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Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By "Our Nig.

Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By "Our Nig. by [Wilson, Harriet E.]

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Title
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North. Showing that Slavery's Shadows Fall Even There. By "Our Nig.
Author
[Wilson, Harriet E.]
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Boston: Geo. C. Rand & Avery, 1859. First edition. First edition, first printing. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's elaborately blind stamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, coated yellow endpapers. Very Good, spine lean, cloth sunned and a little stained, lettering rubbed and cloth worn at tips, binding holding but some page gatherings proud and hinges cracked; occasional stains, wear, and foxing to contents. Gift inscription on front free endpaper in pencil. An unsophisticated copy of an extremely rare, sought-after book, both in the trade and at auction: the last copy at auction was in 1990. Suffice to say, the opportunity for anyone to purchase a first edition of this novel may not come again for many years. This autobiographical novel was famously rediscovered by scholar Henry Louis Gates in 1981 and was long regarded as the first novel published by a woman of African descent in North America. Gates writes in his introduction to the reprint that the author, Harriet Wilson, "seems to have published it herself (though with some assistance from unknown patrons)," which undoubtedly contributed to its scarcity. Published just two years before the start of the Civil War, "it stands as a hallmark of American literary history," Gates continues, and "it subtly combines compelling storytelling with unflinching indictments of Northern antiblack racism" as well as the institution of slavery.
Saggi Inediti di Lingue Americane. Appunti Bibliografici

Saggi Inediti di Lingue Americane. Appunti Bibliografici by [Native American Languages]: Teza, Emilio

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Title
Saggi Inediti di Lingue Americane. Appunti Bibliografici
Author
[Native American Languages]: Teza, Emilio
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
Pisa: Dallas Tipografia Nistri, 1868. 91,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping and partial separations along spine, light edge wear, ownership signature on front wrapper and ink inscription on front flyleaf. Very good. A scarce Italian work on indigenous American linguistics, one of only seventy copies printed "e non sono in commercio." According to Pilling, the work was taken "From a manuscript of the Cardinal Mezzofanti, with an appendix.... The Notes, without the appendix, were first printed in the Annali della Universita di Pisa, 1868, vol. 10. Mainly devoted to South American languages, but contains a brief discussion and a few examples of Algonkin and Iroquois." The latter appear on pages 14-22 beginning with a passage headed, "Grammaire algonquine" and concluding with a discussion of Cardinal Mezzofanti's experiences learning indigenous California dialects from a manuscript brought to Italy by Catholic missionaries. Mezzofanti was a hyperpolyglot who reportedly knew, or was at least conversant in, at least thirty-eight and perhaps as many as fifty languages. OCLC records just six institutional copies of the present work in the United States, at the Bancroft, Trinity College, Gordon College, the Newberry, Harvard, and Penn. The title translates roughly to Unpublished Essays on American Language, with Bibliographical Notes. Pilau 331258. Pilling 3832. Leclerc 2091. Streit II:23.
Collection of ephemera by a World War II- and post-World War II-era anti-conscription women's organization

Collection of ephemera by a World War II- and post-World War II-era anti-conscription women's organization by [ Women's Committee to Oppose Consciption ]

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Collection of ephemera by a World War II- and post-World War II-era anti-conscription women's organization
Author
[ Women's Committee to Oppose Consciption ]
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
[ Philadelphia: Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription, 1945-1947] The documents include a mimeographed letter on Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription letterhead calling for support for an anti-conscription constitutional amendment (dated December 3, 1945); and four letters (dated between June 1946 and April 1947) opposing the Selective Service System and proposed legislation for mandatory military training during peacetime. One of the letters addresses the censorship of anti-conscription sentiment expressed by soldiers, who were forbidden "under threat of court martial" from sending anti-conscription letters to the War Department. Five documents (8 " x 11") and two printed postcards (5 " x 3 "). The documents include four mimeographed letters to members (three one-page letters, one two-page letter, and one four-page letter) on Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription (WCOC) letterhead and a four-page voter guide. The postcards are both addressed by hand to Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Rovner. Minor toning. In near fine condition. In 1942, Quaker pacifist and feminist Mildred S. Olmsted (1890 – 1990) founded the Committee to Oppose the Conscription of Women to challenge the Austin-Wadsworth Bill of 1943, which proposed the conscription of men aged 18-65 and women aged 18-50 for assignment to military industry anywhere in the country. Once the immediate threat of drafting women had passed, the organization was renamed to the Women's Committee to Oppose Conscription and focused more broadly on anti-conscription and pacifist efforts. During World War I, Olmsted worked in Paris with the Young Women's Christian Organization to plan recreational activities for soldiers stationed there. After the war, she joined the American Friends Service Committee in Berlin, where she worked in famine relief. She was a leader in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, a founder of the pacifist and anti-nuclear warfare organization SANE (now Peace Action), the vice-chair of the Pennsylvania ACLU, and a member of the United Nations Council of Non-Governmental Organizations and the Main Line Birth Control League.
Boarding School [Passion Flower Hotel, Leidenschaftliche Blümchen] (Original photograph from the 1978 film)

Boarding School [Passion Flower Hotel, Leidenschaftliche Blümchen] (Original photograph from the 1978 film) by André Farwagi (director); Laura Black writing as Rosalind Erskine (novel); Paul Nicholas (screenwriter); Nastassja Kinski, Sean Chapman, Fabiana Udenio (starring)

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Boarding School [Passion Flower Hotel, Leidenschaftliche Blümchen] (Original photograph from the 1978 film)
Author
André Farwagi (director); Laura Black writing as Rosalind Erskine (novel); Paul Nicholas (screenwriter); Nastassja Kinski, Sean Chapman, Fabiana Udenio (starring)
Seller
Royal Books (United States)
Description
N.p.: N.p., 1978. Vintage borderless reference photograph taken on the set of the 1978 film. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso. Based on the 1962 novel "The Passion Flower Hotel," about a sexually experienced American teenager who convinces her boarding school classmates to sleep with the boys at the boarding school across the lake. Set in Switzerland. 9.25 x 7 inches. Near Fine.
That Most Important Thing: Love [L'important c'est d'aimer] (Original photograph of Romy Schneider and Andrzej Zulawski on the set of the 1975 film)

That Most Important Thing: Love [L'important c'est d'aimer] (Original photograph of Romy Schneider and Andrzej Zulawski on the set of the 1975 film) by Andrzej Zulawski (director, screenwriter); Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc (starring); Christopher Frank (novel)

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That Most Important Thing: Love [L'important c'est d'aimer] (Original photograph of Romy Schneider and Andrzej Zulawski on the set of the 1975 film)
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Andrzej Zulawski (director, screenwriter); Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi, Jacques Dutronc (starring); Christopher Frank (novel)
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Royal Books (United States)
Description
New York: Cinerama, 1975. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1975 film, showing director Andrzej Zulawski and actress Romy Schneider on the set. Printed mimeo snipe in German on the verso. Based on the 1972 novel "La Nuit americaine" by Christopher Frank. A photographer meets a failed actress who has resorted to appearing in porn films to make a living. Falling for her, he borrows money to mount a production of "Richard III," and give her a role, but she is torn between her love for him and her obligations to her husband. 6.5 x 7 inches, trimmed irregularly. Light wear at the top left corner, else Near Fine.
World War I small group of ephemera including a typed War Diary and Citations of the 316th Supply Train, Ninety First Division A.E.F.; an embroidered handkerchief "Souvenir of France"; and more

World War I small group of ephemera including a typed War Diary and Citations of the 316th Supply Train, Ninety First Division A.E.F.; an embroidered handkerchief "Souvenir of France"; and more by [World War I] [American Expeditionary Forces] [316th Supply Train, Ninety-First Division] [Oscar R. Clever]

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World War I small group of ephemera including a typed War Diary and Citations of the 316th Supply Train, Ninety First Division A.E.F.; an embroidered handkerchief "Souvenir of France"; and more
Author
[World War I] [American Expeditionary Forces] [316th Supply Train, Ninety-First Division] [Oscar R. Clever]
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
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n/a: n/a, 1919. Ephemera. Good. Small group of World War I ephemera, presumably belonged to Corporal Oscar R. Clever (2275736) 316th Supply Train, including: "War Diary" of the 316th Supply Train, Ninety-First Division, A.E.F. The typed diary is bound by 2 metal clasps at top. The paper has 2 horizontal folds and is lightly toned and foxed. Soiling and darkening to the blank verso of the last page. Two loose paper remnants with the heading on one piece "Citations received by Ninety-First Division and Diary of 316th Supply Train, 91st Division, From September 25, 1917, to January 1, 1919". From the first paragraph "The 316th Supply Train, composed mainly of men from the Western and Northwestern States, was organized at Camp Lewis, Washington, in the latter part of September 1917...". The diary chronicles the early formation of the outfit; training; transportation from Camp Lewis, Washington to Long Island, New York; arrival in Liverpool, England July 26th, 1918; Battles in France early October; signing of the Armistice November 11th; and "Order received for movement of the Division to Le Mans area, starting on December 28". The diary is 5 pages front sides only. Attached with the diary is General Orders No. 24. A.E.F. October 4, 1918 congratulating the unit for its exceptional service during the fighting in France early October; and General Orders No. 59, a congratulatory letter mentioning the cooperation with the French Army "with glory in the Chateau-Thierry offensive"; Typed document on letterhead from the "316th Train Headquarters & Military Police and Motor Transport Office 91st Division, American Expeditionary Forces." Addressed A.P.O. 776 Belgium. December 25, 1918 from Commanding Officer Colonel M. E. Saville, U.S.A. to Corporal Oscar R. Clever. Paper has multiple folds, split at a fold, and a few tears with minimal loss. The document is a letter of "commendation" with faint signature of Colonel Saville; A copy of "G.H.Q. American Expeditionary Forces General Orders No. 33-A France, February 28, 1919". Paper folded twice with small closed edge tears and splits at the folds. Signed in facsimile by General John J. Pershing head of the American Expeditionary Forces this document thanks "My Fellow Soldiers" for their service in France. This copy was furnished to Oscar R. Clever and signed by his commanding officer; "Songs of the Soldiers and Sailors U.S." Issued by the Commissions on Training Camp Activities of the Army and Navy Departments. 62 pages. Frontispiece photograph and photograph in back. Some writing in pencil on the linen cover. Pages have light creasing and an occasional faint stain; and an embroidered, colored, handkerchief with the lettering "Souvenir of France." The linen handkerchief has stains and a few small holes. From wikipedia: The 91st Infantry Division (famously nicknamed as the "Wild West Division"[2] with a "Fir Tree" as its Division insignia to symbolize its traditional home of the Far West[3]) is an infantry division of the United States Army that fought in World War I and World War II. From 1946 until 2008, it was part of the United States Army Reserve. It was briefly inactivated from 2008 until 2010 when it was elevated back to a division size element as the 91st Training Division (Operations).[1] Constituted on 5 August 1917 at Camp Lewis, Washington, near Tacoma, the division, commanded by Major General Henry Alexander Greene, soon thereafter departed for England in the summer of 1918. In September 1918, the division's first operation was in the St. Mihiel Offensive in France. Serving under the U.S. Army's V Corps, the division, now commanded by Major General William Johnston Jr., fought in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and successfully helped to destroy the German First Guard Division and continued to smash through three successive enemy lines.[1][4] Twelve days before the end of World War I, the division, as part of the VII Corps of the French Sixth Army, helped drive the Germans east across the Escaut River in the Battle of the Lys and the Escaut. The division was awarded separate campaign streamers for its active role in the Lorraine, Meuse-Argonne and Ypres-Lys campaigns.[1][4] In 1919, the 91st was inactivated at the Presidio of San Francisco. The Division was composed of the following units:[5][6][7][8][9] • Headquarters, 91st Division • 181st Infantry Brigade 361st Infantry Regiment 362nd Infantry Regiment 347th Machine Gun Battalion [10] 347th Machine Gun Battalion [10] • 182nd Infantry Brigade 363rd Infantry Regiment 364th Infantry Regiment 348th Machine Gun Battalion • 166th Field Artillery Brigade 346th Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) 347th Field Artillery Regiment (4.7") 348th Field Artillery Regiment (155 mm) 316th Trench Mortar Battery • 346th Machine Gun Battalion • 316th Engineer Regiment • 316th Medical Regiment • 316th Field Signal Battalion • Headquarters Troop, 91st Division • 316th Train Headquarters and Military Police 316th Ammunition Train 316th Supply Train 316th Engineer Train 316th Sanitary Train 361st, 36nd, 363rd, and 364th Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals Notable members of the unit included former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren.
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The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45 by AINSWORTH, William Harrison

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The Good Old Times: The Story of the Manchester Rebels of '45
Author
AINSWORTH, William Harrison
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
fine
Description
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. First. hardcover. fine. 3 volumes. Short 8vo, attractively bound in older 3/4 red morocco with raised bands & elaborately gilt spine. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873. First edition. The title was changed after the first edition to that of the sub-title.
La Pittura Moderna E L'Arte Del Tessuto Stampato (Rapporto di colori)

La Pittura Moderna E L'Arte Del Tessuto Stampato (Rapporto di colori) by Vitrotto, G. (Editor)

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La Pittura Moderna E L'Arte Del Tessuto Stampato (Rapporto di colori)
Author
Vitrotto, G. (Editor)
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. white boards. Very good housed in worn plain white box
Description
Torino: Ente Moda, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white boards. Very good housed in worn plain white box. Unpaginated. Thirty leaves. Folio, 36 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 150. An unusual, stunning combination, presenting tipped-in color reproduction of art works by prominent modern artists with an accompanying full page color lithograph portraying essential colors in the latter as designs for printed fabric. Artists represented include Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Derain, Dufy, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Van Gogh, et al. The first three leaves are combinations of two and three color lithographs of designs for printed fabric. Text in Italian.
Poetry Reprint Series Set One: Sea Garden by H.D.; Over the Brazier by Robert Graves; Harmonium by Wallace Stevens; Mount Zion by John Betjeman; Earth Trimphant by Conrad Aiken

Poetry Reprint Series Set One: Sea Garden by H.D.; Over the Brazier by Robert Graves; Harmonium by Wallace Stevens; Mount Zion by John Betjeman; Earth Trimphant by Conrad Aiken

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Poetry Reprint Series Set One: Sea Garden by H.D.; Over the Brazier by Robert Graves; Harmonium by Wallace Stevens; Mount Zion by John Betjeman; Earth Trimphant by Conrad Aiken
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London/New York: St. James Press/ St. Martin's Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine. Reprint. Five volumes. Fine in blue cloth.
Irish Cooking

Irish Cooking by KERSHNER, Ruth Bauder

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Irish Cooking
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KERSHNER, Ruth Bauder
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780517276709
Condition
Fine
Description
(New York): Weathervane Books, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. Quarto. 64pp. Lavishly illustrated with color photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Kita Betonamu no Shogen / Testimony of North Vietnam

Kita Betonamu no Shogen / Testimony of North Vietnam by TAMURA, Shigeru

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Kita Betonamu no Shogen / Testimony of North Vietnam
Author
TAMURA, Shigeru
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Light wear and toning, hint of tape residue to back cover, small chip to spine foot, slight pulling at bottom staple; very good
Description
Tokyo: Shin-Nihonshuppan, 1967. Light wear and toning, hint of tape residue to back cover, small chip to spine foot, slight pulling at bottom staple; very good in photo-illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Small quarto. A book documenting the effects of war on the North Vietnamese people. Winner of the Japan Photo Critics Society Special Award in 1967. One of several great little-known Japanese photobooks documenting the Vietnam war.
ARRIVING WHERE WE STARTED

ARRIVING WHERE WE STARTED by Solomon, Barbara Probst

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ARRIVING WHERE WE STARTED
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Solomon, Barbara Probst
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Harper& Row, 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good copy in very good unclipped dustjacket. Top edge moderately soiled. INSCRIBED by the Solomon to her editor at Harper's, Kitty Benedict on the ffe: "For Kitty - With so much affection - and lets hope, after this - novels! Many thanks, Barbara March 1972". Solomon had previously written a novel "The Beat of Life", this memoir described as "part autobiography, part political essay, part sentimental education" on the dj flap. Barbara Probst Solomon (1928 2019), American author, essayist and journalist. Published works include two novels, two volumes of memoirs, and a book of collected essays. Solomon was the United States cultural correspondent for Spain's "newspaper-of-record", El País of Madrid. Solomon was awarded the 25th Francisco Cerecedo Prize by the Association of European Journalists in Spain. The prize, which comes with an award of $36,000, is the most prestigious journalism prize in that country, and Solomon was the first North American to receive it.
Nouvelle Histoire Universelle de l'Art

Nouvelle Histoire Universelle de l'Art by AUBERT, Marcel, ed.; Émile Mâle, pref

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Nouvelle Histoire Universelle de l'Art
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AUBERT, Marcel, ed.; Émile Mâle, pref
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie Éditeurs, [1932]. First Edition. Two volumes; small quartos (26cm.); contemporary half dark green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [2],viii,379; [6],420pp.; illus. throughout, many full-paged. Ex-University of Mary Washington Simpson Library with their usual markings, spine labels removed though faint glue residue remaining, spines sunned to tan, some light shelf wear to extremities with brief exposure at corners, else Very Good, internally near fine.
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DESERT NOTES by Lopez, Barry Holstun

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DESERT NOTES
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Lopez, Barry Holstun
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Kansas City: Sheed, Andrews & McMeel, Inc., (1976). 8vo. Neat ink inscription on endpaper, else a fine copy in original tan colored paper over boards in a lightly soiled, price-clipped dust wrapper. This is the first volume of his trilogy and is scarce due to the small first printing. The wrapper states this is a collection of narrative contemplations reminiscent of Carlos Casteneda but without the drugs.
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RIETVELD SCHRODER ARCHIEF by CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT

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RIETVELD SCHRODER ARCHIEF
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CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
(RIETVELD) CENTRAAL MUSEUM UTRECHT. RIETVELD SCHRODER ARCHIEF. (Utrecht): Centraal Museum Utrecht, 1988. 16mo. Wrappers. First edition. A nice museum publication on the architecture of architects Rietveld and Schroder. Black and white pictures and color drawings throughout. Fine.
Sir John Magill's Last Journey

Sir John Magill's Last Journey by Crofts, Freeman Wills

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Sir John Magill's Last Journey
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Crofts, Freeman Wills
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Good
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New York: Pocket Books, Inc, 1941. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Second Printing. Good. Wraps generally rubbed, a few scuffs on the front a few shallow creases. Square and firmly bound with red edges, clean internally. An Inspector French mystery, the first to be printed by Pocket Books.

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