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1937164909Los Angeles Calif.: Western Publishing and Novelty Company 1937. 13.5 x 20.3 cm pp. 1-32 not paginated 35 illustrations original pictorial wrappers stapled. First edition. Text on inside front cover commences: "Yosemite National Park a region replete with majestic domes titanic chasms alluring waterfalls and the earth's oldest and tallest trees ranks high among the wonders of the world." At lower right corner of rear cover: "Copyright 1937 by Curt Teich & Co. Inc. Chicago U. S. A." An album of color photographs reprinted several times. Eighteen of these photographs were published in a souvenir folder as Scenic Gems of Yosemite National Park 1937. Cover rubbed at edges a very good copy. #164909 Western Publishing and Novelty Company unknown books
1922WRCAM53394Denver: The Smith-Brooks Printing Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Company 1922. 40pp. Oblong folio. Publisher's textured brown wrappers gilt titles on front cover saddle- stitched. Minor shelf wear lightly-bumped corners a few creased. Very good. A superbly-illustrated promotional viewbook highlighting majestic scenery across Colorado and Utah in the early 20th century. A great number of the substantially-sized photographs feature a group of people in an automobile travelling along the highway. Locations pictured in the book include Colorado Springs and Pike's Peak the Mount of the Holy Cross the Rapids and the Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs Cliff Palace in Mesa Verde National Park Toltec Gorge Bryce Canyon Mount Timpanogos the Devil's Curve Isabelle Glacier Clear Creek Canyon Sensation Point Wild Cat Point Bear Creek and others. An interesting juxtaposition of 20th-century technology encroaching on the grandeur of the American West. The Smith-Brooks Printing Co. for the Van Noy Inter-State Company unknown 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
193050786New York Chicago San Francisco: Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company 1930. First edition. 2 volumes. 8vo. The wrappers are illustrated with Rogers Hornsby in batting stance on the front cover. There are some marginal tears and general wear and soiling especially to the Made -To -Measure catalogue; else in very good condition. Housed in a custom-made clamshell box of cloth with inlays of wood and leather. These two companion catalogues illustrate off-the-rack and tailor-made uniforms in a variety of price ranges. They contain original wool flannel samples a drawing of the complete uniform full description and price. The READY-TO-WEAR catalogue is sixteen pages plus covers fully illustrated and contains thirty-two uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. The MADE-TO-MEASURE catalogue is thirteen pages plus covers contains illustrations and sixty uniform samples in a variety of colors and pinstripes. Additionally there are endorsements for mitts with photo portraits by Bill Terry and Ray Schalk. We have been unable to locate any other copies of these or other Wilson swatch book catalogues in OCLC or any other database. The library of The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown New York had heard that such catalogues were produced but had never seen one. Rare. <br/><br/> Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company hardcover books
41507n. p. n. d. Ca. 1941. Very delicate light orange printed paper. Significant wear to edges sunning/age-toning very significant chipping some closed tears. Withal an About Good example. Single sheet printed recto only. B/w photographic half-tone images. 13" x 9-3/8" <br/><br/> unknown books
180533731Fairfield County 1805. Broadsheet 12-1/2" x 15-1/2". Printed document completed in ink manuscript. Old folds with some repaired splits and one 6" unrepaired split. Some small chips along a few splits with minimal loss. Light tanning scattered spotting. Good. <br/><br/> The original grant for this land was to Nehemiah Phippeny who lost title for nonpayment of taxes. The land was sold to Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield Connecticut on May 27 1805. On the verso are hand written transfers of the same piece of property: from Lothrop Lewis to William Hawley of Woodbury January 21 1806; from Hawley to Nehemiah Dibble of Stamford February 7 1806; from Dibble to Zalmon & Seymour Wildman of Danbury October 20 1806. There is also a voided transaction crossed out from Hawley to William Lamson of Waterbury January 31 1806. <br/> In 1800 the State of Connecticut granted to her citizens who were sufferers by fire caused by the British during the Revolutionary War a half million acres of land lying within the State of Ohio which was to be taken off the west part of the "Western Connecticut Reserve" now embraced in the counties of Huron and Erie. By an 1803 Act of Ohio the sufferers were incorporated as "The proprietors of the half million acres of land lying south of Lake Erie called 'Sufferers' Land'." The Act required management of the Company by a Board of Directors. The Board was to locate and survey the granted land and to partition it among the different claimants. This part of the Western Reserve was inhabited by Indians who engaged in warfare with the settlers. On July 4 1805 a treaty between the United States and the Wyandot Ottawa Chippewa Munsee and Delaware Shawanee and Pattawatamy nations was signed whereby those Indian nations in consideration of $18916.68 released their claims to all the lands owned by the company. unknown books
179933509Hartford 1799. Printed folio broadside 7-3/8" x 12-1/4" completed in manuscript and docketed in manuscript on verso. Old folds light foxing else Very Good. An evidently unrecorded document on Connecticut claims to the Western Reserve not located on ESTC OCLC or NAIP as of March 2017.<br/><br/> "A general meeting of the agents of said proprietors held at Hartford on the 17th May 1797" established a schedule of taxes. But Frances Bradley of Fairfield failed to pay. Thus on January 15 1798 her property was sold for the amount of unpaid taxes to Walter Terry of Fairfield. Lothrop Lewis of Fairfield the tax collector here officially transfers the property to Terry. His deed dated March 30 1799 is acknowledged on April 5 1799. Lothrop Lewis whose name is printed also signs in ink; witnesses were Lewis Sturges and Samuel Rowland. <br/> In 1786 Connecticut relinquished claims to land west of Pennsylvania except for the Western Reserve a portion of what is now south of Lake Erie in northeast Ohio. Connecticut assigned some of the Reserve to its citizens as compensation for losses suffered during the Revolution; and sold the rest to a consortium of Connecticut men including Moses Cleaveland who had formed the Connecticut Land Company. Their speculations were not successful there being no effective local government in the Reserve capable of unraveling the tangle of land titles. Thus taxes imposed were frequently not collected. To force payment of the tax on January 15 1798 Lothrop Lewis conducted the sales. Carpenter: ORIGIN AND LOCATION OF THE FIRELANDS OF THE WESTERN RESERVE Ohio Archeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 44 April 1935 page180.<br/> Lothrop a/k/a Lathrop Lewis 1759-1817 born in Fairfield was its tax collector for many years. Lewis Burr Sturges 1763-1844 born in Fairfield graduated from Yale was clerk of the Probate Court from 1787 to 1791 a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1794 to 1803; and a Federalist Congressman from 1805 to 1816. He spent his later years in Ohio. Samuel Rowland 1769-1837 was born in Fairfield admitted to the bar in 1794 was a lawyer and town clerk for 42 years and turnpike surveyor to the New York State line. Perry: THE OLD BURYING GROUND OF FAIRFIELD CONN. A MEMORIAL OF MANY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF FAIRFIELD. 1882 p.164. unknown books
1875780701875. Western Publishing Association. THE WESTERN: A Journal of Literature Education and Art. Edited by H. H. Morgan. Saint Louis MO: Western Publishing Association January 1875-December 1876. New Series. Vol. I. No. 1. - Vol. II. No. 12. but lacking nos. 5 & 7 May and July 1876 in Vol. II. 22 issues in original printed paper wrappers. Vol. I. No. 1. only has a library seal embossed in blind on the front wrap. Most issues show some dust-soiling and/or light edgewear to wrappers but are clean within; their condition ranges from very good to near fine. 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
193553064East Alton IL: Western Cartridge Co. n.d. 1935. 8vo pp. 55 1; illustrated throughout; original blue wrappers printed in black and silver; very good. With instructions for laying out and installing trapshooting and skeet fields. <br/><br/> Western Cartridge Co., n.d. unknown books
196853467Los Angeles: Southern California Jewish Historical Society 1968-92. Ninety-three original issues in the original wrappers comprising an unbroken run but for a single issue from the debut issue in October 1968 to January 1992. Octavo; original printed card wrappers; most issues 96pp. Beginning with Vol. XVI the name changes to "Western States Jewish History." A few issues have old rubber-band adhesions to the covers; otherwise they are pristine most appearing unread. Missing is Vol. XX no 3 April 1989. Publisher's prospectus laid in to Vol. I no 1. <br/><br/>An attractive long run of this well-edited scholarly journal providing a rich vein of original historical research on Jewish communities west of the Missisisippi. Will occupy approximately 36" of shelf space. Southern California Jewish Historical Society unknown books
198375708n.p. 1983. Paperback. Very Good. photos 60p. Wrapper. 28cm. Minor wear. Name and phone number in pencil on cover. Organization founded in 1954 of golf clubs organized by African Americans in California and other Western states. According to their 2017 website about 26 clubs were members of this organization. <br/><br/> paperback books
1970250925Ibadan Western State of Nigeria: Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs 1970. 31p. stapled wraps 7 x 9.75 inches lightly worn top corner bumped staples rusted else good condition. Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs unknown books
194890063scWestern Pennsylvania: A Friend of Pennsylvania 1948. Octavo stiff illus. stapled wrappers 32 pp. Near-Fine with slight age darkening to edges. Illustrated guide includes maps drawings of plants and wildlife of Western Pennsylvania. A Friend of Pennsylvania, 1948. unknown books
194240352San Francisco: Western Pacific Railroad Co 1942. White paper printed with orange blue black and red ink. Modest wear to paper age-toned rubbed and creased. A VG collection of items. 11 items each of varying pages. Color and b/w illustrations to two of the three brochures. Various sizes: Timetables: 10-3/4" x 15-1/4". Brochures: 9-1/8" x 4-1/8 folded. <br/><br/>Includes: eight railway timetables numbers 24 2x 26 3x 27 30 36 and three brochures two time folders of the Feather River Route different publications & one California Zephyr advertising brochure. "Take the time to live a little. travel by train. See the wonders of America. at eye-level. Avoid highway hazards by dependable "All Weather" train travel in relaxed comfort. Take the family on your next trip aboard the Vista-Dome California Zephyr and stretch your travel dollar." Western Pacific Railroad Co unknown books
182867917Cincinnati: Western Magazine and Review. Very Good. 1828-1829. Hardcover. Western Magazine and Review Volume 2 June 1828- May 1829 lacks October and April. rebound in black buckram last page of text is torn. The contents are soiled and foxed but solid. . Western Magazine and Review 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
193512982no place : Western Electric Company Incorporated 1935. First Edition. Boards. Good. First Edition. 386 3-index 1-ad pages. 8 x 10 3/4 inches. Publisher's binding with cloth spine and paper boards with decorations. Gilding on spine still bright binding sound though cracked near rear hinge. Boards mildly soiled decorations still bright. Wear at the corners. Cloth nicked in a few places. Boards. 386 pages of essential reference for the telephone collector and Western Electric fan. These are scarce survivals having been tossed when the new issue arrived. This catalog replaced the previous one available in the 1930-31 timeframe.<br/><br/>Catalog notes "Distributed and Guarateed by" Graybar Electric a major electrical supply house still active today. Western Electric Company, Incorporated unknown books
197219454EPhoenix AZ: Phoenix Art Museum 1972. First Edition. Paperbound 7†x 10â€. An illustrated catalogue issued to accompany an exhibition of Western art works from the collection of Eugene B. Adkins. Very good copy with some minor dust soiling to the covers in printed wrappers. Phoenix Art Museum unknown books
1954UWES00mfOlin Industries 1954. Very Good. Olin Industries/Western Ammunition. Western Ammunition Handbook. New Haven: Olin Industries 1954. 135pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Paperback with rear flap. Book condition: Very good. Rubbed edges. Transparent trajectory chart enclosed in rear flap. Olin Industries paperback books
UWINWES00EFWestern. Very Good. Winchester-Western Division. Western Ammunition Handbook. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation. New Haven Connecticut: Western ND. 135pp. Illustrated. 12mo. Illustrated staple wraps with rear flap. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges. Trajectory chart is unused and intact. Western paperback books
1978302467New York New York U.S.A.: New York Doubleday & Company Inc. 1978. 1978. First edition so stated. 4to. Illustrated. 5 page introduction by Donald Duke. Dust jacket unclipped. Fine. 271 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Includes contributions by: G.M. Farley; Rex Bundy; Paul Bailey; Bill Pronzini. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1978. hardcover books
196418301964. Softcover. Good. Some soiling to covers. Color wraps. appx. 50 pp. 1 color 33 bw plates. Includes a nine page unsigned essay regarding Kuhn. Full page plates. Almost all of the paintings in this exhibit are from the collection of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Uncommon. unknown books
19684295Chicago: Poole Brothers 1968. Single yellow sheet 45 cm x 40 cm printed on both sides and folding to digest size 23 cm x 10 cm Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Guide produced by the Burlington Route Denver & Rio Grande and the Western Pacific railroads to promote the California Zephyr whose route runs from Chicago to San Francisco. A listing of all the stops with eastbound and westbound departure times with mileage in each direction. Brief descriptions accompany the stop listings. Illustrated with a small route map.<br/><br/>"Welcome Aboard! All of us who have anything to do with the operation of the California Zephyr and this means hundreds of railroader! are naturally very proud of our beautiful Vista-Dome streamliner. We want to have a good time to see every wonderful mile of its scenic route to sleep well at night to enjoy all your meals in the dining or buffet car and to take advantage of the California Zephyr's numerous exclusive features. Poole Brothers unknown books
1877293407Staunton Va: Julius Bien & Co. M. A. Miller 1877. Very Good binding. Dissected linen-backed map in color; 118 x 48 cm 43-1/4" x 18-3/4". Some marginal tears but very little loss.~~The Douthat Survey was produced in 1877 under order of the U.S. Circuit Court for the Western District of Va. by M. A. Miller C.E of Staunton. ~~The survey was made for Hon. Peter McLaren preparatory to purchasing valuable mineral lands for mining ore in that region. The extensive tract of land near Covington Virginia was bought by McLaren a Canadian; he acquired with that purchase leases to mines operated by the Alleghany Mining Company that shipped ore to the Low Moor Iron plants at Covington. Because McLaren was a non-resident the Commonwealth derived no tax revenues from the mining operation. Consternation ensued: "The great value of these properties is beyond question yet neither the owners or the lessees pay any income tax to the state" see Journal of the House of Delegates State of Virginia Session 1893-'94; House Doc. No. 3 p. 5.~~. Very Good binding. Julius Bien & Co. | M. A. Miller unknown books
