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Published by Universe Books, 1977
ISBN 10: 0876639767ISBN 13: 9780876639764
Seller: Terrace Horticultural Books, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Color And B & W Illustrations Of Victorian Era Salesmans Sample Book Illustrations (illustrator). 1st Edition. Copyright Date: 1977 Sm Octavo, PP.75, Color And B & W Illustrations Of Victorian Era Salesman's Sample Book Illustrations.
Published by Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1966
Seller: 221Books, Westlake Village, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Book of Sample Scripts (illustrator). First Edition. Covers with a little speckling and jacket sunned. Size: Large Format.
Published by Exeter Paper Co. inc., Los Angeles and Chicago [no date]
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Spiral Comb. Condition: Very Good. Paper Sample Book (illustrator). First Thus. Spiral comb binding at top edge, stiff upper cover, 4to, unpag. A scarce Exeter Paper Co. paper sample catalog featuring their Hardwood line--includes many numbered paper samples of paper which resembles various veneers and hardwoods. (couple of samples with clipped corners). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by National Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1881
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Good. A salesman's dummy copy, or a sample volume, not the complete work. Rubbing and wear to covers; some toning and foxing. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- still quite a sound and handsome copy. iv116pp. Laid in is what appears to be a prospectus for a later (1924) edition, with the name and notes of the author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Strathmore Paper Co. N.D., Westfield, MA
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Various colors in wrapper inside portfolios. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; A landmark on the route to post-modern graphic design, created by Charles Spencer Anderson and the Duffy Design Group.
Publication Date: 1938
Seller: Dublin Bookbrowsers, Dublin, NONE, Ireland
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Unpaginated. Circa 120 pp. With text or illustration on one side of each leaf. Colour samples of a range of tapestries, velvet squares, stairs materil etc. Printed in Scotland. No publisher indicated. There are colour illustrations of Ypres & Kilda Seamless Tapestry, Cheviot & Marley Seamless Velvet squares & more. The first four pages have press clippings from the Irish Press of March 7th, 1946 with photos and content on the anniversary of the murders of George Clancy, Mayor of Limerick; Michael O'Callaghan, ex-Mayor and Joseph O'Donoghue. There is also an image from the opening of the Shannon Carnival, Limerick.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & London, 1914
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Salesman's Sample Edition. Sales sample book or 'dummy' for this large set of world history; with endpaper having sample binding backstrips, available in cloth, or black decoratively gilt leather; with examples of illustrations & text, accompanied by sales 'patter' tipped-in that would help sell the volumes; along with list of volumes, samples of index pages; volume approx. 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" size; bound in brick-red cloth, gilt cover titles; some wear and rubbing to volume; contents in very good condition, interesting American publishing and advertising sales history material, especially at the time of World War I.
Published by Union Publishing House, Chicago, 1898
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Very Good. First edition. 8vo, The edge of the leather is somewhat serrated with two cushioned pads beneath it. An unused Salesman's Sample Book. The inside rear cover has a sample of the deluxe binding for this work. "Alligator Grained Leather, Cushioned Lids, with gilt edges, 3.75 ". Photogravures.
Published by The Leadenhall Press, London, 1898-9, 1898
Seller: Ely Books, ELY, CAMBS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hard Cover. With Four Hundred Illustrations Includes a Genuine Coloured sample of old Dutch Paper Used to Cover 18th Century Children's Books (illustrator). First Edition. PAGES: 510 plus 22 pages of publishers illustrated catalogue. BINDING: Original publishers blue cloth with gilt decoration to front cover and spine and top edges gilt. CONDITION: Spine a little worn and faded, corners bumped, inner hinges cracked but covers holding well, a name plate C.Y.A. to front pastedown, a reasonable copy. Size: 7 3/4 X 5 1/4 Inches.
Published by Upsilanti Michigan: Peninsular Paper Company c, 1900
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
Art / Print / Poster
4to (295 x 235mm), ff. 22, each a sample of colour printing, design or paper stock, orig. card covers, tied with cord. "This portfolio is designed. for ready reference whenever you are planning a catalog, booklet of mailing piece." Introduction. OCLC locating a single copy at Delaware University.
Published by Golden Tree Communications, Winterset, IA, 2010
ISBN 10: 0978588347ISBN 13: 9780978588342
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover Design: Design Matters; Book Design: Gretchen Jensen (illustrator). Inscribed and signed by the author on half title page. Small sticker damage on top of half title page. Previous owner's pen markings on page 202. Minor wear along the edges, tips, and along the spine. Minor rubbing wear to covers. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Name-On Stationery, Toronto, 1936
Seller: Schooner Books Ltd.(ABAC/ALAC), Halifax, NS, Canada
Condition: Vg. (unnumbered) Pp.Assorted of Illus. Christmas card samples tipped iin, numbered from 40 to 64 Order forms laid in Cloth spine with card covers with gilt title to front.
Published by [Germany], 1899
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. Wraps, "Papers 1899" handwritten in paper label on front cover; pp. [16], each with 2-10 tipped-on paper specimens, ranging in size from 4-by-7, to 9-by-14.5 cm. Total of 96 specimens, many of them numbered by hand. Wraps and text block heavily chipped and browned along the edges; some light rubbing and occasional water-damage to specimens, but overall still a good reference, sold as is.
Published by Society For Human Resource Management, 2003
ISBN 10: 1586440373ISBN 13: 9781586440374
Seller: Aragon Books Canada, OTTAWA, ON, Canada
Book
Condition: New.
Condition: very good. Kyoto, Sawada Shoten [190-?]. 23x16cm publisher's cloth (discoloured) with bone clasp; 100 silk samples in accordian folding heavy printed card mounts. With another defective sample book with 30 of 32 samples of dyed cottons. Finely grained, creped and patterned silks for kimonos. The name Sawada is still connected with kimonos in Kyoto but I can't trace any relationship. The current Sawada Shoten in Kyoto sells work clothes and was founded in 1968.
Published by Tokyo, n.d.
Seller: Michael Steinbach Rare Books, Wien, Austria
25,5 : 18 cm. 20 pages with many illustrations. Cololured illustrated boards Japanese style binding. The illustrations show flower arrangements, fans, animals etc. - A second volume was published later.
S.L., Gustav Altherr [c. 1935]. large slim oblong 8°. orig. gilt lettered cloth. (460x125mm). Firm-name Gustav Altherr printed in upper margin inside upper cover. Leporello (1270x 120mm) bearing tog. 50 original machine-made white embroidered samples of ladies' sashes for nightgowns, with gilt ornamented edges. An unusual trades-men's sample-book in unusual size. MINT copy.
Seller: Richard Neylon, St Marys, TAS, Australia
Condition: very good. n.p. 1930s. Oblong quarto (230x315mm) flexible linen album with some 220 lithograph labels plus some neck labels and vintage dates (ranging from 1915 to 1937) mounted on both sides of 31 leaves. Nothing removed and all in great shape. This is an album to be shown to clients rather than a scrap book. There are numbers of labels for specific wineries and appellations, numbers more are for generic varieties or, in some case, unlettered altogether. All are signed Litho Myncke or initialled LM or MF. The Mynckes seem to have made something of a specialty of wine - a rummage round the internet finds a couple of large posters for champagne - and this album shows they had a fair reach across western Europe - France, Belgium, into Germany and includes some Port labels in English. The styles also range around, from the classic and restrained (it's hard to beat a modicum of gold on glazed midnight blue) to vibrantly modern to garish kitsch.
Published by Folio, 42cm, Chromolithograph title + 62 leaves,Tipografia de la Vda. E Hijos de Paulino V. Sabatel, Calle de Mesones, Granada, c.1890., 1890
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ornate title-page with chromolithograph borders in silver, red and black; specimen leaves printed throughout (on the rectos only) in black, red and blue, presenting commercial work invoices, letterhead, etc) in an extravagant "artistic" manner. One leaf of script types pasted in at the rear. Lacking free front endpaper and presumably half-title. Maroon half morocco with pebbled boards, severely rubbed, marbled endpapers. Internally very good. A very interesting specimen book not, as far as I can determine, on COPAC or Worldcat. Furthermore, although the artistic style of printing may not be to everyone's taste, there is nothing provincial about its design or execution. In English the title just might read: 'Collection of samples as Models for Commerce in Industries, Companies, Banks, Transport Companies, Customs Agents, Notaries.'.
Published by 19
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
[papermaking sample book] Masaki UnryÅ«shi æ£æ é é¾ ç Inogami Kabushiki Kaisha ä¼ é ç æªå¼ ä¼ ç¤¾ [Shikoku] C. 1950's-60's 15 x 22.5cm oblong, ribbon-bound collection of Japanese paper samples from the Inogami Paper company, Inogami Kabushiki Kaisha ä¼ é ç æªå¼ ä¼ ç¤¾, on Shikoku Island. UnryÅ«shi é é¾ ç [Cloud Dragon Paper] is a wonderful translucent tissue of varying thicknesses creating patterns, such as squares, circles (e.g. suidama æ° ç , rain drops), lines and abstract florals, as well as pierced patterns. Each pattern has a name, category (e.g. chirashi ã ¡ã ã , leaflet) or number printed on it and some are backed with brown paper inserted between the folded sheets. Introduction in Japanese text. Approximately 100 samples are in this book, issued most probably in the late 1950's or 1960's. The Inogami Paper Company was established in June of 1948 and appears to still be producing art papers and other paper products today. Interesting to note that a recent CEO of the company also has the surname Masaki æ£æ . The printed cover is creased but the papers are clean and remarkable.
Published by n.d., n.p.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Collection of 26 designs, embroidered on parachute silk leaves with a jagged edge (155 x 170 mm), bound with two fasteners in heavy cardstock wraps (easily removed and rebound). Offers finely detailed monograms and logos in a rich variety of colors, average size about 55 x 80 mm, devoted to hats. Includes: Dobbs (New York -- many different designs for Dobbs), Knox (New York), Dunlap (New York), Disney (New York), Bullock's (Los Angeles), Crest, Mallory (New York), Bailey of Hollywood, Emerson (New York), Wilson (New York), Cort (Detroit), Pogue's (Cincinnati), Gordon, Schoble (Philadelphia and New York), Palco (Norwalk, Connecticut, and New York), Tilden (Detroit), Brent, Wexford Mabley & Carew (Cincinnati), Rogers Peet Company (New York and Boston), J. J. Martin (Brooklyn). Binding is shabby. Samples are lovely.
Publication Date: 1878
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., ABAA ILAB, Clark, NJ, U.S.A.
Salesman's Sample Book for a Popular Account of a Sensational Trial [Salesman's Sample Book]. Breckinridge, William C.P. [1837-1904], Defendant. The Celebrated Trial, Madeline Pollard vs. Breckinridge, The Most Noted Breach of Promise Suit in the History of Court Records. Containing a Graphic Story of the Sensational Incidents in the Joint Lives of the Now Famous Litigants, as Given in Their Own Words. The Two Stories Differ Widely as to the Material Facts in the Case, Testimony of the Kentucky School Girl Directly Contradicts the Story of the Silver-Tongued Orator and Statesman, Testimony of Prominent Witness From Various States Uncovering Startling Incidents in the Lives of Plaintiff and Defendant. The Surprising Disclosure and Dramatic Scenes that Filled the Court Room With a Throng of Excited Spectators Fully Described, the Most Sensational Testimony Ever Produced in Court. One of the Most Dramatic and Hotly Contested Legal Battles of Modern Times, An Array of Legal Talent Rarely Equaled in Court Annals in Point of Ability and Eloquence. Judge Bradley's Charge to the Jury. Speeches of Counsel and Decision of the Jury. To Which is Added a Complete Biography of Colonel Breckinridge and Miss Pollard, His College Days, War Record, Prominence in Congress. With Many Portraits and Illustrations. [N.p.]: [The American Printing and Binding Company, 1894]. Irregular pagination; pages appear to have been assembled to highlight salacious headlines and passages. 7 plates. Title page preceded by added pictorial title page (also the front cover for softbound copies). Octavo (8" x 5"). Original cloth, black-stamped title and decoration to front board. Moderate rubbing and dampspotting, spine ends and corners bumped. Light browning to text, preliminaries and a few other leaves detached and lightly edgeworn, three leaves lacking. An interesting piece of law book publishing and marketing history. $450. * This sample book was used to sell copies of a popular account of one of the most sensational trials of the day. Breckinridge was a notable Kentucky lawyer, statesman, editor and Civil War hero from a prominent political family. This suit, which coincided with his campaign for a sixth term in the U.S. Congress, was front-page news nationally for six weeks. Many were aroused to indignation. Suffragists opposed him with rallies and petiti.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 4to. Green cloth spine printed in lighter green, printed paper over boards. 32 stiff black paper pages with paper sample books to the front side. There are a total of 40 paper samples books as well as examples of stationery and envelopes. Reference chart of prices and selling agents in rfear pocket. Some pages partially detached else this is a very good copy with light wear to the edges and corners. .
Published by C.F. Beezley & Co, Chicago, 1902
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Sold only by subscription, Woman's Favorite Cook Book was promoted as "three books in one volume" with "over three thousand recipes and suggestions for the household," plus more than 50 original drawings, 26 full-page halftones, and 8 lithographic plates. This sample book includes sample portions of the complete volume and runs 140 pages, including samples of recipes, illustrations, and the index, as well as four leaves of lined paper bound in the rear following a promotional sheet with an agreement that the undersigned agree to accept and pay $2 for a copy of the book. The names of four women are written in pencil on the first lined page. "These specimen books were used by the itinerant agents of subscription publishers to entice customers to agree to purchase a copy of a work in advance of delivery. This form of marketing was common in America during the years just before and after the Civil War" (American Antiquarian Society). Research suggests that many of these book agents were women. As Natalie Marine-Street concluded in her dissertation "Agents Wanted: Sales, Gender, and the Making of Consumer Markets in America, 1830-1930" (2016), subscription selling in the gender-segmented and highly unequal nineteenth-century labor market "provided a rare venue that valued the labor of men and women equally. It kindled hopes for economic independence and offered a tool for salvaging a productive home-based family economy." Octavo. Original cloth binding, with dark green and red stamping, including a mockup of the spine on the rear panel. Internally crisp and clean. Some general soiling and wear, more so at the corners and tips.
Published by Paris:, 1890
Seller: Forest Books, ABA-ILAB, Grantham, LINCS, United Kingdom
Folio (380 x 280 mm), 40 leaves of thick card stock with 3 samples pasted on verso, an addition 3 samples to rear paste-down and a further 2 samples tipped-in ( 122 in total), 3 sample having been removed, each sample is numbered with choice of colour and weight added in Ms. orig. cloth, title in gilt on upper cover, a little stained and faded.
10. Collection of 14 sample books of cover papers by the New-York (later also London) Paper trading company Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, Paper Warehouses. Most albums oblong in-8°, 16 x 23,5 cm, have between 10 & 30 cover specimens and also a pricelist of Belgian representative Maurice Sacré. Date of publication must vary between 1900 and 1914. Most covers are beautifully printed with coloured embossed ornaments. Ruskin Covers - Ripple Finish (Strathmore Quality). Repoussé Onyx Bond. Brookdale Linen Bond in White and Sixteen Colors. Moorish Cover Papers. Wild Grass Box Covers (Strathmore Paper Company). Wild Grass Bond (Strathmore Paper Company). Wild Grass Covers (Strathmore). Cover Papers, Carnet N° 26,Janvier 1910. Crest Folding Board. Apollo (Plain & Duples) Tinted Art Boardest Folding Boards (1910). Polka-Dot .Buckeye Covers, Ripple Finish Cover Papers and Bristols. (Paper saples, trade catalogue of paper).
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.
Published by Hermann Sonntag, ca. 1905]., [Munich, Bavaria:, 1905
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Oblong 12mo. 6.25 x 3.75 in. [4 pp (unpaginated)], with 40 colour chromolithograph embossed postcards mounted on hinged thick card stock leaves, nearly all preserving their original tissue guards. Original red boards, gilt lettering on frontcover, marbled endpapers (minor edgewear, expertly rebacked), still a VG copy, with the cards all preserved in fine condition. First edition, thus, of this exceedingly scarce sample catalogue of 40 embossed chromolithograph postcards of coins, with each card showing the country's coinage, embossed and coloured in the correct metallic tint for bronze, silver, and gold, with the nation's flag in colour in the center, as well as a currency exchange table. Although seen occasionally in the market as individual cards, these scarce albums are quite unusual, and provide invaluable information for historians, economists, and researchers tracking the appearance, and relative values of coinage before World War I when most of the world operated on the gold standard. This work contains the representative coin cards for such countries as Argentina, Brazil, China (Kwang-tung [Guangdong] & Hu-Peh [Hubei] provinces), Ecuador, Egypt, Mexico, Persia, Siam (Thailand), two cards for Turkey, as well as the very desirable United States card with the 1902 Liberty Head $ 20.00 gold piece among those represented. These coin sample books were occasionally issued by the publisher's for salesmen promoting this very popular postcard series, and also assembled by collectors for themselves, or presentation such as the example offered for sale in 2005 and presented to President Calvin Coolidge. Hermann Sonntag was a large Bavarian printing house noted for its' chromolithograph and colour lithography on posters, postcards, box labels, magazines, and advertising. See: Brown, Embossed Coin Book Bibliography, In: The Asylum, Vol. II, No. 4, pp. 25-26; Homren, Coin Card Postcard Album Census, Vol. 17, No. 2, Article 29 (2014).
Published by Forget-Me-Not Greetings/American Greetings Corp., Ohio, 1953
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Otherwise very good condition. A large salesman's sample book of "Birthday and Everyday Line of Greeting Cards B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D to give you more sales and profits." Forget-Me-Not Greetings was a division of American Greetings Corp. from 1939-2000. American Greetings started in 1906 as Sapirstein Greeting Card Co. and was not renamed 'American' until 1939. American Greetings has had family in directorial roles since it began in 1906, and is the 2nd largest greeting card company behind Hallmark. Folio, 13 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 4", 102pp, with 3 to 8 card samples on every page. Colorful cards mounted on gray card stock bound in a thick red binder, cover detached. Cards in very good condition.
Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.