Budapest: Kaposvari Magyar Hirdeto, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. 80 pages. In Hungarian.Illustrated with more than 20 full-page b/w movie stills. Approximately 2.5" x 2". Signed by the printer, Mautner Jozsef, on the title page. Very light shelf wear. Traces Lenin's life through films made about him. More
Maryland and Pennsylvania: 1959, 1960, 1968. Spiral bound wraps. Three sketchbooks created by a budding artist who later found success as a commercial illustrator of horse races, trucks, and railroad trains. These 8" x 11" standard-size spiral notebooks contain a total of approximately 425 pages, almost all filled..... More
Marshfield, [Massachusetts]: 1789-1790. Wraps. This ciphering book is approximately 8” x 12.5”. It contains 64 pages of mathematical exercises. The front cover is present; the rear cover has perished. The pages are in nice shape and soundly bound; the cover is worn and soiled. It was written while Asa was..... More
Redwood City, California: October 15, 1940. Unbound. This typed letter, dated 17 October 1940 and signed by a prominent Issei member of California's Japanese-American community presents a 2' x 4' silk U.S. flag to an unnamed person, presumably a government official or journalist. Both are in nice shape; the display..... More
[1929]. Each of the four broadsides measures 6.25” x 9.75”. All are in nice shape. They are titled “Has Prohibition Brought Temperance?”, “Four Your Children’s Sake”, “Do You Want to Put the Criminal Out of Business? Help the Unemployed?”, and “Tax Payers! Do You Know”. Four different broadsides published by..... More
Vicksburg, Mississippi: Company K, 57th Georgia Regiment, Jun 25 [1863]. This stampless cover was mailed by Miller from Vicksburg to a friend back home in Georgia. He has annotated it along the left edge, “From A J Miller / Co. K 57th Ga Rgt”. It bears a 25mm double-circle Vicksburg..... More
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois: 1878-1879. Unbound. Three passes signed by General Officers: One pass, for July 9th, 1878, was partially printed by hectography for “Headqrs. Dept of the Missouri, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas” and signed in ink by Brevet Major General John Pope. One pass, for August..... More
Philadelphia: Lee & Walker, 1862. First Edition. Sheet Music. 6 pages including the cover. Portrait illustration of Sprague on the front cover. Once bound so slightly trimmed with a rough left edge. Light wear and soiling. Small owner's stamp in upper right corner of the cover. William Sprague was the..... More
San Francisco: Printed by Lith. H.S. Crocker, 1894. Unbound. These four admission tickets each measure approximately 4“ x 2.25“. All have red serial numbers and were good for admission for the duration of the fair, January through July 1894. Each represents a different era of California and pairs different vignettes..... More
Petersburg, Virginia to Brickland Plantation, Lunenburg County, Virginia: 1864. Envelope or Cover. This four-page folded letter measures 15½” x 10” unfolded. It is datelined “Petersburg Oct 17th 1864” and franked with a Confederate 20-cent green Washington Stamp (Scott # 13) tied to the cover by a faint red Petersburg postmark..... More
Unlisted: Michael J. Myhal, 1973. Myhal, Michael. First Edition. Soft Cover. 4to. Limited edition (#198 of 500). Unpaginated, but approximately 75 pages. B/w illustrations and photos throughout. Sound binding. Clean with some minor edgewear. Doesn't appear to have ever been read. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. "How..... More
Philadelphia: 1832. Envelope or Cover. This one-page printed circular ,dated “Philadelphia, May 30th, 1832 was folded and sent by mail to the “Hon. P. Ellis” (Senator Powhattan Ellis of Mississippi) at “Washington City, D.C.” I bears a small, circular “PHIL 6 JUN” postmark in red and a black “FREE” handstamp..... More
New York: Badeau Lockwood & Company, 1865. Document. Folio. One page, partially-printed invoice for a large assortment of fireworks sold on 7 June 1865, less than one week after General Kirby Smith surrendered the last significant Confederate force.The invoice is in nice shape with legible handwriting. The invoice is from..... More
M.C.A.S. Goleta California to Armed Guard School, Gulfport, Mississippi: 1944. Unbound. This two page letter is written on U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara stationery is dated “Jan. 25 – 44.” It is enclosed in a free-franked, Marine Corps envelope and postmarked at Goleta, California on January 26, 1944..... More
United States, Italy, Korea, Vietnam: 1942-1973. Archive. Includes an early 1963-1964 Vietnam photograph album during the period President Kennedy began to increase in-country U.S. military presence. This archive consists of official paperwork, certificates, letters, and a photograph album that belonged to Lieutenant Colonel Carl L. Palmer. The photograph album..... More
Vicinity of Ilion, New York: circa 1910. Album. Photograph album documenting improvement projects along the Erie Canal during the construction of the New York State Barge Canal system This album measures approximately 7½ “ x 10 ½“ and contains over 65 photographs ranging in size from 3½“ x 2½”..... More
Unidentified printer, 1832. Unbound. This broadsheet measures approximately 11" x 17.25. Printed on both sides. Light foxing and stains. Edges worn. Chip at lower right corner does not affect any text. One small thin (half the size of a dime) that affects three or four words of the text. Docketing..... More
Stalag IIB (Hammerstein, Germany): 17 June 1944. Unbound. This German Kriegsfangenenpost Postkarte (prisoner of war mail postcard) is addressed to Jodice’s girlfriend in Watertown, Massachusetts. It bears an indistinct German town postmark and purple handstamp from Stalag IIB. A U.S. censor’s handstamp that was applied before delivery is in the..... More
U.S. Army Rhodes General Convalescent Hospital at Utica, New York: 1945. This large 12" x 14" album contains 38 pages filled with text and photographs. Ten pages contain Bourgeois's densely filled, pencil-written memoir-journal describing in detail his combat and prisoner experience Europe during World War Two. Three pages contain military-related..... More
Alexandria, Virginia: 1862. Unbound. This two-page letter is datelined “Near Alexander va Nov 13th 1862.” It is complete with an inch of toning along the top edge. Short .5” splits starting at the ends of one mailing fold. A transcript will be included. Aldrich was a member of the..... More
Sierra Leone, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois: 1888-1897. Album. This album measures 11½" x 9" with 36 pages containing 66 cabinet photographs in page-inserts. Most of the photographs have ink captions on either the front or back. The album is padded in red velvet and has a decorative metal clasp. Everything..... More
Providence, Rhode Island: Providence Tool Company Armory, 1860-1863. Unbound. This archive contains over 300 records documenting business conducted by the Providence Tool Company Armory between the years 1860-1863 including both manuscript (the majority) and partially-printed purchase orders, bills, letters inventory lists, sales records, and other documents. The documents are sorted..... More
. Stafford, Virginia to Buck Hall (Buckhall), Prince William County, Virginia: 1840. Envelope or Cover. This one-page, stampless folded letter measures approximately 13” x 8” unfolded. It is datelined, “Stafford Sept. 4 : 1840” and addressed to “Mrs. Mary A. Hoole / Buck Hall / Prince William / V.” It..... More
San Francisco, California to Liverpool, England: April 23, 1869. Envelope or Cover. This one-page folded letter is franked with a 12-cent black Washington stamp embossed with an E-grill for postal security (Scott # 90). The stamp is canceled by a fancy radial cork handstamp. It bears a magenta San Francisco..... More
Mostly Utah, Wyoming, and Montana: 1869 – 1920s. Various. The two highlights of this amazing lot are: Moore’s file copy of a single-spaced, five-page 1927 typed letter to the Commander of the National Indian War Veterans vividly detailing his combat experiences between 1869-1873 during the Indian Wars in Utah and..... More
