![Item #2529 [MENU] Le Toubib (the doctor); Édité par le "Mictasol"](/pictures/thumb/2529.jpg?v=1619813166)
[MENU] Le Toubib (the doctor); Édité par le "Mictasol"
Paris: Dreager Imp. c. 1930's. Cards. 18 x 14 cm. (open). Amusing illustrated blank menu distributed by the drug Mictasol, a treatment for gonorrhea. Light toning to paper. More
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![Item #1273 [POSTCARD] Best Wishes for a happy Thanksgiving; Ripe fruits/as well as/leaves...](/pictures/thumb/1273.jpg?v=1605295028)
[POSTCARD] Best Wishes for a happy Thanksgiving; Ripe fruits/as well as/leaves and/flowers be/your this Day.
c. 1910. Cards. 13.5 x 9 cm. Festive color illustrated and embossed vintage postcard, Harvest theme with grapes and wheat. Postmarked Boston, MA, date obscured, one cent stamp. Ink Stamp: "A Remembrance, Sincerely yours, Harold D. Perry, 299 Washington St., Boston, Mass." More
![Item #2084 [THEODORE GEISEL] [DR SEUSS] Dais Drugs and Toiletries; Dr. Seuss](/pictures/thumb/2084.jpg?v=1582831821)
[THEODORE GEISEL] [DR SEUSS] Dais Drugs and Toiletries; Dr. Seuss
New York: Weil, McGinniss & Sloman, 1933. First Edition. Wraps. 97 pages. 35 x 28 cm.Volume I Number I - Quarterly magazine specifically produced for the drug and toiletry market. Large format and profusely illustrated. Compelling articles include Ephedra, Congo Medicine, and The Medicine Man; with an early article about..... More
![Item #2406 [TRADE CATALOG] CREUSETS MONTCHANIN; Manufacturer of graphite pots for smelting](/pictures/thumb/2406.jpg?v=1611085851)
[TRADE CATALOG] CREUSETS MONTCHANIN; Manufacturer of graphite pots for smelting
Paris: 1927. Staplebound. 39 pages. 22 x 14 cm. Elaborately illustrated French trade catalog. Covers lightly rubbed. More
Eating In Two or Three Languages
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Johnson, Herbert. Hardcover. 64 pages. 19 x 13 cm. A journalist's humorous account of dining during wartime rationing in France and England. Illustrations by Cartoonist, Herbert Johnson of the Saturday Evening Post. Entertaining illustration of lady liberty on end papers. Interior lightly toned..... More
![Item #2104 [TRADE CATALOG] [CANDY] Masterbuilt Candy Boxes; Catalog Number 13. F. J. Schleicher...](/pictures/thumb/2104.jpg?v=1583271963)
[TRADE CATALOG] [CANDY] Masterbuilt Candy Boxes; Catalog Number 13
St. Louis, MO: F. J. Schleicher Paper Box Co. Staplebound. 12 pages. No date, circa late 1920's. Profusely illustrated candy box trade catalog. Two page spread of color illustrations. Frank J. Schleicher (1859-1951) established his Paper Box Company in 1904. Prices in pencil, marked throughout. Cover colored and embossed. More
![Item #1595 [HOME ECONOMICS] Safe Washing; The New American Beauty Porcelain Washer. Getz Power...](/pictures/thumb/1595.jpg?v=1579552712)
[HOME ECONOMICS] Safe Washing; The New American Beauty Porcelain Washer
Morton, Illinois: Getz Power Washer Co., c.1920. Paper. Color illustrated advertisement for washer/ringer. Before the enclosed electric washing machines, homemakers battled the dangerous washing tub/wringer device. This particular porcelain model claims to be "Silent as a kitten's purr" with "quick action...churning up millions of soap bubbles that are forced through..... More
![Item #1460 [SHEET MUSIC] In The Garden of Peaches and Cream. Joe Cooper Goodwin, Joe, Words, Music](/pictures/thumb/1460.jpg?v=1585339083)
[SHEET MUSIC] In The Garden of Peaches and Cream
New York: Kendis & Paley, 1911. Sheet_music. 5 pages. 33 x 27 cm. Closed tears to cover. Partially disbound. More
![Item #2198 [PROGRAM] [MENU] Program of the Seventy-Three Club Banquet; In Honor of Mrs. Franklin...](/pictures/thumb/2198.jpg?v=1595962142)
[PROGRAM] [MENU] Program of the Seventy-Three Club Banquet; In Honor of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Washington DC: 1936. Staplebound. Unpaginated (8 pages). 23 x 16 cm. A charming Program celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt by the Seventy Three Club on March 25, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel; the wives of the members of the Seventy-third Congress. The 73rd Congress (1933-1935) passed an extraordinary burst of legislation to..... More
![Item #2082 [POLITICS] [PROHIBITION] [CALIFORNIA] Frederick Head Nominee for Congress 5th...](/pictures/thumb/2082.jpg?v=1581356885)
[POLITICS] [PROHIBITION] [CALIFORNIA] Frederick Head Nominee for Congress 5th District; Make Me The HEAD Of Your Ticket For Congress
Original Wraps. One page folded pamphlet. 15 x 8 cm. Head, who ran for Congress in 1914 & 1916 on the Prohibition Party ticket, unfortunately did so in the heart of the wine district. Head always ended his stump speeches with "Remember the Kiddies". Frederick Head received less than 6%..... More
![Item #545 [TRADE CATALOG] [FARMING] Fight The European Corn Borer. International Harvester Company](/pictures/thumb/545.jpg?v=1615993720)
[TRADE CATALOG] [FARMING] Fight The European Corn Borer
Chicago, Ill. International Harvester Company, c. 1927. Staplebound. 14 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Full page map of affected areas: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Ontario. Pages 1-7 discuss the history and spread of the insect along with suggestions on how to eradicate. Pages 8-14..... More
![Item #1417 [SCREENPLAY] My Kingdom For a Cook [Without Notice]; Original Screenplay for the 1943...](/pictures/thumb/1417.jpg?v=1561585123)
[SCREENPLAY] My Kingdom For a Cook [Without Notice]; Original Screenplay for the 1943 film
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1943. Wraps. [title], [1] -117 pages. Copy belonging to Marguerite Chapman, who played Pamela, with her character's name on the front wrapper in holograph pencil. One of a number of comedies made during World War II that built around the "servant shortage" in the US..... More
![Item #1500 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Choice Recipes. Woman's Association of the Eliot Union Church](/pictures/thumb/1500.jpg?v=1631739308)
[COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Choice Recipes
Lowell, MA: c. 1920. Hardcover. 68 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Prefaced by the poem - A Recipe For a Day. Boards rubbed and bumped. [BROWN 1433]. More
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![Item #1473 [TRADE CATALOG] [CLEVELAND] Quick Meal Oil Stoves and Oil Ranges](/pictures/thumb/1473.jpg?v=1561402096)
[TRADE CATALOG] [CLEVELAND] Quick Meal Oil Stoves and Oil Ranges
Cleveland: American Stove Company, 1929. Staplebound. 31 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. Glossy trade catalog, fully color illustrated with dimensions. Featuring LORAIN Oil Burners. Covers lightly soiled, interior pristine. Owners signature on front cover. Price list laid in. More
![Item #1598 [BROOKLYN] [THEATER] Pantomimes; Presented By The Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club....](/pictures/thumb/1598.jpg?v=1579559056)
[BROOKLYN] [THEATER] Pantomimes; Presented By The Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club
Brooklyn: 1911. Sewn binding. Unpaginated (8 pages). Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 28, 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher (granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher), and members of the Van Brunt, Cropsey..... More
Eating In Two or Three Languages
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1919. Johnson, Herbert. Hardcover. 64 pages. 19 x 13 cm. A journalist's humorous account of dining during wartime rationing in France and England. Illustrations by Cartoonist, Herbert Johnson of the Saturday Evening Post. Entertaining illustration of lady liberty on end papers. Interior lightly toned..... More
Fare Wisely and Well; Economical and Appetizing Recipes
London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1951. Rusby, Sheila. Hardcover. Following the war years, rationing and downright shortages took it's toll on the British appetite. Heath states: "I hope, too, that these recipes will help once again to prove my often reiterated contention that, whatever the circumstances and however modest..... More
![Item #2280 [AVIATION] [WOMEN] [AUTOGRAPH] Autograph Card of Pilot Laura Ingalls Affixed to...](/pictures/thumb/2280.jpg?v=1599835626)
[AVIATION] [WOMEN] [AUTOGRAPH] Autograph Card of Pilot Laura Ingalls Affixed to Envelope; with Contemporary Newsclipping
Chicago: 1930. Loose_leaf. Envelope - 9.5 x 16.5 cm. Autograph card, affixed onto airmail envelope dated May 13th, 1930, dated shortly after Laura Ingalls broke an aviation record - addressed, in print, to Mr. York Briddell of St. Petersburg, Florida - Director of the American Air Mail Society. Accompanied by..... More
![Item #1462 [SHEET MUSIC] Watermelon Club; Characteristic March and Two-step. J. Bodewalt Lampe](/pictures/thumb/1462.jpg?v=1580849292)
[SHEET MUSIC] Watermelon Club; Characteristic March and Two-step
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1907. Sheet_music. 6 pages. 33 x 27 cm. Cover lightly rubbed, interior crisp and clean. More
![Item #2660 [POLIO] [POSTER] SUGAR ON SUNDAY; NO SHOTS, NO TASTE, NO PAIN - NO POLIO EVER. Madison...](/pictures/thumb/2660.jpg?v=1630505822)
[POLIO] [POSTER] SUGAR ON SUNDAY; NO SHOTS, NO TASTE, NO PAIN - NO POLIO EVER
Ohio: Madison County Medical Society, c. 1963. 43 x 28 cm. Broadside/Poster. LET'S PUT POLIO INTO ORBIT - S is for SABIN, S is for SATURN - S.O.S. is for SUGAR ON SUNDAY, NO SHOTS, NO TASTE, NO PAIN, NO POLIO EVER - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20 - WHERE? IN SCHOOLS..... More
The Island of the Fisherwomen; Translated From The Italian by Eric Mosbacher
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962. First American Edition. Hardcover. 95 pages. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Beautifully illustrated in color and black and white photographs, Maraini carries us away to the unspoiled Japanese Island of Hekura where Ama (sea women) dive for the delicacy known as awabi or..... More
![Item #1291 [AUSTRALIA] [SUGAR] Queensland Sugar Industry; New Edition 1913. P. J. Nally](/pictures/thumb/1291.jpg?v=1579731967)
[AUSTRALIA] [SUGAR] Queensland Sugar Industry; New Edition 1913
Brisbane: The Government Intelligence & Tourist Bureau, 1913. Wraps. 172 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Signed by compiler - "with the compliments of P.J. Nally, Compiler 5/8/13". An extensive look at the sugar industry at the turn of the century in Australia. Filled with black and white photographic illustrations plus..... More
![Item #2305 [EDUCATION] Coffee; The Story of a Good Neighbor Product. Pan-American Coffee Bureau](/pictures/thumb/2305.jpg?v=1606402683)
[EDUCATION] Coffee; The Story of a Good Neighbor Product
New York: Pan-American Coffee Bureau, 1957. Staplebound. 24 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Pan-American Coffee Bureau's marketing campaign targeting the up and coming generation of coffee drinkers. Includes History, Coffee Customs in Latin America, The Plantation, The Coffee Plant, Coffee Production, and Preparation. Part II furnishes learning projects and assignments..... More
Rowe's Long Island Native Oyster. A Treatise on Modern Oyster Culture
n.p. (New York): n.d. (1905). Staplebound. 12 pages. 19.5 x 23.5 cm. Featuring harvesting, the history of seed oyster farming, and H.C. Rowe & Co. associations' history in New Haven. Four halftone photos (oyster process operations & oyster boats) and one page black and white scientific illustration. Covers rubbed. More
![Item #1655 [CHOCOLATE] [VERMONT] [ADVERTISING] Demand Dartmouth Chocolates; "Like Them? Sure You...](/pictures/thumb/1655.jpg?v=1554922129)
[CHOCOLATE] [VERMONT] [ADVERTISING] Demand Dartmouth Chocolates; "Like Them? Sure You Will - Everybody Does!
White River Junction, VT: c. 1920's. 46 x 16 inches. This colorful and animated canvas emulates the dreamlike quality of Maxfield Parrish. The sleepy town of White River Junction became a railroad boon town with the help of the transportation revolution that brought the junction of rail lines at the..... More