Let's Team Up To Keep Food Prices Down : For The Sake Of America's Future (poster).; 1944. World War II
U. S. Government Printing Office. poster. Poster depicts a grocer as he gestures towards an OPA CEILING PRICE LIST that urges civilians to work together to keep food prices down. Printed in full color. Sheet measures 20 x 28 inches (51 x 71 cm). Faint horizontal and vertical folds, otherwise fine.
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Farmyard Play Book
(Children). FARMYARD PLAY BOOK. Akron, Saalfield, 1940. A play book containing a folding barnyard diorama. Eight farm animals (sheep, goose, cat, goat, rabbit, rooster, dog, and pig) individually depicted on stiff, dye-cut boards are connected end-to-end with cloth hinges. All fold into a cloth spine and illustrated paper board cover. Six of the figures are detached from the rest and a tape repair has been made along one of the hinges. A charming play book from the early 1940s... Read More
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San Zenone, Verona. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of this twelfth century church from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 15 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. Sheet size is 21 1/2 x 14 1//2 inches. Dampstain in lower left corner easily matted out.
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Innovation/Imagination; 50 Years of Polaroid Photography
New York: Abrams, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In association with "The Friends of Photography." Introductions by Barbara Hitchcock and Deborah Klochko, essay by Deborah Martin Kao. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth with spine stamped in grey. More than 80 amazing photographs in full color. 10 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 118 pages.
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The Kingsport Book of Type Faces. In two volumes complete
Kingsport: Kingsport Press, n. d.. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt, grey endpapers and edges. Illustrated book of type faces available from Kingsport Press. Vol 1: Linotype; Vol. 2: Monotype Display. Both volumes in original slipcases.5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches. 1,267 pages.
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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society; Volume IX
St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1901. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Contains "The Ojibways in Minnesota" by Rev. Joseph A. Gilfillan, pgs. 55-128. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Some wear to extremities. 6 x 8 3/4 inches. 694 pages.
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The Natural History Of Birds from the best authors, ancient and modern, Volume I.
Bungay: Brightly & Childs / T. Kinnersly, 1815. Hardcover. Very good. Volume one only (of two). Bound in green cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. Cloth is rubbed at the extremities. Occasional foxing throughout. Embellished throughout with 62 plates, accurately hand coloured from nature.
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English Florilegium
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. As New. First Thus. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. ISBN:0-89659-790-3. First Abbeville Press edition. Pp 240 with 50 plates. Fine in fine dust jacket. Introduction by William T. Stearn. Notes on the plates by Christ opher Brickell. Watercolor paintings by Mary Grierson.
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The Aldine Edition Of The British Poets, in fifty-two volumes
London: Bell and Daldy, n. d.. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in half blue morocco and marbled boards with front covers and spines stamped in gilt, and five raised bands. All edges marbled, marble endpapers. A few heads lightly chipped, otherwise fine condition. Each volume measures 4 x 6 1/4 inches. List of authors and images available on request.
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Favorite Tales from Grimm
New York: Four Winds, 1982. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Bound in the publisher's original quarter cloth and paper over boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Dust jacket is worn at the head & heel, rubbed at the extremities. Text retold by Nancy Garden, illustrations by Mercer Mayer.
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Keystone Specimen Book of Display Faces
Philadelphia: Keystone Type Foundry, 1920. Softcover. Very Good. Keystone Type Foundry; Type, Steel Equipment, Machinery and Printers' Requisites." Bound in publisher's original gray and orange illustrated wrappers, with illustrated gray endpapers. Beautifully illustrated throughout in black and white. Fine except for slight discoloration to bottom half-inch of front cover, and wear to top inch of first two pages. 9 x 12 inches. 182 pages.
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Middlebury College and its Surroundings
Middlebury, VT: R.M. Bailey, Class of '72, and J.C. Harvey, Class of '81, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Bound in leather with covers stamped in illustrated blind and gilt. All edges gilt. Illustrated with twelve albumen photographs of the college, town, and surroundings. Features text poetry accompanying the photographs, with a prefatory poem to alumni. Previous owner has pasted additional period photographs and text to endpapers. Pages in very good condition. Leather has wear to extremities, binding is partially separated... Read More
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The Book Of Minnesota: Development, Resources, Enterprise And Beauty Of The North Star State
St. Paul: Pioneer Press, 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in the publisher's original green cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front cover. Illustrated in black-and-white. Large fold-out color map in rear. Gilt has mostly rubbed away from the well worn front cover. One page taped. Book is 21.75 by 16 by inches.
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The Westerners Brand Book 1945-46; Being The Papers Presented During The Second Year Of The Westerners (1945-46) Together With Some Original Papers Rescued From Manuscripts And Ephemera. (chicago Corral)
Chicago: The Westerners, 1947. 1st. Hardcover. Fine Condition. One of 500 copies. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Some material on the cattle rustler and the range war of Wyoming. This is the second and final volume issued by the Chicago Corral in this form. Adams HERD 2476.
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The Caxton Club Scrap-book; Early English Verses 1250-1650
(Caxton Club). THE CAXTON CLUB SCRAP-BOOK; EARLY ENGLISH VERSES 1250-1650. Chosen and collocated by John Vance Cheney. Chicago, Caxton Club, 1904. One of 250 copies on Italian hand-made paper from a total edition of 253. Bound in quarter green cloth and green paper boards with paper label on spine. Top edge gilt. Slipcase. Very good condition.
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The George Abrams Collection (Auction Catalogue)
London: Sotheby's, 1989. Hardcover. Fine Condition.
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The Sherlock Holmes Journal; 118 issues from December 1954 to Winter 2014, Volume 2 Issue 2 - Volume 32 Issue 1, missing five issues
London: Sherlock Holmes Society of London, 2014. Softcover. Fine. Journal related to Holmes material, published twice yearly. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Missing only five issues; Volume 2 nos. 3 and 4, Volume 3 nos. 2 and 4, and Volume 8 no. 1. Two years featured combined issues in a single wrapper, and three years featured an additional supplement without issue number. Includes indexes to volumes laid in. The set is in fine condition, with the exception... Read More
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Martin Luther: Treasures of the Reformation
Dresden: Sandstein, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Illustrated throughout in color. A beautiful presentation of a fascinating exhibit. 9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches. 503 pages.
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Getting Ready For The Victory Loan... (poster).; World War I.
poster. VICTORY LOAN PICTORIAL NEWS poster with a black-and-white photographic image of the presses at work above a text, printed in black on a white background, that encourages buying Liberty Bonds. Sheet measures 14 x 17 inches (35.5 x 43 cm). Few small (less than half inch) closed tears, one horizontal fold, otherwise fine condition.
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Church Psalmist; or, Psalms and Hymns, Designed for the Public, Social, and Private Use of Evangelical Christians. Containing, also, Directions for Musical Expression. With Supplement
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1847. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full leather, covers stamped and decorated in blind, spine stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. All edges gilt. Previous owners name in ink on the ffep.
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Parts Catalog; KLUGE Automatic Press
St. Paul, MN: Brandtjen & Kluge. Softcover. Good. Bound in original stiff paper wrappers with cover stamped in illustrated red and blue. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with red illustrated top page borders. Wear and smudges to exterior, text block is largely clean. 7 x 10 1/2 inches. 30 pages.
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Twelfth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics: Part V, Wisconsin's Resources, Industries and Opportunities
Madison: Democrat Printing Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very good condition. Second Edition. State of Wisconsin 1905-1906.
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Portal of the Cathedral, Verona. (print)
London: Henry Bohn, 1843. Very good condition. Original tinted lithograph of the portal of this twelfth century cathedral from Henry Gally Knight's The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Italy from the Time of Constantine to the Fifteenth Century published in 1843 by Henry Bohn in London. Image size is 10 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches. Sheet size is 14 1/2 x 21 1//2 inches. Drawn by Domenico Quaglio II (German, Munich 1787 - 1837 Hohenschwangau, near Fussen) and printed by... Read More
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Photograms Of The Year 1942
London: Illiffe and Sons, 1942. Paperback. Very good. Edited by F.J.Mortimer. Includes photos by Rosalind Maingot and Dr. Max Thorek. Green paper wraps have separated and are somewhat soiled and worn at extremeties. Interior intact.
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Cabala or the Rites and Ceremonies of the Cabalist. National Series. Arranged in accordance with the standard formula
New York: Redding Masonic Supply Co, 1876. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original red leather folder 145 pp. 5 1/4 inches tall.
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