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1956 Tatler
Minneapolis, MN Northrop Collegiate School 1956 Hardcover Very Good
Padded hardcover binding. 1956 yearbook for this private girls school (now merged into the coed Blake School). Many photos and inscriptions from the previous owner's classmates. Some light soiling to several pages. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
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20.00 USD
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A Guide to the Study of Childhood, 1820-1920
Rochester, NY The Strong Museum 1984 Softcover Very Good
Stapled pictorial wraps Introduction by Marie Hewitt. Bibliography, illustrations. "The purpose of this booklet is introduce junior and senior high school students to a variety of historical resources which can be used to learn about local, family, and nineteenth-century cultural history." ; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 39 pages
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20.00 USD
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Downyflake Doughnuts: a Complete Atlas of the World
NY Travelgide Co. 1928 Softcover Very Good
A 1928 premium from Downyflake Doughnuts. Small stapled wraps measuring 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Maps of every country in the world and every state in the USA, with main roads and railroads delineated. Last page shows populations of major foreign cities. Owner name stamped on front cover. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 64 pages
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7.00 USD
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First Report of the United States Board on Geographic Names 1890-1891
Washington, D. C. Government Printing Office 1892 Cloth Good with no dust jacket
A former club library copy with bookplate on front pastedown and card pocket on rear pastedown, pages browned, boards worn, especially at top corner of front boards. Black cloth binding with gilt lettering stamped on front boards. ; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 56 pages
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15.00 USD
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Manual of the Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45 Model of 1911
Washington, D. C. U. S. War Department 1918 Softcover Very Good
Published by the U. S. War Department, War Plans Division, May 1918. War Department Document No. 801. Reprint of a February 1918 pamphlet prepared by American Expeditionary Forces General Headquarters. Brown stapled wraps. Measures 4 x 6 inches. Illustrations, photos. "Confidential" printed above title on front cover. Owner name and date on front cover, wraps lightly worn. John Browning of the Colt's Manufacturing Company designed the M1911 semiautomatic pistol which was adopted for use by U. S. Soldiers in 1913 and became a standard issue firearm for American troops through World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. This pamphlet is an early manual outlining operation, assembly, cleaning, pistol drills, and shooting techniques. Ev; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 32 pages
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250.00 USD
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Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew, Vol. VI: Political Speeches
NY Private Printing 1910 1172129797 / 9781172129799 Hardcover Good
Library markings on title page and front endpapers. Red cloth binding. Top edges gilt. Portraits of William H. Seward, James G. Blaine, Levi P. Morton and Horace Greeley. Introduction by U. S. Vice-President James S. Sherman. Boards lightly scuffed, corner missing from tissue guard of frontispiece portrait of Seward. Depew was a U. S. Senator from New York from 1899-1911 and was an attorney and board member and owner of several railroads. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pages
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25.00 USD
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Songs of the Workers Issued July, 1956 in Commemoration of 50th Anniversary of the I.W.W.
Chicago Industrial Workers of the World 1956 Later Printing Softcover Very Good
Red wraps. Pamphlet measures 4 x 6 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Joe Hill. The I. W. W. , or the Wobblies, is an international union who used songs during their protests and to drown out counter-protests during their actions. Songs in this collection include "I'm Too Old to be a Scab", "It's a Long Way Down to the Soupline", "The White Slave", "Dump the Bosses Off Your Back", "Fifty Thousand Lumberjacks" and many others. Covers scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 64 pages
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30.00 USD
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Stories in American History
Chung-A Publishing Company 1993 8936800949 / 9788936800949 Softcover Good
Text in Korean. Covers lightly scuffed. Softcover with French Flaps. Some highlighting. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 525 pages
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10.00 USD
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The Corral (Junior League of Fort Worth)
Fort Worth, Texas Junior League Of Fort Worth 1997 Hardcover Good with no dust jacket
Hardbound book containing the October 1976 through June 1997 issues of "The Corral", the monthly magazine of the Fort Worth Junior League. Many photographs and vintage ads. Dark green hardcover binding with gold-stamped lettering on spine and front cover. Covers lightly rubbed and dampstained, page tops and bottoms soiled, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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20.00 USD
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The North American Almanac 1930
Chicago The North American Almanac Co. 1930 Pictorial Cover Very Good with no dust jacket
A vintage almanac for your 1930s bookshelf. Pictorial hardcover of this 10th anniversary edition. Humorous articles, photographs, cartoons, weather predictions, interesting scientific and geographical facts, and many vintage advertisements for such things as Kurlash eyelash curlers, Georges corn and bunion shields, Warner’s Compound, Kimberkork, Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, and Yeast Foam Tablets. Boards lightly worn and soiled. The Aristocrat of Almanacs! ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 220 pages
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10.00 USD
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The Recorder Volume 38
NY Privately Printed 1977 Cloth Very Good with no dust jacket Illustrated by The American Irish Historical Society
Includes writings by Jimmy Breslin, Eugene. J. McCarthy, Ronald Reagan, Rupert Murdoch, Mary Higgins Clark, and Terence Cardinal Cooke, among others. Blue cloth boards with green cloth spine. Gift inscription on front free endpaper, boards lightly worn, else a clean, tight copy. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 138 pages
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15.00 USD
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The Will to Succeed: Stories of Swedish Pioneers
Bonniers 1948 Cloth Very Good
Brown cloth binding. A collection of 31 stories and essays from a contest sponsored by The Swedish American Line to commemorate the Swedish Pioneer Centennial. Most stories in this collection concern regional history or genealogy or the story of a particular Swedish immigrant. Swedish American Line sticker on front free endpaper, small stain on fore-edges of rear 20 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages
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12.00 USD
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