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1962réf. 206696National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1962. Staplebound. VG. Some light rubbing and toning to the jacket and wear around edges. Quarto. Staplebound. Illustrated wraps. 1 volume unpaged : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm. National Aeronautics and Space Administration unknown books
1939réf. 207053New York: The Viking Press 1939. Hardcover. G. Minimally marked ex-lib. hand lettering on spine stamp on front end paper. Missing rear map. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with gilt titles. xxiii 1 430 pages 12 unnumbererd pages : illustrations maps 1 folded in pocket ; 21 cm. The Viking Press hardcover books
1949réf. 207048New York: Hastings House 1949. Hardcover. VG-. Ex-lib with minimal markings. Hand lettering on spine stamp inside front cover and card in rear. Map is present and in good condition. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with black titles. xxii 442 pages illustrations maps some folded in pocket 21 cm. Hastings House hardcover books
1940réf. 207056New York: Hastings House 1940. Hardcover. VG. No jacket. Exterior toning. Front board slightly cracked. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with black titles. xxxiii 718 pages 64 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations maps portraits ; 21 cm. Plates in eight groups each preceded by half-title not included in paging map on lining papers. First published in 1940/A selected reading list of Texas books. "In Texas A Guide to the Lone Star State all these elements have been linked together to form a picture of the State as it is. There are 15000 miles of tours telling the motorist where to go what to see and how to get there. Tours take you to places where you can fish or hunt in unspoiled streams and forests as well as to inspect the old missions the modern cities and ranches and the Little Mexicos. Sixty-four pages of gravure illustrations make up a composite portrait of the State's people and natural setting and 31 maps make travel through city and country easy for the driver"--Jacket flap. Hastings House hardcover books
1920réf. 198748Paris: Administration des Monnaies et Medailles 1920. Paperback. AS-IS Wraps on volume 1 are detached and heavily worn; spine strip on volume 1 is almost completely missing; wraps on volume 2 is edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; spine strip on volume 2 is peeling; textblock edges are heavily worn/scuffed/foxed; there is some marginalia present in the interior; light toning to very outer edges of pages; textblocks are cracked. Yellow wraps with black lettering; two volumes; 117 50 pp.; richly illustrated. Text in French. Administration des Monnaies et Medailles paperback books
1940réf. 156476Harrisburg PA 1940. Original. Folio. Contents clean bright and tight. Page 22 is missing but not included in the table of contents so likely never existed. Severe age toning to margins of covers. With small sticker on lower left front and wear to cover edges. Grey paper wraps with 4 metal paper-fasteners at spine. Black lettering on front cover. 86 pp. of which pp. 7 - 21 are fold-out plans in bw. Oversize/folio and may require extra postage. Works Project Administration Project Number 18670. Includes an introduction and table of contents. Pages 23 to the end are various tables filled with different kinds of data. Sponsored by the Harrisburg Housing Authority. Covers all sorts of things such as land use number of dwelling units and business units converted structures montly rents occupancy mortgage status sanitary facilities structure condition persons per room race only two categories white and colored etc. unknown books
1970réf. 52515Washington: GPO 1970. Paperback. 126p. wraps a bit faded otherwise in very good condition. Overy 550 references to reports government documents books legislation and journal articles published between 1960-1969. SS PUB 70-27 4-70. GPO paperback books
1941réf. 258604Richmond: Historical Records Survey of Virginia 1941. Soft Cover. Fair binding. Two Volumes plus Supplement. Bindings holding well. First and third volumes missing back wrappers; chipping to front wrapper vol. i minor loss to wrappers of vol. ii chipping to spines; tape marks to volumes. previous owner writing and tape mark to first blank page; light staining to edge of text block; no markings in text. Binding sound. Fair binding. Historical Records Survey of Virginia unknown books
1959réf. 343195Washington DC: GPO 1959. v 54p. staplebound booklet 6x9.25 inches light handling wear small stain on rear wrap else very good condition. GPO unknown books
1964réf. 224528Washington DC: GPO 1964. iii 62p. staplebound booklet 6x9.25 inches light handling wear a few small rust stains on front wrap else very good condition. GPO unknown books
1968réf. 4840UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR - WAGE AND LABOR STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION 1968. Staplebound. Cream wraps. Very good. 20 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Facts and statistics with reference to working mothers and child care in the late 1960s. Previous owner's stamp on front cover otherwise clean. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR - WAGE AND LABOR STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION paperback books
1987réf. 29229Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1987. Wraps. Good. xxviii 123 pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Publisher's illustrated wrappers. Remnants of price sticker on front cover. Corner creasing other evidence of having been read. Still a sound working copy. Wraps. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown books
1967réf. 27505Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA 1967. Wraps. Near Fine. 4 pages. Self wrappers. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. A touch of browning otherwise nice and clean. Illustrated. Wraps. Part of the NASA Facts series - an educational publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Office of Public Affairs Programs Division. Illustrated showing several launch vehicles on the pad with descriptions. This item is part of NASA's science series for Jr. High school General Science programs. Fairly basic but with a diagram of NASA's tracking facilities and an overview of how the entire system works. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unknown books
1967réf. 27507Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA 1967. Wraps. Near Fine. 4 pages. Self wrappers. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. Illustrated. Wraps. Part of the NASA Facts series - an educational publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Office of Public Affairs Programs Division. Illustrated but very basic - targeted to Elementary schools general science. Includes a map of NASA tracking facilities and several abstracted art pieces showing liftoff and the control panels. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unknown books
1967réf. 27504Washington DC: National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA 1967. Wraps. Near Fine. 8 pages. Self wrappers stapled. 8 x 10 1/4 inches. A touch of browning otherwise nice and clean. Illustrated. Wraps. Part of the NASA Facts series - an educational publication of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA Office of Public Affairs Programs Division. This edition replaces Vol. II No. 5 in the series. Illustrated showing several launch vehicles on the pad with descriptions. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unknown books
réf. 14708Providence Rhode Island: Jenks & Ballou 1957. First Edition. Binder. Very Good. First Edition. A large report bulking nearly an inch thick of a report done by Jenks and Ballou a consulting engineering firm for the International Cooperation Administration in Washington DC in 1957. The engineers involved went around the world reviewing pumping and irrigation plants in Japan Hong Kong and other places. The report is summarized in the first 20 pages followed by some 130 pages of details. There are original photographs pasted into the report with legends describing what the reader is looking at. A few original photographs have perished over the years. Binder. Stamped "Official Use Only" throughout this is one of perhaps a handful of copies distributed and is an interesting view into the engineering best practices of the time and the irrigation challenges faced in Pakistan for this project. The work was done under contract PIO/T 91 - 12 - 026 - 3 - 70868 and the report is dated December 1957. Jenks & Ballou unknown books
1945réf. 9116District of Columbia: Government Printing Office 1945. Poster 48.3 x 53 cm. folded as issued. Government Printing Office document 1945--O-629743. A government-issued poster encouraging Americans to grow victory gardens to support the war effort. The poster depicts an arrangement of various vegetables including peas in the shell cabbage and carrots in the foreground. In the background is a view of a garden with a man and woman cultivating and weeding. In an official wartime activity begun two and a half decades earlier in the Great War Americans were urged to supplement the food they had available for personal use by planting vegetable gardens both to support the war effort and due to food shortages and rationing. The gardens known as "victory gardens" were promoted widely by both the government and industry. Gardens were planted during World War I as well but were called "war gardens" until the end of the war when the term "victory garden" came into use. Creased at the folds otherwise very near fine. Government Printing Office unknown books
1974réf. 333138Washington DC: Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center 1974. unbound. Orthophotograph. 26 1/4" x 25 3/8" Aryabhata was produced by the Defense Mapping Agency and is available for viewing through resources supported by NASA such as the Lunar and Planetary Institute. The Aryabhata crater on the Moon is a submerged impact crater in the eastern Mare Tranquillitatis named after the ancient Indian astronomer Aryabhata with only its arc-shaped eastern rim visible above the lunar mare due to lava flows. Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center unknown books
1917réf. 319368United States Food Administration 1917. Original Poster. Lithograph. Measures 29" x 21". All-lettered poster has a two-column article with lengthy text explaining the need to conserve meat wheat fats sugar and coal. Some crumpling and foxing at edges. Otherwise in good condition. Print is clear and red color is vivid. United States Food Administration unknown books
2019réf. 311496New York: Twelve 2019. hardcover. fine/fine. 10 259 pages. 8vo black boards d.w. New York: Twelve 2019. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Twelve unknown books
réf. 295372Cincinatti New York: Strobridge Litho Co. PAUS Herbert Andrew. Original poster. Color lithograph. Page measures 35 1/2" x 56 1/2". Homefront poster from World War I encouraging Americans to save food. This vividly colored lithograph depicts a Red Cross nurse a wounded soldier a mother and infant and other people in need standing in front of a Iron Cross and pointing to a quote by John Greenleaf Whittier. Folded as issued some cracks along folds. Repair to right margin. Mounted on linen. Beautiful colors. Strobridge Litho Co unknown books
réf. 261343New York: M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Company. Original poster. Color lithograph. 21.5 x 14 inches. WWI era slogan. This poster is vivid blue with white text. Good condition with collection inventory number in margin. M.B. Brown Printing and Binding Company unknown books
1962réf. 382163Washington: Government Printing Office 1962. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Multiple Senate Documents 87th Congress 2d Session bound in one volume. Thick octavo. With black and white photographs. Complete as issued in the original publisher's cloth. Ex-library with ink stamps front board and pastedown else no other markings. Moderate soiling to the boards very good. Contains the Senate hearing on the Orbital Flight of John H. Glenn Jr. No. 79: iii 126pp. black and white photographs and many important documents relating to the cold war foreign policy of the United States especially in Latin America. These include: Education for Survival in the Struggle Against World Communism No. 93: v 127pp.; Special Report on Latin America No. 80: v 62pp.; Latin America and United States Policies No. 82: v 85pp.; and Study Mission to South America No. 91: vi 17pp. A nice copy scarce in the trade. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1938réf. 572841New York: The Viking Press. Sponsored by the Mississippi Advertising Commission 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 545pp. Illustrated. Folding map in pocket in rear. Endpapers toned along the inside hinges else near fine lacking the dust jacket. This WPA state guide includes at lest three photographs taken by Eudora Welty who took photographs for the WPA. The Viking Press. Sponsored by the Mississippi Advertising Commission hardcover books
1941réf. 515319Lincoln Nebraska: Woodruff Printing Company 1941. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Edited by Zerne P. Haning and Robert E. Carleson. Octavo. 31pp. Stapled purple pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Sponsored by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Slight uneven fading on spine and extremities else a very fine bright copy. Scarce.OCLC locates no copies. Woodruff Printing Company unknown books