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[Moveable Book] Das Reich der Blumenkönigin, Sinnige Unterhaltung. L'Empire de la Reine des Fleurs. The Realm of the Queen of Flowers. Rational entertainment

[ANONYMOUS] · 1870

$724.00 (€656.86 | £547.92 | ¥115,627)

n.p. [Neuhaus or Nurnberg?] n.p. Sixth Edition of this popular pastime, published in at least nine editions, although few copies survive. Royal 8vo (331 x 249mm): six-page descriptive letter press with parallel texts in French, German, and English, identifying each flower and ...

[Toy Theater] [Juvenile Drama] The Blue Jackets, or Her Majesty's Service. A Farce, in One Act

STIRLING, Edward (1809-1894); Benjamin Pollock (1856–1937) · 0

$439.00 (€398.29 | £332.23 | ¥70,111)

[London] Printed and published by B. Pollock, 73, Hoxton Street, N. A rare, complete nineteenth-century Benjamin Pollock toy theater. Foolscap 8vo (168 x 108 mm): 16pp, with nine hand-colored plates (219 x 173 mm), as called for on title page ("4 Plates Characters, 3 Scenes, 2...

Turkey Remains and How to Inter Them

FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940) · 1956

$101.00 (€91.63 | £76.44 | ¥16,130)

[Toronto] Cooper & Beatty First Edition thus First Separate Edition of this humorous Christmas keepsake issued in the Fall of 1956 by Toronto typographer Cooper & Beatty, one of 2,000 copies. Slim crown octavo (210 x 137mm): v,[1],5,[1]pp, printed in black and silver-grey on w...

[Opera Archive] [Staatsoper] [Playbill] Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ein Maskenball; Oedipus der Tyrann; Don Carlos; Wozzeck; Aida; Capriccio; Tristan und Isolde; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Don Giovanni; Die Hochzeit des Figaro; Eugen Onegin; Die Fledermaus; Electra; Turandot; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Arabella; Così fan tutte

BERG, Albin; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus; ORFF, Carl; PUCCINI, Giacomo; STRAUSS, Johann; STRAUSS, Richard; TSCHAIKOWSKY, Pyotr Ilyich; VERDI, Giuseppe; WAGNER, Richard · 1961

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

Vienna Wiener Staatsoper A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, th...

[Shape Book] [Tobacco] [Die Cut] Dental Scotch Snuff

[AMERICAN SNUFF CO.] · 0

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.08 | ¥7,826)

Memphis, Tennessee Mid-Century tobacco advertising booklet. Foolscap 8vo (138 x 76mm): note pad shaped as a can of snuff, 24 blank ruled pages, excepting advertising text at center and inside covers. Original illustrated card covers. Provenance: Fred Board, collector of odd an...

[Socialism] [Parable] Hop Lee and the Pelican [Two Editions]

WILSHIRE, Gaylord (1861-1927) · 1903

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.12 | ¥55,737)

New York / Newark, N.J. Wilshire Book Company / Clarion Publishing Co. Two copies (First Separate Editions and apparently earliest iterations) of this parable, in which a Chinese fisherman discovers that he can out source the labor of fishing. Description of each copy follows....