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Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).
ATLANTIC CITY, THE GEM OF THE COAST.; [cover title]: 30th Annual Session of the Imperial Council, A.A.O.N.M.S.,Lu Lu Temple, Oasis of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, N.J., July 13th and 14th, 1904 by New Jersey, Atlantic City - 1902
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ATLANTIC CITY, THE GEM OF THE COAST.; [cover title]: 30th Annual Session of the Imperial Council, A.A.O.N.M.S.,Lu Lu Temple, Oasis of Philadelphia, Atlantic City, N.J., July 13th and 14th, 1904
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Philadelphia: J. Howard Avil / Engraved by Phototype Co, 1902. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. (92)pp; illus throughout from photographs, many full page. Views include: Panoramic View of Ocean Front (double-page); The Boardwalk South from the Casino; Young's Hotel; Boardwalk and Beach at Low Tide; Atlantic Avenue; Lu Lu Temple Band; Sunday Morning on the Boardwalk; Steel Pier; Pacific Avenue; candid photos of bathers; U.S. Life Saving Station; Pavilion and Pier at the Inlet; Hotel Senate; Virginia Avenue; Railroad Station; Ferry Houses; Boardwalk from The Dunlop; &c. Includes many hotel ads, some illustrated. Spine ends peeled, small corner chipped from cover, else clean and tight. 7.75" x 10" Avil's 1902 viewbook appears here within the programme for the annual meeting of the Order of the Mystic Shrine. Introductory text (13pp) by William Ross updates Mystic Shrine activities, including portraits of leaders. [WorldCat does not record this convention issue, and finds six holdings of the 40-page viewbook which is here bound in.].
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KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:; Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman...
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GESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN GESELLSCHAFT VON NEW ORLEANS:; Die Europaische Einwanderung nach den Vereinigten Staaten von 1820 bis 1896..
by Louisiana, New Orleans / Deiler, J. Hanno
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New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.
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TWO YEARS BEHIND THE PLOUGH; or, the Experiences of a Pennsylvania Farm-Boy:; Giving a true and faithful account of life on a Bucks County farm as he found it during an apprenticeship of two years
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Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].
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Gone is Gone: or The Story of a Man Who wanted to Do Housework
by Gag, Wanda
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GONE IS GONE, BY POPULAR CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR WANDA GA'G. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. 1935 Coward-McCann First Edition, Stated Twelfth Printing Thus. A crisp, clean copy in a nice yellow unclipped dust jacket. A nice find.
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Stories Of New York
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Wharton, Edith et al. Stories from Scribner: Stories of New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1893. Authors and stories included in this book are: From Four to Six, Annie Elliot; The commonest possible Story, Bliss Perry; The End of the Beginning, George A. Hibbard; A Puritan Ingenue, John S. Wood; Mrs. Manstey's View, Edith Wharton. Used. Black, leather-bound pocket-size edition. Pink closure ribbon has gone. Good condition. Binding is a little loose. RARE.
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KINNE'S IMPROVED ENGINEMEN'S GUIDE, TIME AND POCKET BOOK:; Showing a Practical Way of Becoming a First-Class Fireman...
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Hornellsville, NY: Tuttle & Bunnell, Printers, 1902. Original manuscript. Full-Leather. Good. pp: 45 + 97; engraving of locomotive. Bound in the original wallet-style case of cordovan leather; carried in a pocket and showing some signs of use. 6.5" x 4" Begins with 45 pages of printed text, "...giving the Proper Method of Firing both Bituminous and Anthracite Coal, together with Rules for Operating the Westinghouse Air & American Steam Brakes...also Rules regarding Accidents to the Locomotive." Following the text are 97 pages of handwritten time and cash accounts, kept by Engineer G.C. Northrop, giving day-by-day details of engine numbers, miles run, times, names of conductors and engineers/firemen, embarkation points and destinations. Also filled in is the section of cash accounts (dates, amounts owed and received, payees, etc.). Finally, several pages contain notes on railroad happenings in 1905-1906 (personnel hurt, killed, buried).
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GESCHICHTE DER DEUTSCHEN GESELLSCHAFT VON NEW ORLEANS:; Die Europaische Einwanderung nach den Vereinigten Staaten von 1820 bis 1896..
by Louisiana, New Orleans / Deiler, J. Hanno
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New Orleans: Selbstverlage, 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (iv), 136, folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired, some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans.
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TWO YEARS BEHIND THE PLOUGH; or, the Experiences of a Pennsylvania Farm-Boy:; Giving a true and faithful account of life on a Bucks County farm as he found it during an apprenticeship of two years
by [Wright, Caleb E.]
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Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 224pp; frontispiece, tissue guard. Blind-stamped, pictorial brick cloth, gilt-stamped spine; light wear to spine ends. 7.5" x 5" [Wright III, 6123: "Authorship not firmly established."].
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Gone is Gone: or The Story of a Man Who wanted to Do Housework
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GONE IS GONE, BY POPULAR CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATOR WANDA GA'G. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. 1935 Coward-McCann First Edition, Stated Twelfth Printing Thus. A crisp, clean copy in a nice yellow unclipped dust jacket. A nice find.
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Stories Of New York
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Wharton, Edith et al. Stories from Scribner: Stories of New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, Copyright 1893. Authors and stories included in this book are: From Four to Six, Annie Elliot; The commonest possible Story, Bliss Perry; The End of the Beginning, George A. Hibbard; A Puritan Ingenue, John S. Wood; Mrs. Manstey's View, Edith Wharton. Used. Black, leather-bound pocket-size edition. Pink closure ribbon has gone. Good condition. Binding is a little loose. RARE.
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Attempt on Roosevelt Life
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Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole
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Engle, Joanna. Cap'n Kid Goes To The South Pole. A Seaworld Adventure featuring Shamu, the Killer Whale. RARE. Children's Book. Used. Good, clean Condition. Softcover. Stapled binding. Random House copyright 1983. 5 ½ X 5. ISBN 0394856430. Original cover price $1.25.
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The Treasure Of Sierra Madre
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Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.
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Samuel The Seeker
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Sinclair, Upton. Samuel, The Seeker Copyright 1910. Apparently published by author. No publisher stated. First Edition. States printed at Western Printing and Lithography, Racine, WI. Yellow Boards with black titling. Used. Very Good/ No Dj is Included. Rare/Scarce. A nice copy.
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Oregon; Or, a Short History of a Long Journey: Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains, to the Columbia River
by John B. Wyeth
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YE Gallon Press, 1970. Limited Edition. #499/605. VG. Interior is tight, clean, and free of ownership marks except for one penciled notation on the flyleaf. Cloth boards show shelf and handling wear with light soiling, edge, corner, and spine wear. Overall a solid copy showing minimal signs of use. Photo is of the copy we have here at Barbed Wire Books.
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The Man Who Lost His Head
by Claire Huchet Bishop
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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Lucky You, What Science Has Done For Us
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Lucky You: What Science Has Done For Us J.B. Lippincott Stated First Edition. SCIENCE. Artfully illustrated by MUNRO LEAF. Good EXLIB in a Good unclipped $2.25 orig. price dust jacket. Last page states: 152 4.
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DOLLY MADISON: WOMEN OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY TIMES
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is in G condition with light rubbing to edges, cocked spine, bumping & fraying to spine ends, pencil marking to FFE, owner's name to title page, a couple of small tears to title page else still a bright and solid copy. SA 6/21
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Grant Wood and Marvin Cone : Artists of an Era
by Hazel E. Brown
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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. Hardcover. First Edition (stated). Flat signed and dated by author on FFEP and Inscribed by author to a friend on half-title page. Near Fine book in a Very Good jacket. Interior pristine except for author's inscription and signature. Spine straight and tight. Jacket shows light rubbing, light chipping at spine head, and light reading wear to edges. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. xi + 150 pages. illus. A reflection of the relationships of two artists -- Grant Wood (1891-1942) and Marvin Cone (1891-1965) -- with the community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. A loving biography by a woman who knew them both. Laid-in are two letters to the editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette; one from Woods' sister, and another from a friend of Woods and the author.
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BOSTON ~ 150 VIEWS: One Hundred and Fifty Glimpses of Boston and Historical Surroundings
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Union News Company , New York and Boston, circa 1910, Very Good Stapled Softcover, 50 pages, 10" x 7", 150 photographs of Boston points of interest, landmarks, buildings, bridges, street views and more.
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