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1930ref. 91724n.p. 1930. Very Good. Approx. 14 x 9 cm. Unused and undated. Glossy Sepia-toned. Modest soiling and wear mostly on non-photo side. Decent detail. Indistinct background. Wearing dead birds as hats was apparently popular in the late 19th and early 20th century although this postcard seems later than that. unknown
1922ref. 189081922. Very good condition. 12 larger than post card blanks of tourist series of images of New Zealand with blank versos and captions in white. Printed on thick card stock obviously produced on a contact sheet ad cut up for inclusion in a tourist's scrap album. Two photographs per sheet each measuring 5 5/8 x 3 5/8". Photographs include: Manawatu Gorge Wairua Falls The Drop Scene Wanganui River Mt. Ngauruhoe Bowen Falls and Peak Milford Sound Mitre Peak Milford Sound Arthur River Milford Sound Mt. Cook and Hooker Glacier Prince of Wales Feather Geyser Wairakei Otira Gorge Stirling Falls Milford Sound and Sutherland Falls Milford Track. Tourist Series 19 20 21 23 37 41 42 43 44 46 & 48. Very good condition. unknown
1940ref. 64352Asheville NC: Asheville Post Card Co. May 9 1940. Thick oblong 12mo. 5.6 x 3.6 x 2.5 in. 120 pp unpaginated. on thick gray-green paper stock leporello accordion-style format w/ 114 tipped-in sample colour-litho printed postcards many on linen matte finish others printed photos. Typed title label mounted minor shelfwear rubbing pencil markings crossing out the label indicating that they were probably now all out-of-stock originally still a VG exemplar. First edition thus of this salesman sample postcard catalogue portfolio revealing the remarkable range of styles and types of souvenir postcards issued by the Asheville Postcard Co. on the eve of World War II. Many of the view postcards included here depict the Virginia countryside automobile travel automobile camping historic University of Virginia Monticello Skyline Drive homes of James Monroe Woodrow Wilson the Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains. Also included are views of typical Mountain Cabins Mountaineer family homes black bears and tobacco fields. Of additional interest are the series of racist stereotypical African-American Cards including watermelon eating “The Darkey Preacher” and African-American sharecropper family featuring “Seven-Up in Dixieland” showing seven children in front of a ramshackle cabin. LeCompte 1890-1970 began as a postcard salesman and souvenir novelties before World War I and by 1921 had partnered with J.L. Widman to set up the Asheville Postcard Co. quickly becoming the largest distributor of postcards south of Washington D.C. and even began shooting many of his own photos and artwork. By the end of the 1930’s he had taken up residence in the historic Biltmore Hotel operating his company in conjunction with the souvenir concessions later. Worldcat locates 1 similar survivor salesman sample w/ different dates UVA; See some of the cards included here residing in the L.C. LeCompte Postcard Collection D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections Univ. of North Carolina Asheville P77.5. Asheville Post Card Co., unknown
1977ref. ABC_47947Baghdad: Ministry of Oil 1977. Original sturdy plastic case. Oblong 10 x 23 cm. With photographic illustrations all postcards are printed in colour. Remarkable complete set of 14 postcards published by the Iraqi Ministry of Oil to celebrate the flourishing petroleum industry and probably its nationalisation in 1972. The first 2 postcards show the building of the ministry and the official state portraits of then President of Iraq Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr 1914-1982 and Vice Chairman Saddam Hussein 1937-2003. The remaining 12 postcards are each printed for a different month of the year and show various aspects of the Iraqi petroleum industry including the Al-Bakr deep water terminal renamed in 2003 to Al-Basah oil terminal the Al-Khalida oil products tanker the degassing station at North Rumaila oil field the eternal fire near Kirkuk which was the first oil field found in Iraq and the Haditha-Rumaila pipeline which was newly built at the time.With a small crack in one of the sides of the sturdy plastic case. The first and last card in the set are slightly creased. Otherwise in very good condition. Ministry of Oil, unknown
1905ref. 29174Syracuse NY: Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Co. 1905. 16 b&w split back post cards of the Methodist mission in Sierra Leone. Featured are: Brother John Ayres Pa Bokari Masumbo Mision House DEnnis Kinney Helen Richey Mr. Clarke Sisters Marie Stephens and Hattie Crosby. Stephens served as a missionary from Nov. 1901 to Feb. 1904. Wesleyan Methodist Missions to Sierra Leone Africa began in 1811. 16 post cards unused vgc. Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Co. unknown
1903ref. 201061903. Three color postcards the first showing large crowds along an Adelaide boulevard as Japanese troops march by. Many women and children spectators as well as people leaning from second story windows with Macarey Pharmaceutical Chemist shop clearly visible at number 66 postally unused. The two of Valentine's Series are Japanese warships the "Japanese Battleship "Yashima" and the "Japanese Cruiser "Yoshino". The Yashima card posted with a cancellation stamp from Adelaide 1905; the other unused. Very slt rubbed at edges otherwise very good condition. unknown
ref. 86228Very Good. Binding worn on one of the albums. unknown
1943ref. 681521943. 9 x 14 cm. Three photo postcards two of Minnesota scenes one from Wisconsin. All post marked and written on the back. unknown books
1920ref. 681401920. 9 x 14 cm. Five Photo postcards three published by Airmaps Limited Toronto; two by Evams & Bowman Walsingham Ont. The group all with caption titles includes: Toronto: Aerial View Union Station Royal York Hotel Leamington: Talbot St. Erie Street. unknown books
1930ref. 681381930. 9 x 14 cm. Three photo postcards copyrighted by F.D. Conrad Garden City Kansas: an enormous grasshopper pulling car a grasshopper being bronco ridden a large rabbit attacking man all with amusing captions in white. One used with postmark. unknown books
1905ref. 219621905. Very good condition. Unused color postcards of Pasadena including: A Pepper Drive in California; Mt. Lowe from Hotel Raymond Pasadena Cal; San Gabriel Mission California; Pasadena and Mountains Winter Scene; A California Residence; and Old Baldy in Winter from the Orange Groves. Three postcards per side on gray green album sheet. The 'Pepper Drive' postcard a bit toned at the right side of the image; the other cards bright and clean. unknown
1950ref. 294501950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Oregon postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 42 postcards 19 RPPC 22 regular 1 postcard sized silvertone snapshot of Crater Lake 23 are full backed the rest split-back mostly unused cards with some used with franked postage. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights of Portland Salem Mt. Hood Multnomah Falls Columbia River Lake Marie Newport and Gold Beach. unknown
1959ref. 60933Portland OR & Seattle WA: Smith 1959. Ten RPPC silver gelatin photographs all w/ description and inventory number w/in negative at lower fore-edge slight age toning very slight edgewear still VG. A nice set of 10 souvenir RPPC’s shot during the 100 day run of the Oregon Centennial Exposition. The 1859-1959 Centennial Exposition lasted from June 10 to Sept. 17 on 65 acres along the Columbia River formerly Vanport wiped away in the tragic 1948 flood and also featured a Gayway Amusement Park Garden of Tomorrow & Adventureland. The Exposition featured everything from Mossman’s Can-Can girl revue to steam locomotives Modernist sculptures and murals by Louis Bunce and other Oregon artists and the striking Hall of Religious History in the Garden of Tomorrow which featured murals of Carl Morris. This re-created town from the 1870’s Old West featured the Golden Nugget dance hall & saloon as well as livery stable church post office and hotel and proved to be the most successful attraction. The Oregon Centennial only attracted about 1.5 million visitors and largely operated at a loss which encouraged the nascent Seattle World’s Fair organizers to strip out their Western theme and focus instead on their later very successful Century 21 futurism theme. Smith, unknown
1933ref. 217569Japan. Circa Showa 8 1933 . Nine postcards eight in colour and one real photograph black and white postcard which is not part of the set 14 x 9cm envelope size 15.2 x 9.5cm Japanese captions. All cards in very good condition presented in a slightly worn and soiled pictorial colour envelope. This collection of post cards features eight young women in Manchuria and a separate real photograph postcard showing a beautiful Korean woman in traditional dress. Most of the Manchurian women wear qipao the accompanying captions introduce them as "attractive companions". Some of the women are portrayed as seductive while others look shy and innocent. . unknown
1950ref. 294541950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Nevada postcards dating from 1910-1950. A total of 24 postcards 7 RPPC including 1 of Pres. Harrison and entourage in Virginia City 17 regular all split-back both used with franked postage and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights in Reno Las Vegas Virginia City and Boulder Dam. unknown
1950ref. 294621950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Native American postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 20 postcards 6 RPPC 14 regular 4 full back the rest split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Native Americans: some photo illustrated RPPC and colorized; Pueblo family Cherokee Reservation Indian Chiefs Lonetree Hollow Horn and Red Feather Canadian Stony Indians Yawaygamug and Ute Indians. unknown
1910ref. List3897United States 1910. Nine real photo postcards most standard postcard size several postally used with divided backs. Images include families and groups gathered on porches and in yards with phonographs or gramophones lakeside and camp scenes with record players an interior scene showing a man posed beside a piano and phonograph and several portraits of men with tabletop and horn machines. Some wear silvering soiling and handling; generally very good. A group of real photo postcards documenting the domestic and social use of gramophones and phonographs in the early twentieth century. The cards date from the period in which recorded sound was moving from novelty to common household entertainment. Victor introduced the internal-horn Victrola in 1906 and by the following decade phonographs had become recognizable features of parlors porches camps and other informal leisure settings. The commercial growth of the industry was rapid: Victor's 1904 Red Seal recording of Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" is generally described as the first million-selling record while less expensive records and machines helped bring recorded music into a broader range of American homes.1 The group shows the machines among families vacationers young men porch groups and domestic interiors centering the new technology in social gatherings during the period. 1 Marc Hogan "How Much Is Music Really Worth" Pitchfork April 16 2015 accessed July 21 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20150501155808/https://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9628-how-much-is-music-really-worth/. . unknown books
1910ref. List3897United States 1910. Nine real photo postcards most standard postcard size several postally used with divided backs. Images include families and groups gathered on porches and in yards with phonographs or gramophones lakeside and camp scenes with record players an interior scene showing a man posed beside a piano and phonograph and several portraits of men with tabletop and horn machines. Some wear silvering soiling and handling; generally very good. A group of real photo postcards documenting the domestic and social use of gramophones and phonographs in the early twentieth century. The cards date from the period in which recorded sound was moving from novelty to common household entertainment. Victor introduced the internal-horn Victrola in 1906 and by the following decade phonographs had become recognizable features of parlors porches camps and other informal leisure settings. The commercial growth of the industry was rapid: Victor's 1904 Red Seal recording of Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" is generally described as the first million-selling record while less expensive records and machines helped bring recorded music into a broader range of American homes.1 The group shows the machines among families vacationers young men porch groups and domestic interiors centering the new technology in social gatherings during the period. 1 Marc Hogan "How Much Is Music Really Worth" Pitchfork April 16 2015 accessed July 21 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20150501155808/https://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9628-how-much-is-music-really-worth/. . unknown
ref. 69552All are from the twentieth century but from decades spanning that period with black and white sepia toned early chromolithographic and later full color images included. A small percentage perhaps 20-25 have been used with messages and addresses penned on verso and some show a little storage soiling but overall remain in very good condition. For the lot unknown books
ref. 69552All are from the twentieth century but from decades spanning that period with black and white sepia toned early chromolithographic and later full color images included. A small percentage perhaps 20-25 have been used with messages and addresses penned on verso and some show a little storage soiling but overall remain in very good condition. For the lot unknown
1950ref. 294561950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Montana postcards dating from 1910-1950. A total of 24 postcards 1 RPPC 23 regular 3 full back the rest split-back both used with franked postage from 1905 1907 1908 1942 and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Butte Glacier National Park RPPC of State Capital at Helena Deer Park Livingston. unknown
1930ref. 28419United Kingdom 1930. Very good condition. 5 b&w splitback real photo postcards of The Esplanade Ayer Itam Temple Penang Harbour F.M.S. Railway Pier Crag Hotel Penang Hill. unknown
1940ref. 32442AB1940. Mixed Editions. 30 Volumes. London John Lehmann / Allen Lane - Penguin Books / Rupert Hart-Davis 1940-1965. Octavo. The Postcards written from Venice Florence and Santa Barbarabetween the years 1952 and 1977 / Postcard I: From John Lehmann in Venice to Adrian Liddell Hart: "This city does not boast a supply of the "Sunday Dispatch" and as the writer was gripped and enthralled by the last installment on June 1st he hopes you will keep copies of the .for him to read on his return in ten Days time - J." / Postcard II: From John Lehmann in Florence to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Am staying with Sir Harold Acton here in his marvellous Villa - calme luxe "Villa La Pietra" all night.pity you aren't with me. Off to the sea this afternoon - may post this in Porto Ercole. Your old friend is relaxing. Gracefully - Love J." Date hard to decipher possibly in 1962 / 3. Postcard III: From John Lehmann in Santa Barbara in California to Adrian Liddell Hart: "Terribly sorry to hear about the broken leg may it mend quickly as surely it must undo the ministrations of Florence .Nightingale. I expect to be in England all March but then off again - to Jimmy Carter Country - Love J." 20.2.77. Hardcover and Softcover. Of the series of 28 Volumes of the "New Writing " Series only three with stronger signs of wear and in poorer condition. All others in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Lehmann's personal copy of Sean O'Faolain's Autobiography with the original dustjacket in poor condition but the Volume itself very good. This set of books belonged to Adrian Liddell Hart Lover and friend of publisher John Lehman from whom he received these publications fresh from the press. Included in the collection are for example: "The Penguin New Writing" Volume I - Second Edition 1941 with Georg Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" / Morton Freedgood - "Good Nigger" etc. Volume II: - First Edition 1941 with a note in pencil by Lehman: "Publication Jan. 10" with Rosamond Lehmann - A Dream of Winter / Stephen Spender - Books and the War I / Louis MacNeice - June Thunder / B.L.Coombes - The Way we live now I / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz etc. Volume III: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Lay your sleeping Head / Willy Goldman - The Way we live now II / Fanfarlo - Shaving through the Blitz - II / Rosamond Lehmann - When the Winters came / Jean Giono - The Corn Dies / Volume IV: - First Edition 1941 with Louis MacNeice - March gave clear Days / C.Day Lewis - Ode in Fear / Margot Heinemann - Grieve in a New Way etc. Volume V: - First Edition 1941 with W.H.Auden - Exiles / F.G.Lorca - The Dawn / Louis MacNeice - The Way we live now IV etc. Volume VI: - First Edition 1941 with John Lehmann - Seven Poems of Vienna / Bert Brecht - The Informer / Dylan Thomas - A Visit to Grandpa's / etc. Volume VII: - First Edition 1941 with Jean Paul Sartre - The Wall / F.G.Lorca - Song / W.H.Auden - The Leaves of Life / Rosamond Lehmann - For Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume VIII: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - The Armoured Valley / Dylan Thomas - The Peaches / Georg Anders - Song of the Austrians / Ahmed Ali - Morning in Delhi / Beatrix Lehmann - The £2000 Rasperry etc. Volume IX: - First Edition 1941 with Graham Greene - Men at Work / Robert Pagan - The Night before the War / F.G.Lorca - Song of the Andalusian Sailors / Charles Brasch - In These Islands / Inez Holden - The Flat above me / Yuri Olesha - Love etc. Volume X: - First Edition 1941 with Laurie Lee - Poem / Jean Howard - The Night of the Landslide / Ignazio Silone - The Journey to Paris / Rex Warner - Two Sonnets / Roderick Finlayson - The Totara Tree / W.H.Auden - The Novelist etc. Volume XI: - First Edition 1941 with Anna Seghers - The Rescue / Dylan Thomas - Extraordinary Little Cough / F.G.Lorca - The Clear Death / Isobel Leslie - Fine Spring Weather / Volume XIII: - First Edition 1942 with Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Diary II / John Lehmann - Vigils / Frank Sargeson - Making of a New Zealander / Paul Nizan - About Theseus / Elsa Triolet - "Mayakovsky - Poet of Russia" / With Drawings by Keith Vaughan / Volume XIV: - First Edition 1942 with Julia Strachey - Fragment from a Diary / Christopher Isherwood - The Day at La Verne / W.H.Auden - Two Poems / Walter Allen - Reflections on Aldous Huxley / With Photogravure Illustrations From the Film "The Foreman went to France" / Volume XVIII: - First Edition 1943 with John Lehmann - The Heart of the Problem / Walter Allen - The Novels of Graham Greene / George Barker - Elegy on the Eve / Laurie Lee - Two Poems / Jiri Mucha - Manoeuvres / etc. Volume XIX: - First Edition 1944 with Edith Sitwell - One Day in Spring / Donagh MacDonagh - My Grandfather was Irish / W.H.Auden - Victor / John Lehmann - Virginia Woolf / etc. Volume XX: - First Edition 1944 with Demetrios Capetanakis - The Isles of Greece / Elizabeth Bowen - Mysterious Kor / George Barker - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - Girl and Butterfly / John Lehmann - Three Poems / H.B.Mallalieu - Two Poems / William Plomer - Introduction to E.M.Forster etc. Volume XXIII: - First Edition 1945 with Denis Glover - It was D-Day / John Heath-Stubbs- The Defeat of Romanticism / Laurie Lee - Three Poems / Edith Sitwell - A Song of the Cold etc. Volume XXIV: - First Edition 1945 with Frank O'Connor - A Story by Maupassant / Peter Viertel - Smudge / John Lehmann - State Art and Scepticism / etc. Volume XXV: - First Edition 1945 with Anthony Thorne - Potatoes Have Hips of Their Own / Rupert Doone - Three Shakespearean Productions / John Heath-Stubbs - Georg Crabbe and the Eighteenth Century / etc. Volume XXVI: - First Edition 1945 with John Lehmann - Two Poems / Alec Guinness - Money for Jam / etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. Rudolf John Frederick Lehmann 2 June 1907 7 April 1987 was an English publisher poet and man of letters. He founded the periodicals "New Writing" and "The London Magazine" and the publishing house of John Lehmann Limited. Born in Bourne End Buckinghamshire the fourth child of journalist Rudolph Lehmann and brother of Helen Lehmann novelist Rosamond Lehmann and actress Beatrix Lehmann he was educated at Eton and read English at Trinity College Cambridge. He considered his time at both as "lost years". At Trinity Lehmann had a passionate relationship with Virginia Woolf's nephew Quentin Bell. After a period as a journalist in Vienna he returned to England to found the popular periodical New Writing 193640 in book format. This literary magazine sought to break down social barriers and published works by working-class authors as well as educated middle-class writers and poets. It proved a great influence on literature of the period and an outlet for writers such as Christopher Isherwood W. H. Auden Edward Upward and miner-author B. L. Coombes. Lehmann included many of these authors in his anthology Poems for Spain which he edited with Stephen Spender. With the onset of the Second World War and paper rationing New Writing's future was uncertain and so Lehmann wrote New Writing in Europe for Pelican Books one of the first critical summaries of the writers of the 1930s in which he championed the authors who had been the stars of New WritingAuden and Spenderand also his close friend Tom Wintringham and Wintringham's ally the emerging George Orwell. Wintringham reintroduced Lehmann to Allen Lane of Penguin Books who secured paper for The Penguin New Writing a monthly book-magazine this time in paperback. The first issue featured Orwell's essay "Shooting an Elephant". Occasional hardback editions combined with the magazine Daylight appeared sporadically but it was as Penguin New Writing that the magazine survived until 1950. He joined Leonard and Virginia Woolf as managing director of Hogarth Press between 1938 and 1946. He then established his own publishing company John Lehmann Limited with his novelist sister Rosamond Lehmann who had a nine-year affair with one of Lehmann's contributing poets Cecil Day-Lewis. They published new works by authors such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Nikos Kazantzakis and discovered talents like Thom Gunn and Laurie Lee. Lehmann edited two anthologies of new writing entitled Orpheus: A Symposium of the Arts 194849. He also published the first two books by the cookery writer Elizabeth David A Book of Mediterranean Food and French Country Cooking. He published two of Denton Welch's posthumous works: A Voice Through a Cloud for which he supplied the title 1950 and A Last Sheaf 1951. This publishing house published several book series including the Chiltern Library the Holiday Library the Modern European Library and the Library of Art and Travel. It operated from 19461953. In 1954 he founded The London Magazine remaining as editor until 1961 following which he was a frequent lecturer and completed his three-volume autobiography Whispering Gallery 1955 I Am My Brother 1960 and The Ample Proposition 1966. In The Purely Pagan Sense 1976 is an autobiographical record of his homosexual life in England and pre-war Germany discreetly written in the form of a novel. He also wrote the biographies Edith Sitwell 1952 Virginia Woolf and her World 1975 Thrown to the Woolfs 1978 Rupert Brooke 1980 and Christopher Isherwood. A Personal Memoir 1987. His book Three Literary Friendships 1983 deals with the relationships between Lord Byron and Percy Shelley Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine Robert Frost and Edward Thomas. In 1965 he published Christ the Hunter a spiritual/autobiographical prose poem which had been broadcast in 1964 on the BBC Third Programme. In 1974 Lehmann published a book of poems The Reader at Night hand-printed on handmade paper and hand-bound in an edition of 250 signed copies Toronto Basilike 1974. An essay by Paul Davies about the creation of this book is included in Professor A.T. Tolley's collection John Lehmann: A Tribute Ottawa; Carleton University Press 1987 which also includes pieces by Roy Fuller Thom Gunn Charles Osborne Christopher Levenson Jeremy Reed George Woodcock and others. John Lehmann died in London on 7 April 1987 aged 79. Wikipedia paperback
ref. 218559Japan. Twenty one postcards 5 in colour the rest black and white photographic images. Some occasional spotting and browning light wear edges and one creased in places. Presented in a slightly chipped black lacquer box. Overall the collection is in fair to good condition. An interesting miscellaneous collection of twenty one Japanese postcards in a black lacquer box mostly dating from the 1910s and 1920s. Fourteen of these show scenes from a large Japanese military training exercise held in November 1919. Each card has a commemorative stamp of the Army Training Exercise and its date November 1919. There is also a card featuring a painting of the OSK line ship "Amerika Maru" and another with a picturesque Japanese scene and an inset photo of the OSK ship "Konan Maru" possibly a souvenir card given to passengers on the ship. Two other cards are New Year's greeting cards one of them dated 1939 and rather curiously written in Russian although it appears to have been sent from one Japanese man to another. Perhaps the most interesting in the collection is a postcard from Crown Prince Hirohito's 1921 visit to England which shows the Crown Prince shaking hands with one of Lloyd George's grandchildren although the scene is completely stolen by another small grand-daughter who stands in the middle of the photograph completely ignoring the presence of the Crown Prince. The collection also includes a 1948 entry permit to a market run by the Osaka Fruit and Vegetable Association. . unknown
1986ref. 294881986. Very good condition. A personal collection of post cards all with Jewish content put together in the 1980's. A mix of RPPCs color and b&w illustrated views some photo cards of family or people of note many unused 21 franked with approximately 7 full back the rest splitback the transition was about 1905. The cards date from 1905 through the 1940s with one post card signed by Yitzhak Navor Israeli Cabinet minister in 1983. Also includes 1 circular Viewmaster reel of Jerusalem the Old City. All housed in protective plastic sleeves 4 per page within a white binder. unknown
