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U nas i u nikh: itogi XVII konferentsii VKP(b) by SVERDLIN, L.S.

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U nas i u nikh: itogi XVII konferentsii VKP(b)
Author
SVERDLIN, L.S.
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1932. SVERDLIN, L.S. U nas i u nikh: itogi XVII konferentsii VKP(b). 10 pp. text and 36 plates. Folio, 370 x 270 mm, loose as issued in publisher's illustrated portfolio. Moscow: Izogiz, 1932. A truly spectacular book, which transcends its subject matter, and which can stand on its own as an important illustrated book. As with other isotype books, the creator demonstrates what can be achieved with the use of imagination. The book is one of great rarity, with OCLC listing only a single copy worldwide, at Harvard, and it lacks 14 plates.
Kurtze Beschreibung Dess Erschröcklichen Cometen so im Monat Decembr. dess 1680. Jahrs erschienen, Auff vielfältiges Begehren auffgesetzet…von M.B.M.P.M.P.

Kurtze Beschreibung Dess Erschröcklichen Cometen so im Monat Decembr. dess 1680. Jahrs erschienen, Auff vielfältiges Begehren auffgesetzet…von M.B.M.P.M.P. by [MENTZER, Balthasar]

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Kurtze Beschreibung Dess Erschröcklichen Cometen so im Monat Decembr. dess 1680. Jahrs erschienen, Auff vielfältiges Begehren auffgesetzet…von M.B.M.P.M.P.
Author
[MENTZER, Balthasar]
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Finely engraved vignette on title (inner portion of image slightly obscured by the wrapper). [4] leaves. Small 4to, modern wrappers. Frankfurt: 1680. First edition of one of the earliest publications on the famous comet of 1680-81. Apart from its brightness, this comet is notable as the first to be observed using a telescope (by Gottfried Kirch in Coburg). Other well-known observers included Robert Hooke, Flamsteed, Newton, and John Evelyn. Mentzer (1651-1727), was professor of mathematics at the University of Giessen and later, because of his religious convictions, was obliged to move to Hamburg where he taught at the city’s gymnasium. The comet was first observed on 14 November 1680 by Kirch; it became quite bright and prominent by the end of that month. Clearly, Mentzer rushed his brief report of the sensational comet into print. Very good copy. Small blank portion of title and third leaf removed. ❧ Kronk, Cometography, I, pp. 369-73. Poggendorff, II, col. 121.
History of the Holy War

History of the Holy War by MILLS, Tho

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History of the Holy War
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MILLS, Tho
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Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
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London: Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey, 1685. Began Anno 1095 by the Christian Princes of Europe Against the Turks, for the Recovery of the Holy Land, and Continued to the Year 1294. In Two Books. To Which is Added, A Particular Account to the Present War, Managed by the Emperour, King of Poland, and Several other Princes against the Turks...Illustrated with Copper-Plates. London: Printed for Tho. Malthus at the Sun in the Poultrey, 1685. First edition. Twelvemo (5 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches; 149 x 91 mm). [12], 124; 52, 55-72, 72-76, 76-08 [i.e. 80], 80-81, 83-84, 84-91 [i.e. 90] pp. Book II with numerous pagination errors but collation is correct and matches British Library. Book II lacking leaf C3 (pages 53-54) and one of the plates ("King of Poland"). With the engraved frontispiece depicting "The Counsell of Clremont" and "The Army of Pilgrims" as well as one other folding plate "Grand Visirs Standard." Also with 4 copper engraved portraits in the text annotated in a neat hand; p.13 is Peter Y. Hermit, First Mover of the Holy War; p.33 is Godfrey D.K. of Bovelion, the First Christian King of Jersulaem; p. 10 from Book II is Richard the 2nd, King of England and Jersulam and p.35 from Book II is Frediky 2nd Emper of Germany. No copy has come up for auction in the last 40 years and only 3 or 4 copies show up on OCLC. Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked to style. Boards tooled in blind. All edges dyed red. Some top margins trimmed close, occasionally brushing headline. Folding plate with a reinforced outer edges. Overall a very good copy of a rare book. HBS 66897. $1,250.
STOCK CERTIFICATE FOR TEN SHARES OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY: "INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. SEA ISLAND COMPANY, CAPITAL $300,000. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ISAAC GIBBARD IS ENTITLED TO TEN SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY (NOT LIABLE TO ASSESSMENTS) AND TRANSFERABLE ONLY ON THE BOOKS OF THE COMPANY IN PERSON OR BY ATTORNEY ON THE SURRENDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE. DATED NEW YORK, AUGUST 25, 1865. [signed] C.C. PUFFER, SECRETARY. [signed] WM. G. MARKHAM, PRESIDENT.

STOCK CERTIFICATE FOR TEN SHARES OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY: "INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. SEA ISLAND COMPANY, CAPITAL $300,000. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ISAAC GIBBARD IS ENTITLED TO TEN SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY (NOT LIABLE TO ASSESSMENTS) AND TRANSFERABLE ONLY ON THE BOOKS OF THE COMPANY IN PERSON OR BY ATTORNEY ON THE SURRENDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE. DATED NEW YORK, AUGUST 25, 1865. [signed] C.C. PUFFER, SECRETARY. [signed] WM. G. MARKHAM, PRESIDENT. by Sea Island Company

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STOCK CERTIFICATE FOR TEN SHARES OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY: "INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. SEA ISLAND COMPANY, CAPITAL $300,000. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT ISAAC GIBBARD IS ENTITLED TO TEN SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE SEA ISLAND COMPANY (NOT LIABLE TO ASSESSMENTS) AND TRANSFERABLE ONLY ON THE BOOKS OF THE COMPANY IN PERSON OR BY ATTORNEY ON THE SURRENDER OF THIS CERTIFICATE. DATED NEW YORK, AUGUST 25, 1865. [signed] C.C. PUFFER, SECRETARY. [signed] WM. G. MARKHAM, PRESIDENT.
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Sea Island Company
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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New York: Major & Knapp Eng. & Lith. Co. 449 Broadway, 1865. Elegantly engraved oblong broadsheet, 8" x 10-1/2". Printed using several different fonts, vignette of eagle standing on banner with wings outstretched at head of certificate, two smaller vignettes of Black laborers picking cotton at left and bottom center. Entire certificate surrounded with decorative border. Within the borders: "3,000 SHARES" and "SHARES $100 EACH. Twenty-five cent revenue stamp at top left corner. Signatures of C[harles] C. Puffer, Secretary, and W[illiam] G. Markham, President. On verso is form for transfer of shares. Fine. Sea Island cotton was a long-fiber cotton grown on the "sea islands, along the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Texas. Its fine, uniform texture and silk luster rendered it the most desirable of cotton. Thousands of acres of cotton fields became available near the end of the Civil War when plantation owners fled before the Union Army and newly free Black workers deserted their plantations. Northern businessmen sought these desirable plantations. The Sea Island Company, also known as the Sea Island Cotton Company, was organized by Northern businessman William G. Markham, a cattle and sheep breeder, with a three million dollar capitalization and the aim to relaunch these "Sea Island" plantations with salaried Black labor. The Sea Island Company later merged with the U.S. Cotton Company around 1867. While the laborers were to be paid, the two vignettes of Black men collecting cotton are nearly identical to antebellum images of slaves found on Southern and Confederate bank notes. [Puffer-Markham Family Papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.] William Guy Markham [1836-1922] was part of an extended family business active in selling wheat, cattle, sheep, and cotton. In 1858 he began breeding Durham cattle, establishing himself as one of the most successful cattle dealers throughout America. In 1872, he plunged himself into the American Merino sheep industry and took the business worldwide. [Puffer-Markham Family Papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.] Isaac Gibbard [1834-1911], born in England came to New York State with his parents, and from Genesee College [now Syracuse University] in 1859. Ordained a Methodist deacon, he became chaplain of the 143 New York State Volunteers during the Civil War. In 1883, Governor Grover Cleveland, appointed Gibbard to the Board of Managers of the State Industrial School in Rochester; he later served as the board's president from 1892 to 1906. Charles Chenery Puffer [1841-1915] was a bank cashier and financier with the Shelburne Falls Bank of Massachusetts before managing plantations for the Sea Island Cotton Company in Columbia, South Carolina. He was the brother-in-law of William Guy Markham. A Columbia carpetbagger, Puffer campaigned for the local Republican party while actively supporting Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain. He later moved north and owned a dairy farm in Avon, New York, with Markham. [Puffer-Markham Family Papers, William L. Clements Library, The University of Michigan.].
Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement

Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement by JACOB RIIS

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Muckraker Jacob Riis Discusses Raising Money For A Building: A Lady InStamford Advanced You $20,000 Bill Which To Buy The Building In Henry St. In Which Is Housed My Settlement
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JACOB RIIS
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
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JACOB RIIS (1849-1914). A social reformer, Riis crusaded against urban slum conditions; he wrote the influential How The Other Half Lives. He was also close friends with Theodore Roosevelt.ALS. 1pg. 5 x 8. November 2, 1902. New York. An autograph letter signed Jacob A Riis on his personal letterhead: I go tomorrow to the west to be gone till Spring, so you see I am out. When I came your way in March I shall be workingspeed the day! A lady inStamford advanced you $20,000 bill which to buy the building in Henry St. in which is housed my settlement. If you could promise me a similar result, I might evenfrom the Pacific coast to you, for I need $31,000 more for the same purpose. The letter has mailing folds and light soiling.
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SONGS FOR ANNETTE by Allen, Hervey

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SONGS FOR ANNETTE
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Allen, Hervey
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Hoffman Books (United States)
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New York, NY.: William Edwin Rudge. Very Good. 1929. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Paper covered boards w/ paper label along the spine and 2 private collector bookplates on the pastedown and the front free endpage. Limited to 100 copies published by Rudge and typography by Warde. A charming book of poems. .
Action Painting: Jackson Pollock & Gesture in Painting

Action Painting: Jackson Pollock & Gesture in Painting by POLLOCK, Jackson (artist); Pepe KARMEL (editor); Robert FLECK (text by); Jason KAUFFMAN (text by); Gottfried BOEHM (text by); Ulf KÜSTER (text by)

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Action Painting: Jackson Pollock & Gesture in Painting
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POLLOCK, Jackson (artist); Pepe KARMEL (editor); Robert FLECK (text by); Jason KAUFFMAN (text by); Gottfried BOEHM (text by); Ulf KÜSTER (text by)
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9783905632644
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A fine copy
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Basel: Beyler Museum, 2008. First edition. A fine copy. 12 x 9.5 inches. 200 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial wrappers. "Jackson Pollock's pioneering "drip" technique provided the model for what Harold Rosenberg would term "Action Painting"--using the canvas as an arena for the emphatically physical, even balletic application of paint, and as a record of that engagement. Pollock also provided the credo for this approach: "When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about... The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess." Featuring works by 25 major representatives of this movement, Action Painting: Jackson Pollock and Gesture in Painting addresses the fundamental qualities of gestural abstraction from 1945 to 1965, assessing common traits as well as contrasts in practice between America and Europe (where it was known as Informel). Essays by acclaimed specialists, alongside introductions to each of the featured artists, make this volume a revealing presentation of one of the most important artistic movements in the twentieth century. Artists include Karel Appel, Lynda Benglis, Norman Bluhm, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hartung, Eva Hesse, Hans Hofmann, Gerhard Hoehme, Asger Jorn, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Morris Louis, Joan Mitchell, Ernst Wilhelm Nay, Jackson Pollock, Kazuo Shiraga, Pierre Soulages, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly and Wols" (the publisher).
Come to the Utah Covered Wagon Days. Salt Lake City. July 22, 23, 24

Come to the Utah Covered Wagon Days. Salt Lake City. July 22, 23, 24 by [Sticker Card] [Utah]

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Come to the Utah Covered Wagon Days. Salt Lake City. July 22, 23, 24
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[Sticker Card] [Utah]
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Fine
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Ephemera. Fine. 4.5 cm wide by 6.5 cm tall. Style No. 102BK.
The Oriental Studies of August Strindberg (1849-1912). Central Asian Collectanea No. 5

The Oriental Studies of August Strindberg (1849-1912). Central Asian Collectanea No. 5 by Berendsohn, Walter A.

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The Oriental Studies of August Strindberg (1849-1912). Central Asian Collectanea No. 5
Author
Berendsohn, Walter A.
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A fine copy.
Description
Washington, D.C.: Central Asian Collectanea, 1960. First English Language edition. Paper wrappers. A fine copy.. 16 pp. Sm. 4to. Loewenthal, Rudolf, trans.
The Modern Priscilla, September, 1908, Vol. XXII, No. 7

The Modern Priscilla, September, 1908, Vol. XXII, No. 7 by [No Author]

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The Modern Priscilla, September, 1908, Vol. XXII, No. 7
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[No Author]
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Fair
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Boston, Massachusetts: The Priscilla Publishing Company, 1908. Stapled Binding. Fair. Pages 29/30 missing, bottom edge chewed, wrappers lightly soiled. 1908 Stapled Binding. 46 pp. Contents include articles on hints on furnishing, modish bags in stenciling and cut work, point lace handkerchief, sofa pillow decorated with drawn work, waist in embroidery and lace, centrepiece in French embroidery, lace stocks, braided suit, little collar and coat, violets for china painting, embroidered table linen, embroidered dress, ways of cooking fish, Priscilla paper patterns, apron trimmed with darned net, a lesson in dressmaking, newest coiffures, and more. Ads and illustrations throughout. Modern Priscilla (1887-1930) began at Lynn, Massachusetts, as a 16-page quarto devoted to fancy work, dress patterns, china painting, and needlework in general, at fifty cents a year. In 1894 it was moved to Boston, and eventually it was enlarged in scope to cover many other aspects of women's home life. It absorbed Everyday Housekeeping in March 1912, and Home Needlework Magazine in May 1917. The last issue was July 1930, after which it apparently merged into Needlecraft.
Of Earth: Poems
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Of Earth: Poems by Daniel, John

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Of Earth: Poems
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Daniel, John
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN
9780983997597
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Fine
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Lost Horse Press, 2012-08-31. paperback. Fine. 5x0x8. Signed. Trade paperback, 115 pp., first edition stated. Inscribed by author to John [Byrne, president of OSU] as an "old office mate". Additionally signed (name only) on title page.
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Aircraft in Profile Volume 6, Profile Nos. 121-144 by Windrow, Martin C

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Aircraft in Profile Volume 6, Profile Nos. 121-144
Author
Windrow, Martin C
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Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Doubleday and Co, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Jacket is clean and unmarked. Interior is Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations inside front board does have a glue stain from a probable book plate removal). Numerous color and B/W illustrations. Aviation. Prompt shipping.
Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman
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Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman

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Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780874807431
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Very Good
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University of Utah Press, 2003. Very Good. . Swamp Songs: The Making of an Unruly Woman. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xii, 228pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Edges lightly rubbed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities.

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