Candy Box, First Edition (9 results)

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. H.E. Dey (illustrator). 1st. double page engraving showing a young man "Come courting" with a small box of candy, and entering a veranda full of ladies who are smirking or frowning. very nice, and suitable for framng [2 scans=full image] Size: 19 x 13".

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. Unpaginated. Published in 2001. Landmark collection of cityscape-photographs. One of the most beautiful and valuable Japanese art photography books of our time. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Reissued Edition, which is a facsimile edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. An Import title, none of the copies was commercially sold outside Japan. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Koji Onaka and Ota Michitaka: Regular-sized volume format. Khaki softcovers with black titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and brief text by Koji Onaka. The text is in the Japanese original and felicitous English translation. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ, with a heart-design candy box and titles in English and Japanese on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Koji Onaka's "Tokyo Candy Box". Color-saturated images of everlasting yet ever-changing Tokyo. The photographs were taken between 1999 and 2001, during which time her urban landscape underwent tremendous and radical change - yet again. Unlike the more "stable" mega-cities of Paris, London, and New York, where one will still find emblems of The Past amid the chaos of the present, the durable Tokyo cosmopolis has paradoxically experienced only constant metamorphosis, leaving hardly any landmarks at all. In effect, these photographs ARE - or represent - Tokyo circa early-21st century: Images of new constructions and people on the move characterize Tokyo in a way that we do not see in images of Chicago, for example, enduring architecture being the point of Chicago photographic imagery. The one landmark we identify with Tokyo is not a building or man-made structure, but a mountain looming on the horizon: Mount Fuji, iconic, sacred, and unchanging. An absolute "must-have" title for Koji Onaka collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Koji Onaka. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also drew a heart that he then linked to his signature, evoking the heart design of the cover. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed (with Heart Drawing) copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the Reissued Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant Japanese photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS' "FUJI: IMAGES OF CONTEMPORARY JAPAN" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 4898301150. Signed by Author.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 11 inches (board dimensions) An original high gloss photographic print of a generic valentines candy box mounted on board that has been over-painted with some new details and highlights resulting in a camera-ready image. Likely used as a newspaper advertisement or catalog illustration. In very good original condition with minor blemishes and pinholes in the margins. It would look great framed. We were unable to find much about the F.H. Roberts Co. NOT the Japanese candy manufacturer in business today, F. H. Roberts & Co. was apparently started in the first decade of the 20th century, and was sold by the founder around 1960. We found an advertisement for their candies in Vanity Fair in 1928 showing them at 128 Cross St. in Boston, MA. This advertisement strikes us as far less fancy than that period's work, so perhaps later (the 1940s/50s?). We obtained this original art with other candy box art from Boston and Cambridge area companies and so feel confident attributing it to F.H. Roberts Co.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st. EX-LIBRARY WITH STICKERS, STAMPS, AND NO BOX. SOME WEAR. 21 book set PLUS 2 more!

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st. MISMATCHED COVER/BINDING ART, SAME SIZE BOOKS, NO BOX. Some light wear. 21 book set.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st. NO BOX, EX-LIBRARY VOLUMES WITH STICKERS, STAMPS, AND SOME LIGHT WEAR. Great deal on a 21 book set PLUS 4 more!

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 1st. BONUS: 5 extra books! 22 book set. NO BOX. Some wear.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 10 7/16 inches (board dimensions) An original high gloss photographic print of a generic candy box mounted on board which has been over-painted with new details and highlighting resulting in a camera-ready Page & Shaw Valentine candy box. Likely used as a newspaper advertisement or catalog illustration. The Page and Shaw logo includes the New York, Boston, London, Los Angeles, and Paris as locations. In very good original condition with a few small blemishes and several pin-holes on the right-hand margin. It would look great framed. "Page & Shaw was one of the largest candy manufacturers in the United States, active from 1888 until about 1960. Page & Shaw started as a small shop at 9 West Street in Boston, then in 1911 opened a major factory on Ames Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with branch stores in England, France, and Canada. In 1918 its factory and five stores were shut down by the Federal Food Board for one week because the company kept a larger quantity of sugar on hand than was permitted by the United States Food Administration. Around 1920, Boston lawyer Otis Emerson Dunham acquired control of the company. He began an aggressive plan of expansion. By 1924 sales reached a peak of 2,200,000 pounds of chocolate per year. At its height, the company operated thirty-five shops as well as candy factories in Cambridge, New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Montreal, and London, and produced more than 6,000,000 pounds of chocolate candies annually in its Cambridge factory. After the stock market crash of 1929, business slumped badly, and under Dunham's direction, it started to give away one share of common stock with every $2 worth of candy. In 1930 Dunham and two stockbrokers were found guilty of conspiracy in raising $2,000,000 for Page & Shaw stock, of which they kept half for themselves. That same year, the company went bankrupt and was bought by Daggett Co. in 1931, which in turn was bought by Necco in 1960. Page & Shaw chocolates were discontinued at about that time. MIT's Wiesner Building now occupies Page & Shaw's former factory site on Ames Street [in Cambridge, Massachusetts]." (Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1931. First Edition . Very Good. Set includes: Candy Manual No. 1 - Bonbons and other Cream Candies; Candy Manual No. 2 - Glace and Hard Candies; Candy Manual No. 3 - Caramels and Other Chewing Candies; Candy Manual No. 4 - Chocolates (manuals 1 - 4 all softcover. Two hardcover books: The Iridor Business Manual Section of the Iridor Complete Candy Making Course, and Introduction to The Iridor Complete Candy Making Course - General and Preliminary Instructions with Index. Black box with red snap closure, red-orange paper lining is in fair to good condition, with cracking at two corners, some cracking along flap fold. Box also contains original publication and sales materials from G. P. Putnam (letter from the Mail Order Department, Statement of Account, pre-printed mailing envelope). All of the books are in very good condition with very little wear, clean, but some have some water stains to margins. Well-illustrated with photographs. Very scarce complete set.