![The Museum as an Educator [wrapper title and caption title]. Alabama, Herbert Smith, untington or Huntingdon.](/pictures/thumb/16484.jpg?v=1465913987)
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The Weatherford Printing Company, May, 1912. First edition. 8vo, original printed wrappers, 24, [1] pages. Seven inserted plates. "It was Dr. Baird, I believe, who said that a public museum should be 'a collection of labels with specimens to illustrate them.'" Issued as Educational Paper 1 by the... More
N-York [i.e., New York]: J. E. D. Comstock, [1847]. First edition. 8vo, contemporary half roan, marbled boards, vi, [153]-426, [2], [9]-148 pages. 12 inserted colored botanical plates, 12 steel engravings. Wood engravings in the text. A moderately intresting example of a women's religious literary periodical masquerading as a gift book... More
![Look! Look! [caption title]. Art, E. P. Williams, proprietors G. W. Duncan, Kentucky.](/pictures/thumb/18260.jpg?v=1512579399)
[N. p., but Murray, Kentucky?]: n. p., 1886. First edition. Broadside handbill, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. “The great Bible Scenery, Young America No. 2, is cmoing to Murray, and will exhibit in that city on Monday night, Aug. 23, 1886, at the Court House, and will be conducted by Rev... More
![Crouse-Hinds Products: Proposal [wrapper title]. Baseball, Crouse-Hinds Company.](/pictures/thumb/17967.jpg?v=1491419921)
Syracuse, N. Y. Crouse-Hinds, 1934. First edition. Brad-bound printed folder collecting 2 price lists and 26 technical bulletins dated 1932-1934 from the floodlight company (each generally 2-4 pages, though a 56-page Airport and Airway Lighting Equipment catalog with illustrated wrappers is bound in). Illus. Of especial interest among the sales... More
[Philadelphia: Philadelphia Game Mfg. Co., 1915]. First edition. Single leaf of letterhead with a printed mimeo letter, approx. 11 x 8.5 inches, with an approx. 7x 6 order form ("1915 Line-Ups Now Ready") and an attached leaflet printed recto and verso (with halftone illus. of the game) measuring approx. 6.25... More
[Townsend, Mass., 1913-, 1915. Original brown wrappers and brown buckram spine, lined copy book ruled to make graph paper, approx. 8.25 x 6.75 inches. 38 pages of tabulated game-by-game player statistics in pencil, three mounted carbon-copy typescripts of full-season individual and team statistics, small mounted newspaper clipping in three pieces... More
![Americanisn [sic, Americanism] in Addison [caption title]. Baseball, W. E. Barron.](/pictures/thumb/17966.jpg?v=1491419921)
[Addison or Elmira, N. Y.?]: n. p., [ca. 1906?]. First edition. Broadside, approx. 5.5 x 11 inches. “Great apprehension is felt by many of our best citizens for the future of our nation. Discordant and disintegrating elements are multiplying.” What poses this threat to the “foundation rock” of America? The..... More
(New Haven: Press of O. A. Dorman), [1890]. First edition. Unbound card stock printed in orange, blue, and black, 6.5 x 3.75 inches, [4] pages. Played in the inaugural year of the third (and best-known) iteration of the Polo Grounds—originally known as here as Brotherhood Park because it was the... More
!["Vol. UH3. The Vamp Kneepass." [In the series: The Baton Movie Book Series Created by Paul Painter and Gene Gamble] . . . [wrapper title]. Baton Twirling.](/pictures/thumb/15670.jpg?v=1465913978)
Chicago: Gamble Hinged Music Co., (1940). First edition. Oblong 16mo, original printed wrappers, approx. 3.375 x 4.25 inches. Illus. with halftones throughout. A flipbook animation demonstrating proper technique for this baton twirling trick. With a number of ads on the versos of the illustrated pages for various models of Gamble... More
[N. p. n. p., ca. 1910?]. Approx. 3.5 x 5.5 inches, postally unused, divided back, no stamp box. An evocative image of the trio atop their various cycles--a man in evening dress on a unicycle, an ingenue upon a bicycle that would do credit to any contemporary fixie-hipster, and a.... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. First edition. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth stamped in gilt, with additional contemporary lettering stamped in gilt to the upper board, “Metropolitan Hotel,” [i-ii], [7], iii-xvi, 439, 4, 16 pages. Frontis, four inserted plates, illus. An important work from the English gunsmith and inventor Greener... More
![Broadside advertisement for a concert of blind Canadian musicians, "Grand Concert, Consisting of Vocal and Instrumental Music Given by Taylor & Leedham [canceled in autograph ink to Chisholm], formerly Pupils of the Blind Insitution, at Halifax . . . Approved of by C. F. Fraser, Superintendent of Blind Institution, Halifax." Blind.](/pictures/thumb/13786.jpg?v=1465913968)
[N. p. but Halifax? n. p., ca. 1875-1885]. Broadside, approx. 13-1/2 x 5 inches. Sir Charles Frederick Fraser (1850-1925) was a Perkins Institute-trained Nova Scotia native who led the Halifax Asylum for the blind from 1873 until 1923; his institution taught among other trades musical performance. This promotional broadside slip... More
Kilmarnock: M’Kie & Drennan, Printers, [1878]. First edition. Pamphlet bound into slightly gray boards neatly hand-lettered in ink on the upper board, 16 pages. Title page vignette of the proposed monument. An extensive subscription list in response to the call that went out at the 1877 Burns Night celebration; a.... More
[N. p., ca. 1980?]. Oval color photograph, approx. 9.25 x 7.5 inches under glass in a frame of a roughly oval polished sawn section of timber. Stamped in the image with Schatzberg’s device. Who’s a good boy? The impulse toward kitsch in downstate Illinois antique shops can at times can..... More
Pasadena, Cal. Published by his Father, Rev. Charles Taylor, 1917. First edition. 8vo, original drab cloth, black lettering, 80 pages. Frontis portrait. [With:] Four promotional pictures postcards of the young Charles Forbes Taylor. [With:] A pictorial portrait ticket for a two-house lecture from Charles Forbes Taylor at Euclid Avenue Baptist... More
(Philadelphia: A. Newman, Photographer), [ca. 1873-1875]. Image approx. 3.88 x 2.25 inhes on a slightly larger mount, photographer's printed title and imprint on the verso. A fine studio image of famed performer Eli Bowen (1844-1924) with his wife Mattie and his oldest son Frank, the family looking every inch (so... More
(New York: Chas. Eisenmann), [ca. 1870?]. Albumen photograph measures approx. 3.5 x 2.25 inches, flowers highlighted by hand in pink ink, gilt border on a slightly larger mount. Eisenmann imprint in gilt on the verso. An attractive sideshow studio portrait of a popular Barnum attraction, sold under the Eisenmann name... More
(New York: Charles D. Fredericks & Co., [ca. 1860]. Image measures approx. 3.68 x 2.13 inches on a slightly larger printed mount. An attractive sideshow studio portrait from Fredericks, the popular (and somewhat flash) photo studio on Broadway. From the printed caption, “Height, 5 feet 8 inches; 7 feet around... More
![The Merrimac and Monitor Naval Battle . . . [printed ticket or press pass]. Civil War, Entertainment.](/pictures/thumb/18433.jpg?v=1522348773)
Chicago: n. p., [1888]. White card stock, printed in blue ink on the recto only, 2.5 x 4.25 inches. Completed in autograph ink. A handsome design, completed in ink as a pass for “G. W. [?] Laing and Lady, Until Dec. 31, 1888,” and signed by the show’s secretary. The... More
![The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters [caption title; wrapper title:] Intimate Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters World Famous Siamese Twins. Conjoined Twins, Daisy Hilton, Violet Hilton, Movie Tie-In.](/pictures/thumb/18587.jpg?v=1529240152)
(Hollywood: Wonder Books Co.), [ca. 1962?]. First edition? Original pictorial wrappers, 8.5 x 5.5 inches, [48] pages. Illus. A canned biography of the ex-vaudeville conjoined twins, this account itself fastened inextricably as published to a detailed novelization of the 1951 exploitation film Chained For Life—a potboiler starring the twins that... More
![Life-Story of a Converted Dancer. The — Truth about The Stage [wrapper title]. Conversion, Ethel N. Barrington, Dance Panic.](/pictures/thumb/18810.jpg?v=1545948443)
(Altoona, Pa. Mrs. Porter L. Barrington), [ca. 1930-1940]. First edition. Original printed pink wrappers, 7.25 x 5.25 inches, 48 pages. Frontis portrait. Ethel Beck Barrington (1907-1962), Altoona native and a former dancer for Shubert musicals, on the evils of the stage, backstage life, cards, etc., her conversion account here adapted... More
![Croquet: The Rules Governing the Game, as Adopted by the National American Croquet Association. October 4, 1882 [wrapper title]. Croquet, National American Croquet Association.](/pictures/thumb/18782.jpg?v=1543288905)
[N. p. National American Croquet Association, 1882]. First edition. Original printed light brown wrappers, 6 x 4 inches, 11 pages. Drazin A85a: “Apparently published by the NACA, printed anonymously. The text of this edition is confined to a brief description of the game and a code of 53 numbered rules.”... More
![The Great Walk! Over 1,200,000,000 People are Engaged in it! All Boston is Walking in Earnest . . . [caption title]. John Currie.](/pictures/thumb/14793.jpg?v=1465913974)
Boston: n. p., 1879. First edition. Single leaf, printed recto only, approx. 6.75 x 4.5 inches. An entertaining promotional circular for the popular Montreal revivalist John Currie, casting the question of Christian salvation as a competitive pedestrian event. (The "Go as you Please" men of course take the broad track... More
(Dixon [Illinois]: Telegraph Print, 1867). First edition. Unbound pamphlet, approx. 7.75 x 5 inches, [4] pages. Vignette illus. A fine attractive program with characteristic period display types for a local Illinois cornet band, with the program on the final page and the two interior pages taken up with ads for... More
![Edison’s Combination of the Electro-Galvanic Battery and Belt! . . . [caption title]. Electrical Entertainments, Travelling Agent Ashley Meekins, Belts.](/pictures/thumb/18248.jpg?v=1512579398)
[North Hatfield, Mass.? n. p., ca. 1875-1880]. First edition. Broadside, 11.25 x 7 inches, green paper stock. An attractive and ephemeral circular advertising an agency selling a combination medical belt that seems to have combined a standard Pulvermacher-type galvanic chain and an Edison battery current—though Edison almost certainly did not... More
