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The Real McCoy
by Darin Strauss
From Darin Strauss, the bestselling author of Chang and Eng (A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year), comes the unforgettable story of "Kid" McCoy: boxer, jewel thief, scam artist, and the most married man in America. A fascinating mirror of the tumultuous backdrop of America at the turn of the century, The Real McCoy is "a muscular and entertaining novel about lies, scams, flimflams, and the inconvenience of truth" (GQ)
Contemporary Advertising
by Michael Weigold, Christian Arens William Arens
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Promise and The Product, 200 Years Of American Advertising Posters
by Victor; Bricta, Ira Margolin
Advertising Books & Ephemera
They Laughed When I Sat Down - an Informal History Of Advertising In Words and Pictures
by Rowsome, Frank Jr
The Lewis & Clark Centennial, Portland, Oregon 1905.
by [Oregon / Promotional Fan]. [Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair ?]
No place [Portland ?]: no publisher [Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair ?], 1905. Lithographed fan printed in color on tissue within a plastic frame. Measures approximately 10 inches by 6.25 inches including the frame.
Tissue secured at the handle only, a bit wrinkled & slightly faded, otherwise Very Good.
The fan features the seal used by the fair, depicting Lewis and Clark escorted by Lady Liberty walking into the setting sun. Quite uncommon, the only other... Read more about this item
Tissue secured at the handle only, a bit wrinkled & slightly faded, otherwise Very Good.
The fan features the seal used by the fair, depicting Lewis and Clark escorted by Lady Liberty walking into the setting sun. Quite uncommon, the only other... Read more about this item
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$250.00
Fairy Tales
Chicago: N.K. Fairbank Company. First Edition presumed. Wraps. Very Good. N.d., circa 1900. 8vo. 17.5 by 10.5 cm. Unpaginated, 24 pp. plus wraps. With 12 chromolithographic plates, in addition to other duotone illustrations, often underlaying the text. Adaptations of a few well-known Mother Goose nursery rhymes, but most of the doggeril is original verse, with pleasantly, and none to subtly, promotes the company's product. The fairy motif runs throughout both in the verse and the...
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$250.00
1963 Cities Service Road Map: Metropolitan Toronto, Canada
by Cities Service
Toronto: Cities Service, 1963. Softcover. Very Good with some light age-toning.. 9" x 4" folding out to 17 1/2" x 36." Large color fold-out folio map. With map index and directory of cities and tows.
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$20.00
They Laughed When I Sat Down: An Informal History of Advertising in Words and Pictures
by Rowsome, Jr., Frank
Bonanza Books, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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$6.24
How to Advertise
by Dean, Sandra Linville
Wilmington, DE: Enterprise Publishing, 1980. first edition. hardcover. near fine: clean, square, tight. includes letter from publisher and review, laid in./DJ very good+: minor shelf wear, NOT clipped.. 8vo 198pp. from front flap: "How To Advertise: A Handbook for Small Business was developed to be a useful tool and guidebook in acquiring knowledge of the basic principles of current advertising concepts." #01190.
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$13.00
![Space, Spirit, Splendor"Ê '60 Chevrolet [Vintage Car Brochure]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/915/489/1533489915.0.b.jpg)
Space, Spirit, Splendor"Ê '60 Chevrolet [Vintage Car Brochure]
Detroit: General Motors, 1960. Softcover. Fine. Staple-bound 9" x 12."Ê Twenty four [24] pp. with four color photographs. Includes car specifications. Scarce promotional brochure. **OCLC** lists one [1] copy at The Rochester Museum and Science center, Rochester, NY.
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$75.00
The Mirror Makers; A History of American Advertising and its Creators
by Fox, Stephen
New York: William Morrow and Company [0-688-02556-1] [1984]. (Hardcover) 383pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Photographs, notes, index. Some rubbing to dust jacket. Locale: United States. (Business, Advertising).
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$28.88
Collection of vintage Hupmobile automobile advertisements.
by Various magazine publishers
1914-1930.. Collection of 40 magazine clippings of vintage advertisements and Hupmobile automobile (Detroit) ads. 40 sheets (80 pp.), ranging folio to 8vo. size. Ill. black & white & color. Near fine with only minor imperfections; small tears at edges or uneven at bound edge. Few dupes. Inc. automobiles & adjacent contemporary advertisements for cigarettes, travel lines, liquor, clothiers, tires, oil, perishables & sundries; many more. Magazine mastheads vary, inc. Life, Fortune, Vogue, Harper's...
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$50.00
AIGA Graphic Design USA 4
by David Brown, Wylie Davis, Rose DeNeve
1983 hardcover as pictured. This is a beautifully made volume collecting what was considered the best examples of graphic design from 1982-1983. An interesting look back at the past. Printed in Japan, it includes over 250 color plates with 750 b&w illustrations and index. Binding is firm. Orange cloth boards with silver stamping are clean and show minimal edge wear. Head and tail bands. Text, printed on glossy paper, is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is rubbed and scuffed with a small stain at front....
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$43.00
Reid's Celebrated & Popular Flower Seeds
by [Black Interest] [Cats, Dogs, Spider]
Ephemera. Good + overall. A charmingly illustrated hand bill advertising flower seeds, the image of a black boy leaning out of a house window, teasing cats with a toy spider, and the house wall itself decorated with a poster for Reid's seeds, showing a group of cats teasing a chained dog, beneath a sign saying "Post No Bills.". 8 1/8 X 13" with 2 old folds, a little ruffled at the edges. Full color lithograph, a few small marginal tears mended archivally.
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$275.00
Aiken Knitting Machine Co. ... Manufacturers of Knitting Machines, Winders, etc.
by [Broadside]. Aiken Knitting Machine Company
New York: Baptist & Taylor, Steam Job Printers, no date (ca. 1860 or 61). Promotional broadside employing different fonts & type sizes within an ornamental border, with four illustrations from wood cuts signed Kilburn - Mallory, Boston. Folio (16.5" x 10.25") printed in black ink on thin paper.
Folded once horizontally, slightly toned, trace edge wear, otherwise very good or better.
The illustrations show the Winder, the Circular Plain Knitting Machine, the Circular Ribbed Machine & the Healing &... Read more about this item
Folded once horizontally, slightly toned, trace edge wear, otherwise very good or better.
The illustrations show the Winder, the Circular Plain Knitting Machine, the Circular Ribbed Machine & the Healing &... Read more about this item
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$95.00
SUBCUTANEOUSLY, MY DEAR WATSON
by McCall, Paul M
Bloomington, Indiana: James A. Rock & Company, 1978. Original lithographed broadside/poster promoting the book, Subcutaneously, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes and the Cocaine Habit. The broadside image is the same as the front panel of the book's dust jacket except that the latter includes the book's subtitle. The image of Sherlock Holmes holding a hypodermic needle is by Indiana caricaturist Paul M. McCall. The broadside is in very good condition: clean and bright, with just a hint of toning and a...
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$60.00
South Pole Radio News
by Byrd, Richard Evelyn (Admiral)
Michigan: General Foods, 1932. Ephemera. Very good condition. Advertising newspaper published by General Foods of Battle Creek, Michigan to promote Grape-Nuts Cereal which was taken to Little America by Admiral Byrd. B&w newspaper (Vol. 1, No. 2) advertises 'Byrd Broadcasts Make Radio History'. Penguin and sled dogs images either side of top header. 11 x 16" folded to 11 x 8", 4 pp, toned, slt. ruffling to edge, vgc.
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$28.00
Invisible Selling Machine
by Ryan Deiss; Clate Mask [Introduction]
Invisible Selling Machine, 2015-01-01. Hardcover. Fair/Good +. Clean, solid copy with unmarked text. Section of pages have been bumped at bottom corner, leaving creases and bends in corner tips. Front cover has had something heavy on it; long indentation on jacket and cover, and cover has a bend mark. Cover corners are square. Bump to bottom of spine. Binding is tight and square. Jacket is glossy with moderate wear; no tears. Cosmetically flawed, but perfectly functional reading copy. Books that sell...
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$16.12
Small Archive of Christine Duhlstine, a prospective student at the Federal School of Commercial Designing, including correspondence on letterhead, original illustration art, trade catalog for art supplies, & prospectus/ catalog for the school.
by DUHLSTINE, Christine
Bauer, E.F. (president). Your Future and how you can realize it in the opportunities awaiting the trained commercial designer through instruction by the Federal faculty and authors. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Federal School of Commercial Designing, 1927. Quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 63 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps. With:
Two typed letters addressed to Ms. Duhlstine on Federal Schools letterhead soliciting her enrollment (one signed... Read more about this item
Two typed letters addressed to Ms. Duhlstine on Federal Schools letterhead soliciting her enrollment (one signed... Read more about this item
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$175.00
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
by Femina, Jerry Della, and Sopkin, Charles (ed.)
Simon and Schuster, 1970. first edition. hardcover. good: boards slightly bowed, stain on FFEP, age and shelf wear, text clean, binding tight/good: age wear, rubbing, scuffing, NOT clipped ($6.50). 8vo 253pp. stated first edition. from rear flap: "Whether it's advice on how to pitch an account, how not to write beer advertising, how to get an ad past the censor that lurks in every client's heart, or how to pull an "Only You Dick Daring" when your agency is in big trouble, From Those Wonderful Folks Who...
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$22.00
![Voyna i Mir [War and Peace]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/839/461/902461839.0.b.jpg)
Voyna i Mir [War and Peace]
Text by E. Bauman, V. Shalunovskii. Photos by V. Uvarov. Illustrations by A. Sokolov[Moskva-Kiev], Informatsionno-reklamnoe biuro Upravleniia kinofikatsii i kinoprokata; Kievskaya fabrika tsvetnoi pechati, 1966Advertising leaflet of War and Peace film (directed by Sergei Bondarchuk, 4 series, 1965-1967) - one of the most important film in the history of Soviet cinema. The Russian version of the film based on the Tolstoy's novel War and Peace became a question of honour for Soviet Union. Filmmakers were...
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$500.00
60 Dodge Matador, Polara: big, solid, built to command
Detroit: Dodge Division, Chrysler Corp, 1959. Softcover. Near Fine.. 12 pp. 11" x 14" horizontal staple-bound brochure with color photos. Dodge catalog -81.205-0001. **OCLC** lists two [2] copies one each at The Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, DEÊ and the Library of Michigan, Lansing, MI.
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$25.00
Monarch Lightning Sawing Machine, Easy Running! Broadside
Chicago, 1884. Very good overall. Illustrated large folding advertising broadside with wonderful engraved images of the sawing machine in use by Native Americans and "the colored people of the South". The advertising copy boasts, "the Indians were among the first to discover the great labor saving qualities of the ... Sawing Machine, and we are shipping hundreds to the Choctaws, Cherokees, and other tribes in the Indian Territory ..." The third column, illustrated with a racist image of a black...
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$175.00
They Laughed When I Sat Down : An Informal History of Advertising in Words and Pictures
by Rowsome, Frank Jr
New York: Bonanza, 1959 Reprint. Cloth & bds; 4to.,181pp. Fine in Fine D/j.
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$17.00
Confessions of An Advertising Man
by Ogilvy, David
Atheneum. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($4.95 price intact). Published by Atheneum, 1963. Octavo. Brown boards stamped in gold. Book is very good; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Previous owner bookplate to flyleaf. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear, edgewear and small nicks. Book placed in custom acetate protector. An excellent and very scarce copy of this...
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$500.00
Happy Birthday USA 1776 - 1976 (cover title); Showmen's League of America 1975 (spine title).
by Showmen's League of America
Chicago: Illinois: Showmen's League of America, (1975). First edition. Quarto (10.75" x 8"), 448 & [2] pages, profusely illustrated (often in color) Publisher's textured faux tan leather with a mounted metallic plate on the front cover presenting the medallion of the league in gilt & depictions of a flag & eagle in silver.
Trace of wear at the spine extremities & corners, otherwise Very Good or better
Issued in conjunction with the Showmen's League of America convention which was held in Las Vegas... Read more about this item
Trace of wear at the spine extremities & corners, otherwise Very Good or better
Issued in conjunction with the Showmen's League of America convention which was held in Las Vegas... Read more about this item
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$45.00
The Beauties of the State of Washington: A Book for Tourists.
by GILES, Harry F., with photographs by Asahel Curtis
Olympia, Washington: Frank M. Lamborn, Public Printer, 1916. 8vo (9.25" x 6.25"), 110 & [2] pages plus 10 color plates, profusely illustrated in black & white from photographs (full page & in text), with double-page folding map. Publisher's pictorial, coated stiff paper wraps.
Covers soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
Contents include: Our Mountains; The Climate; Puget Sound; The Harbor Country; The Columbia River; The Inland Empire; Our Scenic Highways; A Sportsman's Paradise.
Covers soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise Very Good.
Contents include: Our Mountains; The Climate; Puget Sound; The Harbor Country; The Columbia River; The Inland Empire; Our Scenic Highways; A Sportsman's Paradise.
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$30.00
Our cars aren't the same, either. Toyota
by Toyota Motor Sales USA
Torrance: Toyota Motor Sales USA, 1974. Softcover. Fine. 8 1/2" x 11" staple bound catalogue in color pictorial wraps. Eighteen [18] pp. Illustrated with color photos throughout.
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$15.00
Ogilvy on Advertising
by David Ogilvy
Paperback / softback. New. Valuable advice to young hopefuls and veterans of the industry wanting to improve their success rate, by one of the most well respected admen of all time.
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$16.04
