Item 80Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book.
Des Moines, IA: Meredith Press, 1968. Revised Edition, Third Printing. Five ring binder and pictorial boards. Late 60's suburban americana. A guide to outfit your very own Brady Bunch house.
Des Moines, IA: Meredith Press, 1968. Revised Edition, Third Printing. Five ring binder and pictorial boards. Late 60's suburban americana. A guide to outfit your very own Brady Bunch house.
Johnstown, PA: National Radiator Company, 1951. Small 4to. 8.5" x 11" Staple bound with pre punched holes for 3-Ring Binder. 1951 National Radiator Company 22, 33, & 44 Series National Gas Boilers. A.I.A. FILE No. 30-C-1 . 8 page brochure pre-punched for a 3 ring binder.
Chicago: Swift and Company, 1911. 8vo. Saddle stitched in pictorial wraps. A nicely illustrated advertising vehicle for Swift's Pride Cleanser in the form of a Fairy Tale produced by Street and Finney.
Basel, Switzerland: Helbing und Lichtenhahn. 1904. Lot of 5 Basler Jahrbuch for 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, and 1908. Helbing und Lichtenhahn. The 1904 edition has rolled spine. Some boards are a touch faded. Included are two original bills of sale.
New York, NY: Penn Prints, 1957. Illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. (13.5" x 16.5") Decorative portfolio of 6 prints. Very cute set of six prints depicting familiar nursery rhymes by iconic children's book illustrator Leonard Weisgard.
Fergus Falls, MN: 1926. Roughly 6.5" x 16" A nice panoramic print of: "Class of 1926 Fergus Falls High School. Picnic at Dunn's Resort May 31-1926. Photo by Oxley, Fergus Falls Minn"
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. Evaline Ness. Holt Library Edition Third Printing. Hardcover. No. 5 in the Chronicles of Prydain series. Holt Library Edition. HCDJ. Third Printing. Inscribed by Alexander on the half-title.
Lansingburgh, NY: Printed and sold by Tracy & Bliss. Sold also by the post-riders, &c, 1811. 12mo. (4.25" x 7.25") saddle-stitched pamphlet containing 18 unpaginated leaves. Only two institutional holdings in OCLC. This 36-page pamphlet contains information on plowing, ventriloquism, astrological signs, household cures etc.
Brussells: M. Hayez, 1945. 8vo. (6" x 9") Softcover in printed wraps. (Eos or Plato and The East) What appears to be a transcription of a lecture given by Belgian philologist and philosopher Joseph Bidez in 1939.
Mankato, MN: Free Press Company, 1923. Publisher's green cloth with stamped gilt title. 7"x5" 12mo. The Ultimate Christmas brag letter. Charles R. Butler, the publisher of the Mankato Free Press, travelled in his motor car from Minnesota to New England and back home. He had this trip journal printed and.....
Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Goliath, 2010. illustrated with photographs by Emma Delves-Broughton. 8vo. Padded pictorial boards. From back cover: "Kinky Nature draws you into a dream forest, teeming with the kinkiest beauties in the land. Explore the wild side of these enchanting girls, whether they're lost in latex or wandering the forest.....
New York, NY: Random House, 1959. Illustrated by Edward Gorey. 12mo. (5" x7.5") Pictorial red and mauve paper covered boards. Ninth in the Looking Glass Library Series (his post Anchor illustrating work). A spooky anthology selected by Gorey including stories by Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker.....
Frankfurt/Main, Germany: Goliath, 2010. illustrated with photographs by Christine Kessler. 8vo. Padded pictorial boards. From back cover: "Nylon Girls are revealed to you through the camera of Christine Kessler. She takes you on an erotic journey in the company of a harem of stunning beauties. Nylon Girls exposes the intimate.....
New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1943. Illustrated by author. Seventh Printing. 4to. Publisher's green cloth boards, black embossed titles. Written by Munro Leaf, best known for "Ferdinand" and "Noodle" includes pages for children to draw their own "Nitwits". Stated seventh printing.
Zurich, Switzerland: Edition Skylight, 2010. illustrated with photographs by Karl Louis. Large 8vo. Pictorial glossy card stock wraps. From back cover: "Karl Louis ensures the personality of the model matches that of the location, and this often inspires not just good single shots. but an entire series that tell their.....
Physical Culture Publishing Corporation. 1918. 8vo. (6"x8.5") 14 Pamphlets contained in publisher's binder and slipcase. 28 Lessons in 14 pamphlets. Quack medicine eye exercises by the king of the "Physical Culture" Movement Bernarr MacFadden. Most other examples for sale give co-author credit to William H. Bates, M.D. Duplicates of pamphlet.....
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1952. First Edition. 8vo. (5.25" x 7.5") Grey boards with black stamped image to front and titles to spine in peach and olive-green pictorial dust jacket. Number 9 in the Bronc Burnett boys sport and adventure series. First edition by the original publisher.....
Saigon: Khai-Tri, 1963. 8vo. 9.5" X 6.25" Trade Paperback with pictorial wraps. English Translation, footnotes and commentaries by Lê Xuân Thuy. A classic Vietnamese epic, Nguyễn recounts the tale of Thúy Kiều and the sacrifice she makes for her family by marrying a middle-aged man who forces her into.....
New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo. (6.5" x 9.5") Blue boards, purple 1/4 cloth gilt title to spine. A nice first edition of the fifth V. I. Warshawski novel. Signed by author to title page.
Garden City, NewYork: The Dial Press, 1984. Jacket by Terrence M. Fehr. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. (6" x 8.5") Blue boards, black 1/4 cloth gilt title to spine. A nice first edition of the second V. I. Warshawski novel. Signed by author to title page.
New York, NY: Delacorte Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. (6" x 8.5") Yellow boards, black1/4 cloth gilt title to spine. A V.I. Warshawski short stories compilation. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
New York, NY: Avon. 1979. Marks, Michael. MMPB. "Cosmic Forces and what they are doing to you." Parapsychology book written by Guy Playfair who was most famous for his book on the Enfield Poltergeist and his later involvement with Uri Geller.
Nebraska: Rand McNally, 1897. Staple bound in wraps. Large Fold-out Map. A very clean and intact map and railroad guidebook to the counties and small towns serviced by railroads in 1897.
Meredith Publishing Company, 1957. Fifth Printing. Pictorial Five Ring Binder. 4to. (8" x 10"). Post-war suburbia is encapsulated in this five-ring binder chock full of DIY projects for the aspiring handyman.
Frankfurt/Main, Germany: mixofpix, 2006. illustrated with photographs by Larry Todd. 8vo. Padded pictorial boards. From back cover: "Larry Todd's girls are real working-class beauties who visit his apartment, strip naked, and do housework while he photographs them. Nice work if you can get it: the creative amateur photographer shooting the.....