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Ornate calligraphic manuscript - Vor nicht gar langer ....

Ornate calligraphic manuscript - Vor nicht gar langer .... by [Egelmann, Carl F] - MANUSCRIPT FABLE

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
Ornate calligraphic manuscript - Vor nicht gar langer ....
Author
[Egelmann, Carl F] - MANUSCRIPT FABLE
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine; colors are bright and crisp, as is the decoration.
Description
ca 1820. Late eighteenth century (laid paper), colored blue/green, textured paper wrappers. The stitching of the binding is a multi- colored thread strand.. Near fine; colors are bright and crisp, as is the decoration.. Three folio sheets of watermarked, laid paper (continental). Folded in half, nested, and bound (stitched, landscape format) into plain blue/green laid paper wrappers. The endpapers are milled paper of a later period that are original to the binding. The folded sheets make 6 leaves that are the manuscript (recto only). The leaf size is appx. 213 x 333 mm. An extraordinary manuscript attributed to C F Egelmann (1781-1860) PA school teacher and provincial engraver containing elaborate calligraphic filligree embellishments and ornaments executed in red, green, and blue with gold highlights. Written in German Gothic script the text is a fable of two children. It is set in the "Grafschaft" (county) of Norfolk in the UK. The father of children becomes ill and close to death, decides to present them, a boy and a girl, an inheritance impressing upon them their responsibilities to themselves and god for it all could be gone in a moment of neglect. Typical of such stories among the PA Germans there was always a practical, direct conclusion. The subject offers an eerie echo of a tragedy that befell the Herbach family children in 1820 in York County. The manuscript is most likely a product during his years teaching in Chester or Wernersville (where he had been engaged to teach German) near Reading. Egelmann's manuscript is modelled - in format and style - on continental German calligraphic sample manuals of an earlier generation. Raised in a family of privilege and education, both parents coming from titled families, he certainly would have been familiar with these elaborate writing manuals that circulated as advertisments for skilled scribes. The family originated in Holland where his grandfather had been sent as an ambassador for the English (the family had established itself in England during the Middle Ages; at that point the name was Eagleman). As a young man his father had been private secretary to the chamberlain of King George III in the Duchy of Linneburg. It was during his term of office there that Carl was born in 1781. His mother was Belgian and came from Flanders. At 17, Carl was engaged as secretary by the Chamberlain of England and shortly afterwards was made private secretary. All the time he was in the employ of the Chamberlain, Baron Dinklaga, he lived with the family of the baron at his residence, Schulenburg near Batburgen. During this time his father, and sister died, his mother having died when he was quite young. In 1802, together with an English relative, he emigrated to America. Given this background it is no wonder that the setting for the fable offered here was the UK. Though employed as a teacher by the Quakers in Chester and then moving to Wernersville, Egelmann began a career as an engraver and provincial publisher. He is best known for his book, Deutsche & Englische Vorschriften, first issued in 1821. That book contains clear duplicates of the design and ornament motifs of swirls and birds utilized in the manuscript offered here. See Arndt #2522; Yoder, Pennsylvania German Broadside.
A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]

A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report] by SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF
. [SMYTH, H.D.]

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Title
A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes under the auspices of the United States Government 1940 - 1945 [The Smyth Report]
Author
SMYTH, HENRY DEWOLF
. [SMYTH, H.D.]
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Description
Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1945. First edition. original wrappers. RARE LITHOPRINT ISSUE - THE FIRST OBTAINABLE PRINTING - OF THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE MANHATTAN PROJECT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. ONE OF SMYTH'S OWN COPIES, SIGNED BY HIM ON THE TITLE PAGE. PMM 422e. Released to the public on 12 August 1945, just six days after the bombing of Hiroshima, the "Smyth Report" (as it came to be known) contained a full account of the development work carried out between 1940 and 1945 by the Manhattan Project that culminated in the production of the first atomic bomb. The first version of the report was a mimeographed copy (identifiable by the word "secret" stamped on every page), hand-delivered by military messenger, which the recipients were required to read immediately and return to the waiting messenger. These mimeographed copies were apparently destroyed for security reasons, as no copies, either whole or in parts, have been recorded in existence except for Smyth's master copy housed at Princeton. 1,000 copies were then lithoprinted from typescript [the offered version] in the facility for reproducing secret documents in the Adjutant General's Office in the Pentagon. Provenance: Smyth was given a small number of copies for his own personal use. In the late 1970s Smyth was cleaning out his office at Princeton and found a few copies of the original lithoprinted version. At the request of Princeton University, he signed the copies and presented them to the university. This is one of those copies. It is complete, and contains three repeated leaves. Because the leaves were gathered for binding in great haste and under the pressure of tight security precautions, the surviving copies often contain missing and/or repeated leaves. No leaves are missing in this copy. References: PMM 422e; Norman 1962; Coleman, The 'Smyth Report': A Descriptive Checklist, no. 3. See: "The 'Smyth Report'" by H.D. Smyth, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 37, No. 3, Spring 1976. [Washington, D.C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1945.] Quarto (8x10.5 in.; 265 x 201 mm), stapled in the original cream textured stiff paper covers. Printed by lithoprint from stencils made by multiple typewriters. A little (very minor) soiling to wrappers, but still fine - one of the nicest copies we've seen. RARE SIGNED. Note: A custom box can be made for this item for an additional $250.
Our Mutual Friend (In the Original Monthly Parts and with an Autograph Note By Thomas Hatton Laid Into Part 12: FIRST ISSUE of the Wrappers and FIRST ISSUE of the text)

Our Mutual Friend (In the Original Monthly Parts and with an Autograph Note By Thomas Hatton Laid Into Part 12: FIRST ISSUE of the Wrappers and FIRST ISSUE of the text) by Dickens, Charles

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Title
Our Mutual Friend (In the Original Monthly Parts and with an Autograph Note By Thomas Hatton Laid Into Part 12: FIRST ISSUE of the Wrappers and FIRST ISSUE of the text)
Author
Dickens, Charles
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
London [May 1864-November 1865]: Chapman & Hall. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good+. In the original monthly parts, 20 parts in 19. Original green printed wrappers; ALL wrappers are correct. ALL the ads, slips and Advertisers called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present, except for the rare ad "The Economic Life Assurance Society" following the plates in part 14 (known in only a few copies). FIRST ISSUE of the wrappers, without the imprint at the foot of front wrapper of part 1, and with the FIRST ISSUE TEXT, with the misspelling "pricipal" in part 14, page 115, line 38. In the Advertiser of part 10, Hatton & Cleaver states, "In a few copies seen, p. 13 was misprinted 31." The present copy has this misprint. Part 17 with the Advertiser partly unopened. The plates are very good to fine; the text and wrappers are clean and bright. Laid into part 12 is an autograph note, in pencil by Dickens Bibliographer Thomas Hatton: "M. F. / 12 / f. cover spots - / wants b. cover" in reference to another part 12. Several spines are expertly and invisibly renewed. Our Mutual Friend has more of the Advertiser ads than any of Dickens' other works, having 320 pages and 89 insets and slips in the rear of the parts. Altogether a lovely set, lacking just one (rare) ad and having the first issue points in the wrappers and text, as well as a scarce misprint in the Advertiser of part 10. This lovely set is the best we are likely to find, and it has a pedigree - it is from the famed (Thomas) Hatton & Cleaver (bibliographers) collection. Housed in a handsome green 3/4 leather slipcase, with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton & Cleaver Collection, The Heritage Bookshop, Charles Parkhurst Rare Books.
The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home

The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home by Dickens, Charles

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Title
The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home
Author
Dickens, Charles
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1846. First Edition. 12mo, 174 pages, 2 pages of ads; publisher's pictorial red cloth, decorated in gilt; rebacked long ago, with original spine laid down; loss at spine ends and along rear hinge. All edges gilt; inner hinges cracked, bookseller ticket of The Old Curiosity Shop tipped-in to ffep. Near very good.
Archive of 65 documents

Archive of 65 documents by Taunton, John Colley; City of London Truss Society

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Archive of 65 documents
Author
Taunton, John Colley; City of London Truss Society
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1865. City of London Truss Society. Archive of 65 documents, including autograph letters signed (mostly to John Colley Taunton [d. 1858]), printed reports and other ephemera. 1822-65. Some documents soiled or dampstained, a few with tears, but overall good to very good. Calendar of the archive included. The City of London Truss Society, a highly successful British charitable organization, began operating in 1807 and continued well into the twentieth century (Sir Geoffrey Keynes, the well-known surgeon and bibliographer, served on the Society's medical staff in the 1930s). A notice published in the Philosophical Magazine in 1813 describes the genesis of the Society: "From the great number of persons among the laboring poor who were afflicted with hernia, and for whose relief no adequate provision existed, on the 14th of October 1807 Dr. Squire, Dr. Herdman, John Taunton, the Rev. H. G. Watkins, James Horton, Michael Bartlett, Joseph Atkinson, John Middleton, John Gardner and John Whitford, met at the City Dispensary, and formed themselves into a Society 'for the relief of the ruptured poor throughout the Kingdom, the City of London Truss Society'" (Philosophical Magazine 43 [1813]: 316). John Taunton (1769-1821), surgeon to London's city dispensary, was appointed the Truss Society's first surgeon; after his death, his son John Colley Taunton took over the post, remaining there until his own death in 1858. By 1813 the Society was treating nearly 2000 patients annually; by Taunton's death in 1821 this number had increased to over 3500; and by the end of the nineteenth century the Society was employing three surgeons and seeing over 10,000 patients per year. The archive we are offering contains 65 documents, of which all but seven are handwritten. Of the 58 handwritten documents, the majority are letters to (and a few from) John Colley Taunton. The most notable correspondent represented here is physiologist and surgeon Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), whose letter to Taunton advises him on a urinary tract infection in a patient. Four of the letters are from surgeon William Kingdon (1789-1863); two of these recommend poor patients to the Society's care. 31 letters are from Samuel Cartwright (1789-1864), a dentist and one of the vice-presidents of the Truss Society; nearly all of his letters have to do with donations to the Society, and several include the exact amounts given. Another group of letters is from Mary Tanner, presumably a patient; two of these letters include prescription notes in what is presumably J. C. Taunton's hand. Also included in this archive are three of the Society's annual reports, for the years 1862-1864; a printed subscription card; and two printed invitations from the Society addressed to Walter K. Taunton. A complete calendar of the archive is included. Royal College of Surgeons, Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online. .
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A treatise on neuralgic diseases by Teale, Thomas P.

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Title
A treatise on neuralgic diseases
Author
Teale, Thomas P.
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830. Teale, Thomas Pridgin (1800-1867). A treatise on neuralgic diseases, dependent upon irritation of the spinal marrow and ganglia of the sympathetic nerve. iv, 120pp. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1830. 236 x 148 mm. Original quarter cloth, boards, front cover nearly detached, front endpaper detached, upper corner of front cover chipped, light soiling. Some toning and foxing as is common in American books of this period. Good to very good. First American Edition, first published in London in 1829. Teale, one of the founders of the Leeds School of Medicine in Yorkshire, was known for his attempt to apply Broussais's doctrine of irritation to the nervous system. For his contributions to surgery see Garrison-Morton.com 3589 and 4467. .
The First Cities [publisher's prospectus laid in]

The First Cities [publisher's prospectus laid in] by Audre Lorde; Diane di Prima [intro.]

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Title
The First Cities [publisher's prospectus laid in]
Author
Audre Lorde; Diane di Prima [intro.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Poets Press, Inc, 1968. Very Good. New York: The Poets Press, Inc., 1968. First Edition. Octavo; [32]pp. Illustrated stapled wraps. Spotting and fading to wraps, principally along spine; binding sound. $1.50 price written in marker at half title, creasing to a couple leaves, appears to be a production flaw; Very Good. Publisher's printed promotional prospectus laid in with manuscript header, "A young West Indian poet you might find interesting." Lorde's first book quite scarce in commerce and rare with publisher's flyer.
The I Ching, or Book of Changes

The I Ching, or Book of Changes by Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translaltor]; Carl Jung [Forward]

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Title
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
Author
Wilhelm, Richard [Translator]; Cary Baynes [Translaltor]; Carl Jung [Forward]
Seller
Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
New York: Pantheon Books, 1950. First Edition. 2 vols. First edition in English, first printing. Foreword by Carl G. Jung. Original cloth, near fine, in chipped and rubbed dustjackets, with a small repair to the spine of volume 1, worn slipcase. From many varieties, these jackets have rear flap ads reassuringly dated “1950” and married reprints don’t. The I Ching a masterpiece of Chinese Literature with all you can handle on multiple levels including a fortune telling game for the sleeping uninitiated and a stairway into the mind of Confucius for the conscious and awakened. The origins of I Ching were as a divination text from the 10th-4th century BC. This edition was originally translated into German by Wilhelm in 1924, then into English here by Baynes; considered the first accurate and culturally sympathetic translation. One of the oldest continuous philosophical and divinatory traditions, a text that bridges ancient Chinese cosmology with practical wisdom over the course of three millennia. As both an oracle and a philosophical treatise, it embodies the fundamental Chinese concept of change as the only constant in existence, offering a systematic approach to understanding the dynamic interplay between opposing forces (yin and yang) that govern all phenomena. Its influence extends far beyond divination into Chinese philosophy, literature, politics, and daily life, making it one of the most consulted books in human history and a cornerstone text for understanding Chinese thought, from Confucianism to Taoism.
The Green Berets

The Green Berets by Moore, Robin

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Title
The Green Berets
Author
Moore, Robin
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York: Crown Publishers, 1965. First edition, unclipped dust jacket, 8vo, pp. [10], 341, [1]; very slight wrinkling of the jacket, else fine throughout. Inscribed by the author in green flair: "Robin Moore. This is a rare first edition - full of error & no sweat band shown on the beret on the cover. R. M.
Winesburg, Ohio; A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life

Winesburg, Ohio; A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Anderson, Sherwood

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Title
Winesburg, Ohio; A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
Author
Anderson, Sherwood
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, first issue; unbroken right frame line on title page, "lay" page 86 line 5, "the" in broken type page 251 line three. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with spine label and illustrated blind-stamp on front cover. Top edge yellow. Nearly flawless. Bright cloth, bright spine label, text block is fine. Very minor rubbing at tips of bottom outside corners and corners of spine head and heel, not through cloth. A bright and beautiful copy. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 303 pages.
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved In Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London: Vol. I, 1108-1272; Vol. II, 1272-1307; Vol. III, 1307-1357; Vol. IV, 1357-1509 & Addenda: 1221-1435. 4-vol. set (Complete)

Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved In Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London: Vol. I, 1108-1272; Vol. II, 1272-1307; Vol. III, 1307-1357; Vol. IV, 1357-1509 & Addenda: 1221-1435. 4-vol. set (Complete) by Bain, Joseph (Edited by)

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Title
Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland Preserved In Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London: Vol. I, 1108-1272; Vol. II, 1272-1307; Vol. III, 1307-1357; Vol. IV, 1357-1509 & Addenda: 1221-1435. 4-vol. set (Complete)
Author
Bain, Joseph (Edited by)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
f to vg
Description
Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1888. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Quarto (11 x 8"). lxxiii, [5], 676pp (Vol. 1); lx, [4], 713, [3]pp (Vol. 2); lxxi, [5], 608, [2], 2pp (Vol. 3); xliii, [5], 678, [2], 2pp (Vol. 4). Uncut and partly unopened. Original blind-stamped full cloth, with gold lettering to spines. Collection of documents pertaining to the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and more precisely, from 1108, the beginning of Alexander I's reign, to 1509, during the last years of James IV's reign. The set is complete with its 5 striking photographic plates of seals featured in the second volume. Some offsetting, and rubing along edges of bindings. Ex library copy with bookplate on inside of each front cover, and stamp at upper and lower paper edges. Rear hinge of volume 4 slightly starting. Minor to moderate age-toning to pages throughout. Bindings in overall fair to good, interior in good to very good condition.
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The Sportsman's Companion or an Esay on Shooting

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Title
The Sportsman's Companion or an Esay on Shooting
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Original blue paper over boards, with paper spine label and label on upper cover. Fine in original glassine. Blue half morocco d
Description
New York: Privately Printed by Ernest R. Gee [at The Derrydale Press], 1930. Fourth Edition and First Derrydale Edition. One of 200 copies. ix, 52, [2, contents] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue paper over boards, with paper spine label and label on upper cover. Fine in original glassine. Blue half morocco drop box with gilt spine with gilt logo of the Derrydale Press and inset blue morocco leather label on upper cover with Derrydale logo and title and author. Fourth Edition and First Derrydale Edition. One of 200 copies. ix, 52, [2, contents] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An uncommon Derrydale reprint of the earliest sporting book published in America. Siegel 44; Frazier S-19-a
Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study

Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study by Bailie, William

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Title
Josiah Warren: The First American Anarchist. A Sociological Study
Author
Bailie, William
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1906. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition. xl, 135 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good+ with lean to binding, spine slightly sunned, minor soiling to cloth; contents lightly toned at edges. Scarce. The biography of Josiah Warren, founder of Philosophical Anarchism in the United States. Warren was an early exponent of Owenism, a polymath, founder of a "Time Store" in Cincinnati, Ohio in which labor hours were exchanged for goods and services, and a co-creater of two mutualist anarchist colonies: Utopia, Ohio and one on Long Island called Modern Times.
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Histoires Charitables by Pierre Boulle

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Title
Histoires Charitables
Author
Pierre Boulle
Seller
Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Rene Julliard, 1965. Book. Fine. Soft cover. Presentation By Author. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Limited 1/30 Copies Presentation by The Author in French.Excellent Rare Copy Especially Signed.
Jerry Ford, Up Close; An Investigative Biography

Jerry Ford, Up Close; An Investigative Biography by Vestal, Bud

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Title
Jerry Ford, Up Close; An Investigative Biography
Author
Vestal, Bud
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Jerry Ford, Up Close by Bud Vestal, signed by President Gerald R. Ford.. Octavo, ix, 214pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on spine. First edition, with no additional printings on copyright page. Orange end papers with previous gift inscription on front free end paper. Ownership blind stamp on rear end paper. In publisher's dust jacket, price clipped, light wear along top edge, an overall very good example. Signed by Gerald R. Ford on title page. A scarce signed book, with details about Gerald Ford shortly after assuming the Vice Presidency and assuming an important role in national politics.
The Homecoming Singer

The Homecoming Singer by Wright, Jay

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Title
The Homecoming Singer
Author
Wright, Jay
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Corinth Books, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Fine/very good. Signed first edition of The Homecoming Singer by Jay Wright, inscribed to fellow authors.. Octavo, 95pp, [1]. Orange cloth, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text block, touch of wear to corners, otherwise fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $6.50 retail price on front flap, shelf worn, with sunned spine, very good example. Inscribed on the title page: "For Tree and Liam / with best wishes, Jay Wright / June 18, 2001." The recipient of this copy, Tree Swenson, served as the Executive Director of the Academy of American Poets. Swenson was married to poet Liam Rector.
[SPECIAL PRESS] HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE]

[SPECIAL PRESS] HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE] by Juliet [Bromer] | Anne and David Bromer

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Title
[SPECIAL PRESS] HAIKU [TO WELCOME THE NEW DECADE]
Author
Juliet [Bromer] | Anne and David Bromer
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine binding
Description
The Rara Avis Press, 1980. Fine binding. “To welcome the new decade this edition of 150 was designed and printed for Anne and David Bromer at The Rara Avis Press in Madison, Wisconsin. This is copy 75. The symbols by Marta Anderson and Palatino and ornaments from the Pickering Press are printed on leaves of Roma, bound by hand in flowering Richard de Bas”. Calendar for 1980 with tassel and bead. Fine binding.
Mask-Articles" -- Novelty Paper Mask Disguise

Mask-Articles" -- Novelty Paper Mask Disguise

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Title
Mask-Articles" -- Novelty Paper Mask Disguise
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Toned with spotting, discoloration from envelope adhesive.
Description
N.pl: N.p., 1900. Very good. Toned with spotting, discoloration from envelope adhesive.. A late 1890s novelty paper mask disguise, complete with eyeglasses, large nose, and two ears with loops to stay on the wearer's ears. Housed in the original envelope printed with the name of the product in English, Spanish, German, and French, with a line drawing of a man wearing the mask in the center. Envelope measures approx. 4" by 6" with floral paper envelope liner.
Vintage Lot of 34 Shell Service Station Maps: Eastern United States; Western and Central United States; Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona; California; Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia; Florida, Georgia; Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky, Tennessee; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; Nevada; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina, South Carolina; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Texas; Utah; Washington; Wisconsin; Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of Louisville; Pamphlet of Presidential Elections (1972)

Vintage Lot of 34 Shell Service Station Maps: Eastern United States; Western and Central United States; Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona; California; Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia; Florida, Georgia; Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky, Tennessee; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; Nevada; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina, South Carolina; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Texas; Utah; Washington; Wisconsin; Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of Louisville; Pamphlet of Presidential Elections (1972)

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Title
Vintage Lot of 34 Shell Service Station Maps: Eastern United States; Western and Central United States; Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arizona; California; Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia; Florida, Georgia; Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky, Tennessee; Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont; Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; Nevada; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina, South Carolina; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Pennsylvania; Texas; Utah; Washington; Wisconsin; Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of Louisville; Pamphlet of Presidential Elections (1972)
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
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Shell, 1972. Map. Good +. Map. 11 1/4" X 16" (Binder). 23" X 36" (Unfolded maps). Maps are clean, unmarked, and un-worn. Wear to plastic binder with rubbing to cover and bumps, rubbing, and a shallow tear to edges. Light chipping to pages of binder. This collection is heavy and oversized and will require additional postal charges to ship internationally. Please contact us today for an international shipping quote. MAPS IN THIS COLLECTION: Eastern United States Western and Central United States Alabama Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi Arizona California Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia Florida Georgia Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado Indiana Iowa Kentucky, Tennessee Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island Michigan Minnesota Missouri Nevada New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina, South Carolina Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Texas Utah Washington Wisconsin Street Guide and Metropolitan Map of Louisville Pamphlet of Presitdental Elections (1972).
Run for the Hills: A Novel SIGNED FIRST EDITION

Run for the Hills: A Novel SIGNED FIRST EDITION by Wilson, Kevin

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Run for the Hills: A Novel SIGNED FIRST EDITION
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Wilson, Kevin
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780063317512
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Very good +
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New York: Ecco, 2025. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Kevin Wilson in ink to publisher's tipped in sheet. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". 244pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in yellow paper over boards with spine backed in blue and lettered in white. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. A very presentable signed first edition. ABOUT THIS BOOK: NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY: Time, People, LitHub, and BookRiot An unexpected road trip across America brings a family together, in this raucous and moving new novel from the bestselling author of Nothing to See Here. Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's been just Madeline Hill and her mom on their farm in Coalfield, Tennessee. While it's a bit lonely, she sometimes admits, and a less exciting life than what she imagined for herself, it's mostly okay. Mostly. Then one day Reuben Hill pulls up in a PT Cruiser and informs Madeline that he believes she's his half sister. Reuben-left behind by their dad thirty years ago-has hired a detective to track down their father and a string of other half siblings. And he wants Mad to leave her home and join him for the craziest kind of road trip imaginable to find them all. As Mad and Rube-and eventually the others-share stories of their father, who behaved so differently in each life he created, they begin to question what he was looking for with every new incarnation. Who are they to one another? What kind of man will they find? And how will these new relationships change Mad's previously solitary life on the farm? Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other-a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.(Publisher).
LANDSCAPES OF LIVING & DYING

LANDSCAPES OF LIVING & DYING by FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE

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LANDSCAPES OF LIVING & DYING
Author
FERLINGHETTI, LAWRENCE
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
New York: [Printed from the type at the Press of A. Colish for] New Directions Books, 1979. No. 125 OF 200 COPIES. 228 x 152 mm. (9 x 6"). 4 p.l., 57, [1] pp., [1] leaf. Original quarter black cloth over marbled boards, smooth spine with gilt lettering. Housed in a tan paper slipcase (sunned, but in still in excellent condition). SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the limitation page. In near mint condition, with just a breath of rubbing to extremities. A copy from the library of two significant American poets, this is a pleasing edition of the work of arguably the most celebrated of the Beat writers. Political activist, popular writer, widely read poet, important publisher, and owner of San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) was a central part of the Bay Area Beat scene. He published Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," and was subsequently arrested for doing so, before being acquitted in the famous 1957 obscenity trial. He found inspiration for his writing in a wide range of subjects, including politics, Classical literature, and jazz. "Landscapes of Living & Dying" includes verses ranging from the humorous ("San Jose Symphony Reception") to profound ("An Elegy to Dispel Gloom," written following the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk). This edition is one of several books printed for New Directions at the Press of A. Colish in the late 1970s. The press was founded by Abraham Colish (1882-1963), who had worked his way up from printer's devil at a Bridgeport, Connecticut, press to composing room foreman for the great Bruce Rogers, before opening his own fine printing workshop in New York City in 1907. His press did work for the Limited Editions Club from the 1930s through the 1980s and was employed by the Grolier Club, the Typophiles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others to produce fine press books. This volume comes from the library of Laure-Anne Bosselaar (b. 1943) and her husband Kurt Brown (1944-2013). Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator, and editor who has published numerous works of poetry in multiple languages, including five collections of her own works. She has received various prizes and recognitions (Pushcart, Isabella Gardner, Breadloaf) and was named Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara in 2019. Sometimes publishing jointly with Bosselaar, Brown was also a prolific poet and editor of anthologies, as well as the founder and first director of the Aspen Writer's Conference, playing a pivotal role in shaping its early vision and establishing Aspen as a literary center..
Autograph Letter Signed, to James Gordon Bennett, editor and founder of the New York Herald, written by “Enquirer” of New York

Autograph Letter Signed, to James Gordon Bennett, editor and founder of the New York Herald, written by “Enquirer” of New York by “Enquirer” possibly James Watson Webb

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Autograph Letter Signed, to James Gordon Bennett, editor and founder of the New York Herald, written by “Enquirer” of New York
Author
“Enquirer” possibly James Watson Webb
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Quarto, 4 pages, posted from "Washington Square" New York, "March 29," no year given, likely 1850's. The letter writer signs their name "Enquirer" and inquires about Bennett's opinion on the presumed upcoming American delegation to Paris, France, perhaps concerning some political matter. James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) James Gordon Bennett was the founder, editor and publisher of the New York Herald and a major figure in the history of American newspapers. Bennett was born to a prosperous Roman Catholic family in Newmill, Banffshire, Scotland, Great Britain. At age 15, Bennett entered the Roman Catholic seminary in Aberdeen, where he remained for four years. After leaving the seminary, he read voraciously on his own and traveled throughout Scotland. In 1819, he joined a friend who was sailing to North America. After four weeks they landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where Bennett briefly worked as a schoolmaster till he had enough money to sail south to Portland, Maine, where he again taught school in the village of Addison, moving on to Boston, Massachusetts by New Year's Day, 1820. He worked in New England as a proofreader and bookseller before the Charleston Courier in Charleston, South Carolina hired him to translate Spanish language news reports, so he briefly relocated to The South. He moved back north to New York City in 1823, where he worked first as a freelance paper writer and then, assistant editor of the New York Courier and Enquirer, one of the oldest newspapers in the city In May 1835, Bennett began the New York Herald after years of failing to start a paper. After only a year of publication, in April 1836, it shocked readers with front–page coverage of the grisly murder of prostitute Helen Jewett; Bennett got a scoop and conducted the first-ever newspaper interview for it. In business and circulation policy, The Herald initiated a cash–in–advance policy for advertisers, which later became the industry standard. Bennett was also at the forefront of using the latest technology to gather and report the news, and added pictorial illustrations produced from woodcuts. In 1839, Bennett was granted the first ever exclusive interview to a sitting President of the United States, the eighth occupant, Martin Van Buren (1782–1862, served 1837–1841). By the time Bennett turned control of the New York Herald over to his son James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1912), at age 25 in 1866, it had the highest circulation in America but would soon face increasing competition from Greeley's Tribune and soon in the next decades, from Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, along with Henry J. Raymond's The New York Times. However, under the younger Bennetts' stewardship, the paper slowly declined under the increasing stiff competition and changing technologies in the late 19th century and, after his 1912 death, it was merged a decade later with its former arch-rival, the New York Tribune in 1924, becoming the New York Herald Tribune for another 42 years meeting with considerable success and reputation in its near last half-century, until finally closing in 1966–1967. The author of this letter, written to Bennett, is possibly James Watson Webb (1802-1884). The letter is signed simply "Enquirer," it is unclear who the author is, but the New York Courier and Enquirer, properly called the Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer, was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in New York City from June 1829 until June 1861, when it was merged into the New York World. Throughout its existence it was edited by newspaper publisher James Watson Webb. It was closely connected with the rise and fall of the United States Whig Party and was noted for its careful coverage of New York Harbor shipping news and its close attention to speeches and events in the United States Congress. "Washington Square Sir, I fear you are becoming so much engrossed with the political conditions of the world as to forget the social. I should like to bring you back, as of yore, to the social and to elicit your opinion upon many important points – one thing – what are we Americans in future to do in Paris? Or are we to go there at all except to deliver lectures on self-government and republicanism, and what is to become of Louis Philipps, the young Duke and Duchess? Will he again in his own words return to the 'Bundleing System.' On the occasion of your own presentation to him a year ago, when he seemed quite persuaded he had met you before, His Majesty remarked to a young Tennessean standing near you of whom he was making particular enquiries about the present condition of his state, 'Ah changed greatly changes since my time.' Sketching then graphically his route and privations, 'In my time' continued the King "We walked on foot in Tennessee, were glad to bite a [hoc] cake in a log cabin and slept three in a bed. We followed the Bundleing System and how well it be with their Highness the Dukes D'Nemours – D'Aumala and Montpensier' on that presentation occasion notwithstanding the marked civility of the King and Queen and all the Duchesses to the American gentlemen, those young worthies friended by D'Nemours passed the whole American line without even the civil nod and the same thing occurred at two years before and now by the laws of their own land they are as flat down democrats as any log cabin man in Tennessee. Again, I would ask what are we Americans, especially we of the 'Upper Ten' to do in Paris? Hitherto the grand idea of there was sorting with Royalty and nobility has been inducement enough for many of us to brave the seas and sea sickness and even to open splendid hotels in the Toubourgh St. Germaine, a late letter in your paper makes mention of such one fitted up in splendid style then and there existing and describes a grand ball just given by the beautiful hostess, so beautiful you will remember as to have been the belle at last winter's court Ball at the Fuilveries. Your correspondent speaks of counts and dukes and duchesses by scores gracing the lady's salon – and is it so that in all time to come La Belle Paris is only to be the abode of dirty democrats? Do give us your opinion. Enquirer"
Szukalski in California

Szukalski in California by ZIEMANN, Krzysztof

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Szukalski in California
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ZIEMANN, Krzysztof
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN
9788397656321
Description
Gydnia: Muzeum Stanislawa, 2025. hardcover. Stanislaw Szukalski. Beautifully designed throughout with many photographs of Szukalski and his work. 188pp. Square 4to, yellow cloth with black-stamped cover and spine; printed endpapers with a stylized 'SZ' that the artist designed previously. Slight wrinkle to upper spine but otherwise like new. Gydnia: Muzeum Stanislwa, [2025]. Limited edition 389 of 500. In Polish and English with text by Lena Zwalve and Glenn Bray. The Muzeum Stanislwa in Gydnia, Poland opened in 2025 and is dedicated to promoting the life and work of Szukalski. Stanislaw Szukalski (1893-1987) was a Polish sculptor and painter who became a part of the Chicago Renaissance. Szukalski's art is influenced by ancient cultures, Egypt, Slavs, and Aztecs combined with elements of art nouveau and other currents of early 20th century European modernism. During the 1920s, he was hailed as Poland's "greatest living artist".
The Swiss Family Robinson: or Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons in a Desert Island ( The Two Parts Complete in One Volume )

The Swiss Family Robinson: or Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons in a Desert Island ( The Two Parts Complete in One Volume ) by ( WYSS, Johann David )

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The Swiss Family Robinson: or Adventures of a Father and Mother and Four Sons in a Desert Island ( The Two Parts Complete in One Volume )
Author
( WYSS, Johann David )
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, 1860. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Seventh Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good, some internal toning, gilt titles dulled, prior owner bookplates front paste down and his penciled name rear paste down, rubs to cloth at corners. With preface to Seventh Edition, map and illustrations. 394 pp, 2 pp Notes, 20 pp publisher's ads..
AMERICAN SUBLIME: LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE UNITED STATES 1820-1880

AMERICAN SUBLIME: LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE UNITED STATES 1820-1880 by Wilton, Andrew; Barringer, Tim

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AMERICAN SUBLIME: LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN THE UNITED STATES 1820-1880
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Wilton, Andrew; Barringer, Tim
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780691096704
Description
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 284 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine is orange and pictorial with white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Bumping to head, tail of spine and edges and corners of dust jacket. Sinking and cocking to text block. Warping to top-edge of text block. Shelved in American Art. 1411081. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Why There are Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet

Why There are Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet by STEIN, Gertrude

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Why There are Whites to Console, A Portrait of Janet
Author
STEIN, Gertrude
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
A fine copy
Description
Aloe Editions, 1973. Softcover. A fine copy. 4to. 8 pages (including blanks). Original dark blue printed wrappers, sewn. Printed from the original manuscript in an edition of seventy-four numbered & twenty-six lettered copies. This copy unnumbered and unsigned, out-of-series, and from the printer's personal collection.
The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass

The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass by Mark Twain

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The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
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Mark Twain
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Very Good
Description
University Press in Dallas/Southern Methodist University, 1946. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1946 1st edition in book form. Solid and VG+ in a bright, price-clipped, VG dustjacket, with one small closed tear at the front panel's top-edge. Octavo, 76 pgs. Edited and with an Introduction by Ernest E.Leisy.
AMERICAN FICTION 1774-1850: A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY

AMERICAN FICTION 1774-1850: A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY by Wright, Lyle H.

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AMERICAN FICTION 1774-1850: A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Author
Wright, Lyle H.
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
San Marino, CA: (Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery), 1939. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 246 pages. First edition. Some tears to the dust jacket, ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper, else a very good copy. Printed by The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, CA. Eight plates; title page in red and black. Table of contents, introduction, acknowledgments, key to books referred to in the notes, list of abbreviations, bibliography, appendix, chronlogical and title indices. A very scarce book, especially in the dust jacket.
Hemingway's Notebook

Hemingway's Notebook by Granger, Bill

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Hemingway's Notebook
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Granger, Bill
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780517559376
Condition
Very Fine
Description
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. 8vo., 248pp. Beautiful Unread Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($15.95), is fresh and bright with no tears, creases or chipping. Protected with an archival-quality mylar cover. A gorgeous collectable copy.
Born on the Fourth of July.
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Born on the Fourth of July. by KOVIC, Ron.

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Born on the Fourth of July.
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KOVIC, Ron.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780070353596
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
NY:: Mcgraw-Hill,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1976. Hardcover. 007035359X . Made into the 1989 Oliver Stone film. Third printing. Very good in a very good, price clipped dust jacket. .

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