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193529971Detroit: Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court 1935. First Edition. 12mo 19.5cm.; photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 39pp. Rear wrapper a bit toned old newsclipping laid in has left offsetting to pp. 10 & 11 else Very Good or better. Successful defense speech by labor attorney Maurice Sugar best known for serving as General Counsel to the United Auto Workers Union 1937-1946. In 1934 James Victory an African-American WW1 veteran and car washer was accused of slashing the face of a white woman and stealing her purse. Thanks to Sugar's speech published here Victory was acquitted despite William Randolph Hearst's disparaging media coverage and an all-white jury. See Christopher H. Johnson Maurice Sugar: Law Labor and the Left in Detroit 1912-1950 1988 pp. 151-153. 5 copies in OCLC as of May 2016 at UC Davis Yale Library of Congress Michigan State and U. Michigan. Committee for Maurice Sugar for Judge of Recorder's Court unknown books
1910814351910. Paperback. Very Good. Pagination varies in the six separate pamphlets. 23 cm. Relatively minor wear. The earliest report is titled: A Statement in Regard to the American Sugar Refining Company and may not be strictly speaking an annual report to shareholders. <br/><br/> paperback books
197624876NY: Corwin Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 0498019829 . Black and white photographs. Second printing. Near fine in a near fine light age toning about the edges dust jacket. . Corwin Books hardcover books
197170837Quezon City 1971. Paperback. Good. index xii 327p. Yellow wrapper. 28cm. Backstrip worn on ends and has a stain in middle. Text printed on one side. <br/><br/> paperback books
1987013016New York: NAL Books 1987. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Octavo 8vo. x 437 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. Unclipped dustjacket with minor shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Signed and inscribed by co-author Sugar Rautbord on a preliminary page "To Giovanna The Queen of "Girls in High Places" who makes all the models pale wiht her special beauty! Love to you Sugar." Giovanna is Jovanna Papadakis. NAL Books Hardcover books
1957236363Panama City: Imprenta Nacional Panama R.P. / InterAmerican Women's Club 1957. Paperback. 165p. illustrated with fuzzy photos and cartooned humor a small softbound in overlapping 7.5x5.5 inch decorated wraps. The overlapped edges are worn the buff areas of covers have picked up mild dust-soil item is clean within and quite sound a good to very good copy. Find advice on food preparation oil your hands veggies here may have harsh skins hiring "Iguana stew is my specialty" dressing yourself and your kids for the weather. Pointers for military diplomatic and undiplomatic families who have come to live with and wring coin from the hard hands of peasants. Cartooned illustrations feature lithe but buxom young tourist ladies in situations with Panamanians. A preliminary notice by the Club thanks Union Oil and Esso as well as local hostelries jewelers and newspapers who get mentioned in the text for "donations toward the cost of publishing this book Imprenta Nacional, Panama, R.P. / InterAmerican Women's Club paperback books
190923343Yonkers NY 1909. Very good . Oblong photo album 7.25'' x 10.75'' approx. Flexible black cloth boards. 25 black paper leaves holding 28 photographs of which the first 23 mounted recto only. All photos 5'' x 7'' approx. <br/><br/>Collection of original photographs the majority dated showing a portion of a Yonkers sugar refinery under construction in great detail. The Federal Sugar Refining Co. run by the Spreckels family built its refinery on the east bank of the Hudson River in 1901 reorganizing what was once the National Sugar Refinery; the same site would later be taken over by American Sugar Refining and still operates under the ownership of Domino Sugar. Images document the building progress from April 16 1909 to May 27 1909 showing the site both empty and with men and horses at work. hardcover books
1925300136San Francisco California 1925. 1925. 8vo. Illustrated with b/w photographs diagrams. 48 pages original pictorial color covers. Very good. No bookplates. Printed by Ingrim-Rutledge Co. San Francisco. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. San Francisco, California, 1925. paperback books
198243158NY:: Ring Publishing Corp. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. Forty-first printing. Light soiling to fore edge else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Ring Publishing Corp., hardcover books
19952453511995. unbound. 10.25 x 8 inches no place no date circa 1995 -- a color image of Leonard in the ring hands at his sides gazing into the distance just past the camera. Boldly signed in full with "Best Wishes" written underneath. Near fine condition.<br/><br/> American boxer who was the first to earn more than $100 million in purses and win world titles in five weight divisions. He was unanimously voted "boxer of the decade" for the 1980s by Ring Magazine.<br/><br/> unknown books
1994116824Wien - Budapest: Galerie Knoll 1994. First edition. Softcover. Text in English German and Hungarian. Includes numerous color illustrations along with essays by Eva Schmidt and P. Lekov. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Uncommon with only 1 copy listed in OCLC. Galerie Knoll unknown books
1970106538<p>8vo cloth illustrated dust jacket 376 pp. A little fading and soiling to jacket normal aging; otherwise very good plus. Arguably the best pound for pound fighter of all time and certainly the best in my lifetime. This book gives some wonderful color into the LaMotta fights his encounters with Randy Turpin and his disappointing outing against Joey Maxim. </p> The Viking Press books
19236286Philadelphia: Frankling Sugar Refining Co.; Edward Stern & Co. Inc 1923. Stapled booklet 18.5 x 13.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated in color lithography throughout. Index. FIRST EDITION. Handsomely illustrated product cookbook with recipes for a variety of candies including patties bon bons taffy bars brittles pulls etc. as well as sauces jams jellies cookies cakes icing meringues and more. The two-page four panel illustration at the center of the booklet depicts the journey of the sugar from the field to arrival at the refinery to spin-down separation in the centrifuges and finally to the massive machinery used for packaging the final product. Some light soiling to pictorial wrapper and to a few pages; some oxidation to staples. Still very good. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies. Frankling Sugar Refining Co.; Edward Stern & Co. Inc unknown books
1980265636Tustin: Versatile Fashions 1980. 48p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations by Ward and Austin & Wanda very good first edition booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Versatile Fashions unknown books
1920224Denver: The Great Western Sugar Company 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine. 324pp with b/w illustrations and diagrams. Very good condition with light wear to spine ends. The Great Western Sugar Company hardcover books
1981Embry 139806Gallery books 1981. First edition first printing. Corners lightly bumped very good in good but edgeworn dust jacket with some chips and short tears in mylar cover. B&W photos Inscribed and with letter form the author laid in. Gallery books, 1981. First edition, first printing. unknown books
