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189119971Washington D.C.: Department of the Interior 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 9pp 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory this bulletin provides demographic information on Alaska's population which is divided into 7 geographic districts. The total population of the territory is given as 21929 and is broken down by sex and race white black mixed native Chinese. The native population is also ennumerated by tribe and there are tables indicating the numbers of people from different groups who are of school age and who are able to read write and speak English. Department of the Interior paperback books
20798Album containing eleven 7"x 9" professional linen-backed photographs showing the process and results of installing new street lights along a main commercial thoroughfare in Hamilton Ohio. Hamilton is the county seat of Butler County about 20 miles north of Cincinnati. In the early twentieth century "the town was a heavy manufacturing center for vaults and safes machine tools cans for vegetables paper paper making machinery locomotives frogs and switches for railroads steam engines diesel engines foundry products printing presses and automobile parts" wiki. The photos show wide streets lined with businesses which with the advent of increased automobile traffic were undoubtedly eager for the most modern and effective methods of illumination. A wonderful set of facing night views shows how much brighter the new lights are. An additional 16 snapshots photos are laid into the album most showing people posing with what appear to be temporary streetlights. Five were taken in front of the office of the Electric Railway Equipment Co. of Cincinnati which may have supplied some of the equipment used to install the new lights. unknown books
19328967<p>SIGNED BY HINES FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD.</p> OKLAHOMA PR hardcover books
1967005455New York: Random House 1967. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket faint corner crease bottom corner rear flap. . First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Hardcover books
1975008452St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands : All - Ah - Wee 1975. High school cultural magazine 67 1 pages in pictorial stapled covers ' Written and Produced in the U.S. Virgin Islands by Young People who Love Them " supported in part by grant from: Virgin Islands Council on the Arts. Near Fine light soiling to covers inked inscription at p. 38 identifying the author of that article as "Geraldine's son". Numerous black and white photographs. RARE< OCLC locates 2 copies held in the Virgin Islands. . First Printing. Pictorial Stapled Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. All - Ah - Wee Paperback books
1974006846New York: Grossman Publishers/Viking 1974. Presentation and Association Copy SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR Rogers E. M. Whitaker aka "E.M.Frimbo" at front end page - "To Portia in memory of our travels on the Trans-Siberian. With love Rogers E.M. Whitaker". Portia Curles Whitaker was the wife of Francis Whitaker Rogers' brother and himself a world-renowned blacksmith. With 20 page typed book review for this title by Portia laid in along with 2 newspaper articles and a magazine article about Whitaker. Very Good Plus marginal pencil notations and underlining as expected in a reviewer's copy. In a Very Good Plus dust jacket small edge tears and light soiling. Rogers E. M. Whitaker was a long-time editor and writer for The New Yorker magazine and a perpetual train traveller who accumulated over 2700000 miles in his lifetime. A wonderful Association Copy. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Association Copy. Grossman Publishers/Viking Hardcover books
180719325Boston: Published and Sold by William Pelham; Munroe & Francis Printers 1807. One of two editions; an undated edition was also published in Philadelphia. A little toned and worn; light damp stain along the upper part of the spine; a very good copy. Unbound stitched pamphlet 9.25 x 5.88 inches 12 pages untrimmed. Unopened. Prompted by the Leopard incident a message from Secretary of State James Madison to the U. S. Minister to England James Monroe communicating the legal arguments against impressment of American sailors. Sabin 34409. Published and Sold by William Pelham; Munroe & Francis, Printers, unknown books
19342321San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press 1934. Hardcover. Very Good-. Title continues: A series of original illustrated letters written by one of California's pioneer miners and dedicated to that class of her citizens by the author. Reprinted from the only edition 1853 with illustrations by Charles Nahl and a new foreword by G.Ezra Dane. pp xxii 80 with color frontispiece and illustrations. Cloth -backed boards with mounted color illustration. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges spine label chipped mild ripple to text block. One of 500 copies printed. The Grabhorn Press hardcover books
1976226984<p>First edition. 4to. 250 b/w illustrations from photographs. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped. Fine fresh copy. No signatures or bookplates. 98 pages 3 page index. Printed by Sinclair Printing & Litho Inc.</p> Robert H. Peterson hardcover books
180915712Washington City: Pr. by Roger C. Weightman 1809. 8vo. 20 pp. <br><br>William Baylies served in the House of Representatives as a Federalist from March 4 1809 until 28 June 1809 when he was succeeded by Charles Turner Jr. who contested the election. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 18811. Removed from a nonce volume. Librarian's lightly pencilled notation on title-page. Light foxing. Pr. by Roger C. Weightman unknown books
180616799City of Washington: A. & G. Way printers 1806. 8vo. 4 pp. <br><br><br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Shaw & Shoemaker 11505. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly pencilled librarian's notation on the title-page. Leaves separated. A. & G. Way, printers unknown books
1951252011Washington: GPO 1951. Pamphlet. i-xiv 3345-3416p. wraps check mark on front wrap else very good condition. GPO unknown books
195113314Washington: GPO 1951. Pamphlet. i-xiv 3345-3416p. wraps a few written numbers on front wrap minor soiling of front and rear wrap else good condition. GPO unknown books
1899008457Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company 1899. Near Fine small dent at fore edge of spine. Publisher's blue cloth with patriotic gilt tooled fromnt board and spine bright and lovely. top gilt. Contains accounts of the inspiration and history of 25 great popular songs including Yankee Doodle Columbia the Gem of the Ocean Star Spangled Banner John Browns Body Battle Hymn of the Republic Dixie and the song "Hail Columbia" by Joseph Hopkinson at page 67. Up until the 1890s "Hail Columbia" was played as the de facto national anthem of the United States. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Burrows Brothers Company Hardcover books
007884Detroit: U.A.W.- C.I.O Labor-Management Committee RARE World War II propaganda poster " Distributed by Dearborn Branch Ford Dealers: Approved by U.A.W.-C.I.O. Labor Management Committee" No Date circa 1941-1945. Small union label botto edge indicates printed in Detroit. Near Fine a few tiny edge nicks. Strong colors and an even stronger image of an American worker's hands bound in handcuffs with Nazi emblem. No listings at Worldcat not in Smithsonian no results in Google image search. Well suited for framing will be shipped loosely rolled in mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 28 1/2" w x 34 1/2" h. U.A.W.- C.I.O Labor-Management Committee books
198928330Boston: Northeastern University Press. As New in As New dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 1555530478 . First edition. As new in like dust jacket. Still in original shrinkwrap. . Northeastern University Press hardcover books
197321313New York: Oxford University Press 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 494 pp with index illustrations. A very good copy with light general handling wear signed without inscription by Starr on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket has a few chips and closed tears. First volume in Starr's acclaimed series on the history of the Golden State. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1863025116Frankfurt: Wilhelm Richler 1863. First Edition. Pamphlet. Fair. Scarce first edition of Sander's work on the American Civil War. 121pp - first edition - later editions 1865 etc. had maps and some added material. Sabin 76345. Front cover detached but present - wraps generally in good condition light chipping at edges and a bit soiled generally. A few loose pages and in general need of some restoration but a complete copy of a scarce civil war work typically only seen in later editions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 025116. Wilhelm Richler unknown books
20549NP ND but ca. 1902. 7 x 10 inches 23 1 pp. in attractive illustrated wrappers. Upper corners of front wrap are chipped and spine is partly split. Good. Illustrated promotional booklet with most text reprinted from the September 1902 issue of Sunset Magazine. A preliminary page describes the attractions of the city of Paso Robles and the Hotel El Paso and touts the "curative properties of the hot sulphur springs and mud baths" which "are known from one end of the country to the other." There are also four pages of testimonials to those same curative properties and the obligatory chemical analysis of the spring waters. unknown books
19068503Minneapolis: The University Press 1906. First edition 12mo 10 & 109pp. numerous illus. throughout many full-p.; hinges tender extremities rubbed covers soiled and rubbed else a good copy or better in orig. blue cloth gilt. A partial account of the history of the Sioux missions and missionaries and includes a section on Sioux storiettes. <br/><br/> The University Press hardcover books
181052825Philadelphia: C. & A. Conrad & Co. Somerville & Conrad Petersburgh. Bonsal Conrad & Co. Norfolk and Fielding Lucas Jr. Baltimore 1810. First edition 8vo pp. 5 3 105 10 41-65 1 53 1 107-277 5 40 87 1; the appendices for parts 1 and 2 are bound out of order but the book is complete; engraved frontispiece portrait 6 maps 5 folding 3 folding tables; contemporary marbled boards neatly rebacked in quarter calf gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; good and sound the maps generally in a nice state of preservation. With an 1892 ownership signature of Louis G. Carpenter at the top of the title page. Carpenter 1861-1935 was a college Professor and later the Dean of Engineering & Physics at Colorado State University formerly known as the Colorado Agricultural College. He was also a mathematician and an irrigation and consulting engineer. See Wikipedia for an account of his life. Pike's personal journal of the earliest U.S. government expedition to the southwest. Even before Lewis and Clark had returned in 1806 Lieutenant Zebulon Pike was sent to explore the southern reaches of the Louisiana Territory. Pike traveled to Colorado and down the Front Range looking for the Red River. His party failed to find it and instead wandered into New Mexico where the Spanish caught him and escorted him home. His expedition returned with valuable information about the northern provinces of colonial Mexico. He explored the headwaters of the Arkansas and Red Rivers and reported on the Spanish settlements in New Mexico as well as his account of his expedition to the upper Mississippi in Minnesota. The maps "were the first of this entire region to display knowledge derived from actual exploration and are of outstanding historic interest" Wheat Trans-Mississippi West Maps II pp. 20-21. Field 1218; Graff 3290; Howes P-373; Sabin 62836; Shaw & Shoemaker 21089; Streeter 3125; Streeter Texas 1047; Wagner-Camp 9. <br/><br/> C. & A. Conrad, & Co. Somerville & Conrad, Petersburgh. Bonsal, Conrad & Co. Norfolk, and Fielding Lucas, Jr. Baltimore hardcover books
185421005Hartford: E.T. Pease & Co 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Pamphlet 51 pp sewn binding original printed wrappers. Some paper loss to spine and at corners binding tight text clean. On March 2 1854 a recently installed 50-horsepower steam boiler exploded at the railroad-car factory Fales & Gray Car Works in Hartford Connecticut. The explosion killed 16 men wounded many more destroyed the blacksmith shop and engine room and badly damaged the main building. Workmen were buried in the rubble when the roof and walls caved in and many were severely burned. An investigation commenced the following day and a jury heard six days of testimony from workers managers and the boiler manufacturer before concluding that the carelessness and inexperience of the boiler operator who was killed in the blast were to blame for the disaster. The jury recommended that City Council of Hartford pass legislation to regulate the placement and operation of boilers so that workers would be better protected. It was ten years before that occurred but a more immediate consequence was the establishment of the city's first hospital -- the need for which was made evident by the lack of facilities to treat all the blast victims. This pamphlet sold to raise money for the victims and their families includes a list of all men killed or wounded schematics of the boiler and plant layout transcripts of eyewitness testimony given before the Coroner's Jury and the Jury's recommendation for better training and workplace safety. E.T. Pease & Co unknown books
179256096Philadelphia: Printed by Childs and Swaine 1792. First edition the issue without the statement of deposition on page four. Folio. 4 pp. Evans 24896. Marcus and Perry "The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States" 177. Removed from a bound volume of pamphlets. Toned some browning to outer edges a few small damp spots "No. 15" written in an early hand at the base of the first page but a very good copy. "Perhaps the most pressing judicial issue facing the Second Congress was the need for some more detailed regulation of federal process and procedure. The Process Act of 1789 which had been intended as a stopgap measure left most of those questions to be settled by reference to the practice of the various states. This temporary solution resulted in inequities. Some of these inequities such as the inadequacy of state fees for service of process had been addressed by the Compensation and Circuit Court Act of 1791. But because the 1791 act had not established uniform federal fees for judicial personnel such as clerks their compensation still varied widely from state to state. Faced with the expiration of the 1791 act in May 1792 the Senate appointed a committee to draft a bill providing compensation for judicial officers jurors and witnesses on November 1 1791. The committee consisted of John Henry of Maryland Caleb Strong of Massachusetts and James Monroe of Virginia. Despite the committee's limited mandate on January 26 1792 Henry reported a bill that also touched on judicial process. Its first two sections essentially reenacted the process Act of 1789 with two changes. Section 1 directed that court seals were to be provided at the expense of the United States a point not specified in the 1789 act and Section 2 omitted the direction that fees in the federal courts were to be determined by the fees allowed in the highest courts of the respective states. The remaining section specified among other things some of the fees that were to prevail in the federal system" Marcus and Perry. 2652. <br/><br/> Printed by Childs and Swaine unknown books
18121027Alexandria Virginia: Pr. by S. Snowden 1812. 8vo. 35 1 blank pp. <br><br>First edition of an address that was reprinted several times in 1812. These member of Congress feel their voices have been stifled in the pressing question of war with Britain. "The momentous question of war with Great Britain is decided. On this topic so vital to your interests the right of public debate . . . has been denied to your representatives" p. 3. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 393; Shaw & Shoemaker 24535; Howes A77. Removed from a nonce volume. Later stitching. Faint stamps of a mercantile library. Pr. by S. Snowden unknown books
18121028Baltimore: Reprinted from the Alexandria edition 1812. 8vo. 35 1 blank pp. <br><br>Scarce Maryland printing of an address that was reprinted several times in 1812. These member of Congress feel their voices have been stifled in the pressing question of war with Britain. "The momentous question of war with Great Britain is decided. On this topic so vital to your interests the right of public debate . . . has been denied to your representatives" p. 3. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Sabin 393; not in Shaw & Shoemaker. Removed from a nonce volume. Later stitching. Stamps of a mercantile library. Uncut copy; paper cockled. Title-page torn with loss of blank paper repaired. Reprinted from the Alexandria edition unknown books
