The Improved Game of Star Authors
New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1897. Fair. Dust soiling, short tears or splits/wear, damage to box aprons.. A complete set of Improved Game of Star Authors, including thirty-six (36) cards, a printed directions booklet, and the original chromolithographed illustrated box. Variations of this game were popular since the 1860s, and McLoughlin capitalized off its popularity by releasing... Read More
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Vandergrift Pennsylvania
Vandergrift, Pennsylvania: Vandergrift Chamber of Commerce, 1935. Very good to near-fine.. A promotional folding pamphlet for the planned city of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, marketed as "the workingman's paradise". The town and developed to accommodate the local steel industry and an influx of workers and families. The plans were conceived by George Gibson McMurty, an immigrant who wanted to form... Read More
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Fashion's Newest For Spring and Summer 1903
San Jose, California: Stull & Sonniksen, 1903. Good to very good. Stain to final page, upper left-hand corner. Short tear to foot. A little soiling.. A printed advertisement for the latest fashions sold by Stull & Sonniksen, women's clothiers based in San Jose, California. Features the trendy "Gibson Girl" style line drawings of the time, with depictions of... Read More
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1895 Royal Hand-Bell Ringers American Tour Performance Ticket
[Kingston, New York]: Liscomb's Opera House, 1895. Very good. Toned with some dust soiling.. Printed ticket granting admission to a performance of the Royal Hand-Bell Ringers of London at Liscomb's Opera House in Kingston, New York, in October 1895. The group, directed by Duncan S. Miller, toured often and performed frequently for temperance societies. Using hand bells as... Read More
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Colorful C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Co. Advert - Marine Paints and Marine Varnishes
Jersey City, New Jersey: C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Co, 1900. Very good. light dust soiling.. A colorfully printed folding advertisement for C.A. Woolsey Paint & Color Company, including illustrations of their maritime paints (e.g. deck paint, exterior work, wood preservative varnish). Illustrated bifolium printed in black, yellow, red, and light blue (6.25" by 3.5").
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1898 S.S. Carolina Breakfast Menu
[Quebec]: Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company, 1898. Good. Toning, dust soiling, short tears on fold with modern tape repairs.. A printed menu for breakfast on the steamer S.S. Carolina in 1898, with designs of destinations and natural sights on the front by A.G. Racey (e.g. Montreal, Cliffs of Murray Bay). Inside, there is a wine list on the... Read More
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Mansfield Normal School Hallowe'en Masquerade Program
Mansfield, Pennsylvania: Mansfield State Normal School, 1910. Very good. Dust soiling/spotting. A couple nicks.. Printed program for a Halloween Masquerade held at Mansfield Normal School (in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, for girls. Outside is a colored and embossed anthropomorphized jack-o'-lantern hovering in a night sky above a witch on her broom and an owl. Inside is an order of events,... Read More
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Bell Ringers Carte de Visite Photograph
Bacup, England: R. Hammond, 1880. Good. Edge wear with some chipping, surface wear, light dust soiling.. A CDV-sized photograph mounted on green coated card with gold border, depicting a four-person "bell ringer" choir. The four men, sadly unidentified, stand proudly in a line with their bells on display. The different sizes of the bells create different pitches/notes for... Read More
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A Shoe-Maker" -- Vinegar Valentine
England, 1850. Very good. Light staining/dust soiling.. A humorous vinegar valentine poking fun at cobblers and shoe makers. The image depicts a shoe maker at work with large features and a sign behind him reading "Snob & Co". The rhyme below reads, "Prithee, you little knock-knee'd soul, How dare you love profess, I've known you fully long enough,... Read More
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Attractive c.1885 Advertising Card with Chromolitho Rose Geranium Applique
Boston, Massachusetts: Maxwell & Covell, grocers, 1880. Very food. Slight surface wear to reverse.. Charming advertising card for Maxwell & Covell, grocers based on Pleasant Street in Boston, with an attractive chromolithographed applique on the reverse side with image of rose geraniums. Advertises a product presumably sold by the grocer, "Huyck Bros. Perfumers, Chicago". Edged in gold, and... Read More
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Saucy Faux Raffle Ticket -- Making Fun of Trendy Large Bustle Sizes
United States, 1875. Very good. Toned, a little dust soiled.. A saucy faux raffle ticket with an illustration of a woman with a massive bustle on the left. To the right, it reads, "RAFFLE For a Double-Jointed, Steam-Heating, Anti-Corrosive, Self-Acting, Non-Explosive, Back-Action CENTENNIAL BUSTLE. Warranted not to Rip, Ravel, or Run down at the Heel. For the Benefit... Read More
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Uncut Doll House Piano - Advertising Premium
New York, New York: George Steck & Co, 1890. Fine.. A charming uncut and unassembled paper doll house piano with instructions for assembly. Produced as a supplement, it advertises Steck Pianos by George Steck & Co. Chromolithographed card (9.5" by 5"), with ink stamp of Ball & Speich Pianos on verso.
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Intertype Futura
New York: Intertype Corporation, 1950. 52 pp. Orange illustrated paperback cover, examples of numerous types of fonts, some illustrations and examples of advertisements. 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" slight fading and discoloration on edges of cover.
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YOU Be The Judge" -- 1954 Air Force Recruitment Booklet
United States: United States Air Force, 1954. Very good. Lower wrapper sunned.. A 1950s booklet promoting careers in the Air Force, contrasting a career in service with life as a civilian. Features an interesting image on the front of a scale with two civilians on the left side and two service members on the right. Urges readers to... Read More
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Promotional Booklet for the Margaret Sanger Bureau
New York, New York: Birth Control Federation of American, Inc, 1941. Very good. Light toning, extremities rubbed.. A scarce 1940s promotional booklet for the Margaret Sanger Research Bureau, the first birth control research bureau in the United States founded by the birth control activist and feminist educator Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) in 1923. The booklet begins with an emotional... Read More
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Valentine With Applied Scrap Center of Colorful Flowers
A single fold embossed valentine with an applied scrap depicting an array of spring flowers. A small floral scrap that reads, "Truthful." Condition: small area of discoloration upper left. Scrapbook residue and pencil inscription on reverse.
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Marked Girl: The Story of Elinor Holt" -- Advertising "Hide-It" Brand Concealer and Powder
Chicago, Illinois: Clark-Millner Co, 1937. very good. Light toning, minor rust on staples.. Illustrated booklet advertising a brand of concealing cosmetics, allowing women to hide shameful birthmarks, pimples, freckles, scars and varicose veins. The booklet begins in the form of a story told from the point of view of a handsome man enraptured by a "slim, attractive girl,... Read More
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Little Yankee Jigglin' Hat" -- Uncut Premium
United States: Little Yankee Shoes, 1952. Near-fine. Minor toning, edge wear.. An uncut example of the delightfully kitschy "Little Yankee Jigglin' Hat", a children's novelty hat published as part of an advertising campaign by Little Yankee Shoes. When the cowboy hat is assembled and the child shakes his head, the cowboy on his horse rocks back and forth.... Read More
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Deepdene: a new roman and italic type design, drawn by Frederic W. Goudy
Philadelphia, PA: Lanton Monotype Machine Company, 1930. 15 pp. Paper printed two color cover, includes examples of points and series. The booklet consists of descriptions and examples of the Deepene type created by Goudy. 12 1/4" x 9" edges worn, tears on edges, tape repair pages 14 and 15 and front cover, slight discoloration on edges.
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Home ABC
New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1910. 16mo. Unpaginated. Linen Each page with three (3) letters and illustration relevant to letter. "H" is for Hoop Henry, "N" is for Negro, "X" is for Axe. Cover wear. Interior in excellent condition.
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F.W. Schoonmaker Manufacturing and Dispensing Pharmacist Trade Catalogue
New York, New York: F.W. Schoonmaker, 1890. Good. Toned with some chips, modern tape repair to verso of upper cover.. Illustrated trade catalogue promoting goods sold by F.W. Schoonmaker, including "Antiseptic and Surgical Goods, Hard Rubber Atomizers, Compressed and Triturate Tablets, and Physicians' Specialties". Marketed directly to doctors, the catalogue includes a price list of goods as well... Read More
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Promotional Booklet, Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C., c1920
Sixteen page illustrated booklet from the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington D.C. was published c 1920. The hotel was located at Connecticut Avenue and Woodley Road overlooking Rock Creek Park, It contained fifteen hundred rooms. There are fifteen views, taken from photographs, of the hotel's exterior and interior, and descriptions of the location, proximity to sights, particulars about the... Read More
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Advertising Card for "The Crime of the Ages", a lecture by Evangelist J.C.. Stevens
[Brooklyn, New York]: J.C.. Stevens, 1917. Fine.. Advertising card for a free lecture by evangelist J.C.. Stevens given in Brooklyn on August 5th, 1917, "At the Tent". J.C.. Stevens evangelized in the late 1910s, offering free public lectures with titles such as "Is the Great War the Last the World Will Ever See?" (Brooklyn Eagle, 10 Aug 1918)... Read More
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Antonio Ratti Gouache Silk Textile Design No. 9
Gouache. Decorative designs. Purple, white and black. Created on card stamped - Francis Clivio & C. with logo. Design size 4 3/4" x 6 1/4" and Card size 6" x 8 3/4
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Die-cut Standup Souvenir De Laval Cow and Her Skim-Milk Baby with Original Envelope
New York, New York: The De Laval Separator Co, 1920. Very good. Envelope toned, some wear to cows.. Two (2) self-standing metal (tin) cow figurine "souvenirs" from the De Laval Separator Co., manufacturers of cream separators. The cows are die-cut metal and chromolithographed, and can stand on their own if two of the legs are gently bent backward.... Read More
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