NY: American Tobacco Co., 1933-1934. Original documents. Nine documents on American Tobacco billheads, each with an engraving of a Native American chief and the NRA logo. Three from 1933, and six from 1934. 7.25" x 8.5" The items sold, listed along with quantities and prices, include: Five Bros; Cutty Pipe;..... More
Brandenburg, Kentucky: MCCES, 1943. Original edition. Original Wraps. This four-page program (8.5" x 5.5") lists the festivities and participants, opening with the "Negro National Anthem," and including class history, orations, class will, prophecy, etc. The class graduated six students from three schools: Brandenburg Elementary, Guston Elementary, and Zion Grove Elementary..... More
Elizabethtown, Kentucky: Hub City Printing, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. 8pp; illustrated throughout from photographs, including birdseye views of Downtown Hodgenville. Includes ads for local businesses. Printed self-wrappers, 10.75" x 8.25" "...25 years of continuous operation." On the bill were: Elvis Wade, "America's Number One Presley Impersonator"; Fabulous Singers--Jeanne, Janie, and..... More
New Orleans: Selbstverlage des Verfassers, 1904. First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: 31, (1); text illus from photographs. Light wear to spine. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" Published in English in 1909 as The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent. The author has..... More
New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader..... More
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Shreveport, LA: Little Theatre of Shreveport, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. 16pp; cover photo, illustrated ads. Pictorial paper covers. 9" x 6" This copy has handwritten messages signed by six cast members, addressed to a man who had left for naval service in World War II. Articles inside include "Tribute to..... More
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NY: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., 1885. Early edition. Original Cloth. Hand-colored, engraved map of Maine, 13.5" x 17", folding into cloth covers. Light wear to case, map near fine condition. 5" x 3.25" More
Bangor, Maine: Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Co., (1925). Softcover. 128pp; many illustrations from photographs and maps. Bound in pictorial self-wrappers, removed from a nonce volume, spine reinforced with archival white cloth, 8.75" x 5.75" Contains illustrated articles by various authors, including: "Katahdin 'mid Smiles and Tears--A Girl's Graphic Story of..... More
Springfield, Mass. Samuel Bowles & Co., 1852. Original album. Hardcover. The 40 cartes-de-visite are fitted into windows edged in gilt and labeled in pencil. Includes several tintypes as well as albumen prints. Compartmented morocco binding, elaborately decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, decorated brass clasps. Spine title: "Auto Photographic Album."..... More
Massachusetts: Dept of Massachusetts, G.A.R., 1873. Original manuscript. One page, docketed on verso. At time of application, Thomas states that he is 33 years old and occupied as a painter. He was born in Freeport, Maine, and now resides at West Amesbury, Mass. He enlisted Oct. 23, 1861 as a...... More
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Philadelphia, PA: Collins, Printer, 1870. First Edition. Original Wrappers. 8pp. Presentation copy to "William O. Fowler, LLD / with the thanks / of Chas Henry Hart." Light dusting, minor spot on cover. 9.5" x 6" Willis (1794-1870) was a lawyer, state senator, mayor of Portland (Maine), president of the Maine..... More
Andover, Maine: s.n., [1910?]. Original document. Broadside, printed on black ink on tan stock, 9" x 18". Small hole in top margin, three pieces old transparent tape at bottom margin--no text loss. [Not recorded by WorldCat.] According to online sources, Andover's population at the time of this Ball Team Circus..... More
1845. Original manuscript. 4pp. Printed form, accomplished by hand in sepia ink. In part: "To the Justices of the Court of County Commissioners...of Aroostook.... At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the plantation of Bancroft...the said inhabitants gave in their votes for a County Treasurer.... The whole number of..... More
East Machias, Maine: Town Overseers, 1877. Original manuscript. Broadside, partly printed and accomplished by hand. Orders the Town to remove inhabitant Thomas E. Beverly, "having fallen into distress and in need of immediate relief," and to "provide for him without delay..." at the expense of the Town. Signed by the..... More
Warren, Maine: 1837. Original manuscript. One page, written neatly in ink on heavy paper watermarked "J.M." and docketed on the verso. Partly printed, mostly handwritten, signed by John Miller, Justice of the Peace. 13.25" x 8" Betsey, a single woman, sold to Stevens for $80 "a tract or parcel of..... More
1854. Original manuscript. About 80pp of entries in sepia ink on lined, blue paper. Bound in calf-backed marbled boards, 8" x 6.5". Edges of covers scuffed. Most of the entries reference the making, repairing, and taping of boots, shoes, harnesses, etc. Additional listings involve mill work, corn, wood, molasses, sheep..... More
Portland, Maine: Stephen Berry, Printer, 1879. First Edition. Softcover. 53pp. Includes a blank membership certificate, lodge constitution, by-laws, order of business, list of 24 members (one deceased), and index. Bound in printed gray wrappers. 6.25" x 4" [Unrecorded by WorldCat.]. More
Portland: Maine Printing Co., 1935. First Edition. Softcover. 48pp. Bound in at the centerfold is a black-and-white folding map of Portland, with directions in red to Underwood Motor Camp, 42 Model Tourist Cabins, on Casco Bay, Route 1. Map opens to 15" x 11.75". The text in this guidebook includes..... More
Scarborough, Maine: 1793. Original manuscript. Small folio, 2-1/4 pp, readable hand, sepia ink. Apthorp, a resident of New York City, accepts "Sixty pounds lawful money of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" in exchange for a tract of land with buildings in Scarborough "given by Benjamin Milliken to Nathaniel Wheelwright on the..... More
Springvale, Maine: Springvale Fish and Game Club, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Oblong quarto. (20)pp, printed in green ink; 17 full-page views, others in text. Views include: Fire Department; Nasson Institute; National Bank; Maine Alpaca Dept. of Goodall Worsted Co.; Mousam Lake; Hamlin School; Springvale Shoe Company; Notre Dame Church and..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., (1916). 1916 edition. Original Wrappers. pp: 42, (4) hotel ads. Full-color map opens to 21" x 27.5". Folds into tan stiff wrappers, printed in black. First leaf has a full-page ad for "160 Acre Farms in Western Canada--Free." 6.5" x 4"... More
Baltimore, MD: Baltimore & Ohio R.R., 1928. Original edition. Broadside, printed in sepia ink on white paper; airplane view of capitol. 18" x 6" Below the photo-view of the capitol is the timetable of stations between New York and Washington, followed by places of interest in Washington: Congressional Library, Capitol..... More
York, PA: Rail Tours, 1966. Original edition. Broadside, printed in black ink on cream paper; photo-view of two locomotives. 17" x 6" The 300-mile round-trip promised ".Ride over Lincoln's route to Gettysburg and climb Jack's Mountain.Single engine will be used along river grade between Hagerstown and Cumberland, Md.while train passes..... More
Baltimore: Maryland Trust, 1940. Revised Edition. Leatherette. 206pp, index; vertical crease in covers. 4.25" x 2.5" Lists all bar members, judges, personnel of the attorney general's office, judges' rotation chart, lawyers deceased in past year, &c. More
1857. Original manuscript. One page, sepia ink on pale-blue paper, original folds, docketed on verso. White is returning the "duly executed" deeds to the properties of P.G. Rosenback, Samuel C. Gilbert, and Griffin Every. White needs to hear more from Dexter re the deed for Adam G. Rosenback because of..... More