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200321485New York:: Palgrave 2003. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright dust jacket. Tourist Third Cabin offers a window into a bygone era where the technological marvels and floating palaces of modern steamships like the Queen Mary the Normandie and Olympic transported a new breed of tourist between Europe and North America. The interwar period saw the birth of mass transatlantic tourism. The authors offer an intimate glimpse of the microcosm of the changing world that was the luxury liner. From crew members to passengers ship decor to technological innovation through labor unrest and political upheaval we see the social world and the business of travel at the dawn of the modern age. Palgrave, unknown
183333619New York: Published and Sold by D. Appleton and Co. B. Curtis Brown Print 1833. Wraps. Good. Stitched wraps. 64 pages. Brown outer wraps with title on the front. Rear wrap chipped lower corner and lightly damp stained. Light occasional foxing and toning to the contents.<br /> <br /> American Imprints 20937. Published and Sold by D. Appleton and Co. B. Curtis Brown, Print unknown
186134109Boston: Press of Edward L. Balch 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Two volumes. iv 431 pages 1. 388 pages 1. Illustrated with engraved portraits and illustrations in text. Marbled paper covered boards with black leather corners and spine. Gilt title on the spine. Leather is rubbed on the edges corners joints and spine. Interior contents clean. Previous owner name in pencil on the right front flyleaf. Contents include articles on the Abolition of Slavery in New England Missionary work biographical sketches religious works obituaries and more. Press of Edward L. Balch hardcover
1924M12079Cambridge UK:: Cambridge University Press 1924. 1924. Offprint from Biometrika Vol. XVI. 4to. iv 24 pp. 16 plates and 3 contours. Quarter green cloth over gray paper-backed boards. Near fine. Karl Pearson FRS 1857–1936 influential English mathematician is credited for establishing the field of mathematical statistics. Cambridge University Press, [1924]. hardcover
196262985New York: Bernard Geis Associates 1962. First Edition. First printing. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed boards hardcover; dustjacket; 382pp; illus. Light evidence of use; board corners tapped; Near Fine. In the original dustwrapper price-clipped lightly rubbed at edges Very Good. <br /> <br /> Classic mid-century advice for the upwardly-mobile middle-class American male on fashion sex courtship etiquette fitness career management etc. Includes a chapter on how to join the CIA; another on how to drive a sports car. With numerous cartoons and prose extracts from the pages of the magazine by Paul Gallico Harvey Swados Jack Kerouac others. Bernard Geis Associates unknown
183332993New York: Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason. J. Collard Printer 1833. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo. 215 pages 1. Frontispiece illustration and illustrated half title page. Marbled paper covered boards with red leather spine. Gilt title on the spine. Small chip to the leather spine. Scuffed marbled paper on the front cover. Some edge wear to the boards. Moderate toning and scattered foxing to the contents. Old pencil inscription of J H sp. Parkers Book" at the top of the right front flyleaf. Below the first inscription is a later pen inscription - "Presented to David H Aurally by Mrs. Sara Graves Reeves from the library of the Graves family at Mount Pleasant their home near Covington in Newton County Georgia 1956." On the front paste down is a yellow store label "Bailey's Shoe Shop 142 Sycamore St. Dr. 3-0172- Decatur Ga." From RootsWeb Ancestry<br /> <br /> Mt. Pleasant Georgia is named for the plantation that was built by Solomon Graves beginning in 1819. His land holdings totaled over 7500 acres at one point. The original plantation home which still exists was built in 1835. The land remained in the Graves family until the final 426 acres were sold in 1958. In the early 1980s 450 acres of the former plantation not including the 22 acres immediately surrounding the original plantation home were sold to a speculator/developer who had been assembling land at Interstate 20 interchanges east of Atlanta. By the late 1980s the land had been rezoned to a mix of industrial multi-family highway commercial and residential.<br /> <br /> See also: Perkerson Madora Field. White Columns in Georgia. New York: Rinehart & Co. Inc. 1952. Print.<br /> <br /> Covington Newton County Georgia: Mt. Pleasant Plantation - Off Hwy. 278 - 1820 plantation now a working Christmas tree farm. December 2011. Published by B. Waugh and T. Mason. J. Collard, Printer hardcover
185335616Boston: John P. Jewett and Company 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. 12mo. 323 pages 1. Frontispiece illustration. Brown cloth hardcover ruled in blind with blind stamped decoration on the covers. Gilt title on the spine. Cloth binding is chipped head and base of spine and edge worn on the covers and corners. Slight lean to the hardcover. Light foxing to the yellow end sheets. Text block cracked between pages 182 to 183. Previous owner name on the right front flyleaf. Fair.<br /> <br /> This is a book about temperance. While this book is categorized as fiction the author states in the preface "Many of the incidents in this work are true which have fallen under the author's observation and which he has taken from public prints. John P. Jewett and Company hardcover
19887039Austin: The Jenkins Company 1988. 11 catalogues bound in various colored printed card wrappers. Few scattered illustrations. Generally very good or better. <br /> <br /> An excellent resource on Texana and Americana from the Jenkins Co. in their last decade. <br /> <br /> The Whole World: Books and Manuscripts on Many Subjects. 1124 items listed. With Michael Heaston Dorothy Sloan and Michael Parrish<br /> 221 - Literature<br /> 228 - Recent Acquisitions<br /> 229 - Americana<br /> 231 - Recent Acquisitions<br /> 233 - Autumn Miscellany<br /> 234 - South Civil War Blacks & Slavery<br /> 236 - Americana<br /> 237 - Recent Acquisitions<br /> 238 - America and the Western Hemisphere<br /> 241 - Americana etc.<br /> <br /> . The Jenkins Company unknown
19487332Toronto Ontario Canada: The Art Gallery of Toronto 1948. First Edition First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 32. Square 8vo. measuring 7" x 9". Illustrated twice-stapled card covers. Lovely tipped-in colour plate by Lawren Harris noted member of the Canadian Group of Seven affixed to verso front cover. Illustrated with additional black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Comprises of detailed financial report lists of gallery leadership and an exhaustive list of the gallery's membership. Accompanied with a single mimeographed order form for "Christmas cards" affixed to the verso of rear cover. Light toning to covers small rectangular spot to the title leaf else without blemish; very good. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not found in Fisher BAC/LAC. <br/><br/> [The Art Gallery of Toronto] unknown
21607Manila: Travel Association Inc. Softcover. Very Good. Detailed information about 9 multi day trips and a small scematic map in color. Nd. 1950's ; Narrow 8vo 8" to 9" tall . Travel Association, Inc. paperback
194837638San Francisco: The Book Club of California 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press for the Book Club with engravings by Mallette Dean. Inscribed by David Magee on the last page of his introduction: "For Raymond Black with the best wishes of David Magee." The text of this engaging book was reprinted from Beadle's Half-Dime Library Number 814 February 28 1893. Bound in patterned paper boards with images of playing card suit symbols with a red cloth spine and paper spine label with titling. Light wear to edges and corners of spine. Offsetting to pastedowns and free endpapers. Mallette Dean's red and black illustrations throughout. Missing the called for dust jacket. Otherwise in very good condition. Measures 8.75 x 12.5 inches. 56 pages. PRI/112024. The Book Club of California hardcover
19272003Salt Lake City: General Boards Mutual Improvement Associations 1927. 64pp. Sextodecimo 15 cm Drab green printed wrappers. General overall wear to covers otherwise very good. Contains the lyrics to 125 different songs most are faith-promoting. Rear cover contains a Daynes - Beebe Music Co. advertisement. <br /> <br /> "To make community singing successful as a cultural form of recreation we need four things: A leader who is competent an accompanist who strengthens the leader suitable material and a sympathetic group of singers. Community singing is recreative relaxation. It is cultural education - a get together for pleasure and enjoyment. It is not a song practice." - p.2 'Community Singing.' Flake/Draper 2053. We locate two institutional holdings BYU - LDSCHL. Uncommon. General Boards Mutual Improvement Associations unknown
18-2756London: Bookman’s Journal 1927. 8vo. ca 266 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Blue cloth covered boards. Spine sunned. Pages fine. Previous owner’s name penciled. Printed by Purnell and sons Bristol for the Bookman's Journal. London: Bookman’s Journal, 1927. hardcover
1961305Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum 1961. Wraps. Near Fine/Very Good. Small 12mo. Unpaginated 62. White card wrappers with attached blue paper jacket with small paper spine label. Very light signs of handling small scuff to spine. Faint foxing to text block top edge light bumping to bottom edge wraps. Otherwise fine. <br /> <br /> Exhibition postcard from American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York laid in with what appear to be wine stains from a lively art opening. Signed on front flyleaf in blue ballpoint by Hermann Zapf and below in brown ink by his wife Gudrun Zapf Von-Hesse also a calligrapher and typographer as well as a bookbinder. <br /> <br /> Introduction by Noel Martin. Colophon states: Set in Linotype Optima and printed at the printing office of the Stempel foundry in Frankfurt am Main. The offset reproductions were printed by K.G. Lohse in Frankfurt am Main. Cincinnati Art Museum unknown
3728735<p>Boston and Syracuse: The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau c.1914. 4pp. Illustrated Promotional Piece or Circular. 11 x 8 inches. Large single sheet folded once to form four pages. Well-illustrated with half-tones from photographs. Contemporary performance annotation in pencil at tail of cover. Some old small paper mounting strips along fold line; general folds; mild handling and creases; very good.</p> <p>The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist a mandolin player and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are seen posing with their instruments and lyric sheets.</p> <p>Offering “vivacious entertainment†was this trio’s objective and this promotional piece or circular issued by their management company The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau goes through great lengths to present the women’s musical background and training.</p> <p>Banjoist Hazel Grace Browne a graduate of Shaftesbury School of Expression of Baltimore could “sing the rare old Southern melodies…as only a child of the South can interpret them.†Adele Hoes learned her mandolin from Leland H. Powers; her voice training with Madame Cassavaunt and in the Grand Opera School in New York. Lyric soprano Florence King “studied several years at the New England Conservatory—voice under Shirly and Lyric and Dramatization under Guilbert.â€</p> <p>Newspaper reviews from throughout New England and upstate New York are printed on the back cover. A contemporary pencil annotation beneath the group portrait of The Eastern Girls announces a concert performance at an unspecified location: “Town Hall Fri. Eve. Dec. 4 1914. Admission 35¢.â€</p> unknown
63-3697London UK: The Hornet 1872. Cartoon of John Bright from January 24 1872 printed in a British newspaper The Hornet. 9.5" x 15" Good with minor losses and marginal tears some staining & creasing. Relevant article fixed to verso. [London, UK: The Hornet], 1872. unknown
1828296244Woodstock: Rufus Colton 1828. paperback. very good. 72 pages. Slim 8vo recased in new green paper while preserving original wrappers inside; original covers reinforced with heavier paper some foxing throughout. Woodstock: Rufus Colton 1828. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> Rufus Colton unknown
169935185London: Printed by Edward Jones in the Savoy 1699. First Edition. Newspaper. Good. Newspaper broadsheet. 1 leave 2 pages. Double columns. Paper is lightly toned with edge tears and edge chips not affecting the print. Contents include an article on the Anniversary of the Pope's Coronation; brief articles from Warsaw Vienna Frankfurt Hamburgh Brussels Lee Hague Paris and Plimouth. Advertisements located in the second column on back. Printed by Edward Jones, in the Savoy unknown
195919078Geneva: Nagel Publishers. 1959. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. DJ lightly chipping and with open tear to DJ top spine. Glue residue to front and back hinge; "One map and one plan in colour 10 plans in black"; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 290 pages . Nagel Publishers hardcover
1938291795Princeton: Princeton University Press 1938. First. hardcover. very good. Illustrated b/w. 652 pages. 8vo stamped black cloth. Priceton NJ: Princeton University Press 1938. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> Princeton University Press unknown
183730689Boston: Otis Broaders & Co 1837. Leather bound. Good. Octavo. 1 iv 560 pages. Brown leather with black title label on the spine. Light rubs to leather joints. Light to moderate foxing to contents. Damp-stains to front and rear end sheets. Contents include Drake's Indian History; America Forest Trees; Poussin on American Rail Roads; and more. Otis, Broaders, & Co unknown
197062842Farrar Straus and Giroux 1970. Quarto 26cm. Orange cloth titled in white on spine; unpaginated; black and white photographs throughout. Former owner's name to front pastedown. Lightly rubbed at head and tail a few small stains to cloth on rear boad occasional underlining: Good or better. <br /> <br /> Account of the first production by The Performance Group an experimental theater troupe established by Richard Schechner in 1969. The play quickly earned a cult following and is considered groundbreaking in its use of environmental staging. 62842. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown
21594Manila: The Philippine Publicity Committee. Hardcover. Very Good. Light wear to pages.; A booklet folded in half with 12 double-pages. Front cover with an illustration from a photograph of Pagsanjan Gorge. With a description of a 10-day-trip on flaps. Contains descriptions and illustrations of the major sights. The rear cover contains an illustrated article about the Cigar industry.; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 12 pages . The Philippine Publicity Committee hardcover
290812Cleveland: Warner & Swasey Co. paperback. very good. Illustrated. 138 pages. Slim 8vo. cloth-backed heavy paper boards; cloth rubbed at spine. Cleveland: Warner & Swasey Company no date circa 1920's. A very good copy.<br/> <br/> Warner & Swasey Co unknown
196040339New York: Harper & Brothers 1960. Quarto 28.5cm.; publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket; xii2177pp.; sheet music. Jacket extremities rather worn with one-inch loss at spine foot some minor soil corners bumped else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Songbook of the Greenwich Village-based folk band. Harper & Brothers unknown
