Trade Catalogues from Kate Mitas, Bookseller

Chicago and New York: The Adams Westlake Company, [1927]. Good. 9-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches. 22,[2]pp. Stapled tan wrappers with embossed blue lettering. B&w illustrations. Wrappers soiled; light soiling from handling to most leaves. Scarce catalogue of bus lighting fixtures, with illustrations of buses and their interiors as well as of the fixtures themselves. "A bright, cheerful, and attractive… Read more about this item

Paterson, New Jersey: National Silk Dyeing Company, 1911 - 1915. Very Good overall. Five accordion-style books bound in brown cloth with snaps and gilt stamping, containing nearly 780 samples of 800; each set of samples is approx. 5 cm long and contains five different hues of tied silk string. Each book 13 x 23 cm, or approx. 23… Read more about this item

San Francisco: National Ice Cream Company, (n. d.). Fair. Circa 1910. 14 x 20 cm. [30]pp. Stapled green wrappers printed in darker green and white. B&w and some color photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. LACKING one leaf. Wrappers spotted and worn, with heavy rubbing and a partial split to the spine; small piece of paper overlay missing from… Read more about this item

Boston: Yankey Manufacturing Co., Circa 1918. Good+. 5" x 6-1/4". 20 pp. Stapled dark green wraps printed in black and brown. Spine rubbed; light musty odor; pencil check marks scattered throughout. The first catalogue issued by Yankey Manufacturing Company, which, according to a 1922 New England directory, was located on Dover Street, in Boston. The company was incorporated… Read more about this item

Paris: Les Etablissements A. Claverie, (n. d.). Wraps. Very Good. Circa 1910. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Yellow wrappers printed in black, housing four loose fascicles of [4] pp each; profusely illustrated; text in French. Slight wear and strip of faint toning/soil to wrapper edges; slight crease to lower corner of fascicles. Catalogue of orthopedic corsets, braces, and supports to… Read more about this item