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London: Nonesuch, 1943. First Edition. Hermine David. Large 8vo, pp. 150. Translated from the French by H. Ashton. Introduction by Jean Cocteau. Illustrated with hand-colored plates. A nice copy.

Bubbalo NY: Union and Times Press, 1913. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 130. Frontis portrait and one other photograph. Blue cloth, stamped in gilt. TEG. Cover slightly scuffed at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy.

NY: Little, Brown, 2012. First printing. Mount, Jane. Horizontal 8vo, pp. xiii, 225. List of contributors. Illustrated by Jane Mount. Paper over boards. A nice copy in slightly soiled dj. Cultural figures list their favorite books, with illustrations of their "shelves.

Boston: John W. Luce, 1906. First American edn. 12mo, pp. 99. Introduction by Percival Pollard. One hinge tender, o/w VG.

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1941. Snell, Carroll C.. 8vo, pp. 171. Illustrated by Carroll C. Snell. Foreword by Walter Damrosch. Blue cloth. VG in worn dj. A sort of guide to the orchestra, treated like Alice in Wonderland.

London: Samuel Leigh, 1814. 8vo, pp. xii, 408. Translated from the French. TEG. Dark blue straight grained morocco, stamped in gilt. Two fold-out maps (Plan of the Field of Battle of The Moskwa, Sept. 7, 1812, and Plan of the Field of Battle of Malo-Jaroslavetz, 24 Oct. 1814.) Cover little rubbed along hinges, occasional foxing, but generally a nice tight copy.

Paris: Seheur. Small 8vo, pp. viii, 175. Notes and glossary. Frontis portrait. In French.[L'ame de la femme.] Paper over boards with leather spine. Cover worn at edges, but a VG tight copy.

Brooklyn NY: Progressive Labor Party, 1977. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 30. Paper wraps. Paper browned, but a VG tight copy. A booklet explaining the ideas of the PLP and calling people to join marches on May Day in 1977.

Boston: New England Free Press, 1970. 4to, pp. 50-55. Paper. Illustrated with two photographs and a graph. Reprinted from the Feb. 1970 issue of PL, magazine of the Progressive Labor Party. Slightly yellowed at edges, a few small stains in back, o/w VG.

London: P. S. King, 1933. 8vo, pp. xvi, 413. Appendices. Green cloth. [International Labour Office, Studies and reports Series A...No. 37] Hinges tender, o/w VG.

Geneva Switzerland: International Labour Office, 1975. Square 8vo, one long sheet folded into 8 pages. Illustrated with photographs. [ILO Fact sheet No. 10.] Little yellowed, creased and slightly dog-eared, o/w VG. Published for the International Women's Year.

Omaha NB: Festner Printing, 1908. First Edition. 12mo, pp. 70. Illustrated with five photographs, with an extra portrait pasted in. Funeral notice of the author on rear blank. Green cloth, stamped in gilt. A little marking in ink, one facsimile inserted upside-down, o/w a VG tight copy.

Cambridge UK: Cambridge University, 1989. First Edition. 8vo, pp. ix, 214. Notes, index. Black cloth. [Woodrow Wilson International Center for scholars series.] A nice copy in slightly scuffed dj. Nine essays by various scholars on the interplay between traditionalist, naturalist and modernist responses to challenges to religious belief.

NY: Universe, 2000. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 143. Short excerpts about New York from many authors, illustrated with photographs and reproductions in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rear cover slightly warped, o/w a nice copy in dj.

NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 1930. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 541. A fine copy in dj. Laid in is a one page TLS presenting the book to Max Lowenthal from Mary Van Kleeck, Director of the Department of Industrial Studies saying that the recopient had been very helpful at critical moments. Van Kleeck wrote the foreword to this book as well. The focus of these studies we to look at the ability of workers to impact management decisions.

Salt Lake City: Paragon, 1929. Sixth edition. 12mo, pp. 100. With a portrait, signed by the author. Paper wraps. A VG tight copy.

San Francisco: Chronicle, 1998. 9th printing. Large square 8vo, pp. not numbered. Pictorial paper over boards. About as new in dj. Brightly colored picture book and story about the rivalry between PIcasso and Matisse in the guise of two animal artists. Short bio of the two human artists on last two pages.

Savoy, MA: Ladies Aid Society, 1960. 8vo, pp. 66. paper wraps, spiral-bound. VG. In addition to their own recipes, the ladies include recipes they recieved from, among other notables, Mamie Eisenhower and Jacqueline Kennedy, whose husband was then a senator.

Rochester NY, 1905. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 208. Includes advertisements throughout, and household hints. Some written notes at back. Owner's bookplate on flyleaf. Hinges tender, cover little worn, o/w VG.

Includes the order book (1958-63); Collector's Registers (1959-66, 1966-71); Treasurer's Registers (1941-48, 1954-59, 1966-72), Insurance Register (1949-70), Secretary's Register (1913-14, 1926-27, 1938-56, 1957-71); song book "Odes" This was the "Ladies Auxiliary" of Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineermen that was formed in 1863. Radical labor leader Euguene Debs was national secretrary-treasurer of this union from 1880. He subsequently left the union to the form the United Railway Union. This Lodge seemed to have been located near Dayton Ohio.