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Capital
by Karl Marx
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had done for biology. Millions of readers this century have treated Capital as a sacred text, subjecting it to as many different interpretations as the bible itself. No mere work of dry economics, Marx's great...
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Big Russ and Me
by Tim Russert
TIM RUSSERT is NBC-TV's senior vice-president and Washington Bureau Chief, the producer and moderator of Meet the Press, contributing political analyst for The Today Show, and host of his own weekly news program on MSNBC. He holds the Walter Cronkite Award for journalism and the American Legion Journalism Award. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, writer Maureen Orth, and their son, Like, and was named "Dream Dad of the Year" by Parents magazine.
British Society Since 1945
by Arthur Marwick
High and popular culture; family, race, gender and class relations; sexual attitudes and material conditions; science and technology - the diversity of social developments in Britain from 1945 to 2002 are thoroughly explored in this new edition of aclassic text. 'Something of a tour de force... Without serious distortion or omission he moves dexterously through a wide variety of sources, ranging from poetry through film and novels to opinion polls.. it is astonishing how much he gets in' Times...
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Historical Geography Books & Ephemera
Manchester and Its Region
by Carter, C. F. (editor)
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1962. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight bumping to spine ends, clear gilt lettering to spine and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with two tiny nicks to lower rear edge. Fold-out map of University in excellent condition. Twenty-nine mostly double plates plus 265pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10 x 7.75 inches.
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SGD 21.58
Be a Li'l Miss Designer Dressmaking Kit No. 898
Brooklyn: Neptune Plastics, Inc, 1960. An unused large format book titled Be a Li'l Miss Designer - With this revolutionary new Colorful Self-Sticking Plastic Dressmaking Kit - No Glue No Sewing No Mess! Manufactured by Neptune Plastics, Inc. Brooklyn 16, NY.No. 898. Includes 4 different colors, 6 different styles (patterns), one 13" Model Doll that stands by itself, 4 storage bags for parts and many additional suggestions. "Unlimited Hours of Fun for Girls of Every Age" When opened the inside cover...
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SGD 137.70
U.S. Naval Training School (Women's Reserve)
Bronx, New York: U.S. Naval Training School, 1946. Fine.. Photo-illustrated booklet promoting the U.S. Naval Training School, Women's Reserve, located in the Bronx in 1946. Includes a brief description of the training program, which includes lectures, physical education, drills and discipline, along with the following sections: "Replacing Men at Vital Tasks", with a description of newly available work to women during the War; "Notes to Seamen", with information on uniforms, regulations, etc.; "Subways...
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SGD 206.55
Due West Female College: Annual .... and ... Decennial Catalogue
by Due West Female College
Due West, Abbeville Country, SC: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Co, 1900. General wear. Minor stains on front cover and damage to back strip.. This school catalogue is for Due West Female College, which was a private Presbyterian women's college located in Due West, SC. This catalogue not only served as its annual catalogue for the 1900-1901 school year, but also the school's decennial catalogue. Includes a school's calendar, a list of past college presidents, the names of the Board of Directors and...
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I Choose to Live
by Sabine Dardenne with Marie-Therese Cuny
In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On 28 May 1996 twelve year old Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by the man who turned out to be one of Belguim's most heinous paedophiles. She was his prisoner for eighty long days.'I need to write this book for three reasons: so that people stop giving me strange looks and treating me like a curiousity; so that no one asks me any more questions ever again; and so that the judicial system never...
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SGD 9.04
Trade Union Rank and File: Trades Councils in Britain, 1900-40
by Clinton, Alan
Hardback. Very Good.
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SGD 5.28
Collection of Pro Union Promotional Materials
1980. All unused.. A grouping of eleven (11) promotional items , mostly bumper stickers and details promoting unions and organizing unions. It includes Bumper Stickers Live Better Work Union - UFCW Go Steelworks (small and large sizes) Stop Apartheid - Boycott Shell - UAW-CAP Support Public Education - American Federation of Teachers - AFL-CIO Buy American - Sell Here! Build Here! - UAW-CAP Boycott Proctor & Gamble - USWA/AFL-CIO Consumer Action Program Decal - Affirmative Action - USWA...
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SGD 550.80
Photographic Portraits of Earla Viola Steade Rowley (1887-1966) and her Mother
by [?] Vreeland
1910. Fine.. Two photographs notable for their unusually tall rectangular shape. The subjects are a young woman named Earla Viola Steade Rowley and her mother. Each measures roughly 14.25" by 4", and details to the images have been added with watercolor and light pencil. They are signed in pencil by Vreeland (i.e. Rosa Vreeland?) under the image and the subjects are labeled in pencil on the verso. Earla Viola Steade Rowley (1887-1966) married Arthur Merriam Rowley (b.1883) in 1911. Arthur was a...
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SGD 344.25
A Child's Book of Myths
by Margaret Evans Price
New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1924. The condition is fine. The front cover picture is worn and has some damage. The front end paper also has some damage, one page has a tear.. The Book of Myths retells thirteen classical mythology stories, including Icarus and Hercules, with children as the audience. 112 pages. It is both written and illustrated by Margaret Evans Price. There is an introduction written by Katharine Lee Bates. There is a pronunciation guide on the last page, with names and places...
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SGD 172.12
Spring Flowers
by Guben
F. Fechner, 1850. General wear. Most of red cloth spine is missing. Sewing repair. Minor penciling on blank side of leaves. Minor rust stains from a paper clip.. A short book of eight rhyming poems meant for children. Each page features a new poem and a corresponding hand colored illustration. All stories take place outside and the majority of which include an animal, such as a cow, goat, sheep, dog and bird. One poem features a two sisters picking flowers as a gift for their mother on her birthday....
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SGD 137.70
8 Victorian Self Standing Die-cuts - British Monarchy & Royals 1189-1870s
George III and Queen Ann with head and neck repair.. Eight (8) different approximately 12 1/2" x5" easel back chromollithograph Victorian scraps of British monarchy and royals. They are captioned as follows: Richard . (Coeur de Lion) 1189-1199 Anne Boleyn Wife of Henry VII 1533-1536 Queen Mary 1553-1558 Queen Elizabeth 1558-1603 Charles I. 1625-1649 Queen Ann 1702-1714 George III 1760-1820 Queen Victoria Born 1819 Ascended the throne 1837.
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SGD 826.20
Typographic Messenger, Volume 5, No 4. - Scale of Sizes and Prices of Printers' Cards
New York: James Conner's Son Publishers, 1870. Front cover has faded stamps on it from it being mailed. Back cover detached but present, and a 6" tear in the middle of the page as well as a 3 1/2" tear along the bottom edge. Damage to back strip due to rubbing. Interior pages toned and soiled due to age. Last interior page has 3 in tear near the binding towards the bottom of the page.. A magazine meant for professional or enthusiasts who were devoted to the typographic arts. This particular volume was...
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SGD 137.70
Anniversary of the Chestnut Street Congregational Sabbath School, Chelsea
Chelsea, [Massachusetts], 1863. Toned with letter folds, else fine.. Printed program including hymns and order of events for the 1863 anniversary of the Chestnut Street Congregational Sabbath School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Features an address by the Rev. J.C. Fletcher, and ends with prayer and benediction. Bifolium (7.75" by 5"), pp. [4], illustrated with an image of two pious children reading together on the first leaf.
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SGD 172.12
Hairdo Dolls with clothes and 31 different hair-dos "How shall I wear my Hair?
by Queen Holden, illustrator
Racine, Wis.: Whitman Publishing Co, 1948. Excellent condition.. A 13" by 10.5" uncut 6 pp. paper doll book with three (3) punch-out dolls on the back cover. Each page has both interchangeable costumes and additional hair-dos (some with hats) for the statuesque paper dolls. Pages accented with "girly" items e.g. perfume bottle, beads and bracelets.
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SGD 344.25
Birds of Minnesota Attendance Award Book
Redwood Falls, Minnesota: Redwood County Public Schools, 1938. Very good to fine.. A charming award book privately printed for Redwood County Public Schools, titled "Birds of Minnesota". Each leaf has on its recto an illustration of a native bird, along with a printed form certifying that the student has attended school for twenty days straight. There are spaces for the student's name, the current date, and the teacher's signature. On the versos of each leaf is a description of the bird on the recto....
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SGD 206.55
Advertising flyer for Sozone
Meadville, Pennsylvania: Dr. J.D. Stoneroad & Co, 1889. Very good to fine. Toning, one or two small tears, not touching text. Contemporary ink markings to recto.. Advertising flyer (8.75" by 5.5") for Sozone, an antispasmodic for the treatment of asthma as well as "spasmodic croup, whooping cough, or hacking cough of phthisis, and in all spasmodic cases where the pneumogastric nerve is involved" (verso). On the recto is a price list and letter from its founding doctor describing the use and benefits,...
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SGD 172.12
Childhood's Bill of Rights
by V.H. Lockwood
Bismark, North Dakota: North Dakota Humane Society for the Friendless, 1930. Near-fine. Minor toning.. A reprint by the North Dakota Humane Society and Society for the Friendless of a loving "Bill of Rights" for children, stating their inalienable rights: "To be born right. To be loved. To have his individuality respected. To be trained wisely in body mind and spirit. To be protected from evil persons and influences. To Have a fair chance in life" (recto). Published for the North Dakota Humane Society...
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SGD 481.95
Diplomacy and Its Discontents
by Eayrs, James
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971 Book. Very Good. Hard Cover.. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grey cloth on boards. Beginning with Quebec's October Crisis of 1970, the author mounts a vital attack against the diplomatic profession. Sobering. 198 pp..
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SGD 34.42
Auction Sale of Baird Bros. Livery Stables
by Hastings & Frasier Auctioneers
Amsterdam, NY: Recorder Print, 1911. Letter folds with few intact separations.. A 38" x 24 1/2" broadside promoting an Public Sale of Fine Livery and Trucking Equipment. Printed in black with red accent. Includes 50 Horses - Matched Coach Pairs, Surrey and Pleasure Teams, Farm and Business Horses, Saddle Horses and many others. 60 Wagons including Broughams, Landau Coaches, Victorias, Hearses, Surreys, Stanhopes, Top and Open Buggies and many others. 25 Sleighs, 50 Sets of Harnesses. An array of...
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SGD 240.98
Call The Doctor
by E S Turner
Quality Book Club Edition - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.This is not a history of medicine but a study of the doctor himself and of the varying esteem in which he has been held in the community. It begins in the days when he was beginning to shake himself free from soothsayers, philosophers and theologians. It describes the furious quarrels between physicians, surgeons, apothecaries and quacks, in which the patient...
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SGD 22.61SGD 11.30
California Civil Defense Family Food Shelf and Emergency Menus
by W.M. Robertson
Sacramento, California: Office of Civil Defense, 1952. Very good. Some chipping/short tears, toning, sunning.. A Cold War-era publication from the State of California Office of Civil Defense, guiding residents in how to stockpile and ration food in the event of a nuclear attack: "If there is an atomic attack on our cities there will be immediate disruption of food. Undamaged stocks in retail and wholesale will be required for emergency feeding of the homeless ... As part of your personal Civil Defense...
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SGD 240.98
The Road Ahead
by Christabel Bielenberg
In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Following the extraordinary success of her wartime memoirs, The Past is Myself, Christabel Bielenberg received thousands of letters from readers begging her to describe what happened next. The Road Ahead takes up the story at the moment the first volume left off - with the outbreak of peace.Germany was devastated by war and its aftermath, while Britain seemed grey and exhausted to Christabel....
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SGD 9.04
English-Danish-Norwegian, 1200 Words Liliput Dictionary
Germany: Leipzig, Schmidt & Gunther, 1930. 1072 pp.cloth covers, red fore edge pages. 21 plates including frontispiece. Miniature book. A 1200 word dictionary and phrase book that translates English to Danish to Norwegian. The last 100 pages or so act as a phrase book. Giving translates for numbers, common phrases (ex. How do you do? Or, my brother is ill), and even groups certain words together for ease of use (ex. words used at supper). At the end of the book, there are several pages that list the...
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SGD 185.90
Fourth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association
New York, New York: Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, 1908. Very good to fine.. Fourth Annual Report of the Bloomingdale Neighborhood Association, featuring a photograph on the upper wrapper of over a dozen schoolchildren and their social workers in front of the Bloomingdale Guild. The organization's purpose was "To raise higher educational and social ideals"; "To teach the principles of organization to the young people of our neighborhood, by means of self-governing clubs"; and "To deepen...
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SGD 206.55
