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New York: A New Directions Book / James Laughlin, 1954 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Bound by Rick Tuttle in full metallic blue leather, with a sculpted wood boat attached at the top of the cover, a flowing wake of water behind it, and water endpapers. Half-title, photographic frontis, 64pp. Inner joint starting between frontis and title page, paper thinned with erasure on dedication page. Binding is tight. BEAT POET. Includes signed correspondence from the binder to the previous owner.
Royal Worcester Views [Royal Worcester Corset Company] SCARCE -
Royal Worcester Views [Royal Worcester Corset Company] SCARCE
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Worcester, Massachusetts, 1918 SCARCE - NONE IN OCLC. Circa 1918. Presumed publication of the Royal Worcester Corset Company in Worcester, Massachusetts (1864-1950). Oblong format, binding is full flexible leather, containing 24 tipped-in albumen photographs, with descriptions. Includes a portrait of David H. Fanning - The President, a portrait of three workers with the fashionable hoop skirt, Officials and Directors, Private Office of the President and Treasurer, Officials and Over 1700 Employees on the Lawn adjoining the Factory, Main Stitching Room, One of the Fire Escapes, Cutting Department, Distinguished Visitors in early automobiles along the factory, One of the Finishing Rooms, One of the Sanitary Bubbling Fountains, Spacious Exits and Fireproof Double Stairway, Bon Ton Stitching Room, Lavatory, Dining Hall, Cleansing and Ironing Department, Spraying Corsets with Steam Before Ironing, Box Making Department, Visitors in Early Cars, Corset Boning Department, Engines and Switchboard, Stockroom, Shipping Department, Shipping Platform and Vehicles (being cars and horses with wagon).
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- Place of Publication Worcester, Massachusetts
- Date Published 1918
- Keywords Royal Worcester Corset Co. Company Massachusetts New England Textile Textiles
- Size 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
The Famous Boating Party and Other Poems in Prose - IN AN UNUSUAL 3 DIMENSIONAL, CUSTOM LEATHER BINDING
by Patchen, Kenneth
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Eagle Song [Signed]
by Bruchac, Joseph
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- 9780803719187 / 0803719183
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NY: Dial Books For Young Readers, 1997 IN NEAR FINE CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Fine Condition, protected in a mylar cover. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. NO LABELS, NOR MARKINGS, Dust Jacket is NOT price-clipped.
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Ching-Te-Chen T'ao-Lu or The Potteries of China
by Sayer, Geoffrey R. [translated by, with notes]
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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1951 IN FINE CONDITION, with a Dust Jacket in Very Good + Condition, in a protective mylar cover [NOT price-clipped]. xxiv, 139pp, bound in maroon cloth, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Dust jacket is age darkened, with light edge wear.
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The Autopsy and Other Tales [SCARCE, Signed, Limited Edition]
by Shea, Michael
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[Lakewood, Colorado]: Centipede Press, 2008 LIMITED EDITION, this being #286 of 500 Copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Scarce, with only 3 copies in OCLC. 592pp, [3], bound in black textured paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight, silk ribbon intact, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. American Horror Tales.
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Palm Leaf Manuscript on Ayurvedic Medicine, written in Malayalam Script, from Kerala, India
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Kerala, India: Original Manuscript Circa 18th - 19th Century. From the Collection of Jacques Marchais [1887-1948] who in 1938 opened an Indian and Tibetan Art Gallery in Manhatten, to fund her desire to build a center of Tibetan Art on her property in Staten Island, showing her label on the wooden cover. The polished, bevelled wooden boards measure 9-1/2" long by 1-1/4" top to bottom. The stack measures 2-1/4" thick with the wooden covers, and 1-3/4" thick without the wooden covers, with a jute cord running through two holes in the book. With 82 leaves total, which were inscribed with a sharp stylus, then covered in ink made from oil and lampblack, wiping off the excess to reveal the Malayalam script. A few small annotations in pencil, in English, reveal some of the translations, *"Errhine for Coma" [Errhine means to be stuffed into the nose] *"Fever pill" *"Cure for sundry genital disorders" and *"Ginger powder". Malayalam script is…
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The Famous Boating Party and Other Poems in Prose - IN AN UNUSUAL 3 DIMENSIONAL, CUSTOM LEATHER BINDING
by Patchen, Kenneth
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New York: A New Directions Book / James Laughlin, 1954 IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. Bound by Rick Tuttle in full metallic blue leather, with a sculpted wood boat attached at the top of the cover, a flowing wake of water behind it, and water endpapers. Half-title, photographic frontis, 64pp. Inner joint starting between frontis and title page, paper thinned with erasure on dedication page. Binding is tight. BEAT POET. Includes signed correspondence from the binder to the previous owner.
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Lion Cub Scout Book
by Various
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NY: Boy Scouts of America, 1948 NEVER USED. [4], 155pp, [1], bound in original illustrate stiff wraps, cover illustration by Don Ross, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.
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The Autopsy and Other Tales [SCARCE, Signed, Limited Edition]
by Shea, Michael
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[Lakewood, Colorado]: Centipede Press, 2008 LIMITED EDITION, this being #286 of 500 Copies, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Scarce, with only 3 copies in OCLC. 592pp, [3], bound in black textured paper over boards, with binding and hinges tight, silk ribbon intact, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. American Horror Tales.
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Teoria Dello Yacht A Vela [SIGNED COPY]
by Fossati, Fabio
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9788873980353 / 887398035x
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Milano, Italy: Polipress, 2007 Purchased from the Estate of Olin J. Stephens II, (1908-2008) American Yacht Designer, ans associated with America's Cup Races. Ask about our other books from this Estate. xviii, 604pp, [2], bound in glossy stiff paper covers, with binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, NOR MARKINGS. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams throughout. Text is in Italian. INSCRIBED & SIGNED "With many thanks for everything / you've done for sailors / Fabio" on the title page. YACHT DESIGN.
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Palm Leaf Manuscript on Ayurvedic Medicine, written in Malayalam Script, from Kerala, India
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Kerala, India: Original Manuscript Circa 18th - 19th Century. From the Collection of Jacques Marchais [1887-1948] who in 1938 opened an Indian and Tibetan Art Gallery in Manhatten, to fund her desire to build a center of Tibetan Art on her property in Staten Island, showing her label on the wooden cover. The polished, bevelled wooden boards measure 9-1/2" long by 1-1/4" top to bottom. The stack measures 2-1/4" thick with the wooden covers, and 1-3/4" thick without the wooden covers, with a jute cord running through two holes in the book. With 82 leaves total, which were inscribed with a sharp stylus, then covered in ink made from oil and lampblack, wiping off the excess to reveal the Malayalam script. A few small annotations in pencil, in English, reveal some of the translations, *"Errhine for Coma" [Errhine means to be stuffed into the nose] *"Fever pill" *"Cure for sundry genital disorders" and *"Ginger powder". Malayalam script is…
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