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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
PROFESSIONAL MIXING GUIDE
by Brodie's
Seattle: Brodie's Inc. Hotel and Restaurant Supplies. Very Good. 1949. First Edition. Original Printed Wrappers. 36 pages; Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers with image of three cocktail glasses on front cover. Date is approximate, none printed in book. This excellent bar guide contains recipes for more than 200 mixed drinks and cocktails. In addition, there are illustrations of 85 examples of glassware for different types of drinks available for sale from Brodie's, a...
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$59.96
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Recipes for Economical and Nourishing Dishes [made with Carnation Condensed Milk ]
by Blake, Mary
Milwaukee: Carnation Company. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Pamphlet - Folding. 6 pages; Clean and fresh folding pamphlet with colour wrappers, containing more than 20 recipes using Carnation Condensed Milk. Also contains a coupon "Good for one copy of Mary Blake's Cook Book." Recipes include Chocolate Pie, Navy Bean Soup, Mock Drumsticks, etc. .
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$9.97
Here's the Air-Conditioned Santa Fe Trail
by Santa Fe Trailways
no publishing information, [ca 1939]. Oblong 32mo.; die-cut, one sheet in 2 panels, softcover; 4 pages of text; color illustrations; eased pencil on front cover else very good.
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$25.00
Le Capitaine James Cook
by [Cook, James] Advertising card: Phare de la Bastille
France. An advertising card incorporating a biography and oval portrait of Captain Cook at the upper left, with banner above reading "Maison Vendant Bon Marche", with a scene of the English meeting a native carrying spear. Advertising card for "Phares de La Bastille, Habillements Pour Hommes Dames & Enfants", a French clothing manufacturer. Chromolithograph, 3' x 4 1/8". Number 38 in the lower left corner. The verso of the card has text pertaining to Cook, with a mention of his death "aux Iles Sandwich"...
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$95.00
The New York Receipt Book. Adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York.
by [Cuisine, Patent Medicine, Quackery]. [PITCHER, Samuel, Jr.]
No place [New York ?]: no publisher, no date [1882, with calendar for 1883]. Sextodecimo (6" x 4"), 32 pages plus wraps, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout, the covers in color depicting "The Diver" on the front & "One of the Children Who Took Castoria" on the back. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn, with threaded hanging hole. Five pages with old news clippings pasted in obscuring text but providing recipes, covers lightly soiled, with moderate edge wear, brief rubbing, & short separation...
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$35.00
MODERNFOLD DOORS BROCHURE A Beautiful Way to Save Space, Provide Effective Room Division, Solve Problem Openings
Very Good+. 1954. Brochure. ; Brochure cover has a tiny tear but clean, bright, and very good+. 16 pages clean and near pristine. .
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$36.00
HOLIDAY MAGAZINE - JUNE 1947
by Bemelmans, Ludwig ; Richard Scarry ; Hal Borland ; Isabel Johnston ; Arthur Bartlett
Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Paperback. Vol. 2, No. 6; Contents clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; minor wear at spine. Wonderful cover illustration "Long Island Calendar" by Mary Faulconer. Featuring articles on Detroit, Long Island, Pennsylvania Dutch Country, etc. Literary offerings in this issue include "F.O.B. Detroit" by Hal Borland, "Long Island" color cartograph by Richard Scarry, "The Sporting...
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$19.95
They Laughed When I Sat Down: An Informal History of Advertising in Words and Pictures
by Rowsome, Jr., Frank
New York: Bonanza Books, 1959. Reprint. . Hardcover. VG/Good+. 181 pages. Tells about the jingles, slogans, famous ad campaigns and trademarks of American business. Vintage b/w illustrations throughout. VG/Good+. Book firm and unmarked, with sharp corners. Dustjacket has small tears and chips at tips and spine ends. Item #: B8648.
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$14.00
11 Vinegar Valentines backhandedly promoting Sapolio Soap c1910.
Eleven (11) different approximately 9" x 6" vinegar valentines printed in three colors. Each is demeaning someone and suggesting they use Sapolio soap for one reason or another. Captions include To A Kitchen Recruit, Love's Young Dream, To a Horseman, To a Farmer, Don't You Forget It!, To a Bartender, To a Masher, To a Model Husband, To an Author, To a Smoker and finally To a Sleeping Beauty. Reverse is blank. Scarce items.
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$175.00
A. Walsh's Champion Water Wheel Governor Nearly 1,500 in Use
by Walsh, A
Cambridge, NY: A. Walsh. Good. 1875. Ephemera. [Broadside]; 1 pages; Advertising broadside measuring 28 cm X 23.5 cm with images of two water wheel governors and one detail figure along with explanatory text describing the workings of the machines. The sheet has been folded into six segments, some edgewear and tiny tears, one small hole where the sheet was pinned to a book. This particular copy has 19th century annotations in pencil indicating the prices of the respective machine models and an...
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["We are Going to Prescott's to Buy Our Groceries" - Two Original Photographs]
by [L. C. Prescott & Co.]
[New Hampshire? c. 1910s-1920s?]. Two photographs on card mounts. 4¾ x 3¾ inches and 3¾ x 4¾ inches. Vertical photo embossed in blind on verso "Collins Trade Mark." Minor rubbing to mounts; very good. Two photographs depicting circus-like clown characters and an elaborately decorated wagon and horse each advertising L. C. Prescott's grocery business. One photo shows an Uncle Sam figure in a wild stars and stripes suit and top hat standing alongside a similarly striped and flower decked wagon...
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$35.00
Souvenir Spoons Tilden-Thurber Co,Lore-Lei Hair Brush Howard Sterling Co. Illustrated Advertisement
by Otto Young & Company
Chicago: Keystone Magazine. Very Good. 1893. Single sheet. Size : 11 by 15 inches Condition: A very good vintage advertisement with small binders holes in the outer margins and light dust soiling and a few very small edge tears all in the margins only and a small chip in the outer margin. See photosComments: A classic vintage advertisement rescued from a damaged copy of the May 1893 Keystone Magazine. The front is two half pages of advertisements one for Souvenir Spoons Tilden-Thurber Co, and another for...
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$15.00
Nev-A-Burn Stove Lustre Vintage Original Advertising Flyier
by Chase, Roberts & Co
Long Island City, NY: Chase, Roberts & Co. 1900. Single sheet. A folding pamphlet for stove polish. Saves hard labor and permanently enamels the stove. Nice logo- the devil and a stove. Circa 1900-1920 .A very good to near fine flyer with extremely light discoloration top edge rear cover only. Light age toning. 3 by 6 Inches. whbx 3
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$17.00
THE LURE OF JAPAN - Promotional Brochure
by Akimoto, Shunkichi
Tokyo: Hokuseido Press. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Ephemera. Small single-fold advertising brochure from Hokuseido Press with color covers replicating in smaller format the dustjacket of the actual book. Inside there is a double-page advertisement for several other publications of The Hokuseido Press. Very nice condition - no markings, no stains, no tears. .
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$14.96
A Guide to Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine and the Trosachs : with excursions to all the objects of interest in the vicinity
by Abel Heywood and Son
Manchester: Abel Heywood and Son. Very Good. 1886. Self Wrappers. Abel Heywood's Penny Guides; 16, (18) ads pages; Former owner's name at top of first page of text "M. C. Morris / 1890" otherwise contents clean and complete with folding map. LC release stamp on front wrapper. OCLC 863574849 Sixteen pages of text, plus many pages of advertisements, including Cadbury's Cocoa and Brookes Soap 'Monkey Brand'. .
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$24.94
Caledonian Hotel, Inverness - Printed Menu Card with Manuscript Entries January 31, 1924
by Caledonian Hotel
Inverness: Caledonian Hotel. Very Good-. 1924. Ephemera. Printed card menu with color image of a woman wearing hunting clothes on a white horse leaping a fence. Printed in blue at top "Caledonian Hotel, / Inverness" folowed by "Menu" printed in red. On rear panel "Wisdon of the People" with eleven bits of popular lore, e.g., "Any wind will suit a man who prefers to drift." Tiny closed tear at left edge, ink a bit faded, otherwise very good condition. Hand...
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$19.97
COGNAC J&F MARTELL 1715
by Societe Martell Cognac
Societe Martell Cognac. Very Good+. 1975. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. 98 pages; Clean and secure in original binding of glossy photographic boards. Presentation card laid-in -- printed message "Messieurs Martell & Co. / avec leurs compliments / 16101 Cognac Cedex" with added ink note -- "de la part du Service 'C?? Societes France'" Text in French. From the House of Martell, Commemorating their 250th year anniversary in business. Recounts the history of the...
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Elkins West Virginia: Vacation Capital of the Appalachian Highlands (cover title).
by Elkins Chamber of Commerce
Elkins, West Virginia: Elkins Chamber of Commerce, printed by McClain Printing Co. of Parsons, no date, circa 1950s. Folding brochure, single sheet measuring 22 inches by 16.75 inches folding to 7.5 inches by 3.5 inches. Provides maps, illustrations from photographs, & descriptive text. Not found in OCLC as of 3/22/2024.
Lightly soiled, modest edge wear, couple of tiny splits at fold intersects, otherwise Very Good.
"Elkins, where nature plans your vacation with the finest of scenery and in the greatest... Read more about this item
Lightly soiled, modest edge wear, couple of tiny splits at fold intersects, otherwise Very Good.
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$25.00
Through Thirty Years W.H. Fillmore & Co. - Conservative Investment
by W.H. Fillmore & Co
Cincinnati: W.H. Fillmore & Co.. Very Good+. 1931. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages; Clean and secure in original tan printed wrappers with silk ribbon at spine. A lovely prospectus for extant and potential customers of this financial advisory firm. OCLC 38309360 .
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$19.94
A SCHOOL FOR NATURE LOVERS AND SPORTSMEN Northwestern School of Taxidermy
by Elwood, J. W
Very Good. c. 1930s. Catalog. ; Circa 1930s. Cover has wear but clean and bright and overall very good-. Pages are clean and very good+; 44 pages .
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$35.00
WILLYS OVERLAND 1916 17.5 X 12" ADVERTISING PIECE WITH 3 OTHERS.
by Willy's
Very Good with no dust jacket. 1916-1960. Page. Color Illustrations; Willy's is VG and held on a bagged board. Other three have faults. .
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$39.15
HOLDEN LIQUID CARBORIZING BATHS BROCHURE
A. F. Holden Company. Very Good. c. 1948. Stapled wraps. ; Cover is modest wear and toning but clean, bright, and very good. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and near pristine. ; 16 pages .
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$40.50
SKOURAS THEATRE, PASCACK, LOVER COME BACK, SATURDAY EVENING APRIL 21, 1962
Stapled illustrated beige wrappers measuring 11 inches in height by 8 1/2 inches in width, pp. [16]. Program from 1962 celebrating the re-dedication of the New Pascack Theatre (opened 1928) with the movie Lover Come Back, starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. Includes some theatre and community history but primarily made up of congratulatory and complimentary messages from local businesses and extending to New York and Chicago. GOOD condition with a a faint old tide-line at lower fore-edge tips. Ensconced...
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$18.45
Pocket Memoranda Book
by Mullen & Bluett Clothiers
Los Angeles: Mullen & Bluett, 1931. A little wrinkling to the paste-downs, but fine and bright. Pocket Memoranda book measuring 4 inches. Bound in simulated black textured leather with company logo in gilt on upper cover, a.e.g., this stamped in gilt with owner's name.
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$45.00
Liberty Magazine August 26, 1939
by Bernarr MacFadden (editor)
Some of the contents include The Wicked Song Bird by Elizabeth Frazer, Open That Door by Elisabeth Sanxay, Holding, Death Over China by Carl Crow, with more short stories, Serials, Articles Features, plus many uncommon vintage advertisements. This vintage magazine is in very good collectible condition with edge wear and dust soiling to the covers, paper lightly age toned. bx111E
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$17.00
