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Art Deco Bookends: Scottie dog with front paws Lifted

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

Title: Art Deco Bookends: Scottie dog with front paws Lifted
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: [c. 1920] Pair of bookends featuring a Scottie dog with front paws elevated, gold-toned metal. Fine. Overall, a delightful set. Scottie dogs were popular subjects for bookends in the 1930s and '40s due to their prominence in popular culture, recognizable silhouette, and compact, "boxy" shape, which made them ideal for metal casting. Named after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts that took place in Paris in 1925, Art Deco was a design movement that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by sleekness and geometric lines, and influenced by industrialism, Cubism, Bauhaus, and archaeological discoveries, including King Tut's tomb in 1922. During the height of the movement, Art Deco bookends were popular objects to collect, due to their beauty, affordability, and practicality. Notably, New York City is home to a few of the world's most famous examples of Art Deco architecture: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center. This collection of Art Deco bookends features a wide and wonderful variety of designs and metal types. The sculpted works span historical figures like Roycroft arts-and-crafts community founder Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), modern dance pioneer and inventor of the "Serpentine Dance" Loie Fuller (1862-1928), and the legendary literary pair Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his muse Beatrice Portinari (ca. 1265-1290). Other designs include lions, serpents, whales, seamen, puppies, and cherubs, among many others. The bookends were made by some of the most prominent American art metal companies of the first half of the 20th century, including PM Craftsman (est. 1911), Armor Bronze (est. 1910 as "National Metalizing Company"), Frankart (est. 1924), and Pompeian Bronze Company (est. 1889 as the "Galvano Bronze Company").. Fine. 4.5" x 1.5" x 6".

A Locomotive Engineer’s Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America. Fifth in the Old Railroad Series. by Abdill, George B.; Locomotive Engineer.

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Title: A Locomotive Engineer’s Album: The Saga of Steam Engines in America. Fifth in the Old Railroad Series.
Author: Abdill, George B.; Locomotive Engineer.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Seattle, Washington: Superior Publishing Company, (1965). First Edition. Quarto, orange cloth (hardcover), 190 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting); in a Very Good dust jacket with foxing and light edgewear. From dust jacket: The steel bridge across the Missouri was finished and the Northern Pacific’s Engineering Department decided to put it to the acid test. Eight of the road’s heaviest 4-4-0s were sent out onto the main span blanketing the track on the bridge from one end to the other. The bridge held! “One cannot but wonder what thoughts passed through the minds of the new bridge” muses Engineer, Author George Abdill, just as if he didn’t know. A working locomotive engineer on the Southern PAcific, Portland Division, Adbdill knows railroading. If ever a book is to be the “compleat railroader,” this one is it. In this, the fifth of his railroad pictorial histories, author Abdill has collected photos from a hundred dusty archives. Many of the photos exceed or approach the century mark in age, most have never been published before, all are rare. These pictures, combined with Abdill’s delightful round house story telling and his unusual talent for reciting history accurately, yet interestingly, tell this story as it never has been told before.

Standard Oil (N.J.) Annual Report

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Title: Standard Oil (N.J.) Annual Report
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San Francisco, 1969. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, minor toning, very good. Parody corporate report, made for distribution before a Standard Oil stockholders meeting in San Francisco. Rear cover invites the reader to a protest sponsored by Liberation News Service, SDS, and other groups, featuring Kenny Horsten and a speaker from the Black Panther Party's UAW caucus. Sample paragraph from the report: "Our holdings become more diversified with each passing year, as we seek new sources of return. Our chemical divisions have moved heavily into the production of pesticides. Unfortunately, many of the migrant farm workers that harvest America's crops have become seriously ill and even died from these substances, but the growers are most enthusiastic about our products. Our domestic market will continue to grow; and Vietnam provides a captive market for our defoliants.".

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