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Antiques of Perry County, PA

Antiques of Perry County, PA

by CHANDLER, Roy F(reeman)

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Deer Lake, PA: Bacon and Freeman, 1975. First, Limited Edition. Number 433 out of 800. Quarto (28cm); black paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; 200pp. Boards rubbed and scuffed; crown of spine bumped; interiors foxed on pastedowns, endpapers, and along textblock edges. Very Good. Described as the sixth in Chandler's (proposed) series of ten books on Perry County, in central Pennsylvania. This book is all about antique hunting in the county, with b/w photo-illustrations plus detailed historical information on these found objects from times past, from baskets, chairs, and clocks, to lamps, bottles, and other interesting geegaws.
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The Best of the Liberated Cook

The Best of the Liberated Cook

by OJAKANGAS, Beatrice

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Duluth, MN: The Liberated Cook Press, 1981. Edition not stated. Octavo (28cm); ivory plastic comb binding with aqua/pictorial paper wrappers; 96pp. Comb binding missing several teeth, repaired with tape; mild soiling and handling wear, sticker+residue on rear wrapper; interiors clean. Very Good. The Liberated Cook was a column written by Ojakangas for the Duluth News-Tribune, and this book is a compilation of some of her best recipes. All recipes within make use of the food processor and/or microwave, but also come with "conventional" directions. Includes appetizers and soups, salads, main dishes, desserts, sauces, drinks, and more, plus microwave cuisine tips; many dishes also have a certain Minnesotan or Finnish flair.
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Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners

Colloquial Icelandic: The Complete Course for Beginners

by NEIJMANN, Daisy L.

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London and New York: Routledge, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); glossy paper pictorial wrappers; viii,370pp. Wrappers mildly scuffed, with slight bumping to leading corners, heel and crown of spine; interiors have mild handling wear, otherwise clean. Near Fine overall. This book is intended to be an introduction to reading, writing, and speaking modern Icelandic. Beginning with lessons on the language's alphabet and pronunciation, students may work into Icelandic sentences and conversations with more complex grammar and vocabulary. Each chapter contains several self-guided exercises (answer key included), and there are Iceland-English and English-Icelandic dictionaries for reference.
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The Complete Guide to Growing Marihuana

The Complete Guide to Growing Marihuana

by FLEMING, Dave

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San Francisco: Sundance Press, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 43,[3]pp. Mild external soil, visible on lighter portions of rear wrapper, else Near Fine. How-to manual, a comprehensive guide including indoor and outdoor cultivation."There is more to growing marihuana in the United States than just sticking the seeds in the ground. The plant is extremely interesting...sit down and read the book through at least once ... and upon finishing I'm sure that you'll feel that it was well spent. If not, I'll gladly refund your dollar.
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The Do of Cooking (Ryorido): Autumn

The Do of Cooking (Ryorido): Autumn

by AIHARA, Cornellia

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Oroville, CA: The George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation, Inc, 1977. First Revised Edition. Octavo (21cm.); white pictorial paper wrappers; 101pp. Text block edges have some toning and soiling, with additional light soiling and handling wear throughout. Sound, Very Good. Wrappers are foxed on front panel, with sunning very evident on rear. Mild soiling overall, plus surface and corner wear, but no tears. Price blacked out w/ marker. Else Very Good. Learn about the benefits of Japanese seasonal cuisine with Cornellia Aihara, in this cookbook which contains recipes for autumnal stews and noodle dishes, vegetables, sides, desserts, and a complete Thanksgiving dinner. One in a seasonal series produced by the George Ohsawa Macrobiotic Foundation; Ohsawa's macrobiotic lifestyle gained popularity in the 1960's and is often associated with the concurrent hippie culture.
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Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood

Easy Family Recipes from a Chinese-American Childhood

by HOM, Ken

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); pictorial paper-covered boards, in color pictorial dustwrapper; ix,319pp. Crown of spine (boards) slightly sunned; dustwrapper has light surface wear and scuffing, mild bumping to heel of spine; marginalia in pencil throughout interior, else clean, Near Fine overall. Chinese-American chef and television show host Ken Hom shares some of his childhood favorites, along with a generous serving of warm memories from times past, spent with family and friends in Chicago's Chinatown. In addition to recipes for a variety of dishes, Hom covers cooking techniques and ingredients, while setting the record straight on Chinese food "tropes" like fortune cookies and chop suey.
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English Grammar: A Simple, Concise and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language [Signed by...

English Grammar: A Simple, Concise and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language [Signed by Publishers][Ben Shahn's copy]

by BAILEY, A.M., Rev. R.W.

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Portland ME, Philadelphia: Merrill & Whitman, J.B. Lippincott, 1855. Tenth Edition. Octavo (19cm); one quarter brown leather with printed paper covered boards; xv, 17-240pp. Leather portions chapped, spots of material loss along/near extremities; paper also rubbed w/ some material loss, also soiled, dampstained, and toned; leading corners fraying. Textblock comprehensively foxed; Ben and Bernarda Shahn estate label tipped to front pastedown; inscription and notes from publishers on ffep (dated 1855). Good, but very sound and complete. An English grammar manual designed primarily for use in schools and other institutions, this book also covers etymology, syntax, prosody, orthography, and more, as taught in the 1850's. A representative of Merrill & Whitman signed and inscribed this copy to L.H. Ludden Esq., a name belonging to a Maine lawyer practicing at the time.
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Fun With Chinese

Fun With Chinese

by SOSNOSKI, W(alter) J(ohn)

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Waverly, NY: Mei Foo, 1940. First Edition. Limited to 5000 copies. Octavo (21cm); yellow paper wrappers w/ red print lettering, green print pattern of Chinese characters reading "Mei Fu"; 104pp. Light offsetting and soil to wrappers, minor handling wear; Very Good or better. W.J. Sosnoski taught himself how to read Chinese while stationed in Shanghai some twenty years prior to the publication of this book. Here, he gives us an equally informal but thorough introduction to reading, writing, and understanding Chinese characters. Features vocabulary lists with ideographic breakdowns, plus plenty of puzzles to test one's skills. Sosnoski's style is casual, entertaining, and surprisingly effective. However, this being 1940 (and the height of World War II), one can expect some outdated rhetoric and slang. Not listed in OCLC under this title/author as of November 2019.
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Guerrilla Television

Guerrilla Television

by SHAMBERG, Michael

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971. First edition, paperback issue (there was a simultaneous, and notably scarce, issue in boards). Quarto. Pictorial card wrappers; 108pp. Mild external rubbing and wear, else a tight, straight copy, Very Good or better. Text clean, fresh and unmarked. Laid in are four early publications of the Maryland Citizens Coalition for Cable Communications, including Issue no. 2 of the Coalition's newsletter (May, 1973). Part manifesto, part how-to manual for would-be video activists and pirate broadcasters. A nicely preserved copy. The laid-in materials must be some of the earliest relating to public advocacy concerning the licensure and regulation of cable television programming, predating by several years the expansion of large-scale cable networks into most American cities.
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The Indoor Outdoor Highest Quality Marijuana Grower's Guide

The Indoor Outdoor Highest Quality Marijuana Grower's Guide

by [DRUGS] FRANK, Mel and Ed Rosenthal

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San Francisco: And/Or Press, 1977. Seventh And/Or printing (preceded by three printings from Level Press). Octavo (21.25cm); illustrated card wrappers; 94,[2]pp; illus. A bright, Near Fine copy of a book usually found well-used. Detailed manual for the indoor / outdoor cultivation of marijuana, including sections on growing systems and light charts.
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Kava Kava: Famous Drug Plant of the South Sea Islands

Kava Kava: Famous Drug Plant of the South Sea Islands

by [NARCOTICS & STIMULANTS] STEINMETZ, E.F. (Dr.)

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San Francisco: Level Press, (1973). First American Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 36pp; illus. Mild bumps to wrapper edges; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Reprint of Steinmetz's 1960 treatise "Piper methysticum: kava, kawa, yaqona ; famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands (Amsterdam: 1960). Steinmetz (1901-1972) was among the leading ethnobotanists of his time, editor and publisher of The Journal of Crude Drug Research (1961-1972) and Acta Phytotherapeutica (1954-1972).
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A Living without a Boss. Illustrated

A Living without a Boss. Illustrated

by [RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE] Anon

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New York: Harper and Brothers, 1911. First Edition. Demi octavo (18cm). Original olive-green cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper, lightly nicked at spine ends and with a small (
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Maternity for Maidens-Wives-Mothers: A Complete Medical Guide for Women

Maternity for Maidens-Wives-Mothers: A Complete Medical Guide for Women

by MELENDY M.D., Ph.D., Mary R(ies)

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N.d.: K.T. Boland, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); dark green publisher's cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt; 448pp.,frontis.,64 plates. Minor soiling, scuffs and wear throughout; spine heel and crown pushed; gilt faded; dust-soiling to textblock edges; ownership inscription on ffep; Very Good or better, sound. Intended as a companion for women at all stages of her adult life, this volume contains medical information and practical advice for "mysterious and complex matters" relating to courtship, marriage, "pre-natal influence", childbirth and rearing, personal beauty, and "diseases peculiar to women", accompanied by b/w plate diagrams and illustrations, plus sixteen colorplates. Also includes home remedies and sickroom recipes, plus a glossary of terms. Published in 1901, the information within is very much a product of its time but may be viewed as a fascinating glimpse of life in the "good old days" of corsets, consumption, and the seemingly constant menace of constipation.
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The New Lucile Cook Book

The New Lucile Cook Book

by [The Acker, Merrall & Condit Company]

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Boston: The P.R. Warren Co. Printers, 1906. Edition not stated. Octavo (21.5cm); dark green cloth, stamped in black; 303pp. Boards worn with scuffs and small gouges, extremities chapped; patches of material bleaching on rear; interior toning to margins; first signature somewhat loosened from rest of textblock, else pages are clean and tight. Period ads throughout. Very Good. This cookbook was offered through The Acker, Merrall & Condit Company, which is primarily known today as a wine auctioning service. However, they once provided general provisions (under the brand name "Amcehat") through a mail order service, and also operated several retail stories in the Mid-Atlantic area. As described in a 1908 issue of Good Housekeeping, this cookbook "contains many recipes for home and hostess cookery not to be found in the average volume of the kind". Featuring recipes for meats, vegetables, desserts, and a section titled "Forty Recipes from the Four-Hundred", referring to a list of New York's gilded age… Read More
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Popular Mechanics Carpenters' Handbook

Popular Mechanics Carpenters' Handbook

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Chicago: Popular Mechanics Press, 1925. Edition not stated. Octavo (24.5cm); brown publisher's cloth, stamped in black; 104pp. Cocked spine; surface wear, minor rubbing and dings to boards; mild soiling throughout, with foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature on ffep. Very Good. This is but one volume of many published by Popular Mechanics at the time, advertised as using "clear and concise language" and geared towards "anyone who has the slightest mechanical instinct, including women". This particular book compiles previous Popular Mechanics articles on carpentry tools and equipment, tips, techniques, and projects, helpfully accompanied by b/w photo-illustrations and diagrams. Also includes advertisements for other Popular Mechanics publications.
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Practical Mandarin Conversation
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Practical Mandarin Conversation

by LEE, Frank

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[Australia]: Privately published, 2016. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); gilt-stamped, grey publisher's cloth-backed boards in pale pink pictorial dustwrapper; 115pp. Front pastedown and title page stamped, else Fine, like new. Surplus duplicate from the Library of Congress. This book introduces simple conversational sentences and words in Mandarin Chinese, providing Chinese characters with their ISO Chinese-Pinyin (Romanized) readings to aid pronunciation. Each chapter covers conversational words and phrases for a different subject relating to daily situations, travel, and Chinese culture (with vocabulary lists).
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The Super Grass Grower's Guide: a Handbook for High Power Pot Farming

The Super Grass Grower's Guide: a Handbook for High Power Pot Farming

by MARY JANE SUPERWEED (pseud Djanandruman Baba?)

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[San Francisco]: Stone Kingdom Syndicate, 1970. No statement of edition or printing. Small octavo; staple-bound pictorial card wrappers; 16pp; illus. Mild external dusting; minor pencil marginalia; Near Fine. A rudimentary, if ubiquitous, how-to manual for marijuana cultivators. Reprinted numerous times, as recently as 2000. "Mary Jane Superweed" was a pseudonym that appeared over a variety of pot-growing manuals in the late Sixties and early Seventies; it has been attributed by one contemporary to a Bay Area cannabis researcher named Djanandruan Baba (also clearly a pseudonym, assuming the attribution is even accurate - it appears nowhere else). [see D.Gold, "D Gold, Author of Cannabis Alchemy, 1971, Shares Cannabis Extraction History Unfolding!"; guest post on the blog Skunk Pharm Research, 2016].
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Weld's English Grammar, Illustrated by Exercises in Composition, Analyzing and Parsing [Ben...

Weld's English Grammar, Illustrated by Exercises in Composition, Analyzing and Parsing [Ben Shahn's Copy]

by WELD, Allen H.

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Portland, ME: Sanborn and Carter, 1846. Fiftieth Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); one quarter black paper with brown paper sides, gilt on spine; iv,228pp. Comprehensive dampstaining, wear and soiling; pinholes to spine hinges; board extremities rubbed and chapped, corners bumped. Textblock foxed and damped; stray marks throughout; Ben & Bernarda Shahn bookplate on front pastedown. Good or Better. A c.1840's guide to the English language, geared towards younger students. With lessons in grammar, parts of speech, syntax, and composition.
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