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1938TB31015Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1938. First Edition. Very near fine in dark blue simulated leather cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine with map end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8 by 5 1/4 inches with faint tape stains to each of the boards where it was applied to keep the dust jacket in place. In a very good- price clipped dust jacket with 1/2 inch deep chipping across the upper edge of the spine area several short closed tears at the top edge of the front panel with related creasing and the same to the top and lower edges of the rear panel. 559 pages with index text black and illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs and a pocket on the rear end paper with the multi-color fold-out map of the state within which is in fine condition. There are no prior ownership markings of any kind within this copy. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1938TB30697Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1938. Reprint. Fine in royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and front board and with front map end sheets. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". In a very good price clipped dust jacket with a long closed tear to the upper quarter of the rear panel and with creases to the upper edge of the spine area and the front panel. 559 pages with index text black and illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs. No rear map pocket or map is called for in this reprint. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1938TB27097Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. c.1938. Reprint. Very good in royal blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is slightly worn and rubbed. A small octavo measuring 8" by 5 1/4". Without its issued dust jacket. 559 pages with index text black and illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs with a map of the state's roads on the front end sheets. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1940TB29613New York: Oxford University Press 1940. Second Printing. Very good in light blue cloth covered boards with black text and decorations on the spine and front board. The cloth at the corners of the spine are lightly rubbed Without its issued dust jacket. 782 pages including an index appendices chronology text and photographs. The multi-colored folding map located in a pocket at the rear of the book is present and in fine condition. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1937TB31683Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1937. First Edition. Near fine in simulated red leather cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/2 inches with slight rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a very good- unclipped dust jacket with shallow 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the spine area and heavy rubbing and wear to the folds and a one inch deep chip at the lower edge of the front panel. 500 pages including an index bibliography chronology tour guides and illustrated with maps and eight sections of black and white photographs. The rear pocket on the rear end paper contains the multi-colored fold-out map of the state which is in excellent condition. Houghton Mifflin Co. hardcover books
1940TB31156New York: Hastings House 1940. First Edition. Very good in heavy light blue-gray cloth covered boards with dark blue text on the spine and front board. An octavo of 8 by 5 3/8 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. This volume was written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the WPA in Northern California and is one of the volumes in the American Guide Series. 531 pages with indextext and photographs through-out. Hastings House hardcover books
1939TB28895New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company 1939. First Edition. Very good in light green cloth covered boards with dark green text stamping on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches with the cloth on the spine tanned as well as the cloth on the upper edge of the boards. The front and rear end sheets are well tanned. Without its issued dust jacket. One of the more uncommon volumes in the American Guide Series. 368 pages including an index text and illustrated with black and white photographs through-out and with a fold-out map of the area tipped-in at the rear of the book. Funk & Wagnalls Company hardcover books
1938TB28598New York: Modern Age Books Inc. Sponsored by Charles L. Terry Jr. 1938. First Edition. Very good in decorated light brown cloth covered boards with blue and brown text and decorations on the spine and front board with light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches. Without its issued dust jacket. One of the more scarce titles in the American Guide Series. This title departs from the WPA's other title of similar content U.S. One Maine to Florida by picking up where Routes 17 and 13 leave Route One in northern New Jersey and hug the eastern coast all the way to Jacksonville Florida. 344 pages with an index a list of annual events along the Ocean Highway text and with eleven sections of black and white photographs with the colored three-paneled fold-out map tipped-in at the rear end paper. through-out. Part of the American Guide Series and considered quite scarce especially in dust jacket. Modern Age Books, Inc. Sponsored by Charles L. Terry, Jr. hardcover books
1938TB28672n.p.: Sponsored by The New Jersey Commissionto Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and Finns on the Delaware 1938. First Edition. Very good in royal blue ribbed cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is lightly rubbed and there is a prior owner's name on the upper fore corner of the first free end page. The end sheets are printed with a map of southern New Jersey. Without it issued dust jacket. A small 4to measuring 9 1/8 by 6 inches. One of the more unusual titles in the American Guide Series as noted on the title page.165 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and map end papers. Sponsored by The New Jersey Commissionto Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and Finns on the Dela hardcover books
1937TB31018Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1937. First Edition. Near fine in heavy black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and with illustrated map end sheets. A thick small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with two narrow scratches to the front board. Without its issued dust jacket. 1141 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs throughout. With both of the two multi-colored maps in the rear pocket both of which are in near fine condition. This was the second volume published in the American Guide Series and despite its first printing of 5000 copies collectible copies with the maps are rather uncommon. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1937TB30774Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1937. First Edition. Near fine in heavy black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text on the spine and with illustrated map end sheets. A thick small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with minor soiling to the boards. Without its issued dust jacket. Signed on the fly title pages with: "Compliments of Ben Ford 1937". 1141 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with maps and images from black and white photographs throughout. With both of the two multi-colored maps in the rear pocket both of which are in near fine condition. This was the second volume published in the American Guide Series and despite its first printing of 5000 copies collectible copies with the maps are rather uncommon. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1937TB27208Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1937. First Edition. Very good in heavy black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and illustrated map end sheets. A thick small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with minor soiling and rubbing to the boards. Without its issued dust jacket. This was the second volume published in the American Guide Series and is quite scarce. 1141 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with maps and black and white photographs throughout. With both of the two multi-colored maps in the rear pocket both of which are in fine condition. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1927008511New York: Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation 1927. First Edition First Issue Total Issue 10000 1927. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering. 8vo 74 63 19 28 144 26 47 37 Tables 20 Index 4 pp. Profusely illustrated with tables and 2 fold-out charts. Near Fine prior owner name and city front paste down. Together with laid-in "Trade Standards in the Pump Industry" Recommended by The Hydraulic Society 1921 published by Worthington Machinery Company 8vo printed brown stapled wrappers 18 pages. Near Fine. Henry R. Worthington 1817-1880 was the inventor of the direct acting steam pump and one of the founding members of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He started the Worthington Pump Works in 1845 which in 1899 became the Steam Pump Company. That was followed in 1916 by the Worthington Pump and Machinery Corp. which from 1952-1967 was the Worthington Corporation and in 1967 merged into Studebaker. While the Handbook is not limited in institutional holdings it is SCARCE in today's market. No records at OCLC for Trade Standards in the Pump Industry. Contents: 1 Worthington Pump Works 18451899 2 International Steam Pump Company 18991916 3 Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation 19161952 4 Worthington Corporation 19521967 5 Merger with Studebaker 1967. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation Hardcover books
1890006394Toledo OH: Woolson Spice Co. 1890. Lion Coffee trading card 4" x 6 1/4". Very Good Plus top corner crease and horizontal crease 1/2" from top of card. Front side with portrait of Stanley in sepia back side with biography of his life up to 1890. . Cardstock. Very Good Plus. 4" x 6 1/4". Woolson Spice Co. Paperback books
200420974San Diego: Sunbelt Publications 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 152 pp indexed and illustrated. Both book and dust jacket as new. Publisher's description: Will Thrall embraced the San Gabriel Mountains from the time of his arrival in the 1880s until his death in the 1960s. Thrall documented the tent camps of the Great Hiking Age worked on the Mount Lowe railroad organized hiking clubs and promoted conservation of mountain resources. Thrall also edited "Trails Magazine" and authored a weekly column for the "Los Angeles Times". He photographed historic mountain cabins identified geologic formations and discovered lost pioneer routes and Indian Trails. Thrall's life is a study in southern California itself--and the lasting traditions that form the mountain backdrop to the valley below. Sunbelt Publications hardcover books
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover books
191618295Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1916. 8vo pp. 240; very good in orig. red cloth gilt lettering. Inscribed by the printer Emerson Wulling: "Major General Leonard Wood U.S. Army was Republican Presidential candidate in 1920. While in Minneapolis during his campaign he was placed by the local committee into my charge. As his host I conducted him through the city including the University he spoke briefly on other than political matters . before beginning his address he said: 'Dean Wulling and I have many things in common the outstanding one being that we both started out in pharmacies . If I could become as good a President as Dr. Wulling has become an educational administrator I would be satisfied.' When Harding won the Presidential election in 1921 the General sent me this book through his publisher with his compliments." <br/><br/> Reilly & Britton hardcover books
1930189944Sacramento: California State Printing Office 1930. 32 44 Appendix p. newsprint set in smallpoint double columns first edition 9x6 inch self-wraps side-stapled exposed signature folds. Paperstock is very toned and fragile. Cover leaf shows mild crimping and edgewear with a few minute chips a good copy. California State Printing Office unknown books
57807Los Angeles CA: Council of National and State Defense. Six typed sheets 8-1/2 x 11 plus a small leaflet folded twice. Sheets little chipped at edges rear two showing insect damage. Good. Council of National and State Defense unknown books
17157Women's Education Photo album from woman student at Kent Sate Normal College 1916-1917. Filled with 73 items: including 44 photographs of images of the campus fellow students elementary school classes and various social outings around Ohio. Also includes 48 pieces of ephemera including ribbons programs information on the school and event tickets. 12 x 9.5 in. Original boards. 50 pages. 44 original silver gelatin print photographs of various sizes from 2 x 3" to 3 x 5". Rich captions for the photographs identifying friends and teachers such as Miss Corbett and Miss Dunbar locations around campus such as Merrill Hall the Library Loury Hall and Moulton Hall an outing at Brady Lake and an Independence Day picnic in 1917. Interesting ephemera including ribbons commencement programs sheet music postcards and even an astrological horoscope. Items from organizations including the Y.W.C.A. local theaters and Portage County's War Fund. This album was compiled in the period when the US first entered World War I on April 2 1917. The late 19th and early 20th century was an important period in formalizing teacher training and creating pathways for more women to attend Normal Schools and Colleges. By the 20th century nearly 75 percent of America's teachers were female a pattern surely seen in this album filled with women classmates and instructors. Kent State Normal School was established in 1910 as an institution for training public school teachers. In 1915 the school was renamed Kent State Normal College when it began offering four-year degrees. Today the college offers degrees in many disciplines and is known as Kent State University. In very good condition. unknown books
1901116721901. Small 8vo pp. 27. Lacking about 1/3 of the front wrap. Clean otherwise with 2 photos. Includes a detailed report of the activities of the Ybor City Missionary school and reports from chapters throughout Florida. unknown books
186731839Madison: Atwood & Rublee State Printers 1867. First edition. Rebound in maroon buckram with front wrapper laid on. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip their stamp on title. 208 pp. 8vo. Lacking the last four leaves. Scarce Checklist of Wisconsin Imprints 521. Atwood & Rublee, State Printers hardcover books
7810baMilwaukee WI: Wisconsin State Guard Book. Paperback. U. S. Army; maps; 14p.; 28cm; mimeographed stapled; instructions for military map reading; prepared by Headquarters 3d Battalion 1st Infantry. Wisconsin State Guard Paperback books
185638409Madison: Calkins & Proudfit. Good. 1856. Hardcover. -; Good. No dust jacket. An unattractive ex-library copy with taped spine stamps etc. Etc. Suitable for reading or reference not a collector's copy. . Calkins & Proudfit hardcover books
1930134234Milwaukee WA: Craftsmen Press 1930. 31p. wraps very good. 6x9 inches. Craftsmen Press unknown books
