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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton

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Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Author: Wilder, Thornton
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First American Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. Signed first American edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder. This copy is inscribed to a lifelong friend of Wilder, with two additional ALS laid-in.. Octavo, 235pp, [1]. Mauve cloth, title in black on front cover and spine. Yellow topstain, illustrated endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, light wear along edges, a near fine example. Previous ownership inscription to front flyleaf, dated 1927. Complete with frontispiece and 8 plates by Amy Drevenstedt. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, sunned spine, light wear to corners. Closed tears to front panel and spine reinforced with archival tissue repair on verso. An attractive example. (Bruccoli & Clark III, 363) (Martine 9, 146) (Edelstein A2b) Signed by Thornton Wilder on the verso of the frontispiece. Inscription reads: "To Miss Margaret Dunbar / with all the regard of an old friend and co-worker. Thornton / Berkeley Jan 1930." Includes two handwritten letters from Wilder, corresponding with the recipient of this copy, Miss Margaret Dunbar. One letter, dated March 24, 1969, was written to Dunbar as Wilder traveled by ship from Genoa to Curacao. Wilder describes hopes for the remainder of his career, stating "Alas, I haven't yet written that beguiling book for children that I've long dreamed of doing; and I'd like to do one more (and better) farce-comedy that would give sheer pleasure." The second letter, dated February 27, 1972, is addressed to "Mrs. Dunbar," offering condolences for the passing of the original recipient. The recipient of this copy and letters, Miss Margaret Dunbar (d. 1972), was the head of the South Berkeley Branch Library, a member of the American Association of University Women, and a member of the Berkeley Zonta Club. (Berkeley Gazette, April 1948) Dunbar and Wilder maintained a friendship first formed in childhood, as they both lived near Berkeley, CA. (Sacramento Union, Sept. 1930) The English edition of The Bridge of San Luis Rey preceded the first American edition by a few days. The true first impression (only 21 copies) has a title page printed in all black and is rarely seen on the market. (Edelstein A2a) Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an American playwright and novelist renowned for exploring universal themes of human connection and resilience. He won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for drama with Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942), and one for fiction with this work, The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927).

Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens; Containing A Selection of His Letters, Speeches, State Papers, Etc. by Waddell, James D. [Stephens, Alexander H.] [Confederate Vice President]

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Title: Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens; Containing A Selection of His Letters, Speeches, State Papers, Etc.
Author: Waddell, James D. [Stephens, Alexander H.] [Confederate Vice President]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Atlanta: Dodson & Scott, 1877. First Edition. Leather bound. Very good. Presentation copy of the Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, edited by James D. Waddell, inscribed by his brother, Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens.. Octavo, [6], 434pp. Modern brown morocco, decorative raised bands, red morocco label with title in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Includes half title and frontispiece portrait. Clean text throughout, faint splash mark to fore-edge, no impact to text. Bookplate on front endpaper. Solid text block. Inscribed on the second free endpaper: "To Rev. J. N. Heaton, D.D. / with the kindest regards of Alexander H. Stephens / Liberty Hall / Crawfordsville, Ga / 4 Oct. 1879." Georgia Supreme Court Judge Linton Stephens (1823-1872) was close to his older brother, Alexander H. Stephens, who served as vice president of the Confederate States of America from 1861-1865 and later became the 50th Governor of the State of Georgia. Prior to joining the Confederacy, Stephens served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Georgia. Stephens advocated against secession throughout his political career, but after Georgia seceded and he became vice president of the Confederacy, he gave his now famous Cornerstone Speech in March 1861, in which he defended the fundamentals of slavery.

IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. In Three Volumes by Gissing, George

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Title: IN THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. In Three Volumes
Author: Gissing, George
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1894. [1 of only 600 copies] London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1894. Original blue-grey morocco-grain cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 600 copies (most of which were bought up by the lending libraries). Titled "Miss Lord of Camberwell" during composition, this was the last of Gissing's novels to appear in the three-decker format, published on December 1st of the year of that format's collapse. Gissing would welcome this collapse, because the power of lending libraries had acted as a censor on authors' novels -- both in content and in (extending) the length of a novel; he had to stretch a novel to fill three volumes, and the printer had to do the same, with only 23 lines per page. JUBILEE features an impossible marriage and its dissolution -- conceived just as Gissing and his family moved from Devon back to London in mid-1893. By renewing his connections with urban life, he developed new assaults on the corruption of contemporary society... He was more than ever outraged by the menace and vulgarity of mass society. Board schools, far from spreading enlightenment, were mere production lines for philistines, and the middle-class the ignorant idolators of money and its crude expenditure [S&C]. This is a very good set, with faint front-cover shadows where lending libraries' labels must once have resided (but there is no other evidence of a library past); the spine gilt (especially at the bottom) is less than bright, there is minor rubbing at the extremities, and there is some cracking of the (original) endpapers at the gutter. Sadleir rates this title as scarcer than seven of Gissing's earlier works; while we would not quite agree with that level of scarcity, we certainly find all of Gissing's multi-volume novels to be now quite uncommon. Coustillas A13.1; Collie A13a; Spiers & Coustillas Q1; Sadleir 967 (& p. 378); Wolff 2549. Provenance: each rear paste-down bears the signature of "Dewitt Miller | Cross River | Westchester Co. | N. York" a journalist-turned-Methodist minister and "obsessive" book collector; also the small label of John S. Mayfield of Bethesda MD.

Beikoku Ni Sumu Nihonjin No Sakebi [in Japanese characters, translated as The Protest of Japanese Americans: My Forty Year Stay in America] by Fujii, Sei

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Title: Beikoku Ni Sumu Nihonjin No Sakebi [in Japanese characters, translated as The Protest of Japanese Americans: My Forty Year Stay in America]
Author: Fujii, Sei
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: Los Angeles: Kashu Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1940. About very good.. [2],2,16,420,[1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor soiling and light edge wear to wrappers; spine ends a bit chipped; front hinge starting from both ends. Text browned, but not brittle, with scattered foxing and dust soiling. A rare collection of writings by an important Japanese-American activist, journalist, and editor. Sei Fujii (1882-1954) was the founding editor of the Kashu Mainichi (Los Angeles Japanese-California Daily News) in L.A. Fujii emigrated to California from Japan in 1903 and obtained a law degree from the University of Southern California. Sadly, Fujii was unable to practice law in the United States because he was not an American citizen, and he was unable to earn American citizenship because he was Japanese - a cycle of injustice that took a few more decades to correct. After graduation, Fujii went back and forth to Japan, finally settling for good in Los Angeles shortly before 1930, where he founded the Kashu Mainichi in 1931. During World War II, Fujii was interned as an enemy alien in New Mexico, where he was not able to secure his release until 1946. After the war, he successfully challenged California's 1913 alien land law, which prohibited Japanese immigrants from owning real estate. In Fujii v. California, he convinced the California Supreme Court to overturn decades of legal precedents, ending forty years of prohibitions on property ownership and other racially- and ethnically-motivated restrictions. Fujii's activism and dogged determination for justice culminated in 1954, when he was finally able to call himself an American citizen; he was also finally granted his law license posthumously in 2017, sixty-three years after his death. "A collection of newspaper editorials and columns published by the Kashu Mainichi of Los Angeles. Many articles deal with the patriotic activities of Japanese immigrants after the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937" - Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas. The present work was reprinted in 2013. OCLC records just seven institutional copies of this original 1940 edition - six in the United States and one in Japan.

José Cruz Mexican Comic "El Valiente" Archive, 1961-65 by El Valiente

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Title: José Cruz Mexican Comic "El Valiente" Archive, 1961-65
Author: El Valiente
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1961. [Latino, Mexico, Chicano][Comics] Cruz, José G. El Valiente. Bogotá: Editorial América S.A., 1961-1965. Six issues, Nos. 13, 141, 194, 206, 207, and 208. Photographic fumetti-style comic books printed in sepia with color wrappers. Text in Spanish. Six issues of El Valiente, The title "El Valiente" translates to "The Brave One" or "The Valiant One." The character was reportedly based on the Mexican actor Mauro de Anda. the photo-comic ("historieta fotonovela") series was created by celebrated Mexican artist and publisher José G. Cruz. Cruz was a major innovator in Latin American comics, pioneering the fumetti hybrid of photography and illustration. The comic was part of a tradition of Mexican historietas that often featured melodramatic narratives and archetypes like the charro (a Mexican horseman). "El Valiente" is a Mexican hero figure of honor and bravery, fighting against injustice across Mexico. These issues, distributed across Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela, represent the transnational reach of Mexico's popular culture during the 1960s. Each story follows the rugged protagonist "El Valiente," a deeply Mexican hero through his roots in the country's popular culture, and his visual representation with his thin mustache. Included in this archive are: 6 issues titled: "La Carrera de la Muerte," "La Silla Eléctrica," "La Pandilla," "A Cambio de una Sonrisa," and "Viaje Macabro." The plots combine crime, romance, social justice, and horror, dramatizing moral struggles against corruption and fate. Each issue retains Cruz's signature noir realism, with recurring actors like Carlos Gálvez and Laura Ponce embodying archetypal figures of Mexican masculinity and virtue. El Valiente was one of the earliest comics to be photo-reproduced rather than hand-drawn, marking a key evolution in the Latin American pulp tradition. Mild toning and edgewear to covers, small chips to spines, minor ink notations on front wraps; interiors well-preserved with supple pages and legible print. Overall very good condition. A compelling and uncommon surviving group of Cruz's El Valiente, documenting the golden age of Mexican fumetti and its international diffusion across Latin America.

A Search for The Apex of America; High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia... by Peck, Annie S.

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Title: A Search for The Apex of America; High Mountain Climbing in Peru and Bolivia...
Author: Peck, Annie S.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. First printing, octavo size, 390 pp. Annie Smith Peck (1850-1935) was a woman far ahead of her time; at a time when women were just beginning to be admitted to the halls of higher education, she not only earned a degree in classical languages in 1878 from the University of Michigan, but became the first woman to attend the American School of Classical Studies (in Athens, Greece) and, returning to the Univ. of Michigan, received a Master's Degree in 1881. Following her education she became one of the first American women college professors, teaching Latin at Purdue and Smith. Climbing, however, became her passion at the relatively (for climbers) late age of 35. Upon seeing the Matterhorn during a train trip through the Swiss Alps she vowed to return and climb it - which she would do ten years later, becoming the third woman to summit the Matterhorn and the first to do so...wearing pants (at the time, women could be arrested for wearing "knickers" in public). This book relates her adventures in pursuing a first ascent "of the tallest mountain in the Americas", which she believed was Mount Huascarán (Peru). She was successful at this in 1908 after several attempts, at the age of 58. She would continue climbing her entire life, with her last climb being at the age of 82. Not only was she a founding member of the American Alpine Club, but she was also a member of the Royal Geographical Society the Society of Women Geographers (the only two which would admit women at the time). Whether or not one is a climber, her story is inspirational and this work, told in the first person and replete with black-and-white photographs, enables one to share in her adventure. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full light blue cloth over boards, outline of a mountaintop depicted on the front board by use of white fields of snow against a gilt sky background, gilt ruled border and lettering on the front, gilt lettering on the spine, frontis a reproduction of a black-and-white photograph of Annie Peck with her facsmilie signature beneath, a two-panel folding map facing p. 1, volume replete with illustrations (the list is four full pages long), bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown from "Vernon Howard / Mountaineering Books / 700 Rolph Street, San Francisco"; octavo size (9" by 6"), pagination: [i-viii] ix-xx, 1-370. ___CONDITION: Better than good, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; the boards mostly clean with a few stray spots of soil, the spine soiled with the lettering somewhat dulled, the corners gently bumped and showing light rubbing, the binding showing light wear including some tears to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the gutter between pp. 242 and 243 lightly cracked but the binding still strong. ___CITATION: Neate no. 610, online American National Biography. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Collection of Incoming Letters to Miss L. Adelia Martin, of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, from family and friends, 1845-1857 by Martin, L. Adelia,

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Title: Collection of Incoming Letters to Miss L. Adelia Martin, of Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, from family and friends, 1845-1857
Author: Martin, L. Adelia,
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: 41 letters, 122 manuscript pp., (9 retained mailing envelopes), dated 17 December 1845 to 18 February 1857; with 17 pieces of related ephemera (calling cards, used envelopes, receipts, will, poem, etc.); Of the 41 letters, 10 are undated; and at least 33 letters are addressed to Miss L. Adelia Martin, others are simply addressed "cousin," "friend," "sister," etc, and were likely sent to Adelia. Other letters are addressed to family, or friends, including Daniel Ballou (1), or Daniel Allen (2), and others. The letters appear to be written by young women, friends of Ms. Martin who she either went to school with, or were from her town, or who moved away and teaching elsewhere. Ms. Martin appears to have gone to school and was working for a time as a teacher herself. There is much in the letters about teaching, schooling, family, friends, etc. The letters are written from various towns in New York State: Albany, Ballston Spa, Cambridge, Galway, Greenfield, Jackson, Louisville, Macedon Centre, New Prospect, North Greenfield, Warrensburg, and others. Lydia Adelia Martin (1830-1862) Lydia Adelia Martin was born in 1830, the daughter of Capt. Amasa Martin (1791-1879) and his wife Desire Ballou. Capt. Martin was born 30 April 1791, at Barrington, Rhode Island, and died 16 May 1879, in Greenfield, New York, where he was buried in his wife's family burial ground, the Ballou Cemetery, in Saratoga County, New York. In 1797, with his father's family, Capt. Martin settled in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York; where he became a farmer, and was also for several years captain of a militia company. He married Desire Ballou (1802-1876) on 30 December 1824. She was the daughter of Dutee Ballou (1779-1850) and Lydia White (1775-1846). Capt. Amasa Martin was the son of Anthony Martin, who was born 21 April 1760, also in Barrington, Rhode Island. Anthony Martin entered the Barrington Militia and served in the American Revolutionary War. In 1779, Anthony Martin married Susanna Allen and in 1797, removed to Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York, where he died on 13 February 1842. Besides Amasa Martin, Anthony Martin and his wife Susanna Allen had at least 8 other children. They were: 1. Lydia Martin, born 1781, married 1801; still living in 1878, she married Stephen Medbury (1777- ) and had six sons and six daughters; 2. Kent Martin (1783-1869), farmer, died at Corinth, New York; he married Catharine Bump in 1807 and had five children; 3. Bosworth Martin (1785-1864), farmer, died at Corinth, New York; he married Catherine Fenton in 1805 and had five children; 4. Susanna Martin (1787-1842) married George Greenwood in1816, had at least one son; 5. Sylvania Martin (1789-) married Ray Brackett in 1810, and they had two sons and three daughters; 6. Anthony Martin (1791-1791), twin of Amasa Martin, he died as an infant; 7. Cynthia Martin, born 1793; she married Thomas Easterbrooks in 1814 and had five sons and four daughters; and 8. Sally Martin (1795-1849) married Jerry D. Rowland in1827; they had at least one son. Captain Amasa Martin (1791-1879) was a twin and the sixth child of Anthony Martin and his wife. He and his wife Desire Ballou had at least three children: 1. Nancy B. Martin (1826-1862); 2. Lydia Adelia Martin; and, 3. Infant son, died 12 September 1843. Amasa's daughter, Lydia Adelia Martin, appears to have gone by her middle name of "Adelia," as many of the letters in this collection are addressed to her in that way. She was born on 17 April 1830, at Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York. She married John D. Lincoln on 30 December 1857, which is the year the correspondence ends. John D. Lincoln was the son of Henry and Hannah Lincoln and grandson to Sarah and Nedabiah Lincoln, Sr., a Revolutionary War veteran. While the Martins were an older family in the Greenfield area, the Lincoln family was prominent in the Greenfield – Corinth area, just adjacent to the Town of Wilton, where Lincoln had several uncles and cousins who owned large prosperous farms. Lydia Adelia Martin and her husband John D. Lincoln had a son Dr. Harry Martin Lincoln (1859-), born in Greenfield, New York. Adelia died on 5 October 1862, after just five years of marriage and three years after the birth of her son. She likely died in childbirth, as a second son, Frank, died at the same time. She was buried in the family burial ground, the Ballou Cemetery, where many of the Martins and Ballou family members were buried. Adelia's husband John later remarried, to Carrie Cooper. John D. Lincoln died on 6 June 1874. After the death of his parents, Harry Martin Lincoln, was helped by family and he attended medical school, graduated, and was set up in practice, taking over the business of a Dr. Murray at Wiltonville, New York. By 1890 Dr. Lincoln began resorting back to his drug usage, which probably started in college. He sought cure by checking into a sanitarium, but he soon returned to his old habits. In September 1901, after being threatened by the proprietor (Seth Nichols) of a resort, Lincoln and the proprietor got into a fight, during which Lincoln shot Nichols, killing him. At his trial it was recorded that he was using 8-12 grams of morphine a day and was covered with needle scars at the rate of 25 per square inch. The jury's verdict of "guilty of manslaughter in the First Degree with a recommendation of mercy," met everyone's expectation and the judge sentenced Lincoln to five years at Dannemora, a state hospital on the grounds of the state prison in Dannemora, New York, where he would be able to receive the medical help that he needed. While he was "cured" for a while, after his release, he went back to using drugs, and died in 1937. Sample Quotes: "Sunday Morning, June 18thm, '48 Respected Cousins, After a long time, I seat myself to fulfill the promise I made you. Perhaps you are aware of my reason for not writing to you sooner. My eyes were sore for about two months consequently I avoided writing as much as possible, but they are better now… Cousins, I hardly know what will interest you most, but I think a little about the country and the fellows critters that inhabit it will not be amiss, as that is one of the most important things that they should be right in order to obtain what we are all seeking after (that is happiness). The people of this country consider themselves fifteen years in advance of the people east, that is in regard to literary qualifications. I don't know but they are but I think not. They do more here by way of educating their children, that's sure. The people are generally wealthier and can afford it better than they can east. Cousins, after all, their literary qualifications I don't like them as well as I do east, perhaps I should after becoming as well acquainted with them. There is more aristocracy than I like to see nevertheless I fare well enough. I don't think the people labour any harder here than they do east, any how I have not worked as hard as I had so here. Yes Coz's, if you want to live easy you must get married and come out here or come out here and get married. I don't know as it makes much difference which as people generally do when with Romans as Romans do. The women don't have to spin & weave, make cheese, knit edging, &c. &c. They have rich daddy's, they can buy these things for them. They can do up the house work (and they are not particular about that as I have seen east). Then they can make a new dress or alter over an old one that they have worn once or twice and spend the rest of the time in reading, so you see their physical labour is not as great as their mental for the trouble of altering over or making new must perplex the mental organization. I said you must get married. I don't know as that is highly necessary it is only a fashion people have got in and the most of folks like to be fashionable. The motto here is that the girls must do this year as they wish to be done by next year. I like this country far better than I do greenfield. The soil is much more productive; a greater variety of fruit and more of it. Cousins, I look forward to fall with great expectations as the prospect of a great harvest is approaching in the fruit line. The country as general thing is not as uneven as it is east. It is more uneven in Wayne than Cayuga, Seneca, Ontario, Monroe, and perhaps some. There's consequently more waste land in it. The soil is a gravel easy to till and the beauty of it is it is so productive after you get it tilled. Wayne County produces as many Quakers as most any place more Quakers than anything else. The Hicksites hold their yearly meeting in Farmington, Ontario Co., about four miles from here. It commenced a week ago yesterday, continued until yesterday. We went last Sunday and again Wednesday. It was the largest meeting I ever attended. We heard about as smart a sermon from Lucretia Mott as I ever heard… I want you should write to me and tell me the news if you have any as it would interest folks. Write as soon you receive this…Please accept these lines with the best respects of D.B. Allen" "Greenfield April 4th 1852 Dear Girl, As you requested to hear from home again before your return, I will try to gratify you , we have nothing of much importance to write at present, therefore Nancy says I may write this time, which I with pleasure attempt to do, as I have no other opportunity of conversing with you, but were you here I could tell you more than I can write, on this paper. I will tell you that Renselaer had the misfortune to have his crib, carriage house, barn and shed consumed by fire last Thursday about 2 o'clock P.M. It originated in the crib he (himself) had been in there about an hour and a half before on business, discovered nothing of the kind, went into the house and very soon after it was all in flames. The carriage house took fire next, then the barn and shed and in the course of an hour they were all burnt to the ground, it's said there were 60 men there in a very few minutes after it was discovered and used every effort in their power to save the building, but proved unsuccessful, however they liberated the horses and cattle to take care of themselves, got out most of the wagons, etc., then commenced by tearing away the timbers as fast as they fell (on the bins and hogsheads of grain) and throwing on snow and water on them, so that they saved 130 bushels of oats, top of them partly burnt, the bottom of the bins not injured except badly smoked, likewise some wheat, and buckwheat, corn and barley burnt, likewise many other things, 97 tons of hay. Your uncle Renselaer stood and pumped water from the cistern near the carriage house, until his hands were burnt from his writs to the joints below his knuckles in one solid blister, likewise one side of his face the same, anxiety and excitement caused him to work their totally unaware of his situation until told of it by others. His burns have been very painful since, your Pa and Nancy was there yesterday to see them. He was able to sit up some, had vomited most all night. Before your Aunt Sarah said she thought it was caused by the pain striking to his stomach… And now I have another story to tell you, which shocks my nerves some I assure you. Your Pa has just come in and tells us that Renselaer had another barn burnt last night, the one across the road under the hill. They discovered it about 12 o'clock at night, not in time to save but a little. The pare of grey horses were in the barn, one of them they got out, the other burnt up, likewise sleighs, cutter, wagon, fanning mill, and 10 tons of hay, some lumber and many other articles. And what to think or say I know not, we are in ignorance and suspense about it, but we all have reason to judge it to be the work of an incendiary. I hope and trust they may be brought to justice sooner, or later… I think you had better write home again, N.B.M." "June 18th /53 Loved 'Dee' I received your good kind but too short letter & have again unintentionally committed the same crime of which you plead guilty – namely waiting so long my answer. Don't judge that I think of you less often from these delays, for I do think of you indeed. I have real good visits some days when I am all alone, or rather recalling visits that I have had in that good old room at Mr. Robertson's – disease or the loss of my small stock of sense will alone erase the remembrance of those school days. Speaking of school puts me in mind of our great Exhibition at the close of last term. Oh Dee, why didn't you come over. I don't think it equaled the one a year ago when you & I read compositions. Robertson had the faculty of keeping an audience more quiet than Gardener – at any rate. Of all the noises or combination of noises that ever I met with the first of that eve' beat it. The cracking of benches, whistling cries of 'Down front,' 'Stop crowding,' &c. &c., was perfectly deafening. I was favored with a standing seat in one of the north windows – which I occupied (changing feet once in two hours) from ½ past 5 o'clock till one the next morning. The house seemed as full as possible before 5 in the afternoon & before 8 the timbers began to groan & crash & the noise increasing Mr. R dismissed the assembly. Great number left, but the house was full yet, finally Wm. Smart opened his lips --- and there was a great calm, which continued till 'meeting was out.' The exercises were nothing extra. But Mr. R. says he is going to have another at the close of this term. I do wish you come over it will be about the last of July, can't you have a vacation of a week & spend it in Cambridge? Do please do there is places enough for you to visit to keep you two weeks & we would all be so glad to see you & I'll write to Sarah B to come too. You can write to her also & make all necessary arrangements. Now you can just as well come as not… Now while I think of it, Cass Cook didn't come to school last winter – it was so far, she could not walk in cold weather – a hem, ain't it a pity the distance is so much greater than it was the last winter term. Robinson was there. Said Robinson corresponds with Mag hill by the way she is going to come home this fall & is not going back to Hadley till a year from oct. she likes it very much there. While she was home the last vacation. Wm. Smart brought her down to visit the Acdy. They have two papers in the Gents department this term. The old 'Spy' & 'Broad-as-tis-long,' the latter 'is published semi-occasionally – or just when they have a mind to.' Brother L attends he says they have the greenest lot of girls there that he ever came across. From those I have seen, I should think the Gents would match pretty well… Now do write again sooner & I will try & ans'd sooner, as ever, Cal Sherman" "New Prospect Feb 1, '56 My dear Adele, Yours of Jan 20th came to hand the day before yesterday and I hasten to reply. I have a double reason for this extreme punctuality, first if I do not write very soon, I am sure of not hearing from you again in along time even if you should reform your old habit of delaying as it takes letters so long to travel the wide space that intervenes between us. Secondly, this is a leisure day and no danger of my being called down to see company or for any other purpose for my face is so badly swollen you would be frightened to look at me. Perhaps I wrote you I was badly poisoned last summer this is the second time it has made its appearance. This morning one of my eyes was entirely closed and is not much better now, so you must excuse my not following the line as I see but very imperfectly. Do not conclude I am suffering much or that my disease is at all dangerous as neither is the case. I only stay at home to day because the air is injurious to my big face and I would not look any worse for a pretty, as the southerners say. My health has been very good indeed since I last wrote you. You ask why I do not give lessons in housekeeping. I answer I never was well versed in that art myself, but what little I do know I assure you I am not ashamed to confess indeed, I am really more vain of my acquirements in that art than any other. If anyone chooses to think less of me for knowing how to work, or for having labored with my hands, they are welcome to their thoughts, for I never have, nor ever shall take any pains to conceal that fact. But did you ever see a housekeeper distrust her knowledge in the art? If you have you have seen more than I have. Any suggestions in that line from a school teacher would be thought of very little consequence. Your plans seem so indefinite I am inclined to think you have a half-formed scheme of making some kind of a contract with some 'nice young man.' Now if you do do that naughty trick, and say nothing to me until its all over, I will be thoroughly vexed with you. I would not have you live single solely for my benefit, but it's hard to see one's friends estranged, or what is nearly the same married. They never love their single associates as well afterwards. Still Dele marry if you have an offer, which exactly suits you for that is the best way of living generally, as I should expect to be married. I have no idea of changing my situation… So goodbye, write soon and oblige your faithful friend, S.S. Buckmeister"

LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY by Stein, Gertrude

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Title: LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY
Author: Stein, Gertrude
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Condition: Near fine.
Description: New York: Something Else Press, 1969. First printing. Near fine.. First softcover (simultaneous with hardcover) US edition of one of Stein's most under-appreciated books. LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY was the first of the books Stein published herself, frustrated as she was by a lack of a regular outlet for her work. It was available only in that edition until this Something Else Press edition. 7'' x 5''. Original pictorial wrappers. 240 pages. Touches of shelfwear. Else bright and sharp.

VERSED by Armantrout, Rae

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Author: Armantrout, Rae
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Description: Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. Near fine.. First edition, uncorrected proof copy, of Armantrout's Pullitzer prize-winning double collection of poetry, scarce in this format. 9'' x 6''. Original color pictorial wrappers. x, 126 pages. Touched of edgewear else sound, clean.

An eastern miscellany by Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay

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Title: An eastern miscellany
Author: Zetland, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, Earl of Ronaldshay
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Description: Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 422; original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine; endpapers a touch toned; all else very good, sound, and clean. "Includes the chapters "Across the Himalayas in Mid-Winter," "Notes of a Journey Across Asia," "The Anglo-Russian Agreement, 1907," etc." (Yakushi). Yakushi R328.

The heart of a continent. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and across the Himalaya by the Mustagh Pass by Younghusband, Francis

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Title: The heart of a continent. Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and across the Himalaya by the Mustagh Pass
Author: Younghusband, Francis
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Description: London: John Murray, 1937. Revised edition, following an account published in 1896; 8vo, pp. xvi, 246, [2]; portrait frontispiece, three plates, and folding map; original creme cloth; hinges cracked, upper free endpaper and flyleaf lacking, halftitle soiled, text otherwise clean, good, in good soiled, split and price-clipped dust jacket.

A Memoir of the Life and Labors of Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D., Late President of Brown University, Including Selections from his Personal Reminiscences and Correspondence (Volume I Only) by Francis Wayland; H.L. Wayland

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Title: A Memoir of the Life and Labors of Francis Wayland, D.D., LL.D., Late President of Brown University, Including Selections from his Personal Reminiscences and Correspondence (Volume I Only)
Author: Francis Wayland; H.L. Wayland
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Sheldon and Company, 1867. Very Good. New York: Sheldon and Company, 1867. Octavo; 429 pages +2 adverts. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Engraved portrait frontis. Boards are rubbed and bumped at corners and spine ends, with some runs to the cloth and a few stains and smudges. Pages toned with some fingerprinting and moderate underlining and annotation in pencil by previous owner, though text is legible. Binding is A sturdy copy of the apparently more uncommon first volume.

View: Vol. II No. 5/6 October/November, 1979 - Vito Acconci by WHITE, Robin and Vito Acconci

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Title: View: Vol. II No. 5/6 October/November, 1979 - Vito Acconci
Author: WHITE, Robin and Vito Acconci
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Description: Oakland, CA: View Magazine, 1979. First edition. Softcover. 47 pages. The entire issue is devoted to Robin White's interview of artist Vito Acconci. Includes several black and white illustrations and a list of previous exhibitions. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon.

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