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
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
![Original Patent Application No. 370,011 Accomplished in Manuscript] "To all to whom these...](/pictures/thumb/1386.jpg?v=1618279683)
[Washington: H. Peters], 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
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
Waterbury, Connecticut? 1943. Three original drawings (45x30.5cm) using pencil and red, blue, and black ink on stiff paper stock; all signed and dated by Virginia L. Stowell, 1943. Stock a bit unevenly toned and lightly soiled, small loss to bottom left-hand corner of two images not approaching text or image;..... More
Paris: Calmann Lévy, 1881. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); contemporary half brown morocco over marbled boards by R. Raparlier, gilt spine in six compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, publisher's green printed front wrapper bound in; [6],95pp. Leather a bit dried and rubbed with a few faint surface scratches, brief..... More
![Original Manuscript] How to Kill an Eel. EROTICA](/pictures/thumb/1208.jpg?v=1569176441)
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
[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
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
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
Bath, ME: 1832. Oblong octavo (17.5cm.); original blue side-stitched wrappers; [26]pp.; filled to completion. Old vertical fold, some soil to wrappers and textblock, rear wrapper a bit worn with small coin-sized loss at top edge, else Very Good, internally fresh and ink unfaded. Penmanship practice notebook, each page divided into..... More
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
![Manuscript Poem] Les Voleurs et les Diligences. Charles Robert RICHET](/pictures/thumb/1236.jpg?v=1595515802)
"Entre Chtaura et Beyrouth" n.d., ca. 1920? Original unpublished holograph poem on recto only of single sheet of ruled paper (21x13cm.); faint horizontal fold, light wrinkling and a few tiny chips to extremities, else Very Good and fresh. Unpublished holograph poem by Charles Robert Richet (1850-1935), winner of the 1913..... More
![Le Lion Amoureux [Limited Edition, ALS Bound in, Henri Cordier's Copy]. Frédéric...](/pictures/thumb/1357.jpg?v=1618279357)
Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1882. Nouvelle Édition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 105 of 150 copies printed on papier du Japon blanc. 12mo (18.5cm.); full contemporary red morocco by R. Raparlier, gilt-tooled with green inlays, elaborately gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt..... More
![Original Manuscript Notebook] Hope Benton Clothing. WOMEN'S EDUCATION - HOME ECONOMICS, Hope BENTON](/pictures/thumb/1395.jpg?v=1619619902)
Seattle: 1929. Quarto (30cm.); [45] postbound leaves loose in repurposed expandable file (upper panel only remains) adorned with manuscript and collage elements; contents include fifty-one (51) original swatches and miniature clothing samples and twenty-five (25) original pencil and ink drawings. Upper cover a bit ragged at extremities though contents remain..... More
![Original Manuscript] Heraldic Vocabulary Illustrated by What Can [Be] Called in That Science...](/pictures/thumb/1244.jpg?v=1595515802)
New Hampshire: ca. 1870-1880. Thick 12mo (15.5cm.); contemporary dark brown morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine titled "Armory," all edges speckled, marbled endpapers; x,11-234pp., the remaining approx. 200pp. blank; text interspersed with 225 original ink drawings reproducing heraldic arms, most displaying exquisite and minute detail; six pieces of ephemera, chiefly..... More
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
