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Report. Mexican Telephone Co. March 1st, 1887 by [Mexico]: [Technology]

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Title: Report. Mexican Telephone Co. March 1st, 1887
Author: [Mexico]: [Technology]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Boston: Stanley & Usher, Printers, 1887. Very good.. 12pp. Original printed self wrappers, sewn. Minor dust-soiling and edge wear. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. Very good. [with:] Annual Report of the Mexican Telephone Company. 1890-1891. Boston: E.W.S. Jones, Stationer and Printer, [1891]. 11pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers somewhat toned, small chip at each corner, short vertical closed tear and some discoloration to front wrapper. Soft vertical crease throughout. Internally clean. An informative pair of rare and early reports from the Mexican Telephone Company, a subsidiary of American Bell Telephone Company that sought to establish a national telephone network across Mexico during the 1880s. The Mexican Telephone Company began operations in 1882 using equipment from Western Electric and other supplies harvested from local Mexican markets, specifically Mexican trees for telephone poles. At first, the company met with success, but over the course of the next two decades the company's work was eroded by a combination of increasing competition, unsound workmanship, the volatility of the Mexican financial markets, and the restructuring and merging of telephone companies around the turn of the century. By 1905, the Mexican Telephone Company was sold or transferred to the Boston Telephone Company. Renamed the Mexican Telephone and Telegraph Company, the branch continued to operate in Mexico, contributing to the construction of an underground cable network. The present pamphlets provide interesting insight into the early years of the company's operations in Mexico. The first pamphlet opens with a letter to stockholders from J.D. Sargent, the company's president. Sargent informs the investors of recent mismanagement of funds by the company's treasurer, with which the company is dealing. He also reports on the company's takeover of the Puebla Telephone and Telegraph Company, the infringement of the company's territorial rights by rival companies, the hopeful outlook for completion of a railroad to Guadalajara which will likely result in "a decided improvement in business there for the future," and other news vital to the company's operations in Mexico. The following four pages are comprised of a detailed financial report to Sargent and the company directors by the general manager of the company, M.L. Guiraud. Rounding out the first work is a two-page Treasurer's Report by the Treasurer, pro tem., A.E. Denison. The later report indicates some volatility in the company's ranks, as the opening letter from the president of the company is delivered by a new president, Robert Colgate. Early in his letter, Colgate mentions that he has been head of the company for two years, and was part of a new regime put in place to curtail expenses, liquidate outstanding obligations, and "settle all outstanding claims, with the view of putting the Company on a strong financial basis." Much of the remainder of Colgate's letter addresses lawsuits, claims, and other business which have now brought the health of the company to a "very satisfactory condition." The remainder of this annual report is a Treasurer's Report from yet another new treasurer, W. French Smith. OCLC reports just a single copy of the later report, at the University of Michigan. There are no holdings reported for the earlier report from 1887.

L'homme assis dans le couloir by Duras, Marguerite

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Title: L'homme assis dans le couloir
Author: Duras, Marguerite
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1980. First edition. Wrappers, fine 20 cm. Copy number 43 of 106 copies on Alfa, including 7 hors-commerce, the only limited edition.

[Autograph Books Belonging to a High School Girl in Oklahoma] by McAnarney, Zela Mae

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Title: [Autograph Books Belonging to a High School Girl in Oklahoma]
Author: McAnarney, Zela Mae
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Optima, Oklahoma, 1932. Good. Each book around 4” x 6” with 58 pages and about 65 handwritten entries. Good: boards detached from textblock but attached to each other; loss to half of each wrap; pages lightly soiled and worn. This is a set of “Schoolday Memories” and class autographs compiled by a young woman from Optima, Oklahoma, documenting her high school years. Zela Mae McAnarney (later McDonald) was born in 1916 and lived out her life in Optima, Oklahoma. Located in Texas County, in the Oklahoma panhandle, Optima was founded as a ranching town around 1885. The first official census in 1930 recorded 115 residents; 337 were reported in 2020. Zela graduated from Optima High School (OHS) in 1932, helped found the local 4-H club, and married in 1934. She died in 1995. These heartfelt autograph books provide a glimpse into high school life in small town Oklahoma, and introduce us to the young Zela Mae, who participated in the Glee, Dramatics and Debating Clubs, loved horseback riding and basketball and noted that her favorite course of study was “Oklahoma History.” Zela neatly listed the names of her classmates, separated by school year, as well as teachers and their subjects. Copious handwritten entries reveal the students' care for each other as well as their school – one had letters branching off an OHS logo, reading “Oh How Sweet.” They are filled with messages of friendship and forget-me-not, wishes for love, happiness and success. There were charming poems like “Long may you live / Long may you tarry / Love who you wish / But watch who you marry” and “Kisses give germs / So I've heard stated / But kiss me kid / I've been vaccinated.” The books also hold seven tiny cut photographs, including one of Zela inside a book's front cover. A lively group of autograph entries revealing Oklahoma school days in the late 1920s/early '30s.

Lost Splendour by Youssoupoff, Prince Felix

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Title: Lost Splendour
Author: Youssoupoff, Prince Felix
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio Society, 1996. Fine. Youssoupoff, Prince Felix. Lost Splendour. London, UK: Folio Society, 1996. xix, 252pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Near fine in a very good slip case with light rubbing on edges.

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