Berkeley Women's City Club Recipes
by Various
Berkeley: By the authors, 1934. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1934); 9 x 6; pp. [6], 9-285, [7]; pictorial wraps in yellow and blue; illustrated with frontis plate and various advertisements for local businesses; in a remarkably well-preserved condition - with light wear to tips of spine and corners; small scratched spot to margin of front wrap; in very good or better condition condition. The Berkeley City Club, designed by famed architect Julia Morgan and presently on... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
A Small Collection of Correspondence of Edward Dwight Welling, with Notable Vermont Figures
by Various
Various: Various, 1896. Very good. Eleven documents, 1896 - 1902; ten manuscripts on ornate letterheads, one typed letter, signed in manuscript; various sizes and formats; old, fold lines; occasional minor spots and nicks to edges; overall in very good condition. Edward Dwight Welling (1851 - 1928) was a President of the Stark Paper Company, Vice-President of the Bennington County Savings Bank, State Senator, and member of the Republican State Committee. The current documents, all addressed to him and mostly... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
A Collection of Civil War Manuscript Documents, Related to Troops and Supplies Transportation
by Various
Various: By the authors, 1861. Very good. Five documents, 1861 - 1862, three in manuscript, two printed and filled in manuscript; various sizes; generally in very good or better condition - two with small ncks and cuts to edges, one with a discreet repair to verso. The Civil War would be one of the first wars, in which large-scale railroad transportation was used to move and supply armies rapidly over long distances. Various documents and orders were used to... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
An Original Personalized Photo Album of a Member of the Bulgarian Youth Brigade, Appointed by the Communist Party, Working in the Mines in Gorlovka, Ukraine (1957-1960)
by Various
Gorlovka: Secretary of the Party, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good. On the front cover (in Bulgarian): "Brotherly Friendship, Unbreakable/ Album of the Bulgarian Youth Brigade, 'VII Congress of the Bulgarian Communist Party,' Shafts '19-20,' 11 'Bis' and 'Komsomolets'/ Town of Gorlovka-Donbass, USSR 1957-1960/ Dimitrov, D. P. Oblong 10" x 13"; pp. 20 (5 empty at the end); red embossed covers; heavy textured pages; each page contains an original photographic collage of smaller photos; several rubbed spots to spine;... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
A Collection of Early-20th-century Publications, Related to Venereal Diseases
by Various
Various: Various, 1930. Nine booklets, brochures, and leaflets, various dates (ca 1930s - 1940s); some illustrated with photographs, drawings, tables, etc.; generally mild wear - occasional smudges and light creasing; in very good to near fine condition. At the beginning of the 20th century, venereal diseases (VD) like syphilis and gonorrhea were widespread and endemic, though they also carried immense social stigma and were rarely discussed publicly. Treatment was toxic and largely innefective, often involving only symptomatic remedies. Attitudes would... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Dlia Ukraini, Ch. 1 (For Ukraine, No. 1)
by Various
Ditroit (Detroit): Zhinochii Viddil Ukrains'koi Get'mans'koi Organizatsii, 1950. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 6; pp. 32; olive green wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine and sun-fading along margins; mild age-toning to first and last few leaves only; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. The very first issue of an uncommon journal, of which presumably two issues (?) were ever released, it was published by the Ukrainian Women's Hetman Organization - part of the Ukrainian conservative... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
Tokyo Daikushu Hiroku Shashin-shu / Tokyo in Raiders' Ordeal
by Various
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
Offered by ZH Books
Summer Specialties Catalog and Sample Circular
by Various
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
Offered by ZH Books
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
Offered by ZH Books
Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 (Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2)
by Various
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
Offered by ZH Books
Constitution and By-laws of the Organization for the Rebirth of Ukraine, Ukrainian Gold Cross, and Youth of ODWU
by Various
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
Offered by ZH Books
A Lot of 22 Works on Pottery
by Various
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
Offered by ZH Books
The New Talent; The Advance Guard Quarterly. No. VI, Sept. Oct. Nov. 1934 (Illustrated by Will Eisner)
by Various
New York: E. G. Arnold and Weldon Giniger, 1934. First Edition. Very good. Issue No. VI - Sept. Oct. Nov. 1934; 11 x 8 1/2; pp. [4], i, 1-64 - mimeographed text to rectos only; green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with frontis plate by Will Eisner; fading to margins and small nicks and cuts to edges of wraps; interior clean; in very good condition. An early issue of this obscure, short-lived, literary journal, it featured stories,... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Annual Commencement, Catholic Colored High School, June 1, 1945, Louisville, Kentucky
by Various
Louisville, Kentucky: By the authors, 1945. First Edition. Very good. Leaflet; 9 x 6; single sheet, pp. [2]; cream stock, printed in dark-blue; several faint crease lines, else minor wear; in very good condition. The Catholic Colored High School began its life as the St. Augustine School in 1921, uder St. Augustine Church in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter the oldest African-American Catholic church in the city and one of the first six in the country. Starting in the 1870s,... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
In the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Los Angeles. Russian Orthodox Church of the Transfiguration of Our Lord, et al, Plaintiffs, vs. Rev. A. Lisen, et al, Defendants
by Various
Jordanville, NY: Holy Trinity Monastery, 1949. First Edition. Original wraps. Very good/No DJ. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [1], 4-77; beige wraps printed in black; minor wear to edges; spine partially colored in red pencil (?); previous owner's signature in blue pencil to front wrap; small rust spots around staples; very good condition. Published in book form, the work contained the proceedings of a lawsuit between two feuding factions of the Russian Orthodox Church in the US, for... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
Severnaia Mongoliia (I). Predvaritelnye otchety geologicheskoi, geokhimicheskoi i pochvenno-geograficheskoi ekspeditsii o rabotakh, proizvedennykh v 1925 godu
by Various
Leningrad: Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1926. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 1000 copies; 11 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. [1], 4-163, [1]; olive-green wraps, printed and ruled in black; illustrated with numerous photographs, tables, drawings and maps, including large fold-out ones; a few chips and nicks to edges of wraps with minor loss of paper; small rubbed spot to title page verso; in about very good condition. An ambitious endeavour, the book was the first, stand-alone... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
1913 Blackmore & Langdon’s Catalogue of Begonias, Carnations, Delphiniums, Blue Primroses, Cyclamen, Violets, Polyanthus, Etc.
by Various
Bath: Twerton Hill Nursery, 1913. Softcover. First edition; 8 ¾ x 5 ½; pp. 64; green illustrated wraps; small puncture to spine; a spot of red wax (?) to back wrap; minor wear to corners and edges; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. Blackmore & Langdon was founded in 1901 after two passionate flower enthusiasts, Charles Langdon – a gardener - and James Blackmore – an engineer and owner of a public house – met at the Bath Flower Show,... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
An Archive of Bulgarian Theater, Music, and Film Posters
by Various
Various: Various, 1970. First Edition. Very good. Eight posters, ca 1970 - 1974; various sizes, approx. 38 x 26 and 19 x 27; all in protective, laminated sleeves; condition varies from good, with nicks to edges, creases, and closed cuts to margins, to very good or better, with minor wrinkles and wear. A significant archive of posters, they were published at the height of the Cold War and showcased the Bulgarian performing-arts scene under the guardianship of Liudmila Zhivkova... Read More
Offered by ZH Books
The Chips are Down! Organized Labor to Defend Its Life
by Various
S.l.: United Labor's Legislative Committee AFL - CIO - Railroad Brotherhood, 1946. Softcover. Broadside, n. d. (ca 1946); 11 x 8 1/2; single sheet, recto only; beige stock, mimeographed text; a few creases and light age-toning to margins; very good or better. The broadside announces an "emergency meeting to act against Truman union smashing legislation" concerning railroad workers.
Offered by ZH Books
Arts and Crafts Affairs [Vol. Vi, No. 1]
by Various
S. l. [Berkeley]: California College of Arts and Crafts, 1937. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. 14; beige wraps printed in black; a bit of age-toning and a small rubbed spot to top edge of back wrap; very good condition. An issue of a magazine, published by a landmark institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the premier fine arts and design schools in the United States, it contains articles and news on events, happenings, and... Read More
Offered by ZH Books