2 vol National Geographic Magazine 1930 Jan-Dec 12 issues
by National Geographic Society
National Geographic Society, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 issues (January-December 1930) in two hardbound volumes. Some of the articles present are: Today "On the Yukon Trail of 1898," The Conquest of Antarctica by Air, Yugoslavia, Viking Life, Florida - The Fountain of Youth, Seeking the Mountains of Mystery, Domestic Fowl, Some Impressions of 150,000 Miles of Travel, etc. Condition: Very Good/Near Fine - black covers with gilt title to spine; covers clean with just a couple... Read More
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The Stamford Cook Book
by Stamford Hospital Aid Society
Stamford, CT: Stamford Hospital Aid Society, 1937. Hardcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"; pp. 2-370; spiral-bound beige "zaflex" boards illustrated in black; general wear and rubbing along edges; spotting and a few thin closed cracks to covers; 2" rubbed spot to back board; internally very good with only first and last page uniformly age-toned; overall good to very good. Illustrated with photographs of members of the society. An interesting and quite exhaustive regional cookbook, featuring numerous entrees, desserts,... Read More
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Memorial Services in Honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant, 1812 - 1904, Mother of Civil Rights in California, Friend of John Brown
by The San Francisco Negro Historical and Cultural Society
S. l. (San Francisco): Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1965. First Edition. Near fine. Large brochure; 10 x 7; pp. [4], text to rectos only; vream stock, printed in black in several ornamental fonts; very minor wear - in near fine condition. A beautiful memento, it commemorated the services held on February 12, 1965 in Napa, California in honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant (1812 [?] - 1904) - the African-American enterpreneur, financier, abolitionist, and self-made millionaire (allegedly long before Madam... Read More
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Ecological and Social Problems of Central Siberia (the Angara-Enisei Region). (Materials for the NGO - International Scientific - Practical Conference)
by Socio-Ecological Union, Moscow / "The Angara - Enisei Rescue" Association, Lesosibirsk
Lesosibirsk, 1993. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 1/2; pp. 35; stapled wraps; minor wear and age-toning along margins; near fine condition. Scientific articles on the various issues facing the Central Siberian Region including forest fires, chemical contamination, etc.
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[Miniature] Ustav Kommunisticheskoi Partii Sovetskogo Soiuza. Utverzhden XXIII sʺezdom KPSS (Constitution of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [Approved at the 22nd Congress of CPSU])
by Kommunisticheskaia Partiia Sovetskogo Soiuza
Moscow: Gospolitizdat, 1961. Softcover. First edition thus; 2 1/2 x 3 3/4; pp. [6], 7-127, [1]; red vinyl cover, embossed with Lenin's portrait of Lenin; wrinkles to endpapers, else very minor wear - very good to near fine condition. Several important actions and decisions were reached during the 22nd Congress of CPSU including - the official commencement of the so called "Sino-Soviet Split" (the fracturing of the close relationship between the Soviet Union and China based on doctrinal differences), the... Read More
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Kritika etiki Spensera (Criticism of Spenser's Ethics)
by Sokolovoi, Sofi
S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): M. V. Pirozhkova, 1905. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 9 x 6; [4], 1-116; rebound in dark-blue cloth over boards; light wear to tips of spine and a light, rubbed spot to front board; a bit of webbing showing at gutter between pp. 2 and 3, although textblock solid and securely-attached; uniform age-toning, very god condition. A well-thought and thorough criticism, the book refutes Herbert Spenser's theories and ideas and, more specifically, his ethics views.... Read More
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Ob Otchetnom Doklade Tovarishcha I. V. Stalina na XVIII Sezde Partii [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve]
by Soldatenko, E. I.
Moscow: Pravda, 1949. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 40; stapled printed wraps; minor wear to edges; near fine. “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 workers and intelligentsia. In 1947... Read More
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Liturgika Dlia Ukrains'kikh Katolits'kikh Shkil (In 2 vol.) [Vol. I - Sviati Rechi; Vol. II - Sviati Bogosluzhbi]
by Solovii, M. M. and Skwarok, J.
Toronto: OO. Vasiliian, 1959. Soft cover. First edition (in Ukrainian and English); 6 ½†x 9 ½†; vol. I pp. [4], 7-87, [1] including text to last page, vol. II pp. [3], 6-128 including text to last page; original pictorial wraps – orange vol. I, green vol. II; vol. I with a small closed cut to tail of spine and a few slight crease lines to front cover; vol. II with minor wear, near fine; illustrated from... Read More
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Shliakh U. S. S. do Makivky (The Path of the USR to Makivka)
by Soltykevych, Dr. Iaroslav
Toronto: By the author, 1952. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 1/2 x 4 3/4; pp. 5-13, [1]; off-white, stapled wraps, printed in black; mild age-toning to margins of wraps; a small nick to head of spine and minor wear to edges and corners; in very good or better condition. Iaroslav Soltykevych (1890 - 1965) was a former lieutenant of the USR (Ukrainian Sich Riflemen) and captain in the UNR (Ukrainian National Republic). His current pamphlet described the... Read More
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Avgust Chetyrnadtsatogo (Uzel 1. 10-21 Avgusta St. St.)
by Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Paris: YMCA-Press, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Russian edition; 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"; pp. [8], 9-573 + 2 maps; original plain green cloth-over-boards; silvery title to spine; very minor wear (spine very slightly cocked forward, mostly very clean); near fine. 'August 1914' was the first book in the author's epic cycle 'The Red Wheel.' Solzhenitsyn was awarded The Nobel Price for Literature in 1970 and due to his controversial works - expelled from the Soviet Union... Read More
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Here is Your ARTGUM
by (Sommer, Adolph)
East Cambridge, MA: Viscol Company, 1914. First Edition. Very good. Tri-fold brochure; 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 folded; illustrated with monochrome images; mild wear to edges and a tiny nick to top of one of the folds; in very good condition. A sweet advertising piece, it extolled the virtues of Artgum - an eraser for cleaning paper, gloves, hats, slippers, wallpaper, and...for massaging the face. It was created by German-American professor and inventor Adolph Sommer, who also patented Viscol... Read More
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A Small Group of Bills of Landing of the Quaker Shipping Merchants Abraham Bell & Son
by Abraham Bell & Son
New York: By the authors, 1852. Very good. Three documents, printed and partially filled in manuscript; approx. 6 x 12; illustrated with small engravings; a few small nicks to edges and mild age-toning; in very good condition. Abraham Bell (1778 - 1856) was born in a prominent Quaker family in Northern Ireland. Immigrating to New York in 1797, he co-founded Abraham Bell & Company with several partners, of which he would become the sole owner and which would be... Read More
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Dean & Son's Almanack Fan 1875
by Dean & Son
S. l. (London): Dean & Son, 1875. First Edition. Very good. Die-cut, card-stock fan; 6 blades, affixed together with a small brad; 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 closed, 4 1/2 x 8 1/2 extended; chromolithographed illustrations, elaborate floral borders, and two months of the year per blade; a few spots to verso (mostly to last blade); light wear to edges; in very good condition. Founded in the late 1790s, the publishing company of Dean & Son would lay claim... Read More
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De Kuyper Liqueurs, Cordials, Fruit Flavored Brandies. With Recipes
by John de Kuyper and Son
S. l.: John de Kuyper and Son, 1940. First Edition. Very good. Presumed first edition, n. d. (ca 1940); 6 x 3 1/2; pp. [20]; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with lithographs; mild wear to tips of spine and corners; in very good condition. A beautiful advertising booklet for various De Kuyper liqueurs, it features descriptions of various company products and numerous cocktail recipes.
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President Ulysses S. Grant Engraving
by H. B. Hall & Sons
New York: H. B. Hall & Sons, 1870. Very good. Engraving, n. d. (1870s); 7 x 5; steel engraving on card stock sheet with rounded corners and gilded edges; facsimile signature below image; spotting and foxing mostly to verso only; a few small, rubbed spots to top and bottom edges of recto (previously mounted [?]), not affecting illustration; in very good condition. A handsome portrait of the 18th President of the United States, it was published by Henry Bryan... Read More
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"The Washington Monument" Trade Card
by J. H. Bufford's Sons
New York, Boston & Chicago: J. H. Bufford's Sons, 1885. Near fine. Trade card, unused, n. d. (ca 1885); 5 1/4 x 3; off-white stock with text and image lithographed to verso; two very tiny spots to lower margin, else very minor wear - in near fine condition. A beautiful trade card, it featured the Washington Monument, the stone structure of which had just been completed in 1884, and accompanying facts about the landmark, including height, cost, wights, etc.... Read More
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Celluloid and Velvet Greeting Card
by Raphael Tuck & Sons
Germany: Fine Art Works, 1900. First Edition. Very good. Greeting card, n. d. (ca 1900); 5 1/4 x 3; card stock wraps with embossed celluloid overlay in green, gilt, and off-white attached to front wrap with small rivets; die-cut, velvet flowers; tied with a decorative string; pp. [4] with printed text in silver; small indentations to pp. 1 from backs of rivets; centerfold with darkened outline from a pressed flower (?); in about very good condition. A beautiful greeting... Read More
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A Landmark on the Pioneer Trail
by Sontum, A. P.
S. l.: By the author, 1930. Very good. Small broadside, n. d. (1930s); 11 1/2 x 8; white stock, illustrated with a photograph and ruled with a gilt border; signed by the author in blue ink in the lower right corner; small punctures to top and bottom edges from previously being hung with thumb tacks, else minor wear; in very good condition. A beautiful, unrecorded tribute to one of Northern California's natural wonders, the latter now gone, the broadside... Read More
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Selma's Famous Russian Toilet Preparations
by Sotherlund, Selma (of Russia)
New York, NY: By the author, 1915. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1915); 6 1/2 x 5 1/2; single sheet folded, pp. [4]; glossy cream stock, illustrated with a portrait frontis and a vignette of the Two-headed Eagle Imperial Russian Seal; horizontal crease line; a small nick to edge of crease; very good condition.A beautiful advertising pamphlet for beauty products, developed by a Russian immigrant businesswoman in New York in the early 20th century. According to Selma herself,... Read More
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Udarenie v Sobstvennyh Imenah v Sovremennom Russkom Iazyke (Words' Stress in First Names in the Contemporary Russian Language)
by Souperanskaia, Aleksandra Vasilievna
Moscow: Nauka, 1966. Hardcover. Good. First edition; 8vo; pp. [2], 3-358, [2]; original beige cloth-over boards with brown title; blind-stamped publisher's name to front board; spine slightly faded; minor dust-dulling and fading to margins of covers; pages with mild age-toning. Else clean; errata note laid-in at the end; good or better condition. An uncommon study of words' stress in Russian first names, both native and borrowed from other languages, including rules and exemptions of stress use, explanations... Read More
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Adam Poltawski. Typograf Artysta (Adam Poltawski. Typographer Artist)
by Sowinski, Janusz
Wroclaw: Ossolineum, 1988. Hardcover. First edition, 1 of 4000 copies; 7 3/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 238; cloth-backed, illustrated paper over boards; small rubbed spot to front board and minor wear to corners; illustrated with facsimiles; very good to about near fine condition. Adam Jerzy Poltawski (1881 - 1952) was a Polish graphic artist, printer, illustrator and type designer. He ran his own printing shop and designed many of the most popular fonts, widely used by Polish printing houses in... Read More
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Sozodont Book Mark: Mount Tacoma, Washington
by Sozodont
S. l.: Hall & Ruckel, 1891. First Edition. Near fine. First edition, No. 11 of First Series; 2 x 5; chromolithographed recto, text in black on verso; minor wear to edges; in near fine condition. A lovely book mark, part of a series of 12, it advertised Sozodont - a popular oral hygiene product from the mid-19th to the early-20th centuries, which touted cleaning the teeth and hardening the gums, going as far as using the discovery of X-rays... Read More
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The Many Faces of Truth. Homage to Dali [Graphic Designer's Dummy]
by Spalaikovitch, Pierre
San Francisco: Strictly Limited Editions, 1988. Softcover. Graphic designer Albert De Nola's dummy (edition limited to 350 numbered copies), this one with embossed "For Alberto" on the limitation page and the etchings; assembled model of the box - card stock in black and gold; booklet on cream stock ("containing nine texts and the justification of the tirage"), tied with a decorative rope; three plates with etchings. Box with a few worn spots to edges; light general wear; booklet and... Read More
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A Short Guide to Great Britain. For Use of Military Personnel Only. Not to Be Republished, in Whole or in Part, Without the Consent of the War Department
by Special Service Division, Army Service Forces, War and Navy Departments
Washington DC: War and Navy Departments, 1943. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (1943); 5 `/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 1-37, [1]; pictorial beige wraps, decorated and ruled in red and blue; illustrated with drawings and maps; light wear along edges and corners and a tiny crease to upper corner; in very good or better condition. Published for the American soldiers, deployed in Europe in WWII, the guide's purpose was "to start getting you acquainted with... Read More
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A Collection of Snap Paper Popper Design Samples
by Sportswood Spec Co.
Lexington, KY: Sportswood Spec Co., 1950. First Edition. Very good. Eleven samples, n. d. (ca 1950); approx. 8 x 4 1/2; thin, die-cut paper stock, text and illustrations to recto only; held together by a single staple to left margin; a light spot to bottom of first one and a small nick to edge of last one, else very minor wear; very good to near fine condition. In the early 1950s, the Sportswood Spec Co. produced a series of... Read More
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