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THE ALASKA HIGHWAY - An Interim Report

By: (Robinson, James William)

Price: $184.94

Publisher: Washington, Government Printing Office: 1946

Seller ID: 42559

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

xiii, (1), 323 pages; Clean and secure in original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper has a couple creases, otherwise quite a nice example of this important and scarce work. Stamp on front wrapper indicates: "From / E. L. Bartlett / Delegate in Congress from / Alaska" Original owner's initials on front wrapper "BWT" -- B.W. Thoron was Director of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions within the U. S. Department of Interior. In the mid-1930s, Thoron was also head of the finance department of the Public Works Administration. This comprehensive engineering survey was prepared under...
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Economic Development Libraries: Problems and Prospects

By: 10Reynolds, Mary T

Price: $6.94

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University: 1967

Seller ID: 39693

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Near Fine

Reprinted from Special Libraries, December 1966; 5 pages; Clean and tight in original light blue printed wrappers.
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Our Fishery Rights in the North Atlantic "Our Fisheries" - Thos. Jefferson

By: A Member of the Philadelphia Bar ; [Joseph Ingersoll Doran; (1844-1919)]

Price: $149.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, Allen, Lane & Scott's Printing House: 1888

Seller ID: 42624

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

59 pages; Author's name in pencil on front wrapper (not his signature). Contents clean and secure in original printed wrappers; a few minor chips to edge of wrappers. OCLC 234851839 An excellent historical examination of the history and development of American fishing rights in the North Atlantic. Quite scarce.
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Hand-Book of SOCIAL ECONOMY or The WORKER'S A B C

By: About, Edmond

Price: $24.94

Publisher: New York, Appleton: 1873

Seller ID: 39058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Worn at head & tail of spine, former owner's name, otherwise Very Good in original brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Written by a French novelist and journalist with progressive leanings. ;
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The Final Outcome of the Fisheries Arbitration

By: Anderson, Chandler P

Price: $9.94

Publisher: American Journal of International Law: 1918

Seller ID: 38730

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

16 pages; Contents clean and tight, rear wrapper torn. Reprinted from the American Journal of International Law, January 1913. Chandler Parsons Anderson (1866-1936), Scroll & Key 1887, represented the United States in numerous international legal issues, including the Bering Sea Claims Commission, Alaska Boundary Tribunal, North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, and was legal advisor to U.S. embassies and legations and the State Department. OCLC 4890176293
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Freedom of the Seas

By: Anderson, Chandler P

Price: $7.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: 1917

Seller ID: 38731

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

10 pages; Contents clean and tight in printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 1917. Chandler Parsons Anderson (1866-1936), Scroll & Key 1887, represented the United States in numerous international legal issues, including the Bering Sea Claims Commission, Alaska Boundary Tribunal, North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration, and was legal advisor to U.S. embassies and legations and the State Department. OCLC 4895953325
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The World is at your Door

By: Anonymous

Price: $34.94

Publisher: Kansas City, TWA - Trans World Airline: 1946

Seller ID: 37121

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A quadri-fold broadsheet, richly illustrated and printed in tones of red, tan, blue and black. Dated on the TWA copyright slug in the margin: "March, 1946." This handsomely designed sheet was issued to promote TWA's stunning proposal to offer a round-the-world air service. The routes already approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board are in depicted in bold red lines; the proposed routes to complete the circumnavigation service were added in dotted lines. After breaking Pan American World Airways' legal designation as the United States' sole international carrier, TWA began trans-Atlantic ser...
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Estatutos de la Compaa de Alumbrado por Gas en Lima Reformados en 1869

By: Anonymous

Price: $99.99

Publisher: Lima [Peru], Imprenta Calle de Lampa Num. 215 por J. V. Serrano: 1869

Seller ID: 40548

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good+

Title & 27 pages; Removed document. Title printed within a decorative border. Gutter margins dusty, worn, and somewhat bent from having been extracted from a volume. Stamped on the title page in blue ink "Exchange ... Serial Record Division The Library of Congress." Above this, the LC Surplus-Duplicate stamp appears (faintly) in red ink. Gas lightling in Lima appears to date back to at least 1861, judging from a reference in this volume. We can find no other record of a copy -- Not in OCLC, COPAC, etc. We did find a record of a similar title printed 5 years later, from a different printe...
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Die Stubaier Kleineisenindustrie

By: Anselm, H

Price: $9.93

Publisher: Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte: 1930

Seller ID: 41865

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

20 pages; 2. Jahrgang, Heft 3, 1930, pp. 65- 84 Illustrated with b&w photographs and a small map of the region.
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HOW TO WRITE A TAX BRIEF for use before the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the Technical Staff, and the Board of Tax Appeals

By: Ash, Robert

Price: $5.94

Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall, Inc: 1936

Seller ID: 38767

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good

With suggestions for Drafting and Specimen of Brief Used Before the Board of Tax Appeals. Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Very early edition of this standard guide to Tax Briefs.
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The Mines of South Australia, Including Also an Account of the Smelting Works in That Colony Together with a Brief Description of the Country, and Incidents of Travel in the Bush

By: Austin, J[ohn]. B[aptist]

Price: $39.98

Publisher: Adelaide, Libraries Board of South Australia: 1968

Seller ID: 40550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Australian Facsimile Editions, No. 48; 109 & [19, ads] pages; A facsimile, issued in 1968 of the original 1863 edition [Adelaide: C. Platts, E.S. Wigg, G. Dehane, J. Howell, W.C. Rigby, G. Mullett, 1863]. Original tan cloth, grained to resemble leather, title lettered in gilt along the spine. One leaf with a 1968 title page, stating that this reprint was a reproduction from a copy held in the State Library of South Australia. This title was part of a series: "Australiana facsimile editions, no. 48." Following the modern title page, there were printed wrappers on red paper stock (including a...
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SPANNING THE ATLANTIC

By: Babcock, F. Lawrence

Price: $14.94

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1931

Seller ID: 42526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and secure in original bright green cloth binding. Frontispiece portrait of Samuel Cunard, 26 additional illustrations. The history of the Cunard Line is, to a large extent, the history of transatlantic shipping. From the Preface: "In the interest of the general reader, the author has attempted to eliminate from the text all unnecessary technicalities and specifications. Foot-notes also have been avoided, with a view to subordinating details and minor controversial points to the purposes of a general narrative history of the Cunard Steamship Company."
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LAUNDERING

By: Balderston, L. Ray ; [Instructor of Laundering Columbia University]

Price: $19.94

Publisher: Philadelphia, L.R. Balderston: 1914

Seller ID: 42616

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

214 pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth binding. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings, including early clothes washing machines and other equipment. A fascinating look at the history of this all important human activity.
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TYPED LETTER [carbon] SIGNED by H. H. Baskin, Jr. regarding Belleview Biltmore Hotel Property

By: Baskin, H. H. ; Jr.

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Manuscript: 1973

Seller ID: 42201

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good

Autograph; 1 pages; Clean single sheet typed letter on printed letterhead of Cooper, Rives & Baskin, actually signed by H. H. Baskin, Jr. and labelled "Copy" Letter regarding the transfer of the property known as the Belleview Biltmore Hotel Property. The matter is the pay-off of the mortgage held by U.S. Steel (represented by Mr. John D. Fite) which is delaying the transfer of property to Mr. Bernard F. Powell. In 1946, Bernard Powell joined prominent investor Roger Stevens in purchasing the Belleview Biltmore Hotel, dubbed "the biggest white elephant on the West Coast of Florida." Dilapid...
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Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

By: Beard, Charles

Price: $149.94

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company: 1915

Seller ID: 42637

Binding: Hardcover

(x), 474, (7 ads) pages; Clean and secure in original navy blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spine. The sequel to the bestselling An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, this volume focuses on the nation's early political history from the adoption of the Constitution through the end of the Jefferson administration. This period saw the rise and triumph of Jefferson's agrarian, slave-holding South over the mercantile-oriented urbanism of Hamilton's North, setting the stage for the ongoing clash between rural and urban America, a topic still highly relevant in the twenty-f...
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The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria

By: Berger, Klaus Peter

Price: $99.94

Publisher: Kluwer Law International: 2010

Seller ID: 42668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Clean and secure in original blue cloth binding, red background and gilt lettering at front board. Red background rubbed. Lex Mercatoria (from the Latin for "merchant law"), often referred to as "the Law Merchant" in English, is the body of commercial law used by merchants throughout Europe during the medieval period. It evolved similar to English common law as a system of custom and best practice, which was enforced through a system of merchant courts along the main trade routes. It developed into an integrated body of law that was voluntarily produced, adjudicated and enforced on a voluntar...
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A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC ... Enlarged, and adapted to the use of Young Traders, Bankers, &c. by F. Payrard

By: Bezout, Etienne

Price: $64.94

Publisher: New York, Samuel S. Wood: 1825

Seller ID: 39056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

236 pages; Translated from the French, improved and adapted to the currency of the United States by Noble Heath. Quarter black leather over grey-green boards. Old pencil notes on endpapers, former owner's names, light rubbing. Mathematician Etienne Bezout (1739-1783) spent many years as a teacher and examiner of young naval officers; his published works include practical handbooks on the elementary mechanics and mathematics necessary for ballistics or navigation as well as more theoretical works of pure algebra and the theory of equations. This work was adapted by Peyrard for the use of stoc...
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THE RIGHT JOB - How to Choose, Prepare for, and Succeed in It A Treatise for Parents, Guardians, Teachers and Vocational Counselors

By: Blackford, Katherine M. H. ; Arthur Newcomb

Price: $24.94

Publisher: New York, The Review of Reviews: 1924

Seller ID: 41290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Complete in two volumes. Clean and tight in original green cloth bindings; light foxing to endpapers and title labels at spines. OCLC: 1811303 A very broad examination of the suitability of particular types of jobs for particular types of people. Chapter headings include: Character Analysis; How to Analyze Your Child; Is the Right Job Manual or Mental?; Is the Right Job Indoor or Outdoor?; Aggressive and Non-Aggressive Types; Social and Non-Social Types; Generalists and Specialists; Quality and Beauty versus Quantity and Strength; Practical and Theoretical Types; Ambitious and Unambitious; C...
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THE STABILIZATION AND MORE EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH A Constructive Plan

By: Blymyer, William Hervey

Price: $24.94

Publisher: Pelham Manor, NY, Privately Published: 1932

Seller ID: 41689

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

24 pages; Clean and tight in original tan wrappers. A provocative article on the inefficiency of graduated income tax with alternative proposals for achieving a more equitable distribution of weath in the U.S. Blymyer was a Wall Street lawyer who occasionally published articles such as this on issues of political economy, including an earlier piece title The Trust Question - Its Solution. Blymyer was once secretary of the Ohio Society of New York and attended the World Peace Conference of 1899 at The Hague. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It...
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Friedrich Koenig. Der Erfinder der Druckmaschine, ein Pionier der deutschen Maschinenindustrie

By: Bolza, Albrecht

Price: $9.93

Publisher: Berlin, Deutsches Museum, Abhandlungen und Berichte: 1933

Seller ID: 41866

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

30 pages; 5. Jahrgang, Heft 1, 1930. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings of machinery. Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers; publisher's advertising material laid in.
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