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CNA: A Century Of Commitment: 1897/1997
Chicago CNA 1997 First Edition (?) Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Cover is red with gold lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Published to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this large, American insurance company. Illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photos. Sections are: 1897-1920: CNA: The Foundation; 1920-1950: New Risks: New Business; 1950-1964: Insuring Post-War America; 1964-1997: Changing Times: New Leadership. Very oversized; 6#. ; Photographs; 10 1/4 x 11; 220 pages; Cover has light bumping and sunning. DJ has light shelfwear and rubbing; in a mylar cover.
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13.25 USD
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Ferrari World Number 36--December 1996/january 1997
London FW Publications Ltd. 1997 First Edition Softcover Fine
Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of color photos. Cover feature stories are: F1, Out of the Red; Mansell, True Brit; 250 MM; 456 GTA, Automatically Brilliant. This is the English edition of the periodical, which is also published in Italian and German. ; Remainder; Color Photographs; 8 1/4 x 11 3/4; 69+ pages; Black remainder mark on bottom. Cover has light rubbing and shelfwear, couple of small liquid ring.
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11.50 USD
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Mathematicians And Computer Wizards
Farmington Hills, MI Macmillan Reference Usa/Gale Group 2001 002865501X / 9780028655017 First Edition Thus Hardcover New
Hardcover book; green ground with white lettering on the spine. Pages are clean and tight; still crisp. This is a NEW book. Extensively illustrated with b/w drawings or photos of the people included. The biographies are listed alphabetically; a time line of mathematics; sources; glossary, index. ; Macmillan Profiles Series; B & W illustrations; 7 `/4 x 10 1/4; 426 pages; Very slight rubbing.
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38.75 USD
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Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'elegance: August 1, 1999 Official Program
No Publisher Listed. 1999 First Edition First Printing; Softcover Near Fine
This is an official program from the internationally renowned Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance, held every year at Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan, on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall, one of the largest private residences ever built in the US. It was the former home of Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of an auto baron. The pages are clean and tight; printed on glossy paper. Laid in is a brochure from Fine Art Models, Birmingham, Michigan. Extensively illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photographs. Includes a field map, list of 1999 entries, as well as 1998 winners. To see these spectacular cars, in all of their glory, on the property of this fabulous estate, is a definite highlight of the year. I looked through these programs and see at least 20, or more, cars I'd love to bring home with me--the roadsters get me every time! While the programs show very nominal edge wear, they appear to have been very lightly handled, and then put away immediately. Oversized, 3#; Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'Elegance Series; Photographs; 8 1/4 x 11; 192 pages; The covers have slight rubbing and edge wear on them.
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18.25 USD
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Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'elegance: August 4, 1996 Official Program
No Publisher Listed. 1996 First Edition First Printing; Softcover Near Fine
This is an official program from the internationally renowned Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance, held every year at Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan, on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall, one of the largest private residences ever built in the US. It was the former home of Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of an auto baron. The pages are clean and tight; printed on glossy paper. Extensively illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photographs. Includes a field map, list of 1996 entries, as well as 1995 winners. To see these spectacular cars, in all of their glory, on the property of this fabulous estate, is a definite highlight of the year. I looked through these programs and see at least 20, or more, cars I'd love to bring home with me--the roadsters get me every time! While the programs show very nominal edge wear, they appear to have been very lightly handled, and then put away immediately. Oversized, 3#. ; Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'Elegance Series; Photographs; 8 1/4 x 11; 176 pages; The covers have slight rubbing and edge wear on them.
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Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'elegance: August 6, 2000 Official Program
No Publisher Listed. 2000 First Edition First Printing; Softcover Very Good+
This is an official program from the internationally renowned Meadow Brook Hall Concours d'Elegance, held every year at Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester, Michigan, on the grounds of Meadow Brook Hall, one of the largest private residences ever built in the US. It was the former home of Matilda Dodge Wilson, widow of an auto baron. The pages are clean and tight; printed on glossy paper. Laid in is a brochure from Fine Art Models, Birmingham, Michigan. Extensively illustrated with dozens of color and b/w photographs. Includes a field map, list of 2000 entries, as well as 1999 winners. To see these spectacular cars, in all of their glory, on the property of this fabulous estate, is a definite highlight of the year. I looked through these programs and see at least 20, or more, cars I'd love to bring home with me--the roadsters get me every time! While the programs show very nominal edge wear, they appear to have been very lightly handled, and then put away immediately. Oversized, 3#; Meadow Brook Hall Concours D'Elegance Series; Photographs; 8 1/4 x 11; 184 pages; The covers have slight rubbing and edge wear on them, upper right corner of front has missing 1 3/4 x 1 x 1 triangle. First page, first part of schedule of events, has page extending past rest of program and bent over.
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Miguel Angel Roca: Architectural Monographs #36
Northbrook, IL Academy Group 1994 1854902768 / 9781854902764 First Edition Printer Wrapper Fine with no dust jacket
Cover has some scufifng, rubbing, edge wear. Stiff boards have front and back flaps. Pages are clean and tight; printed on high quality, glossy paper. Black remainder mark on side of pages. Richly illustrated with 100+ color photos and drawings. Has essays on how civic architecture fits in urban life, the city center as cathedral, and architecture and commitment. 120 pages covering Roca's projects in Argentina and Bolivia; a chronology of his works and a biography. Oversized. ; Remainder; Color Illustrations; 4to ; 144 pages
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12.50 USD
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San Antonio In Pictures
(san Antonio, Tx?) No Publisher Listed. N.D. Softcover Very Good
Cover is stapled wraps. This is a guide book to historic San Antonio, Texas. Pages not numbered. No date given, but appears to be from 1940s, probably during World War II. There are 93 b/w photos. Quite a few pictures with emphasis on military training, including pictures of P-39, C-60, P-40, etc. , all relating to the Randolph Field's Central Instructors' School [of aviation]. Nice souvenir booklet, blast from the past kind of title. ; B&W Photographs; 7 1/2 x 10 1/2; Unpaginated pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing/scuffing, light bumping, some color flaked off from underpaper at spine, creasing on back cover.
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10.25 USD
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Sealing Wax Art [1922 Edition] No. 524-50M-11-24
Framingham, MA Dennison Manufacturing Co. 1922 Soft Cover Very Good-
Soft cover is stapled wraps. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of b/w drawings and photographs, and a two page color display in the center, for the 'Colors of Dennison Wax Deluxe and Letter Wax'. "The development of sealing wax for decorative purposes is growing all of the time and new uses are being discovered and new designs are constantly being created". ; B&W and color Illustrations; 5 x 8; 24 pages; Cover has rubbing/scuffing, sunning, shelf wear, small wear marks. Pages have minor, shallow creases, signs of careful use.
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13.00 USD
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The Japan- U. S. Assemby [Volume 2 only] Proceedings of a Conference on the Threat to the World Economic Order
Washington, D. C. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1976 0844720828 / 9780844720821 Softcover Very Good+
Pages are clean and tight; except as noted. Book is in four parts: Threat to the World Economy from Inflation and Recession; Threat to Economic Order from the Emergence of Cartels and Monopoly Power; Threat to the International Monetary Order; Toward Strengthening the Coordination of World Economic Policies. ; Charts & Tables; 6 1/2 x 9 1/2; 151 pages; Cover has light shelf wear, rubbing, bumping and creasing, small stamp mark on back; first page, which is the half-title page, is loose, but in the book.
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16.50 USD
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The Toy And The Real Mccoy John Deere Toys and the Real Products They Replicate
Moline, IL Deere & Company 1990 Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover is green ground with green and black lettering on spine. Oblong shaped. Green endpapers. Pages are clean and tight. Extensively illustrated with color photographs. Some of the sections are: agricultural toys; lawn and garden toys; John Deere reference books. Nice gift for those true, John Deere fans. ; Color Photographs; 9 1/4 x 6 1/2; 112 pages; Cover has some rubbing/scuffing, bumping, shelf wear, corner crunching, sunning; gutter glue visible between front end paper and title page.
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8.50 USD
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Typography 1995 The Annual of the Type Directors Club
New York City Watson- Guptill Publications 1995 0823055515 / 9780823055517 First Edition First Printing; Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Cover is orangish with white '16' on front, and white lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Extensively illustrated with the 239 winning designs [out of 2894 submissions] for the 41st Type Directors Club competition. The categories include posters, logotypes, packaging, promotions, books, stationery, magazines, television graphics, annual reports, videos and corporate identities. Each entry is accompanied by captions listing the designer client, typography, etc. Oversized, 4#. 2 copies available. ; Photographs; 8 1/2 x 11; 272 pages; NEW. Cover has some bumping and edge wear, light rubbing/scuffing. DJ has edge wear, bumping, rubbing/scuffing, 1/4" x 1 1/4" piece missing at bottom of front; in a Brodart cover.
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32.00 USD
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Veterans Of Foreign Wars Edition Pictorial History Of The Second World War, Volume ! First and Second Year
No Place Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. 1948 First Edition Thus Reprint; Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover is black with gold lettering on spine; gold blind stamp of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA on the front [VFA]. FIRST VOLUME ONLY. Endpapers are color with illustrations from various battle arenas. Overall pages are clean and tight, with very slight signs of careful wear. Begins with 3 September 1939 through September 1941. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs and maps. ; A Photographic Record of All Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged, Volume 1 Series; Vol. 1; B & W illustrations; 7 1/4 x 9 3/4; 512 pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing, bumping, sunning, faded spine, black spots on bottom of text block, faint wet mark on top of text block.
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15.50 USD
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Veterans Of Foreign Wars Edition Pictorial History Of The Second World War, Volume 3 The Fifth Year
No Place Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. 1948 First Edition Thus Reprint; Hardcover Very Good
Hardcover is black with gold lettering on spine; gold blind stamp of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA on the front [VFA]. THIRD VOLUME ONLY. Endpapers are color with illustrations from various battle arenas. Overall pages are clean and tight, with very slight signs of careful use. Begins with September 1943 through 1 September 1944. Sections are: Story, September Through February; Picture History, September--February; Story, March Through August; Picture History, March --August. Pages 1031 through 1535. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs and maps. ; A Photographic Record of all Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged, Volume 3 Series; Vol. 3; B & W illustrations; 7 1/4 x 9 3/4; 434 pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing, bumping, sunning, faded spine, black spots on bottom of text block, weak hinges.
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Veterans Of Foreign Wars Edition Pictorial History Of The Second World War, Volume 4 The Sixth Year
No Place Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. 1948 First Edition Thus Reprint; Hardcover Very Good+
Hardcover is black with gold lettering on spine; gold blind stamp of Veterans of Foreign Wars of the USA on the front [VFA]. FOURTH VOLUME ONLY. Endpapers are color with illustrations from various battle arenas. Overall pages are clean and tight, with very slight signs of careful wear. Begins with September 1944 through September 1945. Sections are: Story, September Through February; Picture History, September--February; Story, March Through August; Picture History, March --August. Pages 1543 through 2047. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of b/w photographs and maps. ; A Photographic Record of all Theaters of Action Chronologically Arranged, Volume 4 Series; Vol. 4; B & W illustrations; 7 1/4 x 9 3/4; 544 pages; Cover has shelf wear, rubbing, bumping, sunning, faded spine, black spots on bottom of text block.
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William Alsop And Jan Stormer: Architectural Monographs #33
London Academy Group 1993 1854902644 / 9781854902641 First Edition Soft Cover Near Fine
Cover has some scuffing and rubbing, light edge wear. Pages are clean and tight; printed on high quality, glossy paper. Has 100+ color and b/w photos, drawings and diagrams. Includes a section with biographies, selected projects and awards. Oversized, 4#. ; Academy Editions Series; Photographs; 4to, 10 x 12; 144 pages
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(Detroit Tigers Organization) Detroit Tigers 1991 Calendar
No Place No Publisher Listed. 1991 Hardcover Near Fine
Cover is padded dark blue with gold lettering and Detroit Tigers logo on front, gold lettering on spine. Inside front cover is picture of Alan Trammell, front end paper picture of Lou Whitaker [two more pictures of both players at back of calendar], back endpapers feature that lovely old matriarch of baseball stadiums, Tiger Stadium. Also has picture of Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson. Stitched in blue satin ribbon. Three days per page, with lined columns for making notes, arranged as a desk diary. At top of each column is the game time and team played for that date; Sunday is small box at bottom of verso page. Appears to be a gift from the ballclub to season ticket holders; letter at front is from Bo Schembechler, former president [and before that, former head football coach at University of Michigan]. Back of calendar has a seating plan of Tiger Stadium [they now play at Comerica Park.....]. Nice and hard to find piece of Tiger Baseball memorabilia. Oversized, 3#. ; Detroit Tigers Calendar Series; Color Illustrations; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4; Unpaginated pages; Light bumping and rubbing. 2 dates, 31 December 1990 [4 small notations], and 2 January 1991 [2 small notations], have writing.
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(Detroit Tigers Organization) Detroit Tigers 1992 Calendar
No Place No Publisher Listed. 1992 Hardcover Near Fine
Cover is padded dark blue with gold lettering and Detroit Tigers logo on front, gold lettering on spine. Illustrated with color photos of active ball players. Back endpapers picture of that lovely old matriarch of baseball stadiums, Tiger Stadium. Also has picture of Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson. Stitched in blue satin ribbon. Pages are clean and tight. Three days per page, with lined columns for making notes, arranged as a desk diary. At top of each column is the game time and team played for that date; Sunday is small box at bottom of verso page. Appears to be a gift from the ballclub to season ticket holders; letter at front is from Bo Schembechler, former president [and before that, former head football coach at University of Michigan], and Sparky Anderson. Back of calendar has a seating plan of Tiger Stadium [they now play at Comerica Park.....]. Nice and hard to find piece of Tiger Baseball memorabilia. Oversized, 3#. ; Detroit Tigers Calendar Series; Color Illustrations; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4; Unpaginated pages; Light bumping and rubbing.
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16.25 USD
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(Propeller Club Of The United States) River And Harbor Improvements How They Are Initiated, Authorized and Completed
Cleveland, OH Thomas A. Scott 1938 First Edition (?) Hardcover Very Good+
Cover is maroon with gold lettering on front and spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if virtually unused. Tipped in is card which reads: '11-20-48 Received from: River & Harbor Improvement Association, 200 Nineteenth St. , NW, Washington 9, DC'. Some of the chapters are: Law; Economic Justification; Illustrative Projects; Organization of US Engineer Department; Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors; Beach Erosion and Shore Protection Boards. ; Charts; 6 x 9 1/4; 64 pages; Cover has slight bumping and edge wear, also a few light scuffs.
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Abney, Arthur E. Wings Over Illinois
Carbondale, IL Southern Illinois University Press 2007 0809327686 / 9780809327683 First Edition First Printing; Hardcover Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket
Hard cover is black with gold lettering on spine. Except for first 14 leaves, pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Illustrated with 8 b/w photographs. Foreword by David NewMyer. "...is a thoughtful look back at a wonderful career in aviation spanning World War II, the postwar period...worked with American Airlines...has accompanied hiw own memoir with colorful hangar stories {end of day flight tales told in the hangar}...." ; B&W Illustrations; 0.9 x 9.2 x 6.3 Inches; xv, 260 pages; Cover has very slight bumping. First 14 leafs have crinkling/crumpling in upper half, which lessens from front end paper to last affected leaf. DJ in a mylar cover.
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