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1915253479Denver CO: the Union 1915. Five documents including a blank form for a local's quarterly report 8.5x11 inches fold-creased; note at bottom says "Will send you the password for the ensuing quarter immediately upon receipt of your report ending March 31 1903" an unused form for a monthly report from 1915 a nomination blank for delegates to the AFL convention in 1915 a receipt to the Pony Montana local for purchase of 100 delinquent notices from 1910 and a check from that local to headquarters from 1913 fold-creased. the Union unknown books
193912327JLos Angeles: Edward Small Productions 1939. First Edition. Original 165 page mimeographed shooting script with colored re-write pages for the western film starring Jon Hall Dana Andrews Lynn Bari Ward Bond Clayton Moore and Raymond Hatton. Bradbound in printed studio wrappers Very good. Rare. Edward Small Productions unknown books
190631331Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906. First edition thus. Cloth. Good . 8vo. 165 pp followed by fold-out maps and other addenda. #436 of 500 copies of the limited edition signed or stamped by the publisher. First edition thus. An exact reprint of the original edition London 1770; edited with Introduction Notes and Index by Frank Heywood Hodder. General wear especially to rear cloth panel and soiling. Issued without dustwrapper. Small corner stain to last several pages of text. Overall good to very good condition. The Arthur H. Clark Company unknown books
195415591San Francisco: Grabhorn Press 1954. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. xxviii pp of Preface followed by 42 pp of text. One of 150 copies of this limited reprint edition. Library number inked to lower spine bookplate to front pastedown else a very good clean copy in patterned boards with cloth spine. Bump to lower front board. No pockets or other library stamps. <br/><br/> Grabhorn Press hardcover books
200839497Western History Association 2008. First editions. Paper wrappers. Mostly fine. A nearly continuous run of forty years lacking only 2000 of the Western History Association conference program books from the 9th to the 48th associated materials such as the Western Literature Association papers invitations and other ephemera for the various cities involved. Includes 39 conference booklets and over 67 pieces of other materials maps invitations tourism publications etc. Western History Association unknown books
16797Western Union International INC. Stock Certificate 1967 - Series: N3669 1967 - Series: N3669. Beautifully engraved certificate from the Western Union Telegraph Company. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company and has an ornate orange border around it with a vignette of two allegorical women flying on clouds. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary. The service that in the mid-1800s displaced pony-borne messengers has itself been supplanted over the last half-century by cheap long-distance telephone service faxes and e-mail. In the late 1870s Western Union led by William H. Vanderbilt attempted to wrest control of the major telephone patents and the new telephone industry away from the Bell Telephone Company. But due to new Bell leadership and a subsequent hostile takeover attempt of Western Union by Jay Gould Western Union discontinued its fight and Bell Telephone prevailed. Throughout the remainder of the nineteenth century the telegraph became one of the most important factors in the development of social and commercial life of America. In spite of improvements to the telegraph however -- the telephone eventually replaced the telegraph as the leaders of the communication revolution for most Americans. unknown books
196018417Palo Alto California by the National Press : Western Joint Computer Conference 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Good. First Edition. ix 1-blank382 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publishers' printed blue wraps with penned marking on spine 60 and "F.M.V." on the front wrapper. Professor Frank M. Verzuh's copy. This copy has been marked up occasionally by Professor Verzuh in pen and pencil throughout and is sunned on the front cover. Wraps. Another in a series of joint computer conferences sponsored by the IRE AIEE and ACM. Now we're moving out of the earliest periods of computers - people have stopped asking what they are and are now asking how can we use them in a practical sense. You see this in the table of contents: "Computer Organization Trends" "Data Retrieval" "Components and Techniques" "Analog Equipment" "Learning and Problem Solving Machines" "Analog Techniques" "Trends in Computer Applications" etc Still interesting historical content but the work has come out of the labs and is creeping into industry - names of presenters often are associated with companies - IBM Hughes Aircraft Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation are examples. One interesting article: "Recognition of Sloppy Hand-Printed Characters" by an MIT Lincoln Lab staff member. <br/><br/>Frank M. Verzuh worked in early computing and on the MIT Rapid Arithmetic Machine. He also attended the famous Moore School Lectures where his notes were the basis for the printed reports on the Lectures after some presenters didn't provide notes. Western Joint Computer Conference unknown books
190069540n.p. 1900. Hardcover. Good. photos map on front pastedown xx 164p. Blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver on front cover. 28cm. Numerous small brown cover spots. About 20& of silver gone from cover lettering & decoration. Contents sound with moderate soil wear and occasional brown spots. No Jacket. A somewhat more common edition with 308 pages was published in 1905. <br/><br/> hardcover books
196039953Orange CA: Great Western Cordage n.d. 1960. 4to spiral-bound salesman's sample book flexible brown morocco lettered in gilt on upper cover containing 34 original full-page photographs of Great Western Cordage products in various stages of production including rope twine specialities. Manila sisal cotton synthetics etc. with 8 pages of printed description of same illustrated throughout: fine. <br/><br/> Great Western Cordage, n.d. unknown books
190627672Newton-le-Willows Eng. McCorquodale & Co. 1906. 12mo pp. 142; 3 plates 2 in color folding map and numerous sepia-colored half-tones in the text; a very good copy in original color pictorial wrappers. NYPL only in OCLC. <br/><br/> unknown books
014559Chicago IL: Poole Bros. Chicago. Fair. Pamphlet. Illustrated wrapper showing a collection of anthropomorphic animals gathered around a book. A delicate little pamphlet 5 1/4 x 5 1/16 inches with a fragile string-tied binding. Wrappers are soiled and chipped; some minor tearing to pages at binding but booklet remains intact; first leaf sticking at binding. Half inch triangular chip missing from back wrapper. Toning and soiling inside. What at first glance seems to be a typical child's ABC book is in reality a land promotional piece for the Chicago & North-Western Railway. "R is for Railroad train with equipment the best; Which on the North -Western Will take you out West." Includes a small inset map of the Chicago North-Western Railway and 8 pages of text extolling the virtues of the million acres of land the railway owns ready to sell in southern Minnesota and southeastern Dakota. An alphabet book in rhyme that includes text describing the benefits of moving to Dakota Minnesota and other places served by the Chicago and North Western Railway Company. 4 copies found on OCLC which lists the date as 1889. Fun piece of Americana. ; 16 pp . Poole Bros. Chicago unknown books
190615585Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company 1906. First edition thus. Cloth. Good. 8vo. 165 pp followed by fold-out maps and other addenda. #81 of 500 copies of the limited edition signed or stamped by the publisher. First edition thus. An exact reprint of the original edition London 1770; edited with Introduction Notes and Index by Frank Heywood Hodder. General wear especially to rear cloth panel and soiling. Issued without dustwrapper. Overall good condition. Clean and unmarked internally. <br/><br/> The Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover books
38902TRADE PROMOTION WESTERN PINE ASSOCIATION. PONDEROSA PINE: THE PICK OF THE PINES; ITS PROPERTIES USES AND GRADES. Los Angeles: 1935. 4to. Printed stiff wrappers. 80 pages. The second edition was printed in 1931 with up to ten editions well into the 1950's but only two of the 1935 edition are recorded on OCLC. A promotional booklet for the Western Pine Association featuring the Ponderosa Pine - the m prevalent species of pine found in the west - and printed for the Shevlin Pin Sales Company in Los Angeles. It features a "History of pine" "The manufact of Ponderosa Pine" "Characteristics and properties of Ponderosa Pine" "Installations of Ponderosa Pine" "Recommended grades of Ponderosa Pine for specific uses" "Standard manufactured and rough dry sizes" "Illustrations a descriptions of standard grades of Ponderosa Pine lumber" and "Distribution Ponderosa Pine." Illustrations include the use of Ponderosa Pine in homes interiors commercial buildings millword etc. Very good. unknown books
188843552Cleveland: Western Reserve Protective Tariff League 1888. First edition. Broadsheet. Good to very good copies edges browned worn some chips and tears. 2222 pp. 6 x 9 1/2 inches. With the main issue of the 1888 campaign about tariff policy the broadsheets detail the horrors of free trade in specific industries and the need to defeat the incumbent President Grover Cleveland. 1. Publication No. 2: Eagle and the Lion: begins with a Harrison quote on evils of free trade and goes on to show how England will benefit from free trade. Ends with "Cleveland & Mills Surgeons Reductions neatly effected. God save the Queen!" bordered in black box. 2. Publication No. 5: How Free Trade Works in England. & verso How Free Trade Works in England. Further Testimony. Read! Read! Read!. 3. Publication No. 6: A House Divided Against Itself. Who Tells the Truth & verso "To Iron and Steel Workers." 4. Publication No. 9: Eleven Years of Free Trade. Good Democratic Testimony as to the Ruin They Wrought. & verso Tom L. Johnson and the Farmer." Scarce. All four are apparently unrecorded. We could find no copies in OCLC NUC or other reference sources of these or any other broadsheets from the society. Western Reserve Protective Tariff League unknown books
1981014588Powder River Book Co 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 38 full color pictures many of Tetons and Yellowstone inscribed by the artist. Powder River Book Co hardcover books
1924811Gann Valley South Dakota: Gann Valley S. D. First Congregational Church 1924. First Edition. Cardboard covers. Orig. brown card stock. Very good. 272 pages. 88 pp. History 184 pp. Cook Book 22 x 14.5 cm. An exceptional combination of sketches of pioneer life in Buffalo County South Dakota by a variety of settlers with "Book of Tried Recipes" attributed to various Lady Helpers of the First Congregational Church. Contains local advertisements extra pages for handwritten recipes two used. One full page color advertisement for Swans Down Cake Flour and pasted in on pg. 67 a advertisement for female doctor. Cover lightly rubbed interior crisp and clean. <br/><br/> Gann Valley, S. D., First Congregational Church unknown books
1941WRCLIT85007San Francisco: Keyston Brothers 1941. Two volumes. 20816;53pp. Small quarto and octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Primary volume very heavily illustrated. Some chipping to spine extremities of first volume with some spots to front and rear wrapper and pencil prices in the text otherwise very good. The main leather goods catalogue of this estimable firm accompanied by the relevant price list for the year. This catalogue relates specifically to the saddles harnesses leather and riding dress and gear. Such offerings were the basis for the firm's expansion and success into the first half of the 20th century with diversified offerings into the 21st century. Keyston Brothers hardcover books
196541491Park Forest IL: Prairie School Press 1965. Reissue of material from 1913 and 1915. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Park Forest IL: Prairie School Press 1965. Reissue of material from 1913 and 1915. Numerous b/w photographs and illustrations. 96 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to size. Grey cloth with illustrative paper laid onto front and rear boards. Head heel and corners very lightly bumped and rubbed; slight bow to boards. Else a nice book. Very good/No dust jacket. Prairie School Press hardcover books
1912184517Pony Montana: Western Federation of Miners 1912. Seven 8x12-inch printed forms with written data very good condition. The WFM union miners Local 131 of Pony MT entered monthly figures on its membership income and expenses and other information for filing with the WFM. The local suffered high unemployment during this period. Gold mining was prevalent in this area in southwest Montana. Western Federation of Miners unknown books
1880279471880. Seven photographs: from Virginia City Denver and San Francisco of men and women. The bottom margins and the verso identify the studio. Very Good. unknown books
18918289Kansas City 1891. First Edition. . 455pp. Modern cloth with leather spine. First edition. A convention of business men agriculturists educators and legislators which met to discuss economic questions affecting the development of the west. hardcover books
192212978Boston: Little Brown 1922. 1st edition. Orange-red cloth with black lettering & patterned border. Dust jacket. NF tight/bright cloth/pos on ffep/VG edgewear/sm pc msg at base of spine & in white center of dj panel. 278 pp. Frontispiece by Frank Tenney Johnson. 8vo. <br/><br/> Little Brown hardcover books
16753Women's Education Movement. Western Female Seminary Catalog 1868-1869. Oxford OH. Western Female Seminary was founded in 1853 as a daughter school of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts. Its first principal Helen Peabody and most of the early faculty had been students and teachers at Mount Holyoke. Mary Lyon Residence Hall on the Western campus is named for Mount Holyok's founder Mary Lyon. It later received a charter and became Western College an all-female institution. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. No copy could be found among Institutional or library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today. In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education. Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. Not in OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
187016151Chicago 1870. 4" x 7" broadsheet. Lightly worn Good. Verso shows the "Direct Connections" made at Dixon with the Illinois Central RR; at Cedar Rapids; at Council Bluffs with the Council Bluffs & St. Joseph RR; at Omaha with the Union Pacific RR; at Cheyenne with the Denver Pacific RR; and at other places to Reno Sacramento and San Francisco. An unusual and ephemeral western rail travel item. <br/>Not in Graff Ante-Fire Imprints Eberstadt Decker Soliday Sabin BRE. unknown books
3021Boston: The Company; Dutton and Wentworth's Print. 1840. . 8vo pale blue wrappers front printed; ownership signature of the Hon. John Davis on front cover Boston: [The Company]; Dutton and Wentworth's Print., 1840. unknown books
