Funny everyday jokes: First Thursday Book and Paper Marketplace

Every month, a select group of dealers present a treasure- chest of rare book and collectible paper items, many priced $100 or less.. Here are some of this month's many listings, many new-to-market.

Opens Thursday September 3rd at 12:00 pm EDT

through Saturday September 5th at 6:00 p.m.

A Manuscript Archive of Slavery, Mob Violence, Militia & Daily Life, 1857–1859.

Saline County, Missouri, Unpublished Manuscript Archive, 1857–1859, Half Leather, Paper-Covered Boards

Original Manuscript,

WWII MOTHER’S SPIRITUALIST MOURNING NOTEBOOK

A remarkable pair of handwritten World War II manuscripts documenting a mother’s prolonged effort to reach, protect, and recover her serviceman son “Buddy,” after receiving conflicting or uncertain news that he had been killed or was missing in action.

Wrigley's Dewey Slot Machine trade card

Trade card for Wrigley's Chewing Gum. They had an interesting marketing campaign where you could turn in a number of boxes of Wrigley's chewing gum for a prize of household item. This card is for the Dewey Slot Machine featuring Admiral Dewey's image.

9/11 WORLD TRADE CENTER TERROR ATTACK EX VOTO PAINTING.

San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato Mexico, 2001, Original Art on Sheet Metal.Bridging Catholic devotional art with modern historical trauma, this original Mexican retablo painted on sheet metal shows the burning World Trade Center towers, a crashing airplane and a vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe

Group of Approx 280 Russian Travel Stereoview Photographs w/ Viewer

Images include: Landmarks, Religious Sites, Street Culture, Ethnic Groups, War Infrastructure, Propaganda, etc.,
From the collection of Edward Hoyenski.

Pollock's Characters & Scenes in the Blind Boy

Panoramic San Francisco 1877

(Edward Muybridge) uncredited

San Francisco, Thomas C. Russell, ca.1910, cloth

It unfolds to be 5 feet (60") long. Russell does not give credit to Muybridge but this is a famous panoramic photograph that he took in 1877.

Ethiopic Manuscript Psalter in Ge'ez and on Vellum.

[Ethiopia}, N.p., [ca. 1875]

The manuscript is written in Ge'ez and using red and black ink. It is complete with [162] leaves. Each leaf measures 140 x 100 mm. Bound in the traditional Ethiopian manner of hand-tooled leather over wood with extensive dentelles and with spine showing the traditional heavy stitching as is usual.

THE COLOR PRINTER

A TREATISE ON THE USE OF COLORS IN TYPOGRAPHIC PRINTING

Earhart, John F.

Cincinnati, Earhart & Richardson, 1892, original green cloth stamped in colors and gilt, with emblem of three ink balls on front cover and spine, marbled edges.

First and only edition, Very Good

War of 1812 letter from Roxbury, Ma dated 1814
It states in part: "the alarm we have been in has entirely subsided for the present season, every one is if possible more gloomy than ever when expecting every day to be surprised by the enemy. The prospect of a long war with heavy taxes, & scarcity of goods of every description, causes a general depression of spirits."

PIG 05049 (2017)

Rotterdam, Flocks, 2007, 4th ed., no pagination, profusely illustrated, captions in English, foreword and explanations in Dutch and English, book design by JULIE JOLIAT, original limp boards w. dustwrapper and spine pierced by a yellow plastic pig ear tag.Pig 05049 chronicles the many consumer products that were made from a pig named 05049

Russian Imperial Traveling Ink Well in Silver

Fabergé, Karl (1846-1920)

Circa 1890

Measures approx. 2 x 1.5 inches. With inset silver ruble featuring a relief portrait of Russian Emperor Alexander III. With Cyrillic maker’s mark (Fabergé) and Zolotnik silver standard mark of 88.

British Merlin for the Year 1685

A GENTLEMAN'S POCKET COMPANION. An uncommon 1685 Restoration-era English pocket almanac printed in red and black ink, complete with the famous 'Anatomy of Man's Body' Zodiac woodcut.

London:, Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for the Company of Stationers,, 1685, Later full leather/vellum flap binding with metal clasp.

There Were Two Pirates: A Comedy of Division

[Matched Association Pair]

First & Second Printings — Inscribed to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings — A BIRTHDAY BOOK — THEN A CORRECTION.

The Columbia at the Turn of the Century: Eighteen Original Photographs of the Columbia River,

THE WORKING COLUMBIA BEFORE THE MODERN RIVER.

Seattle, Gifford, Benjamin A., circa 1899–1908, Eighteen original photographs representing fifteen distinct images from Benjamin A. Gifford's numbered Columbia River series, made during his years at The Dalles. Steamers, Cascade Locks, fish wheels, ferries, wheat shipments, and livestock appear alongside Cape Horn, Memaloose Island, Mount Hood, and the Cascades.

Footman Pretty & Nicolson Mantle Makers Spring 1872

Very good

Beautiful advertising piece showing illustrations of the Spring 1872 offerings from Footman Pretty & Nicolson Mantle Makers.

A Wood Engraving by Lettice Sandford [1997 Limited Edition]

PRINTED FROM SANDFORD’S ORIGINAL 1933 BLOCK — AN ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVING ON HANDMADE JAPANESE GAMPI VELLUM, LIMITED TO 115 COPIES

Early Poems

Anthony Commelin CROSSLEY, M.P. (1903-1939)

very rare & a presentation copy

Pennsylvania Gazette May 20, 1756

Important early American newspaper, a rare survivor. May 20, 1756, number 1430. Two leaves 4 pages, folio 15 5/8 x 10". Good.

This issue printed while the French and Indian War was being fought on the frontier areas of Pennsylvania including Pittsburg. There are messages from Robert Hunter Morris and Isaac Norris concerning the war and the threat from the French and their Indian Allies.