Photo Album of Train Engines
Original photograph album composed with great care, containing forty photos of British train engines mounted one to a page and captioned in a neat hand.
Original photograph album composed with great care, containing forty photos of British train engines mounted one to a page and captioned in a neat hand.
A handsome and rather lavish production by an unknown (but likely professional) photographer, possibly as presentation for special occasion or visit from foreign dignitary/delegation.
First edition of a beautiful and bright unused 19th-century coloring book.
Probable first edition of this miniature alphabet chapbook with moral undertones and delightful woodcuts.
Little book of pig mischief, apparently an advertising giveaway for Jelloids, with maze at rear.
Exceptional ABC using names to teach letters, with large print and colorful images.
First edition thus of this scarce chapbook in two parts, containing the giant-slaying exploits of a farmer's son in Arthurian England.
First edition of this little moral tale of the theft of a melon and the resulting punishment for the thief, published by active abolitionist Charles Whipple.
Collection of assassination research documents, preliminary plot and character notes, and draft material by an unidentified novelist researching methods and procedures for a thriller based in part on the Mossad assassination of Ali Hassan Salameh, chief of operations for Black September and one of those responsible for the 1972 Munich Massacre.
First edition thus of a McLoughlin collection of classic ROBIN HOOD stories, in a die-cut book in the shape of the man himself.
Satirical novelty pamphlet marking the Russian diplomatic visit to Toulon, France during the formation of the Franco-Russian Alliance, a key development in the lead up to World War I.
First edition of this fascinating piece of World War I ephemera, celebrating the downing of four zeppelins in a parody of the "Ten Little" rhyme.
Elaborate sales sample book containing over 700 watch faces representing a wide variety of styles and sizes from Besançon, France, a world center for watch production. One of the most striking sales catalogues we've encountered.
Christmas-themed ABC books, in which most lettered are represented by toys a child might want for Christmas, with text in rhyme
Unused 3-panel Christmas themed novelty book, illustrated in an exuberant early 1960s style.
First edition of this collection of everyday scenes in rural Victorian England, including a vignette about a disabled veteran.
First edition of this little book of facts about flowers, with charming vernacular repair.
Magazine published by the UK organization Shelter, an advocacy organization for the Homeless.
Before Zillow, Trulia, and Redfin: a swank archive of images from the Sessions Realty firm of La Mesa, California in the early 1970s.
A glorious assembly of snapshots capturing the grand opening of a McDonalds' franchise location in the 2300 block of S. Main St. in Lebanon, Oregon, a small city approximately 80 miles south of Portland.
The first annual report of the first permanent collection of modern art in the U.S.
Striking collection of photographs showing many carefree, recreational moments of wartime: soldiers sitting around at the barracks, reading and smoking; and many photos of Vietnamese acquaintances across the album, such as women lounging at the base library.
First edition of this philatelic activity book that encourages children to match pictorial stamps to fairy tales — a stunning unused copy, complete with the stamped in the unopened glassine envelope.
Stunning Gilded Age ABC book with each letter illustrated in a stars-and-stripes motif, and including a Fourth of July story.
Very scarce antebellum US chapbook of the classic tale, with charming wood engravings.