Nice vintage embossed Halloween post card showing a boy carrying a black cat past a glowing jack-o'lantern. The illustration is unsigned, but looks like the work of Ellen Clapsaddle. Marked on the front with the letters "LSC" around a circle with a "C" in it. The back is marked "Series 226E". Unused. Circa 1910. Condition: softening along edges, nice color.
This hard back book was published in 1949. It was written by Mary Brooks Picken and published by Singer Sewing Machine Company. There are 244 pages filled with black and white illustrations, sketches, color photos of finished products a person might sew, etc. The text teaches everything one would want/need to know about one's sewing machine and about how to sew anything. It is a great collectible and very informative...
"Tezukuri no Bi: Okinawa Kurashi to Mingu" ("Handmade Beauty: Okinawa Life and Crafts") in Japanese, 1972. Condition-very good. Soft bound with original dust jacket. 160 pages with 148 B/W photos, plus essays on Okinawan life and craft. Illustrations and descriptions include: baskets, pottery, textiles, farming tools, furniture, architecture, and even handmade karate weapons.
An oversized soft cover catalog that features ceramics, ivories, fine and decorative arts. Published in association with Julius Bohler and Brimo de Laroussilhe. 128+ full color plates. 250 pgs. A small tear is on front cover ( see photo) otherwise in fine condition.
Possibly an unstated first edition written by Donald G. Mitchell. The book has green cloth boards with gilt lettering and gilt top. Published in 1897 by Charles Scribner. The cover shows light wear, an owner's name in pencil is on the free paper and the book is slightly cocked. Pages 235 on have some type of very faint stain at the corners. 7¾" - 9¾" 294pp.
A large coffee table book published in 1996 by Harry N. Abrams. This hard cover with jacket is in excellent condition however there is an inscription on the front free paper.
This is an Early GEORGE WASHINGTON PINBACK POLITICAL PIN from a Maryland Estate.
Transfer Print has been applied to the Base Metal; size is 7/8" in diameter. Date this One circa first 20 years of the 20th Century and the note the Condition is EXCELLENT
Auction catalog for Important American Furniture, Folk Art,Folk Art Paintings and Silver held in October 1988.
A large coffee table book published by Rizzoli in association with the Museums at Stoney Brook
in conjunction with the exhibition "Stanford White on Long Island" July 4-November 1, 1998.Photographs by Johnathan Wallen.Very slightly musty. 252pp.
This is an Unusual ANTIQUE with Beautiful Illustrations by STUART TRAVIS. 122p; 8vo; spine has some top pull wear; edge & corner wear;
each page's copy is "framed in"; grade is VG VG+. 96 Year Old
DEVOTA by AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON. Excellent Period Romance
A sumptuous coffee table book published in 1988 by Oxmoor. Harcover with dustjacket. Mint condition. 256pp.
An illustrated hard cover with dust jacket written by Peter Thornton and published in 1998 by Harry F Abrams New York.The jacket has very very light wear on the edge and corners otherwise the book is in mint condition. 438plates ~216pp.
This is the Book: The MUSIC DRAMAS of RICHARD WAGNER by ALBERT LAVIGNAC, 1898. 515p; 8vo; bars of music on mutiple pages; two fold out pages of music; edge wear; slight interior binding looseness; grade is VG to VG+. From a VIRGINIA collection of Antique MUSIC BOOKS. jpgs tell the rest.
This rare, 15 page booklet, written and published by F.E. Ormsby: famed, respected and controversial prognosticator, was issued as a “Twentieth Century Announcement” to promote Ormsby’s books, writings and other products...
A color photo of Los Angeles mayor and Democratic politician Eric Garcetti, 9 1/4" by 7 1/2" (17 3/4" by 14 3/4" framed), hand signed in black marker at lower center. Garcetti's term as Los Angeles mayor ended in 2022. He was nominated for United States ambassador to India and currently holds that position. Garcetti had been mentioned as a national candidate for president and was a close confidant and advisor to Joe Biden during the 2020 elections...
A soft cover with jacket published by Galerie Enrico Navarra circa 1989 and written in French. Chagall's paintings, sculptures, temperas and works on paper are featured.A biography summarizes his life and work. The cover has a slight crease at the top corner. 92pp.
This is a GEORGE WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL PINBACK Political Pin dated 1900. The front image is via transfer printing process applied to base metal. Front reads: NATIONAL CAPITAL CENTENNIAL, 1900; the back has a crossover pin and no safety mechanism. From a Kensington, Maryland Estate, suburb of Washington, D.C. Note the Condition is EXCELLENT
Copper “keping” coin 1831, British Malaysia. D: 21mm.