Stiff yellow and blue pictorial wraps. Mild shelf/handling wear, a few soil marks, light creasing to bottom front corner. Square, uncreased binding, clean interior. 200 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs. Many local advertisements as well as photos. Scarce. View More...
Black textured cloth, lettered/decorated in gold foil. 172 pp., tipped-in color frontis., with insert (original to issue). Mildly cocked binding, mild foxing along top text block edge. Clean interior. View More...
Dark blue cloth, lettered/accented in gold foil and green. Former owner's address label mounted inside front cover, otherwise essentially as issued. Dust jacket shows three short (1/4" or less) closed tears along top edges, otherwise nearly as issued, now in mylar. Second (revised) edition, 2nd ptg.: June 1969. [xiv],221,xii pp., 16 plates, 2 maps. View More...
Stiff illus. wraps, spiral-bound. Minor handling wear, crease to bottom front cover corner. Some surface soiling to back cover. 156 pp., illus. 4th ptg. View More...
Vintage five-ring binder, red and white gingham-plaid paper covered boards, lettered in black and white. Stated Revised Edition, 2nd ptg. Slight shelf wear,with contents nicely intact, even the original acetate overlay for the title page and the acetate ring insert. First two leaves show tearing at one punch-hole; toning to final page of text, with mild toning to a few other leaves. 400 pp., fully illus. w/ color photos. View More...
Stiff white plastic covers, spiral-bound. 2nd ptg.: Sept. 1986. Gift inscription inked on upper front flyleaf, otherwise as issued. 246 pp. View More...
Undated. Brown illus. wraps, color lithograph, with Ceresota boy, with hole punched in upper corner and thread strung through (original to publication). Dates to 1910s-'30s era. Typical cover creases, soiled fore-edge, contents lightly toned. 32 pp. Ephemera. View More...
Stiff color pictorial wraps, stapled binding. Slight creasing along binding fold, covers mildly thumbed and with light shelf wear. Special 100th anniversary commemorative issue, two-in-one, 48 + 48 pp., illus. Soda pop advertising/merchandising history. Accompanied by 1-pg. TLS on Dr. Pepper letterhead from Volney Martin, dated 27 Aug. 1985 responding to a personal request for information regarding the history of Dr. Pepper. View More...
Stiff tan wraps, lettered in black. Covers toning a bit toward edges, price sticker ghost at top front cover corner. Binding is firm and square, with a few light stress creases. viii,192 pp. View More...
Black cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in gilt. Covers quite worn and soiled, rubbed/rounded corners, mended tear to lower front joint. Endpapers soiled and dampstained, contents show consistent foxing and modest soiling. viii,103,80 pp., including 80-pp. illus. catalog at rear. Notations to blank verso of second (main) title page. Scarce. View More...
Brown cloth, lettered in black. Minor rubbing to corners and along joints, a few minor surface marks to cloth. Lacking front flyleaf, mended rear hinge (firm). Text block edges typically tanned. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior. 383 pp. View More...
Stiff light blue wraps, lettered in dark blue and gray. Minor shelf wear, with covers tanning toward edges and with mild foxing. Firm binding, clean interior. 88 pp., illus. w/ b&w photographs, several folding color plates. Third edition. View More...
Gray stiff wraps, lettered/illus. in dark blue. Modest shelf/handling wear, chipped with minor loss at heel of spine and top rear binding corner. Minor binding lean. Light dampstaining to top binding corner of the first several leaves, frontis. showing 1" horizontal tear from binding edge not affecting the image, interior otherwise fully intact. A few dog-eared corners. viii,320 pp., illus. Scarce original edition, not a modern-era reprint. View More...
"Containing a comprehensive account of the growth, manufacture and qualities of every article sold by grocers. Also, tables of weights and measures, and information of a general nature of value to grocers and country merchants." Dark brown textured cloth, gilt lettering, blind stamped. Moderately rubbed spine panel, rubbed and faded toward fore-edge, with a few chips to cloth on rear cover. Clean interior, modestly toned, a few stains on endpapers. Firm binding. 192 pp., indexed; this variation does not contain the coffee section at rear. Lacking color frontis. Interesting item relating to 19t... View More...
Limp brown cloth, lettered/illus. in gilt. Stated "third thousand." Covers are a bit "blotchy" with wear, with some loss along spine panel cloth. Scattered internal staining, text block edges typically dulled by age and use. 96 pp. A volume in the "Hand-Books for the Million" series by Byas. A vintage handwritten recipe for "Dough-nuts" laid in. View More...
Booklet, putty wraps, lettered in black, stapled binding. Covers a bit toned toward edges. 60 pp., illus. CONTENTS: Chervils, Thomas Barbour, scented geraniums, red seeds for better coloring, four Native American mints, herbs for use, beauty, and Christmas decoration. Scarce early issue. View More...
Booklet, putty wraps, lettered in black, stapled binding. Covers a bit toned toward edges. 50 pp., illus. CONTENTS: Suganda, Empress Komyo, mints and microscopes, common mints and hybrids, Herbal of Li Chih Chien, the King's Herb-Woman, wintergreen. Scarce early issue. View More...
Original dark green cloth, front cover lettered and bordered in black, spine panel lettered in gilt. Modest shelf wear with a few surface marks to cover cloth, minor rubbing to corners, text block edges somewhat toned and dulled by age. T. Fitzwilliam & Co. binder's tag mounted on lower front pastedown; dated Christmas 1908 in ink on front flyleaf. 418 pp. + [7] pp. of rear ads. A solid copy with relatively minor cosmetic faults only. Very scarce. View More...
Black color pictorial boards. Mild surface rubbing to front cover. Firm binding, unmarked interior. 222 pp., 1309 catalogued lots, illus. w/ color plates, b&w pictorial endpapers. Text in Mandarin and English. View More...
Color pictorial wraps, French flaps. Oblong format. 168 pp., illus. w/ color paltes. Very slight shelf wear, slightly foxed on first and last pages, else as issued. View More...
Light rust-brown cloth, lettered in white. As issued. Color pictorial dust jacket shows slight surface wear, 1" closed tear along top front edge, now in mylar. 1st ptg. xxii,202 pp., illus. View More...
Brown cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Light foxing to text block edges, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows 1" closed tear along top front edge repaired on verso, light shelf wear with mild sunning to spine panel. xvii,196 pp. View More...
