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Pittsburgh Books & Ephemera

Requiem

Requiem

by Fisher, A. E. (Arista Edward)

New York: John Day, 1933. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. First edition (1933), cloth in dust jacket, near fine copy in very good jacket with light soil and edgewear, especially to top of spine. Depression-era Pittsburgh novel set during one week, in which a family cracks apart in a climax of violence and redemption. Remarkably scarce novel by a native Pittsburger who lived in South Oakland (a neighborhood of Pittsburgh overlooking the Mon Valley mills).
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$150.00
1938 Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition: Prints from the Collection of Charles J. Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh

1938 Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition: Prints from the Collection of Charles J. Rosenbloom, Pittsburgh

by Carnegie Institute

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute, 1938. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. Large 8vo, 10 x 8 inches, wraps, very good, light wear. 47 pp, illustrated, a number of b/w plates. Rosenbloom was a businessman and philanthropist, a passionate supporter of the Carnegie Museum and probably the first Jew to sit on its board. He gave the museum a substantial number of artworks and also provided funding. The source of his wealth, it is rumored, came from the illegal sale of alcohol during Prohibition. He was also a... Read more about this item
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$30.00
Statuta Dioeceseos Pittsburgensis: in Synodis Dioecesanis Lata, et Prout Nunc Prostant Promulgata in synodo Dioecesana Decima Quarta Die 8 Mensis Octobris, A. D. 1919 habita ab ill'mo et rev'mo Regis Canevin, Episcopo Pittsburgensi

Statuta Dioeceseos Pittsburgensis: in Synodis Dioecesanis Lata, et Prout Nunc Prostant Promulgata in synodo Dioecesana Decima Quarta Die 8 Mensis Octobris, A. D. 1919 habita ab ill'mo et rev'mo Regis Canevin, Episcopo Pittsburgensi

by Catholic Church Pittsburgh Diocese

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Diocese Catholic Church, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +. Gilt stamped black cloth boards, octavo, 100pp., not illustrated. Book VG+ with light wear to the corners and spine ends, some erasable pencil marginalia to text. Front hinge has been weakened on account of the copious materials that are laid-in, many of which are signed by H. C. Boyle, Bishop of Pittsburgh from 1921-1950. Material is mostly written in Latin, including several certificates and pamphlets, as... Read more about this item
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$34.00
1924 Pittsburgh Plat Map 23x18: East Hills

1924 Pittsburgh Plat Map 23x18: East Hills

Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1924. From 'Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 3. Comprising the Wards 8, 10, 11, 12 & 13.' Single-page map showing the largely empty area that would eventually be East Hills. VG with light wear and soil.
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$25.00
1911 Photo album of Swiss - American worker retreat in Western Pennsylvania; V. S. B. Helvetia / E. Pittsburgh

1911 Photo album of Swiss - American worker retreat in Western Pennsylvania; V. S. B. Helvetia / E. Pittsburgh

by (Pittsburgh)

Hardcover. Good. Photo album measures 7 x 5.25 inches, with 24 photos, mainly 5 x 4 inches, of what looks like a summer camping retreat or vacation by Swiss-American workers from E. Pittsburgh, a working-class town close to the mills. We are unsure what VSB stands for, but there is an American and Swiss flag, it's clearly summer, and the men besport themselves, bathing in the streams, cooking and possibly doing some hunting. Good condition, a few of the photos a bit tanned, one or two with minor... Read more about this item
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$175.00
An Original Exhibition of Some of the Difficulties of Westminster Calvinism

An Original Exhibition of Some of the Difficulties of Westminster Calvinism

by Jimeson, M. P

Pittsburgh: N. M. Poindexter, 1845. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo, cloth backed boards, good copy, solidly bound, light wear and rubbing to binding, lacking paper spine label, contents very good, endpapers foxed, light occasional foxing to text, rear flyleaf with some loss and light staining to outer edges of last few pages. 133 pp, index. OCLC records six copies in libraries including Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and AAS.
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$75.00
1899 large double-page color map of HOMEWOOD & BRUSHTON, Pittsburgh

1899 large double-page color map of HOMEWOOD & BRUSHTON, Pittsburgh

by Hopkins, Griffith M

Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1899. Very Good. Map from "Real Estate Plat Book of the City of Pittsburgh, East End, Vol. 2, comprising the 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st Wards." Map measures 28.75 x 22 inches, very good with light edgwear. Shows eastern Homewood: Penn, Dunfermline, Richland, Tioga, Braddock, Brereton, Thomas, etc.
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$45.00
Battle of Homestead News, Nos. 1-11, January 2000 - April 2010

Battle of Homestead News, Nos. 1-11, January 2000 - April 2010

by Battle of Homestead Foundation

Pittsburgh: Battle of Homestead Foundation, 2010. Wraps. Very good. We have nos. 1-11, lacking no. 2 but with the "Special Edition" from July 2005 on George W. Rutter. Some of the earlier numbers are 8 pp. but most are 4 pp. with articles on the progress of memorials, preservation of the Pump House (the labor historians who contributed to these newsletters would jokingly refer to themselves as The Pump House Gang) and related stories and news. From the collection of Russ Gibbons who did a lot of the... Read more about this item
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$45.00
Plat Map of the Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Including Part of Bellevue

Plat Map of the Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, Including Part of Bellevue

by (Map, Pittsburgh, Bellevue)

Philadelphia, 1900. Paperback. good+. ca. 1900s. Linen backed, 28 x 22 in. Good+. Folded once. Foxing to linen backing and bottom corners, finger smudging to extremities and offsetting from index tab, else fine. Color map includes parts of Bellevue, bordered by railroads and the Ohio River, and a sliver of Ross Township. Tracts of land are labeled by owner and acreage. Homes and businesses are also identified.
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$26.25
1899 linen-backed 28 x 22" map: Pittsburgh Highland Park neighborhood

1899 linen-backed 28 x 22" map: Pittsburgh Highland Park neighborhood

Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1899. Very Good. From "Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, East End, Vol. 2, comprising the 18th, 19th, 20th & 21st Wards." Linen backed map, modest surface soil to map. Shows neighborhood of Highland Park.
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$45.00
Pittsburgh: Watercolor Impressions

Pittsburgh: Watercolor Impressions

by Bowden, Robert L

Pittsburgh: Hydrangea Books, 2002. First printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Oblong octavo, cloth in dust jacket, signed by Bowden on the titlepage, illustrated in color, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
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$25.00
The Shaping of the Point: Pittsburgh's Renaissance Park

The Shaping of the Point: Pittsburgh's Renaissance Park

by Alberts, Robert C

Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good+. Gray cloth boards in dust jacket, oblong octavo [9" x 8"], illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. DJ gently toned and rubbed.
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$18.00
Dirt Street, A Quintessential Autobiographical: The Pittsburgh PA Jazz Struggle During the 1940s -- inscribed

Dirt Street, A Quintessential Autobiographical: The Pittsburgh PA Jazz Struggle During the 1940s -- inscribed

by Taylor, Hosea; Jackie Dozier, ed

Pittsburgh: Arsenal Binding and Finishing, 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. Cloth in bellyband dust jacket, very good, light wear, pencil note (on medications, nothing to do with the book) on flyleaf. Inscribed by Taylor to Horace Lee Turner and his wife Mary (Horace was a Black musician who was a contemporary of the author; he died in July 2022 at the age of nearly 101). 270 pp, illustrated. Both Taylor and Turner were fixtures in the jazz scene of the Hill District, the historic Black... Read more about this item
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$100.00
1900 linen-backed 28 x 22" map: Pittsburgh Downtown, 9th St. Bridge to 12th St

1900 linen-backed 28 x 22" map: Pittsburgh Downtown, 9th St. Bridge to 12th St

Philadelphia: Griffith M. Hopkins, 1900. From "Real Estate Plat-Book of the City of Pittsburgh, Vol. 3, comprising the 1st to the 12th Wards and 15th, 16th, & 17th Wards." Linen backed map, light surface soil and smudges, some damp stains to linen backing that faintly show on the map side along bottom. Shows downtown, noth of Liberty Ave., 9th - 12th Sts. nearer the Allegheny.
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$45.00
Notes on Real Estate in Western Pennsylvania, for use in Pittsburgh Law School (1922) -- signed

Notes on Real Estate in Western Pennsylvania, for use in Pittsburgh Law School (1922) -- signed

by Hawkins, Richard H

Toledo: Press of the H. J. Chittenden Co, 1922. Third Edition. Good. 11 x 8.75 inches, flexible leatherette. Signed by the author in 1925 on title page. Ownership signature of James G. Fulton, a prominent Pittsburgh attorney, state senator and congressman, from 1928 (in the middle of the Red Sea!) -- Fulton would graduate from Harvard Law School in 1929. Text has quite a bit of underlining by Fulton throughout the book as well as some marginalia, including some notes and a recipe on rear endpapers.... Read more about this item
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$75.00
Ca. 1910s 9x6 photo Riverview Park Cabin, Pittsburgh PA Northside Allegheny

Ca. 1910s 9x6 photo Riverview Park Cabin, Pittsburgh PA Northside Allegheny

(Pittsburgh), 1910. Very good. 9 x 6 inches, very good, verso with four areas of gray paper residue from album removal. Riverview Park, home to the Allegheny Observatory, was first opened to the public in 1894. We don't think the cabin has been there on the premises for a while.
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$25.00
Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier

Fort Pitt and Letters from the Frontier

by Darlington, Mary Carson; et al

Pittsburgh: J.R. Weldin & Co, 1892. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt stamped maroon cloth boards, large octavo, 312pp., frontispiece in b&w. Book has rubbing and mild soil to boards and spine, corners gently bumped, binding tight, previous owner's signature to front flyleaf, otherwise text clean and bright. No DJ.
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$150.00
Keystone Stove Works, Catalogue and Price List of De Haven & Co., Manufacturers of Portable Ranges, Cooking, Parlor, and Heating Stoves, Grate Fronts, Sugar Kettles, &c. August, 1881

Keystone Stove Works, Catalogue and Price List of De Haven & Co., Manufacturers of Portable Ranges, Cooking, Parlor, and Heating Stoves, Grate Fronts, Sugar Kettles, &c. August, 1881

by De Haven & Co

Pittsburgh: De Haven & Co, 1881. Paperback. Good. August, 1881. Blue printed wraps, 12mo. 48pp. fine engravings of stoves with contemporary prices. Good. Soil and edge wear to wraps, rodent damage upper right corner of last 8p, light foxing to margins. Contents otherwise complete and clean.
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$90.00
The Story of the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Pittsburgh, July 4, September 27 to October 3, and November 25, 1908 .... Grand de Luxe Edition

The Story of the Sesqui-Centennial Celebration of Pittsburgh, July 4, September 27 to October 3, and November 25, 1908 .... Grand de Luxe Edition

by King, Sidney A. (ed.) Church, Samuel Harden, et al

Pittsburgh: R. W. Johnston Studios, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1910, Grand de Luxe Edition, 1000 copies printed, although this one is not numbered. Hardcover, large 4to., bound in full black leather, gilt title. 365 pp. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos and plates. Very Good. Leather binding worn along edges and hinges; shallow loss to the spine ends. Clean and unmarked contents. Sound, square binding. Uncommon. Printed at the Lakeside Press in Chicago. Digital images... Read more about this item
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$120.00
The Shadyside Presbyterian Church: Changing Years 1966-1981

The Shadyside Presbyterian Church: Changing Years 1966-1981

by Bell, Davitt S

Pittsburgh: Shadyside Presbyterian Church, 1981. Paperback. Near fine. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, 60pp., sparsely illustrated in b&w, with errata sheet laid in. Book has mild wear to spine ends and corners, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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$30.00
Methods for the Analysis of Ores, Pig Iron and Steel in use at the Laboratories of Iron and Steel Works in the Region about Pittsburgh, PA

Methods for the Analysis of Ores, Pig Iron and Steel in use at the Laboratories of Iron and Steel Works in the Region about Pittsburgh, PA

by Phillips, Francis C., et al

Easton, PA: Chemical Publishing Co, 1898. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, green cloth, very good, light soil and finger marks to covers, contents VG with light age toning. 131 pp. Included are two 'index cards' (7 x 4.5 inches) from 1896 and 898 from Carnegie Steel Co. Homestead Works, with notes on orders in the Open Hearth Department.
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$55.00
Ca. 1890s promotional book & course guide for Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh: penmanship, bookkeeping, shorthand, phonography, typing, etc.

Ca. 1890s promotional book & course guide for Duff's Mercantile College, Pittsburgh: penmanship, bookkeeping, shorthand, phonography, typing, etc.

Pittsburgh: Duff's Mercantile College, 1899. Hardcover. Very good. 8 x 5.5 inches, publisher's dark blue cloth gilt, very good, light wear, pages beginning to tan. 80 pp, printed in black & red, illustrated, with a history of the college, founded in 1840 (and "nearly sixty years old"), course descriptions, description of the building, information on coursework, examinations, tuition, testimonials, remarks on the "revolution" caused by the typewriter, examples of penmanship, and the usefulness of... Read more about this item
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$95.00
Plat Map of Pittsburgh, Including Parts of Hazelwood

Plat Map of Pittsburgh, Including Parts of Hazelwood

by (Maps, Pittsburgh, Hazelwood)

Philadelphia, 1890. Paperback. Very Good. 1890. 27 x 19 in. Very good. Folded once, some chipping to extremities, else fine. Color map includes part of Hazelwood in Pittsburgh. Bordered by the Monongahela, and includes part of Second, Elizabeth, and Johnston. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, St. Michael's Seminary, and other landmarks are labeled.
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$33.75
Giddap and Go" 1937 brochure, New Streamline Trolley poster of the 69 Squirrel Hill streetcar

Giddap and Go" 1937 brochure, New Streamline Trolley poster of the 69 Squirrel Hill streetcar

by Pittsburgh Railways Company

Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Railways Company, 1937. Very good. Folded this is 8 x 3.5 inches, unfolds to 24 x 14" with one side showing a lovely color depiction of the 69 Squirrel Hill streetcar and the other with multiple insets of various streetcars in Pittsburgh from 1859 to 1936. Good light wear and soil, "T-51" on front panel in black ink, and some very neat and unobtrusive repairs to some splits at the folds; uncommon and visually arresting brochure.
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$55.00