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JAPAN. [spine title] TWO ALBUMS OF 108 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN, MOST HAND-TINTED, PRODUCED BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS, ca. 1880s

JAPAN. [spine title] TWO ALBUMS OF 108 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN, MOST HAND-TINTED, PRODUCED BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS, ca. 1880s

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JAPAN. [spine title] TWO ALBUMS OF 108 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAPAN, MOST HAND-TINTED, PRODUCED BY PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS, ca. 1880s
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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[various places in Japan, 1880. Two oblong albums, 15 1/2 x 11 in., bound in 3/4 leather and koi fish patterned cloth. A collection of images of shrines, river views, hotels, natural settings, and villages of 19th century Japan. Studio photos laid down on stiff card stock mounted on cloth tape stubs. Images are on rectos and versos of the card stock, one to a page, each 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. Most are identified with printed captions and numbers. Some light rubbing to leather and soiling to binding, but overall very good, images all sharp, clear. Many can be recognized as the work of Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1943) or his studio. The first album of 62 hand-tinted albumen photos are primarily views of Nikko, a small city in the mountains north of Tokyo, famous for the Shinto shrine Tochigi. Photos include a group of stone statues lining a path; Chiusenji Lake; a Sacred Bridge; Dainichido Garden; Iyemitsu Tomb; Yomeimon, Great Gate; etc. There are also more general images of a flower seller; women gathering tea leaves; a sleeping girl; a tattooed man; a basket cellar; rice planters; and a photo of a group of Japanese men and women posing with five Western men and women at tea in a room in front of a painted screen. Perhaps someone in this group was the owner of the albums. The second album of 40 hand-tinted, and 6 untinted albumen photos show views from Matsushima; Honmoku, near Yokohama; Noge Hill, Yokohama; the Room of Hot Spring Place, Hakone; Spring Scenes of Koganei near Tokyo; Nishi Honganji Temple Carving Gate at Kioto; Kurodani Graveyard at Kioto; any many more. Cameras for the amateur photographer were just beginning to become available in the 1880s, so travellers were still dependent on other ways of capturing their memories. Professional photographers often supplied images of tourist spots, either individually or in souvenir albums available for purchase. Many, if not all of the images in these two albums are products of the photographic studio of Kusakabe Kimbei in Yokohama. Although they do not bear his stamp, the numbered photos and captions can be identified in catalogues of his work. Kusakabe Kimbei trained under Felice Beato (ca.1825-1907), an Italian living in Japan, first as a colorist and later as a photographer. He opened his own studio in 1881 and his images often captured the fast vanishing world of old Japan. [see: Chris Kincaid's essay "Felice Beato and Kimbei Kusakabe, Photographers of 1800s Japan," (Japan Powered: 2018)].
Theorie des Operations Lineaires

Theorie des Operations Lineaires by Banach, Stefan

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Theorie des Operations Lineaires
Author
Banach, Stefan
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good Plus
Description
Warszawa: Z Subwencji Funduszu Kultury Narodowej, 1932. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition of Stefan Banach's most important work foundational in functional analysis, which introduced the concept of normed linear spaces, which are now known as Banach spaces. This work transformed functional analysis into a distinct field of mathematics. The concept of Banach spaces and the later development of Hilbert spaces (a specific type of Banach space) are fundamental to the mathematical formulation of quantum mechanics.(Wikipedia) Very Good Plus copy in the original printed wrappers, the text in French but printed in Poland. The spine and edges of the wrappers sunned to brown, else clean, tight and unmarked internally. vii, 254 pp. .
[Collection of NAACP Membership Materials in Arizona and California]

[Collection of NAACP Membership Materials in Arizona and California]

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[Collection of NAACP Membership Materials in Arizona and California]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
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Very good
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Mostly Flagstaff, Arizona; also San Francisco, 1967. Very good. 81 items ranging from 2¼" x 3¼" to 6" x 10½": see description for details. Generally very good or better: a few items gently worn and a few like new. This is a collection of letters, forms, reports and printed ephemera showing the drive of African American residents of Flagstaff, Arizona to increase membership in their local NAACP chapter. A few items also represent the San Francisco NAACP, including a typed letter signed by a noted female leader. The end days of World War II saw an influx of Black migration to the small logging town of Flagstaff for sawmill and lumber work. Where the 1930 census reported 115 African American residents, that of 1950 claimed 667. The town stayed segregated, with Black and Mexican homes and businesses lying south of the railroad tracks. The Northern Arizona chapter of the NAACP was founded in Flagstaff in 1951 by a group that included Annie Watkins. A former school teacher, Watkins turned to local politics when she saw that Black voters' ballots were being thrown away. She was vice chair of the county Democratic committee and led voter registration drives and education sessions for the Black community. This small collection shows the growth of the Flagstaff chapter in the 1960s, and includes 56 membership campaign envelopes filled out with names and addresses. There are membership cards, reports, endorsed checks and handwritten notes on officers, members and donations. Autograph and typed signed letters to New York headquarters reveal donations and requests for recruitment material, there's a response on HQ letterhead, and most are in their original envelopes. Notably, one of these envelopes holds pristine printed materials including a photographic brochure and the NAACP Life Membership Bulletin of June 1962, which ran "Civil Rights Round-Up" news, upcoming events and "sales hints." Three items reflect similar work in California, including a TLS on San Francisco chapter letterhead from Acting Regional Secretary Tarea Hall Pittman, asking branches to send in their 1960 reports. Pittman had been president of the California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs and of the California Council of Negro Women, and served as Director of the NAACP West Coast Region from 1961 to 1965. Vivid documentation of the efforts of African Americans to organize in Arizona and California. An inventory of contents is available.
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SALONES PALACIO NACIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM

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SALONES PALACIO NACIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ALBUM
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description
México, D.F.: Presidencia de la República - Subdirección de Almacenes e Inventario. Dirección General de Administración 1988 - 1994, 1994. 535 individual photographs (mostly 6x4cm), leather bound with gold stamped title. Contains a meticulous inventory of furniture, paintings, accessories and other decorative elements of the halls of the National Palace in Mexico City. In total, 535 individual original b/w photographs, mostly 6 x 4 cm., are included, which portray all the inventoried pieces. Each photograph is accompanied by a description and inventory number. The album includes the different environments, galleries and halls of the National Palace, including the presidential office, the library, the meeting room, the dining room, etc. Important register of assets found in the National Palace at the end of the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
(BLACK EDUCATION)

(BLACK EDUCATION)

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(BLACK EDUCATION)
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
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(BLACK EDUCATION) Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of Combined Normal and Industri Department at Wilberforce University, Green Co. Ohio 1893. 8vo. Original gree wrappers, illustrated with full page view of Normal Hall on the rear wrapper. N.P. 1893. First Edition Wilberforce University was the first college owned and operated by African Americans. The founding of the college in 1856 was a collaboration by the Cincinnati, Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal church. They planned a college to provide classical educaton and teacher training for black youth. Leaders of both races made up the first board members. When the number of students fell due to the American Civil War and financial losses closed the college in 1863, the AME Church purchased the institution t ensure tis survival. Its first president, Bishop Daniel A. Payne, was one of the original founders. Prominent supporters and the US government donated fun for rebuilding after a fire in 1865. The college attracted the top professor in the day, including W.E.B. DuBois. Wrappers stained; with a few ex-library stamps on front cover, "With complime of Elroy M. Avory Ohio Senate." Apparently not in OCLC. 40756.
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Let it Come Down by Bowles, Paul

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Let it Come Down
Author
Bowles, Paul
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: John Lehmann, 1952. First edition. Cloth, very good in lightly faded and used dust jacket. Ownership signature dated Cairo, 1952. Jacket design by John Minton.
Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life: The Facts of the Moral Life; Ethical Systems

Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life: The Facts of the Moral Life; Ethical Systems by Wundt, Wilhelm; Gulliver, Julia; Titchener, Edward Bradford; Washburn, Margaret Floy

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Ethics: An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life: The Facts of the Moral Life; Ethical Systems
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Wundt, Wilhelm; Gulliver, Julia; Titchener, Edward Bradford; Washburn, Margaret Floy
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Very Good
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London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Lim / William Brendon and Son, Printers, 1897. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink name and date on title pages, pages lightly toned (endpapers more so). 1897 Hard Cover. xii, 339; viii, 196, [2] pp. 8vo. Wundt is considered the founder of modern psychology (a survey in American Psychologist ranked William James and Sigmund Freud a distant second and third). He also founded Philosophische Studien, the first academic journal for psychological research.
Dark Masquerade

Dark Masquerade by An Illustrious Anonymous Author

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Dark Masquerade
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An Illustrious Anonymous Author
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ReadInk (United States)
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Very Good+ in Good dj
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New York: Green Circle Books. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1936). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, a bit soiled on top edge, property stamps of Ross's News Store, Scranton, Pa. on front pastedown and ffep (no other markings of any kind); jacket is worn and soiled, with tiny bits of paper loss at several corners and edges]. "A startling novel of love, crime and redemption, by an Illustrious Anonymous Author." OK, now hold it just a minute -- is it really possible to be both "illustrious" and "anonymous"? I mean, really, what's the point in THAT? Anyway, this seems like a thoroughgoing potboiler, about a "prominent criminal attorney, well versed in the art of fixing juries," who falls in love with a debutante, who is also loved by "daring young news photographer" Jimmy Cronin. The flies in the ointment of this three-way romance are gangster brothers Butch and Larry McCabe, disgruntled clients of the aforementioned lawyer, and the ensuing plot involves "an avalanche of masterfully portrayed incidents including a jail-break and the appearance of a mysterious nun on an ocean voyage." That's right, a mysterious nun. .
Cuneiform Tablets. Haverford Library Collection.

Cuneiform Tablets. Haverford Library Collection. by Barton, George, Aaron (Ed.)..

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Cuneiform Tablets. Haverford Library Collection.
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Barton, George, Aaron (Ed.)..
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
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'Documents from the temple archives of Telloh'. Texts and facsimiles of Sumerian clay tablets, mainly of 'a business and adminis
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Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company, N D (1950?). 'Documents from the temple archives of Telloh'. Texts and facsimiles of Sumerian clay tablets, mainly of 'a business and administrative character'. Presented by Professor Barton of Bryn Mawr. With textual descriptions followed by illustrating facsimile drawings of the clay tablets. In sturdy boards (slight bumping). V G . Postage at cost.. 3 volumes. Vol 1 27 pp. 50 b/w illustrative plates. Vol. 2. 36 pp. 50 b/w illustrative plates. 2 photographic plates. Vol. 3. 62 pp. 54 b/w illustrative plates. 1 pp. corrections.
Mendelssohn is on the Roof

Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiri Weil

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Mendelssohn is on the Roof
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Jiri Weil
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780374208103
Condition
Fine
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First Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only a tiny rub to the spine foot. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
Summer Set 2007

Summer Set 2007

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Summer Set 2007
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Very good
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NY: David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, 2007. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. [64]]pp. Lightly rubbed, else very good in publisher's wraps.

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