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[Collection of Seventeen In-Store Signs from a Furrier]
np: nd [ca. 1940]. Printed card-stock broadside advertising. All approx. 16" x 11". Generally very good. Some soil, edge-wear. Small tear here and there. An unusually comprehensive collection of 17 matched in-store signage for a furrier (or possibly department store fur section), all printed text in multiple colors on a......
[Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs]
(Alaska, various): np, nd [ca. 1947]. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company, Detroit, model X 89500, 13.5” x 10.75” x 2.5”. Screw binding, 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each, most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9”.....
[Photo Album Documenting Construction of Plaza Movie Theater]
Jacksonville, FL: Munn Photography, [ca. 1966-1967]. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 15.5" x 12". Burlap covered boards with matted color photograph mounted to front. 22-ring clasp metal binding. 27 yellow construction paper pages containing 53 approximately 8" x 10" photographs (47 black and white, 6 color) mounted both.....
[U.S. Sales and Marketing book for English Ford]
np: [ca. 1957-1958]. Hardcover. 4to. Black three-ring binder with illustrated title label to front, containing 17 loosely plastic covered paper leaves, profusely filled both recto and verso with black and white photographs and materials on the English Ford line of automobiles. More than 35 various scrap and ephemera elements in.....
[Photo Album Scrapbook of The Continental Dance Club]
(San Diego, CA): The Continental Dance Club, [ca. 1958]. Wraps. 4to. Faux-leather covered plastic spiral bound album measuring approximately 10.5” x 8.75”. 7 plastic covered paper leaves with 9 black and white photographs, plus various clippings, business documents and scrap material loosely mounted and laid in. Covers torn at upper.....
[Personal Photo Albums of a Civilian Conservation Corps Member, ca. 1937-1939]
South Lee, MA: (1937-1939). Two matching green oblong 4to. string-tied commercial photo albums, each measuring 10.25" x 7" approx. Comprising 145 snapshot photographs, mounted almost entirely recto only, both tape and corner, to 22 and 32 leaves respectively, with remainder of both albums blank. Standard black album pages with each.....
[Original Scrapbook and Photograph Album an Army Air Corp Pilot]
np [various]: [ca. 1917-1935]. Oblong folio album. String-bound alligator pattern embossed leather covers. 42 leaves with 119 black and white photographs and dozens of documents and other scrap elements mounted both recto and verso. Additional supporting materials laid-in. Leather rubbed with some minor starting at hinges. Contents well preserved. Generally.....
ROK NAVY [Interior Title, Original Photograph Album]
np: [ca. 1960-1961]. Hardcover. Oblong folio commercial album measuring approximately 10.5" x 14.5". Green faux-leather covered boards, string bound. 24 card leaves, 21 with 77 black and white snapshot photographs, each measuring approximately 5" x 3.5", recto mounted loosely in corners. Final 3 leaves blank, an additional 3 photographs laid-in;.....
[Archive of Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels of Women's Fashion]
np [New York?]: [ca. 1955]. 18 large completed (plus 6 smaller) loose portraits executed in pen & ink with watercolor or guache on paper. Large works all approx. 19" x 12"; smaller 12.5" x 9". With a large 17" x 12" spiral-bound artist's notebook containing eight additional color studies, plus.....
[Album of Tom McDonough, Hollywood Actor and Stunt Man]
np [Hollywood]: [ca. 1939-1974]. Folio, embossed faux-leather hardcover, three-ring commercial album; Thompson Products Magnetic Photo Album, model R93908. 33 stiff-card, adhesive-backed, plastic-covered leaves with 94 photographs, mounted both recto and verso. 40 additional photographs loosely laid in along with several clippings and scrap materials. 37 black and white 8” x......
[Album of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service Insect Research Program]
np: [ca. 1953-1955]. Wraps. 4to. Ful-Vu brand commercial album, model 11-8 10. Full leather wraps, metal spiral bound. 21 leaves with 36 color and black and white photographs plus 20 typed descriptive sheets mounted both recto and verso. 13 color photographs and one black and white additionally loosely laid in.....
[Three TLS / Typed Letters Signed]
1976-1979. Three letters typed on Fuller's proprietary letterhead. Second letter 3pp; first and third both 1p. Envelopes show a bit of dampstaining, but letters all near fine, with old folds and trivial hints of soil. Three letters written by the interdisciplinary design theorist R. Buckminster Fuller near the end of.....
[Archive of Correspondence Between Morris and Dorothy Glazer]
Washington DC; Philadelphia, PA; Kansas City, MO: [ca. 1920-1931]. 406 hand written letters between Morris Glazer and Dorothy (Cramer) Glazer. Nearly all in original mailing envelopes. 2 8vo. illustrated booklets: WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE REVUE OF 1922; 27pp. String bound at left margin, illustrated card wraps, vignette illustrations and printed music.....
[Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Memorial Book for Dr. R. Allison Miller].
[Philadelphia]: [Penn Mutual Insurance Company], (1905). Hardcover. 4to. Full gilt leather with five raised bands. Silk moire endpapers, with elaborately gilt leather overlap to paste-downs. In original matching slipcase. Five full-color, expertly engrossed pages with blanks surrounding, plus half-title and several blank prelims. Generally near fine with touches of rubbing.....
[Photograph Album of Japanese Domestic and Cultural Life]
np [Japan?]: nd [ca. 1935]. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. double string-tied commercial album, silk brocade bound, 9" x 12". Containing 60 4.5" x 6" silver gelatin prints mounted to heavy gilt-edges card-stock, one to a page both recto and verso. Printed captions in English additionally mounted below each photo. Near fine.....
[Collection of 12 Original Books Utilized by R.B. Kitaj for His Series IN OUR TIME: COVERS FOR A SMALL LIBRARY AFTER THE LIFE FOR THE MOST PART]
Various [see below]: Various [see below], [1969]. 12 books, various sizes. Generally very good condition overall. Included are: 1) Bangs (John Kendrick). THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT. London & New York: Harper and Brothers, 1913. First English edition, thirteenth impression. 2) Lindsay (Vachel). THE CONGO AND OTHER POEMS. Introduction by.....
[Collection of Aerial Photographs Taken With an Early Leica Camera]
Seattle and Chicago: [ca. 1930's]. 34 black and white photographs of various sizes, measuring from approximately 9 3/4" x 6 1/2" to 7.0" x 5.0", adhesive mounted recto only to 31 loose, stiff card pages. Additional page lacking photos, but with a detailed, autograph description by the photographer: "Set of.....
[Scrapbook of Mounted Postmarks ca. 1866 Through the 1890s]
np: nd. Hardcover. 8vo. Blank notebook. Red quarter sheep over marbled boards. 8.5" x 7". 38 leaves, with postmarks pasted to most rectos and many versos. Covers rubbed. Front hinge cracked. FFEP loose. Starting throughout. Good. Visually fascinating collection of several hundred 19th century postmarks arranged by state and assembled.....
[Fashion Salesperson's Ephemera from the The Melville Company]
Cincinnati, OH: The Melville Co., [ca. 1944]. Folio card folder. Containing more than a dozen pieces of sales and business forms, as well as 50 different paper advertisement sheets, each measuring approximately 11 1/2" x 8 1/2". All full-color with lithographed illustrations and mounted fabric samples of apparel from the.....
[Silent Movie Theatre Lantern Slides]
New York: Standard Slide Corp. [ca. 1920]. Collection of seven (7) lantern slides hand-colored in transparent dyes on glass. In original tape casings. Well preserved, each about near fine. An uncommonly well-preserved and beautiful collection of silent-era movie-house marketing slides, ca. 1920. Intended for projection as movie-goers made their way.....
CAUGHT ON THE FLY: Pilgrimage of Racine Commandery No. 7, K.T. to The 30th Triennial Conclave at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. [etc...] [Cover Title; Original Photograph Album]
(Various): [ca. 1907]. Hardcover. Small oblong 8vo. album with leather covered boards. 25 black paper leaves, hand-lettered title page, 37 black and white photographs gluemounted recto and verso, and 5 final leaves blank. Generally near fine. Continuation of title page: "In Raymond's Hotel Car 'Strattonville' July 3-14-07. Via Ft. Wayne.....
[Two Country Music Photograph Albums]
Poughkeepsie, NY: [ca. 1970]. Two albums, each oblong 4to. Measuring approximately 10.25” x 7” with 155 color photographs, loosely mounted rectos only in corners. Album 1: Green faux-leather covers, gilt title decoration to front, sting bound, 59 black paper leaves, each with two photographs recto mounted, 118 prints total; well.....
FAIRCHILDS-EVANSVILLE-E. KY. 1938-1941 [Cover Title] [Original Photo Album]
Fairchilds, KY and Evansville, [IN]: [ca. 1938-1941]. Hardcover. Oblong folio album. Original (likely homemade) wooden covers with screw binding and brass hinges - measuring approximately 15.25" x 12". Containing 29 black paper leaves with 252 black and white, primarily snapshot photographs glue-mounted both recto and verso. Small title photograph to.....
1973 PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION [Cover Title]
[Washington DC]: [ca. 1973]. Oblong square 4to. Hinged plush leather Family-Vue Photocurio brand commercial album. 8.5” x 9.25” approx. 6 stiff plastic covered leaves with gold metal accents at corners containing twelve 5"x 7" color photographs mounted both recto and verso, eleven with typed caption sheets mounted below. Photomechanically reproduced.....
[Small Collection of Correspondence between Dick Higgins and Arthur & Glee Knight, 1973-1976]
(1973-1976). Nine TLS on various stationary (including one on Something Else Press letterhead, one with Higgins’ business card attached, and a postcard. All materials fine, with the exception of a small tear in the center of a single letter. An occasionally acrimonious group of correspondence between writer, artist, and Something.....