The Christian Garland; Or, A companion for Leisure Hours: Consisting of Original and Selected Pieces in Poetry and Prose. A New Edition
London: The Religious Tract Society. Blindstamped and gilded cloth. Very Good. N.d., circa 1870. 12mo. v, 252 pp. With eight chromolithographic color plates of bouquets of flowers, fruits and shells. Plates engraved by Kronheim. Some fading of gilt on spine. Light wear to blue blindstamped cloth. Minor crack by frontis. One plate with small corner dampstain. Generally clean.
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Strathmore Grandee. A Paper for the Colorful Printing of Strathmore Town
Mittineague, Massachusetts: Strathmore Paper Company, 1925. Semi-rigid, thick card. Near Fine. A particularly handsome paper sample catalogue4to. 24 cm tall. Nineteen sheets, most double folded. 14 color sample paper swatches arranged in two columns, inside rear cover. A few light inconspicuous stains on cover, and a touch of wear along rear edge. Otherwise clean, fresh copy.
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Men's Mode De Luxe Fashions Fall and Winter 1952-53
New York: American-Mitchell Fashion Publishers, Inc, 1952. Vol. XVI, No. 2, Section 2. Plastic Spiral. Card stock covers. Near Fine. Folio, 36.5 by 26.5 cm. Front wrap counted in pagination, which goes up to 35, followed by a folded sheet color plate and then two glossy pages. Seventeen plates, nine of which are color plates, including the one double-paged folding plate. Versos of plates are blank but still counted in the pagination. The models are all based on... Read More
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Andenken Franzensbad
Paper. Good. Leporello with twelve panels, each with an oval hand-colored lithographic cameo view of a building or landmark, mostly exterior, in Franzensbad, a renowned Bohemian spa, or one of the nearby spa towns including Eger. These spas are located in what is now the Czech Republic, and at the time this leporello was issued, was a part of Austria. While their natural springs were known as far back as the 14th century, they became fashionable resorts in... Read More
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[Print] At Home Again
Fine. Hand-colored print depicting a red-coated veteran with a peg leg and arm. Undated, unsigned. Circa mid-1800s. The print itself measures 23 by 11 cm, and with mat, 35.5 by 28 cm.
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Stage. The Magazine of After Dark. June 1938. Awards Issue [In this issue STAGE Awards the Palms]
New York: Stage Publishing Company, Inc, 1938. Magazine Wraps. Very Good Plus. A special issue from the stylish 1930s entertainment monthly magazine, with the pre-Citizen Kane, pre-War of the World's, Orson Welles on the cover, and its awards going to Walt Disney, Lunt and Fontanne, Thornton Wilder, Bette Davis, etc. etc. (And short pieces on each of them.) The things that made the magazine uncommonly classy are all on ample display with this issue -- the striking photography,... Read More
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Plates from "Les Modes Parisiennes
Paris, 1869. Quarter Morocco. Marbled paper over boards. Very Good. A bound collection of 137 hand-colored plates. Royal 8vo. 26.5 by 19.5 cm. Plates almost always feature two comely women in the latest Parisian fashion, with an evocative background, both interior and exterior. The backgrounds have coloring, but generally less color than the women and especially their gowns, which were intended as the primary focal point of the illustrations. While this is not a complete compendium of the... Read More
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[Trade Catalogue] 1899 Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Company Makers of "The Heywood" Children's Carriages, Sleeping Coaches and Go-Carts
Softbound. Card covers. Cloth spine. Good. Folio, 30 by 23 cm. 128, [2] pp. One unpaginated sheet in center. Virtually every page is illustrated, most with a large illustration of a wheeled carriage. A few pages near the end have multiple illustrations of parasols, which were attached to the carriages, and one page has two illustrations of runners, to be used in winter. There is a price list given at the front and on the final leaf. The... Read More
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![[Silver Binding] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, . .](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/571/912/1625912571.0.l.jpg)
[Silver Binding] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the United Church of England; Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, . .
Oxford and London: University Press, Oxford. Henry Frowde, London. Silver (With 800 mark, meaning 80 percent pure). Fine. The silver spine is truly an object of beauty. Intricate silver chasing and relief work, with Christ on cross at center of front board, Christ's ascension, the center of the rear, angelic figures in the four corners front and rear, and elaborate Rococo style decoration framing the figures and leaving no space empty. The spine is somewhat simpler with a... Read More
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The Stage. Playing Cards Featuring Photo Portraits of Famous Actors
Cincinnati: The Cincinnati Game Co, 1908. NA. Very Good. A complete deck, with 53 cards, with actors pictured on cards including William Gillette, E. A. Sothern, Alla Nazimova, Ellen Terry, Julia Marlowe, Anna Held, George M. Cohan, Eddie Foy, William Gilette, Lillian Russell, Tyrone Power, Sr., Blanche Ring, Maxine Elliot, etc. etc. Portraits, with their signature, are on every playing card, including cards for 2 to 10. Decorative touches on the cards are pure Art Nouveau! The cards,... Read More
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Globe Artificiel et Mechanique a l'Usage du Petit Geographe [together with] booklet
Amsterdam: F.J. Weygand. Booklet: wraps, and slipcase of heavy card. Fine. N.d., circa 1830. An engraved card globe in six hand-colored sections which when manipulating the moving slide cords attached at the top and bottom will transform the pieces into a globe. Scarce, with only institutional copy appearing on OCLC First Search at Newberry. The accompany explanatory 10 page booklet, 18.5 by 12 cm, describes the earth, its axes, the equinoxes, the tropics, solstices, the continents, etc. It... Read More
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Royal Doulton Dickens Figurine of Dick Sniveller
England, 1950. Fine. Dick Sniveller was a character in Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop. Royal Doulton made the figurine between 1949 and 1981. The figurine is about 11 cm tall and weighs less than 2 ounces. It is in great shape.
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[Faux Book] Needlecase with Silk Fabric Boards, circa 1840s
1840. Silk. Very Good. A lovely early needlecase. Measures 8 by 6 cm. The silk on the front is a red, brown and black plaid; the rear, a crimson, green beige floral; and there is a third textured floral motive fabric within. With one felt leaf to sink pins and needles into. Pins also neatly planted into the top side.
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1940s Cotton Handkerchief of Young Women Athletes
1946. Near Fine. Colorful and fun handkerchief depicting young women, college aged, playing tennis, basketball, and golf, riding horses, running and swimming. The single exception is a vignette of two women lying comfortable in a tree's shade, both reading a book, a Greek colonnaded building, suggestive of a university building, in the background. N.d., but from the hair styles and fashion clearly from the 1940s, and probably from just after the end of the Second World War. The... Read More
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Let Us Be Your Tailor. American Woolen Mills Co. Chicago. Style Book. Standard Fashions Fall & Winter 1903-1904
Chicago: American Woolen Mills Co, 1903. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 30 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 20 pp. Eight of the pages can be described as color plates, with their illustrations of men in the company's suits, overcoats, vests. Seven pages feature large photos. Five of these gray/red and white photos are of the company's plant -- the stock department, the designing (cutting) department, the coat shop, etc. These photos hark back to when much of the... Read More
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Douglas Kitchen Master and Dinette Sets. Confidential Catalog No. 148
Cicero, Illinois: Douglas Furniture Corporation. Wraps. Very Good. N.d., circa 1950. Oblong, 21 by 27.5 cm. Unpaginated, [36] pages, plus content on inside wrap covers. With color detailing -- one bright color per page -- added to black and white illustrations of mostly stainless steel constructed kitchen and dinette furniture, with tabletops of formica typically. The kitchen sets were sold primarily to middle class families back when, but today well-preserved specimens of the furniture are highly prized under... Read More
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Japanese Color Plate Propaganda Album
1935. Cloth on boards. String tie. Good. Bright, vivid and fantastical illustrations from Japanese folklore, Samurai legend, martial and equine traditions, and other patriotic-tinged stories. Showa 10, or 1935. Oblong, 18 by 38 cm. 60 color plates, with text captions generally in a narrow column on one side. The imagery jumps off the page, with not a few of the illustrations having the illusion of real dimensionality. The color adds to the electricity of the scenes depicted. A... Read More
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[Trade Catalogue] Coutellerie de Table et de Luxe de Chatellerault
Domine par Naintré (Vienne): Etablissements Georges Pagé. Wraps. Very Good. N.d., circa 1930. 4to. 28 by 21. 12 plates showing table knives, a few forks and serving knives. Seven of the plates have color. Wraps have raised lettering, and a lined texture. Wraps with edge chipping and wear. Otherwise, clean and lovely.
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Larry Rivers 1970-1973 Marlborough New York. March 24 - April 14, 1973
New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc, 1973. Wraps (Stiff Wraps). Very Good. Larry Rivers. 4to. 30 by 21 cm. 16 pp., plus wraps. Including front cover, seven full page, or mostly full page, images are Rivers' artwork, mostly in color. Light wear.
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[Print] At Home
Fine. Satiric hand-colored print depicting a soldier in colorful uniform. Undated, unsigned. Circa mid-1800s. The print itself measures 23 by 11 cm, and with mat, 35.5 by 28 cm.
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Collection of Five Trade Cards Featuring Baseball Caricatures
Circa 1880s, these five cards were all promotions, or ads, for The New Carlton Dining Room in Boston. The cards depict a fat klutz contending with various elements of the National Pastime. We see this man knocked off his feet by catching a ball, stiffly awaiting a pitch while at bat, as a catcher, striking out and lolling after apparently hitting a home run. The captions are"Bravo! The Pet of the Nine", "Something must be done! Put it there!",... Read More
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Framed Movie Poster of John Barrymore in "The Tempest", a 1928 release
Hollywood or New York: United Artists, 1928. Fine. Charles W. Panc (?). Scarce, and especially attractive, movie poster portrait of John Barrymore. This style of poster is called a "Personality Poster", as it is promoting the star as much as any particular film, and movie theaters could re-use the poster in other movies starring the same actor, although here a movie title is given, unlike most Personality Posters. The poster is dominated by a head-on portrait of Barrymore... Read More
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Costumes et Moeurs des Differentes Nations. Ornes de 48 Gravures
Paris: Alexis Eymery, 1826. First Edition Thus. Half Morocco. Good Plus. 32mo, 8 by 6 cm. 120 pp. The French equivalent of a rare English miniature -- Alfred Mills "Costumes of All Nations". Woodcut plates are simple and even naive but tend to depict people in some kind of activity. Thus there is the free black man making his slave climb a tree, a young "negress" playing ouri, Congolese carrying their cheif on a chaise, South Sea natives... Read More
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50 Books Manuscripts Music Catalogue 111
New York: Scribners [The Scribner's Book Store], 1938. Cloth. A classy catalogue issued by The Scribner Book Store, which was the grandest of Fifth Avenue book stores on the street level of the publisher's landmark building headquarters. The retail space is now landmarked, but the book store closed in 1989, and its antiquarian book department was folded well before that. The catalogue showcases what would be regarded in the trade then and now as high points -- the first... Read More
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![[Two-Sided Broadside] One Side: "The Grand Central Park Menagerie In conjunction with Den Stone's Circus and Troupe of Indian Equestrians!..." "Den Stone's Circus Troupe!](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/562/737/1702737562.0.l.jpg)
[Two-Sided Broadside] One Side: "The Grand Central Park Menagerie In conjunction with Den Stone's Circus and Troupe of Indian Equestrians!..." "Den Stone's Circus Troupe!
New York, 1873. NA. Very Good. Scarce. OCLC First Search suggests that the Ringling Museum has broadsides that may be similar to this one, but otherwise, we could find no copies of Den Stone broadsides in the same vein. The broadside measures 70 by 27 cm. The side headlined with the Central Park Menagerie has 31 woodcut vignettes along its vertical sides. The flip side, relating to his Circus Troupe, has nine woodcut vignette illustrations forming a center... Read More
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