Search Results: Antique & Collectibles from Birkitt's Books

Elgin Book Co, 1973-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Facsimile of the Wm. L. Gilbert Clock company 1901-2 catalog.

Forest Park, Georgia: REM Catalog, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Minor shelf wear, front cover has a sticker, rear cover has a sticker remnant, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. The 7-1-71 Affair Postal Service Day Handbook Catalog by Roy Mooney 2000 Description : A handbook and catalog for July 1, 1971 FDC issue commemorating the first day issues of the USPS. There are 19,961 listings by zip code, each showing a net sale value.

Alpha XI Delta, 1957. Paperback. Good. Wraps are heavily age-toned, soiled, binding sound, pledge's information date this item to 1957, the last printed date in the manual is from the 40's. Pages are foxed, there is scant writing in the manual.

K. Roberts Pub. Co, 1972-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wraps have light wear, small area of paper loss to the right corner, stapled binding, internally clean. 112 pages.

New York, NY: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1897. Hardcover. Good. Half-leather binding with marbled boards, chipping to edges, spine ends are worn, corners bumped, binding sound, heavy foxing to endpages and backs of colored plates, does not involve the text or illustrations. Please note that scans have a white line artifact that is not present on the pages.

New York, NY: Parke-Bernet, 1961. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Wraps are worn, lightly soiled, endpages lightly foxed, prices realized written in ink by each item, also prices realized are stapled to the last free endpage. Sparsely illustrated in black and white.

Office of Her Majesty's Private Secretary, 1981-12-31. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 15x11x0. Jacket has minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Includes rare coins, antique Chinese porcelain, jade, traditional Thai art objects; King Chulalongkorn's "Faberge Collecton"; tea cups; animal horns and tusks; religious objects. 133 pages, illustrate in color.

Boston, Massachusetts: Skinner, Inc, 2005-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 136 pages, profusely illustrated in black and white and color.

Adraskand, Inc, 1982-01-01. Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. Minor shelf wear, rear cover is heavily creased, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 93 pages, illustrated in color, includes a bibliography.

East Aurora, NY: House of Hubbard, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Nancy was Elbert Hubbard's granddaughter and founded the House of Hubbard publishing house, as well as the Roycrofters At Large Association (RALA). Includes a history of the company. The catalog has many, many examples of Roycrofters copper items, listed and pictured with dimensions, molded leather items and books. Includes a price list in the back.

Denver, Colorado: JHB International, 1996. Paperback. Good. Front cover has a staple at the top, spine has small nicks at the top and bottom, rear cover corner and several subsequent pages are creased. 92 page manufacturers catalog of novelty buttons produced by JHB. Illustrated in black and white and color. Would serve as a great reference book for the button collector.

Christie's, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked.

New York, NY: Christie's East, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. 118 pages, illustrated in color, 457 lots.

New York, NY: Robert A Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc, 2012-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Pictorial boards have minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. The D. K. Collection of Southern Postmasters' Provisionals of the American Civil War, specialized auction catalog, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, New York, Sale 1022, March 28, 2012. All lots are beautifully illustrated in full color. This catalog shows 123 lots of extremely rare items of postal history. 195 pages. Hardbound.

The Frick Collection, 2009. paperback. Very Good. 11x8x0. Minor shelf wear, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. The exhibition illustrated the technical and artistic excellence reached in the Fontana workshop in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. This presentation of pieces of different shapes provided an opportunity for visitors to view the richness of table services made in maiolica for the Renaissance aristocracy.

New York, NY, 2012-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Pictorial boards, Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Part Two of The Frelinghuysen Collection contains United States Stamps, starting with the 1847 Issue and going into the 20th Century. The collection contains numerous blocks that have not been seen for decades and were unknown to students-some now become the new largest recorded multiple. A highlight of the sale is Position 74 of the Inverted Jenny, offered to the market for the first time since 1932. 160 glossy pages, illustrated in color.

Gold Horse Publising, 1999-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x10x0. Jacket has minor shelf wear, wear to top edge, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Published to accompany an auction, 238 lots. Dolls and related material representing Normandy, Brittany, Poitou, Berry, Gironde, Lot et Garonne, Aquitaine, Provence, L'Auvergne, Savoie, Bourbonnaise, Bourgogne, Alsace, Ardennes, Boulonnaise. With historical introduction and Appendix of vintage photographs, Bibliography. 10.5x10.5", 180 pp, color illustrations. Includes pre-sale estimate list.

Hillwood Museum Bookshop, 2002. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x0x11. Jacket has light wear, binding sound, internally clean.

Sotheby's, 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 10x8x0. Includes a foxed sheet on Dorothy Draper & Company, Inc. Letterhead to Joann Carmel. The letter is signed by Carleton Varney, President. Jacket edges are worn, and creased, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Color! Color always was the essential component. Other criteria did matter. Quality, condition, proportion, history, practicality - all were important, but colors - shades of rose, salmon, pink and a mossy green - were paramount, In her home there was a riot of color everywhere. The works meshed and flowed in a wondrous explosion of enveloping hues that lifted the mood. Nothing was black or white. During the almost four decades when the New York apartment was her only home, she tried to create a harmonious setting where nothing jarred the senses. Always, continually, she sought out those with particular expertise in art, furniture and decorations. Many became her lifelong friends.She chose those objects which pleased her… Read More

National Association of Watch and Clock Collections, 1968-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Wraps have pin-hole tears to front, light creasing, stapled binding, pages clean and unmarked. 55 pages illustrated in black and white. Contents include New Jersey and Pennsylvania tall clocks, Pennsylvania shelf clocks, New England shelf and wall clocks, carriage clocks, french clocks, bank vault clocks, deck chronometer, 16th and 17th century table clocks, 18th century sand glass, inanimates, miniature American clocks; hand and machine tools, smallest clock on exhibition, model watch escapements, American watches, Japanese watches and clocks, English, French and Swiss watches, pocket sun dials, watch papers, balance cocks, watch holders, watch fobs, watch dials, watch keys, watch chains, pseudo watches, Karrusel watch and Tourbillon watches.