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Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. Description: This is a companion volume to Robinson's Complete Arithmetic, and provides the solutions, showing the operations in an abbreviated form, for the more difficult of the written examples from that book. The preface explains that, as this key was prepared not for the pupil, but for the t…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (As Issued). Octavo (8vo); 480pp. Bound in full blue cloth with gilt titles and vignettes. Abrasions and wear to spine ends and sides; corners a bit turned, top hinge cracked but text block secure. A brief history and business directory with numerous period illustratio…

Octavo, pp. [i-viii] ix-x 11-256, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. Vanity-published collection of stories and short formless poems. Some deal rather frankly with sex -- though not as frankly as the subtitle might lead one to expect! Pasted to the beginni…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Faded maroon cloth with a gilt wreath and title on front, binding with some soil yet intact and undamaged, 6 x 3 3/4 inches, signed "Susan Endicott Aiken, Boston, March 1838" on the front free end paper. Title page and last page dark, rest good. 68 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher's catalogue.…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Summary; This book takes us on a journey through four historical dolls houses…

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains remarkably well-preserved overall. Physical Description; 26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. Summary; This book takes us on a journey through four historical dolls houses…

Condition: A VG+ example. Descriptive text to card verso. Stereo image of the Los Angeles Pigeon farm, "located four miles north of the city." Domed images, concave cardstock. Oblong format: 3-1/2" x 7-1/16" "The Los Angeles Pigeon Farm was located between the Los Angeles River and Verdugo Mountains, in Los Angeles, California.…

Staplebound. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Staplebound. Facsimile issue of remnant sections of the Book of the Dead papyri housed at the British Museum. Staplebound (left side) leaves with original pictorial printed cardstock covers. Some minor loose leaves in rear and rusty staples, bump to upper left cor…

Viewbook. Card covers, bound with woven textile cord, title page with blank verso, 6 pages of commentary; 24 pages of B&W photographs, oblong, 5x13.25 in, [13x33.5 cm]. Engraved and copyrighted by Tom Jones, as stated on the title page. Ink squiggle to margin of one photograph; pages age-toned. Covers chipped, torn, edge-worn, c…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Revised Edition, First Printing. Revised Edition, 1844. 22 Plates, With Maps Numbered I-Xxx; All Copyright 1839 Except Extra Map 13 Of Michigan And Wisconsin, Which The Rear Cover Explains Was Added In September 1844, And Changes Made To Front And Rear Covers From The 1839 Edition. Covers Are The Ori…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. illustrations, [4], 90p. Softcover in original reddish covers and bound with a white comb binding. 29cm. No. 208 neatly inked on the leaf preceding the title-leaf. First couple of leaves detached from last few teeth in comb. Mostly poetry and short fiction. Park House is probably the institution,…

1st printing, ca 1918. 22 images, 11 per side of one long sheet [43-3/4" x 6"], folded accordion style. All images in color, captions. Envelope pack: 4-3/8" x 6-1/8" The cards portray 22 US ships of the era. Side one: Alabama [BB-8], Kansas [BB-21], Virginia [BB-13], Vermont [BB-20], Idaho [BB-24], Rhode Island [BB-17], Missouri…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Presumed 1st (and only) edition. (24)p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19 cm. Stapled. This scarce pamphlet contains two and a half pages of racist justification for white control and subjugation of African Americans followed by a collection of stereotype jokes, mostly lampooning African American…

Condition: Nr Fine. 1st printing (presumed). 20 number 'flash' cards of white stiff-stock glossy paper which detail a classroom exercise useful for conveying a certain skill [e.g., Mechanical Drawing] or concept ["A Lucky Throw" - statistics & percentages, using dice throws]. A 21st card (on plain stock), "Suggestions for the Te…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Rose-colored cloth, decorated in blind & gilt, 6 x 3 3/4 inches, binding worn with light stains, no damage. Gold end papers with floral pattern. Woodcut frontispiece of a man and woman sitting at a table in a fashionable parlor, the man pointing to an open book on the table; the woodcut is signed "Dev…

Wraps. Stapled. Condition: Near Fine. An unusual business publication, not exactly a trade catalogue in which a company is promoting its products, but rather, a company promoting its line of business, inviting others to enter the industry. Thus the brochure is a primer on how cast iron toys are made, step-by-step, along with mor…