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Original Orientations Magazine Orientations December 1975Condition: Very Good to Fine, 8" X 11.5" Tall with 90 heavy stock glossy pagesFront Cover: 1842 Nemesis Opium War by William Adolphus KnellVientiane Remembered by Roland LeiserMacau: The Winds of Change by Nancy H.Y.WongThe Road to Jamnotri - with 8 Color PhotosQuiet Pleasures of Ko Panyee - with 7 Color PhotosGems of Nanga Art - with 15 Color ExamplesPainters of the China Coast - with 11 Color ExamplesGreco-Indian Encounter - History - with 5 illustrationsSound of Bamboo - with 3 B&W photosImpy's Illusions - Imelda A. Pilapil - with 5 Color ExamplesHongKong's Arts Festival

1904. Leather. " See Photo Gallery ORIGINAL EDITION Publisher-Printing Location: New York Evening Post Company, New York Date and Numbering: Volume LXXVIII From January 1, 1904 to June 30, 1904 and Volume LXXVIII From July to December 1904. 52 Weekly Issues Size and Page Count: 9.5 X 11.75 Tall, 1050 pages plus indexes and ads. Condition: Very Good , half leather bound with marbled boards, leather cracking at hinges, and spine. leather has been treated with Klucel G Conservatory Consolidant. Text Block Complete, tight and clear. - ---An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- A weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science Art, (Heavy on US politics.) Booker Washington on negro literacy and crime page 121Articles and Information: Index to Volume 78 (partial)Alabama lynchers burn up Pineapple Alabama 22 , negro disfranchisement not Interfered with by U. S. Supreme Court, 159 Arkansas, Race Riots at St. Charles, 263 Alaska, inquiry into conduct of… Read More

Original March 8, 1923 National Parks Association Bulletin Number 23Condition: Very Good+ 8 pages 8.5" x 11" tallIllustration of Dr. Hubert WorkEnemies of the National Park System 1921. 1922- Sixty-Seventh CongressNew Mexico in Full RevoltBrilliant Outlook by Arno B. Cammerer - Halemaumau, YellowstoneWhat the American People Want of CongressChart of Appropriations of 22 ParksTravel to National Parks - Train and AutomobileRear Cover Full page Chart of Each of the National Parks

Original 1989 National Board Inspection Code A Manual for Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors20th Edition January 1989 Library of Congress Catalog Card # 52-44738 ANSI-NB-23Condition: Good, 5.5" x 8.5" tall with 240 pagesPreamble and List of OfficersGlossary of TermsInspection of Boilers and Pressure VesselsRepairs and Alterations by WeldingWelding ExaminationInservice Inspection by Authorized Owner-UserNuclear Power Plant ComponentsAppendix A relief ValvesAppendix B-GIndex

1988. hard. Photos NAVY GRAY -A STORY OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY ON THE CHATAHOOCHEE AND APALACHICOLA RIVERS by Maxine Turner -FIRST EDITION- Publisher-Printing Location:The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa Alabama Date and Numbering: 1988 Size and Page Count: 6.5"" X 9.25"" Tall, approx. 357 pages Condition:Very Good, binding good, has dust jacket, book is in very good condition Illustrations Information: Full color illustration on front cover as well as approx. 27 illustrations ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Contains: ""Maxine Turner's Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers (University of Alabama Press, 1988) is a fascinating economic-military study of the Civil War in the west Florida coastal region and inland areas of Georgia and Alabama located along the rivers mentioned in the subtitle (the Flint River should also be included). Told from the viewpoint of both… Read More

Navy from Wood to Steel 1860-1890 1965 Description -ORIGINAL EDITION- Publisher-Printing Location: Franklin Watts, Inc. New York: Author: Daniel J. Carrison, Captain U.S.N. Date and Numbering: 1965, First Printing! Size and Page Count: 6.5"" X 9.5"" Tall, approx. 186 pages Condition: Very Good, binding good, no dust jacket Illustrations Information: 34 B W Photographs -- --An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- Contains: Brown cloth . First edition, from ""The Watts Histories of the United States Navy."" Author's Forward: ""During the period 1860 to 1890, the United States Navy rose from lethargic doldrums to become the largest navy in the world.... After the war, and until the close of the century , a small band of navel officers carried on through years of austere funding, and isolationist thinking. ...Under the guidance of farseeing Congress, the U.S. rebuilt maritime yards and embarked on a ship construction program that made the U.S. Navy a new force for peace and… Read More

Original November 1984 The New Defenders #137
"Hearts and Minds!"
Condition: Fine, Jim Shooter, Cover Artist, Kevin Nowlan. Peter Gillis, Don Perlin,Kim DeMulder, Petra Scotese, Janice Chiang,Carl Potts, Jim Massa
Characters: Beast, Angel, Iceman, Cloud, Gargoyle, Valkyrie, Moondragon

1747. leather. . A New History of England by Question and Answer -ORIGINAL EDITION- Publisher-Printing Location: Printed by R. Baldwin: London Date and Numbering: 1747, 6th edition Size and Page Count: 4" X 6.5" Tall, approx. 270 pages M. Rapin de Thoyras (Paul) , Samuel Wale Condition: Poor to Fair, Front board leather is peeling, rear board leather is off, boards loose, text with watermarks throughout book, book with foxing on text and signatures on endpages, corners heavy wear -------- Contains: From the Preface: "The Chief Design of this book, is to introduce our youth to the knowledge of the history of their native country. However, though it be calculated immediately for their use, it yet may be of service to those grown persons, who, being strangers to the English history, are desirous of acquainting themselves with it… The book examines history from a singularly peculiar way, by asking and answering questions. Ex: 'What is the parliament of England?' From Saxon Kings of Egbert… Read More

1787. leather. A New Latin/English Dictionary and A New English/Latin Dictionary 1787 by Rev. Mr. William Young Original Edition Publisher-Printing Location: London Date and Numbering:1787 7th Edition. Size and Page Count: 5.25" X 8.25" Tall, 2.75" Thick Condition:-Fair-, leather in poor condition, has been re-leather-backed in long past with the newer leather also with cracks and wear. Leather has lately been consolidated-preserved with Klucel-G. Papers inside in Good condition. Writings on end papers front and back by pervious owners, examples Lyman Gilman's York February 24th, 1810 Illustrations Information: -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian --------- Title Page: A new Latin-English dictionary Containing all the words proper for reading the Classic Writers with the authorities subjoined to each word and phrase. To which is prefixed, a new English-Latin dictionary carefully compiled from the best authors in our language. Both parts greatly improved,… Read More

1788. leather. Original Edition RARE! New London Magazine Volume 4 1788 Publisher-Printing Location: printed for Alex Hogg at the King's arms, London Date and Numbering:1788, all 12 Monthly Issues bound Size and Page Count: 5 X 8 Tall, 716 Pages Condition: Good to Very Good , Half Leather bound with marble paper boards, hinges have been repaired, spine leather cracked with top and bottom edges broken, text block very good, light foxing, 4 pages missing 299-300, 301-2, 573-6, dozen pages woth torn corners or pieces missing, a few pages that are repaired at tears in way past, light water stain lower half of December 1788 -pages 617 to 636-. Portsmouth Public Library stamp on inside of front board, with ink writing on Title page 'Portsmouth Mercantile Library Association March 1862, Joseph Foster' Illustrations Information: Many Copper plates in the 12 month issues, including a frontispiece of Mercury delivering to History and Experience a great Variety of important Productions. Title… Read More

1949. soft. New Municipal Airport, Omaha, Nebr. Condition: Good, Unused, no stains

Original New Testament Bible in Greek Language 1790
Condition: Very Good, hinges cracked, title page over half missing, treated with Klucel G, 3.75" X 6.25" Tall with 478 pages, light water stain on outside of some pages, rear end page has writing. Published by Isiah Thomas

1930. softcover. Very Good. Original LOT of 2 Art Deco New Years St. Patrick s Day Bridge, Game Tally Cards 1928 -1931 Used Mary Louise Spitznas Art Deco New Years Rectangle shape. Reverse is written 1931 New Years Eve Clover Leaf. St. Patrick Invites You. with gold doors that open. Inside: Time 3 oclock. Name Marian Smiley. Place Pussy Willow Tea Room. (Erie Pennsylvania) Date March 16th The graphics on 1920s-1930s Bridge Tally cards are so beautiful that these fabulous cards used to keep score in Bridge games with multiple players are in demand. While you will find that these cards were made with numerous themes and patterns, die cut Art Deco versions with images of ladies, Flappers, Bonnet girls, brides or gentlemen are very desirable. Other themes are dogs, florals, parties, the Orient, holidays and more. etc. Colorfully, stylish and designed with elements of the Art Deco period Bridge tally cards are mini artworks. Not only are these cards of interest to old paper collectors, but… Read More

New Yorker, 1944. soft. Very Good. -Original Issue- The New Yorker Front Cover Art Front Cover only. Size about 8 X 11 Tall Artist: Constantin Alajalov (also Aladjalov) (1900-1987) was an American painter and illustrator. He immigrated to New York City in 1923. His illustrations were on the cover of The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post. His works are in the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Syracuse University and the Archives of American Art. Constantin Alajalov painted posters for revolutions in Russia and Persia before emigrating to New York.

New Yorker, 1956. soft. Fair. -Original Issue- The New Yorker Front Cover Art Front Cover only. Size about 8 X 11 Tall Artist: Garrett Price did covers and cartoons for the New Yorker, Colliers, Saturday Evening Post and others. Published the book 'Drawing Room Only . After Attending the Art Instutute in Chicago he became a Reporter-Cartoonist for the Kansas City Star.

New Yorker , 1946. soft. 8.5"" X 11"" . The New Yorker Magazine -ORIGINAL EDITION- Date: The New Yorker August 3, 1946 Size and Page Count: 8.5"" X 11"" Tall, approx. G0 pages Condition: Good - Cover Condition: Very Good wear on edges, along spine. Missing 1 page 11/12
Cover 'Golf at Noon' by Perry Barlow (1892-1977) Barlow did work for the New Yorker magazine from 1926 -1974, with 1,574 drawings and 135 covers. According to Barlow's obit in The New York Times (Dec. 27, 1977) William Shawn called him ""one of the gentlest and most humane of all comic artists...
Illustrations: Full color illustration on front back covers as well as many color and BW illustrations, many full page and smaller Cartoons inside magazine ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- This magazine is famous for it's cover art, cartoons focus on life in New York City.
Departments include: Goings On About Town,The Talk of the Town (notes and comments), The Art Galleries , Books, The Current Cinema,… Read More

-Original The New Yorker Front Cover Art Front Cover only. Size about 8 X 11 Tall Artist: Helen E. Hokinson (1893-1949) was an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker . Over a 20-year span, she contributed 68 covers and more than 1,800 cartoons to The New Yorker . Produced cartoons and Illustrations 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. She wrote and Illustrated some books including 'So You're Going To Buy A Book!

New Yorker , 1946. soft. 8.5"" X 11"" . New Yorker September 14, 1946 The New Yorker Magazine -ORIGINAL EDITION- Size and Page Count: 8.5"" X 11"" Tall, approx. 60 pages Condition: Fair - Cover Condition: Very Good - Missing 6 Pages 9/10, 11/12, 41/42, 49/50, 57/58, 59/60 Cover 'Daughter's Growing Up' by Christina Malman (1913-1959) Drew over thirty five covers and more than five hundred drawing for The New Yorker. Illustrations: Full color illustration on front back covers as well as many color and BW illustrations, many full page and smaller Cartoons inside magazine ----An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian---- The New Yorker Magazines is famous for it's cover art, cartoons focus on life in New York City. Departments may include: Goings On About Town,The Talk of the Town (notes and comments), The Art Galleries , Books, The Current Cinema, Of All Things, On and Off the Avenue:Feminine Fashions, A Reporter at Large, The Theatre, Of All Things Column - (These are humorous… Read More

soft. -ORIGINAL EDITION- World War II Magazine Date: May 22, 1943 Size and Page Count: 8.5"" X 11"" Tall, approx. 60 pages Condition: Fair, Cover Condition: Very Good - one page loose, one page missing , pages clean Cover 'Fishing Off the bridge' by Ilonka Karasz (1896-1981) American artist whose art included furniture, decorative textiles, murals, wallpaper, china, toys and . Her magazine covers are famous including those with The New Yorker Magazine. She co-founded the Society of Modern Art, a collective of European-born American Artists, and provided many of the illustrations for the Society's arts journal Modern Art Collector. She appeared in Vanity Fair, House Beautiful, and countless art magazines. She was an immigrant (born and educated in Hungary), a mother of two children, and an important player in introducing European modernism in the United States. And as Ralph Cutler said in The New York Times, ""Her success is more remarkable because she worked in a time when few women were… Read More

New York Daily Tribune, 1861. soft. Original Edition New York Daily Tribune Publisher-Printing Location: New York Tribune Association, Date and Numbering: Tuesday, May 21 1861 Size and Page Count: 16.5"" X 21"" Tall, 8 Pages Condition: Very Good, pages yellowed from age, no stains or markings -------- An excellent opportunity for the collector, researcher or historian --------- Contains Articles on: Military Notices Ad for Key hole guard Barnum's American Museum The War for the Union The Wheeling Convention Seizure of a Military Map of Virginia More Rebel troops Sent to Harper's Ferry 10000 troops quartered there Notice of Mrs. Lincoln being at the Metropolitan Government Seizes a tremendous haul of Telegrams- A mountain of evidence against traitors and many more articles!