Original bent steel piping, bakelite head with hoop earrings, twelve drink coasters. Stands 5 1/2 inches, coasters 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Derogatory depiction of African or African-American for the use of holding drink coasters. Unusual item. No date or printed information, we assume the 1930's, but possibly earlier. Very Good, one coaster with two square centimeter of loss to edge. Item #32826

First Edition. Harold E. Snyder dustjacket art. Romance of a love triangle between two employers of an architecture firm and a girl already engaged to one of them. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket but for shallow edge-chipping. Item #18835

Presumed First Edition. Front flap on dustjacket lists to Tom Swift Circling the Globe, one title beyond this one. W.S. Rouerc dustjacket art. In this tale of industrial espionage, extortion and theft, Tom Swift discovers how to travel from coast to coast in just 16 hours, and faces a few men claiming the idea as their own and intent on stopping his success. Very Good with light soiling to page ends, in a Very Good dustjacket with nick to top front spine gutter, spine darkened, light edge wear. Item #18758

39 by 27 inches. Near Fine. Bright hand-colored map. Minor soiling to lower right-hand corner. Partially detached from top roller. Item #32448

First Edition. "Story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to retrain it made by The Honorable Socrates Potter, the genial friend of Lizzie". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some fading and spotting to spine, shallow chipping to spine ends and flap corners, few short closed tears. Item #15447

11.5x16. Very detailed map in lovely condition. Item #33785

12x14.5. Includes: Holstein, Hanover, Mecklenburg, the Prussian States, and Saxony. Very detailed map in lovely condition. Item #33769

no date, circa 1869. Presumed First Edition. Original color illustrated paper over boards. Octavo. Scarce humorous collection of stories on the subject of hunting, fishing and shooting, with chapter headings including: Killvullen-By-the-Sea, Rough Angling; The Great Killooly Coursing Club; Trout Murder; Sporting Accidents; Sporting Impostors; Sporting Expeditions; Killing No Sport; Popularity of Athletic Pursuits; Snipe Shooting; Plover Shooting; Stalking the Whimbrel; Concerning Beaters; etc. Very Good copy, minor surface wear at front panel and spine, modest loss of paper to spine edges and ends. Item #12857

First Edition. E. S. H. dustjacket art. Baum's novel of an all too attractive male and the "ladies stalking their prey." Striking dustjacket art by E. S. H. is a highlight in dustjacket design for the period. Near Fine, short contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper in Very Good lightly faded dustjacket with light splash stains to panels, few shallow chips and modest edge wear. Item #22999

11.5x14.5. Beautiful, detailed and coloured map featuring Holland Patent. Folding to top right corner. Item #33924

Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 5 by 3 1/2 inches, 96 pages. Very scarce and lovely cocktail recipe guide from the turn of the century. WorldCat locates one library holding (at Brown University). Recipes are intermixed with the latest coolers and other apparatus for bars and beer drawing which Bishop and Babcock Co. manufactured. A lovely Near Fine copy. Item #37687

32.5x 33. A partial, coloured and highly detailed map of Cambridge's Wards 1 and 5 with Arlington, MA and the Arlington Railway to the North, Raymond Street and the Catholic Cemetery to the East, Kingsley Park and Fresh Pond to the South, and Belmont, MA and Adams Street to the West. Item #34018

First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Universal Picture, Drifting, starring Mary Nolan. "China, hidden from the eyes of the world by clever little yellow men who make up the 'bosses' of its underworld. There are Americans there too, low, degenerate Americans, who have cast themselves in the life of the Chinese underworld in utter abandon. Some of these from excellent families, with much money, and whose self respect has been underminded by the use of opium or cocaine or even stronger drugs to bring about forgetfulness. All this we read and see in 'The Shanghai Lady' and we are told in a new way that good is paramount even in low opium dives and houses of ill repute". Near Fine but for contemporary ownership inscription of someone associated with Ringling Brother Circus at front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling and edge chipping. Item #27074