Promotional Literature from Good Old Books

New York: Theatre Ticket Office, 1892 32 pages, a program for an opera at the Columbian Exposition.

West Springfield, Massachusetts: Strathmore Paper Company, 1942 7 pages with samples tipped in. Nice! A few tears to tab for filing.

Pliny P. Craft, 1925 32 pages, 16 being photographs, 16 being text describing scene. The cover is a nice embosed Jesus Christ. Slight edge wear to paper boards. Apparently, these are real photo still from a German Film from the 20's. Silk rope threaded through to support the backstrip.

Clinton, Iowa: Curtis Companies, 1919 "..Though he is a poet he has but one eccentricity: he is fat. He tried out a large number of eccentricities, because he knew all poets had to have some, but finally decided upon being fat as the one with fewest drawbacks and the least inconvenient." The book has paragraphs of prose rather than poetry,… Read more about this item

Carey Printing Co. 146 pages, circa 1920, a promotional folio for The Carey Printing Company. A beautiful illustrative promotional souvenier with 40 full size framable pictures from the likes of Vanity Fair and Vogue. The bottom inch of the spine is ripped off exposing the signatures, also a stain in bottom corner of entirety. Minor defects, but in general, a… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Thompson Yards, 1922 Unpaginated, promtional magazine for Thomson Lumber Yards in Minneapolis. Colorful cover which is mildly soiled.

Chicago: Producers Supply Company, 1904 110 pages with many illustrations of early use of concrete and the benefits of that product. Press of F. T. Peterson