HENRY CROWN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE COLONEL - 2 VOLUMES by Petrakis, Henry Mark & Weber, David B - 1998

Chester, Pennsylvania: Board of Trade. Very Good. 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean blue cloth with gilt title on spine. Pictorial frontispiece. Engraved illustrations of locations and portraits. Two small mended bottom edge tears that do not interfere with text. Text Is tight, clean and intact. Located on the west bank of the Delaware River. 99 pages including 31pages of advertisements. Pennsylvania ; 8vo 8" - 9" ; 99 pages .

Very Rare softcover copy of Cybernetics and Management by Stafford Beer.Condition is acceptable. The cover has a one inch chip and tear at the bottom of spine and there is a small water stain on the top corner of the first pages. Otherwise the pages are completely clean and crisp and in terms of the text it is in good condition without any markings. (see pictures for actual condition)

[Civil War] Bill of Lading. [New York?]: [Cromwell's New-York & New Orleans Steamship Line] November 21, 1863. One sheet 16.5 x 29 cm partly printed document with manuscript inserts. Very good.
The Union forces in May 1863 captured the city of New Orleans. By this document $10,000 of United States Treasury Notes are being sent to the City, in all likelihood to purchase cotton or other goods from the captured port. See for example, the New York Times for September 1863 describing a shipment from New Orleans of cotton and accompanied by U.S. Treasury notes, since the Confederate Currency would no longer be valid, people would need to finance purchase and sales with U.S. financial instruments. Interestingly, in February 1863 Congress rejected a provision in the banking bill that would have made interest-bearing Treasury notes legal tender. An interesting look at the practical issues in carrying on commerce during the Civil War.

Delhi IN, Ajanta Publications, 1991, hardcover, xvi-224 pp, First Edition, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Signed and inscribed to by the Editor on the half-title page "To Dear Garth with pleasant memories of our meeting at the Institute on 29/X/'92 George Mathew". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few small spots to boards, one section of pages unopened at the top edge. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, spine slightly faded, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of essays dealing with democratic socialism from a wide range of authors both scholarly and activist. Contributors include; Willy Brandt, Nikhil Chakravartty, U.R. Anantha Murthy, Hans Janitschek, George Stevenson and Dick Gupwell, Petra Kelly, Stephen Sherlock and, Allan J. Scarfe. Index appended. ISBN 9788120203181

Grand Rapids, MI: Belding Bros. & Co. / Seymour & Muir, 1906. Oversized pamphlet showing the steps in manufacture of silk thread & cloth, from silkworm eggs, the tending of the worm, extracting & spinning the thread, packaging for export, spinning & weaving cloth. Issued as part of a classroom kit including a cabinet (presumably of natural history and product samples) and chart. Includes photos of the four brothers (and their fine mustachios), Belding's mills & women's dorms, eggs & worms on leaves, cocoons & pupae, Japanese men & women rearing & feeding worms, reeling the cocoons, bales of raw silk; machines for winding, spinning, & twisting, stretching, reeling & dying, spooling, warping & weaving; some with men & women tending them. The Belding Brothers started selling silk thread door-to-door in Michigan in 1860, established their first factory in Connecticut in 1866, then three more by 1910 in their Michigan base, Belding, at one time known as the "Silk City of the World"; as well as in Petaluma,… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1880. Soft cover. Good. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 212pp, 12pp ads. Printed wraps. Corners of cover and spine ends chipped, owner's name and address on front wrapper, text is toned but clean, a notation written on top page edges. A very early printing of this title in Harper's Half-Hour Series, published in 1880, not a recent reproduction.

Very Rare softcover copy of Cybernetics and Management by Stafford Beer.Condition is acceptable. The cover has a one inch chip and tear at the bottom of spine and there is a small water stain on the top corner of the first pages. Otherwise the pages are completely clean and crisp and in terms of the text it is in good condition without any markings. (see pictures for actual condition)

[Civil War] Bill of Lading. [New York?]: [Cromwell's New-York & New Orleans Steamship Line] November 21, 1863. One sheet 16.5 x 29 cm partly printed document with manuscript inserts. Very good.
The Union forces in May 1863 captured the city of New Orleans. By this document $10,000 of United States Treasury Notes are being sent to the City, in all likelihood to purchase cotton or other goods from the captured port. See for example, the New York Times for September 1863 describing a shipment from New Orleans of cotton and accompanied by U.S. Treasury notes, since the Confederate Currency would no longer be valid, people would need to finance purchase and sales with U.S. financial instruments. Interestingly, in February 1863 Congress rejected a provision in the banking bill that would have made interest-bearing Treasury notes legal tender. An interesting look at the practical issues in carrying on commerce during the Civil War.

Delhi IN, Ajanta Publications, 1991, hardcover, xvi-224 pp, First Edition, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, Signed and inscribed to by the Editor on the half-title page "To Dear Garth with pleasant memories of our meeting at the Institute on 29/X/'92 George Mathew". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, a few small spots to boards, one section of pages unopened at the top edge. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, spine slightly faded, in new Brodart sleeve. A collection of essays dealing with democratic socialism from a wide range of authors both scholarly and activist. Contributors include; Willy Brandt, Nikhil Chakravartty, U.R. Anantha Murthy, Hans Janitschek, George Stevenson and Dick Gupwell, Petra Kelly, Stephen Sherlock and, Allan J. Scarfe. Index appended. ISBN 9788120203181

Grand Rapids, MI: Belding Bros. & Co. / Seymour & Muir, 1906. Oversized pamphlet showing the steps in manufacture of silk thread & cloth, from silkworm eggs, the tending of the worm, extracting & spinning the thread, packaging for export, spinning & weaving cloth. Issued as part of a classroom kit including a cabinet (presumably of natural history and product samples) and chart. Includes photos of the four brothers (and their fine mustachios), Belding's mills & women's dorms, eggs & worms on leaves, cocoons & pupae, Japanese men & women rearing & feeding worms, reeling the cocoons, bales of raw silk; machines for winding, spinning, & twisting, stretching, reeling & dying, spooling, warping & weaving; some with men & women tending them. The Belding Brothers started selling silk thread door-to-door in Michigan in 1860, established their first factory in Connecticut in 1866, then three more by 1910 in their Michigan base, Belding, at one time known as the "Silk City of the World"; as well as in Petaluma,… Read More