To John G. Curtis, Preston Armour, Asahel C. Stone, and Geo. W. Ellinwood, Esquires, commissioners of excise of the town of Smithfield, County of Madison, and State of New York
Smithfield [Peterboro?]: April 13, 1841. Quarto broadside approx. 9¼" x 8", previous folds; near fine. A plea not to grant tavern licenses. In the left margin is the vertically printed note: "Let this petition be signed and sent to the store of James Barnett, in Peterboro, by May 1, 1841." "How can further indulgence ... be vindicated in the face of the fact, that the drinking of alcoholic liquors makes an annual deduction from American wealth of more than... Read More
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The Providence directory; containing names of the inhabitants, their occupations, places of business and dwelling houses; with lists of the streets, lanes, wharves, &c. Also, banks, insurance offices and other public institutions; being a desideratum to almost every man in business. The whole carefully collected and arranged
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1830. 12mo, pp. 150, [5] ads, [1]; printed paper-covered boards neatly rebacked in black cloth; very good and sound. First published in 1824 and according to Bartlett, every two years up to 1850, after which it was issued annually. This edition not common: only 2 in OCLC (Buffalo & Erie P.L. and AAS); none in Rhode Island. Spear, p. 306 noting that this includes an historical sketch of Providence.
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NEW DIRECTIONS in prose and poetry, 16
[New York: New Directions, 1957. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 264; original bright red cloth, title on spine in white, some wear to extremities and browning to acidic pages, else very good in torn, tattered, and creased dust jacket. Contains Henry Miller's "Obscenity in Literature" and an excerpt from Jack Kerouac's On the Road before it was published. Shifreen and Jackson 50.
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Visible language: the research journal concerned with all that is involved in our being literate. Vol. XV, no. 1
Cleveland: Visible Language, 1981. 8vo, pp. 120; tables, illustrations throughout; original orange printed wrappers, near fine.
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Hurricane pictures of greater Fall River
Fall River: Herald News, September, 1938. 8vo, pp. 64; illustrations of destruction throughout; covers lightly rubbed, else very good, clean, and sound. The famed hurricane of September 21, 1938 which ravaged Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts.
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The Helena Daily Herald. Vol. 30. No. 113
Helena, Montana: Tuesday, June 13, 1882. 23½" x 18", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page, removed from binding. Mineral land patents, The Vanderbilt Menage- what it costs to run his house in New York City, local news, market report in wholesale quotes, many notices of final entry with U.S. land office, poem 'A Sailors Yarn' by Irish-American poet James Jeffrey Roche (1847-1908), usual ads (some with cuts) auction sale of horses & mares, Montana wool, stallions, carriages, and patent... Read More
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Daily bread. A birthday text-book. With diary for memoranda. Compiled and editerd by E. M. H.
Winnipeg, Man: Clarl Bros. & Co., Limited, n.d., 1910. 32mo (approx. 4¼" x 3¼"), pp. [256]; ruled calendar and date book, filled in sporadically with names and dates of birth and/or birthdays, largely people from Montana; ownership signture and address of Serene Griffin, Marietta, Minnesota and Mildred Talaas, 417 Cast St., St. Paul, Minn. Selected religious and moralizing texts and verse occupy every other page.
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The second book of the Rhymers' Club
London & New York: Elkin Mathews & John Lane & Dodd, Meade & Co, 1894. First edition, 1 of 650 copies, 16mo, pp. xvi, 136, 14 ads, [1] ads; original brown cloth, spine gilt; binding a bit rubbed, else very good with armorial bookplate of the American collector Henry William Poor.
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The wagon-boy; or trust in providence
New York: published by J. S. Redfield, [137 Nassau Street], n.d., 1845. 32mo, approx. 3½" x 2¼", vignette title page, 5 wood-engraved illustrations (4 full-page); original orange printed wrappers; spine half-way cracked; all else very good. Back wrapper contains Redfield advertisements. Issued as Second Series, no. 9 in their Toy Books series. Wood engravings signed by William Howland and "L. & Co." (i.e., Benson John Lossing).
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Strathmore bond sample letterhead book
1950. Seven loose sample letterheads on Strathmore paper, and one sample envelope, representing phone, brush, architecture, and import companies, etc, laid into a blue bifolium with paper samples stapled on, and copy on the final page suggesting a mid-20th century date. Fine.
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Schofield & Rhodes account book
[Providence], 1855. Folio, 25 manuscript pages in ink of accounts; stiff marbled paper wrappers; very good. An account book from the provisions business of Schofield & Rhodes in Providence. The business opened in 1855, at 118 Benefit Street with investments in foodstuffs and clothing from Thomas Harris Rhodes (1800-1876) and Albert G. Schofield (b. 1809). The account book shows items such as flour, sugar, tea, raisins, molasses, coffee, cotton sheeting, calico, etc. and the names of the purchasers. Albert... Read More
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Official proceedings of the international commercial congress: a conference of all nations for the extension of commercial intercourse held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Commercial Museum..
Philadelphia, 1899. Folio, pp. [4], 442; plates (each with a series of portraits); good and sound, or better, in orig. blue gilt-stamped cloth; complete account of the 17-day event, with texts of papers submitted and biographies of the foreign delegates; ex-MHS.
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Now, even as then - ... Introduction by A. Edward Newton
New York, Wilmington, et al.: privately printed, Edie-Davidson, Inc, 1933. First edition printed in a limited but unspecified number at the Holmes Press, Philadelphia; 8vo, pp. 28, [2]; portrait frontispiece, 4 full-p. illustrations; fine in original green cloth-backed boards, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; glassine jacket a bit chipped and creased. The true and tragic story of Timothy Bancroft's fortune, offered as advice in the wake of the Great Depression of 1929.
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Swenska psalmboken. Af konungen gillad och stadfästad år 1819
Stockholm: Isaac Marcus, 1862. 16mo, pp. 367; full calf, rubbing to edges, spine a bit cracked, remants of metal clasps, lacking one (of two) leather thongs; several contemporary inscriptions on front endpapers (soiled), interior mostly fine. Bound with: Swenska evangelii-boken samt tivenne årgångar påbudua nya predikoterter jemte böner för offentlig doch enstild andakt. Stockholm: Isaac Marcus, 1862. Two related collections of Luthern hymns.
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Canotle Rannaga Kelekak. Delochet Roka [Canticles, Hymns and Catechism in the Tinne language]
Winnipeg: Free Press no-rodeneleketekteyar, 1904. 16mo, pp. 54; original limp pebble-grain black cloth; generally fine. Tinne, or Athabaskan, is a language family spoken primarily in the Northwest and Alaska.
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The Yankee. Vol. II. No. 17
Boston: published by True & Rowe, Friday, April 23, 1813. Approx. 19" x13¼", pp. [4]; 5 columns per page; removed from binding. Political miscellany, american gallantry with a narrative of an action between a schooner carrying guns and men and a British ship, army news, foreign news, marriages, deaths, poetry, agriculture-on the cultivation and manufacture of the woad plant, houses to be sold or let, adverts, piano fortes, permanent ink, leather boots, paper mill, and patent medicines.
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Three early titles from the series
v.p.: Wolfsong, 1978. 3 volumes, 8vo; nos. 1-2, and 4 from this series of American poetry chap books. Includes Peter Wild's "Gold Mines," William Kloefkorn's "Stocker," and Dorothy Dalton's "The Moon Rides Witness". All in original wrappers; fine. The first 2 titles published in Iola, Wisconsin; the third published in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. With original envelope in which these were mailed to Emerson G. Wulling of the Sumac Press with a short ALs (6 lines) from Wolfsong's R. Chris... Read More
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Adrian Wilson July 1, 1923 - February 3, 1988
[San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, 1988. 8vo, pp. [22]; printed in blue and black; mounted frontispiece photograph of Wilson by Ansel Adams; fine in original blue wrappers, printed paper label on upper cover. From the library of Kim Merker. Remarks by William Eshelman, James D. Hart, Ward Ritchie, and Sandra Kirshenbaum at a memorial for Wilson in San Francisco on Feb. 13, 1988. Prologue by Joyce Lancaster Wilson with Melissa & Craig Marshall, "designed and printed by... Read More
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Faribault County 1855-1976 a panorama
Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing [for] Faribault County Bicentennial Commission, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. 299, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original brown imitation morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.
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La 2e DB (Deuxième Division Blindée) Général Leclerc. Combattants et combats en France. Présentés par un groupe d'officiers et d'hommes de la division
Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1946. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 316, [4]; card wrappers bound in; numerous plates from photographs, numerous maps, some in color and some folding; very good in contemporary and likely publisher's three-quarter brown morocco over marbled boards, spine stampted in red, blue and gilt showing a tank, France, and a stylized title.
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![British warships. The Royal Navy completely illustrated and described [wrapper title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/833/793/1382793833.0.l.jpg)
British warships. The Royal Navy completely illustrated and described [wrapper title]
London: Illustrated London News, 1940. Second edition, oblong folio, pp. [2], 40, [2]; profusely illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs; original pictorial blue wrappers stamped in gilt; a fine copy. Complete catalogue of the Royal Navy at the start of World War II, including submarines, aircraft carriers, mine sweepers, and Australian, Canadian, and Indian escort vessels, cruisers and destroyers. The large format makes for some dramatic images.
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![Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited. Eastern Newfoundland area code 709. Effective June 28, 1970. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/411/433/1489433411.0.l.jpg)
Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited. Eastern Newfoundland area code 709. Effective June 28, 1970. [cover title]
Newfoundland: Newfoundland Telephone Company Limited, 1970. 4to, pp. 184, [4], 3, [1], 80, [4]; original pictorial paper wrappers; lightly toned; near fine. The white and yellow pages / telephone directory for Eastern Newfoundland including St. John's, Bay Roberts, Bell Island, Grand Bank and other exchanges.
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Relief panorama of the Rhine
Koln am Rhein: Hoursch & Bechstedt, 1935. Large "coloured printing" panorama ("No. 7") showing the course of the Rhine and all the sights from Koln to Mainz. Approx. 55" x 10", original blue printed wrappers; generally fine throughout.
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![当代中国画技法·赏析 卓鹤君水墨山水画创作[= Contemporary Chinese painting techniques: Ink landscapes of Zhuo He-Jun]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/666/382/861382666.0.l.jpg)
当代中国画技法·赏析 卓鹤君水墨山水画创作[= Contemporary Chinese painting techniques: Ink landscapes of Zhuo He-Jun]
Nan ning, China: Jie li chu press, 1993. Thin 4to, pp. [48]; 32 color plates; text in Chinese; tan cloth; fine in fine pictorial paper covers, all in a black slipcase; part of a series on modern master painters.
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Articles of partnership made and entered into the twentieth day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six between Robert Chaloner Critchley Long of Erlands Crondell in the county of Hants gentleman of the one part, and Alfred Napier Barry of 85 Belgrave Road in the county of Middlesex..
London [?], 1886. Manuscript folio document on parchment, 10 pages (the last 3 blank except for the docket on the verso of the final leaf), in a neat, secretarial hand, ruled in red throughout, with a 10-shilling Royal Court of Justice stamp affixed to the first page, and the 2 wax seals of Long and Barry, with their signatures and those of the witnessing solicitor on page 7. Very good and legible. "Whereas the said ... Long has entered... Read More
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