New Arrivals
Printing Processes,History of Printing and Publishing,Advertising Art
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press, 1923. An early 1920s issue of "The Printing Art", a serial "devoted to the development of Printing and Printed Salesmanship". Includes articles on offset printing, marketing, advertising as an art form, and the business of printing. Includes illustrations throughout, including exemplars of advertising printing to.....
Price: $125.00
Paris,Le Bon Marche,History of Department Stores,Travel and Tourism
Paris, France: Le Bon Marche, 1891. A bound souvenir book, produced for English-speaking tourists visiting the famed department store Le Bon Marche in Paris. The star of the book is a large folding map of Paris in the rear of the volume, unfolding to approx. 21.75" by 28.5" and showing.....
Price: $150.00
Literary and Scientific Societies
Chautauqua, New York: 1888. A promotional monthly calendar card issued by the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle to advertise its organization to prospective members. Includes a monthly calendar beginning in October 1888, each with a different truism and author (e.g. December is "Plato" with the phrase "God is truth and.....
Price: $150.00
Office Furniture,Material History and Culture,Luxury Goods
New York, New York: W. & J. Sloane, c.1900. A trade catalogue advertising office furniture, ranging from tables and roll-top desks to swivel chairs and bookcases, sold by the luxury retailer W. & J. Sloane of New York. This set includes approx. 55 leaves, each loose, housed in the original.....
Price: $225.00
Valentine,Longfellow
Boston, Massachusetts: 1897. A short poem written for Valentine's Day, 1897m meant to be read to the cadence of "Song of Hiawatha" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It begins: "Pale face known as Alfred Parker, Dweller with Lane called Worcester (Lane it was, but now a river)". It ends: "For the.....
Price: $125.00
Chemistry Education
[Albany, New York]: Albany Medical College, 1869. A printed table of elements "From Cooley's Chemistry", a 19th century chemistry textbook for high schoolers. Includes each of the elements organized into two categories ("Non-Metals" and "Metals"), with the following information of each: its name; symbol; quantivalence, combining weight; and combining volume.....
Price: $175.00
Women's Fashion,Sewing and Embroidery,Women's Serials
New York, New York: The Butterick Publishing Co, 1882. The June, 1882 issue of "The Delineator", an American magazine for women published monthly with the latest in fashion. This content of this issue includes: incoming summer fashions for June for women and girls, including large in-text illustrations with numbers for.....
Price: $100.00
Cooking,Education,Radio,Program,Women's Work,Home Economics,Communications
York, Pennsylvania: Broadcast Over Station W-O-R-K, 1933. This pairing includes Program No. 4 and 13 for the Bon-Ton Quality Group Cooking School School. The school was run by Martha Ross Temple and held classes every Tuesday afternoon. The two programs are from classes held on Tuesday, October 10 , and.....
Price: $95.00
ABAA-FALL-2026,Printers, Steam Printers, Printing Advertising, Caricature
Cincinnati, OH: Macbrair & Sons, (F. Achert (?) illustrator, 1870s. A 9.25" by 7" two-sides show card printed on heavy card stock. It is captioned "Come in and SHUT the DOOR" and depicts a crazed penman and a startled gent. Both sides depict the same black and white illustration...
Price: $750.00
Residential Land Development
New York, New York: J. Edward Breuer Inc, 1937. An illustrated 1930s advertising circular promoting a new land development project in Monroe, Orange County, New York. The project is marketed as a recreational paradise, and includes "250 Choice Restricted Lakeside Lots" perfect for family vacation homes. Includes in-text photo illustrations.....
Price: $250.00
Sex and Love,Radio Stars and Self-Help Gurus,Marion Sayle Taylor,Sex Education,Gender Roles and Relations
New York, New York: Macfadden Publications, Inc, 1934. A. book of sex advice for adults by "The Voice of Experience", a pseudonym for the radio personality Marion Sayle Taylor. Offers fascinating insight into the social and medical attitudes surrounding sex in the 1930s. Self-styled in these booklets as a doctor.....
Price: $250.00
ABAA-FALL-2026,Patent Medicine,Chemists and Pharmacists,Organizing Knowledge
[Rochester, UK]: 1880s. A fascinating survival: a manuscript book of medicine dosages kept by a medical practitioner, chemist, or pharmacist by the name of "W.G. Mason". The book, completed in ink manuscript, begins with a lengthy tabbed table of contents. Each patent medicine listed inside is recorded underneath the first.....
Price: $600.00
African Methodist Episcopal Church,History of Black Congregations in America,African American Clergy
Madison, New Jersey: African Methodist Episcopal Church, 1935-1956. Sixteen (16) items collected between 1930 and 1956 by the Rev. Simeon T. Johnson, A.B., pastor of the Madison, New Jersey branch of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. From the property's historic marker erected in 1979: "Earliest known black church in Madison.....
Price: $875.00
ABAA-FALL-2026,Friendship Albums,Pressed Flowers
Pennsylvania: 1839-1857. Friendship album of "Miss Ann Shafer", begun on February 2nd, 1839 nearly filled on every leaf with manuscript entries from friends and family recording lines of verse. Includes a couple examples of fine penmanship, as well as three pressed flowers and two four-leaf clovers. Locations listed appear to.....
Price: $325.00
ABAA-FALL-2026,Social Welfare,Government Agencies on Child Labor and Welfare,Women's History
United States: U.S. Department of Labor and National Child Labor Committee, 1907-1935. A grouping of twenty-two (22) items related to child welfare laws, revealing the sobering extent of the social crisis in the United States between 1907 and 1935. All issued by the U.S. Department of Labor or National Child.....
Price: $2,800.00
Women's Health
Denver, Colorado: RAJ Publications, 1981. Revised edition of a brief guide to women's health and hygiene for adult women, focusing on the following subjects: female anatomy; the pelvic examination; cleanliness; vaginal infections; and performing a breast self-examination. Includes occasional in-text line drawn illustrations related to the text. Concludes with a......
Price: $125.00
Women's Health,Hysterectomy
Bristol, Tennessee: Beecham Laboratories, 1977. A late 1970s guide to what to expect after a hysterectomy, penned by a female physician for other women. Includes in-text illustrations of female anatomy in order to help explain prolapse, tumors, and rectocele/cystocele. It concludes with a brief Q&A section to ally fears and.....
Price: $125.00
Beauty and Skin Care by Radio,Advertising to Women,Mass Media,Women in Business,Nell Vinick
N.pl: c.1930. A pair of printed guides to skin care from radio personality "Nell Vinick", offering loyal listeners tips for performing their own facials at home. Vinick (1890-1978) was a popular "beauty advisor" who shared her tips to women via magazine columns and radio shows in the late 1920s and.....
Price: $125.00
Honeycomb Valentine
Germany: N.p, 1910. A handsome Victorian valentine produced in Germany, inscribed in contemporary ink to "William". The valentine is comprised of a large die-cut, chromolitho embossed scrap depicted a a basket of red roses and blue wildflowers. The basket itself at the bottom is comprised of bright red tissue paper.....
Price: $125.00
Castell Brothers,Picture Book,Anthropomorphism
London, England: Castel Brothers, c.1885. The animals want to play and have some fun in this short children's book. 8 pages. Die-cut in the shape of a coach. Printed in Bavaria. The animals decide to stage a ride in a family coach through the use of household furniture and some.....
Price: $85.00
Sheet Music,Children
New York, New York: Horace Waters, 1858. Attractive late 1850s sheet music for the pianoforte, dedicated to "Miss Helen Taylor" on the title-page and featuring a sweet chromolithographed illustration of three children playing outdoors by a lake on the front. The schottische is a type of country dance popular in.....
Price: $125.00
Sheet Music,Women
New York, New York: Horace Waters, 1853. An handsome piece of Victorian sheet music for the pianoforte, featuring a chromolithographed illustration of a dark-haired woman sitting at her vanity, with a light grey border of peacock feathers. Dedicated to "Miss Charlotte A. Crow" at the head of the first page.....
Price: $100.00
Sheet Music,Handel,Messiah
London, England: Chappell & Co, 1860s. Victorian sheet music of Handel's "Messiah", arranged for pianoforte by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-1876) for the use of families and amateur pianoforte players. Rimbault was a prominent organist and music scholar who reinvigorated public interest in Handel during the Victorian period. The publisher of.....
Price: $125.00
Women's Health,Advertising to Women,Searle
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Searle & Co, 1979. An informational booklet for women on the subject of menstruation, issued by Searle & Co., a pharmaceutical company based in San Juan. Includes information on the following subjects: what is considered a "normal" menstrual cycle; treatment for premenstrual changes; what causes cramps.....
Price: $125.00