The Prang Souvenir of the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the House of L. Prang and Company, Held at Turn Hall, Boston, Dec. 25, 1881. Issued by the Committee
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, 1882. Paperback. Very Good. portrait, illustrations, 16p. Softcover in original wrapper. 32 cm. Edges of cover slightly soiled. Stitching partially gone. Some offsetting -- heaviest from portrait of Louis Prang. Includes a list of Prang employees as of Dec. 23, 1881. Printed broadside program laid in.
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Aunt Charlotte's Golden Gift
New York: R. Worthington, 1881. Hardcover. Good. color frontis, black & white illustrations, unpaginated. Pictorial boards backed in green cloth. 25cm. Ends of backstrip and other extremities rather worn. Fore-edges a bit ragged on a couple of leaves.
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Bound volume containing U. S. Govt. Publications on Camouflage, all seeming have been produced in 1942. We could not decipher most of the cover lettering. "... Appendix A Defense Plant Corporation ... Manufacturing Plant ... North Carolina" is as much as we could get)
Hardcover. Very Good. Size of individual items varies but most are about 28 cm. All are in a flexible hard cover binding (30 cm.) with two screw and post holes running through each item along left side. It seems clear this volume full of 1942 Camouflage items was assembled as an appendix to some contract, report or other document involving the Defense Plant Corporation (a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, operated by the U. S. Government, 1940-1945)... Read More
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Council Negri Centenary 1867 - 1967. Sarawak, Malaysia
Kuching: Borneo Literature Bureau, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. photos, xi, 43p. Yellow wrapper. 31cm. Minor crease near edge of cover. First published in 1967.
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History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N. Y.
New York: F. W. Beers & Co, 1878. Hardcover. Good. maps, portraits, illustrations, 252p. Hardcover in original cloth backed in leather. 36 cm. Scuffed leather backstrip chipped at ends and partially reglued. Contents sound and clean.
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Catalogue de l'exposition preliminaire d'oeuvres d'artistses suisses destinees a l'Exposition Universelle de Paris, 1900
Geneve: Imprimerie Fr. Weber, 1900. Paperback. Very Good. Not illustrated. 35p. Wrapper. 21cm. French text.
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Happy Hour: or, Holiday Fancies and Every-Day Facts for Young People
New York: Appleton, 1874. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated. Ends of backstrip and cover corners worn. Institutional stamp (stamped withdrawn) on title-page. Former owner's label on endpaper.
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Ilimi asarlar: izhtimoii fanlar va uzbek filologiiasi = Uchenye zapiski obshchestvennye nauki i uzbekskaia filologiia. t. 43, vyp. 1
Toshkent: Nizomii nomidagi Tashkent davlat pedogogika instituti, 1963. Hardcover. Good. This volume (or issue) only. 264p. Original hardcover binding. 22 cm.Text browned. Title-page partially detached. No jacket. Uzbek or Russian text.
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Wonders of Japan: A Portfolio of Views in the Enchanted Bamboo-Land
New York: Hobart Company, 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. illustratons, photos, (80)p. Original bluish green cloth. Oblong 14cm. Ends of backstrip slightly rubbed. No jacket. Three introductory pages of text; balance of book consists entirely of black and white photographs with dsescriptive captions.
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Pacific Stars and Stripes, Vol. 2, No. 92 (April 3, 1946)
Tokyo, 1946. Paperback. Very Good. Four-page full-sized newspaper on reasonably good-quality newsprint. Later folds. Published daily for U.S. Forces in Japan and Korea. Major headline is "Giant Tidal Waves Whip U. S., Hawaii. Monster Walls of Water Sweep across the Pacific at 300 Miles per Hour. The tsunami, caused by an massive earthquake near the Aleutian Islands killed 159 people when it struck Hawaii about five hours later. It is described online as the largest wave to hit... Read More
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The Traveller's Handbook for the Riviera (Marseilles to Leghorn) and the Pyrenees (Biarritz to Marseilles), with Maps
London: Thomas Cook & Son, etc., 1923. 7 double-page maps and plans, index, viii, 296p. Original maroon cloth. 17cm. Minor cover scuffing and wear. No jacket. Travel guide.
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The Kourier Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 8 (July, 1927)
Atlanta: KKK, 1927. Paperback. Near Fine. (KKK) 66p. Softcover in original wrapper. 26cm. Minor chipping and wear on right edge of front cover; otherwise as new. Special Catholic Number. This issue seems to be entirely focused on the Klan's anti-Catholic views. Pages 48-54 contain a lengthy essay/letter from Al Smith, the Catholic Governor of New York and soon to become the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. Smith sought to refute the argument that there was... Read More
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A Memorial for the 105th Anniversary of Second Baptist Church Sunday, July 5, 1987 3:30 P.M.
Olathe, Kansas: Second Baptist Church, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. 34 (p). Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. First of the two pages about the Pastor has three short underlinings with an orange marker. The exact chronology of this African American church's early history had become vague by 1987 according to the one-page "Partial History.
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Niva, Nos. 11 & 12 for 1911
S. Peterburg: Marks, 1911. Hardcover. Good. Old soiled buckram with original wrappers preserved. 23 cm. Ex lib. (Boston Public Library, including a letter to a former owner in which BPL advises that this volume was legitimately discarded although not so stamped). Russian text. Bound volume containing two issues of a popuklare Russian magazine (published 1870-1918).
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Paradise of the Atlantic, Vol. I, No. I (Summer 1936)
San Juan, Puerto Rico: Jack Vandermeyer, 1936. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations (some color), photos and 2 maps, 47, [1]p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31 cm. Some cover soiling scuffing and wear. Internally sound and clean with some minor corner curling. Not found in OCLC although the Universidad de Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras seems to have a copy. The New York Times Book Review of July 5, 1936 gave a paragraph to the English language magazine's debut. We... Read More
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Orlando Sentinel: Central FLorida Negro Edition, Monday, May 10, 1965
Orlando, FL, 1965. Fair. photos, Six pages (numbered 1-4, 3C, 4C). Newsprint. 38 x 58 cm Paper moderately browned. Later vertical fold in addition to reguler horizontal fold. Modest splitting where fols intersect. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper was still segregating news about African Americans into a separate section like this when this issue appeared. We don't know how often such sections were produced or just when this newspaper stopped segregating news about African Americans. The Reverend Canon Nelson... Read More
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![IUnyi chitatel. [Issues 2, 4-11, 13-15, and 17-24 for 1926]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/238/848/1031848238.0.l.jpg)
IUnyi chitatel. [Issues 2, 4-11, 13-15, and 17-24 for 1926]
Riga: Izd-vo "Salamandra, 1926. Paperback. Good. Softcover in original wrappers. 27cm. Cover browning. Mostly modest wear although some issues are rather worn. A twice-monthly Russian-language periodical published 1925-1926 in Latvia while the Baltic states were independent between the two World Wars. Short stories ranged from science fiction to Christmas tales. Other regular features included Stamps, Boy Scouts, Projects around the House, What's on the Radio, Photography, Contests and Puzzles. Each issue also contained a few pages of advertisements... Read More
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![Observations Generales sur le Gouvernement Actuel, et sur Proclamation de Napoleon au Peuple Francais du 1er Mars 1815. De la Convocation des Colleges Electoraux en Champ de Mai. [caption title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/619/105/396105619.0.l.jpg)
Observations Generales sur le Gouvernement Actuel, et sur Proclamation de Napoleon au Peuple Francais du 1er Mars 1815. De la Convocation des Colleges Electoraux en Champ de Mai. [caption title]
n.p., 1815. Hardcover. Very Good. 31p. Later cloth quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in green cloth). 21 cm. Cover corners rubbed and rounded. Contents sound and clean with only minimal foxing and browning. French text.
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The Chicago Jewish Forum, Vol. 1, No. 1, (Fall, 1942)
Chicago: Benjamin Weintroub, 1942. Paperback. Good. illustrations, 100p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Text double-columned. Cover lightly spotted. Edited by Benjamin Weintroub. First issue of this quarterly magazine which ceased with Vol. 27, No. 3 (Spring, 1969). This inaugural issue includes "Nazi Science," by David P. Boder at pages 23-29.
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Jewish Frontier. 11 monthly issues: Vol. VI, Nos. 1-11 (January-November, 1939)
New York: Jewish Frontier Association, 1939. Paperback. Fair. Issues generally 31-32 pages (with cover generally included in pagination; the June issue dedicated to Albert Einstein contains 71 pages and includes an analysis of a British White Paper on Palestine by David Ben Gurion. 31 cm. All issues printed on high acid paper that is not a lot better than newsprint so all issues have some browning and at least a little chipping in margins. Covers are usually split... Read More
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Index to Record and Guide for Manhattan and the Bronx Auction Sales, Conveyances, Leases, Mortgages and Projected Buildings. Vol. LXXXV. (Nos. 2181 to 2206) January - June, Inclusive. 1910
(NY), 1910. Hardcover. Fair. illustrations, 1397p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 34 cm. Front and back covers detached.. Rear joint weak. Contents sound and clean. Published weekly.
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Byloe. No. 20 (1922)
S-Peterburg, 1922. Paperback. Fair. 318p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27cm. Covers heavily chipped. Contents unopened but browned and brittle because printed on high acid paper. A fragile original copy of one of the post-1917 issues which focused mostly on the early 20th century revolutionary movements in Russia.
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Miles Chapel C. M. E. Church Presents Midwest Wonder Quartet, Friday, March 15, 1946, Arkansas Municipal Auditorium, 8:00 P.M. [Texarkana, Arkansas]
1946. Paperback. Very Good. 6p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm. Browned. The members of the quartet were Nathan Gentry, Marion Crockett, Oliver Neal, and John Reagans.
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Island: ljosmyndir af landi og bjod = Iceland: Nature and Nation in Photographs
Reykjavik: Isafoldarprentsmidja, 1938. Paperback. Very Good. pages unnumbered (introductory text plus 264 photos with captions, printed one or more to a page). Thin flexible simulated leather wrapper. 28cm. Cover corner creased. Gift card mounted on endpaper. No Jacket (presumably as issued). Title in English and Icelandic on facing pages; introductory material also in Icelandic and English; captions in Icelandic, English, German and French.
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The Colored Alabamian, Volume VIII, Number 14. (Saturday, May 30, 1914)
Montgomery, Alabama, 1914. Good. Four-page weekly newspaper. 41 x 28 cm. Later horizontal fold. Small split at one end of fold. Blank lower left corner torn off. Foxing in right margin of first page. Name in pencil at top of first page ("Prof. Sibley Supt of Col. Rural Schools"). Published 1907-1916.
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