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By: N/A
Price: $39.00
Seller ID: Books006604
A small well-produced agricultural sales brochure for the Acme Potato Digging Attachment of the Potato Implement Co. of Traverse Mich. Undated; measuring 5.5 x 3.4 inches, with 8 pages plus wraps. 3 illustrations: one shown in scan and two of men using the implement. Scarce. Light rust to staples; small round dampstain to front cover just above the left bag of $; corner crease to rear cover. A very well preserved item. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $65.00
Seller ID: Books006605
A superb piece of butchery memorabilia from the early days of organized meat-processing in Canada. Advertising hams and bacon for the Easter trade, dated March 16th, 1896. Easter Sunday fell less than three weeks later, on the 5th of April. Laing Packing and Provision Co., Montreal: "Anchor Brand". For such a piece of ephemera to survive is uncommon; the high quality of printing, including the use of gold ink for the border and meats, is remarkable. Tipping the a... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $52.00
Seller ID: Books006606
A great piece of dairy advertising in a 1940s hardcover copy of Shirley Temple and the Spirit of Dragonwood By Kathryn Heisenfelt, illustrated by Henry E. Vallely, published by Whitman. In fair to good condition with hinges split but holding, with dust jacket. The Vi-Co advertising bookplate is intriguing. The substance appears similar to modern-day wear-off tattoos applied with water and pressure: very thin and shiny. The bookplate would have been applied by rubbing. It... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.50
Seller ID: Books006607
Early and uncommon bi-lingual pictorial blotter advertising Life-Buoy Rubbers of the Kaufman company (established 1907 in Berlin / Kitchener, Ontario). Measures 6.1 x 3.4 inches.Condition very good, with minor edgewear. Original, unused. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $32.50
Publisher: Gardenvale, Quebec, National Business Publications: 1965
Seller ID: Books007350
452 pages. Profusely illustrated; many adverts. Correction in ballpoint to Bowater Newfoundland entry in the Index, and a couple other ticks; else clean in a sturdy binding. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $487.50
Publisher: Western Electric Company: 1904
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books008392
xi, 593 pages. Blue cloth with orange titles to front and spine. Personal bookplate to front pastedown and signature of same owner dated May 1905 to second blank endpaper. A couple unobtrusive notes within but generally free of inscriptions. Light foxing to first few and final few leaves. Closed tear (no loss of paper) to page 302 as shown in photo. Binding and hinges sound. A considerable and comprehensive array of turn-of-the-century electrical supplies, including: An... View more info
![Image for The S.H. Supply Company Denver, Colorado, Supply Catalogue No. 31 [c. 1903]](/assets/images/product/Books008394_20786b2dd982a594b22d091b71880802.jpg)
By: N/A
Price: $487.50
Publisher: Denver, CO, C.F. Hoeckel B.B.: 1903
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: Books008394
x, 304 pages, plus Discount Sheet Applying to Catalog No. 31, Aug. 15, 1903 [12 pages]. 7 x 5.2 inches. Grey cloth with design to front and rear. Personal bookplate to front pastedown; Discount Sheet attached between pastedown and front endpaper. Free of inscriptions; clean interior; binding and hinges sound. A considerable and comprehensive array of turn-of-the-century supplies "for the Engineer, Machinist, Mill Man, Electrician, Plumber" [as stated on the cover... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $4,485.00
Publisher: Boston, Gillette Safety Razor Company: 1918
Seller ID: Books009455
The Gillette Blade. Published Monthly by, and in the Interests of, the Employees of the Gillette Safety Razor Company. 9 x 6.25 inches. Twelve consecutive issues bound in contemporary violet cloth with gilt title to sunned spine. "#18" is written in pencil above the e of Blade on the front cover of the first issue; else unmarked. Unrestored binding is sound and hinges secure. A remarkable survival of this desireable archive. Each issue retains its original covers... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $97.50
Publisher: Baltimore, MD, Kanawha Pump Works: 1896
Seller ID: Books009491
6.1 x 3.4 inches. 24 pages plus covers. Light soiling; notation to front cover lower right; pencil wave at head and foot of page 19. Saddle stapled binding holding fine. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $84.50
Publisher: Montreal, William Ewing & Co.: 1884
Seller ID: Books009498
8 pages plus covers. Illustration on rear of Sutton's Champion Swede by E. Whimper. Includes four types of tobacco. Ewing's was located at 142 and 144 McGill Street, Montreal. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $45.50
Publisher: Boston, Bowker Fertilizer Company: 1896
Seller ID: Books009499
32 pages plus covers. Cover detached, with staining to left margin. Staples rusted but holding fine. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Stamped on front for sale by; J. Horncastle & Co., Indiantown, N.B. The leaves were stapled such that the pagination is off, but the catalogue is complete. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $188.50
Publisher: Detroit, Auto Supply Stores Co.: 1916
Seller ID: Books009537
161 pages. 9.2 x 6.8 inches. Publisher's printed wrapper with chips to extremities. Binding secure. 2 inch closed tear to foot of one leaf [no loss of paper]. "Special discount sheet applying to 1916 Catalog No. 51" laid in. A comprehensive and profusely illustrated resource, with alphabetical index as well as a particular index for Ford cars, and for overland specialties at rear. "More than 2000 auto parts, accessories and supplies and every one a money save... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $214.50
Publisher: New York, Hecker and Brother: 1869
Seller ID: Books009546
31 unnumbered pages plus covers. 5.6 x 4 in. Catalogue and recipes of Heckers' Croyton Flour Mills, 199, 201, and 203 Cherry Street, New York. Store stamp of D.S. Bursk dealer in groceries, fruits, confections, glassware and lamps: 17 E. King, Lancaster PA to verso of front and rear cover. Wrap remains fully attached; puncture hole top left. Tideline to lowest inch throughout. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $578.50
Publisher: St. John, N.B., Barnes & Co.: 1913
Seller ID: Books010112
115 pages. Purple card covers with gilt to front; purple card endpapers. Frontispiece portrait retains tissue guard. Spine sunned; a half inch tear at head of spine panel along rear gutter. A very well preserved example of this uncommon trade catalogue, Worldcat, May 2017, shows no holdings of this, and only one of the 95 page catalogue of 1920 printed in Montreal. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $93.75
Publisher: Paris, ON, The Alabastine Co.: 1906
Seller ID: Books006909
12.3 x 6.25 inches. Seventeen interior views in full color showcasing the versatility of the product. Binding is sound; staining to covers as seen, number 25 at top right of title page and yellowing to foot of title page. Designed and Printed by The Alabastine Co., Paris, ON, 24 December, 1906. A pleasing example of turn-of-the-century design advertising. Original promotional book of 36 pages, plus card covers. A fine work of design in itself, with hand-stitched gold cor... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson Co.: 1911
Seller ID: Books010892
48 pages. Small stain to front panel; wrapper splitting along spine from foot up to lower staple. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $37.50
Publisher: Philadelphia, Wilmer Atkinson Co.: 1913
Seller ID: Books010893
48 pages. Front cover creased. View more info
![Image for McAlpine's Maritime and Newfoundland Gazetteer for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and the island of Newfoundland [1904] containing general information of the latest date, an historical sketch of each town and the principal cities ...](/assets/images/product/Books011349_1)
By: N/A
Price: $281.25
Publisher: Halifax and St. John, McAlpine Publishing: 1904
Seller ID: Books011349
1133 pages. A trove of adverts and information. Hinges slack, page 15/16 detached and with loss to lower outer corner; textblock otherwise secure. View more info
![Image for Remington Fire Arms 1908 [firearms catalogue]](/assets/images/product/Books011362_1)
By: N/A
Price: $62.50
Publisher: Ilion, NY, Remington Arms Company: 1908
Seller ID: Books011362
58 pages. Good only, with a long closed tear to first two leaves (no loss of paper), general soiling, and chipping at gutter of central leaves where a safety pin was placed to reinforce the binding - rather unsuccessfully as the central gathering remains loose. The catalogue is complete and profusely illustrated. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $56.25
Publisher: Brockville, ON, W.H. Comstock Co.: 1902
Seller ID: Books011592
[32] pages. Dated to 1902 from endorsements for Comstock's Indian Root Pills at foot of each page. Cover title: Morse's Handy Dictionary. Subtitle: "A handy compilation of 10,000 commonly used words of the English language". Ownership inscriptions to front cover (dated May, 1903). Staples rusted but holding; long closed tear to rear cover. View more info
