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190315424Arkansas: Halli W. H. Burton. Good. 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean green cloth has white hand written title on spine . Front cover has white title and design and is beginning to flake off. Internal hinges are re-enforced with green cloth. Leaf 1 & 2 have creases and mended edge tears. Pictorial frontispiece. Inscribed by author. Rear pocket removed ex-library. No other library markings. South Arkansas County Arkansas; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 190 pages; Signed by Author . Halli W. H. Burton hardcover
1855040132Fairfield Iowa / Philadelphia: Henn Williams & Co. / R.L. Barnes 1855. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Full-color folding map 22" x 35". Folds into embossed red-cloth covers gilt lettering on cover 5.75" x 3.75". Near fine condition. Drawn in 1854 and issued early in 1855 this map shows a "Great Western Mail & Emigrant Route to the Pacific" extending from Omaha. The first American settlers arrived in Iowa from the East in 1833. By 1855 the new state had become a magnet for homesteaders and settlers to work the rich land. Henn, Williams & Co. / R.L. Barnes hardcover
192615514Kansas City Mo.: Smith & Grieves Co. Very Good. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Original clean maroon cloth has gilt title on spine. Text's interior is tight clean & intact. Crisp pages. Top edge gilt. Six additional pages of publications at rear of text. Spine ends lightly rubbed. Explanation of the operations of the Pension System of the USA covering investigation of claims in Missouri. South Missouri Pension System; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 387 pages . Smith & Grieves Co. hardcover
193120934Domingo Oyarzun Moreno. 1931. Softcover. Very Good. Wraps with light rubbing to extremities. ; A detailed guide to Chile with b&w photos charts timetables ads maps. Many information is relating to trains. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 293 pages . Domingo Oyarzun Moreno paperback
188120560Sacramento: State Office 1881. 72 pp illustrated with small wood engravings in original lavender printed wrappers. Some chipping to spine old tears and tape repairs to back wrapper else very good. Matthew Cooke was in the business of manufacturing fruit boxes in the 1870s when California's apple crop was devastated by Codlin moths. He began studying entomology to find defense against the moths and ensure the security of his business and quickly became an expert on a range of pests affecting California's fruit crops. He was appointed Chief Executive Horticultural Officer of California in 1881. This report prepared at the request of the State Board of Horticultural Commissioners describes the life cycles of the major insects damaging fruit crops moths scale insects mites caterpillars borers aphids etc. and recommends remedies for dealing with each. It also includes the text of new legislation intended to protect and promote the horticultural interests of the State of California. State Office unknown
1333661355.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1528335694.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
188810048Sacramento Cal: State Office: J.D. Young Supt. State Printing 1888. Slim octavo 23 x 15 cm 96 pages. Illustrated with a chromolithograph frontispiece and wood engravings throughout. Several errata have been overprinted in purple ink rubber stamp. FIRST EDITION. Byron Martin Lelong 1856-1901 was the Secretary of California's State Board of Horticulture and amongst a generation of farmer-scholars working and publishing in California in the 1880s and 90s. Others included Thomas Garey and William Andrew Spaulding and in a different way Santa Rosa's Luther Burbank the great seedsman. Lelong's published work focused on citrus as well as prunes figs and walnuts. This treatise is mostly a technical manual on the best varieties of oranges and other citrus to plant in California as well as a guide for how to care for them. It also includes recipes for lemon pie orange souffle and citron cake. Illustrations show the physical differences in each variety of citrus including one of the cross section of a "Pumpel-mouse". Boards lightly scuffed with soiling to margins and fading to spine. Corners bumped and gently rubbed with boards bowing out at fore-edge. Rippling to endsheets with page margins lightly toned. Title page offset by frontis. Text has overprinted errata in blue to correct spellings to a few pages. In publisher's dark blue pebble-grained cloth lettered in gilt. Overall very good or better. Presentation slip tipped in at first free endsheet presented by Ellwood Cooper the then-president of California's Board of Horticulture. Zamorano Select 65. State Office: J.D. Young, Supt. State Printing hardcover
101895113X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0267868952.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
3337220630.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ria9783337220631_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain is an unchanged high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science travel and expedi paperback
B9783337220631Paperback / softback. New. paperback
200950303St. Paul: Ampersand Club 2009. Square 8vo pp. 9" x 9" pp. 47 1; color photographs throughout; a collection of rememberences by close friends of Powers; original gray paper wrappers; fine. Powers was design and production manager at Minnesota Historical Society Press as well as proprieter of Amaranth Press and a devoted Ampersand Club member. Over the course of his career he also worked for Ernest Morgan the Stinehour Press and the Plantin Press. [Ampersand Club] unknown
1989035208Melbourne FL: Melbourne Centennial Committee 1989. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Bound. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Stiff b&w pictorial wraps spiral-bound. Slight shelf wear virtually as issued. ii205 pp. illus. Very scarce. Melbourne Centennial Committee Paperback
75-7887Tallahassee: The Florida State University Robert Manning Strozier Library 1982. 4to. Plastic Clamp Bound ca. 25 pp. Very Good with Age Toning Sunning Minor Scuffing Abrasions. Stapled to Cover: "with Compliments" Card Torn [Tallahassee]: The Florida State University, Robert Manning Strozier Library, 1982 unknown
1947051624Chrysler Motors 1947. Hardcover. Fine. Original Small Soft Cover Brochure 1947. Fine. <br/> <br/> Chrysler Motors hardcover
19991274Santa Fe NM: Rydal Press 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Photos. Lovely brown cloth reprint of a rare 1920 publication by Sayle who accompanied three other men to the Arizona-Utah border specifically Navajo Mountain. Ltd. #11/70 in brown cloth w/ paper spine label fine no dj. <br/> <br/> Rydal Press hardcover
1936037004New York: Dodge Publishing Co. 1936. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Light green cloth lettered in ivory. 92 pp. illus. w/ b&w photographs. An early apparently the first entry in the "Seeing America with Bobby and Betty Series" which eventually included the San Francisco Exposition Washington D.C. and two entries for the New York World's Fair. Thus not to be confused with the later "A Trip to the New York World's Fair with Bobby and Betty" 1938 by Grover Whalen as told to Elsie-Jean revised and re-issued in 1940 as "Fun at The Fair: A Trip to the New York World's Fair of 1940 with Bobby and Betty." The present volume issued in 1936 is among Thomas's scarcer publications most notable now less as a children's introduction to the city than for its many photographs from Underwood & Underwood and other sources difficult to locate otherwise straying considerably beyond the touristy meccas such as the Statue of Liberty to include wonderful images of Chinatown and a pushcart market on Orchard Street. Cover cloth is a bit faded and a bit unevenly but overall presents with only light shelf wear mildly tanned spine panel and endsheets all typical of issue. Minor exposure to several corners and at heel of spine. Firm binding clean interior. Stated 1st edition. Dodge Publishing Co. Hardcover
197542831New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1975. Hardcover. Edited by Floyd E. Risvold. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards pictorial dust jacket. xxxii 492pp xvi. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and usual light soiling and rubbing. First edition of this controversial long-unpublished memoir by Mary Surratt's boarder -- with early Art Deco bookplate of Ralph G. Newman 1912-98 founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop on the front flyleaf. As front jacket panel notes "Published now for the first time almost seventy-five years after the author's death the extraordinary eyewitness account by the young friend of John Surratt." Tight and attractive. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1848DEMO010152ILondon: G. Berger 1848. First edition. Wrappers. Good. 16mo 64 pages original printed wrappers: chipped repaired; perforated with the ex libris of the Union League Club of Chicago. NOTE: offered with a copy of the 1936 Lakeside Classic edition of this title. <br/><br/>Life in Pike County Illinois 1831-1845 by an English emigre. "It is an excellent picture of frontier life -Buck 235". Mrs. Burlend was a Yorkshire peasant. She was the pioneer wife of a pioneer farmer. "Her narrative was written primarily for the information of people of her own class in England who might be weighing the question of migration to America -Milo M. Quaife." Howes B992; Hubach p.70; Clark III 19; Graff 490. G. Berger unknown
168910130London: Richard Baldwin. Very Good. 1689. Softcover. 36pp.; square 12mo; in later black marbled paper wrappers with slight creasing and wear at edges. Pages 4 & 5 with some tanning in the gutter near lower edge off of the text; p. 6 thru 8 with a few spots of foxing; the rest of the text shows only light foxing at edges. . Richard Baldwin paperback
1341059960.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1912060303Lancaster PA: Pennsylvania German Society 1912. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. PGS Vol. XXI 1910. Original copy rebound in red buckram spine panel lettered in gilt edges trimmed. 664477218 pp. illus. with b&w plates. Proceedings held at York Oct. 1910 copyrighted and published in 1912 in an edition limited to 600 copies. Cloth is modestly soiled text block edges typically tanned. Firm binding clean interior lacking title page but otherwise complete and fully intact. Former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover. Contains the Miller/Beissel material from the Ephrata Cloister the first part of Sachse's history of the Wayside Inns in Lancaster County continued in a future annual and a guide to the Moravian Cemetery God's Acre in Bethlehem PA. Pennsylvania German Society Hardcover
21909Printed document partly filled ut by hand with Miss Love's details. Dated May 1864. 18 x 11 1/2 inches folded three times. In very good condition. unknown