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President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940: The American Flag Is the Symbol of Freedom by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940: The American Flag Is the Symbol of Freedom
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 16/04/1940. Just before the turn of the 20th century, international rivalries between Britain, Germany and the United States were settled by the Tripartite Convention that partitioned the Samoan Islands into two parts: the eastern island group became a territory of the United States today known as American Samoa; the western islands became known as German Samoa (they are now the nation of Samoa). In return, Germany gave up claims it had in Africa to Britain. On April 17, 1900, the Treaty of Cession of Tutuila was signed between several chiefs of the island of Tutuila and the United States, whereby the chiefs on that island swore allegiance to, and ceded the island of Tutuila to, the United States. Now American Samoa was essentially complete and became a Protectorate of the United States. In 1940, it would celebrate its 40th anniversary under the American flag. Navy Capt. Edward W. Hanson was the 28th Governor of American Samoa, serving from 1938 to 1940. He believed that the native Samoans had a good way of life, and did little to interfere with established practices on the islands.“Hearty congratulations on the happy occasion of the 40th anniversary of hoisting the American flag over Tutuila. I hope through all the years ahead that the national emblem will be a token in this far-flung possession of that spirit of democracy and free institutions which it has symbolized ever since our beginnings as a nation.”By April of 1940, the world was at war and the international situation was deteriorating. On March 30, the Japanese set up a puppet government in China. On April 10 the Germans occupied Denmark and invaded Norway, setting up a puppet government in the latter place. British troops landed to battle them, but had no success. Germany was preparing to imminently invade Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, and the Neville Chamberlain government in Britain was barely hanging on by a thread. In a matter of weeks, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands would fall, France would be invaded, and Winston Churchill would be called upon to assume the office of Prime Minister in a dark hour. President Roosevelt was acutely aware of the dangers all of this posed to the national security of the United States, and to the entire American way of life. He thought deeply about freedom, its symbolism and meaning, and the American role in protecting it, even as he watched it get snuffed out overseas.FDR used the occasion of the 40th Samoan anniversary as an American protectorate to express his emotional feeling about the American flag, and the freedom it brought to those living under its waving stars and stripes.Typed telegram signed “FDR”, on official White House telegram paper, Washington, April 16, 1940, to Hanson, commenting not merely on the anniversary, but on the meaning he attached to the American flag. “Hearty congratulations on the happy occasion of the 40th anniversary of hoisting the American flag over Tutuila. I hope through all the years ahead that the national emblem will be a token in this far-flung possession of that spirit of democracy and free institutions which it has symbolized ever since our beginnings as a nation.” This is the first time we have seen this White House telegraph paper signed by a president.This important quotation, which appears to be unpublished, brings back the moment, and communicates everything that the American should stand for.On July 30, 1940, Hanson’s term ended. During World War II he served as commander of cruisers and battleships, ending the war as Commander, Battleship Division 9 in the Pacific theater.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by FitzGerald, Edward (translator)

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Author: FitzGerald, Edward (translator)
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Methuen & Co, 1901. Later edition. Fine. One of sixty copies on handmade paper, fifty of which were for sale. An excellent, Fine copy. Beautifully bound in full brown crushed morocco with boards elaborately decorated in gilt. Upper board with delicate floral design inlaid in red and green morocco. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Hand-painted endpapers. Turn-ins ruled in gilt. A lovely, wide-margined copy in a very attractive binding. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, compiled and translated by Edward FitzGerald, was first published in 1859. The work was a loose adaptation of a group of poems then attributed to the Persian astronomer Omar Khayyam (though modern scholarship has revealed that the poems were likely the work of a number of authors). Though FitzGerald's publication was not immediately popular, it received its due appreciation in 1861, when the Celtic scholar Whitley Stokes bought a copy in 1861 and passed it to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In turn, the poet shared it with his fellow Pre-Raphaelites, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Morris, and John Ruskin. Championed by Rossettii and his circle, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam soared in popularity. "Like the Odyssey or the Vita Nuova [it] was once the most widely known and quoted work of Victorian poetry in the world," and its place in Western culture at the time was secured by FitzGerald's "epigrammatic, sophisticated, often mordant verses [that] display FitzGerald's adroitness in handling this stanza form" (Warner). Throughout the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the work saw countless finely-printed, expertly-bound, and lavishly-illustrated editions, of which this is one. Fine.

The animal Kingdom by CUVIER, BARON

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The animal Kingdom
Author: CUVIER, BARON
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. With 19 (of 20) plates (lacking the first plate in Volume 1). Modern calf-backed marbled boards; some foxing to text leaves in Volume 1, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Bookplate in each volume of the Newburyport Public Library and dated in manuscript Jan. 8, 1859, plus book label on the rear paste-down. First American edition of a landmark in the history of zoology and comparative anatomy, the most comprehensive biological work since Linnaeus. “Cuvier’s valuable work represented the fruits of a lifetime’s study of living and fossil animals. In his day Cuvier exerted an enormous influence on science. He played a leading part in the development of the science of palaeontology and stimulated the study of comparative anatomy” (G&M). “It is in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups, Vertebrata, Mollusca, Articulata and Radiata, that he is so notably succeeded in giving a lead that has been followed by all his successors. . .Cuvier was the first to apply analyses and comparison to the entire animal kingdom. He also saw that this homogeneity in an individual should enable a competent naturalist to reconstruct a complete animal from any significant part of its anatomy” (PMM).

Clair de Lune; A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes by Strange, Michael

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: Clair de Lune; A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes
Author: Strange, Michael
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (no price), generaly toned, a small chip at the head of the spine. Black cloth, faintly bumped, with gilt lettering on the spine and front panel. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name on the front endpaper, clean otherwise. Strange's play written during her marriage to John Barrymore, who played Gwymplane the clone in the play. Barrymore's sister is listed as the lead role of the Queen.

Packard for 1937. Packard One Twenty. Packard Six-Six -- Of a Distinguished Family; Get the "Plus" of a Packard

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Packard for 1937. Packard One Twenty. Packard Six-Six -- Of a Distinguished Family; Get the "Plus" of a Packard
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Detroit, Michigan: The Packard Motor Car Company, 1936. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Oblong, 23 by 30.5 cm. Unpaginated, 32 pages. Color illustrations on virtually every page. Many are based on photos but with painterly enhancements, including a drawn background, colorizing, other touches to create some simulacrum of a painting. 14 pages are essentially full page plates depicting a single car model, this in full and bright color, with a green and white drawn idyllic background. Two pages are devoted to full page illustrations of car interiors, a single illustration in each instance. At the center are large photo illustrations, onone side of the company's sprawling plant, the other side, of its testing track. Four pages are given over to smaller detail illustrations of interior features. The final six pages show the mechanics of the car, the motor, the underbelly, etc. Two of these illustrations are larger format, and close to full page. The catalogue is scarce -- OCLC First Search picks up only two institutional holdings -- U. of Michigan and LA Public Library. Condition: A few small stamps on front cover plus and narrow strip of paper pastedown -- all of these suggest to us this copy came from a dealership which filed away this copy. Light soil on cover elsewhere. Light wear beside. Easily very good.

Presidential Courage; Brave Leaders And How They Changed America 1789 - 1989 by [Albright, Madeleine] Beschloss, Michael

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Presidential Courage; Brave Leaders And How They Changed America 1789 - 1989
Author: [Albright, Madeleine] Beschloss, Michael
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. The first edition of Presidential Courage by presidential historian Michael Beschloss, inscribed to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.. Octavo, xiii, 430pp. Gray hardcover, title in gilt on spine. Full number line on copyright page. Appears lightly read. In the publisher's dust jacket, $28.00 on front flap, light shelf wear, chip at lower corner of hinge, a very good example. Includes the bookplate from the "Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright" on the front pastedown. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Madeleine Albright / With admiration and affection as always - Michael." From the Private Collection of Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, sold at Hindman Auctions of Chicago, May 8, 2024, Lot 81. Madeleine Albright (1937-2022) served as the first female United States Secretary of State in the Clinton administration (1997-2001). She previously served as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1993-1997), and she was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University for many years. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama in 2012.

CRUISE OF THE WALNUT SHELL by Andre, R. ( Illustrator)

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Title: CRUISE OF THE WALNUT SHELL
Author: Andre, R. ( Illustrator)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: CRUISE OF THE WALNUT SHELL, McLoughlin, N.d. (ca.1880), first American edition?, considerable flaking to the spine, else vg in full color pictorial wraps. A wonderful example of Victorian children's literature.

Goodtime Kings. Emerging African Pop by BERGMAN, Bill

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Goodtime Kings. Emerging African Pop
Author: BERGMAN, Bill
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to the wrappers
Description: New York: Quill, 1985. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to the wrappers. 10 x 7 inches. 143 pages. Original printed wrappers. Includes profiles of King Sunny Adé, Fela Kuti, Prince Nico Mbarga, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Franco, Orchestra Jazira, and many others.

Small Archive of Five Publications on Argentine Trade and Finance: 1928-1945 by [Argentina]

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Title: Small Archive of Five Publications on Argentine Trade and Finance: 1928-1945
Author: [Argentina]
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: First editions unless noted. Paper wrappers. Very good.. 1. Institute of International Finance. CREDIT POSITION OF ARGENTINA. BULLETIN NO. 86 (REVISION OF BULLETIN NO. 62). JUNE 1, 1936. New York: Institute of International Finance, 1936. 28 pp. 8vo. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. 2. U.S. Chamber of Commerce. SPEECHES AT THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL BANQUET OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. SEPTEMBER 20TH, 1935. Buenos Aires: First National Bank of Boston, 1935. 15 pp. Sm. 4to. Stapled paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. 3. Chemical Bank & Trust Co. ARGENTINA. NUMBER 39. DECEMBER 29 1947. New York: Chemical Bank & Trust Co., 1947. Unpaged [4 pp]. Sm. 4to. Self wrappers. First edition. A very good copy. 4. Argentine Embassy. ARGENTINE PUBLIC FINANCE 1928-1937. New York: Cornell Univ. Press, 1939. 27 pp. Sm. 4to. Stapled paper wrappers. Reprint. A very good copy. 5. BOLETIN DE LA BOLSA DE COMERCIO DE BUENOS AIRES. AÑO XLVII. TOMO CXXXVII. JULIO 16 DE 1951. NO. 2410. Buenos Aires: Consejo Directivo de la Bolsa, 1951. [221-316] pp. Sm. 4to. Paper wrappers. First edition. A very good copy, writing on front wrapper.

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