New York: B. Altman & Co., ca. 1920. Pamphlet. Two pamphlets done from single sheets folded once. 23 cm x 9.5 cm. Unpaginated (four pages in each pamphlet). Cream paper printed in yellow, green, black, and grey. Almost every side of the pamphlets illustrated with vivid depictions of early twentieth..... More
New York: HarperCollins [2001], 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], ix-xviii, [2], 1-636 pp. Quarter black cloth over orange paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Decorative yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $35.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Louise Fili. Illustrated with..... More
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: The Stackpole Company [1956], 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [12], xiii-xviii, 1-254 pp. Orange cloth with brown lettering on the spine. Price of $5.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Ned Smith. Illustrated with four plates of black and white photographs. A history..... More
Dresden: [Greiling Cigarettes], 1931. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Volume one only. Beige paper wrappers printed in black with a photograph of a young woman holding a lit cigarette on the front wrapper. With dozens of cigarette trading cards mounted on orange leaves. The cards are black and white photographs of..... More
Boston: Published by Thomas Groom [1838], 1838. First edition. Hardcover. 16mo. [2], 3-95, [1] pp. Brown pebbled blindstamped cloth with a gold decoration on the front board, stab-stitching on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns with four sample business cards laid down, an advertisement for S.N. Dickinson's rotary press and..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company [1928], 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xii, [2], 3-171, [5] pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering and a gold decoration and a gold border on the front board, gold lettering on the spine. Blue endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and..... More
Minneapolis: Miller, [W.R.], ca. 1885. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Taken at Miller studio located at 417 & 419 Nicollet Av., Minneapolis, Minn. According to the Minnesota Historical Society, this was one of the larger photography studios in the city at the time. The studio was..... More
Boston, Mass. The Ritz Art Studio, ca. 1880. Photograph. 16 cm x 10.5 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Portrait of a man with a clean-cut beard. Photograph taken at the Ritz Art Studio at 49 Temple Place in Boston. Minor rubbing to the photograph. More
Boston, Mass. Ritz Hastings, ca. 1882. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 11 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Portrait of a woman wearing a frilled collar, a dangling earring, and braids. Photograph taken at Ritz Hastings Studio in Boston, Massachusetts. Broadway Photographs, "Studio, Ritz and Hastings". Ritz was originally born in Sweden but..... More
Chicago: Stevens, ca. 1886. Photograph. 16 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Portrait of a young woman. Photograph taken at Stevens studios in Chicago. The studio then was located in Mr. Vicker's Theatre Building, Chicago, Illinois. The reverse of the photograph offers "instantaneous portraits of children, a successful specialty"..... More
Hudson, N.Y. Sullivan Bros. ca. 1890. Photograph. 18 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. Portrait of a young woman wearing glasses and a flower brooch. Photograph taken at Sullivan Bros. studios in Hudson, New York. Story of Hudson, "Sullivan/Whitbeck Gallery". The gallery opened in 1870 in Hudson and was..... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 10" x 7". Unpaginated. Pictorial publisher's binding: textured gold cloth with maroon and silver decorations on the front board, maroon lettering on the spine; all edges gilt. Chromolithograph title-page with fifteen additional chromolithographs throughout the book. Two chromolithographs have..... More
Oshkosh, Wis. Timm, ca. 1913. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 11 cm. Cabinet card photograph. A photograph of a young woman holding a rolled-up piece of paper and a Christian hymnal. The photgraph depicts middle-class women's fashion in the early 20th century, with a particularly sharp view of the girl's dress..... More
Chicago: The Winters Co., 1896. Sheets. Chromolithograph calendar, 4 chromolithograph sheets. 8” x 11.25” (or 20 cm by 29 cm). Each drawing has a lady dressing for winter, spring, summer, and fall (in the latest fashion of the day). The winter sheet was a supplement to the Boston Herald, issued..... More
Chicago: [J.B. Wilson], ca. 1895. Photograph. 16.5 cm x 10.75 cm. Cabinet card photograph. The women photographed here are wearing matching shawls, tenderly resting their heads against one another. Photograph taken at J.B. Wilson studios in Chicago. The studio then was located at 389 State St., Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Photographers..... More
[1979]. Print. Printed illustration. 43.5 cm x 28 cm. Illustration depicts a nude woman squaring her hips at a lion, poised to attack. There is a staircase and grass in the illustration as well. A nice example of a Yeates illustration. A few spots of toning, some wear to the..... More