Detroit: Cadillac Printing Co., (n. d.). 1st printing, ca 1935. Unpaginated, though 10 pages. Filled with illustrations of various body styles, as well as mechanical systems. Landscape format: 8-3/4" x 11-1/4". Dark blue paper covers, with color image of the LaSalle to the front cover, white lettering underneath. "LaSalle was..... More
Chicago: Designed and Printed by Poole Bros., Inc., (1927). 1st Printing. 15, [1] pp. Illustrated with images of the many styles of instrument offered by the company. Landscape format: 8-1/4" x 9-3/4" Light brown paper covers printed in black, gold & red. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve... More
Gettysburg, PA: W. H. Tipton, Photographer. (n. d.). Ca 1880s. Series number hand inked to recto, under the lower right corner of the right view. Two square b/w albumen photographs one a yellow mount, grey verso, with printed series label of images affixed to verso. 3-1/2" x 6-7/8". Now housed..... More
[San Francisco]: 1942. 1st Printing. Bifolium menu, die-cut in the shape of a football, with the menu to pp. 2 - 3. Oval, football shape: 8-1/8" x 5-3/8". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. More
Paris: Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co., No. 18, Rue Vivienne, 1839. 1st edition thus. Not on Sabin, though see 44696 for many other 1839 editions. ASSOCIATION Copy, with the bookplate of Horace Marryat. [4], 345, [3] pp. Contents page at rear. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5" Period tan..... More
[Boston ?]: Leander Baker, Photographer, (n. d.). Ca 1874 / 75. Two square albumen images of cannons in the Navy Yard. 3-9/16" x 6-15/16. Slightly concave orange mount, round corners, with blank violet back. "The Charlestown Navy Yard, later the Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of the oldest shipbuilding facilities..... More
[Boston ?]: (n. d.). Ca 1870s / 1880s. Two domed albumen images of stacked cannonballs in the Navy Yard. Photographer not identified. 3-7/16" x 6-15/16. Flat yellow mount, round corners, with printed yellow description slip affixed to verso. "The Charlestown Navy Yard, later the Boston Naval Shipyard, was one of..... More
(Lebanon ?): (n. d.). Ca late 1920s. Unpaginated, though 12 pp. Adverts throughout. 9-1/8" x 4". Original publisher's printed brown card-stock paper covers, stapled. Local business adverts to both front & back. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Scarce ~ 100 year old guide to Lebanon, KY, including a...... More
Troy, N. Y. A. W. Scribner, Book and Job Printer, Cannon Place, 1865. 1st Printing (Monaghan 802). 47, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-3/4". Original printed self-wrappers, stiched. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "If it be that the South is avenged in his death, she will find..... More
New York: Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce, Ca 1849. Cf. Conningham 5770, C&I Catalogue Raisonné 6180. Ship specifications to left (4 lines); engine specifications to right (4 lines). Hand colored. Entire litho: 9-1/8" x 12-5/8". Image: 8-1/16" x 12-5/8". Now housed in an..... More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. 1st edition. [6], 307, [7] pp. Crown 8vo. Original publisher's decorative green cloth binding. More
New York: D. Appleton - Century Co., 1934. 1st edition. xii, [2], 503, [1 (blank)] pp. Index at rear. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Red cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering. No dust jacket. More
Brooklyn: "The Union" Steam Presses, 10 Front Street, 1864. 1st Edition. [6 (blank)], [3] - 189, [7 (blank)] pp. T.p. printed in red & blue. Illustrated with a folding "Plan of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and adjacent Grounds as prepared for the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair. In aid..... More
Divers places: divers dates. Includes 3 diaries: 1916, 1918 & 1942. The 1942 diary is written while Chandler was a Colonel assigned to New Guinea, it mentions a Japanese air raid while hiding out in a slit trench, meeting with General Clark preparing anti- aircraft installations etc., etc. The early diaries are..... More
[Saxton's River, VT ?]: [1900]. 1st Printing. Single sheet, printed recto only. 8 lines. Verso franked, with One Cent stamp, circular cancel from Saxton's River VT, dated of August 21, 1900. 16-13/16" x 10-7/16". Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Across the top of the broadside, the printer proclaims..... More
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Franklin, N.H. Published by Peobody & Daniell, (1852). 1st printing of this issue (Wheat, Maps of the Gold Rush, 212). Cf Drake 4698, for the 1797 first edition. 48 pp, including wrappers, untrimmed. CA descriptive text p. 39, providing details on local gold rush municipalities: San Francisco ["principal port of..... More
Detroit: Evans - Winter - Hess, [1924]. 6, [2] pp (including wrappers). Illustrated with 7 color lithograph vignettes. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2". White paper covers, printed in black, oval color vignette to front cover, stapled. Rear cover with imprint of Loomis-Williamson Co, West Chester PA, presumably an automobile delearship. Now housed..... More
Ca early 1900s. Divers sizes. All now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. A small group of materials, including three blueprints, an original black and white photograph, several loose leaves of original pencil sketches, various additional ephemera, etc.... evidence strongly suggests all from the files of Lyman Gilmore, Jr., a...... More
(n. p.): Shawnee Press, 1955. 1st edition. 48 pp. 10-1/2" x 7". White printed & illustrated stiff paper wrappers. Stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Poems by James Weldon Johnson, based upon American Negro folk sermons. Music by Roy Ringwald, based upon American Negro Spirituals... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, Printers, No. 607 Sansom Street, 1864. 1st Printing. 24 pp. 8vo. 9" x 5-5/8". Original publisher's pale blue-green printed paper wrappers. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. "The United States Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861..... More
[Buffalo, NY?]: (1972). 1st edition thus. SIGNED & Numbered by Krims, #759. Accompanied by a printed text sheet of yellow-orange paper [~ 19-3/8" x 5"], folded twice. 24 loose b/w photographic images of "little people". Box 5-7/8" x 5-3/8". Housed in a publisher's blue box, with a b/w photographic image..... More
Lexington, Ky. Published by Blue Grass Lodge No. 4 Fraternal Order of Police. Distributed by Lexington Merchants, 1967. 25th Edition, and 1st printing thus. 67, [1] pp. Folding map tipped-in at rear. 6" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed green paper covers, stapled. Cord hole in upper left of booklet. Scarce..... More
[Boston?]: Leander Baker. Ca 1874 - 75. Yellow mount, flat, rounded corners. Imprint to each side. Verso blank. Separate, square b/w albumen images. 4" x 6-3/4". Now housed in a clear mylar sleeve. "The Boston City Hospital (1864–1996), in Boston, Massachusetts, was a public hospital, located in the South End..... More
Lexington, Ky. Published by Blue Grass Lodge No. 4 Fraternal Order of Police. Distributed by Lexington Merchants, (n. d.). 26th Edition, and 1st printing thus, ca 1968. 71, [1] pp. Folding map tipped-in at rear. 6" x 4-1/4". Original publisher's printed green paper covers, stapled. Cord hole in upper left..... More
San Francisco: John Howell, 1921. 1st Edition, 2nd issue with errata corrected (Flake 9500; Rittenhouse 610n). One of 50 copies issued illustrated with tipped-in facsimile title pages. [8], 193, [1 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with 40 facsimile [photostat] title pages tipped-in blank leaves interleaved within the volume. 8vo. Later tan fine-weave..... More
