Antiques & Collectibles

Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 283 pages. INSCRIBED By AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Dust jacket spine slightly faded, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. CD inside rear cover. Covers the 40 year production span of the mechanical organs that provided music in the last pert of the 19th century and first 30 years of the 20th.

Hardcover. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Highfill Press Inc., 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1223 pages, illustrated throughout with charts and photographs in color and b&w. Black leatherette with silver titles to front and spine. White dust jacket. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy.

Softcover. Las Vegas NV, Sahara Hotel, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color PR photo of a young Johnny Carson, probably mid-60s. Clean, no writing on address side. 4 3/4 x 7".

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America, Wendy A. Woloson takes seriously the history of objects that are often cynically-made and easy to dismiss: things not made to last; things we don't really need; things we often don't even really want. Woloson does not mock these ordinary, everyday possessions but seeks to understand them as a way to understand aspects of ourselves, socially, culturally, and economically: Why do we--as individuals and as a culture--possess these things? Where do they come from? Why do we want them? And what is the true cost of owning them? Woloson tells the history of crap from the late eighteenth century up through today, exploring its many categories: gadgets, knickknacks, novelty goods, mass-produced collectibles, giftware, variety store merchandise. As Woloson shows, not all crap is crappy in the same way--bric-a-brac is crappy in a different way from, say, advertising giveaways, which are differently crappy from commemorative plates. Taking on the full brilliant and depressing array of crappy material goods, the book explores the overlooked corners of the American market and mindset, revealing the complexity of our relationship with commodity culture over time.

Softcover. Chino Valley AZ, Blacksmith Corp., revised ed., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, illustrated in b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Chez Castel, 2nd pr., 1858, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, VIII-352 pages plus a 70 page supplement. Title printed in red & black. Original 1/2 leather, with marbled boards, spine in compartments with raised bands, gilded decorations. This is the 2nd. and much enlarged edition. A very useful volume in the scarce field of book repair. FRENCH TEXT. Leather corners show light wear, small scar to front panel, otherwise a very good, clean volume.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 309-393 plus 68 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include 75 years of a Journal Suisse D'Horlogerie Et De Bijouterie 1876-1950, The accuracy of wrist-watches, Styles in jewellery 1900-1950, New models-new calibers, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Paperback. Paducah, KY, Collector Books, 1st wraps, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 391 pages of color photos. Clean, very good.

Softcover. United Printing , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 120 pages, illustrated in color. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Contents include Histories of les Cinq Grands (Nevers, Rouen, Moustiers/Marseilles, Strasbourg); Decline of French Faience; Faience in the Age of Industrialization; Faience Fine: Montereau, Creil, Gien; Grand Feu: Quimper, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Desvres, Malicorne, Blois, Angouleme; Petit Feu: Faienceries of the East: Luneville and St. Clement, Sarreguemines; Index of Marks; Bibliography; Index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 282 pages, plus index. Text by Bernard Barenholtz and Inez McClintock, photographs by Bill Holland. Light blue cloth covers with gilt titles to spine, illustrated laminate dust jacket, 285 illustrations including 100 plates in full-color. Light rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.

Hardcover. Harrison , Robert Alan Green, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages. Illustrated with early American Silversmiths identification marks. This reprint edition limited to 1000 copies. Light wear to edges of dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New Market NJ, self-published, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth, gilt title on spine, 197 pages illustrated with b&w photos of buttons. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 259-323 plus 62 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Temperance clocks in Flemish tapestries, Nuclear energy and watchmaking, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Major Cities Publishing Company, 2nd Edition, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Haardcover. Ford Model "A" 50th Anniversary Commemorative Printing. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange decorated cover boards. Dust jacket has some agewear (chipping, tanning, light foxing). Pages unmarked. Binding very good. Spine straight.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 9" x 11 1/4", red cloth with silver gilt titling and decorative detail to front board and spine, 313 pages, map illustrated endpapers, Dust jacket very worn with minor paper loss. SIGNED BY CARLISLE on title page, also with a promotional sheet laid in with the author's comments on sales, addressed to publisher of Garden Wat Publications. Biographical sketches of 983 Vermont craftsmen. Limited to 1000 copies.

Softcover. Hong Kong, Christie's Hong Kong,, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 88 pages, 55 lots. Comprehensive catalogue accompanying the Christie's Hong Kong special auction of the Tianhe Shanfang collection, held May 30, 2005. All items illustrated with color photography, accompanied by detailed descriptions and historic information, with value estimates in HK and US dollars. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. Philadephia, Charles J. Peterson, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather with black cloth covers, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. January thru December 1870, all hand-colored plates and fold-outs present, dozens of steel and wood engravings. Edge and corner wear, chipping to black leather, front hinge cracked but volume is solid, binding sound. Previous owner's leather label, ruled and lettered in gilt, on front cover.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 450 pages, b&w illustrations, diagrams throughout.Dust jacket with minor edgewear.

Hardcover. Strasburg PA, Shenandoah Publishing House, 1st, 1929, Hardcover, purplish textured cloth with gilt letters on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. 277 pages. 7 color plates, 38 halftone illustrations and 100s of smaller bw depictions of stoneware. A wonderful solid copy of the original edition of this classic. Spine cloth faded. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 251-324 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include Some Experiments on Friction, Antique clocks of Vienna, Swiss self-winding watches, An Astronomical Clock of Modern Conception, watch case repairs, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 268 pages illustrated in color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for spices, tobacco, cosmetics talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Stratford, John Edwards, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 409 pages. Hardcover. Features more than 5700 buttons illustrated, identified and described. Previous owners stamps on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. New York, Christie's , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 155 lots, illustrated in color. Softcover with minor wear to covers and spine else in very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 11.5' x 10'', 195 pages. A beautifully produced illustrated biography with high quality color reprints of artwork from Bradbury's novels, comics letters and papers as well as movie stills and posters, with examples from many eras and cultures.

Hardcover. New York, Ridge Press/Macmillan, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Illustrated with full color photographs. price clipped dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Bil Baird, a master puppeteer of our time, recounts the history of his art, from its remotest yesterday to its bright and promising tomorrow. Along the way, he examines the famous and outrageous Mr. Punch, the raucous Karaghioz, the noble knights of the Orlando legend, the lovely shadow plays of Asia, the unique Bunraku puppets of Japan, and the exciting developments in today's puppetry around the world. To which we would like to add: There has never been any book to compare with this one. It remains the classic text on the history of puppetry around the world. It has dozens of amazing photographs, and a very lucid text written by one of the great master puppeteers of our time.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, 347 illustrations, 85 in color. A comprehensive guide with factories, artists, potters and techniques all covered. Near fine in a similar dust jacket in a cardboard slipcase.

Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. White wraps with color illustration and black lettering; 80 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and color. Exhibition curator J. Herbert Callister. 49 works in the exhibition.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 97-170 plus 58 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The Breguet Spring, The Swiss watch in India, Machine for winding and testing self-winding watches, and more. Mild wear, chipping to paper on spine, excellent condition, no markings.

Softcover. New York , Japan Society, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Marion, MA, N/A, N/A, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, b&w photographs. Green cloth covers w/ small gilt lettering. Missing front fly leaf, previous owner's markings on some pages. Foxing/staining to end papers, covers and edges; else pages clean.

Softcover. New Philadelphia, OH, Tuscarawas County Historical Society, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spiral bound softcover. 128 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Small scratches on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Henry Disston & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible leather covers very worn and chipped, 206 pages, Interior is clean and firm with one loose page, and page 60 looks like a photo of a hammer was cut out, otherwise clean, bright pages. Loaded with b&w photos and illustrations of vintage tools from 1911. This is the original printing.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 171-251 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The Interpretation of Timing Machine Traces, A 16th Century Watch from Zoug, The 24th Swiss Watchmaking Fair at Basle 1954, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color frontis, many black & white photos. 252 pages + index. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf, dj with spine fading otherwise VG/VG. A publication of The Historical Society of Early American Decoration, Inc. Based on Esther Stevens Brazer's Photographic Collection.

Kentucky, Collector Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. 252 pages. Black & white and color photographs.

Hardcover. New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 239 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A comprehensive guide to nearly 4000 years of sword making from all over the world. Written by a distinguished team of experts and scholars, it provides an expert appraisal of the weapons themselves and is rich in historical and background detail. Fully illustrated throughout with photographs and art reproductions, this is a unique survey of a vast body of superb craftsmanship. It is an essential reference work for weapons enthusiasts, collectors and lovers of military history and fine art.

Hardcover. Iola, Wisconsin, Krause Publications, inc., 3rd Expanded, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 482 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial paper boards, no dust jacket. Slight wear and rubbing along edges, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Concord, MA, Joslin Hall Publishing, Reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 50 pages. Reprint from original 1928. B/w photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front board. Very clean inside and out! A comprehensive study of the Silversmiths of Little Rest (Kingston), RI, who practiced from the latter half of the 18th century into the first half of the 19th.

Hardcover. NY, Christie's, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, light blue cloth covers stamped in gilt, auction catalogs illustrated throughout in color. Part 1: Important French Porcelain, 161 pages, 468 items. Part 2: Important French Furniture, Works of Art, Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Chinese Porcelain and Jade. 292 pages, 456 items. Auction held March 21- 23, 1991. Clean bright copies. Scarce in hardcover format. Ms. Firestone was heir to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. fortune and considered one of the last great post-war collectors.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 185-257 plus 64 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include A Report on the 1955 Basle Watch Fair, Some elementary notes on transistors, New types of watch bearing, The "Shepherd" clock of Pierre Jacquet-Droz, and more. Mild wear, excellent condition, no markings.

Softcover. Kenosha WI, privately printed, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 30 pages, almost 300 color photos of shells with a description underneath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , H. L. Lindquist Publisher, 1st, 1947, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcovers, 2 Volumes. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGES. 319 + 305 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Black cloth, gilt lettering. Dust jackets chipped and worn with faded spines, Tape-residue to front cover of volume 2. Internally very good.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SPECIAL SIGNED EDITION. Hardcover, 323 pages. Black & white photography. Cover has light edgewear. One of 260 signed and numbered copies bound in publisher's original black half cloth and tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece illustration of Harry B. Smith, and 25 additional photographic illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Burlington VT, The Horn Company, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages, cream wrappers with black lettering, gun stock on cover. First published in 1975, this second edition has a glued binding that's not destined to last. All there and in good condition. Scarce reference.

Softcover. Watford UK, Argus Books, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Revised by ERnerst Steel and Martin Evans with new drawings in this edition.

Softcover. Florence, Italy, Qua D'Arno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, bilingual texts in English and Spanish, b&w plates and text throughout. Illustrates and describes numerous torture devices including breast rippers, the ever popular rack and iron maiden, heretics fork and many more. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lausanne SW, Swiss Federation of Swiss Watch Manufacturers, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Magazine format, 8 X 10 1/2", pages 215-288 plus 66 pages of advertising. All about watches, technical, repair, sales, history as well as many ads, some in color. Articles include The point of attachment of the balance spring, The Bergeon stamping machine, Paris-The 3rd Watch Show, and more. Mild wear, chipping to paper on spine, excellent condition, no markings.

Hardcover. Columbus OH, A.R. Harding, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, putty-colored cloth with dark green stamping. 203+(5) pages, illustrated with photos, sketches and maps. A history of pearling plus instructions for hunting fresh water pearls. Includes pearling history, geographical distribution of pearls, methods of collecting and much more. 56 photographs. Clean copy. NOTE: Page 15/16 was torn, then mended with clear tape. There's some minimal text loss, otherwise no marking.