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1951282700Richmond Virginia: Henry Walker Decker 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Signed. A clean First Edition copy with a signed letter from the editor laid in. Contains extracts from the letters of a Richmonder who died tragically in the Pacific Theater of WWII. Also includes letters from his early years growing up in Richmond and attending the University of Virginia. Bound in blue cloth with titling in gilt. Sunning and some wear to the spine. near Very Good binding. Henry Walker Decker unknown books
187550155Boston: I.G. Gates Printer ca 1875. 16mo. Sewn printed wrappers; 24pp. Mild creasing at corners else Near Fine. Souvenir booklet and program for the exhibition of Philippoteaux' massive circular panorama Le Siége de Paris. Philippoteaux completed his original panorama in 1872 when it becamse a cause célèbre in Paris; the Boston impresario T.E. Halleck commissioned a duplicate which he put on display in Boston beginning in 1875. The current program never mentions Phiippoteaux by name leading us to wonder whether Halleck may have commissioned artisan painters to execute the facsimile. Though not illustrated the program provides a narrative description of the work. I.G. Gates, Printer unknown books
18997503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown books
1996UFARORI00fpOttenheimer Publishing 1996. Very Good. Farmer Fannie . The Original Fannie Farmer 1896 Cook Book the Boston Cooking School. Boston Cooking-School. Owings Mills MD: Ottenheimer Publishing 1996. reprint of 1896 edition. xxx 567pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Ottenheimer Publishing paperback books
196136204Boston:: Fan Guild of Boston. Very Good. 1961. Hardcover. B000JLVSA6 . Black and white photographs throughout. First edition number 50 of 100 copies. Very good or better in green cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. . Fan Guild of Boston, hardcover books
1978286141Boston: Design Media Concepts Corporation 1978. unbound. very good. Poster. Offset lithograph. 27.5" x 22.5". In very good condition.<br/><br/> Original exhibition poster for "Costumes of the Latin Quarter" at the Boston Center for the Arts. Art work by Erte with decorative text that reads "Woman As Fantasy". Romain de Tirtoff 23 November 1892 %u2013 21 April 1990 was a Russian-born French artist and designer known by the pseudonym Erté. 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields including fashion jewelry graphic arts costume and set design for film theatre and opera and interior decor.<br/><br/> Design Media Concepts Corporation unknown books
1890187Various locations in Massachusetts 1890. Very good. 247pp. Small quarto. Late 19th-century tan cloth. Binding lightly worn and soiled. Stamps for the Engineering Department of the B. & M. R.R. on binding and endsheets. Minor soiling to contents. Written in a neat and legible hand. The Boston & Maine Railroad and the Eastern Railroad were both founded in 1836 and ran competing lines throughout the 19th century. The B. & M. acquired the Eastern in 1890 ending competition on the rail route from Boston to Portland. This volume describes more than 300 land transactions made by the Eastern and Boston & Maine Railroads primarily from the early operational years of the 1830s and 1840s. This volume appears to have been copied out neatly at a later date perhaps after the purchase of the Eastern by the B. & M. and includes transactions ranging from 1836 to 1894. It is indexed by town at the end. Entries include the sellers' names the bounds of the parcel the price paid and the date. The towns involved include Chelsea Everett Lynn Revere Saugus Swampscott Salem Beverly Rowley Hamilton Wenham Ipswich Newbury Newburyport and Salisbury. unknown books
185027528Boston: n.p. 1850. First edition. A very good copy of this self-mailer sealing wax present small chip to blank. 1 pp. Addressed to Sam G. Rea Salem Mass. with 5 cent cancel postmarked Boston April 6 1850. An attempt to solicit the owners of Dividend 4 to then petition the East Boston Company to extend the deadline for land acquisition along the Wharves as the value of the land was expected to grow rapidly with the arrival of the Grand Junction railroad and water from Lake Cochituate. The committee was headed by Albert Bowker most likely the Treasurer of the East Boston Savings Bank Samuel O. Mead financier from Weymouth and Joshua Bates financier who shortly funded the start of the Boston Public Library. n.p. unknown books
16454United Hospital and Dispensary Baldwin Place Boston. Typed signed letter inviting to joining hospital advisory board and information sheet about the board. Letter dated May 18 1887. Notable for the time the membership board for United Hospital and Dispensary lists several woman doctors and emphasizes that here "women may be treated by competent female physicians exclusively if they so desire." It also lists Mary Livermore a famous journalist and advocate of women's rights. Very good. unknown books
1936WRCLIT79829New York: The Paisley Press 1936. 24pp. Quarto. Dull red pictorial wrapper. Illustrations. Wrappers a bit dust soiled at edges with a couple small nicks in fore- edges bumps to upper forecorners but a very good copy. First edition of this pro-Republican anti- Roosevelt campaign screed composed in a form which parodies Alice. Roosevelt's face has been superimposed on the images of Alice derived from Tenniel. Similar modifications are made in one image incorporating Felix Frankfurter Hatter Henry Wallace March Hare Mrs. Roosevelt Duchess Harry Hopkins King etc. Uncommon - OCLC locates 13 copies. OCLC: 9265445. The Paisley Press unknown books
42120Deland writes to thank Mrs. Paine who had sent her photos of her relatives The Mitchells. "The little picture of "Mary Lu" in her garden is very pleasant. When she was in Cambridge I didn't see her as frequently as I would have liked to but there was something about the intellectual and spiritual fiber in her which even to know that she was somewhere in the neighborhood gave me a sense of satisfaction and comfort. . unknown books
15906With 2 holograph corrections. unknown books
186638815Boston: Nichols and Noyes 1866. First edition. Paper wrappers. Lacking the wrappers else a very good copy contents lightly soiled. 22 pp. 16mo. Results of the meeting called by pastor Dr. N. Adams to address congregational concerns over the lack of activity in the church. Some of the recommendations include a renewal of covenant addresses to church members union among churches observance of the Sabbath Sabbath schools and a city missionary society. Sabin 70116. Nichols and Noyes unknown books
19417528Boston: Ben-Burk Inc 1941. Small octavo 18 x 12 cm. 112 16 113-160 pages. Includes the color-illustrated "Home Bar Guide". Printed in bladk and lavender and with decorative borders throughout. Stated "5th Printing" but formally Second Revised edition second printing the revision was published in 1940. Issued as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston the book became a staple of professional and home bars around the country. The Old Mr. Boston Guide finds its roots in a slim booklet One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New in 1932 prior to the Repeal of Prohibition. In 1934 it was expanded and the title changed to 120 Cocktails. Expanded once again in 1935 and re-titled it was an instant hit and went on to become one of the most iconic American cocktail recipe books. In gold-decorated and textured burgundy leatherette with a color "medallion" depicting Mr. Boston laid on the front board. Slight bump to top fore corner; one leaf dog-eared otherwise fine. Noling page 117. Ben-Burk Inc hardcover books
187727544Boston: Press of Rockwell and Churchill 1877. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Wrappers edgeworn a few small chips rear wrapper detached interior clean about very good overall. xv 64 pp. 8vo. Committee included W. H. Whitmore G. B. Chase H. A. Hill Abbott Lawrence C. H. Dalton. Press of Rockwell and Churchill unknown books
180131356Boston: D. Bowen 1801. Letterpress broadside woodcut coffin and urn decoration 23 x 18 1/4 inches. Minor losses in the margins at sheet edges not affecting text. A remarkably early American museum broadside.<br/> <br/>A broadside advertisement for the Columbian Museum in Boston one of the earliest American museum publications extant. Opened by Daniel Bowen in 1795 the museum specialized in the exhibition of fine art as well as curiosities. The museum was an expansion on Boston's first such institution also founded by Bowen in 1791 which was dedicated primarily to the exhibition of wax figures. The Columbian also played host to a variety of public performances and lectures. "One exhibit more suggestive of P. T. Barnum than the sedate offerings of a modern museum featured a bibulous elephant who consumed vast quantities of spiritous liquor the museum's advertising assuring the public that 'thirty bottles of porter of which he draws the corks himself is not an uncommon allowance.' . Despite such vulgarities Bowen's Museum is said to have had a significant influence on the history of American painting. The works of art on display there especially those of Robert Edge Pine formed the only public art gallery in Boston. Art historians credit this collection with influencing three major painters: Washington Allston the great Romantic painter Samuel F. B. Morse better known as the inventor of the telegraph and Edward Greene Malbone a miniaturist of note all of whom resided in the Boston area in the 1790s" W.P. Marchione Allston-Brighton Historical Society. This broadside advertises Bowen's wax sculptures of famous figures such as John Adams George Washington and Benjamin Franklin but further promotes a much more eclectic range of exhibited items. First among these are a collection of "large historical paintings" which depict a wide array of subjects including "Mrs. Yates in the character of Medea" "Time clipping Cupid's wings" and "His Excellency John Hancock late Governor of Massachusetts painted by Mr. Copeley." Prominently placed in the center of the broadside is an announcement that a "Monument to the Memory of General Washington has lately been erected in the centre of the Museum" with a small woodcut purporting to be the object in question. Also advertised are a collection of "automaton and musical clocks" and a concert organ "one of the most elegant Instruments of the kind ever imported" as well as a number of "natural curiosities" consisting mostly of birds snakes and a very large fish "12 feet in length" caught in Boston harbor. "The Museum has been established in Boston about five years during which time the collection of natural and artificial Curiosities elegant Paintings Wax Figures &c. have been constantly increasing and is now universally visited as one of the most rational and entertaining places of amusement in the United States: -- And will be removed from Boston at the expiration of the lease. Music on the Concert Organ. -- Admittance Fifty Cents." Though several editions of advertisements for the Columbian Museum have been noted by OCLC ESTC and Evans this particular broadside is apparently unrecorded. D. Bowen unknown books
1943741521943. COLONIAL SOCIETY OF BOSTON. TRANSACTIONS 1937-1942. Boston: Published by the Society 1943. Publications of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts Volume XXXIV. Illustrated. Octavo. xvi645 pp. Blue cloth gilt-stamped title to spine and the Society's seal to upper board. Slight creasing to cloth at spine else fresh and fine. unknown books
1911296Boston 1911. Paperback. Very Good. photos 96p. Original gray wrapper. Oblong 20cm. <br/><br/> paperback books
188738058Boston: Boston City Council 1887. 159 pp. b/w gravure plates. <br/><br/>First edition of an essential America's Cup book. Rulon-Miller Checklist 5. Light wear to spine ends and corners but the handsome gravure plates of famous yachts fresh and clean. Boston City Council unknown books
183127769Boston: Printed by Beals and Homer 1831. First edition. Removed. A good copy penned numerals on title stain to bottom edge at inner margin not affecting text mail fold small holes on last 2 leaves affecting a few letters. 40 pp. 8vo. Perhaps written by David Henshaw 1791-1852 Collector of the Port of Boston and Massachusetts State Senator. Henshaw was a strong Free Trade Democrat who here attacks Otis' support of tariffs. Sabin 70271. Shaw & Shoemaker 8969. Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 27175.17. Printed by Beals and Homer unknown books
2001108812Boston: Childs Gallery 2001. Softbound. VG. Stapled wraps; 15 pp.; 26 color 6 bw plates. Includes works from Old Master to Modern 1690s to 2003; Pieces by John Singer Sargent Milton Avery Albert Swinden Frank Stella and others with annotations. Childs Gallery unknown books
19911047661991. Softbound. VG. Wraps. appx. 20 pp. 26 color plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser known regional artists. These Painting Annual Issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. Also has a few European works. unknown books
19901047651990. Softbound. VG. Wraps. appx. 20 pp. 43 color plates. Wonderful color plates of works by lesser known regional artists. These Painting Annual Issues are terrific reference works for these artists and contain important information. Also has a few European works. unknown books
