Appearance and Principle; Or, a Sketch of Three Young Ladies at School, and in Subsequent Life
New York: Carlton & Porter. Blindstamped Cloth. Very Good. Scarce, with only one copy located on OCLC FirstServe, at Ohio Wesleyan University. N.d., circa 1850. 12mo. 15 by 10 cm. 56 pp. Avoid the scourge of affectation! The fate of three ladies with differing characters and how character plays into one's success in life. Some foxing, mostly clean.
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Commemorative Porcelain Dessert Plate. "Commemorating Col. Lindbergh. First to navigate the air in continuous flight from New York to Paris -- 1927
Seabrig, Ohio: Limoges China Co, 1927. Near Fine. Appealing dessert plate issued shortly after Lindbergh's historic flight, with a centerpiece cameo portrait of a smiling young Lindbergh surrounded by a collage pictorial showing the Statue of Liberty on one side, the Eiffel Tower, on the other, and the sea and clouded sky in the background, all framed by a flowered laurel. The plate itself is otherwise yellow, with a gilt rim, and square-ish, with rounded corners. It is... Read More
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Jack Cooper's Training Table
New York: John J. Cooper, 1922. First Edition Presumed. Brochure. Good. Early crackpot dieting regimen. Includes ethnic stereotypes pertaining to body types -- Italians "are of the short type with a relatively heavy frame"; Germanic "are of heavy frame", etc. 12mo. 12 by 8.5 cm. Unpaginated. 16 pp., including cover. Scarce. Only copy recorded on OCLC at Rochester (Strong). Condition: front and back leaves detached. Tiny corner chip by upper joint affecting all leaves. A small stain on... Read More
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Shell-shaped folding trade card or small booklet for Waller & McSorley, 245 Grand St., N.Y., Importers and Manufacturers, ladies' and children's garments, etc.
New York: Printer: Burrow, Giles Lith. Co. NA. Fine. N.d., circa 1890. As a shaped "booklet", 20 cm at its tallest and 13 cm at its widest. A chromolithographic illustration of a well-dressed girl and her spaniel on the front, and another girl and her Siamese cat on the rear, both framed by shell borders, with the aesthetic decidedly Victorian Rococo. Within are listed the departments on the company's store on the left page, and there are two... Read More
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![[Trade Catalogue] Tapestry Paint Co 1907 1908 Catalogue Artist's Materials](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/178/249/1610249178.0.l.jpg)
[Trade Catalogue] Tapestry Paint Co 1907 1908 Catalogue Artist's Materials
Chicago, 1907. Wraps (thin folded sheet), stapled. Very Good Minus. Rare catalogue for company selling designs to be used in needlepoint, embroidery, etc. as well as stencils of artwork to be applied to walls, furniture, whatever. 4to. 30 pp., plus wraps. No other copies found of this catalogue. OCLC lists two holdings of the company's publicatiions, both different. One on Mexican pigment painting from about the same time, at the Huntington Library, and the other, a larger catalogue,... Read More
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The Three Bears; Patent No. 2444, No. 606
London, Paris and New York. Printed in Germany: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1882. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Pictorial paper pasted onto front board. Very Good Plus. N.d., with inscription dated 1882. 12mo. 18 by 14 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pp. With six pop-ups -- here you pull at an upper flap to a side to line it up just so to create a touch of depth and three dimensionality to the chromolithgraphic illustration. Part of Combined Expanding... Read More
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Album of a Dozen Chinese Watercolors of Colorful Birds on Pith Paper, 19th Century
Silk covered boards. Good. N.d., circa 1850. 12mo, 16 by 12 cm. Each painting mounted on thin paper and framed with blue strips, as typical of such albums made presumably for the tourist and expatriate market. The paintings have a disarming naive quality. Yet in our view the paintings have more color and detail than the average such album of this size (larger format pictures tend to be more nuanced when it comes to this genre). The silk... Read More
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[Trade Catalogue] ABC Fabrics A.B.C. Fine Percale Full Standard Eighty Square Yard Wide Put Up Double Fold-Demi Pieces Guaranteed Fast Color -- Season 1929 -- Arthur Beir & Co., Inc. 41-45 White Street New York
New York: Arthur Bier & Co., Inc, 1929. Hardcover. Calf on boards. Ribbon ties. Very Good Plus. 569 triangular swatches of Percale fabric, arranged in a fairly unusual concertina-format. Percale is an especially fine cotton favored in bed linen. Besides the large number of samples, we add that many are also striking, and shown is a wide variety of styles -- polka dots, stripes, floral, geometric, country gingham, etc. etc. Many of the patterns are infused with an... Read More
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![[Faux Book] Box with Intricate Marquetry Inlay Work](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/312/578/735578312.0.l.jpg)
[Faux Book] Box with Intricate Marquetry Inlay Work
NA. Very Good. A beautiful, exceptional example of folk art applied to a faux book box with a drawer. Dimensions: 27 by 20 by 5.5 cm. While it reads "folk art", with a certain naivete and perhaps rough quality that would distinguish it from the work of a Parisian ebeniste, the inlay work is elaborate, intricate, and well-executed. On both the back and front one finds patterns of diamonds, zigzags and/or chevrons, and corner squares. The spine has... Read More
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![[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] Corcordia Ball 19. Februar 1900](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/626/648/772648626.0.m.jpg)
[Dance Card or Carnet du Bal] Corcordia Ball 19. Februar 1900
Vienna: N. Schweritz & Carl Czada, 1900. Satin. Very Good Plus. Unusual wooden dance card from the turn-of-the twentieth century. 10 by 10 cm, at the tallest and widest. The wood has a rich mahogany stain, and a top piece, the on with the name of the event, can be gently lowered to serve as a platform. The back side is lined with a lush green silk. With the removal of the ivory-headed thin pencil there, one can... Read More
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Psalterium Davidicum Graecolatinum
Antwerp: Ioan. Steelsii, 1543. Full Calf. Good. 16mo. 113 by 75 mm. Paginated partially in ink, with about 330 leaves. Psalms rendered in both Greek and Latin. Held only by Aberdeen, Luzern and SSB (Bayerisches Staatsbibliothek), according to OCLC First Search, although there were other contemporaneous versions of the same. Condition: calf of binding scuffed somewhat heavily in places, with extremities, joints and edges rubbed. Minor wormholing in early leaves -- no effect on readability.
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Thorgersen Hosiery Co. Thoro-Test Trade Catalogue; Leading Styles for Fall and Winter 1937
Chicago, 1937. 4to. 11 by 8.5 inches, wraps, 32 pp. featuring robes, sweaters, pajamas, nightgowns, bloomers, brassieres, briefs, ties, shirts, mufflers, stockings, socks, etc. with many fabric samples pasted in and intact in this copy. A clean and tight copy.
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Sliced Objects
New York: Selchow & Righter. Very Good Plus. Paper. Circa 1870s word game with 72 pieces, each with a letter and part of a picture illustration one of twelve words (11 of the pieces have no letter and add to the width of the pictorial for the words "bridge" and "coach". The pieces, or "slices" as they are called, are 7.25 by 1.25 inches each. Several of the illustrations relate to specific New York City locations: St. Paul's... Read More
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Across the Continent Via the Northern Pacific From the Lakes & Mississippi River to the Pacific , Columbia River, Puget Sound & Alaska
St. Paul, Minnesota: W. C. Riley. Third Edition (30,000). Cloth. Very Good. N.d., late 19th century. Oblong, 16 by 24 cm. A leporello with 30 panels, full of views of the sights, urban and natural scenery, with a variety of lay-outs per page, with sometimes a single image, other times, several, arranged horizontally and vertically, etc. The printing of the illustrations used a photo lithographic process, and the leaves have a glossiness to them, with here and there... Read More
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![[Trade Catalogue] Styles for Men and Young Men. The Royal Tailors Inc. in 10,000 Cities. 1932 Fall and Winter 1933](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/522/605/1615605522.0.l.jpg)
[Trade Catalogue] Styles for Men and Young Men. The Royal Tailors Inc. in 10,000 Cities. 1932 Fall and Winter 1933
Chicago probably: The Royal Tailors Inc, 1932. Wraps. Stapled. Very Good Plus. A sartorial oasis in the depths of the Depression, in this catalogue for custom tailored men's wear showcasing men's fashion in full color plates. Folio, 35.5 by 24 cm. Unnpaginated, 20 pages, or ten glossy leaves, plus wrap covers of a mid-weight, semi-rigid card stock. Inside wrap covers with substantial content and not counted in our page count. Sixteen of these pages are color plates. Of... Read More
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New York the Wonder City. Views of Beautiful New York City
Chicago (location of Teich): Curt Teich & Co. The Merchants' Association of New York City, 1939. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. Exciting color printed illustrations, front and rear cover, that capture an essence of the dynamic, and in 1939, Futuristic, city and its Art Deco swagger. 4to. 24 by 16.5 cm. Unpaginated, 64 pages, each page with one to four photographs, many of which have been processed in a way to provide a simulcrum of a painting. Plus the... Read More
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![[Faux Book] Notepad in an Eighteenth Century Full Calf Armorial Binding](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/856/740/833740856.0.m.jpg)
[Faux Book] Notepad in an Eighteenth Century Full Calf Armorial Binding
Full Calf. Very Good Minus. The binding is late 18th century (or early 19th century), with gilt border decoration, an armorial vignette centerpiece, raised bands and elaborate gilt fleurets in between. The calf is somewhat dry, cracked, abraded and rubbed, with heavier wear by the spine extremities, but still handsome nonetheless. Within there is an earthy orange and blue marbled endpaper that is possibly not as old as the calf but is certainly nineteenth century. The notepad, which... Read More
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Monogram Album with Monograms Incorporated into 38 Watercolors and Ink Drawings
Full Morocco. Very Good Plus. A marvelous monogram album in which the monograms are creatively incorporated into charming watercolor and ink illustrations, with a few highly imaginative examples. 4to. 29 by 25 cm. 38 leaves. The most special of the plates include a painting of two women in eighteenth century gowns fanning themselves in a drawing room; a portrait of one of those two women; a seated elderly woman by a table of fruits, the woman and her... Read More
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![[Movie Press Book] The Norman Studios Present the Super Feature Photoplay The Flying Ace. Sensation of the Year. "The Greatest Airplane Mystery Thriller Ever Produced Co-Starring Kathryn Boyd and Lawrence Criner. . . . All Colored Cast . .](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/675/381/1694381675.0.l.jpg)
[Movie Press Book] The Norman Studios Present the Super Feature Photoplay The Flying Ace. Sensation of the Year. "The Greatest Airplane Mystery Thriller Ever Produced Co-Starring Kathryn Boyd and Lawrence Criner. . . . All Colored Cast . .
Arlington, Florida: The Norman Manufacturing Company, 1926. First Edition. Very Good Plus. The press book for a "Race" movie produced by white-owned Norman Film, which specialized in Race movies in the last decade of the Silent Era. This is the only one of eight full-length films made by the Jacksonville Florida studio that has been fully restored by the Library of Congress. It was also the second to last of of eight full-length Race films produced by Norman... Read More
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Presentation Notebook" or "Folio" Bearing the Coat-of-Arms of the United Kingdom
Paris, 1855. First Edition. Vellum. Fine. This "Presentation Notebook" or "Folio", for want of a more specific name for it, is an exquisite example of French decorative binding, bearing on the front board the coat-of-arms of the United Kingdom, with its two mottos, "Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense" (or "Shame to whoever thinks ill" or "Evil to he who thinks evil", etc.) and "Dieu et Mon Droit" (or "God and my right", and more loosely, "God is... Read More
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A New Line in Artcraft for Interior Decoration. For Your Home. Ludwig Rutz, Oberammergau, Bavaria
Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany: Ludwig Rutz, 1910. Wraps (Folded sheet). Concertina mounted onto wraps. Near Fine. Unusual catalogue, set up as a concertina, mainly for large ship models -- completed ship models, to be displayed like scupture, and the "models" are already built -- no assembly required. N.d., circa 1910. 12mo. 16.5 by12.5 cm. The concertina,about 84 cm wide when fully extended, is two-sided and has fourteen panels, the first panel attached to the wraps and having only text,... Read More
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![Framed 1701 Survey Map of a Farm Property in Sturgon Creek [now spelled Sturgeon Creek] in Southern Maine](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/896/993/1744993896.0.l.jpg)
Framed 1701 Survey Map of a Farm Property in Sturgon Creek [now spelled Sturgeon Creek] in Southern Maine
Kittery, or Eliot, Maine, 1701. Framed. Very Good. An immensely decorative and early manuscript survey map -- we would regard it as true Folk Art! The map principally shows a farm property owned by a Humphrey Chadburns. We believe that descendants, of which there are many, now spell the name "Chadbourne", and a good number of the words are spelled slightly differently today. The survey was from a time when spelling was also less standardized, and the spellings... Read More
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![[Trade Catalogue] Wedding Veils of enchanting loveliness by Leff & Jason](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/287/781/987781287.0.m.jpg)
[Trade Catalogue] Wedding Veils of enchanting loveliness by Leff & Jason
London, 1951. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo. 8 pp., including wraps. With short cover letter and order form, envelope for order, etc. Unusual catalogue inasmuch as it is almost entirely devoted to veils, with one page given to brides head-dresses (tiaras).
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![[Trade Catalogue] Newest Styles for Men. Detmer Woolens "Wear and Tailor Best". Spring and Summer 1930; Newest Fashion in Custom Made-to-Measure Clothes. "Apparel oft Proclaims the Man". Issued Semi-Annually](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/524/605/1615605524.0.l.jpg)
[Trade Catalogue] Newest Styles for Men. Detmer Woolens "Wear and Tailor Best". Spring and Summer 1930; Newest Fashion in Custom Made-to-Measure Clothes. "Apparel oft Proclaims the Man". Issued Semi-Annually
New York: Tailoring Arts Publishing Co, 1930. First Edition. Wraps (very thin but embossed card). Cloth band on spine. Stapled (largely concealed by cloth band). Very Good. Folio, 38 by 26.5 cm. 24 pp. All leaves of glossy stock, other than wrap covers. Twenty of the pages are b/w plates showing drawn models wearing tailored clothing. The last five of these plates are devoted mostly or entirely to components of dress, with smaller, or no, depictions of men.... Read More
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![[Commemorative Theatrical Tchotchke] Oval Print of the Blue Boy Painted by Gainsborough. Issued to mark 100th Time, Little Boy Blue, Lyric Theatre, New York, February 12, 1912](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/721/117/1564117721.0.l.jpg)
[Commemorative Theatrical Tchotchke] Oval Print of the Blue Boy Painted by Gainsborough. Issued to mark 100th Time, Little Boy Blue, Lyric Theatre, New York, February 12, 1912
1912. Little Boy Blue" was an American adaptation of a xxxx operetta. The show was produced by Henry Wilson Savage, who also mounted the first American production of "The Merry Widow" and surprisingly, "Madama Butterfly". Such a tchotchke as this was probably offered free to members of the audience on the day of the performance. The oval print, with frame, is about 15 by 8 cm, at its tallest and widest, with a decorative ring with which to hang... Read More
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