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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

(n. p. n. p., 1940). First edition. Unbound pamphlet, 11 x 8.5 inches, [8] pages. Illus. A handsome pitch book or souvenir booklet for one of the great Ringing Brothers exhibitions, no doubt published for sale at the circus, the lfe and personality of a captive lowland gorilla with a...... 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

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

(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

[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

New-York: Published by Lane & Scott, 1852. Later printing; the first appeared in 1849. 12mo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 132 pages. “No man of sense would frequent a ballroom to select a wife, sooner than he would sail up the Delaware on a whaling expedition. If he looks..... More