Fireworks, First Edition (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand New. Excellent Condition. Unread. Original Large-Format Red-White-Blue Illustrated 1950's Catalog Of The Amsterdam Fireworks Company Of Amsterdam, NY. Phone VI 2-7498. With 18 Pages Of Fireworks Information Covering Fireworks Permits, Insurance,Shipping,Firing Instructions,Etc. A Combination Ground And Aerial Display Described And Illustrated Is Only $100.00. View An Array Of Set Pieces Including The American Flag, Niagra Falls, Electric Flash Curtain, Rising Sun, Whistling Wheel, Merry Go Round, And Fountains. Plus A Descriptive List With Prices Of 31 Different 9-Inch And Larger Aerial Shells.Plus Descriptions And Illustrations Of $200.00, And $250.00.Displays. Also Descriptions Of All Aerial Assortments Ranging From $50.00, $75.00, $100.00, $150.00, $200.00. $300.00, $400.00, $500.000 And Up To $1,000.00. A 2-Page Spread Offers Over 25 Different Types Of Individual Set Pieces Described And Priced. Plus A Large Listing With Prices For Individual Special Effect 9, 12, 15. And 18-Inch Handmade Shells. A Rare Fireworks Catalog.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. A Quality Reprint Of The 1939 Hitt Flashcracka Company Price List. A Large-Format Professional Reprint Of The Original By Pyro Press Publications. Not A Xerox Copy. The Complete Line Of Hitt's Flashcrackers, Witches Flames, Rah-Zoom-Ah Rockets, 1,2,4,6,12 And 24 Pound Rockets, Dynamite Joke Bombs, Battle In The Clouds, Moonlight Silver Falls, Dog Flash Bombs, Flashlight Firecrackers Of All Sizes And Packages. With Descriptions, Prices And Illustrations.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Original 1962 Catalog Of The American Fireworks Manufacturing Company Of Connecticut Located In Fairfield, CT. Covers Commercial (Family) Mail-Order Fireworks (M-80's, Cherry Bombs, Cannon Crackers, Silver Tube Salutes, Globe Torpedoes, Firecrackers, Roman Candles, Base & Cone Fountains, Bottle Rockets, Aerial Fireworks, Sky Rockets), Display Fireworks (Aerial Shells & Ground Set Pieces And Complete Packages), Fireworks Building Supplies (Tubes & End Caps, Safety And Timing Fuse, Wooden Display Wheels, M-80 & Silver Tube salute Tubes & End Caps), Pyrotechnic Devices (Pull Wire Fuse Lighters, Professional Smoke Bombs, Penguin Flare Guns, Protective Masks). Original Large Format Catalog / Descriptions And Prices / Ordering Information / 14 Pages / Illustrations & Photo. Not A Reprint Or A Xerox Copy Of A Xerox. Excellent, Unread Condition.

Tall 8vo. 286 pp. Frontisp., numerous colour plates, black & white photo illustrations, text illustrations. Light blue cloth, gilt decoration front cover, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. F/F copy, from the library of William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership signature on ffep. First edition.

4to. 80 pp. Numerous colour photo illustrations, colour plates. Gray boards, w/ d.j. (price-clipped) NF/NF copy, from the library of William McDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership initials on half-title. First edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Arthur Getz Fireworks Cover Art; Robert Day, Dana Fradon, Saul Steinberg, James Stevenson, Chon Day, Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled wraps; 62 clean, unmarked page; iitems by/about: H.F. Elis (" A Walk in Massachusetts"); Peter Kane Dufault (Poem); Ida Treat ("So Tall a Lady"); W.W. Wa (Poem);; Thomas Witeside (Onward and Upwards with the Arts: The Selling Season: Pt II- The Massest Medium, Television); Malcolm Bradbury & Michael Orsler (Department of Amplification); Howard Nemerov (poem); Genet (letter from Paris); Talk of the Town; Cinema, Theater, Arts, Music, Book reviews, Etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. James Thurber Fireworks Cover Art; Alain, Syd Hoff, Perry Barlow, whitney darrow, Jr., Chas Addams, Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 52 clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Malcolm Cowley (Poem); Joel Sayre ("A Tonic for Dr. Mulquean"); Barbara Anne Fuller ("The Wee Barn on the Hill, Pt III--The Works") H.L. Mencken ("Days 0f Innocence, VII-Fire Alarm") Phyllis McGinley (poem); molllie Painter-Downes (Letter from London);walter Bernstein (Reporter at Large: Action in Georgia, Camp Upton); Edwin Seaver ("suffer Little Children") William Carlos Williams (Poem); Mrs. Randolph Carter of Warrenton, Virginia Camel Ad on Rear Cover;, Talk of the Town; Books, Art, Theater, Cinema, Food Reviews, Etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. July 4th Fireworks Covr Art; Jraus, Chon Day, Alan Dunn, Saul Stevenson, Etc (illustrator). 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 76 clean, unmarked pages; includes items by/about: Theodore Roethke (poem); Eudora Welty ("{Where is the Voice Coming From"); Howard Oss (poem); Maeve Brennan ("In and Out of Never-Never Land");gerald Jonas (poemm); H.F. Ellis ("Wild Music"); Noel Perrin (Department of Amplification; Maple Sugar in Vermont); Talk of the Town; Books, Art, Theater, Cinema, Food Reviews, Etc.

Tall 8vo. 280 pp. Colour frontisp., 7 colour plates, 32 photo & text illustrations. Purple cloth, gilt lettering on spine (slight bumping to couple corners, slight pulling to front hinge), w/ d.j. (minor chipping head & foot of spine, minor edgewear, creasing), still VG/G- copy, from the library of William MacDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this fascinating history of fireworks by one of the members of the famed family of fireworks manufacturers, whose firm was founded in 1720. They were best remembered for their free public displays known as Brock's Benefits developed in association with the Crystal Palace.

Tall 8vo. xvi, 381, [1] pp. Frontisp., 21 illustrations. Red cloth, gilt lettering (minor bumping head of spine, slight shelfwear), w/ d.j. (minor bumping head of spine, minor shelfwear), VG/VG copy, from the library of William MacDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership signature on ffep. First edition, stated, of the first comprehensive history of this subject in English, detailing what Partington believes to have been the nature of Greek Fire, and the early use of petroleum and its distillation. He traces the origins of gunpowder in China, and its subsequent impacts on Arab, and then Western Europe. Of particular interest is his substantial chapter on Chinese fireworks, rockets, and pyrotechnics.

8vo. 320 pp. Numerous tables, charts. Red cloth, black & gilt lettering on spine (slight shelfwear), still a NF copy, from the library of William MacDonald, Jr. (1921-2010), noted historian of Classical Roman architecture and art, w/ ownership signature on ffep. First edition of this rare and informative work of applied chemistry in producing armaments, explosives, military pyrotechnics, and the science of making fireworks. Ellern has detailed flame and glow producing chemical reactions, light production and flash charges, colour lights, smoke production, sound production, grouping pyrotechnics chemical products, and details specific materials. Of particular interest are the extensive references and researches produced from Russian pyrotechnicians and fireworks treatises.

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Clean soft pictorial covers. 1937 spring catalogue. Introduction for ordering; Various fireworks, Family lawn displays; National Buck Rogers fireworks and Daisy Air Rifles. Fireworks Catalogue ; Drawing iIllustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 40 pages.

Tall 8vo. 31, [1] pp., printed in red, white & blue. Numerous two-colour text illustrations in red & blue, self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, blue decorative borders (slight shelfwear), NF copy, date neatly written in ink on upper fore-edge front cover. First edition of this very rare original fireworks catalogue for the famed Iowa Company, which still operates their Flag Division, and is still one of the largest producers of flags in the country. This fantastic catalogue lists a wide variety of fireworks including roman candles, barrel snakes, skyrockets, cannon crackers, Chinese crackers, colored fires, wheels of all kinds, night fountains, torpedoes, sparkerlers, paper balloons, serpents, boa constrictors, toy pistols and more. In addition, the illustrations show the shells, the illustrated packaging, home assortments with children cheering on the pinwheels while holding sparklers, home and lawn displays which could light up the nigh, along with complete instructions for firing off the pyrotechnics. The huge displays detail the types of mortar shells, and flights of rockets, including the Eruptions Superb, Incandescent Corona, King Midas Fountains, Falling Leaves Shells, and even the American Legion Rockets. Founded in 1895, the company began as a large supplier of "Ship Shows" often fired off by the local fire departments of smaller communities around the country, and they were one of the last US manufacturers to list large display rockets for sale. No copies located in Worldcat (Hagley lists a 24 pp. 1935 catalogue; Iowa State lists a 32 pp. 1931 catalogue; Univ. of Virginia a 1927 catalogue).

London: Daniel O'Connor. 1922. Royal 8vo. Original orange cloth, blocked in red to the upper board with a design depicting a number of fireworks, pictorial dust jacket, pictorial endpapers; pp. xv, [i], 197, [1], illustrated with 6 coloured Japanese prints (produced in Japan) and 30 monochrome plates, including frontispiece, reproducing engravings and broadsheets, including 1 folding, errata slip present, tipped-in to p.1; a bright presentation copy, inscribed and flat-signed by the author on title-page.Very scarce first edition of Brock's first book, particularly difficult to find in the dust jacket and signed. The author 'apologizes' for this book in the introduction: 'My excuse for adding another volume to the literature of the art is that I am of the eighth generation of a family of pyrotechnists, whose work, I venture to claim, has not been without its effect. If I succeed in interesting, and in some degree enlightening, my readers, I shall feel I have not written in vain; if I fail, I shall know it is not in my choice of subject but in my capacity for dealing with it. Alan St. Hill BROCK. - Sutton, August, 1922'. Brock's business had been founded in Islington in 1698 by John Brock as the oldest British fireworks manufacturer. They are still trading, but not associated with the Brock family. Apart from the English Royals, among their clients were the Kings of Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Zululand, the Sultans of Morocco, Turkey and Zanzibar, the Shahs of Persia, Czars and Czarinas of Russia, Emperors and Empresses of Germany and Brazil.

London, W. Simpkin & R. Marshall, 1824. Small 8vo. Later solid fabrikoid cloth. Partly uncut. VIII,172 pp. and 2 folded woodengraved plates with 39 figs. (the first plate numb.:plate 1, the second unnumb.). A few leaves slightly brownspotted, a few annotations in old hand. First edition of a very popular book which ran through at least 3 English editions and 2 American editions. - Chrisp Philip. A Bibliography of Firework Books: M 190.1.