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New York, NY: The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1983. 15 x 22.5 cm. Preface by Philip Selznick, Professor of Sociology, U.Cal. Berkeley. Beginnings and history of Nazism, starting in 1919 with unemployed handyman named Adolf Hitler. Nazi philosophy stressed concepts of authority and politics as religion, double-talk, scapegoating, public humiliation. Photos show Nazi sports events, degradation of Jews, gas ovens at Dachau, more. Paper booklet, marginal notes in two places, very good. . Catalogs: World War II.

San Jose, CA: The Rosicrucian Press, 1968. 15 x 22.6 cm. Rambo illustrated and hand lettered this book, telling of his adventures in about 1900 with his friend Cy Attika in the old Santa Clara Valley. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Fiction.

Washington, DC: United States Department of Agriculture, 1932. 15 x 23 cm. Occurrence of gullies; head, ditch, waterfall erosion; erosion by freezing and thawing; Prevention; Plowing-in and seeding gullies; How to reclaim a gully with soil-saving dams Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Agriculture.

1859. 19 x 23 cm. "Minnie"", apparently Marion H. Ray, penned five paragraphs of ""Advice"": She pities the refined city girls with the elegant dresses and silk aprons trimmed with wide flounces and sweet little pockets. ""Now girls I advise you to take a few lessons of your kind mothers upon the cook stove and the sink, and learn the art of plain embroidery that you may help your mothers make your father's and brothers clothes."" One sheet of stationery, folded twice, with illegible notes scratched out and erased at bottom of second page. . Catalogs: American Originals/Women's.

Petersburgh, NY: Eagle Publishing Co, 1893. 15 x 22 cm. "In Massachusetts alone there are ..300,000 women earning their own living..receiving from $150 to $3000 every year."" Shows new opportunities for women in the workplace. Story of Heroic Ida Lewis of Newport, RI. Dark red cloth on board, embossed and printed with gilt and black. Marbled page edges.""Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight"" poem at back is dampstained and pages stuck together. One cm. tear in bottom of spine. Good. . Catalogs: Women's/Ephemera.

New York, NY: American Institute of Medicine, Inc, 1923. 15 x 23 cm. Simple Chemomorphologic Method for Identification of Abnormal Amino-Acids in Human Urine. Diet and Treatment in Cases of Primary Alkaline Lithiasis. So-Called Fat Stones in the Bladder. A Case of Silent Calculous Pyonephrosis. The Index of Elimination of Phenolsulphonephthalein as an Indication of Surgical Risk. Venereal Disease in Scotland. Gonorrheal Urethritis and its Complications. Gonorrheal Orchiepididymitis Terminating in Scrotal Abscess. Yaws, or Tropical Frambesia. Syphilis of the Stomach. Neurosyphilis and Syphilitic Aortitis. Paper periodical, good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Medical.

New York, NY: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, [nd]. 8 x 12 cm. Paper pamphlet, worn, looks to be about 1890-1900. Good. . Catalogs: Religious .

New York, NY: The Centaur Co, ca. 1930. 11 x 14 cm. Advertising piece. For measles, keep children in warm, dark room and keep their bowels open with Castoria. Infected adenoids and tonsils; bronchial pneumonia, mastoiditis, decayed teeth. Keep the bowels open! Balanced diet. Food plans for children. How to recognize measles, whooping cough, scarlet fever, scarlet rash, scarletina, more. Paper booklet, slightly soiled, good. . Catalogs: Science/Medical/Advertising.

University of New Hampshire, 1923. 15 x 23 cm. Booklet features photo of 30' x 30' laying house at the University Poultry plant. Considerations: Sunlight, Ventilation, Disinfection, Cost, Small windows, Nests, Broody Coop, Dry Mash Hopper, Drinking Vwessels, Litter, Droppings, Litter Carrier, Time to House, Cleaning the House. Bills of Material and plans for houses. Included in booklet is a newspaper clipping from the Boston Sunday Herald, Nov. 23, 1924: ""New England Poultry Pointers"" by Prof. A.W. RIchardson, entitled ""The White Disease Test and What it has accomplished"". Article about White Diarrhea... transmitted from food or by cockerels servicing females. Paper booklet, minor wear, good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Edinburgh, Scotland: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1934. 14 x 21 cm. Frontispiece portrait of Mary Queen of Scots. Palace and St. Michael's Kirk stand elevated on a promontory of the southern shore of Linlithgow Loch. Map of Palace and engraving circa 1678 shows Prospectus Palatis Limnuchensis. Cromwell spent part of the winter of 1650-51 in the Palace. Booklet describes May 29th 1662 party to celebrate birthday of Charles II with Earl of Linlithgow and Magistrates. A table of confections was set up in the marketplace and the fountain ran with French and Spanish wine for three or four hours. All drank the healths of King and Queen and many more. Several basketfuls of glasses were broken. At this celebration the famed covenant (pledging Scotland to be Protestant, 1638) was burned. Later, with another political party in power, this burning was denied. Booklet includes fold-out map of Palace. Paper booklet with fold-out map. Very good. . Catalogs: Travel.

Boston, MA: Dana Estes & Co., Publishers, �1908. 13 x 19 cm. Calvin Parks, the confectioner, is getting fixed up. Olive cloth on board with design cover, shows Calvin in wagon, with horse. Cover frayed at edges. Good. . Catalogs: Children's.

New York, NY: Carlton & Phillips, 1855. 10 x 15 cm. Morality tales. Young cottager. The Negro Servant. Brown cloth on board, faded, worn with gilt title on spine. On front pastedown is bookplate from Library of the Methoidst Episcopal Sunday School, Chesterfield Fact'y Vill. Fair. . Catalogs: Children's.

Toledo, OH: W.F. Ries, ca. 1907. 11.5 x 15 cm. Little book loaded with Socialist propaganda. Filled with suspicion of capitalism, urging the working man to resent his employer and his life. Paper booklet, worn. On first page is pencilled note: ""Please read this book. I do not ask you to believe it but to read it� Mrs. Woodward."" Good. . Catalogs: History/Propaganda.

Northboro, MA: Don Robar, �1974. 15 x 23 cm. Guidance for divorced and soon-to-be divorced men. Cover photo shows nude woman on couch, talking on telephone. Paper pamphlet. Very good. . Catalogs: Printed Material/Ephemera.

Boston, MA: Leonard C. Bowles, 1864. 14 x 23 cm. In our prayers to God, we should say what we mean and mean what we say. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Religious.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1918. 15 x 23 cm. Bitter-rot is caused by fungus Glomerella cingulata, recognized as disease of great destructiveness. Spray with Bordeaux mixture. Paper booklet, stamped by Geo.H. Moses, United States Senate, on cover. Very good. . Catalogs: Educational/Agricultural.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1936. 15 x 23 cm. Economic importance of apple blotch; distribution; description; life history of the fungus; relative susceptibility of apple varieties; Bordeaux mixture; Lime-sulphur solution; spreaders. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Farming.

Washington, DC: U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963. 14 x 23 cm. Causes of War. Military Campaigns. Advantages of North and South. Leaders: Jackson, Bragg, Johnson, Butler, McClellan, Stuart, Grant, Lee. Navies. Gideon Welles. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Civil War/History.

Chicago, IL: American School of Home Economics, 1912. 13 x 19 cm. Lessons in Cooking-- start with arranging the kitchen so that utensils and food materials are close at hand. Breakfast: iced cantaloupe or Grape Fruit, Cream of Wheat with Dates, Muffins, Coffee. Luncheon: Cottage pie (left over mashed potatoes and left over meat and gravy), bread and butter, sweet preserves and lemonade. Dinner: Roast veal with gravy, baked potatoes, bread and butter, cottage pudding and chocolate sauce. Paper booklet fastened with staples, spine folds weak, fair. . Catalogs: Cookbooks.

Paris, France: Collection ""La France Vivante"" , ca. 1934. 15.6 x 21.2 cm. Interesting story of French civil aviation in the years leading up to World War II. La politique du dirigeable. Records de vitesse. Air France. Air Afrique.R�gies en Afrique. Transports sans subventions d'�tat. L.A.N.A. Air Bleu. Le ""Pou du ciel"". Paper-backed book, front and back covers present but detached. Inscr. On ffep: ""Lester Hoyt Watson Paris 4/4/36"" Includes separate Air Bleu schedule, inserted. Poor. . Catalogs: Scientific/Aviation.