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19852091202133001921New Science 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 New Science paperback
19315466London. Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. 1931. Gilt titled crimson cloth. 4to. Edition for 1931. Profusely illustrated with photographs drawings and period advertisements. An absolute treasure depicting the grand and elegant days of travel. A complete guide to Hotels and boarding houses in Great Britain Europe Australia New Zealand South Africa Canada and the USA. Charming period advertising allows one to travel back to the heady romantic days of Somerset Maugham and the Orient Express. Indexed and tabbed this is a true gem of nostalgia. A Very Good copy Walter Perry and Co. Ltd. hardcover
47419N.p.: Counsel Press n.y. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff red wrappers. xii 54pp. Near fine. Rear wrappers and last leaf only mildly warped. Bright tight copy of this legal pamphlet No. 12-872 part of an age discrimination suit filed by an Illinois state's attorney who argued he was dismissed because of his age 61 to make room for a younger female attorney. Remarked one commentator "He won a major victory in the Seventh Circuit Court allowing him to go forward with a claim that his constitutional right not to be discriminated against because of his age had been violated. The state took the case on to the Supreme Court claiming that his right to sue under the Fourteenth Amendment had been displaced by the federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act. The problem in brief was that the Seventh Circuit decided the case before it was due to go to trial and the professors had questioned its authority to do that. If that was right Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Anthony M. Kennedy commented why did the Supreme Court have any business stepping in" The Illinois Solicitor General got spanked by the justices during his questioning. Then "Levin's lawyer Edward R. Theobald III took to the podium. His appearance began on an unfortunate note as Justice Alito tried unsuccessfully to get him to take a firm position on whether or not Levin was an employee under the ADEA. For reasons that were not clear Theobald contented himself with simply reciting what the Seventh Circuit had said in ruling for his client." It goes on: "Chief Justice Roberts promptly took on Theobald saying that he had gotten what he had sought from the court of appeals and now was trying to insulate that result from any review. The Chief Justice was referring mainly to Theobald's merits brief in which he had put heavy emphasis on whether the ADEA issue was involved at all in the case since Levin he said got no protection under that law. The argument it was clear was getting far out of Theobald's opportunity to control it in his client's favor. Finally Justice Scalia had had enough. He noted that many of Theobald's arguments had not been made in his brief opposing the Court's review. 'We don't like to dismiss a case as improvidently granted' the Justice said impatiently. 'We depend upon counsel' to make arguments in a way that puts them before the Court. 'You should have told us' earlier Scalia said." This pamphlet is the aforementioned brief opposing the Court's review -- and the front wrapper is inscribed and signed large and bold by Levin's attorney: "To -- / My Good Friend / Ed Theobald / 10-8-15." These briefs are produced in small quantities for distrbution to those parties involved and are therefore rather scarce. This unusual item is accompanied by five large glossy Christmas cards each imprinted with Theobald's full name and each signed on inside panel with a holiday greeting. For good measure also included is a copy of Lyle Denniston's 2013 legal analysis of Levin v. Madigan "Argument recap: A bad way to open a Term" which includes a court artist's rendering showing Theobald presenting the case before Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Counsel Press paperback
1935141672ca 1935. paperback. Oversize 9-1/2 X 12-1/4 double-weight gelatin silver photograph inscribed in blue ink fountain pen by Montgomery to Hollywood photographer George Watson. The inscription is undated but most likely dates from the mid to late 1930's. Damage to lower left corner else VG Montgomery 1904-1981 began his acting career in 1929 and has the distinction of having played both Lord Peter Wimsey in 1940 "Haunted Honeymoon" based on BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON and Philp Marlowe in 1947 "Lady in the Lake". He also directed and starred in one of the great film noirs of the forties "Ride the Pink Horse" 1947 based on the Dorothy B. Hughes novel. Watson was a member of the notable Watson family of photographers that has flourished in Los Angeles for nearly a century. He was one of the first staff photographers at the Los Angeles Times and covered notable stories throughout the twenties paperback
6174LONG ISLAND. This scrapbook displays photographs taken between 1887-1889 that capture a wealthy familys life on Long Island during the Gilded Age. The term The Gilded Age created by Mark Twain refers to the period of the late nineteenth century typically the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century during which rapid economic growth rapid industrialization and widespread European immigration primarily unskilled labor transformed the economies of the Northern and Western United States. According to the United States Census the era saw a real wage growth of 40% from 1860 to 1890 with the average annual wage per industrial worker including men women and children rising from $380 in 1880 $11523 in 2022 dollars to $584 in 1890 $18370 in 2022 dollars a gain of 59%. This rise in wealth resulted in the rise of a New Money elite those who made their money not through generational wealth and family connections but rather through oil the railroads and other rising industries. They are best exemplified by John D. Rockefeller Jay Gould Henry Clay Frick Andrew Mellon Andrew Carnegie Henry Flagler J. P. Morgan Leland Stanford and Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York was often at the center of the Gilded Age as the worlds dominant financial market and the nations leader in economic investment immigration political corruption and culture. This scrapbook contains 59 black-and-white photographs. They are affixed or mounted to 43 of 70 pages in the album. 29 of the photographs are 3.5 x 4.5 19 are 6.5 x 4.5 and 11 are 5.5 x 7.5. Two of these images are cyanotypes. Though the family is not named in the album and photographs with names underneath lead to nothing online there is a photograph in front of a house labeled Westbrook. The Westbrook estate on Long Island was designed in 1886 for William Bayard Cutting 18501912 by the architect Charles C. Haight in the Tudor Revival style. It contained the first private golf course in the United States and is now a part of a state park called the Bayard-Cutting Arboretum. Cutting started the sugar beet industry in the United States in 1888 was a builder of railroads operated the ferries of New York City his maternal grandfather was a partner of Robert Fulton and developed part of the south Brooklyn waterfront Red Hook. Images include a large extended family repeatedly and leisurely photographed the Harvard-Yale sailing race in 1887 at New London young men likely Yale students yachting and relaxing on a boat named the Princess and beautiful images of the scenery and waters of Long Island. Overall the album is in good shape. One photograph is damaged and several others have minor tears or chips. The scrapbook is half-leather and half-cloth so the spine is worn and the corners are rubbed and bumped. Regardless the scrapbook is a prize for anyone interested in this fascinating and relevant era in American history. It provides fantastic insight into the life of a wealthy Long Island family including what they did what they wore and how they presented themselves to each other and their neighbors. hardcover
1976biblio556<p>MGNA 1976 1977. The complete series: First Year Sets 1 - 6; Second Year Sets 1 - 6; Third Year Sets 1 - 6; Fourth Year Sets 1 - 3; Fifth Year Set 1 final set published. 22 staplebound pamphlets in very-good to fine condition. An outgrowth of the Alice Bailey teachings MGNA was founded by the eminent Italian psychotherapist Roberto Assagioli.</p> MGNA paperback
195876699South Africa & London: Aquarius Rising Press 1958-63. Edited by Douglas Baker . Octavo. This sincere publication seems to have started in South Africa and moved to London. Presented here are six disparate issues with the first three being from South Africa and the latter three from London. The South African issues have no volume or number but for the earliest which is dated 1958. This issue has a volume number XXX and an editor is given Douglas Baker. The next South African issue is stamped March of 1959 and the other has June/July 1959 printed on the front wrapper. The first London issue London issues are larger and with plain wrappers and the first has no volume number just a date of March/April 1961; the second bears Volume XXVII and dated 1962; and the third again has no volume of issue but it is labeled Vol. XXVIII 1963. We are not clear on why the volume numbers are so erratic. Octavos. Some issues are paginated and some not but the range is 28 to 42 pp. All are illustrated in house it would appear. Publisher’s printed wrappers. The first issue is loose in its wrappers but the others are very good. No copies located by OCLC. Virtually nothing is known about this journal but they were an earnest and erudite group with articles concerning Theosophy astrology mysticism UFOs biblical studies alchemy and ontology. Aquarius Rising Press unknown
192076690Chicago: Mastery Publishing Company 1920-21. Edited by Orlando Edgar Miller. Monthly. Small octavo. Vol. I Nos. 1-4. Quarterly. Consecutively paginated to p. 212. With shoulder illustrations on every page. Publisher’s ornately illustrated wrappers.Vol. I Nos. 1-4. Quarterly. Consecutively paginated to p. 212. With shoulder illustrations on every page. Publisher’s ornately illustrated wrappers. Very good.Orlando Edgar Miller 1864-1947 was one of the longest lived and most prolific of the New Thought movement expounders and in this case grifters. Mastery Publishing Company unknown
194376693Los Angeles: New Age Press 1943-47. Edited by Corinne Heline. Monthly and later quarterly. Twelvemo. 50 disparate issues with the last seven being quarterlies. A few stains and dog-ears but overall in very good condition. OCLC locates no copies.This potpourri of New Age occult and Alt-Biblical articles was the work predominantly of Corinne Dunklee Heline. Born in 1875 or 1882 she was an enthusiast of matters outre quite early and even before the first World War was communicating with “Inner Plane Immortals†with the Virgin Mary being amongst them. Sometime before 1900 Corinne moved to Southern California and became a follower of Max Heindel 1865-1919 at his Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside California. She met her husband John Theodore Heline there in the 30s and they moved to New York City and together they ran the Three-Eleven Rosicrucian Fellowship on West 80th in New York City while he was editing Rays for the Rosy Cross for Heindel's widow. After they returned to Los Angeles John started the New Age Press in 1936 and published a number of pamphlets presenting an occult view of America’s role in the world. Together they ran New Age Interpreter for many decades covering the whole panoply of New Age subjects. Corinne Heline is best remembered for her “Occult Anatomy and the Bible†and much of it was excerpted in this periodical. She died in 1975. Complete list of issues available. New Age Press unknown
193876687London: Seekers PC Ltd. 1938-41. Edited by C. A. Simpson. Quarterly. Octavo. Vol. 1 Nos. 4 7 9 10 12; Vol. 2 Nos. 1 2 3 4 5. Ten issues. Octavo. Variously paginated but either 32 or 40 pp. No illustrations. Publisher’s printed blue wrappers. All issues with a vertical crease no doubt from mailing some scattered foxing to wrappers. Overall very good and clean. OCLC records no copies.A spiritual healing organization founded in London in 1926 by C. A. Simpson formerly a New Zealand electrical engineer who gave up his profession to voice the opinions of his spirit guide "Dr. Lascelles." Charles A. Simpson published a book in 1928 entitled “The Seekers: Talks by "Dr. Lascelles†that gives full voice to this group. The group is primarily Spiritualist and Christian in orientation with an emphasis on psychic healing. The center was originally named The Guild of Spiritual Healing. Associated Harmony Prayer Circles throughout Britain provided absent healing treatment. Seekers PC Ltd. unknown
193476695Nevada Missouri: Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics 1934-35. Edited by Ernest Weltmer. Monthly. Quarto. Vol. 15 No. 8 1934; No. 9 10 11 12 1935; Vol. 16 No. 1 & 2 1935. Seven issues. Nos. !1 & 12 are double issues. Octavo. Generally 32 pp. each. Photographic portraits of article authors. Publisher’s printed wrappers all with an ad for a Weltmer service on the rear. One issue No. 12 with some abrasion to cover but not torn. Together with three of forty-five in total of Welter’s Complete Course of Suggestive Therapeutics No 15-Intuition: No. 26-Prayer; No. 42-Ideation. Quartos in wrappers. Overall very good. No copies located by OCLC.Ernest S. Weltmer was a somewhat important figure in the history of New Age and occult movements in the United States. Born in Indiana in 1863 he was first called to the ministry and became a minister in the Methodist Church. Soon after though he became taken up with hypnotism and the power of suggestion and by the turn of the century was a well known figure in occult mental healing and metaphysical circles. Following his interests he took off the robe and in 1897 founded the Weltmer Institute of Practical Psychology in Nevada Missouri. It became one of the most famous mind cure institutes in the country. Like many he also conducted a mail order business of his lessons. He was denounced by the medical profession and brought up on mail fraud charges but unlike many of his fellow healers he was never convicted. He authored and published numerous books and lessons on hypnotism suggestion mental healing and occult laws of mind some of which circulated widely in metaphysical and New Thought communities. As he pre-dated Mary Baker Eddy and many kindred New Age movements in the field of mental healing he is now considered a pioneer in the field. People continue to read his books today. This periodical contains snippets of his Lessons in Practical Psychology and numerous articles. He eventually turned the institute over to his son Sidney and died in 1938. Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics unknown
193476696Nevada. Missouri: Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics 1934-35. Edited by Ernest Weltmer. Vol. 15. No.1 1933 2 3 4 5 6 7 1934. Seven issues with an unexplained jump of 6 months. Tall octavos. 32 pp. each. Numerous ads unlike the preceding magazine. Publisher’s printed wrappers. Some minor issues but very good overall. None located by OCLC.Weltmer was an early advocate of Prosperity as a core issue in his teachings & considered it the result of successful mind-body integration. The title of this magazine reflects that. Prosperity soon became a mainstay in almost all New Age schools. This magazine is much like his Magazine of Practical Psychology with lessons and articles by notables in the field. Weltmer Institute of Suggestive Therapeutics unknown
193276816Los Angeles: The Paty Publishing Co. 1932. First edition. Five twelvemo 5 x 6 1/2 inches volumes. Complete. Publisher's green stapled wrappers with lettering in clack. The first volume with the ghost of a sticker on the front. Some mld sunning. Overall a very good set.A rather standard New Age diatribe. OCLC only locates on copy though many are recorded for the 1960 reprint. The Paty Publishing Co. unknown
192076817Buffalo NY: The Author 1920-1921-1922. First editions. Four small 5 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. 12 pp. each. Publisher's stapled brown wrappers with black cover lettering and an image of a struggling soul on the front. Very nice condition. None recorded by OCLC.Josephine Brice largely forgotten today was quite a well known Christian medium in the early decades of the twentieth century. She was the founder of the Circle of Light and minister of the Deleware Avenue Chapel of the Circle of Light. All four of the publications precede her magnum opus The Descending Light 1922. On the rear cover of two of there are announcements for the upcoming The Descending Light. The New York Herald sent a delegation to investigate her claims and published their results. The Author unknown
19632110502150413073Eiga Geijutsusha Co. Ltd. 1963. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Eiga Geijutsusha Co., Ltd. paperback
19822110502150414026Heibonshuppan 1982. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Heibonshuppan paperback
19782110502150415291Special feature of company story 1978. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Special feature of company story paperback
192151295Scranton PA: International Textbook Co. 1921. Thick 8vo. vii 1 approx 450 pp sections separately paginated ix-xxi 1 pp. With 100s of text illustrations diagrams colour plates. Publisher’s three-quarter red buckram over green gilt lettering & ruling on spine marbled endpapers minor shelfwear dustsoiling to spine still VG copy. First editions of this very scarce and lavishly illustrated educational course on how to design construct and arrange window displays and floor displays of men and women’s clothing during the Jazz Age. Koerber 1871-1937 was an Hungarian-American designer and amazingly successful Display Manager for the Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store in Philadelphia at their five-story edifice flagship at Market & 8th. He emphasized and promoted the use of elaborate window displays with wax mannequins often with a particular theme and these needed to be constantly refreshed by the design department. In addition he highlighted the staging of merchandise on the floor such as putting men’s ties with their multi-coloured silks drawing shoppers to the men’s department and arranging women’s undergarments silks and evening wear in prominent positions to draw women further into specified sections. This work provides technical and practical information on wooden display forms flooring how to construct mannequins draperies holiday themes floor displays how to paint backdrops and more. The hundreds of photo images of window displays and floor displays provide an invaluable historical record for marketing during the Roaring 20s as well as offering a methodology of how these could be repeated and successful for other designers. Of particular interest is the extensive section on animatronics and motorized displays filled with information on lighting automatons and creating special effects. No copies located in Worldcat. International Textbook Co., hardcover
192659638Chicago IL: Crane Co. 836 S. Michigan Ave. 1926. 4to. 47 1 pp. With over 150 of colour illustrations & blueprint floor plans throughout Gray printed boards w/ black & blue lettering on front cover minor shelfwear very slight chipping at foot of spine faint rust to staples at gutter margin of text block still VG copy. First edition of this scarce catalogue emphasizing the importance of colour and the latest modern crane fixtures valves and fittings mixing their compact and graceful gleaming white enamel on iron units with fine marbles and flawless crystal. Each of the individual designs includes elevation drawings along with each wall illustrated as it would appear on the blueprints on the facing page for the floor plans. Some feature Greco-Roman or Pompeian design elements while others show vivid Art Deco influences. Worldcat locates 6 copies The Strong DLC Hagley MO Hist. Mus. Cincinnati Carnegie. Crane Co., 836 S. Michigan Ave., hardcover
193053742New York: Macmillan Company 1930. 8vo. 8 230 pp. Navy-blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering minor rubbing to spine very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. printed on metallic silver coated paper Art Deco cover art of 1920s limousine and the well-dressed set in orange & black minor chipping to head & foot of spine very minor edgewear & creasing upper fore-edge couple very small closed tears w/ minor very small tape repair still a VG/VG- copy. First edition of this fast-paced novel set against the backdrop of a penniless Russian Prince exiled by the Revolution who makes a deal with a clever Chicago fashion buyer to act as chauffeur and purchase the sumptuous “Car of Croesus†rented at exorbitant rates to patrons wishing to appear as millionaires. Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize for The Family in 1918. Very scarce in the original dustjacket. Macmillan Company, hardcover
19639152Berkeley: The Space Craft Convention 1963. First edition. 21x14cm 20pp. Reproduced from typescript. Staple bound in illustrated paper wraps green endpapers. Some staining and scuffing to covers clean internally and very good. <br /> <br /> Very scarce booklet being a special lecture given at the Space Craft Convention at Berkeley on November 2nd and 3rd 1963. Hunt 1900-1973 was an English spiritual healer who specifically wrote about and practiced chromatherapy. His most famous work was The Seven Keys to Color Healing 1940. This esoteric text is about achieving higher attunement and knowledge through the building of a spiritual bridge via light energy of different frequencies and colors. <br /> <br /> <br /> Not to be found in OCLC nor can we find it mentioned elsewhere. . The Space Craft Convention unknown
193058055Portland OR: Hollywood College of Music Dancing & Fine Arts Baker Studio Granada Studio La Vere Photo Shoppe Photo Craft Studios ca. 1930-1933. Oblong 4to. 24 original photographs all preserved in archival mylar sleeves sized 6.25 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in. some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative others w/ manuscript captions added a few w/ annotations and/or photographer’s instructions on versos all with bright strong contrast a few w/ offsetting from previous mounting on versos and one w/ very small pinholes at corners from prior mounting. Recent cloth binder stamping front cover excellent grouping. These photographs vividly document the dance and music studio operated by Annabelle Knowles reflecting the fast evolving costumes and aesthetics of the twilight of the Roaring 20’s as the U.S. descended into the Great Depression. These photos also clearly reflect the influence of Gus Edwards 1879-1945 vaudeville’s premier producer of kiddie acts and who had produced and released the shorts “Kiddie Revue†in 1930 and 1931. His influence was not only driven by his songs “By the Light of the Silvery Moon & “School Days†but also discovering such stars as Groucho Marx Eddie Cantor Mae Murray Sally Rand and many others. The images depict girls in two-piece outfits in front of Art Deco staging for “Body and Soulâ€; bare-backed girls in Flapper Era inspired costumes for chorus line “Kiddie Revueâ€; song and dance routines featuring Ronald Chetwood in top hat with Marcile Shillito Virginia Collins and chorus line in Jazz Age era costumes and canes; and several show Barbara Jane Wicks Shirley Jay Mulkey and Sunny Dentler in Spanish inspired costumes for “Baby Vanities.†Another shows adolescent boy and girl dance team in an “Apache†dance inspired costume number. The Hollywood College of Music Dance & Fine Arts offered classes and instruction in all ages with the last few photos showing teenage girls in chorus line with short hair coquettish expressions and teamwork or chorus line numbers. Annabelle Knowles 1900-1989 was a musician and dancer who founded the Hollywood College of Music Dancing & FIne Arts at 4112 NE Sandy Blvd. some time in the late 1920’s. Most of the street directory references focus on 1929-1932 and her British-America theatre-director husband at the time Vincent Knowles 1883-1944 worked at the studio as well. Baker 1882-1972 was a longtime commercial studio photographer in Portland OR who had initially begun as a photographer with noted tourist travel guide Howard Eaton photographing tours through National Pakrs. Beem 1892-1984 was founder and photographer at Granada Studio located in the 1930’s at 515 Swetland Building in Portland. Centlivere 1878-1964 owned and operated La Vere Photo Shoppe and Photo Craft Studios on Sandy Blvd. in Portland for nearly all of his career. We could find no similar collections or photographs or even references to Annabelle Knowles and very few examples of any of these three photography studios in institutional holdings. Hollywood College of Music, Dancing & Fine Arts, Baker Studio, Granada Studio, La Vere Photo Shoppe, Photo Craft Studios, hardcover
192358318New York: Arthur Murray 801 Madison Ave. 1923. 4to. 32 pp. Blue-tinted photo illustrations text diagram illustrations. Textured brown softcovers gilt lettering & decorative border on front cover yapp fore-edges minor soiling & fading front cover to lettering minor bumping to couple corners still a VG copy. First edition of one of the renowned dance studios’ instruction books after they opened their dance studio in New York in 1923 in conjunction with their struggling mail-order business. Murray pioneered dance instruction and dance schools to encourage exercise and build self-confidence and poise and was the first to broadcast live dance music on the radio in March 1920. Murray originated the idea of the “footprints†style of teaching dance now an Arthur Murray trademark and this book includes instructions for The Chasse Waltz the Tango foxtrot and The Cortez. Worldcat locates 4 copies w/ similar titles and different collations NYPL - 2 copies 51 & 24 pp. British Lib. 51 pp. BYU 63 pp. Arthur Murray, 801 Madison Ave., paperback
1980223104Unknown.: No publication details. circa1980. A poster with the image of an old man Lao Lai Zi outlined with white characters on a black background text in simplified Chinese characters 77 x 52.5cm small 1cm closed tear right edge and lower left corner repaired. In good condition with clear and well defined characters making the text easy to read. Lao Lai Zi a symbol of aging and filial piety is here represented in what appears to be a white line drawing on a black background. On closer inspection however the lines are made up of poignant and occasionally amusing rhyming verses listing the indignities of old age imploring the young not to look down on the elderly. <br> <br>The original stele carved with a similar image titled “Lao Lai Nan” Growing Old is Hard is located at the Temple of the Medicine King in Beipo village in Shaanxi Province. It isn’t known exactly when the Beipo stele was carved but it is said to be related to a Mrs Li who lived in the temple and wanted it carved to teach her unfilial children a lesson. The use of simplified characters and catchy verse written in modern Chinese indicate that it is a 20th century artefact. The Beipo stele includes smaller carvings of eight old people using sticks along the vertical edges. <br> <br>This poster is a modern artistic stone rubbing interpretation of the main visual feature on the Beipo stele i.e. the central figure outlined in characters in a pose and design similar to the original. A well known educational Chinese folk illustration “Lao Lai Nan” is a moral lesson on respect for the elderly. <br> <br>老来难, 老来难,劝人别把老人嫌, 当初嫌别人老,如今轮到我头前,千般苦, 万般难,听我从头说一番。耳聋难与人说话, 差七差八惹人嫌. … <br> <br>Getting old is hard it’s hard I urge you not to look down on the elderly. Earlier I despised others for being old but now that I’m facing it head on with a thousand kinds of troubles and difficulties listen to everything I say. <br>Being hard of hearing makes it difficult to communicate if you miss this or that you annoy people… <br> <br>… …痛苦难言聆,明不明睡不着, 一夜小便七八遍,怕夜长, 怕风寒, 时常受风病来缠 年老肺虚常咳嗽, 一口一口吐粘痰,儿女们都恨咱说,我邋遢不像前,老的这样还不死,你还想活多少年… … <br> <br>… It’s hard to explain all the difficulties one can’t sleep and every night one gets up to urinate seven or eight times. I hate long nights cold breezes and I get sick from being in draughts. My lungs are weak and I cough and cough and cough up phlegm so my children dislike talking to me. They seem to think I’m unkempt and don’t look like my former self. So old and still not dead how much longer am I planning to live . No publication details. unknown
192447496Dayton OH: The Comer Manufacturing Co. 1924. Tall 8vo. 5.5 x 10.5 in. 36 pp. Numerous illustrations 4 colour plates 4 sepia-tinted plates 64 wool wool blend canvas linen leather cotton and patterned fabrics some treated w/ coating tipped-in occasional offsetting from samples either surrounding the sample or on facing leaves. Dark red printed softcovers decoration & lettering in orange & blue minor soiling some creasing still a VG- copy. First edition of this scarce salesman sample catalogue for men and women’s Jazz Age raincoats and overcoats in the mid-1920s. The company was founded before World War I by Charles E. Comer b. 1887 who quickly established the company as one of the largest manufacturers in Ohio of raincoats. The colour fashion plates are quite striking for the period and offer invaluable historical reference for the styles and weight of raincoats sold during the Flapper Era. Comer produced rubber-lined coats offered deals if you ordered two coats at once and also offered Mackinaws General Purpose coats Rubber rain slickers reversible coats and even waterproof aprons for housewives. This catalogue notes that they had just completed their new 40000 square foot and even offered waterproof luggage and garment bags. They were well known for advertising in labor magazines trade magazines and professional magazines constantly promoting their product and recruiting new salesmen. Worldcat locates only 1 copy Vol. 166. The Comer Manufacturing Co., paperback