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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips and spine edge are lightly rubbed. Back cover is lightly darkened along spine edge. 68 pages. Articles include The Significance of Doppler in Jet Transports and An Automatic Astro Compass.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st paperback edition, 1st printing ; ix, 304 pp. ; illustrated ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; LCCN:75-39121 ; ISBN:0801578469 ; Contents: The lure and lore of old toys -- The boundaries of toy collecting -- Starting a collection -- Condition and other factors that affect toy values -- Some techniques of toy collecting -- Identification and research -- Distinguished past, promising future -- Directory of manufacturers -- Identification marks ; foxing and sunning on edges ; crease on cover ; G. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. sheetmusic, book cover and text all in fine condition, black cloth binding with gilt stamped title on front panel, binding tight and square, light rubbing on corners and edges, text clean with some penciled dates in top margins, name of PO and date (1913) in pencil on ffep 10"x13 1/2" - 84 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Springfield, Massachusetts: Pond & Campbell, 1905. First edition, 1905. Tan cloth printed in dark brown, title page and section titles printed in black and orange, illustrated from black and white photos throughout, 214 pages. Good to very good condition with some modest wear to corners and spine ends, good hinges (rear hinge internally reglued and secure), text block sound, pages clean, 1907 gift notation in beautiful cursive writing on a preliminary blank, no other names or markings. Well-illustrated history of Springfield, Massachusetts, with discussion of its educational institutions, art and literary groups, military history, religious and charitable associations, social life, commerce, biographies of prominent individuals, ETC. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Kemble, E.W.; Fancher, Louis; Groesbeck, Dan Sayre; Levering, Albert; Bayha, Edwin F.; Taylor, Horace (illustrator). First Edition. This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. Clarke, W.W.; Fitzgerald, William O.; Briggs, Austin Eugene; Harper, George; Graham, J.C. (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Nice two-color illustrated Valspar ad inside front cover; Taxes, Taxes, Taxes! - they are always with us but often we do not know it; Cashing in on the 'Blue Sky' - a study of the methods used by Wily 'Aviation' and real estate promoters in separating the sucker from his dollar; The Principles that guided George W. Hays in Exercising the Pardoning Power; The Genesis of the Constitution - reflections on what Washington and 38 of his countrymen did one summer; Bringing the Human Boat to Port Under Its Own Steam - advice on healthy living; What Would Izaak Walton Have Said? - the author of 'The Compleat Angler' in his wildest dreams could naver have visualized a 1,500-pound mackerel; Henry Ford's Page - struggle between industry and finance for control of business; Editorials - shaming the U.S. into canceling war debts, anti-prohibition propaganda, The County Fair, Dictators and the dictated; The Gold Hunters - being the story of a party of young men from Michigan in their search for fortune in California in 1850-1851; Bathing, Begging and Buring in Benares - strange scenes on the banks of the Ganges, India's sacred stream - article with photos; The Voyage of the Victoria (part 11)- Death of Magellan; Chats with Office Callers - ; Can You Tell Me?; I Read in the Papers - Japan turns from rice as sole diet; The Village Blacksmith. Moderate moisture exposure. Center pages holding by one staple. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy.

Zustand: Very Good. Vintage piano sheet music in colour illustrated printed paper covers. 13½'' x 10¾''. Contains 6 pages folded sheet music including the covers. Scored for voice and piano with lyrics. In Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHEET MUSIC.