ARCHANGEL OX & REINDEER TONGUES by [Trade Card] - circa 1882

Buffalo: Gies & Co., n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3½". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows young children leaving school, saying to other children, "Say, boys, see the Inks we have made. Prof. Smith said the DIAMOND DYES made the best Inks, and told us to make our own, and so we have. You can get any color, and one ten cent package makes a pint of the nicest ink." Fine-print text on verso touts the quality, method, list of colors, etc.

Toledo, OH: E.B. Terry & Co., n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, coated heavy stock card. 6¼" X 4". Good plus. Bit of edgewear. Full color lithography. Pair of huge open scissors bisects this space into four triangular scenes, each depicting children using scissors: a girl snips flowers off a tree into her friend's hat, a girl gives a little boy a haircut, a naughty girl cuts the tassels off the bottom of a Victorian parlor chair for her kitty to play with, two little girls play at cutting and sewing. Verso is blank.

Cleveland: Johns & Co Lith, n.y. [ca. 1880]. Single, heavy stock card. 4½" X 3". Charming late 19th century trade card. Near fine. Black and white recto depicts two nearly identical side-by-side scenes: at left a woman seated in a Victorian parlor sews by candlelight, straining to see the work in her lap while a cloud above her head indicates she dreams of sitting comfortably in front of a proper tabletop newfangled sewing machine; at right a women sits in front of just such a machine -- domestic bliss! Verso is blank.

American Raw Furs. Circa 1920s. Paper. Good. Ink on the front and on the back.. 3.5 x 5 inch trade card for American Raw Furs in Chicago. Identification tag on the back to identify furs being shipped. Among many choices are white weasel, coyote, house cat, mountain lion and bear.

Chicago: Armour & Company, 1900. Very Good. Armour's Extract of Beef Trade Card from The United States National Pavilion, Paris Exposition 1900.  Beef tea was widely believed to give strength to the ill, but by the 1880s the medical community began to frown on it as a cure.  3.5 inches by 6 inches; Color portrait of the U.S. Pavilion on the front with advertisement for the use of products. Minor handling wear on gold border.. Background Information: Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1867, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. By 1880, the company had become Chicago's most important business and had helped make Chicago and its Union Stock Yards the center of America's meatpacking industry. During the same period, its facility in Omaha, Nebraska, boomed, as well, making the city's meatpacking industry the largest in the nation.

Orlando, FL: W.G. White, n.y.. Single heavy stock card. 4 3/4" X 3". Very good. Full color lithography recto shows a fancy Victorian parlor with a man on one knee having just proposed to a seated young lady, whose reply appears above. At right a putto stands tiptoe on a chair to reach the crank-style telephone, into whose mouthpiece he says, "Hello send a 'Domestic' quick." Blank verso bears oval name/address of general merchandise store cited above, inkstamped in purple. Undated, but circa 1890. What's a "Domestic"? Not a clue.

Trade card [3 3/4" x 6"] The date listed is 1952, however this is most likely a reproduction.

1894. No binding. Very Good. Picture shows a Samoyed Family in their home or hut made of skin; one of the women being at work sewing on a Singer Machine. Colored reproduction dated 1894. An excellent copy. S001.

Syracuse, New York: T.H. Appleby MFG. Co., no date (ca. 1890). Chromolithograph trade card on light card stock measuring approximately 5.25 inches by 4 inches, rubber-stamped on the verso, "Leslie A. Appleby, Seedman and Florist, Syracuse, N.Y.," otherwise blank. An applied printed paper label at the bottom left of the front apparently corrects an old address.
Top corners creased, light edge wear including a quarter-inch tear, modest foxing & soiling mostly evident on the verso, otherwise good or better.
Presents a lovely illustration depicting a mare & foal in a corral with a rooster & two chickens sharing the space.

N.p. [Lynn, MA]: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, n.y. [ca. 1883]. Single heavy stock card. 4" X 2½". Very good. Mild bit of minor soiling. Steel-engraving on recto depicts a broad view of this then-state-of-the-art suspension bridge -- and of course suspended along the underside of the main horizontal bridge, at center of the card, is a long vast billboard reading "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Numerous sailboats, a large paddlewheeler, tugboats, etc., fill the bay. Below the caption near the lower edge is a three-line text listing the bridge's statistics: span, cable size, width, tower height and so on. The all-text verso touts the virtues of this patent medicine, "a Positive Cure For all those painful Complaints and Weaknesses so common to our best female population. It will cure entirely the worst form of Female Complaints, all Ovarian troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements, and the consequent Spinal Weakness, and is particularly adapted to the Change of… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1923. Hardcover. Condition: very Good. Illustrated by P. H. Webb. Good Front hinge starting to crack but binding still tight, panel corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed,

Des Moines: Successful Farming, 1930. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 78pp. Wear to black paper wraps with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Tear to bottom corner at rear cover. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Toning to endpapers. Faint musty smell to pages. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. An overall solid copy of this work on masters of dairying, including chapters on Stephen Moulton Babcock, Wiliam Dempster Hoard, Clarence Henry Eckles, Carl Gustaf Patrik De Laval, Elmer Verner McCollum, Louis Pasteur, Theophilus Levi Haecker, Gail Borden, William Arnon Henry, and Otto Frederick Hunziker.

Random House/Children's television Workshop, 1977. 1981 reprint. Paperback. Condition: Fine. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting. All pages clean and unmarked

Freddy and the Baseball Team From Mars, Alfred A. Knopf 1st Ed. 1955. Hardcover. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Used. VG/ No DJ. Rose red boards. Spine lightly sunned. A nice copy of a scarce item.

Freddy and the Ignormus. First Edition, Jan 1951 5th Printing thus. Brooks, Walter R. EXLIB. GOOD/ NO DJ INCLUDED. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, Copyright 1941, ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE.

Freddy And The Men From Mars. Brooks, Walter: Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf , 1956 First Edition 2nd Printing Thus. Used. Very Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice copy.

Freddy and the Perilous Adventure. By Walter R. Brooks. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. Alfred A. Knopf, 1942 Stated First Edition. Rare. Used. VG/ No DJ included. A nice solid copy. 245 pages.

THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD. By Clair Huchet Bishop. RARE/SCARCE. ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MC CLOSKEY, author, Illustrator of the beloved "Make Way For Ducklings".EXLIB. GOOD+/ NO DJ INCLUDED. LIBRARY BOUND. Red Geometric pattern boards. Copyright October, 1942. STATED SEPTEMBER, 1955 5TH PRINTING THUS. SUMMARY: "It's bad news when you wake up in the morning and find you've lost your head, especially if it's an especially agreeable and handsome head, but there you go, such things happen." Claire Huchet Bishop's charming parable is illustrated by the great Robert McCloskey, whose books for children include One Morning in Maine, Blueberries for Sal, and the Caldecott Medal-winning Make Way for Ducklings."

Freddy The Cowboy. Hardcover. By Walter R. Brooks, Stated First Edition 1950, Alfred A. Knopf. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. EX-LIB. Library bound. White titling on spine. Multi-hued, Raspberry, orange and lavender graphic cloth cover treatment. Square corners. Good Condition /No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy.

Freddy and the Bean Home News. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, copyright 1943, Fourth printing Thus, Jan., 1952. Exlib. No exterior marking. Good/ no DJ included. A clean, solid copy. Please also see our Freddy The Pig Catalogue.