(Bay City, Michigan: The Aladdin Company, 1920). Stated second edition. 8vo, original decorated red leatherette over flexible boards, 160 pages (including fold-out double page illustrations) plus inserted order leaf. Illus. An early catalog (the first was 1908) from this pioneer in pre-fabricated kit homes. Includes floorplans of the different styles... More
![Baco Batik Dyes . . . Sample Card No. 65 [cover title]. Bachmeier, Inc Co.](/pictures/thumb/14570.jpg?v=1465913973)
New York: Bachmeier & Co., [ca. 1920-1930?]. Original red cloth portfolio, approx. 8-3/4 x 6 inches, gilt lettering, 3 pages text. 151 dyed thread samples enclosed in 5 mounted portfolio of cards that unfold to an approx. 24-inch leaf, with text. An attractive portfolio, with bright samples of direct dyes... 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
[New York: P. G. Williams, 1902]. First edition. 8vo, original printed green wrappers, 40 pages. Extensively illustrated. Medical dry cell batteries, electrodes, accessories, Rhumkorff Induction Coils for office X-ray work, the Williams X-ray outfit, etc. (The Williams concern boasts in part of the quality of cabinet makers employed for constructing... More
New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1891]. A moderately early version of this promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in green (with the wrapper title, “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. “Although Electricity, properly applied, is a wonderful remedy of nearly all classes of ailments... More
New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1898]. Likely a later version of this quack device promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in red, white and blue (with the wrapper title “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. “Although Electricity, properly applied, is a wonderful remedy of... More
New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1893]. Likely a later version of this quack device promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in red and black (with the wrapper title “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. “Although Electricity, properly applied, is a wonderful remedy of nearly... More
New York: German Electric Agency, [ca. 1893]. Likely a later version of this quack device promotional catalog. Small 8vo, wire stitched into original color lithograph wrappers in red and blue (with the wrapper title “The Electric Era”), 24 pages. Illus. With a fine view on the rear wrapper of the... More
![Introductory Pamphlet. Electricity Nature’s Chief Restorer. Pulvermacher’s Electric Belts, &c. [wrapper title; caption title:] The Best Known Curative Agent: Pulvermacher’s Electric Belts and Bands for Self-Application. Belts, Pulvermacher Galvanic Co.](/pictures/thumb/18254.jpg?v=1516115263)
(Cincinnati: Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., 1879). [but ca. 1891]. A later version of this promotional pamphlet. 8vo, original blue printed wrappers, 30, [8] pages. Illus. On the myriad benefits of this galvanic belt, aimed in large part at male sexual debility and impotence; Pulvermacher was one of the pioneers in this... More
![Brooks' Rupture Appliance: Greatest Discovery & Invention of the Twentieth Century . . . [wrapper title]. Brooks Rupture Appliance Co.](/pictures/thumb/14832.jpg?v=1465913974)
Marshall, Michigan: Brooks Rupture Appliance Co., (1912). First edition. 24mo, original printed wrappers, wire stitched, 24 pages. Illus. C. E. Brooks has no truck with lymphols and topicals; his marvel of the 20th century (then but some twelve years old) promises a cure to ruptures and support for the corpulent... More
[New York? n. p., ca. 1925-1935?]. First American edition? 12mo, original printed wrappers, 24 pages. Illus. A handy reference and promotional pamphlet for Burroughs Wellcome products (laxatives, purgatives, etc.) for the U.S. market. Early signature on the front wrapper, underlining in the text to the first page. More
![Academy of the Christian Brothers, St. Louis, Mo. . . . Prospectus . . . [caption title]. Catholic Education, Christian Brothers.](/pictures/thumb/16845.jpg?v=1449504006)
St. Louis: VanderHaeghen Lith. [ca. 1855-1859]. First edition. Lithographed broadside, approx. 10.5 x 8 inches, with a variety of accomplished display typefaces. With an approx. 3.38 x 5.75 inch view of the academy at the head of the sheet. An attractice prospectus advertising for students at this Christian Brothers school... More
![Whitman & Burrell, Steam and Hot Water Dairy Apparatus, Cheese Vats, Iron Clad Milk Cans and Pails, Press Screws, Wood & Metalic [sic] Cheese Hoops, Union, Blanchard & Dash Churns, Dealers in Every Description of Dairy Furnishing Goods . . . [With the inside wrapper series title: Whitman & Burrell's Annual Circular & Price List. Little Falls, N. Y., January, 1873]. Cheese, Whitman, Burrell.](/pictures/thumb/16299.jpg?v=1465913983)
Little Falls, N. Y. Journal & Courier Steam Book and Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 32 pages. Illus. A fine, comprehensive trade catalog, with everything a dairy or cheese operation needs to operate--from steam boilers or tubular dairy heaters (includes a discharge curd gate), to... More
![The Canary and How to Take Care of It. Compliments of M. S. Smith & Co., Jewelers, Detroit [wrapper title]. Detroit.](/pictures/thumb/16283.jpg?v=1465913983)
[Detroit? n. p., ca. 1876-1880]. First edition. 16mo, original printed pictorial yellow wrappers, [8], 16, [6] pages. A fine, attractive little promotional booklet for Detroit businesses, with instructions for the care of the canary bird. The first four leaves and final three leaves all have typographically attractice ads for such... More
![The Eagle Garbage Barrel . . . [caption title]. Eagle Odorless Apparatus Company.](/pictures/thumb/15411.jpg?v=1465913976)
Boston: Eagle Odorless Apparatus Co., [ca. 1881-1883]. First edition. 8vo, unbound brochure, approx. 8.25 x 5.25 inches, [4] pages. Two large woodcut Eagle Garbage Barrels. Promotional material for this Boston company's "new air-tight garbage barrel for the convenient and inoffensive care and removal of swill or garbage, melting and rendering... More
![Theory, Description, and Directions for Setting Up Benjamin’s Improved Voss-Holtz Electrical Machine [wrapper title]. Electricity, E. B. Benjamin.](/pictures/thumb/18201.jpg?v=1508865434)
(New York: W. N. Oliver & Co., Printers, 12 Vesey St. 1885). First edition. 12mo, original light brown wrappers, 11, [1] pages. Illus. With an ad on the rear wrapper, “E. B. Benjamin, Importer and Manufacturer of Chemical and Physical Apparatus, Rare Chemicals and Laboratory Supplies of Every Description. 6... More
[Los Angeles and New York?]: The Film Daily, 1934. First edition of this annual publication. 8vo, original gilt cloth spine, coated paper pictorial boards, 368 pages on coated paper. Extensively illustrated. The annual trade guide to motion picture professionals, with numerous ads and directories for production and talent, all done... More
[Los Angeles and New York?]: The Film Daily, 1935. First edition of this annual publication. 8vo, original silver foil cloth spine, coated paper pictorial boards, 400 pages on coated paper. Extensively illustrated. The annual trade guide to motion picture professionals, with numerous ads and directories for production and talent, all... More
[Los Angeles and New York?]: The Film Daily, 1937. First edition of this annual publication. 8vo, original embossed cloth, 496 pages on coated paper. Extensively illustrated. The annual trade guide to motion picture professionals, with ads and guides ranging from a telephone directory of “Important Motion Picture Telephone Numbers in... More
[Buffalo, N. Y. n. p., ca. 1900-1910?]. Single leaf, approx. 8.5 x 5.25 inches, printed recto and verso. Red ribbon, approx. 4 x 2 inches, imprinted in gilt with Wulff's name, address, logo and promotional motto. "I use a new process in stamping, by which I can make the Leaf... More
N. p. M. Hohner, 1923. First edition? 16mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, [16] pages. Illus. A catalogue and training manual for Hohner harmonica's, with a portrait and endorsement from child film star Wesley Barry (in what appears to be his costume from Huckleberry Finn) on the front wapper, and a view... More
Pittsburgh: Press of J. H. Barrows & Co., 1884. First edition. 24mo, original printed red wrappers, 30 pages. Illus. From this "practical Saw-maker, with not less than twenty-two years experience in making and running Saws," comes this attractive little trade catalogue of offerings. This firm not located in Romaine; OCLC... More
![List of Doses of Tilden & Co’s. Solid & Fluid Medicinal Extracts Alkaloids & Resinoids, Pharmaceutic Sugar Coated Pills and Granules. For the Convenience of Physicians [wrapper title; caption title:] List of Preparations . . Medical Marijuana, Tilden, Co.](/pictures/thumb/18545.jpg?v=1527108334)
(New Lebanon, N. Y. Tilden & Co.), [ca. 1858-1860]. First edition. 16mo, original lithographic pictorial wrappers, 3.38 x 2.31 inches, [24] pages. “We issue this list to answer the many inquiries concerning the doses of our preparations. The directions of the U. S. Dispensatory edition, 1858, for the administration of... More
Waukegan, Ill. n. p., [1879]. First edition. 2 handbills, 8.5 x 5.5 inches and 6.75 x 5.25 inches. Pictorial cover addressed in autograph ink "Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pa.," with cancel dated '79. "Don't Pierce Your Ears! But ask Your Jeweler for a Pair of Yeoman's Improved Ear Rings, Which can... More
Central Falls, R. I. E. L. Freeman & Co., Printers, [1881]. First edition. Small 8vo, original gilt-printed glazed navy blue wrappers, 44 pages. Illus. Printed slip tipped to the front wrapper, reading in part, "Prices Subject to Change Without Notice . . ." An interesting illustrated trade catalogue, with cuts... More
