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1972447631972. 1st edition thus. Red leatherette stamped in gilt. Ribbon page markers. General signs of use. Bookplate. Laid-in ephemera. A VG copy. 676 pp. Folding maps 2 in rear pocket. 6" x 4-11/16" <br/><br/> hardcover books
193146405London: Henry Sotheran Ltd 1931. 1st printings. Printed buff paper wrappers. Age-toning. Most a bit cocked. Signs of use with occasional prior owner annotations. A couple with wrappers beginning to detach. Withal a solid VG lot. Catalogues range in length from 72 pp to 176 pp most ~96 pp. 8vo. ~8-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/>Decade breakdown: 1930s - 5; 1940s - 9; 1950s - 13; 1960s -1. Most catalogues with a thousand to two thousand entries from Acta Eruditorum Lipsiae 1683 - 1739 to Zuchetta Brescia 1600 as found in catalogue No. 825 1931. A vertible treasure trove of bibliophilic information - both descriptive & price history - primarily works of science medicine & chemistry as offered by the oldest antiquarian book firm still in business today. Henry Sotheran Ltd unknown books
19313358<p> Armstrong Cork Co. Lancaster Penn. 1931 An 80 page catalog 12mo bound in stiff cardboard wrappers. Every page is a full color plate of rugs or linoleum flooring. Some of the designs very bold and ususual. A little wear to the front cover but overall a clean copy with the colors bright.</p> Armstrong Cork Co. paperback books
188522190New York: H.C. Long 1885. Colorful bald eagle with scales in its beak arm & hammer anvil tropical scene background embossed raised gilt decorations; lithographed cigar box label not dated; union printing slug & maker name at lower margin; approx. 6 1/2" x 10" size overall; little edgewear; in very good condition. . First Edition. Illustration. Very Good. H.C. Long Paperback books
1786New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1901. A stout octavo of 588 pp. color frontispiece and black and white plates by T. de Thulstrup. An exquisite example of a publisher's Art Nouveau binding designed by George Whaton Edwards signed with his initials. Scarlet cloth with cover and spine decorations consisting of Corinthian pillars in astonishly bright heavy gilt and a fern frond in striking olive green. Warmly inscribed and signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper this is a perfect copy of a boldly handsome volume. hardcover books
1914New York: The H. K. Fly Company 1911. An octavo 307 pp. bound in cobalt blue cloth with an extaordinary Art Nouveau pictorial cover of a songbird in the branches of a flowering tree against a bright gilt sky. Titles on cover and spine also gilt. This sentimental novel was written by Charles Server from the play by Edgar Selwyn. The back cover and spine have some light spotting noticed only when the book is turned into certain lights. A whisper of wear at the extremites else this is a brilliant copy of an exceptional publisher's binding of the Arts and Crafts period of design. hardcover books
188436091Atlanta 1884. Broadside 6" x 9-3/8". Fine. <br/><br/> A new firm was birthed by J.M. McCombs F.M. McCombs and George Taylor of Boston "under the firm name of McCombs Taylor & Co. and will continue the business of the Atlanta Machine Works in all its various branches. Our Mr. Taylor who will have charge of the Mechanical Department of our works is an inventor of Machinery Draftsman and Mechanical Engineer of over twenty years experience. We are prepared to build Engines and Boilers Gold Mills Pulleys Shafting and Hangings Switch Stands and Railroad Castings Elevators and Hoisting Machines Steam Pumps." and other stuff too. unknown books
188336090Atlanta 1883. Broadside 5-3/8" x 8-1/2". Very Good. unknown books
192664945Austin TX: Austin Chamber of Commerce; Von Boeckmann-Jones Co. Printers 1926. Black lettered tan patterned paperwraps stapled. 16 cm. 56 pp. A promotional for the city illustrated with numerous black & white photos. A very good copy. OCLC lists copies at Amon Carter Daughters of the Republic of Texas Lib. Texas Christian and Yale. Two other copies not giving pagination are found at Calif. State Lib.-Sutro and Texas A&M. A typed note across the bottom of the front wrappers states "R. Niles Graham-Pease collection" which is housed at the Texas State Library and Archives their copy has different pagination. <br/><br/> Austin Chamber of Commerce; Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., Printers paperback books
194141977Detroit: Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc for Buick Motor Company 1941. 1st printing. Color printed paper wrappers stapled. General wear. A VG copy. 31 1 pp. Every page with at least one color illustration. Oblong format: 9-1/2" x 13-1/2" <br/><br/>An attractive promotional piece extolling the 1942 Buick line Special Roadmaster & The Limited as offered during the austere war years. The Special Convertible Coupe is especially appealing and these days probably a bit pricey if all original. Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc for Buick Motor Company unknown books
40225New York: Durant Motors Inc n. d. 1st printing presumed. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Interior rear wrapper provide vehicle specifications as well as 6 dealer locations. Modest wear to wrappers with chip to upper portion of rear wrapper fore-edge. Vertical fold line. A VG copy. Unpaginated though 12 pages. Pages with pink & orange border. Illustrated with 14 different photographic-style images of 2 models as well as various aspects of the vehicles including passenger compartment engine clutch frame etc. Oblong format: 4-3/4" x 6" <br/><br/>Durant Motors Inc. a relatively short-lived automobile manfacturer established in 1921 by former General Motors CEO William "Billy" Durant following his termination by the GM board of directors. Initially the firm enjoyed some success primarily due to Durant's previous track record at General Motors but long-term sales proved to be less than necessary to maintain production economies and the firm went out of business in 1931. This a rare advertising brochure from Durant Motors; OCLC locates no copies of it and in fact only 2 Durant pieces are recorded by OCLC each in a single copy. Durant Motors Inc unknown books
192649572Long Island City New York: Interboro Hoist & Body Corporation Borden Avenue and Van Dam Street 1926. 1st printing thus i.e. for this year. Bound in a brown 3-hole binder. Now with a custom-cut protective mylar wrapper. Edge wear to covers with a tideline to front cover upper right corner. Withal a solid VG copy. Each section A - Y with a separate pagination. ~ 200 pp. Illustated throughout with b/w photographic images. 11-1/8" x 8-3/4" <br/><br/> Interboro Hoist & Body Corporation, Borden Avenue and Van Dam Street unknown books
191539973Detroit Mich: Maxwell Motor Company 1915. 1st printing. Printed paper wrappers stapled 1915 - Peach; Service - Grey. Original buff paper mailing envelope. Minor wear & soiling. A VG set. Unpaginated though 40 & 24 pp respectively. Each booklet fully illustrated. 5-7/16" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>Maxwell - Briscoe Motor Company formed ca 1904 was named after its founders Jonathan Dixon Maxwell who earlier had worked for Oldsmobile and the Briscoe Brothers Metalworks with Benjamin Briscoe President of the company in 1907. OCLC shows 2 holdings of this specific Maxwell catalogue. Rare in the trade. Maxwell Motor Company unknown books
190639953Syracuse / New York: H H Franklin Manufacturing Company. Engravings and Printing by Bartlett & Company - The Orr Press 1906. 1st printing. Original decorative printed heavy-stock brown paper wrappers stapled. Decorative eps. Only faint wear. Odd unobtrusive spot of foxing. Nr Fine. 36 pp. Illustrated with 23 b&w photographic images of divers vehicles parts systems etc. 10-1/2" x 8" <br/><br/> H H Franklin Manufacturing Company. Engravings and Printing by Bartlett & Company - The Orr Press unknown books
191549115Detroit Mich: Maxwell Motor Co. Inc 1915. 1st printing. Green & white card stock covers stapled. Minor wear & soiling. Some foxing. A VG item. A fold-out pictorial brochure with 10 panels each with a b/w image of a Maxwell automobile in divers settings e.g. "ploughing through the heavy snow near the top of Mount Lassen." 5" x 5-1/8" <br/><br/>Maxwell - Briscoe Motor Company formed ca 1904 was named after its founders Jonathan Dixon Maxwell who earlier had worked for Oldsmobile and the Briscoe Brothers Metalworks with Benjamin Briscoe President of the company in 1907. <br /> <br />OCLC shows no institutional holdings of this specific Maxwell catalogue. <br /> <br />Rare. Maxwell Motor Co. Inc unknown books
37077Boston: The Barta Press n. d. 1st printing ca 1920. No copies found on OCLC. Brown paper wrappers stapled. BOOK Of MOTOR CARS. Stanley Motor Carriage Co. Newton Massachusetts U.S.A. Wrapper title. Light wear. 2 stamps of "W. G. Thuman / Stanley Steam Cars / 230 E. Channel St. / Stockton Calif." Prior owner signature at top of front wrapper. Line 1cm wide of paper remnants across inside rear wrapper. Withal a VG copy. 24 pp. 8 photographic images of Stanley vehicles 6 of the 7 passenger model; 1 of the 5 passenger Touring Car & 1 of the 4 passenger Coupe. 8vo. 9" x 6" <br/><br/> The Barta Press unknown books
191744837Cleveland Ohio: The Reflex Ignition Co 1917. 1st printing thus. Light greyish-brown paper wrappers stapled printed in dark brown. A Near Fine example. 15 1 pp. Printed by The Artcraft Co. Cleveland. Stapled to the title leaf is a 1917 Dealer's price list printed on yellow paper 6-1/4" x 3-1/2". Illustrated with cuts & drawings of the divers available spark plugs. 7-1/4" x 4-1/2" <br/><br/> The Reflex Ignition Co unknown books
40538Milwaukee n. d. 1st printing ca 1922-23. No copies found on OCLC. Printed brown paper wrappers stapled. Modest wear. VG. 28 pp. Illustrated primarily from b/w photographs. 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" <br/><br/> unknown books
191136985San Francisco 1911. 1st edition thus. OCLC locates just one institutional holding. Original publisher's beige rough-weave cloth screw-post binder with nickle plated metal spine label identifying the binder as "Waterhouse Binder Spreader. Patented February 28 1911.". Expected wear & soiling to binding. Age toning to paper. A solid VG copy. xx 620 pp. Thumb-tabbed Index at front. Profusely illustrated with cuts. 4to. 12" x 10-1/4" <br/><br/>Waterhouse & Lester a venerable California firm that began as a supplier of carriage & wagon equipment becoming one of the largest suppliers in their day of automotive equipment such as that found in this catalogue. Herein will be found not only carburetors but also all ancillary material such as rings & snaps as well as the tools necessary e.g. calipers & tap wrenches to maintain one's 'horseless carriage'. hardcover books
37513Paris: Imp. Kossuth & Cie n. d. 1st printing thus ca 1911. Printed light brown paper wrappers stapled. A VG example. 31 1 pp. Text in French. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. <br/><br/>Aeroplanes featured herein include: Henry Farman Sommer Bleriot Tellier Voisin Antoinette Maurice Farman R.E.P. & Hanriot. Each is pictured and accompanied by a general description specs & summary of any perfromance records. The above followed by a poweplant section offering Gnome E.N.V. Renault Anzani R.E.P. Labor-Aviation Panhard-Levassor Antoinette Gregoire GYP & Darracq. The catalog concludes with divers other aircraft accessories and components including Carburateur Claudel Pieces Detachees Bleriot Helices Commandes Irreversibles Fixator etc. The company even offers hangar facilities for Bleriot Antoinette Voison & Farman models. Rare early aviation trade catalogue; not found on KVK for the relevant union catalogues nor on OCLC. Imp. Kossuth & Cie unknown books
191632826Hyde Park Boston Mass: B. F. Sturtevant Company 1916. 1st printing. Printed grey paper wrappers. Age toning to wrappers. A VG copy. 23 1 blank pp. Illustrated with 28 b/w images from photographs one schematic. 11" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>"The B.F. Sturtevant Co. of Hyde park Boston Mass. was a big engineering firm even before the advent of the new science of aeronautics. Whilst the First World War was raging in Europe The Sturtevant Aeroplane Co. 1915-1918 was formed by the parent company to develop military aircraft. . They produced a number of aircraft for both the army and the navy in particular the "Battle" S4 aeroplane of naval type and the USN bought 12 of those machines whose inner structure was all metal a rather innovative approach for the time applied by Mr. Grover Loening Sturtevant's chief designer. . however it wasn't an elegant nor fast nor agile aircraft." The company also "designed developed and produced a number of high quality high performance aero engines. The 5A here advertised was only produced through 1917. It was "was installed in the Sturtevant S-4 and some L.W.F. V-1 training airplanes used by the Signal Corps at North Island Calif. and Mineola New York. Neither of these airplanes was too successful . Part of their difficulty resulted from the 5A engine which weighed more than 3.5 pounds per horsepower." sturtivant.org. Given it's short production life this Sturtevant Model 5A trade catalogue a rare survivor from the early days of US aviation- OCLC locates 2 cc though surprisingly neither are on the East Coast. B. F. Sturtevant Company unknown books
193031916Troy Ohio: The Waco Aircraft Company 1930. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Some general wear & soiling to wrappers. Date stamped with "1931". String hole along spine. A VG copy. 15 1 pp. Illustrated from photographs 15 images. Oblong 8vo: 5-1/2" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>The catalogue features both the Straight-Wing and Tapered-Wing versions of Waco's "225" open cockpit bi-plane so designated because it's powered by the Wright J-6 7-cylinder 225 HP "Whirlwind" motor. The Waco Aircraft Company unknown books
1929262849Baltimore: Baltimore Association of Commerce 1929. First. paperback. very good-. folding map photo Illus. 66pp. 8vo pr. wrs. wrappers sunned near spine two small tears to wrappers. Baltimore: Export and Import Bureau Baltimore Association of Commerce 1929.<br/><br/> Contains extensive survey of the port and its activities along with many economic statistics.<br/><br/> Baltimore Association of Commerce unknown books
196272205Brussels 1962. Paperback. Good. 24p. Softcover. 22cm. Vertical crease. Small piece chipped from cover. Memo from Belgium No. 17 May 1962. <br/><br/> paperback books
1978111995Benicia: Benicia Chamber of Commerce 1978. 16p 5.5x8.5 inches folding map Bay Area map on rear panel very good reprint in stapled pictorial wraps. Benicia Chamber of Commerce unknown books
