Ohio Brass Valves, Catalog No. 55, 1938
Mansfield, OH: Ohio Brass Co., 1938. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth, very good. 40 pp, illustrated, prices given.
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Studies in Securities, 1929, 3rd issue
New York: Jas. H. Oliphant & Co., 1929. Hardcover. 8vo, boards, very good, light soil. 120 pp. Not the best year for securities!
1969 Press books for Olivetti-sponsored film KYOTO dir. by Ken Ichikawa
2 10x10 inch press books, each different, in wraps, the first titled 'Kyoto, Documentary Film of Arts' and the second, with Olivetti logo on the outside is simply titled 'Kyoto.' In a mix of English, Japanese and Italian, with stills from the film and occasionally commentary from either the Italians.....
OECD Economic Surveys: Norway 1999-2000
Paris: Organisation For Economic Co-Operation and Development, 2000. Paperback. 2000, Softcover. 143 pp. Fine copy, like New. Fold-ouit in rear.
Using market mechanisms to manage Fisheries : Smoothing the Path
OECD, 2006. Paperback. 325 pp. Softcover. Near fine. Clean, unmarked text. Minor shelfwear to edges and textblock. Else fine.
Large 1936 brochure geared to coffee merchants: "18,600,000 Circulation in 1936 on Coffee Vacuum Packed in Glass"
(Toledo, OH): Owens-Illinois, (1936). Paperback. 14 x 10.5" in stiff pictorial wraps, 9 pp, very good with some tanning/browning to covers, light wear. Advertising geared to coffee merchants regarding the glass vacuum sealed jars and containers for coffee manufactured by Owens-Illinois and with pitches on how much circulation their ads.....
2 consecutive medical annuals from the 1870s--Morning, Noon, and Night for 1871-1872 and Morning, Noon, and Night for 1872-1873; "Third Year" and "Fourth Year"; Gratuitous Medical Annual; A Medical an Miscellaneous Annual
New York: P. H. Drake & Co., 1871-2. First printing. Paperback. First editions, 1871 and 1872. Wraps with color lithograph covers in the style of Thomas Nast, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, soiling or discoloration to some pages, creasing to the tips of some pages, a bit of.....
Mallory Condenser Service and Replacement Manual, Including a Special General Catalog Section; A Yaxley-Mallory Product
Indianapolis: P. R. Mallory & Co., 1936. First edition. Paperback. First edition, 1936. Softcover, 94 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy, relevant item stapled to inside of front cover, light creasing to the tips of some pages, light soiling or discoloration to covers, covers also with some wear. Uncommon.....
Real Log Houses; Page and / & Hill Co., Minneapolis, Minn.
Minneapolis: Page & Hill Co. First printing. Paperback. Ca. 1938. Staple-bound softcover, unpaginated, illustrated, clean unmarked text, Very Good copy, previous owner's sloppily-executed name-stamp twice towards the front of the book. soiling and discoloration to the pages, light wear to some pages, light wear to the edges of the book's.....
Letter of Transmittal on Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. Letterhead, Addressed to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 1878
Liverpool: Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co., 1878. Letter of transmittal from a Panama Railroad Company/ Royal Mail Steam Packet Company/ Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co. agent to James M. Lincoln of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. New York. Measures 8 by 10.....
Parker, Holmes, & Co. Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers, Spring 1889 Catalogue and Price List
Boston: Parker, Holmes, & Co., 1889. Paperback. Spring, 1889. Printed wraps, 8vo. 91pp. illustrations of offered products with contemporary prices. Very good. Light soil and edge wear to wraps, front endpaper foxed. Internally bright and unmarked.
P&O Vehicles: 1915
Canton, IL: Parlin & Orendorff, no date. Reprint. Paperback. Reprint of original 1915 edition, paperback, quarto, 92pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild shelfwear and rubbing to wrap, stapled binding tight, small paperclip stain to inside front panel, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Modes and Fabrics, Volume XII, No. 8, October, 1901
Pittsburgh: Patterson Co., 1901. Paperback. Single issue of Modes and Fabrics fashion magazine. October, 1901. Printed wraps, 8vo. 33pp. illustrated, with ads. Very good. Creased, soil to rear wrap. Internally clean and unmarked.
Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue Number Two (1904), Pawtucket Mfg. Co. Machinery Department, manufacturers of a full line of boolt and cold punched nut machinery
Pawtucket: Pawtucket Manufacturing Co., 1904. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9 x 7 inches, publisher's green cloth gilt, very good, lightest wear, small private ownership sticker on spine, owner's name and date on flyleaf. 180 pp, illustrated throughout including handsome full page engravings of some of the products, which include: arbors, baskets.....
Two Hundred Books from the Libraries of the World's Greatest Book Collectors. Grolier (1479-1565) to Beckford (1759-1844)
London: J. Pearson & Co., [1909]. First edition. Small quarto. vi,126,[1] pp. plus numerous plates (several folding). Original printed green wrappers, backed in cloth. Printed in black and red. Original notice on duty-free states pasted to lower margin of front wrapper. Ex.-lib., bearing institutional bookplate on front pastedown and occasional.....
Price List of Repairs and Directions for Setting Up and Operating the Peerless Reapers and Mowers. With related ephemera.
Canton, OH: Peerless Reaper Co., 1899. Paperback. Peerless Reaper Co. directions and price list [32pp] accompanied by "Price List of Binder, Mower and Reaper Repairs for the Machines formerly built by Peerless Reaper, Co." and letter on letterhead from the Bonnot Company, which bought out peerless around the time of.....
Small booklet: Banking by Mail, ca. 1900
Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania Trust Co. of Pittsburgh, Ca. 1900. Paperback. 5 x 3.25 inches, stapled handsome raspberry decorated wraps, fine copy. 8 pp. Advice on how to open up an account and deposit cash or checks into it by mail -- a novel idea back then!
1884 Price List of Saddles, Collars, Bridles, and all kinds of Strap Work
Cincinnati: Perkins & Campbell, 1884. Wraps. 8.25 x 5.25 inches, wraps, 24 pp, not illustrated except for illustration on rear wrap. Despite the covers looking fairly nice, a poor copy internally with much insect nibbling and loss and eating into the text from p. 15 to the end.
Pickford and Co. Steamship Company Calling Card, Passage Between England and France, ca. 1878
London: Pickford and Co., ca. 1878. Card measures 4 by 3 inches, printed both sides, French language one side and Enlish the other. Very good. Light edge wear and curling, else clean and unmarked.
Stock Certificate and Train Ticket for the P&LERR (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Rail Road Co.)
Pittsburgh. Cancelled stock certificate dated 1926. Green borders with vignette of Pittsburgh. Several hole punched, including a perforated stamp, with additional signatures and stamp on the verso. Accompanied by a train ticket from 1908 for a Mr. J. B. Davis, telegraph operator. Countersigned by J. W. Riley. Two Pittsburgh &.....
Flyer & price sheet for the Bent Rung Ladder, I. W. Scott Co. Pittsburgh (1894)
Pittsburgh: Liberty Printing, (1894). Single sheet folded twice. Measures 6 3/8 x 3 1/8 inches folded, and about 9.5 inches wide unfolded. Some toning, date in pen on one side.
Automotive Equipment and Replacement Parts, 1926, Catalogue Number 10
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Auto Equipment Co., 1926. Hardcover. 1926, First edition, 357 pp. Hardcover, gray illustrated cloth, 4to. Catalogue with photos, ads and prices. Good copy: Covers rubbed, tanned and soiled; light wear to spine ends; endpapers soiled; pencil doodle to front fly leaf. Clean contents. Includes laid-in pamphlet, "Discount Sheet.....
Electrical Supplies, Catalog No. 25, 1950
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Electric Supply Co., 1950. Hardcover. Quarto, 11 x 7.75 inches, very good, light wear and soil, minor stainings to binding, contents very good. 512 pp, illustrated and priced throughout, a full range of electrical products. Located at 6377 Penn Ave, which is basically where Staples is now, near.....
Shop and Field News: Devoted to Mutual Co-operation and Interest. Volume 1, Nos. 1 & 2, June 1918
Oil City, PA: Pittsburgh Filter Manufacturing Co., 1918. Paperback. 2 volumes, 1918. Softcover 4to's, [8]p each. Same cover photo on each, captioned on one, "Where we are all trying to do 'our bit'". Publication of the Pittsburgh Filter Manufacturing Co. of Pittsburgh and Oil City, chronicling news, opinions, announcements, personal.....
1897 catalog of mill, mine, railway and machinists' supplies, brass and iron valves, fittings, pipe, lubricators, oil cups, injectors...
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Gage and Supply Co., 1897. Wraps. 12 x 9.25 inches, recent cloth backed wraps with original cloth cover gilt title affixed to front wrap. Fair copy with singe darkening and browning to top edge of pages throughout and some signs of water stains to top edges of some.....