album ephemera (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Nuevo. Patrimonio ephemera tarjetas - cartes postales - album sr. d. juan montes hoyo editado por Mares de libros.

Illustrated. (illustrator). Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). 4to., red pictorial wraps; 96 pages First Edition. Signed by Shnitzspahn on the half- tile page. Signed.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 84 folio album bound in soft green morocco, gilt title to front cover, blank pages coloured pink, pale green, lemon, pale brown with watercolour-painting quality paper sheets interspersed. The book belonged to Miss Hilda King to whom it was presented on Feb 24th 1913 by her friends on the eve of her departure for Teheran where she worked as a governess/nurse. Already a published author of , children's stories (for the Family Herald, October 1911-a copy tipped-in) her identity is confirmed by her entry for a crochet competition which links her to the Indo European Telegraph Company, then a rival to the Anglo-Indian telegraph service and a surviving company from the infamous Reuter Concession of the 1880's, later to become Cable and Wireless. Many of the autograph messages are farewells and in Tehran she received tokens of affection from European families. Amongst these are three competent paintings of flowers by daughters of Gazala Bey, Jeanne, Isabelle and Victoria Gazala, dated 1914 who may appear in a copy of a photograph of Hilda and her charges. Gazala Bey Abd al Ahad Suleiman Dominique (1854 -1929) was a Catholic Ottoman Turk born in Baghdad who trained at the Faculty of Medicine in the Sorbonne and became Responsible Doctor for the Health Service at the Imperial Court of Persia, Medical Officer at the Turkish Embassy in Teheran, Health and Sanitary Inspector in the Capital of Libya, Member of the Constitutional Assembly in Iraq and Principal Deputy for the Province of Basrah. Other inscriptions by Leroy van Gertruyden, H.M. Abrahamian (writing in Armenian), S.C. Basil, Sateriq Abrahamian (writing in Persian). Usual paintings, portraits and numorous illustration stypical of the period. Hilda King left Tehran in April 1915 (?)-last entry dated 1920. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean album in very good condition. [Free Masons - Lodges Meetings - England] p230 / m7766.

Hard Cover. Folio album of photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to Mayor of Harrogate J. H. Newsome's life and specifically his year in office, as compiled by himself. With 57 original monochrome press photographs, mainly approximately 16 cm x 12 cm mounted two to a leaf, rectos only, some with printed captions; 36 items of ephemera including menus, programmes, invitations and official cards relating to events in Harrogate and district during the term of office and 26 newspaper clippings of varying size. A unique and detailed record of Mayor of Harrogate John Henry Newsome's year in Mayoral office from November 1933-34 together with other significant personal ephemera. An active member of the 1911 Starbeck Strike (which is depicted on a postcard photograph in the album), Newsome's election was controversial with a number of councillors abstaining from the vote in protest at the election of a socialist, which is referred to in some of the newspaper clippings in the album; Newsome was Harrogate's first socialist Mayor. The collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the social history and civic functions of a major provincial town during the inter-war period, and a comprehensive record of life in office. Of particular note to historians of the town are a photograph of the opening of the Harrogate Art Gallery in 1930 showing the Earl of Harewood making his speech, ephemera relating to the opening of the new Sun Colonnade in Valley Gardens in 1933 and the brochure for the Jubilee of the Incorporation of the Borough Thanksgiving Service; historians of the county will be interested in the official greetings cards from a number of other Yorkshire civic worthies. Full black morocco with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Also laid-in are 4 large photographs: one pair of matching images approximately 21 cm x 16 cm, mounted on card depicting respectively Mrs Newsome, and Mr & Mrs Newsome; image of the 1933 15th Anniversary of Armistice Celebrations approximately 37 cm x 28 cm; large image approximately 30 cm x 25 cm depicting six ladies in civic regalia with trophies. Additionally, a matching pair of studio portrait photographs mounted on stiff card approximately 25 cm x 28 cm, depicting the Mayor and the Mayoress with pencilled caption to reverse of each, housed in a brown envelope. Also included is a boxed solid silver armorial watch fob enamelled in red, white and blue, engraved to reverse " Coun. John Henry Newsome J.P. Mayor of Harrogate 1933-34". Album covers scuffed with wear to corners and front joint just starting; a little scattered light foxing to contents, mainly to mount leaves, and loose Armistice Celebration photograph nicked & creased to edge. Very good condition overall, including the watch fob. A unique record of the civil life of Harrogate during the inter-war years. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). A fascinating and unique collection of ephemera from the nineteenth century, with sketches, hand-written poetry and more. From the library of noted art historian, Patricia Milne Henderson. With a letter loosely inserted addressed to this album"s most recent owner, Patricia Milne-Henderson dated 02/11/62 from one of the Freemantles of Bayford House near Hertfordshire. The letter is an invite for lunch. Patricia Milne-Henderson is an esteemed art historican and collector. She had a large numismatic collection and works pertaining to woodcuts. This scrapbook contains at least two different hands. Several of the items loosely inserted have the name "Miss Shields" written to rear of them in a contemporary copperplate hand. The original owner of this album has copied out many hymns and devotional poems such as: "Dependence on God: Even as the needle, that directs the hour" "Abide With me! Feast Falls the Eventide" With hand written excerpts from Samuel Johnson"s "The Rambler", Thomas Campbell"s "The Pleasure of Hope". Drawings include: A hand-coloured blue butterfly, initialled "M H Amiens 1829" on the Whatman 1825 Paper Pencil drawings of British ships at sea pursued by a second ship bearing the Jolly Roger on brown cartridge paper. An oil pastel drawing of a gentleman in a suit of armour being tended to by two children who are assisting him dress on brown paper. Pastoral scenes, initialled M C H 1828 on Whatman Paper. Drawings of Loch Katrine dated 1850 and of Tweed which are undated. The drawings of Tweed are similar to that of a boat which is initialled "H M S" this may be the hand of "Miss Shields". An ink drawing of "Thurston Hall" dated 1826. A humorous caricature of an individual with the caption "I hope I don"t intrude". Uncommon poems include "Ode to the Violets" which begins "Hail! Beauteous daughter." and an "Address to the Comet of 1853". This poem describes one of the many comets in 1853 and begins "Mysterious Visitant! Thy light hath faded flown our skies". The contemporary morocco binding has "1826" to the date, although much of the contents dates from 1826 to 1860. The paper is watermarked 1825. There are also two silhouettes, one male one female loosely inserted with the white paper has been painted black. Other items loosely inserted include the printed eulogy of one Dr Gilly and Samuel Johnson loosely inserted and a print of "The Cross Leighton Buzzard" dated by hand 1852. A truly unique collection of ephemera from the nineteenth century. In a full morocco binding. Externally, rubbed to the spine and to the head and tail of spine. Rear hinge has failed. The front weak is tender and may detach unless carefully handled. Internally, the text block is firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with occasional scattered spots. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Folio measuring 11.5" x 10". 68pp. Contemporary black binder with ephemera from the 1850s-1950s. Tiny tears and chips thus near fine with fine photographs. A scrapbook detailing the Stanger and Russell family tree from Gloucester County New Jersey written by Nina Russell Knight in the 1950s. Contains 105 silver gelatin photographs in black and white or color photographs measuring between 6" x 3.75" to 3.5" x 3.5", as well as various ephemera such as news articles, genealogy trees, and invitations. The scrapbook was created by Nina Russell Knight with photographs and ephemera from the 1850s through the 1950s detailing her family lineage from Gloucester County, New Jersey. On the front page a small embroidery design by Emily Stanger is featured with her sister Harriet's calligraphy. Harriet and her sister were born in 1825 and several pictures feature them and their parents. There is a small genealogy tree laid in for the Stanger family going on to the fifth generation however, it ends at the second generation for Harriet's family. A small article is laid in about Solomon H. Stanger who in 1779 purchased 200 acres of land in Gloucester County and started glass making in the town that is now known as Glassboro. Though the connection is not written in the scrapbook, Solomon H. Stanger is the uncle of Harriet and Susie Stanger who also grew up in Gloucester County. Other paper ephemera include invitations to baby showers and academic awards for various children from the family. Many of the photographs feature different family members by generation. Most of the photographs also include the negatives. One color picture shows a 100 year old wooden cradle handmade by Jacob Stanger with a small blonde doll sitting inside. Another picture features Harriet Stanger at 81 years old with a warm smile unusual to that time frame. There are quite a few pictures on Nina Knight's parents and her home which was built by her father. Several photos show the extended family of Nina and her sister Susie, their parents, cousin's, and children. Nina was born in 1888 in New Jersey. She set up her family's 15th annual reunion in 1959 and was in charge of the historical notes and pictures for the family tree. Nina was married to Aaron Knight but did not have any children. Nina passed away in 1961 after finishing what she could of her family's scrapbook and was buried in Tansboro, New Jersey. An interesting look on the extensive family tree created by a young woman for her extended family living in New Jersey from 1850-1950.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. FINE LARGE DECORATIVE VELLUM BINDING. Folio. (14.8 x 12.8 inches.). A collection of 211 items of late 19th and early 20th century cards and ephemera including 26 rare, 3-D, movable, lift-up, Valentines and Christmas cards, each mounted onto a white stiff card page and with multiple pieces of ephemera attached around the page. Attractive late nineteenth century binding of full white vellum. Spine with decorative gilt designs within double gilt ruled lines in compartments. Boards with triple gilt ruled borders to the very edges and elaborate dark brown morocco panels with highly decorative gilt tooling. A thin blue ink line inside and out of the brown panels. Four gilt corner pieces inside the middle panel. Red painted initials, with gilt borders, to the centre of the front panel. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls. Green and white patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner hinges reinforced with buff cloth strip. A little marking and a couple of small splits to the binding but overall a fine and attractive vellum binding housing an interesting collection of rare, unusual and highly decorative items.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Quarto. 12" x 9.75". Full leather 14-ring binder, stamped in gilt. 24 mylar sleeved leaves with 34 photographs (14 in color, the rest black and white) and 23 items of ephemera inserted on both sides. An additional 3 color photos, and five duplicates of one of the 8"x10" photos laid in. 16 of the photos (all black and white) measure 8" x 10", the rest around 3.25" x 5". Album near fine with bottom corner of joints just starting to crack; contents generally fine. Crown Estates was meant to be a subdivision in Rialto, California offering homes, "of top quality . . . completely equipped and engineered to make day-by-day living less tedious." Its builder, Ron Epstein, planned the site near the intersection of Meridian Avenue and 6th Street. Although a newspaper puff piece implied the building of 40 homes, we're not sure Epstein was able to accomplish anything more than a couple of models. The album offered here documents his marketing efforts. Epstein took out full-page newspaper ads in August, 1959 and also conducted a promotion where the crowns used by the Miss Universe, Miss U.S.A., and Miss America pageants respectively were displayed in the sales office which also served as the model home. Several examples of the print advertising as well as images of the crowns and models are included. Other photos include interior and exterior shots of model homes. The staged internal shots show couples enjoying dinner and a child sitting in the living room with her father. There are three photos of artist renderings of homes along with floor plans. The marketing made a big deal of "The ManorVac", a built-in vacuum cleaner, and several of the larger photos feature a model amazed at the modern wonder of a cleaning machine attached to her home. Ephemera consists mostly of newspaper advertisements but also includes four copies of a double sided company flier and four copies of a brochure. An interesting look at an imaginitive real estate promotion in California at the end of the 1950s, which seems to rely laregely on the ease of vacuuming!

Guides, leaflets, photographs, letters, pamphlets, maps, stamp albums etc.

Small collection of Pacific ephemera pertaining to tourism in the Pacific, mostly American.

rigide. Zustand: Assez bon. Album in-folio oblong (41 x 63 cm) pleine toile grise d'époque, armes d'Angleterre peintes sur le premier plat, médaille incrustée en bas du premier plat ("Victoria Regina et Imperatrix" à l'avers, "In Commemoration Victoria 1837-1897" au revers), Jubilé de la Reine Victoria. 22 juin 1897. Album unique composé de documents collectés par Ernesta Stern dont : Plan de l'itinéraire de la procession ; 6 photographies par Downey, photographe de la Reine ; Portrait de la reine par Nicholson (gravure sur bois en couleurs) ; 3 invitations diverses ; Programme du Royal Opera Covent Garden du 23 juin 1897, sur soie à galons d'argent ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne") ; 5 ephemera dont invitation de Lord Chamberlain à l'Afternoon Party du 28 juin 1897 à Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") - Jubilee of Queen Victoria. June 22, 1897. Unique album composed of documents collected by Ernesta Stern including: Map of the route of the procession; 6 photographs by Downey, photographer to the Queen; Portrait of the Queen by Nicholson (colour woodcut); 3 various invitations; Program of the Royal Opera Covent Garden of June 23, 1897, on silk with silver braid ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne"); 5 ephemera including Lord Chamberlain's invitation to the Afternoon Party of 28 June 1897 at Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") Impressionnant album souvenir unique du Jubilé de la Reine Victoria, composé par Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", écrivain fameuse pour son salon du Faubourg Saint-Honoré où elle accueillit notamment Marinetti ou Marcel Proust. Née Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, elle épousa le banquier Louis Stern. Etat très satisfaisant (frottements et rousseurs, plusieurs feuillets débrochés). Impressive unique souvenir album of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, composed by Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", famous writer for her salon in Faubourg Saint-Honoré where she notably welcomed Marinetti or Marcel Proust. Born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, she married the banker Louis Stern (binding rubbed, some foxing, several unstitched leaves). Langue: Français.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 172 x 120mm; pp. [8, index], [129 numbered leaves, filled] rear endpapers used. A revealing volume of newspaper cuttings, mainly from 1906 8, put together by Edward G. Spencer-Churchill, Winston's cousin and an aspiring politician himself. At this early point there are close parallels between the two men's careers. Spencer-Churchill was studying all the major 1906 General Election issues, which were also Winston's concerns at the time - Chinese labour in the colonies, and education reform at home. Some of the clippings are of Spencer-Churchill's own published letters to newspapers, but he also records the activities of his more famous cousin, at one point noting in manuscript 'Winston in H of C' alongside a clipping. There is some pencil highlighting to the clippings, and the volume ends with a series of typed and manuscript pages concerning tariffs and investments - including a signed letter from an employee of the Tariff Commission. Tariff reform was the major issue within the Conservative Party in the period leading up to the 1906 General Election. Good condition: binding a little shaken; cover with partially removed label.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Oblong quarto, [50] pages of contents, comprising approximately 180 items mounted neatly on thick card album leaves. Cloth stained and a little worn; a few leaves partially detached from their cloth hinges; the contents are in very good condition. Richard Swan enlisted in Melbourne on 12 August 1915. He was on active duty in France for the duration of the war, and embarked on HMAT A36 'Boonah' on 20 April 1919. John Swan enlisted in Melbourne on 5 July 1915; he spent most of his years overseas in London. The album appears to have been compiled by their mother Edith. The contents are quite a miscellany, and they include three vintage photographs of Gallipoli; 'Anzac Poems and the Landing at Gaba Tepe. By Returned Soldiers' (a 16-page booklet published in Melbourne in 1918); 25 photographs of military interest (including signed portraits); 17 snapshots of London; a 1917 Christmas card from the '3rd L H F. Amb. Palestine'; and a processed letter from the National Service Bureau, 1 November 1917, thanking a family member 'for volunteering your services in connection with the industrial trouble recently experienced' (the Australian General Strike of 1917) . Approximately 70 snapshots depict the Swans enjoying post-war life with family and friends. At the end of the album are eight letters or telegrams and a handful of newspaper cuttings relating to Richard Swan's return voyage to Australia (confusion reigned). Not last, but definitely not least is a duplicate typescript of 'The Day', the anti-war poem by Henry Chappell, first published on 22 August 1914.

A delightful Jazz Age scrapbook that doubles as liber amicorum and guest book, assembled by the pianist and singer Anny Gloss, recording, in part, her career with the Ninon Fleuron Jazz Ladies, opening a window into the experiences of European women in jazz during the music's formative years. The first set of newspaper clippings record that in 1928 Gloss was teamed with the American "Jazz Queen" Elsie Teele at the "charming and elegant" Viennese bar, the Bonbonnière (with Teele billed as "the female Whiteman" - she gave the Austrian premier of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in 1927). Much of the album is then devoted to Gloss's experiences at Hotel Radetzky in Hinterbrühl, Lower Austria, where she performed as part of the Ninon Fleuron Jazz Ladies. At the time, the other members of the band were the eponymous Ninon Fleuron (drums, pseudonym of Rosa Sophie Radio, 1899-1974), Mariska Gerö (violin), and Gretl Heller (piano). One advert mentions them "Singing the Latest American Song-hits", while a newspaper clipping praises their "rendering of classical music". The album contains numerous messages (sometimes addressed to her directly) from friends, audience members, and well-wishers. While most of these are in German, some are in English ("Your music makes me feel 10 years younger"). The Ninon Fleuron Jazz Ladies (which had various personnel) came to an abrupt end with Hitler's invasion of Austria in 1938. Gloss also performed under the name Anni Hölzl, as demonstrated by the cast list for a 1931 performance of Der Kärntner Totentanz and the programme for a concert in which she had a soprano solo (1933). Octavo (241 x 190 mm), ff. 60 (final 20 ff. blank). Contents generally on rectos only, numerous items of ephemera pasted in, including c.20 newspaper clippings, 15 original silver gelatin photographs (of which two are signed by Ninon Fleuron), messages and autographs in various hands, one watercolour sketch of the Karlskirche, Vienna, one concert programme loosely enclosed. Original patterned cloth covers, light orange endpapers. Binding just slightly shaken otherwise in excellent condition.

Mounted photograph of the Opera House. Calligraphic presentation leaf, extracts from programs inlaid in large folio leaves 120, [2, index] ff. 1 vols. Folio. Elaborate and attractive album of extracts from the printed programs of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, a record of opera productions from 1915 to 1922, listing the principal performances (and also retaining the lists of box holders, which functions as a who's-who of New York society). There are several newspaper clippings including an account of the farewell performance of Mrs. Geraldine Farrar in Tosca. Presented to Henry Fletcher by his wife, Ethel (née Thompson), on the tenth anniversary of their wedding. Henry Fletcher (18771953), of Greenwich, Connecticut, was a member of the Grolier Club until his death, and a major benefactor of the Yale libraries. Full deep red morocco gilt, spine with five raised bands, boards with triple fillet borders, navy blue doublures, silk flyleaves, t.e.g. Faintest traces of rubbing. Fine Mounted photograph of the Opera House. Calligraphic presentation leaf, extracts from programs inlaid in large folio leaves 120, [2, index] ff. 1 vols. Folio.

manuscript titles ('The Abdication of Edward VIII'; 'The Coronation of King George VI.'; 'The War') and manuscript commentary, mostly captions but with some longer passages, all in the hand of Antoinette Brett (née Heckscher), Viscountess Esher (see below), a few later clippings, including relating to VE Day, pp. [80], large folio, quarter white cloth with patterned cloth sides, printed label (blank) to upper board, some minor soiling but in very good condition. An absorbing documentary of turbulent times, the fact of it being largely formed of newspaper clippings available to any belying a significant detail of its provenance: the album was formed by Antoinette Brett, née Heckscher, daughter of the German-born American capitalist August Heckscher and the wife of Oliver Brett, the 3rd Viscount Esher. Not only does her background suggest a possible additional aspect of interest to the Anglo-American union a much less happy version of her own but there is a tangible proximity to events that is represented both in her commentary, which supplements the printed gossip with that of her own circle ('Lord Wigram told O. [i.e., Oliver, her husband]', etc.), and in the presence of such ephemera as the notice to Peers of the forthcoming 'Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VIII' (with her caption: 'The Coronation that never took place'), and both the invitation (addressed to 'Right Trusty and Wellbeloved Cousin' and signed 'Norfolk' on the King's behalf) and the ticket of admission for the Viscount and his wife to attend the eventual 'Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth' at Westminster Abbey this last faced with the photographic portrait of the Eshers in their robes. Even were it simply the work of an outsider, this would be a wonderful feat of compilation, richly illustrated and with a broad survey opinion including her own but the inside perspective that enters at relevant junctures elevates it beyond everyday examples. Oliver Brett's father, Lord Esher, had been a confidant and adviser to Edward VII and retained his proximity to the royal family during the reign of George V. The fact of Churchill being referred to as 'Winston' in her captions both in the Abdication section ('Winston, fishing in troubled waters') and during the War ('Some of Winston's perorations') is more likely a token of true familiarity rather than false (see, 'Boris'). The quality of the work continues into the section on the War, where her interest in poetry is manifest in the various examples gathered to accompany the accounts of reporters; she notes the entry 'at last' of America into the War and includes a typed copy of an extract from the Duke of Norfolk's account of the Sinking of the Bismarck.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good overall. A photograph album commemorating the Japan-British Exhibition of 1910, along with the family's photographs of a trip to Japan. The exhibition took place at White City, London in Great Britain from 14 May 1910 to 29 October 1910. It was the largest international exposition that the Empire of Japan had ever participated in and was driven by a desire of Japan to develop a more favorable public image in Great Britain. The album opens with a shipboard printed telegram, "The Tenyo Maru Wireless Telegram" dated May 8, 1910, announcing that King Edward had died on May 6th and the English were mourning and in a state of confusion. As such, the opening of the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition was "postponed for about one week. The banquet of Prince Asaka is also postponed." There follows a series of hand painted photographs approx. 6 x 2.5". There are colored postcards, art postcards, and approximately 30 b&w photographs of the family on their visit to Japan. The album also includes invitations, 3 watercolor views, a menu, calling cards from Lady Semon and family, place cards for Mr. & Mrs. Rutherfurd (possibly the owners of the album). Mr. Rutherfurd is a massively tall and heavy fellow, especially alongside the Japanese. A letter from Harishin, collector of Fine Art Curios of Kobe, dated April 2nd, 1910, about lamps the gentleman liked. A large folding image & calligraphy on tissue with the original envelope at the back. Oblong 8vo, 25 card leaves with ephemera on both sides, made by F. H. Gilson Co., Boston. Leather a little rubbed at edges, string bound.

10" x 7.75"; pp. [112] plus 34 blank pages, containing 255 chromolithographic pieces, 7 engravings, 3 pith paintings, and 3 hand-painted cards, plus about 6 items in condition too poor to be counted; sizes ranging from full-page to cigarette card sized, with the majority fitting at two or three a page; binding entirely perished, with lower board gone, upper present but loose, and spine entirely perished; sewing to album pages still holding; owner's label on upper cover reading "See Ing San March 10/89"; about a quarter of the items with notable condition issues, largely abrasions or residue from contact with other paper, sometimes tearing, the rest very good with minor abrasions and few in fine condition. A collection of illustrated greeting cards, advertisements, and collectables. Includes many cards for Christmas, the new year, and Easter, with the usual floral and religious imagery, interspersed with a few interesting illustrated ads, including one for "Philadelphia Lawn Mowers at Horticultural Hall," "Burtis & Kirkbride Pianos and Organs" and "Peter Henderson" garden supplies, a collection of 2.5" x 1.25" cards depicting various birds, beauties, and some plates extracted from books. Firms represented include S. Hildesheimer, Raphael Tuck & Sons, etc. In addition to the printed material are 6 pieces of original art, including three pith paintings of birds with fringed edges, and three painted cards, also featuring birds, including one with a miniature printed calendar affixed. Two of the pith paintings have toned, possibly from the adhesive, and one of the card paintings has some paper residue affixed to it. One painted card is signed Knarr. While the name on the ownership label appears to be Chinese the material in the album is is for the most part Anglo. The pith illustrations indicate some Chinese influence, and two cards include a Chinese word alongside the English greeting, but that's it for Chinese material.

Leatherette. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. The 1939 1st edition of this uncommon, Decoish fashion album (with all its original, colorful cotton swatches in place). Clean and VG+ in its chocolate-brown leatherette, with gilt-titling and design along the front panel. Lovely color and black-and-white illustrations of the latest in ladies' dresses and "Janalene Beautiful Lingerie" throughout. A bit of light spotting along the edges of the text, otherwise very bright and sharp. Half a dozen examples of colorful, laid-in "Janalene" ephemera as well.