A "...Life-Like Play Store...The Play Store Game is just like running a real store..."; a large and colorful 3-dimensional 'store', with four walls, printed inside and out and with cut-out windows and working set of doors, opens to approximately 2 feet x 2 feet square and with 12" wall height;.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. F. 252 pages; (from the text); ",,,Honolulu spills into the sea out of a broad lee-side valley below folding hills, like the end of a great cornucopia made by two wild volcanic ranges. The whole windward side of the Islands is a vast precipice.....
Apparently a scrap or memory album put together by the participants in this international program for the benefit and memory, a heart-felt tribute for the efforts of their teacher Martha Leighton, who was the guiding force for these people in the IFYE program, which was the pioneering international 4-H effort-she.....
Cambridge: John Wilson & Son, 1888. F. 87 pages; the "Free Soil Party" which was the legitimate precursor of the Republican Party , was a combination of political abolitionists, anti-slavery factions and Democratic defectors; prominent in the elections of 1848 and 1852; the party nominated Martin Van Buren and Charles.....
Washington, DC: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1949. F. 47 + (4) pages; typed draft copy of this article, with useful bibliography at back; regarding the social life and customs of Java (Indonesia), description and travel. Francis Joseph Galbraith (1913 -1986) United States career diplomat & foreign service officer.....
Bristol, Rhode Island: & An Ampersand Chapbook - Roger Williams College, 1984. F. 33 pages; cover drawing by Daphne E. White. (with) A typed postcard signed by Brendan Galvin, who writes in reply to a query of Sally McGaw Silverstone regarding the use of his word "duende" in one of.....
New York: Geo. L. Burr Co., 1892. Cover art by 'Hurley"; inside covers with year calendar, blank pages; back cover with verbiage on the tailoring available from this New York City clothier-merchant; small booklet format, 2 1/2" x 3 1/4" approx. size; light wear; very good condition...
1885. Carte-de-visite format images; "Gen. Washington" and "Mrs. Martha Washington" printed below images; somewhat glossy photographs of engravings of the couple, a photolithograph or other photoengraving process; no photographer or studio credited; approx. 2 1/2" x 4" size; very good condition; interesting American history and 19th century illustrative photographic printing.....
A handwritten letter; dated March 2 (18)87, 29 Washington Square New York; a humorous and lengthy reply to the publisher Osgood's invitation to dine with the "Kinsmen" at the Continental; Lathrop gives his regrets and states that "...I shall make astronomical calculations & drink a solemn glass of wine all.....
New York: Junior Literary Guild and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1949. F. 184 pages; illustrated by Jean George; (from the dustjacket): "...a hero to inspire respect and even a certain admiration...Authentic nature lore here written with drama and warm understanding..."; "First Edition" stated on copyright page; one of the American.....
New York: Gessford Photography, 1910. F. A large-format mounted black and white photograph of 29 young women and their (presumed) teacher or maestro, the only male in the image; an entirely stringed instrument orchestra, with 22 violins, 2 bass viols, 3 cellos and a large standing harp; the laides all.....
New York - London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. xx + 322 pages; index; with an original artwork landscape scene in color on the front endpaper by William Hamilton Gibson (1850-1896) American illustrator, author and naturalist, done in his characteristic highly detailed style in watercolor and ink; in the background can.....
Brooklyn New York: 1992. Color cross-the-street photograph of the front of the Globe Drug Store, a Bay Ridge personal-service prescription venue for many years; approx. 5 1/4" x 3 3/4" format; light wear; identified on back; AGFA paper; very good condition.
Joliet, Illinois: P.F. Volland Company, 1922. (90) pages; color illustrations by John Rae; one of the "Nature Children Books" of this publisher, with a series listing at back; pictorial endpapers; original illustrated paper-covered boards binding; al little edge, tips wear to the covers, old discoloration of paper at top left.....
New York: Popular Library, 1954. 192 pages; the "Popular Library Edition" of this novel concerning a young woman's "...desperate journey down the road of pleasure and degradation..."; it has been entirely disbound and carefully & professionally glued page by page to a scroll of plain paper which is in turn.....
Atlanta Georgia: Fall Line Press, 2012. F. 112 pages; signed by the photographer on the title page; illustrated in black and white photography throughout,"...subjectively and insightfully plumbs America's cultural DNA..." Number line # 1 and "First Edition" stated on copyright page. Approx. 11 7/8" size, square format; patterned-paper endpapers; illustrated.....
New York: Graff & Company, 1883. Document partially printed and completed in manuscript for some of this company's offerings; approx. 4 ΒΌ" x 7" size; on back is a list of the equipment this firm repaired, including the Manhattan Furnace, Hot Blast Furnace, Burtis Furnace, Morning Glory F.P. Heater, New.....
Hull, England: Hull Little Theatre, 1936. F. (4) album sheets with tipped-on souvenirs from this theater company; with identifications neatly written-in and decorated in white ink; shows including Promise, After October, Love from a Stranger, The Unguarded Hour, Astonished Heart, Fumed Oak; including 6 black and white photographs of sets.....
Postally unused; no date, circa 1910; light wear; very good condition.
New York: 1887. Advertisement for these southern steamship routes; printed black on pink paper; with a nice central vignette of later nineteenth century two-masted steam sailer; Jas. W. Quintard & Co. Agents N.Y. & Chas. S.S. Co. New York City, W.H. Rhett Union Office and H. Yonge, Jr. Agent O.S.S......
Albany: Division of Canals and Waterways State Department of Public Works, 1927. 30 pages; black and white illustrated throughout, with views of locks & dam works along the New York State canal system, barges and motorships using the canals, including wooden and steel barges, the State Maintenance Plant, listings of.....
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1981. F. ix + 79 pages, extensive references section eight linguistic maps at back; organized alphabetically, from Achqueehgenom to Wimbaco, giving variant meanings, spellings, etymology and possible word origins, first known occurrence of the name, more; of great geographic and genealogical.....
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1837. F. In two volumes; viii + 365 + iv + 418 pages; Howes G-449; contents including information on American manners, "Fashionable Coteries", Dandies, Aristocracy, domestic traits, various immigrant groups delineated, American theatres, painting, Wit, education, morality, literature, industry, commerce, agriculture, settlement.....
Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1919. F. Not paginated, approx. 68 leaves and printed one side only; a facsimile of an original work done in manuscript by Susan Hale done in 1863, auctioned in an effort to raise money for Civil War efforts via the Sanitary Commission, according to Caroline P......
Pencil inscribed above the art of a group of partying soldiers in part-uniforms; and titled and signed below by the artist; Black and white etching in a blocky, cubist-futurist mode; no date but circa 1950s; given to James "From Here to Eternity" Jones by the artist; image 4" x 4.....
