A Small Collection of Doll Enthusiasts Publications
by Various
Various places: Various publishers, 1962. Very good. Eleven items, 1962 - 1975, including several unrecorded publications (not in OCLC, not in the trade), a manuscript letter, and a photograph; condition varies - from good, with a few short splits and some spotting, to near fine, with minor wear. *Please inquire for more detailed descriptions. - The Pennysworth Gazette, September 1962. Phoenix, Arizona, 1962. - World Wide Doll News, August 1972. Official Publication of International Doll Club. Dallas, Texas, 1972. - Collector's... Read More
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Note of the Soviet Government to the Government of the U.S.A. Statement of the Special Commision for the Establishment and Investigation of the Circumstances of the Shooting of Polish Officers, Prisoners of War, in the Katyn Forest by the German Fascist Invaders
by Various
S. l.: New Times, 1952. First Edition. Very good. Issued as a supplement to the "New Times" journal; 10 1/4 x 7 3/4; pp. [1], 4-24; beige wraps, printed in black; edges of wraps a bit brittle, with a few small nicks and chips; age-toning and a few spots to margins; in about very good- condition. The Katyn Massacre reffered to a series of mass executions of Polish officers and intelectuals in the Spring of 1940, following the Soviet... Read More
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The "OXO" Cook Book
by Various
London: OXO Limited, 1920. Softcover. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1920); 7 x 4 3/4; pp. 16; illustrated stiff wraps; a small spot and minor age-toning to margins; mild wear to edges; brown and beige in-line illustrations; very good condition. Possibly one of the earliest OXO cooking booklets, it contained recipes by various women that had been mailed to the company as an expression of the cooks' great satisfaction in using OXO cubes in their cooking and included such... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material Published by the Dalnevostochnago Otdela Rossiiskoi Vsenarodnoi Partii Natsionalistov (Rossnatsionalistov)
by Various
Tiantszin, Shanghai, and Riga: Various, 1933. First Edition. Very good. A small collection of publications by the Rossnatsionalistov - an influential, albeit very short-lived, politico-religious party, especially active among Russian emigres in the Far East. During its initial years, at the head of the party was Ivan Matveevich Zaitsev (1879 - 1934) - commander of a regiment of the Orenburg Cossack Army and later author and publicist in China. The motto of the party was, in part: "Spirit... Read More
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Vyznachni zhinky Ukrainy. Seriia i-sha (Prominent Ukrainian Women. First Series)
by Various
S. l. (Munich [?]): Obednannia Ukrainskikh Zhinok na emigratsii, 1950. Softcover. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [2], 5-64; greenish-beige, card stock wraps, printed and ruled in black; age-toning and light spotting; staining to extreme lower margin of first two leaves only; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. A what appears to be the only issue from an intended series, the booklet was published by the Organization of Ukrainian Emigre Women in Germany. The organization was initially founded... Read More
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Citanka pro Ceske Skoly v Americe [Dil II]
by Various
New York: Sboru Zastupcu Ceske Svob. Skoly v New Yorku, 1914. Hardcover. First edition; 6 x 8 3/4; pp. [3], 2-160, [2]; cloth spine; brick red pictorial boards; wear along edges of covers; some rubbed and faded spots; front pastedown missing lower corner; front hinge a bit weak; several smudges to corners and margins (not affecting text); penciled-in name of previous owner to first free page; overall in good condition. An early 20th century reader compiled and published by... Read More
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The Entertaining, Moral, and Religious Repository; Containing Upwards of Three Score Separate Performances, All of Which Are Written in a Simple Yet Pleasing Stile, and Are Eminently Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of Both Sexes. Published by a Society in Great Britain, Instituted for the Beneficent Purpose of Aiding the Intention of His Majesty, as Expressed in His Royal Proclamation for the Suppression of Vice and Immorality (In Two Volumes) [Association Copies]
by Various
Good. A married set of these popular juvenile tales, they reflected the cultural, religious, and moral values of the time and were chiefly based on the British "Cheap Repository Tracts" series. Many of them were penned by author, poet, and playwright Hannah Moore (1745 - 1833), writing under the pseudonym 'Z.,' among others. Both volumes were inscribed and dated by Colonel Henry Rutgers (1745 - 1830) - Revolutionary War hero, philanthropist, and patron of, then, Queen's College -... Read More
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Svobodnaia Piesn'. Sbornik Revoliutsionnykh Piesn' i Stikhotvorenii
by Various
New York: Max. N. Maisel, 1911. First edition; 5 x 7 1/4; pp. [3], 4-159, [1]; bound in black cloth over boards; private paper label to spine; hinges weak; spotting mostly to corners and margins of pages; piece of old tape to index page; overall in good condition. A compilation of Russian "songs of freedom" and revolutionary poems by various authors. Some of the works included are an early printings of Razrushennyi Mol' of Grigorii Gershuni (a Russian revolutionary and... Read More
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Californians "As We See 'Em." A Volume of Cartoons and Caricatures
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S. l. (San Francisco): Published by E.A. Thomson from the Press of the Stanley-Taylor Company, 1906. Hardcover. First edition; 11 3/4 x 8 3/4; pp. [7], 8-302; rebacked, with original black leatherette over boards preserved; gilt title to spine and front board; rubbed spots along edges of boards; illustrated with full-page, black & white, engraved plates; overall in very good condition. A spectacular and quite amusing collection of caricatures of early-20th century Californians, with most of them notable railroad barons,... Read More
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Royal Baker and Pastry Cook together with an Original 1 lb. Can from Royal Baking Powder
by Various
New York: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1911. Softcover. First edition thus; 5 x 8; pp. 46; illustrated wraps; rubbed spots along spine; small loss of paper to lower corner of front cover; small nicks to corners of first several pages and fore-edge of back cover; internally mostly very clean but for two rubbed spots to pp. 18-19 partly obscuring a few lines; good to very good. Original can of baking powder plain with embossed top; a bit tarnished -... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material Related to Grace Church in San Francisco
by Various
San Francisco: Various, 1873. First Edition. Very good. Three items - one Sunday School Easter Sunday Programme for 1881, two Order of Services for Christmas 1873 and 1887; various sizes - approx. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 and smaller; pp. [4], [4], and [2] respectively; two of them printed and ruled with elaborate fonts and borders; one lavishly printed in gilt and green; occasional creasing and spotting; overall in very good condition. Wonderful pieces of San Francisco history, the... Read More
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A Small Group of Early Baseball Photographs, Including a Female Baseball Player
by Various
Various: By the authors, 1890. Very good. Three photographs, ca 1890s - 1915 (one of them dated 1915 on verso); the first a black and white collage of two separate images of the same person, printed overlapping into the photograph themself; the other two sepa-toned; various sizes, but approx. 3 3/4 x 5; one affixed to a thick, card stock frame; two in very good condition, with minor wear to edges; the last one with a vertical crease... Read More
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Bibliography. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco 1915" together with "Important Books on the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Published by Paul Elder & Company
by Various
San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1915. First Edition. Very good. Two brochures, tri-fold and bi-fold; respectively 7 1/4 x 12 1/4 unfolded and 6 x 3 1/2; off-white stock, printed and illustrated in black; the tri-fold one with small creases to corners; thin strips of age-toning to top and bottom; two holes for filing through right margin of first panel; very good condition; the smaller one lightly and evenly toned; small creases to corners; very good condition. Aparently-unrecorded... Read More
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Tokyo Daikushu Hiroku Shashin-shu / Tokyo in Raiders' Ordeal
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Tokyo: Ondori-sha, 1953. Very good. First softcover edition; 10 x 7; pp. [64]; stapled pictorial wraps; illustrated with numerous photographs; a few minor spots to margins and a bit of wear around staples and to edges; in good to very good condition. In Japanese. A poignant collection of photos, documenting the immediate impact and the aftermath of the WWII napalm raids of Tokyo by the US Army in March of 1945 - considered by many “the most devastating raids... Read More
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Summer Specialties Catalog and Sample Circular
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Graydon Palmer Co., 1898. Softcover. Catalog: 9 x 3 3/4; pp. 1-16; beige wraps, printed in brown; light creasing; small spot to back wrap; illustrated with photographs and drawings; very good or better condition. Sample circular: 6 x 8 1/2; single sheet, recto only; pink stock, printed in black; 11 swatches of fabric glued to the paper; glue dots bleeding through a few of the lighter-colored cloth; light fraying; very good condition. Fragile and beautifully preserved pieces of ephemera, the... Read More
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Cook Book, Compiled and Published by the Board of Directors of the Larkin Children's Home, Elgin, Illinois
by Various
Elgin, Ill: Willson Press, 1915. Hardcover. Good. First edition; 8 x 5; pp. [11], 8-156, [8]; light-blue oilcloth over boards, with dark-blue decorations; thin cracks to cloth along spine; hinges reinforced with thin strips of linen; scattered spots, mostly to margins of several pages; corners and tips of spine rubbed; illustrated with a photograph frontis and advertisements; several manuscript recipes to last few leaves; overall in good or better condition. The Larkin Children's Home's history can be traced back... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material, Related to Major General John Stark
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Various: various, 1900. Very good. A scrapbook of articles and newspaper clippings, two postcards, a real-photo postcard, a Stark House Dedication program, and a tintype photograph, 1800s - early 1900s; scrapbook - loose leaves, pp. 42 - a bit brittle, with small chips to edges and occasional closed split to old fold lines; newsprint with general age-toning and yellowing; miniature photograph in an ornate, card stock frame, with manuscript notes; postcards with small residual glue spots to verso... Read More
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Otchet Permskago Otdeleniia Sostoiashchago pod Avgusteishim Pokrovitel’stvom Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Imperatritsy Marii Feodorovny Popechitel’stva Imperatritsy Marii Aleksandrovny o Slepykh za 1899 God. [Report of the Perm Branch for the Blind under the Patronage of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Maria Feodorovna and the Guardianship of Empress Maria Alexandrovna for the Year 1899]
by Various
Perm: Tipo-Lit. Gubern. Prav., 1900. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 72; green wraps ruled and printed in black; a few small chips and cuts to edges of wraps; some loss of paper to spine; a small number in the lower corner of front wrap; pages mostly very clean; illustrated with tables; overall very good-. Very detailed reports on funds and expenses, as well as the names of all the children at the School for the Blind, schedules, classes,... Read More
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Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 (Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2)
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Kharbin: Tipografiia Kazansko-Bogoroditskago Muzhekogo Monastyria, 1929. Softcover. First editions, issues 1 and 2 for January and February, 1929; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; illustrated wraps; issue 1 with thin cuts at tips of spine, spotting to margins of pages, illustrated, very good condition; issue 2 lacking back wrap, front wrap detached with some loss of paper, lower corner trimmed, previous owner's signature to front wrap, illustrated, in about good condition. Quite uncommon and fragile examples of the very first two... Read More
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A Small Collection of Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Ribbons
by Various
Seattle, WA: Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, 1909. Softcover. Nine silk ribbons in beige, red, white, green, yellow, and orange; various sizes, approx. 8 x 2; printed in green, gold, orange, and black with two of them illustrated in color; some wrinkles from being rolled; a bit of fraying to top and bottom edges (affecting one letter on one of the ribbons); good to very good condition. A colorful collection of ribbons, it represents various days of the exposition and include:... Read More
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First Congregational Church Cook Book
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Moline, Illinois: The Floral Society, 1940. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1940); 6 x 9; pp. 64; off-white pictorial wraps; faint crease lines to corners, else minor wear; very good or better. Interesting recipes for batters and doughs, vegetables, fish and oysters, etc. by the young women members of the Floral Society at the First Congregational CHurch of Moline, Illinois. The Floral Department of the church was organized in 1911 with the initial purpose of regularly decorating the First... Read More
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Macmillan Textbooks for Elementary Schools, 1928 – 1929
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S. l. [New York (?)]: The Macmillan Company, 1928. Softcover. First edition; 7 ¼ x 5; pp. 154; illustrated green wraps; a few scattered spots of foxing; illustrated with photographs, b & w, and color illustrations; very good conditions. A large and wonderfully illustrated catalog of textbooks by the Macmillan Company, covering every imaginable subject and featuring several “unique†ones, including Industrial Arts, Americanization, Religion, etc.
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Seventh Annual Shrine Ice Carnival
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Seattle: Auspices Nile Temple, 1937. Softcover. First edition; 12 x 9; pp. [6]; off-white glossy stock, illustrated with photographs and drawings; a few small nicks to edges and tips of spine; light age-toning and spotting to margins; overall in very good condition.By 1909, members of the Afifi Shrine Center in Tacoma living in Seattle had reached 487 and thus the Nile Shrine Center was chartered. That same year it would be "the first temple to carry the message of... Read More
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Constitution and By-laws of the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, Ukrainian Gold Cross, and Youth of ODWU
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Niu Iork (New York): ODWU, 1940. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 x 4 1/2; pp. [2], 5-125, [2]; textured, olive wraps, printed and ruled in dark blue; fading to margins of wraps and afew minor smudges; tiny nicks to tips of spine and back wrap; in very good condition. In Ukrainian and English. The Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, known as ODVU, or ODWU was a Ukrainian nationalist political organization in the US, ideologically close to... Read More
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A Lot of 22 Works on Pottery
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Various: Various. Very good. A comprehensive and authoritative collection of works on American, European, and Asian pottery - generally in very good condition, with dust jackets, where indicated, with a bit of wear to corners and occasional spots and nicks and cuts to DJs. Only one jacket has significant wear with loss. *Will require additional postage. - Fisher, Stanley "Fine Porcelain and Pottery. The Best of the World’s Beautiful China" - Gordon, Elinor "Chinese Export Porcelain. An Historical Survey" - Gordon,... Read More
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