Frantsuzskie Narodnye Skazki [Original illustrations by Dmitrii Mitrokhin]
by [compiled and edited by] Lopyrev, E. A.
Moskva/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Khudozhestvennoi Literatury, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition in this format; 5 1/2" x 8"; pp. [4], iii-xxvi, [4], 3-357, [3]; original yellow pictorial boards, embossed in red and black; minor wear to edges; a few small pen marks to lower margin of front cover; very good. Full-page color frontis; full-page b & w illustrations throughout; lettrines at beginning of each chapter. A charming compilation of old tales, translated from the original French. What makes... Read More
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Solnyshko, Pokazhis'! Krasnoe, Snariadis'! Russkie Narodnye Detskie Skorogovorki, Schitalki, Zaklichki, Igry, Prigovorki
by [compiled by] Naumenko, G.
Moscow: Detskaia Literatura, 1977. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 3-41, [7]; original pictorial wraps; minor wear along edges; numerous full-page and in-line monochrome illustrations; near fine. A wonderful collection of Russian rhymes, word games, and music. Part of "Kniga za Knigoi" series.
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Bol’shoi Kremlevskii Dvorets
by [Compiled by] Markova, G. A.
Leningrad: Avrora, 1981. First edition; 9 x 13; pp. [4], 5-138, [6]; white cloth over boards; pictorial DJ and card stock slipcase; very minor wear, near fine. Jacket with a few small nicks to edges, very good or better; slipcase shows some wear along edges. Illustrated with full-page color plates (including fold-out) from photographs. The Grand Kremlin Palace was build over the span of 12 years (1837-49) on Borovitsky Hill in Moscow - to serve as the tsar’s city... Read More
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Indiana Agriculture
by [Compiled by] Christie, G. I., Purdue University
S. l. (Indianapolis, IN): Indiana Panama-Pacific Exposition Commission, 1915. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (1915); 9 1/2 x 6 1/2; pp. [30]; stapled beige wraps, illustrated with an embossed gilt seal and title in green: deckled fore-edge with a small, closed cut; small nick to lower corner of front wrap; illustrated with numerous photographs, including a large, two-page centerfold; very good condition.Published for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, the pamphlet described Indiana's farm country and... Read More
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Tiutchevskii Sbornik. Stat'i o Zhizni i Tvorchestve Fedora Ivanovicha Tiutcheva [Signed/inscribed by author]
by [[compiled and edited by] Lotman, Iu. M.
Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition; 6" x 8 3/4"; pp. [2], 3-318, [2] including text to last page; original embossed blue boards; gilt and white title and decorations; very minor wear to corners; near fine. One of 3000 copies. Signed inscribed by Lotman to Professor Anatoly Lieberman. An authoritative compilation of articles and studies on Tiutchev's life and works, who has been known as the last of the three great Romantic poets of Russia.
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Anglo-Russkii Slovar' po Avtomatike, Kibernetike, i Kontrol'no-Izmervatel'nym Priboram
by [compiled by] Ptashnyi, L.
Moscow: Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1971. Second revised edition (approximately 20 000 terms); 5 x 8; pp. [9], 10-428; original beige boards; title in gilt and black; faint dust-dulling to covers; internally clean; small rubbed spot to head of spine; very good or better. The first edition of this English-Russian dictionary of automation and cybernetics was published in 1957. Interestingly enough, its printing marked a new era in the perception of the above-mentioned sciences. Until the early 50s, cybernetics was considered to... Read More
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You - Tell - Em the Funny Sayings
by [Compild by] Ott, Lester B.
Baltimore, MD: I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publishers, 1918. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1918); 4 x 5; pp. 64; pictorial wraps; small cuts to tips of spine with minor loss of paper; faint crease lines to lower corner; staples binding pages showing a bit at front hinge; text clean; overall very good. Subtitled: "The Latest Novelty in Jokes," the book was No. 50 in Ottenheimer's 'Gem Library' of pocket humor publications. At present, some of the jokes would be... Read More
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Novgorodskaia kharateinaia letopis (The Novgorod Parchment Chronicle)
by [Compiled by] Tikhomirova, M. N.
Moskva (Moscow): Nauka, 1964. Hardcover. First edition, 1 of 1500 copies; 9 3/4 x 6 3/4; pp. [4], 5-344; beige cloth over boards, illustrated in gilt, red, and black; small bump to upper corner of front board; light wear to gilt; minor foxing to first and last few leaves only; facsimile plates; very good or better condition. The Novgorod First Chronicle, 1016-1471, is the most ancient extant chronicle of the Novgorod Republic, detailing its history, architecture, etc. and differing from... Read More
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Sedmdesatipetilete Jubileum Ceskeho Narodniho Hrbitova v Chicagu, Ill. Dejiny Sedmdesatipetilete Cinnosti Sboru Hrbitovniho od Jeho Zalozeni v Roce 1877 do Slavnosti Jubilejni v Roce 1952
by [compiled by] Janda, Rudolf
Chicago : R. Mejdrich & Co., 1952. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. [6], 5-571, [1]; brown textured cloth over boards; embossed gilt title and decorations; some rubbing to head and tail of spine and very minor foxing to margins of a few pages; illustrated with color plate frontis and numerous b&w photographs; very good or better. Published on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the establishment of the Bohemian National Cemetery ( (Czech: Český národnà hřbitov) in Chicago, the book describes,... Read More
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Berlin (Zapadnyi) Sovremennaia Arkhitektura [West Berlin Modern Architecture]
by [Compiled by] Shtal', Tomas
Berlin: Gernot i Ioganna Nal'bakh, 1989. Softcover. First edition; 8 x 12 1/2; pp. 64; grey illustrated wraps; some rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; slight spotting to margins of wraps; illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps; very good-. Published towards the end of Communism in Russia, the catalog, printed in conjunction with an architectural exhibition in Moscow, presented a short history of Berlin as well as numerous descriptions, photographs, and plans of buildings of interest... Read More
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The Guide of General Postal Information, Treating Thoroughly All Postal Subjects of Interest to the Public
by [Compiled by] Branch No. 48, U. N. A. P. O. C.
Reading, PA: Reading Eagle Book and Job Press, 1908. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [4], 7-134, [2]; pictorial salmon wraps, printed and ruled in black; a few small scuffs to spine with some loss of paper; wraps with age-toning and dust-dulling; illustrated with drawings and photographs and numerous local businesses' advertisements; overall in very good condition.An uncommon piece of postal ephemera, the guide was published to fill "a long-felt want...to enlighten and give to the people a... Read More
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Slovar' Russkikh Poslovits i Pogovorok
by [compiled by] Zhukov, Vlas P.
Moscow: Sovetskaia Entsiklopediia, 1966. First edition; 4 1/2 x 7; pp. [3], 4-535, [1]; beige cloth over boards; embossed gilt and red decorations and title; minor wear and spotting to covers; age-toning along margins of pages; overall very good or better. Containing approximately 1000 proverbs and sayings, the dictionary gives detailed descriptions and examples of their proper use. Though covering every aspect of life and everyday situations, in true Soviet fashion, some of them reveal propaganda connotations and for-the-well-being-of-all hints.
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Alternatives to Violence. A Program for Prison Residents. A QPCC Service Responding to the Needs of Men and Women in Prison Who Want to Relate More Creatively to the Prison Situation and to People and Problems Outside the Prison After Their Release
by Quaker Project on Community Conflict
New York: Quaker Project on Community Conflict, 1977. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1977); 8 1/2 x 4; pp. [4]; light-blue stock, printed in black; illustrated with two photographs; mild creases to margins; very good or better condition. The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) was an extension of the Subcommittee on Nonviolence of the Peace Action Program, the latter established in 1962, at the first Peace Institute, and was dedicated to conflict-resolution without resorting to... Read More
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Report of the Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention and of the Principles of the International Law committed in 1915-1918 by the Bulgarians in occupied Serbia
by Interallied Commission on the Violation of the Hague Convention
Paris: Yougoslavia, 1919. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 10 1/2; pp. 32; stapled green wraps; small loss of paper to tips of spine and lower corner; age-darkening to margins of covers with a few small spots of foxing; minor discoloration to fore-edge of first several pages (not affecting text); fading signature to front cover; pages a bit brittle along edges; very good condition. The Hague Conventions, along with the Geneva Conventions, were among the very first formal statements of... Read More
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California: A Sketchbook
by Cooper, Elisha
Chronicle Books, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author. Condition: Near Fine - DJ has the slightest wear to top right corner; pages clean and bright.
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Reindeer Recipes
by Cooperative Extension Service, University of Alaska
Anchorage: Cooperative Extension Service, 1960. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1960); 8 1/4 x 5; three fold, pp. [7]; light wear and creasing to corners and edges; stamp of the Cooperative Extension Service to front wrap; illustrated in blue and white; very good to near fine condition. Publication No. 35 of the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Alaska, the pamphlet gives a brief history of the introduction of reindeer in Alaska and lists several recipes with its... Read More
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Robert and Urban Nichols, Missing from Cincinnati, Ohio. Thought to Have Been Kidnapped [Antiziganism]
by Copelan, William (Chief of Police)
Cincinnati: By the Author, 1912. First Edition. Good. Poster; 12 x 8; beige stock, printed in black and illustrated with a photograph; paper fragile and age-toned; upper two corners clipped; old, horizontal fold line with two thin, closed cuts to edges; residue from a brown paper strip to upper margin of verso; in good to very good condition. A missing poster for two small children from Cincinnati, it gave a detailed description of the two brothers, the time they... Read More
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Good Samaritans [Association copy]
by Coppard, A. E.
S. l. (New York): The Spiral Press (Privately Printed at Christmas 1934 for Albert Parsons Sachs), 1934. Softcover. Limited edition of 110 copies (this copy #4); 8 x 5; pp. [24]; plain, cream, textured wraps; brick-red dust jacket with a printed label pasted-on; illustrated by Victor Candell; book in fine condition. Jacket with a small chip to top edge and a very small puncture to spine; very good to near fine condition. Inscribed by Albert Parsons Sachs on the... Read More
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Cornell's Grammar - School Geography: Forming a Part of a Systematic Series of School Geographies. Embracing an Extended Course and Adapted to Pupils of the Higher Classes in Public and Private Schools
by Cornell, S. S.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1863. Good. Civil War edition, with the Census of 1860 tipped-in (population and principal town of each state); 11 x 9 1/4' pp. [3], 4-108; brown, wngraved paper over boards and 1/4 black morocco; illustrated with numerous engravings, 27 full- and double-page, hand-colored maps, and 32 smaller, in-text, hand-colored maps; spotting and wear to paper on boards; small rubbed spots to tips of spine; census sheet uniformly browned; occasional spotting and foxing,... Read More
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Mrs. Willett Cornwell's Columbian Sewing Book. Illustrated and Self-Instructing for Schools and Families
by Cornwell, Elmira
Revised edition; 11 1/2 x 8 3/4; pp. [4], 7-24, [2]; light-blue wraps, printed and decorated in brown; illustrated with frontis plate and numerous engravings; a bit of spotting and fading to margins of wraps; offset from another publication being tipped-in to title page; overall in very good condition. Also included is a 1896 copy of Cornwell's booklet Facts and Figures, Concerning Cornwell's Self Fitting Ladies' Taylor System (pp. [14]) and a copy of Cornwell's Scientific Method of Matching Plaids and... Read More
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Color Magic with Nu-Enamel
by Nu-Enamel Corporation
Chicago / New York: Nu-Enamel Corporation, 1930. Very good. Brochure; tri-fold, 8 panels, 14 x 8 1/2 unfolded; illustrated with Art Deco drawings; a small metal piece, coated with Nu-Enamel present and threaded through paper at lower margin (small, closed tears where it was originally inserted); thin, closed cuts to edges of folds; distributor's stamp; in about very good condition. A beautiful advertising brochure, it showed 20 colors of Nu-Enamel - an oil-based paint, said to be capable of... Read More
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Recipes by Fleischmann's for Dry and Sloe Gin. Cocktails & Mixed Drinks
by Fleischmann Distilling Corporation
Peekskill, NY: The Fleischmann Distilling Corporation, 1936. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1936); 6 x 3 1/4; pp. [2], 3-12; yellow wraps, decorated and ruled in red and black; illustrated with two drawings and from a photograph; a small rubbed spot to right margin of front wrap; a minor, closed cut to head of spine and light wear to edges; in about very good condition. Published as an advertisement for Fleischmann's Gin, the booklet offered traditional, as... Read More
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The Mixer's Manual. Learn to Say Fleischman's. That's the Spirit!
by Fleischmann's Distilling Corporation
New York: Fleischmann's Distilling Corporation, 1938. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (1938); 6 x 3 1/2; pp. 1-12; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with black & white drawings; liqueur store's stamp to back wrap; minor wear to edges; in very good or better condition. A beautiful booklet featuring a cover art of a sea captain and a Cockatoo, it showcases Fleischmann's Gin through numerous cocktail recipes, including The White Cockatoo and The Alexander.
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Ginger. "The Darling of the Doll World"
by Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation
New York: Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation, 1960. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1960); 5 x 3 1/4; pp. [20]; red, pictorial wraps; illustrated with photographs; small rust spots around staples, else very minor wear; very good to near fine condition. An advertisement and a trade catalog, it was published by one of the big manufacturers of dolls and corresponding accessories in the mid-20th century - Cosmopolitan Doll & Toy Corporation in New York. The... Read More
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Clark's Patent Lawn Roller
by Higganum Manufacturing Corporation
Higganum, CT: Higganum Manufacturing Corporation, 1880. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (1880s); 9 1/4 x 6; off-white stock, printed in black and illustrated with a wood engraving; mild age-toning to margins; small repair to verso of upper left corner; in very good condition. The Clark brothers - George Marshall, Thomas Jefferson, and Henry Lee - founded the Higganum Manufacturing Corporation in 1867, manufacturing agricultural machinery. They would be remembered for employing a large expanse of flat land along... Read More
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