salesmans sample (17 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Color And B & W Illustrations Of Victorian Era Salesmans Sample Book Illustrations Ilustrador. 1st Edition. Copyright Date: 1977 Sm Octavo, PP.75, Color And B & W Illustrations Of Victorian Era Salesman's Sample Book Illustrations.

Hard Cover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Brown cloth boards are scuffed, rubbed on edges, chipped at corners and tips. No markings in text. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Cracked in several places, pages loosening but secure. Age-toned, only marking found is price in pencil on front endpaper. Cover shelf worn, bumped corners, spine fading. Your purchase benefits the world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.

Divers paginations. Lined subscriber pages at rear, oriented horizontally. Preceded by a publisher precis about the book, as well as pricing information for the two bindings: Cloth [$3.75] and Full Morocco Grained Kraft [$4.75]. Illustrated with drawings & from photographs. 8vo. Cloth quite dull. Numerous prior owner signatures [from Durand Michigan]. First subscriber sheet with 6 buyers, all from Durand, Michigan. An About VG copy. Original grey-blue cloth binding with gilt stamping 1st printing thus. Not in Zinman, though see entry 199 for another by Universal Book & Bible House.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. A salesman's dummy copy, or a sample volume, not the complete work. Rubbing and wear to covers; some toning and foxing. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- still quite a sound and handsome copy. iv116pp. Laid in is what appears to be a prospectus for a later (1924) edition, with the name and notes of the author. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Zinman 469. Specimen pages and plates. Laid-in 4 page leaflet, "Instructions to Agents. How to Sell the Complete Life of President McKinley and Story of His Assassination. . Call particular attention to the number and character of illustrations." Half-broadside of volume description/prices, follows by subscriber pages. 8vo. Cloth and gilt quite dull. Worn. A Good copy. Leaflet age-toned, otherwise Nr Fine. Original green cloth binding with gilt stamping & oval photographic onlay of McKinley to front board. Sample spine design to rear board.

296 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo. 8-5/16" x 5-9/16" Backstrip a bit darkened. Some age-toning to paper. "Advanced sales copy" penciled to ffep. A VG+ copy. Blue cloth with black stamped lettering & graphics Advanced sales copy, with a list of subscriber's names in pencil on order pages in back of book.

Condición: Very Good. First edition. 8vo, The edge of the leather is somewhat serrated with two cushioned pads beneath it. An unused Salesman's Sample Book. The inside rear cover has a sample of the deluxe binding for this work. "Alligator Grained Leather, Cushioned Lids, with gilt edges, 3.75 ". Photogravures.

1st printing thus. Not in Zinman. Specimen pages & plates. 8vo. Extremity wear to binding. Offset to free eps. Very Good. Three quarter [front cover, with green cloth board] / full [back cover] black leather binding. Black leather spine sample to front paste-down; green cloth spine sample to rear paste-down.

Very attractive 19th century salesman's sample of this copiously illustrated, and appropriately lavish book on high society. Scarce. 8vo, paginated with various sections from the complete book, roughly 120 pages, plus prospectus and subscribers list at end, partially filled out in ms. Plates, vignette engravings, facsimiles, illustrated initials, headers, tailpieces, etc. Publisher's black, gilt, and blind stamped purple cloth, with cloth samples bound in at front. Boards a bit soiled and dulled, clean internally and very good.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. 4to, (280mm.), [166]p. + 15 colour & 24 monochrome photogravure plates, together with numerous illustrations in the text by James Francis 'Frank' Horrabin. A fair copy in original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover: 'Sample.' Rather worn with the stitching strained, and several leaves slightly spotted; Signature of Tom Groves of Leytonstone Road, [London] E15, dated September 1921 on the front flyleaf. Seemingly a door-to-door salesman's sample book, perhaps the Tom Groves noted above (rather than a publisher's representative's blad) for obtaining subscriptions to the volumes. With pre-lims outlining the contents, a number of specimen chapters (or parts thereof) interspersed with the plates as noted above, a 'subscriber's' bookplate is tipped in between the pre-lims and text, and two styles of binding are offered: on the front 'pastedown' is an example of half brown faux leather with tan cloth while of the rear 'pastedown' is another example of a binding style, in this case of half blue cloth with a central piece of pattered cloth. As noted above the condition is not in great state but perhaps the volume saw much use in the hands of would-be subscribers and nonetheless remains an interesting survival.

1st printing. Booklet: 31, [1 (blank)] pp. 22 sheet sample book, with first two 8-1/8" x 3-3/4" sheets having 6 2-inch square cloth samples [3 per side], the remaining 20 with 3 samples to one side, advertising copy on the opposite. 3 price list cards [Regular, Wholesale & 'Secret'] in pocket underneath cloth samples. Cloth tape measure laid-in. Oblong orientation. Closed: 4-1/4" x 8-3/8". Open: 8-3/8" x 13-1/4" Located "at Jackson and Desplaines streets," likely 911 Jackson Blvd as listed in the Certified List of Domestic and Foreign Corporations of 1920. Minor wear to wallet. Crease to booklet front wrapper. Some fraying to a few sample edges. Withal, a respectable VG [or better] example. All housed in green wallet-type porfolio, with snap closure & gilt stamped lettering.

22.5cm, no pagination, frontis portrait, plates and illustrations, original light blue grey illustrated cloth with extra blind stamping and deocrations, order sheets, These publisher's dummy's were used to sell the pending book by subscription. They were quite successful judging by the numbers of published copies of their book survived. This copy has 8 "Cerificates of Subscription" laid in for orders. A Special Notice tipped in states "Our Work.will be complete in one volume, providing the sad war in progress is finished by the time the first edition is published" A Very Good to Fine Copy for a salesman's sample.

A salesman's dummy for this polar work on the dispute between Peary and Cook over who discovered the North Pole. The sample indicates that the complete work contains over 100 illustrations, most of which are "authoritative photographs," and further states, "You have the assurance that 'FINDING THE NORTH POLE' is an authoritative work, by its Distinguished Authorship." Blanks for subscribers are included at the back, though several have been cut out (presumably those with names on them). An interesting artifact from the polar craze of the early 20th century. Unpaginated. Original green pictorial publisher's cloth, stamped in red, gold, and blue. Spine ends worn, corners bumped, lightly soiled. Good.

First Edition. Salesman's sample-book, also known as a canvassing book or salesman's "dummy," reproducing only a portion of the text and illustrations. 12mo (20cm). Publisher's red gilt-pictorial cloth, irregularly paginated; text illus. Red spine sample stamped in gilt and black on rear board; alternate blue cloth binding sample laid down inside rear board. A tight, clean example with some mild external rubbing; a few pencil notations to contents pages, correcting chapter titles; advert leaf inserted after text, with followed by 12 ruled blanks at rear for recording orders (unused). Ownership stamp of a "W.A. Wagner" to front endpapers.

Illustrated in color. Each panel approx. 7-1/2 x 2 inches, mounted on stiff board in a black portfolio with snap closures as issued. Fine.

Condición: Otherwise very good condition. A large salesman's sample book of "Birthday and Everyday Line of Greeting Cards B-A-L-A-N-C-E-D to give you more sales and profits." Forget-Me-Not Greetings was a division of American Greetings Corp. from 1939-2000. American Greetings started in 1906 as Sapirstein Greeting Card Co. and was not renamed 'American' until 1939. American Greetings has had family in directorial roles since it began in 1906, and is the 2nd largest greeting card company behind Hallmark. Thick, Folio, 13 1/4 x 15 1/2 x 4", Color title page on card, advertisment on verso , contents page with price list ,102pp, with 3 to 8 card samples on every page. Colorful cards mounted on gray card stock bound in a thick red binder, cover detached. Cards in very good condition. One card missing from the first page.