PETER L. MASI - books 413.367.2628 7am B 10pm my time PO BOX B [email protected] MONTAGUE MA 01351 11 CENTER ST (UPS - only) Catalog 213 B July 2011 – well – this file last modified 4/6/2011 – lilacs have bloomed & browned – daffodils too – day away from summer solstice – furnace off, dehumidifiers on - 2 cords of wood stacked for next winter, 2 more await – basic new England weather platter with a tendency towards more rain than usual – stretch of may days in nineties then sixties in day & forties at nite – tornado hit half hour south of here – springfield, Wilbraham, monson – tilled the garden in april & got few things planted – peas, spinach, beets, greens – still facing seriously depleted soil issues & town won’t provide combination for lock on the cable – been hauling in buck-a-bucket compost from umass – has not provided the desired nutritional boost – poor germination & lackluster growth – pushed ahead & put tomatoes & peppers in memorial day weekend – they just sat there then started to yellow – feller at Hadley garden center said fertilize – been putting on some fishy concoction & holding my nose & crossing my fingers – Amherst plot bout 80 percent planted now – potatoes looking happiest – onions ok, arugula ok – collards & corn coming along - meanwhile talked to neighbor bout planting in her back yard where former tenant had a vegetable garden – new project – just what i need – got the tiller – figgered would put in beans, squashes, brassicas which have not survived recent insect attacks in Amherst – choicest spots claimed by chris & current tenant – remaining soil bit shallow here & muddy there but we pressed ahead – so did local very hungry woodchuck – tried trap & girls tried gun – finally put up 200’ of fence – beans & squash now coming along there – put in many brassica seedlings – dozen eggplant starts discovered by hungry flea beetles – tossed those & replanted in Amherst - zach just finished year 3 at ducom – takes some major national exam this week then dad will visit & help him break camp in manayunk prefatory to year 4 which begins in july after brief break here – series of 4-week hospital rounds, mostly in orthopedic surgery, his intended specialty – Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Carolina, new jersey, &c - mariab met at museum of printing history in north andover in april – tour with curator frank romano, lunch & business – easter with masis in Amesbury – Allentown paper show then on to mariab sponsored boston book & paper exposition – it went well – promoter did a fine job – good publicity, nice lineup of talks & exhibits, over eighty dealers (not average age, tho that was high too), bout 750 in attendance – will be on may 5 next year – posted notice of catalog 212 on facebook which prompted invitation from former new England bookseller jim hinck to post on his favored search site vialibri which prompted college buddy, it whiz & host all things acoustic on Alabama public radio Jeremy butler to handhold me through creating wordpress blog website – peterlmasibooks.wordpress.com – visitors welcome & thanks to helpers – this will be there soon – shared my experience with edie b who now has wordpress site for her owl pen books & achieved some enviable exposure recently from the itinerant traveler in the Washington post – heavy traffic from dc to Greenwich ny – basic mixed bag here – stock from recent shows & auctions & passed-over piles from other recent cataloging binges – still plenty about for several more – plus recent deaccession from American textile history museum – hope you find something - thanks for reading – gotta get pdfs to eagle, finish planting garden, move enough boxes of books out of zach’s room for visit – Elizabeth auction tonite . at your service – peter cover: item 240 1 (Advertising) HOW to ENTER the PRACTICAL FIELD. International Correspondence Schools Instruction Paper with Examination Questions 1187. Second edition. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1921. 41 pages, 1p questions. 31 illustrations & inserted samples of letterheads, envelopes, business cards, circulars. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap toned, corner chipped, creased, text VG. $15.00 2 (Advertising) TECHNICAL- and TRADE-PAPER ADVERTISING. International Correspondence Schools Instruction Paper with Examination Questions 1181. Second edition. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1920. 55 pages, 3pp questions. 35 illustrations, advertisements for Western Electric, Link-Belt, Carrier, Victor Talking Machine, National Cash Register, Kohler, Eberhard Faber, &c. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap toned, VG. $15.00 3 (Advertising) C.F. Woods, Street-Car Advertising Service. STREET-CAR ADVERTISING. International Correspondence Schools Instruction Paper with Examination Questions 1184. Second edition. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1922. 43 pages, 3pp questions. 57 illustrations of trolley cards, 18 in color, Coca-cola, Heinz, Arrow Shirts, National Biscuit Company, Victor Records, &c. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap toned, VG. $25.00 4 (Advertising) French, George. MANAGEMENT of GENERAL CAMPAIGNS, part 3. International Correspondence Schools Instruction Paper with Examination Questions 1179C. First edition. Scranton: International Textbook Company, 1921. Pages (35)-102, 6pp questions. 15 illustrations, advertisements for ScotTissue, Du Pont Powder, Kayser Silk, Colgate, International Silver, &c. 8.75 x 6", printed wrapper. Wrap bit rubbed, VG. $15.00 5 (African-American) George L.P. Weaver, CIO Committee to Abolish Discrimination; Walter Francis White, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; New York Senator Irving M. Ives. COLGATE LECTURES in HUMAN RELATIONS, 1947: America's Challenge; Race Problems & World Peace; The Role of Legislation in Human Relations, Everett Case, foreword. (35) pages. 9 x 6", printed wrapper. VG. $20.00 6 (African-American) Morrow, Emily Bawden. OUR NORTHERN NEGRO. Published by The General Board of Promotion of the Northern Baptist Convention, NY, The American Baptist Home Mission Society, NY & Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society, NY, Dec., 1922. 11 pages. 5 halftones of activities at Morgan Community House, Pittsburgh, Negro Christian Centers, Detroit & Cleveland. 6 x 4.25", stapled booklet. Creased, heavy pencil underlining & marginal marks, else G. Overview of Baptist work with African-Americans in northern urban areas. $15.00 7 (Agriculture) Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Company, Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, George S. Taylor, Agent. The LEVER FEED CUTTER for Cutting Hay, Straw & Cornstalks. (Circular). October, 1877. C.W. Bryan & Co, Printers, Springfield. (4) pages. 4 engravings of cutters. Folded yellow sheet, 9.75 x 5.5". Faintly creased, soiled, VG. $20.00 8 (Agriculture) Charles Mason, Commissioner. REPORT of the COMMISSIONER of PATENTS for the Year 1856. AGRICULTURE. United States House of Representatives, 34th Congress, 3d Session, Executive Document No. 65. Washington: Cornelius Wendell, printer, 1857. xvi,536 pages. 50 plates, 3 chromolithographs: Arden Horses, & South Down Sheep, Sarony, Major & Knapp, NY, Strawberry, T. Sinclair, Philadelphia, rodents & birds, toolshed, map, text illustrations of grafting, trained vines. 9 x 6", black cloth. Cover edges chipped, frayed, 1 signature short-sheeted with minor text loss, endsheets stained, small damage to strawberry plate, text G. Robert Kennicott, Quadrupeds of Illinois; Ezekiel Holmes, Injurious Birds; John Warder, Wines of US; &c. $35.00 9 (Agriculture) Frederick Watts, Commissioner, United States Department of Agriculture. REPORT of the COMMISSIONER of AGRICULTURE for the Year 1875. Washington: GPO, 1876. 536 pages. 61 plates: Michigan Agricultural College, agricultural statistics, state maps, sheep, short- horned cattle, Minnesota Agricultural College. 9 x 6'', black cloth. VG. George Vasey, forest-trees of US, J.R. Dodge, sheep & wool of world, progress of industrial education, &c. $25.00 10 (Agriculture) George B. Loring, Commissioner, United States Department of Agriculture. REPORT of the COMMISSIONER of AGRICULTURE for the Years 1881 & 1882. Washington: GPO, 1882. 704 pages. 82 plates, few color, army & cotton worms, pyrethrum, insects, grasses, sorghum statistics. 9 x 6'', black cloth. Cover stains, minor insect damage some page edges, else G. $25.00 11 (Agriculture) Isaac Newton, Commissioner, United States Department of Agriculture. REPORT of the COMMISSIONER of AGRICULTURE. 1888. Washington: GPO, 1889. 708 pages. 68 plates, some color, hop-plant louse, grasses, potato & tomato rot, folding color map, microscopic views of pepper, mustard, allspice, cinnamon, fruit varieties, ostrich, few figures. 9 x 6'', black cloth. Cover & endsheets spotted, hinge bit loose, text VG. T.C. Duncan, ostrich farming in America. $45.00 12 (Agriculture) Isaac Newton, Commissioner, United States Department of Agriculture. REPORT of the COMMISSIONER of AGRICULTURE for the Year 1866. Washington: GPO, 1867. 656 pages. 35 plates: Department of Agriculture building, varieties of fruit, livestock, fish, text engravings of farm implements, grape vines. 9 x 6'', black cloth. Edge wear, upper blank gone, signature sprung, few light damp spots, G. Grapes & wine-making, cotton, English & American dairying, Lavinia Davis, 'Female life in open air', chinchona, ship-timber, Benjamin P. Poore, History of Agriculture of US, Henry F. French, Country Roads, Rev. C.W. Howard, Conditions & Resources of Georgia, H.D. Dunn, California - Agricultural Resources. $35.00 13 (Agriculture) James O. Adams, Secretary,