New York: W. B. Taylor, Printer, 16 Spruce-st. [ca. 1850-1851]. First edition. Broadside, scant 16.25 x 11.75 inches. List of muscial publications in four columns. Decorative border. With an advertisement at the foot of the broadsheet for The Message Bird: A National Journal of Music and Literature, published by M...... 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

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

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

[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

(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, 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

[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

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

Wetzlar: Ernst Leitz. 1929. First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. On enlarging equipment, reproduction tools, and lenses for Leicas. More

Toledo, O. Electro-Chemical Ring Co., [1911]. First edition thus. Unbound brochure, 6 x 3.5 inches, [4] pages. Illus. An attractive little quack promotional pamphlet for a ring purported to draw acid from the blood, here made up entirely of testimonial letters dated 1911 attesting to the efficacy of the ring..... More

[Port Clinton, Ohio? n. p., ca. 1911-1915?]. First edition. Slim small 8vo, self wrappers, 8 pages. Halftone portrait of Rockwell. A curious promotional pamphlet for an Ohio piano tuner, with recommendations and educational bona fides, but also with a brief history of the Rockwell family and the lyrics to a...... More

Philadelphia: Published by Heller & Brightly, 1878. First edition. 8vo, original printed orange wrappers, [1-2], [1]-16, [1-2], 2-8, [1], [3]-10, 13, [14-16] pages, plus 6 inserted leaves and one inserted folding map. Illustrated technical trade catalog for this Philadelphia manufacturer of surveying equipment and transit telescopes, of eccentric pagination but..... More