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St. Louis, Mo. Published Monthly at Greeley Printery October 1907. First Edition. [3], 32 pages. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Illustrated wrappers, stapled. Dampstaining upper right third of the first 4 pages, and a bit of unobtrusive marginal dampstaining to the last half of the magazine. Upper spine corner..... More
[ Newburyport, MA ]: MDTV 2012. First Edition. 17 x 24 inches (sheet size) with approx 2 inch white margins. One of only twelve copies produced. Printed on archival paper using a large format ink jet printer with pigmented archival inks. Colors bright and vibrant! Fine.
Between 2009 and..... More
![Item #28049 [ MARS exploration poster ] "Curiosity LIVE FROM MARS" MDTV](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28049_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1599672208)
[ Newburyport, MA ]: MDTV 2012. First Edition. Oblong 24 inches by 11 inches (sheet size) with approx 3/4 inch white margins. One of only two copies produced. Printed on archival paper using a large format ink jet printer with pigmented archival inks. Colors bright and vibrant! Fine.
Between..... More
![Item #28050 [MARS exploration poster Triplet] "Insatiable Curiosity!", "Mars Science Laboratory",...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28050_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1599682624)
Boston, Massachusetts: W. B. Clarke & Co. 1895-1910. First Edition. Four volumes,all published. Bindings are 6 x 9 1/8 inches. Wrappers are a thin linen glazed paper. No 1: 172 pages + XVI plates (including colored frontis). Pages 141-159 reprints a pamphlet "The Problem of Manflight" by Means from 1894..... More
[ Los Angeles ]: Diocese of Los Angeles 1896. First Edition. 67 pages. 8vo. Drab printed wrappers, toned. Near Fine. Wraps.
Scarce with only two copies in OCLC as of this listing. More
Fabriano, Italy: [Cartiere Miliani Fabriano] [no date]. Single sheet of blue grey paper with a few blemishes. 8 3/4 x 11 5/8 inches. With centered watermark of Leonardo Da Vinci, the image roughly 4 x 5 1/4 inches. A touch of wear and minor folding at extremities, an excellent example..... More
[no place]: [no publisher] circa 1910. 13 1/4 x 11 1/8 inch green tinted matte with laid down silver print size 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches. Photograph is bright and clean, with one small circular blemish at the upper edges, and a touch of rubbing at the extremities. The..... More
![Item #27937 [Photography, Industrial] Silver print of a Bell foundry showing eight very large bells](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27937_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591146423)
[Genessee County, New York]: Not published 1863-1864. First Edition. 360 numbered pages plus notations on endpapers. Folio (9 x 13 3/4 inches). Stamped reverse calf with leather with diced leather reinforcements on the edges and center of spine. Three compartment labels on the spine: "Journal | D | W.D.O. &..... More
New York: Bluejay Books, Inc. 1984. First Edition. Not paginated. Oblong 8vo. Publisher's original wrappers. A fun book with photographs taken by Patti Perret of many science fiction writers in their homes or offices. We find it fascinating to compare the "voice" of the writer with their photographs. This is..... More
various: various late 1930s. First Edition. An archive of material which documents the attempted founding of a new journal "The Journal of Experimental Psychopathology" by American psychologist Saul Rosenzweig. The three page initial Prospectus explains the need for a journal focused on the "specialized but important domain of experimental psychopathology."..... More
![Item #27588 [Archives] The Attempted Founding of the "The Journal of Experimental...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27588_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1623093036)
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co. circa 1910. A set of six printing plates used to print pages of "The Overall Boys" published by Rand McNally. Each plate is 4 5/8 x 6 3/8 inches, and made from lead (or a composite?) with the printing surfaces copper clad..... More
![Item #28646 [ Printing Matrix ] Six printing plates "The Overall Boys", Rand McNally & Co,...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28646_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1622747738)
Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Printing & Publishing Co / The Imperial Press 1902. 251, [11-ads] pages. 8vo (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). Tan cloth printed in black. Apparently inscribed by author and daguerreian James F. Ryder on the front flyleaf: "Percival Calverts(?) I am Very Truly Yours" in dark..... More
Nouvelle York: A la Presse Cramoisy de J. M. Shea 1863. First Edition. 32 pages. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Brown cloth as issued. Faded gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED presentation copy from E. G. Squier to Wm Blackmore. The Graff copy with booklabel on front pastedown. Several penciled..... More
[no place of publication stated]: Sears, Roebuck, and Co. 1934. First Edition. 1-2, 11-12 pages + plates 13-58, 58-62. Oblong 8vo (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Multi-color printed wrappers. Apparently complete despite the pagination. Verso contains a plate number (lower left). a description of the features and pattern name..... More
Boston [Massachusetts]: Colby & Rich, Publishers 1887. First Edition. [5], 6-515 pages. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Sunned spine, light wear to extremities. Gilt decoration on front board still bright and clean. Textblock tight, clean interior. A nice copy. Very Good. Cloth. More
New York, NY: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated April, 1950. First Collected Edition. [1], 155 pages. Self wrappers. Blue cloth spine over stapled printed grey, black and blue wrappers. 5 hole punched at spine as issued. An ex-corporate library copy ("Department of Terrestrial Magnetism") with stamps and markings, well read, and..... More
[ no place, Massachusetts ? ]: [ Fairfield Paper Company ] [ 1892-1893 ]. First Edition. Oblong octavo, approximately 6 x 3.5 inches; not paginated, but approximately 70 leaves lined in blue and red, plus blank pale white endpapers; all but nine leaves have relevant holograph notations in ink or..... More
New York, NY: Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. 1956. First Edition. 64 pages. Self wrappers. First page (and front wrapper) printed in red black and white. Stapled wrappers. Three hole punched (not as issued). Very Good. Wraps.
An rare survival from the early days of computing. This catalog from Sylvania..... More
[ San Francisco, CA ]: United Publishing Co. Inc. [ pre-1930 ]. 8 1/16 inches by 10 5/16 inches by 5/16 inches thick. Wood block with metal matrix affixed to the wood block with metal pins. A few oxidized spots, but overall quite nice condition. Blank paper glued to the..... More
![Item #28645 [ Printing matrix ] Chinese Times Vol 1, No.1 Tuesday July 15, 1924. Inc United...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/28645_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1621439057)
[ Illinois ]: [ not published ] 1864-1872. First Edition. 368 numbered pages. 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Suede/leather ledger style binding. Pages 115, 116, 215 bottom, 281 bottom, 293-309, 311 bottom, 313-320 and 329-334 excised. Pages 336-338, 346-368 blank. The balance of the pages (nearly 300) are used..... More
![Item #24043 Manuscript ledger of a [Rochelle Illinois?] drugstore, possibly Clark & Dana's of...](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/24043_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1428106028)
Various: The 1959 Eastern Joint Computer Conference for The National Joint Computer Committee 1959. First Edition. 260 pages. Tan printed wrappers. Several stains to wrappers, upper corner bumped. Clean internally. Staples rusted, front cover glue cracked but not yet loose. Very Good. Wraps.
Sponsored by the Institute of Radio..... More
Delaware: Dravo, US Navy, others 1944. A collection of seventy-five 10 x 7 3/4 inch photographs in a post bound binder with card cover. Card cover is in tatters with small paper label noting "Progress Photographs LSM". Rear card cover perished. Overall condition of the images varies, with many clean..... More
Coldbrook Springs, Massachusetts: F. T. Viles c1880. 8 x 17 1/2 inches. An advertising assemblage related to the Holcomb Speaking Telephone, washed and laid down on archival tissue, in the form of a broadside. The top and bottom portions of the assemblage are lighter in appearance, the center portion shows..... More
![Item #27688 [ Advertising "broadside" ] No More Monopoly by the Bell Telephone Company ......](https://kuenzigbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27688_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1581305930)
Boston, Massachusetts: S. W. Chandler & Bro. Lith 1854. Approx. 22 1/4 x 28 1/2 inches. Thin paper, black printing. Previously folded (roughly 5 x 8 1/4 inches). Bright and clean, trimmed mostly to black borders on right and left, larger margins top and bottom. Near Fine.
“Mount Auburn..... More
New York City, NY: John Carl Warnecke [ City College of New York City ] 1971. First Edition. Folio, [ff 26]; buckram binder with mylar sleeves; minor rubbing to binder; internally fine. Architect John Carl Warnecke's presentation binder for his vision of new facilities at the campus of City College..... More
