Category: Ephemera

Sort

Showing 1-12 of 12

Prisoners of War Bulletin - 14 issues 1943-1955

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Washington D.C., American National Red Cross for the Relatives of American Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees: 1943

Seller ID: k180331c

8-1/2"11", 12-16 pages each. News and information regarding allied prisoners of war, published for families and domestic consumption. Vol 1 No. 1-Vol 2 No. 5 complete [12 issues, July 1943-May 1944 and Vol 2. No. 12 (Dec 1944) and Vol 3. No. 3 March 1945. [Publication ceased in June 1945]. Fine condition; unmarked and no tears.
View More...

The Sleepy Lagoon Case

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $60.00

Seller ID: 040314

1st ed., second printing with the original 5c price at the bottom of the cover. Covers age-toned with a couple of light stains. Paper cover pulling from one of the staples, but still intact. Pencil erasures on back cover and one interior page.
View More...

The Sleepy Lagoon Case

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Citizens Committee for the Defense of Mexican-American Youth: 1942

Seller ID: 040307

1st ed., 1st printing (June 1943, limited to 10,000 copies). Generally fine condition overall with some very light spotting along edge of front cover. The prologue page has serious toning from a contemporary news clipping that was laid inside.
View More...

Citizen Kane: Premiere Souvenir Program with original gold cord intact

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $1,650.00

Publisher: New York, RKO Radio Pictures / Winkler and Ramen : 1941

Seller ID: k200225d

Condition: Very good

The only copy we have ever seen with the first-issue gold silk cord still present. ##### Includes photos from the set, candid shots, and narrative details about Welles' and the making of the film. The gold cord, running through the center spread and around the spine, was possibly an allusion to the gold mine discovered on Mary Kane’s property that allowed her to send her son Charles away to be properly educated. The program was sold only at the 1941 first-run screenings of the film in the United States and our understanding is that only opening night copies had the cord inserted. ##### Co...
View More...

“California Gold. Important Official Report.” In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848

By: [California / Gold Rush] Colonel Richard B. Mason

Price: $225.00

Publisher: NY, The New York Tribune : 1848

Seller ID: k201010g

Condition: Very good

“California Gold. Important Official Report.” In The New York Tribune for December 8, 1848, published by Horace Greeley and Thomas McElrath. Original elephant folio newspaper, 4pp. complete, the report on p. 3.”Colonel Richard B. Mason’s famous report of his trip to newly discovered placers. It ranks as one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the Gold Rush.” (Kurutz 105) “One day Mr. Marshall, as he was walking own the race to this deposit of mud, observed some glittering particles at its upper edge…” [from the Report). This issue was printed just three days after the...
View More...

Image for Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress

Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress

By: [George Washington] William Jackson

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: John Ormrod: 1800

Seller ID: k200225g

Eulogium, on the Character of General Washington, Late President of the United States; Pronounced at the Request of the Pennsylvania Society of the Cincinnati, Before the President of the United States, and the Members of Both Houses of Congress Philadelphia, Pa. John Ormrod, 1800. 12mo, original wrappers. 44 pp. Title page continues: "on the twenty-second day of February, eighteen hundred, in the German Reformed Church, Philadelphia." "New Edition." Woodcut head piece and tailpiece. George Washington’s sudden sudden death inspired mourning throughout the US and this is one of numerous ...
View More...

[Napoleon's Oraculum] The Book of Fate

By: [Hirchenhoffer, H. ]

Price: $135.00

Publisher: London, M. Arnold : 1833

Seller ID: k180226g

Condition: Good

The Book of Fate / Formerly in the Possession of Napoleon Later Emperor of France and Now First Rendered Into English from a German Translation, of an Ancient Egyptian Manuscript, Found in the Year 1801, by M Sonnini, in one of the Royal Tombs, Near Mounty Libycus, in Upper Egypt. 23rd edition. 8vo. Maroon boards. Fold-out frontispiece with Oraculum charts, "Questions which may be put to the Oracle." The Oraculum was discovered in one of the Royal tombs of Egypt during an 1801 French military expedition and, at Napoleon's request, was translated by the German scholar. It was Napoleon's most c...
View More...

[Lagerzeitungen] Original German POW Camp newspapers - 3 issues 1945-46

By: [Lagerzeitungen] [Newspaper]

Price: $225.00

Publisher: “Rundschau” / Camp Myles Standish: 1945-46

Seller ID: k200301h

Condition: Very good

3 issues of German POW Newspaper “Rundschau” / Camp Myles Standish, Mass. Dec 1945 26 pp.; No. 11 Jan 1946 10 pp.; Jan 26 1946 22 pp. ##### Black mimeograph on newsprint, stapled at left. 8-1/2x11”. News summaries, essays, poems, camp announcements, drawing-contest-winners' artwork, humor and puzzles ##### Condition: very good; toning as expected for pulp newspapers
View More...

Cabinet Cards - 50 sepia toned photographs of New York businessmen. 1877-1881

By: [Photographs] Pach, Gustavus

Price: $550.00

Publisher: New York, 1877-1881

Seller ID: k180331e

50 sepia toned photographs of New York businessmen by noted photographer Gustavus Pach. With his engraved logotype on the back. The photos are unidentified and undated, but were produced sometime between 1877 and 1881 while Pach had his studio at this New York address. Rich and famous; ordinary? We have no idea. Very good-fine condition.
View More...

Image for An Epistle and Testimony from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New-York, by adjournments, from the twenty-sixth of the fifth month, to the second of the sixth month, inclusive, 1828.

An Epistle and Testimony from the Yearly Meeting of Friends, held in New-York, by adjournments, from the twenty-sixth of the fifth month, to the second of the sixth month, inclusive, 1828.

By: [Quakers; Society of Friends]

Price: $175.00

Publisher: NY, Mahlon Day: 1828

Seller ID: k200225f

Condition: Good

12mo, original wrappers. 24 pp. Author(s) not identified but with printed signatures at the end of Samuel Parsons and Anne Mott, clerks. The narration begins with a description of the "spirit of unbelief and libertinism, which has long been secretly insinuating itself amongst us." Followed by an account of how "separatists" disrupted the Society's daily business in New York. [In an 1824 epistle, preacher Elias Hicks argued that the most important principle of worship was obedience to the Inner Light, which he considered more authoritative than the Bible. By 1827, Philadelphia Quakers had spl...
View More...

The Balance and Columbian Repository - Hudson, New York: Mar 20, 1804. "Ode on Seeing a Negro Funeral"

By: [Slavery] Bryant Edwards

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Hudson NY, The Balance and Columbian Repository : 1804

Seller ID: k200225e

Condition: Poor

Vol III No. 12. 8 pp., 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. Possibly the first American printing of the poem “Ode on Seeing a Negro Funeral"by Bryant Edwards, first published in Jamaica in 1792. The ode voices the imagined feelings of slaves as they accompany the body of Mahali to his burying place. They begin by rejoicing in his death as a release ‘from slav’r’s chain and restoration to his native Skies and long lost African homeland.” ##### Also an Article defending Aaron Burr by Aristides [pseudonym either of William Peter Van Ness. a friend of Aaron Burr wdho served as his second in his duel ...
View More...

Progress In Industrial Color And Protection At "A Century Of Progress"

By: [Urban, Joseph / Chicago Worlds Fair, 1933]

Price: $1,150.00

Publisher: American Asphalt Paint Company, Chicago, Illinois: 1933

Seller ID: k190606a

Condition: Very Good

First edition. 12" x 9-3/4" in cream pictorial stapled wrappers [16] pp. Illustrated throughout with approximately 14 large and 22 small color pochoir illustrations with gold and silver accents. For the 1933 Century of Progress exposition, the American architect/designer Joseph Urban was commissioned to create a palette of 28 colors for application to the exteriors and interiors of the buildings. The American Asphalt Paint Co. was asked to "match Mr. Urban's difficult palette" in what was "the largest single paint contract of its type ever awarded." This brochure illustrates several of the maj...
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Category: Ephemera