A Collection of Penmanship Copybooks
by Various
Various: various, 1857. Very good. Eight notebooks, 1857 - 1873; various sizes, various pagination; colorful, engraved and decorated wraps in yellow, green, gray, beige, and red; filled in manuscript in different hands; overall in very good condition, with occasional spotting and small nicks to edges; two of them with period, hand-stitched repairs to spine; one with loss of paper to lower corner of back wrap and a small, archival-paper repair to upper corner of front wrap. In the 18th... Read More
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The Land of Oranges
by Various
S. l. (Los Angeles, CA): California Fruit Growers Exchange, 1932. Softcover. First edition thus; 5 3/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 1-12; chromolithographed wraps; small nicks to tips of spine and corners; small closed cut to bottom edge of front wrap; illustrated with b & w drawings and two tables; very good or better condition. A charming, coloring book for children, it told the story of Betty and Billy visiting their Uncle Jim, who lives on a ranch in California and... Read More
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Khristianstvo Pered Sovremennoi Sotsial'noi Deistvitel'nost'iu. Rechi N. A. Berdiaeva, V. N. Il'ina, G. P. Fedotova. Prot. S. Bulgakova v Otkrytom Sobranii Religiozno-Filosofskoi Akademii [Christianity in Contemporary Social Reality. Speeches of N. A. Berdiaev, V. N. Il'in, G. P. Fedotov, and Archpriest S. Bulgakov at the Public Meeting of the Religious - Philosophical Academy]
by Various
Paris: YMCA Press, 1932. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 31; beige wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine; faint age-toning along margins of wraps; pages clean; very good or better. Nikolai Berdiaev (1874 – 1948) was one of Russia's best known religious philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a leading theoretician for the Russian Social Democratic Party. An article of his in 1913, criticising the Holy Synod of the... Read More
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The California Teacher and Home Journal. Devoted to Education, Literature, Science, and Art. Volume 1 - Number 6
by Various
San Francisco: T. E. Flynn & Company, 1883. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 406-480; grey wraps, printed in black; a few rubbed spots along spine; small signature of previous owner to front wrap; back wrap advertisement illustrated with a woodcut; very good condition.Being the official organ of the Department of Public Instruction, the journal featured new methods and experiments in teaching, new educational devices, poetry, hints and advice on schools and universities, etc. Right around... Read More
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Announcing a Spring Book Show. Macmillan Books for Boys and Girls, Spring 1937
by Various
San Francisco: The Emporium (Book Department), 1937. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 6 3/4; pp. 6, tri-folded; beige stock printed in blue and red; illustrated; few very mild spots; very good to near fine. An announcement for a book show at the Emporium's Book Department and a short preview of some of the books, published by the Macmillan Company, which would be offered at the show. The Emporium was a department store chain headquartered in San Francisco which stayed in... Read More
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Offset. "That Something Different in Advertising"
by Various
Cleveland, Ohio: The Harris Automatic Press Company, 1925. Softcover. First edition; 8 3/4 x 11 1/2; pp. 16; stapled lithograph wraps; a few small nicks and cuts along edges; some glue residue to back cover verso from a label removed; very few faint spots of foxing to wraps; pages clean and brightly illustrated; very good or better. An uncommon advertising book by The Harris Automatic Press Company - a pioneer in offset lithography and an early leader in commercial printing... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material, Related to Perfumery
by Various
Various: Various, 1880. Very good. Seventeen items - trade cards, a leaflet, and a brochure, n. d. (1880s); various sizes and formats; chromolithographed illustrations; some in near fine condition, with very minor wear, others with residue to verso from being removed from a scrapbook; overall in very good condition. A lovely collection from the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, it showcased the big names of perfumery and the trendy scents of the times.... Read More
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Constitution, By-laws and Rules of Order of the Building Trades' Council of San Francisco (Organized February 6, 1896) Adopted December, 1897. Adopted as Revised, July, 1901
by Various
San Francisco: Organized Labor Print, 1901. Softcover. First edition thus; 3 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [3], 4, [1], 6-30, [1]; textured brown wraps; back corners a bit brittle; few small nicks to spine; faint foxing to first and last pages only, else clean; very good or better. An apparently unrecorded (not in OCLC, not in the trade) constitution of one of the most powerful central bodies of its kind in the country. Patrick Henry McCarthy (known as "Pinhead" McCarthy... Read More
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The Leland Stanford, Junior, University. The Act of the Legislature of California. The Grant of Endowment. Address of Leland Stanford to the Trustees. Minutes of the First Meeting of the Board of Trustees
by Various
S. l. [Palo Alto]: s. n., 1885. Softcover. Good. First edition, n. d. (1885); 8 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. 38; plain, burgundy leatherette over stiff, card stock wraps; red tint to page edges; loss of paper to spine; front wrap lightly warped; text clean; a tiny puncture through upper right corner; overall in good to very good condition. A part of California history, the pamphlet presented the Endowment Act of the California Assembly and Senate, the Grant of... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material, Published by the Indochina Resource Center
by Various
Washington DC: Indochina Resource Center, 1972. Very good. Three publications and a typed letter, the latter signed in manuscript, by the Indochina Resource Center and the Indochina Mobile Education Project, 1972 - 1974. Founded in 1971, the Indochina Resource Center served as an educational institution - informing the public, legislators, and the media about Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, where U.S. military personnel were fighting. Research shows that the addressee of the letter - Huynh Van Hong - appears to... Read More
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Will You Not Help the People in Ukraine Ravaged by War...
by Various
New York: War Relief Committee of Ukrainian Federation of U.S., 1918. Very good. Printed card, illustration to recto, text to verso; 3 1/2 x 5 1/4; stiff, light-brown stock; lower left corner lightly clipped, else minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. An appeal to the american public to help Ukraine, called "Little Russia," after its devastation, caused by WWI, the card featured persuasive cartography - a crude map, outlining Ukraine's territory in relation to the other... Read More
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A Small Archive of Materials Belonging to The Southern National Party
by Various
Memphis, TN: The Southern National Party , 1978. Softcover. Housed in a blue die-cut card-stock binder illustrated with the Confederate Flag; minor wear to spine of binder; pages clean; near fine condition. The Southern National Party, a White Supremacist organization, was established in the 1970s in Memphis, Tennessee with the main purpose of achieving a separate Southern Republic with its own Congress which would be made up of Anglo-Saxon people who occupy the Southern States, or, "that is the white... Read More
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![The Carrier Boys of the Salem Register to Their Patrons, with the Compliments of the Season [January 1, 1877 and January 1, 1883]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/695/757/735757695.0.l.0.jpg)
The Carrier Boys of the Salem Register to Their Patrons, with the Compliments of the Season [January 1, 1877 and January 1, 1883]
by Various
Salem, MA: The Salem Register, 1877. Softcover. Very good. Two brochures, 1877 and 1883; 9 1/4 x 6 and 11 3/4 x 6 1/2; single leaves, folded, pp. [4], text to pp. 1 and 4 only; cream stock ruled with intricate boarders and printed in red and black, respectively; the 1877 copy with a few very minor nicks to fore-edge; in very good to near fine condition; the 1883 copy with several closed cuts to edges, an old... Read More
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[Anti-Americanism] Natsional'no-Osvoboditel'naia Bor'ba v Stranakh Iugo-Vostochnoi Azii. Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentral'nom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve
by Vasil'eva, V. Ia
Moskva: Pravda, 1949. Soft cover. First edition; staple-bound 5 ½†x 8 ½†; pp. 3-30, [1] including text to last page; original printed wraps; mild age-toning along margins; slight vertical crease line running through middle of book; several notes in faded blue ink to front cover verso and two of the pages; text clean; good or better.
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1843 - 1943. Propamiatna kniha Amerykanskykh Ukraintsiv vydana u stolitniu richnytsiu smerty o. Markiiana Shashkevycha, Pershoho Probudytelia Halytskoi Ukrainy (1843 - 1943. Commemorative Book of American Ukrainians, Published on the Centenary of the Death of Fr. Markiyan Shashkevych, the First Herald of Galicia)
by Komitetu Sviata pid upravoiu O. O. Vasyliian
Philadelphia: Ameryky, 1943. First Edition. Good. First edition; 10 3/4 x 7; pp. [3], 8-199; textured, pictorial, olive wraps; illustrated with numerous photographs; rebacked with black linen tape; a bit of wear and spotting to corners and along spine; in good to very good condition. In Ukrainian and English. Published by Ukrainian emigres in the US on the 100th anniversary of Shashkevych's death, the book contained poetry, articles, historical essays, etc. Markiyan Shashkevych (1811 - 1843) was a social... Read More
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Na pershi huli. Zhart na odnu diiu
by Vasylchenko, S.
Avgsburg (Augsburg): Nashe Zhyttia, 1946. Softcover. First edition thus; 8 x 6; pp. 22; beige wraps printed in black; spine reinforced with a blue paper tape; small nicks and cuts along edges; chip to upper corner of front wrap; faint, penciled-in notations to several pages; overall good to very good condition. Title in English and Ukrainian. Stepan Vasylchenko (pseud. for Stepan Panasenko) (1879 - 1932) was a Ukrainian poet, author and educator. He made his literary debut with a Russian-language... Read More
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The Birds Wedding. The Owl & the Bat and Other Merry Tales
by Veale, E.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1897. Very good. First British edition, published in the same year as the American edition; 6 x 4 1/4; pp. [12]; pictorial wraps; illustrated by Palmer Cox with in-line and full-page lithographs; a small rubbed spot to lower margin of fron twrap, a closed cut to tail of spine, and a minor nick to upper right corner, else bright and well-preserved; very good condition. A charming book of fairy tales, in included "The Naughty... Read More
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Two Orignal, Pencil Caricatures of Ernie Lombardi and Johnny Antonelli
by Veitch
S. l.: By the author, 1951. Very good. Two caricatures, in pencil, the Antonelli one dated '51, the other one undated; loose sheets, 11 1/2 x 5 3/4 and 10 1/2 x 7 3/4; a few minor nicks to top edge and very light creasing; very good or better condition. Delightful and well-accomplished, the caricatures depicted two giants of the baseball world - John August Antonelli (1930 - 2020) and Ernesto Natali Lombardi (1908 - 1977). Antonelli, a left-handed... Read More
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Sravnitelnaia tablitsa russkikh politicheskikh partii (Opyt sistematizatsii sovremennykh politicheskikh napravlenii) [A Comparative Table of Russian Political Parties (An Attempt to Systematize Contemporary Political Tendencies)]
by Velikhov, L.
SPBurg (St. Petersburg): By the Author, 1906. 1906. Very good. First edition; large, folding table - 30 1/2 x 43 3/4; beige stock, printed in blue; several closed cuts to edges of folds; a few punctures at intersecting fold lines; small piece of paper tape to margin of title page (not affecting text); overall in very good condition. A rare first edition of an ambitious endevour, the table was compiled by Lev Aleksandrovich Velikhov (1875 - 1940 [?]) -... Read More
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How to Beat Slot Machines
by Venture, Steve
Phoenix, AZ: Tinoo Publications, 1980. Very good. Second printing; 11 x 8 1/2; pp. 1-21, [1]; pictorial wraps in white, peach, and orange; illustrated with drawings; a few tiny spots to wraps, else minor wear; in very good condition. Beginning with: "The mst popular form of casino gambling in the United States, and the most popular with the ladies, is the Slot Machines..." the book covers the history of this particular method of gambling, types of machines, playing tips,... Read More
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A Small Collection of Material of Berkley Artist and Publisher Paul Veres
by Veres, Paul; et al
Berkeley, CA: Calligraphics. Near fine. Paul Veres (1944 - 2024) was born in a Hungarian Jewish famiy during the worst year of WWII in Hungary. After immigrating with his family to New York in 1949 he would eventually move to Berkeley in 1973. A dedicated studio art educator, he would also design various digital typefaces, with fonts inspired by years of hand-drawn calligraphy work. Veres published, as well, under his own imprint - Calligraphics. The first item was a... Read More
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Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
by Verne, Jules
Scribner, Armstrong & Co, NY, 1874. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair. First Edition, First State (two titles listed to title page verso). Beautiful full-page plates. Condition: Externally Fair - rubbing, fading and some soiling to covers; head and tail of spine with 1/2" missing; corners worn; some darkening and soiling to page edges. Internally Very Good - pages mostly very clean, plates bright and beautiful.
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Vverkh Dnom [Topsy Turvy (The Purchase of the North Pole)]
by Vern, Zhul'
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1949. Softcover. First Russian edition presumed (research shows no indication of earlier Russian editions); 5 x 7 3/4; pp. [2], 3-130, [3]; stiff pictorial wraps; two small spots to margin of front cover and minor wear and rubbing to edges; near fine condition. Illustrated in b&w by N. Muratova. Jules Verne's 'The Purchase of the North Pole' or 'Topsy-Turvy' (French: Sans dessus dessous)was first published in 1889 as a sequel to 'From the Earth to... Read More
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Sadu Michurina (In Michurin's Garden)
by Verzilin, N. and Korsunskaia, V.
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major contributions in the fields of agricultural research and genetics and in 1923 his own fruit garden was recognized by Lenin and Council of People's... Read More
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V Sadu Michurina
by Verzilin, N. and Korsunskaia, V.
Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo Detskoi Literatury, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition; 9" x 11"; pp. [2], 3-38, [2]; original pictorial boards; cloth spine; mild to moderate wear along edges and corners of covers; beautiful full-page and in-line color illustrations; front hinge slightly weak; very good. Ivan Michurin was a renowned Russian academician and scientist (1855-1935). He made major contributions in the fields of agricultural research and genetics and in 1923 his own fruit garden was recognized by Lenin... Read More
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