Miniature Advertising Calendar for Bunde & Upmeyer
by Bunde & Upmeyer, Jewelers. Stationary Department
S. l. (Milwaukee, WI): By the author, 1901. Very good. Miniature calendar; single card stock sheet, folded, pp. [4]; 2 1/8 x 1 1/2; gilt-and-chromolithograph illustration of a glass of wine, a wine bottle and a bunch of grapes; tiny crease to lower corner; a few numbers underlined in manuscript; overall in very good condition. Founded in the 1880s by Louis W. Bunde (1858-1936), the company would become one of the premiere jewelers, watch-makers, and stationers in Milwaukee at... Read More
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Krik (Scream)
by Bunin, I. (Ivan)
S. l. (Berlin): Slovo, 1921. First Edition. Good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [10], 11-273, [1]; rebound in red buckram with manuscript title to spine; faint rubbed spots to front board verso from a removed bookplate; several bookshop stamps and notes to ffep and title page; leaves a bit brittle and cracking close to hinges; in good condition. The first emigre publication of the first Russian Nobel Laureate in Literature, it was compiled of short stories,... Read More
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Vesnoi v Iudee. Roza Ierikhona
by Bunin, Ivan
Niu Iork (New York): Izdatelstvo imeni Chekhova, 1953. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [5], 8-229, [9]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in green; small nick to tail of spine; minor wear and creasing to corners; light age-toning along margins; very good condition.The last volume of Nobel Prize winner Ivan Bunin's short stories to be published during his lifetime, many of them perfectly showcased his style of writing very short, laconic pieces, as he himself stated that... Read More
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The Pilgrim's Progress
by Bunyan, John
72057593498894288: J. W. Bradley, 1861. Hardcover. Good. Subtitled: "From This World to That Which is to Come; Delivered Under the Similitude of a Dream. To Which is Added a Life of Bunyan, By Himself: or Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners." Beautiful engravings, including two full-page frontis; pp. 531; Condition: Good/Acceptable - original publisher's maroon blind stamped cloth; gilt title to spine. Corners rubbed, some wear to head and tail of spine; several scattered light spots to... Read More
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A Collection of Iconic 1970s Images of New York
by New York Convention & Visitors Bureau
New York: New York Convention & Visitors Bureau, 1970. Near fine. Forty-five glossy, black-and-white photographs, n. d. (1970s); 8 x 10; typed labels with short descriptions affixed to versos; most in fine condition; a few with slight ripples to edges, one with a crease to upper corner; a few of the labels with darkening and spotting; overall in very good to near fine condition. The New York Convention & Visitors Bureau (today known as New York City Tourism +... Read More
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Published in SF [1971]
by Burger, Joanne
Published by the Author, 1972. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 11; pp. 48; stapled wraps; stunning silk-screened illustration to front cover by graphic artists team John and Martha Moore; mimeographed text; faint bend and crease to upper left corner, else very minor wear - very good to near fine condition. Created by Joanne Burger, the first President of the Houston Science Fiction Society and the owner of a vast SF collection, the bibliography contains Science Fiction and related works... Read More
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Speech of Mr. Burges, of Rhode Island, on the Motion to Strike from the General Appropriation Bill the Salary Appropriated for the Minister to Russia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 3, 1831
by Burges, Tristam
Washington DC: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1831. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. [1], 4-53, [1]; self-wraps, stitched, as issued; deckled fore-edge; some creasing and a few small nicks to edges and corners; some spotting and foxing, not affecting readability; overall in very good condition. Tristam Burges (1770 - 1853) was a US Congressman from Rhode Island, served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the state, and lectured as a... Read More
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Burke's Complete Cocktail & Drinking Recipes, with Recipes for Food Bits for the Cocktail Hour
by Burke, Harman Burney
New York / Boston: Books, Inc., 1936. Very good. Second edition (first published in 1934); 6 1/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 5-125; dark-blue leatherette over boards; faded gilt title; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; occsional small spots; in very good condition. Harman Burke, aka Barney Burke was an American bartender, who spent the 1920s and early-1930s in Europe - honing his craft in Berlin, Copenhagen, London, and Paris. Returning to the US after the repeal... Read More
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Burnett's Floral Hand Book and Ladies' Calendar
by Burnett, Joseph
Boston: Joseph Burnett & Co., 1875. First Edition. Very good. First edition thus; 4 1/2 x 3; pp. 1-40; beige pictorial wraps, ruled and decorated in black; faint crease to lower corner of front wrap and several minor spots; in very good condition. Joseph Burnett (1820 - 1894) was an educator, inventor, and businessman - credited with innovating the production of pure vanilla extract in the United States. He also developed several patent remedies, including his famous Cocoaine. The... Read More
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Captain Otway Burns. Patriot, Privateer and Legislator [Signed/Inscribed by the Author]
by Burns, Walter Francis
New York: By the author, 1905. Hardcover. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5; pp. [26], 7-166, [74]; rebacked, with the original pebbled, red morocco over boards preserved; gilt title to spine; a few rubbed spots to corners and edges of boards; blank bookplate to ffep; illustrated with numerous photographic plates; very good condition. Signed and inscribed by the author, Captain Burns' grandson Walter Francis Burns, on the front board verso. Captain Otway Burns (1775 - 1850) was an American privateer... Read More
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'The Book of Thousand Nights and a Night' [Complete in 10 Volumes] together with 'Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights with Notes Anthropological and Explanatory' [Complete in 6 Volumes}
by Burton, Richard F.
S. l.: Privately Printed by the Burton Club. Very good. Complete set of 16 volumes, n. d. (ca 1920s); 9 1/4 x 6 1/2; black cloth over boards; the first 10 volumes printed and decorated in gilt, the other 6 - in silver; each illustrated with portrait frontis; generally mild wear - some of the volumes with a bit of rubbing to gilt and silver; volume I with a small spot to spine; a few small spots to... Read More
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[Agriculture]Home Floriculture in California. Circular 53
by Butterfield, H. M.
Berkeley: University of California College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station, 1943. Soft cover. Good. Revised edition; staple-bound; pp. [1], 3-167, including text to front and back cover verso; original printed wraps; small crease lines to covers; personal name sticker affixed to upper margin of front cover; good. Illustrated with b & w photographs, tables and graphs. The circular explains the climatic divisions of California, garden soils, planting calendar, common ornamental flowers and plants, etc.
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Korotka biohrafiia M. D. Leontovicha (A Short Biography of M. D. Leontovich) [A Speech, Presented at a Giessen DP Camp, on the 28th Anniversary of Leontovich's Death]
by Buzhansky, O.
Giessen: By the author, 1948. Softcover. Typed, loose sheets; pp. [8], recto only; light age-toning; a few carbon paper smudges; very good to near fine condition. Also included is a photo of Leontovich, with a short inscription and an unidentified signature, dated 1949 in Giessen. Mykola Leontovich (1877 - 1921) was a Ukrainian composer, educator, and choral conductor. Inspired by the Ukrainian Nationalist Music School, Leontovich would become known worldwide as "The Ukrainian Bach," for his cappella choral music and... Read More
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"The Great Reformation," a Great Mistake [Signed/Inscribed by Author]
by By a Layman (Pomeroy, Everett)
San Francisco: Press of the James A. Barry Co., 1912. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 342; 1/2 brown morocco and marbled boards; gilt title and ruling to spine; a few rubbed spots to bottom edge of boards; minor wear to spine; very good or better condition. Signed and inscribed by the author on the first blank leaf. Everett Pomeroy (1839 - 1918) was a devout Catholic, author, composer, and a renowned organist. He was also the owner... Read More
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Mr. N. C. Goodwin & Miss Maxine Elliott Souvenir. Season 1899-1900 [Edition De Luxe]
by [by arrangement with] Appleton, George J.
Washington, D. C. : R. G. Craerin, 1899. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; large 4to 9 1/2" x 12 1/2"; unpaginated (pp. 14); original printed wraps, hand-sewn to pages with a thick thread; small closed horizontal cut to fore-edge of front cover; few slight crease lines to corners, else very good or better. Illustrated with drawings by celebrated photographer Marc Gambier and others. A stunning compilation of portraits of actors (and spouses) Maxine Elliott and Nathaniel... Read More
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Sovremennye Predstavleniia o Peredache Nervnogo Protsessa [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Contemporary Concepts of Nerve Signal Transmission)
by Bykov, K. M.
Moscow: Pravda, 1948. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 14; stapled printed wraps; minor rubbing to tips of spine; very good or better. Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers... Read More
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Apostol novitnooho Ukrainstva: Iurii Lipa (An Apostle of Modern Ukraine: Iurii Lipa)
by Bykovskyi, Lev
Zheneva (Geneva): Serpen, 1946. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. 2-8; stapled beige wraps, printed in black; minor wear to corners and tips of spine; in very good to near fine condition. Lev Bykovskyi (1895 - 1974 [?]) was a Ukrainian-American author, bibliographer, librarian, scholar, and co-founder, together with Iurii Lipa and several others, of the Ukrainian Black Sea Institute in 1940 - a research institution, with a focus on the inherent economic... Read More
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Polske povstannia u Varshavi 1944. Spomyny ochevydtsia (Warsaw Uprising in Poland in 1944. Memories of an Eyewitness)
by Bykovskyi, Lev
London: Ukrainskoi Vydavnytchoi Spilky, 1963. Very good. First edition in book form; 9 x 6 1/4; pp. 3-47; off-white wraps, printed and ruled in black; tiny bookplate and signature of previous owner to front wrap and title page - Prof. Alexander A. Granovsky - Ukrainian-American pioneer entomologist and professor at the University of Minnesota; several manuscript corrections to text; in very good condition. Lev Bykovskyi (1895 - 1974 [?]) was a Ukrainian-American author, bibliographer, librarian, scholar, and co-founder, together... Read More
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Spravochnik po Pravopisaniiu I Punktuatsii Dlia Rabotnikov Pechati
by Bylinskii, K. I. and Nikol'skii, N. N.
Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Nauchno-tekhnicheskoe Izdatel'stvo Legkoi Promyshlennosti, 1949. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition (presumed); 5" x 8"; pp. [2], 3-142, [2]; original stiff printed green and beige wraps; small chips to head and tail of spine and a slight closed cut, else very minor wear to covers; very good to near fine. An interesting post-WWII handbook on Russian grammar and punctuation specifically targeting printers and press workers.
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Oliver D. Byron, Supported by the Charming Artiste Kate Byron, in the Funniest and Greatest Play in the World!
by Byron, Oliver D.; et al.
S. l.: By the actor, 1885. Very good. Leaflet, n. d. (ca 1885); 6 1/2 x 4; chromolithographed illustration to recto, text to verso; edges a bit unevenly trimmed and a tiny spot to upper margin; in very good or better condition. Picturing Oliver Byron on top of a stylized globe, with tiny ladies and gentlemen (including an African-American) bunched below his feet, staring up, the leaflet advertised "The Byron Combination" - the actor's newest comedy, which was praised... Read More
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Transmits Report of Ship Bpmbay from Liverpool Excep. of Passengers
by Cake, Joseph (Collector of Customs)
Philadelphia: By the author, 1868. Softcover. Manuscript; 10 1/2 x 8; pp. [4]; written in brown ink on "Custom House, Philadelphia" stationary; a couple of small nicks to edges; age-toning to margins; very good condition. The report, addressed to Charles Gilpin, Esq. of the US District Attorney's Office, describes the arrival of the Ship Bombay from Liverpool, upon which various violations of current laws are discovered - there are 29 1/2 passengers, when only 13 1/2 are allowed, only 12... Read More
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A Public Service Report. The FBI: Tool of the Justice Department
by The Church of Sceintology of California
S. l.: The Church of Scientology, 1978. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 1-12; green wraps, decorated with vignettes of the shields of the Department of Justice and of the FBI; previous owner's signature to half-title page; age-toning along margins of wraps and a few small creases; in very good condition. Begining with: "The Freedom of Information Act may well turn out to be the most stringent safeguard ever placed on Federal agencies... Read More
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Automobile Road Map from Truckee to Chester. Part 1, Truckee to Clio. Part 2, Clio to Chester
by Automobile Club of Southern California
Los Angeles: Touring Bureau Route and Map Service, Automobile Club of Southern California, 1920. First Edition. Very good. Two maps, n. d. (1920); 10 1/2 x 3 3/4; beige card stock, printed in black; small creases to corners; a minor spot to lower margin of one of the maps; very good condition. Early 20th century road maps, they detailed the routes from Truckee, by Lake Tahoe, north to Clio, Plumas County. It also showed rivers, terrain elevations, hotels and... Read More
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The Yosemite Valley, California. Compliments of California Fig Syrup Co., Incorporated
by California Fig Syrup Co.
San Francisco / Louisville / New York / London: California Fig Syrup Co., 1895. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1895); 6 x 3 1/2; pp. [1], 1-20, [1]; stapled wraps with chromolithographs of Yosemite Valley and of Lake Tahoe; illustrated with monochrome photographs; minor wear and age-toning to margins and edges; in very good condition. The California Fig Syrup Company was founded in Reno, Nevada in 1878 with only one product in their inventory -... Read More
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California. Nature's Masterpiece (Signed / Inscribed by Geo S. Walker)
by National Mortgage Company of California
San Francisco / Los Angeles / Etc.: National Mortgage Company of California, 1923. First Edition. Good. First edition; 12 1/2 x 9 1/4; pp. [7], 6-47, [3]; textured, blue wraps with embossed, gilt title; illustrated with numerous sepia photographic images; a bit of wear and creasing to edges; spotting to lower right margin of back wrap; in good to very good condition. Signed and inscribed on the first free leaf by Geo S. Walker - President of the... Read More
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