Yanks. A.E.F. Verse
New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919. First edition, 12mo, pp. xiii, [1], 157; frontispiece; original blue cloth gilt; spine faded, else near fine. Originally published in "The Stars and Stripes," the official newspaper of the American Expeditionary Forces.
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To the Democrats of Rhode Island
[Providence: publisher not identified, 1843. Folio broadside (approx. 13" x 10¾"), text in double column beneath the running head; unevenly trimmed at the bottom edge; generally very good. Not in OCLC, American Imprints, Bartlett, or Sabin. DeSimone & Schofield, 180 (locating the R.I. Historical and Providence Public copies): "Claims duplicity of Dorrites in campaigning in southern and northern R.I.... Read More
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Green mountain boys gathering materials for Paine's celebrated Green Mountain Balm of Gilead and cedar plaster
Boston: Forbes & Co. Lith, 1868. Large folio broadside (506 mm.); lithographic illustration and decorative borders around text; some soiling and minor foxing along margins, else fine. Advertisement for "the best Plaster ever known. Compounded from the choicest Gum Resins of the Green Mountain State...so combined as to produce a healthy counter-irritant by dissipating soreness and extracting the coagulated... Read More
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History of Imperial Palace China: an album of photos
Hong Kong: Happiness Publishing Company, 1965. Folio, pp. [2], 45, [3]; color and black and white photographs throught, one leaf folding; captions in Chinese and English; tan cloth; boards bowed and toned, owner's stamp on title page.
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The Maid's Head Hotel: Norwich. Its history and associations [cover title]
London and Tunbridge Wells: Lewis Hepworth & Company, 1897. 6½" x 4¾", pp. [44]; full-page text illustrations; ads printed in red and black; green printed paper wrappers; binding string snapped and text essentially loose, owner's note on upper wrapper, text clean bright, good. The Maid's Head Hotel is the oldest hotel in the UK. This promotional booklet covers not... Read More
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Press brochure. The Fight II. Twelve-round heavyweight fight Joe Frazier vs. Muhammad Ali at Madison Square Garden, January 28, 1974
[New York]: promoted by Madison Square Boxing, Inc. in association with Forum Boxing Inc. and Top Rank Inc, 1974. 11" x 8½" color bifolium showing Ali and Frazier going at it in the ring, and the two boxers smiling into the camera for a promotional shot; inside are 2 black & white photographs of the two boxers. Enclosed inside... Read More
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Onomastikon triglotton, or trilingual nomenclature. An English, Latin, and Greek vocabulary. Being a combination of Howard's Greek and Greenwood's Latin vocabularies, with many additional notes on science and classical literature
Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition, slim 12mo, pp. 6, [vii]-viii, [13]-160; full original sheep, red morocco label on spine; slight cracking of joints, bookplate of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian, but generally a good, sound copy. Topically arranged in 28 subjects, including the solar system, fire, air, water, animals, vegetables, anatomy, the mind... Read More
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Highway map of Ohio
Columbus: Central States Publishing Co, 1922. One map (701 x 872 mm.) folded down to 220 x 120 mm.; printed in red and black and surrounded by 39 local advertisements in red borders; tears from folds, else a good copy. Not in OCLC.
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The Constitution, as amended, and ordinances of the convention of 1866, together with the proclamation of the governor declaring the ratification of the amendments ... and the general laws of the regular session of the eleventh legislature of the state of Texas
Austin: printed at Gazette Office, by Jo. Walker, state printer, 1866. 8vo, pp. 53, [1], ix (index), [1]; bound with, as issued: General Laws of the State of Texas, Passed by the Eleventh Legislature, Austin, 1866, pp. 272, [2], xxvii (index), [1]; modern paper wrappers; title page to the first a bit foxed, textblock sound and very good. ... Read More
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Galland's Iowa emigrant: containing a map, and general descriptions of Iowa Territory
Chillicothe: printed by Wm. C. Jones, 1840 [i.e. Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1950. 8vo, pp. [2], xiv, 28, [6]; title page printed in red and black, folding map; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. "This excessively rare book on Iowa was published in 1840. It has now ben reprinted, with the addition... Read More
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Republic of China yearbook 1989: a reference book
[Taipei]: Kwang Publishing Company, 1989. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xv, [1], 799, [1]; color illustrations throughout; fine in original pictorial dust jacket. General information about Taiwan, including its history, language, agriculture and fishery, transportation, energy, public health, mass communications and telecommunications, tourism. literature, government system and operation, national defense, and a whos' who in the ROC, among other... Read More
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Is it a people's liberation? (A short survey of Communist insurrection in Burma)
[Burma]: The Ministry of Information, Government of the Union of Burma, 1952. 12mo, pp. 49; black and white photographic illustrations, extremities lightly soiled with small chips at spine where staples are present, otherwise very good in original pictorial wrappers. An interesting newly-liberated government's explanation as to why the Communist 'revolution' failed in Burma. Chapters include people's successes, economy, land... Read More
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Bi-centennial of the town of Bristol. Friday, September 24, 1880
[Bristol?]: Bi-Centennial Committee, 1880. Broadsheet (approx. 14" x 6"), with the Order of Procession (starting on High St. and State St. at 10:00 a.m.) - five divisions in all, each with its Marshall and attendant aids and bands, the Chief Marshall being Col. Samuel Pomeroy Colt, and exhibitions of relics and portraits at the town hall; previous folds, else... Read More
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![八八式七糎野戰高射砲取扱法 [Hachihachishiki nanasenchi yasen koushahou tori atsukai hou] = Handling of Type 88 75 mm AA guns](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/755/607/1396607755.0.m.jpg)
八八式七糎野戰高射砲取扱法 [Hachihachishiki nanasenchi yasen koushahou tori atsukai hou] = Handling of Type 88 75 mm AA guns
Tokyo: 武揚堂 [Buyodou], 1941. 16mo, pp. 10, 234, [12], [2], [4]; 4 folding charts; 33 detailed folding schematic plates (final plate missing); title page(?) and wrappers perished, text toned, colophon and final leaf loose but present, the edges of a few plates frayed but most in fine condition within a fair, toned copy. The type 88 75mm was a Japanese... Read More
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[Title in Bengali] Nutana Niyama = The New Testament in Bengali
Calcutta: printed and published at the Baptist Mission Press for the Baptist Missionary Society, 1931. Edition limited to 5,000 copies, 16mo, pp. 604; original limp red printed buckram, unadorned spine; minor shelf wear, small loss to first leaf of text affecting approximately seven words, else very good.
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Erbauliches gebät-buch und unterhaltungen mit gott, zur besörderung der häuslichen gottesverehrung, für christen von allen benennungen..
Allentown: Gedruckt und zu haben bey H. Ebner u. comp, 1822. 12mo, 2 parts in 1, pp. xiv, 202; 394; contemporary full unadorned calf, one brass clasp perished; extremities rubbed, spine with vertical creases; good and sound. American Imprints 8630; Bötte & Tannhof 2524; Seidensticker p. 215.
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[Zhizn Vikramy. Ili 32 istorii tsarskogo trona]
[Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Vostochnoi Literatury], 1960. 12mo, pp. 234; original blue cloth stamped in black and gilt in blue pictorial dustjacket, edges and corners a bit chipped and bumped, else a very good copy. Half-title reads "Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Institut Vostokovedeniya
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The Oriental collection of W. T. Walters, 65 Mt. Vernon Place
Baltimore: [privately printed at the Press of Isaac Friedenwald], 1884. 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 127, [1], [7] leaves of plates; original limp brown cloth lettered on gilt on upper cover and spine, a.e.g. Ownership signature of Laura Van Alstyne. Sections include Chinese, Japanese, and Ancient & European pottery, porcelain, jade, lacquer, swords, bronzes, painting, carvings, etc. A wealthy railroad... Read More
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The Old Testament in the Bengali language, translated out of the original Hebrew by the Calcutta Baptist Missionaries with native assistants
Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press, 1851. Second edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 812; text in double column; contemporary paneled calf, black morocco label on cover, spine and extremities rubbed, scattered foxing, otherwise very good. Bookplate of the American Bible Union. William Yates' version, revised by John Wenger, who had assisted Yates in the Bible of 1845. Darlow and Moule, Indian Supplement,... Read More
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Thirty: a selection of illustrations from the thirty titles which comprise the library of Benjamin Franklin Keepsakes, published in connection with the celebration of Printing Week in New York, and commemorating the birthday of Benjamin Franklin, printer
New York: Privately Printed, 1987. 12mo, pp. [48]; 30 wood engravings plus 3 vignettes printed in brown, original green paper covered boards with gilt title on spine and gilt image on upper cover, fine. John DePol was the engraver for each of the thirty keepsakes published, and produced 401 engravings in all for the series. Printed here is one... Read More
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Хинди-Русский словарь в двух томах: около 75 000 слов / Hindi-Russkii slovar
Moscow: Sovetskaya Enciklopediya, 1972. 8vo, 2 vols., text in two columns; full green cloth printed in black and gilt; spines sunned, corners bumped, good and sound.
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The John Brown House loan exhibition of Rhode Island furniture, including some notable portraits, Chinese export porcelain & other items
Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1965. First edition, 4to, extensively illustrated; slip with additional sponsors and errata laid in; fine in original brown cloth lettered in black and white.
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The sportsman's dictionary; or, the gentleman's companion for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, cocking, hawking, &c. ... Also, the management of dogs, game-cocks, dunghill-fowls, turkies, geese, ducks, pigeons... Collected from the best authors, with very considerable additions and improvements, experienced gentlemen
London: Fielding and Walker, 1778. First published in 2 volumes octavo in 1735, and again in 1744, this is the first edition in quarto, considerably improved and enlarged, pp. viii, plus unpaginated lexicon in double column; engraved frontispiece and 15 engraved plates; 20th-century quarter green morocco, the spine a bit discolored, else very good. With the bookplate of Wm.... Read More
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Pontiac the economy straight 8 [cover title]. Pontiac Economy Eight: the big straight 8 in the low price field [drop title]
Lansing, MI: General Motors, 1933. Oblong 8vo, pp. [12]; 8 color illustrations, 7 of them full-page showing different models in country and urban settings; light soiling on the covers; very good.
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Couriers of the cross in China. Pilgrim of the Honan Road, Miss Minnie Shipley. Theology in the service of suffering, Rev. W. B. Djang, M. A., B. D.
Toronto: The United Church of Canada, 1940. 7.25 x 5 in., pp. 32; portrait frontispiece and illustration of Cheeloo University Chapel; yellow printed paper wrappers, fine. Also with: A bifolium programme for using the pamphlet in the use of worship services, with guidance to leadership on preparation, readings, and questions. Also with: eight pages of manuscript notes being largley... Read More
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