Lincoln Campaign Songster for the Use of Clubs. Containing All the Most Popular Songs
Philadelphia: Published by Mason & Co., 1864. 32mo, original printed buff wrappers. 16 pp. First and only edition of this songster for Lincoln's second campaign, with a portrait on the cover depicting a beardless Lincoln, in spite of the fact that Lincoln had a beard at the time. Included here are eleven campaign songs, among them Shout Aloud For Lincoln, Hurrah! For Lincoln and Johnson, and Union and Lincoln. An advertisement for Lincoln badges, pins, and emblems... Read More
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Map of Lake Hopatcong. Morris and Sussex Counties. New Jersey
New York: E. Robinson, 82 & 84 Nassau St., 1887. Hand-colored lithograph, 18.25" x 28.5" plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into black leather 12mo covers (6.75" x 5.25"). Early ownership inscription of "F. G. Himpler" and small manuscript map of portion of street on verso of two panels. Printed text from unidentified source regarding Lake Hopatacong cottagers affixed to front paste-down. CONDITION: Spine perished, front cover detached, map good, with some separation along folds. A scarce... Read More
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The Wonderful Cave of the Winds: Manitou, Colorado. Under the Colorado Rockies
Manitou, Colorado: Cave of the Winds Scenic Attraction Company. Printed by Prompt Printery, Colorado Springs, [ca.1920]. Color brochure. 1 sheet, 14.25" x 6.25", folds to 3.25" x 6.25", printed on both sides, pictorial color front and back panels, numerous b&w illus. The geological wonder Cave of the Winds contains 16 rooms with a variety of formations and rare crystals of Onyx, Calcite and Flowering Alabaster. One could travel to the cave on their "Beautiful Scenic Auto Road" starting... Read More
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Robinson Crusoe
[New York?, circa 1880]. Chromolithographic die-cut, 7.875" x 4". A chromolithographic die-cut of Robinson Crusoe accompanied by his parrot, Poll, perched on his shoulder, a goat, and a cat.>/p> CONDITION: Good removed from a scrapbook and affixed to portion of scrap book leaf.
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“Packing Onions.”
Bermuda, ca. 1885. Albumen print, 6.75” x 9” on larger paperboard mount with title in manuscript below image. CONDITION: Very good, light soiling to upper left corner, otherwise fine. An original photograph documenting Afro-Bermudian laborers packing what are likely sweet “Tenerife” onions. Shown here is a group of four men, two women, and two male children, all of African descent, posed in the act of crating onions. As harvest was underway, we can surmise that this photograph was taken... Read More
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Luis Riel, Martyr du Nord-Ouest. Sa Vie-Son Proces-Sa Mort
Montreal: Publie, par le journal La Presse, Imprimerie Generale, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo (8.25" x 5.5"), half leather, red marbled paper, original pink front and back wrappers bound-in. [3], 96 pp., 5 b&w illus. Ownership inscription of one "Papineau" in pencil at head of wrapper front page. CONDITION: Good, ex-library, front hinge cracked and nearly detached, loss from library label removal at bottom spine edge of upper cover, library label and accession number at foot of ffep, remnant of library... Read More
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Mary Gilman Pulsifer. In Memoriam
Brookline, Massachusetts: 1953. Softcover. 12mo (7.25” x 5”), gray wrappers with gray title, bound with gray cord. Frontis. port., [9 pp.]. CONDITION: Good, some offsetting at covers, frontis. leaf with slight dent, clean and fresh interior. A memorial biography for Mary Gilman Pulsifer (1896–1953), from Kennebunkport, Maine and Brookline, MA, with acknowledgment of her many club activities and an eulogy by Rev. Ashley Day Leavitt.
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The Game of Puss in the Corner
New York: McLoughlin Bros, [ca. 1880]. Chromolithographically illustrated paperboard box, 122 x 90 x 18mm, 32 chromolithographic cards, 4 pp. booklet of directions. A very appealing McLoughlin game consisting of thirty-two cards depicting "rats, mice and pussies." Scarce. Not in OCLC. A google search finds an identical one at the New York Historical Society, and also reveals a version with a different illustration, etc. on the cover. CONDITION: Good, box worn with two breaks in the edges of lid.... Read More
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Clifton-Morenci [View Book]
Clifton, Arizona: Arizona Copper Company. Drug Department; Brooklyn, N. Y.: Albertype Co., [ca 1910]. Oblong 8vo (8" x 10"), printed tan wrappers, albertype 4" x 5" photograph cut in a semi-circle mounted on front cover. 18 4" x 6" albertype photos mounted on brown album paper, 1 fold-out 5" x 20" panoramic photo. A scarce view book of copper-mining boomtowns Clifton and Morenci, with images of smelters, offices, railways, and hillside and roadside residences of the Shannon, Arizona, and... Read More
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The Princess Anne Hotel, Virginia Beach, VA
[Norfolk, Virginia?]: 1893. Oblong 12mo (5.125" x 7.375"), pictorial light blue wrappers. 16 pp., numerous illus. throughout, map on last p. (3" x 4.875"). Early ownership inscription in ink on title page: "Anthony W. Knapp Princess Anne Hotel Virginia Beach Va March 1898." CONDITION: Very good, light wear to wrappers and first page. An apparently unrecorded 1893 edition of this amply illustrated guide to Virginia Beach's Princess Anne Hotel and vicinity. It includes several train itineraries, descriptions of the... Read More
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The Good Wine
Thetford, Vermont: Cricket Press, 1965. 4to, burlap cloth with paper title on cover and paper title "Nine Wine Labels" on spine. 23 pp. with 9 wood engravings on facing text. Title and text printed entirely in red. Colophon: "22 copies of this book were designed and executed by Gillian Tyler at the Cricket Press in Thetford, Vermont / copy 1." CONDITION: Very good, slight loss to corner of spine label. The text of John 2, in which the water... Read More
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Prairie and Rocky Mountain Adventures, and a View of Our Western Empire
Columbus, Ohio: Segner & Condit, [ca. 1866]. Handbill (3.25" x 8"), decorative border around bold titles and 1 paragraph of text. CONDITION: Very good, light damp-stain at left and .25" tear to right edge. A publisher's prospectus advertising an American West title by John C. Van Tramp, to be bound in the buyer's choice of either "Embossed" or "full Leather Library Binding," and "illustrated with Engravings of Western Scenery, Incidents of Travel, Hunting Scenes, Prairie Life and Adventures." At... Read More
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Kellogg's Funny Jungleland: Moving Pictures
Battle Creek, Mich.: Kellogg's, 1932. 18mo (17 cm), color illustrated wrappers. [6] pp. that fold out to 33 cm. with 2 pp. cut in horizontal strips, numerous color illus. A colorful and entertaining metamorphic booklet for children published by the Kellogg cereal company advertising Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Pep Bran Flakes; designed so a child can move the horizontal flaps to change the attire of humorous animals. CONDITION: Very good, light wear on extremities.
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Days of '76" August 8-9-10: Deadwood, The Historic City of the Black Hills
Deadwood, S.D., 1929. Color brochure, 1 sheet (12.25 x 19"), folded into 3" x 6.25', one side printed in blue, the other in brown, numerous illus., ranging from 1" x 2.5" to 5" x 7" to 3" x 16". This attractive folding brochure features evocative illustrations of the Historic Deadwood Days of '76 festival, including "Sioux Indian Battles and War Dances Every Day," a covered wagon train, Paris Williams,"the most ensational Woman Rodeo Performer in America." One image shows... Read More
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Wm. N. Seymour's Madison Directory and Business Advertiser
Madison, Wisconsin: Atwood & Rublee, 1855. 18mo, half burgundy leather with printed green paper boards. 192 pp., folding map, 16.75" x 26.5" plus margins. Styled the "First Annual Edition" on the title page, this is the only directory of Madison issued by Seymour. Pages 9 to 78 consist of a history and description of Madison, as well as a list of state and federal government officials. Pages 79 to 126 lists the citizens and their occupations, and pages 129... Read More
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North Woods Hunting Photo Album, Moosehead Lake Region, Maine
[ca 1895]. Oblong 8vo (19 cm) photo album, flexible blue-green cloth. 21 bromide print photos (4.5" x 6.5"), 3 laid-in photos ( 2.5" x 3"), 1 b&w laid-in postcard (3.5" x 5.5"). A photo album documenting a hunting trip in the North Woods of Maine, beginning with a view of Mount Kineo and the Kineo House with its attendant buildings on Moosehead Lake. Subjects captured include a group of hunters posed on a porch with a uniformed man, perhaps... Read More
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Souvenir Photographic Views of Boston
Boston: The Owens Brothers -- Hillson Company, 1905. 8vo (7.75" x 9.75"), pictorial color wrappers, numerous b&w illus. A collection of mostly full-page views from photos of Boston architecture, parks, and transportation stations. Included also are "odd bits" of Boston such as a tea room in Chinatown, a Salvation Army Christmas dinner, Charlestown Navy Yard, and a subway tunnel. CONDITION: Good +, bright and clean wrappers, moderate foxing at margins of leaves, images clean and bright.
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The Art of Making Fireworks, Improved to the Modern Practice from the Minutest to the Highest Branches: Containing the Plain and easy Directions for Mixing and Preparing the Ingredients, with instructions for making Squibs, Crackers, Serpents, Wheels, Roman Candles, &c. As also for some highly curious Aquatic Fireworks
Derby: Published by Thomas Richardson, [1818]. 12mo., original printed paperboards, black cloth spine. 24 pp., with hand-colored folding frontis. engraving (8.75" x 7"). An early 19th century pyrotechnical manual, comprising ingredients, recipes, and construction details. With a delightful hand-colored frontispiece depicting all manner of fireworks entertaining observers. OCLC records just five holdings of the Derby edition, as well as holdings for two London editions published in 1825 and 1835. CONDITION: Good, frontispiece recently reinforced, title at head... Read More
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The Santa Barbara Court House
Santa Barbara, CA: The Schauer Printing Studio, Inc., 1929. 4to., tan paper covers, [26 pp.], 17 b&w illus., color center-fold illus. A very attractive commemorative publication describing Santa Barbara's Spanish revival court house dedicated in 1929 with colorful center-fold of the Assembly Room. Near fine.
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Pointers For Pikes Peak Visitors
[Pikes Peak], [ca.1925]. Brochure. Printed in black on yellow sheet, 6.5" x 5.25", folded 3.25" x 5.25; 2 panels printed on both sides, decorative upper cover, 1 b&w illus. A pocket-size guide for the tourist to Pikes Peak, Colorado, describing the available services to inform and memorialize one's trip. Distances from Colorado Springs and elevations are listed on the upper cover. The visitor will have access to a telescope, field glasses and an experienced guide to help observe... Read More
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The Wife : Interspersed With a Variety of Anecdotes and Observations, and Containing Advice and Directions for All Conditions of the Marriage State
Boston: Printed by A. Newell, for A. March, No. 13, Market-Square--Newburyport, 1806. 16mo, original full calf with gilt-stamped calf lettering-piece, and gilt-stamped rules on spine. First American edition. A scarce marriage manual for women by an anonymous British author. Among the more interesting chapters are "Difference of opinion in matters of religion," "Difference of opinion in the affairs of government," "The stupidity of consulting with, or giving credit to persons who pretend to fortell future events, and "The method... Read More
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First Nudes, Eric Gill
London: Neville Spearman Ltd. Printed at the Chiswick Press. 1954. Hardcover in dj. Sm 4to (10" x 7"), gilt red cloth. Unpaginated, 24 b&w plates. CONDITION: Near-fine, offsetting from dj on pastedowns; very good dj with short tears to edges. First edition.
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Owl's Head Maine. Photograph
[Owl's Head, Maine circa 1900]. Cyanotype, 5.75" x 7.75", on white mount trimmed close at top. A cyanotype view of Owl's Head on Penobscot Bay, Maine, including the lighthouse on top and boathouse below. CONDITION: Good +, light vertical crease at center, rippling in upper corners,crooked mount with chipping and loss.
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Norridgewock Cadet Band Photo
Norridgewock, Maine, circa 1910. Silver print, 5"x 6.25" on 8" x 10" decorative mount. A photo of the Norridgewock, Maine cadet band, showing sixteen men and boys posing with their instruments and drums, and flags waving from a two-story house behind them. Likely taken on the Fourth of July. CONDITION: Very good, strong tonality, small chip on one corner of image, light wear on mount.
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Grange Hall. Norway, Me. [Real Photo Postcard]
Norway, Maine: [ca. 1910]. Real photo postcard, 3.5" x 5.375", title and location on negative. CONDITION: Very good, clean image with strong tonality. An early image of the Norway Grange in Maine, built by the Russell Bros. in 1909. Judging by the remaining strips of snow on the lawn and leafless trees, likely taken in early spring of the following year.
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