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Preparing for Federal Radio Operator Examinations
New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948, hardcover. Book has green cloth over boards with minimal stains, some slight corner bumping, age tanning to pages, and pen mark on half-title page, otherwise very clean and neat. No dust jacket. Very good condition.
This book was created to help students qualify for radio operator licenses. It also gives students a background on the theory and practice involved in being a radio operator. The book covers basic radio laws, basic theory and practice, radiotelephony, radiotelegraphy, rules governing commercial radio operators, extracts from the Communications Acts of 1932. It also contains many illustrations of transformers, resistors, amplifiers, etc.
Presidential Profiles, 35: John F. Kennedy
33 1/3 RPM Hi-Fidelity Record. Cover is somewhat chewed and stained. Missing commemorative medallion. Record appears to be in very good condition; no noticeable scratches.
Press-o-grams
(Pettigrew, AR): Burt Randle, 1939. (40 pp). Approximately 1/2 x 5/8". LIMITED EDITION of unknown quantity, usually done in 50 - 80 copies at most. Green leather cover, paper label on front cover, wire clasp. A fine copy, scarce. (Bradbury, Burt Randle, 1)
The miniature books published by Burt Randle were usually "photographic reproductions of his [Randle's] very small handwriting" according to Bradbury. This is Burt Randle's first publication, full of little snippets of sage advice. Very scarce, none currently listed in the trade and only 2 copies in WorldCat.
Pretty Polly, A Novel Panorama Picture Book
London: Ernest Nister, [1897]. Unpaginated. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2"; Red cloth backstrop with pictorial paste-down cover, edge wear to boards, cracked hinges, gift inscription on front free endpaper, four double page chromolithographic pop-ups in various conditions (one is damaged and one is mostly missing), some spotting and loose/torn pages, printed in Bavaria by Ernest Nister, "as is" in good condition only.
A beautifully produced book with lovely monochrome illustrations along with the chromolithograph pop-ups and accompanying stories. Very nice stories and poems for children, including the title stoy about the bird Polly, The Horse Parade, At the Sea, and The Rat Princess, among others.
Princess Diana of Wales Charcoal Offset Lithograph Print
(Southern) California: Gary Saderup, 1997. Approximately 13x 17". Open edition offset lithograph paper print in charcoal, uncut and folded so there are two identical posters, in near fine condition.
Gary Saderup is an American artist who majored in illustration and film while attending the Art Center Collage of Design in Pasadena, CA. His style, when closely examinded, reveals the delicate application of charcoal to the surface by his hand along, one of the most difficult arts to master. Gary wants his audience to "see into the hearts" of his subjects.
Printing Throughout the World
Salt Lake City, UT: R. T. Porte & Son Printers, 1929. 144 pp. Approximately 10 x 10". First Limited Edition of 483 copies, this being #67. SIGNED by discoverer, R. T. Porte. Marbled paper-covered boards, cream paper-covered spine with 12 tipped-in illustrations, deckle edges, some foxing to pastedowns, red mark on spine title, otherwise in near fine condition. Marbled slip case is broken and missing a side so is barely functional. Only including it as it is somewhat scare and may perhaps be reparable.
A travelogue of the author's discoveries in printing as practiced around the world in places including the Far East, Cuba, Hawaii, Japan, Korea, Peking, New Guinea, New Zealand, Java, India and Europe.
Private Ownership or Socialism
Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company, 1925. First Edition, Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 218pp; Book has minimal wear to edges and spine, minor corner bumping, some shelfwear; some foxing to fore-edges; no dust jacket. Interesting chapter titles include: The Sixteenth Amendment - Unconstitutional; Taxation and the Courts; Representation of income in Corporate Control; Basis of Agreement Between Japan and United States.
Pronouncing Dictionary and Condensed Encyclopedia of Musical Terms, Instruments, Composers and Important Works
Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1880. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4". 87 pp. Brown cloth over boards with stamped design and gilt title, some rubbing and corner bumping, salmon colored endpapers with previous owner's signature on front paste-down endpaper, pages slightly stained in parts, good + condition.
An interesting combination of musical dictionary terms along with entries for other music related material. Appendix includes Synopsis of Pitch Notation and Melodic Embellishments. Would make a delightful gift for a nostalgic music teacher or music lover.
Psalm 128
Santa Cruz, CA: The Good Book Press, 1985. (14) pp. Later edition. Approximately 1 3/4 x 2 7/16". LIMITED EDITION of 26 copies, this being # I. Brown leather over boards, gilt title on spine, inside white paper handmade by Peter, typography hand-set Barnhard Modern, illustrated with Peter's ornaments, numbered on the colophon, in fine condition. (P&D Thomas Bibliography A25)
This was the second book made for Donna's birthday. A second edition of 26 was printed for Mary Helen Dawson later that year. It was the same book in all respects except for changes to the colophon.
Re-rooting
Lake City, CO: Ravenpress, 1997. [18] pp. Approximately 1 3/8 x 1 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of 26 copies, this being #26. Paper covered box with wood, shell and bone sculpture on lid in fine condition; miniature book has paper covered board with bone, seed, ribbon closure, 5 illustrations, laserprint on paste paper and chiri tissue, signed and numbered on the colophon by the publisher, in fine conditon.
The text is excerpted from Donna Jackson's poem Re-rooting, © 1991. Bailey says that this book references her own awareness of union with earth and questions the notion of ever leaving the natural world. Alicia Bailey began publishing under the Ravenpress imprint in 1996. Ravenpress publications are held in private, public and special collections worldwide. Bailey thinks of the artists' book works she creates as interactive sculptures realized in the form of the book. She works in a wide variety of materials, including those not often associated with the book form, thus necessitating structural re-design and innovations.