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Cambridge: At the University Press, 1934. Thick 8vo. clxxiv, 284 pp. Map. Brick red cloth, gilt lettrng (slght bmpng couple crnrs), w/ d.j. (slght edgewear, rubbng), VG/VG. First edition, thus of this translation and critical edition of Rabelais famed satire, Gargantua, originally published in 1893, this edition was revised and corrected with authors later notes and corrections. This volume was all that was published at the University Press for this printing.
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The five books and minor writings together with letters and documents illustrating his life. A translation by W.F. Smith. . . Second edition with a new introduction. . . Volume I. Gargantua.
by RABELAIS, Francois.
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The complete works of Doctor Francois Rabelais abstractor of the quintessence being an account of the inestimable life of the great gargantua, and of the heroic deeds, sayings and marvellous voyages of his son the good Pantagruel. The whole faithfully rendered into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, with annotations by Duchat, Ozell and others, a new introduction by J. Lewis May, and many illustrations by Frank C. Pape. . . .
by RABELAIS, Francois.
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[London]: Abbey Library, [ca. 1950]. Thick 8vo. xxxviii, 730 pp. Numerous plates, illusts., illust. endpapers. Beige cloth, gilt lettrng (uniform light toning), w/ d.j. (mnr chppng, edgewear, creasng frnt cvr), NF/G. First edition, thus, of this classic erotic satires.
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The encyclopedia of ornament.
by RACINET, A.
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New York: Portland House, [1989]. Folio. 284, [2] pp. 100s of text illusts., 100 colour plates. Burgundy boards, gilt lettrng, w/ d.j. (very slght edgewear), F/Nf. First Portland House edition, 2nd printing, of this stunning encyclopedia of design and decorative art.
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Dr. Paul Popenoe, Director, Institute of Family Relations, Los Angeles [promotional brochure]; [TLS Copy from Loran D. Osborn, Institute of Family Relations Educational Director to Secretary, YMCA, Brown University, dated October 6, 1938].
by [RACISM & EUGENICS]. POPENOE, Dr. Paul.
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Los Angeles, CA & [Providence, RI]: The Institute of Family Relations, 607 South Hill St., 1938. Two pieces. 1st - 8vo. [4 pp (unpaginated).], self-printed softcovers, photo illust. of Popenoe on front cover (crease fold from mailing, minor dustsoiling); 2nd - 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. [1 leaf]. TLS on letterhead, “Copy” and Osborn’s initials in ink (crease folds, wear & minor tears at folds, some age toning), still VG- set. These two scarce original promotional brochure and TLS reflect the ongoing efforts by prominent eugenicist Paul Popenoe, dubbed “the father of marriage counseling” to spread and inculcate followers into his racist eugenics policies. The letter to the YMCA at Brown University to drum up speaking tour dates from the Institute’s Educational Director, Loran Osborn writes that “his [Popenoe’s] fee is $100 per day . . . and he is perfectly willing to speak two of three times in a day. . . .” His speaking subjects included “A Biological View of the Jewish Problem,” “The…
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J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens retold by. . . for little people with the permission of the author. Pictures by Arthur Rackham.
by [RACKHAM]. BARRIE, James M. & BYRON, May.
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. 8vo. 123, [1] pp. Colour frntsp., 5 colour plates, text illusts. Green cloth, dark blue lettering & illust. on front cover, blue lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, slight rubbing, w/o ffep.), w/ d.j. cover art by Rackham (minor dustsoiling, edgewear, couple very minor closed tears, creasing), still VG-/VG copy. Early Rackham illustrated edition of this wonderful fairy tale, and the first book in the Peter Pan Books for Little Children rewritten by May Byron.
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Undine: adapted from the German by W.[illiam] L.[eonard] Courtney and illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
by [RACKHAM]. FOUQUE, [Friedrick] de la Motte.
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London & New York: William Heinemann, & Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. 4to. 136 pp. Illustrated title in green & black, tipped-in colour frontisp., 14 tipped-in colour plates. Quarter-green publisher’s cloth over illustrated green speckled boards, cover art on covers & spine by Rackham, illustrated endpapers by Rackham (edgewear, rubbing, minor wear & bumping to corners, minor scuffing to spine), still a VG- copy, from the library of Anne “Nita” Wilson Patton (1887-1971), sister to General George S. Patton (1885-1945). First trade edition of this tragic German tale of changelings, water-sprites, and fated love inspired by the occult works of Paracelsus, detailing how the mermaid water-sprite could gain a human soul by marrying a mortal. Motte Fouque’s story reportedly inspired Hans Christian Andersen’s “Little Mermaid.”
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12 against crime.
by RADIN, Edward D.
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New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1950]. 8vo. ix, [1], 242 pp. Green boards, gray & blk lettrng (slght shlfwr, vry slght bmpng to crnrs), w/ d.j. great cover art by Galdone (mnr creasng, shlfwr), VG/VG-. First edition of this anthology of biographies about twelve crime-catchers, behind-the-scenes sleuths who cleared up cases that baffled the police.
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The “Eternal Road” introduces a new era in theatre sound; How a sound car fought “ol’ Man River”; How to make an infinite-baffle high-fidelity speaker system. . . In: Radio-Craft, Special Public Address Number, Vol. VIII, No. 11.
by [RADIO & TELEVISION]. GERNSBACK, Hugo (Ed.)
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Springfield, MA & New York, NY: Radcraft Publications, Inc., May, 1937. 4to. pp. 641-704. Photo illustrations, diagrams, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art of fireboat “Super-Power ‘P.A.’” directing fire-fighters (minor edgewear, dustsoiling to spine, some scuffing, creasing to upper corner), still VG- copy. First edition of this installment of the famed science & technology magazine founded by Gernsback (1884-1967). Of particular interest is the description of the sound system installed in the Manhattan Opera House for Max Reinhardt’s lavish pageant of Jewish biblical history and persecution using the orchestration and music of Leopold Stokowski (mostly lost). The famed production attempted to alert the world to the plight of German Jews under Nazism, and featured an elaborate five level set designed by Norman Bel Geddes.
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Electric Eyes see all -- do all; Phototubes and photo cells -- when to use them; How to make the Radio-Craft 1937 Television Receiver. . . In: Radio-Craft, Special Electronics Number, Vol. VIII, No. 10.
by [RADIO & TELEVISION]. GERNSBACK, Hugo (Ed.)
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Springfield, MA & New York, NY: Radcraft Publications, Inc., April, 1937. 4to. pp. 577-640. Photo illustrations, diagrams, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art of motorcycle police officer tracking speeders (minor edgewear, dustsoiling to spine, some scuffing), still VG- copy. First edition of this installment of the famed science & technology magazine founded by Gernsback (1884-1967) who launched Amazing Stories in 1926, and the annual World Science Fiction Convention award the “Hugo” is awarded in his name.
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How to make the Radio-Craft 1937 television receiver; A television “streamer” for spot news; Experimental high-fidelity television; The future status of television programs. . . In: Radio-Craft, Special Television Number, Vol. IX, No. 2.
by [RADIO & TELEVISION]. GERNSBACK, Hugo (Ed.)
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Springfield, MA & New York, NY: Radcraft Publications, Inc., August, 1937. 4to. pp. 65-128. Photo illustrations, diagrams, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art of Television News broadcast truck (minor edgewear, dustsoiling to spine, some scuffing), still VG copy. First edition of this installment of the famed science & technology magazine founded by Gernsback (1884-1967), with this issue focusing on the nascent television industry, including building a television receiver, developments in “high-fidelity” television, and make-up tips for aspiring television stars.
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Japan S-W phone to America open; A free-wheeling dial for your S-W set; Short Wave stations of the World. . . In: Short Wave Craft, The Radio Experimenter’s Magazine, Vol. V, No. 11.
by [RADIO]. GERNSBACK, Hugo (Ed.)
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Chicago, IL: Popular Book Corporation, March, 1935. 4to. pp. 641-704. Photo illustrations, diagrams, text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, ccover art of couple in separate beds w/ husband wearing headphones and focused on his Short Wave Craft magazine (minor edgewear, dustsoiling to spine, some scuffing), still VG copy. First edition of this installment of the famed science & technology magazine founded by Gernsback (1884-1967), reviewing many of the latest developments in Short Wave radio prior to World War II.
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The friendly Southern Pacific Sunset Route and Golden State Route time tables, Form 3, January 9, 1955; Coast Line and San Joaquin Valley Line time tables, Form C, September 25, 1955; Southern Pacific time tables: 4 scenic routes. . . Form B, April 29, 1956;
by [RAILROAD -- TIME TABLES]. PETERSON, Claude E. (Vice Pres).
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San Francisco, CA: Southern Pacific Lines, 1955-1956. Three vols. 4to. 12; [6]; 15, [1] pp. Numerous text illust., w/ double-page centerfold map in each by Rand McNally & Co., self-printed decorated & illustrated softcovers (light uniform toning, minor shelfwear), still VG copies. First editions of these scarce Mid-20th Century time tables for the famed Southern Pacific, including the Sunset Route, Golden State Route, Overland Route, Northwestern Pacific, San Joaquin Valley Line, Coast Line, and West Coast of Mexico Route. No copies located in Worldcat.
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The R.G.S. story: Rio Grande Southern. Volume IX. Over the bridges. . . Grady to Durango. . . .
by [RAILROADS -- RIO GRANDE SOUTHERN]. COOK, W. George, McCOY, Dell A. & COLLMAN, Russ.
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[Denver, CO]: Sundance Publications, Inc., [2001]. 4to. 416 pp. Frontisp., 100s of colour, and black & white photo illustrations, maps, diagrams. Half-purple over colour-illustrated boards (minor shelfwear, very slight dustsoiling), w/ glassine cover (minor shelfwear, minor bumping lower corners), VG/VG copy, signed by three authors on half-title, numbered. First edition, signed & No. 1285, “Display Copy” of this lavishly illustrated history and installment in the Rio Grande Southern saga against the backdrop of the rich gold mining district, previously occupied by the Ute Indigenous Peoples.
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[An extraordinary archive that visually and textually documents the extent of the electric interurban railways, streetcars, and trolleys across the Northeast and New England through the first half of the 20th Century. Compiled by a Boston Edison Company electrical rail engineer, and rail historian, the archive boasts 3715 photographs filling 17 photo albums and archival binders; two manuscript track maps by the compiler and 46 mimeographed supplement maps issued by the Electric Railroaders association of railways from Altoona, PA to Albany NY, Butte, MT to Yakima, WA, and those in between; along with several original TLS from Massachusetts Senator and Congressman; in-house documents related to the Quincy Electric Light & Power Co.; extensive manuscript notes within the albums, and on versos of photographs, and finally numerous interurban and electric railway publications].
by [RAILROADS, INTERURBANS & TROLLEY PHOTO & DOCUMENT ARCHIVE]. [YOUNG, Edward Weston (Compiler & Engineer).]
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[East Waymouth, Boston, MA, Hoboken, NJ, Toledo, OH, & Chicago IL: Edward Weston Young, Boston Edison Company, Eastern Massachusetts Railway Co., Lackawanna Terminal, Electric Railroaders Assoc., Inc., National Railway Historical Society, Central Electric Railfans’ Assoc., ca. 1910-1950]. Seventeen albums & archival document binders, including 3715 photographs, with 1629 interspersed, mounted, and annotated across 14 different post-binder albums assembled from 1910-1949, most Oblong 4tos. sized 12.5 x 8 in., nearly all on black paper stock, with photos sized from 1.5 x 2.5 in. up to 5 x 7 in., most annotated with extensive white ink annotations & manuscript notes, many bearing extensive local railway histories in manuscript ranging up to 5000 words, manuscript track maps, paint samples for trolley & railway car company colours, and nearly all w/ embossed board post-binders, punch-sewn at gutter margins; Two of these are 4to. on thick wood-pulp paper, bearing many typed captions, and identifying…
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Power distribution for electric railroads.
by [RAILROADS -- ELECTRICITY]. BELL, Louis.
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New York: Street Railway Publishing Co., 1897. 8vo. [8], 268 pp. With 139 text illustrations, diagrams, photos, plates. Blue-green publisher’s cloth, embossed ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine, patterned endpapers (minor light uniform interior toning, inner hinges starting, minor tear to gutter margin of ffep.), still VG- copy, w/ ownership markings of Adolf Kuylenstjerne. First edition of this informative Victorian work on powering electric railways, trolleys, interurbans, and heavy railways. Dr. Bell (1864-1923) was an active proponent of the conversion from steam engines to electricity for railways, not only for the cost savings, but also the increased efficiencies, less maintenance, and more horsepower. See: Warren Devine, Jr., An Historical Perspective on the Value of Electricity in American Manufacturing (1982), pp. 19-20.
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North Shore: America’s fastest interurban.
by [RAILROADS --CHICAGO]. MIDDLETON, William D.
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San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, [1976]. 4to. 125, [3] pp. Double-page photo-illust. title in orange & black, over 200 photo illustrations. Brown simulated calf boards, gilt lettering on spine, w/ d.j. wraparound photo cover art (minor chipping & wear to spine, closed tear), NF/G copy. Early printing, of this history of the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad interurban line which grew from the modest Waukegan trolley line in the 1890’s to the Electroliners of the early 1960’s before closing down in 1963.
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Burlington route time tables. Everywhere West, Way of the Zephyrs.
by [RAILROAD -- TIME TABLES]. [GARTSIDE, B.L., COTSWORTH, Jr., A. & ALMS, J.J. (Passenger Agents)].
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[Chicago, IL]: Chicago, Burlington, & Quincy RR [Poole Bros., Inc.], April-May, 1946. 4to. 36 pp. Text illustrations, illustrated ads, 1 double-page centerfold map by Poole Bros., Inc. Colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art of Burlington locomotive & Zephyr locomotive (slight shelfwear, minor crease), still VG copy. First edition of this post-War time table for the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, best remembered for the largest fleet of named streamliners in the United States, the Zephyrs. The map route shows connections leading from Illlinois through Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, & California. No copies located in Worldcat (Denver Public holds 1 1950 edition).
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The Northern Pacific Railway of McGee and Nixon: classic photographs of equipment and environment during the 1930-1955 period.
by [RAILROADS - NORTHERN PACIFIC]. GREEN, Richard.
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Seattle, WA: Northwest Short Line, [1985]. Oblong 4to. 270 pp. Photo frontisp., w/ 100’s of photo illustrations, diagrams throughout. Green publisher’s cloth, gilt lettering, w/ d.j. cover art photo of NP locomotive 5106, maps on verso of jacket w/ explanatory text, NF/NF copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and informative photographic history of the Northern Pacific during the Great Depression, World War II, and into the Mid-20th Century featuring the images of Warren McGee and Ron Nixon.
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Rod locomotive catalog. Davenport Locomotive Works. Designers and builders of rod and gear-drive steam locomotives, gasoline locomotives. . .
by [RAILROADS -- LOCOMOTIVES]. [JOHNSON, Edward S. (Pres.)].
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Davenport, IA: Davenport Locomotive Works, [1926]. Oblong 8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 in. 72 pp. Printed throughout in green & black, illust vignette on title page of factory, photo illustrations throughout. Embossed gray illustrated softcovers, embossed & raised black lettering, cover art illust. of Davenport Locomotive (minor soiling, creasing, very minor rippling to textblock), still VG- copy, w/ H.J. Armstrong logo stamped at foot of front cover. Tenth edition, substantially revised & expanded, of this scarce switching engine catalogue. Founded originally in 1901 as the W.W. Whitehead Co., it was renamed in 1904 the Davenport Locomotive Works and specialized in a mixture of rod and geared locomotives, particularly tank models of rod locomotives. Their locomotives were desired by cement plants, coal companies, fruit companies, logging companies, and mining operations. This catalogue does feature a few listings for gear-drive locomotives, and gasoline engine locomotives which were first built by the company in…
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Rebuilding of Galveston Causeway nearly complete; Labor Board disapproves contracting of repairs; Railway wages discussed by Agricultural Commission; Mexican Railways prepared for improved business. . . In: Railway Age, Vol. 72, No. 19. . . .
by [RAILROADS]. [DUNN, Samuel O. (Ed.)].
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[New York: Simmons-Boardman Publishing Co.], May 13, 1922. 4to. 28, 1099-1154, 29-72 pp. Over 100 illustrated ads, numerous photos, diagrams, maps, charts. Salmon-coloured printed & illustrated softcovers w/ ads on front & back (very minor chipping foot of spine, minor dustsoiling, edgewear), still VG- copy, stapled as issued. First edition, thus, of this installment in the noted trade magazine.
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