Seneca Falls, N. Y. n. p., ca. 1890? Print measures 5.5 x 7.75 inches on a slightly larger mount; place imprint to the mount border but no evidence of the photographer’s identity to the border or the blank verso of the mount. NB. On hold briefly on 5/31 pending a...... More
(Buffalo, N. Y.): Margaretdaughters, inc., 1984. Second printing, issued three months after the first. Original pictorial printed wrappers (8.5 x 5.5 inches), x, 54 pages. Strategies like check-ins, criticism/self-criticism, the rotating chair, the language of constructive criticism, open communication, etc., designed to get past patriarchal approaches to power. Though not..... More
Littleton, Colorado: Street-Smart Communications, (1990). First edition. Original printed wrappers (9 x 6 inches), 48 pages, wire stitched. Illus. A law enforcement officer’s guide to common carnival game tricks of “gaffs,” with hints on legal enforcement and including a glossary of terms heard on the carnival lot—from a belly joint..... More
[Benton Harbor, Mich. Israelite House of David, 1929]. First edition. 8vo (9.13 x 6.25 inches), original printed brown wrappers, 7 pages. An enumeration of some of the points in dispute during the split of the House of David community, this from the Dewhirst faction in the Shiloh Office; Ross and..... More
[Albany, N. Y.?], 1836. Blank book stitched into block printed wrappers over sugar paper (7.38 x 6.38 inches), 27 pages of accounts in autograph ink, [5] pages of blanks. The extensive inventory of an evident grocery or wholesale merchant, including such necessaries as casks of raisins, nutmeg, boxes of Congress..... More
Rochester, N. Y. Printed for the Author, by E. Peck & Co., 1823. First edition. 8vo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), contemporary varnished or painted calf, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 216 pages. A popular treatise on diseases of the bowels (dysentery, dyspepsia, colic, tape worm, etc.), dedicated “to the..... More
New York: Published by S. Wood and Sons, 261 Pearl Street, [ca. 1823]. A later printing of this adaptation of selections from Original Poems and Hymns for Infant Minds. 16mo (4.13 x 2.5 inches), original block printed wrappers, 28 pages. Illus. Another lovely publisher’s toy book, first published Wood in..... More
Neu-Market, Schenandoah Caunty [New Market, Virginia]: S. Henkels Druckerey, 1816. Second edition. 12mo (5.5 x 3.38 inches), original cloth spine and block printed paper boards, [vi], 166 pages. A lovely copy of the enlarged edition of the 1811 Henkel catechism, from the pioneering New Market publishing house. Arndt 2155; American..... More
Venitiis [Venice]: In Insula S. Lazari, 1837. Third edition. 12mo (6.38 x 4 inches), contemporary sprinkled boards, gilt tooling, orange leather spine label, gilt lettering, [4], 434 pages, a.e.g. Frontispiece, engraved title page. An attractive polyglot collection of prayers from the Armenian patriarch, here in boards decorated in imitation of..... More
![Item #21892 Flambard. [Wrapper title]. Type Specimens, Lettergieterij »Amsterdam.«,...](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21892.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
(Amsterdam: Lettergieterij »Amsterdam«), [1954]. Trifold brochure on heavy stock (10.75 x 8 inches), [6] pages. Illus. “Eine neue Pinselschrift mit Schlagkraft, Schwung und Elan.” An attractive display script typeface designed by Dick Dooijes (the bold version of the earlier Studio), here advertised for the German market. With sample ads. Contemporary..... More
![Item #21890 Messinglinien . . . [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, VEB Typoart Dresden](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21890.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
Dresden: VEB Typoart Dresden, [1957]. Folded brochure (9.88 x 6.88 inches), [8] pages on coated paper. Two leaves of additional border specimens laid in, “Linien-Druckmuster auf Formularpapier” and “Linien-Druckmuster auf Postpapier.”. Borders from the nationalized East German type concern. With a printer code on the rear panel suggesting a 1957..... More
![Item #21889 Garamond . . . [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, VEB Typoart Dresden](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21889.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
Dresden: VEB Typoart Dresden, [1960]. Folded brochure (9.88 x 6.88 inches), [8] pages. Vignette portrait. The version of Garamond first published in 1955 for the nationalized East German type concern, designed by Herbert Thannhaeuserm and a popular version of the typeface: “Some, of course, have criticized the straight-lined character of..... More
![Item #21888 Super Buch-Grotesk . . . [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, VEB Typoart Dresden](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
Dresden: VEB Typoart Dresden, [1955]. Nested brochure of two bifolia (9.75 x 6.88 inches), [8] pages. Illus. A pamphlet specimen for this Grotesk adaptation of Futura, adapted to Linotype by VEB Typoar. The printer code on the rear wrapper suggests the 1955 printing date. More
![Item #21884 Primus . . . [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, VEB Typoart Dresden](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21884.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
Dresden: VEB Typoart Dresden, [1959?]. Self-wrappered pamphlet (9.75 x 6.88 inches), [16] pages. A specimen for the linotype version of the nationalized East German type foundry’s “socialist clone of Excelsior” (Fonts in Use). With a 2-page spread in the rear showing Primus set with various VEB Typoart display types, including..... More
![Item #21883 Bodoni . . . [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, VEB Typoart Dresden](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21883.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1743443924)
Dresden: VEB Typoart Dresden, [1953]. White paper portfolio (10 x 7 inches) printed in black and cream, 3 specimen leaves, one folding brochure-broadsheet of sample display uses. Illus. A sampling of Bodoni-Antiqua (Halbfett and Fett) and Bodoni-Kursiv present here, these faces from the nationalized East German type foundry. With a...... More
(San Francisco: Philip Krayna Design, 1998). First edition. Oblong pamphlet (6 x 8 inches), printed green wrappers, wire stitched, [16] pages. Illus. A brief note on the pintores commeciales of Central America, with details and adaptations of a few samples of their idiosyncratic hand-painted commercial lettering and illustration for the..... More
(Indianapolis: Gordon & Wilson Photographers, 36-1/2 East Washington St.), [ca. 1869]. Original vignette portrait of Rupp (approx. 2 inches high) on a typographically elaborate CDV mount printed in red, green, and black inks. An attractive photographic-typographic Gilded Age trade card for this German-born merchant-tailor, in business in Indianapolis from 1861..... More
[Louisville]: L. Bergman, Photo, [between 1872-1878]. Original albumen portrait of Monsch (3.5 x 2.25 inches) on a CDV mount with a printed caption. An occupational-promotional photo card—Monsch sits on a beer keg in Louis Bergman’s photo studio and leans against two more stacked kegs. Trade directories have Louis Bergman setting..... More
Louisville: Contre Coup Press, 1997. First edition. Small 8vo (8.38 x 5.18 inches), original green cloth spine and paste paper boards by Carol Blinn, [38] pages. Per the colophon, one of 16 copies. A fine press collection of prose and verse on themes of schizophrenia from the New Hampshire author—perhaps..... More
New York: A. Simpson & Co., 1867. First edition. 8vo (7.38 x 5.5 inches), original terra cotta cloth, gilt lettering, [ii], [10], 213, [1] pages. 25 light sketches, a number of them semi-culinary, and including one lampoon on the recent acquisition of Sitka, Alaska; 17 of the sketches are from..... More
Carlisle [Penna.]: From the Press of A. Louden (Whitehall), 1805. First edition. 12mo (6.88 x 4.38 inches), contemporary calf, leather spine label, gilt lettering, 220 pages. “When she [Miss Oliver] was solicited to make a collection for publication, not being a ready writer herself, she dictated them to another person..... More
Middlebury [Vt.]: Printed at the Office of the Free Press, by Edward D. Barber, 1831. First edition. Pamphlet rebound into modern blue-gray cloth, 6.25 x 4.13 inches, 61, [1] pages. “As the personal injury he [Eldridge] sustained in the disastrous occurrence which is the subject of this narrative, has rendered..... More
![Item #21846 Berthold Schriften [wrapper title]. Type Specimens, Berthold](https://bibliophagist.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21846.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1745419430)
(Berlin: H. Berthold AG), [ca. 1929-1930]. Pamphlet (8.38 x 5.88 inches), original printed card stock wrappers, [16] pages. Printed in black, blue, and red ink. “Beim Eintritt durch das Tor der ‘Alten Stadt’ in die große Halle 1 finden Sie den Berthold-Stand Nr. 14 links neben dem Stand des Mosse-Verlages..... More
Harrisonburg [Va.]: Published by Davidson & Bourne, 1813. First edition. 12mo (6.13 x 4 inches), original sheep spine, brown leather spine label lettered in gilt, marbled sides, 113, [3]; 64 pages. With the separately paginated appendix. A moderately early book from the English-born radical abolitionist Presbyterian minister Bourne (1780-1845), who..... More
Harrisburg, Pa. n. p., 1840. An early (stated third) edition, but see below. 12mo (6.75 x 4.25 inches), contemporary sheep spine, marbled paper over boards, 84 pages. An early edition of Hohman’s well-known folk magic and remedy book, first published in Reading in 1820 and with scattered Pennsylvania editions following..... More
