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1858 Austin County Assessor and Collector’s Ledger

1858 Austin County Assessor and Collector’s Ledger by [Texas – Austin County – Enslavement] Brewer, Sackfield

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Title
1858 Austin County Assessor and Collector’s Ledger
Author
[Texas – Austin County – Enslavement] Brewer, Sackfield
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Very good plus.
Description
Austin County, Texas, 1858. Ledger measuring 7 ½ x 12 inches. Approximately forty-five pages filled out with remainder blank. Spine broken and some pages detached; pages with wear but legible; cover quite worn. Very good plus.. Austin County, Texas, was the first Anglo-American colony in Mexican Texas, founded in about 1821 by Stephen F. Austin and his “Old Three Hundred”: 297 land grantees, mainly from the Trans-Appalachian South, and many of significant wealth. The grantees received either a labor (177 acres, for farming families) around San Felipe de Austin, or a sitio (4,428 acres, for ranching families) along the Brazos River. Many of the Old Three Hundred families already owned enslaved African Americans, and by 1825, sixty-nine of the Austin colony families owned a total of 443 enslaved people, making up nearly a quarter of the colony’s population. Many of the enslaved people were concentrated with just a few families; for instance, Jared E. Groce arrived to the colony in 1822 with ninety enslaved people. After the Texas Revolution, which established the Republic of Texas, the county’s population totaled about 1,500, rising to 2,687 by 1847 and 3,841 by 1850. Immigration from Germany surged, with Germans outnumbering American-born citizens by 1860. During this time, the expansion of cotton and other agriculture increased the enslaved population as well; in 1847, it comprised over 47% of Austin County. Meanwhile, there were nearly no free Black residents, and none by 1860. Offered here is a tax assessment ledger for the county from 1858, prepared by County Assessor and Collector Sackfield Brewer. It contains two assessments: one for land owned within Austin County and one for land owned by Austin County residents but located in other counties. Among other information, the first assessment lists the taxpayer, their land’s original grantee and location (by town and stream), and their assets, including horses, cattle, money, and enslaved people. The second assessment contains location, acreage, and value information, and does not contain information about assets held with the outside properties. The ledger indicates the demographic shifts in the area—with many Germanic surnames among the Anglo ones—and the concentrations of wealth and enslavement. For instance, while most taxpayers are listed as owning no enslaved people, J. E. Kirby held 120 people, valued at $60,000, on his nearly 3,700 acre ranch. By contrast, Thomas Cochran’s 5,759 acre ranch, taking up five original land grants, held seven. J. A. Kerr, next to Kirby in the ledger, claimed no land, only one $100 horse and one $100 watch. Records from early Texas are scarce; this ledger provides detailed information about families in the county and about their assets, especially enslaved people, who made up a significant portion of the antebellum population.
Orley Farm

Orley Farm by Trollope, Anthony

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Title
Orley Farm
Author
Trollope, Anthony
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First edition. Near Fine. Bound in green half morocco over pebbled cloth. With half titles, but bound without the ads. Collation: viii, 320; viii, 320. An early issue with stab holes visible throughout both volumes; volume I conforming to all issue points for Sadleir's second issue and volume II a first issue with a third issue title page. An attractive contemporary binding in Near Fine condition, internal contents very clean. A contemporary owner's name E. L. Dutton written on the front end paper of each volume. "While it is primarily a tragedy of misdirected maternal love, Orley Farm contains much of the best Trollopian humor and includes the portrait of his finest gentleman, Sir Peregrine Orme" (Trollope Society). Noted for its complex bibliography, resulting in part from the two volumes being printed and released ten months apart, the novel also presents a complex legal plot in which Sir Joseph Mason attempts to bequeath Orley Farm to his second son Lucius. In addition to the legal implications of overstepping an eldest son, Sir Mason's estate is further embroiled in conflict as Lucius takes over management and begins to cancel and break leases, raising the ire of neighbors. This anger leads to accusations that Sir Mason's will was forged, that Lucius is not the true heir, and that Lady Mason is the culprit. Near Fine.
Freedom Schools [caption title]

Freedom Schools [caption title] by [African Americana]: [Los Angeles Friends of SNCC]: Garrett, Jimmy

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Freedom Schools [caption title]
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[African Americana]: [Los Angeles Friends of SNCC]: Garrett, Jimmy
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The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
[Los Angeles: LA Friends of SNCC, 1965. 4pp. of mimeographed text on 8.5-x-14-inch sheets, stapled at top left corner. Minor toning and edge wear, folded once horizontally. Very good. An unrecorded document written by a Los Angeles-area "friend" of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee named Jimmy Garrett, containing his ruminations on ideal schools, based on impressions of the successes and failures of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom School experience. The LA Friends of SNCC was one of several regional groups that supported the national efforts of SNCC and often organized its own local protests and sit-ins. According to newspaper records in 1965, Garrett was the "Los Angeles coordinator of SNCC," a "leader of the protest" at the Los Angeles Federal Building on March 10 in which ninety-eight members of SNCC, CORE, and other groups were arrested, and was a regular speaker in front of community groups. In the present work, Garrett expounds both philosophically and in specifics about his idea of Freedom Schools: "My idea of a Freedom School is an area, atmosphere, situation -- any place where young people, whether black or white, rich or poor, can come to deal with real questions as they relate to their lives. The aim of this part of the Freedom School would be to let young people challenge not only the authority which stifles them, but also to challenge themselves, to bring about basic changes within the system so that the stifling ends. The center of the Freedom Schools would be the students and their freedom of expression would be the life of the school. They and their teacher (or more closely, leaders) would have equal parts in determining curriculum. Perhaps, even the student may rotate as leaders of the schools. This possibility of challenge, no matter what the level or what the issue, through questions, was a vital force in last summer's project. The only failure of the Mississippi Freedom Schools was its teachers. No one in this country has been trained in raising those necessary, fundamental and challenging questions. Most of the Freedom School teachers were college students who were taught that the only way to learn was to have information poured into their heads -- mostly dates, places, events, names -- most of which is lost and cannot be used in their lives." Garrett then goes on to present two pages of "Random Notes on the School, Students, and Teachers (Leaders)" in Freedom Schools, in which he discusses and asks leading questions about the roles of music, drama and creative writing, art, "interschool conferences," and other aspects of the schools. He proposes that it might be beneficial to construct Freedom Schools in "different areas within Southern California (Watts, East Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Long Beach, West Los Angeles)." He concludes the work, which may have been the text of a speech or public talk, as follows: "My idea of a Freedom School is that it would not be directed simply to young Negroes to get them involved in civil rights activities (although that may be one outgrowth). The Freedom Schools would be open to to include all those who are considered in 'the mainstream of American life.' What does it mean to be in the mainstream of a cesspool? What does it mean to be called a 'normal' American in a decayed society? If you must have slaves -- call them free men, and call their society free, so that they can keep their dignity -- then you rigidly and subtlely control the context under which they live, vote, work, and love. This is what I think, the few people who run this country -- this machine -- do to all of us. The Freedom School, in my mind, would be an atmosphere to begin to challenge all our myths of freedom and to develop whole new concepts about people as they relate to each other." We could locate no other copies of this impassioned reaction to and proposal for Freedom Schools in California..
Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e Artigos do Costume

Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e Artigos do Costume

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Almanak Familiar para 1860, 1866, 1870 Segundo depois do Bissexto contendo Alem Callendario e Artigos do Costume
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Full green morocco, stamped in blind with gilt fillet, a.e.g., top of spine chipped of 1866, rest fine. Bookplates of Mathias Li
Description
Lisboa: Imprensa National, 1869. 192, 176, 192 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Full green morocco, stamped in blind with gilt fillet, a.e.g., top of spine chipped of 1866, rest fine. Bookplates of Mathias Lima. 192, 176, 192 pp. 3 vols. 12mo.
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Muzyka Igraet Tak Veselo. Fel’etony, Parodii, Druzheskie Poslaniia, Rasskazy, Memuary, Dnei Minuvshikh Anekdoty [Signed/Inscribed by Author] by Papernyi, Zinovii

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Muzyka Igraet Tak Veselo. Fel’etony, Parodii, Druzheskie Poslaniia, Rasskazy, Memuary, Dnei Minuvshikh Anekdoty [Signed/Inscribed by Author]
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Papernyi, Zinovii
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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Moscow: Sovetskii Pisatel', 1990. Softcover. First edition; 5 x 7 3/4; pp. [3], 6266, [4]; glossy pictorial wraps; minor creasing to lower corner of front cover and a small nick to fore-edge; mild age-toning to pages; portrait frontis; near fine condition. Signed by the author with a lengthy and amusing inscription. Zinovii Papernyi (1919-1996) was a scholar, critic, writer, and one of Russia's most widely-known literary parodists. In 1975, his entry on Boris Pasternak in "The Great Soviet Encyclopedia" was the first article in contemporary Russian history to publicly express sympathy and admiration for the prosecuted poet and writer. His scathing humor and his style of "ridding literature of superficial stuff and inflated authority" which have been beautifully portrayed in his current book of satires and anecdotes had him expelled, at one time, from the Union of Soviet Writers.
Josephine Pryde: Serena

Josephine Pryde: Serena by PRYDE, Josephine

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Josephine Pryde: Serena
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PRYDE, Josephine
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9782702203590
Condition
New in shrinkwrap
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Braunschweig: Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2001. New in shrinkwrap. 10.5 x 8.5 inches. 71 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original Pictorial boards. First edition.
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Roger's Version by Updike, John

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Roger's Version
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Updike, John
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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As New
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. The limited issue, this being copy 165 of 350 copies numbered and signed by Updike. Housed in publisher's slipcase, this copy is as new, unopened in shrink wrap.
A New Kind of Science
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A New Kind of Science by Wolfram, Stephen

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A New Kind of Science
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Wolfram, Stephen
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
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9781579550080
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Champaign: Wolfram Media, 2002. xiv, 1197 [67]p., b/w illus., dj, quarto format.
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The Manuscripts Of Henry Savile Of Banke by Watson, Andrew G.

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The Manuscripts Of Henry Savile Of Banke
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Watson, Andrew G.
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Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. navy cloth. Fine.
Description
London: Bibliograhical Society, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine.. 102 pages. 25 x 17 cm. Five plates; two are fold-outs. General Index. Index of Manuscripts and Printed Books. Oxford Bibliographical Society: for Year 1967.
The Swordfish Tooth

The Swordfish Tooth by ZARIN, Cynthia

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The Swordfish Tooth
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ZARIN, Cynthia
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. Softcover. Very Good. First edition, simultaneous wrappered issue. A bit of sunning at and around the spine and some scattered foxing, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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Jean-paul Sartre: Philosopher without Faith by AlberES, R. M

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Jean-paul Sartre: Philosopher without Faith
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AlberES, R. M
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Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
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Philosophical Library, 1961. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Clean, has good binding, previous owners name on the front free end paper, mild wear to the dust jacket, foxing to the edges. LF
The Fifth Book of Peace

The Fifth Book of Peace by Kingston, Maxine Hong

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The Fifth Book of Peace
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Kingston, Maxine Hong
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780679440758
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Near Fine
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 10x1x6. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author on title page without inscription. 2003 Hard Cover. 401, [1] pp. 8vo. The Fifth Book of Peace opens as Maxine Hong Kingston, driving home from her father's funeral in the early 1990s, discovers that her neighborhood in the Oakland-Berkeley hills is engulfed in flames. Her home burns to the ground, and with it, all her earthly possessions, including her novel-in-progress. Kingston, who at the time was deeply disturbed by the Persian Gulf War, decides that she must understand her own loss of all she possessed as a kind of shadow-experience of war: a lesson about what it would be like to experience up close its utter devastation. Thus she embarks on a mission to re-create her novel from scratch, to rebuild her life, and to reach out to veterans of war and share with them her views as a lover of peace. In the middle section of this remarkable book, Kingston reconstructs for us her lost novel, the lush and compelling story of the Chinese-American Wittman Ah Sing and his wife, Taña–California artists who flee to Hawaii to evade the draft during the Vietnam War. Wittman and Taña help to create an official Sanctuary for deserters and GIs who've returned devastated by their experiences in Vietnam–not unlike, as it turns out, the metaphorical sanctuary Maxine creates, back in her real world, by inviting war veterans to participate in writing workshops. As the vets share their stories, she teaches them both the value of writing–the accurate transcription of what is in the heart–and the value of community.   Paradoxically, the stories of war and its terrors become for her and the vets a literature of peace–words that enable them to achieve peace, at least within themselves. Moving among the vets with her Buddhist-inflected wisdom and at times humorous self-doubts, weaving their stories together with her own struggle to reorient herself after the fire, Maxine Hong Kingston is at times a kind of sprite, an almost weightless spirit, who guides others toward a better place, and at times a challenging teacher, who will not let us turn from the spectacle of a world so often at war.

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