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48 pages. Contents: The President (F.D. Roosevelt) Allows Congress a Chance to Find Own Salvation: Hill Rebels on Spending, Bogs Down on Farm and Labor, Pushes Housing; Pat Harrison: The Portrait of a Politician from Jokes to Taxes; Labor Front: Dearth of Money Weakens Resistance in Ranks; Jury Scandal: Despite Faith of 2 Sheriffs, Frenchy (George Andre) Can't Go Straight; 'Mr. and Mrs. Gregory': The (Charles) Lindberghs Come Home - and Aviation Lobbies Buzz; Japan Hastens Campaign to Control All Shanghai: A Flag and a Grenade Embroil Tokyo With Powers and U.S. Marines; Spain: Zero Hour - Cold and Politics Prolong Gen. (Francisco) Franco's Worries; Imperial Purge: A 'Soldiers' Soldier' (John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker) Becomes Chief of British Army; Rumanian Compromise: Liberals Make Puzzling Deal with Fascists; Mexico: a Celebration - Cardenas' New Deal Goes Ahead Despite Fiscal Troubles; Presenting the 1937 All-American Team - Strong, Versatile, Fast in the Head and Feet; Winter Brings an Enemy: New York Opens Five Clinics to Fight Pneumonia; (Rev. William Norman) Guthrie: Hero Rector of Peter Stuyvesant's Church Decides to Rest; Railroads Want to Spend - With What, Remains Mystery; The Voice of Industry Speaks: N.A.M. (National Association of Manufacturers) Opens 42nd Congress; Farm Puzzle: Both House and Senate Bills Assailed for Complexity; Cure for Coal: Industry Doubts Efficiency of Federal Medicine; and Perspective: Searching for Peace. Camel cigarette color Christmas ad on back cover. Binding intact. Small mailing label bottom front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
160 pages. Features: Cover photos of RFK and Kenneth Keating; Nice color-photo fashion photos; Close-up of the Vietcong in their Jungle - a French reporter held captive by guerrillas in South Vietnam reports on what he saw of the Vietcong; Barry Goldwater's Nine - photos and write-ups of Denison Kitchel, Dean Burch, F. Clifton White, Edward A. McCabe, John Grenier, Wayne J. Hood, Karl Hess, Tony Smith and Stephen Shadegg; An 'Ombudsman' for America; Uncle Sam is Really Needed - growing Federal role in local affairs; The More the Congo Changes - military photos; If 'Creeping Inflation' Begins to Run; Government as Patron of the Arts - there are dangers in official sponsorship and uncritical goodwill; The Flowering of a Campus Hybrid - the two-year community college; Sihanouk - Prince Under Pressure - article with photos, including his ballerina daughter Bopha Devi; Robert Goulet is featured in a color-photo fashion ad for The House of Worsted-Tex; K7UGA Will Get the Ham Vote - Senator Barry Goldwater may get votes from the 266,000 U.S. amateur radio operators; Thirty Years Ago - The Morro Castle burned off the New Jersey shore with a loss of 134 lives; The Basuto Enclave (Basutoland) in South Africa; 2/3-page color ad for movie 'Mary Poppins'; Some sports are 'in' and some are 'out' - a guide to the chic seven; Jokes LBJ has been telling lately; Fashion photos of French designs; When Children Discover Money; Designed for privacy - The New Haven home of Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander; The movie 'Three Coins in the Fountain' has led to millions of dollars pelted into fountains and pools; Chesterfield cigarette ad features photos of J.W. Richards, Joan Lakow and Nelson Reed; Zero Mostel - Rome to Russia; and more. Average wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
First and only edition. ONE OF ONLY 8 COPIES PRINTED of this charming compilation of humorous memories and anecdotes from turn-of-the-century Barcelona. Mainly in Spanish, but with some Catalan. Signed by the author. Printed amateurishly, but fortunately the author selected decent paper, which is not at all fragile. 105 + 4 pp. 12mo. Original printed wraps. Minor wear to wraps, else fine. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE BOOK, PERHAPS THE ONLY SURVIVING COPY. Not in Palau.
1st American Edition. Mathew Carey, Printed by A. Small, Philadelphia, 1809. Period full leather with leather spine label, 12mo, viii, 136 pages Illustrated with 6 engraved plates [all present]. Publication of humorous essays and stories by Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Pitt, and others. One of the first printed collections of American humor. Not in Paltsits. Scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker 17136; BAL, vol. 3, p. 253. Last auctioned at Christie's, Nov. 18, 1988, lot 282. SUBJECT(S): English wit and humor. English poetry. OCLC: 2161350. Old stain to lower right corner of first 6 leaves. Plates present but first 4 are damaged. Binding lightly worn but good, Good Condition Thus. (AC-22-23A)
1st American Edition. Mathew Carey, Printed by A. Small, Philadelphia, 1809. Period full leather with leather spine label, 12mo, viii, 136 pages Illustrated with 6 engraved plates [all present]. Publication of humorous essays and stories by Pindar, Freneau, Ladd, Swift, Dibdin, Pitt, and others. One of the first printed collections of American humor. Not in Paltsits. Scarce. Shaw & Shoemaker 17136; BAL, vol. 3, p. 253. Last auctioned at Christie's, Nov. 18, 1988, lot 282. SUBJECT(S): English wit and humor. English poetry. OCLC: 2161350. Some darkening as expected, front board detached but present, light edgewear to boards and spine, Very Good Condition thus. (AC-22-23)
An early printing of this well-known collection of humorous anecdotes. 88 leaves, the final one blank (i.e., 174 pp.) 8vo. Bound in recent vellum. Some old, faint internal staining, but overall a very pleasing copy. All 16th-century editions of this author are very rare.
