Denver? 1930. Small oblong quarto; gilt-tooled padded die-cut calf with celluloid lozenge inserted into middle of upper cover carved with birds and flowers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; extremities quite rubbed and leather starting to peel from boards, several surface scratches, else Good, internally sound and quite legible. A token... More about Original Manuscript Wedding Gift Album

Toronto: Neewin Publishing Co., 1972. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue pictorial card wrappers; viii,100pp.; illus. Light shelf wear, old price rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Collection of personal essays by Native American authors, sponsored by the Nishnawbe Institute in Canada. More about Who Is the Chairman of This Meeting? A Collection of Essays

Minneapolis: Tendon Press, 2002. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; [6],55pp.; illus. Fine condition. Inscribed and signed by the author on half title to the late Minnesota poet John Rezmerski: "For John + Lorna -- I hope you both are well + that you find these poems... More about Summer Poems [Inscribed and Signed

[Evansville: Antes Press, n.d., but 1928]. First Thus. Large, slim octavo; publisher's blue blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spine; 127pp. A few tiny surface scratches to boards, else Fine. Letters by the 19th-century Austrian Catholic missionary in Utica, New York, and Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin territory, translated from the original German. First... More about Letters of the Reverend Adelbert Inama: O. Praem

Columbus, OH: McClelland & Company, [1913]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards printed in blue; 231pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece, eleven leaves of plates including photographs and cartoons. Light wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, spine a shade sunned, else Very Good, internally fine. More about Spectacular Career of Rev. Billy Sunday, Famous Baseball Evangelist

[Charleville]: Collège de 'Pataphysique, XC [i.e. 1963]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 89,[1],12pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, ownership signature to upper cover of Ned Polsky, sociologist and author of "Hustlers, Beats, and Others" (1969), with his additional note inside rear wrapper..... More about Au Seuil de la 'Pataphysique [Additional cover title: On the Threshold of 'Pataphysics / U Progu...

New York: Thomas Whittaker, n.d., ca. 1890s. First English Language Edition. Slim quarto; publisher's red cloth-backed pictorial boards; 16pp.; five color lithographed numbered plates on three panels, two folding out, the last mounted to rear cover and with several moveable components. Some chipping to board extremities, the whole rather toned..... More about Whittaker's Anatomical Model. A Pictorial Representation of the Human Frame and Its Organs

Londonderry [NH?]: Dec. 5th, 1862. Original bill (approx. 10x20.5cm.) on single side of blue laid paper, written using three ink colors (black, blue, and red). A hint of soil, else Fine. An attractive but perhaps not the most expert writing example, though the calligraphy flourished trio of leaves in three... More about Original Calligraphic Bill] Miss Augusta Blodgett to Wm. C. Pahner Jr. for a Course of Lessons in...

Quincy, MA? ca. 1870. Small bifolium; pencil manuscript on first and last panels only; previous folds, some light soil, else Very Good and quite legible. Detailed guide to knitting baby shoes, printed on the blank leaves of the Lecture program of the 1870 Unitarian Society of Quincy, whose speakers that... More about Original Manuscript] Baby's Shoes

N.d. ca. 1930s. Original manuscript filling recto and most of the verso of single leaf; approx. 350 words. Old soil along previous folds, one fold slightly obscuring text, else Very Good. Racy joke written in what could be a juvenile hand, possibly to be passed around in school. Recounts the... More about Original Manuscript] How to Kill an Eel

[Cleveland: Western Reserve University, 1929]. First Edition. Folio (30.5cm.); publisher's pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red, black, and yellow; 32pp.; illus. throughout, including cartoons by Groth and pictorial ads. Light wear from handling, one signature separated but present, else Very Good and fresh. The University's elegantly produced monthly humor magazine... More about Reserve Red Cat, Vol. 7, no. 3, December, 1929. Futuristic Number

Paris? 1938. First Edition. Folio (31.5cm.); publisher's silver blind-embossed staplebound wrappers, floral die-cut element; [32]pp.; chiefly sepia-toned photographic illus. Light wear, minor rubbing to spine, else Fine. Extravagant souvenir program to the 1938 cabaret "Folie en Fleurs," consisting of fifty tableaux designed by Maurice Hermite and choreographed by Raphael Garcia... More about M. Paul Derval Présente Folie en Fleurs / Folly in Flowers / Wahn in Voller Blutte / Locyra en Flor

N.p. Chandler Dental Accounting System, n.d., ca. 1930. First Edition. Quarto bifolium (24cm.); illus. Toned along previous horizontal fold, light foxing, else Very Good. Detailed advertising guide to the System, which goes so far as to include a numbered chart of each patient's teeth. "Complete system consists of 200 patients'... More about The Simple Way of Operating the Chandler Dental Accounting System