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BATTLE-PIECES and Aspects of The War by Melville, Herman

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Title: BATTLE-PIECES and Aspects of The War
Author: Melville, Herman
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1866. [one of Melville's scarcest] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1866. Original violet cloth, beveled board edges. First Edition of Melville's first published volume of verse, about the just-concluded American Civil War -- "dedicated to the memory of the Three Hundred Thousand who in the war for the maintenance of the Union fell devotedly under the flag of their fathers." In 1857 Melville stopped writing fiction after the publication of THE CONFIDENCE-MAN -- though he would live 34 additional years; discouraged by the lack of critical acclaim, he turned instead to verse, to which he had originally aspired. Three years later (1860) he submitted some poems to Harper, but his proposed volume was rejected, and those poems today are lost. Five years after that, spurred on by the fall of Richmond, he wrote the 72 poems that comprise BATTLE-PIECES -- the first section of 50+ describing the war chronologically, event by event, and the second section consisting of elegies, epitaphs, and requiems. His introductory poem "The Portent" (not cited in the Contents) covers the hanging of John Brown in 1859; two poems after "The Surrender at Appomattox" is "The Martyr," the assassination of Lincoln. Throughout, Melville describes not the glory of the war but the horror and the tragedy of the war. As Blanck notes, all copies bear the misprint "hnndred" on the copyright page (it is small print and the letters "u" and "n" are very similar, so a myth has evolved that there are two states). This copy is bound in textured violet cloth (Blanck's "red-purple C-like cloth," one of seven possibilities of cloth grain and color (no precedence). Condition is very good (slight wear at the spine ends and two small dents in the spine; spine a little sunned as always with this color; front endpaper cracked but tight). This is one of Melville's scarcer titles; one can well imagine that Harper printed comparatively few copies of Melville's second attempt at verse, having rejected his first attempt outright. Blanck 13673. Provenance: bookplates of [Dr.] Walter Ralph Steiner (1870-1942) and of [Prof.] Joseph Vincent Ridgely (1921-2014).

IN AND OUT & ROUND ABOUT. A BOOK OF TRANSFORMATION PICTURES by Clifton Bingham

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Title: IN AND OUT & ROUND ABOUT. A BOOK OF TRANSFORMATION PICTURES
Author: Clifton Bingham
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton & Co, 1895. Pictorial Boards. Very Good binding. With text and in text illustrations, opposite six functioning, pull-tab transition illustrations. A bright copy of a children’s transformation book, with few closed tears to the borders of the movable illustrations, and minor wear to the corners of the boards. Quarter brown cloth over pictorial paper boards. Very Good binding.

[ENGLAND] THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS [5 VOLUMES]. 1715-1754 [2 VOLUMES]: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, APPENDICES, CONTITUENCIES, MEMBER A-D, MEMBERS E-Y; 1754-1790 [3 VOLUMES] : INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, CONSTITUENCIES, APPENDICES; MEMBERS A-J; MEMBERS K-Y. COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES by Romney Sedgwick | Sir Lewis Namier & John Brooke

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Title: [ENGLAND] THE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS [5 VOLUMES]. 1715-1754 [2 VOLUMES]: INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, APPENDICES, CONTITUENCIES, MEMBER A-D, MEMBERS E-Y; 1754-1790 [3 VOLUMES] : INTRODUCTORY SURVEY, CONSTITUENCIES, APPENDICES; MEMBERS A-J; MEMBERS K-Y. COMPLETE IN FIVE VOLUMES
Author: Romney Sedgwick | Sir Lewis Namier & John Brooke
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine binding
Description: New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Very Good dust jacket. Five quarto volumes in The History of Parliament series; there is a previous owner name either stamped or penned in each volume; otherwise a clean set.~~Uncommon to have all 5 volumes of The History of the House of Commons together. Near Fine binding / Very Good dust jacket.

[LITERATURE] LET IT COME DOWN by Paul Bowles

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Title: [LITERATURE] LET IT COME DOWN
Author: Paul Bowles
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: London: John Lehmann Ltd, 1952. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. 8vo; in in publisher’s blue linen weave cloth; 318 pages; the First UK Edition in a dustjacket which is bright with just a trace of fade to the spine; there is minor shelfwear to the top of the spine; the dustjacket has not been price-clipped; there is a neatly penned previous owner name to the top of the endpaper. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

Chokei [鳥刑] by ISHIGURO, Kenji (photographer) and Teruharu Takagi [詩: 高木輝治 ; 写真: 石黒健治. 高木, 輝治, 石黒, 健治]

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Title: Chokei [鳥刑]
Author: ISHIGURO, Kenji (photographer) and Teruharu Takagi [詩: 高木輝治 ; 写真: 石黒健治. 高木, 輝治, 石黒, 健治]
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good + in a very good + jacket.
Description: Sohkisha [ 創樹社], 1976. First Edition. Very good + in a very good + jacket.. Soft-focus, mostly evocative nudes, accompanied by "photo poems." In Japanese. Illustrated with black and white photographs. OCLC locates just one copy, in Japan. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth boards in photographic dust jacket. With original obi. Light foxing and toning to jacket and endpapers. Still, very well preserved. Very good plus overall. SIGNED by Ishiguro on ffep. 112pp.

Chart of Ancient Armour from ðe xi to ðe xvii Cent; Description of the Figures in The Chart of Ancient Armour by Hewitt, John

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Title: Chart of Ancient Armour from ðe xi to ðe xvii Cent; Description of the Figures in The Chart of Ancient Armour
Author: Hewitt, John
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: George Bell, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large folding chart approximate 18 by 30 inches printed in red and black and with a fine cloth backing, bound into a portfolio. The portfolio is covered in paper decorated with blue fleurs-de-lis in a repeating red diapeer pettern. Gilt title on the spine, and a bookseller ticket on the front pastedown. The chart was cut into nine sectiins to allow folding into the portfolio. Some wear to the inner spine paper, but a very good exemplar. Accoimpanied by the explanatory booklet, 12mo, stiff wraps, 16pp. and signed I. H. The chart is signed I. Hewitt, the I probably stanind for Ioannes (John). The author is probably John Hewitt the Antiquarian, known for his work at the TOwer of London and his well-regarded guide on the history, armory and antiquities of the Tower. .

Run For Your Life: Night Train from Chicago (Original screenplay for the 1966 television episode) by Robert Bloch (screenwriter); Ben Gazzara, Brock Peters, Louise Sorel, Val Avery (starring); Richard Benedict (director)

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Title: Run For Your Life: Night Train from Chicago (Original screenplay for the 1966 television episode)
Author: Robert Bloch (screenwriter); Ben Gazzara, Brock Peters, Louise Sorel, Val Avery (starring); Richard Benedict (director)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Universal City: Universal Television, 1966. Revised Draft script for Season 1 Episode 27 of the 1965-1968 television series, which originally aired on April 11, 1966, on NBC. The series followed Paul Bryan, who, after being told he has only months left to live, embarks on a series of adventures to make the most out of his remaining time alive. In this episode, Bryan searches for a mysterious nun, and is thereby dragged into a murder mystery linked to the Mafia. Robert Bloch is best known for penning Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" (1959), although his six-decade writing career encompassed novels, short stories, radio, cinema, and television. A protégé of H.P. Lovecraft, Bloch received the Hugo Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America in 1970. Self wrappers. Title page present, dated 2/25/66, with credits for screenwriter Robert Bloch and story credit for John Thomas James. 52 leaves, with last page of text numbered 49. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, bound with a single staple at the top left corner.

The Film That Was Lost (First Edition) by Will H. Hays, Howard Dietz (text)

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Title: The Film That Was Lost (First Edition)
Author: Will H. Hays, Howard Dietz (text)
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Description: New York: Museum of Modern Art Film Library [MOMA], 1942. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good plus in illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers, with light overall rubbing, toning at the extremities, and a small faint stray pen mark on the bottom of the front wrapper.

Marisol: Recent Sculpture (Announcement Card) by MARISOL

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Title: Marisol: Recent Sculpture (Announcement Card)
Author: MARISOL
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Condition: Faint stain to upper left corner, with some scuffing; close to near fine.
Description: New York: Stable Gallery, 1962. Faint stain to upper left corner, with some scuffing; close to near fine.. Glossy announcement card (7.5 x 5.25 inches) for the pivotal Stable Gallery exhibition of Marisol's idiosyncratic sculptural work, inviting the recipient to the vernissage on May 8. Illustrated after black-and-white photograph of her Self-Portrait (1961-62).

Lorraine Hansberry (playwright) A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1960) Set of 2 Broadway photos by Np

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Title: Lorraine Hansberry (playwright) A RAISIN IN THE SUN (1960) Set of 2 Broadway photos
Author: Np
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Condition: About Fine
Description: Np. No binding. About Fine. [New York]: 1960. Two vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) glossy silver gelatin black-and-white photos. Text, blurbs and 1960 date stamps on verso. Minor publication use, overall about fine. A Raisin in the Sun, written by Lorraine Hansberry, debuted on Broadway in 1959. Its title, from a poem by Langston Hughes about a Black family in Chicago, deals with themes of housing discrimination, racism and assimilation. There were 530 performances at the Ethel Barrymore and Belasco Theatres, directed by Lloyd Richards. Ossie Davis replaced Sidney Poitier during the run. There were four Tony award nominations, including for Poitier. One portrait is of Claudia McNeil, the other features Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee dancing.

Puppet Parade - The Puppets are Coming! Rag, Tag & Bob-Tail!

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Title: Puppet Parade - The Puppets are Coming! Rag, Tag & Bob-Tail!
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Near-fine. Letter folds.
Description: Boston, Massachusetts: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1933. Near-fine. Letter folds.. The Puppets Are Coming! Rag, Tag & Bob-Tail!" Printed poster advertising upcoming puppet and marionette performances at the Bookshop for Boys and Girls in Boston, run by the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. Includes beloved characters of the time (Aladdin, Little Black Sambo, Sally Gabble, etc.) and includes an interactive aspect to one of the performances: "Only the famous puppet Pinocchio is debarred [from the performance]. Will he slip past the guards and get his NOSE into things? TRAP set at every entrance". Broadside (19" by 6.25") printed in magenta ink on yellow paper. Includes illustration of marionette at head. The Women's Educational and Industrial Union was founded in 1877 by English physician Dr. Harriet Clisby (1830-1931) in response to a sudden influx of immigrants to Boston. The Union's goal was to help women and mothers support themselves and their families, offering training through programs and businesses including the Bookshop for Boys and Girls.

A NEW SPIRIT, A NEW COMMITMENT, A NEW AMERICA by The 1997 Inaugural Committee; [Carter, Jimmy]; [Mondale, Walter F.]

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Title: A NEW SPIRIT, A NEW COMMITMENT, A NEW AMERICA
Author: The 1997 Inaugural Committee; [Carter, Jimmy]; [Mondale, Walter F.]
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good in very good jacket.
Description: [n.p.]: Duobooks, 1977. First printing. Very good in very good jacket.. Signed first edition of "the official 1977 Inaugural Book" for the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, and his vice president, Walter F. Mondale. 10.75'' x 8.25''. Original blue cloth, inaugural seal stamped in gilt to front board, lettered in gilt to spine. In original unclipped ($15.00) color photographic jacket. Red endpapers. Illustrated throughout in black and white and in color. 128 pages. Signed by Carter on half-title page. Previous owner name inked to front paste down. Jacket with some light shelfwear and rubbing, a bit of toning to margins of rear panel and flaps. Book with light toning to board edges, bit of bumping to top edge, rear board slightly bowed. Interior bright.

Catalogus van de Javaansche en Madoereesche handschriften der Leidsche Universitaits-bibliotheek by Vreede, A[lbert] C[ornelis], 1840-1908

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Title: Catalogus van de Javaansche en Madoereesche handschriften der Leidsche Universitaits-bibliotheek
Author: Vreede, A[lbert] C[ornelis], 1840-1908
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Leiden: Brill, 1892. Paperback. Very Good. viii, 434p. Softcover in original wrapper. 23cm. Moderat chipping and wear (and some splitting) along sides of backstrip. Stain at base of backstrip. Contents generally sound. Dutch text.

Siam: The Land of the White Elephant as it was and is by Bacon, George B. compiler and arranger; Frederick Wells Williams, revisions

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Title: Siam: The Land of the White Elephant as it was and is
Author: Bacon, George B. compiler and arranger; Frederick Wells Williams, revisions
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. This interesting book was issued as part of the publisher's Illustrated Library of Travel. Wiilliams writes in his reviser's note that he aimed to revise this little volume leaving untouched, so far as possible, Bacon's compilation, omitting only such portions as were inaccurate or obsolete, and addingrather sparingly from the narratives of a few recent travellers. The book starts with a chapter on early intercourse with Siam, followed by its geography, history, modern Siam, and descriptions of various cities and areas, Siamese life and customs, and ending with a chapter titled Bangkok and the New Siam. There are 25 black and white illustrations of everything from Siamese women, elephants in a Park at Ayuthia, to monkeys playing with a crocodile. Bound in brown cloth with gilt titling to spine. Cloth has a few light stains and signs of handling. Endpapers and text pages are clean and bright. In very good condition. Measures 7.5 x 5.25 inches. 296 pages. ASIANHIST/082925.

Einstein's Monsters (Signed First Edition) by AMIS, Martin

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Title: Einstein's Monsters (Signed First Edition)
Author: AMIS, Martin
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780224024358
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. First UK edition and first printing. Hardcover. 127 pages. A collection of stories which all center around Nuclear weapons. A near fine copy with the inevitable darkening to the pages and a small remainder mark to the bottom edge of the pages and in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Amis on the title page.

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