Philadelphia: Printed by James Humphrey Junior In Front Street, 1773. Octavo, 52pp. later boards with red cloth spine and paper repair over spine. Scarce publication by this early American society of the aid of protestant missionary familes undergoing hardship in foreign lands. Prints a history of the group, lists of.....
Japan: Circa 1950. Folded leaf measuring 10 3/4 x 15", with photographic illustrations of Christian mission work in Japan on one side and a handwritten letter on the other by Mrs. Yutaka Akichika. The Reverend Yutaka Akichika moved to the USA as a boy, where he met his Nikkei wife.....
The Gilette Co, 1955. Oblong 8vo, stapled booklet with pictorial covers, 16 pp, illustrated throughout. A midcentury guide to hairstyling and makeup for women using products manufactured by the Gilette Company.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1928. 4to, 60pp, gilt and olive green decorative wrappers, numerous photographic illustrations throughout. A special 25th anniversary edition of "Club Life", a magazine produced by the settlement clubs of the University of Wisconsin. The first 25 pages of this issue commemorates the founding of Wisconsin University Settlement, an.....
New York: 1960s-80s. Collection of six flyers/price lists for gay pornographic magazines and novels. Creased, toned, bit soiled, very good overall.
San Francisco: 1902-1905. Six "bulletins" issued by curriculum supervisors at the San Francisco State Normal School (today San Francisco State University), a vocational school founded in 1899 dedicated to the training of aspiring teachers, mainly young women. These handbooks provide guidance for the teaching of geography, reading, and mathematics in.....
Charleston, S.C. The News and Courier Book Presses, 1881. A discussion of the public school system in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as that of the greater South, written by William Ashmead Courtenay, two term mayor of the city. Courtenay discusses difficulties financing the current school system, as well as.....
Ossining, New York: 1930-1932. Includes three pamphlets titled "Annual Report of Victoria Home for Aged British Men and Women (Inc.) 'Hillside,' Ossining, New York," each 40-50pp. These are the 16th, 17th, and 18th annual reports for 1930-1932. Plus two programs, each 66pp, for "Ye Olde English Faire Plaza Hotel November.....
Ohio: 1915. A total of seven pieces, including an envelope with the printed address of "The Mandarin Cafe Henry G. Yee Mgr, American and Chinese Restaurant, Toledo, O." Affixed to the envelope is a handwritten piece of paper reading "The compliments of Louie Quong". The envelope contains six small cards.....
Circa 1920. Narrow 8vo, illustrated promotional brochure for a series of settlement house style residences for women run by the Salvation Army in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago. One side of the brochure prints images of the three west coast residences, another panel contains.....
1897. Circular measuring 10.25 x 7", on stiff paper, printed on both sides. Handbill advertising a lecture titled "The Germans And Their Achievements In America" by noted German American professor F.W.E. Peschau of Nebraska. The back side quotes from a speech Peschau gave at the Nashville Centennial Exposition of 1897.....
Chicago: Hull House, 1931. Well illustrated annual for the women's home founded by Jane Addams in 1889, in original wrappers. Very good, soiling and spotting to covers.
Boston, Mass. Brown, Durrell, & Co, [1880s]. A guide to knitting, crocheting, embroidery and art needlework issued as an advertisement for a corset vendor. The text contains illustrated instructions for making hats, mittens, infants' clothing, mittens, lace, and more, together with many pages of illustrated ads, mainly for corsets, but.....
Connecticut: 1928. Booklet measuring 12 x 9", pictorial wrappers, 24pp. Promotional booklet with illustrations from photographs as well as drawings, for a camp advertising a variety of activities including horseback riding. A very good copy, pp 11-12 sticking together along inner margin, minor soiling, creasing and wear.
Circa 1890. 12mo, 35pp, pictorial wrappers. "Presented by J.J. McDonnell, Druggist 6th and Market Sts San Francisco, Cal" stamped to front cover. Very good, toned and foxed.
[New York]: 1897. Small octavo, 32pp, printed wrappers, string bound. History and description of the Margaret Louisa Home, founded in 1889 with funds donated by Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Sheperd, the daughter of William Vanderbilt, to provide affordable, respectable housing to single women seeking to succeed in a city suddenly offering.....
Circa 1898. Photographic print of prominent Suffragist Frances Willard, affixed to pale blue card stock measuring 4.5 x 3.5", covered in tissue paper, with white ribbon bound at top. Chipping and tearing to tissue paper, toning and a bit of soiling.
Boston: 1823. 32pp, stitched. Tanned, scattered light fox and wear, old library stamp. Good or Good+. The overseers defend themselves against charges that they seek “independence of the City Council, which is alarming and dangerous.” The dispute arose over their removing tenants from the Alms-House. Much information is included on.....
United Kingdom: 1950-1955. 1) String tied album binding measuring 6.75 x 4.5:, containing 35 photographs, with handwritten title on front cover as well as a manuscript title page reading "The Lady Baden Powell G.B.E. World Chief Guide At Home in Hampton Court Palace June 6th and 11th 1954," signed to.....
New Jersey: 1922. 95 photographs in a suede string-tied album binding stamped “Del. Water Gap. PA. Photographs”. Binding worn, some fading to photographs. The photos are all captioned in white ink—“Buckwood Lodge, 1922” is noted on the first leaf. An advertisement in the 1921 Outlook Magazine lists Buckwood Lodge as.....
Jerozolima (Jerusalem): Urzad Oswiaty I Spraw Szkolnych/Naklad Komisji Regulaminowo-Wydawniczej Armli Polskej na Wschodzie. 1943. 8vo, 146pp, blue printed wrappers. A popular Polish grammar textbook, reprinted in Jerusalem for Polish refugees displaced by World War II. The imprint translates roughly to "Circulated by the Rules and Publishing Committee of the Polish.....
Chicago: [Committee for the Relief of Belgian Prisoners in Germany], [1918]. 4to, broadside, with cartoon illustration of prisoners of war being horribly mistreated by German guards captioned "This is the Way Belgian Prisoners are Treated in Germany." Text seeks to raise money for feeding and supplying these prisoners by describing.....
New York: Central Jewish Institute, Circa 1925. 8.25 x 7", green printed wrappers with cloth reinforced spine, [102]pp. A book of Yiddish and Hebrew songs printed for attendees of Jewish summer camps founded by the Central Jewish Institute. Albert and Bertha Schoolman founded of the Institute, based in Manhattan's Upper.....
New York City: Nestle Lanoil Company, Circa 1920s. 8vo, stapled pictorial wrappers, 16 pp, illustrated. Promotional guide to hair curling issued by an early manufacturer of an electric curling and waving kit. In nice condition with a bit of toning.
New York City: Japanese Students' Christian Association in North America, 1926. Octavo, stapled wrappers, 39pp. J.S.C.A. Pamphlets Series One Number One. The author, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, was a Japanese-American scholar and historian, and the General Secretary of the Japanese Students Christian Association, a branch.....