New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions, for the purpose of ordering sewing patterns, published by The Home Pattern Company, sole manufacturer of patterns for The Ladies' Home Journal. Filled throughout with outstanding illustrations of gowns..... More
London: The National Trust, [1939]. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/2" X 6". 38pp. Moderate wear, toning, and sunning to stapled paper wraps, with bumping, edgewear, and small open tear to tail of spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice, solid copy of this government publication detailing the..... More
New York: National Cloak & Suit Co., 1907. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 3/8" X 7". 60pp, plus order forms and size guide. Blank post card for requesting sample materials laid in, with heavy toning to front pastedown. Pictorial staplebound paper wraps show moderate wear, with open tears to corners..... More
Terra Haute, Indiana: Nor'Way Commercial Solvents Corporation, 1950. Staplebound wraps. 6 1/8" X 4". 32pp. Mild wear to staplebound wraps, with pencilled notes to wraps, light soiling, and a touch of shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A charming mid-century pamphlet for commerical customers from the Nor'Way..... More
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Eastern Seed Company, Circa 1920s. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". Unpaginated, 20pp. Rather heavy wear to staplebound pictorial wraps, with closed tears to spine at head and tail and small tears and chipping to edges and extremities. Some pages disbound from staples. Eastern Seed Company ordering form laid..... More
Hercules Powder Co., circa 1970s. 3 3/4" X 8 1/2". Rubbing, toning, and surface paper loss to cardboard. Penciled notation to rear of cardboard. Some toning to comb-case. Comb is clean and intact. A vintage advertisement encouraging businesses to put their brand on combs made by Hercules Powder Company. More
New York: Routledge, 2015. Hardcover. 10" X 7". xxiii, 500p. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Research in entrepreneurship has been booming, with perspectives from a range of disciplines..... More
Washington DC: Pan American Union, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 120pp. Dust jacket is encased in protective archival sleeve. Rather heavy wear to jacket with toning, soiling, creasing, and chipping to covers, corners, and edges. Top 1/2 of rear jacket is missing. Front cover of jacket..... More
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Belgian World Airlines, circa 1950s. Pamphlet. 8 1/4" X 3 3/4". Light toning to covers and edges of paper wraps. Clearn of marks and notation. An overall clean, unworn copy of this pamphlet advertising the Lady Sabena Club from Belgian World Airlines. Listed perks (described as "a hat-box full of..... More
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition with full number line. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". v, 262pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Small crease..... More
Boston: Brill, 2003. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 222pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The book attempts to..... More
New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. A quite charming signed first edition of this practical philosophy of work, guide to how to understand and adapt to the working world, and appreciation of the principle of work by Eugene Carr. 7 3/8" X 5 1/2". 128pp. Signed by..... More
Lancaster: Cerebro, 1992. Staplebound. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 52pp. Rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Small inked notation to front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. An overall clean, solid copy of this staplebound catalog of cigar box label art..... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". ix, 435pp. Ex libris Bradley Polytechnic Institute of Peoria, Illinois. Wear to green cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Stickers to spine and front cover. Dust-spotting and..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xiii, 656pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Light shelfwear to dust jacket, with gentle rubbing to extremities. Bound in textured black paper over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to tail of..... More
East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 4 1/8". 83pp. Lacking dust jacket. Dark brown cloth over boards. Moderate wear to binding, with heavy rubbing to white lettering, small dampstains to spine and boards, and mild edgewear. Binding is firm and sound..... More
Oakland: E.F. Kiessling & Son, 1927. Paperback. 9" X 6". 80pp. Wear to paper wraps with rubbing, soiling, creasing, chipping, and tears to covers, corners, and edges. Hinges are tender with bottom half of rear cover detatched completely. Soiling to edges of text block and to some pages. Page with..... More
Birmingham: J.E. Brierly, 1884. Paperback. 7 1/4" X 4 3/4". Unpaginated. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges. Tears to paper at head and tail of spine. Age-toning to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. Original 1884..... More
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1994. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/2". vii, 368pp. Bound in gray leather over boards with decorative stamped gilt to covers. Five raised bands to spine with 6 gilt compartments. All-edges gilt. Orange silk moire endpapers. Slight evidence of a removed bookplate at front endpaper. Pages..... More
New York: J.H. Goodwin, 1881. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 10" X 7". 137pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of brown cloth over boards. Age-toning to edges of text block. Elegant inked signature at front endpaper reads, "Harry C. Trecartin, New Haven, Ct, 1881." Faint foxing to..... More
London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited, 1896. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dive into this delicious 19th century ode to cocoa beans, brimming with chapters on the history of cocoa, its use and cultivation in in Mexico and Central America, the manufacture of chocolate, and its valued companion, the vanilla plant..... More
Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the Swedish educational psychologist Torsten Husén (1916–2009), this 1969 first edition offers follow-up interviews with the 1500 third graders originally tested 26 years prior, part of a socioeconomic study dealing with the predictive value of social backround, tested intelligence, and..... More
London: Marion Boyars, 2015. Paperback. 7 3/4" X 5". 123pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Faint dust-spotting to bottom edge of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. Book appears to be unread. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Illich’s..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 3/8". ix, 347pp. Rather heavy wear to original, unclipped dust jacket, with open tears to corners and to head and tail of spine, neat tears to edges and folds, sunning to spine, dust soiling, to front..... More
New York: Scribner, 2024. Later printing. Hardcover. Signed by Robin Wall Kimmerer to HarperCollins-issued bookplate, loose and laid in. 7 1/4" X 5 1/4". 112pp. Bound in pictorial printed cream paper over boards. Very mild wear to binding, with some dust soiling and faint smudging to covers and very gentle..... More
