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Archive of manuscripts and notebooks of Peter Opie concerning the lore and language of school children by Opie, P - MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE

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Archive of manuscripts and notebooks of Peter Opie concerning the lore and language of school children
Author
Opie, P - MANUSCRIPT ARCHIVE
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good throughout.
Description
Oxford: Manuscript archive, 1947 - 1951. Unique.. Not bound. Very good throughout.. 4to. An important archive of notebooks and manuscripts of Peter Opie and his pioneering research into children's games and the verbal lore, quips, and jeers of the street games of 10 year olds throughout the United Kingdom in the years immediately following WWII. The archive is made up of: three bound notebooks that contain notes, and annotated clippings from various printed sources comprising appx. 400 pp.; 20 autograph lectures and articles (fully corrected with additional notes) probably given at Oxford comprising appx. 250 pp. (each lecture on letter size blank sheets); the original 58 page autograph manuscript entitled 'The Collection of Folklore in England' ca 1950 (' ... the most difficult and concentrated month's work in my life ....'[Opie]); a fine copy of E G Withycombe's book, The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, 1945, containing notes, insertions, postcards etc. (some from Withycombe). In all a rich, diverse group of the original resource material for Iona and Peter Opie's classic book published in 1959, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren. The autograph lectures and articles present in the archive are the first fruits of the original research undertaken by the Opies in the UK. In the decades since its publication in 1959 their work has come to be viewed as offering profound insights into the world of children and the beginning of a new understanding of childhood.
A Group of Four Works; Including: American Express; Long Live Man; Selected Poems; War Poems

A Group of Four Works; Including: American Express; Long Live Man; Selected Poems; War Poems by Corso, Gregory

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A Group of Four Works; Including: American Express; Long Live Man; Selected Poems; War Poems
Author
Corso, Gregory
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Biblioctopus (United States)
Description
various: various, 1968. 4 volumes. American Express (Paris: Olympia Press, 1961)—first edition, wrappers, fine in fine dust jacket; Long Live Man (New York: New Directions, 1962)—long galley and page proofs, two sets, long sheets folded with single staple in upper right corner, pages browned with few small nicks and one long closed tear to cover sheet, else near fine; page proofs consisting of single sheets with printed rectos only, rare; Selected Poems (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962)—first edition, fine in fine dust jacket with touch of soiling; War Poems (New York: Poets Press, 1968)—first edition, illustrated wrappers, fine, one of 2,000 copies. These four books capture Corso's evolution during the 1960s as the youngest member of the core Beat poets during their most influential years. American Express, published in Paris by Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press, captures Corso at his most transgressive, blending street vernacular with visionary imagery in poems that scandalized and thrilled in equal measure. The Long Live Man proofs document the editorial process at New Directions in two complete sets, with the page proofs notably absent four poems that would appear in the final published version. From the collection of Edwin Erbe, New Directions' publicity director. Selected Poems marks Corso's first British collection, published without an American counterpart. The anthology concludes with War Poems, featuring Corso alongside Ginsberg, Creeley, Duncan, Olson, Snyder, McClure, and Baraka in a volume that channeled the Beats toward anti-Vietnam War activism.
An Alphabet of Owls et cetera.

An Alphabet of Owls et cetera. by (Alphabet). FRIEND (Donald):

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An Alphabet of Owls et cetera.
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(Alphabet). FRIEND (Donald):
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BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
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(ABC). An Alphabet of Owls et cetera by Donald Friend with a Text suitable for all Children, Grown-ups, Non-Readers, Ornamental Hermits, et alia. [South Melbourne]: Gryphon Books, 1981. Illustrated with large black and white block printed capitals decorated with various animals and people within the letter design. Produced on a Furnival stop cylinder machine, printed on heavy Bemboka hand-made paper with text in sepia by Jim Walker at The Croft Press, Cobargo, NSW. Limited to 150 copies (#101), Signed by Donald Friend.
Poster for Mattie Crawford - The great woman Preacher . Evangelist and Healer

Poster for Mattie Crawford - The great woman Preacher . Evangelist and Healer

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Poster for Mattie Crawford - The great woman Preacher . Evangelist and Healer
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Corner chips and bends.
Description
1930. Corner chips and bends.. A 17 1/2" x 10" heavy card stock poster The title reads Come Hear Mattie Crawford - The great woman preacher tell the story of Jesus in simplicity and power. This is followed by a somewhat ethereal appearing image from a photograph of Crawford in a white dress holding a Bible and pointing towards the heaven. The caption at base reads "Bring the Sick". The revival events were being held twice daily for 17 days at the Exposition Bldg. Portland (ME). The reverse is blank. Often controversial. |Born in Oklahoma in abt. 1904. Raised Catholic, she testifies of her own gradual healing and conversion after beginning to attend Protestant church revivals. An early believer in Trinitarian and Oneness, Assemblies of God she was a significant early Pentecostal leaders such along with Aimee Semple McPherson, the Crabtree family, and others. In her 20s she resided at the Southern California Bible College under the direction of Rex M. Baxter. Subsequently She was based in Los Angeles, CA and toured the country and eventually Central America. She was a nationally-acclaimed evangelist who preached the Oneness of the Godhead and the infilling of the Holy Ghost.  Her meetings were accompanied by regular reports of miraculous healing.  Later went on to Bible Philosophies and Health, still in the mass gathering format. She would also host women only events.
Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera

Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera by Carpenter, William B.

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Title
Introduction to the Study of the Foraminifera
Author
Carpenter, William B.
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
London: Ray Society, 1862. First edition. 1862 FOLIO VOLUME WITH PLATES OF MICROSCOPIC MARINE ANIMALS NOW PREDICTING THE DISTURBING FUTURE OF CLIMATE CHANGE. 13.5 inches tall hardcover folio volume, green buckram binding, i-xxii, 47 wood engravings in text, 319 pp, 22 full page lithographic plates by George West with facing descriptive text. Light browning to pages, unmarked, very good+ WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER (1813 - 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London. He attended medical classes at University College London (1834-35), and then went to the University of Edinburgh (1835-39), where he received his MD in 1839. His work in comparative neurology was recognized in 1844 by his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society. His appointment as Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution in 1845 enabled him to exhibit his powers as a teacher and lecturer. He worked hard as investigator, author, editor, demonstrator and lecturer throughout his life; but it was his researches in marine zoology, notably in the "lower" organisms, as Foraminifera and Crinoids, that were most valuable (a beautiful example offered here). These researches gave an impetus to deep-sea exploration, an outcome of which was in 1868 the oceanographic survey with HMS Lightning and later the more famous Challenger Expedition. He was an adept in the use of the microscope, and his popular treatise on it stimulated many to explore this new aid. He was awarded the Royal Medal in 1861. In 1856 Carpenter became Registrar of the University of London, and held the office for twenty-three years. Carpenter gave qualified support to Darwin but he had reservations as to the application of evolution to man's intellectual and spiritual nature. FORAMINIFERA are single-celled organisms, with an external shell of diverse forms and materials. Most foraminifera are marine, the majority of which live on or within the seafloor sediment. Over 50,000 species are recognized, both living (~10,000) and fossil (40,000). The most striking aspect of most foraminifera are their hard shells, or tests. These may consist of one of multiple chambers, and may be composed of protein, sediment particles, calcite, aragonite, or (in one case) silica. Test-bearing foraminifera have an excellent fossil record throughout the Phanerozoic eon. Dying planktonic Foraminifera continuously rain down on the sea floor in vast numbers, their mineralized tests preserved as fossils in the accumulating sediment. Because certain types of foraminifera are found only in certain environments, their fossils can be used to figure out the kind of environment under which ancient marine sediments were deposited; conditions such as salinity, depth, oxygenic conditions, and light conditions can be determined from the different habitat preferences of various species of foraminifera. This allows workers to track changing climates and environmental conditions over time by aggregating information about the foraminifera present. Recent application of these data have led to disturbing predictions regarding current acceleration of climate change resulting from human-generated CO2 (E. J. Judd et al., A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature. Science Vol 385, Issue 6715 (2024). DOI: 10.1126/science.adk3705).
All About Mickie Long-Tail

All About Mickie Long-Tail by PITT-TAYLOR, Nora

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Title
All About Mickie Long-Tail
Author
PITT-TAYLOR, Nora
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1926. Lucy RENOUF. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Lucy RENOUF, illustrator. First edition thus. 24mo (5 7/16" x 4 ¼"); [1-6], 7-47 [1]; gray boards, lettering in dark green on front and spine, color pictorial onlay of a baby and monkey; color 8 colored plates including fp; line drawing on title page and in text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, rear panel publisher's ads and price of 40 cents, light hand soiling; near fine in vg dj. OCLC records 3 copies. This is the somewhat sad story of a monkey in captivity, who does not find happiness in freedom because he is homesick for a human child with whom he had lived. OCLC records a long list of juvenile books by this author, but this title, author, and illustrator are not listed in Baumgarten, nor discovered in any other reference. Per OCLC, there appears to be a prior printing in London in 1911, but it is listed without the name of the publisher. This appears to be the first edition for Cupples & Leon, and the most recent of The All About Series listed on page 6 and on the rear dust jacket, where it appears as number 14 in the series.
The Happy Family

The Happy Family by BINGHAM, Clifton

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The Happy Family
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BINGHAM, Clifton
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Very good
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London and New York: Ernest Nister and E.P. Dutton & Co, 1891. Boards. Very good. Ernest NISTER. Ernest Nister, 24 St. Bride St., E.C. and New York: E.P.Dutton & Co., 31 West Twenty Third Street. Lithographed and printed by E. Nister at Nuremberg. 16mo (6 ¼" x 4 7/8"); [12]pp; glazed chromolithographed boards featuring three young children and decorative lettering, green cloth shelf-back; 4 full-page chromolithographed illustrations, small b&w line drawings in text; light scuffing and soiling of boards, age-toned paper, a few finger smudges; very good minus. Hunt 256. OCLC locates 3 copies. A sweet story of siblings Tom, Daisy, and Susie and their family. Important lessons taught within their family include "people can be poor and happy if they love each other.".
Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana.

Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana. by Beebe, William; G. Inness Hartley; Paul G. Howes; Theodore Roosevelt.

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Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana.
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Beebe, William; G. Inness Hartley; Paul G. Howes; Theodore Roosevelt.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: The New York Zoological Society, 1917. First edition. Fine. 24 cm; 504 pages. Four plates in color, and numerous half-tone plates and illustrations. In original green cloth stamped in gilt with the image of a chick. Top edge gilt. William Beebe (1877-1962), one of the premier ecologists of the first half of the twentieth century, pioneered enormous advances over 19th-century science. According to Stephen Jay Gould, “He came to the astonishing realization that a few acres of tropical forest can contain as many kinds of birds and insects as the entire continental United States." The research station he established in what is now Guyana carried on investigations of every aspect of ecology, from the composition of the soil to the life of the epiphytes found high in the canopy, to everything living in between: birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians, mammals. The introduction to this volume was written by Beebe's friend and admirer, "Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
Photograph of Winnie Ruth Judd at Her Trial; with Photograph of Detectives Examing remains in Trunks

Photograph of Winnie Ruth Judd at Her Trial; with Photograph of Detectives Examing remains in Trunks

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Photograph of Winnie Ruth Judd at Her Trial; with Photograph of Detectives Examing remains in Trunks
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Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
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Wire Photo of Winnie Ruth Judd measuring approximately 6" x 8" shows her twisting her handkerchief while she listens to testimony during her trial for murder (February 1932). Smudges on outside border. Wire photo of the detectives examining the trunk she traveled with on the train with the body parts measuring approximately 10" x 8" (October 1931).
Exhibition postcard: Robert Ryman: Paintings and Etchings (21 April-9 May 1973)

Exhibition postcard: Robert Ryman: Paintings and Etchings (21 April-9 May 1973) by (RYMAN, Robert)

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Exhibition postcard: Robert Ryman: Paintings and Etchings (21 April-9 May 1973)
Author
(RYMAN, Robert)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Printed on both sides. Postcard. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1973. Postcard invitation to Ryman’s second solo exhibition with John Weber. In excellent condition.
COUNT ON THE SAINT. The Pastor's Problem and The Unsaintly Santa . Doubleday Crime Club

COUNT ON THE SAINT. The Pastor's Problem and The Unsaintly Santa . Doubleday Crime Club by Charteris, Leslie

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COUNT ON THE SAINT. The Pastor's Problem and The Unsaintly Santa . Doubleday Crime Club
Author
Charteris, Leslie
Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. Octavo. Original Outlines by Donne Avenell. Developed by Graham Weaver. $8.95 price on front Dust Jacket flap. A near fine copy with previous owner name ffep. In a fine dust jacket. 181 pp.
A Dreadful Man: A Personal, Intimate Book About George Sanders.
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A Dreadful Man: A Personal, Intimate Book About George Sanders. by AHERNE, Brian, assisted by SANDERS, George and HUME, Benita.

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A Dreadful Man: A Personal, Intimate Book About George Sanders.
Author
AHERNE, Brian, assisted by SANDERS, George and HUME, Benita.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780671247973
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: Simon and Schuster,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0671247972 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
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Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 28

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Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 28
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Good
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Government Printing Office, 1904. Good. . Mexican and Central American Antiquities, Calendar Systems, and History - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 28. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 682pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Olive green cloth. Book condition: Good only. The edges of the covers are rubbed. The front hinge is weak. Includes Wall Paintings of Mitla.
Smudging

Smudging by Wakoski, Diane

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Smudging
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Wakoski, Diane
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780876851302
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Near Fine
Description
Santa Barbara , CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Book. Near Fine. Printed Wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Fifth Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page - "To Warren - who must know that life includes all images/ the sun, moon, mars/ what wars, what peace they make with each other." Near Fine, sticker shadow front wrapper, Diane Wakoski's name and address in ink rear end page..
The Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile

The Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile by N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Cloisters Apocalypse An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile
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N.Y. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. 2 vols.
Description
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Fine in slightly nicked slipcase. 2 vols.. 104 pages in text : Vol. II, and approx 100 pages in plate Vol.I. 31 x 23 cm. Voluminously illustrated with full-color and black and white illustrations. Foreword by Thomas Hoving. Commentary on the Pages of the Facsimile by Jeffrey M. Hoffeld. Bibliography.
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Contempo. Volume 1, Number 16. by ABERNATHY, Milton A. and A.J. Buttitta. eds.

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Contempo. Volume 1, Number 16.
Author
ABERNATHY, Milton A. and A.J. Buttitta. eds.
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Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Chapel Hill: Contempo,, 1932.. January.. Folio. 4pp. Newsprint tabloid. Very good plus with splits starting to edges of old folds.. Features Ezra Pound’s essay, “The Depression Has Just Begun.”
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Tiny Alice by Albee, Edward

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Tiny Alice
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Albee, Edward
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good+
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New York: Atheneum, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Black cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [11], 190, [3]. A nice copy in price-clipped DJ.

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