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1930. Other. Fair. Army Falcon Planes over FLoyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photo by R.L. Arnold; Artvue Post Card Condition: Good, unused, yellowed, small stains on front and back

1940. soft. Very Good. R.L.Arnold. Original Edition Artvue Post Card Illustrations Information: BW photo, Floyd Bennett Airport, Brooklyn N.Y. photo by R.L.Arnold -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian --------- CONDITION: -Unused -Good- with finger print on back and brown stain, finger print on front

Original leaf from the 1554 Lansperqius' Conciones Paraeneticae, printed at Cologne by Johannes Novesianus in 1554. Latin Language discussion of the feast days of the Church year with the appropriate Scriptural references. Double column Roman bold text, w, 1554. Soft. Fine. Original leaf from the 1554 Lansperqius' Conciones Paraeneticae, printed at Cologne by Johannes Novesianus in 1554.
Latin Language discussion of the feast days of the Church year with the appropriate Scriptural references. Double column Roman bold text, with sidenotes, after the fashion of earlier handwritten books. Fine example of early Germanic printing. John Justus of Landsberg (Lanspergius is the latinization of Landsberg)

ORIGINAL EDITIONPublisher-Printing Location: Harper & Brothers, New YorkDate and Numbering: June, 1889, Volume LXXIX, Number CCCCLXIXSize and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall, approx. 200 pages, Condition: Good, binding good, front cover is loose on bottom edge as is several pages of advertisements at front of magazine, other wise the magazine pages are in excellent condition with almost no foxing.Illustrations Information: approx. 40 illustrations and many vintage advertisements!Article listings:
Poem: Quince -By Winthrop Mackworth Praed (illustrated by E.A. Abbey)
Social life in Russia (second paper) -By Eugene-Melchior, vicomte de Vog
Poem: The brook -By William Wordsworth
A little journey in the world (VI-VII) -By Charles Dudley Warner
An incident of the Irish Rebellion -By William Howard, Sir Russell
Our artists in Europe -By Henry James
Saturn's Rings -By Sir George Howard Darwin
The problems of psychic research -By Joseph Jastrow
Poem: Litairene
Montreal -By Charles Haight Farnham
Friendly rivalry. A… Read More

1872. soft. Very Good. Original 1872 Georgia Election Violence 11 X 16 Tall page 757 of the September 28, 1872 Harper's Weekly. 2 Wood Cut Engravings 3 X 2 Wide 4.5 X 4.5 Wide - First - US printing (Was printed also in series a few weeks earlier in England) Condition: Very Good, torn off edge piece not effecting engravings or text. Article Mr. Greeley's Supporters in Georgia by Eugene Lawrence Wood Cut Engraving of post Reconstruction 1872 elected Republican Charles Stearns "They Then Seized Me, and Dragged Me to the Top of the Stairs."Wood Cut Engraving of Georgia Election Violence 1872 "They All Jumped Into the Water."Rear side of page with Advertisements

Original September 1937 The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association Volume 2 #1Condition: Very Good+, 9" x 12" tall, 8 pages,Photo and article The Box or Parlor Stove 1750 to 1840 by Lawrence B. RomaineDeacon Shem Drowne Maker of Weather-Vanes by Leroy Thwing4 Photos of StovesAnnual MeetingThe Essex Institute's Collection of Buttons by Willis H. RopesNews and Publications The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association was published from 1933 by Leon S. Case Flushing New York and later in Pittsburg, Pa. The original mission statement of the organization stated: "The purpose of the Association is to encourage the study and better understanding of early American industry, in the home, in the shop, on the farm and on the sea, and especially to discover, identify, classify, preserve and exhibit obsolete tools, implements, utensils, instruments, vehicles, appliances and mechanical devices used by American craftsmen farmers, housewives, mariners, professional men and other workers".

1955. softcover. Good. 5.5 x 7.5. Original Ellery Queen Mystery Magazines 1955 to 1959 Lot of 5 Condition: Good to Fair, mailing label on covers, 5 x 7.5 tall, yellowing from age, Complete April 1955 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Eleazar Lipsky Tiger in the Night October 1956 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Agatha Christie, Louis Bromfield October 1956 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Same as previous March 1956 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Carter Dickson, John Dickson Carr April 1959 Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Lawrence G. Blochman, Murder in a Motel Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine began publication in 1941. Ellery Queen was the pseudonym of the team of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee, who had been writing under the name since 1929. EQMM was created to provide a market for mystery fiction above the common run of pulp crime magazines of the day. Dannay served as the magazine s editor-in-chief (although still under the name Ellery Queen) from its creation until his death in 1982, when… Read More

Original 1940 Flower Arranging by Laura Lee Burroughs by Coca-Cola - 2 copies A Fascination Hobby Condition: 1 Good, water stain on front cover and top edge of 2 pages, other copy is Fair condition: water damage to back of booklet, 7.5" x 7.25" tall with 56 pages each.Glossy photos of flower arrangement sInstructions and ideas
8 Pages of Color Photos of Coca-Cola Arrangements

1987. hard. Port Hudson Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi 1987 Description -ORIGINAL EDITION- Publisher-Printing Location: Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge; Author: Lawrence Lee Hewitt Date and Numbering: 1987 Size and Page Count: 6.0"" X 9.5"" Tall, approx. 221 pages Condition:V Good, binding good, has dust jacket,ex libris stamp Illustrations Information: 15 b W illustrations ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Contains: Port Hudson holds a important place in Civil War history. It was the site of the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River and the site of the longest genuine siege in American military history. This book offers a colorful account of daily life in the garrison, the commanders' strategies, and the importance of Port Hudson to the war.

Original 1962. Reveille In Washington 1860-1865 - paperback ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper Brothers, New York Date and Numbering:1962 Author: Margaret Leech Size and Page Count: 5.5 X 8 Tall, 590 pages Condition: Good, binding good, cover has a little wear Reveille in Washington focuses on the politics and preocupations of Washington during the Civil War, and gives an accurate account of the transformation of Washington from an administrative backwater to a federal power.This book won the Pulitzer prize for History in 1942.

Original 1919 The Review June 21, 191924 pages, 9" x 12" tall Volume 1, Number 6 Editors: Fabian Franklin, Harold De Wolf FullerContents:
The Know Resolution
Prophet or President?
Kolchak and the Peace Conference
Progress in Industrial Organization
Parting the College in the Middle
Italo-Jugoslav Controversy by Leo Pasvolsky
Conditions in Canada by J. K. F.
Mobilized Philology by Frederick TupperReviews:National Views of Industrial ReconstructionThe Sinclairs and Jimmie by H. W. BoyntonAutonomous AlbaniaDante and Moslem Mystics by D. B. MacdonaldThe Run of the ShelvesIgnoring Modern Music by Charles L BuchananDrama: The Jest, 39 East, A Little Journey by O. W. FirkinsArtists and the War by James N. RosenbergShort Notes on Current Events by Editors:German Reparation TermsViscount Ishii Japanese Ambassador
Prohibition DemonstrationIndustrial UnrestJazzEtc Advertisements

Original 1909 Drawing by M. Leone Bracker in Harper's Monthly from I wish I were Bretherton
6" X 9" , Painting Measures 5" X 7.4" Tall
Old Diedrich Ashley Fought Out His Destiny Unaided

ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location:Â Harper & Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: December, 1886 Volume LXXIV, Number CCCCXXXIX Size and Page Count: 6.5" X 10" Tall, 238 pages Condition: Good+, binding good, cover has flaking at spine and some age yellowing, foxing, address label on front cover, some small tears
Illustrations Information: 54 engravings ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian----Articles and Information:
When Christmas Comes Frontispiece from Edwin A. Abbey
Poem: Sally in our Alley -By Henry Carey
The Boyhood of Christ -By Lew Wallace with illustrations by Alfred Bramtot and Sue O. Merson engraved by King, Muller, Grimley,Davis, Reid:- Initial L. , Angles watching over Child Jesus, Mary teaching Jesus the Alphabet, Listening for Voices, On the Way to Jerusalem In the Nazareth Synagogne
Poem: The Legend of Saint Nicholas -By Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer with illustrations by Mary L. Gow, engraved by Wellington and French: Beggar Mother, they… Read More

Original January - February 1947 Story Magazine 7" X 10" Tall with 104 pagesCondition: Good to Very Good, rubbing on covers, cover corner fold missing, COMPLETEBiographical Notes on Contributors Liam O'Flaherty and The Night Porter Shepard Rifkin and There Are Worse Places Sidney Alexander and Part of the Act Howard Griffin and A Gentleness about Him Harold Helfer and Tapioca Pudding Dal Stivens and You Call Me by My Proper Name Charles Weyl and First Love I.J.Kapstein and The Rubber Wall Marilyn McLaughlin and The Younger Wife Richard M. Powers and Three Acts with Ballet Nathaniel Meserve and The Heat and That Man Hanna Edward T. McNamara and Mrs. Lusk ADS

Original May 1970 Good Housekeeping Magazine8" X 11" Tall, 232 Pages, Plus Recipes Insert PagesCondition: Very Good to Fine, some fading on covers, No Mailing Label, Complete, NO MISSING PAGES!Julie Andrews on CoverThis Town Needs a Doctor (part II) Novel -First Printing- Libbie BlockAll About Love and Marriage by Hugh Cave Pulp FictionThe Secret of Mike's Mother by Dorothy Curnow Handley​14 Feature ArticlesFollow Up: Rx for Philip by Mary Anne Guitar​Erma Bombeck - Up the Wall: Never Say Drive!Fashions, Oriental Prints, Lively Little Knits, Step into Stretch, Travel Minded ToteFoodHair Coloring New furniture Wall Fashion Embroider Diet etc Ads

Original April 1957 Real Western Stories Magazine Very Good Condition, 6.5" x 9.25" tall, 132 pages Volume 22 #6, April 1957 editor Robert W. Lowndes Columbia Publications, Inc6 · Sixgun Signature · Lloyd Kevin 43 · The Days of Forty-Nine · Harold Gluck - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads44 · Longhorn Man · Gene Austin 54 · The First Great Bank Raid · Carl W. Breihan 57 · The Banshee Singer [Lee Winters] · Lon Williams -Supernatural Story66 · Colorado, Here I Come! · Bess Ritter 67 · Lobo Trap · Wallace McKinley 76 · Able Cain's Mute Evidence [Able Cain] · A. A. Baker 84 · The Gunsmoke Cycle · Jim Brewer 88 · Roaring Bullwhips · Lee Thomas 89 · Paid in Full · Buck Gilmore 94 · Journey Into Disaster · Archie Joscelyn 99 · Bat Masterson · J. J. Mathews 103 · The Last Bullet · Robert Gene McDuffie 107 · Chinaboy's Chance · Saul Anthony

Harpers Monthly, 1902. soft. 6.5"" X 10"". ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: Harper Brothers, New York Date and Numbering: November 1902, Volume CV, Number DCXXX Size and Page Count: 6.5 X 10 Tall, approx. 200 pages, the back cover with advertisements and statement of Harper's New Monthly Magazine Condition: Good, binding good, cover has small tears and browned from age, pages with untrimmed edges are browning and creased on edge. Back cover is loose with small tears, spine cover somewhat fragmented, otherwise complete.
Illustrations Information: Approx. 50 illustrations - Iincluding Frontispiece Guiraut the Troubadour by Andre Castaigne in Color
Poem: Guiraut the troubadour -By Clinton Scollard
Through Siberia to Bering Strait -By Harry De Windt with Photos
The Book of Love -By Alice Brown with pictures by W.T.Smedley
Poem: My kingdom -By William C. (William Chandler) Bagley
A Perturbed Spirit -By Mary K. Seeger with illustrations by Edmund Marion Ashe in Color
Poem: Interchange -By… Read More

1961. hard. Good. See Photo Gallery Gettysburg A Novel Publisher-Printing Location: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York; Author: Stephen Longstreet Date and Numbering: 1st Printing , 1961 Size and Page Count: 6.0"" X 8.5"" Tall, approx. 342 pages Condition: Good , binding good, some browning on edges and age yellowing on pages, has dust jacket ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Contains: A novel written by Stephen Longstreet . This novel brings alive its characters and what it means to be alive during three short, terrible yet magnificnet days of one of the most written about battles. It is a reminder that while battles are going on, the world keeps turning. People still sleep, work, love , and live their daily lives inside and outside the battles.

Lossing, 1881. leather. Original Edition 1881 Rare Publisher-Printing Location: Murphy McCarthy Westminster Street , Providence, R. I Date: 1881 Size and Page Count: 7"" X 10"" Tall 806 pages: by American Historian Benson J. Lossing , LL.D. Condition: -Good- Leather Bound with decorative blind stampings in boards and spine, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, gilt edges , some wear on corners, inside of hindges cracked, loose , water stain on Lincoln portrait page 720, water stain on edge of frontispiece, end pages have tears, yellowing from age with little foxing. Complete Illustrations Information:Frontispiece of George Washington with tissue. 400 Engravings, 388 Wood Cuts and 12 Steel Plate some full page, some small. (Lossing, along with being a Historian, was also an illustrator and had a hand in many of these engravings) -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian ---------
Title Page: A family History of the United States from the Discovery of the American… Read More

1881. Buckram Cloth Harpers' Popular Cyclopaedia of United States History: From the Aboriginal Period to 1876, containing Brief Sketches of Important Events and Conspicuous Actors by Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., in 2 volumes Publisher-Printing Location: New York, Harper and Brothers Publishers, Franklin Square Date and Numbering: 1881 Size and Page Count: 8"" X 10.5"" Tall, approx. 1605 pages Condition: Good+, boards with some flaking, scratches, and fading, small tears between front board and spine cover, spine cover of vol. 1 with tear, text in excellent condition, title page of vol. 1 loose, otherwise in excellent condition, text pristine with no foxing. Illustrations information: Over 1,000 engravings including frontispiece of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Contains:
From the preface: ""This Work has been prepared for the purpose of supplying a want long felt by intelligent Americans engaged in every avocation of life… Read More