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20 volumes. Volume 1: xxiv+492 pages with plates, tables and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. Volume 2: xlxii+450 with plates and tables. Volume 3: xx+494 pages with plates, tables and three foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's inaugural address. Volume 4: xxvi+458 pages with plates and foldout facsimiles signatures of the signers of Declaration of Independence. Volume 5: xxviiii+472 with plates. Volume 6: xxxiii+460 pages with plates. Volume 7: xxiv+486 pages with photoengraving foldout of Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of June 7th, 1776 and plates. Volume 8: xxviii+446 pages with plates. Volume 9: xxv+446 pages with plates. Volume 10: xxvi+448 pages with plates. Volume 11: xxv+448 with plates and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's letter to Harry Innes, January 23, 1800. Volume 12: lvi+441 pages with plates (one folding). Volume 13: lxviii+441 pages with plates. Volume 14: xxiv493 pages with plates. Volume 15: xxi+494 pages with plates and 3-page…
Read More The System of Short-Hand, Practised by Mr. Thomas Lloyd, in Taking Down the Debates of Congress; and Now (With His Permission) Published for General Use by Lloyd, Thomas [John Carey] - 1793
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The System of Short-Hand, Practised by Mr. Thomas Lloyd, in Taking Down the Debates of Congress; and Now (With His Permission) Published for General Use
by Lloyd, Thomas [John Carey]
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Memorial Edition; Containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, etc
by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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Tora Bora / Black Dust / An Opera in Three Acts: Artwork by Art Hazelwood / Design & Staging by Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher / Storyline & Lyrics by Art Hazelwood
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San Francisco:: Pettingell Book Bindery / Art Hazelwood,, 2011.. Edition of 20. 12 x 13" fold-out boxed opera set with screenprinted covers. Includes miniature stage set, seven two-dimensional puppets that fit into groves in the stage floor, six engravings that act as changeable background drops, and a booklet with libretto. Engravings printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper and Lana Gravure paper. Screenprints printed on Hahnemühle Bugra paper and Arches Watercolor Hot Press paper. Booklet (8.5 x 5"; 24 pages) printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Verlag, Chronicle Text, and Lithos Pro. Signed by Hazelwood. Art Hazelwood: "Tora Bora is a reverse engineered opera. The Seventeenth Century etcher Jacques Callots illustrations of scenes from operas inspired the thoughtwhat if all that remained of an opera were etchings from a few scenes? How, for example, would the Magic Flute be reconstructed from that? With this in mind Art Hazelwood and Klaus-Ullrich…
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Collections for the history of Worcestershire.
by Nash, Treadway Russell
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London: London: Printed by John Nichols. Sold by T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, in London: Fletcher at Oxford, and Lewis at Worcester, 1781. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; very large folio; two volumes; Vol.1: [4], xcii, [610]pp; Vol.2: [4], 484, clxviii, [13], 32, [11]pp. In full 19th century crimson leather (rubbed at extremities, spines a little faded, light stain to centre of front board to vol.1), five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering direct to spines in second and third compartments, remaining compartments with gilt tooled panels, gilt date to foot of spines, gilt panelled boards, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Collated complete: Volume I with folding engraved map as frontispiece, 33 engraved plates and 17 pedigrees, many folding. Volume II with 42 Plates and pedigrees. Includes supplement, Domesday facsimile, and with additional plate opposite p.276 of vol.2. Internally a superb clean copy.…
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Women in the WarWe Can't Win Without Them.
by War Manpower Commission
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Washington D.C.: US Govt. Printing Office, 1942. Colour poster (28 x 40 in). Professionally mounted, glazed, and framed using archival materials. Original creases from folding, bright and fresh. Excellent condition. An important Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, "Women in the War" was one of the most widely distributed images of a woman laboring in war production, unlike the "We Can Do It" poster, which was produced only for Westinghouse plants during a few weeks in 1943 and did not become iconic until the 1980s. "Among the many agencies President Roosevelt had created during the war was the War Manpower Commission, formed in April 1942 to oversee war labor issues in the military, industrial, and civilian sectors. And in June 1942, the Office of War Information was formed to manage the flows of news and propaganda about the war to the public. By 1943, when the labor shortage was most acute, the two…
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One Page Typed Letter Signed to Lew Wallace, Jr., Director, United States Government Savings System, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
by Coolidge, Calvin
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Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1923. December 17, 1923, The White House - to Lew Wallace, Jr., (son of Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory and author of "Ben Hur")- "Dear Mr. Wallace, The growth of thrift and saving in this country promises well for our future. Only through sacrifice and hard work can we attain the cherished things in life. This means we must work and save. The progress of the United States Government Savings System, in giving to all our people an opportunity to invest in safe securities, is most worthy. By placing Treasury Savings Certyificates on sale in post offices, banks and trust companies, the Government has made available to everyone a security of unquestioned soundness. Their widespread sale makes for better citizenship, as each purchaser holds a stake in his Government. I believe, also, that the enlargement of a national Thrift movement will eventually stamp out the false and unsound practices of the…
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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Memorial Edition; Containing his Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, etc
by Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
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20 volumes. Volume 1: xxiv+492 pages with plates, tables and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. Volume 2: xlxii+450 with plates and tables. Volume 3: xx+494 pages with plates, tables and three foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's inaugural address. Volume 4: xxvi+458 pages with plates and foldout facsimiles signatures of the signers of Declaration of Independence. Volume 5: xxviiii+472 with plates. Volume 6: xxxiii+460 pages with plates. Volume 7: xxiv+486 pages with photoengraving foldout of Richard Henry Lee's Resolution of June 7th, 1776 and plates. Volume 8: xxviii+446 pages with plates. Volume 9: xxv+446 pages with plates. Volume 10: xxvi+448 pages with plates. Volume 11: xxv+448 with plates and two foldout facsimiles of Jefferson's letter to Harry Innes, January 23, 1800. Volume 12: lvi+441 pages with plates (one folding). Volume 13: lxviii+441 pages with plates. Volume 14: xxiv493 pages with plates. Volume 15: xxi+494 pages with plates and 3-page…
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Tora Bora / Black Dust / An Opera in Three Acts: Artwork by Art Hazelwood / Design & Staging by Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher / Storyline & Lyrics by Art Hazelwood
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San Francisco:: Pettingell Book Bindery / Art Hazelwood,, 2011.. Edition of 20. 12 x 13" fold-out boxed opera set with screenprinted covers. Includes miniature stage set, seven two-dimensional puppets that fit into groves in the stage floor, six engravings that act as changeable background drops, and a booklet with libretto. Engravings printed on Hahnemühle Copperplate paper and Lana Gravure paper. Screenprints printed on Hahnemühle Bugra paper and Arches Watercolor Hot Press paper. Booklet (8.5 x 5"; 24 pages) printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Verlag, Chronicle Text, and Lithos Pro. Signed by Hazelwood. Art Hazelwood: "Tora Bora is a reverse engineered opera. The Seventeenth Century etcher Jacques Callots illustrations of scenes from operas inspired the thoughtwhat if all that remained of an opera were etchings from a few scenes? How, for example, would the Magic Flute be reconstructed from that? With this in mind Art Hazelwood and Klaus-Ullrich…
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London: London: Printed by John Nichols. Sold by T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, in London: Fletcher at Oxford, and Lewis at Worcester, 1781. 1st Edition . Full leather. Very Good. First edition; very large folio; two volumes; Vol.1: [4], xcii, [610]pp; Vol.2: [4], 484, clxviii, [13], 32, [11]pp. In full 19th century crimson leather (rubbed at extremities, spines a little faded, light stain to centre of front board to vol.1), five raised bands to spines, gilt lettering direct to spines in second and third compartments, remaining compartments with gilt tooled panels, gilt date to foot of spines, gilt panelled boards, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, all page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Collated complete: Volume I with folding engraved map as frontispiece, 33 engraved plates and 17 pedigrees, many folding. Volume II with 42 Plates and pedigrees. Includes supplement, Domesday facsimile, and with additional plate opposite p.276 of vol.2. Internally a superb clean copy.…
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Women in the WarWe Can't Win Without Them.
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Washington D.C.: US Govt. Printing Office, 1942. Colour poster (28 x 40 in). Professionally mounted, glazed, and framed using archival materials. Original creases from folding, bright and fresh. Excellent condition. An important Second World War poster promoting women in the wartime workforce, produced in 1942 by the War Manpower Commission. At the time, "Women in the War" was one of the most widely distributed images of a woman laboring in war production, unlike the "We Can Do It" poster, which was produced only for Westinghouse plants during a few weeks in 1943 and did not become iconic until the 1980s. "Among the many agencies President Roosevelt had created during the war was the War Manpower Commission, formed in April 1942 to oversee war labor issues in the military, industrial, and civilian sectors. And in June 1942, the Office of War Information was formed to manage the flows of news and propaganda about the war to the public. By 1943, when the labor shortage was most acute, the two…
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One Page Typed Letter Signed to Lew Wallace, Jr., Director, United States Government Savings System, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.
by Coolidge, Calvin
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Washington, D.C.: The White House, 1923. December 17, 1923, The White House - to Lew Wallace, Jr., (son of Lew Wallace, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory and author of "Ben Hur")- "Dear Mr. Wallace, The growth of thrift and saving in this country promises well for our future. Only through sacrifice and hard work can we attain the cherished things in life. This means we must work and save. The progress of the United States Government Savings System, in giving to all our people an opportunity to invest in safe securities, is most worthy. By placing Treasury Savings Certyificates on sale in post offices, banks and trust companies, the Government has made available to everyone a security of unquestioned soundness. Their widespread sale makes for better citizenship, as each purchaser holds a stake in his Government. I believe, also, that the enlargement of a national Thrift movement will eventually stamp out the false and unsound practices of the…
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A History of American Art
by Daniel M. Mendelowitz
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This book is in good condition. There is some wear on the front, back, spine, edges and corner of the cover. There is some dog-earring on the right corner pages of the book. The pages are white, crisp and clear of any markings. "This is a history of the visual arts produced in the geographical area that now constitutes the United States. Such a book is difficult to title. A History of United States Art sounds awkward and logically might even be construed to exclude the arts of the colonial period. Thus, with apologies to our northern and southern neighbors, I use the title A History of American Art, knowing full well that the terms America and the United States are not synonymous...." - Preface from A History of American Art
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Vietnam: A History
by Stanley Karnow
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This book is in good condition. There is a lot of wear on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. There is also a substantial amount of staining on the cover boards. The pages are yellowed and tanned. There are also markings throughout the book. "The roots of this book reach back to the early 1950s in Paris, where I began my professional career as a journalist. France, supported by the United States, was then fighting to retain its hold in Indochina against the Vietminh, the Communist-led nationalist movement there. As I reported on the French end of the war, I soon became acquainted with the names and places in Vietnam from a distance, But I scarcely imagined that they were to be part of my own experience. Then, in 1959, I was assigned to cover eastern Asia; the region that included Vietnam became my beat for more than two decades. I visited Vietnam most recently in 1981 for seven weeks, the longest permitted an American correspondent since the Communists gained control of the entire…
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Beeswax: Production, Harvesting, Processing and Procuts
by Coggshall, William L & Roger A Morse
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New York: Wicwas Press, 1984. 8vo size trade paperback; 192 pages with a few illustrations and photographs Contents include: Beeswax Grading and Economics Harvesting Beeswax Commercial Preparation of Beeswax for Market Testing Beeswax Beeswax in Comb Foundation Beeswax in Candles Beeswax in Art and Industry Showing and Judging Beeswax Home Products including Candles and Car and Floor Polishes Moderate wear and edgewear to covers, light soil to top of book and shelf soil to bottom fore-edge. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Samuel The Seeker
by Sinclair, Upton
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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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Goldrush Days With Mark Twain, Illustrated with Woodcuts By Henry J. Glintenkamp
by William R. Gillis
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William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.
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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866
by Lander & McGee (editors)
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Top edge of jacket slightly flared but overall in excellent condition. Book itself is clean and free of any markings except for previous owner's name on first page (Jeanne M. Nixon). Book has some light shelf wear to corners and spine is slightly canted. Solid binding. 189 indexed pages. 0.75" X 6.25" X 9.25" 2cm X 16cm X 23.5cm Part of the series "Women's Diaries and Letters of the Nineteenth-Century South". Illustrated by Olivia Jackson McGee with additional black and white photo reproductions. Includes a family tree. The Revised edition includes additional material in the form of letters between Floride and her mother Anna Maria Calhoun Clemson between July-October 1863 at the height of the Civil War. The main body of the book is Floride's journal from January 1863 until 1866. The main sections concern Florida's trip to Niagara in summer 1863, the journey form Beltsville Maryland to Pendleton South Carolina at the end of the 1864, and the last says of Floride's grandmother Mr.s John C. Calhoun in…
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America's War for Humanity: Including a Complete History of the World War Up-To-date
by Russell, Thomas H
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USA: L. W. Walter, 1917. Hardcover with no dust jacket, 1917. Book has heavier corner wear to board corners and edges, and spinefoot, and aging and some soiling to cloth. This book has blue cloth with navy and red text and design. Tipped plate of American flag on center of front board. Interior tanning heavily from age and book has light warping from age and moisture. Has small bookworm hole affecting the upper right corner of pages 23- 83, completely out of the way of any text and only about 1/2 inch in depth. Missing page corner as depicted, affecting the first front illustration page, affects a small amount of caption text, and the edges of 2 photos. Book generally lays flat and is readable and is fairly supple, Binding is decent and will permit reading. Fair condition, but not terrible for its age. 100+ illustrations. A peice of history, as this was basically news when this was printed. RARE EDITION: NOT A REPRINT. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo -…
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
by David Read Barker
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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The Lick Observatory of the University of California, Eleventh Edition, 1947
by Lick Observatory
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University of California Press, 1947. 11th. Paperback. Author unstated : The Lick Observatory of the University of California - A Brief Descriptive Account Prepared at the Observatory. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1947. Eleventh Edition. Stapled booklet, size is demy octavo (8vo), 8 1/8"/21cm h. Bound in publisher's dark green wrapper stapled to textblock. [vi] pp prelim material, 47 numbered pp, plus three blank. Glossy paper. In addition to many b&w photos, included is information for visitors, organizational info about the observatory, its Chile station, its students, features it observed, acknowledgments. Condition notes: Staples rusted, but holding, moderate wear and scuffing but no tears to wrappers. No notes or highlighting. The observatory is on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, CA. We learn that the observatory was the gift of James Lick, who also left money to support building of a monument to Francis Scott Key in San Francisco, "...a Home for Old Ladies in San Francisco..." and…
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