(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

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. 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. 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

(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

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

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

[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, 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

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

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