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1834rif. 106639Newspaper folio sheets 4 pp. Center folds some aging and a little foxing but overall in very good condition.Local manufacturing and farming news. books
1781rif. 47574York: Printed by W. Blanchard and Co. for the Booksellers of York 1781. 1st edition thus. Leather wrapped card stock covers. Later respining with black leather label. Later paper label affixed to front board. General wear & soiling. Ex-lib with stamp to ffep. Faded presentation inscription bookseller note states from Wm F. Hanney Engineer Dept ret York. xiii 3 104 59 1 pp. Last section has such information as "A Concise Account of the City of York" "A List of all the Fairs in the Counties of York." & "An Account of the Horse Races . throughout Great Britain in the Year 1781." 12mo signed in 6s. 6-1/2" x 3-7/8" ESTC & COPAC record just one institutional holding of this inaugural year: British Library. Research suggests 1795 would be the final year of publication for the year 1796. Printed by W. Blanchard and Co. for the Booksellers of York hardcover books
1858rif. 45226Boston 1858. 1st Printing. Printed self-wrappers. Previously bound with wear & a few short splits along spine fold. Age-toning and signs of use. Horizontal & vertical fold-line. Period prior owner signature above masthead. Withal a Very Good example. Unpaginated though 4 pages. 9 columns of text per page. Elephant folio: 30" x 23-3/4" Of interest page 2 trumpets the new telegraph between the US and England with reports of the texts transmitted between the Queen and President Buchanan. unknown books
1975rif. 44666London: The Collector Ltd 1975. Green wrappers. Slightly rubbed/sun-toned at backstrip; VG. 345-503 504 pp. with order form for a subscription slipped in. Numerous trade advertisements &c. &c. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" The Collector Ltd unknown books
1974rif. 44661London: The Collector Ltd 1974. Orange wrappers. Slightly rubbed at the backstrip; VG. 313-471 472 pp. with annoucement from The Elmete Press slipped in. Numerous trade advertisements &c. &c. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" The Collector Ltd unknown books
1978rif. 44664London: The Collector Ltd 1978. Green wrappers. Slightly rubbed at the backstrip and edges; VG. 153-303 304 pp. Numerous trade advertisements &c. &c. 8-3/4" x 5-1/2" The Collector Ltd unknown books
1890rif. 42717New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publisher 1890. 1st printing thus cf. Wright III 5689. Printed paper wrappers. Paper loss at head & base of spine. Other modest wear. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 9 - 168 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/4" x 5" J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher unknown books
1916rif. 40342n. p. 1916. 1st printing thus i.e. of this issue. Not found on OCLC. Original publisher's grey-green paper wrappers printed in dark green & brown ink to front wrapper. Stapled. Age-toning. General wear & soiling to wrappers with largish stain to lower left portion of front wrapper affecting date text. A VG copy. Unpaginated. Illustrated with many photographic portraits of prominent men in the local butcher trade. 10-3/4" x 7-7/8" Typical trade journal with topical articles on the business as well as pieces on the local practitioners. unknown books
1911rif. 39204Oakland California 1911. 1st edition. Tan suede binding with 3-hole rawhide cord tie. Yapp edges. Binding worn with cover lettering faded. A Good copy. Unpaginated. T.p. & Foreward only text pages. 138 images printed to the recto of each leaf. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2" From the Foreword: "Just in fun and in all friendliness we present a book of likenesses of business and professional men of the City of Oakland California and vicinity . The purpose is primarily to present a strking likeness of the subject and then to present more strikingly and effectively than can be done in words the business or profession of the man together with a fad or two. 'Just for fun'". OCLC records just two institutional holdings. Rare. unknown books
1874rif. 37842Virginia City Nevada: The Daily Independent 1874. 1st printing Armstrong 767; Paher 1924; Streeter AMERICANA IV 2356. Printed self-wrappers. Age-toning to paper. Numerous fold-lines with splits developing along many. A couple 2-3" horizontal edge tears no text lost. Some minor edge rash. Withal a complete About VG copy. 4 pp; 8 columns per page. Illustrated with 27 wood engravings 5 cross-sections 3 profiles 1 graph & 1 facsimile of the 1867 Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 70. Elephant folio. 24" x 17-3/4" "Here Sutro tells the dramatic story of his attempt to drain the Comstock Lode with the famous Sutro Tunnel. At first he was aided and later bitterly opposed by the Bank of California group who sought the profits for themselves. His completion of the tunnel in 1878 and his investment of the profits in San Francisco real estate gave Sutro great wealth. Part of this he used in building up the Sutro Library of San Francisco now a branch of the California State Library." Streeter. OCLC records 11 holding institutions. Per AmEx no copies at auction since the Streeter sale in 1968. Rare in the trade. The Daily Independent unknown books
1947rif. 37886San Francisco: Worth Hale 1947. 1st edition thus. Stiff tan paper wrappers with brown & orange lettering/ design printed to spine and covers. Two light stains to bottom of front wrapper. A Near Fine copy. 56 pp. Many intratextual color & b/w photographic images and illustrations. 12" x 9" Worth Hale unknown books
1885rif. 36110Chicago: The Jewelers' Journal Office 57 Washington Street 1885. 1st printing. Printed pink paper wrappers with cord 'hanger' to text upper left. Age toning to wrappers which show only light wear. A VG - Nr Fine copy of a rare item. 79 1 pp. Index inside front wrappers. Illustrated. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 6" A rare almanac focusing on the jewelers' trade. Not found on OCLC. The Jewelers' Journal Office, 57 Washington Street unknown books
1773rif. 20539Baltimore: William Goddard Publisher 1773. Facsimile reprint. Abt VG some edgwear/horizontal fold-line in center/short horizontal tear to left edge 1" above fold-line with split in first leaf along horizontal fold. 1 sheet folded; 4 pp. Text in 3 columns. Wood-cut head-piece at mast-head. Folio. 43.2 cm x 26.5 cm. This newspaper had the distinction of being the first published in Baltimore and continued in various guises until December 30 1794. Pg 4 of this issue has a George Washington advertisement seeking subscribers to lease land on the Ohio and Great Kanhawa. William Goddard, Publisher unknown books
1847rif. 11601London 1847. Contemporary half-calf with marbled boards. VG some rubbing to leather/pc msg from spine label/bit of foxing throughout/bpt. 171 pp. Illustrated with plates including 2 fold-out color. 8vo. A journal devoted to 'Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages.' Misbound issue with Ppg 1- 84 coming after 85 - 171. hardcover books
1876rif. 27149New York: The Aldine Company 1876. 1st thus. Original brown publisher's pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Bevelled edges. Overall VG edgewear. Ex-lib with usual markings some plates with discrete perforation. 382 pp. Chromolithograph title page. Illustrated with inserted plates & intratextual cuts. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2" Bound volume of 12 issues. The Aldine Company hardcover books
1907rif. 581421907. SCIENCE JOURNAL. JOURNAL OF THE COLLEGE OF SCIENCE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO JAPAN. Illustrated from photographs charts and diagrams. 8vo. tan paper wrappers printed in black. We offer three issues of this journal of physical science research written in English and German as a set: Vol. XX 1905; Article 6: Honda K. and S. Shimizu. "On the Magnetization and the Magnetic Change of Length in Ferromagnetic Metals and Alloys at Temperatures ranging from -188 C to 1200 C." 63 pp. 4 plates. Disbound. Vol. XXIII 1907; Article 1: Tabata S. "Ueber die Fruchte und Keimpflanzen von Rhus succedanea L." 12 pp. 1 plate. Vol. XXIV 1908: Earthquake Investigation Committee. "An Investigation on Secondary Undulations of Oceanic Tides." 113 pp. 95 plates mareograms maps photos of models & weather charts many are folding. Wrappers are soiled with large areas of loss and chipping. Top and bottom pages show occasional edge creasing and dust-soiling due to loss from wrappers; otherwise the text is clean. As is. unknown books
1861rif. 333Cleveland: G. F. Lewis Publisher 1861. Single Issue. Broadside. 440 x 300 mm. 17 1/4/ x 11 1/2 inches. Printed in four columns. Folded some minor separation at folds edges folded and chipped some discoloration from tape at top margin otherwise good and sound. Old Soldier's Advocate was published from 1858 through Reconstruction when it ceased publication in 1878. As the title suggests its' cause was the enlisted man the veteran and war widows and orphans. Many of its articles include information about pressuring government to insure pensions and benefits to military families. This issue includes a description of General Fremont's removal from Command by President Lincoln a synopsis of his address to his troops reports from the field on Fremont's removal report about various Union troop movements in the West the resignation of General Winfield Scott a column on payments to war widows and heirs and a military pension report. One notice reads: "Apocryphal Report: Gen Beauregard is reported to have resigned his command of the rebels. Guess not." The editor Col. G. F. Lewis was the owner of the Bank of Cleveland as well as editor of the Old Soldier's Advocate and a woodcut illustration of the Bank appears in the fourth column. OCLC list a number of scattered issues of Old Soldier's Advocate in Americana collection around the country but this issue is not cited on any of the library catalogues we visited. A look online at Newspaper.com shows that many of the article which appear in Old Soldier's Advocate were picked up by other paper especially in the Midwest although runs of the newspaper are not cited. 333. G. F. Lewis Publisher unknown books
1856rif. 334Lancaster PA 1856. Folio broadside. 495 x 330 mm. 19 1/2 x 13 inches. Text printed in five columns. Matted. Several tiny holes affecting a few words. Substantial reportage with text printed in six point type of an anti-Fremont pro-Buchanan rally held at the home of James Buchanan. This was billed as the "Greatest Political Meeting Ever Held in Pennsylvania" with 50000 people in attendance. The sons of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were present and spoke on behalf of the Democratic State Ticket. The speeches dealt chiefly with the results of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the resistance of the Abolitionists to it noting that Connecticut was the first ahead of the Keystone State to vote to arrest the tide of disunionism fomented by the abolitionists. Democratic speakers favored the preservation of the Union an end to sectionalism and the protection of the constitution. Not cited in OCLC or at AAS Library Company American Philosophical Society or NYPL. unknown books
1868rif. 329Chicago: Root and Cady Publishers 1868. Single issue. 335 x 260 mm. 13 x 10 inches. 8 pp. folded and unopened some light soiling to the paper otherwise very good. Rare musical newspaper published by Ebenezer Toner Root and Chauncy Marvin Cady the leading music publisher's in Chicago before the fire in 1871. The Song Messenger was printed from 1864 to 1871 when the company went bankrupt after the losses caused by the fire. In addition to advertisements for musical instruments lessons and scores this issue contains an "Introductory Course for Congregational Singing" which include instructions for learning Psalm LXVII "Let the People Praise Thee O God Let all the People Praise Thee." Also included is the song Gathering Home music by C. T. Lockwood and lyrics by H. M. Look. Lockwood was prolific song writer producing scores of melodies and marches for Chicago publishers during the 1860 and early 1870's. This issue of The Song Messenger was printed in August 1868 and according to OCLC in known in one copy at the Newberry Library which also holds the April issue of the same year. Knox College in Illinois and the Library of Virginia also hold one issue from the year 1869. Lockwood's Gathering Home was also printed in Western Musical World: A Journal of Music Art and Literature in 1868 by S. Brainard also of Chicago. One copy of this is located at the University of Michigan. 329. Root and Cady, Publishers unknown books
1990rif. 103481Newark DE: Library University of Delaware 1990. Softbound. VG. Spiral plastic bound. 192 pp. no illustrations. A mighty reference. Library, University of Delaware paperback books
1972rif. WRCLIT51129Santa Barbara: Unicorn Press 1972. Whole numbers one through four. Four issues. Number two is in printed boards the remainder in printed wrappers. Illustrations and photographs. Light soiling to white portions of bindings #2 has darkening at endsheet gutters from binder's glue spines a shade tanned edges dusty else very good. Edited by Teo Savory. Projected as a monthly but publication was irregular. The periodical associated with the imprint with contributions by Rothenberg Goll Merton Kahler James Tate J. Brodsky John Howard Griffin James Welch et al. Unicorn Press hardcover books
1895rif. D6188United States 1895-1897. Green cloth over flexible boards "Photographs" stamped in gilt on upper board; 4to; approx. pp. 50 with over 100 mounted postcard-format entries usually two per page on both the recto and the verso. Wonderful! Easily one of the nicest albums of this kind that we have had the pleasure of cataloguing. This unique album contains more than 100 dated "diary entries" out of chronological sequence each one a hand-made postcard featuring original artwork including watercolors pencil sketches ink drawings both naive and accomplished a photograph a cyanotype or an image cut from an unknown source such as a newspaper or magazine. The postcards are created by numerous contributors and their rich variety is difficult to capture except to say that they run the gamut of human capability the sketch artist offers an anthropomorphic chicken the watercolor painter a peaceful landscape and personality sentimental humorous sweet thoughtful. A short list gives you an idea: happy puppies photograph ladies in big dresses wading in the surf photograph a Rorsarch test ink of course kite ink drawing plant specimen baseball joke pencil cartoon a little bird feather collage 8 bars of music ink Jamaica Plain cyanotype bull fight photograph boats photograph a family portrait in the Adirondacks photograph. Our compiler must have enlisted far-flung friends for contributions as images and references hail from Perugia Brooklyn Boston Zermatt Valley Philadelphia Avignon and Arizona. hardcover books
1837rif. KC16640Paris: Achille Ricourt 1837. Hardcover. Good. 401pp. 8.5 x 11.25 French text. Starting as a weekly-illustrated journal LArtiste was published in Paris from 18311904 supplying "the richest single source of contemporary commentary on artists exhibitions and trends from the Romantic era to the end of the nineteenth century. Presumably the most important and innovative French fine arts journal encompassing: literature architecture sculpture painting engraving and music. TYPOGRAPHIE LACRAMPE ET COMP. RUE DAMIETTE 2. Full page decorative illustration preceding the Title page and signed in stone Albert Durer. Richly decorated with 50 single-leaf engravings vertical and horizontal most protected by tissue sometimes corresponding to the adjacent text. Good with the leather spine and marble covered boards rubbed with corners and edges bumped. Some pages thumbed with moderate foxing and soiling throughout; wrinkled and lightly worn early and late pages. Rear hinge split. Engravings generally clean and bright when protected by tissue. Achille Ricourt hardcover books
1981rif. WRCLIT61012Chouduno Italy 1981. Whole number one. 12mo. Decorated wrappers. Illustrated. Fine. Edited and published by Gaspari Walter. An intended quarterly with multi-lingual contributions including Bataille Corman Samperi et al. unknown books
1966rif. WRCLIT70552San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Ink gift inscription on title usual slight rubbing else very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books