Search Results: Titles starting with P from Cleveland Book Company

New York: Marian Wood / Putnam, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Octavo, 352pp. A crisp, clean copy, near fine, with very mild wear to extremities, in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Grafton on the publisher's tipped-in leaf.

(New York): (P-47 Thunderbolt Pilots Association Wings Club), 1995. Second printing (?). Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, 412pp., illustrated. A fine, crisp copy in the publisher's rextured blue imitation leather with gilt decoration. Described on the copyright page as a "second printing," which they define as "reprint of original edition with supplement." Thus, though the words "Volume II" appear several times on this volume, it appears to contain the entirety of the first volume, but with some supplementary material. For further clarification or discussion, please contact us with any questions.

Boston: American Peace Society, 1847. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 24mo, 252pp. A very good, unmolested copy in the publisher's printed boards with brown cloth spine. Gentle wear to extremities, and a hint of internal foxing, but a nice, sound copy. Scarce in this original binding. The American Peace Society was founded by William Ladd, one of the earliest anti-war activists in the US.

Cleveland: Gus A. Fretter, Photographer, 1917. Very good +. Two very long panoramic photographs, and one slightly shorter (dimensions: 48" x 10", 56" x 10", and 35" x 10" (the latter including a thick white border)). The photographs have all been rolled for decades, and are consequently curled. Apart from very slight creasing to the far left side of the largest example, the prints are quite clean and unblemished (though the versos show some dust-soiling). Overall, very good or better. The photographs depict three sequential years of the "D. R. K. Retreat" in Cleveland, Ohio, for the years 1915, 1916, and 1917. Each year, this photograph was taken in front of a different church on the near West side of Cleveland. Our efforts to determine what exactly the D. R. K. stands for were unsuccessful, but it could be the "Deutsche Rote Kreuz" (German Red Cross), or quite likely some religious organization affiliated with recent Eastern European immigrants to Cleveland; perhaps Czechs, Slovaks, or Hungarians.… Read More

Cleveland, Ohio: Parents Without Partners Cleveland-West chapter, 1986. Staplebound. Very good +. 54 issues, all measuring about 7" x 8.5". Various pagination, but mostly ca. 35-40pp., illustrated. All issues in very good or better condition; some with a few pen/pencil notations, but mostly quite clean. Large group of periodicals, mostly complete within the run of 1981-1986, with some issues lacking. Parents Without Partners is a national support group for parents who have lost their parenting partner, either through divorce, death, separation, or other means. Founded in New York in 1957, the organization's website describes its original founding as rooted in addressing the stigma of divorce, and the social costs that came along with it (esecially half a century ago). This Cleveland chapter (one of several just in the Cleveland area!) was quite sizeable, and produced a monthly newsletter filled with photocopied homemade advertisements for events, photographs of recent events and… Read More

New York: Atheneum, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good +. Octavo, 338pp. A crisp, clean copy, very good, with a small bump to the top corner of the page block, affecting the margins of a small group of pages. In a very good or better dust jacket, with a few short tears to the extremities. SIGNED by Brown on the front free endpaper, and dated in the year of publication.

Erie, PA: H. L. Harvey & O. Spafford, 1836. First Edition. Sewn binding. Fair. 32mo (7cm x 11cm), 18pp., illustrated. In fair condition only in the publisher's printed wrappers, with hand-stitched string binding, possibly a later repair. Bottom half of the rear wrapper perished, and significant marginal loss to two leaves, though no contents are affected. Some tearing. Generally rubbed and soiled, but legible. Despite its rather sorry state, a vanishingly scarce western Pennsylvania imprint, published when Erie had a populaton of about 2,500. The verso of the title page contains four sets of the alphabet, in four different typefaces, along with a series of numbers (1-23), ostensibly to help children learn their letters and numbers. The woodcut vignettes of animals are quaint; examples include the kangaroo, raccoon, nyl-ghau, and fox. OCLC records just one separately listed holding, at the Free Library of Philadelphia (that copy dated 1838). Missed by the Checklist of American Imprints. We found just… Read More

[no place - possibly Cleveland?]: [J. Heupel, photographer], 1925. Good +. One nicely framed photograph, measuring about 9" x 7", housed in a later mat and frame. The photograph appears to have been laid/glued to a backing board. As there are a few flattened creases and some evidence of mild discoloration due to the use of glue, mostly visible in the open sky within the image. Altogether, in good or better condition. Has not been examined out of frame. The image depicts a corner gas station in a city or suburban environment, with a small hexagonal service station, two gas pumps, and two signs. The gas company was "Blue Flash," and they advertise "Veedol" fuel. Another sign on the door of the building reads "Pocohontas Gasoline: Pennsylvania Motor Oils." Though it's difficult to identify exactly where the image was taken, it's likely a medium-to-large city in northeast Ohio, Southwestern Pennsylvania, or possibly northern West Virignia, based on the brands.

[New York], 1953. Near fine. One black and white photographic print, measuring about 9" x 6.25". Very near fine, with a tiny corner crease, barely notable, and some gentle glue lifting to the edges of the verso. Really an excellent print, well-preserved. On the verso, two pencil inscriptions in different hands are present. The first reads, "photo taken by Walker Evans the winter of 1953-54--W. Keimbusch." The other reads, "Taken at McDonald's Apt. on Morton Street" (New York City)." This photograph emerged from the estate of a bookseller on Cranberry Island, Maine, which was a summer home or frequent destination of three individuals associated with the photograph. The main subject, William Keinbusch, was an abstract artist born in New York City, who spent every summer of his adult life on Great Cranberry, while the photographer, Walker Evans, is known to have spent at least one summer on the island in the 1960s, likely at his friend Keimbusch's insistence. Finally, the woman in the photograph is… Read More

[mostly Block Island, Rhode Island], 1919. Very good +. Group of 77 photographs, nearly all measuring about 3.5" x 5.5" (including white borders). Photographs mostly in excellent condition, some with a few corner chips, but mostly clean and bright. Perhaps a dozen of the images have captions on the verso, most of which read something like, "June 1919. Under running Block Island submarine cable with U. S. S. Palmer." The U. S. S. Palmer was renamed U. S. S. SP-319 that very year, but likely its crew still called it the "Palmer." Initially built as a fishing vessel, it began working on and laying cables in 1917. The photographs herein mostly document in close-up detail the various activities involved in moving, splicing, and laying cable. A number of the photographs may date to slightly later than the "Palmer" photographs (which are the only ones with captions). Nevertheless, they seem to be in the same or a very simliar area. A torn envelope that once housed… Read More

1920. Good +. One oblong octavo-size photograph album, containing just over 100 sepia-toned photographs of various sizes (mostly smaller than a Polaroid). Overall in good or better condition, as most photographs are mounted to the album and have some waviness from glue and moisture. Most are family portraits and shapshots, likely from a rural Illinois family based on some clues in the images and scant notations. Of particualr interest, however, are sixteen images depicting military outposts and units in New Mexico, West Texas and possibly Mexico, during the Mexican Expedition of 1916. Two images are labeled "in the field in Mexico," while others depict soldiers in camp, cleaning their packs, tendings to horses, etc.

1920. Near fine. An octavo-sized photograph album, containing 55 images, each about 2.5" x 4.5", depicting a vacation to Yellowstone and some similar locales. Ladies fashions, while mostly covered by coats, seem to indicate a mid-1920s date, possibly as late as 1932 or 1933. All images are in excellent condition, fresh and bright, while mounted into corners, attached with a sparing amount of glue. Some handwritten labels in the thin borders indicate several attrations, including Old Faithful, the Canyon Hotel, Peigan Pass in Glacier Park, St. Mary's Lake (with one shot taken on a steamboat), and several others, including two close-ups of a bear. There is a delightful mix of candid portraits and sweeping views, and the photographer (in this cataloguer's opinion) had some real acuity with the camera.

1975. Very good -. Eight photographic prints, each about 11" x 14" (three in landscape and five in portrait orientation), depicting firefighters putting out a fire, likely in an urban area of Northeast Ohio (Cleveland, Akron, or Youngstown); one depicting train tracks, and a close-up portrait of a woman. There are three sets of two images each that are almost identical, but have one or two small differences - they were probably taken seconds or milliseconds apart. Condition is overall about very good. They are somewhat curled on the sides, and there are a few thin creases and trivial nicks and closed tears. Overall, however, the images are clear and bright. The photographer was probably an amateur, but may have submitted some of these photographs to newspapers.

New York, 1895. Two photographs, the first measuring about 8" x 6", the other about 9.5" x 6.5", each mounted to cardstock. The smaller one shoes mild wear to extremities of the mount, but the photograph quite well-preserved. The second has two chips at two corners, but is otherwise clean and bright. The smaller and more striking photograph depicts a group of eleven men, some in uniform, inside a trolley car, laden with pots and mans, clothing, and other evidence of having been somewhat "lived-in." Their facial expressions suggest a certain degree of boredom, and possible drunkenness. There are five inked names, some only partially legible, at the bottom edge of the mount. On the verso of the mount is written, "My father with the Seventh Regiment during a strike in N. Y." The slightly larger image is a more standard, though still somewhat informal portrait of Company K of the 7th regiment (according to contemporary pencil notations on verso). The photograph is… Read More

Rochester, NY: Rochester Camera & Supply Co, 1900. First Edition (?). Staplebound. Very good-. Square 12mo, 48pp. About very good in the publisher's stapled wraps. Wraps fragile and a bit soiled, but internally clean. A perfectly decent copy of this guide to using the Poco-brand camera, issued by a Rochester retailer. Rochester, home of George Eastman and the Kodak company, was of course the center of camera manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution and throughout most of the 20th century. We locate fewer than a half dozen copies of this particular catalogue (really more of a text-driven instruction guide) in worldwide library holdings, and none in commerce as of this listing.

[no place - likely California?], 1953. Fine. A large group of photographs, mostly snapshots, of a tight-knit Asian-American family, dating from about 1949-1953. Prints measure about 3 1/4 x 4 3/4, with some minor variation. Photographs in about fine condition, with hardly any wear or fading. Most photos are portraits, snapshots, candids, and with some landscapes and urban scenes, as well. We know nothing about the family, though a single portrait is dedicated in pen "To Muts, Love Patti, Susan, & Dodo." Of little historical significance, but still a broad and expansive view into daily life.

[New York], 1964. Sewn binding. Fine. One photograph album, measuring about 10" x 7", containing 96 photographic prints, each measuring 3.5" x 3.5", and dated "August 1964" in the border. Photographs laid into corner mounts, and in overall fine condition. The album is somehwat loosened, and shows edgewear. Each image depicts scenes from the World's Fair held in Queens in 1964. Most images show buildings, fountains, and the like, and there are perhaps two dozen depicting the young (likely teenage) compilor's family members, along for the trip to the fair. There are many captions, though most are just a few words at most. There are also many blank corner mounts with captions below them, indicating some missing photographs. While there are more of these missing than we would like, this remains a focused album of nearly 100 images from the landmark event, some of whose physical remains are still evident in Flushing Meadows.

[no place], 1880. Hardcover. Very good +. Oblong folio. Large format album, with 49 cardstock leaves, 43 of which are used, containing a total of 85 photographic prints, whose sizes vary slightly, but all of which measure about 8" x 10" (20cm x 25cm). Prints are sepia-toned, and tipped onto the album leaves; mostly very well preserved; near fine. The binding is scuffed and stained, with a partial joint crack, but still quite sound. In between each of the unused leaves is a blank leaf of paper, and that leaf was neatly excised from in between each of the used album leaves, leaving a small remnant. There is no identifying information about the album's origin, but for a small bookseller/binder's ticket (Barcalow & Tyte at 76 Bowery, NYC). The few holdings of this imprint in OCLC have a short date range of 1878-81, which helps to date these photographs. An arresting group of images, most of which have a short identifying caption in calligraphic ink (e. g. "Arco," "Isola Bella, Lago Maggiore,"… Read More

[Wyoming], 1950. Staplebound. Fine. A small photo album, in stapled wraps, with twelve shapshots (about 3.5" x 5") from a trip to Yellowstone. Printed on Kodax Velox paper, and with three cars dating from 1948-51, we can date this album to the early 1950s. Most snapshots depict typical Western natural beauty, however there are two shots of a bear coming right up to what looks like a '49 Plymouth. One shot was taken both from about 20 feet away, and also right up close, from inside the car. There's also another shot of a fawn, taken from no more than ten feet away. Some curling to the photos, else in fine condition. Rear wrap notes it was developed by "Muir Photo," a company whose name does not led itself to a simle Google search, as there is no address or location provided. But, one can presume with such a name that these images were developed somewhere between Wyoming and Northern California.

Cleveland: Walter C. Vore, 1924. Near fine. One photograph, measuring about 6" x 8", inside a mount measuring 10" x 12". Photograph is bright, clean, and well-preserved, near fine. Upon close inspection, there is a faint rubbing mark horizontally along the middle of the print, but it took us some time to notice. Mount is gently edgeworn, and partly detached from the backing, but still clean and functional. On the verso is the stamp of the photographer, noting an Althen Ave. address in Cleveland. Someone has pencilled in the date of "March 1st, 1924," as well. The image depicts a pretty bare work truck, which has either been partly scrapped for parts, or is just very bare-bones.