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Best.-Nr. 615Stockton: Chamber of Commerce circa 1925. Pages Single sheet printed both sides & folded.18.25� x 16.5� unfolded. Illustrated with photographs. Cover design by Livingston. Some soiling and wear. City map divided up into numbered sections using red pencil. Stockton: Chamber of Commerce (circa 1925.) unknown
Best.-Nr. 619Stockton: Chamber of Commerce 1907. 6.5� x 5� unfolded. Multiple pages folded in half into a 2.75� green paper folder printed in red. Illustrated with photographs. Loaded with information & statistics on local weather and crops. Some minor soiling and wear. Stockton: Chamber of Commerce 1907. unknown
Best.-Nr. a535941959. 4to. 200pp. many monochrome photo illustrations wraps. Near VG light wear. . paperback
1865Best.-Nr. 354277Detroit 1865. 8pp. printed in double columns. Dbd. Separating a bit at folds else very good. 8pp. printed in double columns. Dbd. An interesting post-Civil War economic tract this vigorous attack on the principles of free trade appeals to farmers workers and mechanics in the West and Northwest to push for protectionist trade policies. Ward contends that only by raising duties on imported goods can the United States "keep the principal part of our coin at home." unknown
Best.-Nr. 617Stockton: Chamber of Commerce 1933. . Pages Single sheet printed both sides & folded.16� x 21� unfolded. Some soiling and wear. Some separation at creases. Stockton: Chamber of Commerce 1933. unknown
1922Best.-Nr. 98955Quesnel BC April 20th 1922. 1922. Good. - Quarto 11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Softcover a rare four-page promotional pamphlet printed on newsprint with a banner title and text printed in 2 columns on the cover page and with a central column of text printed between 2 columns of advertisements on the next 3 pages. There is a vertical black stain with oxidation from a metal clip across the upper half of the front page. Folded once horizontally with a couple of very tiny tears to the front edges. Good. A rare promotional pamphlet outlining Quesnel's selling points including its "Location and Environment" "Commercial" spaces its "Soil" its "Produce" "Climate" "Lands Available for Settlement" "Fish and Game" "Cariboo Minerals" its "Timber" and "Financial and Labor Conditions". Quesnel, BC, April 20th, 1922. paperback
Best.-Nr. 534Southern Pacific Co. & Chamber of Commerce Stockton Cal. 1901. 11� x 9� unfolded. Single sheet of stiff card stock folded in half. 1/2 left blank with ruled lines for addressing as a postcard. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Advertising San Joaquin County Cal. and Stockton. Minor soiling. In very good condition. Southern Pacific Co. & Chamber of Commerce, Stockton, Cal. 1901. unknown
1800Best.-Nr. 74375Lewiston ME: A. Thompson 1800. Large business card measuring 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 inches. Printed on pink paper it advertises Pitcher and E. E. Pomeroy a jeweler both of Lewiston. There is a window on the right and there is another card attached via a brad on the back of the pink card. Above the window we read "Our Next President" and below we read "If Not Your Choice Turn the Bottom Card Around." A portrait of Jas. A. Garfield is in the window but if one turns the rear card around the portrait is of his adversary W. S. Hancock. There are further printed ads on the rear card. Some aging but a very good example of this clever form of advertising. A. Thompson unknown
1941Best.-Nr. 76168Boston: Charak Furniture Company 1941. First edition. Oblong quarto 12 x 9 1/4 inches. 79 1 pp. of which all but four pages are comprised of photographic illustrations of furniture on offer. Publisher's spiral bound brown and white wrappers titled in black. Some ligght weat to edges and very minor soiling to rear but overall a very handsome copy.One copy located by OCLC. The first 60 pp. contain images of the company's specialty; fine reproductions of 18th century American furniture and the rest of the catalog are of their modern furniture."Over the course of nearly seven decades Charak Furniture Company produced exemplary reproductions of 18th-century-era furniture including works created in the American colonial and Georgian styles as well as sophisticated mid-century modern pieces made by the likes of German furniture designer and painter Tommi Parzinger. Charak was established in Boston Massachusetts in 1919. It earned a reputation for exceptional design and durability and the 1920s were a period of high production for the brand. Charak was a leading manufacturer of reproductions of early American furniture that was influenced by Queen Anne– and Georgian–era design including secretaries dressers and cabinets with exquisite details like accented moldings carved finials recessed door panels claw feet and other embellishments. While the Great Depression put many furniture manufacturers out of business Charak Furniture Company weathered the era’s difficulties. In fact during the 1930s it introduced one of its most enduringly popular dining tables: the drop leaf Danbury table. The solid mahogany table which features four leaves to comfortably accommodate larger dining parties as necessary is supported by four slender and elegantly curving legs a wonderful example of the company's furniture from this era." Charak Furniture Company unknown
Best.-Nr. a69667Pittsburgh 1934 Fisher Scientific Company. Trade Catalogue. Hardcover. 4to. 1044pp. illustrations cloth. VG small area of light bubbling of cloth on rear board. no owner marks. Binding secure; text clean. . hardcover
1950Best.-Nr. 76742Germany: N.p. 1950. Oblong quarto 12 3/4 x 9 inches. 60 pp. Comprised entirely tinted illustration of early mid-century furniture offerings. Publishe'rs wrappers with two brads gilt and black cover lettering. Small bit of lower to with gnawing. A very good and visually pleasing catalog. N.p. unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 232100Bellows Falls VT: Vermont Farm Machine Co 1898. Illustrated with wood engravings. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Printed pink wrappers with slight wear and soiling a few tears and one crude repair; internally clean. Illustrated with wood engravings. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Sap Evaporator. Vermont Farm Machine Co unknown
1950Best.-Nr. b35032Brunswick MD: JP. Karn Inc. n.d. circa 1950-1995 1950. First Edition . Soft Cover comb binding. Very Good. Very good in original wrappers with a corner crease brief edgewear light soiling and a large spot on the rear panel. A comprehensive heavily color illustrated survey of the possibilities for contemporary home design and its relation to the homemaker. Large format approximately 10 x 14. JP. Karn, Inc., n.d. (circa 1950-1995) paperback
1870Best.-Nr. 71965Various places circa 1870 - 1900. 12 trade cards in various sizes. Includes: M. C. MILLER Fine Boots & Shoes; 3 7/8 x 2 5/8"; 2 girls one of whom is riding a large dog. PARTRIDGE'S Café and Dining Rooms Philadelphia; 4 3/8 x 2 7/8"; boy and girl carrying various foodstuffs; printer's imprint "Ketterlinus Philada." GRANITE Iron Ware Springfield Mass.; 2 5/8 x 3 7/8"; young girl pushing a cat or a mouse in a large teapot precariously perched on a cart. LAUTZ Bros. & Co. Soaps at W. H. Lathrop Grocer Hartford Conn.; 3 3/4 x 4 1/8"; young girl holding a sign or large envelope above her head. W. F. WHITELSEY & Co. Merchatn Tailors Hartford; 4 1/4 x 3"; boy in chef's garb holding a large knife while trying to wrestle a banner reading "A Bill of Dispute" from a ducks bill; small number "108" bottom left corner. G. B. WOODMAN & Co. Grocers Philadelphia; 4 3/8 x 3"; standing boys in discussion with girl kneeling on blanket surrounded by fruit; printer's imprint "Ketterlinus Philada." SHARPLESS & Sons Philadelphia Importers Jobbers & Retailers of Dry Goods; 4 3/8 x 2 7/8"; kneeling monkey taking aim with a pop gun at fleeing boy; printer's imprint "Testu & Massin Paris." AYER'S Sarsaparilla prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co Lowell Mass. for sale by handwritten "Talcott Frisbe & Co.; 5 x 3 3/4"; 2 women talking one apparently weak and resting in chair with bottle of sarsaparilla with children and dog playing at their feet. ESTEY Organ Co. Brattleboro VT on front with "write for prices to" Gibbons & Stone Rochester N.Y. on back; 3 x 5"; girl playing harp; printer's imprint "J. Ottmann Lith. N.Y." KASHMANN'S Furnishing House Hartford Conn. John F. Moran Salesman; 4 5/8 x 3 1/8"; girl talking to lamb hatching from large egg; small number "8" bottom left corner. HUYLER'S New York; 4 3/4 x 3 ½"; girl taking flowers from basket to put in upright rabbit's backpack. ANDES Stoves & Ranges manufactured by Phillips & Clark Stove Co. Geneva N. Y. for sale by E. J. Fuller Kendall N. Y.; 4.5 x 6"; wide-eyed young brown-haired girl with scarf draped over shoulders; printer's imprint "J. Ottmann Lith. N.Y." Altogether very good to near fine. unknown
1861Best.-Nr. 87508Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss 1861. Later edition first published 1856. 12mo 18cm. Publisher's full morocco elaborately embossed with gilt titles and matching gilt devices to front and rear boards; all edges gilt; 300pp; frontispiece engraved extra-title and 4 inserted leaves of plates; 4pp publisher's catalog bound in at end of text. Mild overall rubbing with some softness to leather at head and heel; top edge gilt slightly oxidized; still a sound Very Good copy in a quite lovely mid-19th c. gift binding. Early pencil gift inscription to a Mary F. Sisson dated 1854. A religious and temperance miscellany mostly short moral tales with a few verse works interspersed. T.S. Arthur 1809-1885 is best-remembered for his hugely popular temperance trace Ten Nights in A Bar-Room and What I Saw There 1854 but he was an incredibly prolific writer churning out more than 100 titles between 1840 and the early 1880s. For the current work see WRIGHT II:150 recording one copy of an 1856 edition by the current publisher and another the same year from a Chicago publisher. H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss unknown
1937Best.-Nr. 3439Waterbury Connecticut: The American Brass Company 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 8 404 plates followed by several pages of index referring to plate numbers. Illustrated title page. Plates depict the fixtures in silhouette. Bound in light brown cloth with stamped lettering on front cover and spine. Light wear commensurate with age and the address label of a former owner on a few pages and notably on front cover where a remnant presumably remains. Included is an 8pp. paper wraps "Supplement to Anaconda Architectural Extruded Shapes saddle-stapled dated 1947. An impressive variety of brass flourishes presented at the ahem height of the American skyscraper as the defining characteristic of the modern city. Flutings entablatures dado moldings doors cornices pilasters mullions and a multitude of other fixtures are featured. The American Brass Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 40153Bangor: Burr Printing Company n.d. ca 1926. None. First edition. 9" x 8" folded in half in pictorial wrapper. Printed in green and brown ink. 20 pp. double-column illustrations. Pamphlet that promotes travel by car with routes to Bangor motor trips around Bangor Mount Desert Island Lafayette National Park Bar Harbor Castine and Penobscot Bay Mount Katahdin to various lakes and ponds etc. Wrappers lightly soiled and with light wear to the extremities. Very good. Burr Printing Company, n.d. [ca 1926]. unknown
1957Best.-Nr. 9939Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd. 1957- 1964. Very Good. 1957. Softcover. 6 volumes; 8vo; wrappers. Three with library stamps front cover two of those with writing on front cover; moderate soil. Including; Literature since 1800; Books Relating to Ireland History and Topography; The Rising of 1916; Literature Before 1800; Literature Before 1850. . Hodges Figgis & Co. Ltd. 1957- (1964?) paperback
1915Best.-Nr. 17883Florida: Unstated Publisher 1915. Soft cover. Very Good. Stapled wraps; 20 pages of mainly b/w captioned photographs with some text describing Daytona and Seabreeze as growing communities for development and tourists. 6 by 3.5 inches. Businesses are listed inside the rear cover with George P. Johnson Bicycles and Fishing Tackle advert on the outside rear. An unrecorded tourist advertising piece. No copies exist in the OCLC database. Minor hand soiling with a scuff on the upper outside front corner. A collection of photographs of Daytona Beach and Seabreeze Florida showing prominent buildings and beach scenes. [Unstated Publisher] unknown
Best.-Nr. 3727687Tacoma Washington: Pioneer Bindery & Printing Co. c.1904. 2pp. Broadsheet. 12½ x 6 inches. Two half tone illustrations. Horizontal center fold; some creasing and toning at fold; very good. Illustrated broadsheet promoting the business transportation energy public infrastructure lumber and manufacturing advantages of the City of Tacoma Washington. Two half tone illustrations show “The Longest Wheat Warehouse in the World” at the city’s port and a panoramic view of the downtown skyline. Lumber statistics cited in this Chamber of Commerce broadsheet suggest it was published in 1904. unknown
1912Best.-Nr. 40354N.P.: W. H. Underwood 1912. 1912. 5 3/4" x 7 3/4" in colorful pictorial overs. 94 pp. illustrations The L'Amoskeag Manufacturing Company was a huge textile factory located in Manchester New Hampshire. Founded in 1831 it closed its doors on Christmas Eve in 1935. At one time it was the largest center of production of cotton denim fabrics in America. Information written in French on the factory and its employees various parks Lake Massabesic Mount Uncanoonuc reasons that one should stay in Manchester advantages for business etc. Profusely illustrated with pictures of important buildings churches streets schools monuments parks scenery agricultural scenes numerous pictures of the interior of the factory etc. At top of title pages is written in blue ink "Property of Walter S. Wheeler 790 Amherst St. Manchester N.H. U.S.A." Title page lightly soiled and interior spine is neatly reinforced with archival tape along with light wear to the extremities of the covers. Very good. A nicely produced item. 4 pages of statistics. W. H. Underwood, 1912. unknown
Best.-Nr. 14634Celluloid collar advertising card with illustration of men emerging from the water wearing the waterproof collars and cuffs as a Chinese laundry worker tearfully watches and in the background pig tail wearing Chinese laundry men depart on boats "Off for China". With advertising text at verso "For Sale at Auer's North Pearl St Albany. Not dated. 5 1/4 x 3 1/4" slt marked at verso o/w very good. unknown
1890Best.-Nr. 234021890. Very good overall. Card printed in English and Chinese with the name of the establishment in an elaborate type font. The company had locations in Chinkiang Nanking Wuhu and Kiukiang. It records "Bum Boat General Store Keepers Butcher & Bakers Commission Agents & c and Coal Merchants". This card hails from the period following the Treaty of Tianjin which ended the Second Opium War opened more Chinese ports to foreign trade and allowed foreign legations in the Chinese capital. "Bum boats" were small water taxis and boats used for short trips. Chinese text in 2 vertical columns to left and right of English text. Removed from an album with black paper adhering to verso. 4 1/4 x 2 3/4" unknown
Best.-Nr. 14640Bogue's die cut soap advertising card in the shape of dog wearing pink ribbon with large bell attached. With advertising text on the verso: "How to obtain one of these Cats or Dogs: Purchase 3 cakes of Bogue's Soap for 25 cents. Lookee No Boilee! Washee Washee Wellee Quickee!" with an illustration of a Chinese man in pig tails holding a bar of the soap. Not dated. 3 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. Colors bright and fresh slt toning on verso o/w very good. HKD580. unknown
Best.-Nr. 14626Corset clasp advertising card with illustration of three Chinese pig tail wearing laundry workers comparing a corset without the new corset clasps and one with the new product. With text at the top: "Side & dress steels guaranteed not to rust". With additional advertising text on the verso. Not dated. 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. Upper right corner of front of card slt creased slt toning to lower edge of verso of card o/w very good. unknown