Search Results: Titles starting with R from The Personal Navigator

Novara, Italy: Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1938. Scale 1:500,000, map covers northern Italy, from Torino to Trieste, Berna to Parma. Heavy board covers with large format folding paper map. Embossed Royal Crown of RACI. Animal-chewed 1 x 2 cm. Notch in back cover, ad for AGIP. Very good condition. . Catalogs: Maps.

Firenze, Italia: Enrico Moro Editore, 1870. 8 x 12 cm. Sonnets, in Italian: La casa del Petrarca di Alfieri; Las sua vita di Alfieri; Il suo Ritratto di Alfieri; Forza dell' Innocenza, di Baciocchi; Morte d' abele, di Baldis; Processione del SS. Sacramento, di Costa; Ritratto d' un Amico, di Vittorelli. Marbled paper on board cover worn, owner name on front pastedown, good. . Catalogs: Poetry/Italian.

Emerson, NJ: The Radex Press Inc, 1940. 14 x 20 cm. Fire destroyed printer's plant, so this issue was printed on smaller press, and arrived late. Du Mont discontinues small-image television receivers. Amateur calls heard. Radexing with the Radexers. Lists of radio stations by frequency, call sign, location. List of shortwave stations. Paper periodical, cover lightly worn and faded, good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Ephemera.

Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, 1929. 15 x 23 cm. Monthly bulletin announces new radio stations (WNDQ, Arlington, TN; KGUF, Dallas; WPDE, Louisville, KY; WNDP, New Brunswick, NJ; WNDR, Trenton, NJ); Commercial ship and aircraft stations; broadcasting stations; changes to commercial stations; radio compass stations. Paper booklet, good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Radio.

Santa Barbara, CA: Editors and Engineers Ltd, 1949. 14 x 21 cm. Booklet helps to prepare people for commercial radio operator's license examination. Questions on neutralization, inductance, reactance, resistance, phase difference, power factor, ""skin effect"", radiation resistance, capacitance, carrier wave envelopes, frequency shift, Hartley oscillator, Colpitts oscillator, grid bias voltage, radio frequency chokes, more. Includes diagrams of circuits, etc. Paper booklet, worn, cover soiled, fair. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1923. 17 x 24 cm. President Coolidge's attitude toward Germany; Our government is undergoing change with respect to Bolshevism in Russia. Paper periodical. Very good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Ephemera/Labor.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1923. 17 x 24 cm. Cover: Photo of Colorado Mountain Scene. Celebration of Labor Day; New Brotherhood of Rwy Clerks' National Bank opening soon; Representation without taxation is tyranny by Geo. Soule. Paper periodical. Very good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Ephemera/Labor.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, 1941. 20 x 28 cm. "Wage and Vacation Dispute Reaches Decisive Stage"" by George M. Harrison, Grand President. ""Railroad Industry a hold-out on National Labor Policy""; ""Who Forgot Railroad Stockholders?""; ""Meaning of Japan's Maneuvers"" by H.M. Vinacke: ""� lessening of urgency has been felt with respect to the Pacific and the Japanese."" ""Propaganda -- Old Style and New"" by E.L. Talbert: Propaganda in wartime as employed by the Nazis. Ad for L.C. Smith typewriter, now only $34.85 cash--Easy terms -- only 70� a week. Cover shows redcap holding bags while man in fedora greets little girl. Mother and Railway clerk look on. Periodical. Very good. . Catalogs: World War II/Labor/History.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1933. 19 x 27 cm. The President's Work Relief Program; Railway Labor Executives Rap ""Holiday"" (bank holiday); Depression questionnaire. Magazine, good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Labor/Depression.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1942. 19 x 27 cm. Homework for democracy; Sitting on a Gold Mine (failure to use workers' brains cost industry billions); champion fat men of the Army. Paper periodical. Very good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Ephemera/Labor.

unknown, ca. 1900. 21 x 15 cm. Photo shows interior of Railway Express warehouse, with two horses, seven men. One man is wheeling a kitchen stove. In background can be seen a railway passenger car. Photo, lower right hand corner chipped .5 cm. Good. . Catalogs: Photo/Ephemera.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1949. 13 x 20 cm. Cover shows many girls in bathing suits. Lead editorial: ""Will Real Estate Lobby Win?"" Paper periodical, very good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Ephemera/Labor.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1931. 19 x 27 cm. Should Freight Rates Be Increased? Coal Miners Battle for Union; Free Tom Mooney; Across the continent in a Motor Bus; Depression confessions. Magazine, good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Labor/Depression.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freigh Handlers, etc, 1931. 21 x 28 cm. Lead editorial: Mr.Hoover wins. Criticizes Republicans and Hoover for ignoring poor farmers-- providing relief for mules, but not for people. Much depression-era comment. Paper periodical. Very good. . Catalogs: Magazine/Ephemera/Labor.

Cincinnati, OH: Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, 1929. 21 x 28 cm. Quota: 25,000 new members in six months. Build a Bigger Brotherhood Campaign. Rail Consolidations Appeal to Stock Gamblers. Tramp, Tramp[, Tramp--once picturesque box car vagabond disappearing, by James Scott, Hobo. Paper periodical, lower right corner chewed (biopredation), good. . Catalogs: Educational/Labor.

Cincinnati, OH: Journal of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, 1942. 19 x 27 cm. Wartime edition. Organized Labor publication. Railroading in wartime. Employment after the war. A Real Labor Union Never Sleeps. What's All the Fighting About? Brotherhood Forum. Paper magazine, very good. . Catalogs: World War II/Labor.

St. Louis, MO: Ralston Purina Co, 1922. 10.5 x 18.6 cm. Little book of recipes for Ralston. Introduction is ""The Tale of the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"" which turns out to be the Old Woman's sales pitch for wheat, with parts for the Sun Fairy, Wind and Rain Fairies, a Phosphate Fairy, Gluten and Starch Fairies and a Bran Fairy. Recipes include Ralston Porridge, Branzos Ralston Porridge, Baby Bunting Gruel, Fried Ralston, Ralstone Sour Milk Pancakes, Purina Maccaroons. Tale about feeding a healthy pigeon only the white parts of wheat, and soon becomes paralyzed; wings and head droop. Then, force Purina down the pigeon's throat and paralysis disappears. This type of advertising might not ""fly"" in modern times. Diagram shows cross section of Wheat kernal, nature's perfect food. Paper booklet with full-color cover showing Old Woman dishing out porridge to children. Worn, hinge of booklet frayed, poor. . Catalogs: Cookbooks.

New York, NY: Rand McNally & Co, 1929. 13 x 19 cm. Guide book to New York City with maps and illustrations. Includes Chinatown, ""Judea"" -- Russian and German Jews and Bohemians; The Bowery; Baxter Street; The Mulberry Bend; Patchin Place; Milligan's Lane. Paper booklet, spine very worn and mended with cellophane tape, fair. . Catalogs: Travel.

Chicago, IL: Rand McNally Co, 1921. Markings with light red ink. Good. . Catalogs: Maps.

Paris, France: S.E.D.I.C., S.A.R.L, 1949. 13 x 20 cm. Reports by three famed international communists: M. Souslov: ""La Defense de la Paix et la Lutte Contre Les Faueurs de Guerre""; Togliatti: ""L'Unite de la Class Ouvriere et les Taches des partis Comunistes et Ouvriers""; Gheorghiu-Dej: ""Le Parti Comuniste Yougoslave au Pouvoir des Assassins et des Espions"". Paper booklet, 1 x 3 cm chip missing from cover, text block paper brown and brittle, poor. . Catalogs: Cold War/History.