Foster leonard f (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1925. No Edition Remarks. 476 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Sunning to spine. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Top edge of text block is dust marked. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in green cloth; 246 x 190mm. Very good condition: faint residue mark to front cover (10 x 20mm); corners bumped; ex-library but only indicated by a very small stamp occurring a handful of times; foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally near fine. THE MODERN OFFICE: A SCARCE AND GUIDE TO COMPUTING METHODS IN 1929 An exceptionally well-illustrated guide, including 30 pages on calculating machines, accounting machines, and sorting and tabulating machines. Like Desborough's earlier guide (which we are also offering) Foster covers the entire range of machinery, from accounting machines to duplicators, time-recorders, cheque writers and telephones. Very little is known about the author, Leonard Frederick Foster, who signs is preface from St Albans, and is listed as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries, Fellow of the Incorporated Secretaries Association, etc., and as author of Principles and Practice of Farm Bookkeeping. Scarce: only listed at 5 UK institutions. Not in OOC. …

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 70 pages. Articles: Scandals in Veterans' Housing (part 1 of 2); The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 6) - Roosevelt's Greatest Dilemma; Six Artists and a Model - Edith Franklin's posing is a steppingstone to her stage career; Good-Time Street - the most raucous and colorful block in New York; Truman's recent troubles hurt his chance of election; The Hot-Potato Olympics - what price international amity at this year's Games in London; How to Catch a Husband - Mr. Lamb's job is to bringem' back when they stray. Fiction: Cupid with Celluloid Wings; Guirls Like Me; Squaw Medicine; The Bramble Bush (part 4 of 5); Sweet revenge; Errors of Judgment. Ads include: Old Thompson Whiskey; Pepsodent - with photo of Mary Louise Shine; Western Electric; Schlitz; beer; the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Ford cars (2 pages); Macmillan Oil - featuring Douglas Moone of San Antonio, TX; Samsonite Luggage; Pontiac cars; Milky Way chocolate bars (back cover). Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Wright, Shiney (cover); Pachner, William; Fredman, Harry; Fuhn, Helen and Alfred; Prince, William Meade; Chiriaka, Ernest; Stone, William; Gregori, Leon; Harrington, George; McLeod, Ronald; (illustrator).…

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. 17pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Light wear and soiling to extremities of covers, few short tears on spine; a very good or better copy. Text includes poems by students, including "Song for the Reunion in '95" by Laura A. Jones, "School Alphabet" (an acrostic poem) by M. N., "A Household Angel" by R. M., etc., a brief narrative "History of '95," various reminiscences by students (including "By the Experimental Method" about the science laboratory), riddles, jokes, etc. Last four pages print "Prospect Hill Directory, from the re-opening of the school in 1880," listing a year-by-year (1880-1894), alphabetical listing of students (and their home towns). Introductory text notes: "To Dr. Moors the school mainly owes its existence. Established at his suggestion. [and] maintained in large measure by his labors and contributions. Year after year as each new group of girls gathered at the school." Unrecorded by *OCLC*, which does note three other publications from the school, including a reunion book (1887), an issue of the school newspaper (1897), and promotional booklet (circa 1890's?). [With]: Manuscript Christmas poem: *Prospect Hill Christmas 1887* (small nick at one corner, with tanning to the paper, else very good. The eight-line manuscript poem, prepared as a Christmas greeting entitled: "Prospect Hill Christmas 1887" in gold ink holograph, in an unknown hand. Single sheet of stiff white cardstock (with scalloped edges), square 48mo (measuring circa 5 1/4 inches by 5 3/16 inches), in black ink holograph, with title and initials in gold ink, illustrated with an original albumen print photograph (slightly trimmed and affixed to upper left corner, measuring circa 3 1/4 by 2 1/8 inches), depicting a Prospect Hill School building (a larger version of the same image is reproduced on the rear cover of the 'MEMORY BOOK'). The poem begins: "Would you were here tonight / Friend and companion dear! / By the home hearthstone bright, / So much to say and hear." Prospect Hill School was founded in 1869, by Reverend John Farwell Moors, a Unitarian Bishop. It was one of five girls' schools that merged over time, to become the Stoneleigh-Burnham School for Girls, along with The Classical School for Girls (started on the campus of Smith College, later named the Mary A. Burnham School), the Elmhurst School, Stoneleigh School for Girls, and the Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill School. For the two (2) items related to the Prospect Hill School.…