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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1855 by D.T. Valentine

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Title: Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1855
Author: D.T. Valentine
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: D.T. Valentine (The Common Council of New York), 1855. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. An impressive copy of the 1855 issue of Valentine's Manual of New York. Solid and VG+ in its chocolate-brown cloth, with decorative blindstamping and bright gilt-design and titling along the panels and spine. Small, neat 1914 inscription from a former owner to his father on the front free endpaper, otherwise very sharp internally, with light offsetting to a small number of the pages. Thick 12mo, 9 fold-out plates (as issued) plus a number of handsome chromolithographed plates.

Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade by BAKER, Samuel

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Title: Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Author: BAKER, Samuel
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First American Edition. Portrait of the author plus 2 separate frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), plus 50 woodcut text illustrations. Modern cloth with the original covers and spine laid down; folding map torn in a number of places (but all present), most illustrations with the tissue guards, otherwise interior very good. First American edition after the first printing in London the prior year. Baker’s expedition through Egypt down to Lake Albert in present day Uganda and to the Red Sea was the “first practical step . . . to suppress the slave-trade of Central Africa.” He emphasizes the fertility and potential abundance of the varying lands, whose successes are hindered by corrupt governments. The majority of the team’s interactions with various people and cultures are recounted with a sensational and colonialist flair. Baker (1821-1893) was a British explorer, naturalist, and big game hunter, chiefly remembered for his exploration of central Africa and the “discovery” of the Albert N’yanza (Lake Albert), the source of the Nile River. He won the Royal Geographical Society’s gold medal for this discovery. Baker was also a prolific writer and published many popular accounts of his adventures (it is little wonder why his work was so popular, given the sensationalist chapter headings).

Poet-Playwright Directs a Survey [of] National Minorities in Europe and the Soviet Union by [Hughes, Langston]

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Title: Poet-Playwright Directs a Survey [of] National Minorities in Europe and the Soviet Union
Author: [Hughes, Langston]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: New York: Edutravel, 1937. A 4” x 9” brochure advertising Langston Hughes’ planned trip to the Soviet Union in the summer of 1937. The trip never occurred, as Hughes had directed his attention to reporting on the Spanish Civil War. The planned 2 month trip was set to be a sociological learning experience guided by Hughes in an attempt to spread leftist ideals in the face of fascistic powers rising in western Europe. Near fine. This brochure illustrates one example of Hughes' political activism during the late 1930s, when many American intellectuals viewed the Soviet Union as a counterweight to rising fascism in Europe. The proposed tour reflects Hughes' dual role as literary figure and political activist, using his reputation to organize educational travel that would expose participants to Soviet approaches to ethnic minorities; a subject of particular relevance given his own experiences with racial discrimination in America. Hughes ultimately chose to cover the Spanish Civil War as a correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, recognizing the immediate urgency of the conflict over the planned Soviet expedition. His Spanish dispatches became some of his most important journalistic work, while the Soviet Union's reputation among American leftists would later be complicated by the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939. The document captures a specific moment in Hughes' political evolution and the broader American left's relationship with international communism before subsequent disillusionment, representing the optimism many felt about Soviet social policies during this period.

I was there; by Terry, Walter

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Title: I was there;
Author: Terry, Walter
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York & Basel: Audience Arts/Dekker, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Includes American debuts of the great Russian defectors: Nureyev, Makarova & Baryshnikov. Well illus.

The End of Faith; Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Harris, Sam

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Title: The End of Faith; Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Author: Harris, Sam
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780393035155
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Near Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Quarter black paper with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a few faint stains at the edges, former owner's blind stamp on the title page, clean otherwise. An analysis of "the clash between reason and religion in the modern world," written by one of the prominent members of the IDW.

Supplement to Bitters Bottles by Watson, Richard

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Title: Supplement to Bitters Bottles
Author: Watson, Richard
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Camden N.J.: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1968. Octavo (24 x 16 cm.), 160 pages. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. FIRST EDITION. Information collected by the author after the publication of his Bitters Bottles, together, the standard reference on the field. Endpapers with green page copies from Vinegar Bitters Almanac for 1874 and 1889. Maroon cloth, gilt-titled to spine. Dust jacket, unclipped, with some rubbing, but near very good. Small ownership label to free front end paper.

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