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20212081502111904331Chinese book office 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese book office paperback
20032-1586033840Ios Pr Inc 2003. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition. 452 pages. 9.50x6.75x1.00 inches. Ios Pr Inc hardcover
1920972H46London: Blacks Simple Cookery and Household Management; Herbs Salads and Seasonings; Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook; Restaurant Roundabout; Now Cook Me the Fish; Rare Vegetables for Garden and Table; The Queen Cookery Book 1920-1960. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5 by 5.5. Various; Thomas Lowinsky. A seven-volume collection of British culinary and domestic works featuring first editions by celebrated authors like Ambrose Heath X. Marcel Boulestin and Ruth Lowinsky. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.This seven-volume set offers an insightful exploration of British cookery and household management from 1920 to 1960 featuring first editions and notable works by authors such as Ambrose Heath X. Marcel Boulestin and Ruth Lowinsky consisting of: Black"s Simple Cookery and Household Management edited by The Edinburgh School of Cookery and Domestic Economy 1920. This is a first edition of this practical post-war manual of domestic economy offering simple recipes and household management advice. Herbs Salads and Seasonings by X. Marcel Boulestin and Jason Hill 1930. This volume is a first edition. This is a refined guide to the culinary uses of herbs and greens with Boulestin's practical and elegant recipes accompanied by sixteen lovely plate illustrations by Cedric Morris. Collated complete.Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook by Ruth Lowinsky illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky 1931. This volume is a first edition. This volume is an artful and personal collection of favourite recipes paired with charming illustrations. Restaurant Roundabout by T. A. Layton 1944. This copy is the second impression printed in October 1944. This copy is lively and anecdotal memoir of London"s restaurant scene offering insider glimpses into the dining culture of the time. Now Cook Me the Fish by Margaret Butterworth 1950. This volume a first edition of this concise guide to preparing fish and seafood ideal for home cooks. Rare Vegetables for Garden and Table by Alan Organ 1960. This is not a first edition but a 1960 reprint issued by the Garden Book Club following the original 1952 publication by Faber & Faber. A practical and informative book offering ideas for cooking unusual and underappreciated vegetables in a variety of dishes. The Queen Cookery Book by Ambrose Heath 1960. This volume is a first edition. This is a comprehensive cookbook covering classic British dishes with Heath"s trademark clarity. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally smart. Spine of "Cook me the Fish" and "Simple Cookery" faded. Front free endpaper of "Queen"s Cookery" and "Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook" removed with front hinge cracked but holding firm. Offsetting to endpapers. Bookplate from "Martin & Pamela Finch: Exlibris Gastronomique" to front free endpapers and half-title of "Black"s Simple Cookery". Previous seller"s small label to rear paste downs on the odd copy. Front hinges of "Rare Vegetables" cracked with binding materials partially exposed but holding reinforced with tape. Scattered spotting to endpapers of "Cook me the Fish" and "Rare Vegetables". Slight green-tinged damp stains to perimeters of rear endpapers of "Lovely Cookery" with slight cockling not affecting further pages. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with the odd spot and slight age toning heavier to older copies. Very Good Blacks Simple Cookery and Household Management; Herbs, Salads, and Seasonings; Lovely Food: A Cookery Notebook; Restaurant Rou hardcover
20192-109989977XIndependently published 2019. Paperback. New. 436 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.09 inches. Independently published paperback
1995x-075070487XFalmer Pr 1995. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 297 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. Falmer Pr hardcover
19880072281988. Soft Cover. Very Good. Publisher: American High School 1988 V.Good HB 224 pp mylar protector. paperback
20192-1072975637Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 94 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.24 inches. Independently published paperback
192816971Chicago: Denoyer-Geppert Company n.d. ca. 1928 First edition of catalogue no. 6. This issue not recorded in OCLC. Beige paper wrappers attractively printed in yellow blue and black with illustrations of the globe Grecian columns and scientific tools like compasses and biological specimens. . Quarto. Richly illustrated on almost every page with hundreds of figures. Also with over two dozen color-printed illustrations of scientific and medical educational tools maps and globes "history pictures" anatomical and biological models botanical charts and more. With removable yellow card paper order form bound in. A bright near-fine copy of this rare catalogue of advanced educational and scientific tools. The Denoyer-Geppert Company later the Denoyer-Geppert Science Company was established in 1916 by Otto E. Geppert and L. Philip Denoyer as a source for high-quality equipment for science and history classrooms. The company eventually became the leading distributor of anatomical models for advanced classroom and laboratory use but their initial specializations were globes and maps. Denoyer-Geppert Company, unknown
19612708Washington DC 1961. Very good. 88pp. Quarto. Original textured padded cloth printed in gilt and black with calendar designs on front cover. Minor edge wear rubbing and abrading to covers. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean. A rare yearbook from Veterans High School Center - an segregated academic and vocational training high school for American servicemen and other non-traditional male African-American students in the District of Columbia. Veterans High School was started in the old Armstrong Manual Training High School building in 1946 and operated until 1964 at which time it became an adult education center. During its run Veterans High School Center graduated around a hundred students a year trained in various academic and vocational specialties. The range of study is reflected in the senior class section here noting that each student is graduating on an "Academic" track or gaining a diploma in such vocational avenues as Printing Radio-TV Shoe Repair Auto Mechanics Brickmasonry Barber Science Electricity Drafting and Tailoring. Other sections of the yearbook feature students in typical settings such as the classroom in clubs playing sports and so forth. There is also a list of school patrons followed by an eight-page section of advertisements for local businesses. We could locate no other yearbooks from the segregated all-male Veterans High School in Washington D.C. unknown
1957List01121Richmond: N.A.A.C.P. 1957. 8vo wraps 30 pp. Some light wear staple holes to edge original owner’s address and postage mark on back cover overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision with a range of articles on racism and segregation in Virginia and the efforts to desegregate schools there. The pamphlet is made up of several essays entitled “Behind the Segregation Curtain†“The N.A.A.C.P. - Defender of Constitutional Freedom†“The Truch about what led to School Cases†“Lookng at Work of the NAACP in the Fight for Integrated Schools in Virginia†“Integration - An Avenue to Liberty for Both Groups†“The Way to Genuine Good Race Relations in Virginia†and “Our Way of Life in Virginia.†The essays are all written anonymously. The pamphlet argues for the use of reason in reversing racial prejudice and suggests appealing to the intelligence of people as a means for combating the problem. Uncommon with four copies held institutionally. N.A.A.C.P. unknown
1928D3722Butte Montana 1928. Paper-coverd boards oblong 8vo 8.75 x 7 inches; pp 40 rich with all sorts of ephemera -- newspaper clippings photographs invitations dance cards and more. Scrapbook compiled by Ms. Josie Powers of 124 Jay Street Butte Montana; Vice-President of the Junior class at Butte Central High School Captain of the Girls' Basketball Team. Opens with a pencil sketch on the front-pastedown showing a young woman in a stylish floral dress and high heels holding a young man in a dip and laying a big ol' kiss on him. The caption tells us that this is "Josie in native scenery" and the rest of the scrapbook maintains that spirit of youth and fun -- bold and it seems into everything. Includes clippings from the high school newspaper handwritten notes from her friends prom invitations and a bit of class warfare "Fog horns are not the only things that blow so do some Seniors". Each page is completely full nicely showcasing jokes poems and prayers in many hands as well as the occasional sketch. Photographs nicely capture the hair and clothing styles of the period. Ms. Powers also saved a variety of little artifacts from a wooden ice cream spoon to a lock of hair to fabrics ticket stubs honor roll lists a glass tile and church programs. A quirky energetic amalgam. <br/><br/> hardcover
192812982Honolulu 1928. 2810526pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled with front cover stamped in black orange green blue and yellow. Moderate staining and chipping to wrappers. Text block detached between endpapers fairly regular thumb-soiling to outer margins occasional minor staining. Good condition. An informative yearbook issued for the students of Japanese High School in Honolulu in 1928 prepared by the Literary Society at the school. The book contains the requisite sections featuring portraits of the students class pictures student testimonials group shots of clubs and sports teams and more. The last section of the book is comprised of local advertisements for a variety of Honolulu businesses and other concerns including the Young Men's Buddhist Association. A rare if not unrecorded Japanese-language school yearbook from Hawaii in the interwar period. unknown
1831D19539Karlsruhe: Verlag Von Gottlieb Braun 1831. Neue Ausgabe. Hardcover. Good. Two volumes bound in one. Oblong with cloth spine and corners marbled paper boards printed label to upper board. 45 21 & 24 hand-colored lithographed maps some folding. Rubbing and wear to boards spotting throughout but hardly untypical. A rather scarce student atlas. <br/><br/> Verlag Von Gottlieb Braun hardcover
1974List923aBoston: Ad Hoc Committee for December 14 1974. Printed poster 17 x 11 inches folded. Somelight wear crease to center ownership marks to verso very good plus condition overall. With the ownership stamp of J. Wesley Miller with “J.W. Miller - duplicate†written in ink. Federal District Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled in 1974 that Boston must integrate its school system. The group ROAR or Restore Our Alienated Rights led a broad effort against integration supported by the School Committee most members of the City Council and many teachers and police. Early efforts to block the desegregation efforts centered around South Boston High School where some parents of white students harassed and threw stones and bottles at arriving African-American students scenes repeated in some other white middle class neighborhoods. <br /> <br /> On December 14 over fifteen to twenty thousand people marched on Boston Common in support of the desegregation efforts. Offered here is a poster from the event published by the Ad Hoc Committee for Dec. 14. The poster shows an image from the Central High School desegregation efforts in 1957 above an image from Boston in 1974. No copies located though one is likely held at Miller’s unprocessed as of 2021 archive at UMass-Amherst. A note on the front reads “10-11x-1974†suggesting that he found the poster over a month before the planned event. Ad Hoc Committee for December 14 unknown
1940178391940. Unidentified photographers two photographs of African American adult education settings circa 1940s documenting literacy training and continuing education among Black adults in both Southern and Northern urban contexts. The material provides primary visual evidence of adult education initiatives addressing limited formal schooling opportunities supporting research into African American educational access self-improvement movements and the social conditions shaping learning during and after the Great Depression particularly within the broader context of Black migration and urban labor transitions.<br /> <br /> Two silver gelatin prints depicting classroom environments in Montgomery Alabama and Akron Ohio. One photograph produced by the Stewart Studio of Akron shows six African American adults seated in a row reviewing printed instructional material with an instructor standing behind them suggesting a structured literacy or skills-based lesson. The participants are dressed in formal or semi-formal attire indicating the social importance of education within adult communities. The second photograph embossed by the Donner Photography Studio of Montgomery presents a densely filled classroom of approximately fifty adult students gathered for a night class with individuals seated closely together facing forward and engaged in instruction. The scale of attendance indicates organized and sustained participation in adult education programs likely conducted outside standard working hours.<br /> <br /> Two photographs measuring approximately 9 x 7.25 inches and 9 x 5.5 inches. These images emerge from a period when many African American adults particularly those raised in the segregated South had limited access to formal education and later sought literacy and vocational training through community-based programs. The contrast between Southern and Northern locations reflects broader patterns associated with the Great Migration as individuals relocated for industrial employment while pursuing educational advancement. Light marginal soiling and small edge cracks visible images remain clear and stable; overall very good condition. A concise visual record of mid-twentieth-century African American adult education efforts across regional contexts. unknown
190514031905. Watercolor on board with black crayon 8 1/2 x 11 inches 215 x 280 mm. Minor age tone and a dog-eared lower right corner. Notations in pencil on the verso. An unfinished but spirited plein-air composition of what appears to be the Shenandoah or Potomac River valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. unknown
19125605Quarter blue cloth over paper covered boards. Title to front. Moisture marks to covers' fore edge see images. 13 1/2 x 18 1/4 inches; 31 plates. Guérinet hardcover
188116923<p>Philadelphia: 1881 First edition. The petition was presented to the Department of Education of the City of Philadelphia on March 8 1881. . Original buff paper wrappers with printed title. . Octavo. Wrappers worn away at spine though binding holds firm. Dust soiling to wrappers. Contemporary color pencil signature at top margin of front cover. Small open tear to corner of first leaf at gutter. A very good copy of a scarce item concerning impartial education in schools. Anna Scull 1832 - the principal of the Hunter Girls' Grammar School in Philadelphia was accused by several parents of criticizing Catholicism and promoting the Lutheran Reformation during lessons she taught. The present work contains testimonies by parents and students alleging that Scull had "attacked vilified and abused the faith religion and belief" of Catholic students p. 52. She was also accused of vocally favoring Lutheranism in class by discussing Luther's opposition to the sale of indulgences by Pope Leo X p. 59. The Board of the Department of Education ultimately dismissed the case against Scull stating that they could not "recommend such deference to the religious zeal of any denomination or denominations as would prevent the impartial teaching in our public schools of the prominent facts of history" p. 159.</p>
189021901890. Watercolor on watercolor paper 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches 248 x 299 mm the full sheet. With charming primo pensiero and unfinished detail in the form of a small child lying in his stomach in the grass. On the verso are two landscape compositions; a patchwork farm landscape and a wooded meadow with foothills in the distance both in watercolor. Minor light toning and several scattered small spots of light brown discoloration. Pigments remain fresh and saturated. unknown
182024251820. Watercolor and graphite on wove paper laid down to board 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches 190 x 267 mm the full sheet. Uniform toning and minor attenuation. A wonderful plein-air landscape likely a preparatory painting for a larger planned work. A scene reminiscent of Cotman and Constable the image is of an industrial riverbank where goods were transferred from water to land and vice versa. Moored along a jetty is a Thames Sailing Barge identifiable by its iconic reddish-brown sprit sail. These flat-bottomed barges were perfectly adapted to the Thames Estuary with its shallow waters and narrow tributary rivers. unknown
191021521910. Graphite on light wove paper 9 1/4 x 6 inches 235 x 152 mm the full sheet. In very good condition. The object appearing at the top of the page is one of the most famous musical instruments from the French Renaissance. This Trompe de Chasse hunting horn was made by Italian master goldsmith Domenico Rota for King Francis I of France in 1537. The object below is an ornate silver and gold clasp with relief the artist's notes indicate that it is from the Davillier collection. Both the clasp and the horn originate from of a significant bequest to the Louvre that was made by Baron Jean-Charles Davillier whose collection is the cornerstone of the museum's French Decorative Art collection. These works are likely housed in the Richelieu wing. unknown
18639861863. Watercolor and graphite on lightweight card stock 10 x 13 3/4 inches 252 x 347 mm the full sheet. Titled inscribed and dated "63" in pencil in the lower right. Overall attenuation some chips at the sheet edges most notably at the center-bottom. Condition consistent with age. unknown
1373Graphite on grayish brown laid paper 4 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches 107 x 217 mm the full sheet. In good condition with light toning and a small loss at the lower left corner. There are additioinal studies on the verso which further explain the subject matter. unknown
1435Engraving on light wove paper with a large Amsterdam Coat of Arms watermark 9 5/16 x 7 1/2 inches 236 x 190 mm narrow margins. Scattered light areas of discoloration handling creases and pencil notations on the verso. unknown
285Etching on handmade laid paper with a large indiscernible heraldic watermark 3 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches 94 x 222 mm trimmed inside platemark. Several light spots of foxing along right edge verso one area of light thinning at bottom sheet edge left quadrant viewing from verso. A humorous composition with a smiling Satyr and a Sphinx. unknown