St. Paul, Minnesota: H.G. Neal, 1903. First Edition. Very Good. 2pp. Lists items and prices. 9.5" x 6 Neal's List No. 6 offers: Indian Relics (dance rattles, $1; war club, $2.50-$3.25; mound builders pottery, $6-$12; &c.) as well as many other items listed under headings of Woven Bead Work, Pipestone Goods, Moccasins, Heads and Horns, &c. Also, Swords and Firearms, Canes, Alaskan Curios, Filipine, South Sea Island, and Sea Shells.... more information

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Girard, KS: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. First Edition. Original wraps. Good. 64pp; 3 portraits. Goldberg views Mencken's life to age 44 and his roles as "the anarch," "anti-academe," "anti-Christian", "aristocrat," &c. 5" x 3.5 ... more information

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Philadelphia American Sunday-School Union (1912)., 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 7.75" x 5" 222pp Based on the recollections of a Christian missionary in Arkansas and the Indian Territory, now a part of Oklahoma. Illustrated by 4 plates from photographs. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. ... more information

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San Francisco: H-B Publications, 1967. First Edition. Self-wraps. Very Good. Tabloid, 15" x 11.5", 8pp; red and black illus throughout text. Shows the usual age-tanning of pulp paper, but in remarkably nice condition with no splits, and only the original horizontal fold. Ashleigh Brilliant was born in 1933 and arrived in the Haight-Ashbury in 1967, where he was labeled by the San Francisco"Examiner as a "hippie." In May of that year, he began his daily appearances in Golden Gate... more information

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NY: Robert Music, 1948. First Edition. Decorative Wraps. Very Good. 4pp, words and music, in part: "I came down from Butte, Montana, for a little change of scene, And I stopped a day in Santa Fe where I met a pretty queen...." 12" x 9 Skylar, a prolific songwriter, was born in 1913.... more information

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Natoma Productions, 1969. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado. Printed in psychedelic pink, green and yellow. 24pp; song lyrics and illustrations from photographs and drawings throughout; foldout front and back cover illustrations. 11" x 8.5 ... more information

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Wallingford, CT: Hall Brothers Hatchery, Circa 1940. First Edition. Pictorial Paper Covers. Very Good. 33pp; photo-illus throughout, 11 in full color. 11" x 8.5 Contains many pictures of hatchery operations and full-color treatments of the available strains of chicks: Rhode Island Reds; Barred Rocks; New Hampshires; White Wyandottes; White Leghorns; White Plymouth Rocks; Silver Hallcross; &c. ... more information

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NY: Kennedy Graphics, 1970. First Edition. Clamshell Box. Fine. Unpaginated; 24 lithographs in black and gold. The lithographs are protected by a portfolio of handmade paper, laid into a buckram clamshell box with gilt-morocco cover label; and in the original mailing carton. 16.5" x 18 Comprises 24 lithographs by Ben Shahn, printed in black & gold, each opposite a page of illuminated Hebrew text. This is #72 of 240 copies. This was Ben Shahn's last completed work.... more information

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Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay, 1985. First Edition. Spiral-bound. Very Good. Illus from Photographs. 83pp; text illus from photographs. Intended for beginning as well as advanced hammered-dulcimer players. Has chapters on: tuning, chords and harmony, singing with the dulcimer, build your own dulcimer, construction and repairs, etc. Also contains words and music to 34 folk tunes for practice. 11.75" x 8.75". ... more information

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NY: Warner Books/Amistad, 1989. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Very Good/Very Good. pp: viii, 280; 16pp illus from photographs. An interesting and readable account of the great jazz musician's rise from his birth in Birmingham, Alabama, through the Dixieland era and the Swing era, to become undisputed master of the vibes. 9.25" x 6". ... more information

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Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1987. First Edition. Decorative Wraps. Fine. 15pp; color plate of two fine bindings tipped at front. 9.25" x 6 ... more information

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s.l.: Alfonso Rios, 1920. Original editions. Fine. The baseball on each label is 4" in diameter with gold lettering. 5.5" x 9 ... more information

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Chicago: Calumet Music, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Good +. 6pp, words and music, in part: Hand me down my walking cane, Hand me down my walking cane .... I'm a-goin' to leave on that midnight train...." Dampmark on center sheet. 12" x 9 The cover includes a photo of Ken Houchins, in western garb and playing guitar, who featured this song on his radio program out of Chicago.... more information

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Durban, Natal: King Edward VIII Hospital, 1958. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. 131pp; complete with the original bookmark which doubles as an index to this book. 6.25" x 4.75 This book is not for the Zulu linguist. The grammar is correct throughout, but words and phrases have been specially adapted to suit beginners, by the omission of clicks and complicated phrases, and by paraphrasing words and idioms." ... more information

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Morris, CT: Community Hall, 1935. First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. 60pp; 12 plates from photographs. 7.5" x 5 Commemorates Revolutionary War officer James Morris, and Aline Morris, the French-born US educator who flourished 125 years later.... more information

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Blue Ridge Summit, PA TAB Books (1982)., 1982. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 5" 468pp w/index This work was selected by Library Journal as one of the 100 Outstanding Science & Technology Books of 1982. Illustrated by photos and drawings in text. 3rd printing edition. Binding is original wraps. ... more information

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Calcutta, India: C. Balan, 1958. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: vii, 214. Laid in is a four-page leaflet of additions and corrections. The text, drawn from lectures to trainees at the Eastern Railway's Personnel Branch in Calcutta, includes railway organization, the various Indian railroad systems, conditions of service, rules and regulations, &c. 8.5" x 5.25 ... more information

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Philadelphia: Harry Dichter, 1947. First Edition. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. 100pp; frontispiece, 48 illus from photographs. Dichter catalogs more than 2,000 pieces of 19th-century American sheet music, with prices, arranged by subject and composer. 9" x 6". ... more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1958. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 204pp. Appendices include a dictionary of jazz musicians, chronology, and index. Also lists major recordings in jazz history (a 5-inch shelf and a 15-inch shelf of vinyl), with chapters on schools of jazz, elements of jazz, instruments of jazz, etc. The foreword by Kingsley Amis did not appear in the US edition. 8.5" x 5.25". ... more information

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London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1925. Third Edition. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: viii, 88. This alphabetical listing includes many types of crocus, iris and tulips, with a key to their locations in Kew Gardens. 7.25" x 4.75 ... more information

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