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[Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Detailing a Bill of Sale for Slaves in Cuba] by [Cuba]. [Slavery]

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Title: [Partially Printed Form, Completed in Manuscript, Detailing a Bill of Sale for Slaves in Cuba]
Author: [Cuba]. [Slavery]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: Havana, 1809. Good.. [1]p. on a bifolium. Printed form completed in manuscript. Previously folded. Small portion of upper left corner torn away and some scattered worming, neither affecting text. Upper right of blank conjugate leaf clipped. Some scattered staining and offsetting, with even tanning. An early 19th-century bill of sale for four slaves in Havana. The form, completed in manuscript, approves the sale by Doña Dolores Hernandez of "quatros negros" who had been brought from the coast of Africa on the slave ship Juno, captained by Jabez Gibbs, 1360 reales. It further states that the enslaved men are, "Con la calidad de bozal, alma en boca, huesos en costal à uso de férias, sin asegurar de tachas ni enfermedades, mal de corazon, gota coral, de S. Lazaro, ni orta qualesquiera que puede paceder la humana naturaleza, porque toas corren por cuenta del comprador...." The document is signed by the relevant authorities and dated March 26, 1809. A good document of the slave trade in Cuba during the early 1800s.

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by [Salesman's Samples]

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Title: Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror
Author: [Salesman's Samples]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: [Chicago, 1906. Good plus.. [88]pp. Original blue pebbled cloth, gilt stamped, front board with black-and-white illustration. Light wear and scuffing to boards. Light tanning internally. A salesman's dummy for a lurid and extremely popular contemporary history of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. This copy exemplifies the "fine cloth" version of the book, available for $1.50 from the canvasser (as opposed to $2.00 for half morocco). It contains forty-five pages of illustrations and well as a scattering of the text to be used in the forthcoming publication, followed by four lined leaves containing fifteen manuscript subscriptions.

Lesbian Pulp Fiction Archive by Marijane Meaker as Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer Documenting Mid Century Queer Life, 1955-1961 by Marijane Meaker; Ann Aldrich

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Title: Lesbian Pulp Fiction Archive by Marijane Meaker as Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer Documenting Mid Century Queer Life, 1955-1961
Author: Marijane Meaker; Ann Aldrich
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1955. Archive of four lesbian-themed pulp paperbacks by Marijane Meaker, published under the pseudonyms Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer between 1955 and 1961, documenting the emergence of lesbian representation within mid-century American mass-market publishing. Issued during a period of widespread censorship, psychiatric pathologization of homosexuality, and police surveillance of queer social life, these volumes offered some of the earliest commercially distributed narratives centered on relationships between women. The grouping reflects lesbian cultural expression within postwar paperback publishing, illustrating how queer identity, emotional intimacy, secrecy, and social stigma were negotiated through pulp fiction, confessional literature, and quasi-journalistic commentary. Together, the volumes provide significant evidence of how lesbian writers and publishers navigated Cold War moral frameworks while simultaneously creating coded forms of recognition for queer readers in the United States. Four paperback volumes published by Gold Medal Books in New York between 1955 and 1961. [1] Aldrich, Ann. We Walk Alone: Through Lesbos' Lonely Groves. New York: Gold Medal Books, 1955. Early semi-documentary examination of lesbian social life in postwar New York, including descriptions of Greenwich Village bars, workplace concealment, romantic relationships, and isolation within closeted communities. The text combines sociological framing with autobiographical elements and bears the cover tagline, "Of the love that dwells in twilight-the love that can never be told." Cover illustration depicts a partially nude woman turned away from the viewer in a convention typical of early lesbian pulp marketing. [2] Aldrich, Ann. We, Too, Must Love. New York: Gold Medal Books, 1958. Expanded exploration of lesbian emotional life structured through anecdotal portraits and interpersonal narratives. The volume attempts to humanize its subjects while remaining constrained by the moralizing rhetoric expected of mid-century paperback publishers. Cover artwork continues the visual vocabulary of shadowed female figures associated with lesbian pulp fiction. [3] Packer, Vin. The Evil Friendship. New York: Gold Medal Books, 1958. Psychological novel loosely derived from the Parker-Hulme murder case in New Zealand, later adapted into the film Heavenly Creatures. The narrative centers on an obsessive friendship between adolescent girls culminating in violence, though the novel departs from sensationalized pulp convention through sustained attention to emotional attachment and psychological complexity. Cover illustration portrays two girls in intimate proximity, emphasizing themes of secrecy and emotional dependence. [4] Aldrich, Ann, editor. Carol in a Thousand Cities. New York: Gold Medal Books, 1961. Anthology combining commentary and excerpts from Simone de Beauvoir, Sigmund Freud, Guy de Maupassant, Claire Morgan, and other writers in an attempt to situate lesbian identity within broader literary and psychological discourse. Promotional text describes "the twilight woman-as she sees herself, and as she is seen through the eyes of others," reflecting the era's simultaneous fascination with and marginalization of queer identity. These volumes were published during a critical transitional period in American LGBTQ history preceding the gay liberation movement, when lesbian representation circulated largely through inexpensive paperback originals sold in drugstores, bus terminals, and newsstands. Meaker emerged as one of the defining authors of the lesbian pulp genre, balancing publisher-imposed conventions of tragedy and moral warning with unusually sympathetic portrayals of queer emotional life. The archive demonstrates the overlapping functions of pulp fiction as commercial entertainment, coded community literature, and documentary evidence of mid-century attitudes toward homosexuality. Original wrappers retained throughout with vivid cover illustrations characteristic of 1950s and early 1960s paperback design; pages toned as expected, spines intact, and general light wear present. Minor abrasion to front panel of The Evil Friendship and light toning to We, Too, Must Love; overall very good, with Carol in a Thousand Cities near fine. A cohesive and historically important grouping from one of the central literary voices in early lesbian paperback publishing.

Arkansas Schoolgirl's Handwritten Poems and Memories, 1920s by Women's Education Memory Album

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Title: Arkansas Schoolgirl's Handwritten Poems and Memories, 1920s
Author: Women's Education Memory Album
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: Handwritten Memory Album from a girl junior high student in mid-1920s Arkansas. Handwritten inscriptions from 45 classmates and friends. Entries from 1925 to 1927. 16 pages. My Memories of School Days. New York City: C. R. Gibson & Company, 1924. "Roses are red, Violets are blue, Think of me, and I'll think of you!" Hand-writtten recordings of the school song for West Side Junior High in Little Rock, AK. "Here's to West Side, Dear of West Side, Your the school we love the best, Wit your colors gaily flying, You have always stood the test, When we leave you, We believe you will always be our greatest pride, And we will show you how much we owe you, Will always boost for you our Dear West Side." Comes with October 1934 issue of "West Side Junior Life" student newspaper. Pages are filled with poems and lines from classmates over the years. Many of the inscriptions are pithy short poems or lines. "Dear Charlene, I wish you health, I wish you wealth, I wish you gold in store, I wish you heaven after death, What could I wish you more?" "In your mud puddles of affection, Let one tad pole swim for me." "When you're in the kitchen frying meat, think of me and my big feet." "If you're within and I'm without, I'll think of you without a doubt." Some broke with this convention. "I do not know any poem but I pity the person that worries their head off to get one." Other include more personal notes on their memories together. "Remember our Spanish Class and the study hall before it." Two newspaper clipping portraits of school friends pasted into book. Two large pencil drawings-one of an infant child playing with a toy, and one of a fashionable young lady going for a walk. Junior Membership card for the The American National Red Cross in Little Rock, AK (issued 9/4/25). Handwritten list of 52 girl classmates. Partial image of school (from newspaper clipping) pasted to inside back cover. West Side Junior High School was founded in 1917 as an educational establishment and a community center. The West Side building is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Very good condition.

CHIMICA IN VERSI (ORGANICA ED INORGANICA) by Cavaliere, Alberto

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Title: CHIMICA IN VERSI (ORGANICA ED INORGANICA)
Author: Cavaliere, Alberto
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
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Description: Roma: Umoristi del "Marc'Aurelio, 1935. 4th Edition. Soft cover. Very Good -. Compilation of humorous verse by Cavaliere that was published in Marc'Aurelio, an Italian satirical magazine, published between 1931 and 1958 (and briefly resurrected in 1973). It was the first satirical magazine in Italy following the forced closure of other satirical magazines by the Fascists under Mussolini. Stated fourth edition title page. Pictorial paper covers with a wonderful illustration attributed to Gala. Inscribed by Cavaliere on the free front endpaper. Soiled covers, binding still solid.

Hebrew Style in the Liturgical Poetry of Shmuel HaShlishi by Naoya Katsumata (author)

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Title: Hebrew Style in the Liturgical Poetry of Shmuel HaShlishi
Author: Naoya Katsumata (author)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN: 9789004131514
Condition: Fine
Description: Leiden: Brill . STYX, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. xlii, 377, (1)pp. Text in Hebrew, preface and table of content also in English. Red cloth lettered in gilt. A fine, as new copy. Shmuel ben Hoshana, the most important Hebrew liturgical poet (paytan) in the final stage of the flowering of the Eretz-Israeli piyyut, came of age in the latter third of the tenth century. He was active in the academy of Eretz Israel, and reached the status of the third ("HaShlishi") in the assembly, after the gaon and the av bet din. This volume examines the Hebrew style of this paytan according to some 650 Genizah fragments, which contain elements of his wide-ranging oeuvre (orthography and phonetics, morphology, syntax, sentences, vocabulary, themes and motifs). Understanding the style of Shmuel HaShlishi is critical to our understanding of the creative activity of the paytanim of the final period of the flowering of the Eretz-Israeli piyyut. His style serves as a link between the Eretz-Israeli style of the early paytanim and the new style that would emerge in Spain. (Publisher) Volume 5 of the Brill . STYX series, Hebrew Language and Literature. (HLLS).

In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door by Witney, William

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Title: In a Door, Into a Fight, Out a Door, Into a Chase: Moviemaking Remembered by the Guy at the Door
Author: Witney, William
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Jefferson NC/London: McFarland & Company. Fine. (c.1996). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, as issued) [nice clean as-new copy, with no discernible wear]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the veteran film director, who worked almost exclusively in serials and B-westerns from the 1930s well into the 1950s, then transitioned seamlessly into one of the busiest directors of filmed TV shows of the late 1950s and 1960s. .

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