Search Results: Authors starting with F from R & A Petrilla

Logansport, Indiana: Logan Fabric Co, 1914. Original edition. Very Good. Box 1: "The Belt - Is made from the finest sterilized fabric and pure rubber....It is constructed without buttons, buckles, or any contrivance that would cause annoyance when worn, either under or over the corset...." Box 2: "Sanitary Apron - Supplies perfectly the universal demand among ladies for a device to protect their underwear and dresses from becoming soiled at menstrual periods....The apron is made with a fine nainsook top attached to sanitary rubber sheeting...." 4.5" x 7.25" and 5.75" x 9.75" The box for the apron is shown in facsimile on the website of the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health. We find no other listings for these actual product boxes. Logan Fabric Company was a part of the Dr. J.B. Lynas & Son Company, a diversified Logansport business established in 1873.

NY: Capri Records, 1950. Original edition. Very Good. Black-and-white, posed portrait, captioned "Canada's Marathon Fiddle Champ," signed in the negative by Len Fairchuk. 8" x 10" Len Fairchuk (1932-2004) ran and starred in "The Western Hour" tv program out of Winnipeg for 19 years, celebrating Canadian First Nation people. A member of the Salteaux nation, he was also a graphic artist of note, and is still beloved by the people of Manitoba.

Topeka, Kansas: Kansas Historical Society, 1954. First Separate Edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 10pp; two portraits from photographs. Bound in green wrappers, black lettering on cover. Inscribed and signed inside the cover: "For...with my sincere regards / Alan W. Farley / June 14, 1955." 9" x 6" [Socolofsky & Dean, Kansas Bibliography, 1254: "Legal Dispute between two former captives, Fanny Kelly and Sarah Larimer, over rights to allegedly co-authored manuscript detailing their ordeal of 1864." WorldCat locates only four holdings of this booklet: Kansas City PL, Kansas City HS, U Kansas, and Autry National Center.].

Kindersley, Canada: Kindersley Farm Lands Limited, 1912. Original document. Fine. Engraved debenture, No. B0866, made out to James Buchanan, Esq. of Lavington Park, Petworth, Sussex, for the principal sum of 100 pounds at the rate of 2-1/2% interest , etc. Signed by Director M. Marking[?] and Assistant Secretary G. Cockburn. Highly ornamental borders and corner pieces in lavendar ink, royal seals in orange, embossed seal next to signatures. The conditions of this debenture are printed on the verso. 17" x 12". Folded only once.

York, Penna: Farquhar Products, 1938. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 27pp; illustrated throughout, some color. Contains detailed descriptions of Iron Age "Victory" pumps, sprayer engines, orchard sprayers, truck sprayers, row crop sprayers, high-pressure tractor-mounted sprayers, horse-drawn engine driven sprayers, etc. Bound in pictorial wrappers with photos of products in use on front and back covers. 11" x 8.5

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 20pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

Philadelphia: s.n., 1860. First Edition. Very Good. Four verses and a chorus, in part: "When you wake up in the morning, And if the papers you do read .... Tramps sighing, politicians crying, On wind we must get fat .... They have 'nothing' for the breakfast, Then they boil it down for dinner...." 7.75" x 4.25". Sealed in archival mylar. [Not in Wolf, American Song Sheets.].

Boston: UOPF, 1902. Original edition. Printed self-wrappers. Very Good. Printed letter "To Be Read In Open Colony," addressed to Ladies and Pilgrims, regarding growing memberships, income from dues, suspensions, &c. Accompanied by two Semi-Annual Returns, printed and accomplished by hand, reporting membership numbers and income for the Merrimac Mall Colony, dated December 31, 1893, and June 30, 1902. Small burn hole in one return. The United Order of the Pilgrim Fathers was a "fraternal benefits"society that sold insurance policies to its members at group rates. Founded at Lawrence, Massachusetts. in 1879, its headquarters later moved to Boston.

Chicago: Santa Fe Railroad Lines, 1935. Second Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 78pp; ten pages of illustrations from photographs, maps. Comprises a place-name history of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico with information on the towns and villages along the Santa Fe Railway Line. Spine roughened. 9" x 8" [Not seen in WorldCat.].

London: Animated Graphic, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18pp; illustrated from photographs. Contains Benny Green's programme notes on all the musicians named above, along with full-page and candid photos of them. In addition to the brass players, four sax men mellowed the concert: Ronnie Scott, Ronnie Ross, Danny Moss, and Art Ellefson. Bound in pictorial blue wrappers, 10" x 8.25

Burlington, Vermont: Ferguson & Adsit, 1892. Original documents. Very Good. Printed forms, accomplished by hand, dated from March 3, 1892 through May 18, 1896. Itemized sales include: whip straps, glass rosettes, robe lining, harness, mace bits, sheepskin aprons, hame straps, ankle boots, Champlain sweats, Concord collars, halters, &c. Typically 4.75" x 8.25", two receipts measure 7" x 8.25" As stated on their billheads, this company manufactured Gig Saddles, Leather and Nickle-plated Goods in their factory at Winooski Falls, Vermont.

New York: Sarony, 1860. Original document. Very Good. Half-length sepiatone portrait of Field, wearing jacket, vest, white dickey and collar, and bow tie, looking slightly to his right. Printed under the image is "Sarony, 680 Broadway." Written in light pencil on the verso is "C.W. Field" [not an authentic signature]. Field (1819-1892) was born and died in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. His first business venture was in paper manufacturing where he made a small fortune. In 1854, he joined Samuel F.B. Morse and others in laying a 400-mile telegraph line. The next year, they formed the American Telegraph Company, laid the first trans-atlantic telegraph cable, &c. Field went home to a jubilant welcome in 1858, &c.

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. Fourth Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 243pp; color map. 8.25" x 5" [Smith, American Travellers Abroad, F11: "Gives the panegyric of the man of the cloth having the experience of retracing the footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land." First published in 1884.].

NY: Macmillan, 1931. First Edition. Very Good/Good. pp: xi213; complete with four duotone plates on text stock. Bound in blue and yellow cloth with an all-over Native American pattern; in the matching dust wrapper with a long, repairable tear on the back panel. 8.75" x 7.25

Princeton, NJ: Printed by John T. Robinson, 1855. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. 28pp. Bound in yellow wrappers, title printed on cover. Dampmark at lower corner of rear cover. "Pres by RS Field 2/60" pencilled on cover. 9" x 5.75" The topic is "habit," moral and intellectual. Richard Stockton Field (1803-1870), Princeton grad and NJ lawyer, served as the State's Attorney General for three years, took part in the state constitutional convention in 1844, was appointed US District Judge in 1863, &c. [Felcone, Printing in Princeton, 383.].

New Haven: William Reese Company, 1991. Hardcover. Fine. pp: (x), 430. Bound in red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. 9.25" x 6" This pioneering work on Native Americans was first issued in 1873.

NY: Mills Music, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp; some pages are misnumbered. Contains piano music for 10 tunes, the original arrangement of each precedes the Shep Fields' Rippling Rhythm arrangement. Included are: Ain't Misbehavin; Dinah; Stormy Weather; Just Try to Picture Me Down Home in Tennessee; Mary Lou; Broadway Rose; and four more. The cover shows a close-up of Shep Fields against a blue-and-white background. 12" x 9

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1860. Second Edition. Morocco & Boards. Very Good. Four volumes bound as two, thick duodecimo. pp: xii, 420; 428; 407; 378. Bound in morocco -backed marbled boards, gilt rules and lettering on spine. 7.25" x 4.25" Text in French.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. First American Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. Large quarto. (48)pp on heavy stock; 12 full-page portraits in color, smaller portraits and floral decorations on all other pages. Bound in green cloth, pastedown cover illustration by Harrison Fisher, gilt lettering. 11" x 10.25" Besides Harrison Fisher and Will Jenkins, other artists include Clarence T. Underwood, Howard Chandler Christy, Nathan Cootes, and Will Grefe.

Pittsburgh: Univ of Pittsburgh Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. pp: xxiii, 369 with index; illustrations from title-pages, dust jackets, etc. Bound in black and blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, blue endpapers, top edges stained blue. 9.5" x 6.5