A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency George S. Boutwell, Governor, His Honor Henry W. Cushman, Lieutenant-Governor, the Honorable Council, and the Legislature of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1853
by Wolcott, Samuel
Boston: White & Potter, Printers to the State, 1853. First Edition. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [7], 6-37; plain blue wraps with a small manuscript note to upper margin; closed cut to tail of spine and a thin strip of glue residue to title page; small puncture through back wrap and last few leaves; in good to very good condition. Samuel Wolcott (1813 - 1886) was a missionary, author of hymns, orator, and Congregationalist minister.
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Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in Compliance with a Resolution of the Senate, in Relation to the Execution of the "Act Granting Land to Certain Exiles from Poland"
by Woodbury, Levi; et al
S. l. (Washington, DC): Blair & Rives, Printers, 1839. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2; pp. [1], 2-20; self-wraps, removed; minor age-toning and spotting to margins; in very good or better condition. In 1834, 235 exiled Polish revolutionaries petitioned the US Congress for a grant of land, for the purpose of establishing a colony on the American frontier. The Government was sympathetic to the struggles of the Poles against Russia's tyranny in the Polish... Read More
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Meats: Composition and Cooking. Farmer's Bulletin No. 34
by Woods, Chas D.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. Soft cover. Good. Second revised printing, issued by the US Department of Agriculture; pamphlet; pp. 31, including text to front and back cover; original printed wraps; minor foxing and wear to covers; in very good condition. Illustrated with drawings, tables, and diagrams. Comparison between animal and vegetable foods, structure and composition of meats, cuts of meat, etc.
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"A Gentleman in Kharki" Stevengraph
by Woodville, R. Caton
Coventry: (T. Stevens), 1899. First Edition. Fair. Stevengraph in gilded card mount; image 5 1/4 x 3 1/4, mount 7 1/4 x 4 1/4; silk with several thin splits; mount with a horizontal cut to right edge; label on verso age-toned and chipping; in fair to good condition. A rarely-seen stevengraph today, it was based on an 1899 painting by R. Caton Woodville and depicted a full-length portrait of a British soldier in khaki battledress, with his head in... Read More
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Select Hymns: the Third Part of Christian Psalmody; with Directions for Musical Expression
by Worcester, Samuel
Boston: Published by Samuel T. Armstrong, and Crocker and Brewster, 1823. Good. Stereotype edition; 6 x 3 3/4; pp. [7], 6-156; [2]; plain, brown paper over boards and 1/4 calf with faded gilt title; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; ffep and rfep partially excised, else complete; fain, penciled-in manuscript notes to endpapers; in good condition. Samuel Worcester (1770 - 1821) was a clergyman, best remembered for his taking part in the noted controversy on Unitarianism... Read More
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Poems of William Wordsworth
by Wordsworth, William
Leavitt & Co., New York, 1851. Hardcover. Good. A beautiful early edition of Wordsworth's poems: Poems of the Imagination, Poems of Fancy, Poems of Childhood, etc. Condition: Good - bluish-green covers, elaborate full-cover gilt decorations and title, all page edges gilt; head and tail of spine worn; corners somewhat rubbed, otherwise boards mostly clean; mild to moderate foxing to pages; a small faint signature to first free page.
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Two Advertising and Sample Brochures for 'Rogers Brushing Lacquer'
by Detroit White Lead Works
Detroit, Michigan: Detroit White Lead Works, 1930. Very good. Two brochures, two-fold, then double-fold, 12 panels each; 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 and 8 x 3 3/4; illustrated with Art Deco drawings and 49 and 24 color paint chips laid on respectively; a bit of wear and age-toning along margins and folds; in very good condition. Beautiful advertising brochures, they showcased the colors of Rogers lacquers, including several stippled ones with brilliant marbled effects. The Detroit White Lead Works... Read More
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A New Jersey Fox Hunt. "A Smoking Run"
by Worth, Thomas
S. l.: s. n., 1876. Very good. Lithographed broadside, n. d. (ca 1876); 11 3/4 x 16 1/2; thick, card stock backing; a few small spots of foxing to margins; several small, closed cuts to edges; in about very good condition. Published by at least two publishers - Currier & Ives in New York and S. Lipschitz & Son in London (the current copy published anonymously - possibly pirated), the humorous image was created by prolific magazine and book... Read More
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Fuller Oil Wood Stains. Unexcelled for Richness of Color
by W. P. Fuller & Co.
San Francisco: W. P. Fuller & Co., 1931. Very good. Advertising and sample catalog; 6 1/4 x 3 1/2; pp. [4]; pictorial wraps, resembling a piece of wood; illustraited with 14 thin wood chips; a bit of rubbing and wear to top edge of pp. 3; small nicks at tips of spine; in good to very good condition. An interesting sample brochure, showing the actual colors of different wood pieces, with and without varnish, it advertised the wares of... Read More
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An Essay on the Nature and Discipline of a Christian Church
by Wright, Richard
Boston: R. M. Peck, Printer, 1822. First Edition. Very good. First American edition; 6 1/4 x 3 1/2; pp. [1], 4-18; plain, speckled gray wraps tied with a string; a few minor spots of foxing; small loss of paper to lower corner of back wrap; overall in very good condition. On the freedom of religion and the church discipline, the booklet was written by British Unitarian minister and itinerant missionary of the Unitarian Fund Richard Wright (1764 - 1836).... Read More
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The Chaplet of Pearls; Or, The White and Black Ribaumont [In Two Volumes]
by Yonge, Charlotte M.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. Hardcover. First edition; 5 x 7 1/2; vol. I pp. 318, vol. II pp. 284; light blue cloth over boards (also published in green cloth with the blue variation much more uncommon); brown morocco label with title in gilt; small rubbed spots to corners; age-toning to spine; slight darkening and a faint ripple to cloth along margins of boards; pages mostly very clean with a few spots of foxing to first and last pages... Read More
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The Solvency of the Allies. Great Britain-France-Belgium-Italy
by Guaranty Trust Company of New York
New York: Guaranty Trust Company, 1919. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; staple-bound 6 1/2" x 9 1/2"; pp. 3-38; original printed wraps; several small crease lines; faint stamp to front cover; very few spots of foxing to title page, else clean; illustrated with b & w photographs; very good. A survey of the post-WWI economic and financial situation of four of the bigger European Allies. The book follows the productive capacity, labor force, industrialization, etc. of the... Read More
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Scotch Mountain Groves. A Superior Quality of Guaranteed Pure Maple Syrup. A Short Treatise on the Improved Methods of Evaporating the Extract of the Hard Maple Tree
by Youmans, F. W.
Delhi, NY: Express Printery, 1913. First Edition. Near fine. Presumed first edition, n. d. (ca 1913); 7 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. [10]; green wraps, printed and ruled in orange; illustrated with photographs; very minor wear - in near fine condition. According to a record of the Vermont Sugar-makers' Association Meeting in 1913, the owner of Scotch Mountain Groves in the Western Catskills compiled this little book "for the purpose of advertising" - describing the groves, the evaporator house,... Read More
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Marie Reitinger, Our Bohemian Missionary
by Young People's Department, W. H. M. U. of Vermont
St. Johnsbury, VT: C. T. Ranlet, Printer, 1890. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (late 19th- / early 20th- c.); oblong 3 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. [8]; glossy wraps, illustrated with a portrait; minor wear to edges and margins - in very good to near fine condition. Partly a short history of the life and work of Marie Reitinger, the pamphlet also appealed to church leaders for donations towards $400 for her salary. Marie Reitinger was born... Read More
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Viacheslav Lypynskyi i ioho dumky pro Ukrainsku natsiiu i derzhavu
by Zabarevskyi, M. (pseud. for Doroshenko, Dmytro)
Augsburg: Nakladom Ukr. Litopysu, 1946. Good. Second edition (originally published in 1925 in Vienna); 8 1/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [2], 7-51; beige wraps, printed in brown and ruled with an intricate border; illustrated with portrait frontis; small gift stamp to ffep; light age-toning to margins of wraps; spine cover somewhat fragile, splitting; in about good condition. A DP (displaced persons) camp publication. Dmytro Doroshenko (1882 - 1951) was a leading Ukrainian politician during the 1917 and 1918 revolution,... Read More
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Bolshevyzm (Zhyttia v SSSR)
by Zaporozhets, Andrii
Buenos Aires: Peremoha, 1947. First Edition. Good. First edition; 7 x 5 1/4; pp. [2], 5-60, [3]; brick-red wraps, printed and ruled in black; a small chip to fore-edge of front wrap and some loss of paper to spine cover; small, manuscript number to front wrap and title page; in good to very good condition. Devlad Oleksii Samiilovich (1885 - 1959), writing under the pseudonyms Andrii Zaporozhets, Oleksii Zaporozhets, Oleskii Devlad, was a Ukrainian author, ethnographer, and publicist. He... Read More
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Social Problems of Labour Force
by Zaslavska, Tatiyana Ivanovna and Borodkin, Friedrich Markovich (editors)
Novosibirsk: U.S.S.R Academy of Sciences, Siberian Department, Institute of Economics & Industrial Engineering, 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition, 8vo, pp. [2], 3-125, [2]; original wrappers; mimeographed text; minor wear and dulling to covers; bottom page edges with scattered red spots; two small vertical cuts to head and tail of spine and a slight creasing. This work was prepared for the 17th World Congress of Sociology in Varna, Bulgaria, September 14-19, 1970. The publication was largely... Read More
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Perepolokh (Fright)
by Zavadovych, R.
Newark: "Nashym Ditiam" OPDL, 1951. First Edition. Very good. First edition, 1 of 2500 copies; 8 1/4 x 6; pp. 3-32; stapled, beige pictorial wraps in green and brown; title in Ukrainian and English on facing pages; illustrated with numerous, full-page black & white drawings; minor wear to corners and tips of spine; a few barely-distinguishable spots to first and last leaves; in very good or better condition. Roman Zavadovych (1903 - 1985), writing under the pseudonyms Roman zi... Read More
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Todirkiv litachov (Todirko's Airplane)
by Zavadovych, Roman
Toronto / New York: Obednannia Pratsivnykiv Literatury dlia Ditei i Molodi, 1970. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 10 x 7; pp. 3-16; stapled, pictorial wraps in beige, red, and brown; illustrated with drawings in orange and green by Iurii Kozak; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; a tiny, bookshop price label to upper corner of back wrap; in very good or better condition. Roman Zavadovych (1903 - 1985), writing under the pseudonyms Roman zi Slavnoi,... Read More
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Kruty u 40-richchia velykoho chynu 29-ho sichnia 1918 - 29-ho sichnia 1958 (Kruty, On the 40th Anniversary of the Battle, January 29th, 1918 - January 29th, 1958)
by Zbarazkyi, Semen
Miunkhen / Niu Iork (Munich / New York): Shliakh molodi, 1958. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 x 5; pp. 3-104; red wraps, printed in black; a bit of sun-fading to spine and minor wear to edges of wraps; in very good or better condition. Semen Zbaranskyi (pseud.), nee Danylo Chaikovskyi (1909 - 1972) was a Ukrainian journalist, author, and active member of OUN under Stepan Bandera. After spending time in Polish prisons, then Auschwitz and several DP... Read More
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Pioner Lin (A Young Kirghiz Pioneer Lad)
by Zelma, Georgii
S. l. (Kyrgyzstan [?]): By the photographer, 1920. Softcover. Silver gelatin print, n. d. (ca 1920s [?]); 16 1/2 x 10 3/4; two small chips to upper left corner and top edge; several minor rubbed spots and pin-pricks to edges; titled in Cyrillic in blue pencil on verso; also on verso, a label of the Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries with title in English and a small American Russian Institute stamp; overall in very good- condition. Georgii Anatolevich... Read More
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Dobur Pchelar. Mesechno Pchelarsko Spisanie (Guter Imker) Vol. III No. 1
by Zemenski, Iordan
Gara Zemen: Dobur Pchelar, 1934. Soft cover. First edition; 6†x 9 ½†; pp. [2], 2-16, [2] including text to covers; staple-bound; original printed yellow wraps; a few small nicks to bottom edge; unevenly-cut fore-edge; illustrated with tables, diagrams, and photographs; very good or better.
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Le travail force existe-t-il en U.R.S.S.? Recueil de documents officiels du gouvernment sovietique (Does Labor Force Exists in the USSR? A Collection of Official Documents of the Soviet Government) [An Association Copy]
by [Zenzinov, Vladimir]
Paris: Edite par le Comite de L'organisation parisienne du Parti socialiste-revolutionnaire russe, 1931. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 3/4 x 4 1/2; pp. 3-54; stapled, off-white wraps, printed in black; mild age-toning to margins; very good or better condition. Signed and inscribed by Zenzinov to renowned author, journalist, editor, music critic, and publisher Felix Stossinger (in German): "To Comrade Stossinger / best regards / from the Author / V. Zenzinov / Paris / July 18, 1931." Vladimir... Read More
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Datskoe Proiznoshenie [Signed/inscribed by author]
by Zharov, Boris S.
Leningrad: Leningradskogo Universiteta, 1969. Soft cover. Near Fine. First edition; staple-bound 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; pp. 3-80 including text to first and last page; original printed light green wraps; minor wear to covers (slight fading along spine); near fine. One of only 1790 copies printed. Signed and inscribed by author Boris Zharov - professor of Scandinavian philology. The book is the first of its kind in Russia, explaining the phonetics of the Danish language.
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Basni
by Zherlitsyn, Mikhail
New York: Published by the Author, 1947. Softcover. First edition; 4 1/2 x 6; pp. 46; red textured wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips and a bit of wear along spine; minor age-toning along margins; very good to near fine. Ukrainian author and linguist Mikhail Zherlitsyn immigrated to the US after the Revolution. He had previously written a study of Samuel Coleridge and the English Romanticism in 1914 while still in Odessa. In 1947 in New York he... Read More
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