![Item #30388 [Set of 22 Color Poster Postcards for the 1972 Munich Olympics]. Joksch Aicher, Nagy,...](/pictures/thumb/30388.jpg?v=1633973574)
Murnau: Hamann-Verlag, 1972. Aicher,Jjoksch, Wirthner, Nagy. No stated edition. Postcards. Numbered 101 through 122 in the series "Offizielle Olympia-Poster des Organisationskomitees der Spiele der XX. Olympiade Munchen 1972." . Twenty-two postcards that reproduce the vibrant posters designed by Aicher, Joksch, Wirthner, Nagy. (Otl Aicher also designed the Games' spiral-sun logo and..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. Auction catalogue, May 7, 1915. 483 lots, several plates. Covers age-smudged. Chiefly 19th-century works, with some early books and rarities, such as 16th-18th-century manuscripts and Fr. Colonel's 1620 grammar of the Maya language of Yucatan. The original edition. No prices..... More
New York: American Art Association/Anderson Art Galleries, 1935. First edition. Soft cover. 175p (354 lots), many pls. Bid sheet bound in. No prices realized. Features the original manuscripts of the "Liber Scriptorum" of The Authors Club and a series of unpublished letters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning. Also..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 118p, no ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 540 lots: books and manuscripts chiefly of the 18th-20th centuries from America, Britain, and Europe. Lots 154-171 are "beautiful books printed at the Doves Press." Can be sent outside..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1938. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheet bound in. Auction catalogue of 608 lots. Besides the Dunbar "Tamarlane," they include "Civil War autographs & letters by Lincoln, Grant, Lee, & others, property of the Estate of John Wanamaker, Philadelphia..... More
![Item #31020 Sales 4221 and 4242: The Library of Abel Cary Thomas [cover title]. American Art...](/pictures/thumb/31020.jpg?v=1658836809)
New York: American Art Association, 1936. First edition. Soft cover. 2 parts, complete: 132, 121p, a few line ills. Unused bid sheets bound in. Auction catalogues of over 1100 lots: "first editions and autograph letters and manuscripts," including Washington's signed copy of Jeffries on two aeronautical voyages, and an "apparently..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1919. First edition. Soft cover (parts of backstrip chipped away). 1020 lots + many pls. New York Times account of the sale laid in, browning the neighboring pages. The sale totaled $104,269. A well-handled copy, with many pencil prices and some notes by a bidder who..... More
New York: Anderson Galleries, 1928. First edition. Soft cover. 34p, a few line ills. Laid in: Anderson Galleries sale catalogue 2233 offering the "Manuscript Horae together with the only perfect copy in America of Nicolaus de Lyra's 'Postillae super Bibliam' [Strassburg, ca. 1472], the property of Professor Paul Soubeiran de..... More
![Item #30485 [Two 1930s French Billheads for Nestle Chocolates]. Anonymous designer](/pictures/thumb/30485.jpg?v=1633973598)
Paris: J. Simon (printer), n.d. [ca. 1933]. No stated edition. Two unbound sheets. Two unused French billheads for Nestle chocolates. One is headed by a bucolic illustration of a milkmaid and dairy cow, printed in red and green. Its verso promotes the health advantages of sugar in the diet of..... More
Utrecht: Antiquariaat Forum, 1998. First edition. Soft cover. 197p, many ills., many in color. Bookseller's large handsome catalogue of 752 manuscripts, books, and globes relating to travels, voyages, discoveries, atlases, natural history, architecture and gardens, navigation and related fields. Fully indexed. More
New York: Argosy Book Stores, n.d. [1949]. First edition. Soft cover. 38p, no ills. Dated from penciled acquisition date, "July -49-." Addressed to Massachusetts historian H. Leavitt Horton; the pencil marks and notes within are presumably his. Lists 420 items, including "[Maxim] Karolik material" as noted on the cover. Can..... More
Leipzig; Paris: Baedeker; Paul Ollendorff, 1902. Third edition. Hardcover (limp cloth). The last edition of La Russie. xlix, 476p, 19 maps (most folding), 32 plans, all in color. Split to rear joint mended; ca. 2-inch tear to rear folding map, suitable for mending. Else very good and crisp, with no..... More
![Item #30155 Austria; Togethep [sic] with Budapest, Prague, Karlsbad, Marienbad. Karl Baedeker](/pictures/thumb/30155.jpg?v=1633973518)
Leipzig; London; New York: Karl Baedeker; T. Fisher Unwin; Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 12th rev. ed. Soft cover. 518p, 86 maps and plans, 2 panoramas, most in color and all very good. Limp cloth (a few light stains). Ink name of a Mrs. Reynolds, New York. An early issue of..... More
![Item #26593 Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1633973484)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The menu is printed on one piece of unhemmed yellow silk, originally tied with thread within stiff covers; the covers have now detached.. The sewing is still intact on the silk. The lettering on the cover, which surrounds an image..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
![Item #25738 Cygnea Cantio: Swan Song [no. 2 of 50, signed]. Tracey Bush](/pictures/thumb/25738.jpg?v=1633973461)
England: Tracey Bush, 1999. Bush, Tracey. Limited edition. One folded sheet. Artist's book consisting of one stiff leaf of tan paper, folded in thirds, within blue cloth covers with ties. Very faint ghost of an old small label on back cover, which could easily be removed. Folded, 6 x 9..... More
Paris: Rodolphe Chamonal, 1997. First edition. Soft cover. 68p, many ills., some in color. In French. Handsome antiquarian bookseller's catalogue offering over 400 books on games and pastimes, plus some children's books. Includes entertainment and performing arts, gymnastics and boxing, fireworks, billiards, playing cards, chess, hunting, mountaineering, bullfighting, golf, etc...... More
Compiled in Rockland, MA: Unpublished album, 1920-28. Album. The album is 11 x 12 ½ inches. 143 pages, filled with about 450 journal entries and souvenirs. The items are all glued to the pages or tipped into the binding. Several postcards(?) have been removed. The gutter of the album is..... More
San Francisco: Daily Student Tours, 1961. No stated edition. Soft cover. 22p, a few ills. Light age wear and soil; overall very good. Pamphlet for Europe-bound college students. Tips on planning ahead, passport and visa, health documents and shots, foreign monies, your traveling wardrobe, packing, cameras and film, mail, shopping..... More
Paris (printed in Vannes): Vogue, January 1945. First edition. Soft cover. 162p, hundreds of photos, drawings, and ads, many in full or two colors. Covers scrappy and detached, as shown. Light marginal dampstaining to opening pages, else internally overall good and complete. Haute couture, perfumes, and jewelry swirl confidently and..... More
Chicago: Chicago and North Western Railway [and] Union Pacific Railroad, 1950. No stated edition. Soft cover. 64p, many maps, line ills., and photos, many in color. Ca. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. Brochure offering 10 "escorted all-expense tours to Western wonderlands" by rail and bus. The tours, ranging from..... More
Chicago: F.H. Revell, 1882 or 1883. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. Old handling wear; browned. Short closed marginal tear. Folded, ca. 2 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. . The outside advertises Revell's book and stationery departments (printing and binding was also offered). The inside presents the year's weekly lessons for Bible..... More
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Over 60 pp., no ills. Covers darkened, stained. Front endpapers foxed. Binding is sound. Ca. 5 x 7 inches. Glossary of hundreds of words, arranged by category: tactics, weapons, fire, terrain and roads, map reading, billeting, staff duties, services, field engineering, ranks..... More
Utrecht: Forum, 1994-2002. First edition. Soft cover. Variously paged and illustrated. Pricelists laid in. A little wavy and dusty from storage, spines faded. Sumptuous catalogues offering "printed books, manuscripts, broadsides and prints illustrating four centuries of education and popular culture in Western Europe with emphasis [on] the Low Countries." Each..... More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Pub. Co., 1947. Fox, Charles Philip. First edition. Cardboard covers, plastic comb-bound. [36]p, many photos by Fox; one foldout page. How the circus "moves about from one city to another in a single night, and how in only a few hours it explodes from tightly packed wagons on..... More
