Merion, Pa. Merion Civic Association, 1930. Hardcover. 53 p., frontispiece, 3 full-page black-and-white photographs, 1 folded map; 17 cm. Green cloth spine; paper in a faux-leather pattern over boards with black cover title. Includes names of officers and members; list of 51 accomplishments of the Association; and recent ordinances regarding..... More
Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1919. Poster. 1 poster (27 x 21 cm.) Printed in black and blue. Published to encourage the purchase of War Savings Stamps during World War One. "S-101" and "2-8551" -- at lower edge. "Thrift Sign No. 2" -- upper edge. In Very Good Condition: 3..... More
Richmond, Va. Virginia Conservation Commission, 1937. Paperback. Fourth Edition. 191, [3] p., 1 leaf of a folded map; 20 cm. Stapled yellow cover with cover title and illustration in dark green. Includes list of historical inscriptions by route letters, alphabetical list of inscriptions on state and county-line markers, and indices..... More
Cambridge, Mass. American Antiquarian Society, 1857. Paperback. cxxxviii, 107 p.; 25 cm. Original paper wrappers. At head of title: Archaeologia Americana. Pages are unopened. Includes index. Contents: Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to the embarkation of Winthrop and his associates for New England, as contained in the..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1937. Paperback. 226, [44] p.: black-and-white and color photographs; 30 cm. Spiral-bound with red, white, and blue card covers. Former owner's inscription on first (blank) page indicating that he purchased this in 1952 at The Seven Bookhunters, New York. Bookseller's label on inside of..... More
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: FotografÃa Manon, 1916. 15 5-x-7-inch black-and-white photographs: 8 of the USS Memphis (wrecked by a tidal wave on the coast of the Dominican Republic on 29 Aug. 1916); 1 of the memorial service for sailors who drown when the Memphis was wrecked; and 6 of American..... More
Utica, N.Y. Utica Drop Forge & Tool, 1922. Paperback. [32] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Stapled white card covers printed in green and black. Printed within green border throughout. With: folded blue price list dated Dec. 19, 1921, attached to typed letter on Utica Drop Forge & Tool letterhead, dated Feb..... More
S.l. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. 2 copies of War Ration Book No. 3 for husband and wife, Edwin G. Siner and Ann Pumyea Siner. His occupation is given as "Soldier" while hers is "Secretary." In Very Good Condition: lightly soiled; most of stamps are present. More
Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1890. Paperback. Imprint includes: New York: C.H. Ditson & Co.; Chicago: Lyon & Healy; Philadelphia: J.E. Ditson & Co.; and Boston: John C. Haynes & Co. "Dedicated to the G.A.R." 95, [1] p.: music; 26 cm. Black cloth spine; white stiffened paper covers printed in black..... More
Chicago: News Map of the Week, 1940. Map. 1 map (35 x 47 inches), folded. The upper portion is a world map in color with 33 locations marked. The lower portion provides a description of an event at each marked location. Five black-and-white cartoons are located within the map and..... More
Philadelphia: Temple University, 1996. Hardcover. 2 volumes with leaves numbered continuously: xxxv, [1], 842 leaves; 28 cm. Brown cloth with author's name in white on spine. "This dissertation provides a new interpretive framework for understanding the historical origins of the American reaction to Chinese immigration from 1848 to the passage..... More
Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Hardcover. xiv, [2], 289, [5] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the publisher's series The Asian American Experience, edited by Roger Daniels. Book is in Good+ Condition: occasional marginal notations and underlining; a...... More
Cambridge, Mass. Inventing the Internet, 1999. Hardcover. viii, [2], 264 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Part of the series Inside Technology. Contents: White Heat and Cold War: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching -- Building the ARPANET: Challenges and Strategies --..... More
London: John Murray, 1846. Hardcover. Two titles from Murray's Home and Colonial Library bound together: Philip Musgrave; or Memoirs of a Church of England Missionary in the North American Colonies edited by the Rev. J. Abbott (1846); and Memoirs of Father Ripa, During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of..... More
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover. xi, [1], 289, [1] p.; 24 cm. Off-chite cloth with red spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author uses the experiences of a real family in North Lawndale, a suburb of Chicago, to demonstrated the "gaps, inconsistences, and inequalities the poor..... More
Crawfordsville, Ind. Society of Architectural Historians, 1953. 32 p.: map, photographs, plans; 28 cm. Stapled red paper covers printed in black. Contents: The Symbolic Sources of Some Architectural Elements by Phyllis Ackerman -- Architecture to Painting in the Middle Ages by Paul M. Laporte -- The Neumann Bicentennial by John..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Paperback. [1], 266-400, [4] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Stitched wrapper with illustration of the American flag on the front wrapper. Wrapper title: The Atlantic Monthly: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Politics. Advertisements on final 4 pages and on back wrapper include one for the Palmer..... More
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Boston: American Peace Society, 1862. Paperback. [1], 102-132 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. The contents reflect the ongoing Civil War including accounts of the financial impact of the war; the puzzling support for the South..... More
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Boston: American Peace Society, 1862. Paperback. [1], 38-80 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Stamp of Dickinson Library Pamphlet Collection at head of front wrapper. The contents reflect the ongoing Civil War including an anonymous piece..... More
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Boston: American Peace Society, 1861. Paperback. [1], 230-260 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Much of the issue addresses the effect of the secession of the Southern states on the nation, immediately prior to the First..... More
Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1837. Paperback. [1], 98-144 p.; 23 cm. Brown wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Paginated continuously with previous issues. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. Stamp of Dickinson Library Pamphlet Collection at head of front wrapper. Embossed stamp of Dickinson College Library on first leaf. Contents: Address..... More
Boston: Whipple and Damrell, 1839. Paperback. 24 p.; 23 cm. Blue wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. Disbound from a miscellaneous volume. "Dickinson College Reading Room" in an old hand and stamp of Dickinson Library Pamphlet Collection at head of front wrapper. Embossed stamp of Dickinson College Library on first..... More
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972. Hardcover. xi, [1], 376 p.; 23 cm. Blue cloth with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser was a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., from 1800 to 1870. The author examines the important roles played by the..... More
Boston: Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1821. 1-page printed letter from a committee of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, dated 14 April 1821, Boston. The members of the committee are: William H. Sumner, William Sullivan, H. A. S. Dearborn, Benjamin Loring, Thaddeus Page, Samuel H...... More
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. Paperback. Second printing. x, 389, [1] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback. "The Harlem of which Anderson writes was an outpost of American optimism, a gathering place for the avant-garde in music, dance, and democratic interracial relationships; and, as the site and symbol of America's..... More