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

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

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.

Album de Lima y Sus Alrededores by [Peru]

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Title: Album de Lima y Sus Alrededores
Author: [Peru]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Lima, 1900. Very good.. 210pp. Oblong quarto. Contemporary three-quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Minor rubbing and scuffing to edges and boards. Handsome bookplate to front pastedown, occasional very minor foxing. A delightful viewbook and commercial directory of Peru published in Lima at the turn of the 20th century. The monotone and sepia-toned photographs and photocollages picture numerous buildings, interiors, street scenes, storefronts, and more mostly in Lima but also in Callao, Chorrillos, Barranco, and Miraflores. An Index of the "Vistas de Lima" provides a description for the photographs, though almost all of the photographs are captioned beneath the image. The photographs are printed on the rectos of the work, while most of the versos of each leaf contain full-page advertisements for a wide variety of businesses in the various cities, including banks, mercantile firms, importers, breweries, milers, and numerous others. A healthy percentage of the versos are printed with a commercial directory of Lima, as well as the membership list of the Bolsa Comercial, providing a snapshot of the economic life of Peru at the time. No copies in American institutions. OCLC records just two copies worldwide, one in Peru and the other in France.

The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion ... to Which are Subjoined a Dispensatory .... by Ewell, James - MEDICINE IN SAVANNAH

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Title: The Planter's and Mariner's Medical Companion ... to Which are Subjoined a Dispensatory ....
Author: Ewell, James - MEDICINE IN SAVANNAH
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good, with toning and spotting; first 50 pp, with small marginal tide marks and intermittent damp. The front joint is partially
Description: Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, 1807. First Edition.. Full contemporary leather and marbled endpapers.. Good, with toning and spotting; first 50 pp, with small marginal tide marks and intermittent damp. The front joint is partially split; joints chafed; leather scuffed.. 8vo, xvi (numbered, with an insertion of 4 unnumbered pages of 'Recommendations' thereby making 20 total), [1] - 328, [2 - advert. for Robert Harris, Druggist] pp. This copy with an interesting autograph note on the title page: Robert Alexander's books purchased of Doctor James Ewell April 7, 1808. James Hayes Bght. at Rob't. Alexander's sale, Doc., the 14th June 1812. "And to whom am I so bound by the tenderest ties of affection and gratitude as to Mr. Jefferson?" (from the Dedication). The author's father (Jesse) was a school classmate - at William & Mary - and life long friend of Thomas Jefferson. Ewell sent Jefferson a copy of the book (Sowerby Catalog #893) and in response (March 1808) Jefferson wrote: I return you my thanks for the copy of the Medical Companion you have been so kind as to send me, and must particularly express my sense of the favorable sentiments expressed towards me in the beginning of the work; especially too where it recalls to my recollection the memory of your respectable father, who was the friend & companion of my youth, and for whom I retained through life an affectionate attachment. the plan of your work is certainly excellent, and its execution, as far as I am a judge, worthy of the plan. it brings within a moderate compass whatever is useful, levels it to ordinary comprehension, and as a Manual will be a valuable possession to every family . . . . Ewell was the first to: " ... use ice internally in dysentery cases. He established himself in Savannah, Georgia, with the help of Thomas Jefferson, and there introduced vaccination for small-pox (Sowerby)" His book ran to 10 editions in post-colonial America. The first, however, is uncommon in the market. The text is divided into three sections: ship board injuries; common cases; ailments of women and children. The 'Table of Medicines' subjoined to the text likely received the most frequent use. It is laid out in a series of charts with dosages and compositions noted, matched to the recommendations in the body of the text. Being located in the heart of South the planter's companion was a sure sell, encouraging the preservation of valuable assets with minimal cost. As the autograph note illustrates and confirms it was not uncommon in this period for the handful of southern authors to have their books printed "up north" and distributed locally. In this instance recording a copy sold by Ewell himself. The book also manifests signs of hasty "job printing" by Bioren, e.g., the awkward insertion of the 4 unnumbered pages of Recommendations (printing letters of B Barton, N Chapman among others) in the introduction; an overlarge typeface selected to print the dedication. Sowerby #893; Austin #742; see BSA Papers, vol. 43, #3, 321-334 pp. for an article on Bioren.

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.

Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia : roman by Duras, Marguerite

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Title: Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia : roman
Author: Duras, Marguerite
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Gallimard, 1968. 260 p. Marguerite Duras. Light soiling on cover, spine and edges. 19 cm.

[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.

On The Record: An Interim Memoir (Signed First Edition) by WILLIAMS-THOMPSON, Mike

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Title: On The Record: An Interim Memoir (Signed First Edition)
Author: WILLIAMS-THOMPSON, Mike
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. An about near fine copy with some faint spotting to the boards in an about near fine dust jacket with some soiling and faint foxing. Signed and inscribed by Williams-Thompson on the title page.

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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