Albany Guide (American Guide Series)
by WPA, Federal Writers' Project for the Works Progress Administration
The Viking Press, 1939. First Edition. large octavo, 28 pages; original pictorial wrappers, staple bound; illustrated in black and white. Gutter stain throughout, bleeding about one half inch into margin. Very good.
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Photo, Signed, 8" x 10" Black and White
by Wray, Fay
Very Good+. Born on September 15, 1907 in Alberta, Canada, but raised in Los Angeles. She soared to film stardom in 1928 in the lead feminine role in "The Wedding March," and is best remembered as the frightened girl carried by an infatuated gorilla to the top of the Empire State Building in "King Kong" (1933). She was... Read More
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Signature, Clipped from a Check
by Wright, Orville
Fine. Ink signature, clipped from a check, 1" x 4" - The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur, were self-taught engineers, who are credited with inventing, building and flying the world's first successful airplane. They made the first controlled, sustained flight of an engine-powered, heavier-than-air aircraft, the Wright Flyer, on December 17, 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville... Read More
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The Long Dark Night of Baron Samedi
by Wyllie, John
New York: Doubleday & Company; The Crime Club, 1981. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 180 pages; first edition stated. Pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. A fine, unread copy, internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.
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Atlas of Traffic Maps
by Wymond, Charles E., Cartographer
Chicago: LaSalle Extension University, 1924. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Quarto; 21 color folding maps and 11 Class I railroad maps in black and white. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, a few maps torn at fold.
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The Second Book of the Rhymer's Club
by Yeats, W. B.
London: Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. One of only 600 copies; 12mo, 136 pages, 15 pages of ads at rear, dated May, 1894. Publisher's brown cloth, spine printed in gilt. A near fine copy, neat owner name in pencil.
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The Story of the Cigarette
by Young, William W. [Kaufmann, Reginald Wright]
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1916. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. 281 pages. Bound in original blue cloth. With a tipped in letter, signed, from the Vice President of The American Tobacco Company to Jacob Anker, about the increase in sales. Table on page 115 shows cigarette sales from 1869 through 1914, based on IRS... Read More
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