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Very scarce early California Gold Rush publication with 29 songs, including "Sweet Betsy from Pike:" Put's Golden Songster: Containing the largest and most popular collection of California Songs ever Published, by the author of Put's California Songster, &c. ("Old Put"). A rare opportunity to own this antiquarian treasure in exquisite condition. Published by D.E. Appleton & Co., San Francisco. Sextodecimo,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1926, Cartoons by Camillus Kessler. Quarto, cloth pictorial boards, 274 pages, no dust jacket. Platinum Age comics depicting celebrities, political humor, captains of industry (and their first jobs), economics and social strata. Cracked hinges, toning, wear to covers, clean pages. 28 x 21 x 4 cm; 3lb 2.4oz scarcity rating: 3 price-match promise. satisfaction guaranteed. anuncommonleaf.com

Ernest Nister No. 4682 "Off for the Holidays" rare antique book. Verses by Sheila Braine, and signed illustrations by G.H. Thompson. Printed in England, E.P. Dutton & Co., New York. Oblong/landscape, 36 pages, eight full-page full-color illustration plates, nine full-page illustrations in black, nine in-text illustrations, plus pictorial title page, and green pictorial pastedowns, frontispiece, and endpaper. This scarce volume is a… Read more about this item

Open to offers. First edition by virtue of no later impression referenced. L.C. Page and Company, Boston. Fourth installment in the Art Series. "Thirty-six illustrations from celebrated paintings by the great masters." Blue cloth cover, gilt-stamped front board and spine, gilt top. Rough cut fore-edge. Thirty-six black-and-white illustration plates, depictions of love and romance in fine art, 260 pages. Edition notes:… Read more about this item

Artist book in the "International mail art event and simultaneous exhibitions in three cities--NYC, Denver, Seattle." Presented in 1990 with Women's Studio Workshop (NY) in an edition of 60, "distributed to 50 people around the world in the fields of politics, art, the media, science, education, and religion who held positions on both sides" (Sollod Studio, 2023). A unique and provocative… Read more about this item

Exceptionally rare early thaumatrope collection. The set is complete with 24 discs housed in the publisher's box. Each disc has hand-colored engravings and tied silk strings. Distributed on the cusps of the Georgian and Victorian eras by Alphonse Giroux, Paris, 7 rue du Coq Saint-Honoré. In remarkable antique condition with astonishingly vivid colors and all strings attached. Subject Matter The collection includes… Read more about this item