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Up and Down the World by Gray, Russell [Eleanor Frances Le Fanu]

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Title: Up and Down the World
Author: Gray, Russell [Eleanor Frances Le Fanu]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: Tinsley Brothers. 18, Catherine Street, Strand, 1869. First Edition. 3 vols., 8vo (202 x 143mm), vi, 292, [2]; vi, 278, [2]; vi, 268, [4] Publisher’s dark green decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Publisher’s advertisements at the back of all volumes. Light rubbing to the spine ends, some scattered foxing at the front of each volume, volume one spine gently cocked, else a bright, near fine set. Originally serialized in the Dublin University Magazine, a very scarce and uncommonly well-preserved set of this novel by J. Sheridan's eldest daughter. OCLC locates only 5 copies. Loeber, A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Eleanor Frances Le Fanu (1845–1903) was the eldest child of Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873), the Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels now regarded as among the foremost ghost story writers of the Victorian era, whose major works include Uncle Silas (1864) and the novella Carmilla (1872). Writing under the pseudonym Russell Gray, Eleanor published three novels in quick succession: Never--For Ever (1867), John Haller's Niece (1868), and Up and Down the World (1869). The Le Fanu family was of Huguenot descent and deeply embedded in Irish literary life; Eleanor's great-great-uncle was the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and her cousin Rhoda Broughton became a successful novelist in her own right. All three of Eleanor's novels are scarce, and very little critical attention has been directed toward her work, which remains largely overshadowed by her father's considerable reputation.

Künstliche Atomumwandlungen und die Spaltung schwerer Kerne; reprinted from Strahlentherapie, 75. Band, 1944, pp. 16–27 by Hahn, Otto

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Title: Künstliche Atomumwandlungen und die Spaltung schwerer Kerne; reprinted from Strahlentherapie, 75. Band, 1944, pp. 16–27
Author: Hahn, Otto
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Berlin and Vienna: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1944. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo (241 × 171mm), pp. 12. Sonderabdruck from the journal of the Deutsche Röntgengesellschaft and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Lichtforschung. Self-wrappers, staple-bound, soft crease, light toning, publisher's paper reinforcement to the spine with some staple rust, else near fine. Signed by Hahn on the front wrapper. A survey lecture delivered at Bremen on October 21, 1940 and at Jena on June 25, 1942, in which Hahn, as director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie in Berlin-Dahlem, reviews the state of artificial nuclear transmutation and heavy nucleus fission for a medical-scientific audience. The paper covers the principal modes of artificial atomic transformation (alpha-particle bombardment, proton and neutron irradiation, and beta-decay chains) and their products, including artificially radioactive isotopes and their applications as tracers and indicators in chemistry and biology. The second half addresses nuclear fission directly, summarizing the experimental evidence for the splitting of uranium and thorium nuclei under neutron bombardment, the range of fission products identified across the periodic table, and the role of secondary neutrons in sustaining the chain reaction. Written and delivered before the public announcement of the atomic bomb, the paper reflects Hahn's position at the center of the discovery he had made with Strassmann in December 1938, presenting its implications within the framework of academic science while the military applications of that same discovery were being pursued elsewhere.

Except the Dying by Jennings, Maureen

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Title: Except the Dying
Author: Jennings, Maureen
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Description: New York: St. Martin’s, 1997. First Edition. 1st edition of the first William Murdoch novel, begetting the CBC television series that began in 2008 and continues today in its 17th season. Signed on the title page. Fine in fine dustjacket. It’s usually safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they appear.

Journal Of An African Cruiser; Comprising Sketches Of The Canaries, The Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, And Other Places Of Interest On The West Coast Of Africa. By An Officer Of The U.S. Navy. Edited By Nathaniel Hawthorne by [Bridge, Horatio] Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Title: Journal Of An African Cruiser; Comprising Sketches Of The Canaries, The Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, And Other Places Of Interest On The West Coast Of Africa. By An Officer Of The U.S. Navy. Edited By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: [Bridge, Horatio] Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York & London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. First Edition, First State. Original wraps. Very good. First edition of Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge in the publisher's original paper wrappers, from the personal library of and signed by Maine Governor Joseph H. Williams.. Small octavo, viii, [v]-vi, 179pp, [32pp ads]. Original printed wrappers, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Slight lean to text block, faint dampstain to leaves at end of volume, not affecting text, Kennebec Historical Society bookplate on half title, a very good example. Price "Fifty Cents" listed on front cover, tape remnant on front cover, wear to spine. BAL's printing A and wrapper 1, including misnumbered page "x" with "vi" in Preface, copyright information in four lines, and three titles listed under "Library of American Books" on rear cover. (BAL 7597) (Moebs 80) In custom brown cloth clamshell with title printed on paper label. Signed by J.H. Williams on front cover. Joseph H. Williams (1814-1896) served in the State legislature of Maine as both a Senator and House Representative, and he was also Governor of Maine for one year. Williams was a relative of the author of this work, Horatio Bridge (1806-1893). Bridge, a U.S. Navy officer, served aboard the sloop-of-war USS Saratoga off the west coast of Africa from 1843-1844. The USS Saratoga was stationed there to protect American citizens and suppress the slave trade. According to correspondence, Bridge's roommate at Bowdoin College, Nathaniel Hawthorne, allegedly inspired Bridge to keep a journal of his travels, which Hawthorne helped edit and compile into the Journal of an African Cruiser.

RICHARD AVEDON (1957) Portrait by Frank Finocchio

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Title: RICHARD AVEDON (1957) Portrait
Author: Frank Finocchio
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frank Finocchio. No binding. Near Fine. New York: Frank Finocchio, 1957. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Ink date stamped May 12, 1957, with two attached newspaper clippings and "SUNDAY" newspaper ink stamp and handwritten but crossed out, "Please credit this photograph Frank Finocchio". Minor wear, light scratching on right edge, overall near fine. Frank Finocchio was Richard Avedon's studio manager from September 1953 to early-1962. He is also credited in Avedon's 1959 book Observations for his excellent work in photographic printing. In 1957 Avedon was at his pinnacle of success, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote, directing a TV special with Judy Garland and creating sequences for the film Funny Face.

MARILYN MONROE WITH GUITAR | RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954) Publicity portrait by Twentieth Century Fox

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Title: MARILYN MONROE WITH GUITAR | RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954) Publicity portrait
Author: Twentieth Century Fox
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: About Fine
Description: Twentieth Century Fox. No binding. About Fine. [Los Angeles]: Twentieth Century Fox, 1954. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin print photo. Creases at bottom left corner, film credits on bottom blank white margin, overall about fine. Once her star had risen, Twentieth Century Fox gave Marilyn Monroe some of the best directors in the business to work with. They also gave her some fine scripts in several genres, and her portfolio of work is outstanding. Her movies made money, too! River of No Return is a Western saga with songs and in Technicolor, directed by Otto Preminger and filmed on location. As saloon singer Kay Weston, Monroe donned several period-ish showgirl costumes, posing for publicity in this costume designed for her by Charles LeMaire. It could be seen briefly in the film during a scene in her dressing room.

MAX OPHÜLS DIRECTS | LOLA MONTÈS (1954) French photo by Gamma Films

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Title: MAX OPHÜLS DIRECTS | LOLA MONTÈS (1954) French photo
Author: Gamma Films
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Gamma FIlms. No binding. Fine. Paris: Gamma Film, [1954]. Vintage original 6 7/8 x 5" (17.5 x 12.5 cm.) black-and-white French double weight photo, printed borderless on three sides, fine. Max Ophüls directs Martine Carol in his final masterpiece, about the rise and fall of notorious courtesan Lola Montès.

LGBTQ+ History Cross Dressed Wedding Ceremony Photographs 1950s Queer Performance and Gender Expression by Queer Wedding

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Title: LGBTQ+ History Cross Dressed Wedding Ceremony Photographs 1950s Queer Performance and Gender Expression
Author: Queer Wedding
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1950. Vernacular photograph archive of a staged wedding ceremony, circa 1950s, documents gender nonconforming performance and queer social ritual at a time when same-sex relationships and gender variance were largely excluded from public recognition and subject to legal and social restriction. The images depict participants adopting bridal and ceremonial roles across gender lines, presenting a constructed wedding scene that engages directly with institutional marriage while subverting its normative structure. Visual evidence of cross-dressed participants in roles of bride, officiant, and attendants situates the archive within mid-twentieth-century queer social practice, where performance, costume, and private gatherings provided space for expression outside formal legal frameworks. The photographs offer direct documentation of how marriage symbolism was appropriated and reinterpreted within queer communities prior to later movements for legal recognition. United States, circa 1950s. Archive of three original black and white silver gelatin photographs, each measuring approximately 10 x 8.5 inches. One photograph shows a participant dressed as a bride in a semi-sheer white gown with ribbon decoration and lace floral veil, while the officiant appears in formal attire including a long dark dress, fur stole, lace veil, and sheer hosiery. A second photograph depicts attendants dressed as bridesmaids in patterned dresses with coordinated accessories including lipstick and fur stoles. A third image includes a table arranged with gloves, scarves, and brassieres, suggesting preparation and costuming associated with the event. Composition across the images emphasizes dress, gesture, and ceremonial staging. Produced during a period when queer identities were primarily expressed in private or semi-private settings, these photographs align with a broader history of performance and social gathering as forms of community formation and resistance. The use of wedding imagery and attire reflects both the cultural centrality of marriage and its inaccessibility to same-sex couples during the mid-twentieth century, highlighting the role of parody, adaptation, and ritual in queer life. As visual documentation, the archive contributes to the study of gender expression, costume, and social practice within LGBTQ+ history prior to the expansion of public rights movements in the later twentieth century. Light handling wear; overall very good condition.

Circular. The Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, Having Completed the Necessary Preparatory Measures, Have Opened Their Printing and Binding Establishment, Sake Depository, and Office... [caption title and first line of text] by [New York]. [Printing]. New York Protestant Episcopal Church

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Title: Circular. The Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press, Having Completed the Necessary Preparatory Measures, Have Opened Their Printing and Binding Establishment, Sake Depository, and Office... [caption title and first line of text]
Author: [New York]. [Printing]. New York Protestant Episcopal Church
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: [New York Protestant Episcopal Press], 1829. Very good.. Broadside, 10.5 x 9 inches. Old folds, foxing, creasing, and toning, with substantial but irregularly-trimmed margins. An unrecorded New York broadside advertising the opening of the New York Protestant Episcopal Press (NYPEP) and related activities at No. 46 Lumber Street in New York City in 1829. The text states that "PRINTING of every description will be executed for Churches, Bible and Common Prayer-Book Societies, Tract Societies, Missionary or Education Societies, and all other religious institutions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at the lowest rates, and in the best manner" and that the new establishment will "also be the publication office of The Family Visiter and Sunday School Magazine; and of The Children's Magazine." The text also includes notes about the business of the organization, as well as notices to "Booksellers who are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church" and "secretaries of religious and charitable associations." In addition to their printing and binding work, the broadside states that the NYPEP will take charge of the depositories of five New York institutions -- the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday Union, the New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society, the Auxiliary New York Bible and Common Prayer-Book Society, the New York Protestant Episcopal Tract Society, and the New York Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Society. The bottom half of the broadside is taken up with a listing of the organization's Board of Trustees, "Other Managers," the general agent, book-keeper, printer (William Van Norden), and binder (Christian Brown), along with a postscript with details on various forthcoming publications by the press. William Van Norden was a prolific printer in New York in the first half of the 19th century, producing more than just religious works. He printed the collected works of Benjamin Franklin, Hannah Moore's memoir, and the Proceedings of the New York Historical Society, among many other works, and later helped produce The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans. We could locate no other copies of this broadside anywhere.

Ladies Indispensable Assistant. Being a Companion for the Sister, Mother and Wife. [Bound with as publisher]: Ladies’ Cooking Assistant and Family Friend: Containing a Select Number of Important Family Recipes by Ladies’ Home Companion

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Title: Ladies Indispensable Assistant. Being a Companion for the Sister, Mother and Wife. [Bound with as publisher]: Ladies’ Cooking Assistant and Family Friend: Containing a Select Number of Important Family Recipes
Author: Ladies’ Home Companion
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: New York, 1850. 8vo. 200 x 150 mm., [8 x 5 ¼ inches]. 72; [vii], 8-48; [i] 122-136 pp. Bound in publisher’s red embossed linen cloth, decorated spine and medallion on the upper board; some fading to the spine and around the edges of the cloth binding; paper stock foxed with tidemarks in the upper right corner of the text; with faults a good to very good copy. This copy appears to be the second edition, originally published separately and then as companion volumes. The two titles are followed by 16 pages of text from another publication in this line which touches on etiquette for ladies and gentlemen, ladies grooming and choice of dressing gowns, taking care of canary birds, and sewing instructions. Ladies’ Indispensable Assistant is a guide which focuses on family medicine and is entitled the Family Physician. It includes descriptions of diseases and remedies for their cure. Croup, Whooping Cough, Rheumatism, Consumption, Inflammatory Fever, Typhus Fever, Scarlet Fever, and Measles are the major aliments that described. Scores of other sicknesses are discussed in less detail, but each contains a diagnosis and remedy. Ladies’ Cooking Assistant contains hundreds of cooking recipes including cakes and breads; pies, preserves and jellies; meat, fish, and gravies; and vegetables there is also a section entitled, “Cookery for the Sick”. Lowenstein, Bibliography of American Cookery Books. .

Malone meurt by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: Malone meurt
Author: Beckett, Samuel
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Description: [Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1951. First edition. 217 p. 19 cm. Wrappers, near fine, unopened copy.

WALKING TO SLEEP. NEW POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS by WILBUR, Richard

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Title: WALKING TO SLEEP. NEW POEMS AND TRANSLATIONS
Author: WILBUR, Richard
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Condition: Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light wear to the fore-edge
Description: New York: Harcourt Brace, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with light wear to the fore-edge. Cloth-backed boards. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the poet to John Malcolm Brinnin: "for John/a good visit to/Duxbury/Dick/October 1970." Author's compliments card laid in.

Visionary architecture by Burden, Ernest

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Title: Visionary architecture
Author: Burden, Ernest
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Presentation copy to Donald Mac Donald, architect of bridges. Nice association! Well illus.

Mr. Campion's Lady: The Second Allingham Omnibus (First UK Edition) by Margery Allingham

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Title: Mr. Campion's Lady: The Second Allingham Omnibus (First UK Edition)
Author: Margery Allingham
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Description: London: Chatto and Windus, 1965. First UK Edition. Light foxing to the top page edges, a few taps to the board edges, generally Very Good plus in a Good dust jacket with dampstains and foxing to the rear panel, light toning to the spine, and silverfish damage to the flap folds (see image).

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The Embodied Image; Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collectioin by Harrist, Robert E., Jr. and Wen C. Fong

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Title: The Embodied Image; Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collectioin
Author: Harrist, Robert E., Jr. and Wen C. Fong
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ISBN: 9780810963771
Description: Princeton: Art Museum, Princeton University in Association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1999. With contributions by Qianshen Bai, et al. xx, 449 [2]p., colored and b/w illus., dj, quarto format.

My Days With Errol Flynn: the Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles by Wiles, Buster, with William Donati

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Title: My Days With Errol Flynn: the Autobiography of Stuntman Buster Wiles
Author: Wiles, Buster, with William Donati
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Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: Santa Monica, CA: Roundtable Publishing, Inc.. Fine in Near Fine dj. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. [very nice copy, no discernible wear to book; jacket just a touch rubbed at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Buster Wiles met Errol Flynn on the set of CAPTAIN BLOOD in 1935, and was his stunt double and good buddy for many years. "In the early Forties, [he] lived at Flynn's vast estate in the Santa Monica Mountains, Mulholland Farm, where the two men shared manyh wild times, including the dismal experience of Flynn's famous trial [for] statutory rape in 1943." Approximately the last 60 pages of this book consists of an appendix, "The Flynn Controversy," in which co-author Donati refutes the "Nazi spy" charges made against Flynn by Charles Higham in his 1980 biography "Errol Flynn: The Untold Story." .

The Knightly Quest and Other Stories by Williams, Tennessee

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Title: The Knightly Quest and Other Stories
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: New Directions, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. A Novella and Four Short Stories. 8vo. Original cloth; DJ. Book is near fine. Jacket is edgewon with a couple of small chips.

South Africa of To-day by Younghusband, Francis

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Title: South Africa of To-day
Author: Younghusband, Francis
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Description: MacMillan, 1899. Good. Younghusband, Francis. South Africa of To-day. London: MacMillan, 1899. 2nd edition. 258pp. Indexed. Small 8vo. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with a few black stains on the front cover. Lightly bumped and rubbed edges. A few tiny closed tears in the spine ends. Pages uncut.

Onondaga County Bicentennial, 1794-1994 by Onondaga Historical Association

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Title: Onondaga County Bicentennial, 1794-1994
Author: Onondaga Historical Association
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Syracuse, New York: Onondaga Historical Association, 1994-01-01. Large Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. No publisher date. Edge wear. 216 pp. Includes color and black-and-white pictures and advertisements. Features history, maps, residents, pictures and advertisements.

EL MAYOR FIDEL GARCIA.; Viñetas de F. Monterde Fernández. Colección "Lunes," 27

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Title: EL MAYOR FIDEL GARCIA.; Viñetas de F. Monterde Fernández. Colección "Lunes," 27
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Condition: (Uncut pages)
Description: México, D.F.: Ed. Costa-Amic, 1946. (Uncut pages). b/w illus., frontis., wrps.

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