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1924118501Adelaide: Ellis Limited 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Ellis Limited 1924. 240 × 153 mm 16 pages with illustrations and 8 tipped-in colour plates. Overlapping colour-pictorial gate-fold card covers with panoramas of 'Early Adelaide' and 'Modern Adelaide' front and rear and with line illustrations of the site of the cafe then-and-now inside the respective covers; covers lightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities with surface loss to a tiny area of the front cover; bottom half of the front gate-fold hinge split but now expertly sealed; an excellent copy of a lavish brochure. 'The Ellis Cafe organisation was formed about 1917 as bakers pastry cooks caterers fruiterers and confectioners. The office and factory was at 120 Gouger Street Adelaide with a restaurant Covent Gardens at 50 later 68 King William Street the Arcadia Cafe in Bowman's Buildings King William Street the Maple Leaf Cafe at 21 Rundle Street and two others in the central business district. The Ellis Cafes ceased trading in 1952' State Library of South Australia B 72464/5. This attractive souvenir was prepared to celebrate the reopening of the cafe in late 1924 after extensive renovations. An article in the Adelaide 'News' on Saturday 20 December 1924 notes that the 'booklet is a triumph for its compilers and its illustrator Mr E. Grant Walsh who also designed the general scheme of furnishings and decorations'. Ellis Limited paperback
191080059Lowell Massachusetts: Bennett Bros Co 1910. Wraps. Very good. Octavo: 28 pp. with line illustrations and halftone photographs throughout. Stapled yellow paper wrappers printed in black. Light staining to the wrappers and the margins of a few leaves; else very good.<br /> <br /> Details the features that make the Ideal Silo live up to its name from its round shape and round hoops to the wood it's made of: Florida Pine of the Long Leaf variety. Despite the fact that the company's slogan is "Nothing Too Good for the Cow" no cows appear to have been included in the numerous testimonials and lists of satisfied customers. Bennett Bros Co unknown
1918014106Columbus OH: James Ohlen & Sons Saw Mfg. Co. 1918. Octavo. 116 pp; full of b/w illustrations. Brown printed wraps. VG- covers soiled rippling to pages due to new prices pasted in. Rare reference for Ohlen saws. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. James Ohlen & Sons Saw Mfg. Co.
1923014132Long Island City NY: Metal Stamping Co. 1923. Octavo. 36 pp; full of b/w illustrations. Color illustrated wraps. VG a clean unmarked copy; covers with light edge wear. Soft Cover. Very Good. Metal Stamping Co. Paperback
191047274Grand Rapids MI: Alabastine Company 1910. Very Good . Grand Rapids MI: Alabastine Company ca. 1910 Small octavo 15cm; side-stapled pamphlet in illustrated card wrappers; 24pp.; illus. throughout with color samples to pp. 20 and 22 offsetting. A Very Good or better example. Rear wrapper states that Alabastine paint can be purchased at Smith's Drug Store in Winamac Indiana.<br /> <br /> A funny little catalog which poses the question "Are you good looking" or have your walls overpowered you in your own home Essential reading for the image-minded homemaker who wants to look incredible in her "reddish tan dining room" painted with Alabastine products. Alabastine Company unknown
19138101Philadelphia; Chicago: Abram Cox Stove Co 1913. Tall octavo 20.4 x 11.4 cm. 80 pages. Illustrated. Index. Printed throughout in black and pale blue. FIRST EDITION. A combination trade catalogue and cookbook produced by Philadelphia's Abram Cox Stove Company. Includes Bills of Fare for winter and summer dinners and advice on setting the table. The recipes are uncredited. The rear of the book includes an envelope pasted down and printed with "Use this pocket for clippings". ~ Internally clean and sound. In publisher's cream-colored oilcloth boards printed in navy blue. Some light adhesion to oilcloth corners slightly rubbed otherwise fine. Scarce. OCLC locates six copies. Abram Cox Stove Co hardcover
19083211Rome N.Y. 1908. Ten trade catalogues. Items mostly uniform in size ~ 19 x 12.5 cm. though page count does vary from 14 to 155. Each catalogue contains an index. Each catalogue is illustrated and most include select full-color images. Including the Erie Can Company’s there are four general catalogues that cover a broad range of products; three catalogues are specific to syrup cans; and the remainder feature one specific type of product or another. ~ Incorporated in 1901 the American Can Company was a member of the “Tin Can Trust†that controlled a large percentage of the tin market. In 1913 the U.S. Government sued the company on the grounds of monopoly. The individual catalogues: 1. American Can Company. American Steel Lead Kegs. New York: American Can Company circa 1908. 24 pages. Steel kegs for lead manufacturers and lead users; features product descriptions for five unique kegs and over 25 testimonials from consumers across the country. Illustrated cover. Cream wrappers with black/red text bound with red ribbon and staple. Slight discoloration and creasing otherwise very good; 2. Tin Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 16. No date. 147 pages plus index. Features Canco trademarked products also manufactured by American Can Company. In total over 275 unique products featured. Gray wrappers with embossed type. Rounded edges. Slight bumping to spine otherwise fine condition; 3. Tin Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 17. No date. 155 pages plus index interleaved with graph paper. Very nearly same content as #16 but this edition is interleaved with graph paper presumably for consumers to mark their notes. Bound in black vinyl with gold print. Rounded edges. “E. Hoffman†printed on the cover. Edges of cover chipping but text is in fine condition; 4. Tin Galvanized and Japanned Ware; Catalogue No. 18. No date. 123 pages interleaved with graph paper. Same as #17 with variations in featured products. Bound in blue vinyl cover has white paint stain and printed name is scratched out. Otherwise very good; 5. Druggists’ Tinware; Catalogue No. 21. No date. 98 pages. Illustrated throughout with select full-color images. Has ninety-nine unique products for druggists: arnica salve boxes cosmoline cans insect powder guns tooth powder boxes herb cans and more. Gray wrappers with green and gray text company name embossed on front cover and monogram embossed on back. Some pencil marks and slight discoloration on wrappers text in fine condition; 6. American Can Company. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 43. No date.15 pages. Illustrated throughout. Indexed catalogue of cans for syrups. Features twelve unique cans in variety of sizes and shapes. Light gray wrapper with red and black print. Interior text has some water staining; 7. American Can Company. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 45. No date.14 pages. Almost identical to #43 in form condition and content. Illustrations vary just slightly and this catalogue does not feature the “‘Chelco’†Metal Swing Seal†thus features just eleven products; 8. Syrup Cans; Catalogue 47. No date. 14 pages. Same as #45; 9. Seamless and Pieced Boxes Hinged Slip and Sliding Covers; Catalogue No. 56. No date.37 pages. Thirty-eight seamless and pieced boxes in oblong square and miscellaneous shapes with slip hinge or sliding covers. Also highlights location of manufacturer: Brooklyn Richmond Philadelphia Boston Chicago St. Louis. Gray wrappers with green and black text pencil marks on back cover; water stains throughout; 10. Erie Can Company. Illustrated Catalogue Sheet Metal Specialties including Tea Coffee and Spice Cabinets Cans and Caddies and Sample Room Goods Etc. Chicago: Erie Can Company no date. 27 pages. Features thirty-three unique products from painters pots and brush safes to display cabinets and coffee caddies. In cream wrappers with some discoloration and slight edge chipping. Text slightly discolored by staple binding. As a collection overall condition is very good. unknown
1924132980Adelaide: Colton Palmer & Preston Ltd 1924. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Colton Palmer & Preston Ltd. May 1924. Small quarto ii iv 82 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Pictorial wrappers lightly marked and rubbed; an excellent copy. Over the years we have handled two similar Colton catalogues undated and each with different pagination but we believe they were also issued in the 1920s. Colton, Palmer & Preston, Ltd paperback
1937114864Paris: Gnome & Rhone printed by Draeger 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Paris Gnome & Rhone printed by Draeger 1937. Square octavo 228 × 210 mm 16 pages with numerous sepia-toned illustrations; both leaves of the centrefold are folding double-leaves which open out to reveal superb full-colour plates of two very stylish motorcycles. Saddle-stapled pictorial wrappers; a fine copy in fact from the archive of the printer and thus uncirculated. Gnome & Rhone (printed by Draeger) paperback
1939109309Chicago: L. Gould & Co 1939. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Chicago L. Gould & Co. 1939. Quarto 336 1 last page of the index printed on the inside rear cover pages with thousands of illustrations plus a 10-page colour catalogue for Lionel Trains and Accessories a 4-page colour catalogue for Universal kitchen ware and a detachable discount notice and order form bound in at the first page. Pictorial card covers printed in red and green; front cover has a crease to the bottom corner with the top corner a little marked and with trifling loss with minimal impact on the first three leaves; the rear cover has a few short edge tears expertly sealed with minor restoration to the bottom corner; leading edge a little marked near one corner; top corner of the last ten leaves slightly creased with a tiny nick to the leading edge of the last 20 leaves; a very good copy. An extensive and most appealing toy catalogue issued by this major wholesaler on the eve of the Second World War. L. Gould & Co paperback
191380058San Francisco: Lansing-Company 1913. Wraps. Very good. 16mo: 4 21-86 6 pp. with numerous illustrations from engravings. Original brown paper wrappers printed in red. Faint creasing to a few leaves with a negligible smudge to the rear wrapper; else very good or better. Scarce OCLC locates no holdings.<br /> <br /> A priced trade catalogue guaranteed to make every office supply-loving nerd rejoice dedicated to those most humble beasts of burden of industrial and office life: the dolly truck wagon car and barrow. Over 125 examples are given of the many innovative products offered by Lansing-Company formerly Lansing Wheelbarrow Company of Lansing Michigan from simple bag trucks to steamship cheese keg cask barrel post office gasoline engine automobile paper ham and bacon string sausage liver and sanitary trucks to name just a few as well as railway wagons baggage carts fat carts skids etc. It's glorious! And yes library book carts are included too. Lansing-Company unknown
19281641Rochester: The Case-Hoyt Corporation 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Unpaginated. Filled with illustrations of type faces half-tone options and other offerings for compositors. Bound in black textured notebook bound with two posts printed title label mounted on front cover. A half inch closed tear to fore-edge of title page which also has the name of a former owner in ink else Fine. A scarce catalog of type specimens ornaments dingbats and related printing. One of the half-tone options utilizes Paramount movie starlet Esther Ralston whose fame faded with the talkies. Thuswe've dated this catalog to the late 1920s. The Case-Hoyt Corporation hardcover
1934101240Melbourne: Wilson and Mackinnon Printers and Proprietors of 'The Argus' 'The Star' and 'The Australasian' 1934. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Melbourne Wilson and Mackinnon Printers and Proprietors of 'The Argus' 'The Star' and 'The Australasian' 1934. Oblong octavo 48 pages with a few illustrations and 24 pages of type specimens plus 2 additional leaves printed rectos only of type specimens tipped in at pages 25 and 35. Wrappers with the decorative title page repeated on the slightly marked front cover; minor foxing confined mainly to the first and last leaves; later ownership signature; an excellent copy. Wilson and Mackinnon, Printers [and Proprietors of 'The Argus', 'The Star' and 'The Australasian'] paperback
1930138476Stoke-on-Trent: Wengers Ltd 1930. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Stoke-on-Trent Wengers Ltd. September 1930 printed at the foot of the inside rear cover. Quarto ii 66 pages with a map and numerous illustrations plus text printed on the inside surfaces of the covers and a pictorial advertisement for the company printed in red on the outside rear cover. Flush-cut quarter cloth tape and three-colour card covers with the original loop of string through a hole punched in the top left corner; minimal signs of age and use; a very good copy. 'This book is intended to give a rough outline and simple description of the Manufacture of Pottery commencing with the preparation and composition of the body raw materials used in the body the methods of forming and shaping same the first or Biscuit firing the composition preparation and application of Glazes methods of Decoration and classes of Colours used in the various methods; also of the methods of decorating Glass and the processes of Enamelling Sheet and Cast Iron Copper and Jewellery' inside front cover. Wengers, Ltd paperback
1908145012Adelaide: Printed C.G. Röder G.m.b.H. Leipzig for the Company 1908. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Printed C.G. Röder G.m.b.H. Leipzig for the Company 1908. Oblong quarto 38 pages with 51 illustrations from photographs 31 of pianos pianofortes and organs 18 of small portraits of prominent European musicians and composers and one larger portrait of William Kuhnel. Loosely inserted is a price list a bifolium printed in blue and decorated in gold on two-tone paper dated 1 January 1911; an order form is also present. Flush-cut quarter cloth and red papered card covers with both sides extensively lettered and decorated in gilt; a large two-colour illustration on the front cover; a very fine copy it appears to be uncirculated in the original plain envelope a little marked and torn. 'Sole agents for Julius Feurich Leipzig; R. Lipp & Sohn Stuttgart; R. Görs & Kallmann Berlin; Carl Faust & Sohn pianos; the "Waldorf" pianos; also Estey-Organs over 400000 sold' subtitle. 'In 1898 Albert Conrad designer of Austral Buildings in Hindley Street was commissioned to create Kuhnel's emporium that expanded to house 400 pianos at 136 Rundle Street opposite Adelaide Arcade . By the 1920s Kuhnel's was the largest piano and organ store in Australia' AdelaideAZ website. The only copy of this lavish catalogue located in Trove is in the National Library of Australia: 'A finely printed trade catalogue intended for this Adelaide piano importer's wealthier clients . The catalogue was produced in Germany which at that time considered itself home to the most accomplished printers in Europe'. Printed C.G. Röder G.m.b.H., Leipzig (for the Company) paperback
1923112446Adelaide: Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Adelaide Cook's Business Directories SA Company printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited Perth 1923. Octavo ii advertisements xl title page indexes additions and alterations x advertisements xxix iii advertisements 344 pages with 9 illustrations from photographs and numerous illustrated advertisements plus advertisements on both sides of the covers the spine and the leading edge. Flush-cut quarter cloth and papered boards; covers cracked in two places but stable and a little worn at the extremities; rear cover a little stained and chipped; signs of age and use; overall a decent copy. Cook's Business Directories (SA) Company (printed by Barclay & Sharland Limited, Perth) hardcover
1950112442Adelaide: Universal Business Directories 1950. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories 1950. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xxii 482 pages with 2 maps. Two-colour card covers; long tear to the front cover expertly sealed with minimal infill to the bottom left-hand corner; small tidemark to the bottom left-hand corner of the two advertising leaves; spine and edges a little sunned; short sealed tear to the leading edge of the rear cover with short closed tears to the blank leading margin of the last ten leaves; a very good copy basically unread. The towns include Alice Springs and Broken Hill. Universal Business Directories paperback
1952112450Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xii 306 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked; top corner lightly bumped throughout; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1954112451Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1954. Quarto xx 302 pages with 5 maps illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus a two-colour leaf of advertisements one for Coca-Cola after page 280. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; small light tidemark to the foot of the spine; top corner lightly bumped towards the rear of the book; small section of the bottom edge sunned; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955112439Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxvi 362 pages with 5 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 338. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine very lightly chipped and sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1953112455Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1953. Quarto ii two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned and marked; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956112449Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto viii two-colour advertisements xxxii 410 pages with 6 maps a number of illustrations from photographs and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered eight-page two-colour advertising section after page 388. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; top corner of the front cover and the first third of the book a little bumped; an excellent copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1956112453Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1956. Quarto x two-colour advertisements xiv 288 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements plus an unnumbered 8-page section of two-colour advertisements after page 282. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1955112452Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1955. Quarto xii two-colour advertisements xvi 284 pages with a map and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine lightly sunned; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback
1952112454Adelaide: Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Adelaide Universal Business Directories Australia 1952. Quarto iv two-colour advertisements xvi 310 pages with 2 maps and numerous pictorial advertisements. Two-colour card covers with advertisements on all surfaces; spine a little sunned and marked and very lightly chipped; small section of the bottom edge sunned; a fine copy. Universal Business Directories (Australia) paperback