Kansas City, MO: J. Rieger & Company, 1912. 8.5” x 11” Christmas 1912 appreciation and order form, “With Compliments to our Customers’ Children…Suitable for Framing” for J. Rieger & Company. VG+, color illustrations, folded in thirds for mailing, a short 1” tear at bottom fold. The opening page has a.... More
Cleveland: J.H. Harris & Co., 1910. Munger & Long department store in Camden, NJ, which opened in 1904, advertisement on back cover, touting its array of Christmas gifts and “Toy-Land and Santa Claus House” on the fourth floor. [8 pp.]. Illustrated. VG or better stapled wraps with resplendent image of... More
6 pp., typed, 8.5” x 11” stapled in upper left corner, VG+ (some discoloration to title page). Contains “The Coming of St. Nicholas” and “Dutch Kitchen: Speculaas Cookies,” a recipe for a crisp cookie from Holland (previous owner has crossed out recipe in pencil and written “Much too soft cannot... More
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Approximately 17” x 35” piece of fabric (c. 1959), with “Merry Christmas” and snowflakes on one side and a large Santa with rosy cheeks on the other. Directions note that a pom-pom can be sewn to Santa’s hat. Under “Materials Required” is an intriguing tidbit: “1 Pound stuffing (discarded nylon... More
Printed for E. Read Goodridge and Verno Sutcliffe at Silvermine Ct. December, 1929. 250 copies printed by Paul Johnston. Off green wraps, 4 pp. A limited edition of this 16-line poem by the prolific author and biographer and friend of Ezra Pound and e.e. cummings. Near Fine. Uncommon. Although not... More
New York: Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Illustrated by Bill Crawford. Near Fine blue cloth with pictorial pastedown (edgewear) in an unclipped VG+ first state dustjacket (Mencken’s face/glasses incomplete). A story aimed “at infidels, and yet it should delight and ravish the pious.”. More
Paterson, NJ: Saint Anthony Guild Press, 1937. First Edition of this story of Santa meeting baby Jesus. INSCRIBED by Kirby in 1963 with note, “Merry Christmas dreams!” Illustrated by Janet Robson. [24 pp.]. Softcover with light stock stapled oblong covers, slightly soiled with one stain to back cover, one small... More
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1983. First Edition of this holiday greeting card (which includes the title poem) issued by Ewert. Illustration by Jane Banquer Burnham, typography by Evans Printing Company, Concord. Fine in original, unaddressed envelope. 136 copies were printed in December 1983 for private distribution by Ewert and... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1953. First Edition. 64 pp. VG+ pictorial boards with offsetting to endpapers in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket (moderate edgewear and small tears to top edge and spine and a 1” closed tear to lower edge). Decorations by David Knight and Reisie Lonette, who would... More
1961. 22 pp. Moore’s classic story interspersed throughout this stapled catalogue advertising everything from fragrances, cosmetics, and hair care to vitamin supplements and “the housewife’s handiest helpmates” of cleaning supplies. More
New York: The Spiral Press, 1962. 32 mo. 10 pp., paper wrappers. A Christmas greeting by Frost. Near Fine. Frost’s final Christmas greeting, as he would die January 29, 1963. More
n.p. n.p., [c. 1960]. Approximately 9.5” x 12” VG+ with crease in center. 8 pp. with color illustrations. A juvenile Christmas story in Dutch featuring Gerrit, Jantje, and St. Nicholas. More
Amsterdam: Mulder & Zoon, [1960?]. Printed in the Netherlands. 8 pp. With 4 color full-page illustrations by V. Groen. VG+ stapled pictorial wraps, approximately 7.5” x 8” with a touch of wear at upper staple. Only 1 located in OCLC. More
New York: John H. Eggers Co. Inc., 1924. 3” x 4” stapled pictorial wraps. [10 pp.]. Wonderful color illustrations on each page. Not found in OCLC; however, there is one copy at Duke of a related edition from Eggers (a publisher of numerous children’s books in the 1910s and 1920s)... More
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An unusual 4” x 5” color midcentury Christmas greeting, light stock, printed on single side: “I once believed in Santa Claus / So did my little brother / But we lost faith in him because / He jumped in bed with Mother!” Printed number 575 at lower corner. Signed along... More
[Christmas Around the World, c. 1970] A set of 10 Christmas cards each featuring a Santa figure from around the world. Each card measures approximately 5.5” x 7” with color image gracing front and a description on the inside flap. Includes: Bonhomme Noel (France), Dedo Koleda (Bulgaria), Christmann (Germany), Balthazar... More
Folded 7” x 9.5” advertisement for a Buenos Aires supermarket, December 22-31, 1970. Santa is emptying his bag full of food down the chimney on the front, inside are two children decorating a tree, and the rear is an image of Epicuro and his weekly recipes, which includes “Canapes Festivos”... More
Full page advertisement for Ebony (“The magazine that gets to the heart of the Negro market”) in The New York Times, November 30, 1967 (The New York Late City Edition). 4 pp., folded, 15” x 26” (p. 1-2 & 47-48). Some toning and discoloration at fold, else VG+. A striking... More
An impressive collection (more than 300 individual pieces) containing unpublished manuscript/lectures and research material on Christmas around the world and the history of St. Nicholas. Typed manuscripts include: The Celebration of Christmas (10 pp.); Tree of Light and Life—Our Christmas Tree (7 pp.); A Visit From St. Nicholas (3 pp.);... More
Hand silkscreened by the artist. 15” x 30” two-color printed on gold fleck paper. Designed by Uncle Pete, a.k.a. Swamp Yankee, the graphic artist behind my logo as well as numerous official concert posters and album covers for the likes of Social Distortion, Dropkick Murphys, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Signed... More
A Speech by Read, Chief Engineer at E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company Before The Rotary Club, Wilmington, Delaware, November 18, 1954. 16 pp., 4” x 9” stapled wrappers. VG (rusting to staples, soiling, bump to lower edge). The Savannah River Site was built on 300+ square miles approximately... More
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1962. First Edition. VG+ (spine weakening) in a VG+ unclipped dustjacket with some light chipping to head of spine. First novel by the oft-divorced Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, made into a successful film three years later that marked the final screen appearance... More
New York: Adventures in Poetry, 1974. VG+ or better illustrated wraps, side-stapled. (70 pp). Published at The Poetry Project, St. Mark’s In-The-Bowery, New York City. 26 copies were lettered and SIGNED by North and artist Jane Freilicher, this being copy F. A nice limited edition from the Adventures in Poetry... More
Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1844. 21[3] pp. 5.5” x 8.5”. VG+ stitched plain brown wraps, soiled and scuffed. Latter was a Lieutenant in the Bengal Army, writing to both sketch “the origin and progress of Boodhism” (10) and to implore the Government of India to send “proper... More
Port Washington, NY: Washington School of Art, 1956-1964. Lessons 1-32 over 16 issues (1956-1960), plus How to Sell Your Art Work (1957) and Art for Pleasure and Profit (1964). Overall VG+. Lessons include Light and Shade, Ink Rendering, Elementary and Advanced Perspective, Commercial Art Techniques and Methods, Figure Drawing, Drapery... More