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Californians "As We See 'Em." A Volume of Cartoons and Caricatures
S. l. San Francisco: Published by E.A. Thomson from the Press of the Stanley-Taylor Company 1906. Hardcover. First edition; 11 3/4 x 8 3/4; pp. 7 8-302; rebacked with original black leatherette over boards preserved; gilt title to spine and front board; rubbed spots along edges of boards; illustrated with full-page black & white engraved plates; overall in very good condition. A spectacular and quite amusing collection of caricatures of early-20th century Californians with most of them notable railroad barons politicians merchants etc. of San Francisco but also some from Los Angeles Sacramento and a few other cities. Of the more colorful characters pictured are United States Federal Judge William Cary Van Fleet California entrepreneur and engineer Henry 'H.C' Cutting and so on. The illustrations are accomplished by 22 renowned San Francisco cartoonists including Rube Goldberg Chas Donnelly Laura E. Foster and Anna Fulton. S. l. (San Francisco): Published by E.A. Thomson from the Press of the Stanley-Taylor Company hardcover books
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GOP Gourmet Goodies. A Collection of Gourmet Delights Contributed by Leading Republicans from Throughout the United States
Canton Ohio: The Stark County Young Republican Club 1965. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/2 x 7; pp. 1-47; illustrated card stock wraps; plastic comb binding; very light wear to corners; small spot to bottom edge; illustrated with photographs; very good to near fine condition. An apparently unrecorded and quite current in these times of pre-election debates the cookbook contains numerous recipes sent in by leading Republicans of the mid-20th century including Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower's Sugar Cookies Senator Strom Thurmond's Pecan Pie Senator Margaret Margaret Chase Smith's Maine Clam Chowder and many more. Canton, Ohio: The Stark County Young Republican Club paperback books
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Almanaque Dulce 1940
Mexico D. F.: Union Nacional de Productores de Azucar 1940. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 6 1/2; pp. 3-96; illustrated wraps; light age-toning to wraps; faint crease to upper corner; illustrated with in-line drawings; very good or better condition. In Spanish. The journal published annually by the National Union of Sugar Producers in Mexico provided an astounding array of recipes for cakes marmalades rolls and biscuits tamales and so on. It also included articles with helpful household hints and an almanac calendar of holidays. Mexico, D. F.: Union Nacional de Productores de Azucar paperback books
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Almanaque Dulce 1937
Mexico D. F.: Union Nacional de Productores de Azucar 1937. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 6 1/2; pp. 3-96; illustrated wraps; small chip to bottom edge of front wrap and a minor cut to tail of spine; mild wear to wraps; illustrated with in-line drawings; very good condition. In Spanish. The journal published annually by the National Union of Sugar Producers in Mexico provided an astounding array of recipes for cakes marmalades rolls and biscuits tamales and so on. It also included articles with helpful household hints and an almanac calendar of holidays. Mexico, D. F.: Union Nacional de Productores de Azucar paperback books
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The Land of Oranges
S. l. Los Angeles CA: California Fruit Growers Exchange 1932. Softcover. First edition thus; 5 3/4 x 4 1/4; pp. 1-12; chromolithographed wraps; small nicks to tips of spine and corners; small closed cut to bottom edge of front wrap; illustrated with b & w drawings and two tables; very good or better condition. A charming coloring book for children it told the story of Betty and Billy visiting their Uncle Jim who lives on a ranch in California and grows orange trees. Kids were supposed to read the story and color the illustrations with crayons and water colors. The booklet also contained height and weight charts for keeping records of the development of its little owners and a list of good health rules. A sad fact of the times was that the prevalent reality of the California citriculture was that it completely relied on immigrant minority groups and more specifically Chinese Japanese and Mexican workers while literature and art portrayed the industry as always and only involving white people including the front wrap illustration of the current book which showed a white father and his two children gazing contentedly down rows of orange trees. S. l. (Los Angeles, CA): California Fruit Growers Exchange paperback books
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A Small Collection of Material from the Pennsylvania Prison Society
Various 1904. Softcover. Typed letter original envelope and two receipts. Letter on The Pennsylvania Prison Society stationary - 11 x 8 1/2 - date and name in manuscript; pp. 2 recto only; fold lines with a small nick at one of the folds; near fine condition. Receipts - 3 x 5; printed and partially filled in manuscript. The Pennsylvania Prison Society originally named The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons was established in 1787 by a group of prominent figures of US history including Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Rush and others. It aimed to reform the existing harsh penal code and to improve the appalling state of the penal institutions. The letter by the General Secretary of the organization John J. Lytle addressed one C. S. Wurtz - thanking him for his donation of $5 for the relief of discharged prisoners and enclosing a short explanation of how the money would be spent to help the former inmates become productive members of society. The receipts indicating the ammount of money donated were issued to Wurtz in 1903 and 1904. Various paperback books
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An Archive of Publications by the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute TsAGI
Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheskoe izdatel'stvo 1930. Softcover. Twenty three booklets various publication dates 1928 - 1932; 10 1/2 x 7; condition varies from near fine with minor wear to good with a few chips and cuts along edges and general age-toning and spotting; illustrated with photographs drawings graphs and large gold-out tables. In Russian some of the booklets with a summary in English. The Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute TsAGI an abbreviation of the transliteration of the Russian name of the institute was founded in 1918 by the father of Russian aviation Nikolai Zhukovskii 1847 - 1921. It would be the first institution to combine basic education applied research structural design pilot training and testing. Today TsAGI is one of the largest research and production institutions in the world and throughout its existence it has pioneered various aviation technologies applications and studies. The current publications include "Thermo-barochamber" "A Study of the Kiln-drying of Pine for Aircraft Applications" " The Effects of Tip-shields on the Aerodynamic Characteristics of an Airfoil" and others. Please inquire for a complete list of titles. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe tekhnicheskoe izdatel'stvo paperback books
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An Outrageous Archive of Crank Letters Theories and Demands of the Smithsonian Institute and the Director of the American Museum of Natural History Frederick Augustus Lucas
By the authors 1885. Softcover. Ten letters four manuscripts and six typed copies transcriptions one photograph 1884 - 1904; pp. 36 altogether in various formats; several small rust spots from paper clips; fold lines; one of them with a small red stamped number filing ; very good or better condition. An interesting and quite amusing collection of letters from all over the country spanning 20 years and mostly addressed to Frederick Lucas or to Smithsonian officials about Lucas it presumably belonged to Frederick himself. Frederick Augustus Lucas 1852 - 1929 was a prominent naturalist a major figure in the Great American Museum Movement Curator in Chief of the Brooklyn Museum and Director of the Museum of Natural History. Some of the letters addressed the Secretary and the Curator of the Smithsonian Institute in an angry indignant and incredulous tone complaining about Lucas' disregard of their fantastic discoveries of the natural world which had been previously brought to his attention. One memorable rant accompanied by an original photograph of the bone in question stated: "Dear Sir I acknowledge the return of skeleton but cannot sign receipt sent "as the breast-bone of a horse" The reason I sent the skeleton to you was that I believed that employers were fully competent to discharge their duties. I would suggest that you pump the whisky out of Lucas and send him to the lunatic asylum or Keely Institute." Another one addressed "Pro. Lucas" described in great detail with manuscript drawings a strange skull which Lucas had suggested belonged to a sheep refuting his opinion and asking for a closer examination. A third letter long and winded read: "Dear Sir Lucas.Sometime ago I read about you having an article in a paper about a large animal known by the name of Dinosaur. Your article was the first thing that I ever read about this monster." Other letters speculate about minerals fossils an "incredible petrified tree" etc. and the last one is a request for information about a Taxidermy examination and possible employment. By the authors paperback books
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W. & J. Sloane Original Art Rug Designs with Yarn Samples
S. l. San Francisco: W. & J. Sloane Design Room 1929. Softcover. Five poster boards various sizes up to 19 1/2 x 12 1/2; in pencil water colors and ink; yarn samples attached to one of the boards with old pieces of tape; manuscript notes and measurements to margins; general wear to edges; a few cuts and spots not affecting the drawings; rubbing to margins of one of the boards; ink stamps of W. & J. Sloane to lower right corner; very good or better condition. Stunning bright custom rug designs by the preeminent designer and supplier of rugs and furniture to the rich and famous of the 19th and the early 20th centuries for the family of businessman and timber baron Lowell Thomas Murray of Tacoma WA. W. & J. Sloane was founded in 1843 in New York by Scottish-American brothers William and John Sloane. They would become the first to import oriental rugs into the US and the first to coin themselves "Interior Decorators and Home Furnishers." The company opened a branch in San Francisco in 1915 originally to furnish the pavilions at the Panama-Pacific Exposition but staying on for the demand for their products. They prospered and catered to the American elite until 1955 when the business control left the hands of the direct descendants of the Sloane brothers. The firm over-expanded lowered its quality and prices and ultimately filed for bankruptcy in 1985. L. T. Murray Sr. moved West from Ohio in 1906. He would found the West Fork Timber Company the Pan Pacific Trading Company and the Pan Pacific International Corporation and would become President of the Pacific Logging Congress established in 1909 to provide technical education about the forest industry. S. l. (San Francisco): W. & J. Sloane Design Room paperback books
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âPolnyi mesiatsoslov vsekh prazdnuemykh pravoslavnoiu grekovostochnoiu tserkoviiu sviatykh sobrannyi iz Moskovskikh i Kievskikh sviattsov iz prologa i chet-minei s priobshcheniem k nemu na kontse tolkovaniia imen po alfavituâ bound together with âIstoricheskoe opisanie nakhodiashchikhsia v Rossii eparkhii monastyrei i tserkvei s pokazaniem: nachala i postroeniia onykh; krestnykh khodov; khramovykh prazdnikov v Sanktpeterburge i Moskve; Paskhalii na 50 let; i dostopamiatneishikh v Rossii proizshestvii Khronologicheskim poriadkomâ âComplete Menology of All of the Celebrated Greek Eastern Orthodox Eastern Church Saints Collected from the Moscow and the Kiev Calendars from the Prolog and the Menaion with Interpretation of the Names in Alphabetical Order at the Endâ bound together with âA Historical Description of the Dioceses Monasteries and Churches in Russia with Information on their Foun
Sanktpeterburg: Imperatorskoi akademii nauk/Sanktpeterburg: Tipografii Ivana Glazunova 1822. Hardcover. Two books bound together the first title presumed second edition OCLC lists only a 1817 edition and the second title is a second edition 1822 and 1825; 8 1/2 x 5 1/4; respectively: pp. 7 4-146 and pp. 1 IV-XV 2 2-228; 1/4 brown morocco and marbled boards; gilt dentelles and title to spine; laid paper; 1 1/2" cut to tail of spine; rubbed spots to corners; small label to upper margin of front board; remnants of a bookplate to front board verso; a small inked number and two stamps from the Kiev Historical Library and another German library; the first book illustrated with 25 full-page wood engravings the second with a large fold-out table; overall in very good condition. Both early-19th-century important works the books documented the holidays customs and religious landmarks of the Russian Eastern Orthodox Church. The first title literally translated as "The Book of Months" was essentially an ecclesiastical calendar containing the names of the saints in order of the dates on which they were commemorated and the festivals in their honor. Each month's entry was illustrated with beautiful wood engravings which depicted that month's saints as portrayed by the Orthodox Church. The second book gave descriptions and histories of famous Russian monasteries noteworthy cathedrals and churches in St. Petersburg and Moscow and more. Sanktpeterburg: Imperatorskoi akademii nauk/Sanktpeterburg: Tipografii Ivana Glazunova hardcover books
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Russkoe bogatstvo. Ezhemesiachnyi literaturnyi i nauchnyi zhurnal No. 3 Mart 1884 / No. 11 Noiabr 1884 Russian Wealth. Monthly Literary and Scientific Journal No. 3 March 1884 / No. 11 November 1884
S.-Peterburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina 1884. Hardcover. Two volumes; 9â x 6â ; pp. 511-710 40 and pp. 1 242-475 7; 1/4 roan and marbled boards; small paper labels to spines; rubbed spots along edges; No. 3 lacking half-title page; No. 11 illustrated with 2 pp. of steel engravings; previous ownerâs signature to title pages; small stamps from a Sapper Army batallionâs library to ffep; good to very good condition. Russian Wealth was a literary political and scientific journal published between 1876 and 1918 first founded in Moscow and then moved to St. Petersburg. The publicationâs liberal Narodnik Populist orientation was set early on when Nikolai Zlatovratskii became the editor and later after 1892 when Nikolai Mikhailovskii and Vladimir Korolenko took over the journal became immensely popular with the radical intelligentsia. Contributors to the publicistic and the fiction sections included Maxim Gorky Uspensky Annensky Kuprin and many others. The publication was intermittently harassed by censorship temporarily banned in 1906 and 1914 and shut down for good in 1918 by the Bolshevik authorities. S.-Peterburg: Tipografiia A. S. Suvorina hardcover books
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An Archive of Material Related to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia from the Collection of Archpriest Mikhail Polskii of San Francisco
Various 1940. Softcover. Various places various dates 1930s to 1960s. Forty two original photographs various sizes and mediums many of them with manuscript notes captions and inscriptions; eight photo-cards brochures etc.; three letters and documents; condition varies from very good - several photos with glue and paper remnants from being pasted to albums a few creases and chips - to near fine or better with very minor wear. - An interesting archive of photos and papers documenting events and people of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia and the life of Mikhail Polskii 1891 - 1960 presumably from his personal collection of material. Archpriest theologian and author Polskii entered the Moscow Theological Academy in 1921 which was closed down by the authorities a short time later. He was arrested in 1923 during the 1921 - 1928 Anti-religious Campaign and sentenced to hard labor at the Solovki Prison Camp and later in 1929 he was sent into a 3-year exile in Syktykvar. He escaped in 1930 first to Palestine and in 1934 to Beirut where he was a Rector of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad ROCA in Beirut. He lived in London from 1938 to 1948 when he came to California. He was the Archpriest of the Cathedral of Joy of All who Sorrow in San Francisco from 1952 until 1959. Many of the photographs are of Polskii himself alone and with people from his flock and images of other dignitaries and religious leaders of ROCA. The more memorable ones include portraits of Archbishop Leontii and Arkhimandrit Antonii iof Jerusalem inscribed. Others depict religious ceremonies and a group photo in front of the Cathedral of Joy of All who Sorrow. The last two images are different - the first that of Nikolai Feodorovich Printsev of the Special Corps of Gendarmes 1911 and the second of the Representatives of the Russian Imperial Family in Bulgaria. - The photo-cards and leaflets contain photos of representatives of ROCA including Archpriest Vasilii Musin-Pushkin Bishop Iosif Taganrogskii and others. - Typed letter signed by the Russian Technical Association - an emigre organization in Beirut - thanking Mikhail Polskii for the series of religious lectures he has delivered to members of the organization and to Russian community in Lebanon. - Manuscript letter with the signatures of emigres in London expressing gratitude for his lectures and explaining that the money enclosed not present are to be used to ensure the future of the journal "Na strazh pravoslaviia." -Large certificate of merit printed illustrated and hand-filled by Feofil Pashkovskii Archbishop of San Francisco and Bishop of All America and Canada. Various paperback books
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Summer Specialties Catalog and Sample Circular
Graydon Palmer Co. 1898. Softcover. Catalog: 9 x 3 3/4; pp. 1-16; beige wraps printed in brown; light creasing; small spot to back wrap; illustrated with photographs and drawings; very good or better condition. Sample circular: 6 x 8 1/2; single sheet recto only; pink stock printed in black; 11 swatches of fabric glued to the paper; glue dots bleeding through a few of the lighter-colored cloth; light fraying; very good condition. Fragile and beautifully preserved pieces of ephemera the catalog and sample circular outline the highlights of women's fashion at the end of the 19th century. The Graydon Palmer Company of Chicago has meticulously described the various ladies' suits and sets including the "Fancy Duck Suit" and the "Bicycle Suit." Also indicated are the fabrics used for each ware which can be viewed touched and compared on the accompanying circular. The last few pages of the catalog showcase sailor hats parasols hair switches and more. Graydon Palmer Co. paperback books
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Clement Company Catalog and Sample Book
Chicago: Clement Company 1925. Softcover. First edition; 11 x 8; pp. 2 2-31 2; illustrated wraps; splits to tips of spine; thin discolored spot along fore-edge of last few leaves not affecting illustrations; color and b & w illustrations; 19 swatches of fabric affixed to pages; very good- condition. With such a beautiful catalog and sample book of the Clement Company it is apparent that it caters to gentlemen with acute fashion sense and value conscience as the suits are made of expensive fabrics and cut quite the dashing lines but at the same time - extended monthly payments are allowed just so men can get "fine quality for economy." Also offered in the catalog are hats boys' clothing fancy leather shoes and more. Chicago: Clement Company paperback books
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California the Empire Beautiful. Her Great Bays Harbors Mines Orchards and Vineyards Olive Lemon and Orange Groves. Her Men and Women a Prophecy of the Coming Race
San Francisco: Mrs. J. J. Owen 1899. Hardcover. First edition; oblong 9 x 12; pp. 250; tan cloth over boards; gilt title and decorations to front board; small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; several spots to boards; illustrated with in-line and full-page photographic plates and steel engravings; light foxing to first and last few pages; text mostly clean with occasional finger smudges to margins; good to very good condition. Published under the auspices of the Native Sons and the Native Daughters of the Golden West - the former a fraternal organization and the latter their sister organization dedicated to preservation and documentation of historic landmarks in California - the book is a beautiful pictorial history of California describing the Golden State in words and photographs. San Francisco: Mrs. J. J. Owen hardcover books
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Prix â Courant No. 13 de la Fabrique de Chaussures Veltheim Current Prices No. 13 of the Veltheim Shoes Factory
Veltheim: A. Trub & Cie 1913. Softcover. First edition; oblong 4 ½ x 5 ¾; pp. 12; grey wraps printed in black; very minor wear to corners and edges; illustrated; near fine condition. A handsome catalog and price list of the wares of a Swiss shoe factory it showcases beautiful boots for jockeys ladies officers and sports shoes. It also illustrates and explains the precise measures to be taken of the foot and leg for custom orders. Veltheim: A. Trub & Cie paperback books
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Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalogue No. 101 Fall and Winter 1924 â 25
Chicago Ill: Montgomery Ward & Co. 1924. Softcover. First edition; 13 ¼ x 9; pp. 724; illustrated wraps; chips with some loss of paper to edges; fore-edge of pages a bit brittle; darkening and staining to upper corner; illustrated in b & w and color; good to very good condition. A massive catalog known as the âWish Bookâ of the self-proclaimed âmost progressive and oldestâ mail order house it was published in the last year of its dry-goods mail-order-only business model before the first retail outlet store was opened in Plymouth Indiana in 1926. Founded in 1872 by Aaron Ward the business was demolished before and reestablished after the Great Chicago Fire became known for the then revolutionary âsatisfaction guaranteed or your money backâ policy and was nominated by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 books to influence the life and culture of US Americans. Known for their reasonable prices and enormous lavishly-illustrated catalogs the company would also be remembered for creating the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer character as part of a promotional Christmas campaign in 1939. Chicago, Ill: Montgomery Ward & Co. paperback books
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1913 Blackmore & Langdonâs Catalogue of Begonias Carnations Delphiniums Blue Primroses Cyclamen Violets Polyanthus Etc.
Bath: Twerton Hill Nursery 1913. Softcover. First edition; 8 ¾ x 5 ½; pp. 64; green illustrated wraps; small puncture to spine; a spot of red wax to back wrap; minor wear to corners and edges; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. Blackmore & Langdon was founded in 1901 after two passionate flower enthusiasts Charles Langdon â a gardener - and James Blackmore â an engineer and owner of a public house â met at the Bath Flower Show both exhibiting prize-winning begonias. Beginning with delphiniums and begonias they would add many more plants to the range and would continue to be major hybridizers throughout their lifetimes. Though extremely successful the Blackmore side of the business survived only two generations while the Langdons in their forth generation kept the business in the family and are still going strong today. Bath: Twerton Hill Nursery paperback books
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Macmillan Textbooks for Elementary Schools 1928 â 1929
S. l. New York : The Macmillan Company 1928. Softcover. First edition; 7 ¼ x 5; pp. 154; illustrated green wraps; a few scattered spots of foxing; illustrated with photographs b & w and color illustrations; very good conditions. A large and wonderfully illustrated catalog of textbooks by the Macmillan Company covering every imaginable subject and featuring several âuniqueâ ones including Industrial Arts Americanization Religion etc. S. l. [New York (?)]: The Macmillan Company paperback books
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Historic Old Sacramento
Sacramento CA: Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sacramento 1960. Softcover. First edition n. d. ca 1960; 10 x 10; pp. 16; illustrated textured wraps; minor wear and creasing to tips of spine and corners; illustrated with drawings and photographs; very good to near fine condition. Documenting the major project of restoring and conserving "Old Sacramento" undertaken by the Redevelopment Agency in the 1960s the book contains fascinating photographs and drawings of the historic area since its founding in 1839 its history and the plans for its renovation and preservation. Sacramento, CA: Redevelopment Agency of the City of Sacramento paperback books
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A Small Collection of Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition Ribbons
Seattle WA: Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition 1909. Softcover. Nine silk ribbons in beige red white green yellow and orange; various sizes approx. 8 x 2; printed in green gold orange and black with two of them illustrated in color; some wrinkles from being rolled; a bit of fraying to top and bottom edges affecting one letter on one of the ribbons; good to very good condition. A colorful collection of ribbons it represents various days of the exposition and include: two identical "Tacoma" ribbons a "Union County July 27 1909" ribbon a "Siskiyou County California" ribbon a "Riverside California" ribbon a "Live in Olympia" ribbon a "Alameda County California" ribbon and two identical "San Diego California the Naples of America" beautifully illustrated with a flower ribbons. The AlaskaâYukonâPacific Exposition was a world's fair held at the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle in 1909. The main goal of the exposition was to promote the development of the Pacific Northwest. It lasted from June 1 until October 16 and although only Canada and Japan represented foreign countries the exposition featuring various days dedicated to US states organizations and ethnic groups was a roaring success. By the time it closed close to 4 million people had attended. The fair did not pass without controversies including a month-old orphan boy that was raffled as a prize. Seattle, WA: Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition paperback books
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Pamiatnaia knizhka na 1842 Yearbook for 1842
S.-Peterburg St. Petersburg: V voennoi tipografii 1841. Hardcover. First edition; 4 3/4 x 3; pp. 12 1-360 10; dark blue polished calf with lavish gilt decorations; card stock slipcase with gilt decorations identical to those on boards; gilt page edges gilt dentelles; small rubbed spots to tips of spine and corners; hinges slightly weakened text block still solidly attached; lacking silk page marker; illustrated with 19 steel-engraved plates; two small spots from bookplate removed on ffep; overall very good or better condition. Slipcase with small loss of paper to corners; a few scratches and cuts; good to very good condition. Published at the end of the previous year and released on January 1 of each new year lavishly illustrated and quite expensive for the times the almanac was intended for use by not only military officers but also "any educated persons" Belinskii V. 1959. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii ukazateli Vol. XIII p. 123. Moskva: Akademii nauk SSSR. This particular edition apparently contained 5 times more engraved plates than those for the previous years and featured views of the Peterhof Palace the Imperial Fleet peasants in a village near Moscow and more. Among the subjects included were a menology postal schedule and prices various taxes and most importantly the changed and improved at the time state of ranks of the Army and the Navy dress protocols military schools foreign affairs and so on. S.-Peterburg (St. Petersburg): V voennoi tipografii hardcover books
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California Winter Sports Guide 1941 - 42
San Francisco/Sacramento/Etc.: Winter Sports Committee California State Chamber of Commerce 1941. Softcover. First edition; 8 x 11 ý; pp. 7 including text to wraps; some rubbing to edges and spine; intersecting crease lines with wear along them; illustrated with photographs and maps; good to very good condition. A fragile survivor of a time when skiing was picking up speed in California and the California Ski Association established as a direct result of losing the 1932 Winter Olympic Games to Lake Placid NY was still in its infancy. Though titled with the somewhat generic "Winter Sports Guide" it was largely devoted to skiing and featured several drawn maps of ski trails and ski tows in Northern Central and Southern California a 1941 - 1942 calendar of "where to go what to do" detailing ski competitions tours classes etc. and photographs of skiers ski jumpers and various events. Not in OCLC or in the trade. San Francisco/Sacramento/Etc.: Winter Sports Committee, California State Chamber of Commerce paperback books
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Winter Sports for 1939
Oakland CA: Tribune Press 1939. Softcover. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. 31; illustrated wraps; small chip to upper right corner and a pen scribble to front wrap; a bit of wear along spine; illustrated with maps diagrams tables photographs and drawings; good to very good condition. Compliments of the Oakland Tribune the pamphlet was a fragile survivor of a time when skiing was picking up speed in California and the California Ski Association established as a direct result of losing the 1932 Winter Olympic Games to Lake Placid NY was still in its infancy. Though titled with the somewhat generic "Winter Sports" it was largely devoted to skiing and featured several drawn maps of ski trails and ski tows in Northern and Central California 11 lessons in downhill skiing jumping turning etc. ice skating tips and more. Oakland, CA: Tribune Press paperback books
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The "OXO" Cook Book
London: OXO Limited 1920. Softcover. First edition presumed n. d. ca 1920; 7 x 4 3/4; pp. 16; illustrated stiff wraps; a small spot and minor age-toning to margins; mild wear to edges; brown and beige in-line illustrations; very good condition. Possibly one of the earliest OXO cooking booklets it contained recipes by various women that had been mailed to the company as an expression of the cooks' great satisfaction in using OXO cubes in their cooking and included such delightful concoctions such as OXO Blanc Mange OXO Devilled Bananas and OXO Jambon Savory. The OXO beaf stock cubes were first introduced in 1910 as a cheaper version to the original product which had been a viscous liquid containing only meat extract and 4% salt. Presumably the brand name OXO was derived from "ox." The OXO products greatly expanded from those early days are still very popular to this day. London: OXO Limited paperback books
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Cooking Georgia Chicken with Georgia's First Ladies
S. l. Gainesville GA : s. n. Georgia Poultry Federation 1977. Softcover. First edition thus n. d. ca 1977; 6 3/4 x 3 3/4; 3-fold pamphlet; yellow stock printed in dark blue; illustrated front wrap; very minor wear near fine or better condition. An interesting ephemeral item the pamphlet advertised and encouraged people to submit recipes for the Georgia State Cook-off. Of the four recipes featured one was Mrs. Rosalynn Carter's Chicken Supreme and another was the 1976 winner of the cook-off Mrs. Anne Belle's Pollo Pane. S. l. (Gainesville, GA [?]): s. n. (Georgia Poultry Federation [?]) paperback books
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Francis Bannerman Sons 85th Anniversary Military Goods Catalog January 1950
New York: Francis Bannerman Sons 1950. Softcover. First edition; 11 1/4 x 8 1/2; pp. 12; bright yellow illustrated wraps; a bit of foxing and spotting to margins; two punch holes along spine; several penciled notations to pages; illustrated with numerous photographs and woodcuts; good to very good condition. One of the most prolific militaria and arms dealers in the second half of the 19th and throughout the 20th centuries was the firm of Francis Bannerman and Sons. He immigrated with his family from Scotland to the US in 1854 and set up business buying surplus goods from navy stores and auctions. He would become one of the largest militaria dealers in the world and his store at 501 Broadway in New York City would take an entire city block. Bannerman began publishing his catalog sometime in the 1870 and it was printed regularly until the 1960s. It had everything in it - from uniforms to weapons and from knapsacks to gun parts and appendages. New York: Francis Bannerman Sons paperback books
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Detskoe Chtenie. Knizhechka No. 1/Knizhechka No. 2 Children's Reading. Books No. 1 and 2
Kharbin: Tipografiia Kazansko-Bogoroditskago Muzhekogo Monastyria 1929. Softcover. First editions issues 1 and 2 for January and February 1929; 7 3/4 x 5 1/2; illustrated wraps; issue 1 with thin cuts at tips of spine spotting to margins of pages illustrated very good condition; issue 2 lacking back wrap front wrap detached with some loss of paper lower corner trimmed previous owner's signature to front wrap illustrated in about good condition. Quite uncommon and fragile examples of the very first two issues of a children's magazine published as a supplements to the "Khleb Nebesnyi" Bread of Heaven journal for the White emigre community in Harbin China. Spiritual cultural and moral the publications were printed at the Mother of God of Kazan Monastery in Harbin which had its own publishing house. They came out monthly from 1929 until 1935 when the Manchukuo Manchuria formed by the Japanese military administration in the occupied territories banned their publication. For the next year the journals came out at interminable intervals under various one-time names. They ceased to exist in 1944. OCLC lists one incomplete run at UC Berkeley Libraries with none others in the trade. Kharbin: Tipografiia Kazansko-Bogoroditskago Muzhekogo Monastyria paperback books
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Dlia Ukraini Ch. 1 For Ukraine No. 1
Ditroit Detroit: Zhinochii Viddil Ukrains'koi Get'mans'koi Organizatsii 1950. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 6; pp. 32; olive green wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine and sun-fading along margins; mild age-toning to first and last few leaves only; illustrated with photographs; very good condition. The very first issue of an uncommon journal of which presumably two issues were ever released it was published by the Ukrainian Women's Hetman Organization - part of the Ukrainian conservative monarchist organization which developed in Canada and the United States in the interwar era and was dedicated to the reinstating of an Ukrainian State aka The Hetmanite. It had been an anti-Socialist government that existed from April until December of 1918 after the pro-Socialist Central Council of the Ukrainian People's Republic was dispersed and the anti-Bolshevik provisional government of Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropads'kii 1873 â 1945 was instituted. His regime was short-lived as he and his troops could not resist the Directorate's the provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic forces led by Simon Petliura and he abdicated his position as Hetman on December 14 1918. The majority of the current journal was dedicated to Pavlo Skoropads'kii and his son Danilo Skoropads'kii 1904 - 1957 - a politician and supporter of his father's political endeavors. Most of it is in Ukrainian but the last two pages contain a curious article in English by one Joseph Bilovus which ardently supports The Hetmanite cause. Ditroit (Detroit): Zhinochii Viddil Ukrains'koi Get'mans'koi Organizatsii paperback books
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Chinese Woodcuts - Paper Cut-outs
Shanghai: China Monthly Review 1953. Softcover. First edition; oblong 8 x 10 1/2; pp. 70 all double-leaved several large fold-outs; blue wraps tied with a decorative string; title on white & red paper label pasted to front wrap; spotting and fading to margins of wraps; lower portion creased inwardly; nicks and cuts to spine and edge; illustrations and titles not affected; illustrated in black and red with titles and artists' names on facing pages; good to very good. A magnificent tribute to two of China's ancient forms of art which have been modernized and re-introduced in the early 20th century. Contemporary woodcuts first emerged in the 1930s while all other art forms were suppressed by the White Terror of Chiang Kai-shek. Stunning examples by various artists are found in the first half of the book. Paper cut-outs were used for generations for wall and window decorations. The first modern cut-outs were created in 1941 at the Lu Hsun Art Academy. The second part of the book is dedicated to representing this beautiful form of folk-art. Shanghai: China Monthly Review paperback books
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Cookin' in the Mountains All Recipes at Least "100 Years Old"
Elkins WV: The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 1963. First edition presumed n. d. ca 1963; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 48; illustrated blue wraps; some age-toning and a few small spots along margins; illustrated with a photograph frontis; very good. An uncommon cookbook published during West Virginia's centennial celebrations it claims that every recipe is at least a 100 years old with as many of them also including a brief history of the recipe. It is dedicated to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and features an interesting array of entrees salads and desserts. Elkins, WV: The Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints paperback books
Bookseller reference : 001512
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A Small Archive of Material Pertaining to the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
San Francisco: A.A.O.N.M.S 1927. A small archive comprising 4 monthly bulletins February 1927 two identical March 1927 ones and April 1927 Officers and Committees roster for 1927 and October 1931 bulletin; illustrated; very good or better. The Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine also commonly known as Shriners abbreviated A.A.O.N.M.S. and an offshoot of Freemasonry was established in 1870. Known for their red fezzes depicted in the illustration of one of the bulletins the organization has more than 340 000 members in the United States and abroad. The bulletins were published monthly and contained news announcements and advertisements. San Francisco: A.A.O.N.M.S unknown books
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Arts and Crafts Affairs Vol. Vi No. 1
S. l. Berkeley: California College of Arts and Crafts 1937. First edition; 9 1/4 x 6; pp. 14; beige wraps printed in black; a bit of age-toning and a small rubbed spot to top edge of back wrap; very good condition. An issue of a magazine published by a landmark institution in the San Francisco Bay Area and one of the premier fine arts and design schools in the United States it contains articles and news on events happenings and students and members of the faculty. The university was established in 1907 under the name School of the California Guild of Arts and Crafts renamed in 1908 to California School of Arts and Crafts renamed again in 1936 to California College of Arts and Crafts and finally in 2003 it received its current name of California College of the Arts. The founder Frederick Heinrich Wilhelm Meyer 1872 â 1961 was an art educator and one of the most prominent figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Bay Area. S. l. [Berkeley]: California College of Arts and Crafts paperback books
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Oakland Shopping News Program of Events. Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island Two Publications
San Francisco CA: San Francisco Shopping News 1939. First edition; 17 x 11 1/4; pp. 4; newsprint; front pages with ornate illustrated boarders in blue and black; both publications with short cuts and nicks to edges mostly not affecting text; illustrated with large maps maps; overall very good. Uncommon survivors from the Golden Gate Expo of 1939 the two publications listed the events for February 18 and 19 the very first two opening days and February 23 through 25 respectively while they also displayed two large maps each - the first one depicting Treasure Island with detailed captions of streets and venues and the second one containing "Key to Shopping News Stores" and possible routes for reaching Treasure Island. Oakland Shopping News published twice weekly in a circulation of 102 000 copies and distributed in Oakland Alameda and Berkeley was an offshoot publication of the San Francisco Shopping News - a newspaper advertising local businesses and approximately 760 of their commodities with descriptions and prices in each issue. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Shopping News unknown books
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Suburban Housewives Almanac. Recipes & Preservation of Food
Livermore-Pleasanton CA: The Del Valle Home Economists 1975. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 69; illustrated yellow wraps; rubbed spot to right margin of front wrap; some spotting to margins mostly back wrap; very good. A regional Bay Area cookbook featuring interesting recipes including "Steamed Pumpkin with Corn" "Peach Brandy" and "Lick 'Em Relish." Livermore-Pleasanton, CA: The Del Valle Home Economists paperback books
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The Chips are Down! Organized Labor to Defend Its Life
S.l.: United Labor's Legislative Committee AFL - CIO - Railroad Brotherhood 1946. Softcover. Broadside n. d. ca 1946; 11 x 8 1/2; single sheet recto only; beige stock mimeographed text; a few creases and light age-toning to margins; very good or better. The broadside announces an "emergency meeting to act against Truman union smashing legislation" concerning railroad workers. S.l.: United Labor's Legislative Committee AFL - CIO - Railroad Brotherhood paperback books
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Camp Fire Sweets
Osage IO: The Woolverton Printing & Publishing Company 1905. Softcover. Presumed first edition n. d. ca 1905; 6 x 3 1/4; pp. 24; beige wraps printed and illustrated in brown; a few small spots anda faint outline of erased penciled-in name to wraps; very good. An unrecorded cookbook apparently published and sold as a fundraiser for an unspecified cause it contains an astonishing array of recipes for candy including "opera creams" "marshmallow penoche" "yellow jack" and "maple tutti frutti." Osage, IO: The Woolverton Printing & Publishing Company paperback books
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Vol'naia Mysl' No. 1 Free Thoughts
Munchen: Izdanie Rossiiskogo Natsional'no-Trudovogo Soiuza 1957. Softcover. First edition; 4 3/4 x 7 1/4; pp. 140; green wraps; small loss of paper to tail of spine; minor age-toning to margins of wraps; penciled-in signature to title page; small nick to upper corner of front wrap; overall very good. The National Alliance of Russian Solidarists Rossiiskii Natsional'no-Trudovoi Soiuz or "NTS" РТС is still in existence today a far-right anti-Communist organization founded in 1930 by White emigres in Belgrade Serbia. It was actively involved in the Russian Liberation Movement during the Second World War. The current journal of which this was the very first issue was published by NTS members in Germany and contained articles and editorials by various emigres. Munchen: Izdanie Rossiiskogo Natsional'no-Trudovogo Soiuza paperback books
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Facts of the China Trouble
San Francisco: Japanese Chamber of Commerce 1937. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 8 3/4; pp. 14; white wraps printed in black; minor age-toning and dust-dulling to margins; very good to about near fine condition. An anti-Chinese propaganda pamphlet published at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945. Addressing "Our American Friends" the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco thanks the city for its hospitality explains that the pamphlet contains only proven facts and proceeds to answer series of "burning questions" including ""Is Japan Militaristic China Pacifistic"Was Japan the Aggressor" What is Japan battling Against" etc. No other copies presently in the trade. San Francisco: Japanese Chamber of Commerce paperback books
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Announcing a Spring Book Show. Macmillan Books for Boys and Girls Spring 1937
San Francisco: The Emporium Book Department 1937. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 6 3/4; pp. 6 tri-folded; beige stock printed in blue and red; illustrated; few very mild spots; very good to near fine. An announcement for a book show at the Emporium's Book Department and a short preview of some of the books published by the Macmillan Company which would be offered at the show. The Emporium was a department store chain headquartered in San Francisco which stayed in operation for 99 years - from 1896 to 1995. The store had a thriving book department which would periodically announce contests for illustrations for poetry etc. or in this case - a show where newly-published books for various age groups could be revealed to children. Some of the books included âBlaze and the Gypsiesâ âThe Magic Show Bookâ and âTales from Dickens.â San Francisco: The Emporium (Book Department) paperback books
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Three Publications of the Lemko Association
Cleveland/Yonkers: Tipografiia Lemko-Soiuza 1934. Softcover. Lemkos - small ethnic sub-group from the Carpathian Mountains identifying themselves as either Carpatho-Rusyns or Ukrainians - immigrated in large groups to the United States in the years between the two World Wars with many of them settling in Ohio. In Cleveland in 1929 Lemko-Soiuz the Lemko Association was established by immigrants dissatisfied with the other existing Ukrainian and Rusyn organizations. Other Pro-Ukrainian Lemkos founded their own Organization for the Defense of the Lemko Region in 1934. Besides preserving their cultural identity publishing books and helping compatriots in need the organizations also sent moral and financial support to their homeland. Serednitskii Pavel "Zhenyi Mudriishy. Stsenichnyi Obrazok v I Akti zo Zhytia Lemkovskoi Emigratsii" Cleveland OH: Tipografiia Lemko-Soiuza 1935. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4; pp. 16; illustrated beige wraps; small nicks to tips of spine; uniform age-toning; very good or better. A play based on the life of Lemko immigrants in the US. Rodnyi Lemko pseud. "Mysli o Kooperatsii" Cleveland OH: Tipografiia Lemko-Soiuza 1934. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4; pp. 32; illustrated green wraps; a few small chips and cuts to edges; uniform age-toning; very good-. On cooperative and economic structure. Kichura Stefan "Porozumila. Shtuka v 2-kh Aktakh iz zhitia molodykh Lemkov v Ameriki" Yonkers NY: Tipografiia Lemko-Soiuza 1939. First edition; 5 1/2 x 7 3/4; pp. 16; illustrated beige wraps; a few nicks and cuts to edges; uniform age-toning; very good. Life of young Lemkos in the United States. Unrecorded with no other copies in the trade. Cleveland/Yonkers: Tipografiia Lemko-Soiuza paperback books
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Winter Sports Guide. California Season 1938-9
San Francisco/Sacramento/Etc.: Winter Sports Committee California State Chamber of Commerce 1938. Softcover. First edition; 8 x 11 ½; pp. 7 including text to wraps; some rubbing to edges and spine; intersecting crease lines with wear along them; small penciled-in note to lower margin of front wrapillustrated with photographs and maps; good to very good condition. A fragile survivor of a time when skiing was picking up speed in California and the California Ski Association established as a direct result of losing the 1932 Winter Olympic Games to Lake Placid NY was still in its infancy. Though titled with the somewhat generic "Winter Sports Guide" it was largely devoted to skiing and featured several drawn maps of ski trails and ski tows in Northern Central and Southern California a 1938 - 1939 calendar of "where to go what to do" detailing ski competitions tours classes etc. and photographs of skiers ski jumpers and various events. Not in OCLC or in the trade. San Francisco/Sacramento/Etc.: Winter Sports Committee, California State Chamber of Commerce paperback books
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A Small Ivan Pavlov/Paul Yakovlev Collection
Various 1925. Hardcover. Pavlov Ivan Dvadtsatiletnii Opyt Obektivnogo Izucheniia Vysshei Nervnoi Deiatelnosti Povedeniia Zhivotnykh. Uslovnye Refleksy. Sbornik Statei Dokladov Lektsii i Rechei Twenty Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity Behavior of Animals. Conditioned Reflexes. A Collection of Articles Reports Lectures and Speeches Leningrad/Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe Izdatel'stvo 1925. Third edition 1 of 5000 copies; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"; pp. 5 4-397 3; rebound in red cloth over boards; brown morocco label with gilt lettering to spine; uniform age-toning to text block; page edges a bit brittle with two small chips to fore-edge of first free page; last leaf publisher's advertisements with some loss of paper to lower margin; illustrated with black & white drawings; overall very good condition. A beautiful association copy from Nobel Prize winner physiologist Ivan Pavlov known for his work on classical conditioning to his pupil - Harvard educator and a world-renowned neuropathologist in his own right Paul Yakovlev. The book is signed: "Ot avtora" "From the author" on the title page. On the front pastedown Yakovlev has taped a photograph of himself seated with Pavlov with a quote in Russian and in English of their topic of discussion at the time the photo was taken: "Subcortive ganglia actuate the cerebral cortex." A second copy of the same photograph is loosely laid in the book. A third photo of aging Pavlov is taped to the first free page. The front endpaper bears Yakovlev's signature and a lengthy note: "This is personal copy of Prof. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov with a notation in his own hand: "from the author." Sent to me in Paris from Leningrad in the Spring of 1924 before the publication date in 1925. I cannot account for this." Two Yakovlev stamps are present - one is his own personal "Dr. Paul I. Yakovlev" in red ink on first free page and a second one: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" is on the title page. Numerous notes and drawings in Yakovlev's hand are scattered throughout the book. Together with: Yakovlev Paul and Halloran Roy Collected Lectures of the Seventh Postgraduate Seminar in Neurology and Psychiatry Including A Review Course in Military Neuropsychiatry. October 3 1941 - April 10 1942 In 3 Volumes Waltham Mass.: Privately printed by the authors 1942. First edition first second and third semesters; 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; vol. I pp. 3 II-VI 1-250 2 vol. II pp. 4 III-VI 1-309 2 vol. III pp. 3 II-VI 1-528; cloth-backed paper over boards; gilt title to spines; a bit of rubbing and wear to tips of spine and corners; pages clean; very good condition. Personal copies of Paul Yakovlev's own lectures volume III bears a note in his hand: "Paul Yakovlev personal copy not to be removed from his library." Each one of the volumes has a: "Yakovlev Collection Armed Forces Institute of Pathology Washington DC" stamp to the title page. A newspaper clipping of an article on: "Neuropsychiatrists in the Army" dated in Yakovlev's hand is loosely laid in volume I. Several marginal notes and drawings are present throughout volume III. Various hardcover books
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Rossiia i Vselenskaia Tserkov. 5-6 42-43 1959 Russia and the Universal Church. 5-6 42-43 1959
Bruxelles: Editions <La Vie Avec Dieu> 1959. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/4; pp. 54 including text to back wrap; illustrated wraps; faint creasing to upper corner and very faint age-toning to margins; illustrated with photographs; very good to near fine condition. An issue of a Russian religious emigre journal published from 1953 until 1970. The publication leaned heavily on the relations between the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Church including the present issue which contained an article on the meeting between then newly appointed Pope John XXIII with the Russian exile Bishop Pavel Melet'ev. Bruxelles: Editions <La Vie Avec Dieu> paperback books
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Otchet Permskago Otdeleniia Sostoiashchago pod Avgusteishim Pokrovitelâstvom Eia Imperatorskago Velichestva Imperatritsy Marii Feodorovny Popechitelâstva Imperatritsy Marii Aleksandrovny o Slepykh za 1899 God. Report of the Perm Branch for the Blind under the Patronage of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Maria Feodorovna and the Guardianship of Empress Maria Alexandrovna for the Year 1899
Perm: Tipo-Lit. Gubern. Prav. 1900. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 72; green wraps ruled and printed in black; a few small chips and cuts to edges of wraps; some loss of paper to spine; a small number in the lower corner of front wrap; pages mostly very clean; illustrated with tables; overall very good-. Very detailed reports on funds and expenses as well as the names of all the children at the School for the Blind schedules classes exams teachers etc. Perm: Tipo-Lit. Gubern. Prav. paperback books
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Otchet Popechitel'nago Obshchestva o 1-m Nochlezhno-rabotnom Dome Bezpriiutnykh Detei i Podrostkov Muzhskogo Pola Uchrezhdennom Annoiu Eismont v 1901 g. 24 Marta. Za 1908 1909 i 1910 g.g. Report of the Trustees of the First Rooming House for Homeless Male children and Adolescents Established by Anna Eismont on March 24 1901. For the Years 1908 1909 and 1910
St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennaia Tipografiia 1911. Softcover. First edition; 7 x 10; pp. 159; green wraps printed in black; small loss of paper to tail of spine; small number to upper corner of front wrap; a few spots to margins; several faded stamps of the Ural Regional Library; rubbed spot to front wrap verso; illustrated with photographs and tables; good to very good. In March of 1901 a young woman with the desire to commemorate the passing of her daughter and with the compassion for homeless and orphaned children put an add in the newspaper imploring people for funding for a permanent home for unfortunate kids. Anna Eismont's plea was answered the very next day and the first rooming house for homeless adolescents in St. Petersburg was soon founded under the auspices of the 'Blue Cross' - an organization for poor and sick children. Patrons of the home and organization included members of the royal family as well as artists and writers including Tolstoy Bulgakov Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. The book for the three years prior to publication contains detailed reports on expenditures lists of benefactors donated money and supplies etc. It also features several photographs of the home and the children. St. Petersburg: Gosudarstvennaia Tipografiia paperback books
Bookseller reference : 001187
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Rice University Graduate Wives Cookbook
Houston TX: The Cookbook Committee 1961. Softcover. First edition n. d. ca 1961; 8 1/2 x 11; pp. 42; illustrated mimeographed wraps; small chip to upper left corner of front wrap; minor creasing to edges and corners; pages clean; illustrated with drawings; very good or better. An unrecorded Texas cookbook compiled by the women of the "Graduate Wives Club" of Rice University and featuring recipes for salads deserts and 'genuine jail house' Texas chili. Houston, TX: The Cookbook Committee paperback books
Bookseller reference : 001194
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Mammy Yokum's Fav'rite Cream Of Wheat Recipes
Minneapolis Minn.: The Cream of Wheat Corporation 1946. Softcover. First edition; 3 1/2 x 6; tri-fold pp. 8; illustrated wraps; very mild age-toning to margins of wraps and slight creasing to lower corner; illustrated; near fine condition. A delightful pamphlet listing Li'l Abner comic strip characters' favorite Cream of Wheat recipes. Included are Li'l Abner Mammy Earthquake McGoon Granma Scragg Pappy Daisy Mae Mrs. Hamfat Gooch Sadie Hawkins and Available Jones. Minneapolis, Minn.: The Cream of Wheat Corporation paperback books
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A Small Archive of Materials Belonging to The Southern National Party
Memphis TN: The Southern National Party 1978. Softcover. Housed in a blue die-cut card-stock binder illustrated with the Confederate Flag; minor wear to spine of binder; pages clean; near fine condition. The Southern National Party a White Supremacist organization was established in the 1970s in Memphis Tennessee with the main purpose of achieving a separate Southern Republic with its own Congress which would be made up of Anglo-Saxon people who occupy the Southern States or "that is the white population." - Typed document stapled; pp. 6; dated Dec. 1978; compiled by Robert E. lee McCampbell National Organizer; ink stamp of the party on first page; faint age-toning; near fine condition. Titled: "What is the Southern National Party" the document explains the history and goals of the party - Southern-controlled communications facilities anti-immigration etc. It also defends and encourages the organization's ideas citing various world history examples including the Scottish National Party and predicts the organization's taking stronghold in Louisiana Mississippi Virginia and Georgia in the following years. - Typed document stapled; pp. 4; dated Winter 1979; a bit of age-toning along margins; very good to near fine condition. "Southern National Party. Questions and Answers" addresses hypothetical questions one might have about the Southern Party including "Isn't This a Radical and Divisive Idea" "Is This Legal" Will This Stop Foreign Takeover of Our Country" etc. - Typed documents recto only; pp. 56; dated and signed 1979; very minor wear near fine; compiled by Elmore Douglass Greaves and Robert E. lee McCampbell. Titled: "The South Forever! A Compilation of Four Speeches on the Subject of Southern Nationalism." Continued elaboration on Abolitionism immigration the Confederate Flag and Nationalism. Memphis, TN: The Southern National Party paperback books
Bookseller reference : 001216
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Khristianstvo Pered Sovremennoi Sotsial'noi Deistvitel'nost'iu. Rechi N. A. Berdiaeva V. N. Il'ina G. P. Fedotova. Prot. S. Bulgakova v Otkrytom Sobranii Religiozno-Filosofskoi Akademii Christianity in Contemporary Social Reality. Speeches of N. A. Berdiaev V. N. Il'in G. P. Fedotov and Archpriest S. Bulgakov at the Public Meeting of the Religious - Philosophical Academy
Paris: YMCA Press 1932. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 31; beige wraps printed in black; small nicks to tips of spine; faint age-toning along margins of wraps; pages clean; very good or better. Nikolai Berdiaev 1874 â 1948 was one of Russia's best known religious philosophers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a leading theoretician for the Russian Social Democratic Party. An article of his in 1913 criticising the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church earned him a charge of blasphemy the punishment for which was exile to Siberia for life. The Revolution prevented the sentence from taking effect and he was allowed to continue writing and lecturing. Though consequently his dissatisfaction with the Bolsheviks' regime got him arrested several times and eventually resulted in his expulsion from Russia in 1922 on the so called "Philosophers' Ship" - a selected group of 160 prominent writers and intellectuals whose ideas the Bolshevik government found objectionable. In exile first in Berlin and later in Paris Berdiaev was editor in chief of the YMCA-Press founder of the above-mentioned Russian Religious Philosophical Academy and editor of the periodical Putâ âThe Wayâ - to which the current pamphlet was published as a supplement. Georgii Fedotov Vladimir Il'in and Sergei Bulgakov were also prominent exiled theologians and philosophers who worked closely with Berdiaev in Paris. Paris: YMCA Press paperback books
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