![Item #BB2427 [Shape Book] [Tobacco] [Die Cut] Dental Scotch Snuff. AMERICAN SNUFF CO](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2427.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1598708783)
Memphis, Tennessee: n.d. Card Covers. Mid-Century tobacco advertising booklet. Foolscap 8vo (138 x 76mm): note pad shaped as a can of snuff, 24 blank ruled pages, excepting advertising text at center and inside covers. Original illustrated card covers. Provenance: Fred Board, collector of odd and unusual books, with his neat..... more
![Item #BB2421 [Moveable Book] Das Reich der Blumenkönigin, Sinnige Unterhaltung. L'Empire de la...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2421.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1660750962)
n.p. [Neuhaus or Nurnberg?]: n.p., n.d. [c. 1870]. Card Covers. Sixth Edition of this popular pastime, published in at least nine editions, although few copies survive. Royal 8vo (331 x 249mm): six-page descriptive letter press with parallel texts in French, German, and English, identifying each flower and giving its symbolic..... more
![Item #BB2676 [Opera Archive] [Staatsoper] [Playbill] Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ein...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2676.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1650319247)
Vienna: Wiener Staatsoper, 1961-1962. A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, the archive retains the 4- or 6-page playbill..... more
[Toronto]: Cooper & Beatty, MCMLVI [1956]. First Edition thus. Hardcover. First Separate Edition of this humorous Christmas keepsake issued in the Fall of 1956 by Toronto typographer Cooper & Beatty, one of 2,000 copies. Slim crown octavo (210 x 137mm): v,[1],5,[1]pp, printed in black and silver-grey on wove paper. Publisher's..... more
![Item #BB2275 [Toy Theater] [Juvenile Drama] The Blue Jackets, or Her Majesty's Service. A Farce,...](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2275.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629238672)
[London]: Printed and published by B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, N., [1895?]. Wrappers. A rare, complete nineteenth-century Benjamin Pollock toy theater. Foolscap 8vo (168 x 108 mm): 16pp, with nine hand-colored plates (219 x 173 mm), as called for on title page ("4 Plates Characters, 3 Scenes, 2 Wings [Nos..... more
![Item #BB2394 [Socialism] [Parable] Hop Lee and the Pelican [Two Editions]. Gaylord WILSHIRE](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB2394_01.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629898786)
New York / Newark, N.J. Wilshire Book Company / Clarion Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1903]. Illustrated Wrappers. Two copies (First Separate Editions and apparently earliest iterations) of this parable, in which a Chinese fisherman discovers that he can out source the labor of fishing. Description of each copy follows. Wilshire..... more