np [Paris]: np [Scalbert; Salon de Paris], nd. First Edition, presumed. Original Wraps. "John Putz presents Daddy Warbucks in It’s a Small World". Collection of 10 b/w erotic photos (one with a satre, one interracial). Each image includes the studio name and a name specific to the image. Housed in.....
Price: $75.00
nd [circa 1940-1950]. Original Wraps. Pad of body identification tags from funeral home, coroner, medical examiner, etc. Bright and clean. Staple bound pad of toe-tags, mimeo? printed in black ink. 8vo. (8.5x5.5").
Price: $150.00
Small collection of funerary ephemera, for death positive enthusiasts and collectors. Includes: Prayers for the Dead pamphlet, published by Barbralph's of Chicago, Greek text with rendering in English. Cemetery deed plot certificate in Grove Cemetery to Harry W. Nair, Beaver Falls, PA., 1877. Mss. Edward B. Garry Funeral Home, Finleyville.....
Price: $100.00
New England: mss, 1836; 1875. Unique. Framed/Loose. Includes two manuscript eulogies, or remembrances and an unbound selection of the Common Book of Prayer: At the Burial of the Dead" is the name for the funeral service in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), which contains prayers, scripture readings, and hymns.....
Price: $150.00
Syracuse, NY: Hurd, Gray & Co., c.1910. First Edition. Staplebound. Manufacturers of The Imperial Embalming Fluid. Small advertising for the Imperial Embalming Fluid product. Starting split, evenly toned, else intact and unmarred. Staplebound pamphlet. Small 8vo. 32pp.
Price: $150.00
Indianapois, IN: National Surgical Institute, ca.1900. [First Edition]. Mail order advertisement for the publications of the National Surgical Institute. No holdings in OCLC. Light creases and toning, else bright and unmarred. Laid in advertisement with light pencil.
Price: $125.00
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1893. Early Pears' soap advertisement published in Harper's Magazine Advertiser using racially insensitive illustration. Stain at one edge, two small chips (one missing, one repaired), tiny closed tear. Single leaf advertisement page.
Price: $45.00
Atwood, CA: Mother Productions, 1993. First Edition. Set of Mother Production's Perverted Priests! 1993 trading card set. Corrupted clergy, demented deacons, maniac messiahs, sinister ministers, heinous horny healers, lesbian nuns.... Includes Jim Jones, David Koresh, Jimmy Swaggart, David Berg, Father Divine...Includes order card, card list, and "Ten Conclusions List." 40.....
Price: $100.00
Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Playing Card Co., c.1916. Later Printing. Loose cards in box. The Fortune deck is for divination purposes, using the same methods and layouts as you would for the standard 78-card tarot deck. The cards have all the oracle-style statements on on the up and reverse sides to.....
Price: $300.00
San Diego, CA: c. 1915. One of many memorabilia and souvenirs printed at the time of the San Diego Panama-California Exposition in San Diego in 1915. In 2015, San Diego celebrated its 100th year anniversary of the Exposition. The original Exposition was erected at the newly designed and created Balboa.....
Price: $50.00
St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Coffin Company, 1911. First Edition. Leather Bound. St. Louis was once a preeminent manufacturer of shoes and booze, white lead, bricks, and crackers. It was home to a coffin trust, with a hammerlock on the funeral supply business, namely Frederick Gardner and the St. Louis.....
Price: $450.00
San Diego, CA: [Edison Dye], c.1976-1979. Unique. Edison Dye is considered to be the father of motocross in the United States. In the late 1960s, Dye brought over many of Europe’s top motocross stars to race against the scrambles racers of America. During this time, Dye also founded a motocross.....
Price: $325.00
Boston, MA: Keith's Theatre, 1908. First Edition. Staplebound. Extremely scarce brochure featuring Boston historic sites and attractions for visitors: museums, parks, burying grounds, public monuments, etc., including color maps and travel options: railway, steamliner. Compliments of Keith's Theatre, B.F. Keith's Theatre (1894–1928) in Boston, Massachusetts, was a vaudeville playhouse run.....
Price: $150.00
Bristol; London: W.D. & H.O. Wills, [1920-1929]. First Edition. Staplebound. Issued as an advertising trade with Wills's Cigarettes in Bristol and London. Cigarette cards were issued by tobacco manufacturers to stiffen cigarette packaging and advertise cigarette brands. Between 1875 and the 1940s, cigarette companies often included collectible cards with their.....
Price: $125.00
Buffalo, NY: Dr. E.C. Abbey, 1884. Trade Card. Victorian Trade Card. Approximately 60 different images (over 100 images total) hidden within the image on the front of the card (a truly exeptional engraving). Verso includes list of hidden images and two other ads. One for a book titled, "The Sexual.....
Price: $35.00
St. Paul, MN: Brown & Bigelow, 1947 (October). Armstrong, Rolf. First Edition. American Beauty reproduced in tinto-gravure from the original pastel by Rolf Armstrong. Brown & Bigelow is a company based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, that sells branded apparel and promotional merchandise, still producing. The company was founded in 1896.....
Price: $1,500.00
Los Angeles, CA: Carque Pure Food Co., 1890. [First Edition]. [Dr.] Harrry Ellington Brook was a Los Angeles based journalist and naturopathic patent medicine practitioner. Mr. Brook wrote a health column in the LA Times titled "Care of the Body." Brook's endeavors into naturopathic health are illustrated in pamphlet for.....
Price: $175.00
Everett, MA: Roland Teiner Co., 1952. Poster. Printed in the saturated blue of engineering blueprints, though on heavier stock. Their focus during WW2 had been largely military and, as the war ended, they were apparently brainstorming ideas about product areas... This was, very likely, an engineer's joke that was 'good.....
Price: $175.00
Pamphlet. Ethnically and racially exploitive advert item for Clark's O.N.T. Spool Thread. A series of short poems and etchings, each ending with "O.N.T." and playing on various stereotypes. Inside covers, front and back, are adverts. Light shelf/edge wear, light/even toning, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Color printed wraps, string bound.....
Price: $75.00
[Los Angeles, CA]: 1945. Sorority dance invitation held at the California Club, [Los Angeles] in 1945. Death/morgue themed with list of dances, i.e. Post Mortem Minuet, and fill-in-the-blank name list. Music provided by Paul Law and Orchestra, a San Francisco based swing band. The California Club is a members only.....
Price: $80.00
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San Francisco, CA: California Festival Association, 1938. First Edition. Original Wraps. Program for the 1938 San Francisco Civic Auditorium production of Faust, under the direction of Max Reinhardt. "The celebrated theater director Max Reinhardt, recognized in America primarily for his elaborate productions of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Franz Werfel’s.....
Price: $100.00
Honolulu, Hawaii: Hawaii Tourist Bureau, [after 1942 before 1959]. Featuring an image of the Island of Oahu and traditional Hulu dancer on the cover, inside depicts a map of the island with mountainous regions, major roadways and text providing information useful to tourists. The pocket size brochure states above the.....
Price: $85.00
Bronx, NY/Washington, D.C. [1990-1995]. First Edition. Small collection of approximately 20+ resource materials, ephemeral advertisements, and event promotions advocating for health and health product services for Black Americans and progressive people of African descent. The collection includes fliers mainly: Afrikan Kultural Arts Network One Retreat 1994 and Afrikan Community Workshop.....
Price: $550.00
Ireland: nd. First Printing. Three uncommon postcards with engravings of the secret operation of 24-25 April, 1914, in Larne. "The Larne gun-running was a major gun smuggling operation organised in April 1914 in Ireland by Major Frederick H. Crawford and Captain Wilfrid Spender for the Ulster Unionist Council to equip.....
Price: $250.00
New York: WICA-Hero Press, [1970-1989]. Collection includes: Unmarked membership card for the Witches Anti-Defamation League printed in red and black; two-sided "Witch" and "Bisexual Gods" article tear sheet; two-sided book advertisement catalog for Hero Press; Witches' Anti-Discrimination Lobby - "What WADL is and is not"; Witchcraft World article; The Mind.....
Price: $250.00