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My pretty pony
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This is "soldier's smoke" week! : Send a kit of cheer to a lonely American soldier in France! Address your contributions to "Our boys in France tobacco fund."
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Language: English Place of publication: New York (N.Y.) Artist(s): Henry, J. Printer(s)/Publisher(s): Rotoprint Gravure Co. Notes: "From Children of Fate by Marice Rutledge. Courtesy of Frederick A. Stokes Company, Publishers."--text below image.
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Something Pretty to Paint
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One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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Modern printing : a treatise on the principles and practice of typography ; with an account of its materials, appliances, and machinery ; intended as a reference book for the printing office and a text book for technological instruction
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A first edition of the deluxe one volume format containing four color plates not present in the standard one-volume edition. Previously issued in four volumes. As described by Geoffrey Wakeman in The Literature of Letterpress Printing 1849-1900, no. 54 "[This] was in fact the most important and complete book [on printing] to have appeared since the first edition of Practical printing in 1882 and it remained influential for many years ... The 'art style' and fine printing were incorporated into the book. A chapter on linotype was specially written by an expert. Monotype, Tachytype, Cox, Empire, Fraser & Hooker, Thorne, Hattersley and Wicks machines were all described." Also includes chapters discussing color printing including two-colour and three-colour printing
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Subjects - Marketing Research
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Approx. 10 items: multipage "Confidential" report, 6/27/1986, on "New York Times' National Edition," by Dickson Louie (with appendices including charts, lists, chronologies) ; multipage report, "Target Marketing at The New York Times," 5/9/1985 ; planning chart of 1986-87 for the LAT National Edition ; multipage info packet including agenda of 11/1/1988 LAT / Anti-Defamation League luncheon, draft copies of opening and closing remarks by Tom Johnson, and a guest list ; related items.
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Pretty Picture Drawing Book
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One drawing book/manufacturer's advertisement entitled Pretty Picture Drawing Book, published by M. F. Tobin, Publishers, New York, ca. 1910. This is a promotional advertisement for Besse, Bryant & Co., Clothiers, Hatters, Furnishers of Worcester, Massachusetts. The book is comprised of 6 leaves of lithograph illustrations, which are various images of children playing outdoors and with toys. There are leaves of tracing paper bound in between each image; some of the images have been traced onto the tracing paper. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a young boy in a blue suit, holding a pug dog in his lap. The insides of the front and back covers, as well as the back cover, are textual advertisements for Besse, Bryant & Co. "M.F. Tobin, Publisher, N.Y." is printed at the bottom of the front cover. "$5-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper left-hand corner of the inside of the front cover.
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Newspapers - The New York Times
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Approx. 20 items: collection of article copies on NY Times' attempts, in the 1960s, to "invade" California with a Western Edition. Notable items: copy AP story, 10/21/1961, "New York Times plans to print L.A. edition" ; advertisement, 5/1/1962, headed "Starting this Fall...The New York Times / Western Edition" ; tear sheet, Saturday Review, 11/10/1962, "Is a national newspaper possible?" ; copy UPI story, "N.Y. Times to discontinue its western edition" ; 3-pp. summary of "(CONFIDENTIAL) Hill interview...re NY Times 3/9/73."/
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