[Los Angeles:]: Printmaker Press, [ca. 1988]. One of 135 copies. Numbered by Marion Baker on the colophon. This alphabet book is dedicated to Edward Lear, “whose effortless, enchanting, alliterative allusions, from ‘Abstemious Ass’ to ‘Zealous Zebra,’ have elicited this edition.”. With a title-page vignette and a large linocut printed in.....
Springfield, Mass: Good Housekeeping Press, [1887]. First edition. In the preface, Helen Alice Matthews Nitsch (1843 - 1889), who wrote under the pseudonym Catherine Owen, explains that she wrote the present work to guide women in establishing a candy-making business. She writes: “The chief advantage I think to be found.....
New York: Boni and Liveright, [ 1922]. First edition. Clare Sheridan (1885 – 1970) details, in a stream-of-consciousness style, her travels in America, including her acquaintances with the Vanderbilt, Whitney, and Morgan families, as well as with Otto Kahn. She also interviewed financier and statesman Barney Baruch, who helped her.....
London: W.F. Ramsay, 1850. First edition. Identified as “Part I” (of a projected set of two volumes) on the title-page, but it seems that a second volume was never published. Illustrated on nearly every page with multiple printed line drawings of essential shapes in art: basic shapes, more complex illustrations.....
New York: Mason Brothers, 1857. First edition. An advanced drawing guide demonstrating how to use geometry, perspective, reflection, and shading in art, particularly in the rendering of architecture. Hermann Krüsi (1817 – 1903) was passionate about properly preparing students for careers in industrial art, and the present work is one.....
New York: Chas. S. Clark Company, [1924]. First edition. A set that included historical authors (like Shakespeare) was published in the same year, and an expanded “Modern Authors” set was published in 1925. All editions are scarce. OCLC records no copies of the present edition, one copy of the set.....
New York: Vanguard Press, 1929. First American edition. Translated from the French by G.S. Taylor. A near-fine copy of this controversial French novel in very good, bright dust jacket designed by Irving Politzer. Publisher’s light green cloth titled in reddish brown. Octavo. 255 pp. “This book created a sensation in.....
London: Frederick Warne & Co., [ 1875 ]. Fourth edition. First published in 1872. All editions are uncommon, and the deluxe bindings are particularly scarce. We could locate only one copy of the present work in the deluxe binding in commerce at this time. With a wood-engraved frontispiece and an.....
Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother, [n.d., ca. 1850]. Apparent first edition.A letter-writing manual focusing on letters related to romance, matrimony, and family, also with a section on business letters. Some of the letter templates include “A Gentleman to a Lady, being his superior in rank and fortune”; “From a Gentleman to.....
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[n.p. n.d., ca. 1930s]. With over 150 fabric swatches (most mounted, some laid in); pencil illustrations on ten pages; and sixteen pages with photo reproductions, periodical clippings, and fashion advertising material. Leaf count includes a [6] ff. packet, laid in, on “Wool Washing Experiments.” Typewritten text. Chipping to edges. Some.....
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Santa Ana, California: [n.d., ca. 1973-1980]. The machine sewing samples in the present item include different styles of stitches (both simple stitches and machine embroidery), cuffs, collars, hems, buttonholes, monograms, and more. The samples are expertly executed and neatly organized, and the typewritten instructions are thoroughly annotated. Some of the.....
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1929]. Illustrated on recto with a chart showing the menstrual cycle and the phases of the moon. Also with a chart showing the “Famous Hollywood 18-Day Diet Menu.” Diagrams of reproductive anatomy on verso. Strip of toning along one edge. A very good copy. Sheet of buff.....
A Bruxelles: Chez François Foppens, 1669. A scarce seventeenth century illustrated edition. Jean Baudoin (1590 – 1650) first published his edition of Aesop in Paris in 1631. The Brussels editions contain a different series of illustrations than the earlier Paris editions. Pieter Van der Borcht (1545 – 1608) had a......
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1974. One of 425 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. The census of copies in the British Isles and North America was produced by John Howell Books. It includes 78 copies. Each of the copies for which there was a collation available lacked.....
Springfield, Mass. Milton Bradley, [n.d., ca. 1900]. “The Game of Words and Sentences” is a sort of fast-paced combination of a pattern matching game and Scrabble. The instruction sheet directs players to draw letter tiles from the box at random and arrange them on a tabletop in alphabetical order. Any.....
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Springfield, Mass. Milton Bradley Co., [n.d., ca. 1900]. First edition. Paper-weaving is Froebel Gift number fourteen. This Gift requires students to entwine thin strips of colorful paper to make geometric designs. The strips are often woven into a larger piece of paper that has a pattern of slits cut into.....
New York: Printed and Sold by Mahlon Day, 1827. Second edition, expanded with the appendices by James Mott (1788 – 1868). First published by Mahlon Day in 1825. All editions are rare in commerce. With two appendices by James Mott: “Brief Hints to Parents & General Principles” and “Hints to.....
Corvallis: Oregon State Agricultural College, [1927]. Issue 437 of the Oregon State Agricultural College Bulletin (December 1927). Illustrated on nearly every page with photo reproductions of young women in home economics classes, plus vignettes by Alma Schulmerich printed in black. Spine split about halfway up, causing some leaves to come.....
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co., 1911. Fourth edition. This is number two in a series. All editions and all numbers in the series are rare, with only a few copies of numbers one, two, and three recorded in OCLC, and no copies of any other numbers. None of the copies.....
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[London: Stationery Office, [n.d., ca. 1939-1944.]. The publisher and location of the present item are uncertain, but similar recruitment posters were printed by the Stationery Office in London. Richly color-printed with an illustration of a Wrens member saluting. Lettered in black, silver, and gold. Creased, b400ut now stored flat. Pinpoint.....
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North Manchester, Indiana: Finnell Sales Service, [n.d., ca. 1940]. First edition. Poster number eight in what seems to be a series of public health broadsides printed by Finnell Sales Service. With a halftone illustration of Dr. Hugh S. Cummings, former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service. Some.....
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[New York: Froebel League of New York City, 1912-1915]. The date on the employment contract indicates that Ruth Sibley was hired by the Froebel League of New York City as an assistant in the kindergarten in May 1912. The two letters (between Sibley and Isabella Goodrich Breckenridge, the secretary of.....
[ Pasadena:]: California Institute of Technology, [1934?]. One sheet (4” x 10 ”). With a vignette of a man in a hot air balloon printed in black. Decorative border and some text printed in orange. Some chipping and a small spot of dampstaining to bottom margin. A very good copy.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [by Taylor, Nash and Taylor], 1913. One of 350 copies. The Book Club of California published its first book, Robert E. Cowan’s A Bibliography of the History of California and the Pacific West, in 1914. Title-page printed in red and black. Slight toning to.....
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Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, Printed at the Windowpane Press, 2019. One of two deluxe copies (total edition of thirty). Designed by Jodee Fenton at Aubergine Atelier and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman at the Windowpane Press. 36 ff., plus fourteen Japanese kozo paper leaves painted on both sides by Jodee Fenton.....
