1973réf. 538726San Francisco: The People's Yellow Pages Collective 1973. Softcover. Good. The third edition. Quarto. Roughly 150pp. Illustrated. Illustrated yellow wrappers. A bit of toning on the cheap paper small nicks tears and stains on the wrappers chip on rear wrap small repairs but a sound good or better copy. Quintessentially hip phone directory with all the advertisements and listings free as long as the businesses offer survival services human services products of high quality hand-made material liberation services minority groups and services political groups etc. Interesting insight into popular categories including gay services computers birth control prisoners and ex-prisoners bookstores drugs sex music women's groups Third World liberation etc. OCLC locates a few sporadic editions up until 1981; including four copies of this edition. The People's Yellow Pages Collective unknown books
réf. 3555Porto: J.R. Goncalves; Instituto do Vindo do Porto n.d. Three works in one volume. Quarto 21.6 x 28 cm. 339; 60; 75 pages. Text in Portuguese. Photocopy facsimile of the three volumes of the Portuguese Port Wine Institute's bibliography and two supplements from 1945 1947 and 1952 respectively. Thousands of bibliographic entries related to port wine and its production. Bound in pink wrappers with some wear. Some annotations in ink to text otherwise very good. Scarce and useful. J.R. Goncalves; Instituto do Vindo do Porto unknown books
1908réf. 10459New York: George H. Doran Company 1908. Cloth. Good. The much less common 1908 1st American edition. Solid and G in its russet cloth with still-bright gilt-lettering along the spine. A degree of staining at the panels --and at the rear pastedown and endsheet. Still though a presentable copy and "with Sixty-One Illustrations from Photographs by the Author and Lietenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson and Three Maps". 12mo 226 pgs. George H. Doran Company unknown books
1937réf. 9694Salt Lake City: The Salt Lake Hardware Company 1937. 2717pp. Quarto 30 cm Red grained buckram with the title raised on the front board and backstrip. Good only. Hinges going with bumped corners. Illustrated trade catalog from the longtime Intermountain West wholesale distributor and dealer. Sections for tools implements harness mill & plumbing supplies steel and heavy hardware welding equipment & accessories machinery & shop equipment automotive equipment and accessories paint & glass builders' hardware electric wiring & radio electric household and major appliances ranges & circulating heaters store fixtures house furnishings glassware and chinaware cutlery & silverware luggage and leather goods firearms fishing tackle athletic equipment bicycles and supplies. The Salt Lake Hardware Company unknown books
1900réf. 372178Philadelphia 1900. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Blank verso has paper residue where once mounted paper is quite tanned along left margin with creasing few short tears and small chips in blank margins else a good copy. 1 page On Slater letterhead. Dr. Simon Green Atkins the son of former slaves founded the Slater Industrial and State Normal School in 1892 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. The school became Winston-Salem Teacher's College in 1925 and it was the first African-American institute in America to offer degrees in elementary education. Reading in part: "Dear Friend- I hope we may see you and some of your friends at the meeting to which you will find and sic invitation enclosed not present. Our students will also appear in Association Hall Germantown the following evening.Your kindly interest in our cause will be greatlyt appreciated. unknown books
1935réf. 30920Los Angeles CA: The Utopian Society of America 1935. Very Good. Los Angeles CA: The Utopian Society of America 1935. Four issues including Vol. 2 nos. 6 15 17 & 25. Folios; self-wrappers; mixed pagination; text in three columns. Rather brittle with chips toning and short tears; previous mail folds; wear heavier to No. 17 with spine largely perished; pencil scribbling to front of No. 24. else a Good to Very Good lot. Includes news of the New Deal Father Coughlin and the rise of Hitler and a section featuring "Songs of Utopia." Rear of No. 17 includes "Declaration of Aims of the Utopian Society" which notes that "the machine is man's good friend" but continues "we recognize the evil results however to both producer and consumer of uncoordinated production." The Society's weekly appears to have run through 1936 according to records in OCLC. No copies in retail as of October 2024. . The Utopian Society of America unknown books
1992réf. 544178Austin: W. Thomas Taylor 1992. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Tied flexible pale red paper over flexible boards. One of 100 copies. Fine. Translated from Spanish versions of the original Arabic. An attractive volume. W. Thomas Taylor unknown books
réf. 294719New York: J.H. Tooker Print Co. Original poster mounted on linen. Color lithograph. 40 1/2" x 27 3/4" inches. A World War I poster featuring a sketch portrait of actress Bessie Barriscale urging the public to buy war bonds. Publishing sponsored by Paralta Plays. In very good condition with minor tears to margin. Image unaffected. J.H. Tooker Print Co unknown books
1813réf. 547230Hartford: Hale & Hosmer 1813. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Frontispiece engraving of Calvin by Boyd. Octavo. ii ii 412 12 index subscribers pp. With the contemporary or early bookplate of Helen Grinnan on the front pastedown as well as an owner signature "C. Grinnan" on the recto of the frontispiece. Ex-modern library with a spine label large bookplate on the front pastedown and a library stamp beneath the ownership signature. Binding heavily worn with some loss at the crown first 10 leaves dampstained two front blanks stuck together causing a hole in one front blanks partially detached and title page and following leaf with an approximately 3" tear foxing throughout about good. A sound copy especially notable for a handsome early woman's bookplate featuring a handsome border and the classic bibliophile's verse from the Psalms: "The wicked borroweth and return not again. Hale & Hosmer hardcover books
1867réf. 31839Madison: Atwood & Rublee State Printers 1867. First edition. Rebound in maroon buckram with front wrapper laid on. A very good copy with the bookplate of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Illinois on front pastedown shelf sticker on foot of backstrip their stamp on title. 208 pp. 8vo. Lacking the last four leaves. Scarce Checklist of Wisconsin Imprints 521. Atwood & Rublee, State Printers hardcover books
1883réf. 24041Fort Monroe Virginia: Printed at the United States Artillery School 1883. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. First Edition. Two works bound as one. 8vo. Red cloth spine and corners over pebbled cloth. 1 vii 144 pages VII plates. Chemical Manipulations by Wissner. 1883 2 iv 40 pages. Instruction in Photography by Major Lorenzo Lorain. 1882. Cloth. Two unusual titles both scarce with OCLC showing only four physical copies of each title as of this writing. "Chemical Manipulations" is intended as a manual for use in the laboratory and covers much ground containing a brief summary of the Principles of Chemistry and Chemical Analysis and part II contains the Special Analyses prescribed in the Programme of Instruction. "Instruction in photography" reviews various processes both theoretical and practical and contains useful "short examples" where there is a stated problem with printing for instance and possible reasons and solutions are presented. As with many military manuals these are focused on practical considerations for the military rather than theory accessible only to the elite. Printed at the United States Artillery School unknown books
1964réf. 9008309Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1964. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spines stamped in black and gilt. Moner chips to the edges of the covers. Minor ink notation at the top right hand corner of the front free endpaper. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover books
1809réf. 66435London: printed for Richard Phillips Bridge Street Blackfriars 1809. First edition 8vo pp. 2 ii 288 16 Phillips catalog; folding frontispiece map 2 other folding maps; original blue paper-covered boards printed paper label on spine; front endpapers and frontispiece dampstained spine worn with small chips out label chipped with loss of one letter; a good sound and but for the initial dampstains clean copy. On the front pastedown is armorial bookplate for Robert Montgomery / Convoy. Wikipedia notes that "The Walcheren Campaign was an unsuccessful British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809 intended to open another front in the Austrian Empire's struggle with France during the War of the Fifth Coalition. printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge Street, Blackfriars unknown books
1832réf. 55208Richmond: printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co 1832. First edition 12mo pp. 4 iv 1 6-186; contemporary full sheep black morocco label lettered in gilt on spine; very good. OCLC locates only the Huntington and Virginia copies. Not in Vancil. printed by Samuel Shepherd & Co unknown books
1794réf. 56240Philadelphia: printed for Mathew Carey no. 118 Market-Street October 14 1794. First edition 8vo pp. iv 3 8-22; removed from binding; lacks the terminal ad leaf otherwise very good. An influential poem combining the images of patriotism manufacturing and the work ethic. Humphreys was a colonel in the Revolutionary War and served as Washington's aide-de-camp. Evans 27145; Sabin 33813; Wegelin 225. printed for Mathew Carey, no. 118, Market-Street, October 14 unknown books
1729réf. 123875London: Printed for Bernard Lintot. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1729. Third Edition. Hardcover. A Third Edition that is corrected with additions in Very Good condition with the slightest of rubbing to the edges and corners and some age toning throughout the volume itself. A very nice copy of a charming book; This poem by Claudius Quilletus revolves around the raising of children choosing a wife and other concerns of marriage and family life. It is divided into four books: "The First treats of the Nature and Variety of Beauty and of the Choice of a Wife. The Second of Marriage and Enjoyment with Laws and Rules relating to both from Nature and Astrology. The Third of Conception and Imagination. The Fourth and Last of the Beauty of the Mind of Education and Virtue and of the Variety of Climes Customs and Manners." ; 12mo; xviii 96 97-102 pages . Printed for Bernard Lintot hardcover books
1973réf. List2919New York City: George Fenmore Associates 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Some wrinkling some marginal damage overall excellent. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward actor and producer Robert Hooks and producer Gerald Krone with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater training—both in acting and in behind-the-scenes work—to Black people in New York City and put on plays relevant to the community. Notable alumni of the NEC include Angela Bassett Samuel L. Jackson and Giancarlo Esposito among numerous others. Offered here is a booklet about the NEC’s production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger which opened in 1972 in the small off-off-Broadway St. Marks Playhouse theater. The play was so popular that it played for weeks longer than planned at St. Marks and then opened on Broadway in 1973. Walker won a Tony for Best Play for The River Niger the first African-American to do so. The booklet includes photographs of the play and an article about it from Ebony magazine alongside photographs from the group’s many other productions. We find two copies of the booklet in OCLC both at the University of California Davis. George Fenmore Associates unknown books
1888réf. 19670Philadelphia: Porter & Coates 1888. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good. The first American edition of History of the Civil War in America by the Comte de Paris from the library of historian Peter Cozzens. Four octavo volumes 1 xvi 640pp 1; xviii 774pp 1; xxii 923pp 1; xviii 681pp. Publisher's blue cloth titles in gilt on the spines. Light shelf wear to cloth boards. Brown endpapers some splitting along hinges all stable. Complete with nineteen folding maps with a portrait frontispiece of the author in Volume IV. Translated from the French by Louis F. Tasistro and edited by Henry Coppée with the later volumes edited by John P. Nicholson. Bookplate of American historian and author Peter Cozzens on the front pastedown of each volume individually signed by Cozzens. Nevins I p. 40 Eicher 750. First published in France as a seven-volume series titled "Histoire de la Guerre Civile en Amerique" by Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans Comte de Paris and his brother Robert Duc de Chartres. Both were commissioned captains and additional aides-de-camp on the staff of General George B. McClellan in September 1861. The Comte accompanied the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign before returning to Europe in July 1862. The first volume of his history appeared in English in 1875 with the fourth and final American volume issued in 1888. The work remained unfinished. Porter & Coates unknown books
1832réf. 44996Steubenville OH: J. & B. Turnbull 1832. 12mo.; xii 236 xvi 5 7 xviii pp.284-308. Full leather; gilt stamped black morocco spine label. Contemporary ownership signature at head of front board; contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. Foxing. J. & B. Turnbull unknown books
1854réf. 84658London: Wm. H. Allen & Co 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. index c 145p. plus 6p. advertisements. Rebound in a red 20th century quarterbinding red leather backstrip and red cloth. 17cm. Rear joint tender. Richard F. Burton shows up in the list as does John H. Speke. Wm. H. Allen & Co hardcover books
1873réf. 697671873. Hardcover. Good. Circa 175 pages of holograph text; remainder of book blank. Scuffed leather minute book. 34cm. Ruled pages. This railroad seems to been relatively short running from the Connecticut border south of Longmeadow Massachusetts to East Hartford. At the final 1887 meetings of the stockholders and directors recorded in this minute book the Company appeared to be facing a foreclosure suit by the Connecticut State Treasurer. The railroad appears to have ceased in 1887. hardcover books
1999réf. 1364000Beijing: China Building Industry Press 1999. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Large octavo: 10 65 174 66 1 pages. Near fine / Very good in Very good- slip case. Navy blue spine with white and gilt titling in Chinese. Slip case with light shelf wear and rubbing; Yellowing price label on rear; Dust jacket lightly shelf worn and bumped; Binding and text block bright and clean. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Text in Chinese. SH consignment. 1364000. Special Collections. China Building Industry Press hardcover books
1985réf. 1363281Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1985. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Large octavo: 10 22 198 77 pages. Very good / Very good in Very good slip case. Navy spine with gilt and white titling in Chinese. Slip case with light bumping and wear; Dust jacket lightly rubbed; Binding very slightly marked; Second front free endpaper and second front rear endpaper with light staining. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Text in Chinese. SH consignment. 1363281. Special Collections. Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House hardcover books
1985réf. 1364004Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing 1985. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Large octavo: 10 36 198 68 3 pages. Very good / Very good in Very good- slip case. Black spine with gilt and white titling in Chinese. Slip case with light rubbing and bumping; Dust jacket lightly rubbed; Text block with a few lightly bumped corners. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Text in Chinese. SH consignment. 1364004. Special Collections. Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing hardcover books
1988réf. 1363971Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1988. First edition first printing. Hardcover. Large octavo: 10 29 200 67 2 pages. Very good / Very good in Good slip case. Navy spine with gilt and white titling in Chinese. Slip case with light rubbing with numerous bubbles in laminate; Dust jacket lightly rubbed with a few small bubbles in laminate; Binding minimally worn; Second front free endpaper and second rear free endpaper moderately stained. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Text in Chinese. SH consignment. 1363971. Special Collections. Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House hardcover books
