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196516 pages. Features: My First Character - Best-Selling Author John Le Carre tells of his first inspiration; The Perfect Age - many famous achievements have been accomplished by young people; Our Changing Youth - how different are today's teens from those of ten years ago?; Rolling Stone Brian Jones almost died in Detroit; Are You Really in Love? - here are some clues; Great retro color ad on back cover entitled ""Flash Across the Skies!" advertises a model of the Gemini space capsule. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Coupon removed from Hormel ad on page 11, otherewise a sound copy of this special vintage issue. Magazine
196520 pages. Features: Circus Girl - with photo of The Three Meckners, including brave Alicia; Chesterfield cigarette ad includes photos of security guard Dale McRoberts, Jr., gallery operator Tami Apt, and commercial fisherman Floyd Cummins of Washington State; The Single-Parent Family - article with photo of the Kennedy family in rowboat; Off-Beat Vacations; Tasteful one-page photo ad for Formfit/Rogers Dress-Shapers; "The Spy" - From the Cold to the Screen - John Le Carre recounts the often traumatic experiences of watching his characters come to life in the persons of Richard Burton and Claire Bloom - includes several photos. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this special vintage issue. Magazine
196416 pages. Features: Gorgeous cover photo of Dalia Lavi; Japan Goes Yankee - article with wonderful photos of American culture being adopted by the Japanese; Thailand Adventure - American Jacqueline Ayer went to Bangkok as a housewife, became a fashion designer, and today she's bringing Eastern flavor to U.S. women; Daddy's Eight Daughters - Charlie Rose writes of the beautiful family of General Chien Tai, former chief representative of China to the United Nations - includes magnificent family photo of Mi-mi, Do-do, Octavia, Re-re, General Chien Tai, Satellite, Madame Tai, Uranium, La-la, Si-si, Fa-fa and So-so; A Girl's Life in Red China - Sansan, a pretty teen-ager, has a message for Americans her own age (she escaped to Hong Kong in 1962) and here describes the plight of living in Red China; Hong Kong Tea Party - Cooking Far Eastern Style in Kitty Wing Min's Home. Color ads include; Miss Clairol and Hush Puppies (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy of this most wonderful issue. Magazine
1956Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Good-bye to the Fairmont board in Vancouver - great photos including one with Miss Joan Ross; Map of radiotelephone chains; Fairmont Cutover Highlights; Merritt switchboard gutted - photo; Photo of a young Kenneth Dye - who went on to serve as Auditor-General of Canada from 1981-1991; Company Auto Equipment Staff; Photos of the expansion of Vancouver's underground telephone system; Many photos of Kamloops staff at work; New phone system for Vancouver's new Public Safety Building - photos; 1954 Annual Report Highlights; Record expansion this year; Outdoor phone booths popular; 15 years ago; Photos of Victoria's expansion program; Victoria Commercial Office modernized - photos; Photos of moving phone lines prior to dismantling the old Granville Street Bridge; New radiotelephone mast on Lulu Island - photos; New Engineering Section formed; Automatic Toll Board for Royal City; Conversion project for Vancouver's Dexter office; Photos of placing cable 70 feet above the Fraser River near Boston Bar; Photo of 'Jocko', the company chimpanzee; Sales Training; Campbell River First North-west Conversion to automatic operation; Oliver and Osoyoos approve free calling; Walter R. Jones retires; L.C. Patey passes away; path testing to begin for microwave system - article; photos of cable-laying between Ioco and Port Moody; microwave skyway - photos and text; photos of loss of part of the bridge at Mission; microwave path testing completed for B.C. - article with map; photo and article of 'electronic secretary' (hint: picture a big box with a record player in it!); List of Exchanges in B.C. and # of lines operating; photos of heavy gangs at work; access to microwave sites 'most difficult' (article); G.W.S. Montgomery passes away; photos of New West's Lakeview office; Engineering for TD-2 Microwave in B.C. - article with map; Photos of laying underwater cable near Nelson; 1955 - company's best year ever; James Hamilton and C.B. Diplock retire; Aerial tram to serve Dog Mountain site near Hope; Teletype now links Trans-Canada system; "They Take their telephone with them - great article and photos on the use of radiotelephones - early car phones!; groundwork laid for microwave in B.C.; R.A. Story ends 46 years career; Photos of cable-laying between Mayne Island and Swartz Bay; photos of blasting near Hedley; North-west acquires Peace River; PNE photos; Dog Mountain construction photos; photos of the Mid-Canada Line, which supplemented the DEW line; article and photo re: the new 'Speakerphone'; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on top and bottom edges of text - Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee of the company. Book
194480 pages. Where to begin describing this incredible Toronto Maple Leaf souvenir? Colour-illustrated front cover features prominent black and white photo of Leaf player Elwyn Morris. Contents: Nice military-themed colour ad for B-A inside front cover; One-page ad for Simpson's overcoats for men; Page two displays the "Gardens" Executive and Board of Directors with photos of twenty-one gentlemen including Major Conn Smythe; Nice one-page ad for ENO's 'fruit salt'; Information about many players from the New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, ; Nice one-page illustrated ad for Peoples Credit Jewellers, celebrating their 25th Anniversary; Wildfire Chocolate Bar ad; ad for Orange-Crush and Lime Crush rickey; Nice one-page ad for 'The House of Stone' high-end clothing business; Nice one-page photo ad for Brylcreem; Nice one-page military-themed ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Article by Frank Selke Jr.; Article on Toronto Sports Personalities; Nice Black Cat cigarette ad; One-page ad for Scott's Emulsion; Nice one-page ad for Midtown Tire features photos and write-ups of owners Stan Bacon and Sam Shefsky; Who's Who on the Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens?; Half-page Coke ad shows Allied airman talking to a group while he holds a remmant of a Nazi plane, the remnant bearing a large swastika; One-page ad for Maclean Stomach Powder; One page ad for Joseph Gould & Sons, maker of clothing; One-page ad for Du-Val products; Hockey's Immortal Characters - article on Newsy Lalonde; Centrefold, loose but present, lists fourteen Chicago players - one name stroked out and another hand-written in below, and seventeen Toronto players; Great vintage ad for Vernor's Ginger Ale; Who's Who on the Boston Bruins?; Royal York Hotel ad promotes Horace Lapp and his 'Orchestra of Funmakers'; Nice two-page ad for Bee Hive Corn Syrup; Illustrated ad for the W.H. Dunne Skate Co.; Ad for Tease Knitting Co. which makes jerseys for the Toronto Maple Leafs; Nice one-page ad for Germolene ointment; Odex soap ad shows man in shower; Nice illustrated ad for the 'Honey Dew Shop'; Thermogene Wool ad; Fantastic cartoon ad for the Chicken Palace restaurant in Toronto; Article - With Our Boys on Active Service (In WWII) - featuring Turk Broda; NHL Schedule for 1944-45; Only One Brother Act Left in Big-Time Hockey - The Bruneteau brothers of the Detroit Red Wings; Who's Who on the Chicago Black Hawks; Ad for Gordon Dunfield military outfitters; Nice vintage one-page ad for C.C.M. skating equipment, with illustrations of the Allan Cup, Stanley Cup, and Memorial Cup; Nice illustrated ad for Winnwell hockey equipment; Article - Hockey History of Ancient America; One-page ad for Veno's cough syrup; Nice one-page ad for "Export" - Canada's Finest Cigarette; Nice two-colour ad for Dentyne Gum inside back cover; Great colour ad on back cover for Sweet Caporal cigarettes features attractive lady and instructions how to order cigarettes for 'the boys overseas' (in WWII). Above-average external wear. Openings along coverfold. A magnificent Toronto hockey collectible. Book
1914réf. 206801914. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes 1914 presents an early twentieth century sociological examination of African American life in Boston grounded in extended field research and community engagement. Written by a social reformer affiliated with settlement work and urban social service institutions the study compiles nearly a decade of observation and consultation with Black Bostonians to document demographic patterns labor conditions class structure and institutional affiliations. The work situates Boston's Black population within a longer historical trajectory beginning with emancipation in Massachusetts in 1781 and continuing through the development of a free Black community closely tied to abolitionist activity in the nineteenth century providing a substantial empirical record for the study of race urban life and reform era social science. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1914. First edition. One volume. The text is organized in part through historical and analytical chapters with early sections addressing the formation of racial attitudes and subsequent chapters presenting data on employment property ownership and social organization including religious and political institutions. Daniels draws upon interviews local records and collaboration with numerous members of Boston's African American community whom he acknowledges collectively in the preface. Produced during the Progressive Era the study reflects contemporaneous efforts to apply social scientific methods to questions of race inequality and urban reform. Its detailed statistical and descriptive approach contributes to the broader development of American sociology and provides a foundation for examining the relationship between Black community formation and northern urban environments in the decades before the Great Migration. Minor edge wear to covers and spine ends; pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1917; overall very good condition. unknown
1914réf. 206801914. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes 1914 presents an early twentieth century sociological examination of African American life in Boston grounded in extended field research and community engagement. Written by a social reformer affiliated with settlement work and urban social service institutions the study compiles nearly a decade of observation and consultation with Black Bostonians to document demographic patterns labor conditions class structure and institutional affiliations. The work situates Boston's Black population within a longer historical trajectory beginning with emancipation in Massachusetts in 1781 and continuing through the development of a free Black community closely tied to abolitionist activity in the nineteenth century providing a substantial empirical record for the study of race urban life and reform era social science. Daniels John. In Freedom's Birthplace: A Study of the Boston Negroes. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1914. First edition. One volume. The text is organized in part through historical and analytical chapters with early sections addressing the formation of racial attitudes and subsequent chapters presenting data on employment property ownership and social organization including religious and political institutions. Daniels draws upon interviews local records and collaboration with numerous members of Boston's African American community whom he acknowledges collectively in the preface. Produced during the Progressive Era the study reflects contemporaneous efforts to apply social scientific methods to questions of race inequality and urban reform. Its detailed statistical and descriptive approach contributes to the broader development of American sociology and provides a foundation for examining the relationship between Black community formation and northern urban environments in the decades before the Great Migration. Minor edge wear to covers and spine ends; pencil inscription on front endpaper dated 1917; overall very good condition. unknown books
1881réf. 2301150003Civil Service Reform Association Boston Mass. 1881. First Edition. Art Prints & Posters. Very Good. American Civil Service Reform : Massachusetts : Good Governance in the Gilded Age Original Broadside. Sheet in excellent condition. Printed on blue paper. Two folds. Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 21 inches. Small ink stamp on bottom left corner dated 1881. The broadside lays out the principles of good government. It offers quotes from President Grant and Gen. Garfield about the importance of civil service reform; the example of success in England; explains the core reason for the Civil Service Reform Association; a brief view of the Association's constitution; and a list of the principal officers. The Association's President Moorfield Storey and other "Mugwumps" were strongly in favor of anti-corruption / good government reforms advocated by Grover Cleveland and other reformers. "The principles' of the Association were as follows: "That while certain officers of the Government should be in sympathy with the policy of the Administration the routine business should be conducted on business principles; that officers should be appointed on account of fitness for the work to be done and should be continued in office as long as they do that work well' that offices should not be used for partisan purposes; that Representatives are chosen to legislate and their time should not be given to the distribution of patronage; that the adoption of the well-devised system carrying out these principles will insure better administration and better legislation." Also includes a reprinted article on the Association from the New York Times February 19 1881. Civil Service Reform Association (Boston, Mass.) unknown
2019réf. Bio-Green-97817888214902019. Hardcover. New. hardcover
2019réf. Bio-Green-97817888214902019. Hardcover. New. hardcover
1899réf. 7503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown
1899réf. 7503Boston: F.M. Porter Co 1899. Quarto stapled in wrappers 24 x 17.5 cm. 80 pages; 1 plate. Illustrated black & white and chromolithograph plate. Advertising. FIRST EDITION. The "Official catalog musical program list of exhibitors" for this fourth congress of members of the Boston Retail Grocers Association. The association was founded in 1881 and held its first food fair that year. Photographic portraits of the senior members of the Association are included as is a description of Miss Nellie Dot Ranche of Chicago who was brought in for the occasion to run the Domestic Science Programs. It's interesting that the committee reached out to the Midwest at this moment when Cooking Schools in Boston were on the rise and very visible. The copious advertising displays a range of categories of goods one would find in a grocery of the turn of the 19th century: coffee cocoa mustard Havana cigars root beer Ceylon tea French Coca Wine virgin olive oil nut meats and salt as well as household goods including: thread collars washing liquids bluing ink. Also represented are goods and services aimed at the grocers and retailers: boxes and bags promotional printing specialized contracting refrigeration etc. Tiny bit of spotting to green and gold-printed gray wrappers otherwise fine. OCLC locates just one copy Winterthur. F.M. Porter Co unknown books
1934réf. 7508Boston: B.B. Inc.; Ben-Burk Distillers 1934. Small folded pamphlet 11 x 6.5 cm. 16 pages when folded. Printed in red black and blue. FIRST EDITION. One of the very rare precursors to the famous Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide 1935. Following Repeal Ben-Burk Distillers published the Guide which was to become one of the iconic cocktail recipe books. Originally published as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston the Guide became a staple of professional and home bars around the country. But prior to the first work titled Old Mr. Boston Guide Ben-Burk published One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New 1932 and One Hundred and Twenty Cocktails Fizzes Punches Highballs Toddies and Long Drinks 1934 both of which are very rare. We can add this small work – previously unrecorded – to this short list of precursors. A bit of soiling to edges and one corner dog-eared; otherwise very good. All early printings of the Mr. Boston Guide are scarce. Unrecorded. OCLC records no copies; not in Noling or EUVS. B.B. Inc.; [Ben-Burk Distillers] unknown
1934réf. 7508Boston: B.B. Inc.; Ben-Burk Distillers 1934. Small folded pamphlet 11 x 6.5 cm. 16 pages when folded. Printed in red black and blue. FIRST EDITION. One of the very rare precursors to the famous Old Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide 1935. Following Repeal Ben-Burk Distillers published the Guide which was to become one of the iconic cocktail recipe books. Originally published as a promotional item for the Ben-Burk line of spirits distilled in Boston the Guide became a staple of professional and home bars around the country. But prior to the first work titled Old Mr. Boston Guide Ben-Burk published One Hundred Cocktails Some Old -- Some New 1932 and One Hundred and Twenty Cocktails Fizzes Punches Highballs Toddies and Long Drinks 1934 both of which are very rare. We can add this small work – previously unrecorded – to this short list of precursors. A bit of soiling to edges and one corner dog-eared; otherwise very good. All early printings of the Mr. Boston Guide are scarce. Unrecorded. OCLC records no copies; not in Noling or EUVS. B.B. Inc.; [Ben-Burk Distillers] unknown books
1968réf. 199919no place: Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1968. Paperback. VG. Illustrated stapled BW wraps. 24 pp. numerous bw photographs Measures 8" x 8" Cover states "All proceeds to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference $1." Extremely rare documentary pamphlet of the Resurrection City encampment that sprouted on the National Mall in Washington DC from May 12 to June 24 1968. It is also associated with or tasked as part of The Poor People's Campaign. This booklet is described as follows on the Smithsonian Website of the National Museum of African American History and Culture: "A paperback booklet printed in black ink on white paper. The front cover is a black-and-white photograph of a person's bare right muddy foot. At the top of the front cover is the text in white print All proceeds to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference $1 and at the bottom is the title in bold white print This Was Resurrection City. The back cover is a black-and-white photograph of the legs of two people one wearing jeans striding barefoot through mud. The booklet is 20 pages long containing 28 photographs of men women and children living working eating and playing within Resurrection City interspersed with poetic text." OCLC locates 5 copies only. Southern Christian Leadership Conference paperback
1968réf. 199919no place: Southern Christian Leadership Conference 1968. Paperback. VG. Illustrated stapled BW wraps. 24 pp. numerous bw photographs Measures 8" x 8" Cover states "All proceeds to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference $1." Extremely rare documentary pamphlet of the Resurrection City encampment that sprouted on the National Mall in Washington DC from May 12 to June 24 1968. It is also associated with or tasked as part of The Poor People's Campaign. This booklet is described as follows on the Smithsonian Website of the National Museum of African American History and Culture: "A paperback booklet printed in black ink on white paper. The front cover is a black-and-white photograph of a person's bare right muddy foot. At the top of the front cover is the text in white print All proceeds to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference $1 and at the bottom is the title in bold white print This Was Resurrection City. The back cover is a black-and-white photograph of the legs of two people one wearing jeans striding barefoot through mud. The booklet is 20 pages long containing 28 photographs of men women and children living working eating and playing within Resurrection City interspersed with poetic text." OCLC locates 5 copies only. Southern Christian Leadership Conference paperback books
1972réf. 8777LUTHER 1972. 1. softcover. Maloftege! LUTHER paperback
1971réf. 3838LUTHER 1971. 1. softcover. Maloftege! LUTHER paperback
1972réf. 9571LUTHER 1972. 1. softcover. LUTHER paperback
1935réf. 233291935. Public TransitMassachusetts Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area including Lynn Haverhill Lawrence Saugus Marblehead Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars trolley routes terminals and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit with additional views tied to Springfield Providence and Connecticut operations placing the photographs within the broader interurban rail network that linked Boston to surrounding towns before the official creation of the MBTA. Boston's subway system is the oldest in the United States created in the 1890s by the Rapid Transit Commission in response to severe streetcar congestion on Tremont Street. The system created by the Boston Elevated Railway Company at the turn of the century helped define the infrastructure of modern Boston transit. These photographs preserve the street-level operating environment in the early years of expanding public transport in the city: destination boards transfer points yard scenes terminal loops and rolling stock moving through dense commercial districts snowbound streets and residential outskirts prior to the establishment of the MBTA in 1947. Photo archive of 41 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3 x 5.5 inches greater Boston and nearby cities in New England circa 1934-1946. The archive includes single-car and articulated streetcars coupled cars work or service equipment and yard scenes photographed in active street settings. Visible destination and route identifiers include Main Myrtle Lakeside Watertown Boston Tunnel Beach Bluff Saugus Branch Essex St Lawrence Main St line Haverhill Oak Park line and Marblehead Depot with captions on verso marking dates and locations. Several photographs show cars in dense commercial blocks with visible storefronts and wall advertising including American Loan & Savings Association Whitworth's Rubber Sporting Goods M. Casey & Co. Cigars & Tobacco Coca-Cola Pillsbury's Best Flour Harms School of Business and Rem for coughs; others show cars at depots loops and yards including Hooker St Yards. Repeated fare and service slogans are also visible on the cars especially "Save money with weekly pass" and "Ride all day for $1 20 cities 51 towns" makes the archive particularly strong as evidence of regional transit marketing and network integration. Other images capture scenes of the train cars in the snow at crossings switching tracks and running beside early automobiles an active record of the trolley system functioning within everyday urban traffic. This archive preserves the operating network that fed a larger system of public transit across city neighborhoods and outlying towns serviced by America's oldest subway system. The photographs show the routes terminal circulation yard storage and municipal reach of this system especially in the Eastern Massachusetts territory where one fare structure and one rolling-stock family served dozens of communities. Light handling wear and some discoloration on verso images clean and complete. Overall very good condition. A large visual record of the Greater Boston street railway service moving through city streets suburbs and terminals. unknown
1935réf. 233291935. Public TransitMassachusetts Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area including Lynn Haverhill Lawrence Saugus Marblehead Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars trolley routes terminals and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit with additional views tied to Springfield Providence and Connecticut operations placing the photographs within the broader interurban rail network that linked Boston to surrounding towns before the official creation of the MBTA. Boston's subway system is the oldest in the United States created in the 1890s by the Rapid Transit Commission in response to severe streetcar congestion on Tremont Street. The system created by the Boston Elevated Railway Company at the turn of the century helped define the infrastructure of modern Boston transit. These photographs preserve the street-level operating environment in the early years of expanding public transport in the city: destination boards transfer points yard scenes terminal loops and rolling stock moving through dense commercial districts snowbound streets and residential outskirts prior to the establishment of the MBTA in 1947. Photo archive of 41 silver gelatin photographs approximately 3 x 5.5 inches greater Boston and nearby cities in New England circa 1934-1946. The archive includes single-car and articulated streetcars coupled cars work or service equipment and yard scenes photographed in active street settings. Visible destination and route identifiers include Main Myrtle Lakeside Watertown Boston Tunnel Beach Bluff Saugus Branch Essex St Lawrence Main St line Haverhill Oak Park line and Marblehead Depot with captions on verso marking dates and locations. Several photographs show cars in dense commercial blocks with visible storefronts and wall advertising including American Loan & Savings Association Whitworth's Rubber Sporting Goods M. Casey & Co. Cigars & Tobacco Coca-Cola Pillsbury's Best Flour Harms School of Business and Rem for coughs; others show cars at depots loops and yards including Hooker St Yards. Repeated fare and service slogans are also visible on the cars especially "Save money with weekly pass" and "Ride all day for $1 20 cities 51 towns" makes the archive particularly strong as evidence of regional transit marketing and network integration. Other images capture scenes of the train cars in the snow at crossings switching tracks and running beside early automobiles an active record of the trolley system functioning within everyday urban traffic. This archive preserves the operating network that fed a larger system of public transit across city neighborhoods and outlying towns serviced by America's oldest subway system. The photographs show the routes terminal circulation yard storage and municipal reach of this system especially in the Eastern Massachusetts territory where one fare structure and one rolling-stock family served dozens of communities. Light handling wear and some discoloration on verso images clean and complete. Overall very good condition. A large visual record of the Greater Boston street railway service moving through city streets suburbs and terminals. unknown books
1930réf. 389977Boston Massachusetts: The South Boston Hebrew Juniors 1930. Softcover. Very Good. Typed magazine and accompanying holograph essay. Quartos. The magazine consists of six sheets typed on the rectos stapled together with two additional blank sheets serving as front and rear covers. The front cover is detached very good. A “special paper” published by the members of the South Boston Hebrew Juniors as part of a fundraising effort. Made-up of various short pieces relating to the club including an original poem and a jest about how to become an American citizen. With an accompanying holograph essay: “Anti-Semitism the Scourge of Israel; and Palestine the Hope of Israel.” written in ink on the rectos only of six notebook sheets presumably by one of the club's younger members. References are made to: “the thousands who are homeless in the Mississippi Valley …” “war and desolation in China” and to “the millions in Eastern Europe whose spirit has been broken .” Some toning and a few scattered tiny tears to the right edges very good. There are no known copies of the magazine which is quite probably a lone survivor. The South Boston Hebrew Juniors unknown
1930réf. 389977Boston Massachusetts: The South Boston Hebrew Juniors 1930. Softcover. Very Good. Typed magazine and accompanying holograph essay. Quartos. The magazine consists of six sheets typed on the rectos stapled together with two additional blank sheets serving as front and rear covers. The front cover is detached very good. A “special paper” published by the members of the South Boston Hebrew Juniors as part of a fundraising effort. Made-up of various short pieces relating to the club including an original poem and a jest about how to become an American citizen. With an accompanying holograph essay: “Anti-Semitism the Scourge of Israel; and Palestine the Hope of Israel.” written in ink on the rectos only of six notebook sheets presumably by one of the club's younger members. References are made to: “the thousands who are homeless in the Mississippi Valley …” “war and desolation in China” and to “the millions in Eastern Europe whose spirit has been broken .” Some toning and a few scattered tiny tears to the right edges very good. There are no known copies of the magazine which is quite probably a lone survivor. The South Boston Hebrew Juniors unknown books
2011réf. x-1461380472Springer Verlag 2011. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 879 pages. 10.50x8.00x1.75 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
1791réf. 935P11Edinburgh: Alexa. M'Laren 1791. Leather. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. An early edition of this scarce religious work guiding the reader on how to live a pious and devout life. An early edition of this scarce work which was first published in 1773.By Thomas Boston this work is a religious text exploring what it means to be a true believer. The work is presented through several discourses all intended to promote the comfort and direction of Christians and to improve society.Boston was a Scottish Presbyterian church leader a man of singular piety who is best known for his 1720 work 'Human Nature in Its Fourfold State'. Including a soliloquy on the art of man-fishing. In a full calf binding. Externally a little rubbed. Minor bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of the spine. A few light marks to the boards. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and generally clean. Good Alexa. M'Laren hardcover
