San Francisco: Girls' High School, 1886. 1st Printing. One rectangular sheet, printed, in purple ink, on both sides, folded once vertically, to form a 4 page program. P. 1 with the program title, p. 2 the "Argument", p. 3 the Cast [Miss Minnie Bullis in the lead] & p. 4..... More
Boston: McKenzie Engraving Co., 1928. 1st Printing. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Frontispiece. 8vo. 9" x 7". Original publisher's off-white stiff cards stock covers, with tasseled red cord tie [and center stapled]. Front cover with gilt embossed company arms, and lithograph of "Feneuil Hall. One Hundred Years Ago. From a rare..... More
Boston: Tuttle and Weeks, Printers. 1835. 1st printing (American Imprints 31691). 30, [2 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-1/2". Lacking original wrappers, with later oversize heavy stock brown rear cover affixed. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Chicago: National Safety Council, (n. d.). Single sheet, printed recto only. 12" x 8-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce iteration of this oft used phrase... a cursory search of the internet found none with this image of a German U-Boat sinking a freightor. More
Boston: John Eliot, 5, Court-Street, 1815. 1st printing (American Imprint 35218). 20 pp. 8vo. Original printed blue paper wrappers, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Rear wrapper with advert for other publications available from "the Printing-Offfice of John Eliot" More
San Francisco: (n. d.). Ca 1970. Unpaginated, though 4 pages. At base of p. 4, "Variety performers appearing in this show are represented by the A. G. V. A. - AFL - CIO" Center 2 page b/w photographic image, "World's Most Famous and Talented Female Impersonators". 7-3/8" x 4" Printed..... More
London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1844. 2nd Edition (Sabin 84314). 24 pp. Half-title leaf present. 8vo. 7-13/16" x 5". Lacking original wrappers, with later oversize heavy stock brown rear cover affixed. "The letters relate to the repudiation by the state of Pennsylvania of the interest on its bonds, in..... More
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San Francisco: 1918. 1st Printing. Printed on light brown stiff stock paper, 4 pages. P.1 a 'remembrance' of the "Wild Goose Club Excursion Around Lake Tahoe, Tuesday, June 4th, 1918. Pp 2-3, the menu, featuring 10 categories, beginnning with salad, and concluding with coffee. Each category with a cutsey saying..... More
Seattle: 1952. Single card, printed in red & black on green stock. Horizontal orientation: 3-1/8" x 5-7/8". Now housed in an archival stiff mylar sleeve. "In 1928, Fujimatsu Moriguchi, a native of Japan began business in Tacoma, Washington. Moriguchi sold homemade fishcakes and other Japanese staples from the back of..... More
Tulsa, Oklahoma. Watts-Payne. [1947]. 1st Edition, stated. 16 leaves of plates, in similar wrappers. 16 photographs tipped in. 14" x 11". Off white, thick paper wrappers and leaves, spiral bound, printed in brown. Plates tipped in. More
Concord: Printed by Henry E. Moore, 1828. 1st Printing (American Imprints 32454; Sabin 6966). 31, [1 (blank)] pp. Untrimmed. 8vo. Printed self-wrappers, stitched [lacking outer wrappers?]. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Boston: Published by Cummings, Hilliard, and Company. 1825. 1st printing (American Imprints 23265). 40 pp. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-1/4". 19th C. plain brown wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A popular publication, going through 5 editions in 1825 alone. More
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Baltimore MD: H. Niles, 1831. 1st Printing. Pp 233 - 248. Court decision: pp. 244 - 247. 8vo. Disbound, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Reports on the case, "The State vs. Worcester and Others", where the Supreme Court hears the case of The Cherokee Nation vs. The State..... More
Brooklyn, NY; Jamaica, L.I. 1861-1886. Approx. 126 ll. of ms receipts, many tipped in. Oblong format 5- ” x 7 ¼”. Full calf with brown-stamped borders to upper and lower boards, gilt-stamped, red calf label to backstrip. Cornelius Duryea and his seven daughters are part of the sixth generation of..... More
[1851]. Bifolium, i.e., 4 pages of lined paper, 23 lines per page, ~ 10 words per line, ~ 900+ words. 9-3/4" x 7-5/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. While no year is written on the ALs itself, we posit 1851, as the Maritime Heritage website shows the only..... More
Sag-Harbor [Long Island]: Corrector Office, 1835. 1st Printing. Broadside, 12 lines of printed text. Typographical ornament under "Notice". 10-3/4" x 8-3/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. In this printed notice, Nathan Corwin informs "all persons indebted to the late firm of N. & G. Corwin, that all notes..... More
[New York]: 1938. 1st Printing. Menu: 4 pages. Passenger list: 8 pages, which includes, on the last 4 pages, general shipboard information as well as shore excursion options [4] while in Bermuda. Lot also include single sheet of blank "Eastern Steamship Lines" stationery & accompanying envelope, as well as "Eastern..... More
(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. 6" x 4-1/4". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Littleton, N. H. B. W. Kilburn, Photographer & Publisher. (1895). Albumen stereo image of San Rafael, from an elevated perspective, mounted to peach-colored card stock. Lettering in black ink. Verso with publisher imprint. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7". Concave. Rounded corners. Now housed in an archival sleeve. San Rafael was..... More
(n.p.). c. 1960's. 1st Printing. Single leaf. Illustrated. Approx. 8-1/4" x 8-1/4". Thin, illustrated card stock, printed in orange, yellow and brown, now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
San Francisco: Privately Printed [by the Grabhorn Press], 1944. 1st Edition (Magee 401). Limited to 150 cc. [4], 83, [3] pp. 8vo. 9-3/4" x 6". Yellow linen cloth spine over grey paper-wrapped boards. Printed paper spine label (usually lacking). Esberg compiles replies to a letter he sent to "a representative..... More
(n.p.). c. 1950s. Bifolium with slip. Pictorial exterior wrappers, internally decorative. 13-1/2" x11". Card stock, self wrappers, slip stapled in, black lettering. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. More
New York: 1876 - 1897. Receipts: ~ 6-7/8" x ~ 8-1/2" to ~ 10-3/8" x ~ 8-3/8". All receipts with interesting mss entries, giving service provided, along with the cost thereof, e.g., on a receipt from "J. Duane, Dr. / Horse Shoeing, No. 16 Hester Street" we find the mss..... More
Hartford, Conn. 1870. 1st printing. Broadsheet leaflet, with "U. S. Hotel Coach" schedule ["Fare 25 cents"] to recto, Bill of Fare to verso. Ornamental typographical border to recto. 8-7/8" x 5-1/2". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. The Bill of Fare lists 9 courses, starting with Soup, followed by..... More
(n.p.). 1950. 1st Printing. 16 pp. and one slip. Illustrated. 9-1/4" x 6". Blue textured, card stock wrappers, gold lettering to upper wrapper, white glossy leaves, printed in black. Stapled. One white, paper slip scotch-taped in to lower wrapper, printed in black. Now housed in a mylar sleeve... More
