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 Coral Gables Bulletin.
 [142167] (FLORIDA - MIAMI - REAL ESTATE PROMOTION) [Coral Gables Corporation?].
[Coral Gables, Miami, Florida]: [s.n.], August, 1925. Folio, [4] pages. Vol III, Number 3. Newspaper format, illus. with line drawings of transit map and architecture renderings, and half tones from photographs. Former fold lines, as issued, fine conditon. [Not on OCLC. See OCLC 25344654; 1873349; 3309082 for similar.] A promotional real estate item from the Coral Gables Corporation marketed in the form of a local newspaper, whose actual existence appears to have been fictitious. The headline screams of a proposed rapid transit line for Coral Gables and of an intended erections of a huge hospital. Other signs of building activity include plans for a new theatre and a local high school. All of the “articles” within (such as they are) are essentially land and property self-promotions. Percy Morningstar, Plaza Segovia, the Dunlap Apartments, Cocoplum Beach, Martin Hauri, architect, etc., are but a few of the many individuals and places mentioned. $75
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The Seminole. Winter Park, Florida Under the Management of W.F. Paige ...
[141541] (FLORIDA - TOURISM) [The Seminole Hotel].
Philadelphia: Press of Loughead & Co., (1891). Silk-tied wraps, [2] ff. 5 x 4¼ inches. Light stains, mild general wear; very good. An ephemeral late 19th century promotional item for the Seminole hotel in Winter Park Florida. The resort offered billiards, bowling, tennis, saddle and driving horses, steam, sail and row boats, and a first-class orchestra day and evening. The Seminole Hotel opened on Lake Osceola in 1886. Embossed design to front cover, engraving of the hotel, modest map of Florida, printed in blue, green and aqua. $45
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Young Men of America: You will soon be the pillars and the guardians of our nation... [first lines]
[141940] (FREEMASONRY - ANTI-MASONIC) [E. Honeywell].
[Chicago?] : National Christian Association opposed to Secret Societies, [1870-1880's?]. 7¾ x 5¼ inches. 2 pages. Leaflet or small broadsheet. General wear; mild foxing, small creases or small edge-tears. Honeywell mocks and condemns Freemasonry and warns American youth of Masonic oaths and penalties. Honeywell warns of punitive practices involving scalping and scorching brains, gibbeting, rotting on the dung hill, and of other murderous Masonic practices. He demands rhetorically, “…will any but knaves or ninnies ever pay $25 to be apprenticed in such workshops of Satan?” Vitriolic and sensational. [Not on OCLC. Cf. OCLC 79843980 - Honeywell rails against the Ku Klux Klan.] $50
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 75 Years of Fun: The Story of Parker Brothers Inc.
[4314] (GAMES - BOARD GAMES) [Parker Brothers] .
Salem: Parker Brothers Inc., (1958). 48 pages. 7 x 5¼ inches. Softcover in near fine condition. Illustrated. Story of the Parker Brothers and their games. $20
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Aloha. Honolulu. Hawaiian Islands.
[142473] (HAWAII - HONOLULU - PICTORIAL VIEWS) [Hart and Company].
[Honolulu, Hawaii ?]: [Hart and Company], [1890’s]. View book, 3¾ x 5 inches, oblong. Publisher’s ornate gilt stamped and blind-stamped pebbled red cloth boards of red cloth spine. Twenty-two lithographed and captioned views + one panoramic view of Honolulu, connected all together, accordion-style, to form twenty-four leaves of plates. There is a printed advertisement inside the rear cover for Hart and Company’s ice cream parlors, candy factory, and various tourist curiosities. This is an outstanding example; near fine. OCLC, three copies. $350
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Ka Buke o Na Halelu i unuhiia mai ka olelo Hebera, a ua hooponopono hou ia. [The Book of Psalms, translated from the Hebrew.]
[142209] (HAWAII - MISSIONARY EFFORTS) [American Bible Society].
Nu Yoka [i.e. New York]: Amerika Poe Hoolaha Baibala [American Bible Society], 1871. 12mo, [115], [1, blank] pages. Bound in original black polished calf with “Na Halelu” stamped in gilt to upper cover. Small loss to crown and heel of spine, corners slightly rubbed. About near fine, as lovely a copy as one could hope to find. “This edition was printed by the American Bible Society from stereotyped plates prepared for the 1869 edition. The annual report of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association for 1871 records a press run of 253 copies.” [Forbes #2904]. $650
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 The Story of Henry and Dorothy Castle Memorial. [Cover title]
[141887] (HAWAII) [Harriet Castle Coleman].
[Honolulu]: [Paradise Engraving & Print.], [n.d. ca. 1920's]. Octavo, 27, [1, blank] pages. Self-wraps, stapled binding. Illustrated with half-tones from photographs. Numerous small creases throughout; faint tobacco odor to book; good. OCLC, 4 copies. A scarce narrative of this primary education kindergarten facility in Hawaii. The founder Henry Coleman and his daughter Dorothy Coleman perished when the S.S. Elbe collided with another ship and sank in 1895. The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation exists today and continues on the philanthropic goals of its founders. $75
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In Circling Camps. A Romance of the Civil War.
[142878] (HISTORICAL NOVELS) Joseph A. Altsheler.
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. 12mo, frontispiece, vi, 419, [420, blank], [6, adverts.] pages. First Edition. Publisher’s original pictorial cloth. 1900 gift inscription to front endpaper, top-edge faintly dust-soiled, else fine. A vivid and exceptional copy. Wright III: 96. This copy with fragments of the exceedingly scarce dust jacket loosely inserted. “In Circling Camps” is Altsheler’s treatment of the events of the Civil War from the election of President Lincoln to the surrender of Lee. $150
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By-laws of the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company, adopted June 9th, 1858.
[142579] (ILLINOIS - RAILROAD HISTORY) [Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Company].
New York: Benjamin F. Corlies, 1858. Octavo, 10 pages. First Edition. Original printed coated wraps, sewn. In near fine condition, printing to upper cover slightly dulled. OCLC, eight copies. Eberstadt 160:238. Exceptionally scarce. The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company were founded in 1847. The original name of the company was the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company. The railroad firm was reincorporated as the Chicago and Rock Island Rail Road Company in 1851. The company’s by-laws were adopted via this pamphlet in 1858. By 1880, this Illinois company was reorganized, yet again, under the name of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company. $275
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Yawcob's Dribulations.
[141918] (ILLUSTRATED - LOUIS PRANG) [Charles Follen Adams].
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1894. [8] leaves. Oblong booklet, 5 x 7.5 inches. In superb condition with seven colorful lithographic illustrations, one an exceptional illustration of pugilists boxing. Included with this copy is a recent facsimile of Prang's 1894 advertisement sheet describing this series. Told in verse and Pennsylvania German dialect, a period humor piece. $45
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