Stringer's Books and Ephemera
Rare and Fine Books and EphemeraAmericana (10 items)
- ROBERT F. KENNEDY. THE LAST CAMPAIGN New York Universal Publishing 196820.00Magazine is in good+ condition with some edge wear, especially along bottom, some wear to spine ends.
72 pages.Magazine is 8" x 11"Photographic record of Robert Kennedy's 1968 campaign for the leader of the Democratic Party. Includes coverage of his assassination.00197View Full Details - IN AND AROUND SALT LAKE CITY Salt Lake City Souvenir Novelty Co. no date (ca. 1904-09)95.00Condition for this softcover book is in very good with some edge wear, some wear to corners, some scuff marks to back cover.
40 pages with photos.Softcover book, size is 13" x 10"A viewbook of Salt Lake City Utah, with some great photographs.00413View Full Details - GEORGE A. HAMID PROUDLY PRESENTS65.00
STEEL PIER'S GOLDEN JUBILEE
1897-1947
SOUVENIR PROGRAM AND GUIDE BOOK New York Charles B Ellsworth Co. (1947)Condition for this program about very good with some wear to corners and spine ends, light crease across middle of program (probably folded many years ago).
16 pages with photos, layout of the pier at the centrefold.Program size is 8 1/2" x 11".Original program from 1947 for the Atlantic City Steel Pier. With a short bio for George Hamid first followed by things to see and where to go along with a centrefold layout of the pier.00993View Full Details - AMERICA'S MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY (Kansas City) Kansas City Convention Bureau, Chamber of Commerce no date (ca. 1915)175.00Softcover book, in very good+ condition with some edge wear, small chip to front cover bottom right corner, some wear to spine ends.
Unpaginated (32) pages with photosSoftcover book, string-bound, size is 9 1/2" x 12 1/4".A scarce look at Kansas City, this may be a later, and still scarce, edition has it has more pages than the worldcat copies and the Union Station is not marked as "new". A great early 1900s look at Kansas City and why you should move there.01000View Full Details - WEALTH AND RESOURCES OF UTAH Salt Lake City Utah Dept. of Publicity and Industrial Development no date (circa 1944 to 150.00Condition for this softcover book is very good+ with slight edge wear, slight wear to corners, slight creasing to the bottom right corner.
Unpaginated (48 pages) with photos.Softcover staple-bound book, size is 8 1/2" x 11".Promotional book from the state of Utah showing the advantages and living, working and running farms and businesses in Utah.01778View Full Details
Scarce. - VIEWS OF THE HOME OF REV. MARY BAKER EDDY CHESTNUT HILL, BOSTON. MASS., U.S.A. DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND AUTHOR OF "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" (Boston) John G. Salehow 1911175.00Condition for this view book is better than very good but not quite near fine with some wear to the corners and spine ends, a bit of wear to the covers, a of wear along the edges, slight tanning to pages.
32 pages with illustrations throughout.Oblong string-bound cloth, size is 11” x 9”.“Mary Baker Eddy (nee Baker; July 16, 1821 – December 3, 1910) was an American religious leader, Christian healer, and author, who in 1879 founded The Church of Christ, Scientist, the Mother Church of the Christian Science movement. She also founded The Christian Science Monitor in 1908, and three religious magazines: the Christian Science Sentinel, The Christian Science Journal, and The Herald of Christian Science.” [Wikipedia].01768View Full Details
A scarce view book featuring the various aspects of Rev. Eddy’s residence in Boston. Each photo has a short facing page caption. - OLD FORT NIAGARA IN FOUR CENTURIES22.50
A HISTORY OF ITS DEVELOPMENT Youngstown, NY Old Fort Niagara Assoc. c. 1991Condition for this soft cover book is near fine with small pen notations on first page and slight wear to corners and spine ends.
64 pages with illustrations and plans.Softcover book, size is 8 1/2" x 11".Brief look at the various changes over four centuries to New York State's Old Fort Niagara.00995View Full Details - SEEING NEW ORLEANS No place no publisher no date (ca. 193?)120.00Condition for this softcover book is good+ with some edge wear, some soiling smudging to covers, small tear front cover right side (about 1"), small crease front cover bottom right corner, some darkening and staining back cover along spine (see photos).
15 pages (recto only) with illustrations and foldout map.Softcover book, size is 8 3/4" x 10".A scarce, self-published(?), tourist handbook with the illustrations of J. Carl Hancock (1898–1966), "a twentieth-century American etcher, designer, painter, and commercial artist active in Arkansas and Louisiana."00976View Full Details
Includes a foldout map of the locations that are illustrated.
There are 12 illustrations, plus an original signed etching, the title of the etching is "Orleans St. - New Orleans". - THE BEST PLANNED CITY: THE OLMSTED LEGACY IN BUFFALO (Buffalo) Buffalo State College Foundation 199130.00Condition for this softcover book is near fine with some wear to corners and spine ends.
68 pages with photos.Softcover book size is 8 1/2" x 11".A collection of essays published on the occasion of the Chemical Bank Annual Exhibition entitled Frederick Law Olmsted: Designs for Buffalo's Parks and Parkways, 1868-1898 which ran from November 1991 to January 5th 1992 at the Burchfield Art Center.00983View Full Details - THE LEE MANSION20.00
WHAT IT WAS AND WHAT IT IS Marblehead, MA N.A. Lindsey & Co., Marblehead Historical Society, c. 1911String-bound wrappers in very good condition with some foxing to first page and last.
18 pages with photos.String-bound wrappers, size is 7" x 9 1/4".A brief history of the Lee Mansion, Marblehead, Mass.00987View Full Details
