The Historical Register, Containing an Impartial Relation of All Transactions, Foreign and Domestick. With a Chronological Diary ... Volume V. For the Year 1720
London: Printed by H. M. and sold by T. Norris and J. Brooke on London-Bridge, R. Gosling in Fleet-Street, and H. Meers in Black-Fryers, 1721. Fair.. [11], 400, [4], 40p. Hardcover. Lacks back cover. Front cover detached. Backstrip quite worn. 20 cm. Lacks all preliminary leaves preceding title-page. Mostly moderate foxing and browning throughout text. Former owner's name on title-page.
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Sitting in Equity. April Term, 1946. No. 1194-B. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation, Plaintiff, v. United Steelworkers of America, (CIO); Local 1397, United Steelworkers of America, (CIO); J.J. Thomas, H.C. Ford, Elmer W. Trapp, Charles Scharbo, L. Bruce Alexander, Frank W. Casper, John F. Bresko, Andrew Jacobs, Joseph Spinelli, Bernard E. Shields, Howard Davis, John E. Sharpe, Andrew Steiner, Frank Boyle, Nicholas Steiner, Stephen Suto, and John S. Donohue, Defendants
[Pittsburgh]: Printed by Smith Bros. Co, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. 11 parts invidually numbered (ccomplaint, lots of brief, affidavits, injunction bond, opinions, assignment of errors). Tan cloth library binding with leather title labels mounted on spine. 23 cm. "Labor Law Library" stamped in red ink inside front cover. Carnegie-Illinois sought an injunction against certain alleged illegal actions by the striking union. The injunction was granted based on affadavits rather than actual testimony and subsequently upheld on appeal by... Read More
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Ptujski Arheoloski Zbornik; ob 100-Letnici muzeja in Muzejskega drustva
Ptuj: Pokrajinski Muzej, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. photos & illustrations, 636p. Wrapper. 24cm. Slovenian text.
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Littell's Living Age. 12 issues, mostly from November & December, 1873
Boston: Littell and Gay, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. vi, [706]-824, 322-384, 258-640, 706-824, 1-64p. Contemporary 1/2 leather over marbled boards. 23cm. Minor scuffing. All edges marbled. Title-page at beginning misleadingly states that this contains the issues for Oct.-Dec, 1873. This bound volume actually contains the following weekly numbers: 1489-1490 (Dec. 21 & 28, 1872); 1509 (May 10, 1873, Nos. 1534-1539 (Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 and Dec. 6, 1873); and Nos. 1541-1543 (Dec. 20 & 27,... Read More
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El retorno; Pasillo dramatico. Premiado en Los Juegos Florales celebrados en la ciudad de Cardenas, el 10 de Octobre de 1922
Very Good. 10p. Wrapper. A 10-page typescript. 22 x 28cm. Undated. Author not identified. Came to us years ago from the library of Jose Juan Arrom. A play.
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Journal of a Voyage from Boston to Cape Town and on to Calcutta and then to Port Louis (Mauritius)
Good. 124 unnumbered pages from a coverless and untitled portion of an unnamed traveler's journal. First leaf detached and a bit ragged. The rest is divided in two separately stitched sections. Pages measure approx. 13 x 21cm. and generally contain 22-27 lines of writing. Our traveler was not a faithful daily diarist but probably wrote in his journal at least two or three times most weeks. Our portion of the journal begins when he sailed from Boston on... Read More
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Chagall in Jerusalem
New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, 1983. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. illustrations, 191p. Original blue binding. dj. 31cm. Gift inscription.
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The Chicago Afrikan, Volume 1, No. 6 (June/July, 1984)
Chicago: Talking Drums, Inc, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 19p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. A bi-monthly. We don't know how many issues were published.
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![Pioneer: The Magazine of Pioneering in Israel. [First Four Issues]. Vol. I, No. 1 (Aug. 1949); Vol. II, No. 1 (Sept. 1949); Vol. 3, No. 1 (Oct. 1949) and Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1949)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/620/972/803972620.0.l.jpg)
Pioneer: The Magazine of Pioneering in Israel. [First Four Issues]. Vol. I, No. 1 (Aug. 1949); Vol. II, No. 1 (Sept. 1949); Vol. 3, No. 1 (Oct. 1949) and Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1949)
Jerusalem: Youth and Hechalutz Department of the Zionist Organization, 1949. Paperback. Good. Library card binding with these four issues bound in (plus a couple of other Zionist items). Ex lib. (bookplate and several withdrawn stamps from Hamilton College). Some chipping and other wear but still sound.
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Le Livre de Mon Amour. Selections. Translated by A. L.
Paris: Libraire Champes et Cie. New York, 1910. Very Good. 44 leaves printed on one side. Tied internally in limp leather binding. 12cm. We found no bibliographic information about this oddity which appears to have been typed and then reproduced on photostatic paper.
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Pictures of Natural History
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1867. Hardcover. Good. 18 full page color plates including frontis, 48p. Original green cloth with gold lettering and image on front cover. 19 cm. Minor bubbling of cover cloth. Endpaper split along gutters leaving hinges weak. Color plates darkened.
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Artilleriiskii Zhurnal, No. 3 (for March 1879)
S-Peterburg: Tip. "Artilleriiskago Zhurnala,, 1879. Hardcover. Good. folding plate. Odd pagination: ii, [277]-436, 32, [111]-152, [77]-98p. Contemporary leather. 26cm. Backstrip sunned. Covers scuffed and somewhat worn. Contents sound. Russian text. Certification with red consular seal on leaf preceding title-page by the US Consul in St. Petersburg in 1879 that this is the "3 volume of the Artillery Journal of March 1879.
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Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading. (New Series) Vol. II (July-December, 1872)
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 724p. 1/2 leather. 27cm. Extremities rubbed. Includes a contribution at pages 15-17 by Richard F. Burton on Palmyra (which had previously appeared in Cassell's Magazine).
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Le Rappel. Two issues: Nos.689 and 698 (3 and 12 mai 1871)
[Paris], 1871. Good. Each issue seems to have consisted of a single broadsheet with text in six columns on both sides. 48 x 63 cm. when unfolded. Six fold lines (one vertical and five horizontal) where folded for later compact storage. Minor splitting along some folds with modest loss of paper (and a little text) where a couple of the fold lines intersect. This newspaper was founded with encouragement from Victor Hugo by his sons Charles and Francois-Victor... Read More
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The Quarterly Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 (September 1937)
Boston, 1937. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 33p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Bottom edge of front wrapper worn. Large corner crease on back cover.
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Calypso Songs, Volume i, No. 1 (July, 1957)
Derby, Conn: Charlton Publishing Corporation, 1957. Paperback. Very Good. [3]-28, [6]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Modest wear only. Intended to be published quarterly. OCLC locates one copy at Brown University. Brown's entry speculates, as do we, "Ceased after one issue?
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![Negro City and County Directory 1937: Springfield, Mo., Greene Co. Joplin, Carthage, Jasper Co. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/365/791/1514791365.0.l.jpg)
Negro City and County Directory 1937: Springfield, Mo., Greene Co. Joplin, Carthage, Jasper Co. [cover title]
n.p., n.d.. Undated modern reprint. Paperback. Near Fine. (26) unnumbered pages. Black plastic comb binding. 28 cm. Copy of what appear to be front and back covers of "Negro City and Country Directory 1937" on both sides of front cover. OCLC lists several holdings of the directory -- almost all seem to be for a reprint produced in 2000 (perhaps the same reprint we have although we could find nothing to date or identify the publisher of this... Read More
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Greenes Newes both from Heaven and Hell by B. R. 1598 and Greenes Funeralls by R. B. 1594. Reprinted from the Original Editions with Notes Etc by R. B. McKerrow
Stratford upon Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1922. Re-issued reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. index, xii, 96p. Original clorth backed green boards. 22 cm. Front endpaper split at hinge. Modest foxing (heaviest on outer eaves). Moderate cover soiling. No jacket. This reprint was first published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd in 1911 and re-issued by Shakespeare Head Press in 1922.
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Forum de la Literatura Cubana
Habana, 1983. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover in original red cloth. 20 cm. Text browned. No jacket. Spanish text. Contains 8 separately titled and paginated articles.
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Vaudeville Scrapbook
n.p., 1906. Hardcover. Good. 27 gray leaves with information, mostly clipped from promotional material, etc. mounted on both sides of all leaves. Sound but discolored spine-sloped black album. 31 cm. Almost all of the material relates to a wide variety of performers -- singers and other musicians including at least two pairs of blackface minstrels, comedy acts, actors and plays, trick biyclists, acrobats, aerialists, wrestlers, jugglers (including The Tennis Duo -- probably Albrtus and Hawley), trick barrel jumpers,... Read More
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Annales de l'Universite d'Abidjan: Ethnosociologie. 1971. Serie F. Tome 3
Abidjan: Universite d'Abidjan, 1971. Paperback. Very Good. 335p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm. French text. Main article is "Le prophete Harris et la religion harriste," by Rene Bureau (at pages 31-196).
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Cahiers d'Histoire Egyptienne: Histoire - Ethnographie - Documents. = Egyptian History Papaers, Volume XI (1969)
LeCaire: Costa Tsoumas & Co, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. 234p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24cm.
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Landscape Architecture: A Quarterly magazine, Volume 14, Nos. 1-4 (October, 1923-July, 1924)
Brookline, MA: Landscape Architecture Publishing Co, 1924. Hardcover. Good. photos, xi, 302p. Rebound in library buckram. 27cm. Cover soiled. Ex lib, (bookplate and perforated stamp of St. Joseph Public Library). Internally sound and clean. Original wrappers not preserved.
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Sugar '68
Quezon City: National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, 1968. Paperback. Near Fine. 80p. Softcover in original wrapper. 34cm.
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The Baltimore LIterary and Religious Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1835)
(Baltimroe), 1835. Paperback. Good. 32p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume with stitchmarks, etc. along left side). 23 cm. Lacks wrapper. The unsigned lead article (pages [1]-8) in this uncommon periodical is titled "Colonization and Slavery. It at least pretends to support colonization for ending the evil of slavery but expresses doubts about the scale and operation of colonization in practice over the past 14 years and as to the prospects for its better success in the future.... Read More
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