TRADE CATALOGUE from Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books

New York:: [The Company],.. Single sheet, 8 1/4 x 10 7/8 inches, folded in three to 8 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Bluff paper with black printing. Twelve wooden samples, all extremely attractive and two having dyed color wood inlays. One sample with very minor chip The only reference we have found to this company is in a work… Read more about this item

New York:: Printed for Private Circulation, ,.. Twenty-seven black and white plates each displaying two models; [31] pp Large 8vo, dark gray embossed stiff wrappers with pictorial panel (chipped) glued to front cover. No other copy located. This catalogue poses rather a mystery. According to A. L. Belden’s Fur Trade in America, German-born George Boos, and his brother,… Read more about this item

Chicago: : [The Company,        .. Approximately 198 photographic vignettes; 30 + order blank on [2] pp. 8vo, cream stiff pictorial wrappers; evenly damp-stained throughout; covers a little soiled. No copy in OCLC. Romaine lists an 1894 catalogue.In 1886, Charles A. Stevens (1859–1932) left the small town of Colchester, Illinois 250 miles southwest of Chicago… Read more about this item

Deadwood, S.D.:: [The Author],.. Portrait on cover, 4 full-page halftones, 3 halftones inserted into text, and 2 wood-engravings. [ii—front cover, verso blank], 1-21—page 21 is the inside back cover with illustration, verso blank. 8vo, self-wrappers OCLC shows 4 holdings: Bienecke, Winterthur, South Dakota Archives, and one copy in the Pike’s Peak Library District.White was born in… Read more about this item

Petersburg: [The Company], . . Folio, maroon buckram, titled in black on front cover and name on spin; all edges maroon, as new in original publisher's cardboard shipping box An extraordinarily comprehensive catalogue in untouched condition. No other publication from this firm located, despite the fact that it was in business for 120 years. The building now house condominiums.… Read more about this item

S.l. [U.K.]: The Company, [1937]. . Folio, three-hole navy blue cloth covered binder with gilt title on front with stamped figure of a woman in raincoat at center. No other copy located.Index of fabrics on verso of front cover.BOUND IN before fabric samples: 12 sheets (10 1/2 x 7 inches) printed on one side only, each showing two… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: [TheCompany], Late 1808. . 8vo, printed wrappers printed in red and black, front pictorial with view of the U.S. Capitol.

Charlotte, Mich.: [The Company], 1883. . 8 pp. on single sheet of pink paper, i.e. 8vo single gathering, uncut and unopened; has been folded with small separation in the folds only affecting the blank margins. Washine appears to have been a washing powder. We have only been able to find advertisements seeking agents for the product in various… Read more about this item

New York: [The Company], circa 1890s. . 16mo, highly attractive aesthetic period printed yellow wrappers; the back illustration showing a Japanese woman siting high up in a bamboo cane with a bird on her knee; in the background Mount Fuji; the front illustration shows a crane wading in a pond with bamboo canes to its right. One holding in… Read more about this item

Detroit, Michigan: [The Company], [Late 1892] . . 8vo, pink printed wrappers, very small hole in back wrapper, affecting one word of index on inner back cover; some pencil addresses on inside front wrapper and first page; Romaine p. 326.The attractive lithographic front cover is by the Calvert Lith. Co. of Detroit.One of the pencil addresses listed with… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: [The Company], [Late 1884]. . 8vo, yellow/buff stiff printed wrappers; 1 1/2 inch closed tear on first page hole drilled in top left corner and string loop inserted for hanging. Romaine p. 329

New York: [The Company], ca. 1890. . Oblong 8vo, secured by two staples on the left edge. Not in Romaine or McKinstry, but Winterthur has subsequently acquired it.

Boston: [The Company; printed by Stetson Press], [1922]. . Folio, buff stiff wrappers; front printed in purple, blue and black. Inner hinges professionally strengthened and new spine supplied. One holding in OCLC (Winterthur).

[New York: The Company, circa 1931. . 4to, self wrappers, stapled in the center-fold; inch and a half separation at spine of first and last leaf

[New York: The Company, 1931]. . 8vo, embossed tan cloth, simulating leather, front printed in dark brown featuring Mercury hold a caduceus and holding aloft a basket of "goodies". OCLC shows two holdings: New York University and a Florida institution.Fascinating document listing high-end groceries--14 oz Malossol for $9.50 and other tear-provoking glories of years past.The firm, established in… Read more about this item

Denver, Co.: The Company], [1919]. . 4to, buff wrappers, front pictorial, printed in black and darker beige No holdings in OCLC for this company, but its forerunner, J. George Leyner, is represented in 3 holdings .

East Aurora, New York: The Company, 1909. . 8vo, buff printed wrappers (reattached with archival tape); printed in pale green tan, black and orange; wallet edges chipped; small chips to spine and back cover Waste-paper baskets, bellows, manicure cases. wallets & purses, "nifty kickknacks". There are also hand-bags, glove cases; table mats and desk accessories; jewel boxes… Read more about this item

Chicago: [The Company]; Ottaway & Co., Printers, 1880. . Large 8vo, buff wrappers, front printed Not in Romaine or McKinstry.Seaver invented a stove which vented through the floor, rather than through a wall, by a connection to a flue

Cincinnati: The Company, circa 1920. . Small 4to, cream stiff wrappers, front with pictorial panel in sepia, slight soiling SOLD WITH: Rockwood Pottery Founded in 1889 Fiftieth Anniversary 1930. Its History and its Aims. 3 line-drawings, decorator's marks (an additional four to those listed above) and 16 pp.Small 4to with the same illustration but printed with a green… Read more about this item

Rutland, Vt.: The Company, 1889. . 5 wood-engravings of tents by the Lewis Engraving Company of Boston. Single sheet, printed on pink paper, accordion-folded into [16] pp.; small chip out of bottom corner of first page first page Dating is based on a 42 star-flag: Washington was the 42nd state admitted in 1889, followed by Idaho in 1890