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[GAME] STAR AUTHORS.
New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1877. Pasteboard box with colored pictorial label showing bust of Shakespeare on a shelf of books. With 64 cards as called for, and a stapled pamphlet of directions. Some soiling to the box.
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We expect that we will be down through March and hope to resume sending our weekly e-catalogues in April. At that time we will be open “by appointment only”. Until then our books will not be for sale. In the meantime, you can contact us by email at nick@blackswanbooks.com.
THE GARDENER AND THE BEAR: TOGETHER WITH, THE HUNTER, THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD AND, THE CARPENTER AND THE APE
Evesham: Red Apple Press, 1968. Limited Edition. In a limited edition of 26 lettered copies, of which this is letter “A”. [24] pages, each with a border of printer’s flowers printed in red; the half-title bordered in bronze colored printer’s.....
GENEALOGY OF THE DAME FAMILY FOR TEN GENERATIONS IN AMERICA
Richmond VA: 1890. Octavo. Stapled Pamphlet. Loss to front wrapper; no missing pages; writing to wrappers; text shows light soiling.
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[GOVERNMENT IMPRINT] PARCEL POST. HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON PARCEL POST OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICES AND POST ROADS UNDER S. RES. 56. TESTIMONY OF POSTAL OFFICIALS AND FORMER POSTAL OFFICIALS ...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912. Hard Cover. Quarto; in government issued blue cloth binding; 5 Volumes of hearings in 1912, bound together, and numbered sequentially; 1290 pages in total. With call numbers on the spine, and a rudimentary pocket at.....
GOVERNOR TAYLOR’S LOVE LETTERS TO THE PUBLIC. TO UNCLE SAM, POLITICIANS, BOYS, GIRLS, BACHELORS, DRUMMERS, FIDDLERS, FISHERMEN, MOTHERS-IN-LAW, CANDIDATES, SWEETHEARTS, SPORTSMEN, TEACHERS.
Nashville, Tenn. The Illustrated Youth and Age, 1899. Soft Cover. First Edition. First Edition of Governor Taylor’s Love Letters to the Public, with in text illustrations throughout. Previous owner’s name and staining to the front cover, else no marks. Printed.....
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[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [PROPAGANDA] [MILITARY & NAVAL] FLEET ADMIRAL NIMITZ POSTER. WORLD WAR II. “THAT’S THE SPOT TO HIT!”
[Washington, D.C.]: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1944. 40” x 28.5”; Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz World War II framed propaganda poster; original Official Navy Poster, Industrial Incentive Division; “That’s The Spot To Hit!”. Some creases evident, but no tears --.....
![Item #288802 [GRAPHIC DESIGN] [TOBACCO AD] DIANA](/pictures/thumb/288802.jpg?v=1591218931)
[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [TOBACCO AD] DIANA.
A. Hoen & Co. | Hatch Lith. Co., [1874]. Lithographic advertisement for Diana brand tobacco, by A. Hoen & Co. in Richmond, Va.
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[GRAPHIC DESIGN] [TOBACCO AD] WINNER PLUG TOBACCO. BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, PETERSBURG VIRGINIA
Richmond, Va. A. Hoen & Co., [c. 1890]. 10 3/8 x 10 3/8”; color chromolithograph label for “Winner Plug Tobacco” backed in linen. The British-American Tobacco Co. was the advertising company and labels such as these were intended to be.....
THE GROVER CLEVELAND MEMORIAL: CARNEGIE HALL, THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
New York: 1910. Octavo. Hard Cover. A handsome, bright copy with no markings of any kind; sound binding with only very light edgewear. Binding protected in a hand cut mylar cover.
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[HANDBILL] PENROSE ROBINSON. 1818. SHERIFF. SHERIFFALTY. YORK COUNTY, PENNSYVLANIA
A handbill from 1818 promoting the candidacy of one Penrose Robinson, who was seeking to be elected Sheriff of York County, Pennsylvania. Robinson was a prominent local merchant. The handbill has been trimmed, affecting the border but not, we believe.....
HAPPY KIDS’ AT THE ZOO COLORING BOOK
New York: Burton Playthings, Inc., 1934. Quarto. Soft Cover. In remarkable condition: no markings in text and none of the pictures have been colored. Very light rubbing to extremities of wrappers; STILL HAS original “Happy Kids’ Colors” crayons in crayon.....
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[HARRISONBURG] [THE TAJ] SEVEN ISSUES HARRISONBURG HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE & YEARBOOK
[Harrisonburg, Va.]: Harrisonburg High School. A group of issues of The Taj, the magazine of Harrisonburg High School.. The issues are the Fall Number, 1930 (textblock separated from the wrappers); the Fall Number 1931; the Winter Number 1931; the Semor.....
Historical Sketches of the Missions Under the Care of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church
Philadelphia: Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church, 1886. Hard Cover. First Edition. Containing much information concerning missions among North American Indians; missions in Africa, Persia, Mexico, Siam, etc. With numerous folding maps. In publisher’s maroon cloth, which has.....
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[HOLIDAY ADVERTISING CARD] HOLIDAY PRESENTS AND TOYS AT REDUCED PRICES AT KIERSKI & CO’S BOOK STORE. 90 SOUTH C STREET, VIRGINIA CITY.
[Virginia City, Nevada]: [Kierski & Co’s Book Store], [c. 1870]. A Christmas advertising card depicting a weary Santa, taking a much needed reading break. Printed for the Kierski & Co. Book Store in Virginia City, Nevada, from the 1870’s. Originally.....
THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS (2 VOLUMES): TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. APPOINTED TO BE READ IN CHURCHES.
Cambridge: The Pitt Press, 1837. Folio. Full Leather. The King James Edition of the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, complete in two volumes with facsimile inscription for King William the Fourth’s special printing of the Holy Scriptures at the.....
THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS: TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL TONGUES, AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. | THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, TRANSLATED OUT OF THE ORIGINAL GREEK; AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED, BY HIS MAJESTY’S SPECIAL COMMAND. | THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN METRE. (ONE VOLUME)
Edinburgh: Printed by Sir J. H. Blair and J. Bruce, 1799, 1800. Quarto. Full Leather. The Old and New Testament of the King James Bible, with a separate issue of The Psalms of David in Metre bound in at the.....
THE HOME PICTURE-BOOK.
London; Edinburgh; New York: T. Nelson and Sons, 1856. Oversized. Hard Cover. With title leaf, and four two-page spreads, verso and recto. Each page chromolithographed with eight numbered vignettes accompanied by short children’s verses; the vignettes and text are printed.....
HOSTETTER’S ILLUSTRETE FORENEDE STATERS ALMANAK. 1879. FOR KJOBMAND, HAANDVARKSMAND, BJERGMAND, FORPAGTERE, PLANTAGEEIERE, SAMT TIL ALMINDELIGT HUUSBRUG.
Pittsburgh, PA: Hostetter & Smith, [1878]. Stapled Pamphlet. A bright copy of an uncommon Norwegian language issue of Hostetter’s Almanac for 1879. In the publisher’s blue printed wrappers. String tie at the top corner. 36 pp...
HOW TO PLAY MODERN BACKGAMMON. CONTAINING THE OFFICIAL RULES AS ADOPTED AND PLAYED BY THE LEADING NEW YORK CLUBS.
New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [1930]. 24mo. Stapled Pamphlet. A stapled pamphlet of the rules and play of Modern Backgammon. Complete in 16 pages. Minor wear to the original paper covers; beginnings of separation at the edges of.....
![Item #292461 [HUMOR] [MAGAZINE] HOOEY. JANUARY 1931. VOL. I. NO.1](/pictures/thumb/292461.jpg?v=1604170885)
[HUMOR] [MAGAZINE] HOOEY. JANUARY 1931. VOL. I. NO.1
Popular Magazines, Inc., [1931]. Soft Cover. The first issue of Popular Magazine’s Hooey. A reasonably bright and secure copy. A precursor to Mad Magazine, and following the same humorous format of fake advertisements and bawdy one-off comics.; mildly risque and.....
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF GENESIS
New York: Chartwell Books Inc, 2014. Full Leather. Beautifully bound in full navy leather with a lovely paste down of the animals waiting to board Noah’s Ark. Gilt lettering and decorations, silk moire endpapers and silk ribbon marker. All edges.....
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[INCUNABLE] [LATIN BIBLE] BIBLIA INTEGRA,: SUMMATA, DISTINCTA, ACCURATIUS REEMEDATA, UTRIUSQUE; TESTAMENTI COCORDANTIJS ILUSTRATA
[Johann Froben]: [Basel], 1495. 12mo., in early speckled vellum dyed green with old repair to the hinges; two columns in small Gothic letters, 54 lines per column; without rubication; with two leaves supplied in facsimile, including the t title leaf.....
INSTRUCTIONS TO OPERATORS. INDEPENDENT WIRELESS TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
New York: Independent Wireless Telegraph Company, 1930s. A blank log book with instructions for operating the wireless telegraph. With two folding charts. The Independent Wireless Company operated ship-to-shore stations in Babylon, East Hampton and Garden City. The booklet lists agents.....
INTERCONTINENTAL RAILWAY COMMISSION. VOLUME III. REPORTS OF SURVEYS AND EXPLORATIONS MADE BY CORPS NO. 3 IN ECUADOR AND PERU. 1891 & 1892. (2 VOLUMES -- TEXT; MAPS & PROFILES IN PORTFOLIO]
Washington `: 1895. This sold as a 2-volumes set -- the text volume, which is illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, and the portfolio volume, which contains 50 maps and 48 profiles in a cardstock sleeve housed in a......
INTERIORS DECORATIONS AND FURNISHINGS OF LONDON GUILD HALLS.
New York: Wm. Helburn, [1902]. Forty plates in autotype, housed in a somewhat worn portfolio, with a preliminary title leaf. The title leaf is a bit chipped; all of the 40 plates are Very Good. The portfolio is lacking the.....