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18727121Minneapolis: Tribune Printing Company 1872. 8vo 79-80pp. original printed wrappers; spine a little chipped small library sticker on upper cover and lacking the folding map otherwise a very good copy. Staehlin 538. <br/><br/> Tribune Printing Company unknown books
187010550St. Paul: Press Printing Co 1870. 8vo pp. 72; original yellow printed wrappers with the rubberstamp of the Northern Pacific Railroad at the top; near fine. Compiled by the Commissioner of Statistics and published by direction of Governor Horace Austin. <br/><br/> Press Printing Co unknown books
188016425Red Wing Minn: Red Wing Printing Co. Steam Print 1880. 8vo pp. 16 18 ads; 5 vignette woodcuts in the text plus several illus. ads at the back; a very good copy in orig. yellow printed wrappers; there is a cancel slip tipped to the title-page changing the dates of the fair to September 14-17 1880. <br/><br/> Red Wing Printing Co., Steam Print unknown books
1878220079Cincinnati OH: Elm Street Printing Co. 1878. Book. Good Minus. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the Organization of Presbytery September 191781 to December 1831. Limited First Edition of 300 copies. This Presbytery or synod was the first one formed west of the Allegheny Mountains and included much of Western Pennsylvania. Primarily meeting minutes and correspondence of the organization. Book Condition : Good- Ex-College Library; former owner's name in ink inside front cover and on front free end paper; library stamping to title page and text block; pocket inside rear cover; age toning throughout minor foxing; beginnings of spine separation all pages intact; bumping/tearing to spine ends; text unmarked. Elm Street Printing Co. Hardcover
1912006574Cleveland: The Buckeye Stereopticon Co. 1912. RARE catalogue for the year 1912 Very Good brad bound soiling to covers lacking pages 1-4 pages 5-8 loose originally 32 pp. The first 22 pp. with pictures of stereopticons one side and product specifications on verso with the last 10 pp. "Suggestions for an Evenings Entertainment with a Mirroscope". . First Edition. Brads. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 6" x 9". The Buckeye Stereopticon Co. Paperback books
1957004912The Pullman Co. 1957. 22" x 34 1/2" poster folded to form an 11" x 11 1/2" pamphlet. Near Fine small chip top edge. Verso of sheet makes a nice poster showing the history of Pullman cars from 1859 to 1956. . First Edition. Poster. Near Fine. The Pullman Co. books
1913029864Chicago: Class Journal Company 1913 1913. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Cover By Clinton Petter. Great Cover With Two Seat Racer Driven By A Woman With A Party Of Seven Other Figures All Watching A Sailboat Race In The Background. Feature Story About Racing At The Circle City Corona California "The Circle City" Whose Circular Grand Avenue Was The Race Track. <br/> <br/> Class Journal Company 1913 paperback
193122090Los Angeles: Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California 1931. Softcover. Very good. 4.5" x 8" 31 pp in original stapled wrappers. Light soiling to front cover otherwise clean and sound. Very good. The Automobile Club of Southern California founded in 1900 was one of the nation's first motor clubs.--dedicated to improving road conditions and signage providing maps and promoting motor travel generally. This booklet describes the points of interest and road conditions on a selection of major roads that would eventually lead the motor traveler to southern California. Those covered in the most detail are the Old Spanish Trail the Santa Fe or National Old Trails Road Lincoln Highway Arrowhead Trail and Pacific Highway. Briefer notes are supplied for U.S. Highways 66 366 54 70 450 20 12 and 10; the Union Pacific Highway; Victory Highway; Pike's Peak to Ocean Highway; Detroit Lincoln and Denver Highway; Custer Battlefield Highway Old Oregon Trail and Redwood Highway. A brief note remindes travelers of the need to book ahead for good hotels and campgrounds and a section on apparel reassures them that cars are now more dependable and roads less muddy such that "the modern motorist is usually a neat and clean person--a direct contrast to the motor pioneers of the early days." We find no copies of this edition--likely the first--in OCLC. Touring Bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California unknown
1914A111-205Wien, Kaiserlich-K?nigliches Milit?r-Geographisches Institut, 1914. Hochformat, ca. 34 x 55 cm, Ausgabe: mehrf?rbig; Zustand: gut +
A141-1203Wien, Kaiserlich-K?nigliches Milit?r-Geographisches Institut. Hochformat, ca. 34 x 55 cm, gefaltet zu 4 Segmenten, Ausgabe: mehrf?rbig; Zustand: gut +
190918854Washington DC: The National Geographic Society 1909. Softcover. Good. 90 pp ads with many b/w illustrations from photographs. Moderate wear and soiling but sound and complete. Includes a report on the National Geographic Society's Alaskan Expedition of 1909 as well as articles on photography in glacial Alaska the Discovery of the North Pole and its celebration at the Society's annual banquet and Alaskan coal fields. The National Geographic Society paperback books
189417298Brookings: Dutcher Breed & Storgaard 1894. First edition 8vo pp. 208 3; 58 plates; lacking wrappers; stitched as issued; some foxing; else good or better. Details various grasses and wheats for agricultural purposes. <br/><br/> Dutcher, Breed, & Storgaard unknown books
1983023301Atlanta Georgia: Atlanta Historical Society 1983. First Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/None Issued. VG/ exhibition catalog-First ed. This is the original catalog from an exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta from December 9 1983 until June 10 1984. Furniture was originally exhibited in 1983 at the High Museum in Atlanta. 176 pages of black and white pictures and 8 color plates and descriptions of all kinds of Georgia furniture pieces from the 1800s. A lengthy alphabetized list of Georgia furniture makers and lenders to the exhibition are in the back section of the book. Clean and tight good corners a little light wear at top and bottom of spine. Comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage. And I can have it in the mail tomorrow. A wonderful book for the antique collector. BOXA <br/> <br/> Atlanta Historical Society paperback
190242650New York: Lincoln History Society 1902. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Illustrations. Very good. Outer wrappers only a tad age toned and a bit edgeworn. Nice copy of the elaborate prospectus for Ida M. Tarbell's "The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from original sources and containing many Speeches Letters and Telegrams hitherto unpublished" first published in 1900 and reissued by Lincoln History Society in four volumes in1902. Definitely uncommon. Laid in is an 8" X 4" pale blue printed order form for this set $10 for "English Ribbed Cloth" $14 for "Three-Quarter Leather" and also a 4 3/4" X 7 3/4" Typed Letter Signed from this company's registrar W.R. Caldwell bearing his rubberstamped signature 1 April 1903. Addressed to E.P. Farr. Very good. Blue-ink mimeographed sales pitch letter for this set. Apparently this publisher reprinted this prospectus each time they reprinted this set others bear the date 1903 1907 1908 and 1909 on the facsimile of the Tarbell title page but this 1902 is the earliest and represents the year the LHS first published their edition. MONAGHAN 1312 note. Lincoln History Society paperback
194055259NY: Hastings House. Good with no dust jacket; Boards soiled spine faded. 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. xxxvii 458pp index. Many photogravures. Orange cloth binding. One of the WPA's American Guide series highlighting natural and man-made landmarks history geography and culture. Map missing from rear pocket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Hastings House hardcover
190040842Albany NY: State of New York. Good with no dust jacket; First several pages of volume one loose front . hinge is cracked boards heavily worn. Volumes two and three much tighter . and with only mild wear to spines. 1900. Hardcover. A three volume set comprising a detailed record of New York State's official involvement in the Spanish-American War. Peach-colored cloth bindings with blind-stamping and black-stamped lettering on spines. Frontispiece photograph of New York Governor Frank T. Black in first volume. Volume One contains information about all official State documents issued concerning the conflict long lists of ordnance quartermaster supplies and medical supplies issued and detailed lists of soldiers who died during the War. Volume one also lists short biographical information about soldiers enlisted in Troop A Troop C 4th Battery 5th Battery 7th Battery 1st 2nd 3rd and 8th Regiments. Volume two provides registers of soldiers enlisted in the 9th 12th 13th 14th 22nd 47th and 65th Regiments. Volume three provides registers of soldiers enlisted in the 69th 71st 201st 202nd and 203rd Regiments as well as information about the naval militia. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall . State of New York hardcover
1986057842New York: Social Register Association 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Black "leatherette" paper-covered boards lettered in orange. A bit of surface rubbing to covers otherwise about as issued. Firm binding clean interior. Facsimile of 1887 edition. viiixl256 pp. 1st thus: Nov. 1986. Social Register Association Hardcover
19123448659Leipzig, Noske, Radelli, 1912/15. Insgesamt 300 S. OKart./Kart.
1850006192Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson printers 1850. Paperback. Very Good. 32 p.; 23 cm. Green wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter along with wood and coal. The intention was to help the "worthy poor" without regard for religion or race. The activities of the organization have evolved since 1831; today it provides grants to projects to fight poverty. This report contains a list of people who contributed to the Union Benevolent Association for the previous year with the amount given as well as detailed data about the people with whom the association had worked. The male officers of the Association are listed; none of the members of the Ladies' Board of Managers are named although the majority of the report is theirs. Scarce. In Very Good Condition: wrapper is lightly soiled and creased; 3-cm. closed tear at upper corner of front wrapper; internally clean and tight. Merrihew & Thompson, printers paperback
193821589Nome AK: Nomania Publishers. Very Good. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Card Covers. Vertical crease part way up the front cover. Corners slightly bumped. Contents are "fine." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 75 pages . Nomania Publishers unknown
19750022393New Castle New York: Jointly Published By Town of North Castle Town of New Castle 1975. First Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/None Issued. F/1st ed./Signed. Clean and with an uncreased binding this first edition is firm in its glued binding and is signed and dated by the Committee Chairwoman for the project on the verso of the title page. The previous owner left his embossed book stamp discreetly on the top of the front free endpaper. There is no marking to either the interior or exterior of the book and the pages are bright white. 142pp. notes bibliography and index along with an assortment of early maps and pictures of early local buildings. There are a few early portraits and many mentions of local individuals and families. A really well thought out history for both of these towns. Book will come to you in an non acid document bag for storage. <br/> <br/> Jointly Published By Town of North Castle, Town of New Castle paperback
190264031<p>Chicago: The Inter Ocean Newspaper Company. Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn and stained hinges cracked. 1902. Hardcover. Black cloth titled in gilt on spine. Index to portraits. Cameo photo portrait reproductions of various judges lawyers politicians and businessmen of the American West including US Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller US Supreme Court Associate Justices John M. Harlan Henry B. Brown David J. Brewer Edward D. White Rufus W. Peckham Joseph McKenna George Shiras Jr. and Horace Gray and many others. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 219 pages .</p> The Inter Ocean Newspaper Company hardcover
1783115341Defay 1783 A Dijon, chez A.M. Defay, Imprimeur de S.A.S. Mgr le Prince de Condé, 1783, 1 volume de 20.5x26.5 cm environ, 4-434 ff. (un numéro pour 2 pages), demi-reliure cuir fauve, dos lisse portant titres dorés sur pièce de titre verte, tranches finement mouchetées de rouge., un ex-libris sur le premier contreplat. Mors en grande partie fendus et fragiles, reliure frottée, contreplats râpés, premières pages un peu déreliées et froissées sur le bas. Sinon intérieur propre.
1902007175Rochester New York: Chase Brothers Company 1902. Magazine. Illus. by Stecher Lithographic Company. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. With 47 glorious color lithographs by Stecher Lithographic Company of Rochester "the pioneer firm in this line with experience of forty years" and numerous black and white photographs. 102 pp. Very Good in original green string-tied wrappers wrappers rubbed and with corner creases 1" paper loss to wrappers at base of spine 6 lithos with 1" horizontal tears at fore edge. Chase Brothers Company New England Nurseries was established in 1857 incorporated in 1887. Chase Brothers Company Paperback
1902007175Rochester New York: Chase Brothers Company 1902. With 47 glorious color lithographs by Stecher Lithographic Company of Rochester "the pioneer firm in this line with experience of forty years" and numerous black and white photographs. 102 pp. Very Good in original green string-tied wrappers wrappers rubbed and with corner creases 1" paper loss to wrappers at base of spine 6 lithos with 1" horizontal tears at fore edge. Chase Brothers Company New England Nurseries was established in 1857 incorporated in 1887. . First Edition. String Tied. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Stecher Lithographic Company. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Chase Brothers Company Paperback books