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1919réf. 124536Edinburgh London and Philadephlia: Various Publishers 1919-1952. Fine collection of rare Scottish banking first editions. Octavo seven volumes the collection includes first editions of: Sixty Years of Banking 1865-1921: A Short History of The Isle of Man Banking Company Limited np: Louis G. Meyer Ltd 1926 Experiences of a Century Philadelphia: Brown Brothers and Company 1919 Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1946 London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd nd The Scottish Provident Institution 1837-1937 Edinburgh: np nd The Story of The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited During its Hundred Years from 1810 to 1910 Edinburgh: Printed Privately 1910 War Service Record 1939-1945 Edinburgh: The Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited 1951 and Trustee Savings Banks Year Book: Official Handbook of the Trustee Savings Banks Association Fakenham: Wyman & Sons Limited 1952. Each volume in near fine to fine condition with two in fine dust jackets. A fine collection of uncommon titles rare particularly in such condition. Various Publishers unknown books
1875réf. 125321Edinburgh and London: Various Publishers 1875-1961. Fine collection of rare Scottish banking first editions. Octavo five volumes the collection includes first editions of: Our Bank: The Story of the Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd. 1810-1946 London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd nd Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons 1875 A Review of the Edinburgh Savings Bank Century of Service 1836-1936 Edinburgh: H. & J. Pillans & Wilson: 1936 Scotland's Record Edinburgh: The Albyn Press: 1946 and The Scottish Bankers Magazine Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Limited: February 1961. Each volume in near fine to fine condition. Our Bank is in the rare original dust jacket. A fine collection of uncommon titles rare particularly in such condition. Various Publishers unknown books
1920réf. 292056New Haven.: Yale University Press. 1920. “Extra Illustrated Edition”. Red cloth gilt black and white decorations top edges gilt. Very good. 20.8x13 cm. Heavy set will require extra shipping. weight: 43.0 lb. Numerous illustrations. Yale University Press. hardcover books
1994réf. 156781Chapultepec Mexico: Galeria De Arte Mexicano GAM 1994. First edition. Softcover. 62 pages. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran July 28 through September 10 1994. Text in Spanish. Includes color illustrations after works by Lenora Carrington Jorge Elizondo Gunther Gerzso Angela Gurria Manuel Marin Antonio Nava and numerous others. A very near fine copy in French style wrappers. Uncommon. Galeria De Arte Mexicano GAM unknown books
1979réf. 137226Various cities: Various Publishers 1979. Collection of three catalogs compiling hundreds of listings of releases by small and independent record labels from 1979 to 1982. A treasure trove of information on the underground music scene of the era. Included in the listing are: "Great bands small labels" published by "Gorilla Beat" magazine Mulheim Germany 1979. "Small Labels Catalogue 1980" published by Record Business Publications London. "Indie Catalogue 1981-82" published by Record Business Publications London. Each catalog Near Fine in saddle stapled wrappers. Various Publishers unknown books
1947réf. 53537Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1947. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the Stakhanov Movement Collective Farming Lithuanian Folk Singers others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1946réf. 53546Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1946. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on welfare for railway workers; the burgeoning Soviet auto industry; state aid to peasant farms; establishment of the Pavlov Institute; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1946réf. 53545Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1946. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on veterans' rights; the Soviet chemical industry; Soviet libraries; celebrations of Navy Day of the USSR July 28 and All-Union Physical Culture Day July 21; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1948réf. 53543Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1948. First Edition. Quarto 29cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; pp 66-98; illus. Light wear to covers else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the "Matrosov Movement" written by Matrosov; collective farming in Tajikistan; the training of Soviet lawyers; a tribute to V.M. Molotov; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1947réf. 53538Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1947. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on the Karaganda coal fields; financing of private home building; a profile of Kirghiz ballerina Bibissara Beishenalieva; a one-chapter from Ilya Ehrenburg's newly-published novel "Storm"; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1947réf. 53539Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1947. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 32pp; illus. Covers rather rubbed with small perforation at center of front wrapper; Very Good. Christmas issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American propaganda monthly. Includes articles on Soviet electrification; currency reform; extracts from recently-released Nazi documents; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1946réf. 53544Washington DC: Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 1946. First Edition. Quarto 27cm. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 24pp; illus. Covers a bit rubbed else Near Fine. Single issue in original wrappers of this standard Soviet-American cold-war propaganda monthly. Includes articles on Soviet film including that year's Stalin Prize winners in Film; child care; the development of prefabricated housing; agricultural mechanization; others. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics unknown books
1619réf. 1342857New York 1916 1934. Hardcover. 2 Large Quartos; 500 pp 800 pp; Fair; Both books bound in cloth with peeling leather corners; loss of material & chipping to all corners; Raised bands on spine; Cloth torn in spots especially on the spine of the 1916 volume; Some fraying/tearing to the pages though text is unaffected; some typical toning to the pages especially at the edges; City record/library stamps to both volumes; Title written in marker on front board of 1934 volume; 1934 volume states "Engine company 31" although the logs show that this volume is also for Engine Company 56. Volume one 1916 is written in a neat hand in both red and black ink and details the daily coming and going of the Engine Company. Volume two 1934 is a series of daily incident report forms which have been filled in in black ink. Engine Company 56 located on West 83rd street in Manhattan was formed in 1889 and disbanded 1960. Currently their firehouse is the home of Engine Company 74. 1342857. FP New Rockville Stock. hardcover books
1984réf. 204071Boston. : New England Historic Genealogical Society. 1984. Blue buckram. . Very good gilt owner’s name on cover. 23.3x15 cm. . Annual bound volume including index. weight: 1.7 lb. New England Historic Genealogical Society. hardcover books
1977réf. 49116Portland: Prescott Street Press 1977. First Edition. Eight printed broadside poems each post-card size 5" x 7" with publisher's printed wrap-around band holding them together. There were six assortments offered by the publisher; this is "Series II" complete and fine. Includes poems by Henry Carlile Stanley Radhuber Ingrid Wendt Mary Soden Pat Enders Mindy Aloff Lynda Lesowski and Olga Broumas. Prescott Street Press unknown books
1986réf. 47871Madrid: Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas 1986. 12mo. Printed card wrappers; 109pp. Clean tight unmarked - Very Good. Essays by Andrés Bilbao J. José Castillo Daniel Lacalle others. Fundacion de Investigaciones Marxistas unknown books
1988réf. 48338Moscow: Novosti Press Agency 1988. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; pictorial thick paper wrappers; 48pp. Fine. Round-table including participants from the Soviet news media including Igor Kon Eduard Klopov Gavril Popov others. Novosti Press Agency unknown books
1814réf. 46563Baltimore: Edward J. Coale 1814. First Thus. 16mo 13.5cm.; publisher's mottled sheep tan gilt spine label; ix8-308pp.; engraved frontispiece by Richard Westall and added lithographed title page. Boards rather scuffed and leather dried hairline cracking at joints spine darkened toning along endpaper margins else Very Good internally fine. Quite an attractive collection of poetry with a frontispiece by the English painter Richard Westall best known as Queen Victoria's drawing master and for his portraits of Lord Byron. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 31070. Edward J. Coale unknown books
1832réf. 182278New York & Philadelphia.: Foreign and Classical Bookstore. 1832. Elaborately tooled and gilt black calf gilt borders inside covers all edges gilt glossy endpapers. Very good light wear to corners. 12mo.16.2x10 cm. . French text. Souvenir books for visitors to America with a collection of contemporary literature and steel engravings in an elaborate binding. weight: 0.7 lb. 11 engraved plates including frontis. Foreign and Classical Bookstore. unknown books
1904réf. 44076Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co 1904. First Edition. 16mo 15cm. Gilt-decorated blue cloth boards; 248pp. Frontispiece portrait of Henry Ward Beecher. Slight external wear a few instances of pencil marginalia; still a clean VG copy. No editorial credit is given for this hodge-podge of religious wit and wisdom presumably intended as a sourcebook for ministers of the stand-up variety. Includes a chapter of "Beecheriana" - alas not as one might expect or wish a collection of jokes at Beecher's expense but rather a selection of anecdotes casting a worshipful light on Beecher's own wealthy store of pulpit humor making no mention of his highly-publicized adulterous escapades with his best friend's wife. George W. Jacobs & Co unknown books
2005réf. 35262New Haven: Yale University Press 2005. First Edition. Quarto. Red cloth boards hardcover; dustjacket; 376pp; illus. Fine copy in fine dustwrapper; near-new. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title at the Bard Graduate Center 2005-2006. Yale University Press unknown books
1971réf. 32115Minerva OH: Aurelia Hodgson 1971. First Edition. 12mo. Pale yellow wrappers with pictorial portrait device; 15pp. Fine apparently unread copy. The last of the Minerva Chapbooks this issued by Hodgson's widow a decade after his death. Includes contributions by John Berryman John Masefield T.S. Eliot James Wright others. Aurelia Hodgson unknown books
1979réf. 10499London: Authors and Arts Council of Great Britain 1979. First Edition. softcover. Very Good. 8vo 172pp in printed wrappers. Published to coincide with exhibition of same name at Outsiders the Hayward Gallery South Bank February 8 - April 8 1979. This seminal event while preceded by expressions such as Dubuffets Art Brut 1948 or Art-hors-les-normes simultaneously brought outsider art to a larger forum while stigmatizing the artists themselves. As art historian Elisabeth Herles suggests how far can one encounter art without being then influenced by the knowledge about its circumstances of production Authors and Arts Council of Great Britain paperback books
1971réf. 26799Boston: Second Wave 1971-1972. First Edition. Six issues; quarto 28cm.; all bound in pictorial staplebound wrappers with publication sequence running as follows: Vol. 1 nos. 1-4 1971/2; Vol. 2 nos. 1-2 1972. Fine. First issue published through funds donated by various Boston University organizations. Includes contributions by Jo Freeman also known as Joreen author of the "Bitch Manifesto"; Fania Jordan Davis Angela's sister; Myrna Lamb; Anais Nin; Flora Crater founder of NOW; Marge Piercy; and Adrienne Rich. Second Wave unknown books
1970réf. 26801New York: Up From Under 1970-1973. First Edition. 4 issues; quarto 27.75cm.; original pictorial staplebound wrappers. A Fine bright collection. Published under the banner "By for and about women." One of the dozens of second wave feminist journals to emerge in the early years of the decade. From the mission statement of Vol. 1 no. 1: "Women everywhere are getting together. Small discussion and action groups are springing up across the country.Up From Under is designed written and produced by such a group of women. We are working women students and mothers who have been active in radical politics and have come to feel women's issues are crucial" reprinted in Dawn Keeley and John Pettegrew's Public Women Public Words Vol. II p. 33. Among the contributors present in this collection are Alix Shulman Tillie Olsen and Marge Piercy. Up From Under unknown books
