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1923Pages 353-402. Black and white photos. Features: Full-page photo ad for Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.'s No. 11 mill - the largest textile plant in the world; Full-page photo ad for the Polar Caves; Full-page photo of the observatory on Garrison Hill; The Month in New Hampshire; What shall we do with our railroads - consolidate or sell out - with map of New England railroads and connections?; How Dover Grew - the development of her factories; The Savings Bank Centennial - the one hundredth birthday of New Hampshire savings banks; An anthology of one poem poets; An orchard and a college education - apples from the French farm were sold to pay for education; Where the past lives still - Portsmouth - article with photos; Farmers' and Home-makers' week; A New Hampshire crusader; The high school essay contest; A kitchen of 1825 in a thriving New England town - the heart of our ancestors' house; What qualities make for success?; New Hampshire Necrology; and more. Average wear. Some external soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
194986 pages. Articles: Prohibition's Ghost Walks Again; You'd Never Know Our Daughter is an Epileptic - Dixie Lou Yahraes; Knight from Orchard Street - Sir Louis Stirling, Britain's multimillionaire industrialist; My 4-Year War with the Reds (part 4 of 5); Babies Mean Money in the Bank - Canada's Familiy Allowances Act (Baby Bonus); Are Football Coaches Worms?. Fiction: The Big Minnie; Westward to Chadley; Miss Strawberry and the Sergeant; Blake's Thanksgiving; The Man Who Had Influence; Valley of the Tyrant (part 3 of 4). Includes these nice ads: Nash Airflyte cars; Motorola television; Borden's milk products - featuring Elsie the Cow; Johnsonian shoes; Willys Station Wagon; Lucky Strike; Fisher Body; Hamilton watches; Silver Star razors (featuring famous men); Ford cars (2 pages); Greyhound bus lines; Anahist; Mallory hats; Pendleton shirts; Canada Dry (nice!); Roadmaster bikes; U.S. Army (recruiting); FTD. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
193516 pages of nature pictures in rotogravure. Features: Animals of the Australian Bush; Meet the Grass Family - orchard grass; Nature makes an enchanted isle atop a rock in a garden pool; Our National Scenery in Travel Poster; Nature's Poet Laureate; A doubly floriferous Showy Orchis; Matthew Fontaine Maury's Work Goes On; Goldie, a Chinese Oriole; A life-saving thistle - Evert's thistle; Conservation - what of the closed season?; Conservation and use; Hawks - what they eat; Isle Royale National Park - threat of logging speeds move to preserve this island; A New Defender of the Wilderness - the C.C.C. - Civilian Conservation Corps; For the Duck Record; Cygnus and the Northern Cross. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1966Features: Vietnam - the American Agony; One Woman's War - Beryl Fox of CBC-TV directs filming in Vietnam of a widely acclaimed documentary on jungle fighting; Herbert Irvine - Benevolent despot of decor - with many colour photos; Warrendale Treatment Centre near Toronto treats children from troubled prisons of fear and loneliness; Journey to the last frontier, by Stephen Jones Gamester; Ken Johnstone describes how he transformed a little orchard into a booming pocket of poverty; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1956100 pages. Features: Reports from Washington, India, and Russia in the Middle East; The Angry South, by Ralph McGill; The Family in Modern Drama, by Arthur Miller; Memory (poem), by Theodore Roethke; The Soviet Challenge and American Policy - Danger Unrecognized, by Averell Harriman; Drug for the Major - story by Geoffrey Household; George F. Baker - an Atlantic portrait, by Katherine Anne Porter - episode from a novel in progress; Orchard (poem), by Richard G. Hubler; Faith and History, by Duncan Howlett; Three Aprils and a Poet, by Carl Carmer; Mozart Festivals, by Curtis Cate. Colour ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whiskey inside from cover. Colour photo ad for Grace Line Caribbean Cruises on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1989Features: Tender Buttons - a shop dedicated to buttons; Fine Machine Sewing - Hemstitching - Part II; Smocking - Lesson One by Mollie Jane Taylor; Mother's Day - gifts to stitch; French Handsewn Pincushion - pullout pattern and instructions; Canada - Western Style - Calgary's Stampede Fashions; Smock Plate; Linen Handkerchief Case; Summer's Juicy Fruits - an orchard of picks; Elizabeth Garrett's Sampler - a SAGA chapter's project; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
197980 pages. "Based upon the recollections of turn of the century Okanagan pioneers who were interviewed and recorded by Imbert Orchard in 1964 and 1965." - from page iii. Clean with light wear. Child's pencil markings on blank last page, otherwise unmarked. A quality copy. Book
1948136 pages. Features: Lovely Christmas package delivery cover illustration by Walter Dower; Game Laws 1948-49; The River Wise Man; November Steelheads - in the Whitney Drain near Lake Huron; Peanuts and Pictures; In the Presence of Mine Enemies; The Festive Board; The Happiest Huntsman - Henry Belden of California; The Undertaker and the Long-Tailed Bunnies; Variations of a Theme; Dress Rehearsal; McKillop's Geese; Aunt Maggie's Peach Orchard; Grouse of the Lugga; Adventures in the Night; Duck Hunters' Navy; As Advertised; A New Rifle Kills Clean; Gloves From Your Buck. Many great ads in color and black and white. Beautiful one-page color ad for Miller beer featureslovely lady sitting on the crescent moon in the night sky. Nice one-page black and red ad for Gaines Dog Meal (food). Nice color Santa ad on back cover for Camel cigarettes. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
1949200 pages. Features: Easing the farmer's oldest pain - rheumatism; The Newtons of Pleasant Hill Farm - nice color photos with article about the Park and Ruth Newton family farm near St. Albans, Vermont; Housing for big litters; Less feed, more chicken; Young settlers on the plains - eager veterans have begun farming at Mirage Flats in northwestern Nebraska; What is a good Angus?; Better plant a few nut trees; Mountain school that trains leaders - School of the Ozarks; Wagon ideas to save work; The war against Aftosa; Managing farm finances; Little Johnny Appleseed - Bob Anderson of Van Buren County, Michigan; Shell agricultural laboratory near Modesto, CA; You can help with the mail; Rural art center with over 400 members at Cheltenham Township, PA; and more. Ads: Texaco ad includes Mr. James West of Pomona, CA and his innovative orchard sprayer; B.F. Goodrich ad with large photo at the John and Joseph Mueller farm northeast of Belleville, IL; G.E. radios; Oldsmobile; Kaiser cars (color); Jeep; Chevrolet cars; Gibson Model "E" tractor; New Holland hay equipment (2 pages with photo of Irvin R. Yoder, Belleville, PA); Ford truck ad features Douglas Burden and Florida's Sea World; New York Stock Exchange one-page photo ad features the Louis B. Eckelkamp family of Villa Ridge, MO; Case tractors; Hudson cars (nice 2-page color ad); Hedy Lamarr in Auto-Lite ad; Nice color-photo 1-page John Deere tractor ad; Buick (2 pgs); Ford Tractor (2 pgs); Massey-Harris tractors; Life Insurance ad features the Hinton family of East Peoria, IL, with parents Don and Pauline; Allis-Chalmers Roto-Baler; Minneapolis-Moline Model "Z" tractor; Small photo ad for Harley-Davidson with the Hydra-Glide fork; 1949 Studebaker cars (color photos); Color-photo Camel cigaratte ad on back cover says "More doctors smoke Camel than any other cigarette". Unmarked with average wear. Several middle pages loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
1948148 pages. Features: They take care of their own - Mormons supporting each other; Big litters are not accident; Crates will save your pigs; Fresh grass for your winter feed; Double check on the hens; Turkey every day; The Saga of Oak Orchard Creek - Four generations of the Brown family made Orchard Dale Fruit Farm one of New York's finest, near Waterport in Orleans County - article with great color photos (small clipping from one of the photos); Bringing back abandoned land; Better fire protection is up to you; The men behind your market news; Corncobs to to fatten beef; Photo of violin-making farmer Oscar Nash of Minnesota; Photo of Clarence Lustfeld of Buckley, IL and his remote controls for his tractor; and more. Ads: Ipana ad with radio team Tex and Jinx; Texaco ad with photo of Emil Johnson of Longmont, CO; Buick; Studebaker trucks; Arthur Godfrey in Chesterfield cigarette ad; 1949 Kaiser cars (color); Oliver tractors - 66, 77, 88; Dodge; Jergens ad with Mrs. Bertha Robb and her family of Brattleboro, Vermont; Chrysler (nice 2-pages in color); Gibson tractors; Cone denim; Life insurance ad features Vermont apple growers Brower and Helen Hall of Grand Isle; Plumb axes; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
2005Einaudi Ragazzi, Collana: Lo Scaffale d'Oro, ottobre 2005. Traduzione di Milka Ventura Avanzinelli. Rilegato con copertina rigida e sovraccoperta. Prima edizione. Spedizioni tracciabili con raccomandata entro 24 ore dall'ordine. First edition. Hardback cover with dust jacket in fine conditions, no price clipped, no inscriptions or markings inside. Worldwide delivery.
1960SANSONI 1960 442 PP. SOVRACCOPERTA UN PO' STANCA, TIMBRO DI BIBLIOTECA ESTINTA ALL'ANTIPORTA E AI MARGINI DI QUALCHE PAGINA (SENZA COMPROMISSIONE DI LETTURA DEL TESTO), SEGNO DI CATALOGAZIONE A BIRO ALL'ANTIPORTA, TALLONCINO ADESIVO AL CONTROPIATTO ANTERIORE, PER IL RESTO OTTIME ED ECCELLENTI CONDIZIONI GENERALI.
réf. UBISINC00LAWPhotography Magazine. Very Good. Bischof Werner. Incas to Indians. Frank Robert; Verger Pierre; de Lara introduction Mannuel Tunon. London: Photography Magazine ND. 76pp. Illustrated. 4to. Beige cloth with photographic endsheets. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with chipped corners and subtly bumped edges. Flaps slightly curled. Photography Magazine hardcover books
1996réf. 159751Paris and New York: Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc 1996. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text in English and French by Jean Loup Pivin and Pascal Martin Saint Leon. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. A terrific retrospective look at this underappreciated French photographer. Revue Noire and D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Inc unknown books
1931réf. 5929New York: The exposition of Indian tribal arts Inc. 1931. First edition. Good/Extract from: Introduction to American Indian art to accompany the first exhibition of American Indian art selected entirely withconsideration of esthetic value. 27 cm; 13 pages including nine half-tone photographs. Printed self wraps. A little wrinkled and soiled. The exposition of Indian tribal arts, Inc. paperback books
1956réf. 64933New York: Universe Books. Very Good. 1956. Hardcover. Large tan cloth covers contents are bright and nice with black and white photographs. Very Good in a slightly edge-chipped dust jacket. . Universe Books hardcover books
1839réf. 106426Slim 8vo. London: J.W. Parker 1839. Slim 8vo 18 1pp. With a plate at the front. In brown papers wrappers. Extracted from a volume of pamphlets at some time. § First edition of this scarce little paper on early mathematics by the infamous Halliwell-Phillipps whose entire life was dogged by financial problems and accusations some apparently fairly well based of theft and fraud. His life was well chronicled by Arthur Freeman and Janet Ing Freeman.From DNB: “Phillipps James Orchard Halliwell- 1820–1889 antiquary and literary scholar was born on 21 June 1820 at 94 Sloane Street Chelsea the sixth of the seven children of Thomas Halliwell 1777–1849 a prosperous linen draper from Chorley Lancashire and his wife Charlotte Ann 1789–1849 daughter of Esau Marsh of London. He took the additional surname Phillipps in 1872 following the death of his father-in-law Sir Thomas Phillipps.” J.W. Parker unknown books
1956réf. 179521New York: Universe 1956. hardcover. very good/very good. Numerous black & white photographic illustrations in color & in black & white. Slim 4to white cloth d.w. New York: Universe Books 1956. Very good. Universe unknown books
1842réf. 16953London: Printed for the Camden Society 1842. Decorative Cloth. Very Good . The very uncommon 1842 1st edition of this original publication of "two curious documents concerning Dr. John Dee" the great 16th century occut philosopher 1527-1609 who devoted much of his life to the study of alchemy divination and Hermetic philosophy. 1 "His Private Diary written in a very small illegible hand on the margins of old Almamacs discovered a few years ago by Mr. W.H. Black in the library of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford". 2 "A Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts made by himself before his house was plundered by the populace and now preserved in the library of Trinity College Cambridge". This 1842 volume a slim octavo in its original chocolate-brown boards has held up very nicely. Solid and VG with decorative blindstamping to the panels and still-bright gilt-titling and flourishes along the spine. Just a touch of light bubbling to the rear panel small neat former owner name and 1940 date at the front free endpaper. Apart from this clean as could be with no other writing or markings of any kind internally and a strong very sturdy binding. By any measure an impressive copy of this rare mid 19th century examination through his diary and his personal library of manuscripts of the mind of Dr. John Dee. Printed for the Camden Society hardcover books
1860réf. 38010London: Printed for the editor colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins at the Chiswick Press 1860. 24mo 14.7 cm 5.75". 19 1 pp. An "exceedingly curious early poetical dialogue" between personified summer and winter edited by noted Shakespearean scholar son-in-law to bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps and history of science collector James Halliwell-Phillipps who speculates that "some dialogue such as the present one suggested to Shakespeare the conclusion of his drama 'Love's Labour's Lost'." This is the first appearance of Halliwell-Phillipps's edition; the production was => limited to 30 copies and is neatly printed. Provenance: Pencilled signature of prominent Bostonian book collector Henry Gardner Denny on half-title margin; pencilled collation note at rear from the Quaritch firm; later rubber-stamp reading "F.S.H. Dupl." at back. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard small booklabel "AHA" at rear. Winsor Halliwelliana 1860:14. Quarter roan in imitation of morocco with chocolate papercovered boards spine gilt-lettered; gently rubbed with some loss of leather at joints and paper at corners/edges. Provenance marks as above; light pencilling on endpapers and title-page. Printed for the editor [colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press] hardcover books
1840réf. 8863London: John Russell Smith pr. by G. Norman 1840. 12mo. 24 pp. Uncommon. Edited by Halliwell later Halliwell-Phillipps a biographer of Shakespeare and scholar of English literature these short comic fables attributed to Andrew Boorde were much reprinted in the 16th and 17th centuries. NSTC 2M24418. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. John Russell Smith (pr. by G. Norman) unknown books
1926réf. 154082New York: Vreeland Press 1926. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear top corner dog-eared with corners torn and missing on front cover and first few pages not effecting text or plates. Tan card wraps with string tie binding. Black lettering with museum emblem on front cover. 15 pp. with tipped-on color frontis 3 bw images tipped on and 7 bw line drawings. No. 5 in the leaflet series of the Museum of the American Indian New York now part of the Smithsonian. An excellent and enlightening study of the making of a blanket by the Salish Indians of the Northwest mostly in British Columbia. This particular blanket was obtained by a Hudson't Bay Company worker from the Chief of the Tsakuam band of the Cowichan Salish on the Lower Fraser River. The blanket is just under 4 feet square and pictured in the color frontis of the book. The Salish were known for the dogs they kept and whose hair was shorn for use in weaving blankets and other textiles. The dogs were shorn as closely as sheep. This catalogue includes a bit of history as well as the technique of blanket-making of the Salish with several illustrations of different kinds of weaves. A true treasure about Native American textile arts. Vreeland Press unknown books
1956réf. 248346Paris. : Robert Delpire. 1956. . 1st Edition. Tan cloth copper spine title. . A very good copy in a dustjacket with edgewear and short closed tears. . 4to. Introduction by Manuel Tunon de Laura. B&W photographs. Robert Delpire. hardcover books
1975réf. 94624NY:: Museum of the American Indian. Very Good. 1975. Paperback. B093ZCJFDL . Some color mostly black and white photographs throughout. Second edition paperback. Age toning to covers previous owner's name on front free endpaper else very good in illustrated wraps. . Museum of the American Indian, paperback books
1965réf. 55348London: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: "A Collection of Letters Illustrative of the Progress of Science in England from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to that of Charles the Second" and "Popular Treatises on Science Written During the Middle Ages in Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Norman and English." Facsimile of the 1841 first editions. This volume contains the whole of the publications of the first History of Science Society ever formed as well as the prospectus of the Society setting out its rules aims intended publications and list of members under the presidency of the Duke of Sussex. Original blue cloth binding with gilt stamping. Ink stamp to the front pastedown with a partial catalogue description affixed to the bottom of the rear pastedown. The boards are ever so slightly bowed; otherwise an especially crisp and clean copy. Dawsons of Pall Mall hardcover books
