Search Results: Promotional Literature from Good Old Books

Carey Printing Co. Book. Good+. First Ed.. 146 pages, circa 1920, a promotional folio for The Carey Printing Company. A beautiful illustrative promotional souvenier with 40 full size framable pictures from the likes of Vanity Fair and Vogue. The bottom inch of the spine is ripped off exposing the signatures, also a stain in bottom corner of entirety. Minor defects, but in general, a lovely book, a great value..

Chicago: Producers Supply Company, 1904. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 110 pages with many illustrations of early use of concrete and the benefits of that product. Press of F. T. Peterson.

West Springfield, Massachusetts: Strathmore Paper Company, 1942. Book. Very Good. Paper Folder. First Ed.. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 7 pages with samples tipped in. Nice! A few tears to tab for filing..

Clinton, Iowa: Curtis Companies, 1919. Book. Very Good. Wood Veneer. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. "..Though he is a poet he has but one eccentricity: he is fat. He tried out a large number of eccentricities, because he knew all poets had to have some, but finally decided upon being fat as the one with fewest drawbacks and the least inconvenient." The book has paragraphs of prose rather than poetry, though, mostly focusing on the buisness of lumber. The cover is a vener of grained wood, pretty neat. The book was a promotional Christmas type card sent to customers by Curtis Service Bureau. The cover has been held together with scotch tape which is nearly invisible although I detest the use of scotch tape in any repair of books; this seemed to work well cosmetically and functionally. The nature of the cover dictated that it would eventually crack at the fold.. There are a few very small pieces missing from the veneer cover..

Pliny P. Craft, 1925. Book. Very Good. Embossed Paper. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 32 pages, 16 being photographs, 16 being text describing scene. The cover is a nice embosed Jesus Christ. Slight edge wear to paper boards. Apparently, these are real photo still from a German Film from the 20's. Silk rope threaded through to support the backstrip..

New York: Theatre Ticket Office, 1892. Book. Very Good. Paper. Official Libretto. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 32 pages, a program for an opera at the Columbian Exposition..

Minneapolis: Thompson Yards, 1922. Ephemera. Very Good. Paper. First Ed.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Unpaginated, promtional magazine for Thomson Lumber Yards in Minneapolis. Colorful cover which is mildly soiled..