![1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century. Elmer Adler](/images/noimage-req.png)
With a 1950 TLS on Knopf’s lettehead writing to Earl E. Fisk writing of The Bedside Barsetshire, Trollope, booksellers and of “type [that is] difficult..... Read More about 1950 Alfred A. Knopf Typed Letter Signed within:] Alfred A. Knopf. Quarter Century
Ten Victorian non-fiction “paperback” books, all published by Funk & Wagnalls in New York as part of their “Standard Library” of mass-market books. These inexpensive..... Read More about 19th Century “Paperback” Literature: 10 Volumes from Funk & Wagnalls’ “Standard...
Signed contract for the rights to publish the novel A Mother from Mars written by Indiana author Frances Foster Perry. A manuscript addendum states Dodd..... Read More about 1908 Publishing Contract for Frances F. Perry’s “A Mother from Mars,” published by Dodd,...
![The White Prophet. [Advance Copy for First American Edition]. Hall Caine, 1853–1931, Sir...](/pictures/thumb/3726846_1.jpg?v=1599682810)
Advance copy of a controversial novel of British colonial rule in Egypt by the incredibly popular and successful English novelist, Hall Caine (1853–1931). The public..... Read More about The White Prophet. [Advance Copy for First American Edition
![Prospectus:] Preliminary Address. The National Gazette and Literary Register ... To Be Printed...](/pictures/thumb/3729746_1.jpg?v=1599170971)
Scare prospectus for the National Gazette and Literary Register, begun as a twice-weekly newspaper first published in Philadelphia by printer William Fry on April 5..... Read More about Prospectus:] Preliminary Address. The National Gazette and Literary Register ... To Be Printed...
![History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G. Woodson]....](/pictures/thumb/3729443_1.jpg?v=1598301680)
Prospectus for the cloth-bound 54-volume set of the Journal of Negro History, published since 1916 by the Association for the Study of Negro Life and..... Read More about History’s Missing Pages … The Journal of Negro History. [Prospectus; Carter G. Woodson
![Wait for the Osborne Man. [1914 Publisher’s Sample for New Jersey Calendar Company]. The...](/pictures/thumb/3727700_1.jpg?v=1579733575)
Publisher’s sample / advertising prospectus for art calendars published by The Osborne Company of Newark, New Jersey. As a selling point to those who would..... Read More about Wait for the Osborne Man. [1914 Publisher’s Sample for New Jersey Calendar Company
![The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample]. Carter Godwin Woodson](/pictures/thumb/3728660_1.jpg?v=1594317462)
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book showing two bookbinding styles for the Revised and Enlarged Fourth Edition of The Negro in our History by Carter..... Read More about The Negro in Our History. [Salesman’s Sample
![Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera]. Inc Portfolio Associates,...](/pictures/thumb/3728414_1.jpg?v=1556576091)
Small group of advertising ephemera for noted African-Americana book collector and author Charles L. Blockson’s book Pennsylvania’s Black History (1975) and a copy of an..... Read More about Collection of Charles L. Blockson Black History Publishing Ephemera
In 1809, The American Prose Miscellany, was published by Johnson, Conrad, and Carey in Philadelphia. In the same year, under the same imprint, The American..... Read More about The American Prose Miscellany. Original and Selected
![Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser. A. M. C. Henri Leonard, compiler,...](/pictures/thumb/3726732_1.jpg?v=1534362452)
Compilation by a Detroit medical publisher, Dr. C. Henri Leonard, of medical codes of ethics for the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Homœpathy..... Read More about Patent Medicine:] The Codes of Medical Ethics…and Advertiser
A collection of ten handwritten and one typed letter and five autographed postcards from various nobility; all written to Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, Secretary of..... Read More about ALsS and Autographed Postcards to Sir Algernon Edward Aspinall, Secretary of the West India...
Interesting letter on the publication of magazine articles by attorney-turned-journalist and popular writer, John Paul Bocock (1856–1903). A Virginian from a leading family, Bocock earned..... Read More about C.1902 ALS by Virginian John Paul Bocock, Attorney, Poet, and Journalist
Autograph letter signed by Alvan S. Southworth, travel writer, journalist, and former secretary of the American Geographical Society, to Philadelphia printers and publishers Sherman &..... Read More about 1884 Autograph Letter Signed by Alvan S. Southworth, former Secretary to the American...
Brief letter from George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio seeking summer employment as a subscription agent for a family newspaper: If you think proper to appoint..... Read More about 1850 Autograph Letter Signed by George Lyman of Wadsworth, Ohio, seeking to be Newspaper...
1812 Autograph letter signed by English publisher and author William Stevenson (c.1750–1821). Writing to Davidson Turner Esq. in Yarmouth, Stevenson discusses allowances or discounts upon..... Read More about 1812 Autograph Letter Signed by William Stevenson (c.1750–1821), Publisher and Author
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book for a popular, illustrated topical history of the United States, Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American..... Read More about Salesman’s Sample Book:] Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American People
Three large format photographs depicting the interior showroom and a trade show booth of New York scientific and technology publisher Spon & Chamberlain. The two..... Read More about C.1900s Three Original Photographs of Interior of New York Scientific and Engineering Publisher...
