Chicago: Gilbert & Bennett M'f'g Co., 1889. Charming trade card advertising wire netting made primary for poultry yards. 3.25 x 5.25 inches, illustrated with a brightly colored image of a poultry house with clean and spacious netted runs. Mild rippling from old exposure to moisture; good. Detailed text on the..... Item #21877
Mankato, KS: Western Advocate Printers, [1923]. Illustrated broadside advertisement for a 1923 Kansas farm auction. 9" x 12" on tan newsprint; very good. Property of Ervin Tompkins to be sold by Ole Hanson, Auctioneer, at Hanson's farm, southwest of Mankato. Provides details on the specific animals to be sold and..... Item #21876
New York: Duell, Sloane, & Pearce. Hardcover. Very good in a Good dust jacket. Sixth printing, with no date on title page; copyright 1948. 263 pp, plus and additional 64 pp of photographs. Topographic map of Machu Picchu and vicinity on the front endpapers. Previous owner's address stamp on front..... Item #21875
Boston: Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, 1916. Softcover. Very good. Publication No. 9 of the Massachusetts Society for Mental Hygiene, Reprinted from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1916. 8 pp, stapled. Short tears at left margin, but still very good. Argues that "the attitude of suspicion, fear, and avoidance..... Item #21873
New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1846. Hardcover. good+. First American edition and first edition in English, translated from the Guenon's French edition, with new material added by Skinner, who was Editor of the Farmers' Library. 8vo, pp 32 (Preface and Introductory Remarks), [48], with wood-engraved illustrations in the text. Bound..... Item #21869
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, [1928]. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good- dust jacket. First printing of this edition.414 pp, indexed. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth with gilt spine lettering. Small stain on front free endpaper, a touch of sunning to top and bottom edges of boards, else a...... Item #21868
Boston: Bradbury & Guild, 1852. Hardcover. Good. viii, 192 pp, "embellished with over forty elegant wood engravings." Original publisher's cloth with blind-stamped decoration, title stamped in gilt on front board. Wear to extremities, 1.5-inch split in cloth at lower front joint, some pale water stains affecting boards only; binding sound..... Item #21866
Basileae [Basel]: Sumtibus Johannis Christ, 1741. Hardcover. Good. Second edition. Five-volume set, complete. Text block measures 22.5 (h) x 18 (w) cm and appears slightly trimmed. Ex-library, with ink stamp on each title plate and presentation bookplate of donor (Rev. R.B. Taggart) on each front pastedown. Uniformly bound in black..... Item #21862
Albany, NY: Luther Tucker & Son, 1858-1864. Hardcover. Very good. First three bound volumes of this annual, which was published from 1855 to 1881. These three volumes (each containing three years) cover the period 1855-1863. 5" x 8.25", uniformly bound in publisher's plum cloth with blind-stamped decoration and gilt vingette..... Item #21860
Hardcover. Very good. 9" x 12" printed register book titled "Private Herd Register Designed Especially for the use of Breeders of Holstein-Friesian Cattle, Containing Gestation Table, Service Record, Calving Table, General Record and Diagrams for Color Markings," with entries completed in manuscript and some additional paperwork laid in. Backstrip lacking..... Item #21859
[San Francisco]: Printed and Bound by Schwacher-Frey Stationery Co. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1920. 144 pp, bound in blue cloth with mounted paper illustration showing Weeks and his successful poultry farm. A good copy, with boards rubbed, lightly soiled, and slightly bowed. More than just a book about poultry farming..... Item #21858
Chicago: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, 1908. Softcover. Good. 10.5 x 14 in., 10 pp. Old folding creases, some chipping and short tears; good. An early issue of this western land promotion magazine from the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway, published from 1904 to 1938. Articles in this..... Item #21855
Oregon City, OR: Grant B. Dimick, 1913. Softcover. Very good. 9" x 12", pp. 171-194, stapled binding. Light soiling, old dampstain to back cover, but still very good. Single issue of this scarce magazine, which billed itself as the "only journal on the Pacific Coast published in the interests of..... Item #21854
San Francisco: 1949. Softcover. Very good. 37pp, with folding map, addendum slip tipped in. Text reprinted from the Sierra Club Bulletin, Volume XXIV, No. 3, June 1939. Two small nicks in front cover (see accompanying image), bookplate of American businessman Garner A. Beckett on inside front cover. Item #21851
Pomona: California State Polytechnic Institute, [1985]. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 8.5 x 8.5 inches, 32 pp, in original stapled wrappers. Corners lightly bumped, minor shelfwear. Inscribed on the title page "To Sonya in appreciation, Cordially, Dione Neutra, X-mas 1985." Richard Neutra (1892-1970) was one of the most influential architects..... Item #21850
London and Oxford: Printed by His Majesty's Law Printers for W. Strahan; T. Cadell; and D. Prince, 1787. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. Two volume set, complete.Folio. Volume I: pp. xxi, [14] (Table of Cases, Errata), 679, 38 (Table of Principal Matters Contained in this Volume). Volume II: pp. [18], 681-1333..... Item #21849
London: Bibliographical Society, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Bibliographical Society Illustrated Monographs No. XXI. Quarto, xlvii, 234 pp + plates showing more than 300 facsimiles. Ex-Francis Bacon Foundation library, with their stamp on the front pastedown, sticker shadow on spine; otherwise unmarked, clean and sound. Item #21848
Chicago: W.V.R. Powis, [1885]. Hardcover. Very good. 9 x 12 inches, pp 208, [3], with illustrations, ads, index. Bound in original brown cloth with bright gilt vignette of a poultry barn on front board. Corners rubbed, small split at lower front joint, two previous owners' names on front endpapers; text..... Item #21839
Tacome, WA: A.H. Barnes, 1911. Softcover. Very good. 69 pp, 9 x 11 inches, in string-tied paper wrappers. Split in paper at head of spine, spotting to first and last blank pages, previous owner's name on front blank, light handling wear. A celebration of Mount Rainier, with seven pages of..... Item #21838
London: Nisbet & Co. Hardcover. Good. Undated, ca. 1920. One of a limited edition of 675 copies, complete with 10 color plates. Binding worn, some foxing. A good copy. Item #21837
London: George Rivers, [1879]. Softcover. Near fine. Four-page pamphlet (single sheet, folded), 4.25 x 6.75 inches, printed in blue on cream stock. One tiny nick on first page, else fine. After explanatory remarks, Drury reprints excerpts of (mostly critical) reviews of his book, "Drury's Comical French Grammar; or French, in..... Item #21836
New York: Random House. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Book club edition. No printing date, latest copyright date is 1946. Complete and unabridged text, with a foreward by Morris Ernst, Joyce's original foreword, and the decision by Judge John M. Woolsey lifting the federal ban on..... Item #21834
London: Macmillan, 1896. Hardcover. Good. 436 pp, in publisher's green cloth binding decorated in gilt; all edges gilt. A good copy, with mild rubbing to boards, paper along front hinge partially cracked (hinge still tight), mdoerate foximng -- mainly to first and last 20 pages or so. Gift inscription dated..... Item #21833
Walkerville, Ontario: Hiram Walker & Sons Limited. Softcover. Fine. 3.25 x 6 in., 12 pp, stapled wrappers. Fine. Stated 14th edition, undated, but likely early 1930s, slightly before the end of prohibition in the United States. Published for the Canadian market, this relatively scarce giveaway from whisky distiller Hiram Walker..... Item #21831
Grand Rapids, MI: Diamond Wall Finish Co. Softcover. Near fine. 6 panels printed on both sides, 3.25 x 5.75 inches when folded. Near fine, with slight edgewear. Beautifully designed tri-fold brochure for whitewash/wall tint with 10 color samples, and directions for use. The Diamond Wall Finish Company was founded in..... Item #21830
