International Molders Journal. Vol. 70, no. 11 (November 1934)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.643-704; mild external wear; Very Good and complete. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Brief red pencil notation to front cover. Report on 54th Annual AFL convention; others on Panama Canal, communist infiltration. Two... Read More
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International Molders Journal. Vol. 73, no. 6 (June, 1937)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1937. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.322-384; mild external wear; Very Good and complete. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Transcript of speech by Hon. Usher L. Burdick (North Dakota): "Tom Mooney Denied Due Process of Law" pp. 332-333. George... Read More
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International Molders Journal. Vol. 70 no.8 (August, 1934)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.450-512; light external wear; Very Good. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Brief red pencil notation to front wrapper, and address label for Tom Mooney Molders Defense Committee. Numerous articles on Labor Day, including... Read More
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International Molders Journal. Vol. 71, no.2 (February 1935)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.66-128; mild external wear, with some abrasion at spine; Very Good and complete. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Brief article on Tom Mooney's Supreme Court (of California) case; discussion of Roosevelt's Social Security... Read More
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International Molders Journal. Vol. 69 no.11 (November, 1933)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1934. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.640-7044; light external wear; Very Good. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Brief red pencil notation to front wrapper. Includes several memorial tributes to Samuel Gompers; review of 53rd AFL Convention; transcript of William... Read More
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International Molders Journal. Vol. 71, no.3 (March 1935)
by [INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS' UNION OF NORTH AMERICA]
Cincinnati: International Molders' Union of North America, 1935. First Edition. Octavo. Single issue in original pictorial wrappers; pp.130-193; mild external wear; Very Good and complete. Withdrawal stamp on front cover from Bancroft Library, University of California, Tom Mooney Papers. Brief red pencil notation to front wrapper. Two brief articles on the Tom Mooney case; coverage of Pres. Roosevelt's national... Read More
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Sixth Annual Report of the Directors of the American Bell Telephone Co. to the Stockholders, Year Ending December 31, 1885
by [AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE CO.]
Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1886. First Edition. First printing. Original light blue paper wraps, printed in black; [32]pp. Ex-library, with accessions and withdrawal stamps to front cover. A fresh copy, with small loss to lower corner of front wrapper, minor soiling to wrappers, internally clean: Very Good. Discusses the early installation of telephone systems in the... Read More
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The Re-Creation of Yugoslavia
by [UNITED COMMITTEE OF SOUTH SLAVIC AMERICANS]
New York: United Committee of South Slavic Americans, 1944. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet; 23pp. Pencil date to cover lightly creased and sunned along edges, else near fine. A political analysis of Balkanization post-WW2.
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Eighty Years' Progress of the United States: A Family Record of American Industry, Energy, and Enterprise..
by [AMERICANA]
Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1868. Reprint. Large, thick octavo; publisher's full sheep, two black gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xvi,[17]-465,[14]pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page, 5 leaves of plates (tissue guards), additional illus., many full-paged, throughout text. Boards rubbed and worn, upper cover starting to separate; Good to Very Good, contents just about fine. Generously... Read More
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The Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, in the United States of America. Presented to the General Assembly, May, 1876
by PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
New York: Mission House, 1876. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); original green printed wrappers; 139pp.; maps and tables in text. Spine ends perished, very minor toning and discoloration from damp to extremities, faint rubberstamp of Williams College Library at head of upper cover, else Very Good and sound. Includes reports on missions to the Indians of North America as well... Read More
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How to Organize a Socialist Local or Branch
by [SOCIALIST PARTY OF AMERICA]
Chicago: National Office of the Socialist Party, N.d. [ca 1913]. Edition and printing not stated. 4-pp leaflet (single folded sheet); text on all four pages. Mild age-toning to paper, small chips; still Very Good. Organizational guide for local branches; includes a catalog of "Socialist Party Supplies" including celluloid buttons, lapel pins, dues cards, and, compellingly, the "moving picture film... Read More
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Strike Broadside: If You Had to Walk Today – Blame John A. Ritchie
by [TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION of AMERICA]
New York: Transport Workers Union of America (CIO), (1941). Printed broadside, 36cm x 28cm (ca. 14-1/4" x 11"). Printed in black on newsprint. Text in two columns, below headline caption; signed in print by Austin Hogan, President of the Greater New York Transport Workers Union. Mild edgewear, a bit of darkening to upper half of sheet; Very Good or... Read More
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Facts ... About the Union Shop. A Statement by United Steelworkers of America, CIO
by [UNITED STEELWORKERS OF AMERICA]
Pittsburgh: United Steelworkers of America, [1951]. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet; printed card wrappers; 8pp. Address label on rear wrapper (Abraham Miller, New York City); mild external wear and soil; Very Good. Brief rebuttal by the Steelworkers in response to the anti union-shop campaign of 1951.
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![[Cover title] Report of the Task Force on Women and the Standing Committee on Women Adopted by the 182nd General Assembly (1970)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/363/383/1234383363.0.m.jpg)
[Cover title] Report of the Task Force on Women and the Standing Committee on Women Adopted by the 182nd General Assembly (1970)
by UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[Philadelphia]: United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1970. Offprint. Octavo (23cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 20pp. Upper wrapper uniformly toned, light wear and dust-soil, else Very Good, internally fine. Proposal that women in the Church should "participate fully in all the tasks and ministries." Laid in typescript document titled "Presentation Made by the Task Force on Women to... Read More
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Highways and Byways of The South
by [AMERICANA] JOHNSON, Clifton
New York: Macmillan, 1904. First Edition. Octavo. 21cm. Publisher's green ribbed cloth, titled and decorated in gilt, light blue and white to the spine and front board, with an onlaid photograph to the centre of the front board. [xv]; 362pp.; [4] ads. Minor bumping and scuffing to the corners and spine ends, some cosmetic marking to the cloth in... Read More
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Treatment of Asia in American Textbooks
by AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION, COMMITTEE ON ASIATIC STUDIES & American Council Institute of Pacific Relations
[New York]: The Council, 1946. First Edition. Octavo (22.75cm.); original tan pictorial staplebound wrappers; vii,[1],104pp. Light wear from handling, else Very Good or better.
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William Billings of Boston: Eighteenth Century Composer
by [AMERICAN MUSIC] McKAY, David P. and Richard Crawford
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 303pp. Fine, unmarked copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper; a new-appearing copy.
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Africa Today, Vol. VI, no. 5, November, 1959
by AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICA; Homer A. Jack, ed
[New York: American Committee on Africa], 1959. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré, during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50,000 people would be killed.
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![Last Days of Rev. Dr. Payson [No. 324]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/838/952/1356952838.0.m.jpg)
Last Days of Rev. Dr. Payson [No. 324]
by [AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY] PAYSON, Edward
[New York: American Tract Society, n.d., ca. 1835]. 12mo (18cm.); self-wrappers; [8]pp. Light foxing and toning to extremities, else Very Good and sound. Letter written by the American Congregational cleryman to his sister while on his deathbed, dated just a month before his death in 1827. Preceded by a brief biography of his life.
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George Watson: the Trials and Triumph of A Stammerer
by [AMERICAN SOCIAL FICTION - SPEECH DISORDERS] BRYANT, Frank A. (Dr.)
New York: By the author, 1909. First Edition. First (only) printing. Slim, small octavo (19cm). Printed thick-paper wrappers, 39pp. Light soil to covers; faint vertical crease; Very Good. Presentation in story form, directed to a secondary-school audience, of Bryant's theories regarding the origins and treatment of stammering. Bryant was a leading early figure in the treatment of... Read More
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![The Young American's Magazine of Self-Improvement. Combining Literary Entertainment and Instruction with an Effort to promote the Union of thorough Self-Improvement with every Department of Industry. First Volume [all published]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/533/583/1362583533.0.m.jpg)
The Young American's Magazine of Self-Improvement. Combining Literary Entertainment and Instruction with an Effort to promote the Union of thorough Self-Improvement with every Department of Industry. First Volume [all published]
by [AMERICAN PERIODICALS] LIGHT, George W. (ed)
Boston: Charles H. Peirce, 1847. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Publisher's brown decoratively embossed cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; portrait frontispiece (Benjamin Franklin); 364 + 4pp ads. Mild external wear, with spot of exposure to bottom fore-corner of front board; still a tight, Very Good or better copy, with contents fresh and unmarked. Postscript note pasted-in at end... Read More
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The Grim Truth About Legalized Abortion: What Does the Drive for "Abortion on Demand" Really Mean
by INDEPENDENT AMERICAN
[New Orleans: Independent American, 1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); single leaf folded into 8-paneled pamphlet; text printed in red and black. Fine. At head of title: "A Controversial Issue." Tax Fax No. 113. Anti-abortion pamphlet addressing issues such as "Legal Rights of the Unborn," and "When Does Life Begin?" Lists examples of talented people born with physical handicaps, erroneously... Read More
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Communication from the President of the American Antiquarian Society to the Members, October 24th, 1814
by [AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY] [THOMAS, Isaiah]
Worcester: William Manning, [1814]. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Blue paper wrappers, stab-sewn; 12pp. Spine perished, losses to corners of covers, minor browning and foxing, but complete: Very Good. This copy bound without the laws of the society called for on the title page. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 32920. SABIN 1052.
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Ramon: the Rover of Cuba. The Personal Narrative of that Celebrated Pirate. Translated from the Original Spanish
by [AMERICAN FICTION] [BLAKE, John Lauris]
Boston: Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, 1829. First Edition. 12mo (18cm). Modern plain buckram with gilt spine label; xii,[13]-162pp. Early perforated stamp to title page (Rhode Island Historical Society); scattered foxing and toning to text, still a complete, fresh copy, Good and sound. An anonymous early work by Blake, identified as such in the catalog of the American... Read More
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![Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for Adano" [in] The American Review on the Soviet Union. Vol. VII, no. 2 (Feb 1946)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/715/112/1325112715.0.m.jpg)
Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for Adano" [in] The American Review on the Soviet Union. Vol. VII, no. 2 (Feb 1946)
by [AMERICAN-RUSSIAN INSTITUTE] HERSEY, John and Leonid Sobolev
New York: The American-Russian Institute, 1946. Digest-sized periodical (21cm). Printed gray paper wrappers; 95pp. Moderate cover soil; contents fresh and unmarked; Very Good. Official organ of the American-Russian Institute, a pro-Soviet advocacy foundation that was officially designated a communist front group in 1948. Contents of this issue include John Hersey and Leonid Sobolev ("Soviet Writers Discuss A Bell for... Read More
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