Search Results: Titles starting with S from James Arsenault & Company

Boston: B. B. Russell, 1881. Hardcover. Original burgundy cloth, title in black and gilt emblem of the State of Maine on upper cover. 96 pp., numerous illus., 2 tipped-in prospectuses, 12 blank leaves of ruled paper for subscriber names, 3 mounted binding samples on paste-downs. Salesman's dummy, consisting of a representation of contents with three binding samples mounted to the front and rear paste-downs. Not in Arbour/Zinman. CONDITION: Good, bit of chipping to head and foot of spine, some discoloration.

Edgewood Published Company, 1891. Copyright 1891, A. R. Keller. Hardcover. 12mo (8" x 6"), gold cloth, covers stamped in gold and black; binding samples affixed to front and rear paste-downs. Frontis. port., [4], [65 pp.], [32] blank pp., 2 pp. broadside ad, [20] ruled subscriber's pp. (not used), 5 b&w plates. A salesman's dummy or canvassing book, consisting of sixty-nine pagesfrom a 607-page biography of Sherman, with an illustration from a photograph of the sixty-eight year old general, a preface, Chapters One to Five, half of Chapter Ten, an electro-tint portrait of Major-General Scholfield, an engraving of Sherman's birthplace, images printed by Levytype Co of Admiral David D. Porter and a New York City funeral procession down Broadway, and binding samples. A collaborative venture between Sherman's military comrade Howard and historian Johnson to depict the controversial Sherman's life and career in a sympathetic light. CONDITION: Good, rubbed, loss to lower right corner of front free… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnamm 1860. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.75"), gilt green cloth. Engraved half-title, xiv, 412. Previous owner inscription on title, "Whitney 1861." CONDITION: Very good, light wear to extremities, light stains to endpapers and pastedowns.

New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., 1899. 12mo (7.5" x 5"), pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and gold. [7], 253 pp., [2] pp. publ. ads. Ownership inscription dated Feb. 1908 on front free endpaper. Fifth edition. A tale of outdoorsmen traversing the north woods of Vermont, capturing the Yankee dialect peculiar to the region. Writer, illustrator and folklorist Rowland E. Robinson (1833-1900) was born in Vermont and authored such works as A Danvis Pioneer; Forest and Stream Fables; and Danvis Folks. He also wrote regularly for magazines such as Atlantic Monthly and Forest and Stream, the publisher of the present book.CONDITION: Good+, spine slightly sunned, light wear and soiling to covers; contents bright and clean.

12mo sammelband, 3/4 green leather with marbled paper, gilt spine title. 4 imprints bound in. CONDITION: Very good, occasional foxing.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (8.5" x 5.75"), red cloth, color dj. 599 pp., numerous b&w illus. Ownership stamp of "Richard Aldridge" on ffep. CONDITION: Near-fine, light foxing to endpapers, clean interior, sound binding; Very good dj, lightly worn at extremities. First edition, second printing, February, 1945.

[circa 1910]. 4.5" x 7.5" platinum print photograph, on gray 8" x 10" mount. An evocative early view taken in San Bernardino, California with a dirt road passing over a rough hewn bridge, headed toward a snow-covered mountain range. Two boys are perched on the railing, probably fishing. A cluster of buildings appears on the left. CONDITION: Strong tonality, good condition, pencil title under image, slight curve to board, offsetting on verso.

Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Company, 1906. Oblong 8vo (8" x 10"), purple wrappers. 32 pp., numerous b&w photomechanical illus.. Ownership inscription in ink on title p. A collection of photographic views of San Francisco before the 1906 earthquake and fires, with captions noting the damage status of each building/neighborhood, locations where refugees camped out, etc. CONDITION: Good +, fading at wrappers, foxing on endpapers, interior clean and appealing.

Concord, New Hampshire: B. W. Sanborn, 1856. 8vo (9" x 5.5"), printed wrappers. 32 pp. Ownership inscription on title-page of Ellen L. Steele, Springfield, Vermont (Steele was engaged in the American Home Missionary Society in Vermont during the 1860s), and an inscription concerning geography on the front pastedown by an anonymous "Sleepy Jack." CONDITION: Good, back-wrapper detached and stained, light staining to front-wrapper; contents generally clean with occasional light staining. The second edition of this comprehensive geography instruction manual designed for use with the school atlases of the day, written by the noted instructor Dyer H. Sanborn who was active in academies and seminaries across New England. The text begins with directions to teachers addressing map drawing, recitation, lessons, and more, and proceeds with geographical definitions and simple divisions of geography into continents, oceans, hemispheres, etc. The following are explored and detailed: North America; the U.S.… Read More

Hillacre, Riverside, CT, 1913. 8vo (9 3/4" x 6 1/2"), dark brown paper boards, recently renewed matching spine. [7] pp., photogravure frontis. First edition of Reed's first book. One of 500 copies printed. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To darling Alice with the profoundest respect of the unworthy Author John Reed Jan. 12, 1916." CONDITION: Very good, old pencil inscription on terminal endpaper.

[Philadelphia], 6 December 1864. Broadside, 17" x 10.25". A most interesting broadside advertising the sale at auction of goods unsold at one of Philadelphia's sanitary fairs, listing a wide variety of items, including a smattering of interesting Civil War-related objects. Among the 260 items listed here (located either on the store's second or third floor) are sewing machines, 200 Stroud's Slave Laws, atlases and maps, Ives' Music Holder, an automaton figure of monkey fiddler, "a large invoice of fine photographs," play houses, engravings, "tributes to the fair," a "photograph apparatus," eight casts of Washington's face, a model steamboat, ear trumpets, lithographic ink, an Indian's hatchet, and so forth. The Civil War-related objects include such a rebel torpedo, "leaves from the Battle Field," busts of Generals Meade and Grant, a military bridle, etc. Sanitary fairs were organized by civilians during the Civil War to raise funds on behalf of the U.S. Sanitary Commission and other… Read More

Santa Barbara, CA: The Schauer Printing Studio, Inc., 1929. 4to., tan paper covers, [26 pp.], 17 b&w illus., color center-fold illus. A very attractive commemorative publication describing Santa Barbara's Spanish revival court house dedicated in 1929 with colorful center-fold of the Assembly Room. Near fine.

Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr & Company, 264 East Kinzie Street, [ca. 1907]. 24mo (5.75" x 3.5"), printed self-wrappers. 25 pp., 6 pp. publ. ads., [1] publ. ad back wrapper. Reprint, with later publisher's address. REFERENCE: BAL 11884, noting later printings with different address. CONDITION: Very good, fold at bottom right edge, toned as expected.

London: Harris and Son; Hartford: Republished by Oliver D. Cooke and Co., 1826. 12mo, half calf stamped in gilt with title and double rules, with printed tan paper over boards., vi, 168pp, 68 copper engravings. Comprehensive survey of agriculture, manufacturing, and trades in the early nineteenth century. Sixty-eight copper-plate engravings, three to a page, illustrate occupations including silk making, salt, oysters, brewing, hat-making, pottery, paper-making, etc. Good, spine rubbed, head of spine chipped, variegated stains to front and back cover, still a decent copy.

811 North Fourth St., St. Louis, Mo.: Schroeter Bros. [ca 1885]. 8vo, original printed wrappers. 64 pp., numerous b&w illus. A vintage tool catalog from the Schroeter Bros., with handsome illustrations and descriptions of saws, lathes, dynamos, drills, planes, chisels, locks, a horseradish grater, a steam engine, lawn mowers, traps and a myriad of other tools. CONDITION: Good content, clean, tight and attractive; Fair wrapper, detached and chipped.

France, England, Germany, America, and elsewhere, mainly 1917-1919. 4to (12.5" x 11"), full pebbled brown cloth, gilt title at front-cover. 54 original photos, 14 postcards, 4 manuscript maps (2 identical and on printed forms), 7 printed maps, 3 issues of the Ohio Rainbow Reveille, 4 intelligence reports, 1 ms. and watercolor chart, 14 ms. and typescript letters, numerous newspaper clippings and photo-illustrations, and other military orders and documents, mounted on 172 pp. Many of these materials bear ms. captions or annotations. 17 blank pp. Additional laid-in clippings and papers. A fascinating, carefully organized album of original photos, maps, official military documents, letters, and other materials compiled by Intelligence Officer and later New York University Law School dean and professor Alison Reppy, the author of the regimental history Rainbow Memories (1919). Born in Hillsboro, Missouri, Lieut. Alison Reppy (1893-1958) served as an Intelligence Officer in France in the 1st Battalion,… Read More

New York: Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc. 1970. Softcover. Sm 4to (11" x 8"). 49 pp. Obituary of William Zorach published in The Sunday Telegram (Portland ME) and an invitation to the "unveiling of The Spirit of the Sea" by Zorach and the Bath Garden Club laid in. CONDITION: Very good, covers lightly toned, text clear, images bright. Sculptor William Zorach (1887-1966), a Lithuanian Jew, trained in Paris, exhibited in New York City, and by 1923 moved to Robinhood Cove on Georgetown Island, Maine, where he would reside for the remainder of his life. According to his obituary, "at his best, Zorach, through simplification of form and monumentality, dealt with life's poetry, love, childhood, and the beauty of living things...His involvement with the State of Maine was a continuous one. Both the animals in many of his pieces and the stone to carve them were often found on his Robinhood farm. His gifts to the City of Bath including the statue 'The Spirit of the Sea,' which stands in the city park, and to… Read More

New York: The Century Co., 1899. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8" x 5.5"), gilt green cloth. t.e.g. 324 pp., with marginal illus. "Xmas 1899" gift inscription at ffep. CONDITION: Very good, spine darkened with light wear at head and foot, faint remnant of pencil drawing on one page. Later edition.

Baltimore, MD: Association of Gray Line Owners, 1928. Color brochure. 8" x 9.375", folded to 4" x 9.375", pictorial color upper and lower covers. 9 pp, color map, Gray Line East schedule, Gray Line West schedule, numerous illus. Sightseeing motor tours of Salt Lake City and "All Over the Map" are offered and described by the The Gray Line Association in this substantial guide. The color map on the first page illustrates all the stops throughout the continental United States as well as Canada, Great Britain and Honolulu. The East and West Line schedules on the inside covers describe each stop with time estimates. Seven pages describe the Salt Lake City Grey line sightseeing tours, all of which begin at the Newhouse Hotel. Seven tours were offered: City and Wasatch Drive (the feature trip); Bingham Copper Mines; Wasatch Drive and Big Cottonwood Canyon; Saltair Beach on Great Salt Lake; Seeing Salt Lake City (busses); Seeing Salt Lake City (in seven pass. cars) and Mt. Timpanogos Circle. On the… Read More

Boston, Mass.: Swain, Earle & Co., 1883. 8vo (25 cm) broadside, printed on brown paper, large print headings, two columns of recipes, product info. at foot. Circular printing eight chocolate cake recipes for "The Boston" Cocoa and Chocolate products are listed in this broadside, shared by the following ladies from Worcester Mass.: Mrs. W. J. Vance, Mrs James H. chace, Mrs. C. Riggs, Mrs. P. W. Brown, Mrs. S. Knox, Mrs Warren, Miss Lillie Drennan, Miss Minnie Allen. The chocolate products range from Vanilla Chocolate to Cocoa Shells. CONDITION: 2 cm dark brown stain in upper center, a few smaller stains, old folds.