Eastman College Musicale, Poughkeesie, N. Y., Saturday Morning, May 5, 1883 (Concert Program)
by Samelson, Prof. S.; et al
Poughkeepsie, New York: s. n., 1883. First Edition. Very good. Small program; 5 x 3 1/2; pp. [4]; salmon-colored stock, printed in black and illustrated with an elaborate, engraved vignette to last page; faint vertical crease, else minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Eastman Business College was founded in 1859 as a business school in Poughkeepsie, New York. It would become known for its novel for the times approach to teaching, where the students gained practical,... Read More
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North American Animals
by Chase & Sanborn
Boston / Chicago / Montreal: Chase & Sanborn, Tea and Coffee Importers, 1910. Near fine. First edition; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2; pp. [8]; stapled, pictorial wraps; illustrated with chromolithographs; small, closed nicks to tips of spine, else minor wear; in about near fine condition. A beautiful, tiny booklet, it was published as an advertisement for Chase & Sanborn's teas and coffees and pictured various animals of the North American continent, identified by both their English and Latin names.
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Kurt Cobain (SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author in English)
by Christopher Sandford
Meulenhoff, 1996. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Meulenhoff, 1996. Stated FIRST DUTCH Edition. Oversize paperback. Book Condition: Very Good - slightly bent corners of the front cover, otherwise the book is in great condition. It is inscribed by the author on the title page: "To Jacob & Lucille, With love, Christopher, 9/96" There is also a yellow post-it note with the following message: " Tower 801 Building, etc. Dear Jacob - I thought you might be mildly... Read More
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Plot Idet na Sever
by Sartakov, Sergei
Moscow/Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1952. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 8; pp. [2], 3-173, [3]; cloth-backed pictorial boards; some rubbing mostly along extreme edges of covers; few small nicks to fore-edge; illustrated in b&w by artist V. Ermolov; very good or better. Sergei Sartakov was born in 1908 in Omsk and grew up in the Siberian taiga after his family fled his hometown in the turmoil of the Revolution where he was unable to attend public school and was... Read More
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V buri zhyttia. Poezii. Kniha chetverta, 1935 - 1940 (In the Storm of Life. Poetry. Fourth Book, 1935 - 1940)
by Savchuk (Bukovynets), Pavlo
Niu Iork (New York): By the author, 1954. First Edition. Very good. First edition (copywrited 1953, published 1954); 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [4], 5-80; pictorial wraps in beige and green, designed by Volodymyr Sichynskyi; illustrated with portrait frontis; age-toning and a few faint spots to margins of wraps; small creases along spine and edges; overall in very good condition. Pavlo Savchuk (1903 - 1969) was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, literary critic, educator, and full member of the... Read More
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Russkaia dievushka (Russian Girl) [Signed / Inscribed by Author]
by Savchenko, P. (Petr Sevastianovich)
Bielgrad (Belgrade): By the Author, 1930. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-64; beige wraps, illustrated with a portrait of Olga Nikolaevna Romanova and a facsimile of her signature; mild age-toning to margins; a small signature of previous owner to upper margin of front wrap; a bit of glue showing at hinges; a small puncture (not affecting readability) to margin of last leaf; overall in very good condition. With a lengthy... Read More
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A Cryptic Letter by Russian Terrorist and Revolutionary Boris Savinkov to a Monsieur Vaughan (in French)
by Savinkov, Boris
Paris: By the Author, 1919. Softcover. Single sheet - manuscript on recto, address and cancelled stamp on verso; 4 1/2 x 6; deckled edges; slight uniform age-toning; minor crease; ink a bit faded; one word underlined in blue pencil; very good to near fine. "May 11, 1919 Dear Mr. Vaughan, I have seen Putilov again and I have had a chat with Rafalovich. They have agreed to keep their promise. I have passed along the request of M. Merigaud to Admiral... Read More
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Patent Folding Extension Table
by Sawyer, H.
Boston: H. Sawyer, 1870. Very good. Small brochure, n. d. (1870s); 5 x 3 3/4; single sheet, folded, pp. [4]; illustrated with woodcuts; light creasing, else minor wear; in very good or better condition. A beautiful advertising piece, it was arguably rather aimed at the lady of the house and her needs to entertain larger groups, extolling the advantages of extension tables, where the leaves were hinged, "thus avoiding the tedious method of taking them out and stowing away."... Read More
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Geografiia Chastei Sveta i Vazhneishikh Gosudarstv. Uchebnik dlia VI-VII Klassov Vosʹmiletnei Shkoly
by Schastnev, P. N. and Terekhov, P. G.
Gosudarstvennoe Uchebno-Pedagogicheskoe Izdatel’stvo Ministerstva Prosveshcheniia RSFSR, 1961. Hardcover. First edition thus; 6 x 8 1/2; pp. [2], 3-303, [1]; cloth-backed pictorial boards; wear along edges; few small spots to back cover; pages uniformly age-toned; illustrated with numerous b&w photographs, maps, and tables as well as full-page color plates; good to very good condition. In a typical Soviet fashion - a middle-school world geography textbook has become as much an anti-Capitalism propaganda tool as it is an educational tool. The section... Read More
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Bean-bag Drill and Bean-bag Games
by Schell, Stanley
New York: Edgar S. Werner & Company, 1909. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 1-19; white wraps, illustrated and ruled in red and dark-blue; small nicks to tips of spine; light creasing to lower corner; illustrated with diagrams; very good or better condition. An unusual book, devoted to bean-bags and various games and drills with the said bean-bags, it described the rules for each one, the number of players, the apparatus required, the... Read More
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Lot of Documents from USCGC "Northwind" Bering Sea Patrol 1963 - Oceanographic Phase and Seismic Survey
by Schmidtman, R. D. et al
Self-published, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Two custom-bound folders; 8 1/2" x 11". First volume 'Seismic Survey' - unpaginated (pp. 162) including text to first and last page; stiff white wraps with a large abstract mimeographed drawing of a map of the Chukchi Sea and a ship crashing through ice; wraps attached with a large metal clasp; pages typed recto only; full page map; few crease lines to covers; very good to near fine. Second volume 'Oceanographic Phase'... Read More
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Discourse in Commemoration of the Glorious Reformation of the Sixteenth Century. Delivered Before the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of West Pennsylvania
by Schmucker, S. S.
New York / Philadelphia: Gould & Newman / Henry Perkins, 1838. Second Edition. Very good. Second edition, improved (published a few months after the original first); 6 x 4; pp. [4], 1-137, [5]; textured brown cloth over boards; gilt title to front board; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; a bit of fading and age-toning to margins of boards; foxing mostly contained to endpapers and, occasionally, to margins of leaves; small signature of previous owner... Read More
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Longfellow Memorial Programme, February 26, 1886
by By Pupils of the Robinson Public Schools
Robinson, Ill.: Argus Printing House, 1886. Softcover. Small broadside; 9 1/2 x 5 1/4; single sheet, recto only; yellow paper, ruled and printed in black; two small chips to left edge and lower left corner; small, unobtrusive spot to right margin; overall in very good condition. An announcement and advertisement piece for a school event, commemorating Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in Robinson, Illinois. The program lists the names of children from various Robinson public schools and the order, in which they... Read More
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La resurrection de la Russie. Mon voyage secret en Russie sovietique (The resurrection of Russia. My secret trip to Soviet Russia)
by Schoulguine, Vassili (Shulgin, Vasilii)
Paris: Payot, 1927. Softcover. First French edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. [7], 10-298, [4]; beige wraps, printed and ruled in dark blue; closed cuts to tips of spine with small loss of paper; small creases to lower corners of first few leaves; faint, penciled in note to first free leaf; very good condition. Originally published in Russian under the title "Tri stolitsy" (Three Capitals), the book described the secret trip to Russia of politician, member of the White Movement,... Read More
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Old Mother Hubbard's Star Rhymes
by Schultz and Co.
S. l. (Zanesville, Ohio): Schultz and Co., 1890. Good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1890); 5 1/2 x 3 1/4; pp. 1-16; stapled, pictorial wraps; illustrated with chromolithographs; thin, closed cuts to tips of spine and scattered spotting; front wrap with a small nick to fore-edge and color bleed-through (not affecting readability); in good condition. Published as an advertisement for Star Soap, the pretty little booklet included the classic nursery rhymes, interspersed with snippets about the product. It... Read More
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The Soviet Economic Offensive. A Report on Ruble Diplomacy
by Scott, John
New York: Time Inc., 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; 8 3/4" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-138 including text to first and last page; original stiff red pictorial wraps; plastic comb spine; minor wear (mostly slight rubbing to edges of covers and a faint crease line to lower back corner); mimeographed text; very good or better. An interesting report -ordered by and delivered to the publisher of Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine, on the Soviet political behavior and... Read More
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The Abbot/ Vol. I
by Scott, Sir Walter
M. Carey & Son, Philadelphia, 1820. Hardcover. Good. First US Edition, published the same year as the first Edinburgh edition. Vol. I of 2. Condition: Good - full leather with gilt decorations to spine and black & gold title to spine; corners rubbed; leather on spine worn; pages clean, but uniformly darkened with age; two faded signatures to free page.
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Juanita. The Only Woman Lynched in the Gold Rush Days
by Secrest, Wiliam B.
Fresno, CA: Saga-West Publishing Company, 1971. Very good. Second printing; 9 x 6; pp. 3-31; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with photographs and a small map; small creases to corners and along spine; a few minor spots; in very good condition. In the small, Gold Rush town of Downieville, California, the legend of the lynching of Josefa (aka "Juanita" - a racist slur people in the gold-mining communities often used for any Mexican woman) lives on. One of very few... Read More
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Tam, Gde Byla Rossiia [Where Russia Used to Be]
by Sedykh, Andrei [Pseud. Tsvibak, Iakov]
Paris: Ia. Povolotskogo, 1930. Softcover. First edition (One of 1000 copies); 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 144; green wraps printed in black; two small cuts to tips of spine; faint sun-fading and foxing to spine and margins of wraps; deckled page edges; internally mostly very clean; very good. Iakov Tsvibak (1902-1994), sometimes writing under the pseudonym Andrei Sedykh, was a Russian author, historian, and the long-time standing secretary of Nobel Prize for Literature winner Ivan Bunin. As is the... Read More
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Skandinavskie Strany i "Plan Marshalla" [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnoi Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve]
by Segal, Ia. E.
Moscow: Pravda, 1949. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 28; original stapled wraps; minor wear to edges and corners; very good to near fine condition. “Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii†(The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the ‘League of Militant Atheists’, or ‘The Union of the Godless’, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common... Read More
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Wise and Otherwise. A Grave and Gay Garner
by [Selected by] Blumenthal, Walter Hart; [Typography and binding by] R.E.M. (Robert E. Massmann)
S. l. (New Britain, Conn.): The Sign of the Jaded Jester, 1965. Softcover. Miniature, first edition, limited to 250 copies (this copy #150); 2 in x 4.5 ft; vegetable parchment scroll, rolled on a wooden spool with plastic stick-pins on either end; sparkly red wrap and a decorative silk ribbon attached to the beginning of the scroll; housed in a transparent pill bottle with a ruled paper label; thin, vertical crack to bottle (not affecting its integrity); light age-toning... Read More
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Iabloko na nashem stole (An Apple on Our Table)
by Semchuk, N. A.; et al
Minsk: Polymia, 1988. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 3/4 x 5; pp. 3-143, [1]; glossy, illustrated wraps; minor wear to tips of spine and corners; a few small spots to wraps; illustrated with small drawings; very good condition. A fine example of Belarusian cuisine recipes, the book features the apple as the star of each of them, listing an amazing array of dishes, including soups, salads, meat and vegetable meals with apples, desserts, and more.
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Pamiati V. A. Dolenka (In Memoriam V. A. Dolenko)
by Semenko, Iu. (Iurii)
Munich: Logos, 1975. First Edition. Near fine. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 5-413, [3]; light-blue wraps, printed and ruled in dark-blue; very minor wear to edges, in near fine condition. Iurii Semenko's work was a tribute to his close friend and party colleague Volodymyr Dolenko (1889 - 1971) - leader of the Union of Lands of United Ukraine – Agrarian Party, a smaller Ukrainian emigre political organization, first founded in the DP (displaced persons) camps... Read More
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Malyi kobzar i novi virshi (The Little Kobzar and New Poems)
by Semenko, Mykhail
Kharkiv: Proletar, 1928. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 2000 copies; 6 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-111, [1]; pictorial wraps with futurist design, signed in-plate AC (unatributed); small nicks to tips of spine; a short, closed cut to fore-edge of front wrap and a few creases; partially unopened; in very good condition. Mykhail (Mykhailo) Semenko (1892 - 1937) was a poet, founder of Ukrainian Futurism, and one of the lead figures of the Executed Renaissance... Read More
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Humans Used as Guinea Pigs in the Soviet Union. Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate. Ninety-Fourth Congress, Second Session
by Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1976. First edition; 5 1/2" x 9"; pp. ii-iii, [1], 1-44, i-iv including text to front and back cover; original staple-bound printed wraps; small puncture to lower margin; slight crease to lower corner of back cover; minor wear; very good to near fine. The document contains the testimonies, in front of the US Senate, of 3 former Russian citizens. The first one - Luba Markish was used as a lab rat in testing a highly toxic... Read More
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