Search Results: Ephemera from T. BRENNAN BOOKSELLER, ABAA

Measures 7 by 3 inches. Rear panel is blank. Condition is Fair only with a good deal of wear. Ensconced now by us in a clear new protective display sleeve with white card stock backing board.

Stapled card-stock wrappers, octavo, pp. 32 (1 Hymn per page). Light shelf and handling wear and a nick on the front panel at mid-fore-edge (see image for ur best attempt at a close-up). GOOD condition.

Removed from a bound volume, octavo, pp. [1]-5. Spine rough. Strings perished. Pages are together just tenuously and will likely separate soon. Housed in a clear protective display sleeve with white card stock backing board.

Publisher's illustrated brown wrappers, octavo, pp. 16. Previous ownership name and contemporary date on front panel. Upper corner of front panel is torn off but present. A steadier hand than ours could mend it easily with tape if desired. Collectors and scholars of this type of material will be aware that the wrappers are of a poor quality paper and therefore a fragile affair. This copy with edge nicks and short tears, as expected. Old tide lines lower gutter throughout. Ensconced now in a clear new display sleeve with white card stock backing board.

Removed from a bound volume, octavo, pp. 7. One of 1000 copies printed. Foxing and edge wear but about GOOD condition and ensconced now in a clear protective display sleeve with white card-stock backing board.

Publisher's stapled illustrated wrappers, 12mo, pp. 48. FAIR condition. A vertical tear to front wrapper up from the bottom edge has been closed internally with a piece of tape. Tear continues on leaves up to about page 7. Wrappers are smudged and toned. Old tide lines, bottom edge at gutter, first few leaves. Tide lines also in fore-edge margins up to about page 12, then the tide recedes, so to speak, only to resume in smaller form about page 36, Some page tips bumped. Foxing text block top edge. A battle-scarred but endearing survivor of a cheaply made publication, creeping along towards a second century of existence. Safely stowed now in a clear new Ultra-Pro sleeve.

Publisher's original stapled gray wrappers, octavo, pp. 48. Frontispiece portrait and 5 other black and white illustrations as called for, including woodblock on pamphlet's rear. Publisher's leaflet laid in. FAIR-only with areas of sunning and abrasion on the front panel and soiling akin to shelf-slide on rear panel. The wrappers around the staples have worn through. A one-inch tear with no loss, front panel top-edge downward near spine, that could be mended with a piece of tape quite easily by a steadier hand than we possess. Book is protected now in a clear Ultra-Pro sleeve. A scarce item, both in trade and institutional holdings, with a 2024 OCLC search returning Harvard and RISD only.

Publisher's stapled illustrated wrappers, octavo, pp. 49. Revised Edition with nutritional information. Revised April 1978. Illustrated in color. Light shelf and handling wear. Safely stored in a clear new Ultra-Pro display sleeve.

Publisher's stapled orange wrappers, octavo, pp. 23. A few small illustrations. A gathering of articles from several publications, including Militant; Young Socialist; and International Socialist Review. Light shelf and consultation wear. Wrapper spine faded by sun. Safely stowed now in a clear display sleeve with white card-stock backing board. Uncommon.

Removed from a bound volume, octavo, pp. 4. Labeled a "New Draft." FAIR only with edge toning, chipping, and creasing, and original binding stab holes near spine. Ensconced now in a clear new display sleeve with white cardstock backing board.

Publisher's stapled yellow wrappers, octavo, pp. 55 plus a one page "Keep Maine Green" promotional at end (see Photo 5). Some contemporary marginal notations and calculations. Old cancelled postage on front panel. Laid in at center is an old receipt and a plan for a Proposed School Lunch Program at Lamoine School. This Town Report noteworthy for its early inclusion of the GREEN environmental notion. Ensconced now by us in a clear protective Ultra-Pro sleeve.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 48. Light shelf wear. Spine rubbed. Contemporary ink notes near end of the Report. GOOD in stapled cream-colored cardstock wrappers.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 35. Moderate shelf and consultation wear. Some contemporary notations and calculations. About Good in the publisher's stapled green wrappers.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 52. Light shelf wear and spine rubbing. Contemporary notations in margins, last few pages of the Report. GOOD in stapled cream-colored wrappers with two front panel outdoor vignettes.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 45. Statement of Departmental Operations tipped in at rear. Some contemporary ink notes. Pale green stapled cardstock wrappers rubbed around perimeter.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 46. Spine rubbed. Old name crossed out at top edge of front panel. Contemporary ink notes near end of Report. GOOD in the publisher's stapled gray cardstock wrappers.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 60. Old vertical creasing down center of the Report and its front and rear panels, as though folded long ago for insertion into a pocket. Contemporary notations and calculations in margins and on rear panel. FAIR in stapled blue wrappers.

Publisher's stapled red wrappers, octavo, pp. 57 plus a one page "Keep Maine Green" promotional at end (see Photo 4). Contemporary marginal notations and calculations in text and on rear panel. Old cancelled postage on front panel. Spine nearly rubbed through at some points. Withal, a noteworthy early use of a GREEN environmental notion. Ensconced now by us in a clear protective Ultra-Pro sleeve.

Publisher's stapled brown wrappers with mailbox vignette, octavo, pp. 43. A few contemporary ink calculations. Old cancelled postage on front panel. Overall GOOD condition.

Softcover, octavo, pp. 56. Soft old vertical crease at center of the Report's front panel. Old diagonal crease on rear panel. Contemporary marginal notes on pp. 52-56. Old dog-earring at upper tips of pages 43-56. In stapled rose-colored wrappers with some spine rubbing and toning.