First Folio

Quick Search

Title
Author
Description
Keyword
 
 
 
 

Click on Title to view full description

 
View Image
1 TWICE A YEAR.
New York, 1947-1947 
513p. Volume XIV-XV. Double Number.

Paper wraps over boards. VG. 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
2 TILLOTSONS TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK.
Bolton, UK Tillotosons 1952 New edition. Fine. 
Small 4to. Bound in gilt-titled green embossed cloth.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
3 A PORTFOLIO OF ECCLESIASTICAL DESIGNS.
Milwaukee Church Property Administration n.d Library stamps on title page only, else fine. 
A portfolio of 130 loose plates with details, floor plans, and photos of exteriors and interiors. In s fabricoid portfolio with snap.

 
Price: 60.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
4 NONESUCH BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 1925, FOR THE SPRING 1926. WITH A HAND-LIST OF BOOKS HITHERTO PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS.
London Nonesuch Press n.d. [1925] Near fine. 
15p. 12mo. Prospectus in gray boards with gilt title and decorations in blind.

Dreyfus P10 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
5 THE WEEK-END BOOK.
London Reader's Union with The Nonesuch Press 1958 Edited by Francis Meynell. A new edition (not listed in Dreyfus). About fine in chipped d.j. 
580p. Small 8vo. Patterned cloth with black spine label.

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
6 THE GREATER OMNIBUS OF PRIVATE BOOKS.
New York Paragon Books 1942 Limited to 1550 copies, this copy not numbered. VG in soiled d.j. 
217p. Illustrated. 8vo. Gilt-titled green cloth.

Includes "Marriage and the Use of Passion" by Manhood, "Abyss" by Leonid Andreyev, "Mrs. Esmond's Life" by H.E.Bates, and "The Greek Anthology", anonymous. 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
7 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. CHIMNEYPIECES.
Boston American Architect Company 1903-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
2 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
8 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. CAPITALS.
Boston American Architect Company 1902-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
3 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
9 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. WELLS AND FOUNTAINS.
Boston American Architect Company 1902-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
2 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
10 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. DOMICAL BUILDINGS.
Boston American Architect Company 1902-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
2 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
11 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. PULPITS.
Boston American Architect Company 1903-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
2 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
12 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. TOMBS.
Boston American Architect Company 1903-04 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
3 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
13 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. GATES AND RAILINGS.
Boston American Architect Company 1902-03 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
4 Issues. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
14 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. NEWELS AND RAMPS.
Boston American Architect Company 1904 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
1 issue. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
15 TOPICAL ARCHITECTURE. FONTS AND STOUPS.
Boston American Architect Company 1902 A monthly publication of Classified Architectural Motives and Details. Plates from photographs. VG 
1 issue. 4to. In printed wrappers.

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
16 CONRAD'S MANIFESTO, PREFACE TO A CAREER. THE HISTORY OF THE PREFACE TO THE NIGGER OF THE "NARCISSUS".
Philadelphia The Gehena Press 1966 Limited to 1100 copies. Fine. 
79p. With a portrait frontispiece by Leonard Baskin taken from the original block, and with facsimilies of manuscript. 4to. Marbeled paper over boards, with paper title label on upper cover, housed in gray paper over boards chemise and slipcase with paper spine label.

Gehenna Press 49. 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
17 PAROISSIEN ROMAIN.
Limoges Dalpayrat et Depelley 1888 Old wear, but quite sound and attractive. 
314p. Title page and one other page with large chromolithographed borders, all other pages surrounded with a red rule. 32mo. Bound in full leather with pattern silk endpapers, a.e.g., the covers with elaborate gilt borders.

 
Price: 95.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
18 THE HONEYMAN COLLECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS. Vols, I, II, II, and V.
London Sotheby Parke Bernet 1978 Prices realized laid in Vol. I; estimates laid in Vols. III and V. VG, last two volumes with library stamp on cover. 
Four volumes. 4to. In gray wrappers.

 
Price: 60.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
19 A SONG IN FAVOUR OF BUNDLING.
Leicester Twelve by Eight Press (1961) Limited to 200 copies. Fine. 
13 leaves of multi-colored hand-made paper. Illustrated by Rigby Graham. Small folio. Gilt-titled parchment spine over marbeled boards.

Printed by the Orpheus Press. 
Price: 275.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
20 LES CONCOURS PUBLICS D'ARCHITECTURE. Vol. 4. Collecge, Court Houses, Expositions.
n.d Outer hinges cracked, but all quite sound, wear and soil to cover. 
Folio. Bound in brown cloth with leather spine labels.

Includes plates for the Paris L'Exposition Universelle de 1900. 
Price: 175.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
21 PM. Vol. II, No. 1, Sept. 1935.
VG. 
32p. Bound with a loose weave fabric over beveled boards, the upper cover with an electrotype shell reproduction of a bronze plaque of the Pied Piper of Hamelin by the Austrian sculptor Karl Perl.

 
Price: 45.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
22 ILIAS AMBROSIANA.
Olten Urs Graf, 1953 Limited to 800 copies. Fine in plain d.j. and slipcase. 
lvii, 58 mounted color plates, 52 plates in black and white. Folio. Bound in full vellum with gilt spine titles and pictorial design in gilt on upper cover.

 
Price: 850.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
23 THE COMPLETE WORK OF MICHELANGELO.
New York Reynal [c.1966] Fine in d.j. with one minor corner wrinkle. 
600p. Illustrated, including color plates. Folio. Gilt-titled tan cloth.

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
24 OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS FROM THE JOHN G. WHITE FOLKLORE COLLECTION AT THE CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Cleveland Bell & Howell 1966 Spine chipped, good. 
[xiv], 321p. Folio. In printed wraps.

Photographic reproductions of the overlapped catalogue cards. 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
25 THE DOLPHIN. Number 4, Part 2.
New York Limited Editions Club Winter, 1941 VG. 
110-232p, 16p. 4to. Green cloth.

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
26 THE DOLPHIN. Number Two.
New York Limited Editions Club 1935 VG+. 
329p. + ads. 4to. Black cloth with spine titles and designs in gilt and silver.

 
Price: 75.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
27 THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Autumn 1971 - 1986.
London The Collector, Ltd. 1971-86 Fine. Fine 
15 bound annual volumes and 14 single issues. Green library cloth with white titles, original wraps bound in, single issues in original wrappers.

Continuous run. The issues for 1972 - 1986 are bound. 
Price: 300.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
28 THE FLORENTINE FIOE VIRTU OF 1491.
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1953 About fine. 
xxxi, 119p. Illustrated. Stiff wraps.

 
Price: 25.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
29 HERBERT PUTNAM 1861-1955 A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE.
Washington, DC Library of Congress 1956 VG+. 
vii, 94p. Illustrated. Wrappers.

 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
30 WAS IST DAS?
Stuttgart Gustav Weise n.d.[1880's?] The book is warped and with edge wear, but complete and presentable. Scarce. 
Unpaged. Eight pages of color lithography on the rectos with verses on the versos. Printed on very heavy card stock. 4to. Cloth spine with color-printed glazed boards.

 
Price: 135.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
31 THE AMERICAN HOME. Vol. IX, No. 5.
Garden City, NY April, 1933 VG. 
193-256p. 4to. Magazine wrappers.

House plans, home financing & building news, gardening... 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
32 OFFICIAL PICTURES OF A CENTURY OF PROGRESS EXPOSITION.
Chicago Reuben H. Donnelley 1933 Fine. 
Unpaged. 64 pages of photographs by Kaufmann & Fabry, Official Photographers. - Color-printed stapled wrappers.

 
Price: 40.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
33 OFFICIAL GUIDE BOOK OF THE FAIR 1933.
Chicago A Century of Progress (1933) Some wear, but VG. 
194p. Illustrated, including folding map. Color-printed stapled wraps.

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
34 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Vol. 64, No. 5.
New York F.W. Dodge 1928 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

Features a house by Mellor, Meigs & Howe. 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
35 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Vol. 63, No. 1.
New York F.W. Dodge 1928 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

Includes an article by Frank Lloyd Wright. 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
36 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Vol. 64, No. 3.
New York F.W. Dodge 1928 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
37 THE ARCHITECTURAL RECORD. Vol. 63, No. 5.
New York F.W. Dodge 1928 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

Includes an article about Eliel Saarinen and an article by Frank Lloyd Wright. 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
38 ARCHITECTURE. Vol. LX, No. 3.
New York Scribner's 1929 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

Includes an article by Lewis Mumford. 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
39 ARCHITECTURE. Vol. LX, No. 6.
New York Scribner's December, 1929 VG. 
Illustrated. 4to. Original printed wrappers.

Includes an article by Lewis Mumford. 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
40 THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO.
New York Orion Press [c.1958] Fine in near fine d.j. 
xx, 356p. Illustrated with 25 color plates from a 14th century manuscript in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. Gilt-titled blue cloth.

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
41 AN UNCENSORED ANTHOLOGY.
Mount Vernon Peter Pauper Press (1939) Fine in slipcase. 
60p. Decorations in red by Carl Cobbledick. Pattern paper boards.

 
Price: 10.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
42 NEUES GREIZER GESANGBUCH.
Greiz, Henning 1826 VG in worn slipcase. 
[viii], 908p, 76p. Bound in full red leather, a.e.g., the spine and covers with black title labels, gilt ornaments on the spine and ornamental gilt borders around the covers, gauffering to the edges of the text block.

 
Price: 150.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
43 THE MIMES OF HERONDAS.
New York Privately printed 1921 Limited to 975 copies. Lower corners bumped, about fine. 
119p. Small 8vo. Linen spine over boards, paper spine label. Translated by M.S. Buck

 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
44 FOR ROBERT PENN WARREN 24 .IV. 80.
[Winston-Salem Palaemon Press] 1980 LIMITED TO 75 COPIES. Fine. 
Illustrated with an original woodcut of Warren by Ann Carter Pollard, Signed by the artist. Folio. Cloth portfolio with paper cover label.

A series of ten broadside poems laid loose in portfolio. Each is a poem limited to 75 copies and signed by the poet. The poems are by James Dickey, Reynolds Price, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, A.R. Ammons, Fred Chappell, William Meredith, John Hollander, George Garrett, and Rosanna Warren. 
Price: 850.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
45 THE WESTERN RURAL ANNUAL. 1871. A PRACTICAL YEAR-BOOK, CONTAINING PAPERS ON RURAL ECONOMY...
Chicago H.N.F. Lewis 1871 Front wrapper detached, and with soil and chipping, rear wrapper wanting, contents sound and clean 
Stiched printed wrappers. [xii], 128p. Illustrated

A "Pre-fire Imprint" published in the year of the Chicago fire 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
46 BUTLERIANA SB.
Bloomsbury The Nonesuch Press 1932 First printing, limited to 800 copies, this no. 2 A little darkening and bumping to spine ends, else VG 
8vo. xvi, 172p. Gilt-titled leather spine with marbled boards

Dreyfus 84 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
47 FOR AARON COPLAND.
N.P. Palaemon Press 1978 Limited to 50 numbered sets Fine 
Portfolio containing an 12" x 9" woodcut of Aaron Copland signed in pencil by Ann Carter Pollard and three original brodside poems signed by the authors: James Dickey, Reynolds Price, and Robert Penn Warren

 
Price: 600.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
48 VORT #5 (Vol. 2, No. 2): ROBERT KELLY.
Silver Spring, MD 1974 VG+ 
167p. 4to. In orange wraps. Issue devoted to Robert Kelly.

 
Price: 45.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
49 TRAITE DE SURRURERIE ET CONSTRUCTION EN FER.
Paris Ch. Juliot [c. 1900] VG in new binding 
Folio. Plate volume with 112 plates, many highlighted in color. Rebound with cloth spine and paper-covered sides with paper title labels on spine and upper cover

 
Price: 300.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
50 DON QUICHOTTE.
Paris Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies n.d. Preliminaries age-toned, damage to lower inner margin of p. 25. Plates fine, covers VG- 
4to. Illustrated with 28 wonderful full-page color plates. Color-printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine.

Includes Ali-Baba, Gargantua, DonQuichotto, Baron de Krack, L'Oiseau Bleu, and Riquet a la Houppe 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
51 THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE SERIES.
New York The Powgen Press (1936) All are near fine in dust jackets, the slipcase is worn 
A series of five delightful small 8vo books in a cardboard slipcase, each book illustrated with designs by different artists

The book are: Poe's Descent Into the Maelstrom illustrated by Charles E. McCurdy; Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow with drawings by Mary Dana; Whitman's Song of Myself with decorations by Joseph A. Low; Emerson's Compensation with designs by Barney Moore; and Hawthorne's Legends of the Province House with illustrations by Jean Lamont 
Price: 250.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
52 HAMMETT'S PLANISPHERE, SHOWING THE PRINCIPAL STARS VISIBLE FOR EVERY HOUR IN THE YEAR FROM LAT. 40N.
Cambridge, MA J.L. Hammett Company n.d. Some chipping to paper edges, but overall VG 
Circular heavy paper base with he stars and dates with a moveable guide which can be positioned to show the arrangement of the stars and any given time

 
Price: 375.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
53 TOURING MAP OF ENGLAND & WALES.
London Daimler Hire, Ltd n.d. [c. 1920] Printed by George Philip & Son, with the iimprint of the London Geographiocal Institue on lower right corner Foxing to rear of several panels, some foxing to two or three map panels, cloth portfolio with wear and chipping, but altogether presentable and fairly bright 
Color-printed folding map, 52" X 41", dissected into 36 panels and mounted on linen which folds down into a green cloth portfolio.

Upper cover stamped "S.S. Leviathan", a ship in use from 1913 to 1937 
Price: 95.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
54 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS... TOGETHER WITH THE PSALTER, OR PSALMS OF DAVID.
Boston Buckingham for Charles Williams 1811 Good, sound but with occasional foxing, heavier at the plates 
Thick 8vo. Unpaged. Illustrated with seven engraved plates. Bound in full red straight-grained morocco with marbled endpapers, a.e.g., gilt spine title

Griffiths 1811/23 
Price: 200.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
55 INDIGENOUS PATTERNS AND HOTEL OKURA.
Tokyo Hotel Okura (1964) As new in slipcase 
Quarto. 104p. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white, including fold out. Blue cloth with silver titles on upper cover

SIGNED BY IWAJIRO NODA, Chairman 
Price: 45.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
56 HOUSE & GARDEN'S BOOK OF BUILDING: 30 HOUSES AND PLANS, HOUSES FOR YOUNG FAMILIES.
New York Conde Nast Spring-Summer 1959 Very good 
Tall quarto. 256p. Illustrated in color and black and white. Bound in library buckram with black spine titles, original wrappers bound in

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
57 BURNT CORK JOKES.
Cleveland Arthur Westbrook n.d. Good, printed on inferior paper, this quite sound 
12mo. Stapled paperback. Unpaged. Illustrated. Color-printed covers

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
58 W. W. O. W. JOURNAL Vol. 4, No. 2, August 1925
Calvert, TX Wonderful Workers of the World 1925 Foxing, folding and wrinkles, but complete 
Quarto. 16p in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with many photos.

 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
59 MINSTREL SONGS, OLD AND NEW: A COLLECTION OF WORLD-WIDE, FAMOUS MINSTREL AND PLANTATION SONGS
Boston Oliver Ditson 1882 Overall wear, one page repaired with slight loss of text, sound 
Quarto. 216p. Printed music. Publisher's cloth over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spine and upper cover with titles and fancy gilt decoration, lower covers repeats the decorations in blind

 
Price: 75.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
60 DICK'S ETHIOPIAN SCENES, VARIETY SKETCHES, AND STUMP SPEECHES.
New York Dick & Fitzgerald (1879) Quite worn with corners showing, but complete and sound 
178p, 34p ads. Cloth spine with color-printed paper-covered boards with ads printed on pastedowns and flyleaves

 
Price: 350.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
61 SING OUT! Vol. 12, No. 5. "Freedom Songs"
New York Dec-Jan, 1962-1963 Good 
76p. in stapled self wraps

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
62 TOPSY.
New York McLoughlin Brothers n.d. [c. 1900] About fine 
Die cut book of 12 pages with color-printed stiff wrappers. Contents illustrated, including two color pages and one double page in color. Text printed in black

 
Price: 400.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
63 TOPSY.
New York McLoughlin Brothers n.d. An apparent reprint of the turn-of-the century edition. The color printing is a little less brilliant About fine 
Die cut book of 12 pages with color-printed stiff wrappers. Contents illustrated, including two color pages and one double page in color. Text printed in brown

 
Price: 175.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
64 DESIGN IN AMERICA: THE CRANBROOK VISION 1925-1950
New York Abrams (1983) First edition Fine in price-clipped d.j. 
352p. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Black cloth with red spine titles and embossed design on covers

"Design in America chronicles the development of Cranbrook's ideals during the critical period between 1925 and 1950. A dozen experts describe the various arts and crafts as they flourished there, offering insightful appreciations of the gifted individuals who developed their own interpretations of the original Cranbrook tradition" (Jacket blurb) 
Price: 45.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
65 FUNERAL SERVICE OF REV. EMANUEL MATTHEW LAWRENCE, D.D., B. Th.
Kayne Avenue Baptist Church October 12, 1929 Minor fold creases, VG 
One leaf folded to form four pages

 
Price: 6.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
66 THOMAS LLOYD HICKMAN BARITONE IN SONG RECITAL.
Memorial Baptist Church, Corner of Rice and Fuller Streets 1914 Fine 
One folded sheet with picture of Hickman on cover in tails coat

 
Price: 6.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
67 DENISON SONGS.
Chicago T.S. Denison & Company n.d. Fine 
30-page catalogue in stapled wrappers.

Samples of the printed music and pictures of the covers. Includes several Black-themed pieces in a Minstrel style, such as "If I Was What I Ain't Instead of What I IS", "De Wes' Wind Blows From De Wes'", and "Steppin' Around." 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
68 FRANCKIE JOAILLERIE DE FANTAISIE.
Paris n.d. Slightest soil, about fine 
Advertising sheet (12 1/45" x 9 5/8"). Black and white lithograph by Yan B. Dyl featuring a naked Black woman with huge lips adorned only with sparkling jewels

 
Price: 75.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
69 Set of six post cards.
Printed in Germany Post mark of 1908 PBF Serie 7179 Two cards have writing on the backs, all are fine and bright 
Embossed and colored post cards depicting very stylized "Darkies" with sayings such as " Oh, de rudeness of de men when dey see a handsome darkie!" and "Dere is no doubt, sah, dat I am a hairstocrat!"

 
Price: 200.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
70 Set of three post cards.
Printed in Germany Post mark of 1908 PBF Serie 7942 Two cards have writing on the backs, all are fine and bright 
Embossed and colored post cards depicting very stylized "Darkies" with New Year's greetings

 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
71 Twenty Music Sheets Bound Together.
V.P. (1890's) Very good, most of the sheets could be removed from the binding unharmed 


Includes 7 songs with Black themes and pictorial covers. "At a Georgia Campmeeting", Darktown Parade", "Ma Rainbow Coon", "Darktown Is Out Tonight", etc. Some very nice pictorial lithographed covers 
Price: 375.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
72 GREETINGS FROM THE HAPPY SOUTH.
Baltimore Louis Kaufmann Postmarked 1918 Covers lightly worn, contents fine. 
Fold-out postcard with 16 color images back to back. Closed measures about 3" X 4". Very bright and colorful but typical cotton patch and watermelon subjects.

The text refers to "The shiftless and worthless darky although prevalent in some sections is fast disappearing"... 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
73 "AUNTIE FAT, AND AUNTIE LEAN"
Fine 
Trade card advertising F.E. Thayer, Fish Dealer, Haskins' Block, Auburndale, Mass. 4 5/" X 3 1/8". Printed in black on blue stock. Image as title suggests

See Gibbs. Black Collectibles. p. 129. 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
74 A MIDSUMMER DREAM AT HOTEL NANTASKET.
n.d. Very mino spot to front, rear has four small adhesions where the card was one mounted in 
Trade card for the Hotel Nantasket. Color printed by the Forbes Co. 3" X 5". Comical image of diners with a Black waiter

 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
75 FOOLED DIS TIME, CULLY. DIS AINT GWINE TO BREAK.
N.D. Fine 
Trade card for the Merrick Thread Co. 4 1/4" x 2 7/8". Color printed with comical image of a Black boy pursued by an alligator

 
Price: 20.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
76 THE SMALLBREED FAMILY AT SEA SIDE.
n.d. Hole at top from mounting, good 
Trade card advertising Clarence Brook Varnishes. Color-printed comical image of Black family swimming in the ocean

 
Price: 8.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
77 POLITICAL ORATOR. SEPERATE DE NOAF FOM DE SOUF! "NEVAH."
n.d. Fine 
Trade card advertising Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, Importers and Dealers in Stoves, Metals, Tinware... Sacramento, Cal. 4 1/8" X 2 1/2". Comical image in black and white of a Black man raging and waving his umbrella over his head

 
Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
78 A MUSICAL DISCORD.
n.d. Fine 
Trade card advertising Tiger Coffee, Detroit, MI. 31/4" 3 1/4". Comical image in black and white of musicians quarreling

 
Price: 10.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
79 Group of 39 post cards.
Asheville, NC Asheville Post Card Co. [1930'0-40's?] All fine without writing on reverse 
Color printed post cards. Some are cartoonish and some are lighthearted

 
Price: 150.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
80 Group of Eight Post Cards.
v.p. n.d. Fine 
Four are color photo cards, four are varia. Produced by Deep South Specialties in Jackson, MS.; Photo arts in Winnsboro, SC; E.C. Kropp in Milwaukee, WI; and Cline Photo in Chattanooga, TN

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
81 MISS WHITES BIRTH-DAY, PARTY.
London T.C. Lewis n.d. [1890] Moderate spotting, upper right corner torn, but pleanty of image area 
Aquatint engraving (11" X 14 1/2", within the plate mark, 10" X 13 5/8"). Drawn by W. Summers and engraved by Hunt. Features a large Black family in formal wear around a dining table. The facial features are in caricature, and with caption in cartoon balloons

No. 11 in "Lewis's Black Jokes". 
Price: 200.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
82 INTERIORS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.
New York William Helburn n.d. Very good 
60 plates on card stock from photos. Loose as issued in cloth portfolio

 
Price: 225.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
83 Three color-printed trade cards.
Good 
One for Coats Threads, one for Clark'e Threads, one with scenes and pictures of stamps of South American countries

 
Price: 25.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
84 Full length portrait of a Black man in suit and hat.
Columbus, OH W.A. Price, Photographer Very good, reverse blank 


 
Price: 25.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
85 Upper body portrait of a Black man in suit with wing collar and bow tie.
Columbus, OH Mulligan Bros. Very good 
Mulligan's advertising on reverse

 
Price: 25.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
86 Full length portrait of a young Black man in suit.
Chillicothe, OH F.C. Mader's Little Palace Fine 
Reverse blank

 
Price: 25.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
87 VIEWS OF CHICAGO.
New York Wittemann Brothers (1882) Triffling spotting, but quite a bright and lovely copy, near fine 
Souvenir Album of photographs of Chicago. A fold-out album (2 2/8" x 5") of 15 images on 12 pages. Covers of ornately embossed tan cloth

 
Price: 150.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
88 DER FREIHEITSSCHWUR [The Freedom Oath].
New York Walter Schatzki Fine 
Micro-miniature book (1/8" x 1/8"). The Freedom Oath in seven languages. Bound in blue with gilt rules and with a liberty bell in gilt on upper cover Housed in Plexiglas case with magnifier built in

 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
89 GLASGOW CONTEMPORARIES AT THE DAWN OF THE XXth CENTURY.
Glasgow Photo-Biographical Publishing Co., n.d. [c.1901] Slight wear and coloring, but altogether fine 
Folio. [viii], 222p. Illustrated from photos. Bound in full vellum over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spine with gilt tiles, the covers with elaborate embossed designs in gilt and pictorial designs hand-painted in colors

A remarkable binding 
Price: 750.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
90 KORAN. IN ARABIC.
Czechoslovakia, [c. 1950] Near fine. 
Miniature book 1 1/2" x 1". Bound in full brown leather with intricate gold tooling, a.e.g., leather strap

Welsh 4177 or 4178. 
Price: 250.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
91 [AMERICAN BICYCLE ADVERTISING POSTER].
New York L.C. Jandory & Company [c. 1895] Three mild and flattened folds, else fresh and bright 
Poster in black and white measures 21" X 10 1/2", archivally matted and framed. Illustrated with seven bicycle models.

Jandorff distributed bicycles made by Linnwood, Halladay, Stormer, and Rambler, etc. The models shown include Linnwood Models A and B, a racer model, a juvenile model, and both the gentleman's and ladies, Metropolitan. Bikes are priced from $40 to $115. Scarce. 
Price: 325.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
92 THE AMERICAN HOME.
New York September, 1937 Slight rubbing, else fine 
Quarto. 160p. Magazine featuring "26 pages on houses - from Connecticut to California to Texas". Bound in gilt-titled blue cloth

 
Price: 35.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
93 BRICKWORK IN ITALY: A BRIEF REVIEW FROM ANCIENT TO MODERN TIMES
Chicago American Face Brick Association 1925 First edition Covers heavily soiled, front endpapers soiled, tight and internally clean 
xix, 298p. Illustrated from photos and color plates. Brick-colored cloth with gilt spine titles

 
Price: 30.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
94 ARTE Y DECORACION EN ESPANA: ARQUITECTURA - ARTE DECORATIVO. Vol. IV.
Barcelona V. Casellas Moncanut 1920 Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges 
Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards

 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
95 ARTE Y DECORACION EN ESPANA: ARQUITECTURA - ARTE DECORATIVO. Vol. V.
Barcelona V. Casellas Moncanut 1920 Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges 
Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards

MISSING PLATES 25, 65, and 81. 
Price: 75.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
96 ARTE Y DECORACION EN ESPANA: ARQUITECTURA - ARTE DECORATIVO. Vol. VII.
Barcelona V. Casellas Moncanut 1924 Portfolio worn and faded, text on brittle paper, plates generally VG, some with ragged outer edges 
Folio. [iv], 8p. 84 plates loose in portfolio as issued (some in color). Portfolio with green cloth spine and printed boards

 
Price: 100.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
97 BRICK AND TILE AS UTILIZED IN MODERN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE.
Canton, OH THe Ohio Brick and Tile INstitute 1947 Boards rubbed, good only, contents fresh 
Quarto. Unpaged. 78p. Illustrated from photos. Color-printed glazed boards

Covers churches, commercial, hospitals, industrial, residential and schools. 
Price: 35.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
98 INTERIOR & EXTERIOR DECORATIVE ORNAMENT. CATALOG NO. 12.
Cleveland The Fischer & Jirouch Co. (1931) Covers quite soiled, contents fresh 
Quarto. 205p. Illustrated. Cloth spine with printed boards

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
99 ARCHITECTURAL HOUSES: COUNTRY HOUSES 6.
Barcelon Ediciones Atrium S.A. (1991) Fine in slipcase 
Tall quarto. 255p. Illustrated throughout in color. Bound in color-printed glazed boards

 
Price: 50.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
 
View Image
100 THE HOUSE BOOK.
London Phaidon Press (2001) First edition Fine in d.j. 
Large, thick quarto. 512p. Illustrated in color. Silver-titled black cloth.

"The House Book is a global survey of 500 houses, covering an astonishing array of architects, cultures, styles, materials and design movements... an accessible and informative source book for all those interested in the practical, decorative and complex construction that has such an enormous influence of all our lives." (Incipit page). 
Price: 75.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart
 
  1  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10  NEXT >  


Questions, comments, or suggestions
Please write to info@First-Folio.com
Copyright©2010. All Rights Reserved.
Powered by ChrisLands.com