Calling Card, First Edition (18 results)

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. An original card sent by The Book Club of California in Dec. 2013 announcing an exhibit and talk. Printed in letter press with a letter explaining the printing. 5 X 7 inches, two sided, printed in red and black. Fine. together with the letter.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Calling or trade card. Measuring approximately 3¼" 2¼", printed recto only. Recto soiled and blank verso with evidence of removal from an album, very good.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A photograph taken in the atelier of the "Atelier Germania" STETTIN photography studio, showing a young man leaning on a chair. The man is dressed in a dark suit, with a photographic canvas as background. Medium photograph over photographic paper on paperboard Dimensions height: 12 cm (4.7 in); width: 5.5 cm (2.1 in).

Paperback. Condition: Good+. First Edition. date is an estimate. card states "Mr Walter Scott" is in Gothic script and handwritten "Easter Greetings" . Which walter scott it is I don't know. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 78 pp, in original pictorial cloth, with illustrated page borders throughout, top edge gilt. A very good copy with light rubbing to boards, mild spine slant, small bump to lower edge of front board, small contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper. No dust jacket. Laid in is a calling card (c. 2 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.) with "Mrs. Lorin F. Deland, 35 Newbury Street" printed on the front, hand-signed on the back "Margaret Deland, Feb. 21st 1909 - Boston.".

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Calling Card Written and Signed by Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle. Dated 1895. A Naworth Castle Card from Rosalind Carlisle to a Mr Smithson confirming he and his son can do a days fishing at the Castle Howard lake. Rosalind Frances Howard, Countess of Carlisle 1845-1921, known as The Radical Countess, was a promoter of women's political rights and temperance movement activist. Size is 155mm x 90mm. Condition is average, Edge rubbing and age toning. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17700. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Large magazine format softcover, good with some handling wear and creasing. Illustrated.

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Signed Vice President calling card by the future 37th President of the United States 'Richard Nixon'. Undated but will be 1956. Richard Milhous Nixon 1913 - 1994 was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. Nixon's second term ended early when he became the only U.S. president to resign from office, as a result of the Watergate scandal. Size is 98mm x 57mm. Condition is good. From the collection of autograph collector Peter Bland. Ref 19234. Signed by Author(s).

Paper. Condition: Good. First Edition. An Original Calling Card Written and Signed by French Composer Émile Paladilhe. Undated, A business calling card inscribed by the musician. Émile Paladilhe 1844-1926 was a French composer of the late romantic period. Size is 95mm x 60mm. Condition is good. Small hole to top corner. More images can be taken upon request. Ref17768. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Preface by P. M. Bardi. Quarto. 277pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white, and with a facsimile of a 1930 pamphlet titled "Exposic?a?o de uma casa modernista por Gregori Warchavchik" tipped-in, as issued. Majority of the text is in Portuguese; a few facsimiles of letters are in different languages, mostly French; and an overview of Warchavchik's introduction of Modernist architecture to Brazil is printed in both French and English. Binding cocked, boards with some edgewear including a few nicks and one corner worn through, binding with some tanning and soil, very good and sound, lacking the presumed dust jacket. Inscribed by Ferraz to a longtime U.S. foreign service worker on the title page. Publisher's complimentary copy with a slip, which appears to be Signed by director P. M. Bardi laid in, as well as one of Warchavchik's calling cards, with his name only printed on coated card stock. Warchavchik was an important Jewish-Brazilian Modernist architect. The author (also known as Benedito Geraldo Ferraz Gonçalves) was a Brazilian Modernist author, journalist and literary critic. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1956, First Editions, Four Volumes. Sangorski and Sutcliffe red half morocco leather bindings, gilt titles to triple green labels, and gilt lined compartments to the spines. Spines faded and toned differently to the four volumes. Stamped 'Bound by Sangorki & Sutcliffe, London' to the reverse of the front free end paper of Volume III only. A facsimile note has been glued to the front paste down, obviously removed from another book or volume with the remains of sellotape to the four corners of the note which isn't matched (sellotape) to the marbled paper. It comes with a calling or business card for Mr John S Churchill, 36 Adam and Eve Mews, London W8, initialled to the reverse 'with love from us both J & K.' inside a protective sleeve, loosely inserted into the front. "JOHN SPENCER CHURCHILL was [Winston Churchill's nephew,] an artist and sculptor, painter of murals, portraits and frescoes, a bon viveur, and a celebrated figure in Chelsea in the 1950s. But above all he was a Churchill, who lived not only under the daunting influence of his father, but also of his Uncle Winston. In 1955, when he was living at Adam and Eve Mews, he went out to complain about the noise being made by his neighbour's servants and found himself arrested." (Independant - 1992). First Printings of all four books in this four volume set with "First Published" to the reverse of each title page with no further impression noted, maps and genealogical tables. "Churchill s last great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars. In its final form the original single volume evolved to four, each of which was published simultaneously in Britain, the USA and Canada a first for Churchill s works" Pagination: Vol. I xxi, [i], 416pp including the index. Vol. II xi, [i], 344pp including the index. Vol. III xi, [i], 332pp including the index. Vol. IV xi, [i], 322pp including the index. Provenance: no bookplates or inscriptions other than the signed letter and card. Approximately 9 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles to triple green labels, raised bands with gilt lined compartments, spines faded and toned differently to the four volumes. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition gently rubbed and worn. Boards good condition half red leather with cloth boards. Page edges good condition all edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition marbled, facsimile signed note to the front of Vol I, JS Churchill calling card loosely inserted. End papers very good condition marbled paper. Title good condition lightly tanned with minor foxing in all volumes. Pages good condition with maps and genealogical tables in every volume, some foxing to the early pages, the majority clean and bright. Binding good condition. See photos.

Unknown. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Numerous photographs. Secure packaging for safe delivery. signed by author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Oblond 16mo. Signed by Author(s).

Calling card format. ½ page. To an admirer about an alleged first edition of his volume of poems "La Chanson des Heures", published by Gervais Charpentier in April or May 1875, suggesting he contact the editor for the exact date: "La chanson des Heures a paru, pour la première fois, dans la bibliothèque Charpentier, en 1875 (avril au mai, mais le renseignement exact vous sera donné chez l'Editeur [.]". - An edition of "La Chanson des Heures" prior to 1878 could not be traced, nor does the full title of the 1878 edition ["La Chanson des heures, poésies nouvelles (1874-1878)"] suggests a prior edition. However, extracts of the work might have been published as early as 1875. - Traces of former mounting; somewhat fingerstained.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. March 21, 1924.". Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good+. New Cumberland, PA: Midget Card Shop, n.d., ca. 1920s. Small octavo (15.5cm); publisher's brown staplebound embossed card wrappers; [10]ll. stiff brown stock interleaved with tissue guards; thirty-one (31) mounted card samples. Light wear and very brief soil to upper cover, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Rare little trade catalog of business cards and playing cards from the expanding Pennsylvania-based card company. Sample cards show different styles of "engravotyped" business cards, fraternal organization membership cards, and "comic cards" whose samples include a business card with a skull and crossbones and a devil card ("I am James W. Black who the [devil] are you?" The catalog concludes with samples of the company's specialty, "midget" name and playing cards and brownie name cards. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of October, 2025.

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Autograph; 1 pages; A typed letter SIGNED by John J. Pershing on printed letterhead reading "General of the Armies / Washington" The letter is dated March 25, 1926 and is addressed to "The Honorable / Peter Augustus Jay, / American Ambassador, / Buenos Aires, Argentina" The text reads: "My dear Mr. Ambassador: // This note will be presented to / you by Mrs. F.J. Perry, a very good friend / of mine who is making a trip along the east / coast of South America. She is an Army / woman who rendered very distinguished / services during the World War and I shall / appreciate any courtesies which you or the / Military Attache may find it convenient to / extend to her. // With very warm regards, believe me / Yours sincerely, [signed] John J. Pershing" Included is the printed calling card of Mrs. Frederick Lewis Perry with the penciled note "Savoy Hotel" , card bears a mark from old paperclip. General John J. Pershing had a long association with Mrs. Frederick Lewis Perry; in fact, his brother Ward B. Pershing was best man at the wedding of Mary Hooper Jouett and Lt. Frederick Lewis Perry in 1901. At the time of this letter, Peter A. Jay was U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. It is interesting to delve into the history related to the three individuals principal to this piece of correspondance. MRS. FREDERICK LEWIS PERRY -- Mary Hooper Jouett Perry (1868-1945) was the daughter of Major William Burchett Hooper of the Occidental Hotel in San Francisco. Major Hooper ventured to California in the first years of the gold rush. Rather than cast his lot with the miners, he embarked in the mercantile business on an extended scale. Through his management, the Occidental Hotel acquired a wide fame and became the recognized hostelry for naval and military officers and ecclesiastical and fraternal leaders. Nearly three years after his death, the hotel was severely damaged in the 1906 earthquake and had to be torn down. In September 1901 Mary Hooper Jouett married Lt. Frederick Lewis Perry of the Artillery Corps, U.S.A. at the Occidental Hotel. Lt. Ward Beecher Pershing (4th Cavalry, U.S.A., brother of General John J. Pershing) was Perry's best man. [Ward Pershing (1874-1909) died of illness contracted during his service in the Philippines War.] Lt. Perry, as aide to General Hale in the First Colorado Infantry, was slightly wounded in the Philippines. Perry was soon promoted to Captain, and they spent years at various postings from Virginia to the San Francisco Bay Area. Mary had two sons, William Hooper Jouett and John Hamilton Jouett; both served in the military. Recruited by Chiang Kai-shek, retired Major John H. Jouett lead 17 American instructor pilots, who were hired to turn the Chinese Aviation School into a replica of the United States' Randolph Field. They spent two years in the war-torn nation completing the training of 335 Chinese cadets using an American system similar to the one used at Randolph Field in Texas. PETER AUGUSTUS JAY -- Peter Augustus Jay (1877 1933) was an American diplomat born in 1877 at Newport, Rhode Island, into the esteemed Jay family that traces its direct lineage to John Jay, Founding Father and first Chief Justice of the United States. In 1902, he began his professional diplomatic career at the American embassy in Paris followed by service in Constantinople. Jay became Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo in 1908, where he served until the end of 1909 when President William Howard Taft appointed him Consul General to Egypt in Cairo (1910 - 1913). In 1920, President Woodrow Wilson appointed Jay as U.S. Minister to El Salvador; soon after President Warren G. Harding, made him U.S. Minister to Romania (1921-1925), where he assisted in negotiating that country's repayment terms of $42 million for wartime and post World War I development loans. In 1925, President Calvin Coolidge appointed him U.S. Ambassador to Argentina. This was his last foreign service job, as he resigned his post and returned to Washington, D.C in December 1926, following the death of his young daughter Emily. GENERAL JOHN JOSEPH PERSHING, GCB (1860 1948) was a senior American United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during World War I from 1917 to 1920. In addition to leading the AEF to victory in World War I, Pershing notably served as a mentor to many in the generation of generals who led the United States Army during World War II, including George C. Marshall, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, Lesley J. McNair, George S. Patton, and Douglas MacArthur. Pershing reported for active duty in 1887, and was assigned to Troop L of the 6th U.S. Cavalry in the New Mexico Territory. Between 1887 and 1890, he served at various postings in New Mexico, Arizona, and South Dakota. Pershing participated in several Indian campaigns and was cited for bravery for actions against the Apache. In 1895 Pershing, as a first lieutenant, took command of a troop of the 10th Cavalry Regiment, one of the original Buffalo Soldier regiments composed of African-American soldiers led by white officers. In the SpanishAmerican War, he and his 10th Cavalry troop fought on Kettle and San Juan Hills in Cuba, and he was cited for gallantry. Theodore Roosevelt, who also participated in those battles, said that "Captain Pershing is the coolest man under fire I ever saw in my life." When the PhilippineAmerican War began, Pershing reported to Manila and was assigned to the Department of Mindanao and Jolo, He commanded efforts to suppress the Filipino Insurrection. He was cited for bravery for actions on the Cagayan River while attempting to destroy a Philippine stronghold at Macajambo. Pershing served as an observer in the Russo-Japanese War attached to General Kuroki Tamemoto's Japanese First Army in Manchuria. When Pershing returned to the United States in the fall of 1905, President Roosevelt exercised his presidential prerogative and, with Congressional approval, promoted him to br.

Condition: Good. VG/good dj has edge wear in protective cover. Published Doubleday, 1974 First American Edition, signed card inserted.