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Shimek, John Lyle
(Corporatism and Globalization) Billions of False Impressions : An Anthology of Deception (Postal Service and Advertising History)
Publisher: Concepts of Postal Economics (COPE) ; Chicago: 1970.
Very Good in Good dust jacket Hardcover 256 pages; 4to (10") 26 cm; Blue cloth, tons of b/w figures, diagrams, tables, and facsimiles, mostly of anti-junk-mail opinion pieces and cartoons. Laid in is letter from Jack R. Cole at Mail Advertising Corp of America to John Johnson at publisher R. L. Polk & Co recommending book, dated 1970. ; Reveals how newspapers routinely disparage 3rd-class bulk mail (advertising) as 'junk mail' in order to capture more marketing dollars. Sub-subtitle: 'A documentation of how many members of the newspaper industry betray their public trusts by using deceptive practices in their columns to attack one of their principal competitors for the advertising dollar'. ; Minor ballpoint marks to most of front 40 pages, otherwise no discernable wear. Jacket quite rubbed and chipped. Scarce.
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AUD 4.90 | CAD 5.01 | EUR 3.79 | GBP 3.21 | JPY 454.55 | MXN 55.56 | ZAR 45.05 |
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Alan's Used Books.
Item number: 3784.
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Post-Master General,
List of Post-Offices in the United States, With The Names of the Post-Masters of the Counties and States, to Which They Belong....
Publisher: US Government, printed by Way & Gideon Washington, DC 1828.
First Edition Good in 1/4 cloth with heavy, blue-gray, plain paper covers with a sewn binding. The covers are worn and rubbed with mild chipping at the edges. There is a book plate from the Library of the American Institute attached the verso of the front cover, two early prior owner names on the title page as well as a red stamp of the American Institute Library. Without a dust jacket, and we doubt that it ever had one. An octavo measuring 8 1/2" tall by 5 3/8" deep containing 151 pages of text. The preliminaries provide a list of distributing offices for the postal service; the rates of postage for a single letter "composed of one piece of paper"; newspaper postage and pamphlet postage; the list of counties, districts or parishes in each state and territory as of 1828. This material is followed by the complete list of post-offices in the United States listed by the name of the office (town or parish), the county and state of that office and the name of the postmaster for that office. The final two columns of data list the distance from Washington and the distance from the state capital for that office. The final table in this volume lists the number of post-offices established from the years 1789 to 1827 "inclusive", amount of postage sold, compensation to post masters, expenses, transportation of the mail, net revenue and "Extent in Miles of Post-roads". For this copy only, tipped in on the final two blank pages are newspaper clippings from 1828 listing the amount of postage accrued in each state and territory. The second clipping is a nearly 14" long article the "documents accompany the Presidents Message from the Post Office Department for 17th November, 1828. Our code number = TB22733
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AUD 392.16 | CAD 400.80 | EUR 303.03 | GBP 256.41 | JPY 36,363.64 | MXN 4,444.44 | ZAR 3,603.60 |
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Item number: TB22733.
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Beeson, Lewis, editor
Michigan History Magazine : Volume 32, Number 4, December 1948
Publisher: Historical Commission; Lansing, Mich: 1948.
Good Softcover 8vo (9") 23 cm; Pages numbered 231-414, articles with footnotes, book reviews, etc. ; Articles: Detroit postal history 1701-1948. Life in logging village Frederic 1912-1918. Timber industry anecdotes. William Montague Ferry and Protestant Mission on Mackinac Island. Dispersal of Michigan's population, with 12 small maps. Poet Lewis J. Bates. Peddler's cries. ; Covers heavily worn and chipped, spine creased but mostly readable, no loose pages. ; Michigan History Series; Vol. 32:4
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AUD 5.88 | CAD 6.01 | EUR 4.55 | GBP 3.85 | JPY 545.45 | MXN 66.67 | ZAR 54.05 |
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Item number: 4032.
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Corbett, Christopher
Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
Publisher: Broadway Books New York 2003.
271 pages, a few b/w photos, double-page map, credits, acknowledgments, bibliography; 8vo, navy boardfs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Serving the antiquarian and used book world since 1980 First Printing Hard Cover
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AUD 15.69 | CAD 16.03 | EUR 12.12 | GBP 10.26 | JPY 1,454.55 | MXN 177.78 | ZAR 144.14 |
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Abstract Books.
Item number: 023246.
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Post Office Directory of Private Box & Private Bag Renters, Kenya: 1970 June
Publisher: East Africa Posts and Telecommunications Corporation, Kenya 1970.
Condition: Good. Paperback. Off-white wraps with red front cover, approx. 5.5" x 8.5", bagged for protection, coaster stains back cover, yellowing and brittle pages, creases to front cover center, darkening page edges. Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com Orders shipped via USPS.
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AUD 34.31 | CAD 35.07 | EUR 26.52 | GBP 22.44 | JPY 3,181.82 | MXN 388.89 | ZAR 315.32 |
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Item number: 310507.
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Gantz, W. H.
POSTAL RIDERS AND RAIDERS By the Man on the Ladder
Publisher: Independent Postal League Chicago, IL 1912.
First Edition Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; 360 pages
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AUD 19.61 | CAD 20.04 | EUR 15.15 | GBP 12.82 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 180.18 |
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Gibson's Books.
Item number: 30994.
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Moody, Ralph
Stagecoach West: The Story of the Frontier Express LinesThat Linked the Nation Together
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell New York 1967.
Ex lib. 341 pages, b/w illustrations in text, bibliography, index, map endpapers, 8vo, orginal tan cloth. Tape marks cover witrh worn spot bottom edge, a few library stamps, back endpaper removed, good; contents very good+; dust jacket very good-, number spine, light edge wear First Printing Good Hard Cover Good
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AUD 6.86 | CAD 7.01 | EUR 5.30 | GBP 4.49 | JPY 636.36 | MXN 77.78 | ZAR 63.06 |
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Abstract Books.
Item number: 026677.
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Kelly, Clyde
United States Postal Policy
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company, 1932 New York.
Book. Book condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover Signed by Author(s) 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall SIGNED by author on front endpaper. Kelly was a Congressman who served on the Post Office and Post-Roads Committee and the author of postal legislation. "It is my belief that postal history can only be understood through a knowledge of the postal policy of Congress, into whose hand the Constitution of the United States placed the sole power to establish and build the postal service. Here is the key to the many laws which have been passed dealing with postage rates, postal salaries and new facilities.. It has been the service policy and the spirit it has inspired in postal workers which has made the record of this institution one of romance and hope and triumphant achievement. That motivating force sustained this dauntless, patient courier as it build the roads of communication across an empire, never surrendering a mile and never turning back. The Indian trails changed ot highways of steel; the stage coaches became Twentieth Century Limiteds, and the carrier pigeons became airplanes, cleaving the heavens between the Atlantic and Pacific in a single day, but the spirit which actuated the service remained unchanged..This century and a half old adventure in human service has not yet come to an end; this inspiring experiment in friendly helpfulness has not yet failed. More than ever before there is need for the faith which has fashioned of the postal service an all-inclusive, confident, conquering agency for making America the good.." xi + 321 pages with index. Book is in GOOD condition. No dust jacket.
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AUD 19.61 | CAD 20.04 | EUR 15.15 | GBP 12.82 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 180.18 |
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Item number: 001829.
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