It's not common to find an example of this early technical magazine and especially not in such nice condtion. There is a small bit of soiling to outer edge of front cover, but it is otherwise very handsome. Oversized at 11" across by 14" tall. Numerous ads at front and back with bold graphics showing various pumps, pipes, derricks, engineering and surveying equipment, fire hydrants, valves. etc.. Even submarine tunnels and early steam shovels.A sampling of articles include the following topics: a landslide on the New York, Central & Hudson Railroad, the foundation for the 1000-ft. Eiffel tower... View More...
Excellent condition -- red boards are clean and bright, augmented with shiny gilt to face and spine. No names or writing and pages and page edges pristine. Book measures 6-1/2"x9-1/2" and has 880 pages. This is a facsimile reprint of a history origjnally published in 1886. Illustrated with portraits of early settlers and prominent people from the area. Much historical information on the country, townships, towns, schools, churches, industries etc. TWO like copies available, the second with a brown cover. View More...
Gorgeous art calatog in excellent condition. Very clean and nice with just a tiny speck of wear to tail of spine. Large size -- 11" across by 8-1/2" tall. SIGNED and inscribed by artist on title page thus, "To ....., With Best Wishes, Lee Weiss" Forty-two pages of exquisite paintings and explanatory notes. Weiss was a professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin for many years, but has also been a working artist with numerous exhibits nationwide and abroad, including France and Japan. Her awards are many and varied and she has also been commissioned by NASA and has par... View More...
Beautiful, crisp atlas with only one fault -- toning to edge of spine. Otherwise truly lovely with pristine pages and no names or writing. Oversized at 14-1/4"x17-1/2". Taken from the Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana originally published by Baskin Forster & Co. in 1876. View More...
Crisp, clean vintage football program with bright autumnal cover. Measures 8"x10-1/2" and is without defect other than a tiny bit of wear to lower spine. 1948 was a great year for the Fighting Irish. They ended the season unbeaten along with the Michigan Wolverines. Program has 64 pages and two full page color ads -- Camel cigarettes on back cover and Studebacker at inside back. View More...
One of the harder-to-find collectible movie fan magazines of the day. Almost pristine save tiny crease to lower front corner. Pages have evenly toned and there are no labels and no names or writing. Cover features Grace Moore in advance of her new movie with Cary Grant, "Interlude", accompanied by a four page feature with stills inside. Magazine focuses on movies with a look at both female and male leads -- hence oretta Young/Tyrone Power in Love Is News; William Powell/Myrna Loy in After the Thin Man; Victor McLadgen/Ida Lupino in Coast Patrol; Virginia Bruce/Melvyn Douglas in Women o... View More...
Book is clean as a whistle inside and out. Dark blue boards show no bumping and pages and page edges are pristine. Only fault is a small name written at upper corner of front free endpaper. Book measures 7-1/4"x 10-1/4" and has 230 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. View More...
Very clean soft cover -- no defect of note. Measures 8-1/2"x11" and has 133 pages. Provides a complete listing of Native Amercan books and resources in the library's collection for both children and adults, including fiction, nonfiction and reference, plus periodicals, pamphlets, microfilm, cassettes, filmstrips, films and videos. View More...
It's unusual to find such a crisp cleap road map of this vintage, but this one is nearly perfect, save a small spot of wear to upper left corner when completely folded. Printed in red and blue on white with drawing at face depicting an automobile of the day cruising through bucolic Ohio farm land. Measures 4"x7-3/4" closed, but open to size of current standard roaad maps. Printed on both sides. View More...
A very special offering for collectors of First Day Covers published as a joint effort of the U.S. Postal Service and NASA. The cover itself with its bright logo and stamp is housed in a pictorial folder that measures 8-1/2"x11" and offers information about the cover's design. What makes this so special is the fact that it was stamped three times -- once at Kennedy Space Center August 14, 1983, once aboard the Challenger at launch on August 30, 1983, and then again upon its return to earth on September 5, 1983 at Edwards Air Force Base in Califonria. This marks the first time a cover h... View More...
Crisp, as new copy marred only by a tiny crease to upper fornt corner. Published in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society. Profusely illustrated with photographs, a few in color. Includes numerous articles and quotes, as well as a history. Ads by commercial vendors at back. A publication of the Ramakrishna Order of India. View More...
Crisp, as new copy, marred only by a tiny spot to first page and a flat crease at upper front corner.. Printed in blue ink with numerous technical drawings, including one fold-out. A step-by-step look at how the task force in New York City did it over thirty years ago with adaptable ideas for urban dwellers of the 21st century interested in alternative energy sources. 65 pages. View More...
This book is so attractively designed. The light olive boards are pristine and unbumped and are printed in the purple color which reprises on the inked top edge. The purple edge is pristine. The jacket has sunned on the spine, a fault which wraps around to the back a bit (see photo). There's also some light soil that can't be cleaned any more than it has due to uncoated paper, and a few amall edge tears. It has not been price-clipped and looks most handsome in brand new mylar. Book was translated from the Portuguese with humor intact. Amado was a modernist who was the most appreciated author ... View More...
Crisp, clean book with no names or writing. Laminated boards designed without dustjacket. Measures 6"x9" and has 240 pages.Foreword by Cleveland journalist and personality, Dick Feagler. Book is a compendium of sports columns written by August over a period of four decadesand selected from rhe pages of the Cleveland Press (1964-`1978) and The News-Herald (1982-2001). View More...
This was a privately bound full year run of The American Boy Magazine, all 12 issues for 1925. As you can see from the photographs, the original mailing labels are on the covers. Every magazine is clean and nice and the binding is truly top drawer with its paisley cover and green cloth spine and corners. Great ads abound and there is a lot to read in each issue, both fiction and nonfiction. Some of authors include Ralph Henry Barbour, Charles Tenny Jackson, and Thomas Burtis among many. Topics cover a wide swath, including basketball, football, baseball, hunting, camping, canoeing, aviation, ... View More...
Very clean and tightly bound catalog with no names or writing published to accompany an exhibit held at the City Museum of Lubljana, Slovenia. Pearson is an Ohio artist who created this collection as a synthesis of nature and culture. Full page photographs in color throughout. The catalog measures 9"x11-3/4" and has 28 pages. Written in both ENGLISH and SLOVENIAN. Not commonly found. View More...
Book itself is crisp and clean with unbumped aqua boards printed in gilt at face and spine. Snow white pages and page edges and no names or writing. Yellow dustjacket is sunned to white at spine and shows two small indentations next to spine at bottom front, but is most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Has not been price-clipped. A compilation of over 13,000 shipwrecks lying under ten to seven hundred foot depths in America's territorial waters. Covers virtually evey ship of more than 50 gross tons. 308 pages. View More...
Crisp, clean book with laminated pictorial boards. No DJ, as issued, but is missing slipcase. No bumps to boards, no names or writing,. Measures 9"x12" and is printed on coated paper, resulting in a heavy book with 543 pages. Illustrated profusely with historical photographs. Text consists of explanatory captions, some extensive, all in both French and English. View More...
Book is beauiful in a low-key way. Boards are covered with brown paper and dark brown cloth at the spine.Tthe only defect to the book itself is a small "This Belongs To" sticker (unused) pasted on the top corner of the front free endpaper. The dustjacket is likewise nice save a tiny chip to the back corner. Jacket looks very handsome in a brand new mylar cover.. Malamud was the winner of two National Book Awards and a Pultizer. Here he includes speeches, interviews, notes on the nature of fiction, and illuminating discussions of novels, short stories, subject matter, reviison and the Jewi... View More...
Crisp, clean book with no names or writing and no spine crease, Measures 7"x10" and has 111 pages. Lavishly illustrarted with historical photos in black and white. Tells the story of Henry Morrison Flagler who built a railroad at the end of the Floirda Key chain. Work began in 1904-05 and was completed in 1912.. But then in 1935 there came a hurricane ... View More...
