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1770Best.-Nr. 51365Paris: Chez Le Rouge 1770. First edition . Oblong 4to. Engraved title leaf and seven engraved maps one folding the other six with a number of strip maps separated by thin rules detailing the route from Strasburg to Versailles. Delineates topographical features cities and villages churches forests etc. Not recorded on OCLC. Later patterned wrappers worn long tear in rear wrapper; interior soiled some old tidelines mostly marginal but affecting the image in the last two maps; several manuscript additions but a very good example of a scarce 18th-century French route map. Chez Le Rouge unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. 24714IRENA Instituto Nicaraguanese de RecursosNaturales y del Ambiente 1993. Laminate boards. Near Fine. A bright very well-preserved copy of the 1993 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in its pictorial laminate boards. Quarto very nicely illiustrated color plates along the rectos with well-detailed descriptions at the facing versoes. Plus a scholarly very informative Glossary and Index. IRENA (Instituto Nicaraguanese de RecursosNaturales y del Ambiente) unknown books
Best.-Nr. 146978Barcelona: Tibidabo Films Unknown. Draft script for an unproduced film. Heavily annotated throughout in manuscript ink and pencil mostly noting grammatical revisions and deletions with a few additions. Text in English. A woman trapped in a loveless marriage finds pleasure in an affair with a young orchestra conductor. Spanish screenwriter Jaime Camino was best known for his wartime family dramas including the 1976 film "Long Vacations of 36" and the 1992 film "The Long Winter." Clear mylar front wrapper with a burgundy rear wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriters JAIME CAMINO and ROSA REGAS. 132 leaves with last page of text numbered 128. Mix of mimeograph and carbon typescript rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with a gold prong. Tibidabo Films unknown books
1985Best.-Nr. S11292Mexico City:: Fondo de Cultura Economica 1985. 1985. Reprint. Series: Seccion de Obras de Ciencia y Tecnologia. 8vo. 173 pp. Index. Printed wrappers. Bookplate of Burndy Library. Near fine. ISBN: 9681619234 Fondo de Cultura Economica, (1985). unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 236501953. Bright Road publicity photograph group 1953 documenting a major studio film that departed from postwar racial problem pictures by centering Black teachers children and families without making racial conflict its narrative engine. Featuring an all black cast Dorothy Dandridge plays the idealistic teacher Jane Richards while Harry Belafonte in his feature film debut appears as the supportive principal Mr. Williams. Released one year before Brown v. Board of Education the film presents Black professionalism and segregated institutions through the story of Black teachers running a rural school guiding students through both the classroom emotions and adolescence without relying on a white protagonist or a plot centered on racial confrontation. Photo archive of five silver gelatin publicity photographs each 8 x 10 inches Metro Goldwyn Mayer 1953. The photographs show Dandridge writing "I am the new teacher. My name is Miss Richards" on a classroom blackboard; Dandridge addressing a gathering of Black women in the principal's office as Belafonte listens; Belafonte speaking outside the school with Philip Hepburn as C. T. Young; Hepburn kneeling beside a hunting dog; and Dandridge supervising children making Christmas decorations beneath a classroom display reading "Christmas around world." Printed borders identify Bright Road as "A Metro Goldwyn Mayer picture" and carry Loew's copyright National Screen Service distribution language production numbers and the code "53/221." Versos bear Photofest credit and return labels editorial inscriptions and publication markings. Mary Elizabeth Vroman adapted the film from "See How They Run" her 1951 short story based on her work in rural Alabama classrooms. Her participation in the screenplay made her the first African American woman admitted to the Screen Writers Guild extending the film's representation of Black educators into its authorship. Dandridge's role preceded her Academy Award nominated performance in Carmen Jones while Belafonte's debut began a screen career that repeatedly joined performance with civil rights activism. The film's restraint could obscure the legal segregation surrounding its Alabama school but its nearly all Black social world rejected Hollywood's usual dependence on racial confrontation or white authority to make Black life legible. Light surface wear edge creasing scattered stains editorial markings and localized image loss to one print. Overall in good condition. A concentrated visual record of Black education professional authority and authorship within 1950s Hollywood studio production. unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 351059Honolulu: Supreme Council of EFB Students 1957. 4p. 8.5x11 inch newsletter toned along edges splitting along the spinefold. Hilario Camino Moncado established the Filipino Federation of America in 1925 in Los Angeles California. It was also known at various times as the Filipino World Federation and the Filipino Crusaders World Army. As one of the fraternal organizations appealing to the small but growing Filipino immigrant community the FFA distinguished itself from competitors by accentuating "clean living" and rules of moral conduct. Moncado earned a law degree and sought to portray the immigrant community as responsible and healthy in contrast to the then-prevalent depictions of uneducated gamblers. Much less publicly the FFA developed a set of religious teachings that held Moncado to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ by way of José Rizal the Filipino patriot executed in the waning days of Spanish rule. Moncado's birthday was changed to make him appear to have been born after Rizal's death so that his identity as Rizal's reincarnation would be more plausible. After the achievement of Philippine independence and limitations on immigration the FFA turned almost entirely to spiritual rather than political objectives and even sent missionaries back to the Philippines where there is still an active sect venerating Moncado as a religious figure. This newsletter was issued after his death summarizing the tenets of his faith. Supreme Council of EFB Students unknown books
1956Best.-Nr. 351060Honolulu: Supreme Council of EFB Students 1956. 4p. 8.5x11 inch newsletter creased from folding. Hilario Camino Moncado established the Filipino Federation of America in 1925 in Los Angeles California. It was also known at various times as the Filipino World Federation and the Filipino Crusaders World Army. As one of the fraternal organizations appealing to the small but growing Filipino immigrant community the FFA distinguished itself from competitors by accentuating "clean living" and rules of moral conduct. Moncado earned a law degree and sought to portray the immigrant community as responsible and healthy in contrast to the then-prevalent depictions of uneducated gamblers. Much less publicly the FFA developed a set of religious teachings that held Moncado to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ by way of José Rizal the Filipino patriot executed in the waning days of Spanish rule. Moncado's birthday was changed to make him appear to have been born after Rizal's death so that his identity as Rizal's reincarnation would be more plausible. After the achievement of Philippine independence and limitations on immigration the FFA turned almost entirely to spiritual rather than political objectives and even sent missionaries back to the Philippines where there is still an active sect venerating Moncado as a religious figure. This newsletter was issued just before his death. Moncado emphasized golf as an ideal sport and there is a feature titled "Fighting Communism through Golfing. Supreme Council of EFB Students unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 339444Honolulu: Supreme Council of EFB Students 1957. 4p. 8.5x11 inch newsletter very good. Hilario Camino Moncado established the Filipino Federation of America in 1925 in Los Angeles California. It was also known at various times as the Filipino World Federation and the Filipino Crusaders World Army. As one of the fraternal organizations appealing to the small but growing Filipino immigrant community the FFA distinguished itself from competitors by accentuating "clean living" and rules of moral conduct. Moncado earned a law degree and sought to portray the immigrant community as responsible and healthy in contrast to the then-prevalent depictions of uneducated gamblers. Much less publicly the FFA developed a set of religious teachings that held Moncado to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ by way of José Rizal the Filipino patriot executed in the waning days of Spanish rule. Moncado's birthday was changed to make him appear to have been born after Rizal's death so that his identity as Rizal's reincarnation would be more plausible. After the achievement of Philippine independence and limitations on immigration the FFA turned almost entirely to spiritual rather than political objectives and even sent missionaries back to the Philippines where there is still an active sect venerating Moncado as a religious figure. This newsletter was issued after his death summarizing the tenets of his faith. in his later days Moncado emphasized golf as an ideal sport and there are small photos of him "Fighting Communism through Golfing. Supreme Council of EFB Students unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 116059New York: Vantage Press 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has minor shelf rubbing to it. Vantage Press hardcover books
1949Best.-Nr. 7132St. Paul MN: Allied Printing 1949. 31pp. Square Octavo 23 cm x 20 cm Red illustrated wrappers. Very good. Vertical fold as issued. Promotional piece from the Northern Pacific for service to Yellowstone with descriptions of the area lodgings scenic features tours etc. Illustrated throughout with black and white views and a double-page map at the center. Opens with an essay by Emerson Hough 'Yellowstone National Park - A Tribute.' "Only Burlington-Northern Pacific serves three of Yellowstone's famous gateways Gardiner Cody and Red Lodge and only Burlington - Northern Pacific offers a choice of three scenic routes to or from the Park. The most direct service to Yellowstone is via the Route of the North Coast Limited through St. Paul-Minneapolis Minnesota wooded farmlands the Bad Lands of North Dakota and the ranch country of Montana." - p.5. The Northern Pacific Railway was not only the first railroad to build a branch line to the park boundary to the North Entrance at Gardiner but it also provided service to the last entrance which was opened to the park the Northeast Entrance In addition the Northern Pacific was heavily involved in the development of the hotel facilities in the park. The involvement of the Northern Pacific with the park dates back to 1870 with the exploration of the park by the Washburn Expedition. According to legend the party concluded that the natural wonders should be preserved as a national park. Nathaniel Pitt Langsford who was on the expedition publicized the wonders he had seen in the park on his return to the East Coast and Jay Cooke financier for the Northern Pacific Railroad hired him as a publicist to obtain financial support for his railroad and to promote the park. Allied Printing unknown books
1835Best.-Nr. 377678Mexico 1835. 1. plus integral blank. Signed in print by Estrada. Folio. Unbound. 1. plus integral blank. Signed in print by Estrada. Folio. A broadside decree issued by Migual Barragan giving city status to Pueblo de Nuestra Se ora la Reina de Los Angeles and naming it the provisional capital rather than Monterey. The Mexican congress declares: "The town of Los Angeles of Alta California is elevated to the rank of city and it will be from now on the capital of this territory." However representatives from Monterey would block moving the capital. "This decree was largely due to the efforts of Carlos Antonio Carrillo the deputy from California to the Mexican Congress and the author of the Exposicion of 1831" Streeter. Streeter's copy sold for $200 to Dawson's in 1968. Eberstadt 133-187; Streeter sale 2476; Rocq 4223 unknown books
1875Best.-Nr. 320963Standing Rock 1875. unbound. Partly printed military document signed 6th Infantry seven months before Little Big Horn 16.75 x 10.75 inches Standing Rock Nov. 1 1875 "A Statement Of Forage and Straw Issued to and Consumed by the Public Animals under my direction at Standing Rock Dakota Territory during the month of October 1875" for transient animals from Fort Rice signed by Captain and Commander of Post James S. Poland an officer who served under Major Reno at the Little Big Horn and was erroneously reported as "Killed In Action" when severely wounded in the back. At the time this document was signed Poland was ordered to cease his sale of rifles and ammunition to Indians at the Standing Rock Reservation as the recipients were closely connected with Sitting Bull's band. One month later the Commissioner of Indian Affairs called for the use of troops against those Indians. Also signed by Lieutenant William Badger a close friend of Custer who survived the Black Hills Campaign. His son Tom who filled out the body of this document became General Custer's personal secretary in 1876 and was killed at Little Big Horn. Also included: a Xerox of a rare photograph of the 7th cavalry 6th infantry in uniform with accoutrements all identified including Custer Badger and Poland. Partial tearing along one of the folds; otherwise near fine condition. unknown books
1840Best.-Nr. 354279Mexico: Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido 1840. 964pp. plus one plate. Contemporary pictorial wrappers. Spine reinforced with archival tape minor dust soiling. Very good. 964pp. plus one plate. Variant issue without priority also printed in New Orleans in the same year. The text of a letter sent to Mexican president Anastasio Bustamente calling for a convention to address various ills affecting the newly independent state of Mexico. Estrada is heavy on political theory and with good reason. At the time of publication Mexican democracy was in a crisis. In July Gen. Urrea acting on behalf of Valentine Farias actually stormed the National Palace and took Bustamente prisoner. Bustamente soon escaped but the ensuing conflict between Farias and Bustamente for legitimacy had a devastating effect on hopes for a true democracy of the kind Estrada extols here. An excellent sample of Mexican political history and thought. SUTRO COLLECTION p.739 OCLC 7320339 Impresso Por Igancio Cumplido unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 325474Central Valley N.Y. 1901. 5 pp. 4to. Some splitting at folds with minor loss more on last leaf. Fragile. 5 pp. 4to. Palma 1832-1908 was the president of the Cuban Republic in Arms during the Ten Years' War and the first President of Cuba between 1902-1906. He worked with José Martí to gather support for a revolution in Cuba and was the head of the Cuban Revolutionary party. He was elected while living in the United States at his homebase in Central Valley NY where he founded a multilingual co-ed private school licensed by New York State. Written to a newspaper during his presidential campaign the letter outlines the siutuation in Cuba and his hopes for the country. He was media-savy and used Hearst newspapers to spread his message and worked with the US Congress to pass a resolution renouncing the Spanish colonial hold on Cuba and announcing support for the creation of an independent Republic of Cuba. Upon his election in absentia at age 67 he returned to a Cuba from which he'd been effectively exiled a quarter-century before. He was elected to a second term in 1905 and died in 1908. unknown books
1873Best.-Nr. 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
1923Best.-Nr. 73620Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 1923. First edition large 8vo pp. 56 2; text illustrations; original printed paper wrappers; some wear to spine text clean and sound near fine. A report on archaeological work done around Llanes Spain. Ricardo Duque de Estrada is credited with the discovery of the Asturian culture which existed on the Iberian peninsula around 8 to 10 thousand years ago. Comisión de investigaciones paleontológicas y prehistóricas.Memoria Num. 32. Serie prehistorica num. 27. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 73621Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales 1930. First edition large 8vo pp. 116; text illustrations; original printed paper wrappers; spine chipped text clean and sound very good. Ricardo Duque de Estrada is credited with the discovery of the Asturian culture which existed on the Iberian peninsula around 8 to 10 thousand years ago. Comisión de investigaciones paleontológicas y prehistóricas.Memoria Num. 38. Serie prehistorica num. 29. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales unknown books
1786Best.-Nr. 53148Madrid: Por don Antonio de Sancha 1786. First edition small 4to pp. 12 400; contemporary full vellum manuscript title faded on spine; very good and sound. Three copies in OCLC as of 1/19 only one Dominican House of Studies in the US. Palau 41034. Por don Antonio de Sancha unknown books
1804Best.-Nr. 151171804. MOORE JOSHUA J. and THOMAS W. JONES. The Traveller's Directory: or a Pocket Companion Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York; and from Philadelphia to Washington: With Descriptions of the Places through which it Passes and the Intersections of the Cross Roads . By S. S. sic Moore and T. W. Jones. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey 1804. 8vo. 4 37 1 19 i.e. 17 p. 38 engraved strip maps on 22 plates. Modern full calf correctly done in perfect period style with original spine label slightly chipped at edges remounted and original endsheets relaid. Front free endsheet chipped at fore-edge name clipped from top blank margin of title page intermittant light browning of text and foxing of maps as is usual with this book. A very good copy of a book never found in fine condition. Second edition of the second American book of road maps following Christopher Colles' exceedingly rare Survey of the Roads of the United States 1789 and the first road map book to provide detailed maps of the road from Philadelphia north through New Jersey to New York and from Philadelphia south through Delaware Maryland and Virginia to Washington. Joshua John Moore and Thomas W. Jones were young surveyors in the employ of the Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. From several letters they wrote to Carey during the course of the survey Lea & Febiger papers PHi a clear picture emerges of the extremely difficult task they had undertaken. On June 29 1801 they wrote from New York: "We should have written to you before this had not fatigue of our daily Journies rendered repose indispensable after the finishing of our Notes and Traverses. After twelve days driving our way through an immense multitude of Questioners Observers laughters & Critics who generally thronged around us at every place to our great discomposure at first . we are at length arrived here. If astonishment would ensure success to a work we may entertain strong hopes indeed of ours; but it has nearly exhausted our health as every violent effort naturally must." Upon completion of the surveys the maps were drawn by the surveyors. They locate crossroads streams taverns churches and other public buildings and occasionally private houses. The text describes the various towns through which the roads pass. In this second edition published two years after the first edition of 1802 the descriptive text has been extensively corrected and expanded. The maps are identical to those in the earlier edition and are printed from the same plates. unknown books
1979Best.-Nr. 166505N.p.: MGM Television 1979. First Draft script for the season three episode eight of the 1977-1983 NBC television series copy belonging to actress Christina Cummings who played the role of the "Bank Teller" with the ink annotation of her name on the front wrapper and manuscript ink annotations of her name and circling her character on the cast page. CHiPs was a popular crime drama series about the lives of two motorcycle officers of the California Highway Patrol CHP played by Larry Wilcox and Erik Estrada and aired on NBC premiering on September 15 1977 and ran for 139 episodes over six seasons before ending on May 1 1983. In this episode a series of jewelry robberies are committed by thieves in city trucks and Ponch Estrada recovering in the hospital believes he may have solved the crimes. Set in and shot on location in California. Untitled MGM Television wrappers with a die-cut window. Title page present dated August 17 1979 noted as FIRST DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Larry Alexander and Revisions by William D. Gordon and James Doherty. 62 leaves with last page of text numbered 58. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light foxing bound with two gold brads. MGM Television unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 40799Cleveland: Fairbanks Benedict & Co. 1863. Stitched in original printed wrappers. 33 1 blank pp folding table. Wrappers with extremity chipping and old rubberstamp. Rear wrap detached but present. Title page with rubberstamp. Old bookplate. Good plus. This is a joint report of the Bellefontaine & Indiana Rail Road and the Indianapolis Pittsburgh & Cleveland Rail Road. Wikipedia says: "The Indianapolis and Bellefontaine Railroad I&B was an American railroad founded in 1848. It changed its name to the Indianapolis Pittsburgh and Cleveland Railroad IP&C in 1854. Its counterpart in Ohio was named the Bellefontaine and Indiana Railroad B&I. The B&I ceased to exist as an independent company when it merged into the Bellefontaine Railway in September 1864. The Bellefontaine Railway merged with the Cleveland Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad to form the Cleveland Columbus Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway in December 1864." OCLC 12696870 11 as of March 2025. Fairbanks, Benedict & Co. unknown books
1854Best.-Nr. 38904Quincy IL: Patriot Office. Gibson & Warren Printers 1854. Folio broadsheet bond oblong 16-1/4" x 9-1/2." Old folds with a couple of short marginal fold splits no text affected. Printed in a variety of type fonts and styles. Very Good. Signed in ink by Thompson Chandler County Judge of McDonough County; Isaac Grantham County Clerk; N. Bushnell President of the Rail Road; and C.E. Lippincott State Auditor. The County is in West Central Illinois. The Rail Road one of the earliest Illinois Roads was operated by the State of Illinois until the late 1840s. It later merged with the Wabash Railroad. Patriot Office. Gibson & Warren, Printers unknown books
1851Best.-Nr. 30464Portland ME: Printed by Order of the Directors 1851. 64pp stitched. Wrappers absent else Very Good. A.P. Robinson was removed from the office of Chief Engineer of the York and Cumberland Rail Road Company in May 1851; F.O.J. Smith was removed as President in August. Each was removed after discovery of financial discrepancies. Smith retaliated with a pamphlet assailing the Board's conduct. This Statement by the Board thoroughly explains the reasons for his dismissal with detailed lists of costs and estimates and reports from Board meetings. Page 29 begins the thirty-page "Reply" to Smith's pamphlet by Daniel Emery of the Company's Treasury Office. He elaborates on the facts which led to Robinson's and Smith's dismissals. Sabin 82569. BRE 280. OCLC 13636503 9 as of August 2013. Printed by Order of the Directors unknown books
1858Best.-Nr. 30039New York: Benjamin Corlies 1858. Original printed glossy wrappers light fading to lettering. Stitched. 10 2 blanks pp. Near Fine. Founded in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company the Chicago and Rock Island reincorporated in 1851 and adopted these bylaws in 1858. In 1880 the Company was reorganized as the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway. 131 Eberstadt 354. Benjamin Corlies unknown books
1839Best.-Nr. 28837Washington 1839. 25th Cong. 3d Sess. H.Rep.322. 167pp disbound. Six folding maps and chart. Several text leaves browned Very Good plus. Reviewing proposals and data for a canal route including a memorial from Matthew Carey. Morrison 5 noting only 3 maps. unknown books
