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19493352Aladdin Co. Bay City MI. Circa 1949. A very nice as new home plans catalog from Aladdin Readi-Cut Homes. 35 pages profusely illustrated in color and black and white of readi-cut homes from modest bungalows to tiny cottages to ranch houses that look like something the Cleaver's would live in to more elaborate brick faced tudor homes. The catalog is clean and unmarked and includes a flyer and the original mailing envelope dated May 1949. Perfect as a reference guide for restoring an older home. You might now be living in "The Gables" "The Shelburne" The Sunshine" The Concord" "The Palm Springs" "The Vassar" and not even know it! Aladdin Homes Co. paperback books
19523365Aladdin Co. Bay City MI. Circa 1952. A beautiful home plans catalog from Aladdin Readi-Cut Homes. 63 pages profusely illustrated in color and black and white of readi-cut homes from modest bungalows to tiny cottages to ranch houses. The catalog is clean bright and with no wear. Perfect as a reference guide for restoring an older home. You might now be living in "The Rio Grande"" "The Santa Fe" The Graystone" The Jasmine" "The Lexington" or "The Pasadena" and not even know it! Aladdin Homes Co. paperback 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
186065548Boston MA 1860. Single sheet folded printed on blue paper. 20 cm. 4 pp. One page of text 3pp. blank. Signed in type by George W. Bungay. Old fold lines light stain at right margin not affecting text. Very good. Bungay solicits merchants and manufacturers for business profiles which he has engaged to publish in the Waverley Magazine "a well-known and widely circulated journal printed weekly." which has an immense circulation in New York New England every State in the Confederacy and the British Provinces. The author promises truthful and graphic sketches of the businesses profiled which will be read by a wide audience and be of benefit to their enterprises as a "novel mode of advertising." for the cost of $10 and travel expenses. He lists several businesses he has already profiled approximately 20 many in the Boston area. Interested parties should contact Bungay at his Dental Room 165 Court St. Boston. No listings found on OCLC. George W. Bungay 1818-1892 was a prolific author and compiler of verse songsters biographical collections of politicians etc. often with a temperance theme. <br/><br/> unknown books
185465544Philadelphia PA: Rice & Hart Publishers No. 27 Minor Street 1854. Single sheet folded. 25 cm. 4 pp. text on 2 outer pages only. Old fold lines else very good. Text in two columns printing the notices for this publication from the National Intelligencer of Feb. 11 and the Washington Union of Feb. 4. The contents including the list of portraits and biographies in of each of the four volumes is also listed. OCLC lists two copies of this circular: NY Hist. Soc. and AAS. The "National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans" was published by Rice & Hart in 1854. <br/><br/> Rice & Hart, Publishers, No. 27 Minor Street unknown books
184965543Cincinnati OH: H.W. Derby & Co 1849. Single sheet printed on blue paper folded. 26 cm. 4 pp. including one page of text 2pp. blank addressed on fourth page to G. & C. Merriam Springfield Mass. with a round stamped red postal mark. Old fold lines a few closed tears else very good. The firm of H.W. Derby & Co. assures the public that the November 15 fire which lately damaged their place of business and destroyed a large portion of their stock will not stop them from filling orders for books stationery and other articles. They have purchased the entire stock of Messrs. Bradley & Anthony who have decided to retire and will move into their store at No. 113 Main Street immediately. Once their building at 145 Main Street is repaired they will return there. Signed in type by H.W. Derby & Co. Cincinnati November 23d 1849. No listings found on OCLC. George and Charles Merriam to whom this copy was addressed were successful book publishers and sellers in Springfield Massachusetts. <br/><br/> H.W. Derby & Co unknown books
185965546Boston MA: M.M. Ballou Publisher and Proprietor 1859. Single sheet folded. 25 cm. 4 pp. One page of text 2pp. blank docketed on 4th page in manuscript "Ballou's Pictorial circular Feb. 1 1859." Old fold lines else very good. Signed in type by M.M. Ballou Publisher and Proprietor Boston February 1st 1859. The circular states that Ballou's now in its sixteenth volume is a desirable medium for advertising not only because of its longevity but also because "it is reaching the most available class of the community and . each number of the paper is preserved after reading being regularly bound up every six months so that an advertisement becomes a permanent card." The terms offered were 25 cents per line. No listings found on OCLC. <br/><br/> M.M. Ballou, Publisher and Proprietor unknown books
186765547Washington DC 1867. Small broadside. 20 x 13 cm. Old fold lines some minor rumpling and toning along top margin else very good. Docketed in manuscript on verso. Proposed duties on various kinds of imported books are listed: 20% on English language books printed before 1840; 20% on books in foreign languages not printed in the U.S.; 30 cents per pound on books in English valued at less than $2 and printed since 1840; etc. Signed in type by 14 American publishing houses who agreed to the terms including Harper & Brothers D. Appleton & Co. Little Brown and eleven other well-known American publishers. No listings found on OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
1906228234n.p. Citrograph Press ca. 1906. 1906. 3 1/4" x 6". 10 illustrations including cover photo of The Anderson Hotel. 16 pages including pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Promotional pamphlet focusing on Colton's business climate. Not in Rocq. Soft cover. Very Good. [n.p., Citrograph Press, ca. 1906]. paperback books
189336600Denver: News Print 1893. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A very good copy small chips on the corners of the wrappers. 8 pp. 8vo. The Denver Chamber "protests against this circular of the City of Hartford challenges the truth of every assertion of its preambles and asks that those whose judgment may have been affected to examine the actual facts in the premises." OCLC shows only seven copies all but one east of the Mississippi. News Print unknown books
1806WRCAM7294Washington 1806. 72pp. Dbd. Occasional marginal staining and darkening. Top margin shaved affecting some headlines and page numbers. Good. Report concerning foreign trade and taxes. Reprints the 1802 Act of Parliament by which the Crown was to collect a tax on items imported to and exported from Great Britain with a supplementary table. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 11567. unknown books
1809WRCAM7295Washington 1809. 8887pp. Dbd. Very good. James Madison's speech regarding mounting tensions between the U.S. and Britain and France with repercussions from the British attack on the frigate Chesapeake and effects on foreign trade. Prints correspondence from William Pinkney and Robert Smith among others. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 189631888818885. unknown books
190726600Paris: E. Bernard 1907. First edition. 8vo. 299 pp. numerous illustrations 3 folding plates. Printed paper wrappers. Faded along spine and edges with light chipping and tears ; else very good and partially unopened. Volume 5 of a 6 volume series issued freom 1905 - 1910. This is the only volume in the series pertaining to photography. <br/><br/> E. Bernard unknown books
186427636New York: John W. Amerman Printer 1864. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. A very good copy light offsetting to front wrapper one initial at top edge mail fold marginal line to one paragraph. 26 pp. 8vo. Reprints Barstow's original argument against the Usury laws Report upon the Usury laws as well as nearly ten years of further reports and memorials questions and answers to criticisms and various appendices. Barstow argues that the current laws restrict trade: "We have for many months witnessed in our city a most grievous pressure on our money market; a pressure almost beyond a parallel for intensity. The cost of raising money has weighed down the energies of many enterprising men. Usury Law restrictions have afforded no alleviation in the hour of need. The very reverse of this has been their result." Scarcer than the initial report. OCLC shows only six copies: NYPL Stanford Law Harvard Brit. Lib. 2 and American Antiquarian Society. John W. Amerman, Printer unknown books
190036847Dayton Ohio 1900. Trade card from "The Station Confectionery Tables for Ladies and Gentlemen." Pink card stock printed with blue inks oblong 4" x 2-1/4." Very Good with the Union Bug of Dayton's Allied Printing Trades Council at the bottom. <br/><br/> Dayton's Union Station opened in 1900. Legal segregation was the norm in most of the Union until passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. unknown books
41380Pasadena: Issued by Pasadena Board of Trade n. d. Ca. 1912 or a little thereafter. Light peach paper wrappers printed in yellow and brown lettering stapled. Modest wear to wrappers light scuffing/soiling rubbing to edges. "Compliments of B. O. Kendall Co." stamp to front wrapper. Unpaginated. Black and white photographic reproductions throughout. 7-3/4" x 5-3/8" <br/><br/>"Pasadena California is probably the best advertised city of its size in the world. For a quarter of a century it has been the winter Mecca of thousands on this side of the Atlantic while the fame of its incomparable climate has spread around the globe. In that time it has grown from a little hamlet surrounded by young orchards and semi-arid grazing fields to a cosmopolitan city of nearly forty thousand people with a mid-winter population of much more than that number." 8 institutional holdings located on OCLC. Rare in the trade. Issued by Pasadena Board of Trade unknown books
186019466Davenport Iowa: n. p. ca. 1860-1865. Some light soiling and wear; in very good condition. Trade card printed on glazed white card stock 2.25 x 3.5 inches. An attractive trade card for this homoeopathic doctor in Davenport Iowa advertising the dispensary hours and home address almost certainly for George K. Prince 1801-1865 an English-born physician who appears in the U.S. census in Davenport in 1860 and the local directory in 1863 under physicians. His credentials as listed here are impressive graduate of University of Edinburgh Licentiate of Apothecary's Hall London and a student of the Paris medical school "of thirty-five years standing." A nice bit of job printing design from the Quad Cities. Small bit of hand emendation to his hours. n. p., unknown books
192649516New York City: Street & Smith Corporation 1926. 1st Printing thus i.e. of this catalogue. Off-white paper covers printed in red & black. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Some wear & soiling to covers. Age-toning to paper. Bookseller logo stamp to inside rear cover with offset to opposite page. A Very Good copy of this uncommon survivor. 3 - 33 1 pp. 7-1/8" x 4-7/8" <br/><br/>Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership in 1855 when they took over a broken-down fiction magazine. They then bought the existing New York Weekly Dispatch in 1858. Francis Smith was the company president from 1855 until his 1887 retirement; his son Ormond Gerald Smith taking over his role. . The company which owned a six-story building at 79 Seventh Avenue just above 14th Street became a publisher of inexpensive novels and weekly magazines starting in the 1880s and continuing into 1959. . Ormond Smith remained company president until his death in 1933." Wiki <br /> <br />Herein we see the current offerings of S & S' many successful series. e.g. The Love Story Library "Romances That Please Millions" Round the World Library "Stories of Jack Harkaway and His Comrades" New Southworth Library "Splendid Romances of American Life" etc. etc. <br /> <br />An invaluable window into the poplular reading habits of early 20th C. American readers. Street & Smith Corporation unknown books
2603San Francisco: The Chamber 1874. . 8vo pale blue wrappers lacking many segments; text firm and unchipped except for lower outer corner of title missing not affecting text. Fifteen holdings in OCLC. San Francisco: [The Chamber], 1874. unknown books
1903224108Watsonville Chamber of Commerce 1903. 1903. 8vo. 13 illustrations; map. Original color pictorial wrappers with design of four apples. Very good. 16 pages. Printed by Sunset Press San Francisco. Rocq 14417 - locates only the Bancroft copy. Soft cover. [Watsonville, Chamber of Commerce, 1903]. paperback books
191137855St. Petersburg FL: compliments of the St. Petersburg Board of Trade 1911. Pale green stapled paperwraps illustrated with red poinsettia. Oblong 16mo.; 21pp. 3. Photo illus. including one of a tarpon catch. A promotional brochure. Two short closed tears to lower edge of front wrap else very good. Not in SERVIES though there is a 1914 edition listed. No listings on OCLC for this year 1912 & 1914 issues only. No listing on NUC 1912 issue only. Very good. <br/><br/> compliments of the St. Petersburg Board of Trade paperback books
182418594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
1842WRCAM53413Boston 1842. 791pp. Dbd. Light foxing heavier to initial leaves. Good plus. Account of a meeting of a trade association for the Massachusetts shoe industry with minutes speeches and a roll of attendees. With several pages of interesting advertising at the rear for a book on stenography with printed text samples. unknown books
18704889Cleveland OH: H.H. Hatch & Co 1870. Trade card 7 x 12cm. Printed one side in black and gold on pale red card stock. The 1886 Directory Leading Manufacturers and Merchants of the City of Cleveland and Environs describes the firm as follows. "One of the best-known houses in Cleveland is that of H. B. Hatch & Co.' importers and wholesale liquor dealers. This house dates its foundation from 1855 and from that time was continued successfully by the firm of Hillyard & Hatch who were succeeded by Skeels & Hatch then followed Skeels Hatch & Co. who in turn were succeeded by H. H. Hatch & Co. In 1879 the firm was Hatch & Zangerle and in 1885 the present firm of H. B. Hatch & Co. composed of H. B. Hatch and Cass H. Hatch sons of Mr. H. H. Hatch succeeded to the entire business and under their able administration of affairs the trade has been increased and the facilities enlarged so as to meet all demands. The business house is 25x100 feet in extent and is well arranged and contains a large stock and valuable assortment of the finest wines from the vineyards of the most distinguished growers of France and other parts of Europe also choice brandies gins etc. of the firm's own importation and the finest American wines brandies etc. and the choicest old Bourbon and rye whiskies the best made in the land. These goods are all of high standard quality and command the attention of the trade a large business being carried on by the firm with all parts of the States of Ohio New York Massachusetts Vermont Pennsylvania etc. The Messrs. Hatch are both of Cleveland where they were born and brought up and as merchants and useful citizens stand high in commercial and financial circles. Mr. C. H. Hatch is a member of the Royal Arcanum.". Some light discoloration to verso otherwise very good or better. H.H. Hatch & Co unknown books
19304680Brussels Belgium: Affiches Marci 1930. Folio 38 x 33 cm 20 pages. Album containing 156 chromolithograph trade cards. In French and Flemish. Album produced for Côte d'Or customers to collect specifically the company's botanical trade cards. Each page contains an outlined area for eight specific cards with a description for each printed in French and Flemish. Full-color trade cards are pasted down and depict a wide range of flora fauna and fungi. Album contains the full set. Côte d'Or was founded in 1883 by Belgian chocolate manufacturer Charles Neuhaus. Both the company's name and logo an elephant surrounded by palm trees and pyramids recalls the African origin of the source of the cacao beans used in the production of chocolate. The company is still producing chocolate today. An incredible example of vibrantly colored and elaborately designed trade cards and the intersection of advertising and the popular hobby of collecting. Cards and album produced by Belgian printing house Affiches Marci a company established in 1819 and still in business today. In slightly rubbed and bumped boards with slightly fraying green cloth spine; the front cover features a full color illustration of the botanical cards with the company's logo and the back features slightly faded checked floral pattern. Some slight edgewear and foxing to pages and cards otherwise very good. Affiches Marci hardcover books
