Boston: The Baseball Publishing Co., 1911. Original Wraps. First Thus. A handsome copy of the 1911 "Bull" Durham Baseball Guide, the 2nd year this annual was issued. A complete, thorough rundown of the 1910 season, with dozens and dozens of photos. Crisp and clean in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. Still..... More

1961. 1st. Cloth. Uncommon 1961 sampling of 100 Japanese textiles for springtime. Photographed in vivid, rich color, with accompanying Japanese text at each plate. Solid and VG- in its russet cloth, with light wear at the spine ends and along the outer hinges and light soilijg to the panels. Square..... More

1887. 1/4 leather. A meticulously-crafted album of 29 original, mounted photographs of Yellowstone, all or most of them likely taken in 1887 and purchased directly from the 14-year old National Park. Though the photos are uncredited, we can surmise that photographers such as Thomas Hine, Charles D. Loughrey, Frank Jay..... More

1928. Ephemera. A signed 1928 "WIENER W'A'SCHE WERKST'A'TTE" woodblock print, on a clean sheet of off-white paper. Signed and dated in pencil "SC.EM. WASHINGTON 1928" beneath the print. The paper measures 11" wide x 8" tall and the print is in Near Fine condition. A handsome tribute to the turn-of-the-century..... More

New York: PIX Incorporated, 1947. Photograph. A crisp, very sharp example of this press photograph of M. Tanguy-Frigent. According to the description on the back of the photograph, he was the post-War "French minister of agriculture and the most hated man in France, (here) making a statement about the grain..... More

Newark, NJ: Antiquarian Bookman. Original Wraps. The 1960 annual AB Bookman's Yearbook. Solid and VG in its printed wrappers, with light wear along the spine crown and very light spotting to the front panel. Octavo, 456 pgs., an intimate look at the American used and rare book world of 1960..... More

Decorative Cloth. Interesting album (7" wide x 5" tall) of 24 hand-colored mounted photographs. Set in late 19th century Japan, bound in decorative brown cloth in a concertina/accordion style. Sepia-toned portraits, enlivened by splashes of red, green and purple. On the front pastedown printed date and name: "April 11, 1887..... More

Photograph. 2 mock-up photographs of Samuel Beckett, both designed to appear on dustjackets of his books. The photo of the younger Beckett was chosen for the front dustjacket cover of his "Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable" by Grove Press (1959). And the photograph of the older Beckett..... More

New York: Columbia Graphophone Company. Original Wraps. First Thus. 3 Columbia Records monthly catalogues, issued in Oct. of 1919 and April and May of 1920. Each is clean and Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. 16mos, 20+ pgs. to each plus photographs thruout. Vintage, tasteful home furnising stamp at..... More

Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1901. Decorative Boards. Handsome copies of the 1901 presumed 1st edition of "365 Breakfast Dishes" and the September 1902 presumed 1st edition of its companion volume "365 Luncheon Dishes". Both volumes clean and VG+ in their wonderful, matching illustrated boards. Lovely decorative endpapers and..... More

Chicago: 1020 Art Center, 1956. Original wraps. A very sharp copy of this 1956 catalogue of the exhibition at Chicago's 1020 Art Center. Clean and Near Fine in its stapled pictorial wrappers. Oblong octavo, 4,000 copies printed. More

Denmark: LEGO Group, 1982. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Uncommon history of the Lego Group on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in August of 1982. "The book reminisces over the 50-year period decade by decade. Each commences with a passage by or about a Dane who was a child during..... More