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1978Legatura in cartoncino rigido telato, protetto da sovraccoperta illustrata, con bandelle. Risguardi illustrati. Ritratto fotografico dell' Autore in antiporta e dedica autografa dello stesso all' occhietto. Buonissimo lo stato di conservazione, pagine perfettamente tenute, velate da tonalità seppia, come i tagli. Numero pagine 351. USATO
réf. 0267243383.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1978réf. xxx024Algonac MI: Reference Publications Inc 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 297pp. Illus. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Endpaper maps "The Northern Plains and the Great Sioux Reservation." Edited by Thomas D. Weist. Marquis dust jacket says b. 1865; Wiki says 1869 - died 1935 said of himself regarding his remarkable recording of northern plains life and culture and the Indian Wars there "It has been my fortune to have obtained stories from the very last survivors of that time. I do not know of anyone else who is doing this so it appears mine is going to be practically a monopoly through all future time." A fine copy in nearly fine dj prices marked out on back panel of dj. Reference Publications, Inc hardcover
1875réf. 48055Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co 1875. Good. Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. 16.5x33cm printed in black. Stock worn toned and chipped with a few instances of soiling extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850-1970 largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831 before the company's incorporation. This broadside however was not issued until several decades later. The extensive railway inspired the tune "Rock Island Line" covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly. No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May 2026. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co unknown
1875réf. 48055Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co 1875. Good. Chicago: Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. 16.5x33cm printed in black. Stock worn toned and chipped with a few instances of soiling extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railroad that operated from roughly 1850-1970 largely in the Midwest. Features a paper-cut illustration that was created on the occasion of the first trip made by steam-powered passenger cars in New York in 1831 before the company's incorporation. This broadside however was not issued until several decades later. The extensive railway inspired the tune "Rock Island Line" covered by country crooners Johnny Cash and Lead Belly. No separately cataloged copies in OCLC as of May 2026. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co unknown books
19948vo [24 x 15 cm]; [x], 317 pp, color illustrations from photos, numerous drwgs, double page map. original cloth, dj (short tear at edge), remainder mark at upper edge, pictorial endpaper, else fine and clean. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. The author and his crew sailed a bamboo raft Hsu Fu from Hong Kong across the Pacific to test the theory that Asian raft sailors reached America some 2,000 years ago. They achieved a modern record for raft journeys in northern, hostile waters.
réf. UCHUCHU00jtmChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Very Good. Church Pacific Island Schools. The Church of Jesus Christ and Our Destiny: A Church History for Youth. NP: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ND. 221pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Comb bound paperback. Book condition: Very good. Three tri-fold mural prints mounted verso of front cover between pages 38 and 39 and recto of rear cover. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints paperback books
2005réf. 015768Tucson AZ U.S.A.: Dennis McMillan 2005. 1st ed. Fine in dust jacket. In custom slipcase and still in originial shrinkwrap as issued. True 1st printing of Connelly's first Bosch cold case mystery. LIMIITED EDITION one of 300 copies this being #234 bound in Brillanta cloth NUMBERED and SIGNED on the limitation page by Connelly. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. Dennis McMillan Hardcover
1998146 pages. Black and white illustrations. Signed by Johnny Moses upon title page. "Master story teller Johnny Moses, Whis Stem Men Knee, relates this ancient story of the Samish people. In four nights of journeying with the storyteller, we move with the beautiful old medicine woman through many adventures in healing. In her white canoe our heroine travels from Lopez to Orcas Island, to what is now Blaine, Tswassen, and back to Orcas." - from Introduction. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
réf. 4047San Francisco:: The Railroad A. H. Printing Co. . Cincinnati O. Illustrated with halftones; ii and 76 pp. 8vo limp tan full simulated leather title in gilt on front cover together with stamped presentation statement; spine expertly rebacked; very small piece lacking from top outer corner. Institutionally common scarce in trade. This is the original edition NOT a print-on-demand book.Philadelphia-born Hiram Sellers Kneedler 1859/60–1941 was a Newspaper editor and publisher who owned various newspapers in Iowa including the The Times in Cherokee and The Boone Republican and who wrote several travel books for the railroads. In 1913 he uprooted his family and drove them all in his 1913 Studebaker to California where he stayed for about 10 years doing various jobs including working on newspapers and becoming Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for San Bernardino California. He then returned to Eldora Iowa and brought The Ledger. At some point he moved back to California and he died in Los Angeles in 1941.At the time Kneedler wrote this very little was known of this coastal area. It had been sparsely populated and its development stunted by the continuing unrest in Mexico. It was only after Texas came into the United States that serious efforts were made to populate this part of the country and extol its many advantages. [San Francisco:: The Railroad] A. H. Printing Co., ., Cincinnati, O.,. hardcover
réf. 4047San Francisco:: The Railroad A. H. Printing Co. . Cincinnati O. Illustrated with halftones; ii and 76 pp. 8vo limp tan full simulated leather title in gilt on front cover together with stamped presentation statement; spine expertly rebacked; very small piece lacking from top outer corner. Institutionally common scarce in trade. This is the original edition NOT a print-on-demand book.Philadelphia-born Hiram Sellers Kneedler 1859/60–1941 was a Newspaper editor and publisher who owned various newspapers in Iowa including the The Times in Cherokee and The Boone Republican and who wrote several travel books for the railroads. In 1913 he uprooted his family and drove them all in his 1913 Studebaker to California where he stayed for about 10 years doing various jobs including working on newspapers and becoming Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for San Bernardino California. He then returned to Eldora Iowa and brought The Ledger. At some point he moved back to California and he died in Los Angeles in 1941.At the time Kneedler wrote this very little was known of this coastal area. It had been sparsely populated and its development stunted by the continuing unrest in Mexico. It was only after Texas came into the United States that serious efforts were made to populate this part of the country and extol its many advantages. [San Francisco:: The Railroad] A. H. Printing Co., ., Cincinnati, O.,. hardcover books
réf. 4014San Francisco:: The Company. 4to brown pebbled cloth black leather spine and tips; company’s name on front cover in gilt as well as “Earl V. Burke”. Six-month run of an in-house organ of a company that provided large advertising cards used in electric street cars on the West Coast. It was published every Saturday and did not have a set number of pages per issue. Paging is erratic and at a certain point there are two numbering systems: one typed at the head of the page at one point dropping some 20 pages and the other rubberstamp numbering at the point of error to the end.The masthead to each issue has the following text: “The coaster is issued every Saturday for the exchange of ideas and news between our offices. It must not be circulated outside of our Organization. Contributions desired for publication should each San Francisco Office not later than Thursday of each week. If you benefit by reading the articles of others in the coaster you should reciprocate by letting us have some of your own ideas.The text is a mixture of social news: happenings in the various branches; retirements; encouraging rhetoric and express business instructions on the placement of cards some are returned to the client after the agree and instructions for ordering supplies.The first issue of this volume contains two pages outlining the United States eminence in many fields. With only 6% of the world’s population and 7% of the land the United States produced in 1920: 25% of the agricultural supplies; 40%of the mineral products; 34% of the manufactured goods.Earl Vincent Burke 1885–1963 was a graduate of UC Berkeley and is listed in the 1930 census as “Business Manager Advertising”. He was a member of the Book Club of California; John Henry Nash printed an invitation for Burke’s lecture at the San Francisco Public Library on Master Printers. By the 1949 census he and his wife both listed themselves as “Free Lance Writers”. San Francisco:: [The Company],. hardcover
réf. 4014San Francisco:: The Company. 4to brown pebbled cloth black leather spine and tips; company’s name on front cover in gilt as well as “Earl V. Burke”. Six-month run of an in-house organ of a company that provided large advertising cards used in electric street cars on the West Coast. It was published every Saturday and did not have a set number of pages per issue. Paging is erratic and at a certain point there are two numbering systems: one typed at the head of the page at one point dropping some 20 pages and the other rubberstamp numbering at the point of error to the end.The masthead to each issue has the following text: “The coaster is issued every Saturday for the exchange of ideas and news between our offices. It must not be circulated outside of our Organization. Contributions desired for publication should each San Francisco Office not later than Thursday of each week. If you benefit by reading the articles of others in the coaster you should reciprocate by letting us have some of your own ideas.The text is a mixture of social news: happenings in the various branches; retirements; encouraging rhetoric and express business instructions on the placement of cards some are returned to the client after the agree and instructions for ordering supplies.The first issue of this volume contains two pages outlining the United States eminence in many fields. With only 6% of the world’s population and 7% of the land the United States produced in 1920: 25% of the agricultural supplies; 40%of the mineral products; 34% of the manufactured goods.Earl Vincent Burke 1885–1963 was a graduate of UC Berkeley and is listed in the 1930 census as “Business Manager Advertising”. He was a member of the Book Club of California; John Henry Nash printed an invitation for Burke’s lecture at the San Francisco Public Library on Master Printers. By the 1949 census he and his wife both listed themselves as “Free Lance Writers”. San Francisco:: [The Company],. hardcover books
1930réf. EL332731930 London, The Imperial Bureau of Entomology, 1930 : In-4 Carré, Cartonnage d'éditeurs. 1 carte couleurs en frontispice, vi, 269 pp., 34 planches hors-texte dont 12 en couleurs, 119 figures in-texte, cachets de bibliothèque en page de titre Très bon état, Couv. fraîche, Dos impeccable, Intérieur frais.
2005réf. CD246142005 125 p., num. figs, paperbound. Thesis.
1987réf. 055924Salt Lake City UT: Howe Brothers 1987. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 305pp.incl.index; HB burgundy w/gilt; fine condition w/cleantight pgs. DJ blk.&white photo w/white; slight rub w/spiine&edges sunned. ".the 1889 expeditions' motivation adds an air of fantasy to what actually was a very practical enterprise-proving the feasibility of building a low-grade railroad alongside the Colorado all the way to the ocean." b/w photos. Howe Brothers hardcover
2011Book is brand new and in excellent condition in every respect. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 336 pages with graphic endpapers, heavily illustrated throughout with large prints of paintings, sculpture, drawings, sketches, etc. Sections include: revolution by night ( Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernest) The color of my dreams (Joan Miro, Andre Masson) Behind the screen (surrealism and film) Spaces of the unconscious, The surrealist object, Myths, maps, magic, The lure of the Pacific Northwest (Wolfgang Paalen's film, Kwakwaka'wakw headdress & Andre Breton, Anatomies of desire, etc.
1947réf. 013989Washington DC: US Dept. of the Interior 1947. Hardcover. Good. 9-1/2" x 12" Hardcover; 398pp; Boards scuffed & edgeworn wear to spine ends text unmarked binding is tight Good condition. Comprehensive report on the development of water resources of the Columbia River Basin. Illustrated with photos and maps including several foldout maps and seven Columbia River Basin maps in rear pocket. Note: book weighs 5 pounds. US Dept. of the Interior hardcover
19918vo., First Edition, with numerous maps in the text, and endpaper maps; white fleck boards, black cloth back lettered in silver, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
193850 pages. Reproductions of many black and white photos. Diagrams. Map. "Prepared to meet an ever-increasing demand from people in all parts of Canada and the United States, as well as abroad, for non-technical information on this major B.C. industry." - Foreword. Topics include: history, varieties of Pacific salmon, spawning migration, methods of catching, canning, government inspection of canned salmon, salting, smoked salmon, science in the fisheries, the value of fish in the human diet, comparison of the composition and food value of salmon compared to other foods. Author was Provincial Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries. Printed upon glossy stock. Minor pen mark atop map on page 35, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
1973réf. VV062481973 171 p., num. figs, 6 pls, paperbound. Published in: CSIRO Wildlife Research.
2004réf. EL415362004 [8], 340 p., hundreds of colour photographs, paperbound. Library stamps, else a good copy.
2006réf. EX428222006 x, 365 p., numerous figures and coloured plates (photographs of animals), paperbound. Library stamps, else very good copy.
1998VG+ hardcover. 304 p. Printed boards. Sticker on FEP. Clean and sound pages. Used
réf. 133115443X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
