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BROADSIDES, A COLLECTION OF NEW AND OLD SONGS, 1935 by YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER; STEPHENS, JAMES; HIGGINS, F.R.; O'CONNOR, FRANK; DOYLE, LYNN; GUINESS, BRYAN; COLUM, PADRAIC

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Title: BROADSIDES, A COLLECTION OF NEW AND OLD SONGS, 1935
Author: YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER; STEPHENS, JAMES; HIGGINS, F.R.; O'CONNOR, FRANK; DOYLE, LYNN; GUINESS, BRYAN; COLUM, PADRAIC
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Fine/Very Good. ILLUSTRATIONS BY: YEATS, JACK B; BROWN, VICTOR; O'SULLIVAN, SEAN; PEET, E.C; KERNOFF, HARRY; MCGONIGAL, MAURICE MUSIC BY DUFF, ARTHUR. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF W.B. YEATS'S BROADSIDES, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SIGNED BY W.B. YEATS AND F.R. HIGGINS AT END OF INTRODUCTORY ESSAY AND ACCOMPANIED BY BREATHTAKING HAND-COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. Collection of 12 broadsides originally issued individually from January-December 1935. Containing both traditional and new Irish ballads written by Yeats, F.R. Higgins, Padraic Colum, and others. With engraved music throughout. Numerous evocative and emotional hand-colored woodblock illustrations, including many by Jack B. Yeats, brother of the famed W.B Yeats. Only 300 copies printed, with only 100 copies bound and signed, making this production EXTREMELY RARE. Signed by Yeats and Higgins at the end of their preface, Anglo-Irish Ballads. "Yeats is now seen as one of a handful of Irish writers whose influence and example helped create twentieth-century modernist literature in the English language...his huge international reputation is securely based on the mystery and grandeur of his late verse and the poignancy of his love poetry, but he first came to fame as the exotically Celtic poet of a 'new' nationalist Ireland: almost single-handed, he made Irishness culturally fashionable. Spearheading a great cultural renaissance, he moved into his maturity as the voice of his country" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) . It was not merely Yeats, however, who is responsible for arousing Irish patriotism. The Cuala Press, a small press started by Yeat's sister Elizabeth, is regarded as one of the first publishing houses to bring attention to Irish literature, art and music. Her production of Broadsidesis no different. "The glory that once was Ireland and could again be Ireland was the fire that burned unquenched in the mind and will of Elizabeth Corbett Yeats" (Colby Library Quarterly) . Dublin: Cuala Press, 1935. Small folio, original cloth backed boards with paper label to upper cover. Complete with what is almost certainly the original plain unlettered dust jacket (we can find no other examples of the jacket, but this is comparable to other jackets for Cuala Press books). Book remarkably bright and clean with only a couple of tiny spots to cloth. A few chips to dust jacket. Housed in vibrant red custom box. An VERY RARE AND NEARLY PERFECT COPY of a book of large cultural importance with dazzlingly fresh illustrations.

Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages by Thomas, Joseph B., Introduction By the Earl of Londsdale

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Title: Hounds and Hunting Through the Ages
Author: Thomas, Joseph B., Introduction By the Earl of Londsdale
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Derrydale Press, 1928. First Edition. Three Quarters Morocco. Fine. Folio. xviii + 272 pp. First Limited Edition, three quarters red morocco, with five raised bands on spine. Beautiful, flawless copy.

A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES by Stevenson, Robert Louis; Olver, Kate Elizabeth; Alma Tadema, Laurence

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Title: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis; Olver, Kate Elizabeth; Alma Tadema, Laurence
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Fine in very good plus box.
Description: London & Glasgow: Collins' Clear-Type Press, 1925. Fine in very good plus box.. Lovely and scarce edition of Stevenson's classic poems, one of the better known works illustrated by portrait painter and children's artist Kate Olver. This copy has been gorgeously preserved by its retained box, also in a vivid indigo shade. 9.25'' x 7.25''. Original full indigo leather stamped in pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. Blue silk ribbon bookmark. In original publisher's indigo box with pictorial paste-on. Pictorial endpapers. Four color plates and additional black and white illustrations by Olver. 191, [1] pages. Faint foxing to fore-edge and scattered faintly throughout. Unobtrusive corner repair to box and hint of sunning to edges.

THE INHERITORS. An Extravagant Story by Conrad, Joseph and Hueffer, Ford M.

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Title: THE INHERITORS. An Extravagant Story
Author: Conrad, Joseph and Hueffer, Ford M.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1901. ["Early Copy for Review"] London: William Heinemann, 1901. 32 pp undated ads. Original yellow cloth decorated in black. First English Edition, first issue, first binding state. The UK edition was issued a month after the American one, and consisted of 1,500 copies in two issues and three bindings. This was Conrad's only science fiction title, involving people from The Fourth Dimension -- though the work is largely Hueffer's. This copy is first issue, withOUT the dedication leaf ("To Borys & Christina"): according to Cagle "it would appear that the [dedication] leaf was inserted into only a few copies"; one would presume that these were likely the last copies to be bound up. This copy is in the primary binding (with the pictorial cover panel and with "W H" bracketing the windmill on the spine) -- and it is the first state of that first binding, i.e. with an ad catalogue and with the top edge trimmed, the other edges rough-trimmed. It is a very good-to-near-fine copy (minor soil and wear including a faint pattern on the rear cover, rear endpaper cracked). Supino A6.6.0 (this copy); Cagle A6a.3. At the top of the title page is blind-stamped "PRESENTATION COPY," and tipped in is a slip stating, "Early Copy for Review | With Mr. Heinemann's Compliments | Price 6/- | The Publisher particularly requests that no reference to this work be made before June 26th [price and date handwritten in ink]...". Provenance: discreet bookplate of the Conrad bibliographer David J.Supino.

(G)loveless [Artist Book - Susan Caspi] by Caspi, Susan

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Title: (G)loveless [Artist Book - Susan Caspi]
Author: Caspi, Susan
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Susan Caspi, 2014. Limited Edition. Fine. No. 14 of 24. Artist book with four components. A lovely poem of longing and insight, beginning: "As lovers welded by their passion / hands, by gloves, encased in fashion" and ending with "do they protect or do they smother? / when I see gloves, I see my mother". The artist has placed her poem upon a replica pair of gloves which can be housed in the evening bag, along with the lipstick and compact - as Susan says in her Artist's Statement: "The gloves representing propriety and the lady like attire that was my mother. An evening bag to contain them but made with Japanese fabrics to represent something more substantial emotionally, a lipstick because you should always show your prettiest face, and a powder compact for the same reason with my mother's lovely face and sweet smile looking back out". Susan realized one day why she was unable to bear having gloves on her hands, even in the snow; because they made her feel suffocated. At that point she wrote the poem. The back story is more complex: "My mother had a rather difficult childhood, with a mentally unstable and occasionally violent father and a mother who had cancer from the time she was nine and died when she was seventeen. So she was thrust into the role of family caretaker at nine. Due to all of these circumstances she withdrew inside herself and with her extreme theatrical bent paid close attention to creating an air of stability and normality using fashion and theater as her guides. She was always properly turned out and the stage she set was a very lovely one. Unfortunately inside her there was an entirely different story being told. I was born the last of three children and my mother was overwhelmed completely by my brothers before I even came along. Being that I was her daughter she wished in her heart to create the mother-daughter relationship she had dreamed about growing up. But she wished too hard and it had to do with her fantasy more than reality. Unfortunately, due to the fact that it was completely external and had to do with how it looked to others it didn't go well. When I was five (in 1958) I had a nanny for a year who came from Japan. I adored her and subsequently everything Japanese. I ate sushi, wore a kimono she brought me for playtime, and admired Japanese art and culture. I still do and since I am a quilter and collect fabrics I had a small collection of Japanese textiles. Goze (her name) gave me the most tangible feelings of motherly love I had ever felt. We stayed in contact until I was about twelve". ___DESCRIPTION: The book is a composite of four items: the purse, which is made of antique obi materials, both the outer and inner fabrics, and which has a magnetic closure; the gloves upon which is printed the sixteen-line poem, they were made in four pieces, hinged and glued; the compact, which has a covering of black lace wtih a rhinestone, the "powder" being of felt, and a picture of Susan's mother in lieu of a mirror, the image printed inkjet; and a lipstick of paper and washi tape, glued and painted. Unbound, each element separate. No. 14 of 24 (according to Susan only ten of the fourteen are for sale), numbered, signed and dated by the artist in pencil. The elements are all enclosed in a mylar box for protection. ___CONDITION: Each element fine, as new - we acquired it directly from the book artist. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions, we are here to help.

Handbuch der Physik, Band 1: Allgemeine Mechanik; [with] Band 2, Abtheilung 1: Optik; [with] Band 2, Abtheilung 2: Warme; [with] Band 3, Abtheilung 1: Elektricitat und Magnetismus; [with] Band 3, Abtheilung 2: Elektricitat und Magnetismus. by WINKELMAN, Adolph (1848-1910) [ed].

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Title: Handbuch der Physik, Band 1: Allgemeine Mechanik; [with] Band 2, Abtheilung 1: Optik; [with] Band 2, Abtheilung 2: Warme; [with] Band 3, Abtheilung 1: Elektricitat und Magnetismus; [with] Band 3, Abtheilung 2: Elektricitat und Magnetismus.
Author: WINKELMAN, Adolph (1848-1910) [ed].
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Breslau:: Eduard Trewendt, 1891-1895., 1891. Series: Encycklopaedie der Naturwissenschaft, Abtheilung 3: I. Theil: Handbuch der Physik. Five volumes. 8vo. [5], ii, [2], 878; [4], 855, [1]; vi, 887, [1], lv; [7], 546; [5], 592 pp. 297; 190; 128; 108; 206 figures. Early half brown cloth over marbled paper-backed boards, gilt-stamped spines; extremities worn, edges occasionally dented, spine edges torn in some places. Good. Contributing authors include F. Auerbach, E. Brodhun, F. Braun, S. Czapski, K. Exner, W. Feussner, L. Gratz, H,. Kayser, F. Melde, A. Oberbeck, J. Pernet, Fr. Stenger, and K. Waitz. Winkelmann was a German physicist and director of the Physical Institute at Jena. His main research was conducted on thermal conduction in gases, specific warmth in liquids, and abnormal dispersion. He also discovered important characteristics of the X-Ray with Otto Schott (trans. and summ. from German Wikip.). The Handbuch der Physik was a prestigious encyclopedia that continued to be published at least to 1990.

Bancroft's Book Cloths Sample Book

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Title: Bancroft's Book Cloths Sample Book
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Albert D. Smith & Co, 1949. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine and cover stamped in black and silver, bound with two screws. Includes roughly 200 samples of book cloths in varying colors, finishes, and textures, separated by tabs. Cover lists further information; "Pyroxylin Impregnated," and five categories of material; Arrestox C, B, A, S, and Buckram. Pouch inside back cover contains short note to potential customers, fold-out price list, and small folded book with seventeen additional colored "Rugby" cloth samples. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches.

Die Färberei der Baumwolle mit direkt färbenden farbstoffen. by SOXHLET, V.H.

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Title: Die Färberei der Baumwolle mit direkt färbenden farbstoffen.
Author: SOXHLET, V.H.
Seller: Savoy Books (United States)
Description: Stuttgart: J. G. Cotta'schen, 1891. Book. 8vo, ornamented cloth. pp. 259 + ads; illus. With 150 mounted samples of dyed cotton. Cover damp-stained at bottom, else very good..

Autograph Letter Signed. Vernon, New York. Feb. 4-5, 1844, To his son-in-law Wait Talcott and daughter Elizabeth Anna Talcott, Pecatonica, Illinois by Norton, Dr. Ariel,

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed. Vernon, New York. Feb. 4-5, 1844, To his son-in-law Wait Talcott and daughter Elizabeth Anna Talcott, Pecatonica, Illinois
Author: Norton, Dr. Ariel,
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, 4 pages, plus stampless address leaf, few holes in least leaf, affecting text slightly, otherwise very good. 1844 Father-in-law of the Illinois emigrant who would become Abraham Lincoln's anti-slavery conscience "….The eye of God has been upon us while we surrounded the Table of the Lord…We parted with our minister for a season, not knowing whether we meet on earth again. He is going to the South on account of his wife's health….Professor Mandeville of Clinton College will supply his place….I received a letter…from Sheldon…He is in a religious family (if there be any at the South)…He still believes he shall meet us in Illinois…The hand of God has been wonderful towards me and my family for a long time past…May we bless God for what he has done for us and confide in him in future. May we all be wise and rejoice with trembling. Death is abroad in the land…I wish they would go west with me… Hatt…don't want to go with me but she wants to go to Albany and Graduate…The times are so hard I almost despair of even thinking upon the subject much less of acting upon it…The good book says 'Jealousy is cruel as the Grave', therefore to put mine to rest, I would like to know whether there was any deception used to bring about so long a separation between me and my wife. I would not complain without cause, surely, but the time does seem long positively, comparatively and superlatively. Does Mother say she is glad of it? I don't believe it – but if she does, no matter. Good may grow out of it…better affections of the heart, in lively exercise, will richly compensate us and render us more happy. I have not been burdened with many cares the season past – my condition more tolerable on account of it. Tell mother I have thought some of selling myself, if she will do so too, for life, and go to work for them – for whom? Whoever will take the responsibility upon them of providing for us for a few days during life. You all know I am naturally lazy and too much inclined to throw off responsibility upon some one and if I did not believe this course would induce me to become more active, I would not suggest it. Do you think I'm crazy?...I should like to see….all your faces and hear your voice and…set at your table if your food be plain and simple, with thanksgiving to God…fearful that sickness may enter your family on account of high living. I hope not….If anything should happen to prevent my coming west – what then? The Lord will direct. I may go in my own wagon to Brother Isaac's…" … Ten years had passed since Wait Talcott had married Dr. Ariel Norton's 20 year-old daughter Elizabeth in upstate New York. Four years after their marriage, Talcott had loaded his wife and children (and also, apparently, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Norton) onto a covered wagon and set off from New York for a new life in frontier Illinois. Dr. Norton did join the Talcotts in Rockford, Illinois, where he would die in 1855 –living long enough to see his son-in-law become a wealthy farm implement manufacturer as well as a successful politician, being elected in 1854 to the Illinois State Senate and becoming good friends at the time with Springfield lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who was also elected to the Senate, in which he had formerly served, but declined to take his seat. During that campaign, Lincoln first publicly declared his opposition to the "monstrous injustice" of slavery, later crediting the deeply religious Talcott, long a militant abolitionist who favored immediate emancipation, with influencing his thinking on that burning subject. Lincoln later confided to Talcott that his anti-slavery passion had "produced a much stronger impression on my mind than you may think." Talcott also played a more concrete role in Lincoln's rise to national prominence, when he fought off a patent infringement suit by wealthy industrialist Cyrus McCormick, a high-stakes lawsuit which has been called "the patent case that lifted Lincoln into a Presidential candidate". Lincoln was involved at the start, when McCormick sued Talcott and his partner, alleging patent violation of his reaping machine and asking $400,000 in damages. Talcott engaged Lincoln as courtroom advocate for a two thousand dollar legal retainer – the largest Lincoln had ever received. But after the trial was moved from Chicago to Cincinnati and McCormick hired a former Attorney General of the United States to represent him, Talcott, facing financial ruin, added more experienced attorneys – notably including Edwin Stanton, who sidestepped, and then humiliated, Lincoln. First catching sight of the gangly, shabbily-dressed country lawyer, Stanton called him a "long-armed ape who knows nothing" and refused to allow Lincoln to speak in the courtroom. A "sad and gloomy" Lincoln sat silently through the proceedings until the judges handed down their decision against McCormick, who filed an appeal with the US Supreme Court. Lincoln, deeply insulted, had nothing more to do with the case. He even offered to return the retainer he had received, an offer refused with the only politeness he was shown by Stanton. Still, the case gave Lincoln a new perspective on his strengths and weaknesses in both law and politics – and, incidentally, introduced him to the contentious man who would later become his Secretary of War. When the case came before the Supreme Court, Talcott traveled to Washington for the trial, his first visit to the national capital, where he was put off by all the "glitter and show…temptations and remissness in Christian duty." The Court ruled against McCormick who was ordered to pay the defendant's $75,000 in legal fees. Lincoln received only a small fraction of that, but he would long remember it as a significant boon to his political career - enough to give him the financial freedom that year to mount his historic 1858 campaign for US Senator against Stephen Douglas, his last stepping-stone to the Presidency. When Lincoln entered the White House, Talcott might have assumed an influential position in Washington had it not been for his refusal to leave his Illinois home for the distasteful capital. Still, the President wrote Talcott that he was at least "determined" to give him a modest federal appointment in the Treasury Department, recommending Talcott to the Secretary of the Treasury as "one of the best men there is." When Talcott next visited Washington, it was sadly to attend his old friend's funeral.

William Blake: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Preston Blake Library by [Blake, William. Collection Catalogue]. Preston, Kerrison. Goff, Phyllis

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Title: William Blake: Supplement to the Catalogue of the Preston Blake Library
Author: [Blake, William. Collection Catalogue]. Preston, Kerrison. Goff, Phyllis
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1972. Westminster: Westminster City Libraries, 1972. 4to, 24 single-sided leaves. Brown printed wrappers, stapled. Very good. § Bentley, BBS, p.292.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1916. VOLUME 2 by Ambler, Charles Henry (Ed.)

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Title: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR 1916. VOLUME 2
Author: Ambler, Charles Henry (Ed.)
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
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Description: Washington: Government Printing Office. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1918. Volume 2 Only. Correspondence of Robert M. T. Hunter, Ex-lib, usual markings, Good. .

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