ITEM # 8337 BOOK OF CEREMONIES OF THE UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS PUB 1935 BY UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS REVISED RULES FOR CONDUCTING CEREMONIES FROM INSTALLING NEW OFFICERS TO CONDUCTING A FUNERAL TEXT BLOCK CLEAN, HINGES INTACT COVER SHOWS MILD WEAR AND SOILING [ MILITARY SHELVES ] View More...
Brown boards ornamented at face with bright gilt seal and printing. Corners are a tiny bit soft, but just at tips. Pages are very clean and book is tightly bound with no names or writing. Photo of the Historical Society's building at frontis, plus two other illustrations. In addition to what is listed in title topics include donations, funds, election of officers, report of executive committee, report of Gilpin Trustees, children's lectures, librarian's report, museum accessions, publications and more. 146 pages. View More...
Very scarce booklet in good, clean, solid, tightly bound condition. Only fault is meeting date written at top of contents page and former owner's transparent address sticker at upper front corner of cover.. Information for scout leaders planning to take their troosp camping for a weekend or longer. 87 pages of info with drawings cover planning, choosing a site, establishing camp, equipment, food peparation, health and safety, waterfront camping, records and permits, budgeting, parents, breakign camp and more. View More...
Tightly bound and very clean with nice beveled edge to both boards. Brown cloth shows small bit of wear to corners and to crown and tail of spine, but no cracking to hinges, either fornt or back. Pages are also very clean with very light overall foxing to two blank pages at fornt and back. Eells was a 19th century American philosopher, essayist ,and orator who founded the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity in 1832 at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Book offers biographical information, the story of the fraternity, a copy of an address given by him at Miami University on the study of the classi... View More...
We are offering a brochure printed on both sides of a single sheet to make four pages. It was done by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League which was founded only a year prior to this in1893 in Oberlin, Ohio. The brochure advertises the Summer Campaign of 1894 featuring the Anti-Saloon Agitators, Rev. Howard J. Rusell, State Superintendent, and "those Merry Men of Song, the Aeolian Quartet of Delaware College consisting of E.A. Upham second tenor; J.B. Rogers, 1st tenor; O.O. Keoppel 2nd bass and E.W. Griffiths, firstbBass. Photos of all four on front page (quite handsome fellows!) along with a the... View More...
Crisp, clean, as new booklet consisting of grey card covers and eleven pages, including two full page drawings of Leathersellers' Hall. Former owner's name penciled at top front corner of first page. Text tells the story of one of the oldest Livery Guilds of London. Also accompanying this booklet is a trifold brochure produced the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers written in both French and English. This one is illustrated with four black and white photographs and two black and white works of art. View More...
Very nice copy. Grey boards are crisp and clean with no bumps and dustjacket shows but the merest corner wear. Has not been price-clipped and is most handsome in brand new mylar cover. No names or writing. Illustrated. Nice map endpapers. Tells the history of an obscure order founded at a hospice in Jerusalem for charity, never numbering huge membership and yet rising up to the frontier of the Christian-Muslim conflict. 245 pages. Indexed. View More...
There's no date on this one, but it's from the 1980's. Very nice and attractive with navy blue pebbled boards printed and decorated with association seal at face board. Measures by 10-1/2". Illustrated with black and white photogrpahs throughout. 157 pages. View More...
Very nice clean book. Blue boards show no bumps or wear and pages are clean with no names or writing. A facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1926. Portrait of author at frontis in black and white. Burnham was an American scout and adventurer famous for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell. The latter caused him (Burnham) to play a role in the founding of the international Scouting Movement. Illustrated throughout with maps, art and photography in black and white.370 pages. View More...
Cirsp, clean, seemingly unread book.No names or writing, no spine crease and pristine inside and out. Measures 9"x12" andis beautifully produced with coated paper and ample illsutration in both color and black and whjite -- art and photogrqphs. Book was published to accompany an exhibit which traveled to the University of Minnesota; Kent State University (Ohio); Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Mass.; University Art Museum, California State,; and Plains Arts Museum, Fargo, North Dakota. View More...
An interesting and seldom seen title. Very handsome design and clean and tightly bound inside and out. Gilded top edge. The only detractions are a bit of wear to lower front corner and a small loss of gilt to horizontal line at bottom of spine. Overall quite nice. SIGNED and inscribed by author thus, "To my dear friend Mr. Kellen, with esteem and regards of the author, Edmund F. Erk, Washington D.C. 1914." A lively first person account (with photographs) of "a tour of ten thousand miles through the wonderland of the West" to reach the 29th Triennial Conclave Grand Encampment of the Knights Tem... View More...
Very nice clean book. A tiny touch of wear to tips of lower corners of dustjacket and one very small tear to top front edge. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover.Measures 8"x9-1/2". Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A history of the Massachusetts trade unions for carpenters and how they worked through the years for workers' rights. The author had worked 16 years in Boston as a carpenter at the time of writing. 239 pages. Indexed. View More...
Very handsome two volume set in an equally handsome slipcase. The books are without defect, but the case shows a bit of edge wear to lower right corner. Set measures 8-1/4" x10-1/2" and has a collective 390 pages. Both books are illustrated with black and white photographs Volume I covers Kiwanis history from 1915-1959 and book two picks up from 1960-2004. Would make a nice gift for a member. View More...
Very nice book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Clean as a whistle inside and out. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. Contents include history, minutes of the annual meeting, rosters of officers from 1880, a list of then current members and an In Memoriam section which includes biographies nd photos where available of decased members.Would be helpful to anyone working on genealogy from northeastern Ohio. View More...
Crisp, as new book -- no defect of note to either book itself or to dustjacket. No bumps, no tears or chips, no names or writing, no creasing. Very large format measuring 11-1/4" high by 13-3/4" wide. Illustrated with numerous photographs in both black and white and color. Text consists of eight essays: The Memorial Idea is Born 1935-1947; The Memorial Competition 1947-1948; Designed To Last A Thousand Years 1958-1962; Reaching for the Sky, 1959-1963; Progress and Protests 1964; Completion of a Dream 1965; The Riverfront Memorial 1966-1985; and Icon in the City 1986-2005. View More...
Crisp, as new book. Only sign of previous owner is a name written on the front pastedown which may be familiar to Akron librarians and those she aided over the years. No bumps to boards, no tears or chips, and dustjacket protected by brand new mylar cover. Illustrated with black and white photographs. History of the rubber unions is traced from 1900 to 1941, and closes with an epilogue of rubber workers in retrospect. Book measures 6-1/4" x 9-1/4" and has 339 pages including index. View More...
Very nice, clean, tightly bound book celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Slovak Gymnastic Union Sokol in the U.S.A. which began in New York City in 1896. Book is written in both Czech and English and is illustrated with black and white photographs throughout (see pictures). The first chapters are about Sklovak history and the origin of of the Sokol movement, the sokol ideology, and the U.S.A. Sokols which began to spread across the midwest. By 1946 there were sokols from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Minnesota. In this book there is also information about the spor... View More...
Crisp, clean book with no names or wiritng, no bumps to boards, pristine inside and out. Measures 7"x10-1/4" and has 352 pages. Facsimile reprint with all original ads and photographs. Each illustration has an ad on the page opposite it. These, however, are interesting in themselves. A rather hard to find very specific history. View More...
These four booklets taught young boys all manner of subjects -- first aid, Indian crafts, natural history, astronomy and more. The Lone Scouts were loosely organized, as membership did not hinge on adult leadership. Many kids lived in rural areas and were truly lone scouts. All you had to do was sign up through the mail and you could obtain the various publications and other items. In 1924, however, the loners merged with the Boy Scouts. The strong Native American influence was that of the works of Ernest Thompson Seton. Booklets measure 4" x 6" and have a cumulative 223 page count. Booklets a... View More...
What a beautiful souvenir of the 47th Annual United Federation of Doll Clubs held August 4-9, 1996 in Dallas, Texas. The box itself is so pretty -- opens at the side to reveal a soft cover book entitled Beautiful Children which fits perfectly inside and was printed especially for the purpose. The book contains lovely illustrations in both color and black and white which, along with the text, celebrate children everywhere. Also included is a small card which explains the souvenir doll that was also produced. The book measures 5-1/2"x7-1/2". Very unique! View More...
