Service for Day of Victory. Arranged by Archdeacon James Walker for the Use of the Episcopal and Congregational Churches of Kohala, Hawaii, T.H.

Kohala, Hawaii, 1942. Softcover. Typed script, n.d. ca 1942); 6 1/2" x 8 1/2"; pp. [8]; stapled leaves; minor creasing and a few nicks to fore-edge of pages; in about near fine condition. Though undated, the script for the order of service was most probably created in the early years of the Second World War, as several of the hymns and prayers specifically addressed prisoners of war, wounded soldiers, and those mourning lost loved ones. Archdeacon James Walker arrived in Hawaii in 1919 from England and was a constant presence in the lives of Episcopalians in North and South Kohala until his retirement in 1948 and was in charge of the Kohala Missions for most of those years. Ill.: 0. 2.

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Book number: 001132

A Master

Crazygrams for Parties (a Card Game)

Brooklyn, NY: By the Author, 1920. Softcover. First edition presumed, n. d. (1920s [?]); 24 cards on orange card stock, with text and illustrations in black; lithographed card stock box; very minor wear to cards, near fine condition; directions on the back panel of the box; chips and cuts to edges, good to very good condition. A mystery card game, it was intended to be played at parties and gatherings and, according to instructions, "each crazygram should be given to the one the title on the crazygram signifies. After all have been read, the host or hostess should select the one who laughed the least and make him or her do as the crowd wishes." Although most of the cards are good-naturedely funny, some are slightly offensive, too, including: "To the Dumbest Girl! Will you accept a position as professor of Internal Trouble.." and "To the Gold Digger! I am proposing marriage to you. Am sending this craqzygram collect.. Ill.: 0. 2.

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Book number: 001946

A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company

A.J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company (Trade Catalog)

Chicago, A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company, 1905. First Edition. Trade catalog, n. d. (ca 1905); oblong folio, 18 1/4 x 13; pp. [58], recto only; textured, olive wraps, 1/4 cloth, and large rivets (as published); a small cut to cloth on spine; wraps with a few spots to margins and nicks and cuts along edges of paper; faint vertical crease; numerous, sepia-tone illustrations; very good condition. A beautiful, lavish, trade catalog for the A. J. Johnson & Sons Furniture Company - established in 1869 and known for manufacturing luxury furniture. Each page featured an entire suite, ie. beds, bureau, chifforette, vanity, foot stool, etc. the materials the pieces were made of (Mahogany, Walnut), the style of the furniture (Queen Anne, Hepplewhite, William and Mary), and the dimensions. Very good .

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Book number: 002413

Catalogue: Furniture

Keywords: Furniture, Trade Catalog

A. Parker

A Late-19th-Century, Miniature, Glass-Leather-Tin, Travelling Inkwell

London, The Strand, 1890. Miniature inkwell, n. d. (late 1800s); 1 3/4 x 1 3/4 x 1 1/2; glass ink reservoir, enclosed in a tin box; lid with hinges and a spring-button; covered in black morocco with gilt manufacturer's name; a few tiny rust spots; a small puncture along one of th ehinges; cork stopper appears to have been replaced at a later time; in good condition. In the late 19th century, with the great expansion of steamship and train travel, portable, miniature inkwells became indispencible articles of travellers, together with quills, envelopes, sealing was, etc. They were made of porcelain, cut-glass, silver, or as is the current case - mixed metal , glass, and leather. Good .

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Book number: 004211

Catalogue: Inkwell

Keywords: Inkwell

Abbe, Dorothy

A Selection of Dwiggins' Typographic Ornaments. "Words Told Off for Special Ornamental Duty

Boston, The Society of Printers, 1958. First edition in book form; 12 x 9; pp. [3], 4-14, [2]; textured yellow wraps, decorated with an elaborate vignette in black and tied with a decorative string; illustrated with numerous drawings of typographic ornaments; a bit of age-toning and a few minor spots to margins of wraps; closed cut to fore-edge of front wrap; small, previous owner's bookplate to ffep; overall in very good condition. Written by fellow author Dorothy Abbe, the book commemorated the work of William Addison Dwiggins (1880 - 1956) - renowned type designer, calligrapher, and book artist, remembered for his bold, ornamented, geographic, Art Deco-inspired work. Very good .

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Book number: 004251

Catalogue: Type Design

Keywords: Type Design

Abendroth Bros.

The Cotton Plant, Vol. II --- No. 3

New York, Abendroth Bros. 1870. First Edition. Large advertising piece in a newspaper format; 19 3/4 x 14 1/4; pp. [4]; illustrated with engravings; fold lines and a few small closed splits and creases to edges; in about very good condition. An unrecorded advertising for the Abendroth Bros. products, with emphasis on the Cotton Plant Stove, it also featured articles on the Franco-Prussian War, the wide-spread adoration for the "Shoo Fly Don't Bother Me" song (said to have been written by a soldier a few years earlier, during the Civil War), etc. It also showcased writings by, allegedly, customers, including a short one by a "Texan," with questionable for the times morale, which was titled "Conjugal Confusion" and told a story of railway men, wives visiting, confused hotel employees, and switched women. The Abendroth Bros. Stove Foundry was established in 1840. One of the largest foundries on the East Coast, at its height it employed 700 people. Very good .

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Book number: 003909

Catalogue: Advertisement

Keywords: Advertisement

Abraham Bell & Son

A Small Group of Bills of Landing of the Quaker Shipping Merchants Abraham Bell & Son

New York, By the authors, 1852. Three documents, printed and partially filled in manuscript; approx. 6 x 12; illustrated with small engravings; a few small nicks to edges and mild age-toning; in very good condition. Abraham Bell (1778 - 1856) was born in a prominent Quaker family in Northern Ireland. Immigrating to New York in 1797, he co-founded Abraham Bell & Company with several partners, of which he would become the sole owner and which would be renamed Abraham Bell & Son in 1844. A shipping firm and commissions merchant, it imported and exported a variety of commodities, though it specialized in the export of Southern cotton to the British Isles. During the potato famine of the 1840s, Bell transported thousands of immigrants from Ireland. The three current bills addressed the shipping, via various vessels, of bales of cotton to Liverpool, rosin to Glasgow, and embroideries to Richmond. Very good .

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Book number: 003868

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana

Abramov, Fedor

Vokrug Da Okolo

London: Flegon Press, 1963. First edition thus; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; pp. 29; stapled yellow wraps; mild foxing along margins of covers; small nick to fore-edge of front cover; previous owner's name stamp to corner of front cover and title page; one large b&w illustration; very good condition. Fedor Abramov was a Russian author and literary critic known for his affinity for writing about the hardships of the Russian peasants. His essay "Around the Bush" also centered on the difficult kolkhoz lives. The publisher of the essay, Alec Flegon, was the owner of "Flegon Press" and a controversial figure in the samizdat publishing circles in London in mid-20th century. He was the first to publish Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Heart of a Dog' and Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' as well as various versions of Pasternak's 'Doctor Zhivago.' He did not pay royalties to the authors under the pretext of helping them more than enough with just promoting their works. For that he was resented by many immigrants and was sued by Solzhenitsyn for piracy. He was also rumored to have had strong KGB ties as he was most successful smuggling manuscripts, phone directories, etc. from Russia to England. On the other hand, for his affordable editions and hard work, Flegon had numerous admirers and grateful readers. Ill.: 0. 2.

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Book number: 000921

Abramova, Ia. V.

V. Franklin. Ego Zhizn, Obshchestv. I Nauchnaia Dieiatelnost

S.-Peterburg, Tipografiia tovarishchestva "Obshchestvennaia Polza, 1891. First Edition. First edition; 7 1/4 x 4 3/4; pp. [5], 6-79, [1]; beige wraps, printed in black; illustrated with portrait frontis of Benjamin Franklin; previous owner's personal stamp and manuscript note to front wrap; some loss of paper from head of spine (text block solid); in about very good condition. A well-written biography of Benjamin Franklin, it covered his childhood, his contributions to the American society and to the world before and after the Revolutionary War, his founding of the first public library in the US, etc. Very good .

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Book number: 003532

Catalogue: Russian-Americana

Keywords: Russian-Americana

Adams, Ansel; Plumb, Stanley

The Four Seasons in Yosemite National Park. A Photographic Story of Yosemite's Spectacular Scenery

Los Angeles, Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House, 1936. First Edition. First edition; 12 x 8 1/2; pp. [52]; brown pictorial wraps; glassine dust jacket; illustrated with color frontis plate, numerous black-and-white photographs, and a map; book with a small crease to lower right corners and minor age-toning to leaves - in very good to near fine condition; DJ with a few small cuts to front panel and some loss to back panel - in fair condition. A beautiful and early Ansel Adams collection of Yosemite photographs, the book was published by the Yosemite Park and Curry Company - founded in 1925 and one of the largest and longest operating concessioners in the national park system - and edited by their Publicity Director Stanley Plumb. It would go through several editions, in part due to the fact that Ansel Adams was quite unhappy with the representation of his images in print. Very good .

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Book number: 004001

Catalogue: Yosemite

Keywords: California, Ansel Adams, Photography

Adams, Amos (Compiler)

Journal of the Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Session of the California State Grange, Held at Grangers' Hall, Sacramento, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, 1884

San Francisco, California, Carlos White Printing Co. Steam Printers, 1884. First Edition. First edition; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; pp. [1], 4-71; off-white wraps, printed and ruled with an elaborate border; chips to tips of spine; faint spotting and foxing to wraps (not affecting readability); in good condition. A scarce work from an illusive San Francisco publisher, it documented the proceedings of the California branch of the Grange - officially named The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. The social organization, being the oldest American agricultural advocacy group with a national scope, was founded after the Civil War - in 1867. It would claim credit for the ideas of rural free mail delivery, the Farm Credit System, etc. What was most unusual of the organization at the time was that women and teenagers, "old enough to draw a plow," were encouraged to participate in it. Furthermore, it was mandatory that four of the organization's elected positions could be held only by women. Many local granges were established, including the California State Grange, which was founded in 1873 in Napa. Good .

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Book number: 003685

Catalogue: California

Keywords: California

Adams, Terry; Eppstein, Maureen; et al

Poems on the Eve of War

Palo Alto, CA, Waverley Writers, 1991. First Edition. First edition, subtitled: "A Reading at Unitarian Fellowship of Redwood City, Sunday, January 13, 1991;" 8 1/2 x 5 1/4; pp. [4], 1-26; off-white stapled wraps, printed in black; mild creasing to corners of back wrap and light age-toning to margins; in very good or better condition. A collection of several Bay Area poets' verses, read and published at the tail end of the Gulf War. Very good .

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Book number: 004068

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Poetry, California

Adams & Elting Co.

Two Advertising and Sample Brochures for 'Hygienic Kalsomine'

Chicago, Adams & Elting Co. 1909. Two brochures, ca 1909; four-fold and tri-fold, 8 1/2 x 3 1/4 and 6 1/4 x 3 1/4 folded; one illustrated with drawings, the other lithographed; 18 color paint chips laid on in each; generally mild wear to edges and margins; in very good condition. Beautiful advertising brochures, they showcased various shades of 'Hygienic Kalsomine' - a sanitary wall finish in brilliant, uniform colors. Very good .

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Book number: 003741

Catalogue: Paint

Keywords: Paint

[Adapted by] Cluny, P.

Napier's Rods. Scholar's Edition. Including Notes on Use

London, Philograph Publications Ltd. 1966. First Edition. A Complete set - 11 rods (10 double-sided + index), instructions booklet, and original envelope; booklet - heavy, coated, glossy paper, pp. [4] - in near fine condition; rods - thick, coated card stock - in fine condition; envelope with paste-on label (a second, small, bookshop label to front panel) - a bit of wear to edges and mild spotting - in very good condition. Napier's Rods, also known as Napier's Bones, is a manually-operated calculating device, which was created and published in 1617 by Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Napier (1550 - 1617). With the rods originally made out of metal, wood, or ivory, the method was based on lattice multiplication, or rabdology - the latter word invented by Napier. Very good .

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Book number: 003952

Catalogue: Mathematics

Keywords: Mathematics

Adelson, Albert

A Letter to President Roosevelt, Related to His 1934 Devils Lake Speech

Oakland, CA, By the author, 1934. Typed letter, signed in ink; 12 x 8 1/2; single sheet, text to recto only; mild, uniform age-toning; old, horizontal fold lines; in very good condition. Albert Adelson (1850 - 1943) was a Russian-American resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, allegedly claiming to be one of the founders of the Russian Republic and author of their constitution. Known for his crusades against social injustices and for his relentless letter-writing to US presidents, senators, and other political figures, in this particular letter he addressed "His Excellency, President of the United States," in connection with President Franklin Roosevelt's 1934 visit to Devils Lake in North Dakota. The president's campaign against the drought and the desperate economic situation in the midst of the Great Depression prompted Adelson to offer a "genious invention, titled: Overhead-Irrigation and Fire-Extinguisher Wizard." According to him, it could cover the whole country and "120 million souls in the United States of America, will surely be saved ALIVE!!!" Begging for the Government's backing, Albert ended his letter with: "I remain, the best U. S. officially qualified citizen." . Very good .

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Book number: 003637

Catalogue: Americana

Keywords: Americana