1966135 pages. Light wear and soiling. Some yellowing. Intended as a guide particularly for the "boating fraternity." A select few plants and animals have been chosen to represent the vast number that actually exists. References are provided at the end of each section. Covers seaweeds, mammals, Birds, Fishes, Jellyfishes, Starfishes and relatives, Crabs, Barnacles, Molluscs, Sea Worms and Wood Borers. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Book
1991223 pages. Signed by Editor upon title page. Black and white illustrations from photos in text. "The story of a brave and noble company of men and women, inspired by the love of Christ and committed to obeying His parting directive to His disciples, recorded in Mat. 28:18-20. The story is humbly told by members of the group of missionaries who went to the Belgian Congo in the first half of the 20th century." - from Foreword. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
2013Best.-Nr. 1-1415877912Lifeway Christian Resources 2013. Hardcover. New. dvdr edition. 10.00x8.00x3.90 inches. Lifeway Christian Resources hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. SONG1415877912LifeWay Press 2013-07-01. Product Bundle. Used: Good. 8.20x1.60x10.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. LifeWay Press unknown
2014Best.-Nr. 1-1415878080Lifeway Christian Resources 2014. Hardcover. New. box dvdr/p edition. 111 pages. 10.25x8.25x1.50 inches. Lifeway Christian Resources hardcover
1921Best.-Nr. 007172Evanston IL: Alpha Phi Fraternity 1921. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. Orig. burgundy cloth. 136 pp. 4 pp. index. Bruising to spine ends and corners. Ink ownership inscription of Marjorie Cook Xi '21 to ffep. Lyric booklet laid in along wtih a certificate with Marjorie Cook's name possibly her initiation certificate. Alpha Phi Fraternity hardcover
Best.-Nr. 73461Hardcover. Very Good. hardcover
1947Best.-Nr. 60-00231Bradford-Robinson Printing Co 1947-01-01. Hardcover. New. . Bradford-Robinson Printing Co hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9781020032523Hardback. New. hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 93775n.p. 1930. Very Good. A very small 5 x 7 cm. card printed on one side. Their Citizenship Campaign began in the depths of the Great Depression in 1933 as a National Program for the fraternity. We don't now how long the program continued with this slogan. unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 92400New York 1934. Paperback. Very Good. photos portraits 20p. Softcover in original wrapper. 31 cm. Includes photographs and brief tongue-in-cheek statements about 32 Members and Associates of this now mostly forgotten African American men's organization.Also included are a few short articles including "L. U. D. Marches On" two pages; author not identified giving a brief history of the organization since its founding in 1931 and a one page article titled "Your Harlem and Ours" by Thomas St. Clair Bourne a local journalist and then the organization's Master of Finance. Numerous advertisements including several from other men's and women's social clubs. paperback
Best.-Nr. B9781497910935Hardback. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX1436799740New unknown
Best.-Nr. 22024Very Good. VERNACULAR TRAVEL DOCUMENTATION - THE RAILROAD THE FRATERNITY & THE MOUNTAIN WEST. A carefully assembled 1906 scrapbook documenting a coordinated leisure and sightseeing tour through Colorado undertaken by collegiate elites in connection with national fraternity travel for the Beta Theta Pi Annual Convention. Measuring 11 × 9.5 inches this album integrates original photographs with contemporaneous railroad hotel excursion and entertainment ephemera. Rather than a casual souvenir collection it presents a deliberate visual narrative recording both personal landscape experiences and the complex early twentieth-century transit infrastructure of the American West prior to automobile dominance. PHYSICAL FEATURES: Softcover scrapbook with dark paper wrappers. with original vernacular photographic prints capturing tourist groups carriage travel and rail infrastructure alongside a laid-in panoramic photograph of convention participants measuring 7.12 × 3.12 inches. 16 leaves utilized on one side only with all photos and ephemera mounted securely throughout. Content: Integrates clipped illustrated guide panels Denver & Rio Grande railroad promotional imagery 'Pike's Peak by Rail' illustrations banquet passes hotel call cards and excursion tickets issued by the Colorado Alumni Association. Geography: Maps a structured travel circuit through Manitou Colorado Springs South Cheyenne Canyon and Pike's Peak. CONDITION: Very Good. The bindings are sound and stable holding the delicate dark paper wrappers together securely. The internal pages remain intact with all mounts firmly attached. The photographs and ephemeral inserts exhibit light even age-toning consistent with early twentieth-century paper materials showing minor handling wear and occasional edge wear to a few mounted items. A highly legible well-preserved and complete example of vernacular travel documentation. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - Compiled at the transition point of American leisure culture this album captures the final golden era of the railroad vacation before the automobile revolutionized Western travel. The inclusion of 'A Swing Around Pike's Peak' guide excerpts and specialized rail tickets highlights how the tourism industry of Colorado purposefully engineered the landscape experience for affluent travelers. By nesting this excursion within the framework of the Beta Theta Pi Annual Convention the album provides crucial primary research data on the social history of collegiate elites. It showcases how fraternity networks functioned as engines of social mobility and nationwide networking transporting large groups of young professionals into the American West via pre-arranged corporate transportation systems. SCHOLARLY FEATURES Design: Exemplifies early modern scrapbooking pedagogy where commercial transit graphics and personal snapshots are intentionally paired to form a cohesive narrative of organized mobility. Scholarship: Documents how national collegiate networks utilized specialized railroad routes to reinforce social status and fraternal identity across regional boundaries. Influence: Preserves rare ephemeral epoptica from the Colorado Alumni Association and the Denver & Rio Grande system that rarely survives in institutional union catalogs outside of formal corporate archives. SUBJECTS: Colorado tourism Pike's Peak Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Beta Theta Pi fraternity collegiate conventions American leisure culture early twentieth-century photography Western Americana Scrapbook Photo Album Vernacular Photography Ephemera Travel Diary. unknown
Best.-Nr. A9781298986528Hardback. New. hardcover
1820Best.-Nr. TN1792A. H. Maltby & Co 1820. Hardcover. Used; Good. New Haven 1820; marbled paper covered boards; 3/4 leather; edge and corner wear with board exposed; crown of spine bumped; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges split but tightly held together by string binding; interior pages in good condition; foxed but heavier at end papers; interior clean and unmarked; 200 pages. A. H. Maltby & Co hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. DADAX0766107280Kessinger Publishing 1998-12-01. Reprint. paperback. New. 8.30x0.24x11.04. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1167029313Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 6.00x1.34x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1167250710Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 7.50x1.09x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
2010Best.-Nr. DADAX1167249801Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. paperback. New. 7.50x0.91x9.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing paperback
2013Best.-Nr. DADAX1415877912LifeWay Press 2013-07-01. Product Bundle. New. 8.20x1.60x10.10. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. LifeWay Press unknown
Best.-Nr. 1415877912.Gdvd_rom. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1934Best.-Nr. 406281New York: The New York Age Press 1934. Softcover. Very Good. Folio. 20pp. portraits photographs. Stapled printed card wrappers. Split at the spine small chips on front wrap very good. Includes photographs and occasionally humorous statements about 32 different members of this now mostly forgotten African-American men's organization. The New York Age Press unknown
Best.-Nr. FRE4016mo ca. 169x103 cm or 6 ½ x 4 in. About 96 pp. of handwritten in ink and pencil text. Period full-leather binding with traces of ink inscriptions ownership signatures and location markings on both covers; with a hectograph copy of the club’s constitution ca. 1914 16 pp. 345x213 cm 13 ½ x 8 ½ in. Notebook covers worn loss of small fragments at the edges several pages torn out one page with an open tear constitution with fold marks and occasional soiling but otherwise a very good collection. Historically interesting pocket-size logbook of “The Thirty-Six Club” a male-only literary and social society at Sacramento High School documenting the activities of an early California student fraternity during and after the 1909 ban on public high school secret societies. The California Anti-Fraternity Act of 1909 was part of a nationwide movement to abolish secret student organizations in public schools banning elementary and secondary students from joining fraternities sororities and similar societies. According to The Sacramento Bee 1911 the Thirty-Six Club at Sacramento High School was formed by former members of the Gamma Etta Kappa fraternity who reorganized as an administration-approved literary club to comply with the law. The group met twice monthly required literary exercises unanimous approval for admission and a moral pledge against gambling and organized dances skating parties and other social events. The notebook contains minutes of semi-monthly meetings held from April 10 1909 to January 25 1913 apparently recorded by the elected club secretaries. All members came from prominent early Sacramento families including Avery S. Hills Melvin Boyd Morton Arnold and Norman E. Doan ca. 1886–1918. Doan later became a respected local figure serving as County Law Librarian before joining the military as a cadet and sergeant at Mather Field. He died at the age of 32 after contracting influenza nephritis while stationed there during the influenza outbreak of 1918. The notebook outlines the club's proceedings including new memberships resignations treasury reports and disciplinary fines. Among the group's strictest financial regulations was a rule dictating that any member with an outstanding debt of $1.50 or more would be barred from the privilege of voting. Interestingly the entries also mention Principal H. O. Williams of Sacramento High School one of the most vigilant activists against school fraternities. While the club members initially considered submitting their new constitution to the Principal for formal approval the minutes reveal that they ultimately withdrew this decision to protect their autonomy. Other entries reflect the club’s social and practical activities such as dance planning roll calls fundraising for baseball equipment wedding gifts and the adoption of a new club pin. The notebook is supplemented by an original hectograph copy of the “Constitution of the 36 Club” and its accompanying by-laws drafted to comply with California’s 1909 anti-fraternity legislation. To avoid classification as a prohibited “secret oath-bound fraternity” the organization officially redefines itself as a “literary social and men-promoting” society while the Advisory Committee provision is altered in manuscript to require all members to belong to the G.E.K. Gamma Etta Kappa. The constitution also establishes a standing committee responsible for placing flowers on the graves of deceased members including Elvin Ernst who died at age seventeen in 1912 after being struck in the abdomen by a schoolmate and Thomas Beach who died following a spinal injury sustained during a football game in 1914. Overall historically interesting pocket-size logbook of “The Thirty-Six Club” a male-only literary and social society at Sacramento High School documenting the activities of an early California student fraternity during and after the 1909 ban on public high school secret societies. hardcover
Best.-Nr. DADAX0342041266Franklin Classics 2018-10-10. hardcover. New. 6.14x0.81x9.21. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Franklin Classics hardcover