Sotheby's: Important, Historic and Classic Motor Vehicles, Automobilia and Automobile Art, Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon, September 4, 1993
London: Sotheby's, 1993. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto stapled wrappers. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Fine.
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Amerika Esperantisto: American Esperantist
West Newton, Mass: American Esperantist Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. Vol. 23, 1919, #5 - Vol. 27, #2. A total of 21 consecutive issues, lacking the February 1920 issue. Bound in blue cloth with applied printed paper label. Stamps and ink notations inside front board, about very good. Very scarce.
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Elegant Desserts
Tucson: HP Books, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. Small inscription on the front free endpaper, else near fine in fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Illustrated with color photographs.
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Real Photo Post Card of an Amateur Baseball Team likely from Bath, Pennsylvania
Softcover. Near Fine. Gelatin silver real photo post card. 5.5" x 3.5". Tiny rubbed spot in one corner, probably contemporary name of Ida A. Bensing on the verso, near fine. Image of eleven men in full uniform and one man in street clothes, with bats and gloves. While the team is unidentified, the logo on the uniforms is of an Old English-style "B" inside a diamond. It seems most likely that Ida A. Bensing (born c.1889) was a... Read More
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Twentieth Annual Report of the Brooklyn Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, for the year ending October, 1863
Brooklyn: The Union" Steam Presses, 1863. Softcover. Very Good. Printed brown wrappers. 24pp. Large but very faint dampstain on last few leaves and rear wrap, very good. Apparently used to solicit donations, a space is left of the solicitor to write in their name, with the printed warning "the undersigned will call in a few days for your contribution to this charity." *OCLC* locates no copies.
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Fisher's Improved House-Keeper's 1856 Almanac, and Family Receipt Book
Philadelphia: Fisher & Brothers, 1856. Softcover. Good. First edition. String-tied small square octavo. Good or better with a few pencil notations, general soiling and page ends with creases and small tears. An almanac directed to housekeeping with several pages of household tips and a few basic receipts (dressed macaroni, sponge cake, minced veal, and hominy). Uncommon. *OCLC* locates four copies. Uncommon. *OCLC* locates four copies.
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Thornton Wilder: Drei Ansprachen Anlässlich der Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels
Frankfurt am Main: Borsenverein des deutschen Buchhandels E.V., 1957. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. 36pp. Text in German. Printed wrappers. Covers lightly flared and slightly toned, near fine. Contains the first appearance of Thornton Wilder's, "Kultur in Einer Demokratie," and essays by Reinhard Jaspert and Carl J. Burckhardt.
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The Rescuers
New York: Random House, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good. Authorized Walt Disney Productions' Edition. Small quarto. Illustrated in color. Glossy pictorial boards. Boards moderately soiled, very good.
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Winter's Tales 2
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in very good dust jacket. Book has slight rub of spine, light yellowing of pages, dust jacket has slight rub of spine and edges of panels, slight fading of panels, 12 short stories, some authors are: John Bayley, Mary Clive, Gabriel Fielding, J. D. Scott, etc.
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Civilta Delle Macchine Volume XV Number 1 January-February 1967
Rome: Conto Del Gruppo, 1967. Softcover. Very Good. Very good softcover magazine format. Some browning to parts of the outer covers, about one inch of the spine is missing at the bottom. Interior is clean and solid.
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Proceedings of the Confrence on Photographic And Stereographic Optics
1965: Japaneese Journal App. Phy, 1st. Fine. Fine. Previous owner's name stamp on front inside panel and text top edges, name in ink on front free endpaper, front cover with small stain.
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Your Family Tree, Pennsylvania Genealogy and History, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1,2,3,4
PA: PA Geneaology, 1975. Softcover. Very Good. Paperback Very good in wrappers, 4 booklets, address labels on back covers. Tape marks.
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More Merry-Go-Round
New York: Liverright, INc, 1932. Very Good. First edition. Very good. Clean text with browned edges, cloth covers are slightly soiled, heavily rubbed on corners, slight spine lean, soiled spine, rub; and bump on cloth edges, minor soil on end pgs.
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Catalogue of the Bronte Collection in the Bronte Parsonage Museum
Haworth: Bronte Society, 1932. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 90pp. Plates. Printed gray wrappers. Tiny dogears at the bottom of the first few leaves, slight loss on the paper at the base of the spine, very good or better. Exhibition catalogue of the Bronte collection formed by H. H. Bonnell of Philadelphia.
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The Argonauts' Vademecum Berlin, Germany. A Short-Cut Lesson and Souvenir for the Members of the Floating University
Berlin: Amerika-Institut Berlin, 1927. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 31pp. Illustrated. Stapled embossed pink wrappers. Slightest soiling, about fine. Inserted is a small handbill about a recent German-American tennis match. Wonderful little pamphlet for students on an ocean-going ship fitted out for education.
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Skyways – Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1944
New York: The Henry Publishing Company, 1944. Softcover. Very Good. Vol. 3, No. 11, November 1944. Quarto. 104pp. Illustrated from black and white photos and drawings. Printed wrappers. Very good with light wear to the wrappers and some remnants of scotch tape on the front wrapper. Features "Invasion Bombing" by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, "Air-Warfare Review" by Bill Pickens, and more.
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[Matchbook]: McGovern's Liberty Inn, Dine & Dance
Chicago: 661 N. Clark St: (Universal Match Corp., St. Louis), 1950. Unbound. Very Good. Matchbook. Lacking the original match sticks, else a very good, vibrant example, printed in multiple colors, from Chicago's largest strip club in the early 1950s. The outside cover advertises the club as "Chicago's only electric lighted tile bar," with "four floor shows nightly," and features three girls in semi-states of undress. The removal of the match sticks from the inside cover reveals a black... Read More
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The Colophon: A Quarterly for Bookmen Winter 1938 V. 3 #1
New York: Colphon, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good Bookplate. Cover browning with light rubbing. Small stains.
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Aphrodisiac: Fiction from Christopher Street
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Publication date and price inked on the cover, near fine. Publisher's promotional material laid in.
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A coups de Baïonnette. Collection de La Baïonnette. Volume 6: (October-December, 1916)
Paris, 1916. Hardcover. Very Good. Magazine. L’édition française illustrée. Thirteen consecutive weekly issues of *La Baïonnette* in one volume, with original wrappers bound in. Nos. 66-78 (October-December, 1916). Quarto. Illustrated with “300 Dessins en couleurs et en noir”. Publisher’s quarter red cloth and color pictorial paper-covered boards, spine lettered in black. The margins have been slightly trimmed, as issued in one bound volume. Spine is moderately rubbed, light wear at the edges of the boards and corner tips,... Read More
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Arbeiter-Demokratie Oder Parteidiktatur
Germany: Walter-Verlag Olten und Freiburg im Breisgau, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in very good plus dustwrapper. Book is a nice copy, almost new. Dustwrapper lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, lightly soiled, spine lightly browned.
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Hampton Institute Graduation Photographs
[Hampton, Virginia, 1950. Unbound. Near Fine. Eight silver gelatin photographs. Each measuring 8" x 10". Two are captioned in pencil on the rear with duplicate instruction and 'Hampton Inst Grad photo by Moorer." Overall fine with a hint of wear. A group of photographs showing a woman's graduation from Hampton Institute sometime during the 1950s. She is shown on the dais accepting her degree from Dr. Alonzo G. Moron, the first black president, posed outside with her diploma... Read More
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The Institute for Retired Professionals. September 23, 1965
(New York: The New School for Social Research), 1965. Softcover. Fine. Vol. 23, No. 4. Slim square octavo. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Stapled wrappers. Owner name on first leaf, trifle worn, else fine.
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Anatomical Chart: The Healthy Heart
New York: Rudolph Schick, 1940. Very Good. Color lithographic chart (32" x 43"). Backed on linen cloth with a black wooden rolling rod stapled along the top and bottom edges, with a mounted printed paper index label identifying 48 features of the heart. The top rod is partly detached with a few associated small tears, else very good with modest toning to the bottom edge. A visually striking classroom anatomy chart presenting a series of cross-sectional views of... Read More
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Poems of the Great War Published on Behalf of the Prince of Wales's National Relief Fund
London: Chatto & Windus, 1914. Softcover. Fair. First edition. Small square quarto. Illustrated wrappers by William Nicholson. Spine largely perished, front flap detached but present, a tattered and worn, fair only copy of a fragile volume. Poems by Kipling, Chesterton, Binyon and others.
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