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Zaibei Hojin No Mitaru Beikoku to Beikokujin / [America and Americans As Seen by a Japanese in the United States]

Zaibei Hojin No Mitaru Beikoku to Beikokujin / [America and Americans As Seen by a Japanese in the United States] by [Japanese Americana]. Hasegawa, Shin'ichiro

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
Zaibei Hojin No Mitaru Beikoku to Beikokujin / [America and Americans As Seen by a Japanese in the United States]
Author
[Japanese Americana]. Hasegawa, Shin'ichiro
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Tokyo: Jitsugyo No Nihonsha, 1937. Very good.. 4,5,456,7,[6]pp., plus three plates. Original cream cloth stamped in blue, black, and gold. In original pictorial slipcase. Moderate staining and soiling to boards. Endpapers toned, very occasional light foxing to text, unobtrusive dampstain to fore-edge. Slipcase very worn and mostly separated, but rarely seen with the work in any condition. Withal, a nice copy of a rare book. A scarce Japanese-American historical survey of American history and especially the relationship between the U.S. and Japan, written by Shin'ichiro Hasegawa, who was born in Japan but spent a considerable portion of his life in California. The work is printed mostly in Japanese, but includes a seven-page section in English which prints the 1912 "Memorial Service for Meiji Emperor," presumably written by Hasegawa as a student representative at the emperor's memoriam, held at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. "A work on American society and U.S.-Japan relations. A graduate of U.S.C. and a long-time resident of Los Angeles, the Issei author analyzes American political, religious, and educational institutions as well as American racial attitudes and problems. He also writes about his participation in the Japan Society of Southern California and the organization's activities to foster better U.S.-Japan relations" - Ichioka. "Covers history, society, and culture in order to provide a better understanding of the United States. Includes famous people who contributed to the relationship between Japan and the United States" - JANM Bibliography. OCLC records just a dozen copies, half in California, the other half in Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Provo, Honolulu, and Tokyo. Ichioka, et al., Buried Past 244. Japanese American National Museum Pre-World War II Period Annotated Bibliography 253.
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Note sur l'utilisation rationnelle des machines à statistique by Bolle, Georges

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Title
Note sur l'utilisation rationnelle des machines à statistique
Author
Bolle, Georges
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1929. Bolle, Georges. Note sur l'utilisation rationnelle des machines à statistique. Offprint from Revue générale des chemins de fer (March 1929). 27pp. 307 x 217 mm. Original printed wrappers, minor stains on front wrapper. Moderate toning, but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author on the verso of the front wrapper: "A M. Portal avec mon bien amical souvenir G. Bolle 1/4/29." First Edition, Offprint Issue. An early application in France of punched-card tabulating machines in railway operations. Bolle, a graduate of the École Polytechnique, was chief accounting officer of the Paris-Lyon-Mediterranean Railroad and a pioneer of the use of machine data processing in railway operations. In the present paper he discussed the use of punch-card tabulating machines to analyze data relating to freight, shipping, personnel and equipment malfunction, and the use of this data in setting rates and wages. .
Placentinus Philosophus Medicus Anatomicus. Engraved Portrait

Placentinus Philosophus Medicus Anatomicus. Engraved Portrait by Casserius, Julius

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Placentinus Philosophus Medicus Anatomicus. Engraved Portrait
Author
Casserius, Julius
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Margin: 165 x112 mm. Very good condition.
Les Mille et Une Nuits contes arabes traduits en français par GallandChoisis et revués avec la plus scr pulleuse attention

Les Mille et Une Nuits contes arabes traduits en français par GallandChoisis et revués avec la plus scr pulleuse attention

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Les Mille et Une Nuits contes arabes traduits en français par GallandChoisis et revués avec la plus scr pulleuse attention
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Bound in publisher's quarter red morocco and cloth, a.e.g
Description
Paris: Garnier Freres, nd. iiiustr´´par MM. Français, H. Baron, Ed. Wattier, Laville, etc, [i], 556, [1]ppo. 8vo. Bound in publisher's quarter red morocco and cloth, a.e.g. iiiustr´´par MM. Français, H. Baron, Ed. Wattier, Laville, etc, [i], 556, [1]ppo. 8vo. The French translation by Antoine Galland (1646-1715) derived from an Arabic text of the Syrian recension of the medieval work[1] as well as other sources. It included stories that are not found in the original Arabic manuscripts - the so-called "orphan tales" - such as the famous "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", which first appeared in print in Galland's form.
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Otechestvennaia Byl. Iubileinyi Sbornik [The Story of Our Country. An Anniversary Collection] by Talberg, Nikolai

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Title
Otechestvennaia Byl. Iubileinyi Sbornik [The Story of Our Country. An Anniversary Collection]
Author
Talberg, Nikolai
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description
Jordanville, NY: Sviato - Troitskii Monastyr, 1960. Softcover. First edition; 6 x 9; pp. 334; textured brown wraps printed in black and illustrated with the Russian Imperial Crest; a few faint spots to wraps; some small rubbed spots along spine and corners; minor age-toning and discoloration to endpapers; illustrated with photographs; very good. The book was published in commemoration of Nikolai Dmitrievich Talberg's (1886-1967) 50th anniversary of his graduating The Imperial College of Law with a gold medal in 1907. He served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs until the Revolution after which he joined Nikolai Evgenievich Markov's secret Monarchist organization - The Supreme Monarchist Council. He emigrated to Berlin in 1920 where he continued working closely with Markov's organization. While in Germany, he also became involved with the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia and when he eventually moved to the US he accepted a teaching position at Holy Trinity Seminary in Jordanville, New York. He authored several history textbooks and books on Russian church history - some of which are still used at theological seminaries. His current collection encompasses some of his works on Catherine the Great, Alexander I, Nicholas I, etc.
CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN, OR, "HOME, SWEET HOME.

CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN, OR, "HOME, SWEET HOME. by WALTON, Mrs. [Amy Catherine WALTON]

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CHRISTIE'S OLD ORGAN, OR, "HOME, SWEET HOME.
Author
WALTON, Mrs. [Amy Catherine WALTON]
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
NY: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1881. Early Edition. First published in England in 1874, this American edition was published as early as 1876. Amy Catherine Walton [1849-1939] was a British author of Christian children's and teenage books, mainly fiction. She was the daughter of the vicar of St Stephen's Church, Spring Street, Hull. A young boy finds life's greatest discovery! This classic story has been a favorite with generations of children. It illustrates the close friendship of an old man and a young boy as they suffer through hard times together in Victorian London. 32mo., embossed blue cloth, stamped in black & gilt; 165 pages, plus ads. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice & bright; contents clean & tight with little foxing front endpapers). A nice, early copy!
The Paris Library

The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles

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Title
The Paris Library
Author
Janet Skeslien Charles
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781982134198
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only very light shelf wear to the spine head and edges else as new and unread. An excellent copy of this novel, the author's 2nd published work, an instant NYT bestseller. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Science and the Renaissance. [Volume I: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century; Volume II: An Annotated Bibliography of the Sixteenth-Century Books Relating to the Sciences in the Library of the University of Aberdeen]. by WIGHTMAN, William Persehouse Delisle.

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Science and the Renaissance. [Volume I: An Introduction to the Study of the Emergence of the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century; Volume II: An Annotated Bibliography of the Sixteenth-Century Books Relating to the Sciences in the Library of the University of Aberdeen].
Author
WIGHTMAN, William Persehouse Delisle.
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Edinburgh and London & New York:: Oliver and Boyd & Hafner, (1962)., 1962. Two vols. FIRST EDITION. Series: Aberdeen University Studies, Nos. 143-144. 8vo. xv, 327; xix, 293 pp. Plates, indexes. Red cloth, gilt-stamped cover coat-of-arms and spine title. Former library copies with the usual markings and defects. Very good.

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