Trade Catalogue of Rentable Dress Costumes
Original photograph album of a variety of costumes and accessories able to be rented from a photography studio in Derby, England, including outfits emblematic of the Imperial mindset of the 1920s.
Original photograph album of a variety of costumes and accessories able to be rented from a photography studio in Derby, England, including outfits emblematic of the Imperial mindset of the 1920s.
Second American edition of the popular English nursery rhyme about bird-based crime and justice.
Fascinating salesman's catalogue produced by British Ford, marketing their cars to American dealerships.
Delightful early 20th-century German shape book following a little artist with a pet crow.
Original annotated photograph album of the Buchenwald concentration camp compiled by an anonymous American G.I. soon after liberation.
First edition of this moralistic chapbook, in eye-catching speckled gilt boards.
Original vinyl record of radio spot advertisements for CHAMBER OF HORRORS, a TV movie that was spiced up for the big screen with additional gore and violence and a marketing campaign focusing on two technical "innovations" — the "Fear Flasher" and the "Horror Horn," both designed to warn the audience of impending violence.
First edition of this miniature gift book of Prussian and Russian royalty, published during a push for unification.
Illustrated product catalog from the Advance Watch and Jewelry Supply Company, wholesale suppliers of men's and women's jewelry and watches.
First edition of this colorful book of animals, with descriptions by "Uncle Ted."
An uncommon movable sand card showing Santa filling a glass with rye whiskey to recto and captioned: "XMAS CHEER FOR SANTA."
Two pieces of ephemera from the Y New Music Festival presented in Washington D.C. by the Washington Performing Arts Society and District Curators, Inc. as "a tribute by Washington musicians to the upcoming Fifth Annual New Music America Festival."
Great ABC book, with a charming rhyme for each of the colorful letters of the alphabet with accompanying depiction.
From a limited edition of 785, this being no.
Scarce trade catalogue for children's books, toys, games, and educational novelties meant for the Christmas market.
First printing of this adaptation of an Swahili folktale about animal escapades in pursuit of honey, with lush illustrations by award-winning artist Jerry Pinkney
Early edition of the book that made the Rollo series big, intended to instruct the novice American reader by combining a mature vocabulary with a lively series of animal metamorphoses and moral lessons.
First printing of this short verse accompanied by photographs of a car.
Scarce second edition.
Scarce first edition of Achebe's second novel, set in contemporary Nigeria and following the grandson of Okonkwo, hero of THINGS FALL APART.
First edition of Acker's rewriting and reinterpretation of Charles Dickens's famed coming-of-age novel.
Uncommon collection of minimalist single-line poems, with contributions from Bill Zavatsky, Charles Simic, William Stafford, Robert Bly, and others.
Children's activity book with instructions on making marionettes, including pattern sheets for faces and costumes.
First edition of the charming story of Kewpie-esque Pohutukawa flower fairies HUTU AND KAWA as they cheer up a lonely reptile.
First collected edition, featuring Adam of Bremen's chronicle of peoples from the Old North and the earliest known mention of the Vikings' discovery of North America, one of three key works in the history of Hamburg within a larger sammelband of six works total.