![A New Experience [Manuscript fiction]. Children's Literature, Lorraine Jones](/pictures/thumb/17065.jpg?v=1631997087)
Oakland, California: April 1938. With thirty-two watercolor-and-ink illustrations (sixteen mounted and sixteen done directly on pages). Manuscript text in blue ink. Rubbing to edges of boards and some foxing. Blue cloth spine. Blue marbled endpapers. A very good, unique item. Original paper-covered boards decorated in watercolor. Quarto. [36] pp. In.....
London: Read & Co., [n.d., ca. 1850-1860]. First edition. A lively book that combines caricatures with comic rhyming verse. For example, the panel for Henry VII reads: Henry the Eighth, a man of might, was never in a fix,/And we believe he loved a wife, for didn’t he have six!/His.....
[n.p., n.d., ca. 1940.]. These portfolios likely resulted from Doris Schnelder’s and G. Stommel’s work in a sewing course, likely in high school, junior college, or a design school. Schelder and Stommel probably studied at the same school, if not in the same course, as the two millinery fabric grids.....
Easthampton, Massachusetts: Warwick Press, 1998. One of two hundred copies designed, printed by letterpress, and hand-bound by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press. Signed on the colophon by Baskin, Blinn, and Perry Smith, and initialed by Harold McGrath. With eight wood engravings by Leonard Baskin, printed from the original blocks.....
London: Field & Tuer, [1884]. First edition of this attractive Leadenhall Press production covering the fashion of the period following the French Revolution (1798 – 1827). Twenty-four hand-colored plates by Halkett, 10 ff. catalogue printed on recto only. Spine sunned and cloth lightly soiled. With the original cloth ties. Two.....
London: Printed by J. Bettenham for R. Francklin... 1720. First edition, first issue, with engraved vignette of a seated muse with cherubs. Includes “The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina,” which Sabin notes is “the first instrument ever digested and written out, for the entire and perfect government of a political body.”.....
London: John Harris, [ 1827]. First edition. With six plates, including frontispiece, each with three panels illustrating educational scenes. Some rubbing to extremities and dustsoiling to boards. With printed bookseller’s label and small bookplate to front pastedown. Some light intermittent foxing. A very good copy. Publisher’s buff paper boards with.....
[n.p. 1938]. First edition. Vignettes, diagrams of reproductive organs, and photo reproductions throughout. Toning to covers and first and last few leaves. A very good copy of this rare sex ed manual. Publisher’s printed buff paper self-wrappers with photo reproduction of a woman on front cover. Quarto. [32] pp. Jardine.....
New York: I.B. Kleinert Rubber Co., [n.d., ca. 1900]. First edition. Approximate date from the patent date of the hook-on corset (Dec. 1899). Printed in full color on every page with attractive promotional images for Kleinert’s fashion products. Printing error involving a tracking wheel has caused a vertical line of.....
New York: The Ferris Bros. Co., 1905. First edition of this catalogue for the Ferris corset waist, “a health garment in which you feel well, a beautiful garment in which you look well, for ladies, misses, and children.” OCLC records one copy (New Jersey Historical Society). With over forty illustrations.....
Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852. First edition, mixed issue. The present copy has characteristics of the first three printings (BAL): the binding matches the first printing (including the ” high type on spine), as do the signatures. There are no advertisements, as in the second printing, and W.H. Channing.....
Chicago: [Dr. M. Sayle Taylor Hygienic Orificial Co., 1928]. First edition. OCLC records no copies. Booklet titles are Natural Birth Control and Predetermination of Sex, How to Know Your Affinity: A Study of Glands, Facts for Wives: Plain Truths about Marriage, and Sex Knowledge for Children: A Parent’s Duty to.....
Fort Wayne, Indiana: Published by the Author, [1909]. First edition. OCLC locates two copies (Harvard and University of Rochester). Somewhat chipped and creased. Minor occasional foxing. A very good copy of this scarce promotional material for the mail-order business of a woman quack doctor. Original gray-blue printed paper wrappers. 5.....
![Flechtschule. [Cover title.] [Album with samples of Froebel Gift number fourteen (paper...](/pictures/thumb/17047.jpg?v=1628201221)
[ n.p. n.d., ca. 1900]. With fifteen full-page weaving samples in white and light blue paper. No text. Some darkening along edges of covers. Accordion-fold pages. Clean and bright internally. Very good. Original dark blue pebbled cloth with gilt title. 5 in. x 8 in. [18] ff. Froebel (1782-1852), the.....
Pasadena: Vance Gerry: The Weather Bird Press, 1976 [i.e., 1978]. With an engraved headpiece and a full-page engraving by Vance Gerry. Linotype Fairfield on Curtis Rag wove paper. One corner slightly bent Otherwise a fine copy. Floral cloth over stiff card wrappers. With printed paper label. Octavo (4 ” x......
Basel: [ H. Petrus. 1551], First edition of Muenster’s final published work, lavishly illustrated. The text of the first part deals with geometry largely as applied to surveying and ballistics. The second part starting at p. 69 is an extensive treatise on sundials and horology. Some of the woodcuts are.....
![Scrapbook of a department store buyer. ]. Fashion, Caroline Frazier Jackson](/pictures/thumb/17037.jpg?v=1625686812)
[ New York: [1948-1974]. With eighteen ephemeral items and seven photographs (laid in and pasted down) interspersed with a detailed typewritten report chronicling the work history of Caroline F. Jackson from 1948 to 1974. Stick-on labels identify dates and describe each item. The items include an order form for clothing.....
Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid, 1884. First edition. William Grey, a topographer and burgess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was the first to publish an account of his native town. He is known only for that account (featured here). With hundreds of charming woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall. The subjects include bridges, coats-of-arms, nature.....
Newcastle-on-Tyne: Mawson, Swan, and Morgan, 1888. First edition. The ALS from Joseph Crawhall reads, “I send two volumes asking the acceptance of Miss Levick and yourself – and wish you all the happiness which has fallen to my lot during 37 years. With all kind regards, very sincerely yours…” Ethel.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863, First American edition. A London edition was published in the same year. OCLC records no physical copies of the present edition and seven copies of the London (four in North America). Spine sunned. Spot of soiling to front board. Contemporary ink gift inscription to.....
![Elements of the Philosophy of Mind, Applied to the Development [sic] of Thought and Feeling. By...](/pictures/thumb/17025.jpg?v=1625686803)
Geneva [New York}: John N. Bogert, 1840. First edition. Some foxing to ndpapers, as usual. Museum stamps and ink notation on front endpaprs. Some toning to title-page, small contemporary ownership signature on upper margin of title-page. Otherwise very clean nd fresh. A very good, bright copy of an uncommon book.....
[Sherman Oaks, California: Ninja Press, 2012]. One of 79 numbered copies signed by Dennis Phillips. The present book was designed, printed, and bound by Carolee Campbell at her Ninja Press with assistance from Karen Skove Chu in the bindery. Eight lettered hors commerce copies were also produced. With a letterpress.....
[ New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, 1942. First edition of this children’s book that was sold to raise money for the Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies (CCFRS). It was written and illustrated by a class of French children from five to six years. The story follows.....
London: L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1834. First edition. With seven attractive engraved plates (including frontispiece). Some soiling to cloth. All edges gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. A clean copy aside from some dampstaining to endpapers. Ink gift signature (1835) to front flyleaf. A very good copy of a scarce work. Publisher’s.....
New York: European Publishing Company, 1898, First edition. With eleven plates, including a photo frontispiece of Stanton. Plates include portraits of Margaret Livingston Cady, many of Stanton’s other relatives, and Susan B. Anthony. The second page of ads is for both parts of The Woman’s Bible (1898). Dedicated to Anthony.....
