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18942481Kennet Square PA: Advance Steam-Power Book And Job Pring 1894. Staplebound. Cream wraps. Good. 55 8 ads pages. 23.5 x 14.5 cm. Third Annual Meeting at Indianapolis Ind. held in the Denison Hotel called to order by President E.G. Hill. Portrait photograph of E.G. Hill on half title page. Meeting includes treasury reports discussion of plant disease and eradication carnation commerce and growing techniques around the world. Florist and greenhouse advertisements account for the last eight pages. Covers toned spine chipped with loss. Pages disbound but intact. <br /> <br />Begining in 1881 Edward Gurney Hill and his father Joseph began Hill and Company with two greenhouses near their home. In 1893 the business outgrew its original location and moved to Richmond Indiana and became E.G. Hill Co. The business grew under his Hill's son and son-in-law's watch and grew to become a large distribution company - Hill Floral Products. <br /> <br/><br/> Advance Steam-Power Book And Job Pring paperback books
18951323Chicago: The American Cereal Co. 1895. Staplebound. Color illustrated wraps. Very good. 15 pages. 14 x 9 cm. Early American Cereal Co. more commonly known as Quaker Oats advertising pamphlet featuring a peculiar circus act performed by grasshoppers. Charming color illustrations throughout. Small closed tear to front cover otherwise crisp and clean. <br/><br/> The American Cereal Co. paperback books
186036832New York: New York Tribune 1860. 8vo pp. 16; self wrappers; light wear loss to bottom right-hand corner affecting text of the imprint and one word on verso; small stains otherwise a good copy. Sabin 2782. <br/><br/> New York Tribune unknown books
1895257951New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1895. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Publishers brown embossed cloth; a very nice copy with limited shelfwear; binding has a slight forward lean; rear hinge has been discreetly but visibly mended; contents clean and binding sound; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1863WRCLIT84909Dublin: Printed by Alexander Thom 1863. 63-89pp. Tables. Large octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume with original printed front wrapper short closed tear at top edge. Sharp bump to crown of spine some darkening and light soiling old stamps and shelf-label of a defunct mercantile library but a sound copy. First edition of this exhaustive study of agricultural production land use emigration commerce property value etc. BRADSHAW 3622. BLACK 8171. Printed by Alexander Thom unknown books
18812258New York: M.B. Brown 1881. Cards. White illustrated card stock. Good. 14 x 9 cm. folded 14 x 18 cm. opened. Illustrated folding menu presenting a variety of teas coffees chocolate and spices for sale. Joseph H. Stiner along with his brother Jacob were Hungarian-born immigrants arriving in the United States in 1855 and successfully setting up a chain of tea and spice shops in New York city. By 1860 the Stiner brothers were Manhattan's largest tea merchants operating five stores. Card stock is lightly foxed with some water stains. <br/><br/> M.B. Brown unknown books
1833WRCLIT42936Birmingham: Printed by Radclyffes and Co. 1833. 8pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Very good. First edition. A plan for the revision of the stamp process and the instigation of an income tax from which royalties would not be excluded. GOLDSMITHS 20837. KRESS C3570. Printed by Radclyffes and Co. unknown books
1830223585London: Smith Elder and Co 1830. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Tables. Previous owner's name written at top of title page. No pencil or ink markings in text. Full brown leather binding with black spine label gilt lettering. Previous archival repair to spine. Corners bumped. Some chipping at top of spine with a small loss of leather. Very Good binding. Smith, Elder and Co unknown books
188127063New York N.Y.: Fisk & Hatch 1881. 103 1 blank iv page index 4 pages promoting the various investment services of Fisk & Hatch. Illustrated with a folding color "Map Showing the Movement of the Centre of Population Westward. From the U.S. Census Also the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway and its connections." Map approx. 8 1/4" x 12 1/2" size overall; also with a folding Statement of the Public Debt of the United States for the Month of December 1880 with interest-bearing debt list mature debts recapitulation bonds issued to the Pacific Railway Companies interest payable by the United States. With a laid-in separate booklet the "May 13th 1881 Supplement to Memoranda Concerning Government Bonds Eighth Edition in regard to Five Per Cent. Bonds of 1881 and Six Per Cent. Bonds of 1881 With particulars as to those which have been called for redemption and as to the privilege of continuance at Three-and-a-half per cent." 8 pages; also Fisk & Hatch NY blue sewn paper wrappers 4 1/2" x 6" approx. size. The main booklet is slightly larger at approx. 5" x 6 1/2" size; bound in the original printed sewn paper wrappers. Old chipping and chewed laciness to bottom corner of about the first 15 pages; back also chipped at base about 3 pages; no losses to text; some soiling and wear to binding. Contents of both booklets map foldout otherwise clean and in good condition. Eighth Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Fisk & Hatch paperback books
189141660V.p. 1891-1899. Six volumes bound in one; thick 12mo 18cm.; contemporary half green calf over cloth gilt-ruled spine in six compartments all edges speckled red. Leather rubbed with some peeling at corners spine toned contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper textblock of one tract rather browned due to poor paper stock else Near Very Good internally near fine. Contents as follows:. 1. Henry George. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. - The Remedy. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. 1889. x406pp.<br/><br/>2. Robert Blatchford. Merrie England. London: Clarion Office 1894. "Cheap Edition." 206pp. Facsimile illus. <br/><br/>3. John Smith. England's Ruin; or John Smith's Answer to Mr. Blatchford's Plea for Socialism as contained in the widely-circulated book Merrie England. London: Walter Scott 1895. 31pp. Portrait illus. <br/><br/>4. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. London: Progressive Publishing Company 1891. "Centenary Edition." xiii14-163pp. <br/><br/>5. George Blaiklock. Socialism: False and True. A Review and an Exposure. London: G. Cohen n.d. ca. 1890s. 16pp.<br/><br/>6. Leo Tolstoi alt. spelling Tolstoy; A. Hulme Beaman trans. Master and Man. London: Chapman and Hall 1895. 125pp. unknown books
