The Physical Basis of Life por Wilson, E.B - 1923

Paris: H. Camus, 1870. Overall condition is good. This six piece wooden puzzle with applied depicts a critical scene in the life of little Tom Thumb. The color lithograph is done by H. Jannin depicts the two parents at a table by a fire with sad expressions, as the caption reveals that the mother and father have decided to "loose" Tom in the forest. The mother has her hands clasped beneath her chin and the father with a hand over his heart to convey the difficult decision they made. All the while, Little Tom is eavesdropping right behind them. The puzzle is simple and is doable for a small child. Measures 6 3/4" x 5

Baltimore, Maryland: Bolgiano Water Motor Co, 1894. Fine. Some rust to grommet.. Printed receipt (5.5" by 8.5") acknowledging the sale of a gas iron from the Bolgiano Water Motor Company of Baltimore, Maryland, to the Hendrick Manufacturing Company of Carbondale, Pennsylvania. Depicts a clever water-powered sewing machine in upper left-hand corner of the receipt, powered by the company's proprietary water motor that "will run Sewing Machines, Fans, Scroll Saws, Coffee Mills, Lathes, Printing Presses, Grindstones, Ice Cream Freezers, Washing Machines, etc." (recto). Attached with small grommet to receipt acknowledging the same transaction on Hendrick letterhead, measuring 7" by 8.5

Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Good to very good. Some minor dust soiling, wear.. Salesman's sample book of nineteen (19) different leathers, most of which appear to be calf, embossed to appear more exotic (e.g. crocodile, snake, lizard, etc.). Each sample measures approx. 3.5" by 1.5". Sample book measures 3.5" by 1.5" by 0.75", and features a printed title card with title and address.

Springfield, Massachusetts: G. and C. Merriam, 1832. Good to very good. Spotting, minor dust soiling to binding with extremities worn, spine chipped.. Published by G. and C. Merriam (i.e. George and Charles Merriam, publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary), with Merriam provenance via. H.C. Rowley. "How to Do Good" is a printed pocket-sized booklet on how to conduct oneself well, written in lighthearted and plain language. Instructs reader how to "do good" in family, society, among friends, schools, in politics, church, etc. Chapter Ten is dedicated to "doing good" via books: "One important way of doing good is by means of books ... we shall necessarily be judged of by others by the books they find in our hands" (pp. 40-41). Lists authors that should be considered "highly objectionable" including Swift, Sterne, Pope, and Byron. Finishes the chapter by urging reader to always have a book at hand to offer the "poor", "ignorant" or "friendless" in society. 32mo (4" by 2.5"), pp. 112, [2], with… Ler mais

New York, New York: American Hard Rubber Company, 1920. Very good. Some rubbing, minor dust soiling. Corners bumped.. An illustrated advertising booklet for hard rubber "Ace" brand combs, marketed to fashionable women in the 1920s. Offers advice for proper hair care and how to make finger waves, and illustrates "Combs of Former Ages" from the Roman era, Renaissance era, Stone Age, etc. The next pages illustrate Ace combs and their sleek modern designs. Also of note in the booklet is the inclusion of "The Comb Maker", a 1568 poem "from a rare book" (p. 21). Includes some fabulous Art- Deco inspired images of women. Single vol. (6.5" by 5"), pp. 32, illus., stapled in original illus. wrps. The American Hard Rubber Company was originally based in New Jersey, and made the state known as a major center for rubber products such as combs, shoe soles, and syringes.

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz. VG/NO DUSTJACKET. 1884. LeatherBound. Independent of his other books published on Italy! . 16mo., 326 pp., Full tooled leather in fabric slip case. Former owners inscription .

New York: Creative Age Press, Inc. , 1944. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Heinrich Mann's novel about a tyrannical schoolmaster who gets mixed up with a cabaret singer, originally published in German in 1905. The novel was the basis for the 1930 movie, The Blue Angel, starring Marlene Dietrich. Scarce in dust jacket.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm), 255, [1] pages, in gray cloth, titles to spine, in a pictorial dust jacket.
CONDITION: Slightly cocked, with small stain to lower board, bumping to spine ends. Internally, the pages are lightly toned, probably due to being printed on cheap wartime paper, but are clean and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket has some chips as well as two one-inch tears where the flaps meet the panels. Some darkening to lower panel. Overall, about Very Good.

Paris & London, Mai 1862. 8vo. (18,2 x 12,0 cm). 31 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts (including 2 full-page).Published for the London World Fair 1862 with map of the exibition halls on the inside front cover. The "Expositions Universelles" or World Fairs were intended to show the latest innovations and inventions. The earliest of these fairs were held in France but were national. The first one of 1798 was the start of eleven national fairs. Sewing machines were invented during the first Industrial Revolution to decrease the amount of manual sewing work performed in clothing companies. Callebaut shows different models and explains the technqiue of them. Both full page illustrations of the factory show us what factories looked like at the time. At the 1862 exhibition about 50 types of sewing machine were on show on over 20 stands. M. Callebaut from Paris showed 'several modifications of shuttle sewing machines of the Singer type.' Callebaut was the Singer licencee in France (the only occasion on which the… Ler mais

PULLMAN, Philip. The Ruby in the Smoke. NY: Alfred A. Knopf [1987]. 8vo, [vi] 233pp. Blue half-cloth stamped in silver on spine with red boards. Lower front corner bumped and rubbed, upper edge of same with a few nicks, spine ends lightly rubbed, else a clean, tight copy – Internally fine – in the original color pictorial dust jacket (chipped and torn at base of spine panel, 1½" closed tear at base of rear fold).
First US Edition. The first book in Pullman's Sally Lockhart Quartet. Beware the seven blessings... When she first utters these words, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn't know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally's terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London, in search of clues to her father's mysterious death.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED by John Edgar Wideman on the title page, a collection of 10 short stories. This is the hard-cover issue; most copies on the market are the paperback issue. In addition, signed copies of any kind are unaccountably scarce in the antiquarian book trade. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches; 215 x 143 mm), 175, [1] pages, in an unclipped, illustrated dust jacket (hard cover). CONDITION: Fine in a Fine, unclipped dust jacket.