INTERNATIONAL CABLE DIRECTORY OF THE WORLD IN CONJUNCTION WITH WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPHIC CODE SYSTEM. New York & London: International Cable Directory Company 1909. Red Cloth. 869 pp. + Advertising. Red cover with black rules and lettering front and spine. Slight edgewear, slightly soiled. Gold colored eps contain ads. A directory "read and referred to by millions of persons during each year....a standard work which meets with recognition in every part of the globe." (From the preface.). Very Good
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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION. Baltimore: American Water Works Association 1914. Paper. 225 pp. + 28 pp. advertising. B/w ills, charts, maps, and diagrams. Vol. 2, No.2 . Gray cover with black lettering is soiled, spine is chipped at top & bottom and sunned. Interior is tight and clean. Much interesting information with fold-out maps and charts. Laid in is an abstract of papers to be read at the 31st Annual Convention in Rochester, N.Y., June 1911. See our book #003110 for first volume of this year. Good Plus
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NEWSPRINT. Bourke-White, Margaret (photographer). Montreal: Canadian International Paper Company 1939. Hard Cover. First Edition. Unpag., approx. 72 pp. Full-cover, b/w photos of logs going down a sluice on front and rear covers. Title, in white, on front cover and spine. Covers and spine are slightly aged, soiled and edge-worn. Spine ends and corners are worn. Eps are b/w aerial views of forests and water. Approximately 100 (many full-page) b/w photos of men and industry at work, with brief captions. "Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White and also H.F. Kells, Edward J. Herbert, Dominion Forest Service, and Associated Screen News." Text is slightly aged and, occasionally, soiled. Very Good / No Jacket
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THE WELLAND SHIP CANAL OPENING 1932. Ottowa, Canada: Government of Canada 1932. Illustrated Blue Wraps. Presumed First. 45 pp. + fold-out map. Color & b/w ills. Title in entirety: "August Sixth - Nineteen Thirty Two. The Opening of the Welland Ship Canal. A Canadian Conception; A Canadian Achievement." Subtitle: "New Link in the World's Greatest Inland Waterway." Sea-blue front cover ruled in gilt with illustration of an ocean liner, a tug, and men at work, done in gilt, black, and red. Cover may be somewhat sunned, since the internal blues seem brighter, as in bright blue eps. Text block has each glossy page outlined in turquoise. A salute to the opening of the canal from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario, first completed in 1829, and rebuilt for the fourth time. Illustrated w/ color drawings and b/w photos, the large book gives a history of the 2200-mile waterway and its reconstructions. Text is followed by a large fold-out map of Canada's canals. Very, Very Good
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Angell, George. HOW TO TRIPLE YOUR MONEY EVERY YEAR WITH STOCK INDEX FUTURES. Brightwaters, NY: Windsor Books 1984. Brown Leatherette. 308 pp. Subtitle: "An Insider's Strategy to Tap the Riches of Wall Street." Cover has bright gilt front and spine. Cover slightly worn at corners, and has a small scuff at foot of spine at front hinge. Interior clean and tight as new. Laid in are ads for similar publications. Near Fine
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Beveal, L. Dee. COMMODITY SPECULATION - WITH PROFITS IN MIND. Wilmette, IL: Commodities Press 1968. Brown Cloth. 347 pp. B/w photos & ills. Cover lettered front and spine with fading gilt. Corners bumped and worn. P.o. name neatly inked at upper edge of both paste-downs. Contents clean and tight with yellow highlighting throughout. Very Good
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Dewey, Edward R. And Edwin F. Dakin. CYCLES. THE SCIENCE OF PREDICTION. WITH 1950 POSTSCRIPT. New York: Henry Holt and Company 1949. Light Blue Cloth. First. 52 + 255 pp. Subtitle: "Further Deflation and its Promise." Cover has navy title blocks on spine with gilt lettering. Spine is sunned; cover scuffed and soiled. Upper corners creased and rubbed. Eps shadowed, lightly foxed. There is a bookstore sticker on ffep. Contains a 52-page section titled "1950 Postscript" first, this printed on yellow stock. Copyright date would indicate the remainder of the book, "Cycles...," was pub. in 1947. This section on white stock. Contents very slightly aged. A few text notes in pencil. Binding tight. Very Good
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Fosback, Norman G. STOCK MARKET LOGIC. Chicago, Ill.: Dearborn Financial Publishing Inc. 1992. Red Wraps. 384 pp. Subtitle: "A Sophisticated Approach to Profits on Wall Street." Red wraps printed in white w/blue accents. Slight corner creases. First two pp have a small brown stain at lower edge. 21st printing. Contents are clean, binding tight. Very Good
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Freiberger, Paul and Michael Swaine. FIRE IN THE VALLEY. THE MAKING OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER. Berkeley, CA: Osborne/McGraw Hill 1984. Illustrated Wraps. Possible First. 288 pp. B/w photo ills. Wraps are orange with a computer-generated picture of a computer, green foundation on front. White lettering on front. Black and gold lettering on white spine. Bookstore label on front cover. Cover a little edgeworn and sunned, but basically OK. Some sort of spill at bottom of t.p. has seeped into bottom corner of the next six pps. with no impact to text. The rest of contents are clean and tight. A fascinating look at the 1970's and the hobbyists who created the personal computer and the p.c. industries. "The fire of the p.c. revolution broke out in many places...but nowhere did the fire spread as it did in Silicon Valley,the center of high tech development in California. This is the history of that revolution in the Valley and elsewhere.". Very Good
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Granville, Joseph E. With William Hoffer. THE BOOK OF GRANVILLE. New York: St. Martin's Press 1984. Charcoal Paper Over Boards. Stated First. 259 pp. B/w photo ills. Subtitle: "Reflections of a Stock Market Prophet." Bright silver on spine. Top edges lightly foxed. Photographic dj has slight wear at extremities. Dj unclipped. Contents are bright and binding tight. Ink underlining and notations throughout. Very Good Plus / Very Good
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Hedges, James B. The Browns of Providence Plantations: The Colonial Years & The Nineteenth Century (2 Volumes). Providence, RI: Brown University Press 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition. Volume 1, "The Colonial Years" is a reprint of the 1952 edition, made uniform to match Volume 2, "The Nineteenth Century" which was published posthumously. A rare set. Dust jackets clean and crisp, in mylar covers. Light age spotting to the head of each text block, clean within. Fine / Fine
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Legh-Jones, George, Foreword. THE PETROLEUM HANDBOOK. London: The Shell Petroleum Company Limited 1948. Navy Cloth. 658 pp. B/w ills. Third edition, compiled by members of the staff of the Royal Dutch-Shell Group for private circulation. Navy cover has gilt title and Shell emblem on front; gilt lettering on spine. Corners bumped, else very slight shelf wear. Blank bookplate on fep. Bits of foxing on eps, else clean and tight. Very Good
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