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Birds of the Pacific Slope by Grayson, Andrew Jackson

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Seller: Swan's Fine Books

Title: Birds of the Pacific Slope
Author: Grayson, Andrew Jackson
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: New
Description: San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1986. Hardcover. New. Portfolio, 25 by 19 inches, 160 leaves; companion volume, 12 by 9 inches, 436 pages. The types are handset and Monotype Van Dijck and handset Castellar capitals. The paper is Coventry Rag from the Parson Paper Mill, heavy weight for the plates, lightweight for the text. The plates were printed by Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics. The text was printed by letterpress. The portfolio box, companion volume, and slipcase are covered with tan Dutch linen cloth with gold-stamped leather labels. Edition of 400 sets. Andrew Jackson Grayson, who came to San Francisco just before the Gold Rush, was inspired to paint by James John Audubon's Birds of America. He vowed to extend Audubon's visual record west, to include the Pacific Slope of California and Mexico. Bequeathed to the University of California in 1879 by Grayson's widow, his paintings became an important holding in The Bancroft Library, but remained largely unknown to the public. Lois Chambers Stone of Berkeley spent several years researching the biography of Grayson that accompanies the portfolio. The publication of this long-overlooked masterwork has now assured Grayson of a significant place in the history of American ornithology. ___POSTAGE: Please note that the portfolio of prints is excessively large and heavy, therefore additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Photo Album Recording the Setting up of an East German Grocery and Home Appliance Store

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Photo Album Recording the Setting up of an East German Grocery and Home Appliance Store
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leatherette. Ribbon tie. Very Good. N.d., circa 1969. Oblong, 22 by 30 cm. With 110 photographs, mounted one to four per leaf, depicting the setting up of an East German supermarket and home appliances store, from the build-out of raw space to the stocking of the shelves and final touches of display spaces. Included also are photos of presumably the managerial staff conferencing and then shoppers in the newly opened store(s). The photos make no claim to artistic merit; they were almost certainly done matter-of-factly to record the process and then to be buried in a file cabinet kept by the Nomenklatura. In our view, the crudity of the photos is actually part of their virtue to us, as we can trust that they capture things as they more or less really were. And it seems to us that the photos are a true time capsule that brings us back to the dreariness behind the Iron Curtain when the economies were no longer suffering from wartime devastation but their valiant efforts to match the prosperity of the West were heroically pathetic. And thus we see shelves that while not necessarily empty were drab and uninviting to anyone accustomed to Western abundance. The same pronouncement might also be applied to the people caught in the photographs -- women in beehives, men in standard issue suits, but all looking distinctly out of step with the Swinging Sixties. Light wear.

Eight Dollars a Day. Written & Dedicated to the Congress of the U.S. by [Music – Hutchinson Family – Political Corruption] Hutchinson, J.J.; The Hutchinson Family

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Title: Eight Dollars a Day. Written & Dedicated to the Congress of the U.S.
Author: [Music – Hutchinson Family – Political Corruption] Hutchinson, J.J.; The Hutchinson Family
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Slight splitting to covers, contents fine, very good plus overall.
Description: Boston, Massachusetts: Olivery Ditson, 1848. Folio, 14 x 10 ½ inches, 5 pp. Slight splitting to covers, contents fine, very good plus overall.. The sheet for the anti-politician polemic “Eight Dollars a Day", which was apparently a crowd favorite at the Hutchinson Family’s performances. The song lambastes the political class and its waste, insinuating, among other things, that the politicians were spending their bloated salary on alcohol: “A flaming speech is made by one when the call is yea or nay, But all are agreed with the question comes of Eight dollars a day.” The song was written in 1848, early in the Hutchinson Family’s period moving toward social activism, and four years after their most famous abolition-themed compositions.[1] Judging by the twelve copies held at libraries, this was probably one of the better selling titles in their repertoire from the time period. [1] Philip D. Jordan, “The Hutchinson Family in the Story of American Music,” Minnesota History 22, no. 2 (1941): 113–32.

Portrait of a Mixed-Race Group of Women in Menomonie, Late 1890s by [Indigenous History – Wisconsin] Swant, Milton F.

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Title: Portrait of a Mixed-Race Group of Women in Menomonie, Late 1890s
Author: [Indigenous History – Wisconsin] Swant, Milton F.
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine.
Description: Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1898. Cabinet card; photo measuring 3 ¾ x 5 ½ inches on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Near Fine.. A photograph taken by Milton F. Swant of Menomonie, Wisconsin, showing a group of seven young ladies, at least one of whom is likely Indigenous. The photo is undated, but Swant was active in Menomonie between 1897 and 1898.

Five Private libaries of New York by Henri Pene Du Bois

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: Five Private libaries of New York
Author: Henri Pene Du Bois
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Duprat & Co, 1892. Book. Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1/200 copies on Japanese Paper.Limited Edition. Orange Cloth Folding Box. lavishly Made Production Without Wear. Signed By Octave Uzanne (Wrote Preface).

Ices and How to Make Them ... on Cream, Water, and Fancy Dessert Ices .... by Senn, Charles Herman

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Title: Ices and How to Make Them ... on Cream, Water, and Fancy Dessert Ices ....
Author: Senn, Charles Herman
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; binding slightly faded.
Description: London: Food and Cookery Publishing Agency, 1903. Second, revised and enlarged, edition.. Original publisher's stamped blue cloth.. Very good; binding slightly faded.. 8vo, [4], [5] - 93, [3 - adverts] pp. + numerous text illustrations. Wonderful assortment of ices, ice creams, and sorbets accompanied by illustrations of the necessary equipment. A good précis to the history of the subject is in Willan, pp. 174-'5.

Broadside: Young America - Stop Conscription! by [CPUSA] [LOS ANGELES]

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Title: Broadside: Young America - Stop Conscription!
Author: [CPUSA] [LOS ANGELES]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Committee, Young Communist League, [1940]. Broadside, with text offset printed in black on beige stock, measuring 23cm x 30.5cm (9" x 12"). Toning to extremities, a few tiny nicks and tears along the edges, with a brief pencil notation at upper left and lower right corners; Very Good+. Anti-conscription broadside, issued in June, 1940 by the Young Communist League of Los Angeles, linking FDR's proposal for the compulsory military training of American youth to Wall Street. "The proposal for compulsory military training is a declaration of war against the American people - against their living standards and democratic rights. This is the identical system Hitler forced upon the youth of Germany...COMPULSORY ARMY TRAINING FOR AMERICAN YOUTH IS THE FIRST STEP TO PUT INTO EFFECT THE M-PLAN - WALL STREET'S BLUE PRINT FOR FASCISM." The broadside concludes by encouraging young people to wire or write the White House and ask FDR to stop the conscription of American youth. Not separately listed in OCLC. 87350.

Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason by [Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] David E. Wellbery

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Title: Lessing's Laocoon: Semiotics and Aesthetics in the Age of Reason
Author: [Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] David E. Wellbery
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780521257947
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1984]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in green printed dust jacket; ix,[1],275pp. Moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities, spine a shade sunned, corners bumped, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound.

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