Sugar '69
Quezon City: National Federation of Sugarcane Planters, 1969. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations, 80p. Softcover in original wrapper. 34cm. Sixth year of publication.
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The Customs Service of the Port of New York, Historical and Commercial Illustrated: A Souvenir of the Wall Street Home of the Most Important Collection District of the Federal Govenment
n.p., 1900. Hardcover. Very Good. portraits, advertisements, 128p. Original red, white and blue cloth. 26 cm. Endpapers cracking along hinges. Minor cover soil. Neither author nor publisher is identified.
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Modern Ideas in Printing. Volume Five. Sessions 1924-5
Adelaide, South Australia: Printers Trade School, n.d.. Paperback. Good. illustrationg and photos (one folding), unnumbered pages (about 50 plus a few tissue guards). Softcover in original wrapper. 29 cm. Several reglued sections along rather worn backstrip. Contents sound and clean.
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![The Progress of Colonial Reform; Being a Brief View of the Real Advance Made since May 15th, 1823, in Carrying into Effect the Recommendations of His Majesty, the Unanimous Resolutions of Parliament, and the Universal Prayer of the Nation, with Respect to Negro Slavery. [cover title]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/893/099/1242099893.0.l.0.jpg)
The Progress of Colonial Reform; Being a Brief View of the Real Advance Made since May 15th, 1823, in Carrying into Effect the Recommendations of His Majesty, the Unanimous Resolutions of Parliament, and the Universal Prayer of the Nation, with Respect to Negro Slavery. [cover title]
London: Printed for The Anti-Slavery Society; and Sold by Hatchard and Son; and J. and A. Arch, 1826. Paperback. Very Good. 49p. Softcover pamphlet. Stitched. No separate wrapper. 23 cm. Partially unopened. "Drawn from the Papers printed for the House of Commons, prior to the 10th of April, 1826." [printed statement on title-page].
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Musica Cubana
Habana: Centro de Documentacion, Centro Nacional de Cultura, 1975. Paperback. Fair. 34p. Later black binder (with taped-on title-label. 29 cm. Pages browned. Red pencil annotations and underlinings. Spanish text. At head of title: Monotematicas (especial) agosto 1975.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Volume. LXXXIII. January-June, 1858
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1858. Hardcover. Fair. index, 784p. Contemporary 1/2 leather. 22cm. Backstrip chipped and lacks leather title labels. Front and back covers detached and loosely reattached with linen tape. Spine lettering faded. Bookplate. Contents sound and clean. Includes "Zanzibar; and Two Months in East Africa," by Richard F. Burton in 3 parts (pages 200-224, 276-290 and 572-589).
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Bangkok by Week, Vol. 3 No. 26 (Thursday 8th September 1949)
Bangkok: Luang Bairaj, 1949. Paperback. Very Good. 42p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm.
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Framed Fabric Handwork with Image of Two Unidentified African American Women stitched in the center of a red fabric heart which is stitched in the center of other patterned material with appropriately placed words adding sentiment
1896. Very Good. Yellow patterned fabric background, possibly cotton from a flour or feed sack, large piece of red possibly upholstery cloth in the shape of a heart with a soft focus reproduction (on cloth?) of a photographic image of two young African American Women in the center. Tan (paper?) banner on left side of heart with the word "Forever." Below and to the right of the banner is a stringed tag (paper?) with the words "Memories 1896"... Read More
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Africana Gandensia, [No.] 1
Gent: Seminarie voor Afrikaanse Culturgeschiedenis, 1976. Paperback. Very Good. illustrations (black & white), 162p. Sftcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Ex lib. (stamping front cover indicated this was discarded by Tozzer Library at Harvard. Articles in Dutch, English and French.
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Little Folks' Fair and What We Saw There
London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1896. Hardcover. Good. illustrations (many color), (36) unnumbered pages. 32cm. Illustrated cover. Some cover staining and wear. Floral-patterned endpapers. Front free endpaper trimmed (somewhat raggedly) along right edge. Gift inscription (dated 1897). Internally sound and clean.
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Hints on Home Education: An Annual for 1853
New York: B. Ela, 1853. Hardcover. Good. frontis, illustrations, 384p. 22cm. Extremities chipped & frayed. Illustrations browned. Substantial foxing throughout. An uncommon hardcover annual, much of which appears to have been reprinted from "The Mother's Magazine.
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Benefit in Behalf of the Actors' Fund of America, Thursday Afternoon, Dec. 5th, 1895 ... Souvenir Programme ..
[Chicago]: W. H. Hennessy, Printer, 1895. Near Fine. Broadside printed on satin. 14.3 x 30 cm. Held at McVicker's Theatre in Chicago. Joseph Jefferson appears to have been the biggest "name" performer on the program. Geo. H. Primrose performed his latest bit of stereotype humor from "The Lime Kiln Club". "Mesdames Bushell, Daniels, Burke, Kedby, Lipyeat, Moore, Buckler, French, and Bohers of the "Handel Company" kindly consented to dispose of satin souvenir programmes and boutoniers for the benefit... Read More
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Calendar Blank showing a Young African American Man & His Aged Mother
n.p.: n.d. [circa 1930??], 1930. Very Good. 20 x 39cm. Light scuffing and a couple of short tears. Company not identified; no caption. The young man is wearing a light blue suit and is sitting on the arm of an easy chair in front of an upright piano. He has his left arm around the older woman's shoulders and his right hand is holding the woman's left hand. We have assumed that they are Mother and son. Both... Read More
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26th Annual American Indian Artists Exhibition May 4 - June,6, 1971 (Cover title)
Tulsa: Philbrook Art Center, 1971. Paperback. Near Fine. illustrations, (18)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23 cm.
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The First Demographic Portraits of Russia, 1951-1990
Shady Side, Md: New World Demographics, 1993. Paperback. Near Fine. maps, tables, x, 129p. Original wrapper. 28cm.
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Bayviewer, Vol. 1, No. 4 (July-August, 1963)
Berkeley: Lenlo Associates, 1967. Paperback. Very Good. photos, 20p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28cm. Monthly publication which appeared to have published its last issue in November, 1970. Lennie Anderson was President of Lenlo Associates and the editor of this magazine which, as the name implies, seems to have focused on the Bay area rather than just San Francisco. Issues are uncommon although OCLC locates 9 institutions with at least one issue.
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News Flashes frtom Czechoslovakia under Nazi Domination, Releases Nos. 249 and 250 Aug. 7 and 14, 1944
Chicago: Czechoslovak National Council of America, 1944. Very Good. Two four-page printed newslatters. 28 cm. 285 weekly (more or less) releases were published between 1939 and 1945.
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The Southern Workman, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 (January, 1919)
Hampton, Va: Hampton Institute, 1919. Paperback. Very Good. frontis (not bound in), photos, pp. [2], [1]-48. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Evidence of some adhesion between back cover and last interior leaf. Partially unopened. Among the contents: "Irene Eastman," by Helen W. Ludlow, an unnumbered broadsheet "frontis" picturing and reporting the death in the influenza epidemic of a young woman whose father (Charles Eastman) was a Santee Dakota and a graduate of Dartmouth and whose white mother... Read More
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Frohliche Tage
Reading, Pa: Pilger-Buchhandlung, n.d. [19th century]. Paperback. Good. Illustrated. Thin flexible card wrapper (tips of lower corner chipped). Partially browned. Four center pages detached at stapled. No separate title-page present. German text. A children's book.
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Evergreen House 1943: Report of the Urban Planning Conferences under the Auspices of the Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis, maps (1 folding), index, xix, 245p. 23cm. No Jacket.
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The Southern Patriot. Sixty-six issues: Vol. 23, No. 9 (Nov., 1965); Vol. 25, Nos. 8-10, (Sept.-Nov., 1967); Vol. 26, Nos. 1-4. 6 and 9 (Jan.-April, June and Nov., 1968); Vol. 27, Nos. 2, 7 and 10 (Feb., Sept. and Dec., 1969); Vols. 28, Nos. 1-4, and 6-10(Jan.-April, June and Sept,-Dec., 1970); Vol. 29, Nos. 1, 3-5 and 8 (Jan., March-May and Oct., 1971); Vol. 30, Nos. 2 and 10 (Feb. and Dec., 1972): Vol. 31, Nos. 1-10, (Jan.-June and Sept-Dec., 1973); Vol. 32, Nos. 1-10, (January-June/July and Sept.-Dec., 1974); Vol. 33, Nos. 1, 3-10 (Jan., March-June/July, Sept.-Dec., 1975); and Vol. 34, Nos. 1-8 (January-June/July, Sept. and Dec., 1976)
Louisville: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc, 1976. Very Good. Sixty-six separate 4-page issues of this monthly newsletter/newspaper. 42 cm. Issues for 1965-1968 printed on well preserved white paper have a few chips and are not browned. Issues for 1968-1976 were printed on newsprint and are browned to varying but not extreme degrees and have become slightly brittle. Later horizontal fold, probably for mailing or storage. A couple of early issues have a mailing label for the SDS-MSU Chapter... Read More
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Revista Chilena de Antropologia, No. 1 (1978)
Bogota: Departamento de Antropologia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad de Chile, 1978. Paperback. Near Fine. The issue only. 172p. Softcover in original wrapper. 27 cm. Spanish text.
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Les Derviches-Tourneurs de Turquie: The Whirling Dervishes of Turkey, Salle Wilfred-Pelletier, 22 Octobre 1972
[Montreal?], 1972. Paperback. Very Good. photos, (12)p. Softcover program. 27 cm. Performance presented by Canadian Concerts & Artists Inc. Mel Howard & Nion Tallon Karlweis in Cooperation with the Turkish Ministry of Tourism & Information.
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Savannah Morning News, (January 14, 1874
Savannah: J. H. Estill, Proprietor, 1874. Good. 4-page newspaper. 68 x 48 cm. Additional vertical and horizontal folds for storage. Moderate general wear including splitting, fraying and wear along folds. Some foxing. Lots of advertising and anti-Reconstruction sentiment. Joel Chandler Harris was Associate Editor in 1874. We didn't see his byline on anything so we don't know what, if anything, he might have written in this issue.
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The Southern Workman, Vol. LX, No. 4 (April, 1931)
Hampton, Va: Hampton Institute, 1931. Paperback. Very Good. photos, pp. [147]-192. Softcover in original wrapper. 26 cm. Library stamp on front cover ("Library American Bible Society"). Contents include: "The Negro Rural School Problem," by Dennis R. Cooke (pages 156-160); "The Negro Church in Rural Virginia," by J. Marcus Ellison (pages 176-179; and."The Plight of the Pueblos," by Nathan R. Margold (pages179-184).
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