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Vice President Richard M. Nixon Is Proud of the “Magnificent” American Efforts “to discharge American responsibility in meeting the needs of the Hungarian refugees” After the Revolution of 1956 by Richard Nixon

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Title: Vice President Richard M. Nixon Is Proud of the “Magnificent” American Efforts “to discharge American responsibility in meeting the needs of the Hungarian refugees” After the Revolution of 1956
Author: Richard Nixon
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 3/1/57. On October 23, 1956, a student demonstration against the Soviet-dominated regime in Hungary became the first serious challenge to Communist authority since the Soviet Union drove the Nazis out and occupied Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. The demonstrators marched to the Parliament building in Budapest, where Hungarian State Security Police detained a group of them who attempted to enter the radio building to broadcast the students_ demands. The police then fired on a group of demonstrators who demanded their release and killed a student. When demonstrators wrapped the body in a flag and paraded it in central Budapest, violence erupted, and news of the event provoked unrest throughout the country. The pro-Soviet government collapsed, and a new government disbanded the State Security Police and announced its intention to withdraw from the Soviet-run Warsaw Pact and to hold free elections.The Hungarian Revolt was one of the crucial events of the Cold WarOn October 31, the Moscow newspaper “Pravda” stated that the Soviet government was “prepared to enter into the appropriate negotiations with the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and other members of the Warsaw Treaty on the question of the presence of Soviet troops on the territory of Hungary.” That same day, though, unwilling to appear weak to the United States, Soviet leaders reversed course and decided to take military action to crush the rebellion. In the early morning hours of November 4, Soviet troops invaded Hungary. The free Hungarian government fled, and by November 7 the Soviets installed János Kádár as the new Prime Minister. In six days, the Soviet military completely crushed the revolution. More than 2,500 Hungarians and 700 Soviet soldiers were killed. By January, the new Soviet puppet government had suppressed the opposition. However, meanwhile, large numbers of Hungarians were fleeing the country, mostly headed for Austria.This unfolding drama received hour-by-hour press coverage throughout the world, with film footage appearing every evening on the news in the U.S. and elsewhere. The invasion, with its graphic depiction of Soviet tanks on the city streets in Hungary clashing with demonstrators, destroyed the Soviet argument that Eastern Europe was voluntarily within the Soviet sphere. It also confirmed to those in the West that there was a real Cold War at hand, and that the Soviets were the aggressors, as they could only hold their people by force. Strong anti-Communists, like Richard M. Nixon, then Vice President in the Eisenhower Administration, seemed confirmed in their judgments.By the time Hungary’s borders were sealed, 200,000 refugees had fled the country. Of those, approximately 180,000 went to Austria, and another 20,000 went to Yugoslavia. The refugees needed care and resettlement, and this required a massive effort, led by the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. 37 nations on five continents accepted refugees, with the plurality - 40,000 - going to the United States. Llewellyn E. Thompson was U.S. Ambassador to Austria, so to him fell the main responsibility for managing the American effort to care for them and arrange their resettlement.Lewellyn Thompson was one of the most important American diplomats of the 20th Century. After two years at his post in Vienna, he would become the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, serving two separate tours in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and then acting as advisor to Richard M. Nixon. Few Ambassadors faced as many crises as Thompson did in Moscow - the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Russia, the great confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall, very difficult summits between Soviet Premier Khruschev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the August 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and tensions over the Vietnam War. But there were also steps toward better relations. At Thompson's suggestion, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S. in 1959. Thompson helped arrange (and was present for) the 1967 summit in the U.S. between President Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, after the Six-Day War in the Middle East exacerbated tensions. Also in 1967, the Soviet Union and U.S. agreed to begin cooperation in space, with the joint Soyuz-Apollo program. The first treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed on July 1, 1968.Thompson’s stint as Ambassador to the Soviet Union began in 1957 when President Eisenhower appointed him to the post. President Kennedy reappointed him in 1961, which was a tribute to Thompson, as new presidents usually name their people to the top diplomatic posts. He ended his first tour in Moscow in 1962, when President Kennedy brought him home to Washington to become his Ambassador-at-Large, as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, advising the President on Soviet affairs. Shortly after returning to Washington, Thompson provided President Kennedy with advice that was crucial to avoiding nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Johnson reappointed him to the ambassadorship to Moscow in 1967, and he served until 1969. He came out of retirement to advise President Nixon on the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) negotiations with the Soviet Union and represented the United States in the SALT talks from 1969 until his death in 1972. He thus was able to provide valuable insight into Soviet thought to four American presidents. Secretary of State William P. Rogers called him “one of the outstanding diplomats of his generation.”From December 18-24, 1956, Nixon traveled to Austria to get first hand accounts from Hungarian refugees, and inspect their conditions and aid requirements. Thompson aided him during that trip, and Nixon was grateful.“You can be proud of the magnificent job being done under your able direction to discharge American responsibility in meeting the needs of the Hungarian refugees in Austria.""Typed Letter Signed, on Office of the Vice President letthead, Washington, January 3, 1957, to Thompson.“This is just a note to tell you how deeply I appreciated the generous hospitality which you and Mrs. Thompson extended to me and the members of my party during my recent visit to Austria. Due to your efforts and those of your staff, I was able to accomplish my inspection mission in a limited period of time, and I am grateful for the many courtesies which were extended to me.“You can be proud of the magnificent job being done under your able direction to discharge American responsibility in meeting the needs of the Hungarian refugees in Austria. This compliment is meant for you and your permanent staff of all nationalities and agencies, as well as those who have come from other countries on short notice to meet the need for additional help, the wives and families who have been working long hours as volunteers to relieve hardship, and the hundreds of American and international relief agency workers. All of you have shown a wonderful spirit of dedication in rendering public service in the highest American tradition, and I was highly pleased to find this same devotion to duty and deep interest in the refugee problem reflected among American personnel when we stopped in Munich, in Prestwick, and in Iceland.“It was a pleasure for me to report to the President on your splendid activities, and I know he would want to join me in saying – “well done, keep up the good work.”""Mrs. Nixon joins me in sending our very best wishes for the New Year.” The accompanying envelope, which is still present, bears Nixon_s printed free frank. It was not mailed and therefore evidently was delivered by diplomatic pouch.This letter comes directly from the Thompson descendants.

Cold War Missile Engineering and Rocket Testing Archive Redstone Arsenal and White Sands Missile Range Archive, 1950s-70s by U.S. Army Missile Testing Redstone Arsenal/ White Sands

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Title: Cold War Missile Engineering and Rocket Testing Archive Redstone Arsenal and White Sands Missile Range Archive, 1950s-70s
Author: U.S. Army Missile Testing Redstone Arsenal/ White Sands
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1950. This exceptionally dense technical archive documents U.S. Army rocket and missile development during the height of the Cold War and Vietnam War, originating from the estate of a retired aerospace engineer, Thomas T. Howell, affiliated with the U.S. Army Missile Command, with direct work conducted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, and White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The materials capture the applied, test-driven reality of American rocketry at the moment when battlefield rocket systems, solid-fuel propulsion, and rapid-deployment tactical missiles became central to U.S. military doctrine. Of particular importance is the archive's sustained focus on field testing, propulsion diagnostics, firing mechanisms, and structural integrity analysis, with repeated references to multi-stage motors, booster threads, nozzle pressure profiles, thrust measurement, strain-gauge instrumentation, and dynamic propulsion testing under operational conditions. The presence of Vietnam-era documentation situates this archive squarely within the escalation of U.S. missile and rocket deployment in Southeast Asia, when systems such as the Little John rocket and related short-range artillery rockets were actively refined, tested, and evaluated for combat reliability. Collection includes; 2 original testing mechanisms; a 16mm film roll documenting a test launch; over 40 original photographs showcasing different testing sites and rocket units; over 40 hand drafted graphs on red paper; several hand written pages of calculations with formulas and schematics; several signed printed documents signed regarding the procedures for assembly static test flight weight booster motor components all dated in the summer of 1969; and a heavily annotated blueprint. Redstone Arsenal, established in the early Cold War and shaped by the integration of German rocket scientists after World War II, became the intellectual and engineering hub of U.S. Army missile work, where propulsion systems, launch mechanisms, instrumentation, and tactical doctrines were conceived, refined, and standardized. White Sands Missile Range, by contrast, functioned as the proving ground where theory met reality. This Redstone-White Sands pipeline allowed the United States to move rapidly from concept to deployable weapon. The archive comprises a combination of original testing hardware, primary testing documentation, photographic evidence, and engineering drawings and graphs, offering a nearly end-to-end view of the rocket development and validation process. Included is an original Electrical Output Firing Mechanism Tester for rocket launchers, which is distinctly labeled for testing electrical firing mechanisms with milliwatt-second measurements, a piece of surviving test equipment seldom encountered outside institutional collections; a rubber ring with conductive instrumentation in the interior, a ring-type electromagnetic integrator or pickup coil used to measure missile velocity by electrically integrating acceleration over time with the central aperture allowed a magnetic core, conductor, or shaft associated with missile motion to pass through; extensive hand-plotted K&E bar graphs, trajectory charts, acceleration and velocity curves, displacement diagrams, and launch-segment data sheets, many executed on period engineering graph paper with handwritten annotations calculating thrust, pressure, acceleration (in g's), and burnout timing; a substantial group of typed Army test procedures and data-requirement documents, several signed and approved by supervising engineers, details assembly procedures, static and dynamic propulsion tests, booster motor configurations which include tapered buttress threads and pin joints, strain-gauge placement, chamber pressure measurement, and photographic documentation protocols; and a blueprint with extensive handwritten calculations in areas surrounding schematic drawings titled "Revisions -- Body, Pressure Transducer" dated 1969. The calculations mention error rates "at 0.4% to 0.6% due to boost acceleration." These documents reveal the rigor of U.S. Army missile testing culture, where every firing was instrumented, recorded, and analyzed as part of an iterative engineering feedback loop. A binder containing over 40 original photographs, many stamped on the verso identifying the various locations and rockets such as "LITTLE JOHN" and "WHITE SANDS" on glossy photo paper, shows test stands, firing sequences, hardware setups, and missile components in both black-and-white and color. These images provide rare, ground-level views of rocket testing infrastructure and procedures at one of the most historically significant U.S. missile ranges. Also present is 16mm film, apparently documenting test-stand or firing activity; the film appears physically intact and represents a rare moving-image record of Army missile testing during the era. Completing the archive are large-format blueprints and technical drawings, including a detailed pressure-transducer body schematic bearing U.S. Army Materiel Command identifiers, Redstone Arsenal attribution, and extensive handwritten calculations, direct evidence of hands-on analytical work by an engineer engaged in real-time problem solving under Cold War weapons development pressures. Materials show expected handling and working-archive wear consistent with active engineering use: edge wear, folds, staple and paper-clip rust, toning, and some stains to paper; handwritten calculations and annotations throughout; photographs generally well preserved with strong contrast; hardware tester shows surface wear and oxidation consistent with age and field use; 16mm film appears physically sound but untested. Overall very good condition. This archive represents a rare primary source for the study of U.S. Army rocketry, missile engineering, and weapons testing during the Vietnam War and late Cold War period. Its combination of original equipment, signed technical procedures, analytical charts, photographs, and film makes it especially valuable for institutional collections focused on military technology, Cold War science, aerospace engineering history, and the material culture of U.S. weapons development.

Quadrivio, il quale contiene un trattato della strada che si ha da tenere in scrivere Istoria. Un Modo, che insegna à scriver epistole latine, & volgari ... Alcune avvertenze del tesser dialoghi. Et alcuni artificii delle Ode di Oratio Flacco by TOSCANELLA, Orazio (1520-1579)

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Title: Quadrivio, il quale contiene un trattato della strada che si ha da tenere in scrivere Istoria. Un Modo, che insegna à scriver epistole latine, & volgari ... Alcune avvertenze del tesser dialoghi. Et alcuni artificii delle Ode di Oratio Flacco
Author: TOSCANELLA, Orazio (1520-1579)
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Venice: Giovanni Bariletto, 1567. Small 8vo (151 x 103 mm). [8], 83 [recte 82], [1] leaves. Text in italics, dedication and headings in roman. Woodcut printer’s device on title (Prudentia gazing into a mirror held in her right hand, with motto on a banner "Prudentia negotia non fortuna ducat"), repeated on final verso, five woodcut historiated initials. Contemporary limp parchment, two thong sewing supports laced through joints, traces of two fore-edge ties, Toscanella in contemporary ink on spine, Quadrivio del Toscanella inscribed on upper text block edge, “per impararare a componere epistole” written in apparently the same elegant humanist hand on the lower cover, upside down (soiling, a few small holes, tears to backstrip exposing sewing structure, tears to flyleaves). *** Only edition of a Renaissance guide to good writing by a Latinist philologist and pedagogue who promoted the Italian vernacular. Toscanella’s pocket-sized guidebook conveys in clear, well-indexed chapters the basics of the studia humanitatis, which during the previous century had gradually replaced the old medieval curriculum in Italy. The Quadrivio of his title, presumably a playful allusion to the antiquated Quadrivium of medieval schooling, simply refers to the four parts of the book, of which the first two are the longest and most important: how to write history, how to write letters, some notes on writing dialogues, and a short guide to some stylistic artifices in Horace’s Odes. Toscanella, who may have been Paduan but whose family origins are unknown, was a teacher in the Veneto countryside for at least a decade, before moving to Venice, where he made his living as a “poligrafo,” writing, translating, and editing mainly pedagogical works. These included didactic treatises on Ciceronian rhetoric, Latin meter, and the ars epistolaria, as well as a popular Latin grammar and translations of Quintilian and Cicero, all intended for schoolboys or an educated but non-specialist public. History was “the Renaissance’s most original curricular innovation” (Grendler p. 255), and it comes first in Toscanella’s handbook. His introductory exposition of history’s meaning and purpose (customary among Renaissance pedagogues) includes exhortations concerning its value and general statements concerning the writing of it: e.g., that the study of history will help us avoid the errors of our forebears, that the historian must honor truth above all, and that a good historian manages to thread the needle between excessive detail and oversimplification. While these points are eternally pertinent and make sense to the modern reader, as does Toscanella’s choice of Caesar’s Commentaries as a model of historical writing, the schematic tables and rather Borgesian lists of historical topics that follow — Battles, Cavalry, Cities, Punishment, Deceptive Promises, Provisions, Fear, etc., evoke a pre-modern approach to classifying reality. Medieval education was grounded in the study of rhetoric, which was transformed by the humanists’ study of classical texts, above all, of course, those of Cicero. In the second part, on letter-writing, Toscanella analyzes Cicero’s letters, and by extension, all letters, using rhetorical labels for the various epistolary genres (playful, choleric, accusatory, excusatory, persuasive, etc.); traditionally there were 24, but Toscanella lists only 19. Each genre requires a different style and vocabulary. For certain genres the student is urged to also consult modern writers, such as Erasmus’ Adagia, or the author's own collection of Motti, facetie, argutie... (published in 1561). At the end the interested reader is invited to purchase a copy of Toscanella's Modo di studiare le pistole famigliari di M. Tullio Cicerone, first published the previous year. In his final paragraph he asserts that all the Ciceronian stylistic precepts reviewed apply equally to writing in the vernacular. In his short essay on writing dialogues Toscanella refers the reader to Quintilian, Aristotle, and modern writers like Agricola, of whose De inventione dialectica Toscanella’s own Italian translation was published in 1567, apparently soon after this edition. The final section of tips to some Horatian stylistic devices was co-written with another “dottissimo spirito” who preferred not to be identified. Adams T-841; BM / STC Italian, p. 677; cf. Paul Grendler, Schooling in Renaissance Italy (1989), passim.

[FACSIMILE] Xavier Wulfen's Treatise on Carinthian Lead Spars by WULFEN, Xavier; Wendell E. WILSON, [ed.]

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Title: [FACSIMILE] Xavier Wulfen's Treatise on Carinthian Lead Spars
Author: WULFEN, Xavier; Wendell E. WILSON, [ed.]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Tucson: Mineralogical Record, 1997. Limited Edition. No. 33 of 150 copies. Quarto (28cm). Bound in faux black leather, backed in maroon calf, titled in gilt on black spine label; grey endpapers; xliv, [2], [2], 150, [2], 108, [10], 35, [3], 20, [2]pp; 21 color plates. A fresh copy, with very minor dirt to lower edge of text block at front corner, erased pencil mark to flyleaf, else Fine. Facsimile of Wulfen's Abhandlung vom Kärtner Bleispate (Vienna: 1785), a description of minerals found at Bleiburg (in Carinthia, Austria) that is one of the "finest examples of hand-colored mineral illustration." Among the minerals is the popular and eponymous wulfenite. This volume also includes a fascimile of the 1791 Latin translation of Wulfen's book, an English translation, a facsimile of an 1810 biography of Wulfen, a 1986 article on the Bleiburg site, and an introduction by Wilson.

La Medicina Naturale. Rivista Bimensale. No. 17 (July-Aug 1918) by [AMERICAN POPULAR MEDICINE - NATUROPATHY] FERRI, N.A. [Nicandro], ed

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Title: La Medicina Naturale. Rivista Bimensale. No. 17 (July-Aug 1918)
Author: [AMERICAN POPULAR MEDICINE - NATUROPATHY] FERRI, N.A. [Nicandro], ed
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Chicago: G. Bertelli, 1918. Single quarto issue in tan paper wrappers; 16pp; illus. Wrappers present but tattered, with chips to margins; contents complete and fresh. A sound, Good copy. Apparently unrecorded Italian-language journal of naturopathy, published in Chicago under the editorship of Nicandro A. Ferri, who also published a few naturopathic titles in English including "The Behavior of Health" (1930) and "Soybeans, the Wonder Food" (1938). The magazine's focus appears to have been primarily on nutrition and digestive health; Ferri contributes two such articles to the present issue; other contributors include E. Piccoli ("Il senso alimentare"); J.H. Tilden (a translation of his essay on the treatment of gonorrhoea); others. Not located in OCLC under title, editor, or publisher.

La Lanterne Noire. Revue de Critique Anarchiste. Première annèe, no. 2 (January 1975) by [ANARCHISM - FRANCE] DUTEUIL, J.-P. (ed)

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Title: La Lanterne Noire. Revue de Critique Anarchiste. Première annèe, no. 2 (January 1975)
Author: [ANARCHISM - FRANCE] DUTEUIL, J.-P. (ed)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: J.-P. Duteuil, 1975. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 64pp. Single issue in original wrappers. Mild external wear; Near FIne. Principal article is a history and analysis of the Lip watch factory worker uprising of 1973. Text entirely in French.

La Lanterne Noire. Revue de Critique Anarchiste. Troisième annèe, no. 9 (December, 1977) by [ANARCHISM - FRANCE] DUTEUIL, J.-P. (ed)

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Title: La Lanterne Noire. Revue de Critique Anarchiste. Troisième annèe, no. 9 (December, 1977)
Author: [ANARCHISM - FRANCE] DUTEUIL, J.-P. (ed)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: J.-P. Duteuil, 1977. Octavo. Staple-bound wrappers; 68pp. Single issue in original wrappers. Mild external wear; Near FIne. Includes article, signed "Agathe," on "Anarchisme et Feminisme," reprinting the Manifesto of the Barcelona anarcho-feminist group Mujeres Libres. Text entirely in French.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Title: THE COMPLETE WORKS OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: The Clarendon Press and Henry Frowde, Oxford, London and New York. 1903. Beautifully bound in three-quarter vellum over marbled boards. Octavo, 732 pages plus useful 147 page glossarial index bound in at the back. Ornamental spine in the Art Nouveau style with gilt twining stem and flowers. Title and publisher labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endleaves, matching the paper used on the binding. Pictorial frontispiece. Aside from minor soiling, this is a superb example of the Book Arts that flourished at the turn of the twentieth century. This edition of Chaucer's work is edited from numerous manuscripts by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, noted scholar and professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University. Prized for their beauty and representation of literary achievement, these bindings have become difficult to find in fine condition.

Circa 1900 – A tribute to missionary nurses by Unidentified

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Title: Circa 1900 – A tribute to missionary nurses
Author: Unidentified
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Unknown, 1900. Unbound. Very good. This two-page, manuscript tribute to missionary nursing is titled, “The Nurse in the Foreign Field.” It bears no author’s name or date of writing. However, from its content, paper, penmanship, and what is recorded about the history of missionary nursing, it was probably written around 1900. In nice shape with some toning and minor marginal wear.. It reads in total: “When we are sick there is nothing that is quite so welcome to us as for someone to relief us of our pain. The soldiers during the late war [probably the Spanish-American War] called the nurses the angels of mercy. The peoples of foreign fields have that same sense of pain that we have but they labored so long under the delusion that a certain god can cure it or that it is because a certain god has become angry from some thing that person has done. That he or she is suffering so and that it is alright that they should suffer. But many times it is possible to persuade a native to allow the nurse to try to do him good, and then after he has been helped his interest is aroused and finally his faith is secured. While ministering to the holy one has chance to become intimately acquainted with the patient and sow seeds which very often takes root and brings not only that soul to Christ but a whole family. “Then two in many countries men are not allowed in the homes, particularly to talk or minister to the women, but the nurse is allowed sometimes to enter to minister to the bodily needs. Once getting inside of the homes by being tactful a nurse can gain a footing there that will bear fruit later.” . The concept of medical missionary work was first conceived by Western missionaries in China with the support of Canton businessmen who hoped it would help open the country and the East to international trade. Although medical missionaries, i.e., doctors and nurses combined, were small in number (only about 770 of 12,837 total missionaries, their impact was disproportionately larger than their non-medical counterparts. Although many denominations sent missionary nurses overseas, the Presbyterians provided the most, especially to China, Thailand, the Philippines, and Korea. For many women, becoming a nursing missionary was the epitome of womanhood, an opportunity to care for the weak, sick, and helpless. Although they performed traditional nursing roles, they did so in a relatively independent environment, which, for the most part, was unbound by the strictures of the masculine-dominated medical community at home. Moreover, many were motivated by the prevailing societal view that it was a person’s moral, Christian obligation to save souls. (For more information, see Bartlett’s “Female Medical Missionaries: Using Traditional Roles to Transcend the Status Quo,” available online.) .

Kingery's Celebrated Peanut Roaster and Warmer Combined [and] Peerless and Giant Freezers by [Broadside]; Kingery, S.S.

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Title: Kingery's Celebrated Peanut Roaster and Warmer Combined [and] Peerless and Giant Freezers
Author: [Broadside]; Kingery, S.S.
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Cincinnati, OH, 1882. Two-sided advertising broadside, (29.8 x 22.2 cm.). Illustrated advertisement, printed on both sides. For Cincinnati, Ohio purveyor S.S. Kingery. On one side, Kingery promotes a combined peanut roaster and warmer. Includes description, capacity, ordering options, and testimonials. The other side advertises two types of ice cream makers, the "Giant Freezer" and the "Peerless Freezer". Some very slight edge wear and fold creases, fine condition. [OCLC locates no copies; not in Romaine].

Zehn Kleine Negerbuben, Eine lustige Geschichte mit drolligen Bildern; Ten Little Negros, A Funny Story with Funny Pictures by BAUMGARTEN, Fritz

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Title: Zehn Kleine Negerbuben, Eine lustige Geschichte mit drolligen Bildern; Ten Little Negros, A Funny Story with Funny Pictures
Author: BAUMGARTEN, Fritz
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Mainz: Engelbert Dessart, 1948. 1/4 cloth. Near fine. 8vo; 19pp; quarter bound red cloth with illustrated glazed paper over board cover; illustrated paste downs; full page illustrations in color and black and white with text; light scruffing to bottom cover, faint scratch to cover; near fine. A German version of the book Ten Little Niggers with scenary that is definitely Germanic in many illustrations; this is a variation of the Ten Little Indians counting rhyme. Charming illustrations do not compensate for the deeply disturbing sentiment of the rhymes. Of the 14 copies held worldwide in WorldCat libraries, only two located in the U.S.A.

Autograph letter signed from Rene Clair to Daniel Selznick, 1968 by René Clair (director); Daniel Selznick (producer);

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Title: Autograph letter signed from Rene Clair to Daniel Selznick, 1968
Author: René Clair (director); Daniel Selznick (producer);
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: 1968. Autograph letter signed from noted director René Clair to producer Daniel Selznick, executed on hotel airmail stationery. In French. Included are two photostat copies of related letters from Selznick to Clair (also in French), as well as a ditto-style mimeograph copy of a wire from Clair to Selznick noting where Clair is staying during May 1968. The letters involve a project for Universal, for which Selznick is soliciting Clair's involvement. A rough English translation of the letter reads: "Dear Mr. Selznick / It is with pleasure that I would examine with you the project described in your letter of July 23 (which got to my address in Paris on August 1, and was then delivered to me here). / I am in St. Moritz at the above address until August 20, then Neuilly, then Madrid. Please let me know where and when it would be convenient for us to meet. Warmly, René Clair." Daniel Selznick, the son of David O. Selznick, is best known as a producer for films such as Peter Bogdanovich's "Targets" (1968) and various documentaries about Hollywood. His association with his father allowed him many opportunities to meet and correspond with numerous actors, actresses, and directors of note. Note: 5 x 4 inches. Bonded stationery stock, Near Fine. Photostat letter: 8.5 x 11 inches.

Exhibition card: Carl Andre at Wide White Space (8 January-4 February 1974) by (ANDRE, Carl)

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Title: Exhibition card: Carl Andre at Wide White Space (8 January-4 February 1974)
Author: (ANDRE, Carl)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Printed on both sides. Card. Brussels: Wide White Space, 1974. Invitation card for Andre’s 1974 show with Anny de Decker and Bernd Lohaus’s gallery. Near fine. ❧ Y. Pettitallot, ed., Wide White Space: Behind the Museum, 1966-1976 (1995), Exhibitions no. 80 (pictured).

CHOREOGRAPHY BY GEORGE BALANCHINE: A CATALOGUE OF WORKS by (Balanchine, George. Kirstein, Lincoln (preface by).

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Title: CHOREOGRAPHY BY GEORGE BALANCHINE: A CATALOGUE OF WORKS
Author: (Balanchine, George. Kirstein, Lincoln (preface by).
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: As New
Description: NY: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1983. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. As new copy, in clear acetate wrapper, in light cardboards slipcase as issued. 4to, tan rough-weave cloth, green label w. gilt titles spine, 407, (2). Inscribed by Lincoln Kirstein on the colophon in rear with best wishes to a friend and supporter and dated by him October 1983. The Russian-born Balanchine (1904 - 1983) was the leading choreographer of American ballet and founder of the School of American Ballet. Lincoln Kirstein (1907 -1996) was an American writer, impresario, art connoisseur, philanthropist, and cultural figure in New York City, noted especially as co-founder of the New York City Ballet.

La Vestale Melodramma in tre Atti di De Jouy Tradotto in Versi Italiani da Giovanni Schmidt ... Rappresentata per la prima volta in francese al Teatro dell'Opera a Parigi il 15 Dicembre 1807 e riprodotta in italiano all'I. R. Teatro alla Scala in Milano il 26 Dicembre 1824 Canto in Chiave di Sol con accompto. di Pianoforte Riduzione di Remigio Vitali ... 23125 ... netti Fr. 15.-. [Piano-vocal score] by SPONTINI, Gaspare 1774-1851

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Title: La Vestale Melodramma in tre Atti di De Jouy Tradotto in Versi Italiani da Giovanni Schmidt ... Rappresentata per la prima volta in francese al Teatro dell'Opera a Parigi il 15 Dicembre 1807 e riprodotta in italiano all'I. R. Teatro alla Scala in Milano il 26 Dicembre 1824 Canto in Chiave di Sol con accompto. di Pianoforte Riduzione di Remigio Vitali ... 23125 ... netti Fr. 15.-. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: SPONTINI, Gaspare 1774-1851
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Milano: F. Lucca [PN 23101-23124], 1870. Large octavo. Quarter dark brown calf with textured black cloth boards, spine in gilt-ruled compartments, titling gilt. 1f. (recto decorative title, verso blank), 1f. (recto contents, verso named cast list), 5-465, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved. Named cast includes Loreto Garcia, Elisabetta Ferron, Vincenzo Galli, Berardo Vinter, Claudio Bonoldi, and Giovan Carlo Beretta. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Minor to moderate foxing; minor worming to upper margin of free front endpaper and first two leaves. First Italian edition of the second version.

Zap Comix #7

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Title: Zap Comix #7
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: (n.p.): Print Mint. 1974. Second printing, with 75 cent price. Mild rubbing to covers; very good. Softcover. Very Good.

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