(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 about Catalog No. 32 Second Edition. Aladdin Homes. “Built in a Day.”

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 about Crouse-Hinds Products: Proposal [wrapper title].

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 about The German Electric Belts and Appliances, Made Under Foreign Patents Granted to Prof. Conrad...

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 about The German Electric Belts and Appliances, Made Under U. S. Patent No. 357,647, Granted to...

(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 about Introductory Pamphlet. Electricity Nature’s Chief Restorer. Pulvermacher’s Electric Belts,...

[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 about Constipation: A Summary of its Causes and Treatment [wrapper title].

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 about Whitman & Burrell, Steam and Hot Water Dairy Apparatus, Cheese Vats, Iron Clad Milk Cans and...

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 about The Eagle Garbage Barrel . . . [caption title].

[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 about Film Daily Presents a Guide to Motion Picture Production. Jack Alicoate, Editor.

[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 about The Film Daily presents The Product Guide and Directors’ Annual. Jack Alicoate, Publisher.

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 about Hohner Harmonica . . . That Musical Pal of Mine.

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 about Two promotional circulars, with the original pictorial cover, "W. P. Yeoman's Improved Ear...

Lyon & Paris: Imp. B. Arnaud, [1913]. First edition thus. Oblong 8vo, original glazed pictorial boards, blue cloth spine, [32] pages. Extensively illustrated. An attractive and substantial French trade catalogue for horseshoe nails and wood screws from the Norwegian company best known for its fish hooks, published for its distributor... More about Fabrique de Clous à Cheval "Marque Couronne" & de Vis à Bois s'enfonçant au...