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The Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk

The Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk by Powers Bros

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
The Chautauqua Combination Drawing Board and Writing Desk
Author
Powers Bros
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good -
Description
N.p.: Powers Bros, 1895. Very Good -. N.p.: Powers Bros., 1895. Original wooden educational wall fixture (ca. 74x52cm.); complete with spinning scroll in twenty-three frames, each measuring ca. 17x48cm (or ca. 391x48cm. if completely unfurled); the first thirteen frames are printed in negative white over black, the following five are black on a white background, the final five are printed in color on a white background. Below the scroll are eight small compartments of varying sizes for holding chalk, pens and pencils (not present here). Earliest frames of the scroll quite worn with several large losses to the alphabet frames, dark dampstaining throughout. The frame itself remains in sturdy condition and the knobs turn the scroll easily. A Good to Very Good example. Variant of the popular late 19th-century teaching tool, first patented in 1885 though the copyright date repeated on most of the frames of this example are for 1895. The concept of a moveable household blackboard for children was first proposed at an educational Chautauqua assembly in the 1880s. Panels depict the alphabet (both print and cursive), easy arithmetic, flowers, animals, famous figures (Washington, Mikado Mutsuhito), a view of the recently-completed Brooklyn Bridge, and different drawing styles and color treatments and developments. The final panel of the scroll depicts a view of the Chautauqua Institute's Athenaeum Hotel, completed in 1881 and located on Lake Chautauqua in upstate New York. Reference: OCLC no. 52184781 (Penn State only).
Wild Seed [Signed]

Wild Seed [Signed] by Octavia E. Butler

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
Wild Seed [Signed]
Author
Octavia E. Butler
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780385151603
Condition
Good
Description
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. Good/Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's boards in unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [6],248pp. Ex-library with usual markings including label to jacket spine foot and barcode to rear jacket panel, boards rubbed, spine cocked, textblock margins very foxed, old glue residue to endpapers; a Good copy only. Title page signed by the author and dated 10-17-95. The fourth published book in the Patternist series, but the first chronologically, following the struggle between the immortals Doro and Anyanwu.
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NEBRASKA. ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND PROSPECTS by Butler, Prof. James D.

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
NEBRASKA. ITS CHARACTERISTICS AND PROSPECTS
Author
Butler, Prof. James D.
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
[np., 1873. 36, ii, [2] pp. Original printed self-wrappers [rear wrap chipped at blank corner, not affecting the plate of Salt Creek Valley]. Disbound [disbinding holes present in blank inner margin], full-page and partial-page illustrations. Good+. The second edition, after the 1870 24-page first. "Scarce." Adams. "The statistics, with which my paper bristles, have cost me labor in gleaning, and will be as hard for some to peruse as for me to procure." Those bristling statistics show why Nebraska is a great place to live. Howes B1054. Jenkins Full Howes 369. Nebraska Imprints Inv. 459. Graff 517. Adams Herd 386.
The Helga Pictures
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The Helga Pictures by Wyeth, Andrew

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Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc.
Title
The Helga Pictures
Author
Wyeth, Andrew
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780810917880
Condition
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. , Publishers. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Cloth. 0810917882 . An edition in Fine condition housed in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has general scuffwear ; The Helga Pictures tells the story of a young girl who suffers from a rare condition that causes her to see visions of the dead. The girl's family must struggle to come to terms with her condition while trying to maintain her fragile balance in the world.; 4to; 208 pages .
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Salt Flat News (Wendover's Picture Paper) Volume 2, Number 2, February, 1972

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Salt Flat News (Wendover's Picture Paper) Volume 2, Number 2, February, 1972
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
1972. Fine. . Salt Flat News (Wendover's Picture Paper) Volume 2, Number 2, February, 1972. Salt Lake City: NP, 1972. Illustrated. Book condition: Near fine. Pages very slightly browned. Articles include Life on the Old C.P. - Wallace Clay: Father of Invention - Fossil Bird Nests of the Great Salt Lake Desert.
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Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman’s Journey. by Benedek, Emily.

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Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA
Title
Beyond the Four Corners of the World: A Navajo Woman’s Journey.
Author
Benedek, Emily.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1998). First Edition. Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), 343 pp. Fine. From lower cover: Beyond the Four Corners of the World is the story of Ella Bedonie, a remarkable Navajo woman struggling to find her place in the world. We follow her from her childhood tending sheep in the high desert canyons of the Navajo reservation to the long, frightening ride to boarding school, and on into the white man’s world and a college degree. We meet her parents and grandparents, who live and worship their gods much as their ancestors have done for centuries. We meet her husband and her children, whose lives straddle two worlds, ancient and modern, sacred and profane, and we see how the family’s careful balance of tradition and modernity is threatened when a government relocation program uproots them from their reservation home.

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