ephemera
Howard University and Associated Sponsors Present Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington
Washington, D.C. 1939. Concert program, measuring 9 x 6 inches, printed on a doubled sheet: [4]. Lightest soiling, horizontal crease.
Price: $2,400.00
Little Artists Drawing & Tracing Book
[Chicago]: M.A. Donohue & Company, circa 1925. Side-stapled volume, measuring 15 x 9.75 inches: [16]. Original color pictorial wrappers, black-and-white illustrations to interior wrappers. Pictorial title page; other leaves illustrated on one side only, interleaved with tracing paper. Lightest shelfwear, paper toned.
Price: $50.00
The Savoy (advertisement)
London: C.F. Kell for Leonard Smithers, [1896]. Color-lithographed poster, sight size 10.5 x 8.25 inches, framed to 18 x 15 inches. Signed with A/B monogram in lower left corner of image. A few faint creases.
Price: $2,500.00
Hand-painted embroidery design depicting a parrot, a snail, and a lizard
France: nineteenth century. Original watercolor, executed on two sheets of printed “papier quadrillé” joined together, entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: “8 en 10: à Paris, chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry, No 19 / No. 23.” Several pale pink areas where.....
Price: $750.00
Victorian Rebus New Year’s Greeting
No place: no date, circa 1890s. Coated ivory card with rounded corners, printed in chromolithography recto only, measuring 3.75 x 4.75 inches. Text printed in gold, all edges gilt. Lightest signs of handling.
Price: $50.00
Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables
Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company, 1951. Complete set of twelve black and white posters, measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher’s pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope, posters fine.
Price: $95.00
Kunstgewerbliche Schmuckformen für die Fläche. Vierteljahrshefte für die verzierende Kunst, Volume XV, Plate 1
Plauen: Christian Stoll, circa 1915. Single pochoir plate of a geometric airbrush design, measuring 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Tipped to black paper mount with publisher’s label mounted to upper right corner. Archivally matted to 14 x 11 inches.
Price: $250.00
Achilles’ Song
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. Oblong volume, measuring 5 x 7 inches: [16]. Side-stitched olive green wrappers in integral pictorial dust jacket printed in green and black. Original color frontispiece drawing by Duncan executed in pen and crayon. Hand-lettered “B” and signed by Duncan at colophon.
Price: $350.00
Two sets of painted wooden counting blocks
Barnard, Vermont: Vermont Toy Works, circa 1980. Two sets of painted wooden blocks, each containing twenty-eight proportionally sized blocks numbered 1-10, housed in two wooden trays: the larger tray measuring 14.75 x 13.25 inches, the smaller 11 x 9.75 inches. “Vermont Toy Works” stamp on bottom of both trays. Light.....
Price: $200.00
Dessin (design workbook)
France: no publisher, circa 1950. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.
Price: $50.00
Specimens of Penmanship written by Mas. F.B. Leach at the High School, Oldham, Conducted by the Rev. Hugh Tait, B.A. (two volumes)
Leeds: Bean, Stationer, [1865]. Two oblong folio volumes, measuring 9.25 x 12 inches: [16]. Original glazed moiré card wrappers with gilt-embossed card frames and scenic chromolithographs (windmills in a field, a lakeside castle) mounted to covers. Tissue-guarded engraved pictorial title pages, featuring scenes of Cambridge, with Leach’s name added in.....
Price: $850.00
MOTIVO (wooden puzzle)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1978. Eight wooden cubes, screenprinted in four colors, each measuring 1.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Naef / Swiss made” printed at base of leaf image. Lacking original box.
Price: $200.00
Serigraph poster for the Santa Fe Opera recording of The Mother of Us All
New York: New World Records, 1977. Promotional poster, measuring 36 x 24 inches, screenprinted in red, yellow, black, white, and purple. Three corners creased, several short closed tears to bottom edge.
Price: $300.00
Four titles from The Hump Tree Stories. Dickey Swift, the Squirrel: His Escape; Black Hawk, The Sky Pirate; Humper, The Green Worm; Black Brother
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1910. Four volumes, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [6], 10, [4]; [6], 6, [4]; [6], 9, [1]; [6], 8, [2]. Publisher’s color pictorial side-stapled wrappers, spines hole-punched and bound together with linen cord as issued, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Cover illustrations, frontispieces, head-.....
Price: $200.00
Original dust jacket art for The Eustace Diamonds
London: Oxford University Press, 1952. Original dust jacket mock-up, measuring 6 x 13 inches fully extended, executed in black and white ink on red paper, heavily annotated, with one printed pastedown flap. Three printer’s separations of varying sizes, printed in black and white. With: single volume, measuring 6 x 3.5.....
Price: $850.00
Calliope or English Harmony. A Collection of the most Celebrated English and Scots Songs Neatly Engrav’d and Embelish’d with Designs adapted to the Subject of each Song taken from the Compositions of the Best Masters in the most Correct Manner with the thorough Bass and Transpositions for the Flute (proper for all Teachers, Scholars, and Lovers of Musick: Printed on a fine Paper on each side which renders the Undertaking more compleat than any thing of the kind ever Publish’d
London: Henry Roberts, 1739-[1746]. Two volumes, the first measuring 8.75 x 5.5 inches, the second 9.25 x 5.75 inches: [vi], 200; [vi], 200. Modern dark blue morocco over dark blue cloth boards, spines lettered and numbered in gilt. Frontispiece engraving in Volume I, with copy of that plate inserted after.....
Price: $2,500.00
Sweethearts; with: signed promotional broadside for “Jayne Anne Phillips Reading ‘Sweethearts’”
Carrboro, North Carolina: Truck Press, 1976. Single volume, measuring 10.75 x 6.75 inches: [60]. Original buff photographic wrappers printed in black and sepia, blue endleaves, title page printed in blue and black, frontispiece and section titles printed in blue, author photograph printed in sepia. Signed by Phillips on title page.....
Price: $450.00
King Lear and His Three Daughters (broadside ballad)
[London]: Howard & Evans, circa 1810. Roughly trimmed oblong broadside, measuring 9.5 x 14 inches, printed recto only on grey paper. Illustrated with a woodcut vignette. General light creasing, a few small marginal chips, faint foxing.
Price: $850.00
Four-Way Blocks (Swiss version)
Zeiningen, Switzerland: Kurt Naef, circa 1965. Six wooden puzzle pieces, screenprinted in four colors, each piece measuring 8.25 x 1.25 x 1.25 inches. “Spiel Naef / Swiss Made” printed at top lefthand corner of cat image. Light shelfwear.
Price: $350.00
Honey & Wax tote bag
Enviro-Tote, 2022. Heavyweight natural cotton tote bag, measuring 15 x 13 inches, printed with the Honey & Wax logo.
Price: $20.00
WISC (Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) Object Assembly Test: Mannequin
New York City: The Psychological Corporation, circa 1950s. Two-dimensional wooden puzzle. Housed in original green cardboard box measuring 4 x 6.5 inches, printed in silver with manufacturer’s information and a capital letter M.
Price: $25.00