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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (Presentation copy) by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, And other Sketches (Presentation copy)
Author: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: C. H. Webb, 1867. First edition. Good. Presentation copy, inscribed on the blank recto of the advertisement leaf: "With compliments of Mark Twain New York, May 9, 1867." The original recipient's name has been torn away (and the advertisement leaf has been repaired with a section from another first edition copy). The novel was published in April 25, 1867, making this one of the earliest presentation copies known. The copy Twain presented to his mother was dated May 1st, and two other copies were dated May 10th (the day Twain gave a lecture at the Brooklyn Athenaeum). This copy last sold in 1991 at Christies in the Chester L. Davis sale. Another early presentation copy for John Stanton (Cory O'Lanus) sold in 2004 for $114,000. First edition, first issue of Mark Twain's first book. This copy features the gilt stamp of the leaping frog in the lower left corner, rather than centered on the board; it has all of the points of a first issue as delineated by BAL, including the leaf of ads by the title page and unbroken type on pages 21, 66 and 198. The book has been carefully restored with a new spine (with the original spine laid down) and new endpapers. There is faint dampstaining throughout and the dampstaining to the inscribed leaf matches up with the rest of the book. Pencil notations to verso of final blank, including what looks like a name: C. Wood. And while it is not the only known presentation copy of Jumping Frog, this is undoubtedly one of a handful of copies of the first issue extant and the first to hit the market since the auction result in 2004. Housed in a simple, quarter-leather slipcase with chemise. Mark Twain, with his account of the jumping frog, produced the most famous tale in California history - if not the history of the American West. This little gem of humor propelled the author and his first book to international prominence. As his publisher, Charles Henry Webb, noted, "By his story of the Frog, he scaled the heights of popularity at a single jump." Twain's compilation of tales, along with those of Bret Harte, continues to romanticize and popularize the Gold Rush. The story of the lead-loaded frog (named Daniel Webster) made Angels Camp one of the best-known tourist attractions in the gold country. Twain first learned of the story of the jumping frog when he prospected in the vicinity of Jackass Hill in Tuolumne County. On a rainy January day in 1865 Twain and a friend, James Gillis, went into the bar at the Angels Camp Hotel in nearby Calaveras County and heard a gentleman by the name of Ben Coon tell the amusing story of the trained frog. He repeated the story to Artemus Ward, who in turn encouraged him to write it up and send it to Ward's publisher, Carleton, in New York. The tale's popularity spread across America and Europe until it was collected in the present volume. Zamorano 80. Huntington Library, Exhibition of Famous and Notorious California Classics, 17. Johnson, Twain, pp. 3-9. LC. Good.

THE UNGODLY CONDEMNED IN JUDGMENT. A SERMON PREACHED AT SPRINGFIELD, DECEMBER 13TH 1770. ON OCCASION OF THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM SHAW, FOR MURDER. BY MOSES BALDWIN, A.M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN PALMER. THE SECOND EDITION by Baldwin, Moses

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Title: THE UNGODLY CONDEMNED IN JUDGMENT. A SERMON PREACHED AT SPRINGFIELD, DECEMBER 13TH 1770. ON OCCASION OF THE EXECUTION OF WILLIAM SHAW, FOR MURDER. BY MOSES BALDWIN, A.M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN PALMER. THE SECOND EDITION
Author: Baldwin, Moses
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Printed and Sold by Kneeland and Adams, next to the Treasurer's Office in Milk-Street, 1771. 24pp, but lacking the half title. Death's Head ornamentation on title page. Disbound and uniformly toned. Closed tear to title leaf [no loss] repaired; evidence of repair at outer margin]. Inner margin of title page and page 24 with old wrapper remnants. Good+. Shaw bludgeoned Edward East to death while both were inmates of the Springfield prison. This is the second of three editions of this title, all issuing in 1771; AAS does not own our edition. Reverend Baldwin scolds Mr. Shaw "for the sin of intemperance. Have you not hereby dishonoured God, and abused his bounty and goodness; wronged your own soul and body; wasted your substance; brought your self and family to poverty and distress?. . . You are verily guilty of the crying sin of MURDER." Evans 11974. ESTC W1508.[5- Yale, NYHS, Boston Public, Williams, Peabody-Essex].

“The genus dendrolagus.” In Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. XXI, Part 6 by ROTHSCHILD, Lord; DOLLMAN, Guy

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Title: “The genus dendrolagus.” In Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. XXI, Part 6
Author: ROTHSCHILD, Lord; DOLLMAN, Guy
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for the Society, 1936. FIRST PRINTING. With 16 color plates after Frohawk and 7 black & white photographic plates. Original printed front wrappers; an excellent copy. First printing, the complete part 6 of Volume XXI, of this beautiful monograph on the tree kangaroo, with fine colored plates after Frohawk. This was the first comprehensive taxonomy of the species, and features fourteen species from New Guinea and surrounding islands, as well as Lumholtz’s Tree-Kangaroo and Bennett’s Tree-Kangaroo, both from northern Queensland. The exquisite plates, apparently none of which were based upon live specimens, were executed by the well-known natural history artist Frederick William Frohawk. Dendrolagus includes the tree-kangaroo or kapul, which are like Wallabys marsupials, adapted for arboreal locomotion. Most tree-kangaroos are considered threatened due to hunting and habitat destruction. The basis of Rothschild’s study here was his own collection, now part of the British Natural History Museum.

Photograph of a Seated Woman, c. 1910s by [African-American Photographers - New York] Baker, Walter

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Title: Photograph of a Seated Woman, c. 1910s
Author: [African-American Photographers - New York] Baker, Walter
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, 1920. Photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on larger mount. Some fading to image, wear to mount, very good. Very Good. Walter Baker was a founder of the Colored Photographers Association and owned and operated a studio and school on Lenox Avenue at 133rd Street in New York in the early twentieth century. He was one of the best-known and most prolific photographers in Harlem during the period. Offered here is an example of his work, a photograph of an unidentified seated woman in formal dress.

Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

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Seller: Heartwood Books

Title: Darkness and Dawn
Author: George Allan England
Seller: Heartwood Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Third printing March 1914. A color frontis and three black and white illustration plates. Publisher's red cloth stamped gilt. Brown and tan pictorial endpapers. 672pp. Utopian novel.This copy is SIGNED and IINSCRIBED by the Author, "To the Boys at Rumford, with fraternal greetings, from George Allan England, Nov 1, 1915." Book Condition: Good: A firm square copy with tarnished spine gilt, bright cover gilt. Owner's 1915 gift inscription to back of frontispiece - front free endpaper is missing.

History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia by ALER, Vernon

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Title: History of Martinsburg and Berkeley County, West Virginia
Author: ALER, Vernon
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Hagerstown MD: The Mail Publishing Company, 1888. First Edition. 8vo. 23cm x 16cm. Publisher's original black embossed cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board, the machine gilding has dulled over time, particularly to the spine, but the cloth is bright and clean, slight bumping and scuffing to extremities, but a very good, strong, tidy copy. 438pp. Internally remarkably clean. An exhaustive and very detailed (if not particularly even handed) history of West Virginia "From the origins of the Indians...to the First White Settlement of The Valley.

An American Traveler's Guide to Black History by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] DROTNING, Phillip T.

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Title: An American Traveler's Guide to Black History
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] DROTNING, Phillip T.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Doubleday, 1968. First Edition Thus. Illustrated Revised Edition, of a volume also published under the title "A Guide to Negro History in America." Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's black cloth spine over vivid blue cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 247pp. The lightest of wear to the cloth, in a clean, strong dustjacket with some marginal wear and scuffing, a bit of discoloration to the spine panel and some minor creases, a small closed tear to the lower corner of the front flap. A very good copy. Internally clean, fore edge untrimmed. The first book edition of this work, previously commissioned and distributed by the American Oil Company, noting "places in America where Blacks made history", clearly created with the best of intentions, but also clearly written during a time when the term 'making history' was still being defined for people of color, rather than by them. The preface was penned by Senator Edward W. Brooke.

Red Flag Theater presents: The mother by Bertolt Brecht [poster]

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Title: Red Flag Theater presents: The mother by Bertolt Brecht [poster]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Detroit: Red Flag Theater, 1980. 18x23.5 inch poster, originally designed by the San Francisco Poster Brigade, adapted for use in other cities. Unobtrusive corner crease, short closed edge tear at top.

George Simon Winters wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt ... nebst einigen, höchst seltenen für junge Fohlen vielfach bewahrt gefundenen Arznei-Mitteln .... by Winter, George Simon

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Title: George Simon Winters wohlerfahrner Pferde-Arzt ... nebst einigen, höchst seltenen für junge Fohlen vielfach bewahrt gefundenen Arznei-Mitteln ....
Author: Winter, George Simon
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Good; binding somewhat "skinned" on the front board; joints wearing.
Description: Northampton County: Kleckner, Rolf und Williams, 1841. Second Printing.. Full contemporary leather with a mounted label.. Good; binding somewhat "skinned" on the front board; joints wearing.. 12mo, 839, [1 - blank] pp. + 38 inserted woodblock plates. A massive compendium, in three parts, devoted to the horse, its ailments, and cures. The text, according to the title, appears to contain remedies that have been added by Winter. There is a question as to the number of plates. Tucher (#2201) states 39 but OCLC lists anywhere between 16 and 41. The book has the appearance of being carelessly made up; the plates were separately printed (on inferior paper) and are generic rather than directly relevant to the text (there are a number of repeats). They apparently were added to enhance the appeal of the book at the point of sale and therefore do not form part of the collation. Unusual but aimed at profit not information. Scarce. Absent from American Imprints.

SAINT CINEMA Selected Writings 1929-1970 by Weinberg, Herman G.

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Title: SAINT CINEMA Selected Writings 1929-1970
Author: Weinberg, Herman G.
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: DBS Publications, Inc., 1970. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page - "To Paul Gebhard, whom I would like to please with this book. With best wishes, Herman Weinberg.". Dr. Paul Gebhard ( 1917-2015) was a researcher at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and was co-author with Dr. Kinsey of the 1953 best-seller "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female". He was played by Timothy Hutton in the 2004 film "Kinsey". Herman G. Weinberg was one of the foremost film critics and historians of the 20th century and the major translator of foreign films of that era. Book is Near Fine, Gebhard's small name stamp front end page, along with a small inked x, top edge dusty, in a Very Good dust jacket, small tears and rubs at head of spine and fold edges. Preface by Fritz Lang..

Advertising Trade Card ) Libby, McNeill & Libby Cooked Meats are Always the Cheapest and Most Economical for Lumbermen & Miners

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Title: Advertising Trade Card ) Libby, McNeill & Libby Cooked Meats are Always the Cheapest and Most Economical for Lumbermen & Miners
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: ( Chicago ): Libby, McNeill & Libby Co. Ephemera. Very Good. Cardstock. 3" x 5". No date, circa 1870's. Founded in 1869, Libby, McNeill & Libby began in Chicago as a maker of canned brined corned beef. Sharp chromolithograph image, Very Good, small chip bottom left corner. , verso not printed, with some staining, not affecting image on front..

Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books - Diamonds and Toads

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Title: Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books - Diamonds and Toads
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Cover separated from the rest of the book, light foxing and wear at the edges
Description: London; New York: Frederick Warne & Co. Cover separated from the rest of the book, light foxing and wear at the edges. 11 leaves including covers. dark blue paper wrapper with colored decorative border and decorative elements on the cover, and "Price One Shilling; or, Mounted With Linen, Two Shillings" written across the top. Includes 6 full page, color illustrations. Back cover lists the different series in "Warne's Nursery Literature", 9" x 11

MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET by Bellow, Saul

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Title: MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET
Author: Bellow, Saul
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: New York: The Viking Press, (1970). 8vo. A very nice copy with the wrapper price clipped and a discreet gift inscription on the end paper. Cloth - backed boards As New in As New dj

Recent Developments by Erwitt, Elliot

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Seller: Dawson's Book Shop

Title: Recent Developments
Author: Erwitt, Elliot
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Visual Books, New York, 1978. Good. 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 128 pages, wrappers.

Jacopo Bassano by ZAMPETTI, Pietro

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Title: Jacopo Bassano
Author: ZAMPETTI, Pietro
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: near fine
Description: Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1957. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Jacopo Bassano. 86 color plates. 79 pages of text in Italian. 4to, rust cloth, d.w. with color plate mounted on front panel. Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, (date unknown, circa 1957-58). A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.

Andy Warhol: Abstrakt by Thomas Kellein; Callie Angell

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Title: Andy Warhol: Abstrakt
Author: Thomas Kellein; Callie Angell
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9783791313320
Condition: Very Good
Description: Munich: Prestel, 1993. Very Good. Munich: Prestel, 1993. First Edition. Quarto (32x25x1cm); 81pp. Fifty-four reproductions of works, details, and film stills. Entirely in German. Glossy illustrated card covers reproducing a Warhol egg painting. Off-white textblock for the reproductions. Covers clean and crisp. Spine straight and unbroken. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Warhol's abstractions are here surveyed as a counterpoint to his more famous non-abstractions of easily identifiable objects, people, and events. This is the catalog of the exhibit held in 1993 and 1994 which traveled from Basel to Vienna, Malmö, and Valencia.

NEW JERSEY. A Profile in Pictures

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Title: NEW JERSEY. A Profile in Pictures
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1939. NEW JERSEY. A Profile in Pictures, New York, 1939. [59] p. Illus. Cloth. Photographic essay, compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A.

The Bottoms by Lansdale, Joe R.

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Title: The Bottoms
Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780892967049
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Mysterious Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Pages slightly tanned, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. Signed and dated in the year of publication by Lansdale on the title page.

A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,; On the day preceding commencement, July 27, 1853, commemorative of Daniel Webster.. by CHOATE, Rufus

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Title: A DISCOURSE DELIVERED BEFORE THE FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE,; On the day preceding commencement, July 27, 1853, commemorative of Daniel Webster..
Author: CHOATE, Rufus
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: Boston: Munroe, 1853. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 100. Paper wraps. Cover little worn, o/w VG. Another copy, wraps replaced with marbled paper. VG.

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: Sculpture by FONSSAGRIVES-PENN, Lisa

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Title: Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn: Sculpture
Author: FONSSAGRIVES-PENN, Lisa
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1986. First edition. Softcover. 4 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 4-26, 1986. Includes 7 black and white illustrations, brief biographical chronology, and a checklist. A very good copy in stapled wrappers and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery with their marks. A very nice copy with an interesting provenance.

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