Trade Catalogs from Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB

Cincinnati, Ohio: The Eagle Carriage Co., no date (ca. 1914). Oblong octavo (6" x 8.5"), 56 pages plus covers, profusely illustrated. Publisher's pictorial stapled stiff paper wraps, the upper in color. Price list & separate correction slip laid in. This nor any other from this company found in OCLC as of 4/14/2024. Lightly soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise very good or… Read more about this item

[Chicago]: Lanteen Laboratories, 1942. Sextodecimo (6.25" x 3.5"), 20 pages, illustrated in color throughout. Publisher's stapled pictorial paper wraps. Modest edge wear including a small loss along the right side of the front cover & rubber stamp of Smith's Drug Store, Hanover, Pennsylvania at the verso, otherwise very good. An uncommon pamphlet which describes Lanteen Laboratories' cap diaphragm & provides directions for… Read more about this item

Campello, Massachusetts: the company, 1910. 12mo (7" x 4"), 16 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout, with pricing. Pictorial stapled light card covers. Moderately rubbed, slightly soiled, otherwise very good. Available world wide, including, apparently, in Stone Ridge, New York from Frederick Davis. "… showing a representative variety of style offered for your enjoyment and employment in the spring of nineteen hundred and ten."… Read more about this item

Group of 20 graphically illustrated items - flyers, broadsheets, brochures, etc. - offering a diverse range of products as available from the mail order business of Tom Kelley (or Kelly) of Capitola, California. Folio & smaller, circa 1970's. Modest edge wear, some creasing & soiling, generally very good or better. Stag Films, Books, Sex Toys, Sex Dolls, Penis Enlargers, Film Projectors, a… Read more about this item

Hollywood, California: Frederick's of Hollywood, volume 24, Issue No. 116, August 7, 1970. Octavo (9" x 6"), 48 pages, profusely illustrated from art work & photographs. Original pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Moderately toned, slight edge wear, mailing label on the lower cover, otherwise Very Good. Largely focusing on lingerie, this Frederick's catalog also features bikinis, shoes, wigs, "Orgy Butter," & even the… Read more about this item

Tokyo, Japan: Kofu-En Bonsai Nursery/ Yugi Yoshimura, no date in English, circa 1950's ? Duodecimo (7" x 5"), 34 unnumbered pages with illustrations from photographs of 58 Bonsai trees. Original stapled paper wraps. Text in Japanese except for rubber-stamped notice quoted in part above. Moderately soiled, brief edge wear, otherwise Very Good. Yoshimura (1921 - 1997) was a distinguished bonsai master largely… Read more about this item

Framingham, Massachusetts: Published by Wallace Nutting, 1930. First edition. Tall octavo (10" x 7"), 160 pages, profusely illustrated from photographs. Laid-in is a price list in wraps dated February 1, 1932 with 8 unnumbered pages, which includes a tipped-in "discounts and Corrections" slip. Original printed stiff paper wraps. Covers moderately soiled & toned, brief edge wear, text block starting to crack… Read more about this item

New York City: Perry, Dame & Co., Catalog No. 62, 1915. Small quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 128, [4], & [1] pages plus covers in color (the upper signed in print by W. Haskell Coffin), profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. The 4 unnumbered pages following page 128 provide ordering instructions & unused order blanks. Publisher's pictorial, stapled paper wraps. Couple… Read more about this item

No place (New York ?): National Casket Company, no date (circa 1920's). Original brochure, single sheet measuring 6.25 inches by 10.25 inches folded three times vertically forming 8 panels printed recto & verso on light paper, with illustrations, some in color. Slightly toned, otherwise Fine. "Made of the finest quality of selected mohair. Soft, curly centers. Wide, attractive borders blend beautifully… Read more about this item

Columbus, Ohio: J. L. Stelzig & Co., 1861. First edition. 8vo (8" x 5.25"), [1], 2 - 8 pages. Printed paper self wraps, the lower cover with woodcut depiction of the Delaware Grape. OCLC locates one copy as of 7/24/2023 (Ohio History Center, accession # 35317536). Folded once horizontally, moderately toned & soiled, slight edge wear, otherwise very good. Provides a description… Read more about this item

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] (taken from return envelope): Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1929. Octavo (9" x 6"), 32 pages plus covers, illustrated throughout. With unused order blank, notice of free shipping, & return envelope laid-in. Original pictorial, stapled, light card wraps. Lightly soiled, slightly toned, trace edge wear, Very Good or better. The original edition, not to be confused with the modern reproduction. Provides… Read more about this item

St. Louis, [Missouri]: Roberts, Johnson & Rand, Branch of International Shoe Co., no date [1910]. 16mo, 12 pp. including covers, each page illustrated in red & black or by multi-color chromolithographs. Original die-cut pictorial, stapled paper wraps. The lower cover additionally promotes Geo. Weiler, presumably a retailer, of Hanover, Kansas. OCLC locates 3 copies as of 6/18/2023. Lightly rubbed & soiled,… Read more about this item

Bauer, E.F. (president). Your Future and how you can realize it in the opportunities awaiting the trained commercial designer through instruction by the Federal faculty and authors. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Federal School of Commercial Designing, 1927. Quarto (10.25" x 7.5"), 63 & [1] pages, profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's pictorial, stapled stiff paper wraps. With: Two typed… Read more about this item

Paris: Calmels Cohen, (2003). First editions. Two quarto volumes (10.75" x 8.5"), 407 & 278 pp., profusely illustrated in color & black & white. Publisher's pictorial stiff paper wraps, with pictorial acetate overlay at the upper covers. Text in French. Photographies volume very slightly soiled mostly at the edges of the text block, otherwise fine. Please note, we are offering the final… Read more about this item

Boston: Oak Hall, 32 to 44 North Street, no date (1876 per OCLC). Twenty-fifth edition. 24mo (5.75" X 5"), 29 & [3] pages, with illustrations from woodcuts throughout. Publisher's pictorial paper wraps, sewn. Moderately soiled & toned, short split at spine, slight edge wear, otherwise very good. A clever promotional pamphlet told in verse & dedicated to the "juvenile patrons" of the… Read more about this item

[Detroit, Michigan]: General Motors Corporation, Cadillac Motor Car Division, 1967. First edition. Oblong quarto (8.5" x 11.25"), 20 unnumbered pages plus covers, with illustrations throughout in color from photographs. Original stapled paper wraps. Modest edge wear, shallow creasing at one corner, lightly soiled, otherwise Very Good. The back cover promotes "Lindsay Oldsmobile Cadillac Corporation" of Alexandria, Virginia.

New York: Wm. Hepner & Co., no date (ca. 1910s). Octavo (9" x 6"), unpaginated [30 pages plus covers], illustrated throughout, with pricing. Original stapled paper wraps. Not found in OCLC although a version with 40 pages is found at Harvard & the University of Chicago (accession # 56572716). Covers & first blank page partially separated, edge wear including small… Read more about this item

New York: H. & D. Folsom Arms Co., no date (ca. 1920). Quarto (11" x 9"), 152 pages, profusely illustrated, some in color. Original pictorial printed paper wraps, stapled, backed in black-lettered blue cloth. Worn: Covers with edge wear including tears & creasing, rear cover with loss & tears now repaired with archival tissue on the recto, last leaf of text… Read more about this item

Quincy, Illinois: Excelsior Stove & Manufacturing Company, 1936. Quarto (11" x 8.5"), 48 pages, illustrated throughout often in color, plus 16 page "special net price list" attached at the title page. Original pictorial stapled paper wraps. Worn: Newly stapled, covers soiled, edge wear including small splits at the spine, archival tissue repair along the gutter at the verso of the covers,… Read more about this item

Boston: the company no date [1881 or 2]. 24mo, 24 unnumbered pages plus covers, with illustrations. Original pictorial wraps, sewn. OCLC locates a single copy at the Hagley Museum as of 5/28/2022. Trace edge wear, brief toning/ foxing, otherwise near fine. Directed to "all out of employment," several pages tout the money-making possibilities which are available to those representing the… Read more about this item