Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, introduction by Joseph Jacobs; design by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A. in Fine Bayntun of Bath Binding
London: Gibbings and Company , 1906. First Edition. Leather bound. Fine. 10 x 6-1/2"; pp. 136; a fine signed binding by Bayntun. Warml blue levant, sides ruled gilt. Red morocco label, title gilt and foliate/grape emblems within panels on spine. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt dentelles. Text within floral border of varied design, and endpapers by Brangwyn.... Read More
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An Omar Khayyam Birthday Book (The Langham Birthday Books)
New York: Dodge Publishing Co.. Hardcover. Very good. Small 12mo., blue publisher's cloth ruled and titled in gilt. Personalized with some birthday's completed. Pages printed with calendar days aside Hafiz, Sadi or Khayyam quote, bordered in decorative green.
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer Poet of Persia rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald with illustrations in color by Wilfrid J. Jones
New Haven: Harper and Brothers, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Pumpkin cloth over boards, black cloth spine, with grape motif stamped gilt, gilt title. Bookplate affixed, no name. 101 quatrains, two per page with pictorial border. 8 color plates by American illustrator Wilfred J. Jones. Corners a bit rubbed.
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The Story of Native Agate Jewelry
Keystone, South Dakota : Greenleaf's/The Studio Mt. Rushmore National Memorial , 1938 [nd]. First Edition. Leaflet. Very good. Eight panel folidng leafletwith illustrated cover, signed with artist's initials, 1938, titled "Agate Prospector. Leaflet showcases men's and women's rings in 10K Yellow gold, as well as Lavalliers, Brooches, Tie Chains, Bracelets and Earrings, some gold filled. All prices stated... Read More
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Notes of a Military Reconnoissance, from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to San Diego, In California, including part of the Arkansas, Del Norte, and Gila Rivers
Washington DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, Printers , 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 416p., trimmed, rebound in buckram, title and ruled gilt. Lacks folding map. All plates present.
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Amphora: Second Collection of Prose and Verse Chosen by the Editor of the Bibelot
Portland, Maine : Thomas Bird Mosher , 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 137p.. including index to authors, printed in a limitation of 925 copies on Van Gelder Handmade paper. Decorative endpaper. Blue paper over boards, untrimmed, printed label to spine, portrait frontis. Bright and neat.
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Estates of American citizens dying abroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a draft of proposed legislation relating to the estates of American citizens dying abroad. February 15, 1900. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed 56th Congress First Session Document 432
Washington DC: House of Representatives, 1900. First Edition. Pamphlet. Good. 55p., removed, signatures and title page detached.
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The Proceedings on the Evening of Decoration Day May 30th, 1877 at the Academy of Music City of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Brooklyn: Members of the Bar; Printed by Eagle Job Book Printing Department, 1871. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 36p., removed. Relating to soldiers, reconciliation, reconstruction, the South and the bereavement across the Union. With a speech by former Confederate Roger Pryor.
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Jap Rose Toilet Requisites
Chicago: James S. Kirk and Company , n.d. 1920. Staplebound. Good. 10p. of ads in this small 4to stapled trade catalog. Touch of fade and discoloration.
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ALS from Captain Thomas Mayne Reid to Grace Greenwood/Sara Lippincott declining an invitation to submit a story for the Little Pilgrim as his pen is "under mortgage"
Bucks, England : Mayne Reid, 1858. Letter. Very good. Single page on folded leaf, dated May 18, 1858, sending regrets that he is unable to furnish Miss Greenwood with a story. The Little Pilgrim was a children's periodical running 1853-1868, edited by Greenwood. Reid was a favorite and noted juvenile adventure novelist, with Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt and... Read More
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Photograph on board of the Elite Steam Laundry in Trinidad, Colorado; Las Animas river after the flood of September 1904
Trinidad, Colorado , 1904. Photograph on Board. Good. 10" x 8" board; albumen photo 6" x 4.5", with notes on reverse and border.
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Leonard Baskin
Brunswick, Maine : Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1962. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. 110p., unpaginated softcover in printed wraps, with toning to wraps and scattered wear. Pencil signed original woodcut within. Signed also at the half title by the artist, Leonard Baskin. Black and while illustrations throughtout. From the acknowledgements: The first full scale exhibition of... Read More
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Leonard Baskin: Sculptures Drawings Prints [Signed]
New York: Braziller, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. 170p., hardcover in black publisher's cloth stamped gilt. Lacking dustwrapper. Touch of fade to cloth. Signed by the artist Leonard Baskin on title page, with previous owner's name in pen to ffep. From the estate of the artist's sister, Pearl Baskin Rabinowitz.
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![Connecticut Photo Album: Isabella Eldridge's Early Public Golf Course, Norfolk Downs [Golf Links], New York Architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, Eldridge Gymnasium, Ellen Battell Stoeckel, Yale, and Early Women Golfers](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/896/135/1622135896.0.m.jpg)
Connecticut Photo Album: Isabella Eldridge's Early Public Golf Course, Norfolk Downs [Golf Links], New York Architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, Eldridge Gymnasium, Ellen Battell Stoeckel, Yale, and Early Women Golfers
Norwalk, 1909. Card . Very good. String tied photograph album with fourteen snapshots assembled neatly and captioned in white. The Norfolk Gymnasium and surrounds, Edwardian clad women seated, gathered and walking, holding golf clubs and cases captioned, "To the Golf Grounds", "Home from the LInks', "Watching the Golf Tournament", etc. The original nine-hole course built in 1897, Norfolk Downs, was... Read More
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![Five English/Spanish items from pharmacist Manuel Zevallos Velasquez relating to Peruvian Coca [Elixir De Coca Peruana]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/254/150/1622150254.0.m.1.jpg)
Five English/Spanish items from pharmacist Manuel Zevallos Velasquez relating to Peruvian Coca [Elixir De Coca Peruana]
Lima : Velasquez/Derousse, 1900. Letter. Very good. Two 9"x 6" folding leaflets featuring four numbered and translated advertisements for Peruvian Bitters and Elixir of Peruvian Coca, prepared by Manuel Zevallos Velasquez of Lima [Pharmaceutist] offered by Thos. W. Deroussee of 117 Walnut Street "Sole Agent for the United States and Canada". Two 4-1/2" x 5-1/2" trimmed advertisements in Spanish for... Read More
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ALS dated January 8, 1921 from naturalist William Beebe to Mr. Vincent Astor, Esq., 23 West 26th Street New York, on illustrated Bermuda Oceanographic Expedition/New York Zoological Society Letterhead
New York, 1921. Letter . Very good. Single page letter, in which ecologist Beebe writes: Dear Mr Astor, I send you the first account of my deep sea dive hoping that it will interest you. Sincerely Yours, William Beebe.
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Bondetaget 1914 (Peasant Armament Support March).
Stockholm: Ahlen & Akerlunds Forlag, 1914. First Edition. softcover. very Good/very good. Large softcover folio in matte, illustrated wrappers, lithographed in gilt and color, showing an expressive boy in work or war boots, gripping the Swedish flag. B/w photographs throughout, primarily of the march and demonstrations in Stockholm. Within, two full color chromolithographed and heavily gilt folio pages... Read More
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Toothpaste Press Suite: Three small-press prospectus, one prospectus letter; with TLS on Toothpaste Press letterhead to Alice Beebe/Marine Latour of Madmoiselle magazine
Iowa: Toothpaste Press, 1979. card. Fine. Character is Fate', from Tom Clark's forthcoming Heartbreak Hotel; 'A Visit From St. Alphabet', from Dave Morice's forthcomming The Night Before Christmas; 'Antonio Machado - Canciones; Translated by Robert Bly'; with small order card and Announcement of Forthcoming Book: Reasons for the Sky by Jim Hanson and TLS: "Cheers from the land... Read More
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Scrap Drive flyer, Sunday May 16 'Metal in Particular is Vitally Needed Now/Scrap Piles are Dangerously Low
Madison : Madison Eagle Press , 1945. Fine. Madison : Madison Eagle Press , 1945. Fine. WWII Era Scrap Drive Flyer, 9" X 6" Metal Tin Cans Rags Rubber Paper - Metal in Particular is Vitally Needed Now, Scrap Piles are Dangerously Low
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1962 Quaker American Friends Service Committee Suite of Ephemera related to Algeria - Refugee Aid and Support
Philadelphia: American Friends Service Committee, 1962. Card. Fine. Six pieces: For Algerian Refugee Children: Blankets from American Children; Bundles for boys; Sewing Bags for Algerian Refugee Girls; Tool Box Fund; Christmas: Bread for Algerian Children and The Innocent Victims - Algeria (reprinted from May 6, 1961 issue of Look)
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Etched Calendar for year 1891 by female artist/engraver Louise Prescott Canby.
Philadelphia: Artist , 1891. First Edition. card. Very good. Four delicately etched landscapes with calendar accompaniment, printed on tinted etching paper, four panels folded accordian style 4-3/4" square, within handmade covers, pastedown year surrounded by moon cycle motif, wax seal and ribbon. Canby, active 1874-1903, of of the American Women of the Etching Revival, Member of the Women... Read More
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The Living Age: Spring Trouble Number Vol. 328, No. 4263: March 20, 1926
Boston: The Living Age Company , 1926 . Staplebound. Very good. p 607-652 in printed wraps. China, Japan, Blakans, Liam O'Flaherty article.
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UK Anti Fascist Flyer "Protest! against Racial Discrimination: No Birmingham (Alabama) Here
Worcester: Northern Council Against Fascism; printed by Birch and Sampson Limited, ca1963. Letter. Near fine. 5" x 7.5" single sided circular/flyer calling to reject fascist propaganda Rally to Alexandra Park Gate, Sunday Sept. 29th, presuming either 1963 or 1968.
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Hereford Training College photograph album
Herefordshire , 1925. Cloth. Very good. 92p album with over 210 photos, predominantly vernacular snapshots of friends, day trips, canoing, swimming, picnics, studies and grounds of campus including outdoor woodworking, views from Dinedor,Mrs. Fox (a teacher), Goodrich Castle, tennis, theatrical productions, class photos, 'Eason' and the Pigeons many reunions into the 1930s including Wye at Capler, Brum, Whit,... Read More
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Salem, February 1820 to the Members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the State of Massachusetts
Salem , 1820. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 15p, removed.
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