New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902. Octavo (15.7 x 12 cm.), xiii, 27, [1] pages. Illustrated. Printed rectos only. FIRST TRADE PUBLICATION; preceded by self-published issue the previous year. A fanciful little cookbook, with fourteen "recipes" for what may be the most necessary dishes ever, including oyster stew, chicken salad, fried onions, Welsh rarebit, plum pudding, strawberry shortcake, and butter. The recipe for Chocolate Cake begins, "Beat two eggs.....
New York: Newcomen Society of North America, 1954. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 36 pages. Second printing. An address by Arthur B. Edge Jr., President of Callaway Mills Company, given at a dinner of the Newcomen Society. The Newcomen Society of North America was chartered in 1961, following the earlier establishment in 1923 of the Newcomen Society in England. The focus is on "material history, as distinguished from political history".....
New York: John Allen, 139 Nassau Street, 1844. Octavo (21.5 x 13.5 cm.), 88 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A work on a moral approach to homemaking and child rearing, pseudonymously offered by Timothy Shay Arthur, author of many work who helped, as much as anyone, to instill the ideal of a proper middle class in Americans. his most famous work was the popular Temperance novel Ten Nights in a......
[Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell Ltd., 1956]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [12] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1950]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (23.5 x 16.5 cm.), [16] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
[London: John Waddington Limited, 1939]. Stapled booklet in wrappers (24 x 15.5 cm.), [20] pages. Designed for Guinness by SH Benson Ltd.; illustrations by Antony Groves-Raines. FIRST EDITION. A marvelous printed promotional item for the Guinness Co., with fanciful designs – one for each month of the year – printed in color throughout. These booklets were sent annually to doctors from 1933-1939, then 1950-1966, after which the Christmas Guinness Book.....
New York: Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Co., 1893. Stapled in wrappers (18.5 x 12.5 cm.), 8 pages. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION of this offprint. A short, but highly entertaining survey of the historical literature on the subject of sea-sickness, or motion sickness at sea, and of various therapies. “Sea-sickness as one of the earliest noted, most constant, and most palatable of human infirmities, has a literature which, if not particularly.....
Ithaca, NY: Printed by Elfiede Abbe, 1954. Large quarto (30 x 22 cm.), 211 pages. FIRST EDITION, deluxe issue, limited to ninety hand-numbered copies printed on hand-made Japanese Kochi paper. This is copy number fifty-five. Illustrated with original woodblock prints and two prints made from zinc plates. One folding plate. Includes a list of Synonyms, a Glossary and an Index. A late American herbal of both garden and wild plants.....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., [1973]. Quarto (25 x 19 cm.), 334 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Index. FIRST EDITION, U.S. issue simultaneous with the U.K. edition. A history of more than two thousand years of mechanical instruments, a much larger history than one might expect, but one brought to an end with the phonograph The author was a restorer of mechanical music instruments and founder of the.....
New York: Famous Music Corp., 1619 Broadway, 1934. Music score, stapled in wrappers (31 x 23 cm.), 5, [1] pages. FIRST EDITION. The famous "Cocktails for Two" debuted in the movie Murder at the Vanities (1934), where it was introduced by singer and actor Carl Brisson. Duke Ellington's orchestra recorded the Johnston and Coslow song in 1934, all on the heels of the December 1933 ratification of the 21st Amendment.....
Honolulu: The White Knight Press, 1947. Octavo (24 x 16cm.), [12] pages. Printed throughout in red and black. FIRST EDITION, thus. "Six copies of this first bibelot from the White Knight Press in Honolulu were printed in January, 1947, and were dedicated to Mrs. Alfred L. Castle. This is copy no. 2” and signed in the colophon, “A Grove Day”. The first full-length publication from what I believe is the.....