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By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: St. Paul, Minn., Continental Savings, Loan and Building Company:
Seller ID: 11897
Condition: Collectible-Fine
circa.1890s. 23 pages; paper wrapper (3 3/8 x 5 1/2 inch) with title on the cover. Concerned with bank operations and loans and investments. Fine clean copy. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, New York, The Babcock & Wilcox Co.: 1913
Seller ID: 12362
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Thirty-fifth Edition. 335 pages; illustrations, tables; index; bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering (7 1/4 x 10 1/4 inch). Issued for it customers as to the advantages of steam power as a source of power for its customer's use. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $375.00
Publisher: New-York, New York, John F. Trow, Publisher and Printer: 1851
Seller ID: 12514
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Professionally rebacked. lxiv, 350 pages; advertisement front and back sections; folding map frontispiece; Original cloth boards (3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch). An alphabetical listing of business in the City of New York during 1850-51. Written in ink across the title page is 'Phomsin & Austin, No. 13 West St. New York'. Extremely uncommon with original folding map. Chipping to margin of two preliminary leaves, slightly affecting a letter or two in the right margin. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, North American Building-Loan Assocation: 1930
Seller ID: 12528
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Volume Fifty, Number Four (April 1930). Pages 185-248; illustrations; paper wrapper (8 1/4 x 11 1/4 inch). Articles on - Building Your Business; Thrift and Home Financing; Matters of Interest; Building Construction. Fine clean copy of this industry publication. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $37.50
Seller ID: 13275
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
circa.1870. Original stereograph (3 1/2 x 7 inch) with not title. Inscripbed on the backside "Keelers mill that sawed timber for church. Loaned by Hazel Woodmansee, R.D. 2, Lafayette , NY." Image of the sawing mill looking down from a hill near it. A snall log pond nest to it with cleared land in the background. Very good clean copy. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut, The A.C. Gilbert Co.: 1917
Seller ID: 015641
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Paper covered booklet with illustration of a boy playing with his chemistry set on front. Small tear at spine, chipping. Brown spots and stains throughout, possibly from chemicals spilled during play. Dimensions 10 1/2 x 7 inches. 28 pages with table of contents to experiments and magic tricks that can be done with the chemistry set. Ads for electrical sets and erector sets in back. The A. C. Gilbert Company was founded in 1909 and was most noted for introducing the Erector Set. It went out of business in 1967. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California, Greater San Francisco Association: 1912
Seller ID: 015651
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Stapled, folded brochure , chipping, some splitting at fold. "Phoenix Photo Engraving Co." typed on front. Black and white reproduction of a painting of a masted ship in San Francisco Bay on front, photograph of SS Cleveland at dock in San Francisco Harbor on back. 14 pages with15 black and white photographs. Promotional literature touting San Francisco as a center of commerce. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, Sears, Roebuck & Co.:
Seller ID: 016297
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Circa 1906. Set of 5 Original printed photograph stereocards on white board. Board dimensions 7 x 3 1/2 inches, photograph dimensions 6 x 3 inches. Titles at base of photos. Some rubbing on edges. Short description of photo on back. No. 33 - 37 in series, views of different stages in the process of printing a Sears catalog. Sears-Roebuck began publishing its catalog in 1888, featuring all kinds of merchandise and becoming a cultural icon. In 1906, Sears opened its own catalog plant and the Sears Tower in Chicago. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Elkhart, Indiana, Dr. Miles Medical Company:
Seller ID: 016437
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Circa 1927. Staple bound pamphlet, 6 x 4 3/4 inches. with color illustration of a man and woman reading the pamphlet on the front and a country scene on the back. Minor chipping, notes in ink on front and back cover. 32 pages, alternating trivia questions with advertisements for Dr. Miles Medical Company pharmaceutical products, including "Nervine" and "Aspir-Mint". Dr. Franklin Miles founded the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884. Until the mid-1930's, the sedative Nervine was its most popular product. In 1935, the company changed its name to Mile Laborator... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Wells Fargo Nevada National Bank:
Seller ID: 016521
Condition: Collectible-Fine
Circa 1918. 6 1/2 x 6 tan paper folded in half. Excellent condition. Tax information for investors who purchased Liberty Bonds, Victory Notes, Treasury Certificates and/or War Savings Certificates to support the government during World War I. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: San Francisco, California Development Board: 1918
Seller ID: 016534
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
Paper wrapper with color map of California and the California State Seal on front. Ex-library. Significant chipping of cover, text in very good condition. 4 punched holes near spine. Library stamp on first and last page. 64 pages with index and 20 x 36 fold out color map in back. A detailed report on the infrastructure, resources, and information of importance to the business community in the State of California. Multiple tables. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: 1854
Seller ID: 016638
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
8 x 4 1/2 inch paper, two brown spots not affecting text, fold line, otherwise excellent condition. Billhead receipt for 6 boys' guns, total $10.87, bought from William Read, No. 6 Market Square, Importer of Guns, Sporting Apparatus, and Hardware Goods. Dated February 25, 1854. Signed, "Rec'd Pay Wm Read by C. Romney." William Read began importing guns and other sporting goods to Boston in 1826 as "Lane and Read", later "William Read", then "William Read and Sons". The business lasted at least until the 1910's. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Underwood & Underwood: 1901
Seller ID: 016715
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
24 pages. blue color paper wrapper (6 x 4 3/4 inch) with title on the cover. Testimonials about Underwood & Underwood stereographs and the chances of selling them to make a living. Evidence of having been folded, very good, clean copy. View more info
By: Armour, Richard
Price: $47.50
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1959
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 8322
Condition: Fine
(1959). Amour's recollections of his grandparenst' and parents' Pomona, California drug store from about 1912 to 1918. Armour became later in life a professor of English at Scripps College in nearby Claremont, CA. Inscribed by Armour to his friend and fellow Scripps English professor colleague Joseph Arnold Foster and his wrife: "For Joe & Sally Foster, this bit of Americana or --------- (unreadable), with every good wish of one who left the mortar & pestle for the mortarboard. Dick. September 14, 1955." Very nice, complete dust wrapper with a couple of short tears. 186 pages. View more info
By: Baskin, Harry H. and Albert M. Bloom
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, Master Service, Inc.: 1927
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 019042
Condition: Very Good
104 pamphlets, complete, bound in publisher's attractive fabricoid. From the introduction: "Do not look upon "Surefire" as a course in salesmanship. It is not. It is a complete and infallible index to what makes a buyer buy." Some examples include: The Mental Buyer; The Action Buyer, The Refind Buyer, etc. Index to the pamphlets laid in. Illustrated with photos and drawings. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. View more info
By: Carnegie, Dale; Thomas, Lowell (Introduction)
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, American Institute of Banking: 1926
Seller ID: 019765
Condition: Fine
Original publisher's blue cloth binding with gilt decorations and lettering on spine. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2." 583 pages, complete. Former ownership signature in black ink of Harry Buss on front pastedown. Bookplate of Henry Buss on front free endpaper. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Very minimal, if any, wear on edges of covers. Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) was an American writer and lecturer best-known for his writings and teachings on self-improvement. Carnegie grew up on a rural farm, worked his way out of poverty, and found his true calling by coaching and teaching peopl... View more info
By: Casson, Herbert
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, B. C. Forbes Publishing Co.: 1923
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 017997
Condition: Fine
Original black cloth with faded gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 inches. 147 which include 9 pages about the publisher, B. C. Forbes life and 5 pages of ads. One page of the ad is not cut, however the pages in the copy are cut. Contents include, buy only what you need, never buy, give, lend nor invest under pressure, speculate on properties, not schemes, buy only what can be re-sold without a loss, take your profits, ask you banker, buy at the bottom and sell at the tip, keep your money moving, borrow all you can use, borrow for expansion, not show, give, but never le... View more info
By: Chang, Hugh C.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Oakland, California, 0
Seller ID: 018917
Condition: Fine
Titled in two enveloopes: "Idea on patent for pre-stressed vessels and/or piping for very high pressure and temperature services" (and) "Patentable concepts on nuclear reactors and other patentable ideas and improvements on various consumer and industrial products, conceived during October 1, 1957 and October 1, 1958. Twelve handwritten pages, 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Each pages with drawings, charts or technical notes. Hugh Chung (b. 1916-d. 2008) was born in China and came to America in 1943 as an officer in the Chinese Army and worked with the U.S. Military during World War II, ne... View more info
Price: $37.50
Publisher: New York, New York, D. Appleton and Company: 1903
Seller ID: 11243
Condition: Collectible-Very Good
xiii, 304 pages; illustrations of monies, stocks, bonds, etc; index; bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Includes: What are Funds, How Funds are Obtained, Institutions and agents employed in funding operations. View more info
By: Cole, Geo. S.
Price: $47.50
Publisher: Chicago, Mercantile Book Company: 1901
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 018989
Condition: Very Good
Publisher's red cloth with dulled gilt lettering. Front end paper cllipped on bottom corner; second end paper folded. Clean and fresh internally. Chapters include: Plans for Getting Trade; Up to Date Methods for Merchandizing; Premium Plans; Retailers' Associations; Personal Letters and Circulars; Sales and Special Sales; Store Catalogues; Misc. Plans; Store Papers. 212 pages, including index. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. View more info
