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Doublets: a word-puzzle

Doublets: a word-puzzle by CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Doublets: a word-puzzle
Author
CARROLL, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge]
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Original red publisher's cloth paneled in blind, gilt title on upper cover, slight soiling. An excellent presentation copy inscribed in purple ink, "Mrs. Neate from the Author." Preserved in a modern burgundy cloth box with red morocco sides, gilt lettered. First edition, first issue of this most popular word puzzle, invented by Carroll, that became a parlor craze in its time. "The rules of the puzzle are simple enough. Two words are proposed, of the same length; and the Puzzle consists in linking these together by interposing other words, each of which shall differ from the next word in one letter only." Beginning as a series of single problems which appeared in Vanity Fair on March 29, 1879, these games were collected by Macmillan and published here for the first time in book form. There are thirteen puzzles dated between March 29 and June 21, 1879. The name "doublets" was adopted after a passage in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Dodgson (1832-98), lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College from 1855 to 1881, purportedly invented the game for Julia and Ethel Margaret Arnold, two little girls who "found nothing to do." Sophia Neate (1832-1908) of Heatherside, Woking, took on the care of Sally Sinclair and her siblings, whom Dodgson liked very much, when their parents died. Neate was supported financially by Dodgson and the actor Lionel Brough. On first meeting Mrs. Neate on June 26, 1879, Dodgson wrote in his diary that he ‘found her so interesting that I stayed 4 hours!" He occasionally visited her and noted the progress of the Sinclair children as they grew (see Cohen, The letters of Lewis Carroll, 1979, p. 334n).
The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus

The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus by Béatrizet, Nicolas (Lunéville ca. 1515- Rome ca. 1565), attrib

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Seller: Liber Antiquus
Title
The She-wolf with Romulus and Remus
Author
Béatrizet, Nicolas (Lunéville ca. 1515- Rome ca. 1565), attrib
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Rome: Antonio Lafréry, 1552. Hardcover. Fine. First state (of three.) A rich impression with wide margins, light marginal foxing and a little light soiling, extreme upper margin a little ragged. Inscribed on the pedestal: “LVPAE ROMVLVM ET REMVM VRBIS CONDITORES LACTANTIS ANTIQVVM AC AENEVM IN CAPITOLIO SIGNVM.” (Ancient bronze image of the she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus, founders of the city, on the Campidoglio). Signed “ANT. LAFRERII FORMIS ROMAE MDLII”. An icon of central importance to the mythology and history of the city of Rome, and an artwork that served as the nucleus of Europe’s first public museum. This print, attributed to the French emigree engraver Nicolas Béatrizet, was issued by Lafréry in 1552, the year before he agreed to a partnership with his rival, Antonio Salamanca. After Lafréry’s death the plate passed to his nephew Claudio Duchet. It was reprinted by Giovanni Orlandi in 1602 and afterwards (before 1622) by Hendrick van Schoel. The first definitive reference to this statue of the she-wolf (the twins are Renaissance additions) dates to the late 12th- or early 13th century. In his “Mirabilia Romae”, the Oxford pilgrim Master Gregorius describes that statue, in the portico of the Lateran Palace, at which time it was in a damaged state, broken off at the feet. According to Gregorius, the wolf served as a pendentive to another (now lost) statue, that of a ram, which the wolf seemed to stalk. In 1471, Pope Sixtus IV (reg. 1471-1484) bequeathed the statue and four other ancient bronzes -the spinario, the Camillus, and the bronze head and hand (holding a globe) of Constantine- to the people of Rome to serve as the core of the nascent Capitoline Museum, the first public museum in Europe. A long inscription at the entrance of the Palazzo dei Conservatori documents this event and describes Sixtus’ donation as an act of restitution of the city’s ancient patrimony to its people: “Ob immensam benignitatem Aeneas insignes statuas priscae excellentiae virtutisque monumentum – Romano populo unde exorte fuere restituendas condonandasque censuit.” The she-wolf was placed on a platform projecting from the façade of the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Sixtus had given 100 gold florins to the Conservatori specifically for the relocation and installation of the statue.) A drawing by Heemskerck from the mid-1530s shows the sculpture in that location. In the middle of the 16th century, it was moved to a loggia, where Aldrovandi saw it prior to 1556. The loggia was later walled in to create an enclosed chamber known as the sala della lupa, in which the she-wolf still resides.
Boston Slave Riot

Boston Slave Riot by SLAVERY BURNS Anthony

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Boston Slave Riot
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SLAVERY BURNS Anthony
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1854. First Edition. (SLAVERY) (BURNS, Anthony). Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns. Boston: Fetridge, 1854. Slim octavo, modern half calf and marbled boards. $3000.First edition of a seminal pre-Civil War pamphlet on the 1854 arrest and Boston trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose return to his Virginia slave owner at the order of the Boston court sparked public fury and ""set Boston on its ear in the spring of 1854,"" inspiring Whitman to write his Boston Ballad and Thoreau to deliver his speech, Slavery in Massachusetts, to a July 4, 1854 antislavery rally.The trial of fugitive slave Anthony Burns, which ""set Boston on its ear in the spring of 1854….[was] nothing less than a pocket revolution"" (Von Frank, Trials of Anthony Burns, xii). The arrest and trial in Boston of Burns, whose Virginia slave-owner Suttle followed him there, was ""one of the most dramatic and famous incidents in the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act."" When Boston Commissioner Loring signed Burns' arrest warrant, Richard Henry Dana, Jr. and Charles Ellis immediately volunteered to defend Burns. On ""May 26 there was a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall to protest Burns' arrest. This meeting was followed by a poorly planned and disastrously executed… attempt to rescue Burns… Despite conflicting testimony and imperfect evidence provided by Suttle, Loring declared Burns was indeed Suttle's slave."" With that Burns was taken from the courtroom and through streets crowded with his supporters, then placed aboard a ship ""for return to Virginia. The trial and removal of Burns from Boston created one of the great spectacles of the late antebellum period"" (Finkelman, 107-112).""The Burns case made slavery appear to Northerners as an immediate threat… Walt Whitman was impelled to write an ironic piece, A Boston Ballad, soon to be incorporated into his revolutionary volume Leaves of Grass… At an antislavery rally in Framingham, Massachusetts, on July 4… William Lloyd Garrison burned copies of the Fugitive Slave Law and the Constitution as the large crowd chanted, 'Amen!' Thoreau delivered his speech, Slavery in Massachusetts, declaring that the American system had lost its integrity and purity… The antislavery sentiment bred by the case helped give birth to the Republican Party, which in turn fostered Lincoln's Presidency, the South's secession and the Civil War"" (New York Times). Containing ""valuable primary source material about the trial and the events surrounding it,"" including testimony, legal documents,"" as well as the full texts of the speeches of the counsel and the opinion of Commissioner Loring."" Bound without rear advertisements: ""some have advertisements at the back of the pamphlet while others do not,"" no priority established (Finkelman, 113). Sabin 6505. Harvard Law Catalogue II:1030. Text fine.
La Banlieue de Paris

La Banlieue de Paris by DOISNEAU, Robert and Blaise Cendrars

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La Banlieue de Paris
Author
DOISNEAU, Robert and Blaise Cendrars
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Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Minor smudging to printed cream boards; near fine. With a near fine example of the panoramically-illustrated jacket, showing onl
Description
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. Minor smudging to printed cream boards; near fine. With a near fine example of the panoramically-illustrated jacket, showing only minor rubbing. Housed in quarter-leather slipcase with pull-tab chemise.. First Edition of the preferred version in cloth with dust jacket. Small quarto. The landmark first book from photographer Robert Doisneau, featuring 130 gravure images of Parisian suburbs in the aftermath of war, accompanied by an impassioned text from Blaise Cendrars. Punctuated by the marvelous dust jacket, with the Eiffel Tower—symbol of French modernism—superimposed over a landscape of postwar housing projects. In the same year, a separate edition was issued in wrappers by La Guilde du Livre in Lausanne (Roth 101, Parr, vol. 1).
Salt Tang [Cover title] [Album of photograph of a cruise after swordfish]

Salt Tang [Cover title] [Album of photograph of a cruise after swordfish]

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Title
Salt Tang [Cover title] [Album of photograph of a cruise after swordfish]
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Canvas portfolio with rope ties, upper cover with ink drawing. Some toning. Good plus (some edge wear)
Description
[N.p., New England, 1900. 6 mounted albumen photographs of salt water angling, ink decorations on boards, and one plate reproducing a drawing. 5 x 7 inches on larger decorated boards. Canvas portfolio with rope ties, upper cover with ink drawing. Some toning. Good plus (some edge wear). 6 mounted albumen photographs of salt water angling, ink decorations on boards, and one plate reproducing a drawing. 5 x 7 inches on larger decorated boards. Photographs of "Our Captain", "The Crew" (the captain and five other men before the mainmast, with the swordfish before them), three untitled photographs of bringing the swordfish aboard, a portrait titled "Looking Backward"; and a plate of a drawing of oarsmen in a whaler, "Looking Backward". Attractive record of a rugged deep sea fishing trip.
Oscar Zeta Acosta's "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo" First Edition, 1972

Oscar Zeta Acosta's "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo" First Edition, 1972 by Oscar Zeta Acosta

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Oscar Zeta Acosta's "The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo" First Edition, 1972
Author
Oscar Zeta Acosta
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1972. [Chicano Literature] ACOSTA, Oscar Zeta. The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. First edition trade paperback. 8vo; 199p., multiple black and white illustrations, pictorial wraps. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, author, and activist who and the model for Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas." Considered his first novel, Acosta writes this semi-fictionalized autobiography about his life through the lens of a tortured Mexican lawyer and his dealings with mental health, drugs, and the fight for the people of his heritage of whom he calls the "Brown Buffalos." Having been good friends with Hunter S. Thompson in real life, his character makes an appearance as Karl King as the two characters explore many dubious adventures. Mildly worn, fore-edge and top and bottom edges of textblock foxed, overall very good condition.
NATHAN HALE, A POEM, DELIVERED BEFORE THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, OCTOBER 27, 1858

NATHAN HALE, A POEM, DELIVERED BEFORE THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, OCTOBER 27, 1858 by Mac Mullen, John

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NATHAN HALE, A POEM, DELIVERED BEFORE THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE, OCTOBER 27, 1858
Author
Mac Mullen, John
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description
New York: John F. Trow, Printer, 377 & 379 Broadway, Corner of White Street, 1858. 23 cm. 31pp. Original printed front wrapper. Disbound, lacking rear wrapper. Inscription at head of front wrapper: "To Gen J. Watts De Peyster with the compliments of the author.
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE POST BOOK

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE POST BOOK

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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY AND IRON MOUNTAIN ROUTE POST BOOK
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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N.P.: n.p., n.d. (ca 190_). Pale orange stapled paper folder, with side flap for stamp & seal. Oblong 16mo. (8pp. of captioned photos). A collection of scenic photos, presented as a postcard style mailing booklet, produced by the White River Div. of the Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain Railway System. A single page of text, printed in the form of a "P.S." promoting the region on rear page. Map on outside of rear wrap. First page left blank for sender's message. One leaf separated from staple, else very good.
Modern Fine Printing: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 11, 1967 [*SIGNED* by Ward Ritchie]

Modern Fine Printing: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 11, 1967 [*SIGNED* by Ward Ritchie] by Archer, H. Richard, and Ward Ritchie

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Modern Fine Printing: Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, March 11, 1967 [*SIGNED* by Ward Ritchie]
Author
Archer, H. Richard, and Ward Ritchie
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ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library/University of California. Very Good+. 1968. First Edition. Stapled wraps. (printed wraps) [some uneven fading to the front cover, a couple of tiny stains along left edge of front cover, a bit of rust on the staples]. SIGNED by Ritchie on the title page. The Archer paper is entitled "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence"; The Ritchie paper is "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California." A small card, folded and inserted over the top of the title page, reads: "A Roxburghe-Zamorano Keepsake 1968 from the UCLA Library." Signed by One Author .
The Kitchen God's Wife

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

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Title
The Kitchen God's Wife
Author
Amy Tan
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780399135781
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-spotting to the top of the exterior text block. SIGNED by the author to the 2nd free paper with provenance for the signing laid in (bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle). An outstanding copy of this novel, the author's 2nd published work following "The Joy Luck Club". Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
The Lithographers Manual
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The Lithographers Manual by Blair, Raymond N.; Destree, Thomas M.

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Title
The Lithographers Manual
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Blair, Raymond N.; Destree, Thomas M.
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780883621059
Condition
Very Good
Description
Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1988. Very Good. Blair, Raymond N.. The Lithographers Manual. Destree, Thomas M.. Pittsburgh: Graphic Arts Technical Foundation, 1988. Eighth edition. Illustrated. 4to. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Covers and edges rubbed. Soiling on covers.
Vintage Print of Ponte Vecchio Bridge View, Florence

Vintage Print of Ponte Vecchio Bridge View, Florence

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Vintage Print of Ponte Vecchio Bridge View, Florence
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
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Good +
Description
Good +. 9 1/2" X 13 1/2". Mild toning and wear to cover of paper. Gentle bumps and creasing to edges. A print of the Ponte Vecchio Bridge by an unknown artist. Artist's initials are visible at bottom of print.
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty

The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Alexander, Caroline

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The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
Author
Alexander, Caroline
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780670031337
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Viking, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket spine base and bottom edge of rear board bumped. 2003 Hard Cover. 491 pp. Color and black-and-white plates. More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small, armed transport vessel called Bounty, the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling, Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how, in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy, two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism, pride and power, and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.

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