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193752948Hartford: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co 1937. 8vo pp. 96; printed in blue and black throughout; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; generally a fine bright copy. <br/><br/> Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Co unknown books
186828080Chicago 1868. Broadsides of various sizes no printers listed. Some occasional minor wear Very Good.<br/><br/> The financial sheets quote daily prices for stocks and bonds in Chicago. They suggest Chicago's emergence as a center of trade and finance before the Great Fire. The sheets include Tyler Ullman & Co. Daily Quotations; and Opening Quotations from the Banking House of Lunt Preston & Kean. <br/> These banking firms were established during the early 1860's and quickly became an important financial force in building and after the Great Fire rebuilding the City of Chicago. Scripps Preston & Kean was involved in the first government loan issued for the prosecution of the Civil War. Howe: CHICAGO COMMERCE MANUFACTURES BANKING AND TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. Chicago: 1884. unknown books
1983217585Atlanta GA: Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services 1983. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Illustrated; No pencil or ink markings in text. Red decorated cloth binding with dark raised lettering. Boards slightly cocked. Very Good binding. Atlanta Bureau of Fire Services unknown books
186429021415Anthony Coventry RI 1864-1894. General wear and toning. The smaller of the two notebooks has semi detached covers. . A set of two notebooks containing nearly thirty years of the meeting minutes of the annual July 4 gathering of the Coventry Factory Fire Engine Company. These minutes includes a list of members and officers voted in each year as well all the outcome of any topic put to vote. The meetings take place in Anthony RI which is a small village within Coventry RI. The smaller copybook is completely full and contains minutes from their annual meetings dating from 1864 to 1881. The second and larger notebook begins where the first notebook left off in 1882 and continues until 1890 when at the annual meeting there was no quorum present and as such "the charter of the company was declared forfeited sic and the company disbanded." In August of 1893 the company was reorganized under the old charter. Four more meetings follow in 1893 with the last meeting recorded stating that the fire company met to compete at the Kent Co. Fair and won the third prize of ten dollars. Included with this set are several receipts and notes of the fire company. There are eight 8 receipts dating between 1893-1894 two of them are undated. One scrap piece of paper which served as a draft for a portion of one of the annual meeting minutes. A roll call list of members from the 1893 annual meeting. A list of dues paid by each individual member. And lastly a note dated September 15 1893 which certifies that the fire company won the third prize in the Hand Engine Contest Open at the Kent Co. Fair. Below is an excerpt from one of the entries: "The squirt gun was tested and proved very satisfactory. It was voted that Lt Capt Byron Matteson be a committed to inspect the Hay Cart and any other machine he may see fit and report as soon as posable. There being more business the meeting adjourned to the call of the Captain." - August 3 1893 Meeting These journals most likely belonged to Arthur J. Matteson 1859-1925 who was the Secretary of the Company from 1888-1893. Matteson lived in Coventry RI and worked as a machinist. Small Notebook: Brown illustrated wrappers depicting several scenes of children on a farm. The back cover has a multiplication table and a decorative border. String binding. Completely full. Measures 8" x 6 1/2" Large Notebook: Black decorative paper over boards. Red fore edge. One fourth filled. Measures 8 1/2" x 6 3/4" <br/><br/> hardcover books
18005672Boston 1800. 18 1pp. No half title. Disbound light tanning and wear. <br/><br/> With a list of members. George Minot was President of the Society which was incorporated in 1794. <br/>IRST EDITION. Evans 37929. unknown books
185611059London: Chief Offices Unity Buildings 1856. 8vo. 36 pp. <br><br>Column-by-column rebuttal of a "Daily News" article.<br>Â Â Â Â WorldCat finds no copies in the U.S. and precious few in Britain or Europe. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â Not in NSTC CD version; not in Goldsmiths'; not in Kress. Removed from a nonce volume leaves separated. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper corner also with light soiling and one small stamp. Chief Offices, Unity Buildings unknown books
2013266011New York: Skyhorse Pub 2013. Hardcover. xxiv 360p. photographic endpapers foreword note from the author cast of characters introduction timeline obits notes bibliography index illustrated with b&w photos throughout near fine first edition first printing stated in boards and bright unclipped dj. Skyhorse Pub hardcover books
2010257254Vancouver: Decolonize Vancouver Distro 2010. 8p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good zine. Decolonize Vancouver Distro unknown books
19741324436New York: Praeget Publishers 1974. Hardcover. Octavo; G/G; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine pink with black print; DJ has light edgewear remains of label on front else clean and bright; Boards in pink cloth bump to spine tail else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Signed in ink by the author on the front flyleaf; 210 pages illustrated b&w plates. 1324436. FP New Rockville Stock. Praeget Publishers hardcover books
1987158432San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1987. 52p. wraps 8.5x11 inches lightly worn. Includes material on El Salvador FMLN/FDR AIDS porn and feminism Puerto Rican POWs and MLN-PR Sanctuary movement Aquino regime in Philippines and Iran-Contra. PFOC began as an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
1990175745San Francisco: John Brown Education Fund 1990. 44p. wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. very good. Includes sections on lesbian and gay liberation the Puerto Rico plebiscite and more. PFOC began as an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground. John Brown Education Fund unknown books
1990158433San Francisco: John Brown Education Fund 1990. 48p. wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. very good. Includes major section on El Salvador Guatemala and Nicaragua other material on AIDS Native Americans Palestinian women in the Intifada interview with Boris Kagarlisky the West German left and reunification and Alan Berkman in prison. PFOC began as an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground. John Brown Education Fund unknown books
1991175750San Francisco: John Brown Education Fund 1991. 40p. wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. very good. Much on the first Gulf War. Includes a full-page obit for David Stern a member of ACT UP/San Francisco who died of AIDS. PFOC began as an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground. John Brown Education Fund unknown books
1991158435San Francisco: John Brown Education Fund 1991. 41p. wraps 8.5x11 inches illus. very good. Includes material on the Gulf War feminism in Hungary South Africa declaration from Cuban conference on Malcolm X Nicaragua Mumia Abu Jamal CISPES on El Salvador and political prisoners in Spain. PFOC began as an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground. John Brown Education Fund unknown books
1993175264San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1993. 55p. wraps 8.5x11 inches very good. This issue devoted to gay and lesbian issues. The PFOC began as an above-ground support network for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
1994175266San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1994. 47p. wraps 8.5x11 inches light handling wear. The PFOC began as an above-ground support network for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
1994175265San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1994. 63p. wraps 8.5x11 inches light handling wear. Coverage includes chaos in Haiti Eritrean independence global trafficking of women and more. The PFOC began as an above-ground support network for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
1981188289San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1981. 44p. wraps 8.5x11 inches pages mildly toned otherwise very good. Cover story is support for the "socialist reunification of Mexico" i.e. the return of California and the southwest to Mexican sovereignty. The PFOC began as an above-ground support network for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
1981175268San Francisco: John Brown Book Club 1981. 44p. wraps 8.5x11 inches newsprint toned pen underlining. A reading copy. Cover story is support for the "socialist reunification of Mexico" i.e. the return of California and the southwest to Mexican sovereignty. The PFOC began as an above-ground support network for the Weather Underground. John Brown Book Club unknown books
194384999Denver: The Company 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. index 972p. Speckled blue and white cover. 28 cm. Foxing on page edges. No Jacket. Printed slip laid in saying that because of the World War some items were either not available or subject to allocation. <br/><br/> The Company hardcover books
185930233New York: Slote & Janes Stationers 1859. 20pp stitched in original printed wrappers. Several contemporary corrections in ink. Very Good with a tipped-in certification from the Insurance Department that the original is on file with that Department. <br/><br/> This is probably the Standard Fire Insurance Company's retained copy of its original charter. In addition to the tipped-in certificate the front wrapper is stamped "Received from the Secretary of State and filed in the Department of Banking and Insurance" and signed by the Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.<br/>Not located on OCLC as of May 2013. Slote & Janes, Stationers unknown books
1872517Chicago: Max Stern 1872. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm. 7 ¾ x 5 inches. v 146 24 pp. plus 8 pp. ads. Illustrated with a folding stencil colored map and three folding lithographic plates. Bound in publisher's green cloth binding title in gilt on spine; edges of cloth a bit worn head of spine frayed some loss of color to cloth; illustrations separated at folds expertly repaired. This copy with the signature of Otto Lob on front free-endpaper and title-page. With faults a good copy. First edition self-published by the authors and printed by Max Stern. Contemporary account of the devastating fire that swept Chicago in October 1871. Published for the German language community in the United States it appears that numerous copies were also sent to Germany by the publisher Max Stern. An English language edition was published by Seeger in 1893 as part of the Columbian Exposition that took place in Chicago that year. The map entitled "Chicago as it is Showing the Burnt District" illustrates the impact of the fire in Wards 1 2 14 15 and 16 ranging from Taylor Street near the railroad depot running north to Lincoln Park. The map is colored by stencil in shades of red and green and evokes the destruction the fire caused to this populous part of the City. The book also contains three lithographic plates by Schrader Lith. Steam Press of St. Louis. One is a view of the City from Lake Michigan entitled "Chicago in Flammen". This is followed by a stunning lithographic entitled "Die Ruinen von Chicago" and a third dramatic image showing the burning of the Crosby Opera House and people fleeing the flames. "Saddened by the sight they came to the realization that they had been the protagonists of the last drama ever to be played out at Crosby's Opera House." Not in Howes or Graff. OCLC citing numerous copies in the United States and Germany. Peters American on Stone p. 360 for information on Schrader Lith. Steam Press. Eugene H. Cropsey Crosby's Opera House: Symbol of Chicago's Cultural Awakening Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2000. Max Stern unknown books
18952222068<p>First edition. 5 1/2" x 3 1/2". Fine fresh copy on buff paper. 4 pages.</p><p>An early Riverside County imprint.</p> Board of Fire Underwriters unknown books
183530636Boston: David Hooton.Printer.Merchants' Hall 1835. 12pp stitched in contemporary plain yellow wrappers. Title page vignette of the Department dousing a house fire. Very Good plus.<br/><br/> This rare Charter of an early mutual aid society evidently located only at the Boston Public Library was established to assist injured Boston firemen who "are liable in the discharge of their duty to many casualties to which citizens generally are not exposed." <br/> The pamphlet prints the 1830 Act of the Legislature incorporating the Association; Edward Prescott George Dearborn and Jonathan A. Davis are the named incorporators. The Articles render every Boston fireman eligible for membership. Annual dues are fifty cents. Injured members are barred from negotiating directly with the City Government for financial assistance: that's the job of the Association the names of whose officers are printed at page 12. Thomas C. Amory was President of the Board of Trustees.<br/>OCLC 33064696 1- Boston Public 1038097739 also Boston Public as of October 2019. AI 30581 1- Boston Public. Not in Sabin or on AAS's online web site. David Hooton...Printer...Merchants' Hall unknown books
1906List821San Francisco 1906. Thirty-one silver gelatin prints measuring 4 x 3 inches with four accompanying sheets measuring 8 x 5 ½ inches identifying the images. Also included is the original envelope to an illegible recipient or possibly crediting the images. Fading to images else about fine very good minus overall. Many photographers amateur and professional alike took to the streets of San Francisco to document devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent fire of 1906. Collected here are thirty-one images taken by one such photographer - likely an amateur based on the image quality and perspectives. What is unusual about the collection here is that the photographer took meticulous notes on each image and the images as found in a rather illegible envelope included several sheets explaining the location of each image. The photographer travelled through most of downtown with varied locations represented. The title is likely misleading as the fire raged for several days and the pictures were likely taken several days after the 18th of April. The envelope has the name "Mrs H. Thof illegible" which suggests that perhaps the photographer was a woman or possibly that these were given to the same as a gift by another photographer. Overall a scarce survival of images of which we find no other copies. books
