Filter Books (1900-1940s)

These items are no longer available for sale, but represent examples of inventory previously sold by Sturgis Antiques.
There are 73 total records.
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Bound Year 1921 Femina Full Color Lithograph Covers French Art Deco Fashion Magazine

Bound Year 1921 Femina Full Color Lithograph Covers
Missing March Issue
Missing cover of September but the contents for that month is there.

The magazines has [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$650.00
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*VERY RARE* Rodolphe Festetics de Tolna book Chez Les Cannibales 1903

*A Very Rare and early edition*

Title Page:
"CHEZ LES CANNIBALES. Huit ans de croisiere dans l'Ocean Pacifique a bord du yacht "Le Tolna". Ouvrage [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$1,450.00
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3rd Edition Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony By A. P. Morgan 1919

3rd edition of Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony By A. P. Morgan.
A Practical Treatise on wireless telegraphy and telephony, giving complete and detailed explanations of [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$129.00
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Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Printed 1901 Roycrofters Hardback Ed Rem Peale Ex LIbris

Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, published and printed by Roycrofters East Aurora, 1901.
Ex Libris plate in front by Rem Peale, Rembrandt Peale died in 1860's. [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$225.00
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We Japanese by Frederic de Garis 1934 First Edition Silk End Boards With Clothe Fold Case

We Japanese by Frederic de Garis
Stated first edition, December 1934 with original Blue Cloth Fold Case
Book has glued Title on Gold Colored Silk Soft [...]
Period
1900-1940s
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Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales by Henry S. Whitehead First Ed. Hardback w/ Dust Jacket Arkham House

Jumbee and Other Uncanny Tales by Henry S. Whitehead, 1944 First Edition Arkham House with Original Dust Jacket. Book is limited to 1,559 copies. Last page states: “ [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$235.00
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Toby Press 1949 Al Capp Shmoo Issue #4 page 28 Christmas Shmoo

Toby Press, the small company headed by publisher Elliott Caplin, who was Al Capp’s brother. Toby lasted only from 1949 to mid-1955

The First 5 Shmoo [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$1,900.00
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Original Artist Boards Drawings Toby Press Kokey Koala 1952 Splashy the Platypus 2 Pages

Toby Press, the small company headed by publisher Elliott Caplin, who was Al Capp’s brother. Toby lasted only from 1949 to mid-1955

Circa 1952, Original hand [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$275.00
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Rare Elevator Cars Elevator Entrances. Catalogue No. 56 Cleveland: The Tyler Company 1927

Elevator Cars. Elevator Entrances. Catalogue No. 56. Cleveland: The Tyler Company, 1927

TYLER ELEVATOR COMPANY

4to. Mounted color frontispiece portrait of Washington S. Tyler, numerous color plates [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$225.00
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1920's Erotica Book Plate Hand Colored of Two Women Unsigned Plate Framed

A period Art Deco Book Plate, hand colored and framed in a Decorative frame.
The Art Deco era gave a sense of freedom to many [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$99.00

William Henry Rinehart Sculptor by William Sener Rusk 1939 pub. by Norman Munder Hdbk w/ Slipcase

William Henry Rinehart Sculptor by William Sener Rusk, Published by Norman Munder in 1939.
This RARE edition is limited to 1000 and is signed by Norman Munder [...]
Period
1900-1940s
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1st Edition Arkham House Publisher The Eye and The Finger by Donald Wandrei w/ Dust Jacket 1944

A 1st edition Arkham House Publishing with Dust Jacket of The Eye and The Finger by Donald Wandrei. The Book is in near find condition [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$300.00
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The Hounds of Tindalos by Frank Belknap Long Published 1946 Arkham House w/ Hannes Bok Dust Jacket

When it comes to Horror Science Fiction or Cosmic Horror, Arkham House is one of the best. They had such amazing writers like Henry Wandrie [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$250.00
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Jean Cocteau La Crucifixion Pub by Paul Morihien 1946 Numbered Edition Limited Red Paper Endboards

Red Paper end boards, pub. Oct. Paris 1946, 25 pages plus two pages at the end. Original numbered tag included, 1249 of 1,525 numbered copies.
Pub by Paul Morihien. [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$50.00
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1929 Black Opium by Claude Farrere Trans by Samuel Putnam Illustrated by Alexander King 35/1250

A Hardback edition, limited to 35/1250 copyright 1929 by Nicholas Brown and S. J. Wegman of Black Opium ( Fumee d' Opium) by Claude Farrere.
Translated by [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$60.00
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The Book of Fate Formerly in the Possession of and Used By Napoleon w/ Chart 1927 BY H. Kirchenhoffe

Title: The Book of Fate Formerly in the Possession of and Used By Napoleon Rendered into the English Language by H. Kirchenhoffer from a German [...]
Period
1900-1940s
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H. P. Lovecraft Supernatural Horror In Literature 1945 2nd Ed. Pub. By Abramson w/ DJ

Supernatural Horror In Literature "is a long essay by the celebrated horror writer H. P. Lovecraft surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$70.00
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1st Ed Lives of The Most Remarkable Criminals 1927 Routledge HDBK

A 1927 Reprint of 1735 book Lives of The Most Remarkable Criminals.
This hardback edition is published by John Routledge in London. Edited by Arthur Hayward
Numerous [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$75.00
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Venus Oceanica Hardback Limited Edition The Oceanica Research Press New York

Venus Oceanica
The Sexual Life of South Sea Natives by Professor B. Schidloff
Erotic Rituals of Australian Aboriginals by Doctor H. Basedow
Ethnopornographia by Doctor [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$135.00
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Very Limited Numbered Edition Gullivers Travels 1925 Printed by Robert Gibbings Golden Cockerel Pres

A Very fine two volume set of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, printed by The Golden Cockerel Press at [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$500.00
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Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley 1937 Chatto & Windus London Signed and numbered edition 23/160

A rare signed and numbered edition, 23/ 160 of Ends and Means by Aldous Huxley, published 1937 by Chatto & Windus London in very good shape with minor [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$300.00
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Demonolatry (1595) by Nicholas Remy Limited Edition 673/1275

This is a fantastic edition of Demonolatry by Nicholas Remy published by John Rodker in a limited edition of 1275 with this edition being 673. John Rodker [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$275.00

Malleus Maleficarum translated by Rev. Montague Summers 1948 ed.

The Malleus Maleficarum translated, with an introduction , biography and notes by Rev. Montague Summers. This edition is the stated 1948 edition, first published in 1928. The end [...]
Period
1900-1940s
Price
$110.00