EPHEMERA from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
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West Point hop invitation and test from F.P. Avery, USMA Class of 1878
by [West Point; Tiffany & Co.] Avery, Frank P.
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- Used
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- 1878
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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New: Tiffany & Co., 1878. Illustrated hop invitation showing an eagle and cadet holding a large flowing sheet with text and a list of graduates, and an image of West Point with sail boats in foreground.
Calling card of F.P. Avery, and a printed test "Time by Equal Altitudes of Sun's Limb" with Avery's manuscript answers, dated March… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Cambridge Commencement, Grand Musical Festival 1809
by [Cambridge University; Ephemera] Stothard, T (del) and J. Collyer (sculp)
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1809
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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1809. Very good condition. Entry ticket for the music festival with a copper engraving of a lady playing the organ with children and a man with a lyre. Within the impression mark is hand written: 'Admit' and the signature 'C. Hague'. 6 1/8 x 5 1/2" Item Price
$125.00
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An Archive of mostly United States Consular Papers during the Japanese invasion of China
by [China; US Embassy; Japanese Invasion]
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1938
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$650.00
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1938. Ephemera. Good + overall. An assortment of official and unofficial American Embassy communiqués, memoranda and paperwork, mostly from 1937, dealing with Japanese invasion and occupation of China.
The collection is composed of 14 items, including 3 roneoed single page, folio, maps- The River Yangste, from Shanghai, the Blue Sea to Suifu (the limit of steam navigation)
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$650.00
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Prospectus for Thirteen Poems of Wilfred Owen
by Baskin, Leonard & Esther
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- Used - Otherwise very good condition
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- 1942
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$95.00
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The Gehenna Press, 1942. Ephemera. Otherwise very good condition. One of Gehenna Press's first efforts to publish a fine press edition was Thirteen Poems by Wilfred Owen. Owen (1893-1918) was a gifted poet and soldier whose life was tragically cut short by machine gun fire, just days before the Armistice for World War I was signed in Paris.… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
Gum-Blossom Babies
by Gibbs, May
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1922
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1922. Paperback. Good + overall. Gum-Blossom Babies are much harder to find than Gum-Nut Babies. They are more timid, being girls..."
8vo, color frontis, 28pp, unpaginated. Brown paper with with color plate of cluster of fuzzy headed babies clinging to a cluster of leaves at front cover. Bound with brown cord. B&w… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, A Catalogue of various Editions in Commemoration of the Centenary of the First Publication. 1959 Quaritch catalogue No. 791
by [Fitzgerald, Edward] Quaritch Ltd
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1959
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$45.00
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London: Quaritch Ltd., 1959. Paperback. Very good condition. 8vo, 15pp, 2 b&w photographs, publishers printed wrappers. Includes the original envelope, mailed to Howard Blanke, New York. Item Price
$45.00
Painted birds using shells as adornment
by [Handmade cards]
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- Used
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- 1910
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$100.00
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1910. Ephemera. 4 cards with ducks and penguins hand painted with the addition of shells as part of their bodies. 2 ducks in flight, 1 duck swimming and 2 penguins. Cards are 3 3/8 x 2 1/2", toned, birds are painted with some background, some shells cracked. Good + condition. Item Price
$100.00
For Governor - Climber. Hiester Clymer political cartoon
by Clymer, Hiester; Pennsylvania politics
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- Used - Good + overall
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- 1866
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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1866. Ephemera. Good + overall. A political cartoon handbill illustrating a negative implication for Clymer's career. Hiester Clymer ran for the Governor of Pennsylvania in 1866 on a white supremacist platform, but Clymer was defeated by John. W. Geary. Clymer later was elected to the House of Representatives in 1872.
The cartoon shows Clymer trying to climb… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
Set of 6 cards featuring gold and gold mining, for "Veritable Extrait de Viande Liebig"
by [Mining; Gold; Canada; South Africa]
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1900
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$45.00
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Paris: Liebig, 1900. Very good condition. Six chromolithographed advertising cards depicting gold prospecting, mining and manufacture of gold jewelry, titled "L'Oro", including a card showing gold hunters of the Klondike Gold Rush.
Card illustrations depict gold rush prospectors dragging sleds through the snow on the way to the Klondike; panning for gold; processing gold in mill; interior… Read more about this item Item Price
$45.00
France. Piemont. Soutiens de l'Independence Italienne
by [Italian Unification; the Risorgimento]
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- Used
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- 1860
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$400.00
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1860. Rare silk scarf commemorating the alliance between the French and Piemontese during the period of the 2nd war of Independence (1859-1861).
The central panel depicts a French and Piemont soldier with arms linked, holding rifles. One is dressed in a uniform of pantaloons, short jacket and a turban; the other a more conventional military coat, double… Read more about this item Item Price
$400.00
Bookseller invoices from London and Bristol, with franked envelopes
by [Bookselling]
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1873
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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London, 1873. Very good condition. An archive of ten letterhead invoices and 7 franked envelopes from British booksellers to Mr. James H. Parker of Strand, London for books including 'Chaucer's Poems', a Bible, Miscellaneous Almanacks, 'Siege-life in Paris" by Michell and various newspapers dating 1869 through 1873. Booksellers include a woman, Olive Lasbury of Bristol, and a series… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00
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Photograph album of ephemera from the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 & an English family's visit to Japan
by [Photography; Japan]
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1910
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$1,100.00
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1910. Hardcover. Very good overall. A photograph album commemorating the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910, along with the family's photographs of a trip to Japan. The exhibition took place at White City, London in Great Britain from 14 May 1910 to 29 October 1910. It was the largest international exposition that the Empire of Japan had ever participated in… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,100.00
The Fox's Story
by Veale, E.
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- Used - Very good condition
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- First printing
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- 1897
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$95.00
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Philadelphia: Hubbard Pub'g Co, 1897. First printing. Pamphlet. Very good condition. A very nice copy of this extremely scarce Palmer Cox item. Very bright, pictorial color illustration on the cover which is still intact with the pamphlet despite being loose at the top.
Couple of short tears on the foredge of the pages, and a small… Read more about this item Item Price
$95.00
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The Sunday Scholar Who Turned Sailor Boy
by Chap book
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- Used - Very good overall
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- First edition
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- 1831
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- Wraps
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- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$175.00
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New Haven: S. Babcock, Sidney's Press, 1831. First edition. Wraps. Very good overall. The front cover with a woodcut illustration of a kangaroo after Stubbs. With 9 woodcut illustrations in text, including one inside the front wrapper titled 'A Little Boy Who Shot his Sister'. 2 woodcut illustrations on the rear cover, 'The Little Tea Party' and 'A… Read more about this item Item Price
$175.00
Collection of 10 post cards, New Philadelphia, Ohio
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1920
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$75.00
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1920. Very good condition. Collection of printed photograph post cards in color and b&w, including one real b& w photograph post card titled "Mineing (sic) Safety Device Plant, Bowerston, Ohio". New Philadelphia is the largest city and county seat of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, located south of Cleveland and northeast of Columbus.
Images of the area in and… Read more about this item Item Price
$75.00
![World War One hand-drawn Certificate of Appreciation from the inhabitants of 40 Rue de l'Universite, Paris 7ieme, thanking Lt. Credo Harris [with] photo of Harris at Armenian Catholic Monastery at San Lazzaro](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/186/077/874077186.0.m.1.jpg)
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World War One hand-drawn Certificate of Appreciation from the inhabitants of 40 Rue de l'Universite, Paris 7ieme, thanking Lt. Credo Harris [with] photo of Harris at Armenian Catholic Monastery at San Lazzaro
by WWI; Credo Harris, Lt
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- Used
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- 1918
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$300.00
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1918. A wonderful pair of commemorative items; of World War 1 Paris; a naive art hand-drawn certificate thanking Lt. Credo Harris, who oversaw a Red Cross shelter in the 7ieme; then an American soldier in Paris, later a Kentucky newspaperman and promoter of radio (and) a photo of Harris at Lord Byron's table at the Armenian Catholic Monastery on… Read more about this item Item Price
$300.00
Carolus Duran autograph
by Carolus Duran; Charles August Emile Durand
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1880
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$125.00
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1880. Ephemera. Very good overall. An autographed card of the French artist and painting instructor from whom John Singer Sargent learned his lovely brushwork. Carolus Duran autograph and short message, on cream colored card. With a message in French, in response to a request for his autograph. Carolus Duran's signature in ink, using a fountain pen. A bit… Read more about this item Item Price
$125.00
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Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. A letter to Thomson Hankey & Co of London requesting funds for track completion
by Bradford, Samuel
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- Used - Very good overall
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- 1840
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- Ephemera
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$375.00
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1840. Ephemera. Very good overall. A manuscript letter complete with cancellation dated 30th Sept. 1840 , from PRRC treasurer Samuel Bradford to Messrs. Thomson Hankey & Co., documenting a time before The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company became one of the most prosperous corporations of its era. Dated August 1840, the letter requests further finance from the London bank… Read more about this item Item Price
$375.00
Signed invitation to Charles Dudley Warner to meet Helen Keller
by Burroughs, John
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1896
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$225.00
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New York, 1896. Very good condition. Signed note written by Burroughs inviting Mr. Warner to come with him to a meeting with Hellen Keller the next morning. Dated February 25th. Complete with envelope, also signed. Single fold, toned. Item Price
$225.00
Rushcutters Bay, Sydney Harbour
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- Used - Very good condition
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- 1920
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Garrison, New York, USA
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$20.00
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Sydney: Valentine and Sons, 1920. Very good condition. Great view of the residences around Rushcutters Bay, divided back of postcard, with an inscription on the back to: Master Vince Harris, Albert Lane, Taree, Manning River, New South Wales, Australia. "P.S. I am in the 1st Taree Troop of boy Scouts I am Bugler Boy No 1 Patrol (called… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
