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. 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

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

(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

[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

[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

[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

(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

[N. p. n. p., ca. 1879]. Handbill broadside, 10 x 4.5 inches. A handbill promoting one of Leon Washburn’s many traveling troupes, this with Washburn himself performing his “Spade and Ladder Dance,” as well as vocal performances, clog dancing by the Daly Brothers, whistler A. S. B. Lathrop (“This act..... 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

New York: A. E. Chasmar & Co., Printers, 1894. First edition. Original printed blue-green wrappers, 5.5 x 4 inches, 34, [2] pages. An early example of governance of college athletics, from the oldest governing body of college track and field in America, established in 1876, the 1894 amended version of... More

(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