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20 8x10 original photos of 1958-61 downtown Pittsburgh construction projects: Hilton Hotel, Civic Arena, etc.
by (Albert L. Hilger, 1902-2000)
Very Good. Fine vintage prints. Mainly charting the development from various angles of the Hilton Hotel before its opening in 1959, including from perspectives in Point State Park. Also early stages of building the Civic Arena which opened in early 1961, and other downtown projects. These were taken by Al Hilger, a self-taught sign painter born in Beaver in 1902, who lived in the Pittsburgh area and who did sign painting for downtown theaters, Joseph Horne's, and other businesses. He was also an...
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£121.40
Original 17.25 x 13" gelatin silver photo, "A Window Washer's Nightmare" 1960, downtown Pittsburgh
by Alexandrowicz, John L
Pittsburgh, 1960. Very Good. Print mounted on 16 x 20" thick white stock which shows a little wear and soil and the photo itself is fine, printed on RC paper, stamp below image, stamp on verso that it was entered in the 1960 Pittsburgh International Salon of Photographic Art, plus information in pencil including title and that it appeared in the Sun Telegraph. Alexandrowicz (1927-1984) was a Pittsburgh-based photographer known both for his photo-journalism and his fine art photography; in the 1970s and...
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£76.88
Central Catholic High School 1927-1977: 50th Anniversary
by n/a
Pittsburgh: Central Catholic High School, 1977. Paperback. Very good+. Printed paper wraps, quarto [8.5" x 11"], illustrated in b&w. Book has rubbing and hint of cornerwear to wraps, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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£24.28
Souvenir Program 19th Annual County Fair 1956
by [ephemera, Pittsburgh]
South Park, Allegheny County, PA, 1956. Paperback. Very good. Tri-fold souvenir brochure, 8.25 x 7.25, printed in blue and yellow. Lists of exhibitors, committees, events and trolley service. Light soil, Very Good.
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£9.71
Pittsburgh Moments
by Johnson, Lynn and Joel B. Levinson; Edited by Donald G. Adam
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good+. Gray and white cloth boards in dust jacket, small quarto [9.5" x 10.25"], illustrated in b&w. Book has hint of toning to top edge of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ has mild edgewear.
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£16.19
Official Directors Register of Pittsburgh and Tri-State Area: 1953 Edition
by n/a
Pittsburgh: Directory Publishing Co, 1953. Hardcover. Ex-library. Silver stamped blue cloth boards, octavo, 1482pp., not illustrated. Book is ex-library with minor stamps, plate, and numbers; otherwise binding tight, text clean.
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£16.19
Key to the City, Volume I: 1928-1954 - A guide to Pittsburgh Music, History, Entertainment & More!
by Goodrich, Dave
Pittsburgh: Published by the author, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. This initial volume contains a mixture of history, sports, films, radio, television, and music-related information covering the years from 1928 through 1954. Included are more than 500 films; more than 150 plays; more than 450 songs; more than 250 records by Pittsburgh-area artists; and an index of people who appeared in Pittsburgh (along with the corresponding dates) containing more than 850 entries!" First Edition....
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£25.90
A Book of Verse including a Play by the Students of Westinghouse High School
by Halderman, Lois, et al
Pittsburgh: Westinghouse High School, 1920. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, gilt stamped blue boards, very good, inscribed by "Elmer," probably a student at the high school. 120 pp. It seems the majority of the works were written by Lois Halderman and Mary Brown, plus a handful of others. Handsome printing. RARE.
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£36.42
Pittsburgh Today: A Profile in Photographs and an Indexed Directory for Visitors and Newcomers to the City
by n/a
Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Convention & Visitors Bureau, 1975. Third edition. Paperback. Very good+. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, tall and thin octavo [4.5" x 9"], illustrated in color. Book has rubbing and hint of cornerwear to wraps, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
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£20.23
Henry Hobson Richardson: The Allegheny County Courthouse and Jail, Part I--An Exhibition of Selected Drawings from the Collection of Allegheny County, Featuring the Courthouse and Jail Competition
by Simo, Melanie; Editor
Pittsburgh: The American Institute of Architects, Pittsburgh Chapter, 1977. Paperback. Very good+. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, quarto [8.75" x 11.75"], 21pp., illustrated. Book has rubbing and mild soil to wraps, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Exhibition catalog.
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£28.33
6 snapshots of the 1936 Pittsburgh Flood's effect on the Westinghouse Plant in East Pittsburgh
Very Good. Each picture is about 4.5 inches wide, light soil, mounted on thick black stock (14 inches tall). Uncommon photos, each captioned in white in the plate. Westinghouse plant was in a river valley and was very susceptible to flooding.
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£36.42
Statement of the Trustees relative to the reorganization of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, and Laws and documents in connection Therewith, and the New Securities
by n/a
New York: Baker & Godwin, 1862. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good copy in black cloth, gilt title on spine, original spotted text blocks. No DJ. Covers rubbed and soiled; light bumping at corners and head and foot of spine. Page outsides have faded due to age; text has remained bright. Stamps and pencil notes on fly leaf; PO's sigs. on title page; text is unmarked. Inner hinges appear rebound; spine is quite firm and secure. Rare.
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£52.83
Steel Shadows: Murals And Drawings Of Pittsburgh -- inscribed by Cooper
by Cooper, Douglas
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. First Printing. Wraps. Near fine. 10 x 8.5 inches, softcover, about fine. Inscribed, "To Bill Keys, memories from your former home. Douglas Cooper." 171 pp, illustrated in b/w.
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£16.19
Plat Map of the Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, including Parts of Reserve Township and Allegheny City
by (Map, Allegheny City, North side, Reserve, Pittsburgh)
Philadelphia, 1900. Paperback. Very Good. ca. 1900s. Linen backed, 28 x 22in. Very good, with light soiling and finger smudging to extremities. Color map includes parts of Reserve Township and Allegheny City (now the North Side). Tracts of land are labeled by owner and acreage. Businesses and buildings of prominence are outlined.
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£27.31
Manchester Bidwell Corporation
by Goldsmith, Scott; William E. Strickland, Jr
Pittsburgh: Manchester Bidwell Corporation, 2016. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Oblong folio, 15 x 11 inches, publisher's charcoal gray boards in dust jacket, fine copy in slightly used cloth slipcase, 60 pp of glossy color photos, introduction by Strickland and laid in letter signed by Strickland, giving this book to a supporter in thanks. The corporation is several things: an adult career training center, youth community and arts center, Manchester Craftsman's Guild, folk and jazz music...
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£80.93
Eastman Kodak Stores (Pittsburgh) Catalogue No. 29, Photographic Outfits and Supplies, ca. 1920s
by Eastman Kodak
Pittsburgh: Eastman Kodak Stores, 1925. Paperback. Very Good. No date, but internal evidence dates this 1925 or 1926. 4to (10.5 x 7.5 inches, approx.), stiff tan wraps bordered in orange and black, with pictorial image of a large camera, 159 pp., heavily illustrated. VG copy with some tidemarks from old dampstains to outer margin of first 20 pp, getting progressively lighter and never intruding into text, also a bit of dampstain tidemarks to outer upper corner of last 20 pp. Some annotations in red ink...
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£77.69
1923 photo Agoit Club of Western Penna. (youth football team): Undefeated Champions of the 20-30 Pound Class
(Pittsburgh?), 1923. Good. 9.75 x 7 inches, photo mounted on thick gray backing stock, good with pin holes at the four corners, light wear and soil, light ink scrawl to top left area. We could not find out any information on the Agoit Club except that it merited two mentions in local papers in 1923 and 1924. An evocative photo.
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£24.28
Threads in Time Unbroken, Recollections of the Holocaust, INSCRIBED by Marga Silbermann Randall
by Randall, Marga Silbermann
Pittsburgh: Marga Silbermann Randall, 2000. First edition. Very Good. INSCRIBED by Marga Silbermann Randall on her author photo. 8vo. in pictorial wraps. 95pp. illustrated. Very good. Rubbing and edge wear to wraps, internally unmarked.
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£32.37
To What Green Altar
by Hunt, Percival
Pittsburgh: Privately Printed, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition. c.1969. Hardcover. 8vo. 44pp. Light soil to edges of text block, former owner's signature on flyleaf, else Fine.
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£13.76
The History of Pittsburgh with a brief notice of its Facilities of Communication and other advantages for Commercial and Manufacturing Purposes
by Craig, Neville B
Pittsburgh: Mellor, 1851. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, stamped in gilt on spine, very good, light general rubbing and minor wear to binding (corners and spine ends slightly worn, has all three folding maps (often lacking at least one of them) in very good condition: Braddock's route, map of Pittsburgh, and map facing title page showing the tri-state area. 312 pp.
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£121.40
The School Bulletin, June 1903
by Allegheny Prepartory School
Pittsburgh: Allegheny Preparatory School, 1903. Very Good. 10.5 x 8 inches, wraps, very good with some soil to covers. 22 pp, with frontispiece of the gymnasium team. The school opened in 1898 on what is now Pittsburgh's North Side, but by 1911 was losing money due to competition and the strictures of its premises; space allowed for each grade to be only about 15 students -- by 1917 it was forced to close. Contains essays on some historical figures, notes on some of the students, etc.
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£28.33
Passages from the Remembrancer of Christopher Marshall, Member of the Committee of Observation and Inspection, of the Provincial Conference, and of the Council of Safety
by Duane, William, Jr., ed.; Christopher Marshall
Philadelphia: James Crissy, 1839. First printing. Hardcover. Good. First edition, 1839. Cloth hardcover with paper spine-label, clean unmarked text, 124 +xvi (appendix) pp., Good copy, bold old signature on the front flyleaf (affecting several other pages), small more recent numerical notation in pink marker on the front pastedown, foxing throughout, soiling and discoloration to the covers and the spine-label, rubbing and wear to the spine-label and to the book's covers including loss to the tips, no...
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£80.93
Pittsburgh's Progress, Industry and Resources (1886)
by Thurston, George
Pittsburgh: A. A. Anderson, 1886. First Printing. Wraps. Very good. 8vo, 8 x 5.75 inches, textured red wraps lettered in gilt, very good, light general wear and rubbing to covers, contents very good. 242 pp, many engraved plates, pictorial ads, etc., a rare look at Pittsburgh in the first flowering of the iron & steel industry. Early images and descriptions of Jones & Laughlin, Edgar Thomson works, Westinghouse, Carnegie, Frick, the glass industry, and much more.
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£121.40
A Digest of Acts of Assembly, the Codified Ordinance of the City of Pittsburgh, adopted October 6, 1859; and a Digest of Other Ordinances now in Force
by Foster, Alexander W
Pittsburgh: W. S. Haven, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. RARE. 1860, First Edition. 192 pp. Hardcover, cloth-backed boards, 8vo. Very Good copy; light wear along board edges and spine ends. Small tear to foredge margin of last 10 pages. Mild spotting throughout, but text is unmarked and still bold and readable. Digital images available upon request.
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£129.49
Chihuly at Phipps, unique portfolio of 21 original photographs (2007)
by Rascovsky, Albert
Pittsburgh: Albert Rascovsky, 2007. Fine. Housed in 9 x 9" folding cardboard chemise with printed cover label, housing 21 color photos (digital prints) of the 2007 Dale Chihuly installation at the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. Rascovsky (1930-2016) was a graduate of West View High School, a veteran of the Army during the Korean War; he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Industrial Design from Carnegie Tech in 1959. He was employed by LD Astorino Associates, Architects in Pittsburgh, PA...
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£161.86
