(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. 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

Mattoon [Illinois]: T. E. Woods, [ca. 1871]. First edition. Unbound pamphlet (stitching evidently renewed), 7.63 x 5.25 inches, [8] pages. Full page woodcut of an unnamed rose variety. OCLC notes two 1871 examples of Montgomery price lists in the Gilbert Seed Catalog Collection at the National Agricultural Library but not..... More

Boston: Press of Rand, Avery, and Company, [1881]. First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers,59, [1] pages. Illus. ads. Instructions for use and numerous testimonials for this New England guano company's fine product; as one farmer declares in his letter here,"I am a Strong Friend to Guano." This copy with the..... More

Wetzlar: Ernst Leitz, (1930). First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial brown wrappers, [20] pages. Illus. A manual on how to use the Leica camera, this pamphlet from the manufacturers of the original Leica, Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar. (February 1930 date at the foot of the final page.) Pamphlet..... More

Toledo, O. Electro-Chemical Ring Co., 1909. First edition thus. 16mo, original pictorial self-wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. An attractive little quack promotional pamphlet for a ring purported to draw acid from the blood and thus to cure afflictions ranging from diabetes to cancerous tumors to rhinolith—”a stony concretion formed in..... More

Grand Prairie, Texas: Sargent-Sowell, Inc., 1959. First edition. Original pictorial wrappers, 11.25 x 8.5 inches, 120 pages, [8] page order form. Illus. Amply illustrated throughout, everything a town needs to keep traffic running, from stoplights and road signs, to self-propelled line markers and asphalt pots, to service revolvers, police uniforms..... More