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New York: Mason & Lane, 1840. Hardcover. Very Good +. Full leather tree calf binding with red gilt spine label, 214pp + 74pp "To Such As Inquire, What Must We Do to Be Saved?" Very Good+ with darkening to front board and light scuffing to the exterior. Interior lightly foxed but remains bright and crisp.

Rochester, NY: Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover leatherette 8vo, np. 19 sections of about 14 pages, each individually paginated and navigable with a nice graduated side tab index. Light general soil to exterior and edges, but contents bright and clean. Thoroughly illustrated with great photographs, drawings and diagrams of optical instruments and their proper operation.

Chicago: Sears Roebuck and Co., 1940. Second edition. Paperback. Very Good. Over 100 Circular Saw and Jointer Operations Described and Illustrated. Softcover 8vo, 32pp. Well illustrated with photos and drawings showing special attention to the purposes of different kinds of joints and saws. Very Good with minor soil to wraps.

Hardcover 8vo, 639pp. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket with light shelfwear. Half-title page is corner-clipped (about 1"), otherwise clean and unmarked. A wonderfully graphic volume printed in black and red with purple place marker ribbon. DJ with original price stickers on rear panel ($85.00), now housed in archival mylar cover.

New York: Mercantile Periodicals, Inc., 1934. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Softcover 8vo, 34pp. Stapled red and black printed wraps, profusely illustrated in b&w. Feature article on an inspirational delivery boy, trends in advertising and suggestions for maximizing festive meat sales (mostly ham). Full of merchandising tricks and managerial tactics, a “personals” section, and plenty of great advertisements. VG+ with minor rubbing to the exterior and the slightest vertical crease (as from having been carried slightly bent in the hand), but a fresh copy overall.

New York: Mercantile Periodicals, Inc., 1935. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Softcover 8vo, 34pp. Stapled red and black printed wraps, profusely illustrated in b&w including many photographs of store layouts and displays and weird cut-out instructional photos of meat butchering. Full of merchandising tricks and managerial tactics, a “personals” section, plenty of great holiday advertisements, and a brief article on the growing demand for beer in cans. Fine with minor rubbing to the exterior, a bright and crisp copy overall.

New York: Mercantile Periodicals, Inc., 1934. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Softcover 8vo, 34pp. Stapled red and black printed wraps, profusely illustrated in b&w. Feature article on a blind shop owner. Full of merchandising tricks and managerial tactics, a “personals” section, and plenty of great advertisements for iconic brands including Pabst, Kellogg, and Kool-Ade. Near Fine with minor rubbing to the exterior, a bright and crisp copy overall.

Plainfield, NJ: Walker-Turner Co., 1934. Second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Containing over 100 photographic illustrations and line drawings. Softcover 8vo, 70pp. Blue textured wraps, Near Fine with minor incidental wear.

Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1943. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover 12mo, 104pp. With 14pp 'Photo Interpretation Symbols' supplement dated 1945. Illustrated with color graphic features. A Very Good, tight copy with minor wear.

Forest Grove, OR: The Combat Bookshelf, Normount Armament Company, 1968. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition, third printing. Softcover 8vo, 123pp. Profusely illustrated with drawings, diagrams, and photographs. VG with light discoloration and exterior wear; contents clean and unmarked.

Newark, NJ: Prudential Insurance Company of America, 1939. First edition. Paperback. Very Good +. Softcover 16mo, 5.5 x 4 inches. Not dated, ca. 1939. Terrific illustrations, including an unattributed cover by Norman Rockwell. Not paginated, but with 63 numbered and indexed health and safety interventions in emergency situations, inlcluding much on drowning. A Very Good + copy with faint pencil on the cover, but otherwise a fresh copy.

Chicago: Graphic Arts Press, 1939. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover oblong 4to, [48]p. "This album offers a photographic text of form, anatomy, composition, style and lighting," intended to aid art students and amateur photographers. Each page is a full 8x10 studio photograph, showing nude women in a variety of poses (and with an occasional prop). Very Good with light overall rubbing and some fingersoil to the lower right corner. Scarce!

Softcover 12mo, 24pp.New York: , 1970. 24p., staplebound pamphlet, very good condition, 5x7.25 inches. HGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party and former steel worker, discusses labor, economics, protest, Vietnam, Nixon, etc. VG+ with minor incidental wear, but a crisp copy overall.

Undated (ca. 1930). First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Undated (ca 1930) First edition Paperback Very Good 8-pager beginning D1 48mo; 3 x 4 inches, anonymously published ca 1930s In Very Good condition--the staple is slightly corroded and the middle leaf is loose, though there is no tearing or gaping where it detached The usual age toning and light handling wear, but a nice copy Pornographic spoof of the Harold Teen comic that first appeared in the New York Daily News during February 1919, one of the first comics featuring adolescence

New York: International Needle Co., 1914. Very Good. Promotional needle book made by the International Needle Co. and customized for Bare Jewelers in Western PA. Stiff card wraps, 5.25 x 3.75 inches. With 32 pages of recipes for cookies, nut rolls, sticky buns, and other sweet treats. Complete with all 12 large needles and a full packet of drilled eye sharps on the inner cover. Some age toning and rubbing to the card covers, but overall crisp.

Undated (ca. 1935). First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Undated (ca 1935) First edition Paperback Very Good In Very Good condition: Reinforced with two small staples tucked close enough to the spine that none of the contents visibility is affected Some soil and discoloration, mostly to the outer wraps, but still clean and fairly evenly toned throughout Told from the perspective of Joe ¢¬Ä¬ôs ¢¬Ä¬òole lady, an ailing Joe (self described as ¢¬Ä¬úain ¢¬Ä¬ôt [having] long on this world ¢¬Ä¬ù) is deluded into thinking he ¢¬Ä¬ôs a paragon of health and returns home for a superhuman romp which leaves him incapacitated and reliant on welfare for 2 years after

New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First American edition, 1924. Hardcover cloth 8vo, 296pp + [4p] ads. With 70 illlustrations, including a 2-page color chart showing "Reflection Factors of Colored Surfaces," with wonderful mounted color samples. VG+ with a hint of offsetting on the front endpapers where a newspaper clipping was inserted. Contents clean and unmarked.

Bluffton, OH: International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1929. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover 8vo, [545-648]pp. VG with shelfwear and rubbing to wraps, but contents still clean and fresh. Full of magical reviews, business opportunities, and tons of ads for magic shows and gimmicks. Some faint pencil doodles on the rear cover, else unmarked.

New York: Brentano's, 1929. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good -. Hardcover cloth 12mo, 63pp. Frontispiece. About Very Good with light soil and rubbinng to extremities. PO bookplate on front pastedown. Light verse and sordid optimism after the great market crash.

Silver Creek, NY: Huntley Mfg. Co., ca.1920s. Very Good. Softcover 8vo, 24pp. 5 plates showing various parts on offer. Self-wraps, in Very Good condition with light overall wear, most notably a small tear at the top of the spine. Nice illustrations.