Portland, ME: G.W. Morris, [circa 1895]. Hardcover. Owner inscription on ffep indicates it was purchased April 5, 1895. Wonderful period ads throughout. Overall, a very presentable copy. Light/moderate shelf/edge wear, fraying at head and heel, tips through, joints starting, else tight, bright and unmarred. Rust cloth boards, silver gilt lettering.....
Price: $75.00
New York: Alumnae Association of Bellevue Pension Fund Committee, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. A very handsome copy of this scarce early history of the hospital. Light shelf wear, light wear at head and heel, prior owner's embossed mark on ffep with ink notation ("from collection of Dr. Coolms"), else tight.....
Price: $200.00
Gloucester, MA: Bezoar, 1975. First Edition. Original Wraps. Includes the work of Erich Obermayr, Joel Oppenheimer, Richard Nelson, and Peter Riley. Rather scarce, especially early issues. Minor shelf/edge wear, touch of toning at the crease, staple removed from center top/bottom, else bright and clean. 8vo. np [12pp].
Price: $35.00
Keelathiruthangal, Sivakasi: Nightingale. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Faux leather boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, matching gilt faux leather slipcase, loose leaf printed paper labels with language of book, blind tooling, set of eight. 57x43mm. Various pag.
Price: $60.00
Moscow: 1997. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Green faux leather boards, tan faux leather quarterbound, green braid trim at quarterbound edges, marbled endpapers, stained dusty rose textblock edges, blind tooled spine. 42x35mm. 240pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $75.00
unkn. nd [circa 1970s]. Unique. Original Wraps. A very thorough and engaging collection of imagery and text involved, as the name implies, around the area of the BDSM scene from a Domme female/submissive male perspective. Neatly tape mounted images on lined white paper, the color and b/w images range from.....
Price: $450.00
New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 1992. Limited Edition. Wooden Box. "Blast is a system of editorial circulation. The temporary results of this system are the editorial items presented herein. At any given time, for any given reader, the material in this container constitutes one complete realization at one point in.....
Price: $275.00
np, 1930. [miniature]. First Printing (presumed). Original Wraps. 20 Art Deco bookplates to be pasted in books. Uncommon to find in this condition. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Rust printed paper boards, printed black trim in corners and spine. 76x74mm. 20pp.
Price: $25.00
Boston, MA: 1816. Newspaper. Early printing of Maine Seperation matters (first in June of 1816). Light toning, fold shows closed split, else bright and clean. fo. 4pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $125.00
Portsmouth, OH: Gilguy Press, 1984. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown cloth boards, paper label on front cover. 57x48mm. 26pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 130 of 200.
Price: $25.00
London: Adam Scott, 1846. Third Edition. Hardcover. Rather scarce and important reference volume. A very handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, ownership plate at front pastedown, manufacturing flaw at tissueguard (fold before cutting) with related tear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Halfbound, navy leather spine and tips, five raised bands, gilt.....
Price: $150.00
[(1663)-1900]. Unique. In folder. The collection, perhaps aggregated as research notes for a forthcoming publication, does not have a compiler associated with the materials. Each piece has individual value, however, as a whole illustrates 19th century British maritime history. It is apparent the researcher was compiling examples of the history.....
Price: $1,500.00
Loire, France: April, 1919. First Edition. Typed Pamphlet. "Published monthly by the British Civilians Serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in TOURS, Indre et Loire, France; and Casually by Anyone who Likes to Butt In." A very unusally bit of material, part news, part humor...very clever and well crafted. A......
Price: $65.00
[New York]: [National Casket Company], c.1930-1950. Designed to protect the casket, the burial vault is commonly required by a cemetery to ensure proper grounds maintenance and to avoid the settling of a grave site. Originally, burial vaults were made of wood, but later technologies allowed the containers to be manufactured.....
Price: $125.00
Chicago, IL: 1917-1930. Collection of cemetery and burial industry materials containing 14 pieces, including: *1917 Receipt for funerary services from Peterson Bros. Undertakers in Chicago *Envelope from Peterson Bros. Funeral Directors *Envelope from Chicago Cemetery Association *2 receipts from 1936 from Oak Hill Cemetery in Chicago *A Grave Plantings brochure from Oak Hill Cemetery *A Deed.....
Price: $150.00
Biddeford, ME: Times Book and Job Print, 1892. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Light shelf/edge wear, touch of warp to front board, light sunning to spine, front joint split, staples at spine exposed (staple bound under cloth), small moisture stain near head, else tight, bright and unmarred. Black cloth boards, gilt.....
Price: $25.00
Philadelphia, PA: Fisher & Brother, 1834. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear, boards fading, front cover coming loose, loose endpaper, else tight, and clean. Tan paper boards, embossed, frontispiece. 55x47mm. 192pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Price: $100.00
Evanstone IL: Press of Ward Schori, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. According to Schori, the first miniature collection of Christmas carols. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Leather with pictorial color illus. on front cover, gilt lettering, letterpress, patterned endpapers, aeg. 60x50mm. 60pp. Numbered limited edition, this being copy 96.
Price: $100.00
New York: Christopher Group, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Track List: A1 How Babies Are Born A2 Menstruation B1 Problems Of Growing Boys B2 The Marriage Union "In the 1950s, The ‘Christopher Recordings on Sex Instruction’ was the Christian how-to sex education guide for parents. It instructs them on how to teach the.....
Price: $125.00
Chicago, IL: Craftsman Sales Co., nd [circa 1940]. Promotional item for a glass set of "Magical Artist Models Glasses" (pinup becomes topless when cold water is added). Pulling down the flap on the card "exposes" the lovely lady at the front. All punches intact and in pristine condition. A scarce.....
Price: $25.00
Portland, ME: Lakeside Press & Photo-Engraving Co., 1892. First Edition. Original Wraps. Presented by . Photographs from Ye Longfellow Gallery. Quite scarce in such exceptional condition. Hint of soiling at wraps, small spot of sticker lift at rear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Pictorial wraps in burgundy and blue ink.....
Price: $65.00
Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions. Limited Edition(s). Hardcover. Includes: Bell: Engravings of the Brain & Nerves. The Apologie and Treatise of Ambroise Pare. Lind: Treatise on Scurvy. Baillie: Morbid Anatomy of the Human Body. Cannon: The Wisdom of the Body. Alvarez: The Mechanics of the Digestive Tract. Christison: A Treatise on.....
Price: $5,000.00
Chicago, IL: 1917-1953. Collection includes records of documents pertaining the funerary industry and illustrates pricing and examples of aspects of the death process for commerce in the 1930s in Chicago. Includes (in folder): *1917 Receipt for funerary services from Peterson Bros. Undertakers in Chicago *Envelope from Peterson Bros. Funeral Directors *Envelope from Chicago Cemetery.....
Price: $125.00
Loose sheets. 61 various grave rubbings from early New England graveyards collected by one man between 1968-1980. Some rumpling around edges, pencil notations, else clean. Various sizes, blue and black rubbings.
Price: $6,500.00
[Germany]: 1855-1881. Holy cards or prayer cards are small, devotional pictures mass-produced for the use of the faithful. They usually depict a religious scene or a saint in an image about the size of a playing card or smaller. The reverse typically contains a prayer, some of which promise an.....
Price: $125.00