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Recent Arrivals from Haec City / Also Books
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Journal de Teinture de M. Reimann (Reimann's Färber-Zeitung) 1889
by Reimann, Max [textiles, dyeing]
- Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1889
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£517.60
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...organe de la teinture, de l'impression, du blanchiment, des apprêts, de la fabrication des produits chimiques, des papiers de fantaisie, de la droguerie, filature et du tissage ; organe de "la Société des Teinturiers" et de l'"Académie de Teinture" école supérieure de l'industrie tinctoriale, á Berlin…
French edition of Reimann's Färber-Zeitung, the premier trade journal for dyeing and textile producers.… Read more about this item Item Price
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3000 Questions on Medical Subjects, Arranged for Self-Examination... (cover title: Self-Examinations for Medical Students)
by [medicine, study guides]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1891
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£59.72
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Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1891. Hardcover. Very good. Flexible teal cloth hardcover, 4.25 x 3 inches. 144pp interleaved with blank pages for student work + 16pp publisher's ads at rear. Very Good with two discolored spots on the cover and modest overall rubbing wear, mild sunning. First two pages nicked at the fore edge, contents bright… Read more about this item Item Price
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Autograph book with finely lettered dedication pages and attractive drawings, 1906-1920
by Cissy Graham [autograph books, drawing & lettering]
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- Used
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£79.63
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Padded cloth 12mo with a brushed finish. Rounded corners, all edges gilt. Contains laid paper in several tones, only a handful of which are used, but demonstrate a clear interest and aptitude for graphic art. The booklet includes work by at least three people: Cissy Graham, the original owner/recipient who's contributed two drawings in a cartoon style and one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Blanco y Negro: revista ilustrada, Año 27, Números 1363-1383. Bound volume of 27 issues, complete consecutive run from July 1-December 30, 1917
by Prensa Española [periodicals, illustrated magazines]
- Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Published
- 1917
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£139.35
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Madrid: Prensa Española, 1917. Hardcover. Very good +. Quarter red leather hardcover 4to, n.p. 27 issues bound with original color covers. A hefty volume in Very Good+ to Near Fine condition with minor scuffing and a small abrasion to the spine. Uniformly trimmed with minimal loss. Series numbers inconspicuously penciled on covers. Copiously illustrated, including many color plates,… Read more about this item Item Price
£139.35
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DicKinS Sportswear, Designed by Cotto
by [trade catalog, sample book]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- ca. 1940
- Binding
- Paperback
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£107.50
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New Bedford, MA: DicKinS, Inc., ca. 1940. Paperback. Very good. Softcover small 4to, [40]p. The first 22 pages feature illustrations of the available styles--all for women except one page for men's button-down shirts. The following 18 pages offer samples and explanations of the different fabrics' characteristics and uses, and a sample sheet of monograms. Very Good with mild… Read more about this item Item Price
£107.50
Two illustrated student manuscript notebooks for courses in Physiology and Zoology by a young woman in Oregon, 1910
by [manuscript notebook, student work]
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- Used - Good
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£159.26
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Good. Two illustrated manuscript notebooks dated 1910. Created by Ida Narkaus (b.1889), the daughter of two Finnish immigrants living in Oregon state. Married Henry Sunnari on July 28, 1917. They moved to Alberta, Canada, where Henry died less than three months later. Ida returned to live with her parents in Oregon, working as a teacher. In 1921, she… Read more about this item Item Price
£159.26
The Garden (Dean's Rag Book No. 105)
by Patricchio, Caterina
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- [nd]
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£79.63
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London: Dean's Rag Book Co. Ltd., [nd]. Wraps. Very good. 6 cloth leaves overstitched along the spine. Printed single-sided on facing pages, once "butterfly folded" but fraying along the fore edge has opened the folds. 12.5 x 6.75 inches. A Good copy with well-embedded soil and discoloration showing their "indestructible" claim has been put to the test and… Read more about this item Item Price
£79.63
Mathematical Snapshots
by Steinhaus, Hubert
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Published
- 1938
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£119.45
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New York: G. E. Stechert & Co., 1938. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Good. First English language edition, originally published in Polish as 'Kalejdoskop Matematyczny.' Cloth 8vo, 133pp. An adventure in recreational mathematics, profusely and dynamically illustrated in a variety of methods, including photographs, diagrams and anaglyphs. An about Good copy: The first 11 pages are a little wavy… Read more about this item Item Price
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8 3 Special supplement for Shufu-no-tomo, March 1933 - Japanese magazine for repairing clothing (with 100 secret recipes for cleaning stains!)
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1933
- Binding
- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£103.52
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Japan, 1933. Wraps. Very good. Softcover 4to with two homemade protective covers sewn atop the outer wraps. A wonderful combination of colors, textures, illustration techniques and styles. With great period ads. Staining to the protective covers (which also have manuscript titles), printed volume with age toning and related discoloration, Very Good overall.
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£103.52
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Les eaux souterraines aux epoques anciennes: role qui leur revient dans l'origine et les modifications de la substance de l'ecorce terrestre
by Daubrée, Auguste
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1887
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£107.50
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Paris: Dunod, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarter red leather 8vo, 443pp. Copiously illustrated with plates (some color) and generous in-text illustrations. A Good copy with rubbing to boards and dramatic erosion to the back cover in a geometric shape that pleasantly echoes Figure 9 in the text. A late work by the eminent French geologist Gabriel-Auguste Daubrée… Read more about this item Item Price
£107.50
Recreations morales de l'Enfance, ou Entretiens... tome premier & second (2 volumes)
by Lemair, H[enri]
- Condition
- Used - Very good
- Published
- 1923
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- Wraps
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£139.35
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Paris: Belin-Mandar, 1923. Wraps. Very good. ... de plusieurs enfans avec leur pere, sur ce qui fait le fond de l'education de la Jeunesse; contenant une exposition du systeme du monde, un abrege d'Histoire Naturelle, d'Histoire Universelle, de Geographie, etc., etc. Complete in two 12mo volumes with six [6] aquatint engravings, bound in the original pink pastepaper wraps… Read more about this item Item Price
£139.35
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Twentieth-century Nottingham lace specimen book with samples extending into the 1960s
by [fashion, textiles, sample book]
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- Used - Fair
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- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£756.48
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A generous twentieth-century sample book representing several decades of the Nottingham lace trade. Assembled in a purpose-made binder, 17 x 9.5 x 4.5 inches, ideal for adding, removing, and generally rearranging pages. 157 total samples, mostly half-page size (~8 x 6 inches). The tallest sample unfolds to 28" and several others extend between leaves up to 14 inches wide. Each… Read more about this item Item Price
£756.48
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The Story Book for Little Folks
by [juvenile, Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley]
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- Used - Good
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- n.d.
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£107.50
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New York: T. W. Strong, 98 Nassau Street, n.d.. Hardcover. Good. Gilt stamped cloth 12mo, 126pp. No date, ca. 1850. Color litho printed frontis and eight hand colored engravings, 9 total color plates. Plate 7 has a hole in the paper with an old repair; worming affects the first nine leaves--the text is large enough that legibility is… Read more about this item Item Price
£107.50
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Large cabinet photo of a nobly aloof man in short-shorts on roller skates
by [photograph]
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- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£119.45
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Good. Charming studio portrait of a man on quad roller skates, 8.5 x 6 inches, who appears to be glowing in stark contrast to the soil-spotted and generally roughed-up panel he's mounted on, 13.5 x 8.5. The photo is already lifting from the panel and could be easily removed, but we'll leave that decision to its next caretaker… Read more about this item Item Price
£119.45
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Dyestuffs for Colour Lake Making and Allied Trades
- Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Published
- ca. 1930s
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£59.72
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Frankfurt : Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, ca. 1930s. Hardcover. Very good +. Gilt stamped green cloth 12mo, 115pp + 20 unnumbered photographic plates and a section of blank "Notes" pages at rear. Previous owner's signature to the title page and two small stain spots on the cover, else VG+ to Near Fine. A modern industrial guide to dyebaths for various… Read more about this item Item Price
£59.72
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Associated Press photograph of a plane crash (22 dead; September 28, 1953) with publication markups
by [photograph]
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- Used - Good
- Published
- 1953
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£35.83
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[Louisville, KY]: Associated Press, 1953. Good. Trimmed Original silver gelatin print trimmed to just over 6 x 10 inches. Painted crop lines and surface markings, impression from a paper clip at the top edge, with red AP stamp on the reverse [with] a newspaper clipping of the photo as printed. "Twenty-two of the 41 aboard were killed when… Read more about this item Item Price
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Press photograph of two men and a boy inspecting a wrecked car (with publication markups)
by [photograph]
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Published
- ca. 1953
- Binding
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£35.83
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[California?], ca. 1953. none. Fair. Trimmed Original silver gelatin print approx. 7.5 x 8.5 inches. With painted crop lines and outlines in oil crayon to increase contrast in the final printed newspaper image. The car has a California license plate, but the photo does not have an Associated Press stamp. An finely striated horizontal cracking to the surface… Read more about this item Item Price
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Associated Press photograph of firefighters carrying a woman and child from unspecified disaster (with publication markups)
by [photograph]
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- Used - Fair
- Published
- ca. 1950s
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- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£35.83
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[Chicago]: Associated Press, ca. 1950s. none. Fair. Trimmed Original silver gelatin print approx. 8.25 x 8.75 inches. With painted crop lines and outlines in oil crayon to increase contrast in the final printed newspaper image. Signage for "Suwannee Water Gardens" (Chicago) visible in the background--no other identification. Surface discoloration and a rusty paperclip holding a "Sun-Telegraph" blue slip.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Child's Book
by Greenwald, Rev. E.
- Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Published
- 1883
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£79.63
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Reading, PA: Pilger Book Store, 1883. Hardcover. Near fine. Cloth embossed boards with gilt title, 12mo. 99pp followed by a section of hymns pp 53-71, (1) index. Profusely illustrated in b&w. Rev. Emanuel Greenwald, D.D. (1811-1885) was a prominent pastor who served in Lancaster, the largest English Lutheran parish in Pennsylvania, from 1867. He was a prolific… Read more about this item Item Price
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Ohio Penitentiary News Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 (Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, April 19, 1941)
by [prison literature, World War II] Henry J. Nitzsche, ed.
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- Used - Very good
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- Paperback
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- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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£67.69
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Columbus, OH. Paperback. Very good. Broadsheet newspaper, 4pp. "A Prison Gate May Be the Door to Opportunity." Small area of abraided loss at the lower right quadrant of the first page (where it was once folded), otherwise Very Good with mild soil and edgewear. Includes inmate articles and editorials including "What Will the Aftermath Really Be?" foreshadowing U.S.… Read more about this item Item Price
£67.69
