Garment Trades from Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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The other shore
by Mays, Lucinda
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- Used
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- 1979
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- Hardcover
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- 9780689307171
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Atheneum, 1979. Hardcover. 223p., stated first edition, very good condition in like dust jacket with flap price intact. Novel about a young Italian-American girl in high school. Involves the Triangle Shirt Waist fire. Item Price
$20.00
The ACTWU songbook
by Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union
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- Used
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- [198-]
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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New York: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, [198-]. Pamphlet. 58p., stapled wraps, 5.5x8.5 inches, wraps shelfworn, ex-library with ownership stamp and pencil notation on front wrap, else good condition. Lyrics and some (minimal) musical notation, includes classics plus a few new songs. Item Price
$12.00
Elkan Lubliner, American
by Glass, Montague
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- Used
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- 1912
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. Hardcover. 323p., first edition, very good condition. "The rise of a Russian-Jewish immigrant in the New York garment trade." - no. 1431 in Archibald Hanna's "A mirror for the nation, an annotated bibliography of American social fiction, 1901-1950. Item Price
$20.00
Making the World Safe for Pornography and other Intellectual Fashions
by Mishan, E.J.
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- Used
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- 1973
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780912050416
- Quantity Available
- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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La Salle IL: Library Press / Open Court, distributors, 1973. Hardcover. 262p., first American edition in canary-yellow cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust-jacket. Provided with red-and-white headbands, a very nice production in near-new condition; a touch of sun to spine panel is the sole flaw we see, quite trivial. Sound, clean and unmarked, a great copy. Mishan's… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
First annual report of the Factory Inspectors of Illinois for the year ending December 15, 1893
by Kelley, Florence
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- Used
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- 1894
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- Paperback
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$100.00
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Springfield: H.W. Rokker, State Printer, 1894. Paperback. 122p. paperback, stain to front cover, closed edge tear to rear cover, otherwise minor handling wear. Kelley, who had translated Engels' "The Condition of the Working Class in England," was a social reformer devoted to improving workplace safety. This report addresses conditions in garment sweatshops, child labor, etc. Item Price
$100.00
![Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/122/041/1583041122.0.m.jpg)
Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue
by Tanner, Clara Lee, author. Bernard M. Mergen, ADB director
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- Used
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- 1960
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Phoenix AZ: Arizona Development Board, 1960. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages in length with numerous exhibit and on-site photographs, rejiggered as a neat small pamphlet in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Margins slightly toned and edgeworn, find an inconspicuous date-stamp (personal accession?) to upper right-hand cover corner, a generally sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy. Item Price
$12.00
![Good Housekeeping Pattern Service. Directions: Lay the three large perforations on straight of goods. Join all seams [&c &c &c]. Directions for Making Layette Petticoat; Materialos required: Cashmere, Viyella or Canton flannel. 1 1/2 yards of [&c &c]. Be sure to shrink material before cutting](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/240/536/1581536240.0.m.jpg)
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Good Housekeeping Pattern Service. Directions: Lay the three large perforations on straight of goods. Join all seams [&c &c &c]. Directions for Making Layette Petticoat; Materialos required: Cashmere, Viyella or Canton flannel. 1 1/2 yards of [&c &c]. Be sure to shrink material before cutting
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- Used
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- n.d.
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Good Housekeeping Pattern Service, n.d.. Ephemera. Folded pattern(s) printed on flimsy tinted tissue and enclosed in a small (8.5x5.5 inch) manila envelope lettered recto. Pattern is accompanied by a standard leaf folded in two (making a four-panel brochure) printed for the "Layette"; second panel for a Dress, third for a Wrapper, fourth a blank. Envelope has sustained… Read more about this item Item Price
$15.00
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Report of proceedings of the tenth biennial convention of the United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers of North America, New York, May First to Eight, 1915
by United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers
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- Used
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- 1915
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- Paperback
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers, 1915. Paperback. 44, 76p., Missing front cover. wraps heavily chipped, remains of old tape on spine, ex-library with ownership and discard stamps on front wrap. First 44 pages in English, second part (76 pages) in Yiddish. Heavily Jewish union with a strong left influence. Item Price
$25.00
The Perfect Lady; With 16 Photographs in Colour by Alfred Eris
by Cunnington, C. Willett, honorary adviser to the gallery of English costume, Manchester
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- Used
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- 1948
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$22.00
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London: Max Parrish & Co Limited, 1948. Hardcover. 72p., text is set close in a smallish font (postwar economizing), illustrated with fullpage color plates as called for (on glazed alkaline stock, marginless) plus dust jacket drawing and 46 "decorations in line" by Peter Hoffer. Line vignettes x-ray add-ons like the bustle, how constructed. Nice book, with the book itself… Read more about this item Item Price
$22.00
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A chapter in labor history, Pennsylvania Joint Board, 1933-1958, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO
by Gersh, Harry
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- Used
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- 1958
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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[Philadelphia]: ACWA Joint Board, 1958. Hardcover. [vi], 50, [viii]p., wraps, profusely illus., very good condition in pictorial boards and a clear glassine dust jacket which is yellowed with age. Presentation copy with small card reading "Compliments of Pennsylvania Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Pottsville, PA" laid in. Item Price
$15.00
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Geary Theatre ... Labor Stage, Incorporated presents I.L.G.W.U. Players in a musical revue, Pins and Needles. Music and Lyrics by Harold H. Rome. Staged by Charles Friedman..
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- Used
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- 1938
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- Ephemera
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$80.00
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[San Francisco]: Geary Theatre, 1938. Ephemera. 1 sheet, illustrations. 12 x 6 in. One horizontal fold. Very good. Playbill for the San Francisco leg of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union tour for Pins and Needles, a Broadway musical hit. Lists 19 musical numbers and sketches, including "Mussolini Handicap," "Economics I," "One Big Union for Two," "Vassar Girl Finds… Read more about this item Item Price
$80.00
Tomorrow's bread
by Bisno, Beatrice
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- Used
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- 1938
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1938. Hardcover. 228p., spine darkened, front cover stained along the gutter else good condition. Later printing, first issued by The Jewish Publication Society *Prestridge 78. "The life of Jewish garment workers in New York and Chicago, and the making of a labor leader." *Hanna 353 for the first edition. Item Price
$20.00
Workers' Education (September 1935)
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- Used
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- 1935
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- Newsletter
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$35.00
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New York: Education Department, International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, 1935. Newsletter. Single-sheet newsletter, 8.5x11 inches, paper toned, otherwise very good. Front is an article, "What we study - and why," discussing the relevance and utility of such topics as economics and public speaking for union activists. The other side is a form for signing up (not filled out). … Read more about this item Item Price
$35.00
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Hats for every head; the language of hats
by Garland-Dewson, Ruth
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- Used
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- 2003
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781879384477
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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San Francisco: Cypress House, 2003. Hardcover. 138p., first printing, profusely illustrated with color photos showing work by San Francisco's most prominent African American hatmaker. Inscribed by Garland-Dewson on book's front free endpaper, signing as "Ruth G. Dewson". 9x11.5 inches in landscape format, a very nice copy with just a touch of edgewear to top margin of dust jacket. FYI,… Read more about this item Item Price
$25.00
Laws, Rules and Regulations Relating to Cleaning, Dyeing, Pressing, Furrier and Hat Renovating Establishments. Sixth Edition
by State Board of Dry Cleaners
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- Used
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- 1953
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- Paperback
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Sacramento CA: State of California Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, 1953. Paperback. 120p., no illustrations whatsoever, softbound in pale yellow plain printed wraps with a black binder's tape backstrip over staples. Covers have picked up mild dust-soil and irregular tone-lines, item is else quite good: sound and unmarked. Item Price
$12.00
The world of David Dubinsky
by Danish, Max D.
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- Used
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- 1957
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$12.00
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Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1957. Hardcover. 347p., illus., very good first edition. No dust jacket, flaps of dust jacket laid in. Dubinsky was a leader of the ILGWU. Item Price
$12.00
Behind the boom; working conditions in the textile, garment and toy industries in China
by Jing-hua, Lu
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- Used
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- 1995
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- Magazine
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Kowloon, Hong Kong: China Labor Education and Information Centre, 1995. Magazine. 20p., 8x11.5 inches; photo., map, mild handling, else in very good condition. Item Price
$20.00
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Needle Trades Left Wing Program / Dealing with Economic Situation and Demands. Jobbers-Contractors Problem. Out of Town. Class Collaboration. Amalgamation. Shop Delegates System. Labor Party, Etc.
by T.U.E.L.
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- Used
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- 1935
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$25.00
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New York: Needle Trades Section of the Trade Union Educational League (T.U.E.L.), 1935. Pamphlet. 93p., small (5x3.5 inches) stapled softbound, plain printed red wraps in poor shape, covers joined at the spinefold in ancient yellowed fiber-tape (with further, superfluous taping) now entirely detached from the staple-fastened textblock, textblock spinefold bears more of the same tape also yellowed but holding,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Rules governing the issuance and use of the union label
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- Used
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- 1938
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- Pamphlet
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$15.00
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New York: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1938. Pamphlet. [4]p., brochure, 3.75x7 inches; date penciled on back, in very good condition. Item Price
$15.00
2000 Years of Silk Weaving; An Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in Collaboration with The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Detroit Institute of Arts
by McKinney, Roland, director LA museum, William Mathewson Milliken, director Cleveland
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- Used
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- 1944
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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San Francisco, California, USA
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$20.00
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Los Angeles: the museums, printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, 1944. Hardcover. xi, 63p., plus 87 fullpage b&w plates on coated paperstock, captioned with cross-reference to other exemplars. Presswork on laid-lined alkaline stock, hardbound by local expert Ward Ritchie, and bound in 10x7.5 inch green photo-repro'd boards trimmed white. Casing is slightly edgeworn with a touch of fray to… Read more about this item Item Price
$20.00
