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B. K. Bliss & Sons' Autumn Catalogue and Floral Guide, Containing a Choice Collection of Dutch and Cape Flowering Bulbs, Consisting of Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Crocus, Iris, Lilies, Gladiolus, Anemones, Ranunculus, Etc. with full and Explicit Directions for Culture. To Which is Added a Complete List of Small Fruits, Containing the Most Desirable Varieties Cultivated in this Country; Also a List of Seeds and Plants for the Farm and Garden, for Fall Planting. (Twenty-Fourth Annual Edition, 1883-1884)

New York: B. K. Bliss & Sons, 1884. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 5 3/4". 74pp. Pictorial paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with small open tears, chipping to spine, and moderate soiling. Dampstains to rear wrap and very faintly to top corners of pages. Binding remains quite sound. Occasional... More

Price: $100.00

Baird-North Co. "The Mail Order House of Quality," Providence, R.I.,Year Book 1923 with Signed Typed Letter on Baird-North Co. Letterhead

Providence, Rhode Island: Baird-North Co., 1923. Paperback. 9 5/8" X 6 3/4". 162pp. Pictorial paper wraps. Moderate wear to binding, with small tears to edges and extremities and chipping, tears, and losses to paper over spine. Wraps starting to separate but remain attached. Ring-sizing insert missing size 11. Typed letter... More

Price: $60.00

Beauty & the Beast: An Extravaganza. Written for a Christmas, At Brown's Green, by the Author.

Browns Green, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham, England: Privately Printed, circa 1850. Wraps. This rare dramatic retelling of Beauty & the Beast takes place between Baghdad and Cairo, where an Iraqi merchant in dire straits steals a rose from a bear and must send his favorite daughter (Beauty/Fatima) to live with the... More

Price: $375.00

Boston Electrical Products Catalog EP83

Quincy, Massachusetts: Boston Gear, 1982. Paperback. 7" X 4". 192pp. Moderate to heavy wear to stiff pictorial wraps, with creasing, shallow chipping, spots of soiling, and light scratching. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this 1982 electronics catalog from Boston Gear, with... More

Price: $20.00

Brides' Book

New York: The Home Pattern Company Inc., circa 1920. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated, 22pp. Printed staplebound wraps. Mild edgewear to wraps, with shallow open tears to head and tail of spine. Pages age-toned but clean and unmarked.A very well-preserved, circa 1920s trade catalog of bridal fashions, for... More

Price: $350.00

Chrysler Plymouth Owner's Instruction Book and Service Policy

Detroit, Michigan: Chrysler Corporation, November 1935. Second Edition. Staplebound wraps. 9 1/4" X 6 1/2". Envelope, 40pp instruction book for Plymouth De Luxe and Plymouth Business, folded service policy, plus 1936 inspection certificate, 1924 paid note to Abingdon Motor Co., 1924 Motor Finance Corporation policy and three related letters. Moderate... More

Price: $45.00

Edenton, North Carolina Tourism Booklet

Edenton, North Carolina: Edenton-Chowan Chamber of Commerce, 1937. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 28pp. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with rusting to staples, creasing to corenrs, and light soiling to wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A charming copy of this 1937 guide to Edenton... More

Price: $30.00

Enlargement of the Exchange Economy in Tropical Africa

New York: United Nations Department of Economic Affairs, 1954. Staplebound wraps. 9" X 6". 59pp. Mild wear to paper wraps, with sunning, light dust soiling, mild edgewear, and bumping to tail of spine. Binding is sound. Very occasional underlining and notations in red ink, else clean. Binding is sound. From... More

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Hallmark Quality Furniture with two letterhead envelopes, blank order form, and signed typed letter [Montgomery Ward & Company 1941 Catalog]

Baltimore: Montgomery Ward & Company, 1941. Paperback. 13 1/8" X 9 3/8". 62pp. Paper wraps show rather heavy edgewear, with tears to edges and extremities, chipping and tears to spine, dust ssoiling, and faint dampstains. Front hinge tender. Binding remains quite sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Blank order form... More

Price: $70.00

How to Use a Slide Rule

Chicago: Eugene Dietzgen Co., 1941. Staplebound wraps. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 18pp. Moderate weary to yellow printed staplebound paper wraps, with center crease to pamphlet, creasing to wraps, edgewear, soiling and small tears at head and tail of spine. Pencilled equation to rear wrap. Binding is sound. Pages are... More

Price: $15.00

Martin Sprocket & Gear, Inc. Catalog 60

Arlington, Texas: Martin Sprocket & Gear, circa 1989. Hardcover. 11 1/8" X 8 5/8". Glossy blue pictorial cloth over boards. Mild edgewear to binding with gentle bumping to extremities. Binding is firm and sound. Previous owner's names to front endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of Catalog... More

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Milne Chair Company 1939 Trade Catalog [and] 1940 Supplement [Milne Chairs]

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Milne Chair Company, 1939. Staplebound wraps. 12" X 8 7/8". 36pp, with 1940 Supplement laid in, 8pp. Moderate wear to textured pictorial staplebound paper wraps, with mild creasing, soiling, ring stain, and small tears to extremities. Binding is sound. Pages are musty and show occasional crease, else unmarked... More

Price: $30.00

The National Trust Acts 1907 to 1939. With Extracts from Finance Acts 1910, 1931 and 1937.

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 National Trust Acts. More

Price: $15.00

New York Fashions, Spring & Summer 1907 (Vol. 10, No. 1, February 1907)

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

Price: $75.00

The Open Door to Opportunity Land (Kuhns the Seed Man's 10th Anniversary Jubilee catalog]

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

Price: $35.00

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year 1866

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1866. Hardcover. 9 1/8" X 6 1/8". 394pp. Tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in brown. Heavy wear to binding, with mottling to cloth, soiling, sunning, lacking last 1 1/4" of cloth backign spine, small tears to head of spine, and bumping to extremities... More

Price: $50.00

Seventh Premium List, The Great Frederick Fair, October 21, 22, 23, and 24, 1930

Frederick, Maryland: The Frederick County Agricultural Society, 1930. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". 96pp. Moderate wear to staplebound wraps, with small tear to head of spine and top edge of rear wrap, edgewear, and rusting to staples. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A wonderful... More

Price: $25.00

[Vintage Midcentury Wallpaper Sample Book] Thybony Screen Prints One: Trimmed Wallcoverings with Fabrics on Strippable Tyvek & I-Peal

Chicago and Detroit: Thybony Wallcoverings, Circa 1960. Hardcover. 21 1/2" X 14 1/4". Unpaginated, 360 pages including 93 wallpaper designs on strippable Tyvek & I-Peal and 37 fabric squares. Ex-Boehmer Paint & Wallpaper of Cincinnati, Ohio, with their stamp to front endpapers. Tan cloth over boards. Heavy soiling, discoloration, and... More

Price: $350.00

Adams III, John Quincy

Economic Change, Exports, Imports: The Case of India, 1870-1960

Austin, Texas: John Quincy Adams III, 1966. Hardcover. 11 1/8" X 8 5/8". 406pp, printed rectos only. Blue cloth over boards, with cover and spine lettered in gilt. Mild scattered rubbing to cloth and bumping to corners. Light dust soiling to edges of text block. Binding is tight and sound... More

Price: $25.00

Baucom, John Q; McKnight, Shannon

The Leader's Journey Book Five: The Dilemmas of Leadership

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Leadership Development Institute, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. 8 5/8" X 5 1/2". ix, 118pp. Signed by John Q. Baucom to half-title page. Light shelfwear to binding, firm and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A nice signed first printing of this guide to what the world's greatest leaders do differently. More

Price: $15.00

Brummelhuis, Han ten

Merchant, Courtier and Diplomat: A History of the Contacts Between the Netherlands and Thailand

Lochem-Gent: Uitgeversmaatschappij de Tijdstroom, 1987. Hardcover. 10" X 6 3/4". 116pp. Moderate edgewear and mild soiling to dust jacket, with small tear at edge of spine and price sticker to rear and front flap. Gray cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to corners. Bookplate, stamp, and... More

Price: $25.00

Cameron, Rondo (Ed.)

Banking and Economic Development: Some Lessons of History

New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 267pp. Hard bumping and mild rubbing to corners and edges of brown cloth hardcover binding. Gilt lettering to cover and spine. Front board rather loose. Binding remains sound. Previous owner's label to front paste-down. Small stain... More

Price: $40.00

Carr, Eugene

How to Make the Most of Your Job

New York: Coward McCann, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 3/8" X 5 1/2". 128pp. Signed by Eugene Carr and dated November 14, 1956 at front free endpaper. Moderate wear to unclipped dust jacket, with small closed tears to edges and extremities, dust soiling, and faint dampstain to rear panel... More

Price: $25.00

Cruess, W. V.

Commercial Fruit and Vegetable Products

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1924. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". vii, 530pp. Tan cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt over dark gray. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, heavy scattered rubbing to spine, and slight lean to spine. Binding is sound... More

Price: $65.00

de Vries, Margaret G.; Horsefield, Keith; Driscoll, David D.

The International Monetary Fund, 1945-1965, Volume I: Chronicle, Volume II: Analysis; The International Monetary Fund, 1966-1971, Volume I: Narrative, Volume II: Documents; What is the International Monetary Fund?; The Atlantic Council Policy Papers, The Floating Rate System, The International Monetary System in Transition, The International Monetary System: Exchange Rates and International Indebtedness [IMF and the Atlantic Council set]

Washington DC: International Monetary Fund; The Atlantic Council of the United States, 1969, 1976, 1997, 1978, 1980, 1983. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 7 1/4", xviii, 663pp; xviii, 621pp; xxii, 699pp; viii, 339pp (Books). 9" X 6", 23pp (What is.., two copies). 10" X 6 3/4", 22pp (Floating Rate). 9 1/4"... More

Price: $40.00

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