Antique Books & Ephemera #68
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Great lots of antiquarian books, collectibles of all sorts, ephemera and some coins. Great collection of items! NO RESERVES - REASONABLE SHIPPING!
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LES CONTES DE PERRAULT (1885) Ornate Binding - Many Full Steel Engravings
LES CONTES DE PERRAULT, Preface By J.-T. de Saint-Germain Perrault; Published by Theodore Lefevre; Emile Guerin, Editeur, Paris (1885). Page Borders by G. Fraipont (illustrator). Text in French (texte en francais). Red cloth, ornate leaf & scroll decorations in gilt & black on front board & spine, & in black on rear board; Frontispiece, & many other full-page steel engravings, all tissued, plus small engravings in text. Good with foxing in the first few pages, wonderful covers. Book is over 10" tall.
The Mountain Angels: Trials of Mountaineers of the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley by Beaty (1928)
The Mountain Angels: Trials of the Mountaineers of the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah Valley by R. E. Beaty, Published by Front Royal, Virginia (1928), Hardcover. Good condition. 1st Edition. 125 pp.+ Photo Plt of Author at Frontis, Purple Hardback, Gilt title, spine sunned.
Breon's Reference to Modern Medication (1934) Pharmaceuticals
Breon's Reference to Modern Medication (1934), 350 pages filled with information on different medicines. George A. Breon Pharmaceutical Chemists.
1856 Church Psalmody & Hymns - Decorative Leatherbound Cover
Church Psalmody & Hymns - Decorative Leatherbound Cover, good condition some wear, large worn stripe on cover with engraved name "Mrs. Sarah Peters", Boston T.R. Marvin (1856), 576 pages, 6" tall.
LARGE Antique & Vintage Ephemera Lot
LARGE Antique & Vintage Ephemera Lot, JFK envelope, 1883 Youth's Companion Envelope, 1950's Rocketship Membership Kids piece, political buttons, advertising, Early Music Printing Pamphlet, small magazines, Living Age Magazine 1860, US Constitution Book, 1940's first aid book, MET LIFE insurance piece, 1950's Boston Old Boston book, old 50's football programs. old 1821 reciept, counted over 25 items - GREAT LOT!
Three Nails by H.A. Manhood (1933) Limited Edition One of 125 SIGNED - MYSTICISM - CRUCIFIXION
Three Nails by H.A. Manhood, Published by The White Owl Press, UK (1933) Hardcover. Good condition. First Edition / Limited Edition. A UK SIGNED limited edition. One of 125 copies - this being copy number 114. Strange tale of mysticism and ritual crucifixion.
The White Road to Verdun, by Kathleen Burke SIGNED WW1 French Hero
The White Road to Verdun, by Kathleen Burke SIGNED. Published by New York, George H. Doran Company (1916). The author was the chairman of the Scottish Woman's Hospital fund, and was awarded the Serbian Orders of Miserecorde and St. Sava, the French Red Cross medal and Golden Palms medal -- awarded by the French government for her services to the wounded. Good condition some wear on cover, title rubbed, inside a few inner pages are tanned including page with full signature of Kathleen Burke.
1878 NEW GYMNASTICS for MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN
NEW GYMNASTICS for MEN WOMEN AND CHILDREN, by Dio Lewis, Boston Houghton Osgood (1878), good condition illustrated. Ex-lib with decorative bookplate.
The Hunters and the Hunted by Sacheverell Sitwell (1947)
The Hunters and the Hunted by Sacheverell Sitwell, London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1947., First edition. 8vo. 16 full page illustrations. Color pictorial dust jacket designed by Irene Hawkins, Good with Good dustjacket. 314 pages. This work, written in the concluding months or years of war, has for subject the tentative returning of the arts of peace. An engaging book through which runs the theme of nature and hunting from the Byzantine Emperors to the ornithological works of Gould.
Ranald MacDonald, Adventurer by Marie Leona Nichols (1940) Pacific Northwest History
Ranald MacDonald, Adventurer by Marie Leona Nichols, Published by The Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID (1940), Ranald MacDonald, born of a mother from a northwest Indian tribe and a father directly descended from Scottish kings. He stands foremost among the significant and fascinating characters of the history of the Pacific Northwest. An interesting read. Good with fair/good tattered dustjacket. Great illustrations.
RARE Haremlik, Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women by Demetra Vaka (1909)
Haremlik, Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women by Demetra Vaka, Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA (1909), Hardcover. Good condition with little wear. Vaka was born in Constantinople and later moved to the US and became a novelist and a journalist. She returned to Turkey around 1901, at the time modernization of Turkey was leading to the discontinuation of harems.
AMAZING Arab Interlude by Kathryn Hulme (1930) - WITH COLLECTION OF HAND WRITTEN LETTERS
Arab Interlude by Kathryn Hulme, Published by Philadelphia Macrae Smith (1930). Nice travel memoir by two young American ladies in Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Illustrated by Helene Vogt with 75 handsome woodblocks. Good condition, no dustjacket. COMES WITH AUTHENTIC LTTERS BY KATHERYN HULME - Amazing reading, some from the 1920's, four long letters from Hulme, one letter "saving the money to get me again to Paris where I can fall in love with every sleep coiffed woman of chiselled visage, and with every dark eyed student touring through his inevitable bi-sexuality!", "I don't mean the poor perversion of the homosexual, I mean great roistering bi-sexuality... the sort of dangerous ominiscience that makes one fall in live with all things". This is just a paragraph. Four very LONG letters, amazing reading. The writer Kathryn Hulme made significant contributions to the humanitarian efforts in Europe after World War II as an administrator with the United Nations Relief and Refugee Agency (UNRRA); she wrote a number of books exploring life during and after the war, including The Wild Place (1953). AMAZING LOT.
Kama Sutra: The Science of Love by Vatsyayana (1936) Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine
Kama Sutra: The Science of Love by Vatsyayana (Translated By Sir Richard Burton), Published by Medical Press of New York (1936), Illustrated by Mahlon Blaine, good condition. Some minor wear, no dustjacket, good condition.
SCARCE Travel and Trout in the Antipodes, An Angler in Tasmania and New Zealand (1880)
Travel and Trout in the Antipodes, An Angler's Sketches in Tasmania and New Zealand by William Senior, Published by Published by Chatto & Windus, London (1880), One of the first books dealing with fishing in New Zealand, scarce in any condition, fair/good with some spotting, owner stamp on title page and overall wear.
Saddles & Bridles Horses by General William H. Carter (1906)
Saddles & Bridles Horses, General William H. Carter, Lord Baltimore Press, 1906. Fair/Good condition, stamp on title page, one page with scribbling on it. 405 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos and drawings. Extensive information on horses, their care and their tack, especially as related to military use.
Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies by Morton N. Cohen (1979)
Lewis Carroll, Photographer of Children: Four Nude Studies by Morton N. Cohen, Published by The Rosenbach Foundation and Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., Publishers, Philadelphia (1979), Lewis Carroll purchased his first camera in 1856, and very quickly received recognition as an accomplished amateur art photographer. First trade edition. Good with good dustjacket.
2 WWI Letters (1918) - M.J.C. Reception Park France
Two 1918 WW1 Letters - One on French Decorative Hotel Stationary. One envelope is in good condition, one has tear on back. As shown, from a G. MILAN SMITH to family in New Hampshire writing from the M.J.C. Reception Park in France. At a Reception parkVehicles were unloaded, uncrated and assembled at these parks, then assigned a registration card and markings. Detailed records were kept on each vehicle's whereabouts and conditions. Vehicles and spare parts collected in these parks awaited assignments to specific army units as requested. With the exception of the highest-ranking officers, no officer had his own personal car during the war. A large reception park was located in St. Nazaire France - this letter was written 40 miles away in Nantes France.
BOUND The Ladies' Magazine and Album 1849 with hand colored engraving
The Ladies' Magazine and Album, January 1849 to November 1849, fair/good condition, with engravings and one hand colored floral engraving. Cracked hinge, 6" tall.
RARE Fire In Boston's Cocoanut Grove, Holocaust! by Paul Benzaquin (1967) Night Club Disaster
Fire In Boston's Cocoanut Grove, Holocaust! by Paul Benzaquin, Published by Branden Press, Boston, (1967). Telling of the tragedy of November 1942. 8 pages of black and white photos. New Edition on the 25th anniversary of the deadly fire. Good with good dustjacket. The Cocoanut Grove was Boston's premier nightclub during the post-Prohibition 1930s and 1940s. On November 28, 1942, this club was the scene of the deadliest nightclub fire in history, killing 492 people and injuring hundreds more.
She Takes the Horns Steamboat Racing on the Western Waters by Federick Jr. Way (1953)
She Takes the Horns Steamboat Racing on the Western Waters by Federick Jr. Way, Published by Federick Way (1953), Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First American Edition. Hardcover shows drawing of steamboat cutting through the water. Owner's name is on second endpaper. The 144 pages are clean, tight and unmarked. The diagrams of the steamboats are in the envelope attached to the back endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Good condiiton.
Lot of WESTERN UNION Telegraphs and Other Ephemera
Lot of WESTERN UNION Telegraphs and Other Ephemera, everything shown is included in this lot, telegraphs from 1864, 1878, 1878, 1886, Insurance Payment from 1876, check from a hardware store dated 1856?,
Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède VOLTAIRE (1838) Leatherbound
Histoire de Charles XII, roi de Suède. Edition stéréotype. Voltaire, Nouv. éd., rev. et corr. / par J. et P. Mouls. 287 p. ; 16 cm. New York : W.E. Dean, [1838] At head of title: Dean's stereotype edition. Good condition, leatherbound.
Civil War Times Illustrated: Volume VI, 1967-1968 - 500 PAGES
Civil War Times Illustrated: Volume VI, 1967-1968. Published by Cowles. Large bound volume FILLED with incredible articles, good condition, approx. 500 pages.
Sing High! Sing Low! by Osbert Sitwell (1944) with dustjacket
Sing High! Sing Low! by Osbert Sitwell, Published by Macmillan. London (1944) Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell; like them he devoted his life to art and literature. Very good condition with dustjacket.
WORLD SERIES CLASSICS (1973)
WORLD SERIES CLASSICS, Random House (1973), good condition, stories on the 1951, 1955, 1957, 1967, 1969, and 1971 World Series.
