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1985ref. 569501New York: E.P. Dutton 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue printed wrappers. Literary agent's information adhered to half-title paperclip impression and small stain on front cover very good. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1985ref. 573776New York: E.P. Dutton 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Blue wrappers. A tidemark on the spine and a shadow from sticker removal on the front wrapper thus very good. E.P. Dutton unknown books
1837ref. 53481N.p. n.d. 1837. 8vo pp. 36; large folding lithograph frontispiece of the Iron Mountains of Missouri one other full-page map; removed from binding; very good. American Imprints notes 3 editions in 1837: Hartford Philadelphia and Boston. The present edition is not located in American Imprints. Missouri Imprints 197. unknown books
1893ref. 28094London: T. Fisher Unwin 1893. Pseudonym Library edition narrow 12mo pp. 93; original yellow wrappers spine worn and chipped shaken still a good sound copy. Three short stories by the author of Dreams and The Story of an African Farm. T. Fisher Unwin unknown books
1869ref. 3723Galveston Tx 1869. Very good. 2pp. on a single folded folio sheet of lined paper with integral blank plus fourteen partially-printed receipts completed in manuscript. Minor dust-soiling creasing and edge wear. A post-Civil War manuscript agreement from Texas with the signatures of twenty-six investors transferring their stock in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company to John Sealy of the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. Additionally the document is noted and signed on the verso by Sealy transferring those same shares to Thomas W. Peirce. The document is accompanied by fourteen receipts for installment payments on capital stock purchased in the Brazos Iron Bridge Company some of which relates directly to the larger transfer agreement. The Brazos Iron Bridge Company was organized in 1867. Its mission was to construct a railway bridge across the Brazos River. The bridge completed in July 1869 was purchased by the Buffalo Bayou Brazos and Colorado Railway later known as the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway Company. When the dust settled on the various transactions among the shareholders John Sealy owned a one-eighth interest in the railway company. Sealy moved from Pennsylvania to Galveston in 1846 and became an important early Galveston merchant real estate investor and railroad magnate. unknown books
1996ref. 211540New York: International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers 1996. Hardcover. vii 297p. glossy pictorial boards profusely illus. very good condition. No dj. International Association of Bridge, Structural, and Ornamental Iron Workers hardcover books
1837ref. 30091St. Louis 1837. 36pp folding plate frontis full-page map. Institutional rubberstamps at base of title page verso. Original printed wrappers light rubberstamp discard stamp on front wrapper. Otherwise Very Good. "Missouri Imprints Inventory No. 197 cites only one copy. This tract is probably the first description of Iron mines west of the Mississippi. The Iron Mountains were located in St. Francis and Madison Counties. A proposal is made to make iron rails for a railroad from the mountains to the Mississippi" Decker. AII MO 197 1. 37 Decker 214. Not in Eberstadt Soliday Graff. OCLC indicates a number of institutional copies. unknown books
1885ref. 27883Boston: Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co. Boston & New York 1885. Business card 3" x 5" printed on white card stock on both sides using several different typesettings. Front of card has detailed engraving of the Phenix Iron Foundry buildings with people and carriages along the streets surrounding the foundry and water and ships in the background. Quite clean. Very attractive Near Fine. The Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company moved to Chelsea Mass. in the early 1880s. This business card was probably engraved and printed within the several years preceding that move. The Phenix Iron Company was established in 1830 and incorporated as a stock company in 1832. The foundry produced some of the earliest American textile-printing machines including the first American-made calico printing machine. Forbes Lith. Mfg. Co., Boston & New York unknown books
1876ref. 25449Portsmouth Ohio: Jas. W. Newman Printer Times Office 1876. 4" x 6.25". 15 1 pp with folding "Diagram List" and manufacturer's Note tipped in after title leaf. Original printed yellow wrappers rear wrap printed in red ink light wear stitched. Folding plate illustrates the patterns available to cut for customers partly printed in red ink. The final page notes that the company was 'built in 1871' and lists the officers: L.C. Robinson Vice-President; G.W. Weyer Secretary; and M.H. Ball Treasurer. Minor wear Very Good. Burgess Steel and Iron Works was named for Charles Burgess the general superintendent and director a native of England who immigrated to the United States in the mid-1860's. Company products were considered superior and won the highest premiums wherever exhibited. Not in Winterthur Romaine Eberstadt Decker. Not located on OCLC. Jas. W. Newman, Printer, Times Office unknown books
1856ref. 11228Philadelphia 1856. 4pp folded sheet original printed self wrappers with wrapper title. Light edge wear Very Good. The Statement says the Company can "not be surpassed by any similar one in the state with its facilities for getting coal agricultural produce and the means of sending their productions to the best markets." Its property 2000 acres of land is located in "Clinton county on Fishing and Bald Eagle creeks three miles from Lock Haven." It will manufacture iron lime mineral paint water cement and fire-brick. 383 NUC 0580427 2 locs. records the 1854 Act of Incorporation and By-Laws. FIRST EDITION. Not in Sabin Eberstadt Decker NUC. unknown books
1849ref. 18614Albany: Published for the Convention 1849. 58 2 pp. Disbound with narrow band of wrapper remnant else Very Good. A call by industrialists for protection to the Iron Industry with Erastus Corning and other prominent representatives of the manufacturing interests participating. As the result of the current system's relaxed trade barriers "the poorest qualities of iron are largely introduced to the great injury of the country in place of the more useful and better qualities these being more highly priced." FIRST EDITION. Sabin 35099. Not in Eberstadt Decker. Published for the Convention unknown books
1865ref. 72589New York: C. O. Jones Stationer and Printer 1865. Paperback. Good. Paperback. First edition. 17pp. Missing the frontispiece chart. Ex-institutional copy with numbers written name and stamp on the front cover. Stamp "Library of the Franklin Institute" located on the verso of the title page. Front cover edge chipped and detached. Back cover chipped bottom corner. A good complete example. C. O. Jones, Stationer and Printer paperback books
1834ref. 21103Paris: Roret . Dijon chez l'Auteur 1834. Second printing. Original printed wrappers mounted to paper covered boards. Good; covers detached; half title and final blank leaf of the binder reinforced along the gutter with a strip of silk backed tape of indeterminate age. The original printed wrappers have been mounted to paper covered binding board. Awkward repair to a tear into one folding plate no loss. 8vo 2 x 1 - 95 1 - blank 115 plates 2 unnumbered. There is a printed title and engraved title. Author's stamp on the verso of the half-title. Berthaux's book was reprinted several times. The first was 1828 issued with fewer plates 87 and less text. The second printing is revised and expanded. The sections devoted to lock design and construction decorative architectural ornaments and horological wheel-work are the most important. As a handbook there is nothing else like it published in the 19th century. Roret ... Dijon, chez l'Auteur hardcover books
1875ref. 20118New York: J L Mott Iron Works 1875 / 1877. First Editions. The catalog of 1875 is in its original printed limp black cloth gilt stamped publisher's binding; the Supplement is as issued - a printed title wrapper. Both contained within a custom made portfolio with cloth ties. Very good; neatly rebacked; occasional marginal tears; one endpaper with modest chipping at the fore-edge. Folio. 2 132 pp.; Supplement - 8 pp. The catalogs measure appx. 54 x 38 cm. Both are lavishly illustrated throughout; printed on glazed paper. A stunning large format catalog for all kinds of garden ornaments - for public and private use. There are also several pages for stable equipment lamps aquariums garden seating planters etc. Mott was a manufacturer of all kinds of metal goods and plumbing supplies. McKinstry citing only much later printings of smaller catalogs; Romaine p. 258 - citing a much later printing of this garden ornament catalog in the same large format as a "masterpiece". J L Mott Iron Works hardcover books
1916ref. 004541Roanoke VA: Virginia Bridge and Iron Company 1916. Very good. Seven covers envelopes - unused n. d. ca 1916; 3 3/4 x 6 1/2; captioned monochrome illustrations from photographs to recto; one with a small cut to bottom edge else overall very minor wear; in very good to near fine condition. Founded in Roanoke in 1888 as the American Bridge Works its name would be changed to the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company in 1893 it would grow into a major structural steel and bridge builder eventually opening branch plants in Memphis and Birmingham and manufacturing hundreds of highway metal truss bridges railroad bridges and commercial building frames across the American South and Mid-Atlantic. A large number of their surviving structures are currently listed on the US National Register of Historic Places NRHP such as High Bridge in Farmville VA larkton Bridge in Nathalie VA the State Highway 23 Bridge at the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Texas and so on. The current advertising covers featured various projects of the company including the Ocean Steamship Company's terminals in Savannah GA Norfolk and Western Railway Company Coal Pier in Norfolk VA which would evolve into the largest and fastest coal-loading complex in the Northern Hemisphere Mississippi River's Harahan Bridge in Memphis TN etc. Virginia Bridge and Iron Company unknown books
1993ref. 2334063New York: Oxford University Press 1993. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First edition. Minimal wear to corners. 1993 Hard Cover. x 305 pp. One of the world's preeminent historians Marc Ferro is a leading member of the Annales School of France and a recognized authority on early twentieth-century European history. For well over two decades in volumes such as The February Revolution of 1917 and October 1917 he has demonstrated an unsurpassed skill in capturing the social and political forces that led to the Russian Revolution. Now Ferro turns his considerable talents to the biography of one of the pivotal figures of that era Nicholas II the last Tsar of Russia. For this important new biography Ferro has searched extensively in Russian archives to illuminate Nicholas's character. What emerges is a vivid portrait of a reluctant leader a young man forced by the death of his father into a role for which he was ill-equipped. A conformist and traditionalist Nicholas admired the order ritual and ceremony identified with the intangible grandeur of autocracy and he hated everything that might shake that autocracy--the intelligentsia the Jews the religious sects. His reign as Ferro documents was one of continual trouble: a humiliating war with Japan; the 1905 revolution that forced Nicholas to accept a constitutional assembly the Duma; the international crisis of 1914 leading to World War I; and finally the Revolution of 1917 forcing his abdication. Throughout we see a Tsar who was utterly opposed to change and to the ferment of ideas that stirred his country who felt it was his duty to preserve intact the powers God had entrusted in him. Ferro also provides an intimate portrait of Nicholas's personal life: his wife Alexandra; his four daughters Olga Tatiana Maria and Anastasia sisters so close they ended letters with "OTMA" the initials of their Christian names; his son and heir Alexis who suffered from hemophilia; and the various figures in the court most notably Rasputin whose ability to revive the frequently ailing Alexis made him indispensable to the Tsaritsa. Ferro recounts that when Alexandra heard of Rasputin's murder she collapsed in anguish certain her son was lost; but when Nicholas heard the news while with the army he simply walked off whistling cheerfully. Perhaps most intriguing is Ferro's chapter on the fate of the Tsar and his family examining all the rumors and contradictory testimony that swirl around this still cloudy event. Ferro concludes that Alexandra and her daughters may have survived the revolution and the woman who later surfaced in Europe claiming to be Anastasia may well have been so. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1985ref. 124602New York: E. P. Dutton Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0525243216 . A first Printing of the First Edition in Fine condition housed in an equal dust-jacket; This book is about a boy named Billy who is adopted by a family in Maine. Billy is very excited about his new home and family but he is also scared because he has never been away from his mom and brothers. One day Billy goes for a walk with his adoptive family and he sees a blue star in the sky. He is amazed by how big the star is and he wonders what it is. His adoptive family tells him that the star is the sun and that it is going to set soon. Billy is very excited to see the sun set and he promises to always look up at the sky and see the stars.; 8vo; 244 pages . E. P. Dutton, Inc. hardcover books
1985ref. 55196New York: E. P. Dutton Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525243216 . A first printing of the first edition in unblemished condition housed in a mildly shelfworn yet Fine dust-jacket; In The Blue Star Robert Ferro tells the story of three generations of a family of rabbis in New York City. The first two generations are Orthodox rabbis and the second generation is their children and grandchildren. Ferro skillfully weaves together the stories of the rabbis and their congregants as well as of the city in which they lived and worked. He provides a vivid and moving portrait of a community that is both familiar and strange to us.; 8vo; 244 pages . E. P. Dutton, Inc. hardcover books
1985ref. 107049New York: E. P. Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0525243216 . A Fine first printing of the first edition in alike dust-jacket; The Blue Star is the story of a young girl named Lina who is forced to flee her home in the middle of the night after her mother is killed by the military. Lina is taken in by a group of rebels who teach her to fight and how to use her powers. She joins up with a group of other rebels who are fighting against the military and their dictator.; 8vo; 244 pages; $6.00 . E. P. Dutton hardcover books
1985ref. 107050New York: Dutton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Review Copy with publisher's promotional letter and review slip laid in; The Blue Star is a gripping and suspenseful novel that tells the story of two brothers who are forced to flee their home country of Syria after the outbreak of the war. They end up in Lebanon where they are hunted by the Assad regime. In a daring and heart-wrenching escape they make their way to Sweden where they begin a new life as refugees. The Blue Star is a story of hope determination and courage.; 8vo; $7.00 . Dutton hardcover books
1717ref. 50277Paris: Guillaume Danet Son-in law of the author 1717. Second edition. Hardcover. Good- to very good condition. Octavo. 197 9pp. 5 folding maps. Original calf with gilt lettering tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Decorative endpapers. Title page with copperplate engravings of two hand-colored printed globes and black double-framing California depicted as an island in this and two other maps. Second edition augmented with longitudes and latitudes of major cities. Illustrated headpiece decorative initials and endpieces. All pages with double frames; marginalia. Introduction to geography by the French cartographer and engraver Nicolas de Fer 1646-1720 containing five folding copperplate engraved maps four of them hand-colored. The first showing a general map of the globe with America in one Europe Africa and Australia in the second globe both with North and South Poles. The margins are adorned with hand-colored portraits of significant explorers; Columbus Vespuci Shouten etc. The second map is the only one in black and white. It depicts "La Sphere Artificielle." The third map shows Europe the fourth Asia the Middle-East and Oceania with parts of Europe and Africa and finally North and South America depicted on the fifth. Contains list of cities and catalog of Fer publications at rear. At the age of twelve Fer became an apprentice of the Parisian engraver Louis Spirinx. After the death of Fer's father in 1673 he also was a cartographer Nicolas took over the business specializing in the production atlases geography and cartography-oriented publications. Well connected to the Royal Court Fer advanced to become the official geographer of the Philip V of Spain and Louis XIV of France. His numerous publications are considered artistic rather than accurate. Text in French. Binding rubbed along edges and boards with front joint mostly cracked but holding together. Small plate of previous owner glued to upper inside front cover. Inked and penciled notes on verso of decorative front endpaper. Starting at title page. Some creasing and small closed tears of maps. B/w map with two inch tear reinforced with tape on verso. Map of Europe with four inch closed tear. Map of America also reinforced with three and a half inch paper strip on verso. Page ninety-three with remnants of black glossy paper glued to gutter and part of text some loss of text. Binding in overall good- interior in good to very good condition. Guillaume Danet (Son-in law of the author) hardcover books
1880ref. 57333Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. ca. 1880. Folding Rand McNally Map and Promotional for Eastern Texas Missouri and Arkansas A scarce promotional for Missouri and Arkansas published by the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway featuring a folding map by Rand McNally & Co. The map shows cities rivers railways and geographical features from eastern Texas through Louisiana Arkansas Missouri Mississippi and parts of Illinois Indiana and Alabama. The Iron Mountain Railway owned a large land grant in the central United States but it was not allowed to sell until the railway was completed; now that time had come and they were advertising it heavily. Some of the attractions promoted in the text include wild game hunting including squirrels resources such as zinc and coal good soil river and rail transportation telegraph service "cheap homes in Missouri and Arkansas" and low property taxes. They also exhort the nervous migrant: "This is the time to have decision of character or the opportunity will be lost to you and to your family forever. The strong-hearted Europeans who settled America did not know what they would reap from planting in strange soils and climates. Why should you hesitate about a country peopled an hundred years and well known Have manhood and come." The authors do not limit their reach to the United States either as they make sure to note after listing their prices that "One dollar in American is equal to about four shillings in English money." Also included is a panel of text with a table describing the climate of Little Rock and a list of instructions to railroad agents. The St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway originally established to deliver iron ore from Iron Mountain Missouri to St. Louis eventually stretched from eastern Texas through Missouri and Arkansas. In 1883 it was acquired by Jay Gould and in the 1900s merged into the Missouri Pacific and later Union Pacific Railroads. The folksong "Iron Mountain Baby" tells the true story of a Civil War veteran who walking along the railroad collecting building materials discovered a baby who had been apparently thrown from the train in a valise. When the child grew older the railway paid for his education. The Iron Mountain Baby's story became popular around the United States and has been recorded in numerous forms throughout the years including the 2014 stage musical adaptation Bright Star written by musician and comedian Steve Martin. Though the Iron Mountain Railway put out a number of such promotionals in the late 1870s and early 1880s they remain rather scarce; OCLC records this edition focusing on Arkansas and Missouri only at Harvard and the University of Arkansas at Mullins. Old folds. Minor tanning. Slight splitting along some folds and a few cross-folds. Very good. unknown books
1856ref. 27974Nueva-York: Imprenta de Hallet 1856. Coal Mining in Mexico A Spanish-language prospectus for an American mining and land company on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached spine mostly perished library blindstamp on front wrapper and withdrawal stamp on wrapper interior. Foxed. Good overall. SABIN 48572 note. unknown books
ref. 4929AMERICAN IRON TRADE THE STATE OF THE TRADE AND MANUFACTORY OF IRON IN GREAT-BRITAIN CONSIDERED. London: 1750. 8vo. Disbound. 15 pages. First edition. Sabin 90633; Kress S-1991; Goldsmiths' Library 8504. An interesting anonymous tract largely about the trade in iron from the American colonies. Rare. Kress only records a photo copy. 4929. unknown books
1883ref. 140940359London: Chapman and Hall 1883. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing of what is widely recognized as one of the first feminist novels. Near Fine with light rubbing to binding pages toned and with occasional instances of light spotting. Finely bound in full black ostrich skin by Sangorski and Sutcliffe mirroring the book's setting on an ostrich farm. At the time of publication the South African ostrich farming industry was rapidly developing to meet a craze for the high demand of ostrich feathers with their weight-price approaching that of gold's. The industry's rise brought about much cruelty and suffering for ostriches and the novel highlights the crossover among the contemporary leading activists of women's rights movement and the champions of animal rights. Published under a male pseudonym of Ralph Iron this was Scheiner's first novel and was met with immediate success. A complex narrative woven around themes of cruelty and restriction set against a colonial backdrop. It's notable for the main female character's handling of themes of love marriage and motherhood while subverting the traditional gender roles female sexuality and intellectual power. Published under a male pseudonym of Ralph Iron this was Scheiner's first novel and was met with immediate success. A complex narrative woven around themes of cruelty and restriction set against a colonial backdrop. It's notable for the main female character's handling of themes of love marriage and motherhood while subverting the traditional gender roles female sexuality and intellectual power. Chapman and Hall unknown books
