Duke Sons (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Trade paperback in fine condition.

PB. Condition: fine, wraps (softcover). B&W and color illustrations (illustrator). 290pp ISBN 0872432386.

Softcover. 8° ( 17,0 : 26,3 cm). Originalbroschur, das Leinen leicht fransig. Der Vorderdeckel quer beschriftet und illustriert. Der hintere Deckel mit einem ca. 8 cm langen Einriss, einer Knickispur und etwas angestaubt. 14 Blätter mit insgesamt 49 chromolithographischen Abbildungen darstellend den Gouverneur eines Staates mit Wappen und Flaggen. Innen sauber und ordentlich. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Nehmen Sie sich ein gutes Buch mit auf die Sommerwiese. Bei uns werden Sie fündig! -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! FL1299-313612.

18x26.5 cm. Album of 50 reproduced cigarette cards, fronts only. Stiff printed wrappers. 14 pages, including a title page. Bright color lithography throughout. Very good condition, with one small chip out of bottom of back cover, cloth binding strip peeling up on bottom half of front wrapper, front cover cracking at binding strip. Each card identifies a country and shows its head of state, flag and coat of arms. Most of the countries are European, but also included are China, Japan, Hawaii and several South American countries.

Original stiff wrappers, moderately worn, but generally very good condition with one chip out of the from back wrapper and two very small chips from front wrapper. 13 bright chromolithographic plates, each with 2 or 4 reproduced cigarette cards. The cards depict a state or territory's governor, its coat of arms, and a nautical flag. Opposite these plates are a small map and thumbnail text sketch of the state or territory. These would have been on the backs of the separate cigarette cards. A very rare cigarette album with the beautiful chromolithography of the period.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Five photographic tobacco cards of actresses. Each measuring 2½" x 4", versos blank. Very good with fading and modest general wear. The cards advertise W. Duke Sons & Co. Honest Long Cut smoking and chewing tobacco.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1888 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 56 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 56 Language: English.

Fine chromolithographs of well-known actors, actresses, and socialites in exotic costumes, including Sarah Bernhardt in an "Old Russian Costume." "To produce such a volume has naturally necessitated an enormous outlay; but the demand for our cigarettes has so increased, day by day, month by month, that we can best thank our patrons for their continued kindness by offering the present album" - Preface. An attractive example of chromolithography reaching its zenith as popular art. McGRATH, p.191. Twenty-two one-sided chromolithograph leaves. Oblong octavo. Cloth-backed color pictorial wrappers. Most of front wrapper lacking. Internally clean. Good.

Condition: Good. Cigarette Trading Card. # 17, Helen Sta[n]dish. Print of Sepiatone Photograph on card measuring 2.75 x 1.5 inches. Good with pinhole, card slightly bowed. First Edition.

Album of reproduced cigarette cards, lithographed by Knapp & Co. of New York. Good to very good condition, with back strip partially defective, small stains on front wrapper, and general light wear throughout. 10 pages of chromolithographs, versos blanks. Eight of the pages contain six cards each of boys (roughly 10-12 years old?) playing games or engaging in various forms of mischief. Several of these depict boys playing baseball. These pages have background images of boys at play. One of these depicts what appears to be a soccer game. The other two page each contain two larger chromolithgraphs of glamorous women, likely taken from other cards.

3 chromolithographic albums in 1, with a total of 22 bright, colorful pages. The spine has been patched up, and there is slight chipping at the foreedge of the front wrapper. Internally very good, with spots of adhesion damage and chipping to last leaf. All three albums appear to use reprintings of multiple cigarette cards on each card against decorative backgrounds. Included also are four full-page portraits of unidentified women . Lithography of the first two works is by Knapp & Co. of New York. The last, of musical instruments, was lithographed by Schumacher & Etlinger of New York.

W. DUKE SONS & CO. The Heroes of the Civil War. [Durham, NC]: W. Duke Sons & Co., [1888]. 1st ed. Oblong 8vo. [60]pp. double-columned. Illus., chromolithograph plates. Orig. cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. Rear wrapper tape-repaired, else very good or better. Brief biographical sketches of both Union and Confederate generals, each page with chromolithographic portraits. Each of the portraits were also issued as cigarette cards. The plates depict The Battle of the Merrimac and the Monitor, Grant and Lee, The Battle at Gettysburg, and The Battle of Manassas or Second Bull Run.