Landscape Architecture: A Quarterly Magazine. Volumes 39 and 40 (October, 1948 to July, 1949) -- each containing 4 quarterly issues
Boston: American Society of Landscape Architects, 1950. Hardcover. Good. photos, vii, 204, [1], viii, 196p. Rebound in red library buckram. 27cm. Ex lib. (bookplate and perforated stamp for St. Joseph's Public Library). Internally sound and clean. Text generally double-columned. Original wrappers not preserved.
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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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The Sunshine Liberation Celebration New Haven ... May 15th 16th 17th
New Haven, 1970. Very Good. Broadside probably for posting or just handing out. 28 x 22 cm. Corner crease. "This is an invitation to a celebration, which we are doing at cost, because there was no way to do it for free. Any inadvertent profit will go toward future free celebrations. Tickets are available for $2.50 in advance and $3.00 at the gate. May 15th, 16th, 17th." Someone has dated this in blue ink as 1970. We were... Read More
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The Customs Service of the Port of New York, Historical and Commercial Illustrated: A Souvenir of the Wall Street Home of the Most Important Collection District of the Federal Govenment
n.p., 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits, advertisements, 128p. Original red, white and blue cloth. 26 cm. Endpapers cracking along hinges. Minor cover soil. Neither author nor publisher is identified.
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32nd Annual American Indian Artists Exhibition, Philbrook Art Center, May 8 - July 3, 1977
Tulsa: Philbrook Art Center, 1977. Paperback. Very Good. black & white illustrations, (16) unnumbered pages. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm.
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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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Engishiki kenkyu = Studies for the Engishiki. Vol. [or No.] 1 (1976)
n..p., 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 105p. (many folding). Softcover in original blue wrapper. 26 cm. Japanese text; brief summary in English on two unnumbered leaves at end. We don't know how often or how long this unusual periodical was published.
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Rand McNally & Co.'s Indexed County and Township Pocket Map and Shippers' Guide of Rhode Island Showing All Railways, Cities,Towns, Viliges, Postoffices, Lakes, Rivers, etc. Corrected to Date
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co, 1892. Paperback. Very Good. folding map (inside back cover), 30p. Softcover in original light brown wrapper. 17 cm. Clean copy.
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Coming! A Colored Novelty Worth Booking REGENERATION: All Colored Cast. A Romance of the Southern Seas. Gripping Story! Romantic Setting! All Colored Cast! "A GIrl, a Man, Cast Upon an Uninhabited Island, a Garden of Eden. Then The Serpent -----
Jacksonville, Florida: Norman Film Manufacturing Co, 1923. Near Fine. Bifolium of four printed and illustrated pages. 30 cm. Two horizontal folds enabling this to fit in a business-sized envelope. Richard E. Norman, a white Floridian, is best known for the "race" films for African Americans which his company (Norman Film Manufacturing Co.) made between 1919 and 1928. This promotional item promotes five such films: (Regeneration -- on the first page; Zircon -- on the two center pages; and... Read More
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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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The Chicago Jewish Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Fall, 1942)
Chicago: Benjamin Weintroub, 1942. Paperback. Good. illustrations, 100p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Text double-columned. Cover lightly spotted. Edited by Benjamin Weintroub. First issue of this quarterly magazine which ceased with Vol. 27, No. 3 (Spring, 1969). This inaugural issue includes "Nazi Science," by David P. Boder at pages 23-29.
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Revista nacional de cultura.; Thirty consecutive issues: Nos. 139-178 (marzo -abril 1960 - noviembre-deciembre 1966)
Caracas: Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1960. Paperback. Good. Original wrappers. Condition varies. Spanish text. A few issues are double or triple numbers.
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Catalogue 26. The Two Russian Revolutions: An Exceptional Collection of Old and Rare Journals, Books, and Pamphlets Mainly from the Libraries of Leon Bernstein and Boris Souvarine: Offered for Sale at Dekker & Nordemann's Antiquarian Department
Amsterdam: Dekker & Nordemann's Antiquarian Department, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 188p. Wrapper. 26cm. Cover corners creased. The 1188 items listed were offered for sale as a collection. Laid in is a separate folded 4-page leaflet listing prices for those items which were available individually for purchase.
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Escuela de suboficiales `Sargento Cabral.: Recuerdos de mi vida de aspirante. Campo de Mayo 1946. [cover title]
1946. Hardcover. Good. 53 unnumbered pages printed on one side. Tied boards. Oblong (31 x 22 cm.). Cover worn around edges and also scuffed. No Jacket. Spanish text. Signed with inscriptions by some of the participants.
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Zimbabwean Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 1995)
Avondale, Harare, 1995. Paperback. Good. 32p. Softcover in original wrapper. 42 cm. Newsprint. Heavy later horizontal fold. Quarterly periodical. Edited by Crole Pearce. Ceased with v. 4, no. 3 (July/Sept. 1998).
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Oorlog om de Volksiel: Referate Gelewer by Internasionale Simposium oor Kommunisme, September 1966 -- Pretoria
Joubertpark: Nasionale Raad teen Kommunisme, 1967. Paperback. Good. photo, 223p. Wrapper. 22cm. Afrikaans text.
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Lightning: Its Causes and Effects Familiarly Explained
New York: American Sunday-School Union, 1842. Hardcover. Good. frontis, 35p. Original quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in black leather. 15cm. Joints rubbed and front joint splitting at top. Stain in upper right corner on last two-thirds of leaves. Someone has written in pencil on title-page "by Julia Ann H. Sill" but we have been unable to locate such a person or find out anything else about the author.
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Vita di Sixto V Pontefice Maxime Extratta dalla Biblioteca Borghese nell' anno del Signore 1730 -- ricopiata nell' agosto 1844 -- ricopiata in Maggio 1885. [Statement on leaf preceding the text]
n.p., 1885. Hardcover. Good. Handwritten in longhand. 336p. (the last four hand numbered leaves are an index to the manuscript). Contemporary quarterbinding (patterned paper-covered boards backed in green leather). 22 cm. Leather on backstrip sunfaded to a greenish brown. Covers scuffed and rather heavily worn around edges. Contents sound. Inner margin almost nonexistent suggesting that this copy was bound after it was written. The test appears to be quite readable, although perhaps with some effort (and magnification) since... Read More
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Asemka: A Literary Journal of the University of Cape Coast, No. 6
(September 1989), 1989. Paperback. Good. 97p. Wrapper. 21cm. Labels removed from wrapper.
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Republica et status Regni Hungariae [bound with] Iosiae Simleri Vallesiae et Alpium descriptio
[Lugduni Batavorum]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. bound in 1. 2 engraved title-leaves, 330, [4], 377, [7]p. Old vellum which has been inexpensively rebacked in vellum which is also far from recent. 11 cm. Inked titling on backstrip. Numerous errors in pagination. Engraved title-leaves fragile with some chipping. Contents generally rather fragile with numerous small tears, some age-toning, soiling, and other wear. No blanks or rear free endpaper. Josias Simmler was the author of the... Read More
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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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The Southern Workman, Vol. XLVI, No. 12 (December, 1917)
Hampton, Va: Hampton Institute, 1931. Paperback. Very Good. pp. [651]-696. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. The lead article in this issue is "The Driven People," by Flora Iliff (pages 657-662) which is about the Winnebago People who were displaced from their fertile lands in Wisconsin and moved again and again. A note on pages 691-692 reports on a concert in Des Moines, Iowa, before an audience of 3800 people by officers from the "Colored Officers Training Camp"... 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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Gedenkboek van de Vrijmetselarij in Nederlandsch Oost-Indie 1767-1917
's-Gravenhage: G.C.T. van Dorp & Co, 1917. Hardcover. Good. photos & illustrations, 694p. Original cloth. 33 cm. Joints and edges rubbed (some fraying and modest splitting). Age-toned. No jacket. Dutch text.
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Modern Industry of Japan, 1938
[Tokyo]: Nippon Superior Products Association, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. black & white photos, 209p. Original decorated cloth. 26cm. Cover slightly warped. No Jacket.
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