Empreintes: Mai-Jiun-Juillet 1950

Brussels, l'Imprimerie des Sciences, 1950. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff wrappers. 168pp, (8pp ads). Very good. Minor shelfwear; last few pages (mainly the ads) on inferior, acidic, heavily age toned stock, as usual. First edition of the Jean Cocteau tribute edition of this short-lived "Revue periodique. .

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Book number: 11341

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Keywords: JEAN COCTEAU Literary Criticism

Encounter at Hanover: Prelude to Gettysburg -- Story of the Invasion of Pennsylvania Culminating in the Battles of Hanover and Gettysburg June and July, 1863 with a Bicentennial View of the Town Founded by Colonel Richard Mcallister in 1763

Hanover, PA, The Historical Publication Committee of The Hanover Chamber of Commerce, 1985. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xi, 274pp. Map frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Seconds printing of this 1963 text with the mile-long title, tight and attractive. .

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Book number: 20681

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Civil War

Encyclopedia of World Geography: Man and His World Today

London, Octopus Books, 1974. Hardcover. Foreword by Emrys Jones. 4to. Blue decorated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 400pp. Color frontispiece, numerous color illustrations, maps, color pictorial endpapers. Very good/near fine. First British edition. .

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Book number: 1309

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Keywords: ODDS & ENDS Odds & Ends

Familienbuch. Gutes Und Schönes Aus Literatur Und Kunst

Cincinnati, Cranston & Stowe, 1884. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth over bevel-edged boards with gilt/black lettering and ornate black decorative stamping. 304pp. All edges gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 17 full-page tissue-guarded plates, decorative endpapers. Very good. Mild binding edgewear; 1886 ownership signature on inner flyleaf and slip tipped to front flyleaf with same owner's Dayton, Ohio address. Quite lovely and tight copy, entirely in German, of this "Family Book: Goodness and Beauty in Literature and Art," a broad compilation of prose and poetry illustrated with superb heavy stock steel engravings (historical figures, landscapes, etc.). A lovely production intended for the American German-speaking population. .

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Book number: 49157

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Keywords: German Language

The Family Christian Almanac for the United States, Calculated for the Horizon and Meridian of Boston, New-York, Baltimore, & Charleston; Adapted to Four Parallels of Latitude... 1841

New York, American Tract Society, 1841. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff green wrappers. 36pp. Illustrations. Very good. Minor edgewear; slight age toning and bit of foxing. Interesting if irrelevant sidebar: This came from the private papers of Enoch Long, though it bears no ownership signature or markings. While living in Alton, Illinois, Long was placed in charge of the militia troops assigned to protect abolitionist martyr and newspaper publisher Elijah Lovejoy, who was shot dead by an angry mob in 1837; he was the brother of explorer Stephen H. Long (1784-1864). .

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Book number: 12427

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Keywords: Americana

Family Circle Creative Needlecrafts

Englewood Cliffs, Columbia House, 1978. Hardcover. 4to. Yellow buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 240pp. Numerous illustrations, numerous diagrams. Near fine/near fine. Later printing. Extensive collection of instructional needlepoint crafts. .

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Book number: 323

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Keywords: ANTIQUES AND COLLECTING Antiques & Collecting

Family Fare: Food Management and Recipes

Washington, DC, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1950. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 96pp. Illustrations. Very good. Mild edgewear. A tight and nice first edition of Home and Garden Bulletin No. 1 -- standard post-World War Two fare with which Mrs. Cleaver would have felt quite familiar. Name/address inkstamp on front wrapper of Illinois Congressman who sent this to a constituent. .

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Book number: 37306

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Keywords: Cooking

Fanfare for Europe: The British Art Market, 1973

N.p. [London], Sotheby Publications, 1973. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xviii, 293pp. Extensive illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Spine slightly cocked. First edition of this lovely pictorial study of "some of the finest and most interesting antiques and works of art that have recently appeared on the market. .

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Book number: 5395

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Keywords: Art

The Field Manual for the Use of the Officers on Ordnance Duty

Gettysurg, Dean S. Thomas, 1984. Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow pictorial glazed paper over boards.vi, 152pp. Illustrations. First of this facsimile reprint of the 1862 Richmond first edition, with a photo section added at the conclusion. .

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Book number: 20271

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Keywords: Civil War

Fine Posters: The Property of Various Owners

New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979. Paperback. Square small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 85pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Auction catalogue (Sale Number 4323) for this December 12, 1979 offering. .

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Book number: 9017

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Keywords: Antiques & Collecting

First Presbyterian Church, Princeville, Illinois

Princeville, IL, The First Presbyterian Church, 1974. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers, black plastic comb binding. (12pp). Illustrations. Errata slip. Charming membership directory of this tiny Illinois parish. As homespun as it gets. .

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Book number: 14734

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Keywords: Illinois & Midwest

The First Performance of the "Sacred Service" Composed... By Darius Milhaud

N.p. [San Francisco?], Temple Emanu-el, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Self-cover. 4pp (single sheet, second and fourth leaves blank). Very good. Minor age toning to front wrapper. Program for the premiere performance of this composition, conducted by Milhaud himself and performed by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra with the University of California Chorus. Third leaf consists of a thumbnail biography of Milhaud. Unusual ephemeral item. .

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Book number: 3014

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Keywords: DARIUS MILHAUD Music

The First Air Voyage in America: The Times, the Place, and the People of the Blanchard Balloon Voyage of January 9, 1793, Philadelphia to Woodberry

Philadelphia, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1943. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Tan cloth. 60pp, 27pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Very good. Fascinating account of this early ascent, followed by the text of Jean Pierre Blanchard's "Journal of my Forty-fifth Ascension and the First in America" (Philadelphia, 1793). .

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Book number: 5745

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Keywords: TRANSPORTATION Aviation

Die Flotten Von England Und Frankreich

Berlin, Walter Krieg Verlag, 1940. Paperback. 24mo. Stiff green pictorial wrappers. 40pp. Near fine. Text block lightly age toned, but no brittleness or edge tears. A tight and nice later printing (51st-70th thousand) of this handy pocket war-time guide containing charts describing (entirely in German) the British and French naval fleets in technical detail. Title translation: The Fleets of England and France. It's unlikely this surprisingly fresh copy went through World War Two in the hands of a German swabby!.

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Book number: 44515

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Keywords: Military History Nautical

Food Talks from the Mirro Test Kitchen: Volume 43, Number 1

Manitowoc, WI, Mirro Aluminum Company, n.y. Paperback. 8vo. Pictorial wrappers. (12pp). Illustrations, line drawings. Near fine. Tight, handsome copy of this undated (circa 1965) booklet touting recipes using teflon cookware from this largest producer of aluminum cooking utensils. .

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Book number: 37316

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Keywords: Cooking