Album Ephemera (56 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Girodet 1767-1824 Louvre Exhibition Album (2005) Tarn Embossed, Ephemera Striking visual catalog from the landmark 2005 Louvre retrospective on Anne-Louis Girodet, French Romantic painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David. Written by curator Sylvain Bellenger, this French-language exhibition album offers a powerful visual and scholarly tribute to Girodet's dramatic, sensual, and often politically charged works. This particular copy comes embossed with the ex libris seal of poet-anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, and includes a folded article insert-likely hand-selected and saved by Tarn-adding a compelling personal touch to this museum-quality volume. Details: Title: Girodet: 1767-1824 - L'album de l'exposition Author: Sylvain Bellenger Publisher: Musée du Louvre / Éditions Gallimard Year: 2005 Language: French Binding: Oversized softcover, richly illustrated Pages: Approx. 80 ISBN: 9782070118250 Condition: Good+. Front and rear covers show light wear and a small corner crease. Interior clean. Includes Nathaniel Tarn's blind embossed bookplate and inserted newspaper clipping (likely related thematically or contextually). From the library of Nathaniel Tarn (embossed seal present) Tucked-in period ephemera Stunning full-color reproductions of Girodet''s art Published by the Louvre and Gallimard-both highly regarded.

Paperback small oblong quarto, very good condition, black & white & colour & sepia (brown-coloured) text-photos & drawings, bottom corner tip front cover little creased, minor edgewear. 128 pp. Compiled by Elizabeth Drury and Philippa Lewis, this book is a delightful, room-by-room journey through the minutiae (ephemera) of a Victorian-era home, from drawing room to servants hall, morning room to nursery. There are over 300 illustrations, 150 in colour. The items were selected from the remarkable Ephemera Collection of Amoret Tanner covering 60 or so categories, including related to furnishing, clothing, bric-a-brac, kitchen utensils, nursery, writing letters, hobbies, ice safe, sheet music, dining room table decoration, and many more.

Condition: Nuevo. Patrimonio ephemera tarjetas - cartes postales - album sr. d. juan montes hoyo editado por Mares de libros.

Condition: VG. Columbus 1962 first edition. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey vol 1, no. 5. 70p. VG, slight cover wear+. No ownership marks.

Illustrated. (illustrator). Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). 4to., red pictorial wraps; 96 pages First Edition. Signed by Shnitzspahn on the half- tile page. Signed.

Tapa blanda. Condition: Muy Bien. Ilustrado. 21 x 26 cm. 236 páginas.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. [photographs] (illustrator). First Edition. Hollywood: (West Coast Warner Club) and Oxford Press, 1947. Wraps, light blue textured paper with cutout exposing Warner Club seal on foil sheet. Quarto, 56 pp. Some wrinkling, particularly at corners; several holes for spiral binding torn through; small stain on back cover. Overall, better than Very Good, quite close to Near Fine. This 56-page softcover program/album from the 1947 tenth formal dinner-dance of the West Coast Warner Club contains messages from each Warner brother as well as C.L. Alleborn, Stephen Longstreet, James R. Webb and Peter Milne. Included also, of course, are B&W full-page photos of many of the top Warner Brothers stars of that time: Bruce Bennett, Humphrey Bogart, Jack Carson, Dane Clark, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Sidney Greenstreet, Robert Hutton - well, that takes it through the H's. Scarce piece of Hollywood history, a fragile one which never existed in large numbers. L201.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing, "Deluxe Fabrikoid Edition". 160 pp., profusely illustrated, oversize hardcover, no dj as issued. Fine copy. Laid in: Program for Third Annual Traction Engine Rally, 1964, plus color photo of 5100 Pacific steam engine.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 5 x 7 inch two-sided, two-color card promoting the new album Phantom Power by The Tragically Hip. The card is SIGNED by the late Gord Dowie with a blue ballpoint pen, presumably in 1998, when the album was released. Also included is a 2.5 x 5 inch voucher to claim a ticket to a concert by the band at Bill's Bar, Boston, Thursday August 13. The band played the bar August 10 through 13, 1998, and recordings of those concerts are readily available online. The card and the ticket are remarkably well-preserved and share the art from the album. The card is bright and crisp with sharp corners. The card and ticket voucher are unaffected by the sun. The corners of the voucher have softened. Phantom Power, the band's 6th album, was released by Sire Records 07.14.98, a month prior to the concerts in Boston, and songs include "Poets" and "Bobcaygeon". A 25th anniversary boxed set edition of the album was released in 2023. Please see our catalog Musicians - Signed which includes a book autographed by Robbie Robertson, Donald Fagen and Mitch Ryder. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 84 folio album bound in soft green morocco, gilt title to front cover, blank pages coloured pink, pale green, lemon, pale brown with watercolour-painting quality paper sheets interspersed. The book belonged to Miss Hilda King to whom it was presented on Feb 24th 1913 by her friends on the eve of her departure for Teheran where she worked as a governess/nurse. Already a published author of , children's stories (for the Family Herald, October 1911-a copy tipped-in) her identity is confirmed by her entry for a crochet competition which links her to the Indo European Telegraph Company, then a rival to the Anglo-Indian telegraph service and a surviving company from the infamous Reuter Concession of the 1880's, later to become Cable and Wireless. Many of the autograph messages are farewells and in Tehran she received tokens of affection from European families. Amongst these are three competent paintings of flowers by daughters of Gazala Bey, Jeanne, Isabelle and Victoria Gazala, dated 1914 who may appear in a copy of a photograph of Hilda and her charges. Gazala Bey Abd al Ahad Suleiman Dominique (1854 -1929) was a Catholic Ottoman Turk born in Baghdad who trained at the Faculty of Medicine in the Sorbonne and became Responsible Doctor for the Health Service at the Imperial Court of Persia, Medical Officer at the Turkish Embassy in Teheran, Health and Sanitary Inspector in the Capital of Libya, Member of the Constitutional Assembly in Iraq and Principal Deputy for the Province of Basrah. Other inscriptions by Leroy van Gertruyden, H.M. Abrahamian (writing in Armenian), S.C. Basil, Sateriq Abrahamian (writing in Persian). Usual paintings, portraits and numorous illustration stypical of the period. Hilda King left Tehran in April 1915 (?)-last entry dated 1920. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A clean album in very good condition. [Free Masons - Lodges Meetings - England] p230 / m7766.

Hard Cover. Folio album of photographs, newspaper clippings and ephemera relating to Mayor of Harrogate J. H. Newsome's life and specifically his year in office, as compiled by himself. With 57 original monochrome press photographs, mainly approximately 16 cm x 12 cm mounted two to a leaf, rectos only, some with printed captions; 36 items of ephemera including menus, programmes, invitations and official cards relating to events in Harrogate and district during the term of office and 26 newspaper clippings of varying size. A unique and detailed record of Mayor of Harrogate John Henry Newsome's year in Mayoral office from November 1933-34 together with other significant personal ephemera. An active member of the 1911 Starbeck Strike (which is depicted on a postcard photograph in the album), Newsome's election was controversial with a number of councillors abstaining from the vote in protest at the election of a socialist, which is referred to in some of the newspaper clippings in the album; Newsome was Harrogate's first socialist Mayor. The collection offers a fascinating glimpse into the social history and civic functions of a major provincial town during the inter-war period, and a comprehensive record of life in office. Of particular note to historians of the town are a photograph of the opening of the Harrogate Art Gallery in 1930 showing the Earl of Harewood making his speech, ephemera relating to the opening of the new Sun Colonnade in Valley Gardens in 1933 and the brochure for the Jubilee of the Incorporation of the Borough Thanksgiving Service; historians of the county will be interested in the official greetings cards from a number of other Yorkshire civic worthies. Full black morocco with gilt titles to spine and upper board. Also laid-in are 4 large photographs: one pair of matching images approximately 21 cm x 16 cm, mounted on card depicting respectively Mrs Newsome, and Mr & Mrs Newsome; image of the 1933 15th Anniversary of Armistice Celebrations approximately 37 cm x 28 cm; large image approximately 30 cm x 25 cm depicting six ladies in civic regalia with trophies. Additionally, a matching pair of studio portrait photographs mounted on stiff card approximately 25 cm x 28 cm, depicting the Mayor and the Mayoress with pencilled caption to reverse of each, housed in a brown envelope. Also included is a boxed solid silver armorial watch fob enamelled in red, white and blue, engraved to reverse " Coun. John Henry Newsome J.P. Mayor of Harrogate 1933-34". Album covers scuffed with wear to corners and front joint just starting; a little scattered light foxing to contents, mainly to mount leaves, and loose Armistice Celebration photograph nicked & creased to edge. Very good condition overall, including the watch fob. A unique record of the civil life of Harrogate during the inter-war years. Heavyweight so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.

Leather. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). A fascinating and unique collection of ephemera from the nineteenth century, with sketches, hand-written poetry and more. From the library of noted art historian, Patricia Milne Henderson. With a letter loosely inserted addressed to this album"s most recent owner, Patricia Milne-Henderson dated 02/11/62 from one of the Freemantles of Bayford House near Hertfordshire. The letter is an invite for lunch. Patricia Milne-Henderson is an esteemed art historican and collector. She had a large numismatic collection and works pertaining to woodcuts. This scrapbook contains at least two different hands. Several of the items loosely inserted have the name "Miss Shields" written to rear of them in a contemporary copperplate hand. The original owner of this album has copied out many hymns and devotional poems such as: "Dependence on God: Even as the needle, that directs the hour" "Abide With me! Feast Falls the Eventide" With hand written excerpts from Samuel Johnson"s "The Rambler", Thomas Campbell"s "The Pleasure of Hope". Drawings include: A hand-coloured blue butterfly, initialled "M H Amiens 1829" on the Whatman 1825 Paper Pencil drawings of British ships at sea pursued by a second ship bearing the Jolly Roger on brown cartridge paper. An oil pastel drawing of a gentleman in a suit of armour being tended to by two children who are assisting him dress on brown paper. Pastoral scenes, initialled M C H 1828 on Whatman Paper. Drawings of Loch Katrine dated 1850 and of Tweed which are undated. The drawings of Tweed are similar to that of a boat which is initialled "H M S" this may be the hand of "Miss Shields". An ink drawing of "Thurston Hall" dated 1826. A humorous caricature of an individual with the caption "I hope I don"t intrude". Uncommon poems include "Ode to the Violets" which begins "Hail! Beauteous daughter." and an "Address to the Comet of 1853". This poem describes one of the many comets in 1853 and begins "Mysterious Visitant! Thy light hath faded flown our skies". The contemporary morocco binding has "1826" to the date, although much of the contents dates from 1826 to 1860. The paper is watermarked 1825. There are also two silhouettes, one male one female loosely inserted with the white paper has been painted black. Other items loosely inserted include the printed eulogy of one Dr Gilly and Samuel Johnson loosely inserted and a print of "The Cross Leighton Buzzard" dated by hand 1852. A truly unique collection of ephemera from the nineteenth century. In a full morocco binding. Externally, rubbed to the spine and to the head and tail of spine. Rear hinge has failed. The front weak is tender and may detach unless carefully handled. Internally, the text block is firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with occasional scattered spots. Good. book.

Manuscript on paper. [115] leaves. Numerous press-cuttings and ephemeral articles pasted in. Recent half-calf, navy cloth boards, contrasting red morocco lettering-piece. A trifle rubbed. Very occasional light spotting. [Loosely inserted:] FAIRLESS, Joseph. A guide to the abbey church, &c., at hexham, northumberland. Hexham. Edward Pruddah, 1853. First edition. 16pp. Disbound. Adhesive residue to spine. A remarkably varied mid-nineteenth century album compiled by governor of Hexham Grammar School, churchwarden, and numismatist Joseph Fairless of Hexham (1789-1873), comprised of manuscript observations on the history and antiquities of Britain, Northumberland in particular, interspersed with a plethora of contemporary press-cuttings and ephemera. The majority of the newspaper clippings are extracted from English periodicals, the notable exception being a single leaf issue of the New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, 13 March, 1868) offering a reward of £1,000 for information leading to the apprehension and conviction of the accomplices of Henry James O'Farrell in the attempted murder of the Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh during his tour of Australia. A recently released patient of a local lunatic asylum, O'Farrell, the first person to attempt a political assassination in Australia, was ultimately hanged on 21st April, 1868. He has the of being the first person to attempt a political assassination in Australia. Size: Folio.

85 separately printed broadsides, flyers and hand-bills; one printed pamphlet (Speech of Mr Ellice, for a select committee of of enquiry on the state of the silk trade. [s.i., Coventry?]. [s.n., s.d., likely 1830]. 16pp); and several clippings from contemporary newspaper accounts. Contemporary marbled paper covered wrappers. Worn, with splitting to spine, loss to surfaces. In spite of the exterior, the album has preserved the contents rather well; apart from some occasional marking, browning and creasing, the printed material contained within is largely clean and fresh, pasted to the album leaves. A remarkable assembly of material relating to the election of members of Parliament for the two seats of the City of Coventry, on Saturday July 31st, during the 1830 general election, which had been triggered by the death of King George IV. In addition to the relatively official and perfunctory handbills and posters - including items promoting both the previous Whig MP, British merchant, Director of the Hudson's Bay Company and reforming politician Edward Ellice the Elder (1783-1863), and that of his Tory opponent Thomas Bilcliffe Fyler (1788-1838), which necessarily accompanied electioneering in this era, this volume also highlights the cut and thrust of campaigning. The majority of the ephemeral contents of this volume - many of which are unsurprisingly unrecorded in the usual databases - are either satirical or outright attacks on opponents. These include a mock wanted notice 'Wanted immediately.two Candidates For the next Election.Political Sentiments, or Moral Character, of no consequence', elaborate squibs including numerous 'Chronicles of the Indigoes', and 'Chronicles of the Yellows' - many relating to the significant local silk trade - songsters (To tunes including' Merrily 'O ' and 'The Boyne Water'), and verses. The proliferation of election material represented by this album is all the more remarkable given that the election of both Whig and Tory was, for the majority of the campaign, looking likely to occur without contest. Bruised by the 1826 general election campaign (when the chagrin of the city's weaving industry over import costs industry led to an immensely costly and violent campaign, and the ejection of the sitting Whig, Edward Ellice), and economically buffeted by the 1827 Elections Expenses Act ban on the use of ribbons, a compromise was tentatively agreed to allow for representation of both Whig and Tory factions. Much of the campaign's white heat was thus focused on securing the election of one candidate of either faction, and excluding any 'Third candidate'. Whilst a third candidate did eventually appear, in the shape of the political radical Richard Spooner of Birmingham, this was not until the very eve of the poll. His part in the election is therefore represented by a single piece in this album, apologising for failing to make 'the necessary arrangements for a Contested Election', but begging to assure that he would 'not be found wanting' in representing his prospective constituents in Parliament. Rather charmingly, pasted to the final leaf of the album is a short printed flyer featuring the 'Final state of the Poll'; perhaps unsurprisingly, Spooner received just four votes, meaning that both Ellice and Flyer were elected to the two member constituency. A full list of the contents oft his volume, the vast majority of which was printed in Coventry and unrecorded in either COPAC or OCLC, is available on request. Size: Folio.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Folio measuring 11.5" x 10". 68pp. Contemporary black binder with ephemera from the 1850s-1950s. Tiny tears and chips thus near fine with fine photographs. A scrapbook detailing the Stanger and Russell family tree from Gloucester County New Jersey written by Nina Russell Knight in the 1950s. Contains 105 silver gelatin photographs in black and white or color photographs measuring between 6" x 3.75" to 3.5" x 3.5", as well as various ephemera such as news articles, genealogy trees, and invitations. The scrapbook was created by Nina Russell Knight with photographs and ephemera from the 1850s through the 1950s detailing her family lineage from Gloucester County, New Jersey. On the front page a small embroidery design by Emily Stanger is featured with her sister Harriet's calligraphy. Harriet and her sister were born in 1825 and several pictures feature them and their parents. There is a small genealogy tree laid in for the Stanger family going on to the fifth generation however, it ends at the second generation for Harriet's family. A small article is laid in about Solomon H. Stanger who in 1779 purchased 200 acres of land in Gloucester County and started glass making in the town that is now known as Glassboro. Though the connection is not written in the scrapbook, Solomon H. Stanger is the uncle of Harriet and Susie Stanger who also grew up in Gloucester County. Other paper ephemera include invitations to baby showers and academic awards for various children from the family. Many of the photographs feature different family members by generation. Most of the photographs also include the negatives. One color picture shows a 100 year old wooden cradle handmade by Jacob Stanger with a small blonde doll sitting inside. Another picture features Harriet Stanger at 81 years old with a warm smile unusual to that time frame. There are quite a few pictures on Nina Knight's parents and her home which was built by her father. Several photos show the extended family of Nina and her sister Susie, their parents, cousin's, and children. Nina was born in 1888 in New Jersey. She set up her family's 15th annual reunion in 1959 and was in charge of the historical notes and pictures for the family tree. Nina was married to Aaron Knight but did not have any children. Nina passed away in 1961 after finishing what she could of her family's scrapbook and was buried in Tansboro, New Jersey. An interesting look on the extensive family tree created by a young woman for her extended family living in New Jersey from 1850-1950.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FINE LARGE DECORATIVE VELLUM BINDING. Folio. (14.8 x 12.8 inches.). A collection of 211 items of late 19th and early 20th century cards and ephemera including 26 rare, 3-D, movable, lift-up, Valentines and Christmas cards, each mounted onto a white stiff card page and with multiple pieces of ephemera attached around the page. Attractive late nineteenth century binding of full white vellum. Spine with decorative gilt designs within double gilt ruled lines in compartments. Boards with triple gilt ruled borders to the very edges and elaborate dark brown morocco panels with highly decorative gilt tooling. A thin blue ink line inside and out of the brown panels. Four gilt corner pieces inside the middle panel. Red painted initials, with gilt borders, to the centre of the front panel. Board edges and turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls. Green and white patterned endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner hinges reinforced with buff cloth strip. A little marking and a couple of small splits to the binding but overall a fine and attractive vellum binding housing an interesting collection of rare, unusual and highly decorative items.

Thick folio. 14.75 x 12 x 3.5 in. [166 pp (unpaginated).], most original folio sized beige paper, other smaller mylar sleeves with photos & clippings inserted, many pages with significant manuscript in ink. With 230 total photographs tipped-in, some in corners, some inserted into archival sleeves, occasional old scotch tape mountings (over 30 in colour), sized from 2.5 x 3.5 in. up to 8 x 10 in., and even 6 x 14 in., most with pencil, ink, typed, or printed captions beside, in the lower margins, or amongst the 200+ clippings mounted and tipped-in to the sheets (many large folding), two original dealer's catalogues for the Sabreliner aircraft, including dealer literature, and business cards. Original padded post-binder, embossed & raised decorations in gilt & silver on front cover, typed title label taped to upper fore-edge (some scuffing, edgewear, chipping & tears to some leaves, toning to newspaper clippings, offsetting and ghosting from tape, some photos w/ minor tears, occasional offsetting from clippings) still an excellent exemplar. This impressive and well-documented photo album/scrapbook filled with 230 photographs provide an incomparable visual and textual record for the aviation company, Remmert-Werner, Inc. from World War II to the 1960s. Remmert (1913-1989) was a high school dropout working at the Curtiss-Wright hangar at Lambert Field in St. Louis where his father worked as a Watchmen in the 1930s. He quickly rose in the company, becoming the Curtiss-Wright Company Tech Rep in China during the opening years of World War II, and in 1943 became a Naval Officer, inspecting material production for aircraft until 1945. As shown in the photographs, and explained through clippings, and manuscript notes in Remmert's bold hand, Remmert-Werner Air Service was founded at Lambert Field following World War II, selling Beechcraft and Cessna Aircraft, and buying up war surplus airplanes for conversion. The images depict the Air Ambulance charter service with a fleet of three Beechcraft airplanes from 1945-1946, as well as the Air Service establishing themselves as dealers for Motorola, Piper, Swift, and Fairchild Aircraft, founding a Flight Training School, and contracting with Texaco to sell aviation fuel at the field. The images also portray Remmert-Werner quickly buying up a couple surplus PT-19 biplane trainers, when their flight school expanded to Starling Airport by 1947. They would later begin selling and leasing Beechcraft, Lodestar, and eventually the Sabreliner corporate jets. The photographs also display their twin engine Beech D18S aircraft setting in front of the Remmert-Werner hangar with Texaco signage and Texaco oil truck, the Cessna 140 winner of the Miami Air Races, Motorola Radio J3 Cub aircraft, their Vultee BT-13 Valiant trainer aircraft, and even a Convair B-36 Peacemaker, which was the largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft ever built on display at an Army air show on Lambert field with the Remmert-Werner hangars in the background. Remmert-Werner quickly moved into converting aircraft for corporate clients in 1946, and over the next two decades would convert over 200 aircraft, service 1000s of planes, and became famous for their luxurious flying penthouses for corporate and wealthy clients. Not only are their images showing the clients visiting the Remmert-Werner hangars and airfields, with clippings specifying and promoting their clients, but also many images of the company dog named Myrtle setting on discarded parts, or nosing her way into photos. Remmert & Werner began their career by converting a surplus C-47A to the DC-3 "Prairie Wings" by enlarging the windows, installing luxurious seats, galley operations, and upon completion took the whole company to the Indianapolis Air Races in 1948, which were the first following World War II. They also converted and maintained the corporate fleet for the Gaylord Container Corporation, by buying up a number of surplus B-25 aircraft, and turning them into.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. 12" x 9.75". Full leather 14-ring binder, stamped in gilt. 24 mylar sleeved leaves with 34 photographs (14 in color, the rest black and white) and 23 items of ephemera inserted on both sides. An additional 3 color photos, and five duplicates of one of the 8"x10" photos laid in. 16 of the photos (all black and white) measure 8" x 10", the rest around 3.25" x 5". Album near fine with bottom corner of joints just starting to crack; contents generally fine. Crown Estates was meant to be a subdivision in Rialto, California offering homes, "of top quality . . . completely equipped and engineered to make day-by-day living less tedious." Its builder, Ron Epstein, planned the site near the intersection of Meridian Avenue and 6th Street. Although a newspaper puff piece implied the building of 40 homes, we're not sure Epstein was able to accomplish anything more than a couple of models. The album offered here documents his marketing efforts. Epstein took out full-page newspaper ads in August, 1959 and also conducted a promotion where the crowns used by the Miss Universe, Miss U.S.A., and Miss America pageants respectively were displayed in the sales office which also served as the model home. Several examples of the print advertising as well as images of the crowns and models are included. Other photos include interior and exterior shots of model homes. The staged internal shots show couples enjoying dinner and a child sitting in the living room with her father. There are three photos of artist renderings of homes along with floor plans. The marketing made a big deal of "The ManorVac", a built-in vacuum cleaner, and several of the larger photos feature a model amazed at the modern wonder of a cleaning machine attached to her home. Ephemera consists mostly of newspaper advertisements but also includes four copies of a double sided company flier and four copies of a brochure. An interesting look at an imaginitive real estate promotion in California at the end of the 1950s, which seems to rely laregely on the ease of vacuuming!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Album[11.75"x10"] belonged to the Thomas Jr. family c1978. Photographic Image.

Guides, leaflets, photographs, letters, pamphlets, maps, stamp albums etc.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small collection of Pacific ephemera pertaining to tourism in the Pacific, mostly American.

rigide. Condition: Assez bon. Album in-folio oblong (41 x 63 cm) pleine toile grise d'époque, armes d'Angleterre peintes sur le premier plat, médaille incrustée en bas du premier plat ("Victoria Regina et Imperatrix" à l'avers, "In Commemoration Victoria 1837-1897" au revers), Jubilé de la Reine Victoria. 22 juin 1897. Album unique composé de documents collectés par Ernesta Stern dont : Plan de l'itinéraire de la procession ; 6 photographies par Downey, photographe de la Reine ; Portrait de la reine par Nicholson (gravure sur bois en couleurs) ; 3 invitations diverses ; Programme du Royal Opera Covent Garden du 23 juin 1897, sur soie à galons d'argent ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne") ; 5 ephemera dont invitation de Lord Chamberlain à l'Afternoon Party du 28 juin 1897 à Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") - Jubilee of Queen Victoria. June 22, 1897. Unique album composed of documents collected by Ernesta Stern including: Map of the route of the procession; 6 photographs by Downey, photographer to the Queen; Portrait of the Queen by Nicholson (colour woodcut); 3 various invitations; Program of the Royal Opera Covent Garden of June 23, 1897, on silk with silver braid ("To commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majest's Accession to the Throne"); 5 ephemera including Lord Chamberlain's invitation to the Afternoon Party of 28 June 1897 at Buckingham Palace ("The Lord Chamberlain is commanded bu The Queen to invite Monsieur & Madame Stern & Mademoiselle Stern to an afternoon Party on Monday, the 28th of June, from 5 to 7 o'Clock. Buckingham Palace") Impressionnant album souvenir unique du Jubilé de la Reine Victoria, composé par Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", écrivain fameuse pour son salon du Faubourg Saint-Honoré où elle accueillit notamment Marinetti ou Marcel Proust. Née Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, elle épousa le banquier Louis Stern. Etat très satisfaisant (frottements et rousseurs, plusieurs feuillets débrochés). Impressive unique souvenir album of Queen Victoria's Jubilee, composed by Ernesta Stern (1854-1926) alias "Maria Star", famous writer for her salon in Faubourg Saint-Honoré where she notably welcomed Marinetti or Marcel Proust. Born Maria Ernesta Hierschel de Minerbi, she married the banker Louis Stern (binding rubbed, some foxing, several unstitched leaves). Langue: Français.

Photograph Album. Condition: Very good. Album. 10" x 8". Black cloth covered boards with leather corners and spine. Marbled end papers on the front and rear paste downs. Missing the marbled flyleaves. Restored. The leather spine is new. The front and rear hinges were repaired. The first 42 leaves were used for pasted down photographs, cards, plant specimens and ephemera. [15] blank leaves in back. No names associated with this Album. Photographs and ephemera are for the majority in very good condition. No names found inside this album. The majority of material is about the Swiss Alps. Some post cards are from England. Most likely pre World War I album.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Oblong 4to (27.5cm x 36cm) In a smart, well made photo album with patterned leather textured dark red boards with black woven string ties. Stamped Daimaru, a leading Japanese department store at the time, to inner rear board. The album starts with ephemera from the voyage over, including an information for passengers pamphlet, the New Year's Day menu for Friday, January 1st, 1937, and route map and continues with pictures and text from what would have been a tourist guide for the passengers, with reproductions of ukiyo-e prints, and colour photos of Japanese traditional activities with text. The album continues with tickets, shows and labels collected in Japan. The compiler appears to be a Leslie Llewellyn, with a press cutting from the Bideford and North Devon Weekly Gazette dated December 29, 1937 authored by him outlining details of a trip he had made over the course of six months to Japan. A fun, well put together collection of Japanese and Japan related ephemera. In a curious footnote, the ship's captain, Captain B Matsukura, was later shipwrecked when his liner Terukuni Maru struck a mine off Harwich on November 21st 1939. A little wear here and there to the album, but contents clean and bright, overall a very well kept item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 172 x 120mm; pp. [8, index], [129 numbered leaves, filled] rear endpapers used. A revealing volume of newspaper cuttings, mainly from 1906 8, put together by Edward G. Spencer-Churchill, Winston's cousin and an aspiring politician himself. At this early point there are close parallels between the two men's careers. Spencer-Churchill was studying all the major 1906 General Election issues, which were also Winston's concerns at the time - Chinese labour in the colonies, and education reform at home. Some of the clippings are of Spencer-Churchill's own published letters to newspapers, but he also records the activities of his more famous cousin, at one point noting in manuscript 'Winston in H of C' alongside a clipping. There is some pencil highlighting to the clippings, and the volume ends with a series of typed and manuscript pages concerning tariffs and investments - including a signed letter from an employee of the Tariff Commission. Tariff reform was the major issue within the Conservative Party in the period leading up to the 1906 General Election. Good condition: binding a little shaken; cover with partially removed label.

(8 x 9 3/4 inches). Approx. 24 pages of newspaper clippings, 1 folding, pasted into album. 2 loose photographs and a program card. A scrapbook album chronicling the founding, trials, and successes of a motorcycle club in the early years of the sport. This scrapbook shows the evolution of the Kent Motor Club, formed in the county of Kent, England, from its initial beginnings around 1924 and the trials and championships it participated in up to 1927. The articles include details about the club's opening runs and trials including the names of organizers, competitors, and locations. Two of the clippings are letters to the editor which discuss a rivalry between the Kent Motor Club and the Ashford Motor Club, which was founded in 1922. Each newspaper clipping has a hand-written caption underneath with the name of the newspaper and the date of the article. According to one of the newspaper articles, the Kent Motor Club was founded in December of 1925 with a membership of 72 riders. The founding board included the president, Sir Charles Wakefield; the chairman, F. Hayward; the captain F. E. Mockford; vice-captain S. F. Finch; honorary secretary C. F. Stokes; honorary treasurer W. Oliver; honorary trial secretary H. L. Gibbs; honorary assistant trial and publicity secretary L. Hildyard; and several others. Sir Charles Wakefield was an entrepreneur who patented the automatic lubricator for steam engines and, in 1899, founded the Wakefield Oil Company, which came to be known as Castrol, after the ingredient of castor oil used in their lubricant. Castrol was used in the engines of motor cars, airplanes, and motorcycles and today remains a prominent British oil company. Wakefield was also the mayor of London from 1915-1916 and was further known for his philanthrophy, which the Kent Motor Club may have been a recipient of. One article describes the Club's first annual dinner, whose guests included vice president R.C. Rootes, likely the motoring pioneer Reginald Claud Rootes (co-founder of the British car company, Rootes Group), and speaker F. E. Mockford, a well-known figure in the motorcycling world at the time. In 1926, Mockford and his business partner, Cecil Smith, formed a company called London Motor Sports Ltd. and in 1927, they brought motorcycle racing to one of motorsport's oldest venues, the Crystal Palace circuit in south London. The sport proved to be quite popular with the spectating public, who came to the stadium in the tens of thousands to watch competitors on bikes with no brakes fling their way around the track's sharp corners at breakneck speeds. Overall, the album paints a lively picture of the exciting early years of motorcycle speedway racing in Kent, a county home to several motor pioneers.