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50 pages. Features: Cover photo of George Kiehl; Title page photo of James M. Hafey; The Emperor Giant - Severus; Incredible but True - the brain can still function after incredible injury; What You Should Know About the Body - blood flow and the major blood vessels; Some of the Best Exercises Without Apparatus - with photos of John Grimek; ; An Ideal - And Then Success - Feature article on cover subject George Kiehl; Making Marriage Successful - article with photos of Barton Hovarth, Bill Vanselow, Bob Harley and Orville Wertz-Baugher; A Woman's Life is a Real Beauty Contest - with fantastic double-page photo of female contestants in the "Inter City Beauties - Showmen's Variety Jubilee, Steel Pier" at Atlantic City, Sept 6-12, 1937; Why You Should Maintain a Tranquil Mind; Louis Abele - Latest Strength Sensation; Favorite Exercises of Champions - article with photos of Dave Mayor, Dick Bachtell, Tony Terlazzo, Elmer Farnham, Johnny Terpak, Walter Good, Weldon Bullock, Eddie Harrison and Wally Zagurski; How Strong was Abraham Lincoln?; More About Sex Relations and Health - with photos of Emile Mogyrosky, George Hackenschmidt, Stanislaus Zbysko, John Grun Marx, Otto Arco and Adrien Deriaz; and more. Nice ads for the York Barbell Co. (two in color) and the Perfect Voice Institute. Average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
Fifth edition, small 8vo (183 x 123 mm), 84pp., orig. printed wrappers, chipped, upper wrapper detached.
8vo., First Edition, with diagrams and sections (a number folding); strongly bound in boards, upper board with paper label, original printed wrappers (worn) preserved, a very good, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its neat stamp on front wrapper and pocket on title. EXTREMELY SCARCE.
32 pages. Features: Cover photo of William's Island in the Tennessee River; The Destiny of the Democratic Party Hinges Largely Upon the Two-Thirds Rule; Pay-As-You-Go in Building Good Roads - Tennessee Constructs its Highways with Funds from Current Revenues - nice photo-illustrated article; The Rise of Mustapha Kemal Pasha; Letter to the Folks - a letter franked by Abraham Lincoln in 1934; What's Wrong with the Press? - an newspaperman answers this perennial question (part 1); The Changing Fashions of Being Presented at Court; Henry Ford's Page - how to maintain a logical prosperit; Editorials - Mr. Mellon and the Tarriff Manifesto, the McFadden Banking Bill, The Education of Mr. Vare; Forces That Are Reshaping Mexico - a study of those who ruled the country before the revolution and those who are ruling it now; The Little Trades of Paris Streets - the soul of an ancient city; The Lights of Other Days - Candles and Candlesticks - photo-illustrated article; Now Just Who IS Queer - The Chinese or Ourselves?; A Forest Tragedy - waste leaves the lumbering towns of Tioga County, PA Destitute; I Read in the Papers - In memory of Billy the Kid, Petroleum in Ancient Times, Franklin Expedition Relics Found; Nice photos inside back cover; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
First edition, folio (355 x 220 mm), xxii, 824, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and title browned and spotted, 7 engraved plates, 96 wood engravings in the text, folding pedigree, front inner hinge shaken, orig. brown cloth gilt, head and foot on spine a litter worn. Corns, Bibliotheca Lincolniensis, p.111-2.
Good hbk reprint bound in red pictorial boards. Front endpaper removed. The picture pasted down on the front cover is dated 1909. Colour frontispiece by A.J. Gough. 22287. eng
40 p. + Six full page drawings. Bookplate. 12mo. Original full green cloth binding. Front board lettered in gold with oval embossed portrait drawing. Hardbound. Very good. First published by McClure / Phillips in 1907. This is essentially a historical fictionalized account of Lincoln in Springfield as recalled for the reader by a character named Billy Brown. This particular edition is quite scarce, SHELF W24
86 pages. Articles: How Much Government can Free Enterprise Stand?; The Senseless Killing of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind" - article with photos; Report on the Far West - The News is Good from the Nation's "New Empire" - with focus on industrial development; Lincoln Collector, Oliver R. Barrett; Bashful Ben of the Bang-Bangs - Cowboy Ben Johnson - article with color photos; Donora, Pennsylvania - The case of the Poisoned Air - 19 died; Suppose He Had Two Eyes - Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Tommy Thompson has one eye - article with photo. Fiction: Bootlegger's Treasure (part 1 of 4); Floodwater; O'Brien; The case of the Negligent Nymph (conclusion); Dumb Bunny. Also includes great vintage ads for: Lord Calvert Whiskey - with great full-page colour photo of illustrator Mr. Bradshaw Crandell; Western Electric (showing switchboard operator; General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour photo of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton; Pontiac cars; Rexall - Druggists of America; Texaco; DeSoto cars; Nash cars; Mercury cars; American Airlines (centerfold); Botany 500 men's fashions; Great two-page color photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer features Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Lawrence Tibbett, Charles Laughton, Sid Luckman, Douglas Fairbanks, "Hap" Arnold, Mr. & Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing and Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hersholt; GM Electro-Motive Division; Dodge Trucks; Trailways bus lines; Bicycle playing cards; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring bowler Joe Wilman and waterskiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy. Book
Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 448pp. The story of how the killer of Abraham Lincoln was able to evade arrest for twelve days after the murder, and how he was eventually cornered.
32 pages. Features: Noise the Destroyer - ; Lincoln's Friend at Court - the girl across the river; Are We Scrapping the Whole Navy? - article with statistics and photo of the U.S.S.'West Virginia' and photo of the U.S.S. 'Detroit' in drydock; Lincoln in Marble and Bronze - article with illustrations of the Brenner Medal, J.E. Roine Medal, and more; A Letter and a Reply - The Opening of the Civil War; Henry Ford's Page - the 'crush my rival' kind of competition is bound to come to grief; Editorials - Judge Landis protected from facing Ban Johnson, Civil War is On in China, the bonded indebtedness of the U.S.A., Chief Justice Taft suggests Grand Juries by abolished; Julia Taft Bayne Recalls Good Times in the White House; The Great Anneke Jans Delusion - most remarkable lawsuit in American History, as described by noted economic author Charles Albert Collman; Little Lost Speeches and Anecdotes of Lincoln; The New Salem of Abraham Lincoln -how he clerked in a store and whipped a bully; Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Aaron Sapiro and money losing Tri-State Tobacco Growers' Association prove there is no magic in agricultrual co-operatives, Auto Thief displaces Horse Thief in Middletown, NY; News Bits; Wonderful photos of the perils and problems of bridge building. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
pp. xiv, 575, (4) [Publisher's catalogue] + Plus Portrait Frontis and full page steel engraved portrait plates. Some foxing. Slight offsetting from steel engravings. Early penciled ownership of D. W. Boss, March, 1869. Stamped ownership of J. B. Stauffer. Very mildly XLib. Large 8vo. Original full green publisher's cloth binding, decorated and lettered in gold. Corners worn with slight loss. Boards slightly spotted. Hardbound. First Edition? Biographies of: Lincoln; Grant; Garrison; Sumner; Chase; Greeley; Sherman; Sheridan; Stanton; Etc. By the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. SHELF W25
grand in-8°, 304 pages, ill. hors texte N&B, carte, lexique, broche, couverture illustree plast. Bel exemplaire [CA30-1][MI-26] La Guerre de Sécession, la chute de l’empire mexicain : Lincoln, Maximilien. Dans l’ombre de ces deux destins tragiques, une même femme : Agnès...
104 pages. Fiction: Not Fit To Live With; The Case For the State; Recalled to Duty; The Secret Ingredient; Tombstone (part 1 of 8); The Hunted Woman (pare 3 of 6). Articles: God Sent Them to the Slums - dedicated young ministers in narcotic-ridden East Harlem; The Cities of America - Reno - article with great color photos; The National League Comes Back - after the American League has won the last 5 World Series championships; Watch Your Step at Conventions! - you may be observed by the television cameras!; The Morey Case - Why Did They Kill? - part 4 of 4 - young murderers of a nurse in Ann Arbor; It's No Fun To Be An Englishman - life is tough in England; His Heart Belongs to Jersey - Governor Alfred Driscoll. Ads: Old Gold cigarettes; De Soto cars; Great one-page color photo Kennecott Copper ad features large photo of miner loaded with dynamite at Bingham Canyon; Pontiac; Lincoln; French's foods; Sealtest sherbets and ices; Pall Mall cigarettes; Nash cars - Golden Airflyte; Purolator oil filter ad features Andy Devine (Jingles in 'Wild Bill Hickok'); Amazine one-page ad by Conrad Hilton of Hilton Hotels shows Uncle Sam on his knees praying to God "Our Father in Heaven... Be Swift to Save Us, before the darkness falls"; Golfer Bobby Jones is featured in an ad for Atlantic Bond Paper; Baseball player Paul Richards is featured in a Gillette ad; Lt. Colonel Reginald R. Myers; USMC Medal of Honor winner is featured in an ad for U.S. Defense Bonds. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, and very numerous photographs and maps (a number fill-page) in the text; cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
407p. Inked ownership of James Latimer, June 1885 on title page. Latimer (born 1836) was a prominent York County, PA Judge and staunch Republican. Sm. 8vo. Original full green cloth binding. Gilt lettered spine. Hardbound. First Edition. These campaign guides were once rather common, but this one (issued for the election of 1884) seems quite scarce. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AMERICANA BOX 9
112 pages. Features: He Works in God's Back Pastures - Young Minister Sam Varnell chose to work in the "knob country" of eastern Tennessee; The Horse That Was Hard to Believe; The Story Behind Quemoy - How this small island on the coast of China has led America to the brink of War; They Can't Wait to Grow Old - tricks used to illegally receive Social Security payments; Adventures of the Mind, 16 - The Power Holders of the American economy; Battle Against the Lake - great photo-illustrated article on how the Southern Pacific Railroad is laying a roadbed across the Great Salt Lake. Fiction: The Swindler's LIfe; Hopeless Case; Marriageable Age; Ambitious Cop; The Midtown Bomber (part 2 of 5); The case of the Greedy Grandpa (conclusion). Ads: Nice color-photo Ronson lighter ad inside front cover; Fantastic one-page photo-ad for the Philco Predicta TV (which looks like something out of the Jetson's); Nice one-page color-photo ad for the 1959 Studebaker Lark station wagon (blue); Nostalgic one-page color-photo ad for Gulf shows snow white Cadillac with back seat loaded with Christmas gifts in service station; Nice color one-page ad for the Ford Edsel (yellow); Whitman's Chocolates color-photo ad features Santa; One-page black and white photo ad for Motorola TVs; One-page color ad for the 1959 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Holiday Sportsedan and Dynamic 88 Holiday Scenicoupe; AC Oil Filter ad features color photo of Dale Robertson of the "Wells Fargo" TV show; Wonderful two-page color-photo ad for 1959 Lincoln cars (white) and Helen Hayes; Idyllic three-color-page wedding-themed ad for the new for Ford Galaxie; Color-photo ad inside back cover for the 1959 De Soto station wagon (yellow) filled with dalmatians has some discolorations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this great issue. Magazine
pp. 128, cm 19x12, bross., serie Uomini e problemi n. 11
16°, pp.128 br.ed. Macchie alla cerniera.
Two song slips printed on one sheet now separated, 250 x190 mm, printed black on white fragile tissue, some light staining. First lines to The Prodigal Son: My father gave me a portion in hand, But shortly I wandered to a foreign land... First lines to The Good Shepherd: Jesus my shepherd is, My guardian and my guide...
419 p. Woodcut illustrations. Original blue cloth binding. XLib Hereford Literary Society. Officers and Regents of the Smithsonian at this time included: Hanibal Hamlin; Louis Agassiz; A. D. Bache; a nd many other important figures of the era. The articles include: "The Origin & History of the Royal Society"; Electricity and Light; Gravity; Magnetism; Dyeing the color purple; "Aboriginal Inhabitants of the California Peninsula"; and perhaps most importantly "Aeronautic Voyages (Balloon Flights) Performed with a View to the Advancement of Science." Because of the Civil War, this volume could not be published until 1872.
xx, 158 + Portrait Frontis and full page photographs. Printed on Virgil Antique paper by Trovillion Private Press. Mildly XLib. Sm. 4to. Original full blue stippled cloth binding. Front board embossed with an oval portrait of Lincoln ruled in gold. Remnants of library call numbers on spine. Hardbound. Limited Edition. Number 131 of only 498 copies signed by the author. SHELF W23
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 206 pages. Black and white photos.
First edition, xx, 540pp., orig. cloth, d.w.
32 pages. Features: Firestone ad inside front cover features photo of Harvey S. Firestone addressing 25th annual stockholders' meeting in Akron, OH; A Sailorman Poet - John Masefield; What has become of our Parties? - Coolidge puts last Democrat doctrine into Republican creed; Is the Pulpit a Bulletin Board? - is the preacher a prophet or propagandist?; An English View of American Installment Buying; A Scientist Urges Farmers to Utilize Waste Products - paper can easily be made from wheat straw; Mental Tests Make Us Seem Foolish - because quacks rush in where true psychologists fear to tread; Henry Ford's Page - the dangers of debt; Editorials - U.S. surplus of housing, Abraham Rothfeld is ordered to not reapply for U.S. citizenship for 10 years; Senator Borah speaks like a statesman, P.R. battle over French debt to the U.S., Dictators are increasing in number in Europe, Robert T. Lincoln of the Pullman Company has given the negro 'the only racial monopoly in the world', namely the Pullman porter, sea travel in steerage becomes fashionable; Life Among the Wild American Humorists, as described by Thomas L. Masson; Islam Aims at World Domination - Consolidation of Moslemism inspires Conference at Mecca; A Negro Views His Own Race - the thoughts of Charles Plummer; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 8) - Wreck of the Santiago; Chats with Office Callers - William Lyon Phelps writes article claiming New York stage plays attack Protestants but not Catholics because they are afraid to attack them; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - (part 4) - tales of the time when people traveled for days to see teh circus, and slave-traders followed the show; China's Use of Proverbs; The Stories the Windmills Tell - Joy, grief, trouble or celebration all are indicated by the huge sails which serve as 'Town Criers' for the countryside; A Fighting Quaker of '76 - Joseph Hewes - who led the North Carolina Men in Declaring for Independence; A Dance a Week - Seventeenth Century Minuet, with piano sheet music; I Read in the Papers. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
