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1894ref. 175New York: McLoughlin Brothers Publishers 1894. Wraps. Very good. 8vo shape book 8 ¾" x 4 1/8"; 14pp; chromolithographed outline of a doll in a frilly cape title to front cover and publisher to back; 10pp black and white illustrations 4pp color illustrations with text; creasing to feet and to fore edge through the wrapper with color loss light age toning and some soiling to pages; very good minus. McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers unknown books
1939ref. 199Chicago: Merrill Publishing Co 1939. Wraps. Near fine. Florence SALTER. Folio; 14pp; color illustrated textured paper wrappers with title and artist printed to front and back; color illustrations every page with text at bottom; very light scuffing to edges and a small white spot to front wrapper; near fine. Only in 3 World Cat libraries 2 in the U.S.A. and one in Canada. Merrill Publishing Co unknown books
1902ref. 87Waterville Maine: W. M. Ladd Company Printers 1902. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 12mo; 1-2 3-36; light brown stiff wrapper with black title printed on front; 2 staple binding; black and white photographic illustrations; some printing ink smears rusting of the staples with some staining; near fine. Four copies located in WorldCat libraries all in Maine. Event program for the Centennial celebration of the town of Waterville Maine. Includes committee members for the various celebratory functions the town history entertainment hotels and restaurants in town with prices the program order of worship in the religious Mass held at City Hall dedication of the new city hall Grand Illumination of the City parade details the sports program which includes a Balloon Ascension railroad travel schedules as well as places of interest. Included is the schedule of Commencement for Colby College. W. M. Ladd Company, Printers unknown books
1936ref. 45Akron Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good . 8vo; 32pp; color photographic illustration wrapper with Shirley Temple waking up in bed; 2 staple binding holding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; bumping to wrapper corners; very good plus. Shirley Temple was a childhood star of screen radio and television. She later was the Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia. As a child star she was Hollywood's number one box office draw from 1935-38. The Saalfield Publishing Company unknown books
1842ref. 205New York: Samuel S. & William Wood No. 261 Pearl-Street 1842. Wraps. Very good. 4 ½" x 3 ½"; 24pp; yellow paper wrapper with wood-cut decoration of a paddle-wheeler on the front and a listing of other publisher's School Books to rear; string binding; wood-cut decoration to title page; all text within double-lined wood-cut borders; light soiling to wrapper light foxing to margins creasing to corners; very good. No WorldCat listings for this edition. Perhaps Dr. Alexander Anderson's wood-cuts as illustrations he worked with the firm while they were located on Pearl Street. Text includes arithmetic tables Federal and British money information weights and measures time and motion and "Tables of Money Weights and Measures Mentioned in the Bible". An interesting little chapbook. Samuel S. & William Wood, No. 261 Pearl-Street unknown books
1936ref. 2Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co 1936. 1st Edition. Stiff boards. Near fine. 4to; 18pp; color pictorial wrappers on stiff board; 3 staple binding; 3 color illustrated pop-up; light ink bleed through from some illustrations small scuff to white dog face light age toning of paper; near fine. Only 3 located in WorldCat libraries. Charming story of two mischievous dogs with three color pop-ups. Whitman Publishing Co unknown books
1923ref. 401Chicago: Woman's World Magazine Co. Inc 1923. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. First edition. 4to; 46pp; stiff black illustrated wrappers with color printed title and picture of two girls baking; illustrated; original loop for hanging attached; light crease to bottom corner front cover light age toning of paper; near fine. This edition in only one WorldCat library. Candy making and packing directions and recipes for each month of the year. Woman's World Magazine Co., Inc unknown books
1930ref. 182No place listed: No publisher listed 1930. Pictorial boards. Very good. G.G. WIEDERSEIM. Folio; 14pp; heavy card stock wrapper and pages; wrapper full color illustrated cover with title on front cover; full color illustrations every page; light soiling and shelf scuffing to wrapper tape to wrapper upper spine covering a 2" tear on the fold also tape to the inside of wrapper and 2nd page at the spine; very good minus. Not listed in any WorldCat library. Scarce. Grace Gibbie Wiederseim Drayton 1877-1936 was the artistic creator of the Campbell Soup kids and Dolly Dingle. She was the first woman to be a cartoonist for the publisher Hearst. Dating this work is based on her marriage to Theodore Wiederseim from 1900-1911. After her divorce from Wiederseim and marriage to William Drayton in 1911 she signed her name using Drayton. The paper and printing of this booklet seem to be from the 1930s although the illustrations are signed with the name of her first husband. A book called Kiddie land was published around 1910 with her illustrator sister Margaret G. Hays and Thomas Burke containing verse and rhymes. While this edition lacks verse and rhymes it does contain stories about the activities the children are involved in. Interesting that the colors in the clothing are changed in this edition. Other soft wrapper books have the words "Linen Like Finish" to front this copy does not. No publisher listed unknown books
1840ref. 293Alnwick: W. William Davison 1840. Wraps. Very good. 16mo 5 1/8" x 3 1/8"; uncut leaf of 8 numbered pages; 1 ½" split at spine fold; relief illustrated; very good. In 6 WorldCat libraries 2 in the U.S.A. Unusual to have survived as an uncut leaf. Gruesome French folktale of a man famous for murdering wives this version with a surviving wife inheriting his riches and marrying a kind man. W. [William] Davison unknown books
1940ref. 425Kenosha Wisconsin: Abbott Publishing Co 1940. Boards. Very good. Winifred PLENINGER. A Pull-Toy Book. 8vo; 16pp; color illustrated card stock train engine shaped wrapper with hinge that expands so the wrapper stands; color illustrated with text below; creases to wrapper light soiling light age toning to paper; very good minus. Not listed in WorldCat. Abbott Publishing Co unknown books
1917ref. 463New York: Review of Reviews Company 1917. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. First edition. 8vo; 48pp; brown mottled paper over board with printed title and seal of the Life Extension Institute Inc. New York to front cover; tan cloth spine; lightly bumped corners; black and white illustrations; double frontispiece and one other full page plate inserted twice; very good. Odd little diet book from the Life Extension Institute with dietary and life style recommendations. Some seemingly pseudo-science but perhaps forward for the time period. Review of Reviews Company unknown books
1930ref. 447New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company 1930. Staplebound. Very good . 8vo; 10pp; 2 staple binding; color illustrated wraps and illustrations every page with text; light soiling; very good plus. Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company unknown books
1873ref. 571Leonminster England: Orphans' Printing Press 1873. String. Near fine. 32mo 4 1/16" x 2 11/16"; yellow glazed wrapper string binding front printed with vignette of a dove caring a small branch olive branch in his beak rear wrapper a poem; light pencil marks to front wrapper; near fine. Not held in any WorldCat libraries. Story of faith. The Orphans' Printing Press was founded in 1873 by the Quaker Henry Stanley Newman and is still in operation. Orphans' Printing Press unknown books
1855ref. 613711855. Softcover. Very Good. Holograph Manuscript. Octavo. 42 2pp. Ribbon-tied wrappers. Foredge gilt. Beautifully written in blue ink with decorated initials rubricated. Small chips to the edges of the wrappers a pleasing very good or better manuscript. A fairy tale in both prose and verse. Fair knight Jòan goes on a long journey looking for truth and a princess shadowed by fairies. The fairies dose him with poppies give him sweet dreams and intimate that he shall find "thy silver dove" the Princess Alethia. Apparently unpublished the manuscript is accompanied by a 1936 letter from the Library of Congress Copyright Office replying to an inquiry and stating that the title is not recorded. Additionally none of the word combinations in the title reveal published works in OCLC or other comparable sources. A beautifully rendered complete and unpublished 19th Century fairy story. unknown books
ref. 173027SOCIETE ANONYME DES MATIERES COLORANTES. Satinette. Album of 22 full page fabric samples. Oblong 8vo 109 x 160 mm publisher's boards. Paris: Societe Anonyme des Matieres Colorantes et Produits Chimiques de Saint-Denis n.d. A delightful trade catalogue of fabric samples from this important establishment. In addition it is still preserved in its orginal decorated binding. hardcover books
1910ref. 45601United States 1910. Very Good. United States ca. 1910. Original hand-made scrapbook 28x32cm; side-stitched cloth-book illustration mounted to upper cover; 24pp. filled to completion with a hundred and twenty-four 124 magazine cutouts. Cloth a bit creased along margins with light soil throughout otherwise a Very Good example scrapbook elements clean and sound. Very sweet and rather unusual child's scrapbook painstakingly assembled. The images mostly printed halftone with just a few in color were evidently gathered from a variety of magazines and feature wholesome domestic scenes loving parents children at play puppies and kittens farm animals and Santa Claus. Date of production based on the presence of several elements--an illustration of a snappy black Model T and lots of Campbell's Kids a popular ad campaign introduced by Campbell's Soup in 1904 featuring cherubic almost Kewpie-like children drawn by Grace Drayton. Another popular ad campaign present here: His Master's Voice. unknown books
1790ref. 69478London: J. Parsons 1790. Full Description: ANONYMOUS. Authentic Memoirs Memorandums and Confessions. Taken from the Journal of His Predatorial Majesty the King of the Swindlers. London: J. Parsons n.d.c.a. 1790. First edition. Octavo 8 x 5 inches; 204 x 125 mm. viii 184 195-300 1 errata 1 blank pp. With skips in pagination but collates complete. Although the final leaf reads "End of the First Part" no second part is known. This Journal covers the years 1780-1784. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper boards. Spine stamped in gilt. Brown leather spine label lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing to boards along edges and joints. Title-page repaired along inner gutter margin. Some light toning throughout. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page. Overall very good. This journal by the anonymous "King of the Swindlers gives a detailed account on the various scams and swindles in which the subject was implicated. Most of names in the text being lightly disguised. According the the introduction by the publisher "This singular miscellany fell into the Editor's hands through the carelessness of its owner who left it on the seat of a hackney coach. He was instantly succeeded by a lady who took possession of his journal and after satisfying her own curiosity gave it to the Editor; earnestly recommending the exposure of its contents for the information and benefit of the community. Tue mere possession under these circumstances did not in the Editor's opinion authorize his publishing or justify his retaining it: he therefore advertised the manuscript -offering to resign it to the bearer of any memorandum or confession agreeing in substance and character with the original ; and declaring his determination if not claimed in a given time to prepare it for the press and to publish it as soon as possible. Having thus satisfied every punctilious consideration and no claim being made; he hath fulfiled his promise and discharged his duty to the public by promulging its contents." HBS 69478. $1500. J. Parsons unknown books
1890ref. dacs1057New York: The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company n.d. ca. 1890. Octavo stiff color-illustrated wrappers iv 48 pp. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout. “The Easy Book given away with One Pound of Tea or Two Pounds of Coffee or One Pound of Baking Powder.” Very Good light shelf wear. The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, n.d. [ca. 1890.] unknown books
1969ref. 229941969. LGBTQTransgenderCross-Dressing Anonymous. Miss High-heels. New York: Grove Press Inc. 1969. First U.S. edition. Octavo. Lime green cloth boards in original photo-illustrated dust jacket. First published anonymously in Paris in 1931 Miss High-heels is an infamous work of fetishistic and feminization-themed erotica presented here in its first U.S. printing by Grove Press known for its defiance of censorship and promotion of transgressive literature. The novel tells the story of Dennis Evelyn Beryl a young effeminate English aristocrat who under the coercive influence of his domineering step-sister Helen is gradually transformed into "Denise" the titular Miss High-heels. Framed as a fictional memoir penned at Helen's command the narrative follows Dennis's journey from privileged heir to submissive cross-dresser. He is forced into girls' school stripped of masculine identifiers and eventually returned to the family estate clothed in "diamond-buckled satin slippers" and "the finest silks and satins" fully assuming the role of a "fetichiste-du-pied." Themes of humiliation and gender inversion mark the main character's transition as a fetish story but the book also allows for them to feel comfortable in their new identity: "Eventually Dennis is brought to realize how much more pleasurable is his life as a young girl and he willingly abandons his name fortune and life to the whims of Helen." Notable both for its elaborate prose and for its early depiction of forced feminization fantasy Miss High-heels occupies a space between pornography and proto-trans literature which would later flourish in small press chapbook format in the 80s and 90s. While drenched in the misogynistic and sadomasochistic tropes of its genre the text is nevertheless of interest among scholars of queer publishing history. Binding tight and square; boards clean; jacket bright with light shelfwear and a single 1/2 in closed tear at the top margin of front panel. Overall near fine in very good dust jacket. A historically resonant text in trans and fetish literature. unknown books
1700ref. 69536London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1700. RIVIÈRE & SON. . Valentine and Orson. The Two Sons of the Emperour of Greece. Newly Corrected and Amended; With New Pictures Lively Expressing the History. London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1700. Full Description: ANONYMOUS. RIVIÈRE & SON binder. Valentine and Orson. The Two Sons of the Emperour of Greece. Newly Corrected and Amended; With New Pictures Lively Expressing the History. London: Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge n.d.c.a. 1700. Early English translation of the French prose romance "Valentin et Orson" the original of which was written between 1475-1489. Small quarto 7 1/8 x 5 9/16 inches; 181 x 141 mm. 1-181 3 table pp. Date is from ESTC. With an initial advertisement leaf and three final contents pages. With an advertisement at foot of Z4. In this edition the text is set in roman letter another edition has the text set in black letter. With a half-page woodcut on title-page a half-page woodcut on advertisement leaf/frontispiece and fourteen additional woodcuts in the text. Bound by Rivière & Son in full red morocco. Spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. Board edges doubled ruled in gilt. All edges gilt. Front outer hinge repaired. Endpapers browned around the edges. Neat paper repair to preliminary advertisement leaf with a few letters supplied. Neat paper repair to lower corner of G4 affecting a few letters supplied in facsimile. Two tiny neat repairs in the text on I3 just touching a few letters. paper repair in the lower margin of Y4 touching a few letters. Half-inch closed tear to lower margin of H4 just touching the catchword on the verso. Three previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown including Justin G. Schiller's custom bookplate designed by Maurice Sendak on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy in a handsome binding "'Valentine and Orson' is a medieval French romance that became a popular English chapbook tale. Middle Dutch Low German German and Old Swedish versions suggest that the original verse version is an early-14th-century French text called 'Valentine and Nameless.' It first appeared in French prose with the author listed as Jac. Maillet in 1489 and was translated into English around 1502 by Henry Watson who added many plot details including a helpful dwarf magician and a dragon. Versions vary considerably in content as well as length: from Purfoot on it was stripped of sexual misdemeanors and Catholicism. The tale also appeared in verse and play forms which helped extend its popularity into the 19th century" Elaine Ostry in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. ESTC R34690 HBS 69536. $2000. Printed by A.M. for E. Tracy at the Three Bibles, on London-Bridge unknown books
1856ref. 622256New York: Published by Mason Brothers 1856. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Publisher's faded brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Foxing on pages spine sunned with tears and chips on spine ends corners bumped about very good copy. Wright II 836. Novel set in Boston. Published by Mason Brothers hardcover books
1930ref. 1715341930. HAENZI Erich. Farbenlehre. 23 Original watercolour plates some with multiple images. Folio 340 x 240 mm. original cloth. N.p.: n.d. ca. 1930. A wonderfully executed manuscript on colour theory by a Swiss commercial artist whose objective was to enhance the work of decorators fashion designers graphic artists and set designers. Divided into ten sections comprising colour and achromatic antagonism colour values light-dark antagonism cold-warm antagonism quality contrast intensity contrast quantity contrast complementary contrast simultaneous contrast and successive contrast. According to the seller the work is by a Swiss commercial artist named Erich Haenzi. hardcover books
1967ref. 603929New York: RM Publishing Co. Inc. for Alcoholics Anonymous 1967. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Oblong 12mo. Measuring approximately 7" x 3½". Wrappers foxed thus very good. 25 1 pp. Joe has a good family and a good job gets in trouble with alcohol finds help. Reissued with new art and possible storyline differences in 1985 and 2004. RM Publishing Co., Inc., for Alcoholics Anonymous unknown books
1830ref. 1727431830. ANONYMOUS. Le Savant de huit ans suivi du Petit Coloriste. iv 96 pp. illustrated with 10 woodcuts of which 6 are hand-coloured. Oblong 8vo 92 x 114 mm. bound in contemporary sheep. Lille: Blocquel 1830. A charming little children's book on the practical aspects of arts and sciences. There are text illustrations of charts for drawing in proportion printed music and many definitions of arts and trades. The second half is taken up by an introduction to colour information on simple and composite colours some of which are illustrated on the title. The coloured plates including the title surrounded by fourteen colour samples illustrate painter sculptor engraver copperplate printer letterpress printer and finally bookbinder. Some rubbing and light wear the binding otherwise in fine condition with bright interior. Very rare with OCLC listing only Princeton Newberry Morgan Library. Not in Gumuchian. unknown books
1795ref. 7213London: T. Wilkins 1795. First British edition. First separate edition. Measuring 205 x 120mm and complete in 4 pages. A Fine example. Scarce in all formats it was first printed in Vermont in 1793 and also contained a"faithful narrative.towards Polly Davis" one copy survives at AAS; soon after an edition was released from Maine containing "a poem on Christian Experience" only two copies survive both at NYPL. The present first British edition is also the first separately printed edition recorded by ESTC at only 9 libraries. It has come to auction on only five occasions with the present being the only example currently in trade. An Authentic Account records a brief encounter between a white Englishman and an enslaved Black man on a plantation in New York. Focusing their dialogue on the word of God and on salvation the white narrator asserts that the two men could find common ground as "children of God.equally effectual with him" despite their diametrically opposed positions within the social power structure. "Neither the color of his body nor the condition of his present life could prevent him from being my dear brother in our dear saviour." Despite this argument for the spiritual equality of men of all races the white narrator in An Authentic Account never questions nor seeks to subvert a power structure that would empower him while violently debasing Black people. Rather he passively participates in the Evangelical attitude so common of the era which considered enslavement an opportunity for saving the souls of uncivilized peoples who otherwise could not access the word of God. It was a position which abolitionist Evangelicals including William Wilberforce and Hannah More would decry as the height of hypocrisy in their own work during the period calling upon Christians not only to see Black people as spiritual equals but also as humans deserving equal liberty and dignity. ESTC T224026. T. Wilkins unknown books
