Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1897. Broadside. Printed sheet 6 by 19 inches on peach-colored tin paper. Advertising a rail tip to Chicago on Sunday, September 12, 1897, via the Lake Erie & Western Railroad and the Wabash Railroad. Return is from Dearborn Station Chicago. Visit the Field Columbian Muesum, the... More about Popular Cheap Excursion to Chicago and Return
Toledo: n.p., (1903?). Broadside. Single printed sheet 6 by 12 inches on what was originally purple paper now nicely toned at the edges to tan. The production took place at Toledo's famous Valentine Theater. Undated but it mentions a sale of seats on Thursday, March 26th. The theater opened in... More about Messrs. Klaw & Erlanger's Spectacular Production of Ben Hur
Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1899. Broadside. Printed sheet 6 by 19 inches on peach-colored tan paper. Advertising a rail tip to Chicago on Sunday, August 20, 1899, via the Lake Erie & Western Railroad and the Wabash Railroad. Return is from Dearborn Station Chicago. Baseball: "See the Great Base Ball... More about Popular Cheap Excursion to Chicago and Return
Indianapolis: Wm. B. Burford, 1899. Broadside. Printed sheet 6 by 19 inches on tan-colored tin paper. Advertising a rail tip to on Sunday, July 9, 1899, via the Lake Erie & Western Railroad Attractions include Boating, Bathing, Base Ball and Bowling. Excursions on the new SS America, a packet... More about Popular Cheap Excursion to Lake Manitou ... and Lake Michigan ... via L. E. & W. R. R
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1969). First edition, first printing. Near fine. 8vo. Publisher's white cloth printed in black and gilt. binding tanned in places from age, else a fine copy; Dustwrapper has some scratches but is not price-clipped, else near fine. Inscribed by Coretta Scott King to Charles... More about My Life With Martin Luther King, Jr. (Signed
n.p. n.p., n.d. Hardcover. A copy of William Bishop, Winged Peace, published by Viking in 1944 has had a window neatly excised in the textblock leaving the remaining text as a frame. Blue cloth, soiled and worn, with two labels on the upper boad. When opened, one sees right through..... More about Daring - Revealing - Ladies' Secrets - Fully Illustrated
n.p. (Seattle): n.p., c. 1979. Broadside. Broadside, approximately 18 by 23 inches. Serigraph in seven colors (light green, dark green, dark blue, black, gray, dark yellow and light yellow) featuring vegetables framed on the left and right with salmon. Issued to commemorate the eighth annual Pike Place Market Street Fair... More about Pike Place Market Street Fair, Eight Annual
2002. Five items relating to Michael Blake and his Library Tour of 2002: 1. "Dances with Wolves", NY, Newmarket Press, 1991. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine, clipped dustwrapper. 2. Blank notebook with Blake's holograph library speech on the first 10pp. The remaining pages are blank. Some pages have been removed... More about Handwritten Speech; Dances with Wolves; Library Tour Ephemera
Ireland: Irish University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Facsimile of the 1897 edition printed by photolithography by Robert Hogg. White cloth spine, pale green paper over boards with the title printed on the upper board. Printed in red and black as was the original. A fine copy. More about A Note by William Morris on His Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press, Together with a Short...
Philadelphia: W. A. Leary, 1845. Hardcover. 12mo. 189,(3)pp. Original full sheep, gilt spine. Binding and textblock well worn, part of spine perished, else a very good copy. A compilation of song stanzas, many patriotic, including the 'Star Spangled Banner'. The final three pages are a list of contents. More about The Anerican Songster, Containing a Choice Selection of Eighty-Three Songs; Including Tyrone...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. Hardcover. 8vo. 358,(2)pp. Contemporary half leather. Spine in 6 compartments, gilt. Marble paper boards and endpapers. Original cover bound in. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to the binding else a very good copy. More about Wild Animals I Have Known
New York: The Viking Press, 1951. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth printed in red. Neat ownership presentation on the front free endpaper, light soil else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped. It is lightly soiled and shows some foxing on the rear... More about Murder by the Book: A Nero Wolfe Novel
New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth printed in deep red. Small ink scribble on the front free endpaper, light soil else this is a very good copy. The dustwrapper is not price clipped. There is a bit of roughness along the edges and... More about Gambit: A Nero Wolfe Novel
Rome: Typis Regiae Officinae Polygraphicae, 1937, 15 Fascist. Wraps. 8vo. 97pp Printed wraps. Illustrated with photographs. Light wear to edges and hinges, spine repaired, else this is a very good coy. Benito Mussolini ordered, inter alia, a resurgence of classical Latin and Greek literature. Augustus Caesar had his deeds, or... More about Res Gestae Divi Augusti...Jussu Beniti Mussolini
