c. 1890’s. Oblong advertising broadside, measuring approximately 40 x 21 cm. It has folds and shelfwear with a a few closed tears. One tear has an old repair with paper on the verso.~~One of those 19th century advertising broadsides where.....

New York: Anderson & Stoner // Hurst & Company, 1908. Quarto. Soft Cover. Fantastic limp cloth book of a dozen-odd pages; a bit of fraying at the top and bottom edges; some soiling to the pages, but largely in nice.....

Charleston: Lanneau’s Art Store, 1911. First Edition. Oblong Quarto; in brown paper wrappers with a sepia illustration pasted to the upper wrapper; 6 pages; complete with 24 sepia photographic illustrations of colonial architecture in Charleston; some chipping to the edges.....

Various: National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, 1943-1973. A nice if incomplete run of Muzzle Blasts 230 issues with a few duplicates, retrieved from a basement, so these issue have a musty odor.~~The issues are:~~1943. 10 issues (no Jan. or Feb.)~1944.....

Havana, Cuba: 1949. 11 3/4” x 9”, 34pp, black and white photographs and illustrations w/ 27 signatures of featured dancers, including by Alicia Alonso and Director Fernando Alonso.~~Alicia Alonso (1920-2019) was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer who started.....

A finely penned manuscript of an arrangement for piano forte of “Grand Pot-pourri” from Carl Maria Weber’s opera Der Freischutz, completed by Weber in 1822. The arrangement, and perhaps this transcription, was by J. K. Ohl, probably Joseph Ohl, sometime.....

Brooklyn, NY: Yulecraft Advertising Co., 1955. Henry Washington Dabney (1884-1954) was a funeral director in Ashland, Virginia who founded the first minority-owned funeral home in the area. The Henry W. Dabney Funeral Home was taken over by Dabney’s daughter Salada.....

Richmond, VA & NYC: E.T. Paull Music Co., 1894-1924. E.T. Paull (1858-1924) was a composer of marches and sheet music publisher. He was the first to use 5-color lithography for his sheet music, making them highly collectible pieces. This group.....

1901-1903. Frank Frayser (1871-1958) of Richmond, VA set aside $264 to travel the world in 1900, according to a local newspaper. He also wrote about his travels to Japan in, “The Land of the Chrysanthemums”, two 1903 unpublished accounts of.....

Wilson Wright and Associates, Inc., 1948. Program for the 1948-1949 season of the Ballets de l’Opera de Paris for their first tour in America. Presented by the French National Lyric Theater and the French Foreign Ministry, & under the direction.....

New York: Gorham B. Munson~, 1923. Large 8vo.; in the publisher’s cream colored printed stapled wrappers, printed lettering in the Dadaist style; 28 pages, including a leaf of advertisements. There is some rust staining at the staples.~~Munson’s circular announcing Secession.....

Richmond, VA: 1975. This unique artifact is the companion to a 1975 history-oriented booze cruise on the James, created by and for a group calling themselves the International Society of Hunters, Bums, and Poker-Players. 14” x 8 1/2” self-bound book.....

New York City: General Program Corporation, 1942. 50pp full color program for the 1942-1943 season of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, presented by S. Hurok. Cover of this version is the less common illustration by Boris Aronson. ~~Slight wear to.....