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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
17384782London: Printed by John Baskett Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty 1738. Octavo-sized title plus one leaf. Removed from larger collection of acts. Near fine. Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty unknown books
1764WRCAM54454ALondon: Printed by Mark Baskett.and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett 1764. 2275-299pp. Folio. Loose gatherings stab holes at gutter margins. Near fine. An outstanding copy of the rare official Parliamentary printing for the "Grenville Budget" of 1764 accompanied by three later acts amending regulations set forth. This budget act contains the so-called "Sugar Act" which was the first deliberate and direct attempt to tax the American colonies in order to pay for the British military presence in North America. <br> <br> The Sugar Act levied a tax of three pence per gallon on the importation of foreign molasses molasses from the British West Indies would be exempt from the tax. But the proposed legislation did far more than tax sugar products. It also detailed more foreign goods to be taxed including certain wines coffee pimiento cambric and printed calico and further regulated the export of lumber and iron. The enforced tax on molasses caused the almost immediate decline in the rum industry in the colonies. <br> <br> The final part of the title of the Act was Grenville's response to the British Customs Board's estimate that the annual revenue from American customs was a paltry £1800. Grenville whose guiding principles were strict adherence to legality and financial solvency found this state of affairs to be intolerable. Existing trade regulations designed to raise greater revenue would be more rigidly enforced with incentives offered to naval officers and customs officials. <br> <br> This Budget Act of 1764 set the tone for many of the British policies and measures that followed. A chain of events was set in motion which would lead step by step to the American Revolution. Reaction in the colonies was not long in coming. In Massachusetts James Otis and Samuel Adams fired pamphlets at it; the merchants of Boston banded together to protest; other colonial writers from Newport to Williamsburg added their voices; in England Thomas Pownall and others defended the step. All understood that a new era had dawned with the so-called Sugar Act. <br> <br> The present copy is accompanied by three further scarce acts of Parliament related to the statutes set forth by the Sugar Act. The first from 1765 alters the duties imposed on sugar imports. The other two from 1777 and 1779 made amendments to address penalties for smuggling sugar from America into Great Britain during the Revolution. They are as follows: <br> <br> 1 AN ACT FOR MORE EFFECTUALLY SECURING AND ENCOURAGING THE TRADE OF HIS MAJESTY'S AMERICAN DOMINIONS.FOR ALTERING THE BOUNTIES AND DRAWBACKS UPON SUGAR EXPORTED. caption title. London 1765. 2799-818pp. ESTC N56877. <br> <br> 2 AN ACT TO EXPLAIN AND AMEND SO MUCH OF AN ACT MADE IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY AS RELATES TO THE PREVENTING OF CLANDESTINE CONVEYANCE OF SUGAR AND PANELS FROM THE BRITISH COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. London 1778. 21027-1030pp. ESTC N57924. <br> <br> 3 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT MADE IN THE EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY INTITULED AN ACT TO EXPLAIN AND AMEND SO MUCH OF AN ACT MADE IN THE FOURTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY AS RELATES TO THE PREVENTING OF CLANDESTINE CONVEYANCE OF SUGAR AND PANELS FROM THE BRITISH COLONIES AND PLANTATIONS IN AMERICA TO GREAT BRITAIN. London 1780. 2175-178pp. ESTC N57924. <br> <br> An excellent set of Parliamentary acts comprising the first attempt to tax the American colonies the Sugar Act and several additional acts revising its statutes up through the Revolution. ESTC N56801. REESE REVOLUTIONARY HUNDRED 4 ref. Printed by Mark Baskett,...and by the Assigns of Robert Baskett 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
605974on First-Day Cover for the 10 cent Paul Laurence Dunbar stamp Scott #1554 pictorial cachet by Fleetwood postmarked Dayton OH May 1 1975. Signed by Sugar Ray Leonard. 6 1/2" x 3 3/4". Very good. Signed by Authors. No Binding. Very Good. unknown 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
1882WRCAM45075Washington 1882. 40pp. Dbd. Lightly creased. Minor chipping and toning. Ink stamp on first page. About very good. U.S. government publication on the sugar industry with much concern over Hawaiian sugar flooding the market. FORBES 3392. unknown books
182418594London: Hatchard and Sons 1824. Disbound 41pp. First and last leaves lightly dusted and worn else Very Good. The author argues that "notwithstanding the preferential duty rate of 10s. per hundredweight enjoyed by West Indian sugar as against East Indian the latter could be entered for internal consumption so as to afford a large profit to importers. It would be a most advantageous speculation for young men of good character and with small capital native or European to embark in the manufacture of sugar in Bengal." Ragatz. FIRST EDITION. Ragatz 249. Hatchard and Sons unknown books
17810000533Paris: Chez Clousier 1781. First edition. Binding rubbed & scuffed shallow losses at spine extremities joints cracking free endpapers excised text lightly toned & occasionally foxed lacking the folding plate about Good & still quite serviceable. 8vo 8" x 5" viii 1 & 4-512 with tables occasional woodcut illustrations and woodcut headpieces throughout. LACKING THE FOLDING PLATE. Publisher's full calf the spine decorated in gilt with a gilt-lettered maroon morocco spine label. Text in French. <br/><br/>In the Preface Casaux describes his credentials on the subject of growing sugarcane: born in France in 1727 he migrated to the then-French island of Grenada in 1757; he remained there and took English citizenship after the Treaty of Paris ceded the island to the British in 1763 serving George III as Deputy for the French population of the colony until his return to Europe in 1777. He joined the Royal Society there in 1780 and was also a member of the Academy of Agriculture in Florence. During his years in the Caribbean he interested himself in the cultivation of sugarcane; he became especially concerned with methods for producing the same amount of sugar with many fewer “Negres†and “treating them more gently.†Casaux additionally writes of methods to produce quality sugar from inferior grades of cane and maintaining equal quantity and quality of sugar from “exhausted†plots of land. Casaux leaves no aspect of growing cane and extracting the sugar untouched; much can be learned about colonial plantation practices regarding not only sugar but agriculture in general. He includes a history of sugar and discusses “new†species of cane hybrids formed from crossbreeding; he also includes a table of rainfall for Grenada for the year 1773 and advises the use of such tables “to be kept by public appointment for the improvement of agriculture†elsewhere. Casaux was an influential thinker on subjects other than agriculture including politics economics and social issues and was a member of the Jacobin Club; after Mirabeau’s death in 1792 he moved from France to London and died there in 1796. Chez Clousier, unknown 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
188930671San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Company 31 California St. 1889. 73 1 blank pp. Original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued disbound. A clean text signed in ink on the last text page and on the front wrapper. Very Good<br/><br/>offered with . ARGUMENT OF WM. M. PIERSON FOR PLAINTIFF. San Francisco: Commercial Publishing Co. 1889. 154pp original printed front wrapper with wrapper title as issued. Disbound. Very Good.<br/><br/> Two arguments for the State of California arguing that this large refinery company "had surrendered the management of its concern and the control of its business to a body of men known as 'The Sugar Refineries Company' an unincorporated association of non-resident individuals formed and operated for the purpose of limiting the supply and thus advancing the price of sugar and therefore an unlawful combination and monopoly acting in restraint of trade" internal quotation marks omitted. The Company over the next thirty years would be charged with a variety of antitrust violations.<br/>We do not locate records of these items in Cowan Harv. Law Cat. or on OCLC as of October 2013. Commercial Publishing Company, 31 California St. unknown 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
38827TRADE PROMOTION CALIFORNIA WHITE AND SUGAR PINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. LUMBER DATA. San Francisco: 1925. 4to. Stiff printed file folder. 12 loose sheets many folding numbered 1-11 and 13. Rare set of information sheets on a variety of topics related to the White an Surar Pine industry. While OCLC records several items from this group none like this set of files. At the top of the file is the instruction to the dealer "put this filing folder in your information files" clearly a set of information sheets for the manufacturers use. Each sheet is from one to eigh pages with diagrams and photographs and the topics range from descriptions o White and Surar Pines to doors siding sashes and frames interior trim and moldings factory lumber lath etc. With loosely laid-in cover letter enclosed. Very good. unknown books
18861400649th Cong. 1st Sess.: HED108. 1886. 27pp Disbound 4 folding charts. Very Good. HED108. unknown books
185831868Springfield IL 1858. Broadside 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed old folds Very Good.<br/><br/> This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar Cane is well 'adapted to our soil and climate' and that it can be successfully and profitably cultivated and manufactured into molasses and sugar." <br/> The Agricultural Committee submitted information from growers and processors in Kentucky Pennsylvania Ohio and Indiana. The Mechanical Committee could not produce an acceptable proposal for a processing machine and the Convention adjourned with a recommendation that Illinois delegates gather more information for a future convention. Efforts to stimulate the growth of northern sugar cane continued through the succeeding decades.<br/>As of October 2019 not located on OCLC or the online sites of AAS NYPL Newberry Harvard Yale U MI. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker Graff. unknown 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
1748WRCAM27927London: M. Cooper 1748. 21pp. Dbd. Internally clean and fresh. Very good. From the establishment of the sugar colonies in the 17th century taxation on exports and imports to and from the colonies was a matter of continuous debate in Parliament. Enter less expensive French sugar particularly for distillation purposes in New England and questions of appropriate duties reach a fervor in the 1730s in part resulting in the Molasses Act of 1733. Colonial merchants ignored the Molasses Act almost universally perpetuating the discussion of how to best garner revenue from the colonies made more timely by the depleted funds of Britain's exchequer at the close of King George's War in 1748. Preceding the infamous Sugar Act by seventeen years this pamphlet represents yet another voice in the crescendoing sugar tax discourse. SABIN 68280. KRESS S3804. HANSON 6182. GOLDSMITHS 8353. M. Cooper unknown 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
305427San Francisco California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation 1925. First edition. 8vo 6 1/4" x 9 1/4". Illustrated with b/w halftone photographs and vignette drawings. Original stiff color pictorial wrappers. Very good. 31 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Designed and printed by The Sunset Press San Francisco. Includes photographs of special packages and the plant in Crockett California; information on shipping from Hawaii. 1st Edition. No Binding. Very Good. San Francisco, California and Hawaiian Sugar Refining Corporation, 1925. paperback 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
