Buffalo, NY: D. Ransom, Son, 1880-1886. Paperback. 4 receipt books, small 8vo, orange printed wraps, each 32 pp. with half the text advertisements for various medicines and quack cures, the other half straight recipes. 1880: good, some wear and stains to covers. 1881: good, lacking rear wrap. 1885: good plus.....
Buffalo, NY: D. Ranson, 1889. Paperback. Small 8vo, printed orange wraps, 32 pp, recipes mixed with lots of ads for the Ransom company's quack medicines, including Magnetic Ointment. Paper slightly pulpy. Some wear, good copy.
Chicago: W. J. Jefferson, 1891. Paperback. 1891 Softcover 8vo, np. Programme of the American Extravaganza Company's production of "Sinbad" at the Chicago Opera House. With wonderful pictorial wrappers, as well as charming illustrated advertisements throughout. Faint dampstain to the upper edge corner of the first and last pages, else clean.....
Pittsburgh: De Haven & Co., 1881. Paperback. August, 1881. Blue printed wraps, 12mo. 48pp. fine engravings of stoves with contemporary prices. Good. Soil and edge wear to wraps, rodent damage upper right corner of last 8p, light foxing to margins. Contents otherwise complete and clean.
Pittsburgh: De Haven and Co., 1882. Paperback. August, 1882. Printed wraps, 12mo. 55pp. illustrated with nice engravings of stoves. Good to good plus. Rodent damage to bottom right corner and top margin of contents throughout, wraps foxed and creased. Despite cosmetic wear, contents remain otherwise complete, bright, and unmarked.
NY: F.W. Devoe & Co., c. 1885. Hardcover. No date--circa 1885. Cloth hardbound, clean and unmarked text, illustrated, 264 pp. + ads., very good copy, covers of the book with some rubbing, mild wear, discoloration or fading, and wrinkling to cloth on front cover, dampstain tidemark to outer pages of.....
New York: B.F. Allen & Co., ca. 1900s. Paperback. A two page music score about the titular Tom Bowling, who presumably in this context dies from not using Beecham's Pills. The pills are advertised as curing nervous disorders, headaches, female ailments, and several other ills. ca. 1900s. Measures 5.5 by.....
London: Donald Currie and Co, 1877. 3 items, including broadside listing names of company steamships, sailing schedule and rates of passage to South Africa, and letter of transmittal from a representative of Donald Currie and Company to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1877. Broadside measures 8.....
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984. Reprint. Hardcover. Reprint, 1984. Hardcover, 968 pp., Very Good copy, soiling or age-toning to the page-edges, minor edgewear to the covers, no dust jacket.
New York: Dritz-Traum Co., 1925. Eighth Edition. Wraps. Eighth Edition. c.1925. Stapled Wraps. 8vo. 32pp. Illus. Very Good. Light soiling to wraps, 1-1/2 inch tear at base of spine.
Wilmington: E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, no clear publication date (ca. 1964). Quarto, hardcover in slipcase, 56 pp., illustrated (much in color), clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy in Good slipcase, light soil or discoloration to some pages, minor rubbing and wear to.....
Pittsburgh: Duff, McKean, & Co., 1880-81. Paperback. First thus, 1880-81. Softcover 8vo, 35pp. Issued by Duff, McKean, & Co., an agricultural supply co. With catalogue of fences, tools, and more throughout the contents, with great illustrations. Lacking rear wrap, otherwise in very good condition with some wear to joints. Clean.....
New York: Dun, Barlow & Co. et al. (1873). Hardcover. Original limp pebbled cloth covers, title embossed on cover, 256 (2) pp, with possibly half the pages being advertisements. Includes legal information including contracts with married women, court calendars, tariffs on various products, information on the national bank system, on.....
Amersterdam: Dunham Tackle Co. First printing. Paperback. First edition, no date. Softcover, ca. 40 pages, Fair copy, creasing to the pages, soiling to the pages and the covers, wear to the covers including rubbing, creasing, and tearing. Though there are no clear ownership marks, this copy came from renowned fly.....
Augusta, ME: E. C. Allen, Ca. 1890s. Paperback. No date, we would guess about 1895. 12.75 inches tall, 18 pp including covers, illustrated and priced catalogue of items: books are of the inexpensive softcover variety on how to box, dance, beautify, keep bees, play banjo, the art of making love.....
Augusta, ME: E. C. Allen, Ca. 1890s. Paperback. No date, we would guess about 1895. 12.75 inches tall, 18 pp including covers, illustrated and priced catalogue of items: books are of the inexpensive softcover variety on how to box, dance, beautify, keep bees, play banjo, the art of making love.....
Chicago: Edward B. Grossman & Co., 1900-1901. Paperback. 1900-1901. Printed wraps, 12mo. 40pp. illustrated with offered products listed with contemporary prices. Very good. Light foxing, edge wear to wraps. Internally unmarked.
Chicago: Edward B. Grossman & Co., 1899. Paperback. 1899. Pictorial wraps, 8vo. 33pp. illustrations of offered fashions listed with contemporary prices. Very good. Light edge wear and soil to wraps. Internally bright and unmarked.
Chicago: Grossman, 1902. Paperback. Published 1902, 8vo, wraps, 8 inches tall, pictorial covers, 32 pp all illustrated and priced items in black and white, very good, light soil and wear to front cover. OCLC - 1 copy - Northern Illinois University.
Liverpool: Elder, Dempster and Co, 1876. With letter of transmission on Elder, Dempster and Co. letterhead, addressed to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1876. Letter measures 8 by 5.5 inches, broadside is 13 by 8 inches. Very good. Toning, creasing, and shallow chipping to broadside. Light.....
1867 single sheet, 11.5 x 9.5, folded in half. Shipping form or document with several areas filled in, including "Bill of Lading from New York to Cleveland Depot." The verso of the sheet states the freight classifications for various goods. In very good condition with minimal wear. Note the paper.....
Lancaster, PA: Eureka Bark Mill Co., ca. 1880s. Paperback. ca. 1880s. Printed wraps, measures 3.5 by 6 inches. 34pp. illustrated, with folding frontis of the mill. Very good. Light soil to wraps. Internally unmarked.
Newark, DE: F. Schumacher Co. Hardcover. No date, ca. 1975-1980 just based on the look and the soft focus photography. Folio (17.5 inches) pictorial cloth with over sixty pages of samples plus some swatches and smaller sample sheets, probably close to 75 samples in all. Very good, light wear to.....
St. Louis: Fabricius Toy and Notion Co., July, 1908. Paperback. Catalog for St. Louis based Fabricius Toy and Notion Co. July 1st, 1908. Paperback, 8vo. in stapled yellow pictorial wraps. 64pp. illustrated, products listed with contemporary prices. Good+. Chipping, loss to wrap extremities. Shallow chipping to less 5pp, edges remain.....
Pittsburgh: Fayette Manufacturing Co., ca. 1900s. Hardcover. ca. 1900s. Hardcover, 8vo. in brown cloth with silver title, patterned endpapers. 46pp. illustrated. Very good. Light edge wear to boards, contemporary ownership signature on front pastedown and endpaper. Internally bright, clean, and unmarked.