Ephemera, Collectible Paper, &amp; Postcards

Charter of the Woonsocket Fire Corporation

Woonsocket Fire Corp.

$50

Jazz meets Shakespeare

[African Americana][Jazz]

Vintage Playbill, “Swingin’ the Dream”, 1939. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, African-American cast

Poster from Exhibition during Frankfurt Book Fair

Sol LeWitt. Signed exhibition poster - Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (1990), scarce poster froman exhibition in Germany in 1990.

Sol LeWitt

$345

[Civil Rights Movement]

An Introduction to the Black Panther Party

The John Brown Society

[Inaugural Issue]

Sanders, Rick, editor

Marijuana Monthly #1

$250

PAPER CUTOUTS

1954 Yearbook Southern University Baton Rouge Louisiana African American College HBCU "The Cat"

THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE

$50

P. T. Barnum & Bailey Circus Sideshow Freak Curiosities 1885 Allentown PA Show Pamphlet Poster

$625

Nice Little Stash of New Old Stock Trade Cards

[Trade Card] Clinching Screw Fastened Boots and Shoes--H.A. Warriner, Dealer in Boots, Shoes & Rubbers Warren, Mass

$20

Goldrush account ledger pioneer bankers Page Bacon

Page, Bacon & Co. check receipt book July 1854 - September 1855.

Page Bacon

$100

1880's San Francisco Photographers trade card

D. Hutchinson & C. F. Babcock

Eureka Gallery

[Eric Gill Presswork / Alfonso Ossorio’s Copy] Poems (1931)., London: Sheed and Ward, 1931. Printed by René Hague and Eric Gill at Pigotts, near Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. One of 200 copies.

GRAY, John.

$200

African American Advertising — Funeral Home Ephemera — Women in Business.

$75

Worldwide Stamp Album

Postmaster John C. Kinney

[POSTAL HISTORY] Cosmopolitan Postage Stamp Album c1890s-?, INCLUDED: Hartford Post Office sample-cancel sheets, by Postmaster John C. Kinney

$500

A magazine published in Yiddish in Berlin

Mark Vishnitzer, editor [Wischnitzer]., Rachel Vishnitzer, art editor

MILGROIM: A Yiddish Illustrated Magazine of Art and Letters - issues 1-4 bound together. (1922, 1923), published in Berlin

$690

Antique Postcards

Goblin Poem Jack-O-Lanterns Postcards

A NATIVE BOSTONIAN ACTRESS IN BOSTON

The Charles Playhouse, a Project on Playhouse Boston: Betty Field in "The Glass Menagerie"

(Theater Program)

$35

Manuscript Mining Contract

[Porfirio Diaz]

MINING and MINERAL RIGHTS CONTRACT for “LAS TRES MARIAS”, mine, SIGNED by President PORFIRIO DIAZ (1905)

Rink and Roller--A Journal to Uphold and Promote Roller-Skating in America, Vol. 1 No. 13 March 21, 1885

Uncommon Newspaper Devoted to Roller Skating 1885

New England Businessmen Writing to Henrick Aiken and Jonas Bradley Aiken

Archive of 25 Letters to a N.H. Inventor Family

Correspondence to the Aiken Inventor Family of Franklin, New Hampshire, with One Autograph Letter by Jonas Aiken, 1853–1864 business and family letters documenting the Aiken family of inventors, machinists, and toolmakers

$545

1954 Akron Labor Riot Arrest Reports and Mugshots

City of Akron Police Department

Official Police Reports and Photographic Record of the 1954 Pennsylvania Railroad Labor Disturbance, Akron Police Department Files and Mugshots Related to Riot and Strike Arrests, April–May 1954

$245

Slavic guests to Russian brothers

Second All-Slavic Congress

$1700

1865 Chrysopolis Mining District Bond

[Scripophily] Oro Fino Gold & Silver Mining Company California $1,000.00 Bond--1865

1870s Scrapbook Archive 1000+ Invoices from Chicago Illinois Businesses Rebuilding After The Great Fire of 1871

INSCRIBED BY EDITH NOYES GREEN TO THE GOV. 1925

Greene, Edith Noyes, Ne Edith Rowena Noyes

Boylston Series of Anthems for Mixed Voices. Hymn of Peace., [Inscribed by Greene to Governor Alvan T. Fuller and Mrs. Viola Fuller]

$75

Puget Sound Herald Office, Washington Territory

Constitution, By-laws, and Rules and Orders of the Steilacoom Library Association, Washington Territory Organized in March, 1858

Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America

On Reading & Writing About James G. Swan

Ivan Doig

$25

When I am sick I want my parents to watch over me

Wood, C.R.

[Cholera] ALS from C.R. Wood, Detroit, Michigan to Parents Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus Wood, Montpelier, Vermont August 1832

Sacramento Convention of 1878–79

[Politics] California Regular Democratic Ticket, First Congressional District and City and County of San Francisco 1877

$45

Son of Stanley Cup Fame Donor

Stanley, Edward 17th Earl of Derby

TLS from Edward Stanley 17th Earl of Derby Regarding Ernest Shackleton Lecture

Lot of 29 Frank Teixeira World War Two Era Cachet Covers and Franking

Philatelic Covers from World War Two

Teixeira, Frank

$300

Continental Army Colonel's Inscribed Copy.

[Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati].

"The Institution and Proceedings of the Society of the Cincinnati...May 10, 1783....

$1500

Scarce Broadside for Alice Walker Reading

[Color Purple] Pictorial Broadside for Alice Walker Reading on University of Washington Campus October 1, 1983

Walker, Alice

Petrus Magnus Pater Patriae Imperator Totius Russiae

Rare mezzotint

$1200

Only 150 copies

Cherniavsky, Mikhail Petrovich

Genealogy of the Noble Families Entered in the Genealogical Book of the Tver Province from 1787 to 1869, with Alphabetical Index and Appendix.

$3900

Hawaii Laws 1843

[Hawaii]

The Laws and Resolutions Passed at the Annual Council of the Hawaiian Nobles and Representatives convened according to the Constitution, at Lahaina, April, 1843, 1st and only edition

Pocket Calendar Fans

1903 and 1907 folding fans, original string

Raphael Tuck & anonymous

$75

The first 3 issues of an unusual African Magazine

Julius Nyerere, Rajat Neogy, John Butler,Ben Mkapa, R. Le Fanu + more

Transition. Journal of the Arts, Culture and Society - publ: Kampala,, Uganda 1961, vol 1, nos 1 - 3, Seminal periodical featuring mainly African writers and artists with the title page motto: 'Poetry-Prose-Criticism'

$195

Z. Alexander Looby Funeral Program

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee

Obsequies of Z. Alexander Looby, Civil Rights Leader and Attorney, March 27, 1972, Funeral service program honoring the life and legacy of Z. Alexander Looby, prominent Nashville lawyer, educator, and champion of civil rights.

$225

Mammy’s Shanty Restaurant Menu, Atlanta, Georgia

Mammy’s Shanty / Pickaninny Coffee Shop chain

Racist Caricature Menu from Mammy’s Shanty Restaurant, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1940s–50s, Segregation-era restaurant ephemera with stereotyped imagery and verse

Rev. William W. Patton, D.D., President of Howard University

Howard University Presidential Letter, 1888

Autograph Letter Signed by HBCU Howard University President & Abolitionist William W. Patton on Student Aid, November 2, 1888, Early Howard University manuscript advocating financial support for theological education

$825

Estate Ledger Page w\ Enslaved Persons Referenced

Manuscript Document

Account Ledger Page 1800–1801, with reference to “Dr. Phillip Robinson, Negro” and a Mutiny Trial, Double-sided folio manuscript account recording labor, goods, and enslaved references

$495

1823 Early American Ohio Printing of the New Testament Published by Martin Ruter in Cincinnati

$350

Very Rare Hetch-Hetchy Streetcar Poster

San Francisco Mayor James Rolfe

IMPORTANT Vote For The Hetch-Hetchy Water Bonds, October 7, 1924

$950

SCARCE: With many great tipped-in samples

(1913) Graphische Revue Oesterreich-Ungarns: Monatshefte für die graphischen Künste

$1450

John Ruskin

The original monthly parts of PRAETERITA, DILECTA (in 28 parts) + Fors Clavigera (in 12 parts) + 27 publications written by Ruskin or relating to Ruskin

$650

NEWS from Pitcairn Island (less 100 inhabitants)

The resident school teacher and government advisor (editor)

Pitcairn Miscellany - ca. 350 monthly newspapers (1969 -1984; 1990 - 1999), How did the mutineers of the Bounty end up on Pitcairn island? See my listing for 'The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Practical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences'

James Waldo Fawcett and Horace Traubel

WALT WHITMAN AND HORACE TRAUBEL EPHEMERA

tls and als along with printed material

$650

Phillips Exeter Academy Exeter, New Hampshire Athletes 1926 Real Photo Postcards (38)

$950

Chief Buckskin Charley and Ute Indians 1890s Hand-Tinted Mammoth Albumen Photo by W. E. Hook

$2750

1821 Columbia South Carolina Imprint Inland Navigation A Great Canal Between Charleston and Columbia by Robert Mills Scarce

RESERVED

SCARCE AHWAHNEE PROMOTIONAL

The Ahwahnee: Situated in the Yosemite National Park

Uncut Sheet of Stamps Depicting Pierre Paquier, c. 1944

[Vietnam]

Indochine Francaise

$250

[College Football]

Yale University

Song Book and Menu for a Dinner Honoring Walter Camp, Feb. 26, 1892