1888. Very good. Chromolithograph trade card, 3 x 5 inches, advertising Street & Smith's "Select Series of Popular American Copyright Stories" and their periodical, the New York Weekly, via an illustration of a pink-cheeked young woman and the motto "Love is the Lord of All." The Select Series was a...... Item #21325
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institute, 1965. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalogue. 8.5 x 9.5 inches, 98 pp, with illustrations (6 in color). Light general wear to wrappers including two short tears, light soiling. Stuart Davis' "work is a continuing source of joy and excitement. Below the surface, major forces are at..... Item #812
Jerusalem: Government Printer, 1947. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 59 pp, stapled wrappers. Light abrasion to front cover, upper corner bumped, owner's initials in ink on title page, otherwise unmarked. Chapter I (the first 25 pages) offers "an historical summary of the principal political events in Palestine since 1st January..... Item #21178
New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 1996. Softcover. Near fine. Exhibition catalogue. 10 x 10 inches, approximately 36 pp, with 15 color illustrations. Very light shelf wear; contents clean and sound. Item #1485
American Society of Naval Engineers, [1899]. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Reprinted from Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Volume XI, No. 2. pp. 285-303 + 5 illustrations from photographs, in original wrappers. Handling wear, vertical folding crease; text clean. Report on testing done by the U.S. Navy on..... Item #2875
New York: Kiggins & Kellog. Softcover. Near fine. Undated, ca. 1850s. 5.3 x 8.2 cm, in original sewn wrappers, with illustration on front wrapper, publisher's ads on the back. 8 pp, with small wood engraved illustration on each page. Alphabet book / abecadarium. Designated First Series No. 1. Minor foxing..... Item #20681
Riga: Latvijas vestures instituta apgads, 2001. Soft cover. Near Fine. 743 pp, in original printed wrappers. Light soiling to front cover, else fine. Most text in Latvian, some in English. Papers on the Soviet Occupation of Latvia 1940-41 and 1944-mid 50s; Nazi German Occupation of Latvia 1941-45. Item #13584
[1855]. Softcover. Very good. Folio, 7 pp, printed on blue paper in two unsewn (unbound) gatherings. Minor handling wear; near fine. The Rogue River Indians were not a single tribe, but a conglomeration of several groups living in the Rogue River Valley of southwestern Oregon. This treaty was concluded by..... Item #20479
Stockholm: Latvian National Foundation, 1985. Softcover. Near fine. 93 pp, in original printed wrappers. Slight cover wear. Clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Includes essays in English, Latvian, French, German, and Russian. Item #14454
Boston: 1830. 104 pp. Original wrappers lacking, replaced long ago with plain paper wrappers with title written by hand as "Trial of Knapp's for Murder of White." Loss of about 10 words to first page, otherwise complete, with light soiling to margins, edgewear, dog-earned pages. Fair to good overall. This..... Item #19815
Baltimore: The Baltimore Gazette, [1872]. First Edition. 172 pp, in a later buckram binding with original front wrapper (heavily chipped at edges) bound in. Rear wrapper lacking, but otherwise complete, clean, and sound; good. Elizabeth Wharton was accused of poisoning her financial advisor, to whom she owed money. Her talented..... Item #19779
[New York]: Geo. Borgfeldt & Co., 1905. Hardcover. Very good. [84] pp, extensively illustrated with portraits and views of the company's various branches and departments. Bound in half-cloth and dark-green paper-covered boards with lovely art nouveau design stamped in black, endpapers patterened with the company logo, attractive design features throughout..... Item #21408
Operation Deep Freeze is the general codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica that began with Operation Deep Freeze I, launched in 1955–56 in preparation for scientific work planned as part of the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). Regular missions followed over the following decades, primarily to provide..... Item #20864
Washington, DC: U.S. News and World Report, 1968. Softcover. Very good. 104 pp. Light cover wear, original address label on front cover. A very good copy of an interesting issue from a turbulent time in American history, with the headlining article titled "A Landslide of Protest. One-Sided Election?" Other topics..... Item #19977
[Philadelphia]: Ives pr. & stationer, 1862. Folding trade card, 2.5 x 3.75 inches, with views of the Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon and the attached hospital on the front and back and text inside. Light soiling; very good. The Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon was "staffed by volunteers and provided relief for..... Item #21231
Holliston [MA]: Parker & Plimpton, 1851. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Title continues "Also, Statistics ofthe Town Returns in 1850, as Required by the Act to Ascertain the Ratable Estates within this Commonwealth. Also, Statistics of the United States Census, as Taken and Returned by the Marshall, for June 1850." 51..... Item #19531
New York: Nomad Publishing, 1925. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 5 x 7 pp, 53 pp, with a map and two tipped-in half tone photographs--one a portrait of Stefansson and one showing him with Robert E. Peary and Adolphus Greely. Wrappers lightly toned, some chipping and short tears to the..... Item #21525
Visiting Nurse Association. Very good. Undated (c. 1920s) trade/advertising card for the Visting Nurse Association of New Britain, Connecticut. 3.5 x 6 inches. Light soiling and edgewear, about very good. Text on one side describes what visiting nurses do, including offering in-home care to the sick, advising expectant mothers "on..... Item #20961
Hawaii Volcano Observatory, Hawaii National Park: Hawaii Volcano Research Association, 1931. 8.5 x 11 inches, 4 pp, with 5 photographic illustrations. Good. Light soiling, old folding creases, general handling wear. The Volcano Bulletin was published weekly by the Hawaii Volcano Research Association on behalf of the Volcanology section of the..... Item #20174
Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 286 pp + 4 (folding detailed financial statements) + 1 (folding map), with index, in library binding, red pebbled cloth. Ex-library with bookplate from Dayton Museum of Natural History, front hinge cracked. This volume covers issues pertaining to Armament, Transporation, and Supply..... Item #1652
Tacoma: F.T. Houghton, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 14 pp + [1] (membership application). Original printed wrappers are chipped and detached; text is clean. Explains the need for a state historical society, as "Washington was thirty-six years a territory and now nearly two years a State; having thus reached a...... Item #20634
Wien: Wohlgemuth, Domjan & Bauml. Softcover. Near fine. Travel brochure. Undated, 1920s. 7 x 4 7/8 inches, 64 pp, with folding map (13 x 17 in.) of Vienna showing tour routes, five full-page birds-eye views of routes outside the city, ads, half-tone photographs. Text in German, French, and English. Cover..... Item #20907
San Francisco and New York: Revolutionary Women of the Bay Area, Spartacist Publishing Company. Softcover. Very good. Issue numbers 4-20, all original but number 5, which is a photocopy. 8.5 x 11 inches, printed in black on newsprint; one issue 32 pp, the rest 24 pp, illustrated. Minor toning to..... Item #20670
London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1875. Hardcover. Good. 314 pp, with many illustrations from engravings. Publisher's cloth with mounted color illustration and decoration in gilt. Old insect damage to visible on boards and paper over front hinge, gift inscription on front free endpaper; binding sound and text clean. A nicely..... Item #2434
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1882. Hardcover. Good+. 496 pp, with 322 illustrations, in wonderful pictorial cloth binding with images of an octopus, flamingos, and more. Wear to corners and spine ends and a few spots of abrasion on front board, front hinge a bit loose, a few pages..... Item #21660
