Search Results: Titles starting with A from Zephyr Used & Rare Books

Goes & [Rotterdam]: A.S.J. Dekker, [Hofdrukkerijen Arps & Zoon], [ca. 1928]. 4to. With 16 sepia-tinted photogravure plates of organs, each w/ text in lower right corner identifying the instrument. Pictorial khaki-coloured softcovers, yapp edges, embossed & raised illustration of pipe organ on front cover, w/ pipes printed in silver, lettering in dark brown, w/ Art Deco decorative elements, sewn at gutter margin w/ gold silk braid, w/ ownership label on inner front cover for I.C. Jansen. First edition of this scarce and beautiful catalogue illustrating the historic pipe organs restored by the famed Dutch organ building firm, as well as the electrical keyboard installed by the company to upgrade their performance. These include such organs as those in the Reformed Churches in Elburg, Zevenbergen, Lisse, Stellendam, Bennebroek, Huizen, and others. Dekker (1869-1918) built the company into a substantial factory in Goes, Netherlands, and was known for producing the two-manual and pedal Sonora organs. In… Read More

[Portland, OR: Hollywood College of Music, Dancing & Fine Arts, Baker Studio, Granada Studio, La Vere Photo Shoppe, Photo Craft Studios, ca. 1930-1933]. Oblong 4to. 24 original photographs, all preserved in archival mylar sleeves, sized 6.25 x 7 in. up to 8 x 10 in., some w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative, others w/ manuscript captions added, a few w/ annotations and/or photographer’s instructions on versos, all with bright strong contrast (a few w/ offsetting from previous mounting on versos, and one w/ very small pinholes at corners from prior mounting). Recent cloth binder, stamping front cover, excellent grouping. These photographs vividly document the dance and music studio, operated by Annabelle Knowles reflecting the fast evolving costumes and aesthetics of the twilight of the Roaring 20’s as the U.S. descended into the Great Depression. These photos also clearly reflect the influence of Gus Edwards (1879-1945) vaudeville’s premier producer of kiddie acts, and who had produced… Read More

[Paris & Arromanches, France: n.p., 1900-1901]. Oblong thick 8vo. 9 x 6.5 x 2 in. [50 leaves (unnumbered).], w/ 50 mounted albumen photos, on thick card stock, hinges at gutter margin, sized 3 x 4.25 in., the Exposition photos w/ negative numbers below, but no captions, Normandy photos captioned. Contemporary green pebbled cloth post-binder, nickel-plated screwposts (minor shelfwear, light scuffing), still VG exemplar. The Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 introduced marvels which would transform the 20th Century, the Modern Age, featuring diesel engines, talking films, escalators, the first magnetic audio recorder called the telegraphone, and the massive Ferris wheel spread over 543 accres, featuring 83,000 exhibitors. The compiler has included photos of the Porte Monumental, the Pavilion of Nations, the Palace of Decorative Arts, Palace of Costumes & Textiles, The Cambodian Pavilion, the Cambodian pagoda, the Chinese Pavilion, the Palace of Electricity, and many others. The images all retain a… Read More

[Haverhill, MA: Haverhill High School, The Thinker Yearbook Staff, 1937-1949]. Three vols. 4to. [48 pp (unpaginated).], with 32 photos, sized 2.5 x 2.5 in. up to 4 x 6 in., numerous programs & clippings preserved in archival mylar sleeves, recent cloth 3-ring binder, w/ stamping front cover; 2nd -- [68 pp (unpaginated).], on thick brown paper stock, w/ 63 photos tipped-in w/ black corners, sized from 4 x 6 in. up to 8 x 10 in., many of them cropped or w/ annotations for yearbook reproduction, many bear grease pencil markings for “The Thinker” yearbook. Front cover cork binding, rear cover renewed in cloth, post-binder (edgewear, rubbing), still VG; 3rd - [34 pp (unpaginated).], yearbook blueline proof copy, w/ annotations in pencil, corrections, photos and text for Ring Around Elizabeth (toning to fore-edges, some soiling, scuffing), VG- exemplars. This archive of photos and ephemera document the efforts of Haverhill High School students and their English teacher and drama enthusiast Paul… Read More

[Stockton, CA: Duffy; Eddy, ca. 1926-1931]. Oblong 4to. 11 x 4.2 in. [70 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper stock. With 99 photographs & RPPC’s, sized from 2.6 x 4.5 in. to 3.5 x 5.5 in., photographer’s imprint w/in negative at lower corner, w/ many captioned. Contemporary polished calf Yellowstone Park souvenir post-binder, punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ suede calf tie, illust. of brown bear on front cover (minor scuffing, edgewear, minor soiling to upper right corner, wear to corners), still VG exemplar. This album records the automobile trip and scenic views along the way of a young Stockton, California couple as they traveled past Mount Shasta to the Columbia River Gorge Highway, with snapshots interspersed with RPPC’s. Views of the Rotary Club Fountain at Wahkeena Falls along the Columbia River Highway, the Cascade Falls and Funicular at Mount Shasta, the Bonneville Fish Hatchery, as well as Salmon Fish Wheels on the Columbia River, and Multnomah Falls are all present. In addition,… Read More

[Paris, Rome, & Vienna: E. Neurdein; G. Castelli, Via Condotti 30; C. Decoix; Fotografia Falcetti e Ci.; Maison Giacomo Brogi; Oscar Kramer, Photograhie, ca. 1878]. Thirty-one albumen cabinet photographs, most approx. 4 x 6 in. mounted on 4.25 x 6.5 in. studio boards, a couple colour-tinted on verso, 23 for Paris & Versailles nearly all featuring manuscript ink annotations on verso (both Fannie & C.P. Bishop); 8 for Italy & Austria featuring photographer’s imprints at lower fore-edges, and a few on verso (minor edgewear, dustsoiling, slight curving), still VG collection of images, from the library of Fannie Kay Thomas Bishop (1857-1944), and Charles Pleasant Bishop (1854-1941) founding owners of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. Twenty-three of these Grand Tour souvenir albumen cabinet card photos depict many of the popular sights in Paris during the opening decade of the Belle Epoque. These include the “Colonne de Juillet” commemorating the 1830 Revolution; the Palais de l’Industrie erected for… Read More

[Sebastapol & Santa Rosa, CA: Donna Blair Abbott Rodriguez], Feb., 1988. Fourteen silver gelatin photographs, 11 x 14 in., w/ each of the images having a healthy margin, rendering many of them approx. 8 x 10.5 in., printed on Seagull Oriental G-3 Photographic paper stock (some curling to fore-edges), preserved in original photographic paper box, manuscript annotations & title on lid in Rodriguez’ hand. This grouping of exceptional photographs of events and participants documents the Miles City Ranch Rodeo in Eastern Montana, with an energy and intimacy often seen in her tattoo and travel photographs. The first shows a bull rider having lost his hat, and bull literally almost stampeding over rodeo clown; followed by two vivid bronc riding photos, one of which shows the Culbertson ambulance waiting just outside of the gate. Three different rodeo riders are shown competing in the calf roping events, while others show riders taping up for events, or seated and waiting to be called outside the nearby… Read More

[Paris: n.p., ca. 1918]. 4to. [24 leaves (unnumbered).], archival mylar sleeves, holding 48 silver print photos, sized 5 x 7 in., most w/ pencil, or pen annotations either below in white blank, or on verso, some w/ “Copyright Reproduction Interdite” stamps on verso, others w/ inventory numbers in pen, or pencil (minor soiling, creasing, some minor chipping, & closed tears), still good set of photographs. These 48 images encapsulate the devastation of World War I, not only capturing many of the French & German aircraft, but also downed planes, casualties, significant historical figures such as General Pershing on an inspection tour, as well as the effects of bombardment on French buildings, and public works. Aircraft identified in the images, include the massive Handley Page Type O biplane bomber, Spad biplane, downed German Zeppelin, a Nieuport 17 C.1, French sesquiplane fighter; Voisin biplane, a French dirigible, and others. Also included are images of German aviators’ remains near their… Read More

Stayton, OR: A.M. Brown, Photographer, [ca. 1891]. Oblong 4to. 1 boudoir sized albumen photo sized 5 x 8 in. mounted on 8 x 10 in. re-used studio mount, corners carefully rounded, and albumen portrait photo mounted on verso crossed out in pencil by the photographer (very minor dustsoiling, slight stain to left margin of board), still VG bright image. By 1890, Marion County, and farms near Stayton, Oregon had become known for their wheat made into buckwheat flour which drew premium prices wherever sold. This image shows wagons loaded with loose grain being hauled to the thresher, or separator, where it was loaded into the feeder, an adjustable hopper, and then the separated kernels were loaded into stacks. This image shows the traction engine connected by wide leather (possibly rubberized) belt to the threshing machine itself. Brown (1860-1931) only operated as a professional photographer in Stayton, Oregon in 1891, before moving to Salem where he continued until about 1896. He later became an… Read More

[Portland, OR, New York, Chicago, IL, San Francisco, CA: Pfunder Pharmaceutical Chemist, Mar-Lew, Wheeler, Trench, Ellers Music House, Bushong & Co., et al, 1894-1969]. Twenty nine parts. 15 Folio, 13 4to., 1 8vo. [Approx. 150 pp (all unpaginated, some 4, others 6 pp.).], all w/ self-printed illustrated, or colour-illustrated softcovers, 3 w/ interior photo illustrations of Rose Court, or Portland environs (some w/ dustsoiling, a few w/ minor closed tears, edgewear, minor creasing on a couple), still a grouping in VG condition overall, from the library of former Portland Rose Festival enthusiast, Lois Jane Barlow Lassell (1925-2017), who had worked as a “Rosie the Riveter” aircraft riveter, as well as welder in the Kaiser shipyards during World War II, and later worked as a Portland Police stenographer following the War. This archive of sheet music reveals the musical tastes, and cultural interests of Portland Rose Festival aficionados beginning with a Waltz by Harry Miller & George Jameson,… Read More

[La Center, WA: La Center Co-operative Creamery Association, 1903-1905]. Folio. 8.75 x 14.25 in. [12], 186 pp., on ruled paper in blue & red, thumb-tabs for first few leaves, nearly entire ledger filled out in ink manuscript, some pencil, much of it in cursive, and often w/ corrections. A few pieces of ephemera, and 1 sample of La Center Co-op letterhead laid-in. Red half-calf over pebbled black cloth, calf corners, gilt decoration, rounded corners (minor scuffing, wear, minor chipping & tear on spine, wear to corners, shaken, couple leaves partially loose), still G exemplar, from the library of Guy Charles Anderson (1892-1971), whose father Benjamin Franklin Anderson (1870-1931) owned one of the larger dairy farms in La Center, WA, and was one of the directors of the short-lived La Center Cooperative Creamery Assoc., w/ inscription on ffep. Guy, served in World War I, and returned for a while to his family dairy, but by World War II was working as extension worker with the U.S. Dept. of… Read More

Portland, OR: Helen Schultz Hermann, 4311 52nd St., S.E., [ca. 1914-1918]. Oblong 13.5 x 10.25 in. [98 pp (unpaginated).], on thick black paper. With 368 photographs tipped-in, most glued at corners, some printed on RPPC paper, and a few RPPC w/ identifying annotations w/in negative at lower fore-edge, a few mounted w/ black corners, sized from 1 x 1 in. up to 3.5 x 5.5 in., with most larger, and many w/ white ink annotations below, ink annotations in lower fore-edge, or manuscript on verso of a few. Contemporary flexible black cloth post-binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, sewn at gutter margin w/ black tie (minor bumping, edgewear to couple corners, foot of spine, a few images removed), still a very nice exemplar, w/ nearly all images retaining strong contrast. This nicely executed photo album vividly depicts the travels, lives, and adventures of a group of young Portlanders in the Progressive Era just before World War I, and then during the War. Young Helen Schultz (1899-1991) was the… Read More

[Sarasota, FL, New Philadelphia, OH, New York, California, et al: Clyde Beatty Circus, Frontier Attractions, Management Agency, ca. 1950-1972]. 4to. [43 leaves (unnumbered).], archival mylar sleeves, preserving 29 publicity photographs, nearly all printed on glossy photo stock, sized 8 x 10 in., w/ photographer’s imprint w/in negative, some w/ annotations on verso, 1 signed, 1 large colour Kodak sized 8.5 x 11 in., 20 brochures, broadsides, playbills, some up to 8.5 x 17 in., several printed on colour-tinted paper, 1 to Frank Orman signed. Vinyl 3-ring binder, with photo slipped-in to front sleeve, printed label on spine (occasional toning, some minor creasing to brochures, others folded as issued, toning to clippings), still a VG grouping. Featuring daring cowgirl trick rope performers, knife throwers, whip artists, and trick riders, this album documents many of the acts which entertained crowds at the Clyde Beatty Circus, as well as the Gene Autry Show, rodeos across the country, television… Read More

[Los Angeles, CA: MacDonald Collection, ca. 1920-1955]. Archive of 89 coated labels, sized from 2.25 x 3.5 in., up to 6.25 x 8.5 in., with many in the middle ranges, including distinctive 5.25 in. rounds, most colour lithographs, some with metallic inks, nearly all retaining the original adhesive from never having been applied to luggage, in assorted shapes, many round, others rectangular, square, diamond shaped, etc., most on thin coated paper stock, all NF condition, from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald (1892-1977), stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne, as well as oil company, and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. A delightful and remarkably colourful small archive of fine lithographed and colour printed luggage labels preserved from over three decades of ocean liner travel by the well-to-do California oil family. Their frequent voyages carried them to Hawaii, Asia, South Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas,… Read More

[Gloucester, MA: Al Hurdle, ca. 1960-1978]. Fifty-five original cartoon drawings on artist’s illustration board, 38 in full colour, the remainder in pen & ink, 54 sized 8 x 10 in., 1 sized 6 x 8 in., all signed in lower corners by Hurdle, many are dated, 2 have neatly written identifications on versos, an excellent archive. The archive begins with a splendid self-portrait caricature of the artist himself drawing a caricature of Jimmy Carter, surrounded by caricatures and cartoon characters, including Jimmy Stewart, L.B.J., Theodore Roosevelt, Arthur Godfrey, Art Carney, Mark Spitz, Fidel Castro and Bob Hope, with cartoon charaxters such as Mickey Mouse, Katzenjammer Kids, Jiggs, Pluto, Buster Brown & Tige, the Toonerville Trolley and others. Also included are undated caricatures of President Harry Truman with signature in lower right, Henry Kissinger, President Kennedy, along with satire of Barry Goldwater wanting to gain the presidency, and the scandal with former Pennsylvania Rep. Josua Eilberg… Read More

[Portland, OR: Union Avenue Theater; Egyptian Theater, 1914-1938]. 4to. [85 leaves (unnumbered).], archival mylar sleeves preserving 86 silver gelatin photographs, most w/ film, studio and star information at lower margin, w/in negative, or neatly typed on verso, many w/ annotations on versos, some w/ pencil rubbing, and one with long ALS from William Graeper to employee (many of the images w/ minor chipping to corners, occasional minor closed tears, some soiling and a few with loss, some thumbing, and a couple w/ thumb tack marks at corners). Recent cloth 3-ring binder, lettering stamped on front cover, still a VG- archive, w/ most images retaining excellent bright contrast. A remarkable survivor archive offering an excellent visual historical record of the silent movies played amidst the Vaudeville performances at the Union Avenue Theater and later The Egyptian Theater in Portland, Oregon from before World War I, until the late 1930s. Of particular interest are the 23 “lost films” represented… Read More

Osaka, Japan: The Osaka Municipal Office, [Printed by the Toppan Printing Co.], 1930. 12mo. 5, [1], 89, [1], 4 pp. Photo illustrations throughout, 1 large folding colour map. Colour-illustrated woodblock print wraparound cover art softcovers (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), NF copy. First edition of this scarce development promotion work for Osaka, Japan touting the tremendous advances in the port city through the opening decades of the 20th century. Photos and text explore the food markets, museums, foreign trade statistics, port facilities, public transportation, tourist spots, beaches, and industries.

[East Hartford, CT & West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, FL: Ralph A. Johnson; Kirbell, July 14, 1932 - ca. 1933]. 4to. Fourteen silver gelatin photographs preserved in archival sleeves, 5 sized 8.5 x 11 in., w/ sepia toning, and date & photographer’s signature w/in negative, sequence numbered in blank margin at upper fore-edge; 8 sized 8 x 10 in. (occasional minor creasing to corners, edgewear), 1 sized 3.5 x 5.5 in. Recent post binder, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, from library of former Revenue Agent, Ralph A. Johnson, R1 Box 43, Hawthorne, FL. These mostly large images depict the efforts by the U.S. Official Bureau of Prohibition, and the reconstituted Bureau of Alcohol Tax Unit (now ATF) attempting to root out and destroy a large farm-based still in Connecticut, and others in Palm Beach County, Florida following the repeal of Prohibition. From 1919-1933, large farms across New England were hiding industrial sized moonshine operations in large barns across the countryside, and the… Read More

[Portland, OR: A.J. Baker, Photo Studio, 929 Sandy Blvd., 1925-1936]. Two vols. Folio. 16 x 11.25 in. [96 pp (unpaginated).], on thick beige-coloured paper. With 24 silver gelatin photos, tipped-in w/ corners, 22 sized 8 x 10 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in., many w/ neatly written captions to the sides in black ink, 2 sized 4 x 6 in., mounted w/ printed captions, several w/ photographer’s commercial stamp on verso, 10 graph paper charts. Contemporary black cloth post-binder, sewn w/ black silk braid at gutter margin (minor wear to corners, very minor bumping to couple corners), VG exemplar; [together with]. Motorship. Vol. X, No. 10, October, 1925, pp. 725-788, w/ 100s of photo illusts., text illustrations, illust. ads. Colour-illustrated softcovers, photo cover art of Dredge Clackamas, lettering in black (minor edgewear, creasing, minor closed tears), VG- copy. This remarkable album includes excellent original silver gelatin photographs of the Port of Portland dredge Clackamas which launched in 1925, and… Read More

[Waterloo Falls, OR: n.p., June 8, 1890]. Oblong 8vo. 1 boudoir sized albumen photo sized 8 x 4.5 in. mounted on studio board 8.5 x 5 in., w/ pencil annotations indicating location, date, and very faintly a few of the participants, although without last names indicated (minor toning, shelfwear), still VG bright image. At the time this photo was shot, there was a concerted push by business leaders, and local citizenry pushing for an electric excursion train to the Waterloo Falls 1889-1890 along the South Santiam, River as seen by articles published periodically in the Lebanon Express newspaper. The image is a striking shot with the band members, and family members strewn about seated on the rocks next to the river during late Spring runoff, and the Falls. Contemporary images of Waterloo Falls, and the South Santiam River area are fairly uncommon, and the caption refers to Andrew, John, S.B., Walter, and George standing near “me.”