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[1930s/40s]. 16mo measuring 7 x 6 inches: 49 pages. Saddle-stitched in pictorial wrappers and illustrated throughout. Slight creasing and shelfwear on the wrappers. Very Good. The character of Aunt Jenny was created to promote Spry vegetable shortening during the 1930s and was used until the 1950s.
Item 1039Bibliotheca Phillippica: Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Manuscripts Formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 1969. New Series: Fifth Part. Sale Number 2920, October 28-29, 1969, the property of the Trustees of the Robinson Trust. 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches: 164 pages. Publisher's green pictorial boards lightly rubbed and shelfworn; interior clean and bright. Very Good. Stamped ROUGH PROOF.....
Item 1172Biographical Sketches of King and Queen of all Midgets, Count and Countess Philippe Nicol, and their son Philippe Jr., The only child born of Midgets. Notices biographiques du Roi et de la Reine de tous les Nains, le Comte et la Comtesse Philippe Nicol, et de leur fils Philippe Jr., l'enfant rare, le seul au monde né de parents lilliputiens
Montreal: The Midgets Palace, [1940s]. 18mo measuring 6 x 4.25 inches: 32 pages. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers. Lightly age-toned throughout; small dampstain in the French section. Very Good.
Bilingual souvenir booklet issued by The Midgets Palace, 961 Rachel Street East, Montreal 34. English and French printed tête-bêche. Illustrated throughout.....
Item 1055Bloomberg Magazine: Special Reference Edition, Volume 4
Compendium of complete Bloomberg Magazines from January 1994 to June 1994. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering, lightly scuffed. Very Good.
Item 1028The Chas. A. Vogeler Co.'s Cookery Book and Book of Comfort & Health
Baltimore: The Charles A. Vogeler Company, 1897. 16mo measuring 7 x 4.5 inches: 32 pages. Publisher's paper wrappers soiled and chipped; age-toned and foxed throughout. Fair. Quack medicine booklet advertising St. Jacobs Oil interspersed with more benign recipes.
Item 1037Cherokee Bookshop Comic Book Catalog, 1930s to 1970s
Hollywood, CA: Cherokee Bookshop, [1972]. 8vo measuring 8.5 x 6.25 inches: C1-C4, 1-41 pages. Publisher's light blue pictorial wrappers with illustrations of Krazy Kat and Ignatz. Wrappers sunned and lightly creased; interior clean and bright. Very Good.
Mail order catalogue from the comic department of the Cherokee Bookshop at.....
Item 1138Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century, Catalogue 58
New York: Ursus Books, [1980]. 8vo measuring 8.5 x 6 inches: 45 pages. Publisher's paper wrappers sunned and lightly age-toned. Very Good. 126 items accompanied by 26 black-and-white plates.
Item 1070Conférence Internationale de la Paix, La Haye 18 mai-29 juillet 1899. Troisième Partie [Deuxième Commission]
The Hague: Imprimerie Nationale, 1899. 8vo measuring 12.25 x 8.5 inches: iv, 184 pages. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Boards soiled, rubbed, and edgeworn; corners frayed; hinges partially split; pen marks on front free endpaper and table of contents. Fair. Third of four parts, issued separately. Proceedings.....
Item 1026Cooking The Modern Way
Planters Edible Oil Company, 1948. 8vo measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 39 pages. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled with significant open tears; interior clean and bright. Fair. 129 postwar American recipes accompanied by illustrations.
Item 1021Cottolene: The New Shortening
The N.K. Fairbank Company, [1892]. 16mo measuring 4.75 x 3.75 inches: 18 pages. Publisher's blue paper wrappers sunned and lightly soiled, with closed tear on lower wrapper; interior clean and bright. Good. Advertising and recipe booklet by N.K. Fairbank Company for Cottolene, intended to replace butter and lard.
Item 1072Homestake Centennial 1876-1976
[Lead, SD]: Homestake Gold Mine, [1976]. Oblong 8vo measuring 7 x 9 inches: 96 pages. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers, lightly shelfworn; interior clean and bright. Very Good.
Item 1162The John Quinn Collection of Paintings, Water Colors, Drawings & Sculpture
Huntington, NY: Pidgeon Hill Press, 1926. First edition. Errata slip tipped-in on the front free endpaper. 8vo measuring 11 x 8.5 inches: 200 pages. Publisher's terracotta paper wrappers with black lettering. Wrappers lightly shelfworn; interior clean and bright. Very Good.
Item 1160La Marquise de Sévigné: Chocolats et confiseries de luxe
Paris: A. Rouzaud, 1936. Printed by Draeger. 8vo measuring 10.5 x 7.25 inches: 34 pages. Publisher's decorated paper covers bound with plastic rings. Mild shelfwear on the covers; interior clean and bright. Near Fine.
Item 1110National Directory of African-American Organizations, 1998–2000
New York: Philip Morris Companies, 1998. Oblong 8vo measuring 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Sealed in publisher's original shrink wrap. Near Fine.
Item 1024Rawleigh's Good Health Guide
Freeport, IL: The W.T. Rawleigh Company, 1937. 8vo measuring 9.5 x 6.5 inches: 33 pages. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers. Wrappers partially detached, with chipping and closed tears. Fair. This combination almanac and cookbook contains recipes interspersed with advertisements for Rawleigh's various quack health products.
Item 1044The Reporters' Phrasebook of Standardized Shorthand (Pitmanic)
National Shorthand Reporters' Association, 1934. 8vo measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 239 pages. Publisher's green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Boards rubbed and spine frayed; hinges starting; interior clean and bright. Good. Compiled by the Standardization Committee of the National Shorthand Reporters' Association (NSRA). The NSRA was founded.....
Item 1034The Secret Ritual of the Secret Work of the Fraternal Degree, Queen Esther Degree and Sphinx Degree of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Daughters of Sphinx
Chicago: Ezra A. Cook Publications, 1964. 16mo measuring 6.25 x 4.25 inches: 84 pages. Publisher’s dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Boards ever so slightly shelfworn; ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Very Good.
Outlines the rituals and ceremonies of the Ancient Arabic Order of.....
Item 1045Texas Travel Handbook
Austin: Texas Highway Department, [1968]. 8vo measuring 8.75 x 5.25 inches: 208 pages. Publisher's pictorial wrappers rubbed and lightly edgeworn; hinges starting; a bit age-toned throughout. Good. A charming example of midcentury Texana.
Item 1177Three Farmers' Almanacs from Maine
Maine: 1924-1925. Lot of three Farmers' Almanacs from Maine: two from 1924 (Thayer-Diggery and Ocean National Bank), one from 1925 (Thayer-Diggery). Each measures 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Saddle-stitched with original paper wrappers. Chipped and age-toned. Good.
Item 1017Trenton Speedway Pictorial Souvenir Program, 100-Mile National Championship Race
Trenton, NJ: 1959. 4to measuring 11 x 8.5 inches. Saddle-stitched with pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled; two sheets neatly excised and laid in. Good. Cover dated April 12. Rain stopped time trials that day and the race was postponed until April 19.
Scored in pencil by a spectator: Time trial.....
Item 1041World Communist Movement: Selective Chronology 1818-1957
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. Prepared by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. Volume IV 1954-1955. Printed for the use of the Commission on Un-American Activities. Fourth and final volume of the series. 8vo measuring 9 x 5.5 inches: xiii, 777-1001 pages (complete). Publisher's original paper.....
Item 1139Cultural Resistance: Art from Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Angola
New York: African-American Institute, [1974]. 8vo measuring 9 x 6 inches: 13 pages. Publisher's pictorial wrappers age-toned and lightly creased; interior clean and bright. Very Good.
Catalogue for an exhibition at the African-American Institute that ran from October 29, 1974-February 1, 1975, featuring Chokwe, Baga, Bidjogo, and Makonde.....
Item 1075Sanctuary
Tokyo: Fukkan.com, 2017. 4to measuring 11.75 x 8 inches: 144 pages. Publisher's black-and-white pictorial wrappers with illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket lightly edgeworn; interior clean and bright. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. A showcase of Ai Shinohara's work from 2007-2017, written in both Japanese and English...
Item 1145Joys and Sorrows: Reflections by Pablo Casals as Told to Albert E. Kahn
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. Stated second printing. Inscribed by Kahn on the half-title page. 8vo measuring 9 x 6 inches: 315 pages. Publisher's blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and pictorial dust jacket, not price-clipped. Dust jacket a bit rubbed; boards lightly shelfworn. Very Good in a Very.....
Item 1125The Hippocampus
London: The Royal Society, 1893. Offprint from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 184 (1893), pages 389–429, three lithograph plates (23–25), plate 23 in color. 4to measuring 12 x 9 inches. Glued into plain gray wrappers, not original; lightly age-toned. Very Good.