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1979238513Philadelphia: Task Force on Gay Liberation American Library Association 1979. Two 8.5x11 inch sheets printed both sides with information about publications stapled top-left corner horizontal fold-crease for mailing otherwise very good on orange stock. Task Force on Gay Liberation, American Library Association unknown books
192631682Hollywood: Ben-Allah Company 1926. First edition. Wrappers 132 pp. Slight wear near-fine. <br/><br/> Ben-Allah Company unknown books
19515878Birmingham: The Council 1951. Octavo-size booklet 21.75 x 14 cm. 52 pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. List of donors. Title and date of publication from cover. Author from prefatory acknowledgments on page 1. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A contracted community cookbook published "to enlarge our treasury so that we might help the poor the sick the needy and the blind families here in our city." With a group of sample menus followed by one hundred short unattributed recipes; among them: Mushroom Canapés Corn and Almond Soup Green Rice Ham Mousse Carrot Nut Balls Stuffed Artichokes Tomato Mint Salad Orange Soufflé Pistachio Ice Cream Black Bottom Pie. ~ Beta Sigma Phi began during the early years of the Great Depression as a reading club in Abilene Kansas at the initiative of a traveling reference-book salesman. Perceiving that many women sought yet lacked the means for self-improvement Walter William Ross 1900-1969 envisioned a social and community-service association with chapters councils administered by local volunteers. In 1931 he founded a sorority that would claim no academic affiliation but adopt as its name the Greek initial letters for "life learning and friendship" . ~ Rituals and degrees orders of service accrued in some ways analogously to those of such organizations as the Order of the Eastern Star. There were no religious requirements however nor any minimum level of educational attainment. The sisterhood's popularity soared beyond the expectations of its revered founder who remained engaged throughout the remainder of his life and eventually established a management company for the provision of business guidance and operational support to the myriad councils that formed both in North America and abroad. A systematic history of the local councils and the circumstances of their foundings has yet to be undertaken but the Birmingham Council is known to have been active in the 1940s when Beta Sigma Phi members from across the country raised twenty-two million dollars in United States government war bonds - an extraordinary achievement at a time when those who could not afford to buy bonds outright could do so by turning in books of ten-cent stamps accumulated over time. ~ Age-toning to the edges and a tideline to several pages toward the rear of the text; some light foxing. Stapled in publisher's pink pearl-effect cardstock wrappers titled in blue. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown Cagle or Cather. The Council] unknown books
197683001Moskva: Nauka 1976. Hardcover. Very Good. 334 8 193p. Original black cloth. 26cm. Light scuffing and wear. No Jacket. According to the one-page English summary this is a facsimile reproduction of one of the two extant manuscripts of this work with notes and partial translation in Russian. Pamiatniki pis'mennosti Vostoka 27. <br/><br/> Nauka hardcover books
197484925Freiburg im Breisgau: Klaus Schwarz 1974. Paperback. Very Good. maps 362p. Wrapper. 21cm. Islamkundliche Unterscuchungen band 25. German text. <br/><br/> Klaus Schwarz paperback books
19215128Lafayette Ala: The Church 1921. Octavo 22.5 x 15 cm. 44 xvi pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with more than 250 recipes many attributed. Most entries adhere to the reliable conventions promised by the title but there are also such glimpses of the geography as Pecan Cake requiring two and a quarter pounds of pecans a custardy Burnt Almond Cream Banana Fritters and Squash Cakes. ~ Though not the earliest congregations in Alabama the so-called Primitive Baptists - the "church of the people" who eschewed hierarchy and claimed personal experience of the spirit as ultimate authority - dominated among the Christian communities by the middle of the nineteenth century. Since the decade when True and Tried Recipes appeared the First Baptist Church of Lafayette in Chambers County a stone's throw from the Georgia border has been remembered as a bastion of the Southern Convention the spiritual home of several Alabamians who served as representatives of their state in Washington not the least of whom was Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 1886-1971. ~ Stapled in brown wrappers titled in black. Owner's name in pencil on cover: "Bess." One recipe corrected in ink. Near fine. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown Cagle or Cather. The Church unknown books
187557786Montgomery: Screws 1875. Paperback. Good. 8p. Wrapper. 23cm. Cover soiled and lacking a corner chip. Also a competently reinforced tear. 23cm. According to the report this small hospital had 23 inmates patients and a budget with no provision for shoes. <br/><br/> Screws paperback books
187557038Montgomery: Screws 1875. Paperback. Very Good. 8p. Wrapper. 23cm. According to the report this small hospital had 23 inmates patients and a budget with no provision for shoes. <br/><br/> Screws paperback books
192059391Savannah GA: Press of M.S. & D. A. Byck Co 1920. First separate edition a reprint from American Journal of Medical Sciences Jan. 1876. 8vo. 7 pp. Gaston argues that the continuation of the beating heart of a new born after cutting the umbilical cord does not show a living separate being. Apparently unrecorded on OCLC. Very good. Original printed green wrappers creased as for mailing stapled. 7157. <br/><br/> Press of M.S. & D. A. Byck Co unknown books
1895289757New York.: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1895. Green cloth gilt titles. Very good light wear to covers bookplate and ink names to pastedown. 19.5x13 cm. . Nicely illustrated account of a hunting expedition in 19th century Idaho. weight: 1.3 lb. Numerous plates and vignettes one folding map. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. hardcover books
1908019206New York NY: J.J. Little & Co. 1908. Book. Very good condition. Paperback. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 157 pages of text including an index. Original illustrated paperback binding with moderate shelfwear. Illustrated with 53 figures and additional illustrations. Previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Minor smudging to a few pages of text. A large portion of the subject matter in this volume was published originally in "Guns Ammunition and Tackle" American Sportsman's Library by Macmillan in 1904. This is the first edition in book form. J.J. Little & Co. Paperback books
190351428Philadelphia: Lea Brothers from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences September 1903. First separate edition an offprint. 8vo. 20 pp. Illustrated. Signed by the author on the front wrapper. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed light green wrappers some browning stapled. Very good. <br/><br/> Lea Brothers) from the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, September unknown books
18915749Philadelphia: P. Blakiston Son & Co 1891. Octavo Viii 9-100 pages. Charts and one illustration. First American edition and first of this English translation. Originally published Vienna 1886 as Ueber die Wirkung des karlsbader Thermalwassers. Carlsbad Sprudel Salt was the evaporated form of water from the Karlovy Vary or Karlsbad Spa where "taking the waters" had been a cure for centuries and to which the European elite flocked for cures and rest. This work is a translation and expansion of "The increasing interest manifested in this country in natural mineral waters and in products derived therefrom coupled with the almost total lack of really scientific research in this branch of medicine have been the incentives that have led to the translation of this work from the German of the renowned balneologist Dr. Walery Jaworski a professor of medicine at Poland's Jagiellonian University Medical College. "As the Carlsbad Thermal Waters have for over 200 years held such a prominent place in the treatment of disease in Europe and as American physicians are becoming more and more impressed with the importance of making themselves familiar with the therapeutic values of these as well as other mineral springs a systematic and scientific treatise together with carefully tabulated experiments must of necessity prove acceptable" from the preface by translator Albert Toboldt. The illustration depicted in the text and duplicated on the front board is of a patient being administered the powdered sulfur waters. In publisher's pebbled green buckram with a blind-stamped and gilt-decorated front panel. Previous owner's name "Thomas G. Allen" to preliminary blank. Very near fine. OCLC locates twenty copies. P. Blakiston, Son & Co hardcover books
19581342206Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1958. Hardcover. Octavo; 2 volumes; G-; Ex-library; Hardcover; Spine brown with gold print call number label at bottom; Boards in brown cloth with gold print call number label on front lower corners cocked spines mild wear to spine caps and corners else clean and strong; Text blocks have library stamps on edges and title page library bookplate on front pastedown library pocket on rear pastedown slight tanning to endpapers v. 1 has spine break at p. 242 clean text; 2 vols. xlv 763 pages frontispiece in each volume. 1342206. FP New Rockville Stock. Harvard University Press hardcover books
187151430Mobile AL: Printed at the Daily Register Office 1871. First edition. 8vo. 11 pp. Caption title: Anatomical and Physiological Reflections on Some Parts of the Eye. Inscribed by the "author" at the head of the front wrapper. Not in Owen. OCLC locates two copies Harvard-Countway National Library of Medicine. Original printed green wrappers removed; some light foxing but very good. <br/><br/> Printed at the Daily Register Office unknown books
1904159571New York: The MacMillan Company 1904. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by A.W. Money Horace Kephart W.E. Carlin A.L.A. Himmelwright and John Harrington Keene. Includes numerous illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy in decorated green cloth boards and with top edge gilt. No dust jacket. A lovely copy. The MacMillan Company unknown books
1987166479Encino CA: Kanoon-e Andishe 1987. 112p. wraps mildly worn interior clean. Persian poetry. Kanoon-e Andishe unknown books
19425691Birmingham Ala.: The Church; Printed by; Printed by American Calendar & Novelty Co 1942. Octavo-size booklet 22.5 x 15 cm. 28 pages. Advertisements. Title from cover. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. Evident first edition. A church cookbook with menus some attributed supplemented with one hundred short unattributed recipes. Includes entries for: Shrimp Cucumber Salad Creole Pie Casserole of Sweet Potatoes Apples and Sausage Asparagus Timbale Date Torte Orange Raisin Cake Sour Cream Apple Cake Southern Pecan Pie. ~ The path of Congregationalism in the South has been winding its convolutions charted in the histories of individual communities. It is largely a story of the twentieth century. The name Pilgrim Congregational of course derives from tradition - many churches of New England and the Midwest preserve it still - but Pilgrim Congregational of Birmingham took more than one occasion to affirm that aspect of denominational tradition that embraces alterity and inclusivism. Founded in 1903 the congregation initially failed to cohere and fell dormant in 1918 - though its charter was never revoked. In Alabama of the 1920s separate white and Negro churches operated within the Congregational Conference and while First Congregational of Birmingham was an active African-American community there was no white congregation after the demise of Pilgrim Congregational. Unpredictably owing in large measure to interest from disaffected Presbyterians new and original members resuscitated the charter held organizational meetings and services in local theaters and in 1941 established a new sanctuary on 8th Avenue North in the suburb later annexed by Birmingham called Zion City. Cook Book of Choice Luncheons then appeared at a time of hopeful rejuvenation. ~ And indeed the community flourished for a time initiating construction of an imposing modernist church made of glass and steel on Montclair Road in 1959. But again within two years a rift over desegregation severed the Pilgrim congregation in half with the pastor's own vote breaking the tie and thus permitting all members of the Conference to worship side by side. In 2001 members confronted discriminatory inertia again and adopted an "open and affirming" stance with respect to gender identity beyond traditional heterosexuality. The majestic Montclair structure too was eventually forfeited as the vicissitudes of attrition and social upheaval whittled resources. Retaining the name Pilgrim Church and allied with the United Church of Christ the descendent congregation adapted a one story commercial building on Sixth Avenue South and held its first services there in 2010. ~ Some interior staining and central opening loosened. Still good in stapled tan wrappers edge-worn and soiled titled in brown. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church; Printed by]; Printed by American Calendar & Novelty Co unknown books
195082255Birmingham 1950. Paperback. Very Good. Birmingham: n.d. 1950. tables some folding 84p. Text leaves printed on one side. Wrapper. 28cm. Some cover fading and light wear. Many of the statistics are broken down by race. This report was apparently issued annually for at least a few years. <br/><br/> paperback books
19155685Ensley Alabama: The Church; Printed by Garrison Printer 1915. Octavo 21 x 13.5 cm. 89 i pages. Advertisements. Index and "Index of advertisements." Date of publication estimated from external evidence. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook from a once independent municipality at the moment of its absorption into greater Birmingham. Nearly three hundred recipes some of them attributed; including: English Currant Bread Poached Eggs with Creamed Celery Fried Okra with Onions Artichoke à la Barigoile i.e. Barigoule Creamed Parsnips Cherry Salad Savory Custard Prune Trifle Chelee Sauce Rhubarb Relish Scuppernong Wine Coffee Jelly Watermelon Preserves. ~ Located at the southern edge of the Pratt Coal Seam Ensley was a planned industrial city built on land acquired by Enoch Ensley 1832-1891 to provide housing as well as communal and commercial infrastructure for workers employed in the coal and iron ore mines of the Tennessee Coal Iron & Railroad Company. Residents' experience in self-governance was short: the city was incorporated in February 1899 but annexed by Birmingham on the first day of 1910. Opposition to the takeover was vigorous - a mock funeral was held and a tombstone laid to commemorate the "euthanized" city - such that the persistence of the community's independent identity works against clarity regarding the appearance of the St. John's Cook Book. Advertisements for two theaters equipped to exhibit silent films place the range of dates across the annexation divide: both - that for the Belle Theatre on page 2 and that for the Franklin Theatre on page 28 - announce adherence to guidelines set forth by the National Board of Censorship a name for what became the National Review Board in use only between late 1909 and 1915. ~ The history of Episcopalians in Alabama cannot be separated from the history of advocacy for slavery nor from the influential tenure of the Confederate episcopate of Richard Hooker Wilmer 1816-1900 an ardent proponent of secession. Unlike Methodists Baptists and Presbyterians Episcopalians did not divide over issues surrounding abolition. While their numbers declined in the later nineteenth century - Wilmer though under house arrest for demonstrations of hostility against the United States president was still permitted to serve as bishop - they retained the loyalty of landholders and industrialists. Thus the upper echelons of Ensley grew sufficiently to merit the establishment of a parish which was admitted into the Diocese in 1898 just before formal incorporation of the city. Images of the church for which funds were raised by the Ladies of St. John's are not listed among the archival holdings now deposited at the Birmingham Public Library. The brick complex that stands at the site today on Ensley West Avenue was built in 1951. The parish having dissolved in 2000 this building was listed for sale in 2016. ~ One abrasion along fore-edge of text block. Stapled in publisher's green wrappers titled in black over brown cloth. Some soiling and a small tape repair to lower edge of front wrapper. Duplicate front wrapper bound in. Scarce. OCLC locates one copy; Cather Fifty Alabama Cookbooks 20; not in Cook Brown or Cagle. [The Church; Printed by] Garrison Printer hardcover books
19685222Santa Barbara CA: University of California Santa Barbara. Art Gallery 1968. Softcover. VG faint library stamp at base of cover. Wraps. 86 pp. 63 bw plates. Catalogue lists a total of 87 works. Chronology list of exhibitions selected bibliography. Essay written by and pictures selected by Ala Story. Scarce catalogue. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Santa Barbara CA: Art Galleries at UCSB Feb. 6 to Mar. 3 1968 three other locations. University of California, Santa Barbara. Art Gallery unknown books
19642286The Art Gallery University of California Santa Barbara 1964. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 3 color 42 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1964-1965 series of exhibitions of artwork by American artist William Merritt Chase. With an extensive illustrated essay by Ala Story. Includes a bibliography list of collections chronology awards list of exhibitions plates. A significant exhibition and a nice introduction to the artist. The Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara unknown books
19435466Florence Alabama: The Church 1943. Octavo 23 x 15.5 cm. 171 v pages. Advertisements. Errata list page 1. Cover title. Table of contents. Third edition. A generous helping of more than nine hundred recipes clearly an act of perseverance to review and produce during wartime. Southern favorites stand in relief: Cracklin Bread Hush Puppies Ambrosia Daube Glacé Cabbage Au Gratin Creole Peas Fried Bananas Black Bottom Pie Pecan Cake. But this is a substantial revision of the second edition and the Women of Trinity Guild were noting with interest recipes from beyond their immediate sphere as much as was the case anywhere else. Three early instances of Italian-American spaghetti exemplify the cuisine's transition from "peasant" food to household staple. Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama's northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama - Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa - Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. Several handwritten corrections in pencil otherwise clean and bright internally. In stapled black-lettered red wrappers worn at the corners and with some good sized chips to the spine. Front panel of wrapper is illustrated with a photograph of Wesleyan Hall University of North Alabama. Good only. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the present revised edition and one copy of the first edition 1929; a copy of the second edition 1931 is also known; none of these editions is included in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown books
19315467Florence Ala: The Church 1931. Octavo 22.5 x 14.5 cm. x 151 xxix pages. Advertisements. Table of contents. Stated second edition likely a corrected printing of the first edition. An evidently well-received collection of nine hundred recipes following closely upon the first edition of only two years previous with the same 151 pages. Southern favorites stand in relief: Southern Egg Bread Okra Gumbo Bishop Whipple Pudding Ambrosia Owendaw Asparagus Loaf Blackeye Peas Elder Blossom Wine Creole Pralines. But it would be misleading to truncate the story there for the Women of Trinity Guild could venture out as eagerly as their counterparts elsewhere from Almond Bisque and Lobster Canapes to Queen of Trifles and Banberry sic Tarts. Marginalia on page 110 comments on the Sponge Cake fine ".grand but a lot of work". For more local color an advertisement on the rear of wrappers is for "Dowdy's Pit Bar-B-Q Fish-Chili Lee Highway." ~ Florence is a well-known constituent municipality of The Shoals in Alabama's northwestern corner the birthplace of W. C. Handy and by extension it is often said the birthplace of the Blues. The seat of Lauderdale County the city and the surrounding region had become prosperous through its abundant access to water power early in the nineteenth century. Though not the first Episcopalian congregation established in Alabama - Anglicans had already settled in Mobile and Tuscaloosa - Trinity Church founded in 1836 and still an active community lays claim to the title of oldest parish in the Tennessee Valley. ~ Several pages splash-stained but text unobscured throughout. Stapled in blue wrappers titled in black; stained and faded but nonetheless intact. Good. A lengthy gift presentation handwritten in ink on page ix addressed to "a bride" as per page 48 with corresponding recommendations marking several recipes. Scarce. OCLC locates no copies of this second edition though one copy of the first edition and three copies of the revised third edition of 1943 are reported; none of these editions in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown books
19515722Birmingham Alabama: The Church 1951. Ring bound book 23 x 16 cm. 156 ii pages. Typescript. Illustrated. Advertisements. Title and date of publication from cover. Author and illustrators from prefatory remarks on page 2. Evident first edition. A church cookbook undertaken in support of a burgeoning suburban community to the south of Birmingham. With two hundred fifty attributed recipes; among them: Pear Relish with onions and peppers Black Cherry Salad Sea Food Gumbo Southern Pork Chops with Rice Baked Ham Sandwich Red Cabbage Casserole Squash Souffle Glazed Apricots Whole Grain Banana Bread Black Bottom Pie Caramel Cocoanut Cake Pineapple Torte. ~ Several small neighborhoods south of the Red Mountain ridge below Southside voted to incorporate in 1926 under the name Homewood. Still in the same year members of Trinity Methodist a mission church at Sixth Avenue and 31st Street saw the advantage of starting anew and purchased property on Oxmoor Road in the new municipality. The new church's doors opened as the Great Depression descended but the community revived after the Second World War and its sanctuary was renovated in 1950. Thus Trinity Methodist Church Cook Book appeared as construction invoices came due and as the silver anniversary of the congregation approached. ~ Formation of the Women's Society of Christian Service was the result of the merger of the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1939 the year of the emergence of the Methodist Church from the amalgamation of several regional manifestations of Wesleyan Methodism in North America. In 1972 after the next denominational merger the organization would unite with the Wesleyan Service Guild to form United Methodist Women. The illustrators presumably members of the congregation are otherwise unknown. ~ Interior clean save for a few spot-stains and minor age-darkening at the edges; several pages pulling at the ring holes. Publisher's yellow binder soiled title in black. Unrecorded. OCLC locates no copies; not in Brown Cagle or Cather. [The Church] unknown books
