TAFEU!; Receipt to manufacture 1 cart load of Dodge Hayward's Land Dressing, worm and insect killer
Mast Yard, NH: Hayward, 1870. Single leaf.
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FOLK SONGS OF THE NEW PALESTINE; First Series 3: "The Builders" , "Bring the Bricks, Havu L'venim," Arranged by Kurt Weill and "Day After Day, Gam Hayom" arranged by Darius Milhaud. English translations by Harry H FEIN
New York: Masada, Youth Zionist Organization of America and Hechalutz Organization of America, 1938. First Edition. sheet music, cream colored front cover with black printing, pp. 8. self wraps. a very good copy. The two songs are arranged for voice with piano accompaniment, with a full page description by Dr. Hans Nathan, Hebrew Text, and English translations.
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THE STORY OF NELL GWYN and the SAYINGS OF CHARLES II
London: Gibbings, 1903. Small 8vo, pp. 211. Index, 8 illustrations. Related and collected by Peter Cunningham with the author's latest corrections and all the original illustrations. Cover somewhat soiled, spine sunned o/w VG. The English actress acted in Dryden's plays.
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DREAM OF THE HIGHWAY:; 5 Kansas and Missouri poets
Cambridge, MA: West End press, 1979. First edn, paper wraps. 8vo, pp. unnumbered. Little stained, o/w VG. Poets are Tom James, Jamie Jacks, Tome Page, Kathy Turner and Fred Whitehead.
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PROFILE | FULL FACE; a small anthology of poems by Bowers, Cambridge, Conelly, Davis, Gunn, Kennedy, Leopold, Ritter, Salter, Shaw, Steele
Hatfield, MA: The Van Zora Press, 2001. First Edition. 9vo, 24. Little worn printed wraps. Inscribed "With best wishes by Wm Conelly | 3/27/02". A scarce chapbook.
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PLAYS OF THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE MUSICAL STUDIO
NY: Brentano's, 1925. First Edition. 8vo, various pagination. Five plays, featuring Aleko by Rachmaninoff. English translations by George and Gilbert Seldes. Introduction by Oliver Sayler. Minor soiling. o/w VG.
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SOROSIS. ONE HUNDRETH ANNIVERSARY 1868-1968
NY: Sorosis, 1968. 8vo, pages not numbered. Heavy paper, sewn, with a gold cord and tassell as decoration. Cover slightly soiled, o/w a nice copy. A program for a celebratory breakfast held at the Empire Room of the Waldorf-Astoria.
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CONSTANTINE
Chemin des Touristes. Booklet of 20 monochrome postcards. Tan paper wraps, front missing. O/w VG.
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A MEMOIR OF HARRIET WARE; first superintendent of the Children's Home, in the city of Providence
Providence: George H. Whitney, 1850. First Edition. 12mo, pp.151. Engraved portrait, Original cloth, some stained, a very good copy. With the ownership signature of "Lizzie Moore | Children's Home | Providence, RI | May 18, 1864." The children's home movement was popular throughout the country. Women purchased or made two articles of clothing to share with needy children.
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A COLLECTION OF AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC 1841 to 1860; 144 separate items, most removed from bound volumes
Most are in very good condition. Titles include: When the Moon on the Lake is beaming; "Resignation", words by H. W. Longfellow, "The Snow" words by Charles Lamb; Air du Stabat Mater, Cujus Animam de Rossini by F. Liszt; and much much more.
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The Theatre Annual 1951; (Volume IX)
NY: Theatre Library Association, 1951. 8vo, pp. 71. Information and research in the Arts and History of the Theatre. Illustrated. Includes article by George Odell. and stage sets by Donald Oenslager. Wrappers. VG.
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TO THE VOTER
[Evanston, Il: W,C,T.U., 1910. A Poem of 8 lines: " Which of your boys do you intend | Shall stand in the footprints of ruined men? ..." Fine.
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FORM OF ADMISSION AND STANDING RULES; of the First Congregational Church, Charlemont, Mass. Adopted January 20, 1866
Greenfield, MA: Franklin, 1866. First Edition. 12mo, 20. sewn self wraps, a good copy.
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MODERN SCANDINAVIAN PLAYS
NY: Liveright and American -Scandinavian Found, 1954. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 366. Very nice copy in chipped and yellowed dj. Plays by Strindberg, Munk, Sveinbjornsson and Kielland.
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SHEET MUSIC FROM 1910-1919
Various, 1910. 4to, pp. varies. 149 items; almost all are songs from musical comedy, but there are a souvenir booklet from the New York Hippodrome dated 1911, a booklet Chants de Soldats (in French) from 1917, and Lawrence Wright's Song Annual. Most have pictorial wraps, often with photos of the performers. Some splitting at back fold, a little chipping, but condition generally VG.
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL TEMPERANCE CONGRESS,; held in the Broadway Tabhernacle, New York, Wednesday and Thursday, June 11th and 12th,1890, from stenographic reports and author's manuscripts
NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1891. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 406. Bound in blue cloth (hinges neatly repaired, closed tear to the final leaves), a very good copy. This includes a wide range of speeches and reports about the morality of temperance, the tactics to be used to enforce it, poitical considerations, etc.
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THE TEMPERANCE VOLUME; embracing the Temperance Tracts of the American Tract Society
NY: by the Society, 1834. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 17 tracts, each individually paginated. Bound in original leather backed boards, front cover very loose, some light pencil holograph on the endpaper. Little toning, but a good copy. The articles are: Benjamin RUSH, "The Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the human body and mind;" "History of Peter and John Hay;" On the Traffic of Ardent Spirit;" The Rewards of Drunkenness; The Well-Conducted Farm; Johnathan KITTREDGE, Address on the Effects of... Read More
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BERNARD SHAW RESEARCH No.2
Tokyo: Japan Bernard Shaw Society, 1992. 8vo, 51pp. Pamphlet. In Japanese. Wrappers. Fine.
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Jack Lemmon.; The Sixteenth Annual American Film Institute Life Achievement Award Souvenir Program. March 10, 1988
AFI, Calif, 1988. 4to, pp 88. Illustrated throughout. Program honoring the actor. Many stills. Hirschfeld portrait on front cover. Paper wraps, a very good copy.
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REED WHITTEMORE ISSUE OF "VOYAGES"; File of material from the making of the issue
Voyages" a national literary magazine, based in Washington, DC issued its Reed Whittemore in the Spring of 1970. What we are offering is the magazine file for the issue. Included are several letters from Whittemore to editor William Claire (one, signed, but from a dictating machine), another is a short note but including 4 original photos of the author. another is a 2page ALS, about material he wishes to present for the issue, Included are serval typed manuscripts: "Summary... Read More
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HANDBOOK TO PARIS AND ITS ENVIRONS
London: Ward Lock, 1921. Eleventh edn. Small 8vo, pp. 224. VG; cover little worn and faded. Maps intact. Includes Versailles.
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WORKING WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE UNION,; Fourteenth Anniversary of the ... at Chichering Hall ... November 22, 1877
[Small card 5 x 3 in.] Printed on both sides. The front offers the notice of the meeting to be chaired by Samuel Willets and the order of excises. The verso lists the purpose of the organization and the board of directors. The union was established for the protection of working women, by furnishing legal information, enforcing the laws, collecting of withheld wages, and striving to obtain suitable work for struggling women.
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RADCLIFFE COLLEGE.; With drawings by John Albert Seaford
Boston: Humphrey, 1913. Large 8vo, pages not numbered. Donor's presentation onflyleaf, cover little stained and worn, o/w VG. A short istory and description of Radcliffe, with drawings of various buildings associated with the college.
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RICORDO DI GENOVA
1905. VG, cover little worn. Fan-fold series of photographs of Genoa, including a panorama of the city and its harbor. Photos have explanatory text in Italian, French, English and German on backs.
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A PLACE NOT FORGOTTEN; Landscapes of the south from the Morris Museum of Art. Essays by William W. Freehling, Jessie Poesch, and J. Richard Gruber with additional contributions by Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, John Egerton, James Baker Hall, Sally Mann, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ed McClanhan, Robert Morgan, Gurney Norman, Chris Offutt, Estill Curtis Pennington and Sarah Tate
Lexington: University of Kentucky Art Museum, 1999. First Edition. 4to, 82. Green pictorial wraps. Signed by Berry on the title-page. Freedman B-68. Includes essays and photographic reproductions. One inch "splotch" on the rear cover, o/w a fine copy. Berry's article is on pp. 42 & 43.
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