Search Results: Titles starting with I from R & A Petrilla

Chicago: Frank K. Root & Co, 1915. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 6pp, folio. Words and music, in part: "Hiram Lord from Wellsboro, He bought a Ford a week ago, And he paid for it in reg'lar dough, Then took a trip to town...." The cover features a large portrait of Jack Frost, no car present. 13.5" x 10.25

Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co, 1905. Original document. Very Good. Unused, without address or message.

Burlington, VT: Free Press Print, 1856. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 52pp. 9" x 5.75" Association copy. Written at top of cover: "Hon. E. Washburn / with respects of W.S. Neill." Emory Washburn (1800-1877) served as Governor of Massachusetts, 1854-1855, and wrote a number of legal treatises. He was instrumental in the founding of Worcester Polytechnic Institute. [Gilman, Bibliography of Vermont, 194.].

(Pisgah Forest, North Carolina): (Ecusta Paper Corp.), 1950. Reprint. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (ii) Preface, 8, (1), colophon. Bound in white rag wrappers, now tanned at the edges. 9.25" x 6.25". Laid in is a 12.25" x 9" broadside promotion for Ecusta Fine Flax Papers, showing distributors in the US. Reprinted here, using text from the original title-page and colophon.

New-York: D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, 1812. Second US Edition. Very Good. 36pp; neatly removed from a bound volume of pamphlets. 5.5" x 3.5" [Shaw & Shoemaker, American Bibliography, 25268]. First published by Longworth in 1805.

Chicago: Illinois Central Rail Road Office, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 80pp. Bound in at front: Outline Map of Illinois; Railway Guide to the Illinois Central Rail Road Lands (double-page map); woodcut frontispiece, "Prairie Scene in Illinois." Six woodcuts in the text. Bound in at back: four pages of broadside-style ads printed in diaplay type on lavender stock. (1) "Passengers for St. Louis, Jacksonville, Naples, Kansas and Nebraska, should procure their tickets, via Illinois Central R. Road...." (2) "Great Western and Michigan Central Railway Line, only direct route, via Niagara Falls and Suspension Bridge...." (3) Great Reduction of Fare! For St. Paul! Great Western Mail Route. Galena and Chicago Union Rail Road...." (4) "Passengers for St. Paul should be particular and call for tickets via Dunleith ... Having Twelve Splendid Steamers...." Bound in printed wrappers with prairie scene on cover. 9" x 5.5" [Byrd, Illinois Imprints 2683. Buck, Travel and Description 559.].

New-York: Isaac J. Oliver, Printer, 1856. First edition thus. Softcover. Very Good. 64pp, sewn. Self-wrappers, string tied; faint foxing to first and last few leaves. 8.5" x 5.5" [Sabin 34317--more acreage was offered in 1854 and 1855. Buck, Travel & Description, locates five copies with this variant imprint by Oliver.].

New York: Madison Square Theatre Print, 1881. First Edition. Very Good. Printed in green ink on card stock, folded to form six (6"x3.5") panels. Designed by William H. Day. One panel contains a Frank Fowler drawing of Mrs. Burnett, and another shows Miss Annie Russell in costume as Esmeralda. Lists the Cast of Characters, settings of the four acts from North Carolina to Paris, seating charts in the Theatre, and the Executive Staff. "Ladies' Parlor at Head of First Flight of Stairs." [Not recorded by Blanck, BAL. Not found in OCLC.].

St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Good. 64pp; illus throughout from photographs. Spine wear. 7.75" x 10.75" ~ Laid in is a 12-page pamphlet containing the text of Nettie Beauregard's radio talk on The Lindbergh Trophies over station KMOX, St. Louis, June 22, 1933. 5.25" x 3.5

[Washington?]: s.n., 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 18pp, caption title. Self-wrappers, stitched; faint shadow on first leaf. 8.25" x 5.75" [WorldCat locates only the Wisconsin Hist Soc holding of this title, catalogued as 14pp.].

Camden, NJ: H.S. Hurff, 1890. First Edition. Very Good. Broadside; engraved illus and devices. Handwriting at the bottom and on the verso mentions the Dunkers, Germantown, Conestoga, Conrad Beissel, Seventh Day Baptists, &c. 8" x 6" Attractive.

Harrisburg, PA: Telegraph Printing and Binding, 1881. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 16pp. 9" x 5.75" WorldCat locates four copies.

Columbia, S.C.: Printed by I.C. Morgan, 1842. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 20pp. Neatly removed from a nonce volume, and spine reinforced with archival paper; few spots of foxing on first two leaves. 8.25" x 5.25" Discusses the curriculum of theological training. Proposed in 1821 as an academy to train young ministers, the first operating funds raised were $25 in 1824. It is now Furman University. [American Imprints 42-4264].

NY: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 596pp, index; illustrations from photographs and drawings. This is a personal look at the folk scene, mid-1940s through 1972, with chapers on its roots, folksingers, the blues, etc. Bound in blue cloth, red endpapers, prior owner's bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. 9.5" x 6.5

London: J. Wenman, 1777. Printed Self-wrappers. Very Good. 20pp, double-column format. Removed from a nonce volume; spine reinforced with archival paper. 8.5" x 5.25

Gloucester County, NJ, 1888. Original manuscript. Very Good. 2-1/3pp, typewritten, accomplished by hand. Describes in detail a tract of land in the Monroe Township, Gloucester County, mentioning the properties of Daniel Prossers, J.A. Bodine, Job Eldridge, and Thomas W. Chew. Signed by John H. Bradway, Charles S. Krisell, and John J. Jessup. 13" x 8" John H. Bradway of Gloucester County was a member of the New Jersey House of Assembly. He died in Woodbury in 1904 at the age of 85. "He was a valued overseer of Woodbury Preparative Meeting, and will be much missed by this lilttle band of Friends." ("Friends Intelligencer," Vol. 62.) ~ Charles S. Knisell was County Collector of Gloucester County. ~ John S. Jessup (1842-1911) was a Judge of the Gloucester County Common Pleas Court.

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1909. 1909 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. pp: 34. (4) ads. Tipped in is a colored map, opening to 21" x 28", folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4" [Decker 24:287--1892 edition.].

Chicago, New York, Los Angeles: Rand, McNally & Co, 1914. 1914 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 46pp, including ads for Fred Harvey's Santa Fe System of Hotels. Full-color map opens to 21" x 28". Folds into brown card covers printed in black, 6.5" x 4" [OCLC locates only the Texas Tech U holding of this edition.].

Chicago & NY: Rand, McNally & Co, 1914. Early edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. 38pp, including six pages of pictorial hotel ads. Tipped in is a colored map, opening to 26" x 18.5". Folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4

Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1915. 1915 edition. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. pp: 68. (2) ads. Tipped in is a full-color map, opening to 18.5" x 25", folded into brown card covers printed in black. 6.5" x 4