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Your search for Trade Catalogues has returned 26 results. 1917 Price List of Houghton Mifflin Co.'s Riverside Literature Series. Prices in Effect Jan. 1, 1917.  Houghton Mifflin Company.  Boston, Massachusetts.  1916.  "Riverside Literature Series". 24 pages; paper wrapper (3 1/4 x 6 inch) with title on the cover. Listing books from Dana's 'Two Years Before the Mast', to Dickens, to Shelley, to Poe's 'Raven'. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Books, Book Catalogue, Houghton Mifflin Company. DK-89  (Book ID 11898)  $15.00 A Selection of the Publications of the Berlin Photographic Co.  Rudolf Lesch Fine Arts.  New York.  Wrappers. No date, but circa 1925 (?). Photos of classic and modern art reproductions offered for sale. Includes a section of portraits of famous people. 6 1/8 by 9 1/4 inches. 155 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Art Catalogs. Fine Art Reproduction  (Book ID 8059)  $25.00 Catalogue No. 259 [March 1952]. A Complete Collection of the Books Printed By William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 1891-1898. Books from the Library of Porter Garnett; Some Wood-cuts from the Ashendene Press of St. John Hornby; Books on (cont).  Dawson's Book Shop.  Los Angeles, California.  1952.  (cont. title) " ... Bibliography, Calligraphy." 32 pages; facsimiles; paper wrapper (6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inch). Introduction by Muir Dawson, 219 items offered for sale. Printed by The Plantin Press. Includes basic annotations. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Trade Catalogue, Fine Press, Kelmscott Press. DK-107  (Book ID 12233)  $25.00 E.A. Seemanns: Large Colour Reproductions from Old and Modern Masters  Rudolf Lesch Fine Arts, Inc..  New York.  No date, circa 1925 (?). Oblong wrappers. 4 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches. Color frontispiece. Text in German and English. 193 reproductions of paintings for sale, each illustrated with a black and white photo. Indexed.   Condition: Very Good.  Art Reprodctions.  (Book ID 8058)  $25.00 Franco-Belgique Tours Company Super Service Tours 1924. An American Organization Specializing in European Travel. Independent Travel Arrangements, European Atuomobile Service De Luxe Steamship Tickets.  Franco-Belgique Tours Co., Ltd..  New York, New York.  1924.  40 pages; bound in paper wrapper (4 x 9 inch) with illustrations on the cover. Stamp for Peck-Judah of Los Angeles on the title page. List costs, tours available, and itenerary. For Western Europe - England, France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Germany. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Tour Guides, Europe. DK-89  (Book ID 11913)  $15.00 Instruction Book and Catalog (No. 18) Covering the Printing Presses, Type and Supplies. Manufactured and Sold By ...  The Sigwalt Mfg. Co..  Chicago, Illinois.  circa.1920s. [34] pages; drawings, specimen samples; brown paper wrapper with title "Printing Presses: Type and Supplies and How to Use Them" on the cover. Includes insert specimen page for Plate Gothic. Text of pamphlet is an account of explanation and equipment used for printing. Catalogue for 'Chicago Prining Press No. 11 - Self-Inking'; 'Ideal Printing Press - Hand-Powered, Self-Inking'; and sample pages of various fonts: Century Expanded; Century Expanded Italic; Light Card Gothic; Old English; Society Script; Benedictine Old Style; Ornamental Fillers; Miscellaneous; Borders; Printshop Accessories; and Cap and Lower Case Schemes.   Condition: Fine.  Printing & Supplies. DK-55  (Book ID 11097)  $25.00 Instructions for Care and Operation of Majestic Electric Radio Receivers and Electric Phonographs. Models 90, 91, 92, 93, 102 and 103.  Grigsby-Grunow Company.  Chicago, Illinois.  1930.  16 pages; illustrations; green paper wrapper (6 x 9 inch) with title on the cover. Missing the back cover and evidence of being folded. Advertising pamphlet and instruction manuel of the radios and phonographs sold by Grigsby-Grunow Company. Includes Specifications, additional equipment required, installation, power supply, problem shooting, maintenance, and general remarks.   Condition: Good.  Radios, Phographs, Majestic Radios, Grigsby-Crunow. DK-109  (Book ID 12266)  $15.00 Reducing the Cost of Medical and Hospital Care.  The Sutter Hospital.  San Francisco, California.  1932.  [12] pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (3 3/4 x 9 inch) with envolope canceled January 26, 1932, 2 cent stamp. Pamphlet discusses the medical plan, along with departments, and fee schedule. Blood tests for $1.75, X-Rays $5-10.00, Operations $75.00, Hospital $2.50 or Home $1.75 visits, and so on. An example of an early health plan.   Condition: Fine.  Medical Plans, Hospital Fees. DK-23  (Book ID 10148)  $25.00 Riverside Tires and Auto Supplies Advertisement Flyer.  Montgomery Ward Co..  New York, New York.  Circa.1924. 20 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch) with order form and return envelope. Small catalogue for batteries, car tops, tires, radiators, etc. for all makes of cars. Includes a mailing enclosure.   Condition: Very Good.  Automobile Parts and Tires, Advertisement. DK-23  (Book ID 10149)  $25.00 Riverside Tires. Riverside De Luxe Batteries and Auto Supplies.  Montgomery Ward & Co..  Baltimore, Maryland.  circa.1926. 52 pages; illustrations; paper wrapper (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch) with mailing encloseure. Catalogue for tires, car parts of all makes and oils by Mongomery Ward. Clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Automobile Supplies Advertisement. DK-23  (Book ID 10150)  $25.00 S.C. & J.P. Watts' Circular and Price-List of Chaff and Simplicity Bee-Hives and Bee-Keeper's Supplies in General.  S.C. & J.P. Watts.  Murray, Pennsylvania.  1885.  Fold out advertisement folder (16 x5 1/4 inch) folds down to (3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch) with title on the cover. Bee-Keeping supply catalog with some illustrations and a price listing. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  bee-Keeping, Bees. DK-105  (Book ID 12192)  $25.00 Schack's Fall Flower Book. Showing a Large and Varied Collection of Floral Units and Other New Ideas for Decorating Windows and Interiors for the Autumn Season - Flowers, Vines, Shades, Foliage, Papier-Mache and Other Decorative Materials.  The Schack Artificial Flower Co..  Chicago, Illinois.  1914.  24 pages; illustrated; brown paper wrapper (13 1/4 x 19 inch) with title on the cover. Missing chips along the edge of the cover and along the spine, evidence of having been rolled up for sending. Product catalogue for the Schack Flower Company for its' customers showing artificial flowers, preserved flowers, window and interior decorations, etc. for the fall season, 1914. In the front are photos for suggestions of use of their products and examples.   Condition: Very Good.  Artificial Flowers, Window Decorations, Catalogue. DK-80  (Book ID 11685)  $37.50 Schack's Floral Parade Book. Showing a Large Collection of Automobiles and Floats, Decorated for Home Comings, Street Fairs, Floral Parades, Anniversaries, Centennials, Carnivals and All Similar Occasions. & Cost of Decorations (leaflet)  Schack Artificial Flower Co., Inc..  Chicago, Illinois.  1913.  Two items: Floral Parade Book - 16 pages; illustrations; light green paper wrapper (13 1/4 x 19 inch) with title on the cover. Along with the products offered by Schack's for decorating cars and floats (artificial and preserved flowers), are photos of the various styles used in decorating cars (10 pages of photos). Cost of Decorations leaflet (3 3/4 x 9 inch), 24 pages; paper wrapper with title on the cover, which quotes prices for the flowers. Prices range from twenty dollars to sixty dollars per car style. Quite unusual catalog for floral parades and occasions. Some fraying along the spine of the floral parade book and evidence of having been folded. Very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Floral Parades, Floral Floats. DK-80  (Book ID 11686)  $100.00 Stewart Clipping and Shearing Machines and Parts. Price List No. 102. Prices F.O.B. Chicago Effective January 1, 1929. Prices Subject to Change Without Notice..  Chicago Flexible Shaft Company.  Chicago, Illinois.  1929.  36 pages; illustrations; yellow paper wrapper with title on the cover (4 x 6 inch). Parcel post rates on the back cover. Order catalogue for animal shearing equipment and parts manufactured by Stewart. Interesting for the various attachments for different animals including sheep, goats, cows, dogs, horses, etc.   Condition: Very Good.  Sheep Shearing, Shearing Equipment. DK-62  (Book ID 11250)  $25.00 The Men Who Wield the Pens Say "Speedball" Drawing-Lettering Pens. Superior All Ways  J.F. Visell Co..  Tacoma, Washington.  Brochure (6 1/4 x 9 inch) of [4] pages printed in black and red. Center fold is lettering styles and examples of different tips (27). On the back page are prices and local outlet. Evidence of being folded, otherwise a very good clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Advertisement, Speedball, Pens & Ink. DK-104  (Book ID 12183)  $15.00 The New Mitchell F-50. A Flow of Power.  Mitchell Motors Company.  Rancine, Wisconsin..  circa.1916. Pamphlet of 15 pages; illustrated; bound in pale green paper wrapper (5 1/8 x 7 3/4 inch). Talks about the advantage of the new engine in their cars, the "Mitchell F-50". Shows photos of the engine, the Five Passenger Mitchell Touring car; Three Passenger Mitchell roadster; Four Passenger Mitchell Sport; Four Passenger Mitchell coupe; Five Passenger Mitchell Sedan; and the Seven Passenger Mitchell touring car. Small tear at top right not affecting text, but in very good condition with no markings or folds.   Condition: Very Good.  Automobile, Car Manufacturers, Mitchell Motor Car Company. DK-98  (Book ID 12091)  $50.00 The Stamp Shopper  The Stamp Shop.  Chicago, Illinois.  1916.  Issue Aug.-Sept. 1916 [Vol. 1, Nos. 10, 11]. 16 pages; wrapper (4 1/4 x 7 inch). Contains articles: New Issues Department, With Philatelic Societies, The Chatterbox, Laughs and Stamps, With our Exchanges, Stop Press New Issue News, and The Wise Old Man. Also includes ads from various dealers. Clean copy with evidence of a vertical fold.   Condition: Very Good.  Stamp Collecting, Philately. DK-22  (Book ID 10099)  $15.00 The Whitin Machine Works, Whitinsville, Mass. Builders of Cotton Machinery: Cards, Railway Heads, Drawing Frames, Spinning Frames, Spoolers, Wet and Dry Twisters, Reels, Long Chain Quilling Machines, Looms, Etc. Etc.  (Press of Charles Batcheller).  (East Douglas, Mass.).  1896.  Publisher's green cloth (some spotting on front cover) with gilt lettering. Back hinge reglued, with some loss of paper. Technical specifications with illustration. A nice quality production. 7 x 10 5/8 inches. 113 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Cotton Manufacturing. 19th Century Industrial Americana.  (Book ID 8028)  $125.00 Atkinson, F.H., And G.W. Atkinson  "A Show at" Sho-Cards. Comprehensive Complete Concise.  Frederick J. Drake & Co..  Chicago, Illinois.  1913.  47, [200+] pages; plates (200+) with ads in the back; green cloth binding with design on the cover in gilt and black, spine gilt lettering. gilt eding to pages. Introduction is a basic how-to followed by 'Sho-Card' design plates. Ads for suppliers in the back.   Condition: Very Good.  Show Card Writing, Sign Painters. DK-104  (Book ID 12186)  $75.00 Hooker, Margaret  Drinks That Quench Your Thirst.  Carnation Milk Products Company.  Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.  circa.1930s? Folding advertisement (13 1/4 x 5 3/8 inch) which folds to 3 3/8 x 5 3/8 inch) printed on both sides. Cover blue with the title on it and a coupon on the backside. Concerned with recipes for Carnation milk drinks.   Condition: Very Good.  Carnation Milk, Drinks, Cookbook. DK-109  (Book ID 12262)  $15.00 Radford, Wm. A.  Cement House and How to Build Them: Illustrated Details of Construction, Standard Specifications for Cement, Standard Specifications for Concrete blocks, General Inforamtion Concerning Waterproofing, Cooloring, Paving, Reinforcing (cont. In description)  The Radford Architectural Company.  Chicago and New York.  First Edition.  Publisher's light blue cloth with designed binding of white and green showing an elegant house behind a stately fence. (1909). 7 3/4 by 10 3/4. 81 pages of illustrated text, plus 88 plans, showing a picture of the house plus floor plan (complete) on page 82 through 170. Unpaginated index and advertising at end.   Condition: Very Good.  Home Building. Concrete Construction  (Book ID 7916)  $75.00 Riley, Robert L.  A New Believe it or Not! By Ripley.  General Houshold Utilities Co..  Chicago, Illinois.  circa. 1933. 32 pages; illustrations, drawings, map, table; advertisements, [4] pages for Grunow radios and refregerator; yellow paper wrapper, title on the cover in red and black (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch). Issued as a trade catlog for Grunow - among the models are 'All-Wave Model 752; Dual-Range Model 651; Model 750 'World Cruiser'; Model 650 'Classic'; Model 550 AD-DC; Model 450 'Minuet'; and the Grunow Refrigerator.   Condition: Very Good.  Trade Catalogue, Ripley's Believe it or Not, Grunow. DK-107  (Book ID 12230)  $25.00 Smith, Kenneth  Season of 1918-19 Annual Memo Book and Supplementary Catalog. Fourteen Years as Tanners to Farm Trade of the Central and Western States.  Globe Tanning Co..  Des Moines, Iowa.  1918.  [18] pages; illustrations; stiff paper illustrated wrapper (2 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch) stapled. Also stapled in is the green number tag for shipping and recieving. Illustrated catalogue for turning one's animal hides into coats or hats with prices varying from $32 for a coat to as low as $2.50 for mittens. Also a breakdown of prices for different types of animals to be tanned - horses to weasels. 6 pages of blank memo sheets in the back. Cover has evidence of wear and some folding, some pencil marks listing pay due on the farm on several memo pages. Unusual momento for a service offered to the farmers before WWI.   Condition: Very Good.  Tannery, Coats, Trade Catalogues. DK-84  (Book ID 11769)  $15.00 U.S. Machinery Company  Bulletins 69, 73 and 74.  Sacramento.  1938.  3 bulletins with 24 total pages, 8 1/2 x 11", the first with illustration of their plant at 1800 20th Street, Sacramento, the second a cyanide plant at Sutter Creek, the third is headed "Treadwell Yukon Company Machinery, Tybo, Nevada". Price lists with a few illustrations of mining machinery, contractors equipment and industrial equipment such as compressors, generators, pumps, pulleys, and the inventory of the Jennie Mine Floatation Plant south of Pioche, Nevada, "most machines bought new 1934, used about eight months", folded for mailing, with original stamped envelope, light wear overall.   Trade Catalogue. Machinery. Equipment. Mining  (Book ID 6390)  $25.00 Van Winkle, C.S.  The Printers' Guide; or, an Introduction to the Art of Printing: Including an Essay on Punctuation, and Remarks on Orthography.  Lakeside Press.  Chicago, Illinois.  1970.  Facsmimile Reproduction of the 1818 edition for Sun Chemical Corporation by The Lakeside Press. 229, [30] pages; folding plate; bound in brown board with title in gilt on the spine. The last section is type and style specimens.   Condition: Fine.  Printing, Type Face, Orthography. DK-87  (Book ID 11853)  $25.00 White, James T. & Co.  Autograph Letter Signed concerningThe American Cyclopaedia.  San Francisco.  1876.  2 pages, 11 x 8 1/2", on letterhead with illustration of the 16 volume Cyclopaedia on a custom made shelf, and noting James T. White & Co. are General Agents for the Pacific Coast for D. Appleton & Co., publishers. The harsh letter to a J.B. Hickman urges him to work more diligently, "if you show energy you can get a large number of orders." Schools have money now to buy the sets, so sign them up now before they spend it elsewhere. Accompanied by a 4 page, 8.5 x 5.5" printed brochure for the set addressed to school boards, with indorsements and order information.   Trade Catalog. Books on Books. Letters. Education  (Book ID 6327)  $25.00

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