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The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Wilder, Thornton

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

LUCY CHURCH AMIABLY by Stein, Gertrude

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

VERSED by Armantrout, Rae

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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