The Living Age [Monthly Number]: June 5, 1926

Boston, The Living Age, 1926. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. Pp. 479-555. Inner wrappers advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear to outer wrappers (only). A tight, bright and nice copy of the monthly version of this general interest magazine published weekly from 1844 to 1941, combining excerpts from American and British newspaper and magazines. This issue includes Cecil Day Lewis's "'Sedet Atra--' A Poem," "Lev Tolstoi's "Civilizing the Caucasus," J.W.F.'s "In a British Coal Mine: Seeing the Hewer at Work" and Charles F.G. Masterman's "The British Coal Situation: A Former Cabinet Official on England's Sick Industry. .

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Book number: 39876

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Keywords: Americana

The Living Age: May 8, 1926

Boston, The Living Age, 1926. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. Pp. 295-340. Inner wrappers advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear to outer wrappers (only), with tail and top 3" of spine rough. A tight, bright and nice copy of this general interest magazine published weekly from 1844 to 1941, combining excerpts from American and British newspaper and magazines. Contributors include Sir Oliver Lodge ("The Books of My Youth: A Great Physicist on His Early Influences"), Helen Granville-Barker ("Clairvoyance: A Poem"), Isamu Suzuno ("The Quaint English of Japan: Schoolboy Struggles with an Alien Tongue") and others. .

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Book number: 39877

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Keywords: Americana

The Living Age [First of the Month Number]: June 1, 1927

Boston, The Living Age, 1927. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. Pp. 941-1032, (2pp). Inner wrappers advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear to outer wrappers (only). A tight, bright and nice copy of this general interest magazine published weekly from 1844 to 1941, combining excerpts from American and British newspaper and magazines. Included in this issue are Paul Valery ("Stendhal: A Study in Subtlety"), Havelock Ellis ("The Future of Marriage: An English View of Keyserling"), Demetrius C. Boulgar ("General Gordon's Campaign Round Shanghai: How History Repeats Itself -- with a Difference") and more. .

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Book number: 39878

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Keywords: Americana

The Living Age [Monthly Number]: August 7, 1926

Boston, The Living Age, 1926. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange wrappers. Pp. 263-339, (1p). Inner wrappers advertisements. Very good. Quite mild edgewear to outer wrappers (only). Tight and attractive copy of this general interest magazine published weekly from 1844 to 1941, combining excerpts from American and British newspaper and magazines. Contributors to this issue include Sir Edmund Gosse ("George Meredith: Reminiscence and Review"), Meredith Atkinson ("The General Strike in History: Spontaneous Restraints on Social Suicide") and more. .

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Book number: 39880

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Keywords: Americana

Loan Exhibition of Paul Gauguin for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary

New York, Wildenstein, 1946. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff orange pictorial wrappers. 77pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Nifty Gauguin exhibit catalogue. Comes with a second Gauguin catalogue, "Paul Gauguin: 1848-1903" (Palm Beach: The Society of the Four Arts, n.y. [1956), also a small 4to pamphlet in stiff orange wrappers. .

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Book number: 422

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Keywords: ART ARCHITECTURE Art

Look at America: The Country You Know -- and Don't Know

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 344pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn, with some edge chips, but overall attractive. Tight, clean early (not first) printing of this pictorial tour of the U.S. .

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Book number: 11263

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Keywords: Americana

The Look of the Book: A Series of Luncheon Discussions Presented As the 1959-1960 Program of the Trade Clinic of the American Institute of Graphic Arts

New York, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1960. Hardcover. 12mo. Blue cloth. 109pp. Near fine. Probable sole edition. Interesting volume featuring a variety of writers and opinions including a Brit's view of American book production, a librarian contemplating the perfect book, a bookseller describing the importance of the looks of a book, etc. Text taken from the speakers' papers and from articles in the 1959 and 1960 "Publishers' Weekly. .

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Book number: 523

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Keywords: ABOUT BOOKS Bibliography & Books About Books

Louisiana Historical Quarterly Excerpts

New Orleans, Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 1943. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth. Pp. 25-68, 191-240pp, 5-43pp. Near fine. Several related articles bound together: from the January 1927 issue (Vol. 10, No. 1), "The First Great River Captain" edited by J. Fair Hardin; from the April 1927 issue (Vol. 10, No. 2), "Henry Miller Shreve: A Biography" by Caroline S. Pfaff; and from the January 1943 issue (Vol. 26, No. 1), "Discussion in the Continental Congress Relative to Surrendering the Right to Navigate the Mississippi River" edited by James A. Padgett and "John McDonogh and the Mississippi River Trade" by Lewis E. Atherton. .

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Book number: 25007

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Keywords: HENRY MILLER SHREVE" "SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA Americana

The Magic Desert: The Romance of a Great Discovery

New York, Chilean Nitrate of Soda Educational Bureau, 1928. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 59pp. Frontispiece map, numerous illustrations. Very good. Slight edgewear. Probable sole printing. Unusual history of this fertilizer, beginning with a fictionalized account of the Araucanian Indian's discovery of it in the 16th century and ending with the modern gathering and refining factories for it. .

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Book number: 13545

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Keywords: Natural History

The Magnificent Rockies: Crest of a Continent

Palo Alto, American West Publishing Company, 1973. Hardcover. Compiled by the editors of American West. 4to. Blue leatherette spine and grey cloth, blue paper over boards slipcase. 285pp. Frontispiece, several illustrations (many color), maps. Near fine. Book plate removal mark on front pastedown. First edition, from "The Great West Series. .

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Book number: 1518

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Keywords: WESTERN AMERICANA Western Americana

The Magnificent Collections of Richard and Jean Salisbury and Ted K. Woods: As Well As Items from the Collections of Aubrey and Adeline Bebee, William R. Sieck, Et Al.

Wolfeboro, NH, Bowers and Merena, 1994. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue glazed wrappers. 255pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine. Catalogue for this September 12-14, 1994 auction by the renowned New England coin dealers. Tight and lovely. .

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Book number: 6712

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: COIN COLLECTING" "NUMISMATICS Antiques & Collecting

Making the Peace Treaties, 1941-1947

Washington, D.C. Department of State, 1947. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. ix, 150pp. Color maps, map endpapers. Very good. First edition. Interesting history of the World War II peace-making process. .

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Book number: 984

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Keywords: MILITARY HISTORY Military History

Mandrake the Magician: No. 6

Sparta, IL, King Features Syndicate, 1967. Paperback. (No. 6). Small 4to. Glazed pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 50pp). Very good. Minor shelfwear. Tight, decent copy of this early episode, titled "Incredible Space Menace: Part I. .

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Book number: 11133

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Keywords: Children's

Manna-Hatin": The Story of New York

New York, The Manhattan Company, 1929. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown textured paper over boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xvii, 269pp. Frontispiece, line drawings. Near fine/very good. Ownership name/address on front flyleaf; jacket a bit edgeworn, with a few small edge chips along top and slightly sunned spine -- but complete and overall attractive. First edition. Mayor James J. Walker provides an introductory "Appreciation" to this enjoyable history that ranges from 1609 to 1930. Great period piece: The Big Apple on the eve of the Great Depression. Lovely copy, with delightful jacket graphics. .

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Book number: 46774

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Keywords: Americana

Map and Profile Supplement: Rivers & Lakes Commission Report -- Little Wabash and Skillet Fork Rivers

[Springfield], [Illinois State Journal Company], 1911. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering housing 23 large foldout maps (as issued). Floral pastedowns. Very good. Case slightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with mild cracking along outer edges (though expert archival inner lining maintains case shape and integrity); maps very good to near fine, with no separations evident. First edition of this scarce accompaniment to the "Report Upon the Prevention of Overflow of the Little Wabash and Skillet Fork Rivers," a 40pp study authored by W.J. McEathron, Leroy Lemayne Hidinger and others in 1911. The Little Wabash River is a 240-mile-long tributary of the Wabash River in southern Illinois and Skillet Fork a 98-mile-long tributary of the Little Wabash. Together they are part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Lacks the 40-page clothbound report, but a superb and complete detailed map grouping. .

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Book number: 34249

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Keywords: Illinois & Midwest Maps