Coletanea de Textos
Sao Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1980. Paperback. Large 8vo, wraps, about fine, 254 pp. Text in Portuguese.
New Arrivals
Krutymy dorohamy, spomyny, veresen’ 1939 r.-sichen’ 1987 r. / Steep Roads: Memories, September 1939-January 1987
L'viv: Vyd-vo M. Kots’, 2000. Hardcover. Large 8vo, pictorial boards, very nice copy. 203 pp, plates. Text in UKRAINIAN.
Inheritors of a Glorious Reality, A History of Shadyside Hospital
Pittsburgh: 1991. First printing. Hardcover. RARE hardbound edition, cloth backed cream cloth boards with pictorial onlay. Faint soil to covers, about fine. 259 pp, illustrated.
Erie's McCormick family history, an Irish-American journey
Jefferson Educational Society, 2014. Hardcover. Quarto, pictorial boards, about fine copy. 111 pp, illustrated. The story of the McCormick family of Erie, Pennsylvania, who founded the Jospeh McCormick Construction Company. Includes a family tree, genealogical tables, and company history. OCLC records only a single copy in libraries: Erie County Public.....
La Vie etrange des Objets
Paris: Plon, 1960. Hardcover. Early edition, possibly the first to be published in hardback. Large 8vo, cloth with color pictorial onlay to front cover, very good, light soil to covers, 424 pp, illustrated. In French. A history of how fine arts and art became commodified, marketed as antiques or rare.....
Ladimír Klácel, strucný nástín jeho zivota i jeho filosofie / A brief outline of his life and philosophy
Chicago: Tiskla Národní tiskárna, (1908). Small 8vo (6.75 inches tall) wraps with portrait, 52 pp, good copy with general light soil and wear to wraps, contents good and clean, a few faint stains. OCLC locates ONE copy, at the University of Chicago. Portrait of the Czech Hegelian and free-thinker, who.....
Czechoslovak Export Industry
Prague: Published by the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Trade with the co-operation of the Central Federation of Czechoslovak Industry, (1947). 7 inches tall, wraps with spiral wire binding, good with some wear and soil to covers and a few of the pages, 80 (2) pp, illustrated, includes descriptions of art.....
Cloth binder housing designs, blueprints & photos 1913-1920s for brakes, links and other equipment for freight trains and trucks
Schaefer Co. operated a foundry and patented some equipment for trains and trucks that had heavy loads. Cloth binder with steel fasteners measures 14 x 9 inches, contains 10 loose blueprints (some quite large) from 1913-1919 with plans for gravity dump cars and parts needed, including some patented by Schaefer.....
Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia Explored in the Years 1778 & 1779
London: 1784. Sheet measures 27 x 17 inches, plate measures 25.75 x 15 inches, very good, usual folds, light wear along right edge, minor offsetting else nice and crisp. Apparently this was plate 36 in the Atlas published to accompany Cook's 3rd Voyage, 'A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean' --.....
Huge 44 x 28 1925 poster advertising Pittsburgh School of Automobile Engineering
Undated, but testimonials on one side of the poster are all from summer-fall 1924, so assume 1925 as likely. Measures 44 x 28 inches, very good, lightest edge-wear. Side 1 has the banner title and some information plus 24 captioned photos of the school and the kinds of skills students.....
1939 Syria Mosque Pittsburgh program signed by Marian Anderson
9 inches tall, wraps, 12 pp, good with tape marks on cover and to corners of rear wrap.
Roma Vetus: Plan Des Antiquitez De Rome, Représentées Et Distinguées Suivant La Situation De Chacun De Ses Anciens Monuments (1708)
Amsterdam: Freres Chatelain, 1708. Large double-plate from Chatelain's "Atlas Historique..." from 1708. Sheet measures 20 x 16.5 inches, plate measures 17 x 13 inches. Very good, horizontal fold as well as the usual vertical central fold. Shows Ancient Rome and identifies over 150 separate monuments etc.
Signed 1982 program: Appreciation Banquet honoring Billy Conn, World Champion Light-Heavyweight, Hyatt House, Pittsburgh, Sunday October 31, 1982
Signed on the cover by Billy Conn and Art Rooney! Stapled wraps with photo on front of Conn, 8.5 inches tall, 16 unnumbered pages, with an account of Billy Conn's successes in the ring, menu (the steak option was called The Brown Bomber, after Joe Louis), program of remarks, including.....
Collected Papers, Vol. II, 1934-1942, Visual Systems, Vitamin A, Physiology of Vision, Miscellaneous papers, Graduate Work
3-ring cloth binder (10 inches tall) collecting offprints from the Journal of General Physiology and other scientific periodicals, from Wald's own library: these are his own copies. This group contains some of his first published works dating back to his graduate school days in the mid 1930s. George Wald's first.....
Physical Culture, the Personal Problem Magazine, August 1937: Will Hitler's Sex Complex Force New War? Why I Was an Unwed Wife
11.25 inches tall, pictorial wraps, very good, light wear. Cover by McGowen (daring for its time). Great article by Siegmund Klein on hand balancing with pictures in browntone.
Swallow Barn, or a Sojourn in the Old Dominion, Vol. II only
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832. First printing. Hardcover. Vol. 2 only. Cloth backed boards with spine label, good copy, solidly bound, but boards are darkened, soiled and rubbed, spine shows discoloration and slight wear including small abrasion, spine label somewhat effaced, contents moderately foxed, rear endpaper has been replaced with.....
WWII photo album of Nanakuli Military Reservation, Oahu, Kawaihapai Military Reservation, etc.
Hardcover. 14 x 11 inches, good wth some neat cloth reinforcement to outer joints, has 27 pages filled in, over 160 snapshots, detailing life in WWII in Nanakuli and other parts of Oahu, WWII. A few dozen pictures are of mainly femaile movie stars of the day -- they seem.....
1964 Map: Nha Trang, Vietnam city maps 1:12,500
(Washington): US Army, 1964. 36 x 28 inches, very good, light wear, map in color. V ery uncommon, OCLC locates but a single copy at Western Illinois University. Accompanied by 8 x 10 map of Vietnam from 1967 with Nha Trang identified in red ink.
1965 Map: South Vietnam Route Designations
(Saigon?): U.S. Army Map Service, 1965. Sheet measures 28 x 20 inches roughly, very good. Uncommon, no copies of any such map in OCLC, only a few copies of maps from 1968.
Official souvenir history of the Shenango Valley flood, March 25, 26, 27, 28, 1913
(Sharon, PA): The Authors, 1913. Quarto, wraps, 40 pp, illustrated, fair to good copy: some wear, loss and dampstaining to covers, dampstaining to a portion of the contents (appropriately), but uncommon. A useful reading copy.
1973 Map: Yongsan South, Seoul Korea, General Site Map; Camp Randall E. Coiner & Yongsan Reservation...General Site Map
(Washington): 652d Engineers, 1973. Reprint of 1971 map. Sheet measures 28 x 22 inches, map on both sides, very good, 2 x 2 inch faint yellow marginal stain. RARE, no copies located by OCLC.
1959 Map: Main post and Lawson Army Air Field, Fort Benning, Georgia; Special composite map, Fort Benning, Georgia
Fort Benning, GA: AFPP, 1959. Sheet measures roughly 32 x 21 inches, maps on both sides, printed in black and red. Rare, and only one or two copies located in institutions by OCLC.
1974 Map: U.S. installations & facilities in mainland Japan; U.S. installations & facilities in Kanto Plain, Japan
(Washington): 652nd Battalion, 1974. Sheet measures approx. 36 x 46 inches, two sided (map on either side). First printed in 1971, this is the 1974 reprint. OCLC locates only a single copy of this map in institutions: LOC (1978 reprint).
Rand McNally Official Map of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
(New York): Rand McNally, Ca. 1970. Vietnam War era map, 36 x 54.5 inches, very good, light wear and soil.
Stikhotvoreniia i poemy / Poetry and Verse
Moscow: Sovremennik, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo, boards, nice copy, no jacket, if ever there was one. 492 pp, illustrated. In Russian.