Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1889. "Edited under direction of Congress by Francis Wharton, with preliminary index, and notes historical and legal. Published in conformity with act of Congress of August 13, 1888." This is volume 3 only of 6 volumes: 883, [1] p.; 24 cm. Black bubble-grain cloth on..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16280-16294 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Features an illustrated article about military gymnastics. Also contains an article on the activities of the Intercontinental Railway Commission by E. Z. Steever; an illustrated abstract of a paper on a pipeline submerged under..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16296-16310 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Features an illustrated article about the opening of the Baltic and North Sea canal; a continuation of an illustrated abstract of a paper on a pipeline submerged under the Willamette River at Portland, Oregon;..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16328-16342 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. The front illustration is of Lima, Peru. Includes: Notes on the Construction of the East River Gas Tunnel by Walton I. Aims, with illustrations; an article about the Paris Exposition of 1900 with a...... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16360-16374 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Contains illustrated articles about the bursting of the dam at the Bousey Reservoir in France; the Daimler gas and petroleum motor; the use of pigeons to send messages from ships at sea; the manufacture..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16456-16470 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Contains illustrated articles about the French battleship Bouvines; the North Sea Canal excavator; and Junkers' gas calorimeter. Also, Agricultural Chemistry by H. W. Wiley, and Tramps as Human beings by Morrison I. Swift. Scarce..... More
New York: Munn & Co., 1895. Paperback. 16 pages (paginated [1], 16472-16486 p.): illustrations; 41 cm. Front illustration is of tigers on the East Indian Railway, drawn by John Charlton from a sketch by L. Trelyven Creole. Contains illustrated articles about the Glasgow District subway; the action of an electric..... More
Los Angeles: Screen Actors Guild, 1995. Paperback. 40 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Stapled purple and silver covers. This issue, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild, provides a fascinating history of the union. Well-illustrated, it includes photos of the buildings that have housed SAG; memories..... More
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
New York: American Review, 1847. Pamphlet. [10] p., tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece portrait; 24 cm. Plain grey wrapper. From The American Review: A Whig Journal, March 1847, pages 285-294. American journalist John Hampden Pleasants (1797-1846) founded the Richmond Whig newspaper in Richmond, Va. While he supported the emancipation of slaves, he..... More
Torino, Italy: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1990. Paperback. 181, [3] p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Contents: By Right of Narrative: American Beginnings and the Discourse of Colonialsm by Gesa Mackenthun -- The United States' Contribution to World Fairs, 1851-1876 by John Muirhead -- Independent Commissions and the Political System: Intellectual Thought and..... More
Torino, Italy: Rosenberg & Sellier, 1990. Paperback. [2], 163 p.; 24 cm. Paperback. Contents: Fighting to Overcome (But Failing): The Afro-American Female Urban Experience in Black Women's Fiction by Esther Alvarez-Lopez -- Tell Me About the Big City: The City in Black Women's Literature by Anna Koenen -- Between Sanctified..... 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. Contents: Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to the embarkation of Winthrop and his associates for New England, as contained in the first volume..... More
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Fotografía 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
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
Philadelphia: N. W. Ayer & Son, 1957. Paperback. 26, [2] p.: illustrations (some in color); 18 cm. Brown card cover printed in black; stapled. A brief history of Washington Square, the southeast square of the five squares in the original plan of Philadelphia, which includes the "Tomb of the Unknown..... 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
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
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. Hardcover. xiv, 210 p.: illustrations, maps, tables, charts; 24 cm. Grey cloth with green spine title. Dust jacket. Part of the series Comparative American Cities. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright..... More
Cambridge, Mass. John Wilson and Son, 1892. Paperback. 23 p.; 24 cm. Plain wrapper printed in black. Former owner's name written at upper edge of front wrapper. Scarce. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is slightly dusty with chipping along edges; closed 2-cm. tear from upper edge throughout; one light vertical crease;..... More