John Wanamaker, First Edition (19 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition softcover. SIGNED (inscribed) by author on title page. 236 pages. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED. Navy blue 1/4 cloth, goldenrod paper-covered boards, lettered in gold foil. Foxing to endpapers and along text block edges, otherwise about as issued. Dust jacket shows minor surface wear, now in mylar. 1st ptg. xix,236 pp., illus. Inscribed by author on title page, full signature, personalized, date 16 July 1996; also former owner's signature on upper front flyleaf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. First Edition. 2 inch tear to edge of rear wrap.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Bound in black cloth over yellow boards in bright illustrated dust jacket. A 236 pp. illustrated biography of the king of the Philadelphia merchants. As new copy -- inscribed and signed by the author. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Good in original wrappers with a dampstain on the wrappers, first blank page, and the frontispiece only and edgewear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. This work is the story of the House of Wanamaker and John Wanamaker, the founder, the pioneer, the organizer, the builder, with almost a seer's vision of what would best serve the people in their daily living, and with the capacity to apply his dreams through the medium of new methods of trading; organizing big deals, big merchandise movements, a new and better service to the public; and with a genius for dramatizing the new kind of business in store announcements that caught and held the confidence of the people. The book contains four photographs, a few footnotes, and an index. The name of the former owner of the book is on the FFEP; otherwise, this copy is clean and solid.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Gilt lettering on blue & tan covers in a blue pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 235pp. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Author signed on the title page. Gilt lettering on blue & tan covers in a blue pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 235pp. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Original documents. Five (5) printed documents, accomplished by hand, signed by the purchasing agent. Goods include: 1 Parlor Suite, 2 Divans, 1 Eng. Oak Rocker, 1 Doz. Individual Whiskey Bottles, 12 Doz. Plates, 12 Doz. Decanters, 8 Celery Glasses, &c. Brass fastener in upper left corner. Each document is 7.5" x 8.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. First Edition. A small indentation on each edge of back cover apparently where books were once bound together by a cord, otherwise Very Good condition. Content is clean, binding strong, bright gilt spine lettering on dark blue cloth with minimal wear. Author's signature on front end sheet. 471 pages with index. Black & white photos. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1926. 1st edition. 2 volume set. Sm 4to. xvi,398+ix,497pp. Illus. Book Good. No dust jacket. Spine ends worn. Boards a bit bleached and mottled, corners slightly worn; vol. 1 front board bumped at bottom, vol. 2 top corners bent. Inside clean. Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Dust jacket in archival quality cover. 227 pages. A biography of one who played a major role in the development of American retailing and consumerism. Opening a small men's store in Philadelphia in 1861, by the turn of the century he had major department stores in his home town as well as New York, and was one of the country's largest merchants. A pristine copy. No markings, not exlibras, book purchased new, never read, and has been sitting on shelf with dust jacket protection.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. small chips and tears to yapp edges of cover, foxing to edges of text block. Sale included a XVII Century paneled walnut pharmacy room with a remarkable collection of pharmacy jars. 869 lots in the auction, 119 illustrated. 161pp 1.21lb 10.7x7.4x0.4in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Structurally near fine hardback copyright 1999; VG in NF dj; remarkably well preserved withdrawal from public library with usual stamps and stickers; tight, square text block in glossy dj protected in clear archival plastic; ALCOLR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 2 volume set in blue cloth with gold lettering. Nice bright and strong copies with no markings. Baby blue dust jackets with Wanamaker's portrait on the front. Spines a little sunned. Both are chipped at the top of the spines with no loss to lettering. A couple of corner chips with a 1" deep and 2 1/4" long chip at the top right corner of the back of volume 2. They are not price-clipped and are now in fresh mylar sleeves.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Out of print and scarce. About the founder of the famed Philadelphia department store, someone who played a major role in the development of American retailing and consumerism.

Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg-. First edition. Quarto. 56pp. Red soft cloth boards with blind and gilt-stamped ruling and gilt-stamped lettering on the front cover. Gilt top edges. Pages uncut. Frontispiece b/w photo portrait w/ tissue guard. The work was published to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of successful American businessman, merchant and civic leader John Wanamaker's entry into business, and to document the proceedings of the anniversary celebratory luncheon held on April 26th 1921, at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, in Philadelphia. The event was organized by a committee comprised of leading local figures of the era, including prominent Pennsylvania and Philadelphia politicians, civic leaders and captains of industry such as J. Hampton Moore, William Cameron Sproul, George Wharton Pepper, Samuel Rea, Edwin Sydney Stuart, Robert von Moschzisker and Samuel M. Vauclain. Content includes a record of correspondence leading up to and related to the event, a reproduction of the luncheon menu cards and a detailed record of statements and speeches given. Also included are a biographical timeline of Wanamaker's life and a list of attendees, which included many other prominent local figures. Illustrated with a total of 4 tissue-guarded b/w photographic reproductions, including the frontispiece portrait of Wanamaker, and three images of Wanamaker stores (including the original Wanamaker brothers' storefront of 1861). [WITH, LAID IN] Literary Bulletin of Houghton, Mifflin and Company. January 1884. For Sale by John Wanamaker. Cambridge, MA. Riverside Press. Quarto. 7 unpaginated pages. Illustrated string-tied tan wrappers. Includes two other smaller multipage folded inserts laid in to the front wrappers. Composed of Houghton Mifflin advertisements. Binding with some rubbing, bumping and/or chipping to extremities. Cover with some light stains and scratches, and some light rubbing to the front and rear hinges of the spine. Interior with some sporadic minor to light waters stains and smudging, including to the front endpapers frontispiece and title page, mostly affecting the margins only. Binding in good, interior in very good- condition overall. Scarce.

First edition, first printing, of this rare lady's almanac, issued for the first American department store: Wanamaker's, and illustrated by George Barbier (1882-1932), a painter and artist who produced many illustrations for fashion and theatre costumes and set. Uncommon, the only copy listed institutionally is located by World Cat at the Morgan Library in New York. It features a calendar, several blank pages for personal notes, and a collection of poems, including some by Ronsard, La Fontaine, and Voltaire. Sextodecimo. 4 plates, coloured in pochoir and by hand in greys and white, after Barbier, and 3 lithographic plates. Original gilt paper-covered boards, colour-printed art-déco pictorial silk onlays to boards and spine, pink endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in the publisher-issued slipcase with matching silk onlays. A hint of wear to extremities, joints partially split at foot of spine, the silk onlays otherwise bright and clean, internally fresh and unmarked. A remarkably well-preserved copy in the original slipcase, bottom panel expertly reattached, slight wear to extremities, a little rubbed, else very good.