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1901List2108Alaska 1901. Oblong folio 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition photographs generally excellent some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region about fifty to seventy-five miles northwest of Nome during the tail end of the Klondike Gold Rush period in 1900-1901. The album shows the operations of the Pioneer Company in Alaska in great detail including the travel by boat and the camps along Opher Creek as well as many photographs of the mining operation itself. According to a caption in one of the photographs $12000 worth of gold was taken out of the “Discovery Claim†on Ophir Creek. The album also includes several photographs of the indigenous population. The compiler of the book appears to have been a student at a mining college at some point as some of the photographs show a “Class of ‘04’†sign. The photographs are dated from 1897 to 1901. Interior scenes and a particularly broad portrayal of mining life and operations make this an uncommonly informative photographic document of Alaskan mining operations during this period. <br /> <br /> Lowny J.D. The Golovin Bay Region of Northwestern Alaska. In: The Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 71 pp. 781-782. June 15 1901. Accessed online 6/23. unknown
194545674Lyon 1945. Limited First edition. Softcover. g- to vg. 1/1000. Small folio 12 x 9 1/2". 16 185 3pp Text xxxii 32pp Plates. Original printed wrappers with yellow and white lettering to front cover. Laid in is a typed and handsigned letter from Noël Monod treasurer of the United Nations from 1946 to 1971 to a Mr. Fred L. Hadsel and dated New York February 1947. In this letter Noël Monod explains how this book came into existence and how he got it. Upper margin of title page inscribed and signed by Prof. Pierre Mazel who wrote the foreword to Mr. Noël Monod and dated July 1945.<br /> <br /> This first issue of the "Memorial of the Oppression" is a detailed and pictorial account of German atrocities that occured in the Rhône-Alpes region of Nazi-occupied France during World War II.<br /> <br /> This volume is illustrated throughout with 32 pages of photogravures depicting the various atrocities mentioned in this work. It is important to note that many of the photographs show graphic views of mutilated bodies corpses being retrieved from mass graves etc.<br /> <br /> One of 1000 copies of which this is No. 171.<br /> <br /> Wrappers rubbed along edges with some abrasion to spine. Text in French. Wrappers in overall good- interior in very good condition. unknown
1909List3421Ohio Illinois Michigan and Ontario 1909. Seventy-four letters in thirty-seven envelopes mainly dating between 1885 and 1895. With two undated and one empty envelope. Conditions vary with a few letters having damage intersecting with significant amounts of text and others Near Fine. Overall excellent. A collection of letters mainly sent between Captain William Faragher 1842–1921 and his second wife Harriet Chamberlin 1853–1920 with several from Faragher’s children from his first marriage Burton 1872–1961 and Maude 1875–1952. Most letters are from Chamberlin to Faragher with fourteen from Faragher to Chamberlin.<br /> <br /> Faragher owned and captained several merchant ships in Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair—presumably sailboats as he frequently complains of having been stuck without wind. He also describes more severe weather out on the lake writing from St. Clair Michigan:<br /> <br /> “I am anxious to get down from here but as the day advanced the wind began to frisken and it began to snow hard and as it was freezing hard it had rained then snowed and then froze hard saturday night so the poor Venture was in a sad plight but she was in a worse one when we got to where we lay run as it breezed up fresh and the wind dead ahead the water was flying over her in all directions and froze wherever it fell and besides it had turned into a blinding snow storm but we had a certain point to make . she seemed as anxious to get to a place of safety as I did and as the boys say she got there and none too soon as it has been blowing a gale ever since and snowing and freezing but we are in the lee and at a good dock and are comfortable but oh the wind is whistling through the rigging .†November 20 1887<br /> <br /> In the 1880s steamships were increasing in popularity on the Great Lakes primarily because of sailboats’ susceptibility to both calm and weather; steamboats were bulky for their capacity and slow but more reliable whereas sailboats could carry overall more cargo.1 Generally steamers took packaged goods and passengers and sailboats mainly schooners took bulk cargo. The Great Lakes were the site of much shipping innovation; Faragher’s fleet was not yet behind the times but steam would overtake sail in the 1880s and 90s.<br /> <br /> Faragher’s cargo was mainly produce—apples and grapes—though he does mention picking up salt and other materials. His letters indicate that his business involved both shipping and mercantile aspects: he chose and bought the products shipped them to their destination and then also had to find and sell to customers. The grapes in particular seem to cause a lot of trouble:<br /> <br /> “We left Lorain Sunday morning early and had a nice trip to the Island got there at 4 PM bustled around monday morning and bought 400 baskets of grapes and had them all aboard by dark . it commenced to snow just as we got to Marine City bad bad omen for grapes but imagine my chagrin when I went up town and not a store or commission house wanted a grape folks were full of grapes and there was no sale for them and they said that I had got left and if the truth were known they were glad of it but its a cold day when I get left if trying will lit me out but one thing certain the weather and the lateness of the season were against me but you know I never cross a bridge before I get to it well we hauled up to our old Island Saturday morning and I sold out to my old friend . we had sold since 11 am 190 baskets of grapes . only half our cargo and at a good margin too. People would ask are you the man that was arrested here for selling grapes when told yes they seldom failed to buy but the strangest part was the number of ladies that came to buyâ€. October 28 1887<br /> <br /> Though he does not narrate the incident in which he was arrested for grape peddling—nor does it appear to have made the paper—he later mentions yet another grape-related debacle this time at Port Huron:<br /> <br /> “Sander and I went to town to sell the grapes today . when down came a city official and wanted to know if I had a license to sell . well I couldent sell another grape without paying 5.00 a day license that was a stormer you see the whole sale men were going to drive me out of the market . but they were not as sharp as they thought they were I went and gave a bill of sale of my whole cargo to a citizen here and he appointed one of his agents to sell the grapes†September 20 1888<br /> <br /> Faragher’s letters here do not discuss the financial state of his business but given Chamberlin’s statements it cannot have been all too positive. Chamberlin’s letters depict a woman struggling with her financial circumstances and with how the era’s expectations of her gender intersected with them. In one illustrative letter she writes:<br /> <br /> “A man drove by here Sat. asking for you. Ms. Lawler has given him her note to collect. He says the interest brings it to nearly fifty dollars. I told him I thought you could not meet it just at present but he said he must have the money and would give you just one week and if it was not paid then he would let the law settle it. Marvin and Laird are his lawyers. Mr. Laird is the one who helped get my money from father’s estate. I would not have them connected in this way about you for – O a great deal!! I have thought and planned till it seems as though my brain would burst. I have inquired about that law regarding taking any more married women as teachers. If Mr. Day would work for me it might perhaps be broken. There will be a vacancy in the Detroit building this fall. Will if I possibly can I want to commence teaching in Sept. The children would have to learn to do more about the house and with both of us earning it seems as though some of these harassing debts must be settled after a time. The frequent calls of men with bills against you have taken away all my pride and I believe I am humble enough to do most anything now.†July 11 1887<br /> <br /> In 1887 Ohio passed the Married Women’s Property Act which allowed married women to keep their own property separate from their husbands’—in fact Chamberlin occasionally mentions “her†money in her correspondence. At the same time the state’s Board of Education was debating passing an act that would not only ban school districts from hiring married women as teachers but also fire all the married women it then employed. Newspaper reporting at the time indicates that this measure was not particularly popular not the least because married women tended to be older and more experienced with the job.<br /> <br /> Chamberlin clearly perceives her role as a wife in a rather more progressive way at one point writing to Faragher that “a true wife†is “not a doll-baby to be kept in finery†N.d. after he had taken out a loan to send her money for a new hat. Throughout their correspondence Chamberlin is perhaps surprisingly open with Faragher about her opinions particularly on his work and their financial affairs; for instance:<br /> <br /> “I should like to examine your pocket-book after that $25 tax money left it. What are you going to live on up there while you are hunting for freight Sawdust won’t put any fat on your bones. Sailing up and down past Saginaw bay won’t prolong your life or lessen your grey hairs. What are you sailing for anyway For the sake of wearing yourself out and giving employment to two or three men and keeping the Root from rusting out I guess I am naughty!†May 25 1894<br /> <br /> She also frequently provides her opinion on whether and at what rate Faragher should sell his two other ships besides the Root the Venture and the Sassacus. She continues in the same letter:<br /> <br /> “I know I almost had a regular fight yesterday morning right there on the lounge. I wanted to do my housework and I couldn’t. I wanted to sew and I couldn’t sit up long for that. I wanted to help you and I couldn’t. I wanted to earn money and whereas I used to earn fifty-five cents for every hour I worked now I can not earn anything. Then if I could not do for self and family I wanted to make church and S.S. calls but I couldn’t walk for that.†<br /> <br /> Of course she was at that time prevented from these activities by her health not by gendered standards but she clearly had financial ambitions for herself. After her time as a regular school teacher Chamberlin taught at a Sunday school where she earned a few cents per student and in one letter reported having eighty-one students in a single session. <br /> <br /> Chamberlin also struggles with the expectations of her as step-mother to Faragher’s two children from his first marriage to Emma Humphrey 1848–1880. She writes:<br /> <br /> “I get so discouraged sometimes and it seems as though I am in the wrong place as mother. I think of Emma as my sister. I want to do as she would have me. I look upon my work as sacred. And yet sometimes I feel as though life was not worth living.†November 5 1886<br /> <br /> She frequently describes conflict with Burt who was then in his late teens to early twenties writing that she could not “have quite the very own mother-love for him†though she is “sure that Emma was not more conscientious in her desires to do right by him than I am†May 20 1891. As it still is today the role of step-mother was a difficult and frequently demonized one with the trauma of losing a mother and wife often in conflict with the feminine duty of maintaining perfect domestic harmony. In general Chamberlin seems to have been somewhat out of step with the feminine ideal of the time even telling Faragher in a letter describing the death of an acquaintance’s baby how glad she was to not have any children of her own.<br /> <br /> Overall a look at the private lives and difficulties of a middle-class Ohio household as despite the relative prestige of its head being a captain-owner it struggled with debt. Of interest to both historians of Great Lakes trade and those of women’s roles in the late nineteenth century.<br /> <br /> 1 Dina M. Bazzill “The Missing Link Between Sail and Steam: Steambarges and the Joys of Door County Wisconsin†East Carolina University Program in Maritime Studies Research Report no. 19 2007. unknown
19892090202122801579Not Available 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Not Available paperback
1938220261Japan. 1938 -1942. Thirty-seven black and white photographs laid down in a Fuji Photo Film Co. Ltd album with fifteen black and white photographs loosely inserted sizes vary between 5 x 5.8cm to 16.5 x 11.3cm a number of photographs are missing Japanese captions neatly written on leaves 22.5 x 31cm 58pp. Last eleven leaves five photographs and the lower cover damp stained. Covers marked and chipped. Titled "Remembering Huzhou" this photographic album contains thirty-seven black and white photographs mounted within together with a further fifteen loose photographs inserted. Most of the images appear to have been taken while the compiler’s unit was stationed in southern China. The owner was most likely an infantry soldier posted to the Huzhou region around 1938. Although thirty-seven photographs now remain attached and fifteen loosely inserted it is evident that others have been removed possibly to obscure the owner’s identity. The surviving captions indicate the nature of the missing images. <br> <br>The photographs present a notably peaceful atmosphere during the period of occupation in the Guangdong and Huzhou areas with no depictions of conflict or fighting. The compiler evidently had access to a personal camera and developing facilities during his time in China. It appears that the unit may at one stage have been stationed on the campus of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong. Towards the end of the album a family photograph of four children on a beach is included. The captions throughout are often humorous and convey a sense of familiarity with the subjects. The inserted photographs extend the chronological range slightly dating to approximately 1942. . unknown
19962080302106808795Kyushu Region Active Layer Study Group 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: one Kyushu Region Active Layer Study Group paperback
1956009487Urbana Il: University of Illinois Press 1956. Book. Near Fine. Spiral Binding. First Edition. Oblong Elephant Folio. 11" h x 17 1/2" w oblong colo pictorial paper front wrapper with white spiral binding 22 pp. plus numerous home design possibilities illustrated. Near Fine small scrape rear white wrapper. The first 22 pages of text are followed by 24 pp. of farmhouse floor plans that are split down the middle ."Notice that the divided sheets are made so that any one of the plan sections on the left side can be put together with any one of the plan sections on the right side to form a complete floor plan. Since there are 24 sections on each side you can choose from a total of 576 possible house plan combinations. In addition you can reverse the whole plan or either half sheet independently of the other and still have a workable floor plan. Still more variations are possible because most of the combinations offer alternatives in the choice of basement garage or porch. Among so many arrangements you are almost sure to find one that you like.". University of Illinois Press Hardcover
19892090202120411539Hiroshima Prefecture 1989. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hiroshima Prefecture paperback
1993x-0792323254Kluwer Academic Pub 1993. Hardcover. New. 422 pages. 9.53x6.38x1.34 inches. Kluwer Academic Pub hardcover
1998d1131998 Food & Agriculture Organization 1998 CD ROM A BRAND NEW CD ROM UNUSED STILL IN UNOPENED CELLO WRAPPING. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch. Audio Book CD. New. unknown
19902110502150600177Kyoritsu shuppan 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 332p310p Size: 26cm Number of books: 2 Kyoritsu shuppan paperback
192323876Paris: n.p. 1923. First edition. Wraps. Very good. Narrow 8vo. 172pp. Folding decorative wraps. With three large fold-out maps. Lower part of spine and bottom of upper wrap have been neatly repaired else this is in very good confition. In French.<br /> <p><br /> The publication date is taken from an ad in the text. A later edition was issued at 3 francs replacing this first edition at 2.50 francs.<br /> p>. n.p. unknown
2000BN325870Les Éd. de la Tour Gile 2000. 2000. Softcover. La vie à Saint-Arnoult : Un siècle d'images <br/><br/>La vie à Saint-Arnoult : Un siècle d'images Jean-Claude Houssinot Marie-Josèphe Houssinot et Société historique de Saint-Arnoult et de sa région Les Éd. de la Tour Gile paperback
199333333338448Ashford UK.: Knight Piesold & Partners. 1993. Contains 3 very large maps. This book is part of a large purchase from a Public Sector Library and except where mentioned are for the most part LIKE NEW! MOSTLY the ONLY flaws are the blacked out they insisted Library stamps which show many of them to be UNUSED! This copy is Near Fine NEAR NEW. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE!. EX PUBLIC SECTOR LIBRARY BLACKED OUT STAMPS. This is the First Edition. Spiral-bound/Glossy Card. Near Fine NEAR NEW/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. CARD COVERED PAPERBACK. Knight Piesold & Partners. Paperback
199433333338470Ashford UK.: Knight Piesold & Partners. 1994. This book is part of a large purchase from a Public Sector Library and except where mentioned are for the most part LIKE NEW! MOSTLY the ONLY flaws are the blacked out they insisted Library stamps which show many of them to be UNUSED! This copy is Near Fine NEAR NEW. FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND FURTHER DETAILS. FROM A DEALER WHO TELLS YOU WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEIR TELEPHONE AND ADDRESS CONTACT DETAILS ARE!. EX PUBLIC SECTOR LIBRARY BLACKED OUT STAMPS. This is the First Edition. Spiral-bound/Plastic Cover. Near Fine NEAR NEW/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. CARD COVERED PAPERBACK. Knight Piesold & Partners. Paperback
199572778Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House 1995. First edition 4to pp. 416; high quality text illustrations throughout of original documents; parallel text in Tibetan Chinese and English; full gold cloth fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of 107 documents with scans transcripts and translations. The documents are for the most part edicts and orders meant to bolster the CCP's claim to Tibet. Cultural Relics Publishing House unknown
20001363063Beijing: Cultural Relics Publishing House 2000. Hardcover. Octavo: 449 pages XCVI pages of black and white photographic plates with numerous black and white illustrations throughout text. Very good. Light green spine with blue and grey titling in Chinese. Binding lightly bumped and marked with price sticker still on rear board; text block lightly age-toned. Text in Chinese with English abstract. SH consignment. 1363063. Special Collections. Cultural Relics Publishing House hardcover
19941362047Chengdu: Sichuan People's Publishing House 1994. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Folio: 387 pages. Good. Pictorial dust jacket with green and navy panels to spine gold and yellow lettering. House in pictorial slip case with red cloth top and bottom panels lightly bumped and shelf-worn at edges and corners. Dust jacket lightly bumped and worn at corners; Boards lightly bumped at lower corners; Front hinge split rear hinge cracking; Text block beginning to show light age-toning. Text in English Chinese and Tibetan. SH consignment. <p>This is an oversized item which may require additional postage; please inquire for rates. 1362047. Special Collections. Sichuan People's Publishing House hardcover
1973250126003Beijing China: China Books and Periodicals 1973. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Text in Chinese. Includes cardboard slipcase. Minor shelf wear binding tight pages clean and unmarked. “The Silk Road. Fabrics from the Han to the T'ang Dynasty” Published by the Museum of the Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region in 1973. A well-illustrated catalog of Han Chao Sui and T'ang Dynasty fabrics from the Museum's collection with Chinese text and a booklet laid in. 66 color illustrations on 46 plates. China Books and Periodicals hardcover
194629896HBDJ 1ST EDITION STATED 1ST PRINTING APRIL 1946 on Copyright pg IN BEIGE BROWN & GREEN YELLOW FLORAL BREEZY CLOTH BINDING WITH greenK CLOTH SPINE CVR TITLED ON SPINE CVR lite wear & rub Green & beige illustrated ENDPAPERS . BACK DJ LISTS RAINBOW CLASSICS HUCK FINN THRU GOLDEN RIVER has small black mark 334 pgs DJ NOT PRICECLIPED BUT MARK ON CORNER NO PRICE Introduction By May Lamberton Becker the Swiss Miss in her Alpine mountain world.Little Girl Who Lived in Switzerland many YRAS AGO SHE & HER GRUFF EDERLY grandfather Kept House together in a Tiny Hut ON ALPINE MOUNTAINSIDE WHERE ALL SORTS OF DELITEFUL THINGS HAPPENED. Heidi climbed high into Mountain Meadows with the Goat boy Peter. & SAW THE GREAT ROBBER BIRD WHOSE NEST WAS N GRAY CRAG. She saw the mountains at Sunset. Dyed the Color of Fire. & N winter she & Grandfather WENT SCOOTING DOWN STEEP Snowy Trails IN THEIR Sled. Get to Know & Love Switzerland. novel opens with Aunt Dete taking her niece Heidi to stay with the young girl's grandfather a goatherd who lives alone in the Swiss Alps. Dete who has taken care of Heidi since she was orphaned as a<br /> WORLD PUBLISHING CLEVELAND RAINBOW CLASSICS #R11 hardcover
199523917London: Cultural Relics Publishing House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 7501008760 . Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; No date 1995. Foreword dated October 1994. Gold papered boards with red lettering on spine and front board. Blue lettering and silver illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 285 x 213mm. "China is an ancient vast and multi-nationala caountry and as part of the Chinese nation the Tibetan people's role has developed through history." - from the Foreword. "This book is a collection of 107 photoprints of precious Tibetan historical archives seals and other cultural relics presented in Tibetan Phags-pa Mongolian Chinese Manchu and Mongolian languages" - from the Postscript. Title and preliminary pages in Chinese and English. With Chinese and English translations of the texts of the archives. . Cultural Relics Publishing House hardcover
19851363299Tokyo: Heibonsha Limited 1985. Hardcover. Large octavo: 8 201 color plates 171-374 2 pages. Near fine in Very good slipcase. Tan linen spine with gilt titling in Chinese.Slip case lightly bumped at upper and lower edges of spine corners. Binding and text block clean and bright. Text in Japanese with limited English. SH consignment. 1363299. Special Collections. Heibonsha Limited hardcover
1992ZB1233365Llotja de Mercadores 1992. Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday June 29 SALE item 274 pp. Paperback very good. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Llotja de Mercadores paperback
19962092902141205777Culture publishing company 1996. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Culture publishing company paperback
1971741748PN. New. 1971. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
