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200231666Westport: Greenwood Press. As New. 2002. Hardcover. 0313315019 . First printing. As new in glossy illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. . Greenwood Press hardcover books
197556605Buffalo NY: Patricia Budd Kepler 1975. Broadside 17x22 inches printed in blue and red folded twice. Two small rust stains o/w a VG clean copy. Patricia Budd Kepler unknown books
185950885New York.: McLoughlin Bros. No date. Ca. 1859. Eight page illustrated booklet 5 x 3 1/4 inches in paper wraps. Front cover in color; paper loss to rear cover. Covers chipped with tears short archival tape repairs. A sewn cloth spine has been affixed to the booklet; it has become frayed at the bottom and the stitching has been cut; the cloth spine could readily be removed if desired. Verso of rear cover advertises other McLoughlin children's books. A volume in Aunt Mary's Little Series. Contents short illustrated verses in good condition. Cover depicts title character with grotesque nose. Evidently a much admired booklet warranting preservation with needle and thread. In present state fair condition only. . McLoughlin Bros. hardcover books
194826448Paris France: Revue Hebdomadaire 1948. 110 pages; cover illustration from the film Aux Yeux du Souvenir; with film and movie-making advertisements and illustrations in colors and black and white throughout; printed on various paper stocks. At center is a triple-fold-out printed on heavier paper stock in three colors for the film D'Homme a Hommes; included with this large display is a translucent red overlay which denotes the Red Cross - beneath is a 17-panel folding brochure illustrated in black and white with scenes from the film along with explanatory text; this film tells the history of the Red Cross. Most of the text in French with occasional English language verbiage. Of interest in all areas of motion picture history: upcoming films reviews architecture of various venues biographical data technical and camera news and more. Approx. 9 1/2" x 12 1/4" size; some old creasing edgewear to the covers spine paper chipped a little at top and bottom; in good condition. Magazine. Soft Cover. Good. Revue Hebdomadaire paperback books
201526278United States of America: Not Published 2015. Color photograph by Staton Rabin a sharp clear horse race action image. Approx. 8" x 10" overall size; notation in pen on back and date-stamp. Slight wear one corner with shallow crease; in very good condition. . Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
199222739Washington DC: The World Bank 1992. xi 127 pages; authors: Jonathan M. Blackwell Roger N. Goodwillie Richard Webb; ".subject of the study is the environmental orientation and impact of bilateral and multilateral aid projects as well as government-initiated projects within the Gezira Province of the Central Region of the Sudan the Dodoma rural District of Tanzania and the Kasama District of the Northern Province of Zambia.seeks to impart to policymakers and administrators knowledge of how to approach the measurement and valuation of environmental elements within development projects.it is hoped that the report will provide pointers to policymakers on how to frame projects so that environmental damage is minimized and sustainable development ensured."; illustrated with maps and charts; printed paper wrap covers; some rubbing cover wear. creasing; in good condition. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Good. The World Bank Paperback books
199422738Nairobi: United Nations Development Programme 1994. 6 19 pages; the resource persons include: Justo Z. Mabenge - Zimbabwe Janet Mutiso - Kenya Sharmala Naidoo - S. Africa Portia Segomelo - Botswana Vusumuzi F. Simelane - Swaziland Krispin Wafula - Kenya Pathias Muhwanga - Zambia; ".attempts to provide broad guidelines to help African countries integrate environmental concerns in their National Development Strategies NDS through appropriate political social and economic structures."; with attempts to ".capture those elements peculiar to Africa."; printed stapled paper wrap covers; little cover wear staple residue; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books
199522735Maseru: Sechaba Consultants 1995. 207 pages; illustrations in black and white; charts statistical data; extensive bibliography; editors: John Gay Debby Gill David Hall; Contributors: Jeannette Bloem Philip Cole John Gay Debby Gill Stephen Gill Thuso Green David Hall John Lepele David May; Commissioned and funded by Irish Aid; contents including: historical overview settlement of Southern Africa Sotho way of life Moshoeshoe; early colonial period later and independence; formation of Basotho society gender roles Sesotho music; land and settlement - rainfall environmental decline over-cultivation and overgrazing; population growth; decline of lands erosion water resources; health education housing water & sanitation economic policies of the government marketing credit; Lesotho economy and South Africa; government structure and women in the public domain; foreign aid more; illustrated paper wrap covers; "First published" stated on copyright page; some light wear to binding; in very good condition; compendious and detailed research on the country. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Sechaba Consultants Paperback books
199522737Maseru Lesotho: United Nations Development Programme 1995. 23 pages; black and white illustrations relating to articles regarding the World Summit for Social Development; and the relations and results in Lesotho of the UNFPA and social Development; Small Scale Industries Project WFP food for work programme; Lesotho heritage awareness UNV activities in Lesotho and general news on UN-inspired world initiatives; with chart illustrating "Lesotho's human development indicators: some comparative data"; last page with staff changes noted; the UNDP resident representative and editor was John O. Kokonge; color illustrated stapled paper wrap covers magazine style; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books
189624040Pennsylvania: Various 1896. Group of seven billheads addressed to J.E. Elliott; from the Scranton Packing Co. with 1/4" x 1" edge-chip; the Pennsylvania School Journal double-sided much advertisement; Christopher Sower Co; F.S. Bixler Dry Goods; Pennsylvania Baking Co.; Rice Levy & Co. and undated Durland Thompson Shoe Co.; average size approx. 6" x 8 1/4" size some larger some smaller; light edge tips wear old fold lines; several with interesting vignettes; interesting late 19th & early 20th century Pennsylvania business educational and community history ephemera. Manuscripts. Not Bound. Very Good. Various Paperback books
201223880New York NY: Jonathan Foster Studio 2012. 42 pages; a monograph via photography of the Noyac House designed by Jonathan S. Foster; with a short introductory text regarding its development design purpose and progress; approx. 6 3/4" square size; glossy photo-illustrated softcover paper wrap covers; light wear; in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Jonathan Foster Studio Paperback books
188726987Washington D.C.: Navy Department 1887. 31 pages; the first half having to do with naval requisitions & purchases their proper authorizations and procedures and the following are various forms and requisition blanks including a folding sheet for itemizing clothing and small-stores; according to D.B. Harmony Acting Secretary of the Navy signed in print Title page with the small somewhat faint previous owner name-stamp of collector George R. Brush M.D. U.S. Navy; in service as a surgeon & medical inspector from 1861-1894. Approx. 5" x 8"size; plain stapled cream paper; little darkened; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Navy Department paperback books
185724811Brooklyn New York: Charles Washburn A.M. 1857. A small single-side printed folding broadsheet-flyer announcing the opening of this school for Dec. 8.:".Its design will be - avoiding all precocious development and unhealthy mental stimulants resulting too often in superficial acquirements - to prepare its pupils for future life by a thorough and systematic training long continued upon common sense principles.opened daily with a brief religious exercise; but no sectarian principles will be inculcated.The highest inducements to diligence and correct deportment will be placed before the pupil avoiding as far as possible an appeal to the abject motive of fear." With the tuition terms per quarters by age group and the list of possible extra charges. With a list of references below including that of Prof. D.H. Mahan of West Point. Printed in several type-faces; approx. 5" x 8" size. Light wear little wrinkling to the surface; in very good condition; interesting Brooklyn NY classical education history ephemera. Broadside. Not Bound. Very Good. Charles Washburn, A.M. paperback books
189824068Placerville California: Pocahontas Mine 1898. Typed letter on the Pocahontas Mine letterhead dated Jan. 19th 1898 to the Norwalk Iron Works Company of South Norwalk Conn. asking for compressor parts & catalog; the mine was using the Norwalk equipment at the time; approx. 8 1/2"x 11" size; old fold lines; light wear; in very good condition. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Pocahontas Mine Paperback books
18738953New York NY: Beers Comstock & Cline 1873. Original Hand-colored Map of Part of Whitestone Village Southern Part from the Beers Comstock & Cline Atlas of Long Island New York. Three sections folded 15 1/2" x 27 1/2" approx. overall size; somewhat age-toned; top edge with a little scraping; old creasing; in very good condition. . First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Beers, Comstock & Cline Paperback books
18738957New York NY: Beers Comstock & Cline 1873. Original Hand-colored Map of Woodhaven with Inset Map of South Woodhaven from he Beers Comstock & Cline Atlas of Long Island New York. 15 1/2" x 24 1/4" approx. overall size; somewhat age-toned; on reverse are maps of Springfield Store Willow Tree Station Inglewood Freeport Greenwich Point; left margin edge-chipped right margin with a few nicks; in very good condition. PLEASE NOTE: Shipped rolled for safety. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. Beers, Comstock & Cline Paperback books
187823510Chicago Illinois: Not Published 1878. Group includes 3 letters on Canada Southern Railway Lines Chicago letterhead: January 3 from W.H. Hurlburt Gen'l Western Passenger Agent to A. Jackson 2 pages on smaller note-size sheets concerning some lands in which he had an interest - back payments taxes; on Jan. 11th larger paper 1 page the same property is being discussed naming other parties - of Oldrich Blanchard and a Mrs. Long - there was a 'consideration' of $ 10000.00 mentioned at the close; January 22 asking Jackson to communicate as Hurlburt is traveling - he is trying to wind up the legalities of the lands concerned; with a 1873 short note written to Jackson on the letterhead of David Dall Vessel Agent 241 South Water Street Chicago asking for his fees due for freight on a schooner signed by Dall; light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. According to the C.S.R. Line letterhead it was the "Only Route Through Canada Under American Management." At this point in its history the Vanderbilt family exercised control over this rail line. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. Not Published Paperback books
186926497New York New York: Allen Brothers 1869. 260 pages 4 pages of Allen Brothers' Catalogue of Choice Juvenile Books at back. Tissue-guarded frontispiece woodcut and illustrated title page followed by a printed & illustrated title. With small woodcuts throughout; short inspirational stories & poetry with a moral 'application' section following many of the tales. Laid-in are a few periodical clippings with poetry & prose of the time; front endpapers with decorative owner stamps of Sarah A. Tyson and nicely-accomplished calligraphic name of Annie Willets in Red and pink inks. Volume approx. 4 1/2" x 7" size; light purplish-brown decoratively blindstamped cloth gilt spine titles and decoration dulled. Some edge tips wear and fraying to the spine ends of the boards front inner endpaper split about 1"; some spotting and foxing in the text some signatures loosened. Overall in good condition. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Allen Brothers hardcover books
187424741New York NY: Frank Leslie 1874. 14 pages; illustrated in black and white throughout. Cover pictorial and story within of Henri Rochefort 1830 - 1913 French radical political journalist news publisher & sometime communist politician duelist and anti-Semite; by this point in 1874 his turbulent life had led to his escape from penal servitude in the French colony of New Caledonia where he'd been committed to a life sentence for his various polemics after which he made his way to the U.S. one his way to returning to Europe by 1895 where he eventually ".became a leader of the anti-Dreyfusards and had a principal share in the organization of the press campaign." E.B. 11th ed. The cover vignettes give portrait of Rochefort his command 'on the barricades' in France escape scene and at a fiery "Meeting of a New York International Society." Other articles within depict steamship travel booksellers' row State Street in Chicago the Spanish civil war of the First Republic and other world and national news. Approx. 11" x 16" size; light wear; inner hinge strengthened; disbound from a larger volume; a little edge-wear closed edge-tear; in very good condition. Periodical. Not Bound. Good. Frank Leslie Paperback books
186927068Newport R.I.: J.A. Williams 1869. Titles of each view are handwritten on the back of each mount within the studio's imprint. J.A. Williams was extent as a photographer in Newport c. 1850s- 1880; the Getty site offers this dates for these two images. The views approx. 4" x 7" size. Some edge tips wear & soiling to mounts; in very good condition. Stereoview Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. J.A. Williams paperback books
186426389New York N.Y.: D. Appleton & Co. A.A. Turner Photographer 1864. Carte-de-visite photograph; accompanied by old mount-surround identifying this and dated 1864. Studio identified on back of mount. Approx. 2 1/2" x 4" size; light wear soiling; in very good condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. D. Appleton & Co. , A.A. Turner Photographer paperback books
188025117Connecticut: Alldrdige Crane Art Co. Rembrandt Gallery Kenyon & Son Bundy & Williams W.F. Page Miller 1880. Group of 9 photographs includes: 2 cabinet cards by Alldridge; cabinet card of Crane Art Co. & another of Rembrandt Gallery all of Waterbury Connecticut. Two cabinet cards of Kenyon & Son of New London; carte de visite by Bundy & Williams New Haven; carte de visite by W.F. Page Ansonia; and a cdv by Miller of Birmingham Conn. Not otherwise identified or dated circa 1880. Cabinet cards average 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" size. Some wear to the mount cards one corner soft; overall in very good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Very Good. Alldrdige, Crane Art Co., Rembrandt Gallery, Kenyon & Son, Bundy & Williams, W.F. Page, Miller paperback books
188024994Lynchburg VA: Hicks & Echols Poff & Hicks P.W. Poff & H.W. Hicks. 1880. Group of 7 cabinet cards of various sizes from these two locales which neighbor each other on the W. VA - VA border. Two of the cards of the same child; other cards of different children & one smaller portrait of a gentleman; one identified on back as 'George Anderson Uncle Charlie's boy' A few with first names or presentations "to Grandma" etc. Not otherwise identified or dated circa 1880. Cabinet cards average 4 1/4" x 6 1/2" size. Images somewhat faded images & mounts soiled worn the largest with bottom right corner chipped away imprint still visible; overall in good condition. Photography. Not Bound. Good. Hicks & Echols, Poff & Hicks, P.W. Poff & H.W. Hicks. paperback books
186026391New York & Philadelphia: Brady & H. Manger's Photograph Gallery 1860. Two carte-de-visite photographs the woman's portrait with touches of lip rouge & cheek tinting. Accompanied by an old mount-surround identifying: "Mrs. Sadie Robbins born Phil. abt. A.D. 1823 died at Brooklyn Aug. 2 A.D. 1874 buried at Woodlands Cemetery near Phil." and Elliott Robbins of New York. 1st wife Ann Eliza Smith of Nissequogue L.I. 2nd wife Mary Frobel Regnault New Orleans 3rd wife Sadie Simpson of Philadelphia." Studios identified on front for Mr. Robbins & back of the mount of Mrs. Robbins' photo. Approx. 2 1/4" x 4" size; some light wear soiling Mrs. Robbins' card top tips rounded; in very good condition. Photographs. Not Bound. Very Good. Brady & H. Manger's Photograph Gallery paperback books
189124746St. Paul Minnesota: F. Jay Haynes 1891. A photograph of the Grotto Geyser of Yellowstone by Haynes; measuring 5" x 7 3/4" Back of photo is numbered and titled corresponding to the published Haynes catalog. No date circa 1891. One corner chipped away; old closed tear repaired on back and the other corner with a crease/split. In about fair condition. Photograph. Not Bound. Fair. F. Jay Haynes Paperback books
