Mainly cranes, photos in very good condition, many labeled on the backs. The Eichleay Company was founded in Pittsburgh in 1875 and is still under family ownership to this day: it was a structural moving company, moving houses, buildings, etc., intact, from one location to another. It was a very.....
Accordion style album with 25 real photo postcards of an open air play in the foothills of the Pyrenees, probably at the foot of Castel-Viehl in Luchon. It was well attended: photos show hundreds of playgoers and include shots of the stage, the play, the characters in their costumes, etc......
Mainly linen backed, all in very good condition. The 8,000 ton 9-story building was moved 112 feet and had to be "skewed" slightly to fit its new location. Subsidance was less than half an inch. Included is an issue of "L'Ossature Metallique" from 1938 with an article on this. These.....
1 8x10 photo, 3 7x5 photos, and 1 5x3 photo, all showing various stages of installation of the penstock pipes at Boulder Dam, plus large 41 x 27 plan, with some hand-coloring, showing the plan for where the penstock pipes would go, plus two smaller folding plans relating to the.....
In a handsome red cloth album, about 200 postcards mainly from Europe all addressed to Dora Marcuson (1891-1932) in Cleveland. Most of the cards written from Europe, especially Vienna and Karlsbad, but also places in Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, etc, most written in German, many signed as "Papa" and "Mamma." The.....
Truly fine condition, no creases, tears, soil, etc., very crisp and bright. Measures just under 7.5 inches wide.
All measuring approximately 8 inches wide, all associated with William Larimer Jr. a Pittsburgh area railroad baron and financier, who went to Colorado in 1858 and staked claim to the acreage that he named Denver, lots of which he aggressively sold to pioneers and miners; he was also one of.....
Truly fine probably uncirculated condition, crisp, no creases, no wear, no corner bends, nothing! Long thin key in red treasury seal.
Milwaukee: Athletic Dance Press, C. 1917. 7.5 inches tall, pictorial wraps, 12 pp, text in deep red, illustrated throughout. A choreographed dance step involving the use of semaphores. Rare both on the market and in institutions.
NY: Jeremiah Curtis & Sons, C. 1877. Paperback. 12mo, printed pictorial yellow wraps, 32 pp, good plus copy, some soil and wear, spottiness to covers. Basic recipes plus ads for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, Brown's Bronchial Troches, Vermifuge Comfits, Dentrifice, etc.
Brochure unfolds to 11 x 7 inches, light wear.
Hardcover. 7.25 inches tall (18.5 cm), full gilt decorated leather , marbled endpapers, bound in parchment sheet folded to make four pages (3 filled in): the first page is instructions, handwritten in handsome script, for Asperges both during the year and at Easter, and the net pages are the antiphons.....
Almost all small weekly schedule sheets, mostly from the Wheeling & Steubenville to Pittsburgh line, plus a few others. The main group is 1948-52 but there are a handful from 1941-1947 and a few from 1953. The three time tables in this group are from 1941, 1948 and 1952. The.....
Paris: Hermann, 1953. First printing. Single volume, wraps, very good, light splitting along spine, still solidly bound. 121 pp plus additional supplementary pages.
Louisville, KY: 1861. 2 issues, 20 inches tall, 8 pp. each, good with some wear, darkening and soil to first pages of each issue, unopened and uncut at top edge. Very specifically on masonic topics, but the 7th page of each is half given over to advertisements, including several KY.....
"Edited by Misses [too faint to read]" -- 12.5 inches tall, 8 pp, handwritten almost entirely in pen, with an introductory column, a short essay on education that notes how many people of humble beginnings were among the most educated, from Aesop, through John Bunyan, Burns, Capt. Cook, to Daniel.....
New York: Zamani Productions, 1981. First printing. Pictorial wraps, 28 pp (unpaginated) with illustrations, just slight wear.
118 pp, photocopied, in plain stiff card covers binder with three rings. Labeled number 38 on the cover sheet, fine copy. Appears to be close to the final draft.
With information and 14 individual views, folding out to 43.5 inches long, double sided. The F. & C.C. R.R. was out of business by 1915, at least under that name, so we'll conservatively date this ca. 1910.
Chicago: Union Pacific RR / Rand McNally, 1938. Folds out to 31 x 18 inches, color map on one side, information on the other about the history and advantages of the Union Pacific Railroad on the other.
Stapled photocopied sheets for distribution at Paramount, with comments from initial analysts, giving a behind-the-scenes look at one of the first steps in getting a movie made: making it past the slush pile. The comments are often perceptive, carefully considered and sometimes quite lengthy. The readers are almost all women.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1935. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book near fine, red ink mark on flyleaf and owner's name, jacket fair with shelfwear, chips, edgewear, some staining or blotchiness to middle of jacket spine. A rare book in even more rare jacket. Labor novel set.....
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1998. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, clean unmarked text, near fine copy.
Evanston: Mary and Leigh Block Gallery / Northwestern University, 1981. First printing. Paperback. Quarto, wraps, clean unmarked text, illustrated, near fine copy, some soiling and wear to the covers.
London: The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1989. First printing. Hardcover. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, illustrated, near fine copy in very good dust jacket, soiling and light edgewear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.