N.d. ca. 1930s. Two leaves (27.5x21.5cm.) printed mimeo on rectos only. Previous folds, one leaf toned, else Very Good or better. Collection of six tongue-in-cheek sample letters to write to customers with overdue accounts: "Just think, your account of $7.00 will have its first annual birthday this month! Shall we..... More about Two Mimeographed Leaves of Sample Letters
Paris: Masson et Cie. 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with... More about Exposé de la méthode hydrothérapique: Histoire, théories, technique, applications cliniques...
New York: Modern Library, n.d., ca. 1931. 12mo (16cm.); publisher's blue gilt-embossed cloth, blue topstain; xxi,[22]-351pp.; frontispiece, text illus. throughout. Inscribed and signed on title page: "Inscribed to Fritz Barton by Alexander Woollcott." Cloth spine rather faded, else Very Good to Near Fine. Two typed letters, signed "A.W." neatly tipped..... More about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark...
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
Menil la Tour: March 3, 1919. 13 pages, written on rectos only; American YMCA American expeditionary Force letter head printed in red and blue; previous fold; original censored envelope addressed to Mrs. William B. Ballou of Seattle, Washington, postmarked and censored; about fine. A quite rich in detail account of both... More about 13-page autograph letter, signed, to the author's "Aunt Dollie" while on active service...
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
[New York: Illustrated Color Post Card & Now Co., 1918]. About fine postcard addressed to "Mother" (Mrs. C. M. Freeman) of Colorado Springs, postmarked Charlotte, NC April 13, 1918, from her son John. "Believe me, this is true here. Got paid yesterday will have to save some as we may... More about Color pictorial postcard depicting a cartoon signed "Wall" of a cigar-smoking soldier...
York, PA: 1932. Small octavo (17cm.); black cloth, upper cover "Diary" lettered in gilt; 206pp., filled to completion. Cloth a bit dusty, the youthful owner's faint pencil ownership initials on upper cover and in ink on textblock fore-edge. Still, given its heavy use, Very Good and sound. Gift inscription from... More about Manuscript Diary for the Year 1932
New York: American Bible Society, 1852. 105th Edition. 12mo (17.75cm.); publisher's black elaborately blind-embossed morocco, gilt-lettered spine; 591,[5],184pp. Boards rather rubbed at extremities, foxing throughout, else Near Very Good and sound. Bible and "book of ages" of the Captain Charles (1811-1873) and Janet (1809-1896) Cook[e] family. Family Record leaves at... More about The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testament, translated out of the original tongues; and...
Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as... More about The Story of Bill Hylan's Threatened Baldness as Told by Bill and Set Down by His Grateful...
Iowa City: Lee & Ries, [1892]. "Revised Edition" Small quarto (20.5cm.); original cloth tape-backed brown decorative card wrappers; unpaged; illus. Some minor wear to extremities with a small puncture to spine cloth tape, else Very Good and sound. Chiefly blank leaves providing space to record a detailed description of the... More about A Plant Record for the Use of Students of Botany
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
![Manuscript] My Career As a Buyer. Helen Diane PERLIN](/pictures/thumb/0909.jpg?v=1529976184)
Virginia: n.d., ca. 1960s. Quarto (29.25cm.); orange post-bound folder, lettering pasted in black cut-out letters; [43] leaves used to completion on rectos only. Wrappers a bit worn, loss to the "C" in "Career" on upper cover, a few other letters starting to chip, else Very Good, internally near fine. Extensive... More about Manuscript] My Career As a Buyer
Newport, R. I. Pub. by Chas. D. Dadley, 1918. About fine pictorial postcard addressed in manuscript to Mrs. A. [April] S. Dvorak of Orange, New Jersey, postmarked April 29, 1918, inviting her to "Come & see a drill like this! We see the boys march by the house about every... More about Photographic postard of South Drill Field, U. S. Naval Training Station
![Manuscript Notebook] Domestic Science Sewing. Cora Wade WARD](/pictures/thumb/0934.jpg?v=1529892078)
Edmond, OK: 1912-1913. Octavo (21cm.); red cloth tape-backed card wrappers; approximately half filled to completion ([38]pp. used). Wrappers rather worn, top fore-edge corner creased with crude archival tape repair to verso, preliminary leaves a bit toned, small loss to one leaf affecting text with brief loss of meaning, else Near... More about Manuscript Notebook] Domestic Science Sewing
Plaidt, Germany: May 10, 1919. Bifolium, 8vo; approximately 225 words; accompanied by two copies of a real photo postcard of the correspondent and his instrument, labeled in Wetherbee's hand in ink on verso, "Germany. May, 1919". Letter on Allied Expeditionary Forces YMCA Army of Occupation letterhead; cheap paper somewhat browned... More about Autograph letter signed
Columbus, Sacket Harbor, Is-sur-Tille, and others: 1917-1919. Archive consisting of 38 letters, mostly autograph and accompanied with original mailing envelopes; 14 snapshot photographs; and the shard from a wooden airplane propeller. Letters with usual mail folds and some wear, else a Very Good, well-preserved archive. Collection of letters addressed to... More about Archive of World War I Letters, Photographs, and Ephemera, addressed to Francis P. Deimer of...
