Arts Rhodesia. No. 1 (1978) Annual
Salisbury: National Arts Foundation of Zimbabwe, 1978. Paperback. Very Good. photos 64p. Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Laid in is a four-page "Index of Arts and Cultural Organization in Rhodesia in 1978." Art, Poetry, Ballet, Drama, Music, etc.
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![Details: United States Embassy Office Building Athens, Greece. Architects: The Architects Collaborative Cambridge ... Engineers: General Engineering Associates, Washington [and] New York](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/895/071/1605071895.0.l.jpg)
Details: United States Embassy Office Building Athens, Greece. Architects: The Architects Collaborative Cambridge ... Engineers: General Engineering Associates, Washington [and] New York
n.p., 1958. Paperback. Good. pages unnumbered (probably 200+ pages of text, specifications, drawings, etc.). Softcover in original stiff wrapper. Bound with two internal metal slides. Contents printed on one side. Quality of reproduction is not great but almost everything except a couple of pages is clear enough to be readable. Two-page cover letter reproduced at beginning from Ammann & Whitney, Architects - Engineers, from their Patission Street address in Athens, which outlines the contents of this volume. ... Read More
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Aviation Book
New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1918. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated. Pictorial front cover. 33cm. Moderate soiling throughout. No Jacket (probably as published).
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Catalogue of a Choice Collection of High Class Water Colors by Distinguished Foreign and American Artists Selected by Henry B. Pettes, Importing Art Dealer, London ... New York ... Paris Now on View at Lecture Room of the Cincinnati Women's Club
n.p., 1900. Paperback. Good. [Exhibition catalog] 8 leaves of plates printed on one side, 38p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Cover has some edge chipping and is almost detached along fold. Contents sound. OCLC locates one copy of this Cincinnati catalog and at least two copies of an also undated catalog (with the same size, pagination and number of plates) for works being exhibited by Pettes at a Boston Gallery. We do not know if the paintings... Read More
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Bushido: An International Journal of Japanese Arms, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 (July, 1979-April, 1980) and Vol. 2, Nos. 1-4 (July, 1980-April, 1981), and Vol. 3, No. 1 (July, 1981)
Honolulu: B & E Enterp[rises, 1981. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations (some color), 48 pages per issue. Softcovers in original wrapper. 26cm. Minor corner creasing on fist issue. First nine issues of this quarterly journal.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes: Far East Weekly Review, Sunday January 11, 1948
Tokyo, 1948. Paperback. Very Good. 16p. Newsprint. 41 cm. Later folds. Moderately browned.
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![Peace and Freedom Party: All the Power to the People. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/737/897/1622897737.0.l.jpg)
Peace and Freedom Party: All the Power to the People. [caption title]
[Los Angeles?]: Peace and Freedom Party, 1968. Very Good. [4]-pages Newpaper format brochure. 29 x 45 cm photos. Brown-toned paper. Horizonal fold. First page promotes their Presidential ticket: Cleaver for President and Peggy Terry of Vice President. Last three pages introduce other California and L. A. County Peace and Freedom Party Candidates.
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Thoughts and Directions for Churchmen Participating in the CORE Demonstration in Chester Friday, May 21, 1965
n.p., 1965. Very Good. Unsigned 3-page photocopied memo for the demonstrators. Stapled at upper left corner. This instruction in non-violent demonstrating in Chester came to us with other material relating to Reverend Lloyd P. Zimmer, a white Episcopalian who served as Urban Missioner for the [Episcopal] Diocese of Philadelphia from 1965 to 1967 (and is quite possibly the person who produced these instructions).
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Illinois Conference on "American Democracy and Racial Minorities
[Springfield?], 1944. Paperback. Very Good. 7p. Softcover. 24cm. Program for conference held June 9, 1944 in Springfield, Illinois.
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An Outline of Game Shooting in Vietnam
Saigon: The Review Horizons, 1958. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 30p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Former owner's namestamp twice on title-page and faintly on front cover. Elephants, tigers, monkeys, etc.
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Boletin De Arqueologia. First 41 issues -- Vol. 1, No, 1 (Enero 1986) thru Volume 14, No 2 (Mayo 1999)
Bogota: Fundacion de Investigaciones Arqueologicas Nacionales. Paperback. Near Fine. (41 issues). photos (some color), illustrations, maps, Softcovers in original wrappers. 24 cm. Issued three times yearly. Seven or eight issues stamped "Rejected Tozzer Library" -- one issue stamped on front cover, the rest are stamped on the first or other early interior page. Spanish text.
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Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi: Primum ab Augusto Potthast digestum, nunc cura collegii historicorum e pluribus nationibus emendatum et auctum
Romae: Instituto Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1960. Paperback. Good. ix, 580p. Warpper. 25cm. Corners dog-eared. Text moderately browned. Text printed on one side of text leaves. Latin text. Additional volumes were published.
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Persecution of the Jews in Russia. Mission House Relief Fund. Liverpool Commission
Liverpool: Egerton Smith & Co., "Mercury" Steam Printing Works, 1882. Paperback. Very Good. 14p. pamphlet. 22cm. Moderate grease stain along right side of back cover and the final (blank) leaf.
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Taluchkino: L'Art Decoratif des Ateliers de la Princesse Tenichef
St Petersbourg: Sodrougestvo, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. 162 photos & illustrations, 77p. Quarter bound (red cloth backed in now rather dry leather). 24 cm. Backstrip scuffed along joints and rather worn at ends. Text moderately browned but otherwise sound and clean. French text. Begins with "Souvenir d'un Voyage a Toluchkino," par N. Roerich at pages 9-[21].
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Pictorial Photography in America 1922
New York: Pictorial Photographers of America, 1922. Hardcover. Good. photos, 97 plus (14)p. adverts. Original cloth backed boards. 28 cm. Cover corners and ends of backstrip rubbed. Light blue chalk marks on back cover. Front endpaper smudged. Contents sound and clean. No jacket. Original edition.
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Hair Jet, Vol.2, No. 4 (Fall 1981)
Ft. Lee, N.J.: S. J. Publications, 1981. Paperback. Good. black & white photos, 66p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Paper used for interior pages looks like newsprint and thos pages are browned (but not too briittle). Lower right corner of front cover gone (3 x 3 cm.) as is another small triangular piece elsewhere on the cover. Quarterly magazine fopcused on African American hair styles and hair care.
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Art Work of New Haven, Connecticut. Published in Nine Parts
Chicago: W. H. Parish Publishing Co, 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 14 leaves text plus 55 black & white plates. Printed on one side. Recently rebound in new quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in leather). All edges gilt. 35cm. No tissue guards present. Scenes and buildings in and around New Haven. An impressive and quite uncommon book.
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A Memorial Volume to Howard Hinton Patron of Art
Sydney and London: Angus and Robertson, 1951. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis, illustrations (some color), dj. 224p. Original cloth. 29 cm. Cover slighlty soiled. Jacket rather heavily chipped along top and bottom edges.
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Naval Economy: Exemplified in Conversations Between a Member of Parliament and the Officers of a Man of War, During A Winter's Cruize: Addressed to the Honorable Members of Both Houses of Parliament, and the Officers of the Royal Navy
London: Printed by John Dean ... for William Lindsell, Wigmore Street, 1811. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 76, 10p. Rebound in modern boadrs. White title labels on backstrip and front cover. 21 cm.
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Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting Held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, On Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863, to Take into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the South
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1863. Paperback. Good. 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Vertical crease. Creasing, chipping and dog-earing on outer corners on back cover and most text leaves. Proceedings of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Freedman's Relief Association.
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Baltimore Patriots & Evening Advertiser, Vol. IV, No. 124 (Tuesday Evening, December 6, 1814)
Baltimore: Munroe & French, 1814. Good. 4-page newspaper. 49 x 33 cm. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). Later horizontal fold. Some edge-wear and browning. Corner tips creased. Full of advertisements and some news. This issue includes three notices offering rewards for runaway slaves: (1) $30 reward for information leading to apprehension of George Emory, a yellow man about 22 years old, formerly stout but now much reduced by ague --last column on third page; (2) $20-40 for... Read More
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Three Fotocromos: No. 102. Una Pulqueria, Tacubaya, Mexico; No. 111. Caballito y Paseo, Ciudad de Mexico; y No. 107. Patio del Hotel Iturbide, Ciudad de Mexico
City of Mexico: Sonora News Company. Good. 24 x 19 cm. Printed captions along edge in lower left corners. Small piece missing from lower edge of No. 102 which also has come minor chipping along edges. Lower left corner missing on No. 107 with loss of part of caption. Minor chipping along edges of No. 111. All three photos have some general creasing and other modest chipping and wear.
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National Anti-Slavery Standard, Vol. XXVI, No. 18, (Saturday, September 9, 1865). Whole No. 1318
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1865. Very Good. Four pages Several folds. 49 x 67 cm. Former owner's name (Mrs. Ewing?). Several later folds. A few portions of the front page have some browning. Important abolitionist newspaper published from June 11, 1840, to April 16, 1870,by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Much of the material in this issue was reprinted from other publications. Page three has: (1) slightly more than a full column for a report from "Our Boston... Read More
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![The Battle of Iwo Jima: D-Day February 19, 1945 [cover title] [but the contents are really about the Battle for Okinawa]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/761/640/1616640761.0.l.jpg)
The Battle of Iwo Jima: D-Day February 19, 1945 [cover title] [but the contents are really about the Battle for Okinawa]
n.p., 1945. Very Good. Stiff black card cover with metal slide binder. 28 cm. The contents printed cheap paper consist of about 56 reports by American correspondents dated between April 1 and May 7 on the Allied invasion of Okinawa. A few of the reports on longer paper have been folded at the bottom to fit in this binder. Correspondents included Leslie Nichols, Don Pryor, Norman Paine, Bud Foster, Milton Chase, Jack Hooley, Tim Leimert, and Joe Hainline... Read More
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Sourdough Sentinel, Volume three, Numbers Six-Eleven (Feb. 9-March 23, 1945)
Fort Richardson, Alaska: [Personnel of Fort Richardson Army Base], 1945. Very Good. Newsprint. Each issue contain eight pages. Small tabloid-sized weekly army newspaper. Approximately 30 x 46 cm. Horizontal fold, perhaps as published. Newsprint still in decent shape with usual browning. Splitting along horizontal fold on first two pages on the Feb. 9 issue.on earliest issue. Some chipping and wear in right right margins. An uncommon WWII era Army newspaper from Fort Richardson, built in the early 1940s... Read More
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