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1961Best.-Nr. 2708Washington DC 1961. Very good. 88pp. Quarto. Original textured padded cloth printed in gilt and black with calendar designs on front cover. Minor edge wear rubbing and abrading to covers. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean. A rare yearbook from Veterans High School Center - an segregated academic and vocational training high school for American servicemen and other non-traditional male African-American students in the District of Columbia. Veterans High School was started in the old Armstrong Manual Training High School building in 1946 and operated until 1964 at which time it became an adult education center. During its run Veterans High School Center graduated around a hundred students a year trained in various academic and vocational specialties. The range of study is reflected in the senior class section here noting that each student is graduating on an "Academic" track or gaining a diploma in such vocational avenues as Printing Radio-TV Shoe Repair Auto Mechanics Brickmasonry Barber Science Electricity Drafting and Tailoring. Other sections of the yearbook feature students in typical settings such as the classroom in clubs playing sports and so forth. There is also a list of school patrons followed by an eight-page section of advertisements for local businesses. We could locate no other yearbooks from the segregated all-male Veterans High School in Washington D.C. unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 2708Washington DC 1961. Very good. 88pp. Quarto. Original textured padded cloth printed in gilt and black with calendar designs on front cover. Minor edge wear rubbing and abrading to covers. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean. A rare yearbook from Veterans High School Center - an segregated academic and vocational training high school for American servicemen and other non-traditional male African-American students in the District of Columbia. Veterans High School was started in the old Armstrong Manual Training High School building in 1946 and operated until 1964 at which time it became an adult education center. During its run Veterans High School Center graduated around a hundred students a year trained in various academic and vocational specialties. The range of study is reflected in the senior class section here noting that each student is graduating on an "Academic" track or gaining a diploma in such vocational avenues as Printing Radio-TV Shoe Repair Auto Mechanics Brickmasonry Barber Science Electricity Drafting and Tailoring. Other sections of the yearbook feature students in typical settings such as the classroom in clubs playing sports and so forth. There is also a list of school patrons followed by an eight-page section of advertisements for local businesses. We could locate no other yearbooks from the segregated all-male Veterans High School in Washington D.C. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8234broché - 16x24 - 4 pp - 1900 -
199060 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1990. A periodical for those who served with the B.E.F. (France) from 10th May 1940. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
Best.-Nr. DADAX1628654163New unknown
19168vo; Original publisher's cloth. Dampstains to boards and lower margins of 1st & last pages, otherwise Very Good Condition. (am-4-2)
198272 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment, has prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
1982Best.-Nr. 83700782Winnipeg Manitoba Canada: Ad hoc Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression 1982. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 72 pages. Circa 1982-83. Perhaps the first book to be written by workers on the question of Canada's entering the second depression. Their dismay at finding another generation of young families faced with the same prospects of unemployment has prompted them to compile an outline of world and national development leading to recurring crises in private enterprise systems. The authors have used a historical materialist approach in attempting to make the history and background of depressions understandable to the average working class reader. Gift greetings inside front cover else clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. (Ad hoc) Winnipeg Committee of Unemployed Youth and Veterans of the Great Depression Paperback
Best.-Nr. ABE-10069156276TIRAGE ARGENTIQUE NOIR ET BLANC-20 CM X 15 CM-LEGENDE SUR PAPIER "LA JOURNEE DU 8 JUILLET A PARIS. LES CROIX DE FEU ET LES BRISCARDS A L'ARC DE TRIOMPHE; LE COLONEL LA ROCQUE HARANGUANT LA FOULE. PHOTO NYT PARIS LE 8.7.34"-AU DOS CACHET HUMIDE NYT RUE REAUMUR PARIS-LE COLONEL LA ROCQUE DEBOUT DANS UNE VOITURE DECAPOTABLE-DRAPEAUX- (CP1)
1772Best.-Nr. GITh279A Grenoble chez la Veuve Faure et Fils 1772. In-12 27pp dont le titre 14 feuillets non chiffrés sur double page ou repliés (fac similes de documents). Dérelié, brochage solide, bon état.
