The seafarer
La Crosse, WI, 1959. Folio broadsheet folded twice; 12mo; fine. A poem anonymously written pre-975, the date of the Exeter Cathedral manuscript in which it was originally found. Printed in red & black. Limited to 300 copies. Rulon-Miller, Wulling, #88.
Offered by Rulon-Miller Books
Frederic G. Melcher: Friendly Reminiscences of A Half Century Among Books & Bookmen
New York: The Book Publishers' Bureau, 1945. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Manuscripts Vol XXXIV No 1 Winter 1982
Manuscript Society, 1982. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers. Reader's creases along spine.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
More Books: The Bulletin of the Boston Public Library: Vol. X, #5, May, 1935
Boston: Boston Public Library, 1935. Softcover. Very Good. Very good in wrappers, a paperback. Contains pages 157-200. Cover and pages light brown, clean text. Staple binding. Stamp on front cover.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
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H. L. OPERATION" [Rear Cover Title]
Philadelphia: n.p., 1960. Near fine.. Stirring series of photographs captured by a skilled photographer documenting the many diverse aspects of an operation involving a probable heart-lung ("H.L.") bypass. Almost fifty carefully composed images of an undisclosed operation, but one almost certainly involving a heart-lung bypass. More than a dozen OR personnel are visible. Images include close-ups of the... Read More
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Vernacular Photograph Album of Post-Liberation Buchenwald
n.p.: n.p., 1945. Near fine.. Original annotated photograph album of the Buchenwald concentration camp compiled by an anonymous American G.I. soon after liberation. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's deep horror upon visiting the recently liberated concentration camps in April 1945 prompted his command to Allied forces to "let the world see." Soon thereafter the camps were documented in extensive... Read More
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Photo Album Scrapbook of The Continental Dance Club
(San Diego, CA): The Continental Dance Club, 1958. Very good +.. A compact collection of 1950s photographs and archival material relating to The Continental Dance Club, located at the Lafayette Hotel, 2223 El Cajon Blvd. in San Diego. Five 8" x 10" photographs of the club's interior and exterior (stamped "K. Jordan-Day") reveal fine mid-century furnishings, interior design,... Read More
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION AND GROUCHO MARX
National Broadcasting Company, 1957. First Edition. Very good in a very good jacket.. Promotional booklet for NBC's educational television programs, containing black-and-white stills and text describing the network's moral philosophy to provide high-quality educational programming in addition to pure entertainment. The text surveys their offerings, from opera and music to history, travel documentary and interviews with the likes... Read More
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THE OFFICIAL 1955 "BANDSTAND" YEARBOOK [Cover Title]
Philadelphia: WFIL-TV, 1955. First Edition. Very good.. Souvenir book for the 1955 season of BANDSTAND. The program, originally airing simultaneously on Philadelphia radio and television station WFIL became a major hit in the local market and was eventually picked up by ABC and renamed AMERICAN BANDSTAND hosted by Dick Clark. The iconic live pop music show was a... Read More
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Stromness: Late 19th Century Photographs
Stromness: Orkney Natural History Society, 1972. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Introduction by George Mackay Brown. Profusely illustrated from black and white photographs. Pictorial wrappers. Topedge a trifle foxed, else fine.
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Booker T. Washington Business College Catalogue 1949-1952
Birmingham, Alabama: [The College], 1948. Very good. 11” x 8½”. Stapled illustrated thin card wrappers. Pp. [28]. Very good: wrappers lightly scuffed and worn; a touch of light creasing; evenly toned. This is an unrecorded, illustrated catalog for a Black business college founded by an immensely successful African American businessman and his wife (and run by... Read More
Offered by Langdon Manor Books, LLC
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[Collection of Clipped Katy Keene Comic Book Art]
N.P., 1960. Very good. One commercial scrapbook, brown cloth over boards, measuring 12½” x 11¼”, and over 100 loose leaves with a total of 274 pages and 434 pieces of comic book clippings pasted down and 15 pieces of original art laid in. Generally very good or better. This is a monumental collection of clipped strips,... Read More
Offered by Langdon Manor Books, LLC
Best Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes
Dorchester, Massachusetts: Walter Baker & Co, 1931. Softcover. Very Good. Later printing. 16mo. 60pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. Pages and wrappers soiled, edges rubbed, tears around staples, very good.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
Antq Photo Album-Sumner High School - African American History 1920s - St. Louis
[St. Louis, Missouri], 1947. Good. 8¾” x 12”. Blue cloth over boards, post-bound with decorative string tie. Pp. [90] with handwritten entries, 48 photographs, 118 clipped yearbook images and 27 items of ephemera adhered to pages and inside boards. Photos range from around 1” x 1” to 5½” x 3¼” and nearly all are captioned. Good due to... Read More
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The Villisca Cook Book. A Collection of Well-Tested Recipes Contributed by the Ladies of . .
Villisca, Iowa: Villisca Letter Print, 1896. Good. 8¼” x 5¾”. Faux leather over flexible card. Pp. 106. Good: several scuffs and scars from former adhesion to covers and losses to cards; many chips and tears to pages, some affecting text with no loss of meaning; moderately toned and spotted, primarily at edges. This is a charming... Read More
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The Herbert Baker Collection:
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1969. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Exhibition catalog, with the castalog from the traveling exhibition to Lake Forest College, laid-in.
Offered by James & Mary Laurie Booksellers
The Commemoration by King's Chapel, Boston, of the Completion of Two Hundred Years Since its Foundation, on Wednesday, December 15th, 1886
Boston: Little, Brown, 1887. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities of cloth.Frontis and illustrations throughout.
Offered by James & Mary Laurie Booksellers
TAILS OF SCORPIO Vol. 1, No. 5 [September 1979]
Holyoke, Massachusetts: Scorpio L. C., 1979. First Edition. Small collection of material from the Scorpio Leather Club ("Scorpio L.C.") in Springfield, MA. Includes fifth issue of their club newsletter (TAILS OF SCORPIO), a Scorpio matchbook, several blank sheets of club letterhead, and a pin from "Sting One" - an event also pictured on the cover of the newsletter. A... Read More
Photograph Album and Archive of Latvian Displaced Persons Camp and Theatre Performances
[Various]: n.p., 1960. Large archive centered around an album of resettlement, family life, and theatre performances within Latvian Displaced Persons Camps in Germany following WWII — majority of views likely of the camp at Augsburg, judging from signage and countryside terrains. The unnamed compiler appears to have been active in the Latvian National Theatre before the war and had... Read More
Shove's business advertiser, and Detroit directory for 1852-53, containing a correct census of the city for 1852, together with an historical sketch of the city and Its trade ... No. 1 to be published annually
Detroit: Free Press Book and Job Office Print, 1852. 12mo, pp. xii, 235, [3]; including an errata leaf, general index and an index to advertisements, some of which are illustrated with small woodcuts; front endpaper with a blue and red printed advertisement paste-down for the Free Press of Jacob Barns and its job printing & newspaper offerings; opposite endpaper... Read More
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Photo Album of Northwestern University Medical School and Hospital
[Evanston, IL]: n.p., 1920. Very good +.. Photographs of the Northwestern University medical school campus, buildings, treatment facilities, and a number of patients posed in various therapeutic positions or rehabilitative devices. Also included are snapshots of young medical students lounging in empty patient wards, gowned for procedures, and posing for portraits. A few hospital-affiliated women are shown, some... Read More
THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD
Boston: Degen & Estes, 1859. Very good plus.. First edition thus, from Boston publisher Degen & Estes, of the tragic folktale, with woodcut illustrations after the circa 1850 Mahlon Day publication. THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD has been retold numerous times over the centuries, including in a large number of chapbooks. This Degen & Estes edition, printed in... Read More
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Printer's Menu Designs
Chicago: The Ward Advertising Service Inc, 1914. Wraps. String -- stab binding. Very Good. Fourteen menu (and wine list) designs, each on heavy card, with a variety of decorative vignette headpieces that capture mainstream American taste of the early 20th century. The illustrations might depict livestock, an elegant table setting, elegant diners, a bucolic panorama. Art Nouveau flourishes... Read More
Offered by White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Mississippi Gulf Coast: Yesterday and Today 1699-1939 (American Guide Series)
Gulfport, MS: Gulfport Printing Co, 1939. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 162pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Tan and brown printed wraps. With the tipped-in map at the rear. Stain along the bottom edge of the rear wrap (2 1/2" wide by 1/2" deep), with smaller stains along the bottom edges of the frontispiece, title page, and preface page. Brief... Read More
Offered by Ken Sanders Rare Books
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GA HOUSES [Unbroken Run of the First 125 Issues]
(Tokyo): (A.D.A. Edita Tokyo), 2012. First editions. Near fine.. Consecutive run of the first 125 issues (1976-2012) of this long-running glossy, indispensable, and high-concept magazine documenting contemporary residential architectural for design professionals. Produced by the Japanese publishing company A.D.A. Edita Tokyo, GA (Global Architecture) HOUSES covers landmark, groundbreaking, and innovative international homes. Released several times a year, GA is... Read More
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