O'brien's (9 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: Poor. No Jacket. Former library book. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Ex-Library.…

Condizione: as new. Wie neu/Like new.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: coNo Jacket. Reprint. One printing date, cover price of 49 cents, pre-barcode. Can be dated by the books advertised on the inside back cover. Very nice condition, clean sharp covers. Pages are tanned but very clean with minor handling wear. No names. Unpaginated. None of my books are remainders, ex-library or book club editions UNLESS specified. Carl and Mary Hauge (illustratore).…

broché. Condizione: Très bon.

Condizione: Very Good. 23 Pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: Edinburgh Review; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Pamphlet. Condizione: Good. Pamphlet 84 Pages, Not marked; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Exhibition Folder with 4 pp., 1 p text, lists 20 oil and 8 watercolors. Rare.

Condizione: Good. One folded printed two-sided sheet measuring 5 x 8 inches. George Oechsner, Manager; also listed are the names Pat O'Brien and Charlie Cantrell. Item in near fine condition with slight soiling and creasing.

Philadelphia: [King and Baird Printers, No 9 George Street], 1839. 12mo. 6½ x 3½ inches. [7], 64, [2, almanac], [2, blank]pp. Notes: collation is irregular. Roan-backed and embossed ribbon cloth. Disbound. Front board detached, spine perished, textblock needs to be resewn. Housed in archival four-flap enclosure. bchbjsd366549 John G. O'Brien (18071858), an Irish-American purveyor of popular medicines in Philadelphia, published a series of business directories between 1839 and 1853, producing about a dozen in total. He outlined the objectives of his Philadelphia directories as follows: ""The plan of this Directory, previous to its publication, was to present to numerous gentlemen of extensive business knowledge, who unanimously expressed their approbation of the peculiar and effective arrangement of the work, as being better calculated to exhibit to Southern and Western Merchants, and other large purchasers from abroad, a more clear and distinct view of the wholesale business community of our city than any other publication heretofore offered to their notice. The light and portable size, and serviceable order of this book, render it at once a convenient and intelligent pocket companion for the stranger, merchant, or business man in Philadelphia, by affording him a ready and desirable guide to all the principal wholesale business houses of the city" (Advertisement)" This present second directory from O'Brien follows what he calls a "first Edition" and "embraces the corrections, rivals, and new firms, commencing with the First of January, 1839" O'Brien meticulously prepared his directory. Wholesale merchants, manufacturers, and warehouses are arranged in numerous categories of foreign and domestic goods. These include imported silk, lace, hose, glove, ribbon, and merino-shawls; hardware and cutlery; grocery and country produce; Liverpool, queens ware, china, plain, and cut glass; variety and fancy brushes and bellows; morocco, buckskin, kid, fancy leather, and parchment; drug, chemical, medical, dye-stuff, paint, oil, varnish, window glass, white lead, apothecaries' vials, and glass furniture; Thomsonian physicians, and medicines; books and stationery; law booksellers and publishers; French and German toys, and variety fancy goods; sheet, bar, rolled iron and steel plus spikes and nails; fancy chairs; feathers; confectionery and fruit; wire-sieve, screen, bird-cage, trap, safe, wire window blind, and paper-mill wire; ship chandlery, cable, rope, and twine; grass, garden, and flower seeds; wig, curl, and ornamental hair; salted salmon, shad, mackerel, codfish, and herring; fancy turners in ivory, boxwood, and bone; and lithographers. Clothing establishments are arranged very particularly according to clothing types. These are further divided according to the "Latest London" and "Latest Parisian" styles: drapers and tailors, hatters, Gentlemen's Boot Makers, ladies' dress makers, ladies milliners, cap and head-dress makers, and ladies boot and shoe makers. Business-to-business services and advertising or printing needs are featured prominently in the directory headings. These include stock and exchange brokers; marine, fire, and life insurances; newspapers (daily, weekly, "penny papers") and periodicals; transportation (steamboat, railroad, stage offices, canals, packets, omnibuses); architects, engravers (bank notes, seals, wood, portraits); type and stereotype founders; general importers; and commission and forwarding merchants. A few advertisements appear, scattered throughout: Swaim's Panacea, P. Thurlow's Manufacturers' Finding-Store (textile making supplies); various packet lines (one giving prices); and two public news reading rooms: J.M. Young's in Northern Liberties (free) and Wm. Spragg & Co. off Chesnut Street. A valuable resource for historians, genealogists, and scholars of American material culture in the mid-Atlantic region following the Panic of 1837. OCLC: LCP, NYPL, University of Delaware, Clements Library. Imp.…