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Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Company. Very Good. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gold lettering. Worn but sharp corners. Ex-lib. w/number on spine. w/o dust jacket. Presentation label for the 100th anniversary of the United States Brewers Association, William Figge President. "Brewed In America remains the most comprehensive historical study of beer in the United States yet published." (xiv) [3] 4-424 pages, indexed. Illustrated. Former owners emboss stamp on the title page and library number written neatly on spine, no other markings. Exceptionally nice. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

[New York]: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0374166854 . "Already the earth is being affected in ways that threaten to make it dangerously unstable. In just a few years, it will be too late to fix things---unless the United States steps up now and takes the lead in a worldwide effort to replace our wasteful, inefficient energy practices with a strategy for clean energy, energy efficiency, and conservation that Friedman calls Code Green."; 9.10 X 6.40 X 1.30 inches; 448 pp pages .

Washington: Government Printing Office. Good. 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, rubbed w/edges and corners bumped, the front hinge is broken, the back hing is beginning to crack. Pages: xviii, 6 large, tinted fold out maps, 322pp., Appendices [1-2] - 80 pp., Indexed. All maps are tinted w/moisture line, and a single short tear: # 2 has an insect hole, top edge, and # 6 has a longer edge tear. Illustrations include 3 additional pull out maps, non tinted; as well as 16 plates w/tissue, some tinted, numerous line drawings and tables. From the Preface: "This Second Report of the Commission on the Rocky Mountain Locust is the result chiefly of the labors of Messrs, Packard and Thomas, in their efforts to solve a most difficult problem, namely, the premenanet amelioration of the locust evil by preventing the excessive increase of the destructive insect in its native habitat, and its disastrous migrations therefrom. During the year 1878 the labors of the Commission were… Read More