Journal of the American Musicological Society, Volume 53, Number 3 (Fall 2000)
Paperback. Very Good. pp. 462-69. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Includes "The Early Life and Career of the "Black Patti": The Odyssey of an African American Singer in the Late Nineteenth Century" by John Graziano, pp 543-597.
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The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games Melbourne: A Guide to the Exhibitions with Introductory Commentaries on the Arts in Australia
(Melbourne): Olympic Civic Committee of the Melbourne City Council (for the The Olympic Organising Committee), 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color frontis, photos (black and white), 196p. Original Blue cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacket has modest chipping at corners and and around ends of backstrip. Some browning on endpapers. An uncommon Olympic item.
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Sredneaziatskii Etnograficheskii Sbornik. [Volume] I.
Moskva: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1954. Hardcover. Good. This volume only. 2 folding maps and charts, 2 color plates, text illustrations, 412p. Original cloth. 26cm. Some cover fading and soil. No Jacket. Russian text. Trudy instituta etnografii im. N. N. Miklukho-Maklaia, tom XXI.
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La voie du salut = Ti dele i atin
Londres: Societe pour la distribution des Saintes Ecritures, 1950. Paperback. Fine. 61p. Original red wrapper. 15cm. Bible verses in French and Baoule.
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Indianapolis
New York: Wittemann Bros, 1883. Near Fine. 18 illustrations of Indianapolis printed on one side of a paper strip which folds accordion-style to form 18 leaves inside a thin oblong brown binding. 13 x 8.5 cm.
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Hartford Peoples Press, No. 3 ( Friday, Oct. 23, 1970)
Good. photos and political cartoons, 16p. Tabloid/underground newspaper format. 30 x 44 cm. Uniform browning. Later off-center horizontal fold. Ballpoint (blue ink) scribble on front page. Some wrinkling and other wear. No publication information. Leftist publication which we have not seen before. We don't know how many issues were published. Pro Black Panthers and Power to the People. Anti police, Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew was scheduled to be at a fundraiser at the... Read More
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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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Sugar '69
Quezon City: National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 80p. Softcover in original wrapper. 34cm. Sixth year of publication.
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The United States of America, a Collection of Facts, Dates and Statistics, respecting the Government, Army, Navy, Diplomatic Relations, Finance Revenue, Tariff, Land Sales, Homestead and Naturalization Laws, Debt ... to be Preseented to Each Purchaser of Watson's New Map of the United States
New York: Gaylord Watson, 1874. Hardcover. Very Good. 104p. plus [1]p. advertisement at end for watches sold by Benedict Brothers in New York City. Original thin purple cloth binding. 23cm. Edges rubbed and some other cover wear. Minor foxing.
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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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![Peoples of the Central Cameroons: Tikar by Merran McCulloch; Bamum and Bamileke by Margaret Littlewood; [and] Banen, Bafia, and Balom by I. Dugast](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/694/803/1621803694.0.l.jpg)
Peoples of the Central Cameroons: Tikar by Merran McCulloch; Bamum and Bamileke by Margaret Littlewood; [and] Banen, Bafia, and Balom by I. Dugast
London: International African Institute, 1954. Paperback. Good. folding map inside back cover, index, 174p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Front and back covers detached. Contents sound. "File Copy" written in upper right corner of front cover. Ethonographic Survey of Africa. Western African Part IX.
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Dacia: Revue d'archeologie et d'Histoire Ancienne. (1999-2001)
Bucarest: Edituraa Academiei Romane, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good. 393p. Yellow boards. 29cm. Articles in various Western languages, (we noticed, French, German and English).
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The Student's Practical Dictionary Containing English & Urdu Meanings and Hindustani Words with English Meaning, together with a List of Latin and Greek Words and Phrases with their English and Urdu Equivalents in Persian Character
Allahabad: Ram Narain Lal Beni Madho, 1960. 13th ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 710p. (English-Urdu), 667p. (Urdu-English). dj. Thick 25cm.
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Modern Ideas in Printing. Volume Five. Sessions 1924-5
Adelaide, South Australia: Printers Trade School, n.d.. Paperback. Good. illustrationg and photos (one folding), unnumbered pages (about 50 plus a few tissue guards). Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Several reglued sections along rather worn backstrip. Contents sound and clean.
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The Southern Patriot. Five issues: Vol. 22, No. 9 (November, 1964); Vol. 24, No. 8 (September, 1966); Vol. 24, No. 9 (October, 1966); Vol. 24, No 10 (November, 1966) and Vol. 24, No. 11 (December, 1966)
Louisville: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc, 1966. Very Good. Five miscellaneous 4-page issues of this monthly newsletter/newspaper. 42cm. Minor foxing. Later folds, probably for mailing or storage. The Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), regarded by many as Far Left, was dedicated to ending racism, poverty and other injustices in the South and opposed war as an instrument of national policy. It was supportive of SNCC and other Civil Right efforts. The Southern Patriot, appearing 10 times a year... Read More
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Catalogue of the Australian Exhibition February 1---26, 1938 Held on The Lower Ground Floor of the Commonwealth Bank Martin Place Sydney February 1-26, 1938.. Open from 10:30 A.M. to 9:30 P.M.
Sydney, 1938. Paperback. Very Good. 4 photos (on 2 leaves), 63p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Some cover fading and spotting. At head of title: Austrailia's 150th Anniversary Celebrations. Exhibition catalog. 679 items are listed, including numerous painting and other works of art.Broadside sheet laid in which lists short lecturettes which were scheduled to be delivered at about 8:15 pm each day of the exhibition.
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Sammlung der Republik, Heft Nr. 1
Paperback. Fair. Sammlung der Republik, Heft Nr. 1. 64p. No separate wrapper present. 23cm. Browned and rather worn. German text. We're not sure what this German-language item is but it contains "Der Europaische Frage" by Karl Steinfeld (Teil I) followed by "Analysen und Prognosen" by Otto Heldra (Teil II) and may have been published in Lindau.
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Voks Bulletin, No. 7-8 (1949)
Moscow: U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. 84p. Original wrapper. 27cm.
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The Australian Artist, Volume 1, Part 1. Part One: Drawing
Melbourne: Victorian Artists Society, (n.d.). Paperback. Very Good. 57p. Softcover in original wrapper. 25 cm. Announced as a quarterly published by the Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne. Three parts appear to have been published, all in 1948.
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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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Frohliche Tage
Reading, Pa: Pilger-Buchhandlung, n.d. [19th century]. Paperback. Good. Illustrated. Thin flexible card wrapper (tips of lower corner chipped). Partially browned. Four center pages detached at stapled. No separate title-page present. German text. A children's book.
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