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193611224<p>First edition. Octavo. 25 b/w illustrations pictorial endpapers by E. A. Burbank pictorial dust jacket illustration by George Carlson. Bibliography. Dust jacket faded front and spine; nicks to top and bottom of spine. Very good. 322 pages.</p> The Macmillan Company hardcover books
185020826Washington: Gideon & Co 1850. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 28 pp in original sewn self-wrappers not disbound from a larger volume as often found. Light foxing; very good. "Winthrop emphatically advocates the immediate admission of California and exhorts Congress to refrain from the injustice of omnibus tactics which would "embarrass and perhaps peril her admission" Eberstadt. Cowan p. 691. Gideon & Co paperback books
1938TB31059Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1938. First Edition. Very good in red simulated leather covered boards with tarnished gilt text on the spine and on the front board and with rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine and at the tips of the boards. In a good price clipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch chips at the corners of the spine area with related creasing and with heavy rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the front panel and fold to the front flap. The rear end paper of the book has a pocket within which is the multi-color map of the state which is in very good condition. 593 pages including an index chronology and illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1950TB30208New York: Oxford University Press 1950. Second Edition Revised 1950. Very good in blue-green cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and on the front board with map end sheets. A small octavo of 8 by 5 1/4 inches with the top edge of the text block dust stained and with light soiling and foxing to the end sheets. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with the spine tanned and lightly soiled which tanning extends onto half of the front panel and with a crease to the front flap. 300 pages including an index bibliography text and illustrated from black and white photographs in two sections. Oxford University Press 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
1910134821New York: New York Democratic State Committee 1910. Softcover. good ex-library with expected marks plus title page and pg 3. board covers chipped. Original paper wraps inside stiff paper boards. 72 pp. New York Democratic State Committee paperback books
1972004880Mexico City Mexico: Direccion de Promocion Industrial Comercial y Artesanal 1972. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto 4to. About 125 pages unpaginated. Tan hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacekt with minor rubbing to the extremities and overall slightly age-toned; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with 106 plates most of which are color. A tight and attractive copy of this publication. Direccion de Promocion Industrial, Comercial y Artesanal Hardcover books
1864915Albany: Comstock & Cassidy 1864. 8vo. 18 pp. <br><br>New York protests the inequality of the draft procedure asserting that the state "is required to furnish more than other States in proportion to its population. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 53616. Good in printed paper wrappers; creased. Comstock & Cassidy unknown books
1914775021914. Paperback. Fair. photos and illustrations unpaginated. Flexible suede leather wrapper. 26cm. Suede cover mostly intact but browned and brittle and also quite chipped and worn on the overhanging edges. Cover flap for a display of photos for a women's group with the initials "SLS" is almost entirely detached and may be by the time this reaches a buyer; contents otherwise sound and clean. Laid in are two pages from a photo album which contain 9 pasted down photos 6 of which appear to be real photo postcards. The college opened in 1910 as a college for the education of white teachers. The most memorable event during the 1913-1914 school year was the fire which destroyed Main Building the only classroom laboratory library and office building at the young college. Four of the six real photo postcards show Main Building being consumed by fire; the other two real photo postcards show the building after the fire. Two of the other three smaller photos show Main Building before the fire. <br/><br/> paperback 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
189115168Washington: Government Printing Office 1891. Trade Paperback. Good. An interesting treatise on the state of canals and irrigation in various countries. 501 pages. Very browned paper approaching brittle but still readable. Folding plates still bright and white. Original orange paper covers cracked at the spine panel previous owner writing on the spine. A great foldout on the Great Water Wheel of Hamath among others. Trade Paperback. Government Printing Office paperback books
1782569031782. 4 x 6-1/2 framed behind glass. The note promises that the money will be paid to him on or before June 1 1787. unknown books
188631606Philadelphia: Beale Printer 1886. Cloth. 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 and one leaf light soiling on some leaves. 60 2 pp. 12mo. An earlier and shorter version was published in 1883. "Sing Companions Sing!" eleven page booklet bound in at title page perhaps published ca 1895. OCLC shows no copies of the booklet and only two copies of the Song-Book: Hayes Pres. Lib. and PA Commonwealth Lib. Beale, Printer hardcover books
1812104127<p>Pamphlet 8vo stitched 40 pp. Some chipping and folds at edges last leaf loose has a couple of small holes corner missing and tear with loss of a few words on page 39 a few additional tears some soiling signature on title browning and aging. This is an early title on the development of the Erie Canal. The pamphlet discusses some of the costs involved names some key people. Includes a short message from James Madison praising the project. Terms of the plan passed by the legislature are also included. De Witt Clinton a strong advocate for the canal was one of the contributors to part of this report and his name appears in print on page twenty-one. </p><br /> S. Southwick, books
190821380New York: Broadway Publishing Company 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 224 pp with illustrations from photographs and from drawings by George C Cantwell. Original green cloth boards with red lettering and illustration in copper. Boards edgeworn corners bumped copper partially rubbed away. Binding sound contents clean. Hallock was an author sportsman and founder of Forest and Stream magazine and was involved in development projects in both Alaska and Florida. Arctic Bibliography 6498 summarizes the content of this volume as "description of the intinerary from the western coast of the U.S. to Alaska; Alaskan Indians economy history of Russian fur trade missions fisheries and fur sealing." Wickersham 2052 Tourville 1914. Broadway Publishing Company hardcover books
1973004964Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1973. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end page - " 3/29/73 For a good friend and nephew of a good judge ! Andy Jacobs Jr.". Fine in a Very Good Plus dust jacket a bit rubbed. A day by day account of the hearings on whether Congressman Adam Clayton Powell should be seated by Indiana Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr. who served on the nine member Select Committee. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Plus. Bobbs-Merrill Hardcover books
190421531Pasadena CA: George Wharton James 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 16mo. pp. 504 2 index illustrated with line drawings. Good only with wear and soiling to the boards flexible cloth front hinge cracked. Includes a useful general history of the region and interesting detail on place names topography natural resources transportation agricultural production arts and education flora and fauna and historic landmarks and highlights for the tourist organized according to the various railroad routes. Rocq 16291; Berry and Klinicke 3753. George Wharton James hardcover books
1884002298Buffalo NY: Matthews Northrup & Co. 1884. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 6 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. 9 8-35 1; brown wraps printed in black; a few small spots to margins of front wrap and a minor puncture to back wrap; a small nick to tail of spine and light wear to edges and corners; overall in very good condition. William Pryor Letchworth 1823 - 1910 was a businessman and a philanthropist renwoned for his charitable actions. He was very successful in the "malleable iron" business but he also took very seriously his work for the New York State Board of Charities first appointed to it in 1873 and later serving as its President from 1878 until 1897. He was credited with managing to inspect every alms house orphanage poor-house and juvenile reformatory in the state and recommending and implementing various improvements including the removal of all children under the age of 2 from such institutions and co-founding the Craig Colony - a state epileptic hospital. The booklet contained his lengthy address delivered at the 1884 National Conference of Charities and Correction which touched on the subjects of women and children under institutional custody juvenile offenders treatments for the insane financial accounting of various boards etc. Matthews, Northrup & Co. hardcover books
193520996San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 361 pp indexed and illustrated. A fine copy in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label inscribed on the front pastedown "For______ with good wishes Catherine Coffin Phillips." Dust jacket has a few stray pen marks spine is lightly sunned and is chipped at the head and there is an internal reinforcement with archival tape. Still presents very nicely in a new mylar cover. Publisher's description from a later edition: "A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C. Frémont "the handsomest young man who ever walked the streets of Washington" love bloomed. Always passionately devoted to the controversial explorer soldier and politician Jessie bore John five children maintained a family life charmed and campaigned on his behalf and helped him write the popular reports of his western trailblazing. These pages filled with public figures such as Kit Carson and Abraham Lincoln present a lively and fearless woman." John Henry Nash hardcover books
57139STATE STREET TRUST COMPANY AND OTHERS. HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF BOSTON AND NEW ENGLAND VOL. 3. Boston: State Street Trust Company Various dates in the 1920's and 1930's. Limited edition. Illustrated from photographs drawings and maps. 8vo. blue cloth printed in gilt to spine. Collection of nine historical pamphlets in paper and cloth wrappers published by the State Street Trust Co. and others bound together as "volume three". About very good condition with some tipped-in newspaper clippings and some soiled original paper wrappers. unknown books
188529777Galveston: W.A. Shaw & Co. Printers 1885. 54 1 1 blank pp. Stitched in original printed pink wrappers. Wrappers with some blank edge chipping; some light wear and light toning of text Good.<br/><br/> The Worthy Master observes with dismay that farmers have "almost entirely abandoned" agricultural fairs "because they have fallen into the hands of men who were not agriculturists and had been perverted from their original design to that of horse-racing and other species of gambling." He also points with pride to the position of equality that women enjoy in the Grange. W.A. Shaw & Co., Printers unknown books
1938TB29433Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1938. First Edition. Very good in red simulated leather covered boards with light foxing to the end sheets near the hinges due to a reaction with the glue used in binding and with faint foxing to the edges of the text block. In a good price clipped dust jacket with 1/4 inch chips at the corners of the spine area with related creasing and with rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the front panel and fold to the front flap. The rear end paper of the book has a pocket within which is the multi-color map of the state which is in near fine condition. 593 pages including an index chronology and illustrated with eight sections of black and white photographs. Houghton Mifflin Company 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
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
186754569St. Paul: Pioneer Printing Co 1867. 8vo pp. 2 62; original printed tan wrappers slightly chipped and cracked; very good. Contains articles on the "Mineral Regions of Lake Superior" the disgraced explorer "Constantine Beltrami" "Historical Notes of the United States Land Office" and perhaps most important "Dakota Supersitions" by Gideon H. Pond who had been editor of the Native American newspaper Dakota Tawaxitku Kin or The Dakota Friend. <br/><br/> Pioneer Printing Co unknown books
