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Unlisted A Catalogue of Music for the Ampico . . . .
New York The Ampico Corporation 1925 Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
351 pages. B/w illustrations. Piano roll catalog for the American Piano Company (Ampico), a leading producer of high-quality player pianos. "A great number of distinguished classical and popular pianists, such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leo Ornstein, Winifred MacBride, and Marguerite Volavy, recorded for Ampico, and their rolls are a legacy of 19th and early 20th century aesthetic and musical practice." Each catalog entry includes the name of the composer, performer, catalog number, roll price, and short but comprehensive description of the performance. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; a few of the pages have pencil tick-marks next to catalog entries. Some creasing to free enpapers.. Cover has some minor wear, heaviest at spine head.
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50.00 USD
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Unlisted A.B.C. Of Ships & Boats, Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books #100
London Frederick Warne 1885 Printed Wrapper May, Walter
No publishing date but small Christmas gift inscription from 1885 on front cover. Number 100 in the Aunt Louisa London Toy Books series. Hard-to-find maritime alphabet book. Full color pictorial card cover. 12 internal pages counting inside covers. 6 full-color pages of letter and accompanying ship/boat illustrations. Great double-page color print of a fleet of British warships (similar to front cover). ome soiling and chipping. Very neatly resewn. Several pages have paper repairs, also neatly done. So . . . priced accordingly. See accompanying scanned image.
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150.00 USD
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Unlisted Alphabet in Rhyme, Third Series No. 1, Redfield's Toy Books
New York Kiggins & Kellogg 1856 Printed Wrapper Near Fine No Jacket
No publication date, but circa 1856. 16 page chapbook. Alphabet is illustrated with woodcuts of people including Henry VIII, Ben Franklin, and Zachary Taylor. Illustration identifies Taylor as General and not President, so it possible this could chapbook could have been published in the late 1840s. Clean pages, clear printing. No writing or scribbles. Light foxing. All pages present and attached to cover. Blue paper cover has some soiling, but little wear.
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100.00 USD
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Unlisted Anne Anderson's Old, Old Fairy Tales
Racine, Wisconsin Whitman 1935 Printed Wrapper Very Good No Jacket Anderson, Anne
20 pages in stiff wrapper. 9 beautiful full page color illustrations by Anderson of Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty), Beauty and the Beast, The Three Dwarfs in the Woods, The Frog Prince, Cinderella or the Glass Slipper, Rapunzel, Rumplestilzchen, Madam Holl, and Hop-o'-My-Thumb. Front/back cover illustrations of Goldilocks and Hansel & Gretel. Tight binding. Clean pages with a couple of light finger smudges. Cover has some minor soiling.
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125.00 USD
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Unlisted Betty Crocker's Picture Cook Book
Minneapolis, Minnesota General Mills 1950 First Edition, 1st Printing Hard Cover Very Good No Jacket
Hard-to-find first printing of the first edition of this classic cookbook. (Later printings of the first edition are quite common.) Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages with no stains or writing. Bright red and white cover with minor wear. Lacking the very scarce first printing dust jacket.
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50.00 USD
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Unlisted Brother Gardner and the Lime Kiln Club Trade Card
1886 Trade Card Near Fine
Tradecard for Dixon's Stove Polish features Brother Gardner giving a speech to the other members of the Lime Kiln Club. Brother Gardner and the Lime Kiln Club were created by Charles Bertrand Lewis and featured in his humorous column in the Detroit Free Press. The characters were racist stereotypes, spoke in black dialect, and caricatured the lives and pretensions of African Americans. Lewis's columns were compiled in book form and proved to be best-sellers across the country. This card shows all of the important club members and identifies them on the reverse. The reverse also contains Brother Gardners speech extoling the Dixon's Stove Polish and praising Brother Shindig for making the stove into "a shining example for de rest of mankind." Clean card with bright colors. Slight discoloration on the reverse.
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75.00 USD
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Unlisted Cavalry Tactics. In Three Parts. School of the Trooper, of the Platoon, of th Squadron, and the Evolutions of a Regiment. Part I Dismounted. Part II Mounted. Part III Evolutions of a Regiment
Washington Government Printing Office 1864 Hard Cover Good + No Jacket
Scarce. 1864 printing of the official manual of cavalry and dragoon tactics originally published in 1841. This manual belonged to Frank Michler, who was commissioned as a cavalry officer in the 5th Cavalry Regiment in 1870. Michler received brevet promotions to First Lieutenant and Captain for gallantry in action against the Apaches in Arizona. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel during the Puerto Rican campaign during the Spanish-American War and was retired from the Army in 1901 just days before his death. The manual was apparently accessioned into the War Department Library following his death. 450 pages with illustrations. 120 plates (many folding and many showing dragoons/cavalrymen using sabres and lances.) 20 pages of music for bugle calls and a quick march. Tight binding with a few old library reinforcements to hinges and between some signatures. Clean pages with owner's info on front free endpaper. Several pages have Michler's pencil highlighting. Several War Department labels, handstamps, and pocket, some with deaccession markings. Folding plates all present and in exceptionally nice condition. Wear to cover, heaviest at top of spine covering. Gilt spine title and date (Cavalry Tactics / 1841) faded but legible.
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650.00 USD
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Unlisted China Duty (Cover Title - North China Pictorial: U.S.M.C.)
Los Angeles III Amphibious Corps Special Services 1946 Soft Cover Very Good
Very nice souvenir booklet from the USMC's occupation of China. 48 pages; photos throughout. Sections include: Our Generals, Bloodless Beachhead, So This is China, Sixth Takes Over Tsingtao, Surrender at Tientsin, Tsingtao Surrender, Tientsin C.P.'s, Billets in Tientsin, In Peipin, At Peitaino, At Chinwangtao, and much more. 4 to 5 sepia photos on most pages. Tight binding. Clean pages. Light cover wear; minor wrinkling at top edge near spine. Two order blanks for additional copies from Official Photos, Co. bound in. Four-page brochure advertising official war photo sets (including atomic bomb sets) laid in.
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60.00 USD
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Unlisted Combined Shows: Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Magazine and Dailey Review, 1930
N/A 1930 Printed Wrapper Very Good No Jacket
Nice Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus program from the 1930 tour. Unpaginated, but approximately 100 pages. Loaded with full-page photos of the stars, articles and countless advertisements. Tight stapled binding. Clean pages with some minor finger smudging. Bright, colorful cover with 1" splits top and tail of spine. Very tip of upper right front cover missing.
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100.00 USD
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Unlisted Complete Set of Nine Color Plates . . . Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States of America
Unlisted 1960 Limited
"A Complete Set of Nine Color Plates Especially Prepared for Framing Reproduced in exactly 200 sets from the Very Rare 'Uniform and Dress of the Army and Navy, of the Confederate States of America (Official Regulations)' Richmond, Virginia 1861. Terrific, colorful set of uniform prints. Approximately 8.5" x 11". Prints include Staff uniforms, Infantry uniforms, Artillery uniforms, Cavalry uniforms, Chevrons, Overcoats, Badges of rank, Forage Caps (with Genral Orders No. 4, and Uniforms of the Navy. As new in original manilla envelope and blue portfolio.
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75.00 USD
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Unlisted Costumes of All Nations
London H. Grevel & Co. 1907 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket The First Munich Artists
123 colored plates containing over 1500 colored costume illustrations. English index by country and time period. "The Plates . . . were originally issued under the title of "Zur Geschichte der Kostume,' in the celebrated collection known as the 'Muchener Bilderbogen.' . . . No collection of Costume Pictures, so comprehensive and so well executed, has ever before been offered to the public . . ." Great copy of a beautiful, classic costume reference. Wonderful full page chromolithographs. Tight binding. Some toning to endpapers; very light foxing to title and index pages. Color plates clean and without toning or foxing. Light cover wear; heaviest at spine ends. Gilt lettering and decoration is in nice shape. See accompanying image.
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800.00 USD
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Unlisted Dame Crump and Her Pig
New York McLoughlin Brothers 0000 Printed Wrapper Very Good No Jacket Howard, J. H.
ca 1890. Nice classic Mcloughlin children's book about Dame Crump and her marvelous pig. 6 full-page chromolithographs including the front cover. Color pages in very nice shape. Cover has some light soiling and edgewear. Sewn binding.
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90.00 USD
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Unlisted Darwin's Grandpapa Gargling Oil Trade Card
Buffalo, New York Columbia Lithograph Co Trade Card Near Fine
Colorful "Darwin's Grandpapa" tradecard for Merchant's Gargling Oil. Shows an ape holding a bottle of the oil and saying, "If I am Darwin's Grandpapa, It follows don't you see, That what is good for man and beast, Is doubly good for me." Text in upper right offers a $1000 reward to anyone who can prove there is a better liniment for man or animal than Merchant's Gargling Oil. Light soiling, two dampstain spots on reverse.
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75.00 USD
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Unlisted Durham Tobacco Mechanical Pipe Trade Card
New York Burrow - Giles Lith Co. Trade Card Near Fine
Nice mechanical tradecard for Blackwell's Genuine Durham Tobacco. When the cap of the pipe is lifted, a man rises from the pipe's bowl along with an ad for Durham. Clean. Short horizontal crease at left margin. A small paper remnant is on the reverse.
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75.00 USD
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Unlisted Excursions in the County of Surrey: Comprising Brief Historical and Topographical Delineations; Together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and Other Interesting Objects of Curiosity.
London Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1821 Half-Leather Very Good No Jacket
Very nice early travel guide. "Forming a Complete Guide for the Traveller & Tourist. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, including a Map of the County." 214 pages, 50 engravings, 2 fold-out maps, illustrated half-title. Tight binding with sound hinges. Clean pages; some minor toning and foxing. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Large fold-out county map has 2.5" split at one fold and old paper mend on reverse. Fold-out Guildford map has 1" split at one fold. Some cover wear, mostly at edges. Sunned spine, but legible gilt title.
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400.00 USD
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Unlisted G. Whiskers: The Moody Goat [Grumpy Goat: A Tiddlywink Tale]
Kenosha, Wisconsin Samuel Lowe Company 1964 Printed Wrapper Near Fine No Jacket
Nice little story about a grumpy goat with attractive illustrations throughout. Vovelle (revolving disk) attached to front cover rotates to change goat faces showing different moods. Bright, fresh colors. Owner's bookplate inside front cover. Some light wear and soiling.
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30.00 USD
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Unlisted Home Primer
Boston Lothrop Publishing Company 1882 Pictorial Cover Good to Very Good No Jacket
Nice home primer. 48 pages of alphabets, numbers (arabic and roman), writing practice, easy reading stories, etc. Tight binding. Generally clean with some toning and finger smudges. No writing; looks like some pencil marks may have been erased on a couple of pages. Cover has some edgewear and soiling.
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50.00 USD
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