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The Only Abraham Lincoln Letter to his Fianc�e Mary Owens Still in Private Hands - Long on Politics, Short on Love by ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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Title: The Only Abraham Lincoln Letter to his Fianc�e Mary Owens Still in Private Hands - Long on Politics, Short on Love
Author: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: 1836. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed, to Mary S. Owens, December 13, 1836, 2 pp., 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. ""Write back as soon as you get this, and if possible say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you.""Here, Lincoln perfectly demonstrates what Owens later described as deficiencies ""in those little links which make up the chain of a woman's happiness."" Rather than expressing his feelings for Owens, Lincoln complains about his health and discusses political issues swirling in the Illinois General Assembly. Although inept at love, the letter offers rare insight into the young representative's thoughts on a variety of political issues. In this highly important letter to Mary Owens, a self-absorbed Lincoln complains to his potential spouse of his health, both physical and mental, and discusses political issues to the point that he describes his own letter as ""dry and stupid."" Perhaps more revealing than he realized, it illustrates the tension in Lincoln's early life between matters of the head, with which he was comfortable, and matters of the heart, with which he clearly was not. Complete Transcript Vandalia, Decr 13. 1836Mary I have been sick ever since my arrival here, or I should have written sooner. It is but little difference, however, as I have verry little even yet to write. And more, the longer I can avoid the mortification of looking in the Post Office for your letter and not finding it, the better. You see I am mad about that old letter yet. I dont like verry well to risk you again. I'll try you once more anyhow. The new State House is not yet finished, and consequently the legislature is doing little or nothing. The Governor delivered an inflamitory political message, and it is expected there will be some sparring between the parties about it as soon as the two Houses get to business. Taylor delivered up his petitions for the New County to one of our members this morning. I am told that he despairs of its success on account of all the members from Morgan County opposing it. There are names enough on the petitions, I think to justify the members from our county in going for it; but if the members from Morgan oppose it, which they say they will, the chance will be bad. Our chance to take the seat of Government to Springfield is better than I expected. An Internal Improvement Convention was held here since we met, which recommended a loan of several millions of dollars on the faith of the state to construct Rail Roads. Some of the legislature are for it and some against it; which has the majority I can not tell. There is great strife and struggling for the office of U.S. Senator here at this time. It is probable we shall ease their pains in a few days. The opposition men have no candidate of their own, and consequently they smile as complacently at the angry snarls of the contending Van Buren candidates and their respective friends, as the Christian does at Satan's rage. You recollect I mentioned in the outset of this letter that I had been unwell. That is the fact, though I belive I am about well now; but that, with other things I can not account for, have conspired and have gotten my spirits so low, that I feel that I would rather be any place in the world than here. I really can not endure the thought of staying here ten weeks. Write back as soon as you get this, and if possible say something that will please me, for really I have not been pleased since I left you. This letter is so dry and stupid that I am ashamed to send it, but with my present feelings I can not do any better. Give my respects to Mr & Mrs Abell and family. Your friend LincolnMiss Mary S. OwensHistoric BackgroundThis is one of the ten oldest Lincoln letters known to have survived. Although 11 leaves (9 of which are in institutions) from Lincoln's educational sum book, a few documents written or signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1832 relating to his service in the Black Hawk War (again, mos... (See website for full description)

Excursions by THOREAU Henry David

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Title: Excursions
Author: THOREAU Henry David
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1863. First Edition. THOREAU, Henry David. Excursions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. Small octavo, original recased green blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine, edges gilt, original brown endpapers retained. $2000.First edition, in original cloth with steel-engraved frontispiece portrait.Excursions was collected from various sources by Thoreau's sister, Sophia E. Thoreau. It was published the year after Thoreau's death and includes a eulogy delivered at his funeral by Emerson, here included as a preface. After leaving Walden Pond, Thoreau became more of a naturalist, taking trips to Cape Cod and Canada and using his experiences as material for an article entitled ""Excursion to Canada"" in Putnam's Monthly in 1853. ""He toured Cape Cod on foot late in 1849, spent a week in Canada in 1850, went in 1853 on his second journey into Maine. Four of his posthumous books derivefrom these expeditions: Excursions (1863), The Maine Woods (1864), Cape Cod (1865), and A Yankee in Canada (1866)."" Only 1588 copies were printed in the first edition, of which 1500 were bound. BAL 20111. Borst A3.1.a. Scattered foxing and soiling to text, original cloth with light wear, minor restoration to spine ends. A very good copy.

El Album de Mi Padrino [Album of My Godfather] [manuscript cover title] by [Cuba]: [Engineering]: [Education]: [Pennsylvania]: Guitart, Magdalena Sofia

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Title: El Album de Mi Padrino [Album of My Godfather] [manuscript cover title]
Author: [Cuba]: [Engineering]: [Education]: [Pennsylvania]: Guitart, Magdalena Sofia
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: [Various locations in Cuba and Pennsylvania: contents ca, 1973. [25] leaves, totaling [40]pp., illustrated with thirty black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs, with detailed manuscript captions, plus seven large clippings from school publications, and six additional ephemeral items. Oblong folio. Black cloth, with alligator-patterned cloth on front board, with manuscript title below a drawn representation of a small pennant for Lehigh University. Covers worn, frayed, and chipped, alligator-style cloth curling a bit along fore edge. A few items loose from adhesive and a few with small tears, scattered spotting and soiling. Overall very good condition, with fascinating materiality. A lovingly-compiled photograph album and memorial book created by a young woman named Magdalena Sofia Guitart in tribute to her godfather, Rafael Genó, a Cuban engineer who studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Juan Rafael Genó Rizo was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1883. A doctoral thesis on Cuban architecture found online deems him one of the premiere Art Deco architects of Santiago, and the only one to obtain a degree abroad. Genó graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from Lehigh in 1909, and from the University of Havana in 1913. He died in Miami, Florida in 1973. This doting scrapbook was compiled (and heavily captioned in Spanish, which we hereafter present in translation) as a "Memorial which with love and pride I dedicate to my godfather and some of his works; a pale reflection of all the good he has done in his life," by Magdalena Sofia Guitart, who was born in 1936 in Santiago and arrived in Miami in 1958. She includes photos of Genó as a baby and a boy of 11 ("From a very young age, as you can see here, my godfather was a little gentleman") as well as in uniform alongside Mexican and Costa Rican comrades at Pennsylvania's Wayne Field. She lauds his "triumphs" and "genius" in "thousands of battles." Genó likely came to the United States following the Spanish-American War, during the growth of Cuban immigration resulting from increased American attention of the island country. All of the content in the album is artfully presented within decorative rules or floral borders, providing an unusual flair to the presentation. The book displays not only the hand-drawn Lehigh pennant on the cover, but also large, artistic renditions of the campus (and an internal shot of its library), clipped from school publications and comparing views from 1873, 1909 and 1933 (the relevance of Lehigh at the later date is unclear). Additional photographs and decorative designs share the story as "our engineer" returns to Cuba and "begins to demonstrate his knowledge" in the mines of Ponupo. Soon "his hard work, integrity and honesty led him to be chosen" for other feats of engineering, including "la Iglesia [church] Los Desamparados, constructed by my godfather 1932" and a train terminal in Guantánamo. Images and a photographic clipping laud his renovations of "Colegio La Salle" in 1937. There are also six photos and a clipping showing Genó's work on the altar for the Eucharistic Congress held in Santiago in 1936, during which the original statue of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre (Patroness of Cuba) was granted a canonical coronation by Pope Pius XI. The album also holds a clipping naming Genó as president of the Board of Directors of Santiago's Urban Property Center, an inauguration ribbon and brochure for the Municipal Food Market in 1950 (with which he was also involved), and photos of the celebrated engineer later in life. A captivating and carefully-assembled homage created by a Cuban immigrant to the United States, honoring a loved one who was educated in Pennsylvania and then returned to his home country to serve as a noted engineer during the first half of the 20th century.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE ABUSE OF MEDICINE by Withers, Thomas

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Title: OBSERVATIONS ON THE ABUSE OF MEDICINE
Author: Withers, Thomas
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: J. Johnson, 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, ix, [3], 356 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in contemporary full brown calf with green label and gilt titling and ruling to spine. Bumping and rubbing to edges and corners of boards. Both joints worn, with front joint neatly repaired with brown archival tape. Chipping to leather at head and tail of spine. Text block age toned and foxed. An ex-library copy with usual markings, including bookplates to front and rear paste downs, stamps to multiple pages, including title page. "Withdrawn" stamp to verso of title page. Closed tear to margin of advertisement leaf, not impacting text. MF Consignment. Shelved in Upstairs Hall. 1355697. Special Collections.

LLOYD’S REGISTER OF AMERICAN YACHTS 1927

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Title: LLOYD’S REGISTER OF AMERICAN YACHTS 1927
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1927. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo, 462, 22 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is white with blue lettering. Boards have minor shelf wear with minor foxing and staining, and minor bumping to corners. Text block has pen inscription on the first front end paper, some pages have creasing and folding, binding is fairly shaken, minor foxing throughout, and May 31, 1926 and May 21, 1927 Addenda are loose in the middle of the pages. Shelved in Room G. 1373152. Special Collections.

What to Look for in a Book — Physically & Catalogue 1965-66 by SOMETHING ELSE PRESS, Inc., publisher

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Title: What to Look for in a Book — Physically & Catalogue 1965-66
Author: SOMETHING ELSE PRESS, Inc., publisher
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white illus. 16 pp. (incl. wrappers). Small 4to (175 x 136 mm.), orig. white printed wrappers, staple-bound. [New York: 1966?]. The very rare first Something Else Press catalogue. Founded by Dick Higgins, the press published and distributed an array of innovative American and European artists’ books. This catalogue opens with an article on book design and its limitations, as well as examples of attractive and structurally sound bookbindings. The article concludes: “We are not interested in built-in obsolescence. We want our books to be as fresh ten years from now as they are today, and as much of a joy to behold.” This is followed by a listing of the press’s publications (with several photographs of the artists), including works by Robert Filliou, Alison Knowles, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Ray Johnson, and Daniel Spoerri. In near fine condition, spine a little sunned. ❧ P. Frank, Something Else Press (1983), pp. 7 & 81. Not in A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013). P. Frank, p. 1–“It was the first publishing house in the United States to devote itself to what are now called “artists’ books” — integral artworks designed for publication and distribution in traditional book formats — and the scope and importance of its activities have not been equalled since. In the history of small presses, especially in America, the Something Else Press remains extraordinary, if not unique, in its combination of high-quality trade formats, well-crafted printing and assembling, and broad distribution methods.” For a personal (and lighthearted) account of the Something Else Press, see Barbara Moore’s post on the website of the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center (republished from the 1991 Granary Books brochure for the exhibition Something Else Press)–“Dick’s and my duties were distinct. During my tenure he chose all the titles, took care of design and production (he had previously done these jobs for a book manufacturer), and handled finances. After all, as Emmett Williams pointed out, ‘It was…Dick’s money.’ In line with his book manufacturing experience, he made elaborate cost projections that determined, for example, that the price of Ray Johnson’s The Paper Snake had to be exactly $3.47.”.

Deeds That Won an Empire: Historic Battle Scenes (Fine Signed Prize Binding) by Fitchett, W.H.

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Title: Deeds That Won an Empire: Historic Battle Scenes (Fine Signed Prize Binding)
Author: Fitchett, W.H.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1906. 5th or later Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine. One Volumes, 8vo., x(3)2-328pp. Beautiful 20th Edition of this classic on key battles of the British Empire. Beautiful prize binding by Stoakely of Cambridge in full maroon Morocco . Five raised bands with title and author in gilt in the second and third compartments respectively and gilt borders and anchor decoration in all others. Front board doubled-ruled in gilt with gilt florets in corners and the arms of the Aysgarth School stamped in gilt. Aysgarth is a preparatory school located in Yorkshire, founded in 1877, and still going strong today. End-papers are marbled as are all edges. Illustrated with portraits of important martial figures as well as battle plans. Square, tight and clean throughout save some light scattered foxing but no toning to speak of. Some light surface wear. Prize award inscription on the r4verse of the front end-paper. A gorgeous collectable copy.

A Dialogue on Academic Freedom and Student Unrest by [FREE SPEECH - WISCONSIN]

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Title: A Dialogue on Academic Freedom and Student Unrest
Author: [FREE SPEECH - WISCONSIN]
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Waukesha: 1970]: by the Author. Sole edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers; [16pp]. Gentle toning to page edges, else Fine. Self-published exposé of left-wing bias in Wisconsin higher education, in the form of a series of reprinted letters between John C. Love, a conservative Waukesha attorney, and Reza Rezazadeh, chair of the History Department at Wisconsin State University-Platteville. Love accuses Rezazadeh of being "an activist who wants to use his teaching position as a station from which he can change our socio-economic and political system," and cites as evidence the professor's references to statements by such dangerous left-wing extremists as George McGovern, Gaylord Nelson, and J. William Fulbright. OCLC locates a single institutional holding (Wisc. Historical Soc.).

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