How to Make Dainty "Rosette" Wafer & Patties
by Alfred Andersen & Co.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Alfred Andersen & Co., 1900. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1900); 4 x 3; pp. [20]; chromolithographed wraps; illustrated with engravings and lithographed plates; spotting mostly to back wrap; tiny nicks to tips of spine; in very good condition. Alfred Andersen founded his company in 1893, marketing household items and utensils and pattenting rosette, wafer, and heart-shaped waffle irons. He was actually not a manufacturer, choosing instead to job out the casting of his wares,... Read More
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The Waste Land, Issue 1
by Alfredo, Tommy; Nugofsky, Suzie
Kent, Ohio: Grey Sparrow Press, 2007. Very good. First printing; 11 x 8 1/2; pp. [22]; green pictorial wraps by Hilary Krzywkowski; blue-tape spine cover; text and illustrations to rectos only; light fading to margins, else minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Apparently the only issue published, the comic paid tribute to T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" and told the story of Caroline - "...Like most of us, she is awake for a handful of... Read More
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Naroden Etnografski Muzei v Plovdiv. Putevoditel [National Ethnographic Museum in Plovdiv. A Guide]
by Koleva. El.; et al
Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1972. Softcover. First edition; oblong 8 x 8 3/4; pp. [80]; glossy pictorial wraps; spotting to first and last several pages only, else clean; previous owner's name to front wrap verso; minor wear to tips of spine; illustrated with plates; very good. In Bulgarian with summaries in English, Russian, German, and French. An informative guide to one of Plovdiv's historic monuments - built as a residence in 1847 during the second period of Bulgarian National Revival,... Read More
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An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners in a Serious Treatise on Conversion
by Alleine, Joseph
New York: American Tract Society; D. Fanshow, Printer, 1830. Very good. Early-19th-century edition, n. d. (1830s - date obtained from publisher's address and employment period of the rinter with the society); 6 x 3 3/4; pp. [7], 6-164; publisher's brown, embossed-cloth binding; gilt title to spine; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; faint foxing and discoloration mostly to first and last few leaves; overall in very good condition. Joseph Alleine (1634 - 1668) was a British... Read More
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Wings of Live Children / Kinderlebenlieder /
by Allen, Dan Dulaney
San Francisco: Ironwood Press & Stonewall Press West, 1977. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 10 3/4 x 8 1/4; pp. [79]; orange pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous drawings by Kimi Reith and Rodney Watts; mild age-toning to margins and a bump to upper corner of front wrap; in about very good condition. A collection of poems by author and educator Dan Allen, some of them appeared here for the first time, while others had previously been published in... Read More
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Tiffany and the Wells Fargo Belt Buckles
by Allen, Ernest
Pittsburg, CA: By the author, 1970. Very good. Limited and registered edition, this copy #953; 5 1/2 x 3 1/2; pp. 1-16; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with four photographs; mild wear to corners and tips of spine; in very good condition. A peculiar little reference booklet, called by the author a "Paket Postcard Book" (the back wrap is a detachable post card), it concerned four different styles of brass belt buckles, manufactured in 1902 by Tiffany & Co. for... Read More
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Wrot Iron Heater Co. Movable Measurements / Advertisement
by Allen, J. Sidna
Des Moines, IO: Wrot Iron Heater, 1915. First edition; 7 x 3 1/4; die-cut card stock enclosing a second movable printed sheet; illustrated; small rubbed spots along edges; overall very good. An unusual survivor, the piece advertises The Furnace "De Luxe" and allows potential buyers to determine the exact diameter, in inches, of the basement pipe required for installation, by sliding the movable part to form a grid with various widths of a room (both for first and second floor... Read More
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Za proletarskuiu detskuiu knigu. Rezoliutsii i postanovleniia pervoi vserossiiskoi konferentsii po detskoi literature 2-6 fevralia 1931 g. (The Proletarian Children's Book. Resolutions and Decrees of the First All-Russian Conference on Children's Literature, February 2-6, 1931)
by Razin; Rozanov; et al
Moskva: Molodaia Gvardiia, 1931. First Edition. Good. First edition, 1 of 7000 copies; off-white wraps, printed and ruled in red and black; small chip to tail of spine; a few small spots to margins; two small deaccession stamps to title page verso and several lines underlined in pencil; in good condition. The first of several stand-alone volumes, the book detailed the proceedings and resolutions of the First All-Russian Conference on Children's Literature, held in early 1931. It outlined the... Read More
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1962 B.S.A. Retail Pricing Schedule
by Alzina, L. R. "Hap"
Oakland, CA: Hap Alzina, 1962. Very good. Broadside; 10 3/4 x 8 1/4; off-white stock, printed and mimeographed in red and black; illustrated with a small vignette; minor creasing and age-toning to extreme margins - in very good to near fine condition. Hap Alzina (1894 - 1970) was a legendary name in American motorcycling, a successful racer, and the Western US Distributor of Indian and BSA motorcycles, opening his dealership in Oakland in 1922. Regarded by many as a... Read More
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New York City Up Town
by American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Co.
New York: Geo. P. Hall & Son, 1904. Very good. Ten loose cards in an original envelope; cards with monochrome images and captions to recto, text to verso - 4 1/2 x 7 1/4; very minor wear - in near fine or better condition; pictorial lithographed envelope with a closed split along one edge and top flap perished - in good condition. The American Sight-Seeing Car and Coach Co. was an early 20th-century company, which offered guided bus tours... Read More
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Skazki
by Andersen, G. H.
Moscow: Detskaia Literatura, 1967. Hardcover. First edition thus; 8 x 10 1/2; pp. [2], 3-174, [2]; grey leatherette over boards; gilt illustration to front cover; closed cuts and some rubbing to tips of spine; wear to corners with a small bump to lower corner of front cover, else boards clean; faint ripple to bottom margin of several pages, else mostly well preserved; illustrated in b&w; overall good to very good condition. What sets this particular edition of Andersen's tales apart... Read More
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The Improvisatore
by Andersen, Hans Christian
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1876. Very good. Author's edition; 7 3/4 x 5; pp. [7], vi-vii, [2], 2-341, [5]; marbled paper over boards and 3/4 polished calf; spine with two inlaid squares of red and black morocco with title in gilt, five raised bands, and gilt decorations; marbled page edges; small chip to head of spine and a few small rubbed spots to boards; previous owner's signature to first blank leaf; overall in very good condition. First published... Read More
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Skazki Andersena
by [Andersen, Kh. K.]
Kharbin: M. V. Zaitseva, 1930. Softcover. First edition thus, n. d. (ca 1930); 9 1/4 x 7 1/4; pp. 72; chromolithographed wraps; lacking back wrap; text block split in two; a few old pieces of tape to hinges; occasional smudges to margins; illustrated with full-page chromolithograph plates; overall fair to good condition. An adorable edition of Andersen’s tales, published for the children of the White Emigres in China, the book contains 4 of the author’s beloved stories.
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Istoriia odezhdy (History of Clothing)
by Andreevskaia, V. D. (Vera Dmitrievna); Dmitrevskii, N. P.(Nikolai Pavlovich)
(Vologda): Izdanie Vologodskogo otdeleniia gosudarstvennogo izdatelstva, 1922. Good. Second printing (published shortly after the first), 1 of 4000 copies; 10 3/4 x 9; pp. [62]; rebound in speckled, gilt-and-black paper over boards and 3/4 leatherette; original wraps bound in; illustrated with beautiful lithographed plates; a few small deaccession stamps; two of the plates with archival repairs to verso; page numbers in manuscript (as published [?]); in good to very good condition. An ambitious and beautifully-executed endeavour, the book was... Read More
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Price List of Jas. S. Kirk & Co.'s Laundry & Toilet Soaps, August 1st, 1883
by Janney & Andrews
Philadelphia: Janney & Andrews, Importers, Wholesale Grocers, and Tea Dealers, 1883. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 3/4 x 3 3/4; pp. 1-20; salmon-colored wraps, tied with a string, printed and ruled in black; minor fading to wraps; light creasing to upper left corner; in very good or better condition. Presented by Janney & Andrews - a large wholesale operation in Philadelphia in the late 19th century - the price list represented the astonishing array of products of... Read More
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WWII War Bonds Envelope "Buy War Bonds"
by Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles
Los Angeles: Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, 1940. Very good. Top-load envelope, n. d. (early 1940s); 8 x 4 1/2; lithographed front pannel; text in blue to back pannel; minor wear to edges; in very good to near fine condition. A handsome war bonds envelope, it featured a large "V for Victory" and eagle.
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Letter on the Rebellion, to a Citizen of Philadelphia
by Anonymous (Rush, Benjamin)
Philadelphia, PA: C. Sherman & Son, Printers, 1862. Good. Second printing presumed, published in the same year as the first one by John Campbell; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. [3], 6-23; self-wraps; author's name in period manuscript in brown ink to front wrap; loss of paper to lower corners of last two leaves (not affecting text); wraps pulling loose; spotting to back wrap; in about good condition. Benjamin Rush (1811 - 1877), lawyer, author, and grandson of social reformer,... Read More
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Les dernieres heures de la vie de l'empereur Nicolas I (The Last Hours in the Life of Emperor Nicholas I)
by Anonymous (Bludov, Dmitrii)
Vienne (Vienna): M. Auer, 1855. Very good. First edition in French (translated and published in the same year as the original Russian); 10 1/2 x 7; pp. 1-25, [7]; green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with three plates by Jos. Stoufs; lacking portrait frontis, else complete; tiny, white label to upper left corner; faint, discolored spot to margin of front wrap; small chips to tips of spine and slight curling to corners; scattered foxing, mostly to... Read More
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The American Chess-player's Handbook. Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving the Analysis of All the Recognized Openings
by Anonymous [Staunton, Howard]
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/No DJ. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. [11], 8-256, [2]; mustard cloth over boards, titled and illustrated in gilt on front board and spine; minor rubbing to corners and tips of spine; light dust-dulling to cloth; faint, penciled-in signature of previous owner to front board verso; very good condition.Based on English chess master Howard Staunton's (1810 - 1874) work, the book describes and illustrates the rules... Read More
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A Small Archive of Printed Silk Prize Ribbons from the 1940 Annual Kohala Fair
by Anonymous
Kohala, Hawaii: April 27 and 28, 1940. Softcover. Printed silk; approx. 2" x 6"; two "First Prize" blue ribbons lettered in gilt, five "Second Prize" red ribbons lettered in black, twenty-five "Honorable Mention" yellow ribbons lettered in red; a few with light fraying to tips and creases; all bright and clean; in about near fine condition. An interesting group of ephemeral survivors from what appears to has been a pre-WWII annual event in Kohala. Though research has not revealed much... Read More
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Our Chef's Best Receipts. A Practical Cook Book for People Who Like Good Things to Eat
by Anonymous
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1899. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5; pp. [4], 5-122 + several blank leaves interspersed throughout for manuscript notes/recipes; oilcloth over boards, with an additional flap to back board, which encloses the text block; covers with various advertisements for Minnesota businesses; illustrated with numerous ads with engravings and photographs; age-toning and a few spots to cloth; wear to tips of spine and corners; cloth cracking along... Read More
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Staromestska kavarna srdecne blahoprani k novemu roku prinasi poddane sluzebnictvo (Warm New Year's Greetings from the Employees of the Old Town Cafe)
by Anonymous
Praha (Prague): Old Town Cafe, 1881. Very good. Small calendar; 4 1/2 x 3; pp. [8]; wraps in red and gilt, with oval chromolithographed inlays; leaves with elaborate gilt borders; light wear to edges and corners; a few mild spots to wraps verso; in very good condition. A tiny, yet quite-lavish New Year's gift to the customers of the Old Town Cafe in Prague, it depicted portraits of Rudolf Franz Karl Josef, Crown Prince of Austria (1858 – 1889),... Read More
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Artisty Sovetskogo kino (Actors of the Soviet Cinema)
by Anonymous
S. l. (Moscow): Izogiz, 1958. First Edition. Very good. Sixteen silver gelatin photographs in a card stock folder, the latter printed in green and red; 3 3/4 x 2 3/4; images subtitled in lower left corner; minor wear - in near fine condition; folder with small nicks to tips of spine and corners and a few small creases - in very good condition. Commemorating some of the best-known figures of Soviet cinema in the mid-20th century, the images included... Read More
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A mesmerizing collection of advertisements and coasters from Tokyo strip clubs and bars catering to US soldiers in 1954-55 as well as photographs, cards, signatures, money, cartoons, etc. - collected, assembled and captioned by a soldier of 545 (?) Military Police Provisional Platoon in Japan after the Second World War
by Anonymous
Tokyo: s. n., 1955. Softcover. Three loose sheets, filled recto and verso; 10 x 13; pp. 6; black card stock; right edge unevenly trimmed; various items glued with manuscript captions; one appears to be missing; overall very good condition. A fascinating glimpse into the off-duty life of US soldiers in Japan in the aftermath of the Second World War, the collection features various pamphlets and leaflets, in English and apparently hastily assembled and produced, advertising strip clubs and bars serving... Read More
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Maria Feodorovna, Empress Consort of Russia, Photograph Signed
by Anonymous
Hvidore: s. n., 1928. Softcover. Original, silver gelatin, photographic postcard of the Empress sitting on a padded bench in her garden, holding an umbrella and a bouquet of flowers; 5 x 3 1/4; minor wear to corners and image; a bit of age-toning and a manuscript note in pencil to verso; near fine condition. Signed in ink: "Maria, Hvidore" in the lower half of the photo. Possibly one of Maria Feodorovna's last photographs, the anonymous note on the back stated:... Read More
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