Australian Photography Conference
Richmond, Victoria: Working Papers on Photography, 1980. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 135p. Softcover in original wrapper. 30 cm. Small sticker residue on front cover. White plastic slide binder along left side holds this item together. Conference held by the Department of Adult Education, University of New South Wales.
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Tucson Sun Press: An African-American Newspaper, Vol. 3, No. 12 (February 1996)
Tucson, 1996. Good. photos, 16p. 36 cm. Newspaper (tabloid-sized or smaller) format. Horizontal crease where folded. This issue contains three editorial/opinion pieces written by Betty Liggins (1931-2019), identified elsewhere as a Nurse Practitioner who was also a Civil Rights activist and had attended the 1988 Democratic Convention as a Delegate for Jesse Jackson. We couldn't find much online about this publication. This issue reported that the newspaper, published since 1993 as a project of the Pima Prevention Partnership... Read More
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The Southern Workman, Vol. XLIX, No. 3 (March, 1920)
Hampton, Va: Hampton Institute, 1920. Paperback. Near Fine. photos, pp. [97]-144. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Partially unopened. Includes "The Phillis Wheatley Association: A Negro Woman's Achievement," by Ralph W. Tyler (pages 121-126 with five photos) about Jane E. Hunter and the Association and "The Laughter of Deep Laughter," by W. J. Harsha (pages 127-133 with no photos), a short story about an Arapaho woman who had never laughed aloud.
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![Greetings from Down in Sunny Dixie. [title on back cover]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/281/523/1565523281.0.l.jpg)
Greetings from Down in Sunny Dixie. [title on back cover]
Milwaukee: E. C. Kropp Co, n.d.. Very Good. 18 postcard-sized color illustration printed, nine to a side, on a continuous strip folded accordion style and attached to front cover of folder designed for mailing. This was mailed to Elmira,New York, in 1944 by someone living in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Stereoype scenes of the gentler variety with no humorous images of gators about to eat young African American children.
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Afrique Mon Pays, No. 25 (Special Cameroun)
Dakar, 1967. Paperback. Good. photos, 18p. [plus a few pages of advertisements]. Softcover in original wrapper. 32 cm. Modest wear. French text. Magazine edited by Manadi N'Diaye. This issue is focused on Cameroon and Amadou Ahidjo.
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Stow-Davis Furniture Company Established 1880 Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Largest Manufactureres of the World's Finest Bank and Office Furniture
[Grand Rapids]: Stow-Davis Furniture Company, 1930. Paperback. Very Good. photos, unnumbered pages, Softcover in original wrapper. Oblong (36 x 26 cm.). Binding rather edge-worn, especially back cover. No. 6 Net Price Lists No. 6 and 56 for Bank and Office Furniture July 1,1930 from Clark & Gibby, Inc. in New York City for the items listed in the Stow-Davis Company catalog stapled inside front cover.
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The Sino-Japanese Conflict
Kyoto: Business Men of Kyoto, 1937. Paperback. Near Fine. 24p. Softcover in original wrapper. Narrow 18 cm. Folded four-page leaflet laid in: "Preparing Ourselves for the Emergency: An Address Delivered at the Initial Meeting of the Movement for National Spiritual Mobilization," by Prince Ayamaro Konoe
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Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas
New York: Century, 1907. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, vi, 190p. Decorated cloth -- cotton picking scene on front cover. 19cm. Moderate cover soil. "Stories" and Nicholas" partially erased from title on title-page. No Jacket.
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The Arts Festival of the Olympic Games Melbourne: A Guide to the Exhibitions with Introductory Commentaries on the Arts in Australia
(Melbourne): Olympic Civic Committee of the Melbourne City Council (for the The Olympic Organising Committee), 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. color frontis, photos (black and white), 196p. Original Blue cloth. dj. 24 cm. Jacket has modest chipping at corners and and around ends of backstrip. Some browning on endpapers. An uncommon Olympic item.
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The Niagara Index, Vol. LVII, No. 3 (December, 1926)
Niagara Falls, N.Y.: Niagara University, 1926. Paperback. Good. 48p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Cover somewhat soiled. Chipping along right side of front cover. Contents sound and clean. Student publication. We noted especially an article titled "Benito Mussolini,' by Joseph Flanagan (pages 11-12) in which Assoicate Editor Flanagan celebrates Mussolini and his anti-Democratic actions. Here are a couple of sentences plucked from his conluding paragraph: "Mussolini's endeavors have been crowned with remarkable success despite to contumacy of... Read More
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The Voice: Official Democratic Organ of the First Congressional District, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Week of February 16-22, 1963)
Chicago, 1963. Good. 4-page Newspaper-style publication on high acid newsprint. 41 cm. Browned and somewhat edge-worn. Headline: Negro Aldermen Play Vital Role in Work of City Council." Fourth page devoted to "Negro Schools in honor of Famous Negroes;" the article is accompanied by photos of the five schools mentioned.
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Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America. Volume IX (1955)
[New York]: Chinese Art Society of America, 1955. Paperback. Very Good. photos/illustrations, 93p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31cm. Modest cover soiling. Backstrip browned and worn (and chipped off at ends). Oriental Art Recently acquired by American Museums and four other articles, including "Significant Patterns on Chinese Bronze Mirrors," by Schuyler Cammann (pp. 43-62).
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The Guide of Nishijin Textiles
Kyoto, 1928. Paperback. Good. 12 unnumbered interior pages with 15 tipped in illustrations (all except one in black & white) mounted one to three to a page on ten of the interior pages. Text on other two pages. Softcover in tied original wrapper. 23 cm. Red rubber stamp "Heian Trading Co. Sept 15 1928 Fuyacho Sanjo Kyoto" inside front cover. Corners bent and chipped. Bound with two Multi colored, the bottom of which is partly perished. An uncommon... Read More
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Engishiki kenkyu = Studies for the Engishiki. Vol. [or No.] 1 (1976)
n..p., 1976. Paperback. Very Good. 105p. (many folding). Softcover in original blue wrapper. 26 cm. Japanese text; brief summary in English on two unnumbered leaves at end. We don't know how often or how long this unusual periodical was published.
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Connaitre une Population
Paris: Connaitre et Humanisme, 1951. Paperback. Very Good. charts & maps, errata slip, 157, (2)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. French text. Minor cover soiling and wear. Text moderately browned. French text. Cahiers d'Economie Humaine, No 2-3.
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In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1939 ... Frances Perkins, Individually and as Secretary of Labor ... v. Lukens Steel Company ... Brief for the Petitioners
[Washington]: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1940. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. [Brief and Appendix to Brief]. 2 folding maps, xv, [1], 157, i, [1], 66p.p. Softcover in original gray wrappers. 24 cm. The Supreme Court decided the case in favor of the Federal Government and limited the rights of bidders on federal contracts.
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The Negro: From the Picture in the Vernon Gallery
London, n.d.. Very Good. Woodcut (?), Portrait. 35 cm x 24 cm. Light foxing visible in white space around image and on the back. Very little foxing on image. Later copy of a clipping about this print stapled in upper left corner of picture referencing Stowe's popular fiction (Uncle Tom's Cabin) which date the original clipping as sometime after 1852. This print appears to have been first printed around 1845 but the paper feels later than 1845. ... Read More
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Architectural Association Sketch Book. Vol 12. 1879 - 80
[London]: Architectural Association. Hardcover. Very Good. This volume only. Table of Contents lists 72 prints, Many identified as printed by C.F. Kell , London. Contemporary cloth (original?). 43 cm. Cover soil the the book is rubbed along edges and at corners. Contents sound and clean. Bookplate of The Architectual Association Loan Library inside front cover. Heavy book will probably require extra postage.
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Admission of a 1744 Pennsylvania/Deleware Will Directing Executors to Sell Her "Negro Wench & Her Child", Philadelphia, 1744. 7.5 x 11/5
Very Good. Four leaves, the first two held together by the embossed seal at top lerft. The will of Susanna Rawson (or Rosen) in the counties of New Castle Kent and Sussex on Delaware (then part of Pennsylvania), written January 19th and approved March 8, 1744. After naming an assortment of detailed bequests, including to cousin Elizabeth "part of my wearing apparrell viz one double callicoe gown one black Grazett gown a velvet hood, four aprons, one cambric... Read More
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![Polar Bear Post No. 436 of the Veterans of Foreign War of the United States. [title on first page]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/597/636/1206636597.0.l.jpg)
Polar Bear Post No. 436 of the Veterans of Foreign War of the United States. [title on first page]
Detroit, 1926. small folded 4-page leaflet. 14cm. Issued to promote membership in this VFW Post whose membership was restricted to veterans of the Archangel area who had served in the North Russian Expeditionary Forces with the 339th Infantry, 337th Hospital or 310th Enginers during the Siberian Intervention. The first page makes the invitation and spells out the membership requirements. The middle two pages contain a poem (by "J. R. M.) honoring their shared experience and urging memberwhip. The final... Read More
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Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen. [Vol.] XVI (1883-1884)
Gotha, 1884. Hardcover. Good. (95p. plus folding map) Old marbled boards backed in leather. 27cm. Ex lib. (two labels on backstrip -- no internal library markings). Extremities rubbed. Head of backstrip chipped. Contents and maps sound and clean. Good. German text. Contains five articles, including Schuver's "Reisen im Oberen Nilegebiet (90p. and 1 folding map) and R. v. Lendenfeld's "Der Tasman-Gletscher und seine umrandung" (80p. plus photo and 2 folding maps).
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![Republica et status Regni Hungariae [bound with] Iosiae Simleri Vallesiae et Alpium descriptio](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/912/152/858152912.0.m.1.jpg)
Republica et status Regni Hungariae [bound with] Iosiae Simleri Vallesiae et Alpium descriptio
[Lugduni Batavorum]: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1634. Hardcover. Good. 2 vols. bound in 1. 2 engraved title-leaves, 330, [4], 377, [7]p. Old vellum which has been inexpensively rebacked in vellum which is also far from recent. 11 cm. Inked titling on backstrip. Numerous errors in pagination. Engraved title-leaves fragile with some chipping. Contents generally rather fragile with numerous small tears, some age-toning, soiling, and other wear. No blanks or rear free endpaper. Josias Simmler was the author of the... Read More
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Psalmebog, udgiven af den Norske Evangelisk=Lutherske Kirke i Amerika
Decorah: Synodens Forlag, 1890. Hardcover. Good. 574, 280p. Original slightly padded leather. 13cm. Cover sound but quite heavily scuffed. Gift inscription. All edges gilt. Norwegian text.
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Specimens of Penmanship
Boston: Reynolds & Co., Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers, No. 20 Cornhill, 1840. Paperback. Very Good. [12] unused leaves. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. "Common School Writing Book" printed on back cover.
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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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