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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?)

Condition
Used
Published
1970
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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 marginalia and highlighting; 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… Read more about this item
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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

Condition
Used
Published
1977
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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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English Grammar: A Simple, Concise and Comprehensive Manual of the English Language [Signed by Publishers][Ben Shahn's copy]

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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Used
Edition
Tenth Edition
Published
1855
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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… Read more about this item
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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)

Condition
Used
Edition
First Edition
Published
1901
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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… Read more about this item
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Fun With Chinese

Fun With Chinese

by SOSNOSKI, W(alter) J(ohn)

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Used
Edition
First Edition
Published
1940
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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… Read more about this item
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Popular Mechanics Carpenters' Handbook

Popular Mechanics Carpenters' Handbook

by [Popular Mechanics]

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Used
Edition
Edition not stated
Published
1925
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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… Read more about this item
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Antiques of Perry County, PA

Antiques of Perry County, PA

by CHANDLER, Roy F(reeman)

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Used
Edition
First, Limited Edition
Published
1975
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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… Read more about this item
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The Best of the Liberated Cook

The Best of the Liberated Cook

by OJAKANGAS, Beatrice

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Used
Edition
Edition not stated
Published
1981
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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… Read more about this item
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Practical Mandarin Conversation
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Practical Mandarin Conversation

by LEE, Frank

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Used
Edition
First Edition
Published
2016
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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… Read more about this item
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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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Used
Edition
First Edition
Published
1911
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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… Read more about this item
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$200.00
Guerrilla Television

Guerrilla Television

by SHAMBERG, Michael

Condition
Used
Published
1971
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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,… Read more about this item
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