No date, though circa 1915. 20 pages, saddle stapled in paper wrap covers. Ex-Yale University Library with marks on front cover. Covers are chipped at corners. Contents are lightly bumped at corners and show thumbing, but are otherwise clean and intact. Fascinating promotional souvenir booklet with many photos of the city. View More...
79 pages, saddle stapled soft bound. Light age toning on covers. Very slight residue on front cover where old sticker was removed. Otherwise tight and very clean. View More...
No date, though circa 1920s. 15 photographic plates tipped onto 12 leaves and string tied into covers. Covers are rubbed and worn, and a 16th photographic image of the Entrance to Swope Park on the top cover is significantly impaired. A few of the pages are disbound and most of the leaves show wear on edges. Nine of the photographs are 6 x 8 inches, and the others are 3.5 x 6 inches. Two show closed tears. Photos are generally in very good condition. View More...
15 pages, saddle stapled. General fairly light wear, including a small ink stain on front cover. Two score tickets have been pasted over the printed tickets at center of program. Penciled notations, but no scoring details. View More...
939+ pages. Covers are well worn, with much of spine cover chipped away. Paper over top and bottom boards is rubbed and worn, and there is some loss of paper. Hinges (internal) are cracked, though holding solid. Text block remains tight. Inked address stamp at top of advertising front paste down, and heavily penciled name/address at top of advertising front free end page. Ink stamped address is also seen at the top of the advertising rear free end leaf. Front end leaves are a little soiled and smudged. Remaining contents are generally clean with a little age and foxing on edges, and o... View More...
36 pages, unpaginated, saddle stapled into dark green paper wraps. Scarce souvenir booklet of the 1903 flood in Kansas City. Mostly comprised of photographs by E. J. Davison. Covers show a few chips and handling wear. Contents show some small chips as well as some small closed tears in edges and not affecting images or text. View More...
140 pages, plus two large folding posters, many programs, and other ephemera related to the 1939/40 year at Westport High School; This copy belonged to Editor in Chief, John (Jack) R. Seibel and has many, many autographs and inscriptions; Spine cover is present, though mostly detached; Front cover is barely attached and rear cover is loosening; Text block remains tight and aside from the many inscriptions and autographs, the contents remain clean and intact. View More...
Copyright is 1912. 76 pages. Original stiff paper wrap covers are now bound into a later green cloth binding with gold stamped lettering on spine. Front paper wrap cover is cracked along binding edge, though remains tight in new binding. Frontispiece shows small tear from upper edge, previously professionally repaired. Covers are fine, and contents show only a little other scattered light wear. Nice copy. View More...
No date, though circa 1921. Protected in original glassine wrapper that remains very good. 40 pages. End leaves darkened and other very light general wear. View More...
Pp: 213-371. From the library of Gordon C. Sauer (1947-91; American physician, ornithologist, and leading authority on John Gould), with some notations and markings in his hand. Complete issue, though lacking covers and any prelims prior to the introduction. Introduction page shows a hard crease. Several leaves are chipped and there is general wear along the edges. Complete, and all text is legible. View More...
No date of publication, though circa 1995. Non-paginated, though 100 pages. Signed in name only by the author/illustrator on the inside of the front cover. Due to the size of this volume, additional fees will apply for Priority and/or International shipping. View More...
127 pages, plus large folding map of the park. Brown cloth covers are a little rubbed, and there are a few small smudges, and even smaller stains. Black stamped lettering and bird image on top cover remain good. Inked name and date on blank front paste down. End leaves are a little darkened. Folding map shows a couple edge tears, and a partial misfold, but remains bright, clean, and otherwise intact. Volume is tight and contents are otherwise very clean. Fascinating and moderately scarce piece of Kansas City history and natural history. View More...
Three panel program, with tipped in illustration "The Spirit of '76," from the May 10, 1960 celebration event of President Trumans' 76 birthday at the Muehlebach Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri. The front cover of the program is inscribed to Frank Glenn, legendary Kansas City bookseller and friend of President Truman. Also laid in is a TLS by H. J. Talge, one of the events' coordinators. View More...
N/D (ca. 1905); Pictorial paper over boards is worn along edges and shows scattered smudges; Image and lettering on cover remain bright and intact; Cloth over spine is slightly soiled and shows light wear at ends; There are some inked marks along some names in index; Volume remains tight and is otherwise clean. View More...
N/D (1930); 152 pages; Very interesting early history and first hand accounts of Olathe and Johnson County, Kansas; Blue cloth covers show light rubbing on edges; Small institutional ink stamp on front paste down and blank front end page; Volume is otherwise tight, clean, and intact. View More...
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