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1865ref. 12930Meridian Miss.: J.J. Shannon. 1865. 71 1 blank pp.Disbound lacks printed wrappers. Moderately foxed. Good. One of the last Mississippi confederate imprints. Among its Acts are the emancipation of the "male slave Loyd" for his bravery on the field of battle in recovering the body of his mortally wounded master; and an Act authorizing the governor to call out the militia to arrest deserters from the Confederate army; Resolutions urge the return to active duty of General Joseph Johnston and thank Nathan Bedford Forrest for his decision to have stragglers and absentees returned to their commands. FIRST EDITION. P&W 3297. Crandall 1664. J.J. Shannon. unknown books
1881ref. 36639Saint Louis: Great Western Printing Co. 1881. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy extremities worn front hinge starting foxing to endpapers and fore edge presentation stamp on title. 244 pp. 8vo. "Together with a Memorial to Congress prepared by the Committee of Twenty-One as Authorized by the Convention." Gift copy with stamp reading: "Compliments of George L. Wright Secretary" who ran the meeting. Great Western Printing Co. hardcover books
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1770ref. 1604711770. Gegensatzreicher, leuchtender Druck auf Bütten, fest auf Unterlageblatt montiert.Mit der vollen Darstellung und der Einfassungslinie, dem Titel und dem vierspaltigen Text. 34,5 x 36,2 cm (Blattgröße).
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1841ref. 27529Jackson: G.M. Price State Printer 1841. Contemporary plain pale pink wrappers worn at extremities and spine stitched. 302pp. Early leaves with a margin spot. Clean text. Very Good. This collection of the Laws prints Mississippi's Constitution of 1832 which replaced the original Constitution of 1817 and which governed Mississippi until Reconstruction. The Laws include a detailed Table of Contents and Index with Laws and Resolutions on fugitive slaves banking corporations police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. AI 41-3563 5. G.M. Price, State Printer unknown
1841ref. 27529Jackson: G.M. Price State Printer 1841. Contemporary plain pale pink wrappers worn at extremities and spine stitched. 302pp. Early leaves with a margin spot. Clean text. Very Good. This collection of the Laws prints Mississippi's Constitution of 1832 which replaced the original Constitution of 1817 and which governed Mississippi until Reconstruction. The Laws include a detailed Table of Contents and Index with Laws and Resolutions on fugitive slaves banking corporations police courts internal improvements voluntary associations state and local government. AI 41-3563 5. G.M. Price, State Printer unknown books
1921A farm and home weekly for Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana and Arkansas. Hundreds of vintage ads for such products as tree killer, rat-killing virus, one-man log-saws, organs, Kerosene engines, C.O.D. Revolvers (pistols), Dynamite (to dig ditches), Columbia Grafonola. Articles include "Are Tractors a Good Investment". Average wear. Usual library markings. Yellowed with age. Binding sound. Measures 14" x 10" x 1". A treasure trove of farming history. Book
194974 pages. Articles: My Pal, Drew Pearson; Richest Man in the Cemetery - warning to wives who don't want to be widows; It Happened in Mississippi - Thousands of sharecroppers in the 13 fertile delta counties are buying and equipping their own farms with aid from the Farmers Home Administration; Voyage of the Pagan - John Caldwell's Sailing Adventure (part 2 of 3); I Cover the Animals - nature writer John (Tex) O'Reilly; The Surprising Phillip Jessup - the man who helped lift the Berlin blockade; It's in the Cards - Jack Jarvis of Seattle prints funny membership cards; Marvelous Mel Parnell; - Pitcher with a Bat; Johnny Lujack - photos; Green-Eyed Movie Madcap - Shelley Winters - article with color photo. Fiction: The Legal Bride (part 1 of 6); Bitter Honey; Everyone Needs a Pet; Zone of Interior; Just Like I Hate Money; The Bells of St. Pierre. Nice vintage ads include: Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring photo of Miss Audrey Keon; DeSoto cars; RCA Victor radios; Plymouth; Canada Dry - super one-page ad in color; Kool-Aid; Companion Magazine; Oldsmobile; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike features tobacco buyer B.G. Conner. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194690 pages. Fiction: Chicago Stopover; Challenge to Romance; Reprieve; Murder Haunts the Ship; Make Way for Uncle Freem!; The Secret. Articles: The Great Landlord Racket; Uneasy Ireland; USA - Peacemaker Among the Powers; Whoop-and Holler Opera; There's Money in the River - cargo on the Mississippi; What Shall I Wear?; Time Bomb in Asia - Ralph A. Conniston looks at troubled Japan; Luck Guides the Puck -ice hockey goalies need plenty of luck and skill; First Lady of France - Mme. de Gaulle. Ads: Nice color GE Radio ad features Frances Langford; International Harvester Trucks/Tractors/Equipment; Mercury cars; Fantastic color two-page Schlitz beer ad features puckered lady; Dodge Trucks; Great 2-page color ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Douglas DC-6; Hudson cars; Packard cars; The Cessna 140; Clark's Teaberry Gun; Lucky Strike (back cover). Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
194750 pages. Cover photo of Alice Wallace. Fiction: Fishbowl. Articles: Menace of the Abortion Racket - article with photo of Chicago Dr. Nathaniel Schaffner who was charged after the death of his patient, Mrs. Emma Laisure; The Velvet Fog - Photo-illustrated article on crooner Mel Torme; A Veteran Buys a Farm - Great photo-illustrated article on George Stieber, who gave up the controls of a B-29 for a Pennsylvania dairy farm; The Misunderstood Coroner - A.L. Brodie of Chicago; Broadway's Conscience - writer Jimmie Cannon; Can We Win an Atomic War?; Legion Conventions - Times Square revs up for the fun makers coming to town; Peace for Your Aching Head; The Man Who Married the Andrews Sisters - photo-illustrated ad on Lou Levy, who married Maxene but guided the three gals to millions; Their Number's Up - New York numbers game operators can no longer escape jail through tricky bookkeeping; River Pilot - Captain Jesse Hughes and his drawings of the Ohio and Mississippi. Special Features: Seafaring Funny Man; City Room Refugees - Richard Basehart and Don McGuire were newspapermen before becoming hearthrobs; Saturday Afternoon; Stealing the Pennant - great photo-illustrated article on base-stealing in baseball, with photos of Stan Musial, Walker Cooper, Johnny Hopp, Skeeter Newsome, Stan Hack,Lou Boudreau, Phil Rizzuto, Bob Elliot, Ray Lamanno, Don Johnson and Jackie Robinson; Movie of the Month - Variety Girl - with photos of Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, and newcomver DeForest Kelley of later Star Trek fame; Sultry photo of Hazel Brooks; Photos of Billy De Wolfe; Mister Jazz - One-page article with large photo of Louis Armstrong; Gorgeous photo of beauty contest entrant Yvonne De Carlo; Editorial inside back cover features large photos of New York Vets protesting lack of proper housing; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A nice vintage copy. Book
1824ref. GITe745A Paris de l'Imprimerie Royale 1824. In-4 2 feuillets non chiffrés 2-290pp 1 feuillet corrections et additions. Demi basane bleu nuit, dos lisse orné de filets et chaînettes finement dorés en queue, beau papier marbré bleu nuit et vert sur les plats, relié vers 1860. Avec de nombreux tableaux dans le texte et à pleine page. Pâles rousseurs en bordure des 5 premiers feuillets et des 5 derniers, intéressantes annotations marginales anciennes au crayon sur quelques feuillets. SANS L'ATLAS. Bel exemplaire, fort bien relié vers 1860, bien complet de son texte mais sans son atlas.
196464 pages. Features: Clairol ad inside front cover features hairdresser John Garrison of Garrison-Ramon Salons, New York and Chicago; Our Zany System of Selecting a President; Mississippi Must Chose to accept integration with or without bloodshed; Borneo - Britain's South Vietnam - the war between British troops and Kukarno's guerillas enters year two; Sukarno's War in Borneo; The Bucks County Playhouse; Portrait of a man Emerging from the Shadows - Robert F. Kennedy (RFK); Great color-photo fashion ads; Photos of seven philosphers of fashion - Andre Courreges, Norman Norell, Yves St. Laurent, Manuel Pertegaz, Pierre Cardin, James Galanos and Emilio Pucci; When Teen-Agers Start to Drink; Architect Joseph L. Russo redesigns an old Riverdale home; The Michelin Guide and its restaurant ratings; Pullover fashion photos; and more. Average wear. Library stamp atop front cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
1970156 pages. Features: Cover photo of clinic for street people; Many gorgeous color fashion ads; Hubert Humphrey article; The Rediscovery of Elvis - photo-illustrated article; Free medical clinic for street people in Cambridge MA; Now Pistol Pete Maravich is up Against the Pros; Photo-illustrated article on Bombay, India - "Wealth, Shantytowns, Speakeasies, Movie Aristocrats, Intellectual Admen and Death on the Trains; Mr. Chips ad features photo of 16-year-old Jonathan Ashby holding hockey stick; Qiana tie ad; Swank ad for 'Credit Card Ejector' card holder and 'Key-jector' key holder; Unusual Pellon textile ad features color photo of meat inspector at workTalon zipper ad features laughing faces of people telling someone their zipper is open; Mississippi 'Black Home' - a black poet from the North journeys to Mississippi and discovers the quiet, daily striving of the black community a 'gathering of triumph' - with photo of civil-rights lawyer Mel Leventhal and his wife Alice, with daughter Rebecca - also included is a photo of Fannie Lou Hamer giving an outdoor speech; Sexy Fruit of the loom ad features lady with very skimpy yellow dress - or is it a long shirt?; Great Supp-hose Obstacle Course centerfold ad features photo of ladies in playground; Nice PBM fashion ad; Two-page Dymo labelmaker photo ad; Of Time and the Child; Photos of Glittery Fashions;Photos of the interior of designer David Laurance Roth's renovated townhouse; Steinway piano ad; Dewar's Whisy ad features photo and bio info. of Steve Trachtenberg; NAACP ad features large photo of old man with caption 'Call it Backbone'. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
2004Paperback Like New. Ships directly from publishers being a new release book . Pls. allow a minimum of 25 business days delivery time.
1803ref. 31621Washington. 1803. The memorialists appeal to the U.S. Congress for assistance in resolving their difficulties with the Spanish government regarding the deposit of merchandise at the port of New Orleans. In December 1802 the Spanish governor at New Orleans had revoked the right of deposit granted by Pinckney's Treaty. The issue was one of the motivating factors in the conclusion of the Louisiana Purchase a few months later. OCLC locates three copies; Shaw and Shoemaker add two more. Scarce. Dbd. Near fine. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5479. OCLC 31333742. unknown
1803ref. 31621Washington. 1803. The memorialists appeal to the U.S. Congress for assistance in resolving their difficulties with the Spanish government regarding the deposit of merchandise at the port of New Orleans. In December 1802 the Spanish governor at New Orleans had revoked the right of deposit granted by Pinckney's Treaty. The issue was one of the motivating factors in the conclusion of the Louisiana Purchase a few months later. OCLC locates three copies; Shaw and Shoemaker add two more. Scarce. Dbd. Near fine. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5479. OCLC 31333742. unknown books
1884ref. 36643Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1884. Second edition. Cloth. A very good copy spine ends worn boards rubbed plates fine and quite uncommonly except for two small marginal tears without blemish. 2407-2901 pp. i.e 494 pp. plates. Illus. with 61 folding b/w plates 3 other plates and occasional in-text drawings. 8vo. Published first as part of "48th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc.; No. 37." [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover
1884ref. 36643Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1884. Second edition. Cloth. A very good copy spine ends worn boards rubbed plates fine and quite uncommonly except for two small marginal tears without blemish. 2407-2901 pp. i.e 494 pp. plates. Illus. with 61 folding b/w plates 3 other plates and occasional in-text drawings. 8vo. Published first as part of "48th Congress 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc.; No. 37." [U.S.] Government Printing Office hardcover books
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195184 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle of Nootka native holding huge salmon by dock; Colour-photo ad for Allis-Chalmers Rumely shows 20-ton crawler building road; The Last of the Multimillionaires, Sir James Dunn - great photo-illustrated article; Canadian John Clare is mistakenly arrested in Jackson Mississippi - police thought he was communist organizer Gus Hall; Charlotte Smith of Toronto bullied and cajoled movie-makers until they turned her daughter, Mary Pickford, into "America's Sweetheart"; Must Europe Go Red From Hunger?; The Most Beautiful Girl I've Ever Known (fiction); I've Quit the City for Keeps - Toronto streetcar operator John Ewing moves his family to the shore of Lake Manitouwabing in the Parry Sound district; Tobacco Town - Delhi, Ontario; Everybody Falls for Angie (fiction); What You Should Know About a Bath; Austin car ad; Nice colour one-page ad for the Pontiac Chieftain '8' deluxe 4-door (dark green); Jergens ad features photos of Jane Russell from film 'His Kind of Woman'; One-page ad for Chevrolet trucks; Prest-O-Lite ad features Yogi Berra; Molson's ad features home improvement tips by Tom Gard; Photo of Timagami Postmaster Hamm with Grey Owl's first wife Angele and her young daughter; Colour Studebaker ad inside back cover features Commander V-8 (green); Charming back cover colour Coke ad shows young people around pop cooler; and more. Four center pages loose but present. Unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
1916Pages 97-192 plus 32 pages of vintage ads. Features: A Battle With a Bear - a young sportsman drops into a lively rough-and-tumble fight with a big black bear; Real-Life Romances of the War (part I) - Malcolm Savage Treacher, a sergeant in a famous regiment who has been invalided to England after an exciting time in the Near East sets down stories - cameos of the Great War - told to him by soldiers during his seven months' sojourn in various hospitals (part I); From Job To Job Around the World (part IV) - the continuing remarkable adventures of two young Americans who set out from San Francisco with ten dollars between them to work their way around the world - this instalment featuring their adventures in the Philippines, with photos; The Darkest Hour (part I) - Our experiences in the Great Serbian Retreat; A Year in Arctic Siberia (part II) - a well-known Polish lady describes her experiences in the little-known regions of far-northern Siberia; The Strategy of Sister Madeleine - the story of a French Captain's Escape from the Germans; The River That Won't Behave - the mighty Mississippi regularly floods enormous areas - article with many dramatic photos; Fallen Among Thieves - the author finds himself in a very nasty hole after taking a job offered him by strangers; A Holiday in Mongolia - Juliet Bredon offers a chatty description, illustrated with photos - of a trip into Mongolia on donkey-back; A Prisoner of the Rocks - F. Hopkins Graves was caught in a British Columbia avalanche and only escaped death by a miracle, only to find himself caught in a veritable rat trap among the rocks which he only escaped after two days; Photo of terrible street-car accident in Spokane, Washington; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
193948 pages. Features: Nice colour ad for Canadian fish inside front cover; News digest topics include - dark influences at work, the anti-Russian case, An Alternative Pact, A policy of wreckage, One's own business, the plight of German churches, 90% heroic, and the problem of Palestine; Baseball's Centenary? - argument over whether or not baseball's centenary actually occured in June - article with photos of Honus Wagner, Eddie Collins, Joe Vosmik, Tony Lazzeri, Babe Ruth, Grover Cleveland, George Sisler, Walter Johnson, and others; Vernight Stop - photo-illustrated article of a trip to Wake Island; A Penny In Her Shoe (short story); The Genuine Tabard (short story); The Perdu (short story); Fairyland of the Boy-King Peter II of Yugoslavia - photo-illustrated article on his picturesque nation; If I Die Before I Wake (mystery); Half-page photo ad for the Canadian National Exhibition (C.N.E.) which offers 'a thousand thrilling things to see'; Hollywood news, with photos of Frank Lloyd, Cecil B. De Mille, N.S. Van Dyke, Arthur Nornblow Jr., Lubitsch, Anatole Litvak, Eugene Forde, Edward H. Griffith and William Wellman; Photo and bried write-up on Ellen Drew; Woodbury soap ad features photo of Miss Nadine Beardmore; Dare to Smile - article for ladies; Pond's cold cream ad features photos of Mrs. Robert W. Armstorng of Toronto, and Blanche Brewer of Clarksdale, Mississippi; Small photo ad for Ontario Ladies' College in Whitby, Ontario shows girls on horseback with school in background; Sayings from around the world; Back cover colour Coke ad features man in white double-breasted suite with lady, and inset black and white photo of soda jerk; and more. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book