H-Bar-O
NA. Very Good. Mid-20th Century card game of the Wild West. Racial stereotyping involved with the Wong Lee character, as a for instance. 31 of 32 cards present. With instructions manual fold-out and mailing envelope. Other than missing card, fine condition.
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Let's Elect a Liberal: Thge Case Against Electoral Politics
The Stanford Radical Caucus, 1970. Folded sheet, staples. Very Good. Leftist student organization's long essay that analyzes and rails against income inequities, corporate capitalism home and abroad, who controls the government, etc. And of course there is an anti-war attitude underlying the cynicism about the U.S. government. The type of outlook that was sweeping campuses across the country then, especially the more elite schools, but this one is leavened with a dollop of humor with cartoons, and it... Read More
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Cumberland Bone Fertilizers
Boston: Cumberland Bone Phosphate Co, 1898. Wraps. Stapled. Fine. 16mo. 14 by 7.5 cm. 18, [22] pp. A dozen pages devoted to brief descriptions and promotions of the company's various fertilizer products. Four pages following have little to do with the company or its products directly, but rather provide a war revenue law summary -- the country was then engaged in the Spanish-American War -- and a summary of postal regulations. The 22 unpaginated pages are set aside... Read More
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Fan with Hand-Colored Bucolic Lithograph of Three Pretty Ladies Flirting with a Young Man
NA. Very Good. N.d, circa 1840. The fan is 23.5 cm tall, and when spread out with its 18 spokes, spans 43 cm wide. The paper uses has a thick texture similar to antique wall paper of the Biedermeier Period. The scene contained in the lozenge oval lozenge inset is a pastoral scene of three young women of the period flirting with a dashing young man in breeches. Surrounding them are sheep. The ladies seem perhaps too well... Read More
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Meiji-Period Ukiyo-e Shunga Scroll
1880. Fine. A lovely Meiji period ukiyo-e styled Shunga scroll that underscores what it means to get horizontal! With six separate erotic scenes, or couples in carnal embrace and/or coital positions. The artwork is mostly watercolored, with ink used for the outlining and some detailing. The color palette is rich in reds, blues and grays, and flesh is colored convincingly yet a light touch that is more suggestive than fully colored. Above and blow the continuous scroll artwork... Read More
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Tournament of Roses Pictorial New Year's Day 1940 [together with] Mailing Envelope
Pasadena, California: Login Printing & Binding Co, 1940. Wraps. Stapled. Near Fine. Photographs of the spectacular parade, with 12 pages of large colorized photos of the flower-bedecked floats for which the parade is most famous for, generally a single such photo on the page. Plus a brilliantly colored drawn illustration on the cover capturing the joyful spirit of the parade. Seldom does one encounter this publication with its decorative mailing envelope. Large 4to, 30 by 22.5 cm. 36... Read More
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Full Morocco Card Case with Blindstamped and Painted Floral Decoration
Full Morocco. Good. N.d., circa mid-19th century. Measuring 10 by 7.5 by 1 1/8 cm, this is a classic card case with two narrow compartments plus tiny pen holder revealed when the top lid is pulled off. One narrow compartment contains a stiff card of an ivory or ivory-like material which was used for erasable pencil notes. Both sides of it are filled with what appear to be very old shopping lists. No pen remains. The decoration on... Read More
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[Menu] Tall Drinks and Short Snorts. Rough Rider Room. Hotel Roosevelt, New York
New York: Roosevelt Hotel, or Hilton Hotels, 1953. NA. Near Fine. A cocktail menu that evokes the derring-do heroism of the 26th U.S. President with the die-cut shape of a Western saddle, just the type that Theodore Roosevelt rode from San Juan Hill to the Governorship of New York State, the Vice Presidency of the U.S. and the White House, all in the space of three years. The menu was for the restaurant in the Roosevelt Hotel that... Read More
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A Bridge Melodrama; Every Player Your Partner. Pat. No. 1558838
New York: Chas. S. Clark Co, 1931. Boxed. Very Good. Theatre as camp, before, we believe, the phrase, "camp", even existed or was a thing. Also issued when bridge, a game in its current form not even a decade old at the time, was sweeping the country and was incontrovertibly a craze. And of course, as anyone who plays bridge can attest, the game is full of drama, much of which comes from the behavior, emotions, reactions, and... Read More
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[Trade Catalogue] Trade Construction Chocolate Confectionary. The Art of vitalising your Trade by having Pride of Quality in all the goods you handle
London, Watford and Sydney: Boisselier. Wraps. Good. N.d., circa 1920. 4to. 31 by 24 cm. [10], 4-29, [2] pp. Pages 4 to 28 feature color illustrations of the company's products -- chocolates and their boxes. Pictorial buff wrappers. H.C. Boisselier Chocolate and Confectionary Manufacturer had factories in Watford, Hertfordshire and Sydney, Australia. The firm began in 1908 or so. Its founder, Henri Boisselier, passed away in 1953, aged 86. Wraps have moderate wear, with a few soil spots... Read More
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Armorial Neuchatelois. Galerie Historique du Chateau de Neuchatel, contenant les armoiries des comtes et princes de neuchatel, des gouvereurs qui ont administre le pays en leur nom, ainsi que des quartre Bourgeoisies, Accompagnee de Notes Historiques et Heraldiques
Berne and Neuchatel: Societe Litteraire (F. L. Davoine), 1857. First Edition. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 26 by 16.5 cm. 36 pp., followed by 44 hand-colored plates, the first serving as a decorative title to the plate section, and the following 43 being armorial plates, many of which are striking and/or beautiful. Text section with scattered light to moderate foxing, as typical with the paper stock used. Some plates with a trivial amount of light foxing, but plates... Read More
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Ticonderoga Text. Ticonderoga Pulp & Paper Company. 220 East 42nd Street ... New York, N.Y.
New York: Ticonderoga Pulp & Paper Company, 1930. Very Good. Ten samples, each of doubly folded luxurious bond paper, eight of which have a strong pictorial element and are mostly Art Deco advertisements for high end luxury brands, followed by eight color samples of the paper, these stacked pyramid style. N.d., circa 1930. Scarce, we could find no other copies. There are a few institutional holdings of samples of the company's paper or designs. Some soil on the... Read More
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Elaborate Dance Card Sample from the "Fancy Order of Dance", Brooklyn, New York, circa 1880
NA. Fine. Highly unusual layered sample card, with elaborate "Dresden"-style decoration on the front, featuring a butterfly, lace faux flowers, wax leaves, several blue beetle figures, ribbons and a wax hand, all atop gilt lace. The card itself is standard size, nearly 12 by 8.5 cm, and it opens to a blank page on the recto where information about a particular dance, its sponsors and sequences would be furnished, and on the facing verso we are given the... Read More
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Nineteenth Century Watercolor of a Comely Boy Holding the Union Jack by the Cliffs of Dover
England, 1840. A winsome watercolor portrait done probably by a gifted amateur, with a sublime naivete -- some might not find this painting naive at all. What sets this painting apart from typical amateur artwork is how movement is suggested; how wonderful is the spring in the boy's foot -- he almost looks as if he is dancing! The only things that to us peg this more of an amateur are the hands, the hardest thing to paint, which... Read More
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Paper Weaving. A Paste-Craft Kit for Home or Kindergarten
Ravensburg, Germany: Otto Maier Verlag. A "Bonnie Barn" Import, 1960. Sleeve. Fine. A craft kit that introduced children of the mid-20th century to a popular craft of the Victorian period. N.d., circa 1960. Oblong sleeve, 13 by 19 cm. 18 leaves, six of which are meant to serve as backing paper, and a dozen, with strips to be used in the weaving in and out, plus a long metal implement to use in weaving. Directions on back of... Read More
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American Book and Bible House Salesman's Sampler
Cloth. Very Good. N.d., circa 1901. 25 by 19 cm.
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Four Pornographic Booklets,"Made in Paris", "Action Galore", "Candid Camera Shots" (two different booklets with the same title), and "Lots of Action
Paris (?): Unknown, 1965. Wraps. Stapled. Amateur pornography, before the word "Amateur" was so applied. Young-ish couples, or swingers, or three wayers, or whatever, going at it uninhibitedly. Not dated, and since there is no clothing to speak of, a date is impossible to pinpoint. It could be anytime from the forties to the sixties. We think the booklets were probably published in the sixties, the photos taken in the forties based on the decor we see, but who's... Read More
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The Gas Attack; Home Again!
Twenty-Seventh Division, U.S. Army. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Either late 1918 or most likely, 1919. 4to. 31 by 23 cm. 68 pp. An elaborate magazine, probably the final issue, as it is a post-war reminiscence, put out by the 27th Division of the U.S. army. It is rife with cartoons and light-hearted pieces. This is not about shell-shock and trauma of warfare, but rather a commemoration of the solidarity and brotherhood forged in battle, and now that... Read More
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Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .
Venezia (unstated. Zoppino was from Ferrara originally and active there as well): Nicoló Zoppino, 1519. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. One of the earliest tour guides, written for pilgrims who were in the early modern era the closest equivalent to today's tourists. The guide touches on the city and sights beginning in Venice, and proceeds along the eastern Adriatic Coast in what is now Croatia, visits numerous places on the Aegean, before reaching its destination of Jerusalem. But... Read More
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Die Öffentliche Maskerade in Bamberg Fastnachts Montage 1833 in kolorirten Abbildungen
Bamberg: Verlag der Drausnick'sche Buch und Kunsthandlung, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Paper pastedown on boards. Cloth spine. Modern cloth clamshell box. Very Good. A spectacular, and scarce, festival processional or parade book. Only copy showing on OCLC First Search located in Berlin. There are two copies of what seems a somewhat similar Bamberg procesional from four years later, but not only does this other work memorialize a different year's festivities, but also it is of a different size... 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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Album of Original Watercolor and Ink Designs for Calendars from 1903 to 1907; Satan's Calendar. Life's Journey Calendar. Expectation's Calendar. Young Herchard Calendar
1906. Decorated Cloth. Very Good. Uncommonly clever, colorful manuscript calendar illustrations built around a theme for each of the years. Small folio. 31.5 by 26.5 cm. A total of 29 original watercolors, all dated and signed E.L.P.R. The identity of the artist is otherwise unknown and possibly irretrievable. What is manifest, however, is his skill, humor and panache, and these illustrations stand out among the fluent amateurs of the day, if amateur the artist in fact was. Some... Read More
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[Manuscript Magazine] "P.R.M." (Three Volumes)
London, etc., 1893. Pebbled Cloth. Very Good. Three years, and 36 issues, of a Pre-Raphaelite-inspired manuscript magazine, spanning 1891 through 1893, with a major contributor Gerald Moira (1867-1959). The majority of contributors were women, as were the two other most represented contributors, the sisters Nora Butson and Helen Susan Strange Butson, who also acted as the editor of the magazine. With about 250 full-page original artworks, mostly watercolors, and countless other vignettes, text illustrations, border and headpiece or... Read More
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Curioser Spiegel, worinnen der ganze Lebenslauf des Menschen von der Kindheit bis zum Alter zu sehen, in Figuren, mit beygefugten ganz neuen kurzen Erklarungen vorgestellt
Nurnberg: Verlag der Johann Andreas Endter. Endterischen Handlung, 1824. Neue Auflage. Half Cloth. Marbled Boards. Custom Cloth Box to house book. Tall folio, 34 by 21 cm. Title, followed by 41 hand-colored plates. This work was originally published in 1689, and there was also an 1812 printing. This copy used the original woodcut plates, and the hand-coloring palette and style is consistent with that of the seventeenth century, lending an antiquarian authenticity to the edition. They are woodcuts by... Read More
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Ten Chinese Gouache Paintings on Pith Paper of Ceremonial, Pedagogical and Domestic Scenes
Very Good. Especially bright pith or rice paper paintings. N.d., circa early to mid-19th century. Oblong, 23 by 33 cm. The paintings are 19 by 28 cm within the blue paper framing. The paintings include one showing religious observance before a shrine, an audience in a nobleman's receiving chamber, a servant bathing a bay while another serves a cup of tea, students studying, a woman breast feeding, an elderly man being carried in a chaise, etc. All the... Read More
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