Traer, IA: Charles Wood & Son, 1915. Paperback. Saddle stapled printed paper wraps, 4to (11-1/2 inches [20.3 cm] tall), pp. 40, ads, illustrated. Paper with light soil, creasing and a minor nibble to bottom corner. The Christmas number, with front cover image of a Back-To-The-Lander in regal repose having successfully.....

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Montreal: John Lovell, 1862. Hardcover. An early mention (and perhaps the first book publication) of the proposed state of Kanawha - the breakaway state which became West Virginia - is found in this early Civil War-era printing of a popular school Geography. Yellow printed paper over boards with quarter black.....

(read more)about Kanawha [W. Virginia] American Civil War) Lovell's General

Paris: A. Durand & Fils. (1925). André Hellé. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. English title : 'The Child and The Enchantments : A Lyric Fantasy in Two Parts'. An opera in one act, with music by Maurice Ravel to a libretto by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Front cover artwork by André Hellé.....

(read more)about L'Enfant et les Sortilèges : Fantaisie Lyrique en

New York: The Century Company, 1913. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth with title and decorations stamped in black and dark green onto upper board and spine, 16mo (6-5/8 inches tall), pp. (iv), 169, (1) ads, tissue-guarded frontis, copyright page with "Published, May, 1913" and "1913" printed at.....

(read more)about Boxing] The Abysmal Brute

Zeeland, Michigan: Herman Miller, Inc., [1936]. Designs by Gilbert Rohde. Paperback. Rare and early “modern" style catalogue, written to sell and help explain the use and function of Modern Furniture styles in the 1930's. The 1936 publication date is not stated, but the ad for clocks on the back cover.....

(read more)about Mid-Century Modern] 1936 - Authentic Style Book of

Vancouver, BC: Bailey Brothers, (c. 1892). Mounted Photographs. Two gold-toned silver collodion POP prints - one of a young indigenous hunter holding a rifle while standing in front of his tipi encampment at Medicine Hat Alberta and the other, a herd of buffalo at Cascade Mtn. in Banff, Alberta -.....

(read more)about Indigenous, Rockies] Photograph of Cree Indian Camp Medicine

Port Louis, Mauritius: Mauritius Printing & Co., Ltd., 1956. Illustrated by Siegfried Sammer. Editions Sammer / Limited Edition. Loose Prospectus. Just a single copy of this scarce 1956 African prospectus found in institutional collections worldwide, that being held by the National Library of Australia. Text in French. "Kélibé-Kéliba" was issued.....

(read more)about African Press] Prospectus for 1950s Artist's Book "Kélibé-Kéliba"