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176 pages. Index. "When Norman Rockwell was at the height of his career in the late 1940's, he wrote a delightful book called How I Make a Picture. It was the basis for an advanced illustration course at the Famous Artists School, but was never made available to the general public. We are now delighted to have this unique opportunity to make Rockwell's original book available for the first time in an expanded version, containing full-color reproductions of the artists best work along with previously unpublished color sketches." - from Publisher's Note. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which bears some staining and a taped repair to bottom edge of back panel. A sound copy of this special book. Please note: we believe the ISBN stated on the publisher's page of this copy, 083202380x, is incorrect and have changed it to what we believe is the correct number. Book
xiii, 1190 pages. Glossary. Index. Hundreds of black and white reproductions of archival photos. Map endpapers. "Into the wilderness came the tough, the persistent, the adventuresome, and the colorful. Here they met people from a great variety of backgrounds and learned to live together and benefit from one another's differences. We could not leave this history to die with our pioneers - their lifetimes will become permanent through this history book." - Foreword. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this invaluable local history and genealogical reference. Wetherell 6-54, Krotki (2) 917. Book
94 pages. Authorized by the Council of Public Instruction of Ontario. "Deny the divine origin of Scripture and nevertheless you must keep the volume (Bible) as a kind of text book of morality, if indeed you did not wish the banishment from our houses of all that is lovely and sacred, and breaking up, through the lawlessness of ungovernable passion, of the quiet and beauty which are yet around our familes." - from Prefatory Notice. Contains 16 lessons. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling to embossed black cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. Prior owner's name upon front free endpaper else unmarked. Foxing to endpapers and contents. Valuable historical evidence of the prominence once placed upon Christian education and morality in the schools of Ontario. Author was a very influential Canadian in his day. A rare surviving copy. Book
iv, 333 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos. Fold-out map inside back cover indicates local landowners. A highly informative local history of this district just south of Foremost, Alberta. "The material in this book is based on old-timers' stories, records and research into various organizations. If [they help] you gain a better understanding of the harsh realities and the hopes and dreams of your forefathers' day, then this book will have served its purpose." - iii. Includes almost 150 pages of family histories. Prior owner has penned local map details onto illustrations on front cover and title page. Gift greetings atop title page. Average wear. A sound copy of this wonderful local history and invaluable genealogical reference. Strathern 3242, Krotki [2e] 924. Book
52 pages. Includes the following immortal songs: Crime of the Century; Bloody Well Right; Rudy; Dreamer; School; Hide in Your Shell; Asylum; If Everyone was Listening. Above-average wear. Unmarked. Has probably been rebound with convenient spiral binding. A rare surviving collection of these songs which will forever live within the 70's generation. Book
8vo., handsomely bound in contemporary calf, sides diced within a double gilt fillet border stopped at corners with a gilt rosette and enclosing in corners the Harrow 'crossed arrows' tool in gilt, back gilt extra with five raised bands, compartments tooled alternately to a geometric 'key' design and the 'crossed arrows' tool within a filigree frame, edges of boards gauffred in gilt, doublures tooled in blind, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, A FINE EXAMPLE OF AN EXTENDED HARROW PRIZE BINDING with the School's engraved prize armorial bookplate of the period, inscribed to Bertram Hunt in the name of Henry Butler and dated 1875.
20192-1696304490Independently published 2019. Paperback. New. 436 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.03 inches. Independently published paperback
1913477241 vol. grand in-4 reliure demi-basane rouge, Cours d'Art Militaire. Ecole Polytechnique Instruction Militaire. Année 1913-1914 : Génie. Travaux de Campagne. 2 Conférences. Août 1913, 89 pp. [ Capitaine Piquet ] - Aéronautique. Août 1913, 69 pp. [Capitaine Barré ] - Administration. 2 Conférences. Novembre 1913 [ Capitaine Pesseaud ], 43 pp. - Service des Armées en Campagne. 2 Conférences, Novembre 1913, 43 pp. [ Capitaine Morellet ] - Cours d'Artillerie. 3e Partie 3 Conférences, Août 1913, 28-29-42 pp. [ Capitaine Morellet ] - L'Officier dans la Nation Armée. Décembre 1913, 55 pp. [ Capitaine Cattin ] - Conférence d'Education Physique. Avril 1914, 20 pp. [ Capitaine Menjaud ] - Conférences à l'Ecole Polytechnique destinées à mettre en évidence les relations qui existent entre la théorie et les application, 14-30-19-19-29-40 pp. [ Sur les Sous-Marins, avec 2 grandes planches dépliantes ] et 8 planches puis 11 planches dépliantes [ Soit pour l'ensemble de l'ouvrage 21 planches dépliantes ]
20212081502111904331Chinese book office 2021. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese book office paperback
SLIVCN-9781685079871NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC (9/2022)
8vo., with engraved portrait frontispiece; handsomely bound in full light tan calf BY ZAEHNSDORF, boards with double frame border stopped at corners with rosettes all in gilt, upper board with Uppingham crest blocked in gilt, back with five raised bands tooled in gilt, second and fourth compartments with green and red leather labels ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments richly tooled in gilt to an art nouveau floral design, gilt dentelles, gilt doublures, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, silk headbands, a splendid example of a notable prize binding. The frontispiece is by Finden after Wageman.
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
90698aafFrankfurt a/m., Druck u. Verlag v. E.G. May & Wirsing, o.J., um 1870, 39 x 28.3 cm, handkolorierte Lithographie, Passepartout (52.5x42.5 cm).
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