusual feature of this work was that space was left blank between the problems for their solution. In a sense this was a combination textbook and ... more information

Utica: Gardiner Tracy, 1837. 240 + 12 pages. 12mo (6 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches); contemproary calf; lightly rubbed. With an ink inscription dated 1840. In 1800 Nathan Daboll published his "Schoolmaster's Assistant." "It was the first book to make frequent use of the $ symbol. With minor revisions it continued to be published as late as the 1830's. ... more information

New York: Munn & Co., Office of the Scientific American, 1876. 144 pages. 12mo, gilt-printed blue cloth; lightly rubbed With extensive information on Patents. ... more information

Chicago: Rand McNally, circa 1925. Folding colored map measuring 28 x 21 inches. Folding into printed wrappers, 6 1/2 x 4 inches. With two pencil notations in the margins. ... more information

Edinburgh: William Thyne, Limited. A paper sample book containing 21 samples of paper printed in Scottish plaids. Each sample is shown in both varnished and unvarnished paper (42 pages in all). The varnished samples are 1 1/2 inches shorter than the unvarnished. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. Wrappers. Some soiling on covers. ... more information

Boston: D. C. Johnston, 1849. Four etched plates, each with protective tissue wrapper. 11 x 13 3/4 inches. Pictorial yellow wrappers; spine chipped, rear cover loose, a few foxing spots. First edition. The 35 pictures on the four plates lampoon women, art dealers, the California Gold Rush and other local topics. Johnston "achieved a reputation for his comic sketches, modeled after the English caricaturist George Cruikshank, but pointedly satiric on American themes and excellently drawn." - D... more information

Grand Rapids, Michigan: American Seating Company, 1941. A 47 page trade catalog for school seats and desks. The catalog measures 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Stiff paper wrappers with a leather embossing. Excellent condition. The latest in school furniture! ... more information