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A Summer at the Top o’ the World
William Walter Shaw
Los Angeles: Sixth Avenue Publishing Company, 1927.Chronicling the impressions received by the author during a summer’s vacation spent among the National Parks of the United States and Canada. Locations visited included the Carquinez Strait, the Redwood Highway, Portland, Columbia River Highway, Yellowstone National Park and its geysers, Jackson Hole country including a rodeo there, Buffalo Bill Country, Glacier National Park, Turtle Mountain, the Banff-Windermere Highway and the Okanagan Valley.
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Open Sesame! Varnum Electric Door Engines – for Safer Safety
Varnum Door Engine Company
Los Angeles: Varnum Door Engine Company, No date.Early 1920s catalogue for the Varnum Door Engine. Contains a short history of the Varnum door opening and closing engine, followed by details and photographs of them as installed in bank vaults and the gates of grand estates. Also included are letters of recommendation from happy customers, and a list of banks across the United States using the door engines.
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Frigidaire
Frigidaire
Dayton: Delco-Light Company, No date.Describes the benefits of the oak or white enamel Frigidaire, including the ice cube drawers in which may be made 72 ‘crystal-pure cubes of ice for table use.’ Also includes recipes for Frozen Dainties made with the Frigidaire. This copy with The Frigidaire Corporation printed through on the colophon and printed No Made and Guaranteed by Delco-Light Company, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation.
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The Luxury of the Four Stream Needle Shower
Reddan Specialty Co.
New York: Reddan Specialty Co., 1914.The benefits of the four head shower invented by Mr. A. E. Kenney are many: the year around way to start your day; send you down to your office feeling like a boy; no longer confined to the rich man’s home; the only curtainless shower; the price is low as you don’t have to tear the walls out to install; stimulates your whole system without shock to the head; no rubber cap needed to keep your hair dry and so prevents hair thinning, dandruff and catarrh; takes up no room; fits any bath tub. Unfortunately it doesn’t put out the cat or turn off the lights. This copy with the stamp of the sales Agent Wm. B. McMahon, Troy, New York, stating a free 5 day trial to the wrappers front panel.
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Antiquities of Roman London
Edward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Antiquities of Roman Britain: Guide to the Principal Roman Sites in England Outside London
Edward Foord
London: Proprietor of the Roman Bath, No date. -
Iowa Law in Regard to Registration and Regulation of Motor Vehicles (2 Volumes)
W. C. Hayward; W. S. Allen
Des Moines: Emory H. English and Robert Henderson, State Printers, 1911-1913.As enacted by the 34th General Assembly. Takes effect July 4th 1911, and as Amended by the 35th General Assembly 1913 to take effect May 1st 1913
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Addendum to the Instruction on the Use of Aerial Observation in Liaison with the Artillery
Army War College, Washington
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1918.January 19, 1917 (Modifying “Field Artillery Notes No. 1”).
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Price List of Parts for Canadian Training Airplanes
Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation
New York: Aircraft Material and Equipment Corporation, No date.A price list for every part of an airplane, from wing panels ($88.85) down to cotter pins (1 cent). This copy with notice stamps of the United Air-craft Engineering Corporation.
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The Symbol of Service
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date. -
The Telephone in America
Bell Telephone System
[United States]: Bell Telephone System, 1950. -
Some Telephone Suggestions
Southern California Telephone Company
[California]: Southern California Telephone Company, No date.1930s instruction booklet for conducting polite business communication on the telephone. “To have persons habitually look forward to a pleasant experience when they deal with your business is one of the greatest assets your firm can have. There are ways by which your staff’s use of the telephone can have a big effect in creating such an attitude. ” (from wrapper) Unrecorded in OCLC.
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America’s Most Famous Teeth
Reidar F. Sognnaes
Washington, DC: Vick Clark Cleveland, 1974.Reprinted from the Smithsonian Magazine, February 1973. “What kind of dentures did Washington wear? Wood, elephant tusks, elk’s teeth, gold?” (from p.1). Published by a denture company.
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Teatro Reale Dell’ Opera [Roma]: Il Nuovo Palcoscenico Meccanico
Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli
Milano and Roma: Casa Editrice D’arte Bestetti e Tumminelli, 1929.Royal Opera Theatre: The New Mechanical Stage. Promotional booklet after the 1926 renovations of the theatre which reopened in 1928.
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Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins Pty Ltd.: Wholesale Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists: Prices Current
Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins Pty Ltd
Melbourne: Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins Pty Ltd, 1942.Late 1942 price list book for Melbourne pharmacist Felton, Grimwade and Duerdins. Index tabs along fore-edge for Drugs and Chemicals; Patent Medicines and Proprietaries; Perfumery and Toilet Articles; Soaps; Proprietaries, Manufactures and Packed Goods; Druggists and Surgical Sundries; Commonwealth Serum Laboratories.
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Davida Allen: In the Moment
Davida Allen; Angela Goddard
Brisbane: Griffith University Art Museum, 2018.Catalogue of an exhibition held 3 May-30 June 2018.
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Red Azalea: Life and Love in China
Anchee Min
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. -
Vedic and Mesopotamian Interactions
N. Kazanas
Adyar: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, The Theosophical Society, 2007. -
Katu Folktales and Society
Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society; Nancy A. Costello
Vientiane: Ministry of Information and Culture, Institute of Research on Lao Culture and Society, 1993.A collection of stories of the Katu peoples of Vietnam and Laos. An oral storytelling tradition many stories are here recorded in Katu phonetically and with Lao and English translation.
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Dikter
Johan Bergman
Goteborg: Wettergren & Kerber, 1894.Poetry by Swedish archeologist and parliamentarian Johan Bergman (1864-1951).