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réf. 019622No Place: No Producer. Unbound. Good. Knights of Pythias Triangle Dangle Badge/Medallion. With Image of worried parents in the room of a bedridden child. No producer place or date. Perhaps late 1890s early 1900s. Silver colored metal. Each side approximately 2 ¼ inches in length. Badge has the above mentioned illustration as well as the initials FBC & L at the corners. Reverse blank. The Knights of Pythias is a secret fraternal organization founded in 1864. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy uneven tarnishing rubbing and scuffing to the piece with some soiling. Hanging loop broken off and missing. Slight warping to the metal with a few small dings along the edges. No Producer unknown
réf. 014221No Place: No Publisher. Unbound. Good. Advertising poster style paper for the 1927 Silent Film Wings. Single sheet printed on both sides. 20 by 15 ½ inches. Printed on very thin paper. Dark sepia toned images. One side with large illustrations of planes in dogfights with several smaller inset images of the cast. Reverse with a half page image of planes and Clara Bow with the other half page bearing two smaller images. An advertisement for the silent film Wings a 1927 movie starring Clara Bow Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Richard Arlen as well as a small role for Gary Cooper that according to Wikipedia "helped launch his career in Hollywood." The film was set during World War I and was noted for its aviation cinematography. GOOD condition. Many horizontal and vertical fold creases present with moderate wrinkling. Minor general toning. A few small spots of staining to the piece. Movie theater stamps on the rear side. Several tears along the folds with a small area torn at the center where the folds intersect. No Publisher unknown
1970réf. 016475No Place: No publisher 1970. Unbound. Good. No publisher place or date. Presumed Syracuse New York: 1970. Medium paper stock single sheet 11 by 17 inches. Printed on a single side only. Poster for a Friday November 13 1970 rally protesting the Vietnam War that was held at the Syracuse Induction Center. A comply-in followed the rally at the Selective Service Board. With a large peace symbol slightly resembling a skull and outlined in a red omega symbol used by resisters to the Vietnam War. GOOD condition. Minor toning. Some wrinkling and faint creasing to the paper. Minor soiling. Small spot near the lower left corner. One or two tiny tears to the extremities. No publisher unknown
réf. 019557New York: New York State Education Department. Pamphlet. Good. no date late 1942 early 1943. Single sheet 8 ½ by 11 inches folded in half to make four pages. Illustrated front cover and interior. A pamphlet praising women on the front cover for their war work effort in World War II and soliciting in the interior for 3000000 more women to join the war work force. The rear page has information about the local War Production Training Program in Richfield Springs New York. Gives information on class hours types of courses machinist's lathe etc. and transportation information. GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy scattered foxing to the piece. Minor soiling and staining. Pencil scribble on the front page. Some wrinkling and creasing. New York State Education Department unknown
1865réf. 019501New York: Mrs. Grundy Publisher 1865. Wraps. Poor. Side folding journal. Pagination runs 33-42. Front cover illustration by Thomas Nast. Political cartoons throughout. Fourth issue of this short lived periodical attempting to pick up where Vanity Fair left off. Some of those associated with the journal had worked on Vanity Fair. Mrs. Grundy played a critical observer on the American political scene and supported the Reconstruction as envisioned by Andrew Johnson. The journal ran for a total of 12 issues before closing due to a lack of subscribers. Political satire and commentary throughout including a poem written in dialect from the point of view of an African-American who feels abandoned by the US government. Also present is a full page illustration by Thomas Nast titled "Death on the Rails." POOR condition. Slightly ex-library with faint blindstamp on the front cover. The whole journal is very fragile and brittle with all pages DETACHED from each other. Moderate toning some soiling and moderate to heavy chipping and tearing along the edges. Pencil note on the upper front cover. Mrs. Grundy, Publisher unknown
réf. 019512New York: Sackett and Wilhelms. Spiral Bound. Good. no date circa 1940. Illustrated wraps spiral bound. Unpaginated perhaps 100-150 pp. Printed on single sides only. A promotional work issued by Sackett and Wilhelms Lithograph Company highlighting the work of commercial and graphic artists and photographers. A few entries with brief biographies. Each artist with one full page sample of work. Index to artists in the rear. GOOD condition. Moderate fading and scuffing to the covers with some soiling and a few small stains. Heavy scuffing and wear along the extremities. Paper toned in the interior with a few pages bearing small tears in the center. Sackett and Wilhelms unknown
1874réf. 019486Boston: White Smith and Company 1874. Wraps. Good. Folio. Appears to have been disbound from a larger work. Sheet music to a song sung by Charles B. Hicks and his troupe the Georgia Minstrels. Hicks was an African-American performer and minstrel troupe manager and publicist being one of the few to be successful in the white dominated genre. Top of the cover dedicates this "To Charles B. Hicks." The cover itself is a lithograph by John H. Bufford drawing on stereotypes and idealizations of what the white US public imagined Black life to be like using imagery to portray an older Black gentleman theoretically reflecting wistfully back on life in slavery. GOOD condition. Spine edge rough from extraction. Minor soiling and toning with a few small stains. White, Smith and Company unknown
1804réf. 019430Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin Printers 1804. Pamphlet. Good. Pamphlet side folding in two separate sections. Pagination runs 659-672 plus a blank rear leaf. A descriptive printing of various laws and acts passed in Connecticut including those relating to surveyors courts gaolers and sheriffs the New Haven Aqueduct Company etc. GOOD condition. Two sections held together with a paper clip. Minor toning and foxing. Some chipping tearing and tattering along the fore edge. Pages unopened along the top edge. Hudson and Goodwin, Printers unknown
1888réf. 019424Rhode Island: WCTU Rhode Island Publisher 1888. Unbound. Good. Cream colored silk ribbon with purple printing and fringed ends. With a sewn fold over flap at the top. About 6 ½ by 2 1/8 inches. A ribbon issued by the Women's Christian Temperance Union WCTU of Rhode Island reading "W.C.T.U. of Rhode Island. State Convention at Providence Sept. 18-19-20 1888.Greetings Remembrance. Compliments of Providence Union" Presumably issued for its annual convention. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Ohio in 1874 with the principal goal of promoting temperance through religious moral and other methods. It eventually expanded its mission to include social reform such as suffrage child labor etc. The Rhode Island chapter was successful in helping to pass a prohibition law in the state in 1886 although it was repealed in 1889. GOOD condition. Minor toning and curling with light soiling and staining. WCTU Rhode Island, Publisher unknown
réf. 019372Madison WI: PACC Publisher. Wraps. Very Good. no date circa 1990. Wraps. 16 pp. including covers. Signed by the author with a short inscription on the inside rear cover. A brief guide to common words used by the American Roma written from a law enforcement perspective. Words are given in English along with their phonetic Roma counterparts. VERY GOOD condition. Minor curling to the corners. PACC, Publisher unknown
1822réf. 014338New-Ipswich NH: Salmon Wilder Publisher 1822. Wraps. Fair. Plain wraps. A collection of speeches from various politicians and people from a variety of towns from New England and beyond with responses made by President James Monroe. This includes towns such as Kittery Maine Newburyport Massachusetts women from the Windsor Female Academy Plattsburg Portsmouth New Hampshire etc. FAIR condition. Front cover almost detached. Moderate faint staining soiling and spotting to the wrappers with general fading. Upper front wrapper with chipping and loss along its entire length. Wrappers almost completely missing from the spine. Moderate uneven browning in the interior with scattered foxing soiling and staining. Not in Sabin. Salmon Wilder, Publisher unknown
1976réf. 019316Allenstown and Pembroke NH: Allenstown-Pembroke Bicentennial Committee Publisher 1976. Cloth. Very Good. Red cloth in slipcase. No jackets presumably as issued. Fold out map present in the rear of volume one. Two volume reprint of an 1895 edition giving the history of Pembroke and the surrounding area in New Hampshire with volume two containing a genealogy of area families. Books in VERY GOOD condition with minor fading and soiling. Heavier fading to the spines. Slipcase in GOOD condition with staining toning foxing and soiling. Old price written at the top corner of the case. Allenstown-Pembroke Bicentennial Committee, Publisher unknown
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1887réf. 019235Rhode Island: WCTU Rhode Island Publisher 1887. Unbound. Good. Cream colored silk ribbon with purple printing and fringed ends. With a sewn fold over flap at the top. About 6 ½ by 2 1/8 inches. A ribbon issued by the Women's Christian Temperance Union WCTU of Rhode Island reading "W.C.T.U. of Rhode Island/With Love of Mrs. Barney/Psalms 68-28./State Convention/at/Newport/ Sept. 27 28 & 29 / 1887." Presumably issued for its annual convention. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Ohio in 1874 with the principal goal of promoting temperance through religious moral and other methods. It eventually expanded its mission to include social reform such as suffrage child labor etc. The Rhode Island chapter was successful in helping to pass a prohibition law in the state in 1886 although it was repealed in 1889. It's presumed that the Mrs. Barney referred to on the ribbon is Susan Hammond Barney a social activist lecturer and first president of the Rhode Island W.T.C.U. VERY GOOD condition. Minor toning and curling. WCTU Rhode Island, Publisher unknown
1988réf. 019221St. Louis: Fine Art Ltd. Publisher 1988. Unbound. Very Good. Single sheet glossy paper stock. 26 by 20 inches. A poster of a painting by Peter Max depicting a 1936 Mercury Dime issued to promote the March of Dimes cause. Peter Max is an American artist known for his psychedelic and counterculture imagery and posters which gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. VERY GOOD condition. Slight bend at the upper right corner. Very light edgewear. Fine Art Ltd., Publisher unknown
réf. 019133No Place: Home Literary Association presumed Producer. Unbound. Good. No place or date. Perhaps late 1800s to early 1900s. Approximately 12 ½ by 2 5/8 inches including tassels at the bottom. A rather ornate silk ribbon perhaps issued for a convention or meeting of the Home Literary Association. The piece consists of one large ribbon with two smaller ribbons attached at the top. A silk flower type piece with gold colored sequins in a star formation at the top. Floor Manager patch sewn on. Nothing could be found about the organization. GOOD condition. Some fold creases present with minor general toning and light soiling. Home Literary Association, presumed Producer unknown
1740réf. AQ26617London: Printed for Tho. Cooper 1740. 2 v-viii 9-62pp. Without half-title. Recent marbled paper wrappers. Internally clean and crisp. An essay written during the early stages of the War of Jenkins' Ear 1739-1748 in which conflict between England and Spain mostly took place in the Caribbean sea. The author devotes a large portion of the essay to discussing the present military strength of France and Spain which he deems inferior to the English forces and argues that exerting English strength will be both profitable and inexpensive compared to the previous Anglo-Spanish war. Contains an appendix providing an interesting and detailed description of present Spanish territories in the Caribbean and Americas- including reference to the Spanish galleons and 'Mines of Gold the most famous of which is St Maria'. ESTC T711. First edition. 8vo. Printed for Tho. Cooper unknown
1919réf. 019109New York: Independent Corporation 1919. Wraps. Good. Color illustrated covers. Black and white photos throughout. Single issue of this journal devoted to current events world politics etc. This issue with an essay by William Sanders Scarborough on "Race Riots and their Remedy" in which he discusses racism and inequality in the United States that was brought into sharper focus during and after World War I asserting that African-Americans gained further knowledge about the extent of inequality in the US. Scarborough born into slavery became a classical scholar and served as president of Wilberforce University from 1908 to 1920. Also present is a look at drama and race relations discussing the growth of theaters catering to a Black audience. Somewhat tangential to this article are two photos of African-Americans displaced from their due to white racial violence. GOOD condition. Minor general toning and soiling with some wrinkling and creasing to the covers. Ink check mark on the lower front cover. Independent Corporation unknown
1904réf. 019115Attleboro MA: G.M. Robbins Co 1904. Unbound. Very Good. Measures approximately 2 5/8 by 1 3/8 inches at its tallest and widest. Clasping pin style back. Golden color metal. A pinback presumably issued for a Shriner outing held in Atlantic City in 1904 featuring a sphinx sword and crescent moon attached to a medallion with a pyramid at its center. The Shriners originated within the Freemasons and are often associated with charities. VERY GOOD condition. Minor tarnishing to the metal on the front a bit heavier to the sword. G.M. Robbins Co unknown
1889réf. 019106New York: D. Appleton and Company 1889. Half Leather. Good. Half leather with marbled boards. 612 729 pp. MISSING frontispiece illustrations in both volumes. An exhaustive biography on American orator and statesman Daniel Webster. Provenance note: these books were apparently originally in the collection of Ralph Pulitzer and both bear a large bookplate designed by Rockwell Kent for Pulitzer and his second wife. GOOD condition. Ex-library with interior pocket and pastedown as well as blindstamping to the title pages. Second volume's front pastedown library bookplate partially obscures the Pulitzer bookplate. No exterior library markings noted. Minor to moderate scuffing heavier to the leather and extremities with minor splitting along the hinges. Minor toning in the interior. Frontispieces MISSING. D. Appleton and Company unknown
1832réf. 019070Springfield: G. and C. Merriam Publisher 1832. Cloth. Good. Brown cloth. 120 pp. 3 5/8 by 2 ¾ inches. A gift book of sorts for new husbands and wives discussing behavioral and social expectations. GOOD condition. Heavy uneven fading and toning to the covers. Moderate scuffing. Some discoloration minor soiling and staining. Gift inscription on the first endpaper with a small piece torn off the upper corner. Heavy foxing and browning throughout the book. G. and C. Merriam, Publisher unknown
réf. 019048Providence RI: E.L. Logee and Co. Unbound. Very Good. no date perhaps circa 1900. Whale pin attached to a medal/badge below. Issued by the Knights Templar an organization associated with freemasonry. Whale has Sutton printed on it with the medal bearing an armorial crest in white black and red with the words "Sutton Commandery K.T. New Bedford Mass. Gold colored measuring approximately 3 by 1 ½ inches at its widest. VERY GOOD condition. Slight "tarnishing" to the face. Two dark areas on the reverse of the whale. E.L. Logee and Co unknown
1886réf. 018996Rhode Island: WCTU Rhode Island Publisher 1886. Unbound. Very Good. Cream colored silk ribbon with purple printing and fringed ends. 6 ¾ by 2 1/8 inches. A ribbon issued by the Women's Christian Temperance Union WCTU of Rhode Island reading "Our Jubilee Year April 7th. Praise ye the Lord. W.C.T.U. of Rhode Island. Sept. 28-30th 1886." Presumably issued for its annual convention. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was founded in Ohio in 1874 with the principal goal of promoting temperance through religious moral and other methods. It eventually expanded its mission to include social reform such as suffrage child labor etc. The Rhode Island chapter was successful in helping to pass a prohibition law in the state in 1886 although it was repealed in 1889. VERY GOOD condition. A few small spots of brown staining in the center of the ribbon. WCTU Rhode Island, Publisher unknown
réf. 018984No Place: No publisher. Pamphlet. Good. No publisher place or date. Perhaps circa 1864. Pamphlet. Lacking any wrappers that may have been issued. 16 pages. A work relying heavily on quoted scripture to discuss the will of God and people especially as it relates to politics and government. It appears this was a long-winded way for Mr. Halsted to assert that the New York City politicians associated with Tammany Hall were being victimized by the Albany Regency politicians who were apparently using their positions as politicians to gain personal wealth. Historical perspective suggests this letter now seems somewhat ironic. While not in Sabin the bibliography indicates Halsted wrote then published letters to presidents Pierce and Lincoln. Good condition. Faint dampstain to the lower foredge margin. Alphanumeric pencil notation to the upper front page. Minor soiling and foxing. No publisher unknown
1928réf. 018959No Place: C.F.G.E. Publisher 1928. Wraps. Good. No place California: 1928. Illustrated wraps. 16 pp. including covers. Black and white photos made to look like drawings throughout. A work promoting the use of California lemons as a health and beauty product for use on the hair skin hands manicuring teeth and gums. Seemingly aimed at a female audience with the illustrations depicting what could be considered Flapper Girls. Suggestions for application and use of lemons included. What appears to be either an artist's or photographer's monogram visible on the front cover looking like an M with a triangle. GOOD condition. Some fading soiling and toning to the covers with a few tiny stains present. Extremities bumped in a bit scuffed. C.F.G.E., Publisher unknown
