Ephemera from Eric James

New York: Life Magazine, 1986. Oversized softcover magazine, 134 pages with hundreds of colour and black-and-white photographs; front cover bottom half foxed and completely detached (therefore including two thirds of the Campbell's Soup pop art illustration), but overall still intact and complete, all pages age toned around edges, some light… Read more

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1944. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, later printing, xv + 306 pages;---original bright yellow DJ with black lettering and front cover photo of author;---book very gently read, if at all, tight in binding, not a trace of shelf wear, very clean and unmarked throughout, pages fresh and white; DJ has… Read more

Los Angeles: Robert A. Harris/Images Film Archive/Zoetrope Studios, 1981. Oversized stapled paperback pamphlet, 16 pages including four-page centrefold, black-and-white photographs throughou (covers in colour), not a trace of shelf wear, very clean and unmarked, essentially as new.. Soft Cover. Fine.

London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton Slim hardcover without dust jacket, one of the series "Days With The Great Writers", undated (but c1910), 48 pages, plus five full page full colour reproductions and illustrated endpapers; gently used, but a century and more of wear at corners and edges, slight damage to spine top, severe bump to… Read more

Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: United States Government Printing Office for the United States Hydrographic Office, 1952. Oversized hardcover with plastic stay-flat spiral binding, xi + 240 pages; covers worn, scarred, rubbed and soiled from heavy use, ink signature on front cover and two more on title page, but binding strong, interior otherwise very clean… Read more

Both the Borba and the Arraiolos were built in 1948, Borba by William Doxford & Sons in Sunderland, UK, and Arraiolos by Bartram & Sons in Sunderland, UK, on the River Wear (see below);---Borba documents; 1. small typed 3-page "Tabela Dos Deslocamentos, N/M Borba", 2-hole punched, stapled, undated, unsigned; 2. typed letter to "Ship's… Read more

Artigues-près-Bordeaux, Gironde, France : S. N. I. Delmas, 1983. Stapled paperback pamphlet, 36 pages including full colour photographs; very gently used, very clean and unmarked. . Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

London: Winsor and Newton Digest-style paperback, undated (but "Thirty-Sixth Thousand" printing, c1940s/1950s), 64 pages; very gently used, just a hint of smudging to front cover, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout.. Soft Cover. Very Good ++.

Montreal: Royal Bank of Canada, 1967. Mass market paperback, 186 pages, plus a colourful foldout map of Canada inside back cover (map has a small tear, apparently because the previous owner didn't realize that it has to be cut along the inner fold line to open properly; buyer beware!); very tiny traces of shelf wear, but… Read more

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto, 1965. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 16 pages, black-and-white illustrations; very gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Steven's Early Ontario Glass, and for R. R. H.… Read more

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Science and Mechanics Publishing, 1959. Magazine-style stapled paperback, 202 pages, illustrations on almost every page; light rubbing, chipping and creasing to covers, but gently used, cheap newsprint paper age toned,… Read more

Newington, Connecticut, U.S.A.: American Radio Relay League, 1965. Magazine-sized paperback, 255 pages including black-and-white illustrations on almost every page; gently used, light rubbing and bumping to exterior, one heavy spine crease, book opens flat at pages 98/99, ink signature on first (title) page, pale faded staining to four consecutive pages, all… Read more

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Science and Mechanics Publishing, 1959. Magazine-style stapled paperback, 192 pages, illustrations on almost every page; light rubbing, chipping and creasing to covers, but gently used, cheap newsprint paper age toned, but very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Dorothy Pace`s The Complete Home Encyclopedia,… Read more

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Science and Mechanics Publishing, 1960. Magazine-style stapled paperback, 216 pages, illustrations on almost every page; light rubbing, chipping and creasing to covers, but gently used, cheap newsprint paper age toned, but very clean… Read more

Chicago: Popular Mechanics Publishing, 1951. Stapled softcover magazine, 316 pages, illustrations on almost every page; light shelf wear and creasing along spine, but tight in binding, very clean and unmarked, some sections are slightly age toned but others are a better quality paper and remain fresh and white. … Read more

Chicago, IL, U.S.A.: Science and Mechanics Publishing, 1961. Magazine-style stapled paperback, 210 pages, illustrations on almost every page; light rubbing, chipping and creasing to covers, but gently used, cheap newsprint paper age toned, but very clean and… Read more

Edinburgh, Scotland: Gene Gordon Publications, 1956. Stapled softcover pamphlet, 14 pages including illustrative drawings; tiny traces of shelf wear, but very gently used, very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our listing for Performing Magic for Children: Theories, Thoughts, Tricks and Tips for Structuring… Read more

London: The Boy Scouts Association and C. Arthur Pearson, 1952. Small pocket-sized hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 128 pages including several drawings; book overall very gently used, just a hint of shelf wear along edges, ink name/address on free front endpaper, tiny pencil marks or ink check marks in the outer margins of a few of the… Read more

Set of 12 full colour art cards (15 by 19 1/2 cm, 6 x 7 3/4 in) in a folder, plus a small 12-page stapled pamphlet "The Jerusalem Windows"; cards in AS NEW condition, pamphlet is Fine, folder is Good, rubbed, bumped and creased, some faded old (coffee?) stains. See also our listings for Marc Chagall,… Read more

Nelson, BC, Canada: Nelson Daily News , 1982. Oversized (36 x 29 cm, about 14 x 11 in) newspaper with stapled binding, 86 pages including black-and-white archival photographs and period advertisements throughout; covers almost but still not quite detached, otherwise gently used, clean and unmarked. . First Edition. Soft… Read more