Modern Scientists and Authors

New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. Hardcover. Complete 3-volume set in cloth-over-boards slipcase. Russet cloth with gilt lettering and brown pictorial stamping. x, 465pp; vii, 449pp; vi, 452pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. Just the faintest bit of slipcase wear. Tight, handsome first of this edition, being a greatly expanded version of this publisher's 1968 "McGraw-Hill Modern Men of Science" 2-volume set. Hundreds of mostly one-page thumbnail biographies organized alphabetically, Volume 1 covering A-G, Volume 2 H-Q and Volume 3 R-Z. A superb trilogy, and NOT ex-library as are most sets. .

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Book number: 37782

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Keywords: Science Engineering & Technology

The Modern Muse: Poems of to-Day British and American

London, English Association, 1934. Hardcover. 12mo. Red cloth. xx, 306pp. Errata slip. Very good. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this noted anthology. .

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Book number: 6540

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Keywords: Poetry

Montana, the Magazine of Western History

Helena, The Historical Society of Montana, 1962. Paperback. Small 4to. Color pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Numerous photographs, maps. Near fine. Volume 12, Number 2, the Spring 1962 issue with the cover story "The Civil War in the West. .

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Book number: 1596

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Keywords: WESTERN AMERICANA Western Americana

The Mormon Battalion and Its Monument: A Compilation of Data for Sculptors and Architects

N.p. The State of Utah Mormon Battalion Committee, 1916. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff green wrappers. 56pp. Frontispiece, map, illustration. Very good. Bit of age toning and soiling to wrappers. Tight, decent first edition. FLAKE 9297. .

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Book number: 6584

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Keywords: Military History

Mother Goose Rymes and Melodies

Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Company, 1910. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. (Ca. 25pp). Numerous illustrations and decorative borders. Good. 1 3/4" triangular chip at upper right corner of front wrapper and corresponding but smaller chip to following leaf; document repair tape along spine. Despite damage, an interesting and even attractive copy. .

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Book number: 16009

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Keywords: Children's

Der Musikverein Von Milwaukee, 1850-1900: Eine Chronik

Milwaukee, N.p. 1900. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy decorated cloth. 207pp. Illustrations, decorations. Very good. Cover decorations slightly faded. First edition. History of this Milwaukee music association. .

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Book number: 893

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Keywords: ILLINOIS MIDWEST Illinois & Midwest

My Railway Painting Book: Complete with Paints & Brush

New York, B. Shackman & Co, n.y. Paperback. Wide small 8vo. Stiff color pictorial wrappers. (17pp). Illustrations. Near fine. "Replica of the Antique Original," being a modern (undated, but circa 1980) facsimile of this undated (but late 19th century) novelty item. Six oval openings are diecut down the right edge of the front wrapper and every page beneath, revealing red, yellow, blue, pink, green and brown watercolor pads -- which can then be accessed from every page. line drawings of historical locomotives are interspersed with color versions of the same locomotives (to be used as models for coloring). The original paintbrush is present and unused. A lovely novelty book. .

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Book number: 35722

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Keywords: Railroad Children's

National Geographic Index 1947-1969 Inclusive

Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1970. Hardcover. Small 4to. Yellow and brown cloth with color plate tipped to front cover, pictorial dust jacket. 618pp. Illustrations (manyt color). Near fine/very good. Minor jacket edgewear. Tight, attractive copy of this useful reference. .

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Book number: 17727

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Keywords: Travel & Exploration

National Intelligencer: February 3, 1816 (Vol. XVII, No. 2397)

Paperback. Washington, DC: Gales & Seaton, 3 February 1816 (Vol. XVII, No. 2397). Folio (12½" X 19¼"). Self-cover. 4pp. Good plus. Quite legible and handleable, though printed on a tannish-greyish stock; occasional irregular age toning, especially heavy on the final (4th) page. Good topical political content from the influential tri-weekly, founded in 1800 by Samuel H. Smith (and running until 1866). Second and much of third page occupied by "Debate on the Treaty," namely speechifying by Messrs. Randolph and Pickering. Signed at upper left corner of front page in blue fountain pen by a noted Illinois Civil War collector: "Owner / W.K. Bracken / Bloomington, / Ill. .

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Book number: 27171

Catalogue: Newspapers

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States As Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women Who Are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time -- Volume XVI

New York, James T. White & Company, 1918. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and blue pebbled cloth. 449pp, (5pp). Top edge gilt. Extensive full-page illustrations with tissue guards, marbled endpapers. Very good. Minor splits at heads and tails of outer hinges (only), but still tight -- and internally fine, bright and white. Handsome first edition of this single volume (#16) of this massive reference work "Edited by Distinguished Biographers, Selected from Each State Revised and Approved by the Most Eminent Historians, Scholars, and Statesmen of the Day," in the sumptuous quarter leather binding. The quantity and quality of the full-page photographs and steel-engraved portraits is stunning. Just an odd volume -- but what a volume!.

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Book number: 35322

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Keywords: Americana

The National Geographic Magazine: July, 1927

Washington, DC, National Geographic Society, 1927. Paperback. (Volume LII, Number 1). Small 4to. Stiff yellow wrappers. (24pp ads), 126pp, (26pp ads). Numerous illustrations (some color). Very good. Two lengthy articles: George Finlay Simmons' "Sindbads of Science: The Narrative of a Windjammer's Voyage Among Islands of High Adventure in the South Atlantic" and William Joseph Showalter's "Strange Habits of Familiar Moths and Butterflies." A clean, attractive copy. .

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Book number: 5806

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Keywords: Travel & Exploration

Negro in the United States: A List of Significant Books

New York, The New York Public Library, 1965. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue wrappers. 24pp. Very good. Ninth revised edition. Handy brief bibliography. .

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Book number: 489

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Keywords: BLACK HISTORY Black History

Das Neue Testament Unsers Herren Und Heilandes Jesu Christi, Nach Der Deutschen Uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers...

Germantown, PA, Michael Billmeyer, 1819. Hardcover. 12mo. Original full calf with both metal clasps present and fully functional. 537pp, (3pp). Binding lightly worn; text block moderately age toned throughout, with minor sporadic foxing. A tight and attractive eighth printing of this noted "New Testament" (printed entirely in German) from the press of the well-known Philadelphia printer (1752-1837); the printing office and home in which this was printed still stands today; it was built in 1730, purchased by Billmeyer in 1789 and is supposedly the site from which George Washington directed his Continental Army forces in the Battle of Germantown. When Billmeyer and his father-in-law set up their Lutheran press in the 1780s, they acquired the surviving equipment of the renowned Philadelphia printer Christopher Saur Jr. whose press the British had destroyed in 1777. These volumes are rarely found with the original leather straps and brass clasps present and fully functional. .

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Book number: 36853

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Keywords: Religion German Language

New Orleans City Guide

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Revised by Robert Tallant. 8vo. Green cloth. lx, 416pp. Illustrations. Very good. Lacks foldout map; part of rear board cloth discolored. Tight, clean and decent second edition of this volume in the Works Press Administration's admirable "American Guide Series" -- mild ex-library, with very few and mostly-removed markings. .

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Book number: 27766

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Keywords: Americana

New Light on Lincoln's Character

New York, Lincoln History Society, 1902. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. (32pp). Illustrations. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) a tad age toned and a bit edgeworn. Nice copy of the elaborate prospectus for Ida M. Tarbell's "The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from original sources and containing many Speeches, Letters and Telegrams hitherto unpublished," first published in 1900 and reissued by Lincoln History Society in four volumes in1902. Definitely uncommon. Laid in is an 8" X 4" pale blue printed order form for this set ($10 for "English Ribbed Cloth," $14 for "Three-Quarter Leather") and also a 4 3/4" X 7 3/4" Typed Letter Signed from this company's registrar, W.R. Caldwell, bearing his rubberstamped signature, 1 April 1903. Addressed to E.P. Farr. Very good. Blue-ink mimeographed sales pitch letter for this set. Apparently this publisher reprinted this prospectus each time they reprinted this set (others bear the date 1903, 1907, 1908 and 1909 on the facsimile of the Tarbell title page), but this 1902 is the earliest and represents the year the LHS first published their edition. MONAGHAN 1312 note. .

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Book number: 42650

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Keywords: Abraham Lincoln