New Arrivals
Study Manual for Civil Service
San Francisco: The Recorder Printing and Publishing Co., 1942, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition with some stains, chipping and minor tears. Book has red cloth over boards, spine slightly cocked, minor corner bumping, a few pencil marks in "Test Chapter", otherwise very clean and neat. Very good condition.
This book was meant to quickly prepare an individual for the civil service exam, in a time where these positions were abundant. Basic knowledge covered includes arithmetic, art, english, geography, government, history, literature, science, and a helpful test chapter at the end.
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.
An Historical Dictionary of Forestry and Woodland Terms
Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1991. First Edition, Hardcover. 236pp; Dust jacket in very good condition with minor shelf wear. Book has minimal corner bumping, green boards in fine condition, minor foxing to fore-edges. Very good condition.
This helpful book describes "the special words used by those working or hunting in England's woodlands and forests from the early Middle Ages until the present." Some quotations and line drawing illustrations throughout.
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.
Fighters for Peace
New York: The Century Co., 1919. First edition, Hardcover. 311pp + 3 pages of book advertisements; Book has minimal wear to edges and spine, spine is slightly darkened, some foxing and stains on fore-edges, front spine is cracked age tanning and some foxing to pages, no dust jacket. Very good condition.
Biographical information on World War I heroes, including: King Albert of Belgium, Marshal Joffre, Captain Guynemer, Marshal Foch, Premier Clemenceau, Premier George, Sir Frederick Stanley Maude, General Allenby, King Emmanual III of Italy, General Pershing, Admiral Beatty, President Wilson. Photograph of each man is included.
Text Book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals. Translated from the Third German Edition By Edward L. Mark
London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd, 1901. Third edition, Hardcover. 670pp; Book has moderate wear to edges and spine, slight corner bumping, large amounts of underlining in pencil throughout although it is done very neatly, front hinge cracked, age toning to pages, owner's name on front free endpaper and book plate on front past-down endpaper, no dust jacket. Very good condition.
A beautiful early medical textbook with over 300 illustrations in the text and 2 lithographic plates.
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, January 1925
NY: The Lakeside Publishing Co., January 1925. First edition, Stapled Softcover. 112pp; Some stains, especially on cover and bottom left corner throughout, chipping to cover edges, 2" of top of spine strip removed, cover is tanned with age, corner bumping, creasing and moderate soiling. Evidence of insect eating damage to last 10 pages and portion of spine. Fair condition.
Very scarce early nursing journal with a picture of J. Beatrice Bowman, R.N. on the cover. Josephine Beatrice Bowman was one of the first members of the newly established US Navy Nurse Corps in 1908 and became the third superintendant of the program. This volume contains articles on Our Government Nursing Services, Budgets for Private Duty Nurses, Applying Preventive Medicine Early, The Etiology of Scarlet Fever, etc. Includes many advertisements.
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, December 1923
NY: The Lakeside Publishing Co., December 1923. First edition, Stapled Softcover. 103pp; Some stains, especially on cover and upper right corner throughout, chipping to cover edges, 1/2" of bottom and top of spine strip removed or torn, cover is tanned with age, corner bumping and moderate soiling. Good condition.
Very scarce early nursing journal with a picture of Lillian D. Wald on the cover. Lillian Wald was an American nurse, author and humanitarian, who was the founder of American community nursing and known for her contributions to human rights. This volume contains articles on American Nurses in the Far East, The Technique of Heliotherapy, Adapting Diets to Individuals, the Nursing of Communicable Diseases, etc. Includes many advertisements.
The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review, August 1922
NY: The Lakeside Publishing Co., August 1922. First edition, Stapled Softcover. 95pp; Some stains and chipping to cover edges, 1/2" of bottom spine strip removed, cover is tanned with age, corner bumping and moderate soiling. Good condition.
Very scarce early nursing journal, contains articles on What the Tuberculosis Nurse Should Know and Do, Ethics in the Every-day Life of the Studen Nurse, The Uses of Antitoxin, The Uses of Physiotherapy, Nature Study for Convalescents, etc. Includes many advertisements.
200 Decorative Title-Pages
New York: Dover Publications, 1964. Softcover, First Edition. Large trade paperback, stiff orange pictorial wraps, sunned spine, small puncture to right upper corner of front cover and free endpaper, some creases and tanning.
A lovely book that is concerned with decorative title-pages and covering all periods of the printed book with beautiful and valuable archive of type faces, designs and motifs.