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1854réf. 70354Mobile AL: Mobile Journal of Commerce 1854. 4to 29 cm. Bifolio three pages blank verso of integral leaf employed for addressing. An issue devoted to an "Annual Report of the Market" with three columns of text comparative tables for crops important trade ports in country and abroad a table comparing annual activity in Mobile with seven other southern ports or states a 10-year table of activity in Mobile and much more. Forwarded by Jas. G. Whitaker & Co. to a Providence Rhode Island company. Old fold lines else very good. Mobile Journal of Commerce unknown books
1868réf. 27263Albany: The Argus Co. Printers 1868. First edition. Paper wrappers. Spine torn at head else a very good copy small nick to front wrapper with a vertical crease running throughout. 56 pp. 8vo. With an early mention of "petroleum" which was just becoming an important product to pass through Albany. Scarce. We could find no copies on OCLC or RLIN. Not in NYPL Baker Smithsonian LOC NYSL. The Argus Co., Printers unknown books
réf. 3967Phoenix:: The Board. Single sheet. 8 16 inches printed on both sides folded to 8 4 inches. Halftone on front cover; 2-inch separation in first fold. Pamphlet outlining the great success the state Board of Agriculture had had with the development of improved methods of cultivation and selective breeding of seeds Phoenix:: [The Board],. unknown books
réf. 40043COLORADO SPRINGS-MANITOU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. COME TO COLORADO SPRINGS - MANITOU: THE PIKES PEAK REGION. Colorado Springs: The Chamber 1920s. Square 8vo. Colored illustrated wrappers. 22 pages. Scarce travel promotion for Colorado Springs and region in the 1920s. A richly illustrated many in color booklet of the sites natural wonders as well as tourist resort activities available to the automobile traveler. unknown books
1932réf. dacs172DeLand: DeLand Chamber of Commerce 1932. Octavo printed wrappers 32 pp. Photos maps ads. Very Good a few cover smudges. DeLand Chamber of Commerce, 1932. unknown books
1930réf. 3346The Edwards Manufacturing Co. New York. Circa 1930 A magazine size trade catalog of sheet metal and building materials. Edwards was the largest maker of sheet metal building material in the world and this catalog of 40 pages is a great example of their offerings. Included are metal roofing materials shingles skylights ventilators doors windows iron fence and ornamental work guards even motion picture machine booths and theatre equipment. This is catalog #74 and has 10-15 illustrations on almost every page measurements and many times excellent photographs. Scarce and unusual. A fine copy with no wear or marks. Edwards Manufacturing Co. paperback books
1929réf. 001228Paris: Librairie Larousse 1929. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 106 1 pp. 96 plates showing book art of period Art Nouveau or Jugendstil Art Deco Modernist Cubist and assortment of other styles. Some plates in full color others three or four toned yet others b&w. Outstanding review appreciation and study of early twentieth century art book aesthetics as developed internationally with French trends and practice emphasized but some discussion and representation of what was going on elsewhere in Europe. Also a truly rare exposition book. Pages clean except for small stamp of Museum of French Art New York on all plate margins. Light soilage to wraps and typical moderate wear along spine edges. Librairie Larousse paperback books
1924réf. 3357Lighting Education Committee 1924 A twenty-four page catalog in original pictorial wrappers. Oblong about 7in x 10 in. Fully illustrated in black and white and half-tone illustrations of interior rooms fixtures doorways etc. The text outlines what lighting is needed for which tasks and rooms. The first page outlines a contest for children to study the book investigate their home and lighting cut pictures out of the fixtures and place them in the rooms illustrated in the catalog. Additionally write an essay of no more than 600 words. This copy is very good with just a couple of creases to the front cover. nothing has been cut out! and is clean and unmarked. Lighting Educational Committee books
1947réf. 1300Mount Holly Chamber of Commerce 1947. MOUNT HOLLY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE STORY OF MOUNT HOLLY NEW JERSEY. Illustrated. Mount Holly NJ: Mount Holly Chamber of Commerce 1947. Small 8vo. printed wraps; 46 pages. First Edition- not a reproduction. A scarce book published by the local Chamber of Commerce to present an accurate and honest description of Mount Holly as a place to work and live. Very Good contents clean & tight. $125.00. Mount Holly Chamber of Commerce unknown books
1900réf. 5130Frankfort NY: Acme Machinery Co. ca 1900. Edition Unknown. orig. publisher's printed wrappers. A good copy; marginal tide mark . ob. 8vo. The catalog is illus. throughout. 64 pp. The Acme catalog of road building equipment in Spanish and obviously intended for the Latin American export market. The catalog contains all kinds of heavy equipment as well as the design for a small cement plant. Some of the large pieces are illus. with half tone photographs and cut away schematic drawings. Acme Machinery Co. unknown books
1920réf. 3348The Edwards Manufacturing Co. Cincinnati Ohio 1920 A folio size catalog in original pictorial wrappers. 17 pages with illustrations in color of buildings and roofs using copper tiles. Very comprehensive with individual pieces illustrated for the completion of a roof directions for applying a Spanish tile of copper etc. The booklet is detached from the cover at the staples but this is a near fine copy. Beautiful color cover illustration and wrappers. Scarce. The Edwards Manufacturing Co. paperback books
1909réf. 284947Kalamazoo: Wm. E. Hill 1909. paperback. good. Illustrated 242pp. black printed wrappers worn with chipped spine. Kalamazoo: Wm. E. Hill & Co. 1909. Wm. E. Hill unknown books
2001réf. 90582001. World Trade Center postcard postmarked September 11 2001 juxtaposes a pre-attack view of the New York skyline with a postal cancellation dated the day the Twin Towers were destroyed. The card documents how an ordinary piece of tourist ephemera acquired immediate memorial and historical significance through its date of postal processing supporting research into September 11 material culture public memory urban representation and the transformation of commercial images into artifacts of collective mourning. Color postcard New York undated printing; dimensions publisher sender recipient and postmark location not stated. The front reproduces the Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center towers intact and visually dominant. The reverse bears a postage stamp canceled September 11 2001. The postmark establishes that the card entered or passed through the postal system on that date although it does not by itself identify the time of day or confirm whether processing occurred before or after the attacks. Contemporary evidence confirms the existence of New York postal handstamps dated September 11 2001 and postcards depicting the intact towers became particularly charged objects of remembrance immediately following their destruction. The card was reportedly obtained through a "Freedom for America Auction" benefiting victims' families; this may refer to 's Auction for America fundraising initiative but the precise provenance remains unverified without supporting documentation. The coincidence of image and cancellation gives the postcard its principal documentary force: an everyday representation of Lower Manhattan fixed to the calendar date on which that skyline changed permanently. No tears losses creasing or postal damage reported; image and postmark remain clear; overall near fine. A compact artifact connecting the visual culture of pre-September 11 tourism with the immediate material record of the attacks. unknown books
2001réf. 90752001. World Trade Center postcard postmarked September 11 2001 juxtaposes a pre-attack view of the New York skyline with a postal cancellation dated the day the Twin Towers were destroyed. The card documents how an ordinary piece of tourist ephemera acquired immediate memorial and historical significance through its date of postal processing supporting research into September 11 material culture public memory urban representation and the transformation of commercial images into artifacts of collective mourning. Color postcard New York undated printing; dimensions publisher sender recipient and postmark location not stated. The front reproduces the Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center towers intact and visually dominant. The reverse bears a postage stamp canceled September 11 2001. The postmark establishes that the card entered or passed through the postal system on that date although it does not by itself identify the time of day or confirm whether processing occurred before or after the attacks. Contemporary evidence confirms the existence of New York postal handstamps dated September 11 2001 and postcards depicting the intact towers became particularly charged objects of remembrance immediately following their destruction. The card was reportedly obtained through a "Freedom for America Auction" benefiting victims' families; this may refer to 's Auction for America fundraising initiative but the precise provenance remains unverified without supporting documentation. The coincidence of image and cancellation gives the postcard its principal documentary force: an everyday representation of Lower Manhattan fixed to the calendar date on which that skyline changed permanently. No tears losses creasing or postal damage reported; image and postmark remain clear; overall near fine. A compact artifact connecting the visual culture of pre-September 11 tourism with the immediate material record of the attacks. unknown books
2001réf. 90602001. World Trade Center postcard postmarked September 11 2001 juxtaposes a pre-attack view of the New York skyline with a postal cancellation dated the day the Twin Towers were destroyed. The card documents how an ordinary piece of tourist ephemera acquired immediate memorial and historical significance through its date of postal processing supporting research into September 11 material culture public memory urban representation and the transformation of commercial images into artifacts of collective mourning. Color postcard New York undated printing; dimensions publisher sender recipient and postmark location not stated. The front reproduces the Manhattan skyline with the World Trade Center towers intact and visually dominant. The reverse bears a postage stamp canceled September 11 2001. The postmark establishes that the card entered or passed through the postal system on that date although it does not by itself identify the time of day or confirm whether processing occurred before or after the attacks. Contemporary evidence confirms the existence of New York postal handstamps dated September 11 2001 and postcards depicting the intact towers became particularly charged objects of remembrance immediately following their destruction. The card was reportedly obtained through a "Freedom for America Auction" benefiting victims' families; this may refer to 's Auction for America fundraising initiative but the precise provenance remains unverified without supporting documentation. The coincidence of image and cancellation gives the postcard its principal documentary force: an everyday representation of Lower Manhattan fixed to the calendar date on which that skyline changed permanently. No tears losses creasing or postal damage reported; image and postmark remain clear; overall near fine. A compact artifact connecting the visual culture of pre-September 11 tourism with the immediate material record of the attacks. unknown books
1929réf. 69460Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1929. 8vo pp. 29 1; printed paper self-wrappers; lower wrapper soiled vertical crease through middle corner folded text clean good. The Department of Commerce Aeronautics Branch was established in 1926 and had jurisdiction over the testing and licensing of pilots and aircraft maintaining right of way in the air and investigating crashes. Aeronautics bulletin No. 7. Government Printing Office unknown books
1910réf. 6212New York: Earl & Wilson ca 1910. First Edition . orig. printed. wrappers. A very good copy. ob. 8vo. The catalog is illustrated throughout. A men's furnishing catalog devoted to collars and shirts. In addition to the normal illustrations the catalog contains two leaves of embossed illustrations showing how collars would look in three dimensions. Earl & Wilson unknown books
1908réf. 74868Lorain Ohio: Pierce Brothers. Very Good. 1908. Softcover. Press of The Lorain Printing Co. Lorain Ohio. 1908. This catalogue is soft-bound in gray wrappers with black printing to the covers. The staple binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations of furniture Chairs Parlor Goods Couches Davenports Rockers Jewel Stoves Etc. as well as the Funeral Parlor Chapel Reception Room and an illustration of an early Horse-Drawn Ambulance. Complete in 16 pages and measuring 6 x 9 inches and very fresh bright condition. . Pierce Brothers paperback books
réf. 37044TRADE CATALOGUE VELVET & TAPESTRY-TEPPICH-FABRIK. N.P.: Schutz circa 1904. 8vo. Cloth accordion folds. 8 colored plates. Scarce colored sample book of fabric and tapestry designs pasted-down on eight connected accordion folding boards. Front board detached. unknown books
1854réf. 65544Philadelphia PA: Rice & Hart Publishers No. 27 Minor Street 1854. Single sheet folded. 25 cm. 4 pp. text on 2 outer pages only. Old fold lines else very good. Text in two columns printing the notices for this publication from the National Intelligencer of Feb. 11 and the Washington Union of Feb. 4. The contents including the list of portraits and biographies in of each of the four volumes is also listed. OCLC lists two copies of this circular: NY Hist. Soc. and AAS. The "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" was published by Rice & Hart in 1854. Rice & Hart, Publishers, No. 27 Minor Street unknown books
1849réf. 65543Cincinnati OH: H.W. Derby & Co 1849. Single sheet printed on blue paper folded. 26 cm. 4 pp. including one page of text 2pp. blank addressed on fourth page to G. & C. Merriam Springfield Mass. with a round stamped red postal mark. Old fold lines a few closed tears else very good. The firm of H.W. Derby & Co. assures the public that the November 15 fire which lately damaged their place of business and destroyed a large portion of their stock will not stop them from filling orders for books stationery and other articles. They have purchased the entire stock of Messrs. Bradley & Anthony who have decided to retire and will move into their store at No. 113 Main Street immediately. Once their building at 145 Main Street is repaired they will return there. Signed in type by H.W. Derby & Co. Cincinnati November 23d 1849. No listings found on OCLC. George and Charles Merriam to whom this copy was addressed were successful book publishers and sellers in Springfield Massachusetts. H.W. Derby & Co unknown books
1867réf. 65547Washington DC 1867. Small broadside. 20 x 13 cm. Old fold lines some minor rumpling and toning along top margin else very good. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Proposed duties on various kinds of imported books are listed: 20% on English language books printed before 1840; 20% on books in foreign languages not printed in the U.S.; 30 cents per pound on books in English valued at less than $2 and printed since 1840; etc. Signed in type by 14 American publishing houses who agreed to the terms including Harper & Brothers D. Appleton & Co. Little Brown and eleven other well-known American publishers. No listings found on OCLC. unknown books
réf. 2603San Francisco: The Chamber 1874. . 8vo pale blue wrappers lacking many segments; text firm and unchipped except for lower outer corner of title missing not affecting text. Fifteen holdings in OCLC. San Francisco: [The Chamber], 1874. unknown books
1903réf. 224108Watsonville Chamber of Commerce 1903. 1903. 8vo. 13 illustrations; map. Original color pictorial wrappers with design of four apples. Very good. 16 pages. Printed by Sunset Press San Francisco. Rocq 14417 - locates only the Bancroft copy. Soft cover. [Watsonville, Chamber of Commerce, 1903]. paperback books
1885réf. 10383New York: the company; L.E. Neuman & Co. Lith 1885. Trade card 15.5 x 8.7 cm. Recto is a chromolithograph printed in red black and gold; verso printed in black. A trade card advertising the G.H. Mumm Champagne imported by Fred'k de Bary & Co. located at the time at 43 & 44 Warren Street in New York City. The card lists the comparative quantities of champagnes brought into the United States by various importers. G.H. Mumm & Co. tops the list at 24322 cases. Near fine. the company]; L.E. Neuman & Co., Lith unknown books