Boston: Oliver Ditson (copyright held by Firth, Pond & Co.), 1860. Cardboard covers. First edition. Collated and complete with all 80 pages. Illustrated card covers with cloth spine covering. Cover illustration of Buckley (not in blackface) sitting in a chair and playing his banjo. Worn spine and cracked hinges. Soiling... More about Buckley’s New Banjo Book: containing full and complete instructions for learning to play the...

Philadelphia: The Nixon & Zimmerman Enterprises, 1907. Envelope or Cover. This lot consists of three items: a booking letter on illustrated letterhead, its accompanying illustrated advertising cover, and a second, different illustrated advertising cover. In the booking letter, Nixon humorously confronts a theater manager regarding a disagreement over a booking... More about Small packet material relating to Tom Water’s piano-comedy, The Mayor of Laughland