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London: South American Publications Ltd, 1929 Flexible red vinyl covers with gilt title, cover illustration, and spine lettering. This handbook was first published in 1921 as the Anglo-South American Handbook, founded and compiled by William Henry Koebel (1872-1923), a prolific author who had a particular interest in promoting trade with South America. It was compiled as a guide to South America, as well as Mexico and Cuba, for the business traveler, and published by the Federation of British Industry. Much advertising and promotional information on banks, steamship travel/tours, communication, products, etc., including ads on inside covers. With many line-drawn maps within text and one large color folded map following Index in the front section of the book. Interior is Very Good Plus, clean and unworn. Exterior moderately rubbed and scuffed at extremities, with frayed spine tips. Binding tight.
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The South-American Handbook 1929--A Guide to the Countries and Resources of Latin-America, Inclusive of South and Central America, Mexico, and Cuba
by J.A. Hunter, Editor
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Hobbies for Boys
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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1931 Cloth. Ex-Library. Illustrated with black-and-white plates and drawings. Originated in Great Britain, so all told from a British perspective. With chapters on "The Dog as a Pal," "Steamships as a Hobby," "The Garden Pond," "Poultry and Pigeons," "Building a Model Junk," and more. Cover moderately-to-heavily stained and rubbed, and heavily worn at extremities; spine lettering. Library imperfections as follows: bookplate inside front cover; pocket affixed to inside rear cover; small remnant from removal of "date due" slip on rear endpaper; embossed library seal title page; penciled catalog notations to Dedication page and rear endpaper. Very few small stains to margins; interior otherwise clean and intact.
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Finland
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1940 Cloth. History of Finland from 1152 to pre- World War II period. Few black-and-white diagrams. Moderate rubbing to cover extremities; spine slightly sun-darkened. Library marks limited to bookplate inside front cover, spine number, and tiny amount of glue residue to rear endpaper. Clean and tight.
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Johnny Bench
by Jackson, Robert B.
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New York: Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1971 Cloth. Good-/Fair+. Ex-Library. With reinforced binding (school library).Intended for young readers. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Heavy wear to tail of spine and cover corners. Light staining to cover. Front and rear endpapers excised. Library inkstamp to top/bottom page blocks and upper margin page 51. Light smudge to inside front cover and last page of text; most text and photos clean, binding tight. Dust jacket moderately worn, including 1" closed tear at upper front corner; spine sticker.
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An Outline History of Denmark
by Jacobsen, Helge Seidelin
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Copenhagen: Host & Sons Forlag, 1986 Very Good+. Illustrated with black-and-white plates and map drawings to inside covers. Light wear to cover extremities. Clean and tight.
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The Middle Years
by James, Henry
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917 In the Editor's Note which precedes the text, Percy Lubbock states that this work, dictated in 1914, "represent[s] all that Henry James lived to write of a volume of autobiographical reminiscences to which he had given the name of one of his own short stories. . .It was designed to follow on 'Notes of a Son and Brother' . . ." Spine and outer margins (about 1") of boards sunned; irregular light spotting to cloth along sunned area of front board. Moderate rubbing/fraying to head of spine; light rubbing to other extremities. Library marks limited to small spine sticker, bookplate affixed to inside front cover, and pocket strip at inside rear cover. Clean and tight.
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The Ideal Italian Tour [The Park Street Library]
by Henry James Forman
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company/Riverside Press, 1911 Red cloth; gilt decoration and "The Park Street Library" title on cover; gilt spine lettering. Apparent first edition of this travel guide of the period, part of a series although no specific reference to such. Frontispiece black-and-white photograph reproduction of Michelangelo's David is the only illustration. Light-to-moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Spine sunned; moderate loss and darkening of gilt lettering.Thin black mark about 3/4 inch on rear cover. Few minute pinholes (insect damage) to front gutter. Prior owner attractive bookplate affixed to inside front cover. Prior owner inscription, date at upper front endpaper. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.
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Jimmie Suter and the Boys of Pigeon Camp
by James, Martha
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Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1906 Light aqua cloth with red and black cover and spine illustrations and lettering. First in the Pigeon Camp Series; two subsequent volumes series were published in 1907. All original volumes by this author are scarce. With six black-and-white illustrations within the text, including frontispiece. Advertisements for other publications by this publisher in rear. Light cover edgewear. Sunning to cover cloth has resulted in moderately browned spine and margins. Neat prior owner name and date on front endpaper. Small (2" x 1/4" half-moon damp stain at lower edge of title and Contents pages. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Memories and Studies
by James, William
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New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911 Green cloth; paper pastedown spine label. Reprint in same year of first publication. Posthumous compilation of a number of the author's popular essays and addresses, by Henry James, Jr. Fifteen works, including "A Pluralistic Mystic," "Address at the Emerson Centenary in Concord," "Final Impressions of a Psychical Researcher," "On Some Mental Effects of the Earthquake," and "The Moral Equivalent of War." Moderate rubbing to cover extremities. Moderate discoloration and scattered tiny fade spots to boards. Spine somewhat darkened; spine label rubbed. Prior owner signature on front endpaper. Closed tear (1" ) at lower edge of "Prefatory Note" page near spine. A few instances of inobtrusive pencil lines to text margins. Otherwise clean and tight.
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Chocolate Cooking
by Jarrett-Macauley, Denise, Illustrated by Peter Barry
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New York: Exeter Books, 1985 Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated with numerous color photographs, and containing over 99 tested recipes.
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Kalmia: The Laurel Book II [Two]
by Richard A. Jaynes
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Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 1988 Green paper-covered boards. Based on the earlier book by the author, "The Laurel Book," published in 1975, about mountain laurel, Kalmia latifolia. It incorporates all of the information on the laurel's history, botany, taxonomy, genetics, culture, and propagation but includes more color illustrations and new information. Illustrated with many black-and-white and color photographs and diagrams. Lower spine and cover edges lightly-to-moderately rubbed. Moderate shelf-dust staining to top page block. Otherwise clean, tight, and unworn.
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Interesting Neighbors
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Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1922 Cloth. Nature text, intended for juvenile reader. With 81 black-and-white illustrations by W.S. Atkinson. Moderate wear to cover extremities; light cover soil. Insect damage to front hinge, but binding holding and tight; interior clean.
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Explorations and Adventures in and Around the Pacific and Antartic [Antarctic] Oceans Being the Voyage of the U.S. Exploring Squadron, Commanded by Captain Charles Wilkes of the U.S. Navy, in 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842 . . .
by Jenkins, John S.
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New York: Hurst and Company Decorated cloth; gilt spine lettering. No date; circa 1889. With few illustrations despite title page indication of "numerous illustrations." READING COPY. Text pages age-browned and somewhat fragile, but main text block is intact. Upper corners of title page and both pages of Preface are missing; irregular worn/torn away section; portion of title and small section of Preface are missing. Additional loss probably due to rodent damage to narrow 2" of top edge of front endpaper and a few pages of Contents. Page 345/346 torn diagonally but old repair is holding well. Cover cloth stained and discolored, with apparent rodent nibbling to 1" upper rear board. Binding intact.
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How to Study Birds: A Practical Guide for Amateur Bird-Lovers and camera-Hunters
by Job, Herbert Keightley
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New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1910 With black-and-white plates from the author's photographs, including tissue-guarded frontispiece. Interesting accounts of the period. Cover cloth irregularly mottled and faded, possibly the result of damp exposure or poor storage, although without musty odor. Moderate loss of spine lettering; extremities lightly rubbed. Otherwise clean and tight in an intact but moderately-to-heavily edgeworn dust jacket with some 1/2"-1" chips out of upper edge. Few scrape scars and one tiny hole to rear panel of jacket.
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The Boys' Own Book of Outdoor Sports
by Uncle John
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New York: Hurst & Co., Publishers Decorative Cloth. Good-/No Jacket. No date; circa late 19th century. Arlington Edition. "A healthy manual for lovers of the rod and gun and gymnasium. Angling, hunting and trapping devices--baseball, cricket, running, leaping, swimming, wrestling, etc., taught in easy lessons. A Breezy, Outdoor Book of Athletics." With black-and-white drawings. Heavy wear to cover extremities, including 1" splits to front and rear edges of spine cloth and fraying to head and tail of spine; few cover stains. Text pages browning and very brittle; front hinge paper split. Interior clean and tight.
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The Poot Ponds and Other Things About Our Island
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Nantucket: Inquirer and Mirror Press, 1959 Illustrated card covers; staple-bound; 23 pages. About Nantucket Island, from the perspective of a 9-year-old boy who wrote the little booklet while confined with a broken leg. Illustrated with un-credited line drawings, some rather cartoon-like, this booklet was published by Nantucket's oldest newspaper. Light cover edgewear . Some irregular moderate soiling to covers. Tiny diagonal clip to head of spine. Interior clean, intact, and unworn.
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Pioneer Spaniards in North America
by Johnson, William Henry
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Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1903 Ex-Library First Edition. Pictorial cloth. With black-and-white text illustrations. With library marks and numerous repairs: bookplate inside front cover; "date due" slip rear endpaper; pocket strip inside rear cover; embossed library stamp through frontis illustration edge, title page, page 27, and page 239 Several breaks in binding repaired with proper materials. Upper spine edge repaired with strip of vinyl tape; cover edges heavily worn. Interior clean and complete.
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Wood Particle Board Handbook
by Johnson, E.S., Editor; Written and Compiled By A.A. Carlyle, L.B. McGee, & R.A. McLean
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Raleigh, North Carolina: The Industrial Experimental Program of the School of Engineering, North Carolina State College, 1956 Very Good+/No Jacket. Textured vinyl-type binding; gilt title and spine. Illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and diagrams regarding the production of wood particle board, "a new product." Gilt cover lettering darkened; light rubbing to cover extremities. Interior clean and tight.
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About the Engineer of a Train
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Chicago: Melmont Publishers, Inc., 1959 Very Good-/No Jacket. Part of Melmont Look Read Learn Series. Age 8 and up. Pictorial cloth with reinforced binding. Ex-school library with few marks: pocket scar inside rear cover; ink stamp to front endpaper; "age 8+" written inside front cover. Otherwise clean and tight with only very light cover edgewear.
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Country Scrapbook: All About Country Lore and Life
by Johnson, Jerry Mack
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977 Small black remainder mark bottom page block. Clean and tight. Dust jacket intact and bright, but with short closed tears at extremities and general light wear. Now protected in mylar.
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