Than an T (9 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: Very Good. 8 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 17.5 x 24 cms. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 6 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 14 pages. In this piece A.A. Milne turns a small social observation into a gently comic meditation on wine, companionship, and the revealing honesty that emerges when people relax into good company. It is Milne in his pre-Pooh, Punch-honed mode: urbane, lightly ironic, and effortlessly readable, using the pretext of drink not to moralise but to explore the small truths of human behaviour with his characteristic warmth and clarity. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 15 x 23 cms. Category: Saturday Books; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. 19 pages, 4 figures. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Manchester Philosophical Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original green paper covers, green title and author lettering to the sage green cloth spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 204 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Very Good condition book, in torn and repaired dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.…

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. A splendid original antique print, mounted (matted) and ready to frame. A print showing a scene from the play 'More Ways Than One' being staged at the Holborn Amphitheatre.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Wanted Poster 20 x 20 cm. In acid free Mylar sleeve. Will be shipped flat between heavy cardboard layers, never rolled. [Transcription:] INDEXED O 31 W O I II 30 U O 15 WANTED - CONFIDENCE MAN - WANTED PLEASE DO NOT POST [Image: William A. Brouse] [Image: Leah Estelle Brouse] Jewish appearance; speaks German; 51 yrs. old; 5 feet, 7 1-2 inches tall; weight, 175 pounds; dark complexion; dark hair, bald on top of head; large hooked nose; drags right leg slightly; wears eye-glasses at times, wears Shriners' ring on right hand. Finger prints other side of this circular. 50 yrs. old; tall and slender; light complexion; hair almost snow white; stylish dresser; seldom appears in public, makes few friends. WILLIAM A. BROUSELEAH ESTELLE BROUSE The above photographs are those of WILLIAM A. BROUSE and his wife, LEAH ESTELLE BROUSE. William A. Brouse is under indictment at Boston for using the mails in a confidence scheme by which he obtained a large sum of money. Brouse travels extensively, using Pullman car accommodations, drawing rooms when accompanied by his wife and twin boys, WILLIAM and HARRY, 10 years of age. He stops at the better class hotels or leases a furnished apartment or single house. He may join exclusive clubs and seek employment with a gas company. His twin children may be residing with their parents, attending public school, or may have been placed in a private school. Brouse gives the impression by his talk that he is associated with most of the big financial men in the United States, is well informed in financial matters and pretends to be able to finance and handle large deals, such as consolidations, business reorganizations, etc. Postmasters receiving this circular are requested to give this matter their very careful attention; canvassing all carriers and clerks with this circular, and ascertain if any of the Brouse family reside within the delivery of their respective offices, including stations, branches, or on rural [poster's bottom folded and pasted onto verso:] routes. Also ascertain if the twin children, William and Harry, are attending any private or public school, including parochial or convent schools, having registered since November, 1929, under the name of Brouse, or any other name. Locate the wife or children and Brouse will be found. If Brouse or any member of his family is located notify me by telegraph, GOVERNMENT RATE COLLECT. If information is obtained indicating that any resident of your city or town may be Brouse or a member of his family, please forward full particulars by letter. Telephone, Liberty 5360. PARK D. COLVIN, Post Office Inspector in Charge; Boston, Massachusetts. Case No. 40325-E, December 1, 1931.Boston, Mass. P.O., 12-31-31-5M.-Ex. Fingerprints & Identification WM. A. BROUSEO 31 W OI I 15I 30 U O 15 Classification RIGHT HAND Thumb | 2. Index | 3. Middle | 4. Ring | 5. Little (Handwritten numbers below prints: 15, 9, 31, O, I) LEFT HAND6. Thumb | 7. Index | 8. Middle | 9. Ring | 10. Little (Handwritten notation: DO NOT FOLD. Roll each finger as far as possible.)" On January 24, 1933, 2 Boston postal inspectors arrested Brouse at an apt hotel in downtown San Antonio, TX, under a federal indictment charging him with defrauding a retired Boston businessman out of c. $36,000 by posing as a financier and pitching a fake stock merger pool involving the United Fruit Company and Standard Fruit Company. Investigators uncovered that his frauds involved fake operations of Mississippi cotton plantations, Louisiana muskrat farms, and fictitious Mexican lead mines. His federal trial for using the mail system to defraud began in Boston on April 4, 1933. Prior to 1925 he had served a 4-year federal prison sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas, for other crimes. He had convictions in Florida (1927) for obtaining money under false pretenses, and arrests and warrants for grand larceny, forgery, and vehicle theft in NY, FL, MA. Earlier he was a private in the United States Marine Corps. Colorado or an apartment district in San Antonio, the inspector instantly knew what geographic area the fugitive was hiding in. Unlike local police or the early FBI, the Post Office Department had eyes on every single address in the USA (illustrator).…