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Made by Hand. songs, music, sheet music, nursery songs
1940s. A handmade song book with over 50 songs. The book has been divided up into seven categories: Traditional, Autumn, Winter, Spring, Animals, Special Occasions, People, and Games . The majority of the songs in this book are short nursery songs, such as 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star', 'Rock-a-bye Baby', and.....
Price: $325.00
Architecture, Domestic, correspondence, 1st edition
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1874. 314 page book, with gilt stamped covers, 1st edition. The book compiles forty-three (43) letters between an architect and his friends. These letters "are composed of hints and suggestions relating to to building of homes... [and] aim to give practical information to those.....
Price: $65.00
Advertising to Children, Children's Story
New Jersey: H.M. Voorhees & Bros, c. 1915. The clothes company shares a story that tells of a bunch boys getting into adventures and troubles. 10 pp. Self covers. Each little man gets a short, few line verse about their activities, like the first smoked his dad's cigar and got.....
Price: $55.00
lettering, advertising cards
Scranton, PA: International Textbook Company, 1930. 75, 65 pp. Blind stamped leatherette flexible cover, gilt lettering on spine, marbled end papers, colored edges, color and black and white images, 2 color fold-outs of color shading and inscription design. Contains two sections; Modern Styles and Spacing and Decorative Ornament. Includes illustrated.....
Price: $65.00
elocution, recitations, readers, education
New York: Mark H Newman, 1835. 304pp, leather covers. The full title of this book is 'The Rhetorical reader : Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice, with a Rhetorical Notation, Illustrating Inflection, Emphasis, and Modulation, and a Course of Rhetorical Exercises.' This is the two hundred and twentieth Edition.....
Price: $25.00
note cards, illustration, ink drawing, landscapes,
Sweden: 1909. A collection of 23 small format cards featuring landscapes. The subject matter reflects nature in a particular locale throughout the year. It includes three (3) seasons of a sparsely treed country lane, an array of water scenes through the trees, just trees and just water. While contemplating the.....
Price: $1,100.00
animals in art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York: The Viking Press, 1936. 28 unnumbered pages. Yellow applied printed cover with matching dust jacket, black and white photographs throughout. William is a blue hippopotamus that lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He takes the reader around to show off his friends, other art animals. There is.....
Price: $20.00
missions, California, Native Americans, historical memorabilia, a few good books, social & cultural, religion
San Francisco, CA: I. N. Choynski, 1875. A short book that glorifies the "Padres", the priests, who came over with the Spaniards and set up Missions in the New World. The book specifically deals with the missions built in California, and how their influence has waned since it was ceded.....
Price: $150.00
Nannies and Nurses,Drawings by Children,Drawing Family
Ocean Grove, New Jersey: 1900. A charming children's drawing of a nurse taking her young charge for a walk in a pram, offered together with original photographs of both. The drawing has been helpfully captioned in ink by an adult: "Allen Anderson and his nurse Alice Sennel drawn and colored.....
Price: $150.00
California, tourism, travel, San Francisco, farallon island
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1910. 219 pp, green gilt stamped cloth over board covers with applied litho. B&W illustrations and plates, 68 in total. This is a travel tourism book for the state of California. The author asserts that "California possesses many of the charms that we are accustomed.....
Price: $110.00
brochure, design, catalogue,
New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. Approx. 162, Illustrated with several color plates, of which some are tipped in, along with dozens of black & white illustrations. These graphic images are reproductions of the advertising work done in the 1920s. At the beginning of the book there are three separate.....
Price: $200.00
Fables, Animals, Moralistic Tales, Children's Stories
New York, New York: Wm. H. Murphy, c1850. The third installment of "Uncle Frank's Fables for Children", published by Wm. H. Murphy in six individually published (but continuously paginated) parts. This part tells the story of The Fir and the Bramble, followed by several other short moralistic tales. Most are.....
Price: $100.00
Tom Thumb, PT Barnum A
152 Nassau St. cor. of Spruce N.Y: Lith. & pub. by N. Currier, 1849. A 13 1/3" x 9" hand colored lithograph depicting a portrait of Tom Thumb standing on a somewhat regal looking chair, with his hands on his hips. The image is surrounded by 13 vignettes of Thumb.....
Price: $1,000.00
American poetry
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1928. 56 pp. Red applied cover, silver embossed title, first edition, number 53 of 100 sale copies, signed by author. A selection of poems by the author written over a ten year span. 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" some wear on edges, first edition signed.....
Price: $50.00
Victorian cards, Christmas
London: Odhams Press Limited. 44 pp. Color applied printed cover, frontispiece, images of cards both color and black and white. The story of the Christmas card, when and why they were created along with many examples. Some images are copied from Great Britain's Royal family collection. There is a strong.....
Price: $20.00
Broadside, Advertising and promotion, Housewares
Geneseo, ILL: Republic Leg-Power Print, [1880s]. A 12" x 8 1/2" illustrated broadside demonstrating how a spring bed will give you a better nights sleep. An image of Jonathan sleeping peacefully on a spring bed and a vignette of Job, who can't sleep because his bed is sagging. Promoted as.....
Price: $150.00
Women's History] [trade unions leagues] [dissertations
New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. 283 pp. light green soft printed cover, 8 chapters, 6 appendices, bibliography and citations. "Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science Columbia University" The book discusses trade union leagues created to.....
Price: $30.00
Promotional Circular, Poetry and Verse
Poughkeepsie, NY: A.V. Haight Co, 1909. A single-fold 6" x 4 1/2 " with deckled edge. Cover illustration features decorative devices, title and author. The inside pages provide a summary of the book and pricing information. The back form includes excerpts from "In Kansas" and "Envoy"
Price: $125.00
periodical, German
Munich: Polytechnic Association, 1887. 186 pp. Leather with applied marble cover, stamped Franklin Institute on inside cover, mostly text with illustrations and plates. XIX. Jahrgang. Neue Folge. 10" x 7" wear on cover,
Price: $35.00
Borego Desert, Woodcuts
1938: Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. 64 pp. illustrated paper covered boards. A humerous history of the Borego Desert. There are twenty (20) chapters with titles like "Gold is Where You Find It", "Music and Booze", "Petrified Pete". There are also thirty-six (36) B&W woodcuts (including the two on the.....
Price: $60.00
glass painting] [enamel painting
London: Brodie & Middleton, c 1874. 94 pp. Green embossed gilt cover, has both blank and gold text and images, 12 color plates including frontispiece and some illustration among text. Instructions for painting on glass, china, and tile. Includes how to make and apply stain, firing, types of porcelain, and.....
Price: $115.00
Gourmet Magazine, Food and Wine, Original Art
A 9 1/2" x 14 1/2" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Little Fools will drink too much and Great Fools not at All". The illustration depicts an.....
Price: $225.00
Gourmet Magazine, Food and Wine, Original Art
A 7 3/4" x 12 1/4" black and white drawing on bristol board titled "kitchen alchemy" by bill rhode. Presumed an illustration for an article in Gourmet Magazine. A Moral on the wall reads "Fish is Brain Food". The illustration depicts a serving of fish on a plate and a......
Price: $150.00
Bacchanalian, Chromolithography
1888-89: Christian Stoll. Set of five (4) 19th C German chromolithograph wine prints by Hermann Vogel (1856-1918) - They include Champagner, Chianti, Malaga, Rheingold and Tokayer . From a series called 'Funf Wein-Bilder ' published by Christian Stoll, Plauen i./V.. Germany, 1888/1889. Signed in plate: Hermann Vogel, H. Vogel, H.V......
Price: $850.00