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The Cradle of Rebellion: A History of the Secret Societies of France

By: Hodde, Lucien De La

Price: $499.95

Publisher: New York, John Bradburn: 1864

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 734C6244

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

479 pages. Translated from the French. "The object in translating this work, the production of a sparkling and witty French writer, De La Hodde, is to show the dangerous consequences, to society and government, arising from the practices of secret associations. It gives a perfect illustration of the operations of these associations in bringing about the present unprincipled rebellion in the United States. French characters, similar to the leading conspirators against our own government, are set forth in a way that gives the reader a clear insight into the science of demagogism, and lay...
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The Architectural Record (Magazine), February (Feb) 1932, Vol 71, No. 2 - Racine County Court House Cover Photo

By: Holden, A.C.; Bolton, James; Kocher, A.L.; Pilcher, L.F.; Goldwater, S.S.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, F.W. Dodge Corporation: 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 551H1671

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 75-144 plus 86 pages of ads. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photography throughout. Features: Facing Realities in Slum Clearance - rehabilitation of the Lower East Side slums of New York City; New Housing for Philadelphia Slums - article with aerial photos; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Chicago Municipal Airport; An All-Metal Office Building in Richmond, VA; Dimensions - Part 2 - Bedrooms and Bathrooms; Institutions for the Mentally Afflicted; Planning Surgical Facilities; Dozens of sensational full-page illustrated ads; and much more. Minimal library markings. Aver...
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The Architectural Record (Magazine), May 1932, Vol 71, No. 5 - Cover Photo of the House of William B. Hart of Los Angeles

By: Holden, Thomas S.; Hirons, F.C.; Schnitman, L. Seth; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: New York, F.W. Dodge Corporation: 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 551H1673

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 281-364 plus 80 pages of ads. Printed upon glossy stock. Black and white photography throughout. Features: Veteran's Memorial Bridge at Rochester, NY; What Has Happened to Architects?; Portfolio of Current Architecture; Drafting and Design Problems - Neighborhood Shopping Centers; Entrance Grille Studies; Westinghouse Electric Elevator Company ad inside back cover features fantastic photo of the Old Colony Building in Chicago; Dozens of sensational full-page illustrated ads; and much more. Minimal library markings. Average wear. External soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy of ...
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) - A Weekly Magazine for Women, November 17, 1900 - The Decorative Possibilities of (Plaster) Casts

By: Howells, W.D.; Nesbit, E.; a'Becket, John J.; Grand, S.; Ashmore, A.T.; French, L.H.; Blay, M.; Welch, M.H.; Rowe, E.L.H.; Burrell, C.B.; Siegfried, L.M.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1900

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 301G3379

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 1798-1860 plus 14 pages of nostalgic ads. Features: Thackeray's Bad Heroines; The Wouldbegoods (VI) - The Tower of Mystery; Autumn Days in Central Park; Babs the Impossible (continued); Fashions at the Horse Show; The Bazar's Pattern Sheet Supplement; Cut Paper Patterns; The Decorative Possibilities of Casts; Recipes for Autumn; News of Women's Clubs - with photo of Mrs. Caroline M. Edwards of Chicago; Neckwear for Christmas Gifts - with six photos; The Child and its World - IX - The Child and Handicraft; New Patterns for Lace-Making; Nice Ivory Soap ad on back cover called "Throug...
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Look - America's Family Magazine, April (Apr.) 30, 1960 - Chase That Doomed Eichmann / Luis Aparicio / Brigitte Bardot

By: Hugh Downs; John Gunther; Zwy Aldouby; Ephraim Katz; Thomas B. MOrgan; et al

Price: $149.95

Publisher: USA, Cowles Magazines: 1960

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201H0195

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

88 pages. Features: Cover photo of Hugh Downs and Jack Parr; Nice Jell-O ad inside front cover shows Chocolate Ribbon Parfait; Two-page Marlboro ad shows predecessor to the 'Marlboro Man', a young fellow in straw hat slouched on a chaize-lounge; Interesting Armstrong Tire ad shows fingers extending from tire to grip the road; One-page Coke ad shows ice fishing scene; Europe 1960 - Americans are swarming there - many photos of this travelogue; Charming Campbelle's Tomato soup shows twins eating; What I Think Jack Paar is Really Like; The Chase That Doomed Adolph Eichmann; Kraft ice cream toppi...
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Look - America's Family Magazine, May 4, 1965 - Chicago's Troubled Schools / On the Set with Moreau and Bardot

By: Jack Starr; John Toland; Gerald Astor; et al

Price: $99.95

Publisher: USA, Cowles Magazines: 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201H0192

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

108 pages. Features: Great color ad for a purple two-door Buick Grand Sport Riviera; Cover photo of Munick; Front cover fold-out photo of Jeanne Moreau and Brigitte Bardot; Segretation Crisis - Chicago's Troubled Schools; Germany Twenty Years After Hitler; The Last 100 Days; Germany Today; A New World of Surgery; The Butler goes to College - California students work their way through college; Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox High Note; On the Set with Moreau and Bardot; Electric heat features color photo of Gene Carolan and family in Iowa; Edison Electric Inst. ad features photos of Edwa...
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American Builder [Magazine], Including "Building Developer" and "Home Building", December 1929, Vol. 48, No. 3 - Modernesque Overbrook-Hills-in-Merion Home Designed By E.Allen Wilson

By: Johnson, Bernard L.; Peker, Charles G.: Editors

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Builder Publishing Corporation: 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 143H5188

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

164 pages. Features: Editorial discusses the likely impact of the October 29 stock market crash on the building business; Optimistic Outlook for Sound Construction Projects - interview with Nicholas Roberts of S.W. Straus & Co.; President Hoover Enlists Builders to Stimulate Business - article with group photo; "Modernesque" - unique home built by McWilliams and Meloney outside Philadelphia; Mortgages Yielding Higher; How to Build the Colonial Entrance Pictured on Front cover; Waste not high wages makes building costly; The Story of the Development of Gladstone Manor, located in Lansd...
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American Builder [Magazine], Including "Building Developer" and "Home Building", April, 1930, Vol. 49, No. 1

By: Johnson, Bernard L.; Peker, Charles G.: Editors

Price: $495.00

Publisher: Chicago, American Builder Publishing Corporation: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 143H5187

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

212 pages. Features: Straight Line Architecture - the modern trend in office buildings; Organizing a Modernizing Campaign for Your Town; Ornamental Flashings - New York Architect Henry J. McGill starts a new trend in design; Firesafe and Rigid Construction - light steel joists and masonry bearing walls used by the Warren E. Richards Company of Cincinnati; Standard Loading Table for Open Web Steel Joists; San Antonio's Parkmoor Place successfully developed by Guaranty Building Corporation, L.E. Fite, President; Your Clients Want Kitchen Ventilators!; Chicago Three-Family Co-op Apartment Design...
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The Wide World, The Magazine for Everybody, April [Apr.] 1919, Vol. 42, No. 252: The South Sea Islands

By: Jordan, John A.; McMahon, Thomas J.; Smith, C. De Heriz; Cowie, J.S.; Kennedy, Mrs.; Stuart, Martin; Bennett, Captain, J.G.; Gill, R.W.; Parmer, Devore; Lees, George Frederic; Bramwell, Corporal A.; Gaunt, Mary; Beattie, S.A.; Thomason, Hugh; Spittel,R.L

Price: $395.00

Publisher: New York, The International News Company: 1919

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 346H5212

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: Big-Game Hunting for the Cinema - John A. Jordan leads a film expedition into the wilds of British East Africa; The "Gordon" of the Pacific - Thos. J. McMahon visit's Germany's former South Sea possessions - German New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa - and reports on the work of Captain Hunter among the savages of the Solomons - lots of nice photos; Our Chase After A Rogue Elephant - photo-illustrated story from Ceylon; Our Chase After a "Rogue Elephant"; In the Jaws of a Lion - J.S. Cowie wa...
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Salute Magazine, Apr. (April) 1947, Vol. 2, No. 4 - Gagging of the GI Press

By: Kamp, Louis; Levitt, Saul; Zinberg, Len; Davidson, B.; Jacobs, B.; Geto, D.; Gilpin, D.; Kelly, E.; Rohrbough, E.; Byrne, H.; Anderson, D.; Gordon, P.; Gordon, D.; Mauldin, B.; Flannery, T.; Ellis, R.; Stern, P.; Et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York, Vet Publishers, Inc.: 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 301G3960

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

50 pages. Photos of gorgeous Myra Keck, of Haverford, PA, inside front cover. Short Stories: Dreamboat and the Mouse; Ex-Champion of the World; He Who Lives by the Gun!; Articles: Why Vet Marriages Fail; Is Baseball a Sweatshop? - article with photo of the Giants, Rip Sewell, Bob Murphy, and Ted Williams; Superman's Toughest Fight - now he's taking on native nazis and the Ku Klux Klan - article with photo of Bud Collyer and Richard Gibson; Labor Learns from Wall Street - the fight for higher wages; Let's Spend Money - The Mayor of Chicago, Edward J. Kelly, offers financial advice to Presiden...
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Collectors' Showcase - America's Premiere Pictorial Magazine for Collectors, January / February 1987, Volume 6, Number 3 - Robert Lesser Profile / An 1880's Pharmacy

By: Kaonis, Donna C.; Abell, Bruce; Abell, Blossom; Helberg, Kristin; Glenn, Jerry

Price: $129.95

Publisher: USA, Accent Studios: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 301G3863

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

96 pages. Features: An 1880 Pharmacy - article with fantastic photos; Mary Merritt Doll Museum; Charles M. Crandall's Toys - photo-illustrated article with Chronological list of Crandall toys as found in published lists; Tindeco - the tin decoration company of Baltimore; Profile of comic toy collector Robert Lesser; Museum News; Perelman Antique Toy Museum; UFDC National Convention, Chicago 1986 - Part II; Auction Preview and Reports; Jacqueline Beaulieu; Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this gorgeously illustrated issue.
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Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990

By: Karakasidou, Anastasia N.

Price: $59.95

Publisher: USA, University of Chicago Press: 1997

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 113A9628

ISBN: 0226424944

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

0226424944 334 pages including bibliography and index. "Opens up the whole issue of nation-building in northern Greece." - from back cover. Possibly signed by author upon half-title page else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.
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The Saturday Evening Post, April 6, 1957 -- Is France Still Our Ally? / Ruth Lyons Lays Down the Law

By: Katkov, Norman; Reese, Johnn; Osborn, Millicent; Mauger, Mosser; Connell, Vivian; Hauser, Ernest O.; Maxwell, James A.; Sayre, Joel; Schubert, Paul; Burke, Jack Jr.; Thompson, Craig;

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, The Curtis Publishing Company: 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 357G2399

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

164 pages. Fiction: The General's Disgrace; Fugitive From Romance; One Husband's Revolt; Freedom Calling!; The Lady (part 2 of 4); Kiowa Moon (part 4 of 7). The Business of Love. Articles: Is France Still Our Ally? - they say our Middle East policy is killing them; The Lady Lays Down the Law - TV star Ruth Lyons of Cincinnati - article with photos; How To Eat Like a Movie Star - recipes from Dave Chasen who turned a chili parlor into one of Hollywood's busiest and most expensive - restaurants; The Man Who Was Born Twice - Walter Kussy leaves communist Czechoslovaia to be reborn as an Americ...
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Collier's - The National Weekly Magazine, December 3, 1949 - Charlie Campbell is the King's Man

By: Kettering, Charles F.; Wickware, Francis Sill; Fay, Bill; Johnson, Vance; Small, Collie; Howley, Frank; St. Johns, Adela Rogers; Neiman, Irving Gaynor; Sellers, Robert; Weaver, John D.; Grubb, Dave; Pearce, Dick

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Springfield, IL, U.S.A., The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company: 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 534G1558

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

78 pages. Articles: Get Off Route 25 - Charles F. Kettering teaches that a great challenge lies off the traveled highway; Young Man; The Life and Times of Sears, Roebuck (part 1 of 4); Collier's Sectional All-Star Teams; The King's Man - Charlie Campbell is considered a top unofficial 'ambassador' to the US; West from Fifth Avenue - article with sensational photos of Collier's new Manhattan headquarters and their million-a-day Ohio press; Payoff in Berlin (conclusion of "My 4-years war with the reds). Fiction: Cinderella Rides Again (part 1 of 5); The Ward Heeler and the Lady; Shooting...
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Aviation Engineering (Magazine) - The Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, February (Feb.) 1930 - Selling the Airplane / Airport Management

By: Klemin, Alex.; Reid, Lewis S.; Davis, E.G.; FitzGerald, F.J.; Hartson, J.T.; Coyner, Stratton

Price: $199.95

Publisher: New York City, Bryan Davis Publishing Co., Ltd.: 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 201H2480

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

48 pages. Features: Derivation of Induced Velocity at the Airfoil with Elliptical Loading; Aluminum Casting Alloys in Aircraft; Aircraft Dope and Finish Problems; Suggestions for Training Aircraft Welders; Selling the Airplane; Airport Management; Details about the International Aircraft Exposition, with list of exhibitors; Aeronautical Abstracts; New Aircraft; News of the Industry - with photos of J.T. Hartson, R.W. Fulton, and Lieut. James H. Doolittle; Airports and Airways; New Developments; Ad for the Cincinnati Aircraft Show, March 26 to April 1; Illustrated ad for "The World's Talle...
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L.L. Cooke's Work Sheet Note Book

By: L.L. Cooke

Price: $129.95

Publisher: Chicago, IL, U.S.A., L.L. Cooke School of Electricity (formerly Chicago Engineering Works, Inc.): 1927

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 63207840

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

Circa 1927. Unpaginated. Approximately 1.5 inches thick. Brown cloth boards. Bound by two metal screws to which are affixed metal wing nuts so pages may be removed and inserted. Contains textual material used as part of an internatioinal correspondence course. Please note this is not a text per se but rather a compilation of work sheets which very practically explain and provide hands-on exposure to basic and intermediate-level electrical topics of the day. Top of front board bolstered by cardboard strip beneath wing nuts. Light misting of white paint specks to front board. Substantia...
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Inland Architect, The Chicago Magazine of the Building Arts, September (Sept.) 1980 - Virginio Ferrari

By: Laine, Christian K.; Sternberg, Julie B.; Lustig, Michael; Hilliard, Celia; John, Helmut; Topousis, Elaine

Price: $199.95

Publisher: USA, Inland Architect Press: 1980

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 551H1740

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

42 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The House as a Drawing - Krueck & Olsen's residence for a wealthy Chicago urbanite; The Library as a Showplace - Poplar Creek Public Library, Streamwood, Illinois; The Undulating Glass Wall - utilized in a newly renovated facility for Optimus Inc.; The Chicago Board of Trade; Board of Trade Addition - a new synthesis; Virginio ferrari - New Directions; Les Halles Competition - Chicago Entries; and more. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.
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Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (Morality and Society Series)

By: Lamont, Michèle

Price: $49.95

Publisher: USA, University of Chicago Press: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 116A1614

ISBN: 0226468151

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

0226468151 320 pages. Index. Bibliography. Footnotes. "... A well-written, exceptionally executed comparative study which shows that even in a global world ingrained cultural predispositions remain. It is simply a fascinating study to read." - E.N. Suleiman, Princeton University. Minimal light pencil marginalia else clean and bright with very light wear. Nice copy.
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The Search for an Abortionist

By: Lee, Nancy Howell

Price: $750.00

Publisher: Chicago, Univ of Chicago Pr: 1969

Seller ID: 116H3127

ISBN: 0226470016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

0226470016 207 pages. Bibliography. Index. "A study of 114 women who underwent abortions - their reasons, their reactions, and the ways in which they found this 'invisible' service. The first detailed empirical study of the whole range of factors - psychological, social, medical, financial, and legal - that affect the woman who seeks an abortion." - dust jacket. One of twenty-three books selected for inclusion on the 'Forbidden Bookshelf'. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Light pencil markings to first seventeen pages. Average wear to book. Binding intact. Above-a...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February 9, 1963 - The "Hairy" Chicago Blackhawks

By: Lefolii, Ken; Allen, Ralph; Brosnan, Jim; Tyrwhitt, Janice; Stein, David Lewis; Anglin, Gerald; Sclanders, Ian; Porter, McKenzie

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Toronto, Maclean-Hunter: 1963

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 449G1436

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

48 pages. Features: Nice full-page colour ad for the 1963 Pontiac, featuring the Parisienne Sport Coupe; The Big Heat on the CBC - competition for ads, lukewarm government support, overmanagement, etc; Jimmy Brosnan' account of what happened when he got together with the Chicago Blackhawks - with photo of Brosnan in Chicago dressing room with muscular Bobby Hull and smoking Stan Mikita; New Ways to Stop Youngsters from Quitting School; An interesting article by David Lewis Stein on rumours and how they spread; Early Canadiana (antiques)- how to look for the real thing at a fair price - before...
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Keyword: Chicago