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Richmond, VA: The Southern Planter, 1911. 20.8 x 26.4 cm. Harvesting the corn crop; photos from Virginia State Fair; Methods of Drenching Animals; Gasoline as a vermifuge; Old poultryman looks back on a half century of chicken farming; hatching chickens from high-priced northern eggs. Photos of cattle and horses from Virginia State Fair. Ads for Aspinwall Potato Planter, Fish Brothers Wagons, ""Cutaway"" Disc Tools, Pratts Poultry Regulator, Larrowe Milling Co. Milk Rations, Richmond Abattoir, Glenburn Farm and Hillcrest Berkshire Hogs, Biltmore Jerseys, Oak Ridge Guernseys, Evergreen Farms Jersey Bulls, more. Periodical, wraps chipped, lightly soiled, fair. . Catalogs: Farming.

Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, Publishers, 1886. 33.5 x 23.8 cm. Elegant book of illustrated poems through the year, by T. B. Aldrich, Celia Thaxter, A.A.Proctor, Bryant, Horace Smith, George Arnold, George Macdonald, Susan Hartley Swett, Whittier, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Craik, Lucy Larcom, B.F. Taylor, Susan Coolidge, John James Platt, Rose Terry Cooke, Mary E. Blake, ""H.H."". Decorated cloth on board with gilt decoration. Heavy gilt-edged pages printed on one side. Cover lightly soiled, heel and toe of spine slightly frayed, inside front hinge cracked, inscription on ffep: ""Addie from Mame Dec. 25, 1885"". Very good. . Catalogs: Poetry.

San Francisco, CA: Californians, Inc, 1948. 12.5 x 20 cm. When you come you'll find that the sea almost surrounds you in San Francisco. You'll stand on the Twin Peaks and see how our streets swoop downward to the docks that look like outstretched fingers. You'll sense the excitement of San Francisco's turbulent hindred years, and you'll observe how the warm ghosts have lingered on in San Francisco, keeping it gay and carefree, wise and tolerant. East Bay. Southward to Monterey. Marine County. Redwood Highway. Shasta-Cascade wonderland. Feather River region. Lake Tahoe and the High Sierra. 49er Gold Country. Yosemite. Paper booklet, with fold-out map of state. Some pages dog-eared. Good. . Catalogs: Travel/California.

Berkeley, CA: University of California, ca. 1965. 15 x 23 cm. Maoist era of Chinese Communist party-- ""mass line"" method of operation-- for short-term tactic and long-term strategy.Sino-Soviet dispute. Paper periodical, three lines underlined, good. . Catalogs: History/China.

Boston, MA: 221 State St, 1939. 19.7 x 127.5 cm. Journal of Senator and former Governor to his friends and followers, sailing on SS Columbus from New York to Marrakech. He finds Morocco full of Arabs and Berbers, squalor, dirt, poverty, women in rags, children working with no schooling�Canary Islands...St. Helena and Napoleon's villa...Capetown, Victoria Falls, visit to Kimberley Mine; aeroplane trip over the falls and Zabesi River... wild animals close up....Bulawayo...Madagascar, Mombasa, Zanzibar, down the Nile to Cairo.. return trip via Berlin, celebrating Hitler's 50th birthday, then home. Paper booklet, signed by author. Good. . Catalogs: Travel.

London, England: Samuel French Ltd., Publishers, 1930. 12.5 x 18.3 cm. Play in One Act. Reporter Miss Wisper calls on Woman Scientist, Madame Pavel. Madame pulls a switch and poof! All the men on earth disappear. Except one. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Humor/Play.

Scotia, NY: Americana Review, �1960. 14 x 21 cm. Depicts advertising from 1790 to 1900 with many colorful examples. Paper booklet printed on heavy stock. Very good. . Catalogs: Advertising/History.

Syracuse, NY: E.M. Johnston, �1937. 11 x 15 cm. Spirited little lesson for salesmen: The acid test of a salesman is how many orders he gets. If an order is pluckable by being a boob, then I say Be a Boob. Paper booklet, very good. . Catalogs: Educational.