Preparing for an Uncertain Climate, 2 Volumes
Washingtion D. C.: Office of Technology Assessment, 1993. Wraps. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Soft Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 359,383 pages, index, maps, graphs, charts and photographs. Corner creased on volume one. Light scuffing to both books. Previous owner's name inked on ffep of vol. one.
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Morelto Liquid Chocolate: Tested Recipes
London: Choclate Products, Co. Original Wraps. Good/No Dust Jacket as Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.
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Tommy Dorsey, inscribed Photography
8" x10" inscribed photograph. "To Julius, Sincerely, Tommy Dorsey." Because of his early death at age 51 signed photographs are relatively uncommon.
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Tommy Dorsey, Signed Napkin Adam Springs Hotel Undated
Boldly signed by Tommy Dorsey on a folded cloth napkin of the Adam Springs Hotel in California where the big bands played, booze flowed even under prohibition and gambling was wide open until 1949. Besides Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Freedy Martin, and others played at their large outdoor dance pavilion. The bar and restaurant were opened around the clock which made it a favorite rendezvous location for celebrities.
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Mezz Mezzrow Signed Note, December 17, 1959
a 9 1/2" x 5 1/2" note signed by Mezz Mezzrow "For the Hotel la Royale where we had a wonderful time in the past (1953), sincerely, Mel Mezz Mezzrow. Legendary for his obesseion with the black experience and the blues along with supplying large quantitites of marijuana to his friends, he was a good jazz musician but financed the important recording sessions for Sidney Bechet and managed Louis Armstrong. He started his own record... Read More
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[Photograph] The Ladies of Llangollen Card
Very Good. [Sarah Ponsonby; Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler]. The card issued ca. 1930 measures 2 !/2" x 4" and shows them at table with their books, china and cat on a chair. The original painting by Richard James Lane in 1887 now hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. There is another more common card showing them in black dresses and top cats which is also available. The controversial Ladies of Llangollen are often viewed as committed lesbians. Anne... Read More
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Rousby, Clara Marion Jessie (1852?-1879), actress, CDV of her in Role as Joan of Arc
CDV, c187-? by S. Ayling. On 10 April 1871 she was, at the Queen's, Joan of Arc in Taylor's play so named. In this she looked very handsome in armour, and came on the stage on horseback. Her impersonation of the character was lacking in dignity. A scene in which she was shown tied to the stake, the faggots being lighted, caused by its painful realism much protest. The audience thought she was actually on fire. There is a... Read More
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[Photograph] Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) , carte De Viste
(The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company London, 1862). Very Good. One of the most important CDV's for the 1862 International Exhibition. What made CDV's was that they were ideal for collectors as opposed to those earlier photographs printed on card stock and consequently were more durable and did not have to be pasted into a scrapbook to protect. Dickens, Longfellow, and Hans Christian Anderson were among the most popular. This is an early image and was intended for... Read More
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[Photographs] German Prisoner of War Photographs, 1945-46 (12 cards); Camp Pittsburgh
Approx. 3 5/8" x 2 1/2" These photographs show the German POW's at Camp Pittsburgh. Once the Allies secured the French harbor Le Havre, they began to create a ring of camps as staging area for new troops. In the meantime, they created "Cigarette Camps" in the interior for German troops. While the camps were named for the various brands (so that the Germans would not know which area were referred to in radio transmissions), the POW camps were... Read More
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Eddie Rosenwal Photograph, Electric Violin
. 8" x 10" sepia photograph of Eddie Rosenwald who in 1939 began playing the Vega Electric Violin. The Boston listeners to the radio program enjoyed the sound and it soon became a popular instrument to add to sound recordings. Eddie Rosenwald influenced Scotty MacLean to use it in his playing at the Hotel Victoria in New York. Soon a number of Jazz musicians used it and by the late 1960's Pape John Creach and Doug Kershaw were using... Read More
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The Boers and the British; a History of the Events Leading to the Hositilies in South America
Melbourne and London: A.N. Smith, 1899. Original Paper Wrps. Fragile. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 139p. Map is laid in. The account is contemporary on the event of the Boer War. Spine has been reglued, clipped corner but text is clean and housed in clam shell box.
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The Daily Okinawan (April 6, 1946); Army Day Issue
4p. A nice copy with only light wear along outer edges. Besides announcing Army Day and the end of KP, notes pilots are working with atomic bomb test using drones. Comic strips include "Blondie" "Donald Duck", "Li'l Abner" and Dick Tracy. Sports page notes the big money being offered by the Mexican League to Major League ballplayers (Max Lanier and Lou Klein were among those who accepted) and photograph of Marty Marion of the St. Louis Cardinals discussing gloves... Read More
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The Daily Okinawan (March 25, 1946)
Okinawa, 1946. 4p. A nice copy with only light war along outer edges. Issue has headline: Truman Postpones Bomb Tests [due to international pressures); Gen. Lao Donovan declares Okinawa Day. Sports page predicted that Cards vs Yankees would be in 1946 World Series (It was Cards vs Red Sox actually). A small photo of GI receiving a bath from a Geisha girl and receiving tea at the same time (comments "Kansas was... Read More
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The Leland and LaRita Boren Western Art Collection
Upland, Indiana; (2008): Avis Corporation. Oblong Quarto. 360p. Index of Artists and Works of Art. Profusely illustrated rich art of Joe Beeler, James Boren, Charlie Dye, and a variety of fine Western and Indian artists.Baound in white cloth lettered in gilt, a fine pristine copy in fine pristine pictorial dust jacket.(just out of shrink wrap).
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[photograph] THE MARCH OF 10,000 WOMEN
THE MARCH OF 10,000 WOMEN WHO MARCHED IN JANUARY OF 1933 IN SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS TO PROTEST THE MINE OWNERS USE OF CLUBS AND BULLETS TO STOP UNION ORGANIZING Large 8 1/2;" x 12" wire photograph of the women leaders of the Progressive Miners of America who marched and met with Governor Horner in Springfield, Illinois. A very nice copy in large format. Horner agreed to work to provide relief for the miners in the state. The woman who organized... Read More
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The R.O.T.C. Manual; Calvalry; a Textbook for the Reserve officers Training Corps, 2nd Year Advanced, Volume IV, 4th Edition
Harrisburg, PA. (1942): The Military Service Publishing, 1942. 458p. The first (and last) issue which deals with the attack on Pearl Harbor but on page. 192 both the caputre of Guam and Wake Island are noted, though the Bataan Peninsula fell in April and the fortress at Corregidor surrendered in may 1942. Although tanks are recognized as essential, the book still defends the Cavalry without recognizing what J.F.C. Fuller and Liddell Hart had demonstrated a decade earlier. Much of... Read More
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Keystone Metal Quarry Catalog, 192
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1929. Hard Cover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 445p. Includes Heisler Locomotive Works, Sanford-Day Iron Works, Harnischfeger Corp on steam shovels, the Thew Shovel company, and many of the suppliers of the chains, Besides many photographs of steam shovels and air compressors, there are all the state of the art items just before the Great Depression. Most libraries have the 1926-1928, only five have the 1929. ... Read More
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Hanson Puthuff, 1875-1972: California Colors
Pasadena: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2007. First Edition. Cloth Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 56p. A pristine copy in pristine dust jacket in protective mylar. He is now recognized as one of the finest landscape painters of California. His work was prominent at the Paris Salon in 1914. His original paintings hang in the Smithsonian and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He and Edgar Payne traveled and spent time at... Read More
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The "E" Emerson High School, Vol, XV
Gary, Indiana: The Class of 1925. Oblong. Later called the Emersonian, it is incorrectly reported in most sources that 1925 was the last year when Emerson High School remained an all-white school. As this yearbook shows, however, there was one black student, Frances Anderson (p. 46), who came in 1922 from Matton, Illinois. The editors of the yearbook report they are glad she had moved to Gary, and noted her skill in elocution including the Lake County Declamation Contest,... Read More
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Collection of Eugene Orflinger, Automobile Parts Supplier, 1913-1915 (21 items)
The 19 items reflect the age of the vintage automobile. Several things are evident from the letters: (1) Each corporation was both aggressive but attempting to emphasize public service even when the customer (as is evident from the correspondent Mr. Dorflinger) in their eagerness to promote sales; (2) Many of these corporations were either very new or had already undergone corporate changes in their history. As an example, Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corporation (see letter of June 15, 1913) had just... Read More
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Les Fleurettes
[Marcilly, Paris], 1836. 2 x 2.7 Cm. 63pp., illustrated with 8 full page illustrations, bound in full gilt decorated red morocco, all edges gilt, lacks front and rear free endpapers, pencil markings on pastedowns. A very good little copy and quite scarce locating only two auction records and only one copy via OCLC. [Welsh, D.V. Miniature books, no. 2840] These little books were primarily published for ladies containing love songs or verses of love.
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Etrennes à L'innocence. Anger, Chocolatier De La Cour a Paris
[Paris}: Np/nd (ca.1820). 1.9 x 2.8 cm. 64pp. (pages 62-64 blank) illustrated with 8 full page engraved plates, contains an almanac, bound in full red pictorial gilt morocco, one chip to from board, and two chips to rear board. [Welsh-2694] Scarce. These little books were mainly published for ladies containing love songs or verses of love. Many, such as this copy, were given away at New Year's to favored patrons of chocolate shops. A very good copy.
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The Dome; an Illustrated Monthly Magazine (Vol. 4, Aug-Oct) Yeats, W.B. "Death Hath Closed
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Small Quarto. 244p. p. 161-166 contains W.B. Yeat's "Death hath closed Helen's eyes" from which comes the line: "beauty is but a flower" and one of his richest Celtic images. Also besides Laurence Housman, a series of short essays on Chopin. Bound in blue cloth lettered and ruled in gilt, spine lettering gilt, all others uncut. Lower rear corner cracked, , minor rubbing to edges. A very good copy. ... Read More
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Original Photograph of a Territorial Williams Arizona Fourth of July Celebration With Staged Gunfight
8 1/2" x 6" photograph circa 1905 during the 4th of July Celebration. Since the large general merchandise story of Jacob Saltzman had been sold to the Babbit Brothers in 1908, it wold place the scene here in the early 1900's. The scene was taken from the balcony of the Grand Canyon Hotel from which most parades and celerbations were taken. Early full size photographs of territorial Williams are uncommon. Both the... Read More
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Punch's Pocket-Book for 1871 Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day in the Year. An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Information
London: Punch Office, (Bradbury & Evans). 12mo. . Folding color frontispiece, full page illustrations and textual illustrations by John Tenniel, C. Keene, L. Sanbourne, etc. in two parts. Lists the government agencies, theatres, exhibitions, the Queen's household Governors of colonies, a cash account for each month, a daily diary or memoranda. The second part gives poetry and some plays and literature to read. Bound in a full pictorial gilt red morocco, wallet style, all edges gilt, diary and account... Read More
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