Cookery Fun with Dairy Foods

N.p. Iowa Dairy Industry Commission, n.y. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. (8pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good. Front and rear covers slightly stained. Edition not ascertainable. Pamphlet of recipes compiled by the home economics staff of the Iowa Dairy Industry Commission. .

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Book number: 707

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: COOKING Cooking

The Corning Glass Center

Corning, NY, Corning Glass Works, 1958. Hardcover. 12mo. Glazed pictorial paper over boards. 61pp. Extensive illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Near fine. Tight, nice first edition of this guided tour. .

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Book number: 18591

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

Correspondence Relative to the Case of Messrs. Mason and Slidell

Washington, D.C. Department of State, 1861. Paperback. 8vo. Wrappers. 15pp. Good. Wrappers age toned, else fine. Close-cropped clipped signature of CSA diplomat John Slidell (1793-1871) tipped to front wrapper. Circa 1900 catalogue slip affixed to top of front cover. NEVINS I, 274. .

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Book number: 13236

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Keywords: CIVIL WAR Civil War

Country Inn Cookbook

Stockbridge, The Berkshire Traveller Press, 1970. Paperback. Illustrations by Janice Lindstrom. Small 8vo. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers. 95pp. Line drawings. Very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Volume I only, fourth printing of the revised edition. .

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Book number: 4277

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Keywords: Cooking

The Country Traveler: Exploring the Past at America's Outdoor Museums

Alexandria, VA, Time-Life Books, 1990. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth spine and glazed pictorial paper over boards. 175pp. Numerous color illustrations, decorative endpapers. Near fine. Second printing of this volume in the "American Country" series, a stunning museum tour. .

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Book number: 4624

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

Crafts Jamboree

New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Brown paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 296pp. Numerous color illustrations, color pictorial endpapers. Near fine/near fine. First edition. Nicely illustrated compendium of over 30 different craft activities and instructions including quilting, beadwork, knitting, stained glass, candlemaking, etc. .

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Book number: 311

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Keywords: ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING Antiques & Collecting

Crystals Captive

Glenview, IL, Scott, Foresman and Company, n.y. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff wrappers with color plate affixed to front wrapper. (30pp). Very good. Slight age toning to wrappers; nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. Probable sole printing of this holiday keepsake, an anthology of verse by well-known poets all with a SNOW theme: thus excerpts from Whittier's "Snow-Bound," etc. Contributors include Emerson, Shakespeare, Lowell, Dickinson, Wylie, Millay and others. .

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Book number: 23495

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Keywords: Poetry

The Daily Chicago Times: July 10, 1859

Chicago: Sheahan & Price, 1859 July 10 (Vol. 6, No. 54). Folio. (4pp). Fair only. Moderately age toned and darkened throughout, with numerous small edge tears and some original folds weak; binding traces. Despite fair only condition, this example is handleable and easily readable -- and "The Daily Chicago Times" is seen far less often than Chicago's more popular "Press and Tribune." A good atmosphere piece, with much political coverage, numerous boilerplate advertisements, etc. .

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Book number: 17274

Catalogue: Newspapers

Dessins Esquimaux / Eskimo Drawings

Quebec, Canada, La Federation des Cooperatives du Nouveau-Quebec, 1979. Paperback. Folio. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers with white plastic comb binding, pictorial presentation envelope. (24pp). Color illustrations. Fine/very good. Mild edgewear to presentation envelope (only). Probavle sole edition of this unusual and pristine illustrated calendar featuring one color illustration for each month -- notes inside front wrapper (in side-by-side French/English texts), "The lithographs in this calendar are from original felt pen drawings by Inuit artists living in Arctic Quebec." Eskimos are depicted in igloos, performing daily tasks (fishing, hunting, playing, etc.). Clearly never used. Uncommon thus, as its purpose usually guaranteed its destruction. For the Eskimo or Inuit collector who has everythings!.

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Book number: 36999

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Keywords: INUIT Native American Ephemera

Diagnostic Procedures for Virus and Rickettsial Diseases

New York, American Public Health Association, 1956. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. xv, 578pp. Illustrations, tables. Very good. Spine very slightly sunned. Tight, nice second edition -- discreet ex-library, with no spine marking and almost no other markings. .

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Book number: 37338

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Keywords: Medical

Difco Manual of Dehydrated Culture Media and Reagents for Microbiological and Clinical Laboratory Procedures

Detroit, Difco Laboratories, 1953. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. 350pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Faint edgewear. A tight and attractive ninth edition of this 1927 text, with ownership signature on front pastedown (as undergrad) and front flyleaf (as medical student) of noted pediatric infectious disease specialist Ralph C. Gordon. .

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Book number: 37319

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Keywords: Medical

Difco Manual of Dehydrated Culture Media and Reagents for Microbiology

Detroit, Difco Laboratories, 1985. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. vii, 1155pp. Very good. Black remainder mark on outer page edges. Tight, nice reprint of the tenth edition of this 1927 text. .

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Book number: 37340

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Keywords: Medical

The Dime Dialogues No. 11: A New Collection of Original Colloquies, Minor Dramas, Comediettes, Farces and Dress Pieces, for Schools, Exhibitions, and Parlor Use

New York, Beadle and Adams, 1871. Paperback. 16mo. Orange pictorial wrappers. 94pp, (9pp ads). Good plus. Outer wrappers slightly soiled, but overall very attractive, with none of the brittleness or edge chipping usually seen on these. Interesting, eclectic collection of brief stage pieces. Front cover engraving depicts an artist in front of his easel, addressing a black woman who stands in front of him. A far better than average copy. .

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Book number: 23058

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Keywords: DIME NOVELS; BEADLE AND ADAMS Drama

The Dime Dialogues No. 28: Very "Taking" Original and Effective Dialogues, Colloquies, School and Parlor Dramas, Exhibition and Dress Pieces, Etc. , Comic, Serious, Droll, Moral

New York, M.J. Ivers & Co, 1881. Paperback. 16mo. Orange pictorial wrappers. 92pp, (12pp ads). Good only. Outer wrappers slightly soiled, but overall very attractive; usual age toning and brittleness. Interesting, eclectic collection of brief stage pieces. Beadle and Adams in New York published a nearly identical edition in an orange wrapper the same year, but priority hasn't been established. .

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Book number: 23059

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Keywords: DIME NOVELS; BEADLE AND ADAMS Drama

The Dime School Speaker: Comprising: I. --the Popular and Dramatic Orator. II. --the Sabbath School Orator. Drawn Chiefly from Utterances of Our Most Popular Speakers, Writers and Thinkers

New York, Beadle and Adams, 1870. Paperback. 16mo. Orange pictorial wrappers. viii, 96pp, (4pp ads). Good plus. Minor edgewear, especially along string-tied spine, but overall very attractive and quite "handleable"; usual minor age toning. Interesting, eclectic collection of brief stage pieces. Number 13 in B & A's "Speaker Series," containing speechifying from the likes of Carl Schurz, Henry Ward Beecher, Bret Harte, Edward Everett and assorted other windbags of the period. Decent copy of a "penny dreadful" difficult to find in acceptable condition. .

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Book number: 23068

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Keywords: DIME NOVELS; BEADLE AND ADAMS Drama