Search Results: Titles starting with H from Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA

Hardy's Ideal Indexed Coupon Book and Office Supply Promotional Packet--1900 10 item promotional packet with mailing envelope. Fine condition. With advertising envelope with 1 cent Franklin stamp and clean South Bend, Indiana flag cancel. Great little set of business promotional items marketed by L.P. Hardy of South Bend, Indiana. Includes a sample booklet of "Hardy's Ideal Indexed Coupon Book" with two pamphlets extolling the virtue and money-making opportunities provided by these coupon booklets. "Time Saved is Money Made"! Includes pamphlets for Hardy's Duplicating Receipt Books, sample Remittance Slip, Order Blank, Price List for January 1900, Dage Stamp, Hardy's Handy Account Book and return envelope. Packet sent to S.R. Buford & Company of Virginia City, Montana, the largest supplier of goods for southwestern Montana.

New York: Harper's Weekly, 1874. Good. Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization, Vol. XVIII No. 898, Harper's Weekly, New York, March 14 1874, 12 x 16.75 inches, 15 pp. (paginated 230-244). Staple-bound pictorial wrappers; interior pages clean, unmarked; detailed lithograph illustrations throughout; edges moderately worn; previous fold to center of all pages, with approximately 1 inch of separation at the fold to fore-edge; overall good condition. This is the Saturday, March 14, 1874 issue of Harper's Weekly magazine, Vol. XVIII No. 898. Interesting snapshot of the culture and interests of the late nineteenth century. Topics discussed in this issue include the Temperance movement, the Carlist Insurrection (or the Third Carlist War) in Spain, a recount of an Englishman's travels in Africa, and - as depicted on the cover - an argumentative session of the South Carolina Legislature in the Reconstruction Era. The author of this last article decries the behavior of some of the Black legislators, but… Read More

Provo, UT: Excel Graphics, 2001. First. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. The Heart of Maynard Dixon: Conversations with Herald R. Clark and other related correspondence, 1937-1946, Philip Hone Clark, Excel Graphics, Provo, UT, 2001, 189 pp., 14pp. Appendix, 11¼ x 8⅞ inches. Black boards with gilt titling to spine and gilt signatures on cover board, first edition, fine condition. Dust jacket with light shelf wear, one inch tear on back cover, very good condition. "Maynard Dixon was an American artist known for his paintings, and his body of work focused on the American West. He is considered one of the finest artists having dedicated most of his art on the U.S. Southwestern cultures and landscapes at the end of the 19th-century and the first half of the 20th-century (Wikipedia). This book contains a large volume of communications between Maynard Dixon and Herald R. Clark extending from 1937through 1945, with other related correspondence and documents through 1946. "Many of the letters are about… Read More

Indianapolis, Indiana: Bobbs-Merrill, 1906. First Thus. Hardback. Near Fine/Fair. Harrison Fisher. Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianpolis, Indiana, 1906. 188pp. 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Decorative Green Boards with gilt, black and white imprint plus laid down color painted portrait of Hiawatha by Harrison Fisher. Book has been stored in original box hence it is in near fine condition. Slight musty odor. Glassine jacket is present but missing bottom third to front. Original box is mostly expired with split sides and soiling but present. Binding is tight and square with very clean interior. First edition of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of Hiawatha with beautiful Harrison Fisher illustrations with decorations by E. Stetson Crawford.

Camden, New Jersey, 1929. Archive of several hundred pages from the work of chemist Dwight W. Cooke of the Keystone Leather Company, Camden, New Jersey. Pages in binder and loose. Condition is good only with light water damage and toning to pages; chips and tears. Overall very legible. Consists of original typed material, carbon copied material and manuscript. Two issues, good only condition, of the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association (Jan. 1922 and March 1932) included. Small portion of archives date to the early 20's as school reports by Cooke to a Dr. Rogers of the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn New York. These are field trip reports from visits to tanneries. The bulk of the archives served as a recipe book of sorts for the tanning of goat and horse hides, primarily from 1922-1929. Included are several letters to Cooke regarding tanning techniques. The Keystone Leather Company marketing products under the name Keystone Kid with tanning capacity said to be as much as one thousand… Read More

Lyon, MS: Derrydale Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good/None. High Country, Rutherford G. Montgomery, Derrydale Press, Lyon MS, 1993, 248 pp., 9⅝ x 6⅝ inches. Dark red cover with gilt titling to spine, pictorial tipped in on cover, all edges gilt, light soiling to cover, clean interior, binding tight. Very good condition. Author tells of his adventure hunting. Chapters include: White Saddle Buck, Cougar, Silvertip, Wapiti, The White Trail, etc. "Those who hunt after the philosopher, seeking to live for a while as a child of nature, will be blessed by the wind and the sun and will know a great peace nothing can upset or disturb." (Montgomery).

Los Angeles, California: Louis Lewin & Co, 1878. Fair. An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California From the Spanish occupancy, by the Founding of the Mission San Gabriel Archangel, September 8, 1771 to July 4, 1876. J. J. Warner, Benjamin Hayes, J. P. Widney, Louis Lewin & Co., Los Angeles, California, 1876, 8.75 x 5.5 inches, 88 pp. Glue binding, wrappers brittle and toned; large pieces missing from right corners of front wrapper, lower left corner and bottom edge of back wrapper; sections of spine glue missing; interior contains previous owner name in pencil and a few pen marks, else clean pages; fair condition. First edition, expanded second issue of An Historical Sketch of Los Angeles County, California (a shorter version had been published earlier the same year). The appendix contains accounts of the Fourth of July planning and celebration in Los Angeles, organized by a group of citizens who wanted to ensure the proper celebration of the American Centennial. This expanded second… Read More

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico, 1934. Very Good Condition/None as issued. History of the Albuquerque Indian School--A Thesis for the Degree of Master of Arts in History, Lillie G. McKinney, University of New Mexico, 1934. 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches. 164pp. Carbon copy of master's thesis bound in black pebbled cloth with gilt title on spine. Light wear and rubbing. Toning to pages. Tight binding. Blind embossed stamp for University of New Mexico on title page. Very Good Condition. Thesis for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Lillie G. McKinney (1898-1991). From the introduction: "The civilization of the American Indian has been slow, difficult and expensive for our government. Different administrations have tried to different policies. Usually, some method of force was used down to 1876. Force meant the final extinction of the race. About the only education that filtered in among the savages was the result of the labors of the heroic missionaries who established schools… Read More

Grass Valley, California, 1892. Poor/None. 1892 ledger from the Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley, California covering February 21st to April 13th. One leaf for each day. Ledger pages list the name, and residence of the guests. Many ink blotters are included between the pages. These blotters have advertisements for various businesses in and around Grass Valley. The Holbrook has hosted many famous guests including presidents Grant, Cleveland, Harrison, and Garfield but we find no presidents visiting during this time frame. Other famous visitors include the prize fighters Corbett and Fitzimmons and even Mark Twain. The binding and boards are in poor condition and most leaves are now loose. The blotter sheets did their job soaking up ink from the ink pens used in the ledger. Many of the blotter sheets were also used as a form of scratch paper. Ledger manufactured by the Hicks-Judd Company of San Francisco. Includes a guide to "Leading Hotels" of the west in the front, and a colorful blotter page (with… Read More

1921. Very Good/None. Anonymous. Home Counties--Sketches in Herts, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Bedfordshire Autumn 1921. Collection of original watercolor and pen and ink sketches of rural England from 1921. Bound in string tied photo album measuring 8 x 5 inches with six green blotter paper leaves and 22 thinner pale green leaves. Sketches are tipped in on recto only with white manuscript ink notations. Boards are rubbed, string binding intact. Some waving to the thinner leaves. Very Good. All sketches identified with locations in Brighton, Sussex, Bedfordshire, Essex, Kent and Herts. The front board also has an original ink sketch with title and subtitle plus design in black ink. Sadly, the artist did not sign their work, but it is from a hand of an accomplished artist with amazing detail and accurate perspective. It would be a really fun project to go back to each location and do a "then and now" 101 years later. A few specific images include Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, The Old Toll House between… Read More

Lowell, Mass: C. I. Hood & Co, 1894. Very good condition/None. Hood's Sarsaparilla Painting Book, C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass, copyright 1894. 9.25 x 7 inches. 36pp. Die-cut booklet; the shape emulating a painter's palette. Wraps have soiling and moderate wear along spine. Small indentation on rear wrap and last few leaves of text block. A few of the leaves have been used with watercolors but most are unused. Very good condition. This booklet contains printed color illustrations on one page with the illustration on the opposing page left blank for the artist to fill in with watercolors.

1914. Howard Vigne Sutherland Manuscript Pp. 27 + autograph letter signed Very good condition: title page a tad toned and soiled. Original handwritten manuscript for "Song of Santa Claus," signed by Howard V. Sutherland. Pp. 27. Inscribed on the title page "For Miss Isabel Donovan / With all the authorette's best wishes / H.V.S. / Chicago 1914". The manuscript is also signed "Howard V. Sutherland" at the conclusion on page 27. Authorial corrections and changes throughout. There is also an autograph letter signed to Miss Donovan: "The gift is appreciated, I assure you. In return I send you the manuscript of a work, no, a Work, which so far, has been rejected by five publishers, not including Desmond FitzGerald, Inc. It is still going the rounds. Tell Mr. Appell to brush his hair in expectation of very grave news, which shall be imparted to him in the near future. With best wishes for self, and Mother, and hilarious sisters during the coming year. Believe me, Sincerely yours, Howard V. Sutherland."… Read More