General from Certain Books, ABAA

Framingham Massachusetts: Wallace Nutting Larger format Nutting photograph; approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2"; titled below the image, "Hawthornside" and signed lower right in full Wallace Nutting; no date but circa 1915; Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) American craftsperson, photographer, writer, lecturer; developed what was by far the largest and most prominent photographic operation, employing nearly 200 colorists, framers… Read more

Berlin: Albert Frisch, 1929. 57 pages; a facsimile of the notebook containing the original dramatic piece (debut in 1772) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729 - 1781) influential German Age of Enlightenment writer, philosopher, dramatist; facsimile 6 1/4" x 9 1/2" approx. size; small previous owner bookplate-ticket of Paul Kempner on front endpaper; light beige plain paper wrap covers;… Read more

Lilburn, Georgia: Fairmount Press, 1999. 477 pages; black and white illustrated with imagery, charts; topics including GeoExchange Conference & Expo; Energy Service & Power Marketing Center; Strategic Gas Forum; Plant & Facilities Expo; Environmental Technology; OSHA compliance; with 70 individual chapters on these topics, by dozens of contributors; including Modernizing a 30 Year Old Office Building A Case Study in… Read more

New York: Various, 1941. Group of 14 pieces of sheet music by Claude A. 'Bennie' Benjamin (1907 - 1889) Virgin-islands born musician and especially prolific writer & composer of popular tunes - member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1984); this group includes: Cancel the Flowers; When the Lights Go On Again; Rumors are Flying; Oh! What it Seemed to… Read more

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1911. 64 pages; illustrated with views of European destinations; and noting that "...American travelers in Europe are cordially invited to make the Eagle Paris or London Bureaus their headquarters while abroad. Efficient and willing clerks are ready to render them any assistance..."; giving extensive information on each of these locations; including individual country listings for:… Read more

Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1910. 48 pages; illustrated with a few views of European destinations; and noting that "...Americans generally find it somewhat difficult to obtain accurate information about the route over which they expect to travel on any tour through European resorts. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, realizing it, has endeavored in this supplement to furnish all the necessary… Read more

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997. Printed in black script on a rich cream-white paper stock, with the embossed gilt Capital building at top, "...requests the honor of your presence to attend and participate in the Inauguration..."; approx. 8 1/2" x 11"; light wear; interesting U.S. government presidential and printing history ephemera.. First Edition. Broadside. Very Good.

New Jersey: City of Jersey City, 1999. Large plan of Jersey City, approx. 29 1/2" x 44" size; map keys listing the District Regulations, including low density residential, office and retail, finance and business district, intensive industrial, altogether a dozen designations; with the list of 50 named 'Redevelopment Areas' per the city's planning, Bay Street to Morris Canal; also showing… Read more

United States: Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, 1936. (8) pages; a form to be used by the lodges for their annual report - this noting the name of the president, secretary, treasurer of the local, with their addresses; names also the medical examiner for the union and a list of 13 names and dates of expulsion, for non-payment of dues; with… Read more

Washington, D.C.: Not Published, 1940. Black and white studio portrait, signed at bottom right of margin 'Hessler,' of George Meany (1894 - 1980) American labor leader "...Many thought he had long outlasted his time, but no national voice for labor's cause replaced Meany's in the increasingly hard times the union movement experienced following his death." (David Brody in the ANB);… Read more

East Hampton Long Island New York: Author Published, 1975. 49 pages; signed by the author on the title page, 'With all good wishes, Marie Earl Olssen'; illustrated with hand-colored plates by the author, with tipped in black and white photograph portrait with two of her bird companions and another two b & w photographs tipped in the text, hand-identified in… Read more

Sag Harbor, New York: Not Published, 1978. The three acts paginated separately; 31 + 26 + 27 pages; title page noted as "Author's - Keep at home"; with many corrections, additions, changes within, especially in the last act; our research indicates that this is an unpublished play; author name & address on title page of John Olden Sherry (1923 -… Read more

Switzerland, 1999. (36) pages; color illustrated with this artists' work throughout; "A thematic series of paintings and mixed media printing"; with portrait and biographical details at back for this Basle printer-artist; titles and sizes of work given; German text; offerings from his work in 2002/03; 6" x 8 1/4" size; spiral bound; light edgewear, soil; in very good condition.… Read more

Italy: No Photographer Noted, 1895. A series of loose plates, with tipped-on photographs on paper in black and white; about 1/2 of the plates with 2 images; sizes vary, with the largest approx. 10" x 13" and ranging to 3" x 6" (for those having 2 plates per page); especially well-taken, with gravure quality and fine detail; views of the… Read more

A Beaune Cote-Do'r France: Jean Dupin, Matire-Imprimeur, 1973. 77 pages; with a preface by Robert Poujade; limited edition # 546 of 550; very well-printed, wide-margined and in large type, inked in turquoise and black on good Velin d'Arches paper stock; French text; approx. 7 1/2" x 11"; original printed paper wraps, with cover ornament; with the original glassine protective over-wrap;… Read more

Saratoga, New York: Not Published, 1892. Approx. 30 pieces of correspondence, of varying length and content, concerning the Peacock and Winne families - apparently Lottie Peacock married Henry Winne - covering their activities & that of family during the last part of the 19h century and early 20th; there is some real estate and inheritance intrigue recounted in the earliest… Read more

Japan: International Newsreel, 1922. Black and white photo of two traditionally-garbed Japanese men seated in a small shop; a ledger visible on floor, hanging notices; Text of attached press notice states "...A customer who comes into the business department of a modern Japanese store to pay his bills, sits on the edge of the "department" and keeps his dirty feet… Read more

Allentown, Pennsylvania: Mack Manuf. Corp. & Local # 677 United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, U.A.W. - C.I.O , 1945. The 'Transfer Procedure' 3 pages typewritten, regarding procedures to be used for transfers for various classes of workers - unskilled to machine operators, transfers within classifications, from skilled into unskilled classifications, inspectors to production and skilled production… Read more

Lawrence Massachusetts: Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, 1904. The 'card' actually a small broadsheet, approx. 8 1/2" x 9" size; printed two colors on a cream paper stock; made out for Joseph A. Tosney of Lawrence Massachusetts, of Division 261, signed by S.S. Dowding, President & J.D. Woodcock, Secretary and with the union's blindstamp seal;… Read more

United States: Not Published, 1920. Very sharply taken and detailed interior black and white photo, a view of a small diner or café circa 1920; two male patrons, one busily eating at the end of the row of stools, another facing the viewer; 2 women and a man behind counter are the staff - remarkable for the… Read more