[Tobacco Advertising] Costumes of All Nations by [W. Duke, Sons & Co] - 1888

Springfield, IL: Octavo Press, 1998. Octavo, softcover, 290 pp. Photographs. Very Good. Light edge wear.

Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.: Templegate Pub, 1998. Trade paperback in fine condition.. Soft cover. Fine.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-08-01. Paperback. Good.

[Durham, North Carolina]: W. Duke Sons & Co., 1889. Soft cover. Very Good. Illustrated stiff card covers with blue cloth on spine. Covers show creases; front cracked, but intact; corner chip on rear cover. Gift inscription dated 1889 on a blank verso. Last leaf is worn along fore edge. Fourteen illustrations on rectos only, lithographed by Geo. S. Harris & Sons, Philadelphia. 14 ff. Oblong, 7 x 10.5 inches. Placed in an archival mylar sleeve. Promotional picture album published in 1889 by the Durham, North Carolina, tobacco company, W. Duke, Sons & Company. Each illustration features a handful of vignettes (of which a number are overtly racist) which usually depict persons casting shadows that look like animals, or occasionally presenting some ironic juxtaposition. Many of these illustrations were featured on their cigarette cards. The rear cover states ''Compliments of W. Duke Sons & Co.'' and advertises ''The Six Great Brands of Cigarettes - Duke's… Read More

[New Yor: Lithographed by Knapp & Co, 1888. Twenty-two one-sided chromolithograph leaves. Oblong octavo. Cloth-backed color pictorial wrappers. Most of front wrapper lacking. Internally clean. Good. Fine chromolithographs of well-known actors, actresses, and socialites in exotic costumes, including Sarah Bernhardt in an "Old Russian Costume." "To produce such a volume has naturally necessitated an enormous outlay; but the demand for our cigarettes has so increased, day by day, month by month, that we can best thank our patrons for their continued kindness by offering the present album" - Preface. An attractive example of chromolithography reaching its zenith as popular art. McGRATH, p.191.

Richmond: c.1890. Oblong 8vo. 3 chromolithographic albums in 1, with a total of 18 bright, colorful pages of cigarette cards but without four full-page prints mentioned in other sets. § A wonderful collection of colorful cigarette cards produced for the Duke Co. The images are too good to be true; especially the final section of fancy dress ball costumes with women dressed as fruits and vegetables or household goods. Chromolithography by Knapp & Co. of New York.

W. DUKE SONS & CO. The Heroes of the Civil War. [Durham, NC]: W. Duke Sons & Co., [1888]. 1st ed. Oblong 8vo. [60]pp. double-columned. Illus., chromolithograph plates. Orig. cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. Rear wrapper tape-repaired, else very good or better. Brief biographical sketches of both Union and Confederate generals, each page with chromolithographic portraits. Each of the portraits were also issued as cigarette cards. The plates depict The Battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor, Grant and Lee, The Battle at Gettysburg, and The Battle of Manassas or Second Bull Run.

New York: Macmillan, 1938. Includes selections from Masefield's books: Salt-Water Ballads; Poems and Ballads; Pompey the Great; The Everlasting Mercy; The Widow in the Bye Street; Dauber; The Daffodil Fields; Philp the King; Good Friday; Lollingdon Downs; Gallipoli; Reynard the Fox; Enslaved; Right Royal; Ester; King Cole and Other Poems; Odtaa; Midsummer Night and Other Tales in Verse; The Wanderer; Minnie Maylow's Story and Other Tales and Scenes; A Letter from Pontus. 271 toned, clean pages. Navy blue cloth with gilt facsimle signature on front cover and dull gilt titles on spine; a dozen or so pages are bumped at top corner; tanned inside covers. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Forgotten Song by Eugene Cowles Oliver Ditson Company Boston

Reno, Nevada: Reno Chamber of Commerce, 1927. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Includes original sleeve. Light general wear. 1927 Stapled Binding. Unpaginated. Reno, Nevada. Early travel brochure. Briefly discusses the area surrounding Reno, and touches on each of Nevada's major cities. Numerous black-and-white photo reproductions of Reno and surrounding area, including countryside and Sparks.--Calvello Books

Baltimore: The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University, 2017. paperback. 9.2 x 5.2 inches. paperback. xiv, 129 pages. This collection of short, illustrated essays by leading and emerging Poe scholars focuses on twenty Poe-related objects from a private collection, which are closely examined as a means of unpacking Poe's family history, literary preoccupations, and legacy. Published in connection with a public exhibition at Johns Hopkins University, October 2016 through February 2017, "The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond.

Evanston, IL: Church League of America, 1950. Pamphlet. Fine. This is a lot of 2 pamphlets from the early 1950s published by the right wing Church League of America based out of the Chicago suburbs from 1937-1984. Both pieces are in fine condition. THOMPSON, Dorothy. "What Is Behind the Immigration Furor?"; News and Views, January 1953, No. 230. Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 4 pp. A newsletter decrying the New Deal and the threat of Communist immigrants. RADCLIFFE, Cy. "A little business fights Big Government". Evanston: National Laymen's Council of the Church League of America. Broadsheet. 2 pp. A newsletter describing the writer's efforts to prevent his employees from unionizing and the ensuing lawsuit. Includes a photo of Radcliffe captioned "CRUSADER."

Redlands, California: Pure Gold, [1955]. Stapled wraps. Very good. [12p.] Small chips to wrap edges. The Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD) was founded in Redlands, California, in 1906 as a cooperative marketing association representing citrus growers in California. Within a few years, the coop included citrus growers in western Arizona. In 1955, MOD changed its name to Pure Gold, originally the brand name for fruit grown by the approximately 2,500 MOD growers. Sunkist took over the Pure Gold trademark when the co-op closed in 1987 due to housing developments replacing the citrus fields and the shrinking number of packing plants. This booklet explains the history of the citrus-growing culture in California and Arizona and provides information on the variety of oranges, lemons, and grapefruit grown and their cultivation and packaging. A map on the back shows the regions represented by the Pure Gold cooperative. Scarce, none located in OCLC. B&w illustrations and halftone photographs. (11"x8-1/2")

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volumes 22-23 pages 542-558, signed "H. B. A" Leopold Von Ranke a review of his life. by Herbert Baxter Adams;
Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet (Hastings) Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634.[1] Adams received his early training in the Amherst, Massachusetts public schools and Phillips Exeter Academy. He graduated from Amherst College in 1872. In 1873 Adams traveled to Europe to study and write. In 1874 he then moved to Heidelberg, Germany to pursue the Ph.D. degree. There he was influenced by Johann Gustav Droysen and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli, the latter also becoming his mentor. Heidelberg did not then require a thesis from its doctoral candidates, instead it required an oral examination, for which he chose political science for his major field (Hauptfach), with two minors… Read More

handmade exhibit of butterflies gold frame

[Bonn?]: Federal Ministry for All-German Affairs, 1953.Oblong small quarto (9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 240 x 160 mm), 64 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). West German government booklet documenting the June 1953 uprising in East Germany. In English, profusely illustrated.
CONDITION: Lower right corner of front cover clipped, small stain to front cover, closed tear to rear cover, light toning to page extremities. About Very Good.

Number 30. Shelter Lullaby, by Helen Thomas sheet music Boston Music, drawing by Edwina Dumm