(Tokyo): Gakken Company, (1980). First edition. Fine in blue silk cloth housed in a fine slipcase contained in the original shopping box. 400 plus illustrations, most in color. Text is in English and Japanese. More
![[Broadside]: Buy Girl Scout Cookies. Baked by Megowen-Educator Food Co., Lowell, Mass.](/pictures/thumb/414173.jpg?v=1492441636)
Lowell, Mass. Girl Scouts [of America] / Megowen-Educator Food Co. [circa 1960]. Broadside illustrated in color on thin cardstock. Measuring 11" x 14". Fine. Illustration depicts a bust painting of a Girl Scout saluting, a blank box beneath the portrait probably was provided to fill in local details of cookie... More
![[Broadside]: March on Washtingon Nov. 15, 1969](/pictures/thumb/423561-1.JPG?v=1524233402)
1969. Broadside. Measuring 22" x 28". Blue and red screenprinted image of a jet fighter above a cloud from an exploded bomb with clipped newspaper quotation ("There was a silent majority in Germany too") taped to the bottom left corner and a hand written message under the image in black... More
San Francisco: 1973-1978. Eight posters. Measuring 11" x 17" to 21" x 14". Near fine with tack holes at the corners, a few spots of edge wear and two posters with a few light creases. Original posters advertising the San Francisco Mime Troupe and several of their performances including Bertolt... More
Wien: Johann Thomas Edlen von Trattnern, k.k. Hofbuchdrucker und Buchhandler. 1803. First edition. Small octavo. pp. [16] [1-8] 9-326 [6], with a folded letterpress table at the back. Bound in the original blue paper over boards. Lacking paper spine label, some erosion of the paper at the board edges, dampstain... More
![[Handpainted Sign]: Danny's Hawaiian Punch Bar](/pictures/thumb/413954.jpg?v=1484803341)
[No place - New Jersey Shore? circa 1955]. Handpainted bar sign on thin cardstock. Approximately 27" x 11". Blue and brownish-red gouache on orange card. Some age-toning, light grease stain above the "y" in "Danny's", small tear by the "B" in "Bar", very good. We can find nothing about the... More
![[Photo Album]: Germany and U.S.S.R. Trip](/pictures/thumb/400411.jpg?v=1459397740)
1931. Oblong octavo. Measuring 6.5" x 9". String-tied striped cloth over boards. Contains 91 sepia-toned gelatin silver photographs measuring between 2.5" x 3" to 3" x 5" affixed to stiff black pages, some with captions in English. Near fine album with some fading on the cloth with near fine or... More
![[Photo Album]: Midwestern Travel in the 1910s](/pictures/thumb/403266.jpg?v=1457685868)
[circa 1910]. Oblong small quarto. Photo album lacking the front and rear boards with 230 gelatin silver photographs, measuring between 1.5" x 1.5" and 5.5" x 3.5", some with captions. Good only album with about near fine photos with some images creased, torn, and detached. An album relating to a.... More
Washington, D.C. Secretary of State, 1880. First editions. All five volumes. Green cloth with gold stamping on the front and rear boards, gold stamping on the spine. Very good with owner's stamp on front fly of volume one, light bumps to the spine ends and corners. More
Boston: Russell, Odiorne and Co. 1834. First edition. Octavo. 74pp., folding map. Original quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Slight wear at the spine ends, and a little very light foxing in the text, a nice, very good or better copy. Account of a famous and sensational murder case wherein Methodist... More
![Alphabet og tal Billeder I [Pictures of Alphabets and Numbers]. Victor Adam.](/pictures/thumb/396260.jpg?v=1457685415)
Kobenhavn: Ch. M. Tegner, [circa 1840]. Oblong folio. Canvas spine and stapled wrappers. Split along spine, modest chips and tears along the extremities of the yapped edges, a good copy. Beautiful lithographed balck and white illustrations of letters and numbers. More
Boston: Russell, Odiorne, and Company, 1835. First edition. Octavo. 52pp. Removed from a nonce volume, a little trimmed slightly affecting the inscription, some offsetting on the title page, else very good. Inscribed: "Josiah Quincy Jr. E[sq.] with the respects of the author." Name of Charles F. Adams written on the... More
![[Poster]: Gay Olympic Games. San Francisco Aug. 28-Sept. 5, 1982. K. ANDERSON.](/pictures/thumb/392849.jpg?v=1457685190)
San Francisco: Gay Olympic Games, 1982. Poster. Measuring 14" x 21". Printed in black on glossy white stock. One very short tear, a small crease, otherwise fine. Very attractive poster by "K. Anderson" depicting many of the sports apparently included in the Olympic Games. A poster for the very first... More
One page, undated. An amusing note to James Montgomery Flagg, the illustrator, acerbic author, and creator of the famous "Uncle Sam Wants You" WWI posters, from New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. Folded as mailed, a little light wear, near fine. A near full-page, if brief, note writ large, in full... More
New York: Macaulay, (1936). First edition. A trifle darkened in the gutters, else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with short parallel tears on the front panel and a faint stain on the rear panel. Woman who grows up in a sleepy East African seaport wants to... More
Garden City: Doubleday, (1980). Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Foxing on the first leaf else fine in wrappers. First book in the series about a boy whose cupboard magically brings his tiny toy Indian to life. Basis for the wonderful Frank Oz film scripted by Melissa Mathison. Scarce... More
Paris: Rombaldi, 1937. Limited edition. French. Quarto: [4], v, 308, [2] pp. Illustrated with [7] leaves of plates, including the frontispiece. Very good in contemporary red three-quarter morocco with light wear to the extremities, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, with the first gathering of preliminary leaves beginning to separate along the... More
Columbus, Ohio: Privately Printed / Press of Robert Clarke & Co. 1888. First edition. Red cloth gilt. 210pp. Penciled gift inscription ("Wager Swayne with kind regards of J.K. Collins"), small shelf number front pastedown, slight wear at the spine ends and a little fading, very good or better. Biography of... More
London: Printed by J.D. for Jonathan Robinson, 1693. First edition. Small octavo. 385, [3]pp. Contemporary calf ruled in blind. Ownership signature of Thomas Fleming dated 1696, joints split but holding, stain on title page, a good copy. More
Consett [County Durham]: Ramsden Williams Publications, [June 1965]. Magazine. Cover by Elizabeth Mew. Small quarto. 24pp. Stapled stiff glossy wraps. Wear along the spine, bumping at the spine end, and some light rubbing to the rear wrap, about near fine. A literary journal published by Durham University with the first... More
Stamford, Connecticut: [U.S. Employment Service], 1918. First edition. 20pp. Stapled gray wrappers. Small glue stain on page 3, near fine with staples a bit rusted. Labor conditions in Stamford, Connecticut during World War I. Scarce, OCLC locates only 2 copies. More
![Otras inquisiciones (1937-1952) [Other Inquisitions]. Jorge Luis BORGES.](/pictures/thumb/324038.jpg?v=1457681405)
Buenos Aires: Sur, [1952]. First edition, text in Spanish. Printed self-wrappers. Pages a little age-toned, else a remarkable, fine copy. Often considered Borges's best book of essays, with many whose insights and lines of questioning were famously ahead of their time. More
London: William Heinemann, (1932). First edition. A little rubbing and faint smudges to the boards, a very good or better copy lacking the dustwrapper. Relatively early Ludovic Travers mystery. More
Philadelphia: Eugene Cummiskey, 1827. Possible first American edition (the earliest dated edition located in OCLC, also by this publisher, is 1831). 24mo. 64pp. Contemporary unprinted blue wrappers. Contemporary name on front wrap (John McCardel), horizontal tear across the title page without loss, old and dark stain on last three leaves... More
