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Winston Churchill Takes Charge of the War Effort: Two Remarkable Pieces from Just Days Into His First Prime Ministership, Precious Mementos of World War II and the Evacuation at Dunkirk by Winston Churchill

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Title: Winston Churchill Takes Charge of the War Effort: Two Remarkable Pieces from Just Days Into His First Prime Ministership, Precious Mementos of World War II and the Evacuation at Dunkirk
Author: Winston Churchill
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 1940. A note from the War Cabinet, May 20, 1940, pre-Dunkirk, written in his presence, trying to respond to the Nazi blitzkrieg in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands Both salvaged and retained for posterity by his private secretary John Colville, and affixed in a form of journal entry, with Colville's handwritten annotations as provenance Truly unique, we have never seen anything like this on the market beforeThe Battle of FranceOn May 10, 1940, the Phony War came to a stunning end as Hitler invaded the Low Countries—Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands—and France. His progress just in the first day was dramatic and altogether unlike the experience of World War I. It was clear that Britain needed a coalition government that would put aside party considerations and turn all attention to actively dealing with the war. The Labor Party refused to serve under Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose appeasement policies were blamed for Britain’s unpreparedness, and it was clear that Chamberlain had lost the confidence of the House of Commons. He resigned. Chamberlain and the King wanted appeaser Lord Halifax as his successor, but Halifax declined, likely because he did not want to be at the epicenter of the crisis with Winston Churchill nipping at his heals. The King called on Churchill to form a government. Churchill later said of this moment, “I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial…” That day the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) entered Belgium from France intending to meet the German attack there.On May 12, the ill prepared French defenses at Sedan are overrun by German forces. The captured bridges that span the Meuse River allowed German troops and armor to pour across, giving them direct access to the rear of the undefended Allied frontline. The next day, May 13, in his first speech before the House of Commons, Churchill declared that “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat” and offered an outline of his bold plans for British resistance.On May 15, the Netherlands surrendered. The next day, in office but six days, Churchill visited Paris only to hear that the French were defeatist and considered the war as good as lost. While there he learned that the Belgian government had fled the country. Churchill was desperate to keep France in the war, but on the 17th learned that Paul Reynaud has formed a new French government, one that included 84-year-old arch-defeatist Marshal Pétain, the French hero of World War I. The next day Maxime Weygand, an advocate of seeking an armistice with the Germans, was named commander of the French armed forces. These were ominous developments indeed for the British and their Prime Minister, in office one week.Meanwhile the Battle of France continued, if just barely. On May 18 the Germans reached the Aisne River. It became apparent that their major objective is not Paris but the Channel coast, in the hope of cutting off the British and Belgian armies as well as the French divisions in Belgium. The French did not claim that the Germans had been halted, but said they had been slowed down. The Germans claimed that they are within 60 miles of Paris, but the French said 90 miles; the difference hardly mattered at all. French military circles estimated that the Germans are using 80 divisions, 11 of them motorized. They are said to have thrown in from 2,500 to 3,000 tanks. Things were going from bad to worse, and quick.On May 19, the key city of Amiens was besieged by German troops. The brilliant General Rommel’s forces surrounded Arras; other German forces reached Noyelles; all the towns were close indeed to the English Channel. The next day the Panzers reached Amiens, following two days of heavy air raids. The Germans gradually penetrated the city and two other armored divisions supported the offensive. On or about the 20th, the British War Cabinet decided that their best bet was for the B.E.F. to assume the offensive and march upon Amiens. It ordered the B.E.F. to coordinate plans with General Billotte and General Blanchard. On the 20th, likely in response to word from the War Cabinet, General Ironside, Chief of the British Imperial Staff, visited BEF headquarters in Belgium for consultations with generals Gort, Billotte and Blanchard. They planned a Franco-British offensive for the next day.By May 21, 1940, France was broken. German armored forces, breaking through the dense Ardennes Forest and driving toward French ports along the English Channel had now broken the hinge between the BEF and French forces fighting in northern France and Belgium on the one hand; and the main body of the French army fighting further toward the south on the other. Desperate to sever the German spearhead, British and French tanks and infantry launched an assault at Arras. All the German bridgeheads were either thrown back or contained by vigorous but costly British counter-attacks and the remaining German troops were ordered to retire across the river by the night of 22 May. Later that same night, however, events further south nullified this apparent gain and prompted an order for the BEF to retire again, this time back to the Gort Line on the Franco-Belgian border. Thus the Arras operation, though initially promising, failed in its objective. After the tactical defeat of Arras, the British troops began a retreat toward the English Channel.But the Channel ports were not secure and at risk of capture. Fresh troops were rushed from England to defend Boulogne and Calais. After hard fighting, Calais was isolated by May 22 and would surrender on May 27. Boulogne was under assault and would be captured by the Germans on May 25. Seeing the Channel ports sure to surrender imminently, on May 25 Gort ordered the BEF to withdraw to Dunkirk, the only port from which the BEF could still escape. British and French troops retreated to Dunkirk and Operation Dynamo, the Allied evacuation of Dunkirk, began on the May 26, 1940.Churchill had been Prime Minister for 16 days. He, the Royal Navy, and innumerable British civilian boats then orchestrated the great evacuation from Dunkirk. In the nine days from May 27 to June 4, 338,226 men escaped, including most of the BEF, and 139,997 French, Polish, and Belgian troops, together with a small number of Dutch soldiers, aboard 861 vessels.Churchill’s private secretary at this time was John Colville, whose diaries, now in the Churchill Papers at Cambridge, form a prime resource for the times. Colville had a keen sense of history, and made it his business to retain those items of Churchill and the War Cabinet, such as important drafts, that were slated to be discarded. One was a memo in the hand of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden which memorialized a note from May 20 or perhaps 21, saying: “British War Cabinet has formed the strongest view that the best, indeed the only possible course, is for the B.E.F. to assume the offensive and march upon Amiens. C.I.G.S. has left. B.E.F. to coordinate plans with General Billotte and General…” Colville provides a handwritten caption on the side reading, “Order to the B.E.F. to march southwest and join up with the French, thus closing the gap made by the German penetration at Amiens. This was written by Mr Eden in my room, with the help of Sir John Dill from memory, because the minimal draft had been mislaid. It was afterwards found and this draft left unfinished (C.I.G.S. was Ironside)”.The Cabinet Crisis Between Churchill and the AppeasersWith the BEF in retreat to Dunkirk and the fall of France seemingly imminent, Lord Halifax, who had backed Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasing Hitler, believed that the British government must explore the possibility of a negotiated peace settlement. His plan was that Hitler’s ally, the still-neutral Italian dictator Mussolini, would broker an agreement. When a memorandum proposing this approach was discussed by the War Cabinet on May 27, 1940, Churchill opposed it and urged his colleagues to fight on without negotiations. He was supported in the War Cabinet by its two Labor Party members, Clement Attlee and Arthur Greenwood, and also by the Archibald Sinclair, leader of the Liberal Party. Churchill's biggest problem was that he was not the leader of his own party, the Conservative Party; Chamberlain was, and he needed to win the support of Chamberlain, without which he could have been forced to resign by the large Conservative majority in the House of Commons. The pressure was on Churchill, as the King was a friend of Halifax and suspicious of Churchill, and Churchill himself wondered for a while whether “it was part of my duty to consider entering into negotiations with That Man [Hitler].”On 28 May, Churchill brilliantly outmaneuvered Halifax by calling a meeting of his 25-member outer cabinet. He told them that Britain should not get better terms from Germany now than if she fought it out. Germany's terms, he said, would include a demand for the fleet, and Great Britain would become a puppet state ""under [British fascist] Mosley or some such person"". Churchill went on to a dramatic and defiant conclusion by saying that ""I am convinced that every man of you would rise up and tear me down from my place if I were for one moment to contemplate parley or surrender. If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground”. There was unanimous approval round the table and not even the faintest flicker of dissent. Several ministers patted Churchill on the shoulder as they were leaving. These men, sophisticated politicians all, were inspired to be ready to die if need be to save Britain. The War Cabinet subsequently rejected Halifax’s proposal; there were to be no negotiations with Hitler.Halifax then accepted the rejection of his proposal, though he may have been more influenced by the loss of Chamberlain's support. There is a consensus among historians that Chamberlain's eventual support for Churchill was a critical turning point in the war.The Battle of BritainOn June 3, the last British troops were evacuated from Dunkirk. The Battle of France was essentially over. Churchill turned his attention to the Battle of Britain that was soon to begin. His main concern was planes and pilots, and acknowledging an increase in the number of planes built in a letter that day he wrote to Archibald Sinclair, who was his Secretary of State for Air, Churchill goaded him for more pilots, asking what would be the good “if we have machines standing idle for want of pilots to fly them.”Churchill was Minister of Defense in addition to being Prime Minister. In a sternly worded letter to Halifax (who bore some of the blame) that same day - June 3 - he decried the British inaction in the days of the Phony War, and said that when the immediate threat of invasion has passed, the BEF must be rebuilt. In the letter Churchill gave his considered opinion that “I have a large measure of responsibility as Minister of Defense for advising the Cabinet upon the main grouping and development of our Forces.” “Were France to go ‘out of the war’,” Churchill told Halifax, it would be because Britain had been unable to make “anything like the military effort which we made in the first year of the last war”. The least that could now be done was, “the moment the invasion danger has been parried”, to try to build up “a new and stronger Expeditionary Force”. The build up of such a force would be indispensable, and would require all the “regular British cadres”. Churchill’s letter ended: ‘I hope I may be given some help in this, and be allowed to view the War situation as a whole.’ The letter is quoted in “Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, 1939–1941”, by noted Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert.That day Churchill also circulated a draft of the speech he was to give the next day. It was to be his most famous. He said on the 4th in part: “Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.” Churchill had been in office for 25 days.Churchill and Appeasement: One of the items Colville retained was a portion of the letter Churchill wrote Halifax on June 3, 1940, about rebuilding the BEF to fight on. Page two of Churchill's letter was taken by him to notate, and it says “…been parried, it will be indispensable to build up a new and stronger British Expeditionary Force.” Churchill then adds in his own hand, “For this I must use all the available British cadres.” He ends by saying, “I hope I may be given some help in this.” And after “help in this”, he adds in his hand, “and be allowed to view the war situation as a whole.” Thus he was not only insisting on Halifax’s support, but making it clear that he and he alone would view the war situation and make decisions.Below this text Colville writes, “This is the end of a letter, subsequently recopied, written after the evacuation from Dunkirk. I do not remember to whom it was written, possibly to Eden, the S. of S. for War.” Historian Martin Gilbert had access to the full letter, and identified the recipient as Halifax.A Treasure Trove of Churchill in May 1940Here we have two deeply important, and even moving, mementos of Churchill’s first month in office. There is the letter to the arch-appeaser Halifax the day the Dunkirk operation ended saying he expected Halifax’s cooperation in rebuilding the BEF and fighting on, as well as making it clear he was in charge; and the note from the War Cabinet trying to respond to the Nazi blitzkrieg in real time. Both are fully annotated in Colville's hand. Truly unique, we have never seen anything like this on the market before. Both items are adhered to opposite sides of the same light board.

Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

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Title: Autographed Letter Signed [ALS] Mentioning "Leaves of Grass
Author: Walt Whitman
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Camden, NJ: np, 1888. First edition. Fine. WHITMAN AS A BOOKSELLER, TRYING TO SELL LEAVES OF GRASS. In this letter, Whitman has written to New York publishers Dick & Fitzgerald mentioning Leaves of Grass. He offers the book to them at a 33% discount and signs the letter with his full signature "Walt Whitman". Framed alongside the letter is the famous photo of Whitman touching the (prop) butterfly from the first edition of Whitman's "Specimen Days & Collect". The letter, dated Feb 18, 1888 from his 328 Mickle Street address (Camden, New Jersey) reads in full: "After some delay I have succeeded in getting you a two Vol. set (in perfect order half leather binding) those portraits from life, of Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets ed'n 1876 - Shall I send the vols to you? The price is $6.66 (+10 - one-third off). [signed] Walt Whitman" Matted and framed with UV filtered glass with opening on back to show the address side of post card. Framed alongside Whitman's letter is the photograph of Whitman from Specimen Days. Dimensions - Frame: 38.1cm x 30.5cm (15in x 12in), letter: 13.3cm x 7.6cm (5.25in x 3in), Whitman print: 9.5cm x 14.6cm (3.75in x 5.75in). Fine condition with signature strong and bold.

Philosophy of Botany by THORNTON, Robert John

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Title: Philosophy of Botany
Author: THORNTON, Robert John
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Description: London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. Full Description: THORNTON, Robert John. The Philosophy of Botany. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, [1799]-1810. First Edition, early issue, without the words "including" on the engraved title-pages. Four folio volumes (18 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches; 470 x 335 mm). With 192 engraved plates, seven of which are folding. Uniformly bound in contemporary diced calf. Boards with two thick gilt borders and a thick border in blind. Spines elaborately stamped and lettered in gilt. Board edges gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Green silk page markers. Drab green endpapers. Some rubbing to edges and corners. Outer joints with some wear but still strong. A few pages of occasional foxing. Overall a very good set. Comprises: Volumes I-II: Botanical Extracts or Philosophy of Botany. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. [2], xii, [1, contents], [1, blank], 308; [2], 309-625, [1, ads] pp. With calligraphic title in vol. I, Both volumes with a letterpress title with mounted woodcut allegorical vignettes by Branston after Thurston on india paper. Two engraved plates of double-portraits by Caldwell after Opie and David depicting Priestley/Lavoisier and Mayow/Evelyn and one aquatint botanical plate by Warner after Henderson. Volume III: Elementary Botanical Plates... Intended to Illustrate Botanical Extracts. London: T. Bensley for the publishers, White, Johnson and Co. ...and the author, 1810. With letterpress title; engraved allegorical frontispiece by Ridley after Russell and Opie, 27 engraved portraits, one engraved view, and 75 engraved, mezzotint, and aquatint plates of botanical, scientific, and other subjects,3 of which are double-page. The double-pages plates include scenes of volcanic eruptions. Vol. IV. [A New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus. London: T. Bensley, 1799?]. Lacking calligraphic title. With engraved frontispiece by Bartolozzi and Landseer after Reinagle, 86 engraved, mezzotint, and aquatint botanical plates, 2 of which are folding, and 2 are double-page. Although there is some disagreement amongst bibliographers, the three components of this work are properly known together under the title The Philosophy of Botany and were issued as such. The high point of Romantic era botanical books and the first floral prints with landscape backgrounds. "In 1798 there appeared the first of a series of some thirty large colour plates which are unique in that they produce the first flower prints with landscape backgrounds, depicting the natural habitat of the plant. The life size flowers stand forth dramatically and the whole effect is startlingly modern. This large folio, entitled The Temple of Flora or New Illustrations of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, was published by Dr. Robert John Thornton a lecturer on medical botany at Guy's Hospital in London. "Robert Thornton was a botanist most famous for his Temple of Flora, an eccentric, albeit beautifully illustrated, work written in praise of the sexual classification system for plants introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. This work is one of his other botanical publications."(The Royal Trust Collection). Cleveland Collections 744; Nissen BBI 1956; Pritzel 9235; Stafleu & Cowan TL2 14284-14285. HBS 69432. $7,500.

His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners by DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE

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Title: His Majesties Most Gracious and Royal Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners
Author: DEBTORS' PRISONS. SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Description: London: Printed for M.D. and are to be sold by Nathaniel Webb, at the Royal Oak, in St. Pauls Church-yard, neer the little north-door of St. Pauls Church, 1664. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in modern quarter calf and marbled boards. A crisp copy (a few sall rust marks, final leaf dusty, verso of last text leaf lightly foxed.) The first leaf is a full-page woodcut of the royal arms. The final leaf (bound at the beginning in this copy) bears the woodcut printer's device ("Royall Oake") and type ornaments. Rare: North American copies: Harvard (4 copies), Huntington, Indiana, Newberry, Illinois. A royal pronouncement by King Charles II appointing members to serve on a commission, first established by Queen Elizabeth in 1586, "for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners", that is, those debtors who "were truly and indeed poor, distressed and miserable, and wanted means to satisfie their creditors" as opposed to those "obstinate and wilful debtors" who had the means but not the will to pay their outstanding debts. The patent grants commissioners the authority to summon any imprisoned debtor and any party to whom a debt is owed, to assess the merits of the case, and to devise -in coordination with judges- a remedy that will satisfy the creditor and provide relief for "such poor and miserable persons, as have not wherewithal to satisfie their Debts", who would otherwise "be constrained miserably to perish in Prison, except in pity they shall be relieved." The Commission could do little to remedy the disfunction of the prison system or to alleviate the plight of those imprisoned for debt. Throughout the 17th c., the imprisoned vociferously protested the grim horrors of debtors' prison and the corrupt system that doomed them to rot in jail, powerless and penniless. From the 1640s onward, numerous petitions were introduced seeking debt relief and prison reform. It was not until the 1670s that these efforts would bear substantive fruit. In the meantime, appealing to the Commission offered salvation to a relative few. "Throughout the petitions and appeals, the gaolers are described as vipers, leeches, and caterpillars who "feed upon the miseries of honest men, or grow rich out of others ruines"; they are also characterized as ravenous beasts of prey, predators that "rore like Lyons, devoure like Tygers, ravine like Wolves, and like Beares crush the Prisoner under their feet." "Whether they slowly consumed or quickly devoured their victims, these "insatiable Monsters of Cruelty" threatened especially prisoners caught in the vicious cycle of financial misfortune that had led to their incarceration. "Because we are Poore," one of them poignantly protests, we have no escape: "Poore I say, and not able to fee Lawyers, Atturneys, Sollicitors, and Gaolers; for if we had moneys to satiate these Horsleeches, then (though our causes were never so unjust, and debts never so great) we should no wayes doubt the gaining of our Liberties." This injustice, another tract contends, is not merely the timeless complaint of all prisoners: "here the poorest debtor hath the cruellest imprisonment; that is the rule of these men's mercie: The greatest cheater hath the greatest favor; that is their Justice." "Quite simply, money drove the debtors to prison, and money determined their fates in prison. Much of the complaint against the rapacity of the gaolers, in fact, stems from a fee system that required inmates to pay for their own incarceration. In addition to the various chamber rents levied by keepers, all prisoners were expected to give sums to the turnkeys and porters for their services. Neither the fees nor the laws governing this practice were, however, clearly established; and prisoners complained at length and in detail "That in pursuance of their uncontrouled inhumane cruelties, Gaolers and Prison-keepers have and dayly do inforce from Prisoners their goods and moneys, illegal fees and excessive Chamber-rent."(Anselment, The Confinement: The Plight of the Imprisoned English Debtor in the Seventeenth Century) The Commission for the Relief of Poor Distressed Prisoners in the Post-Elizabethan Period: By this patent Charles II's renews previous patents passed by "Our Grand-Father"(James I) and "Our Father"(Charles I). Despite their intent, the Commissions For Relief were an imperfect solution. They met resistance from debtors who feared that their implementation would make it harder to recoup monies owed to them. Further, there was concern that unscrupulous borrowers would be emboldened to default on their debts. "Creditors needed protection against deliberate bankrupts, and poor debtors required relief against persistent creditors, yet aid to one party would have been prejudicial to the other. Upon Queen Elizabeth's death, her patent authorizing a commission for the relief of poor imprisoned debtors expired, and James did not renew it... "In the absence of a royal patent, Parliament attempted to resolve the dilemma by statutes, but its prison bills proved ineffectual. Also, as Parliament's patent of 1618 ["Acte for Recoverie of Small Debtes, and releevinge of poor debtors in London"] makes clear, the expiration of the earlier patent somewhat discouraged political debtors, but it left many bona fide debtors unrelieved, until London's jails were filled with 'the Bodies of those persons whose imprisonment cann no waie avail their Creditors, but rather is an hinderance to the Satisfaction of their Debts, for that, during the tyme of their Restrainte, they are in no wise able to goe aboute or attende their lawfull Busynes, but must of force consume themselves and that little they have miserably in prison.'"(Shaw, The Position of Thomas Dekker in Jacobean Prison Literature, PMLA , Jun., 1947, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Jun., 1947), pp. 366-391).

TO HEAL AND TO BUILD. THE PROGRAMS OF LYNDON B. JOHNSON by JOHNSON, Lyndon B

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Title: TO HEAL AND TO BUILD. THE PROGRAMS OF LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Author: JOHNSON, Lyndon B
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Condition: Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper
Description: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs. Edited by James MacGregor Burns with commentary by Ralph Ellison, McGeorge Bundy, and others. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the President to Jean and Bob Benjamin on the page before the title page bearing the printed quote beginning "Sometimes I have been called a seeker of 'consensus." Laid in is a small envelope with the imprint "The White House" inside of which is a calling card with the imprint "The President." Robert Benjamin and his partner Arthur Krim acquired United Artists from then-owners Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford in 1955. During the Kennedy administration he served as Chairman of the United States Committee for the United Nations. Later he served on the Brandeis University Board of Trustees. In 1979, Robert Benjamin won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award posthumously. His wife Jean accepted the award on his behalf.

Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. by VIACROZE DECORATION

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Title: Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published.
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Description: 1930. VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo., in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration, 1930-1931. A complete set of this scarce and little known Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard with some wear, otherwise immaculate. OCLC lists sets at Columbia, Metropolitan Museum, University of Illinois and Bibliotheque Nationale.

Jonathan Trumbull Jr. Signs A Legal Document As Governor Of Connecticut by JONATHAN TRUMBULL

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Title: Jonathan Trumbull Jr. Signs A Legal Document As Governor Of Connecticut
Author: JONATHAN TRUMBULL
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Description: JONATHAN TRUMBULL JR. (1740-1809). Trumbull was an early American politician, Governor of Connecticut, and Speaker of the House of Representatives.DS. 1pg. 12 x 7 . May 19, 1806. Hartford, Connecticut. A partially-printed Connecticut legal document signed Jona Trumbull as Governor of Connecticut. It is also signed by Connecticut politician Samuel Wyllys (1739-1823) as Connecticuts Secretary of State and engrossed in his hand. The State of Connecticut in America; To all to whom these Presents shall come: GREETING. KNOW YE, Tht we have Assigned, Constituted and Appointed, and by these Presents do Assign, Constitute and Appoint Robert Walker of our said State, Esq. to be Judge of our Court of Probate, to be holden within the District of Stratford in our State of Connecticut, in New-England, with the Assistance of a Clerk, to hold our said Court of Probate of Wills, granting of Administration, appointing and allowing of Guardians ; with full Power to act in all Matters proper for a prerogative court. In Testimony whereof, We have caused the Seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed. Witness Jonathan Trumbull, Esq. Governor of our said State of Connecticut, and with the Consent of the General Assembly of the fame, in Hartford this 19th Day of May Anno Domini 1806 By His Excellencys Command, Samuel Wyllys Secretary Jona Trumbull. The document is in fine condition with a giant autograph and a seal.

THE NEWLY FALLEN by DORN, Ed

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Title: THE NEWLY FALLEN
Author: DORN, Ed
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Description: New York: Totem Press, 1961. First Edition. Very good +.. Inscribed first printing of this early Dorn title with a close and important association, inscribed by Dorn to Ted Wilentz. Wilentz was the owner of the 8th Street Bookshop and founded Corinth Books, which in association with Leroi Jones' Totem Press (the publisher of this present volume) published Dorn's 1969 collection HANDS UP! Corinth and Totem's association was long and fruitful, publishing "many of the era's defining poetry collections" (Diggory 148), such as Ginsberg's EMPTY MIRROR and Kerouac's THE SCRIPTURE OF THE GOLDEN ENTERNITY. Wilentz would later title a biogrphical essay "In My Youth I Was a Tireless Reader" after Dorn's poem "In My Youth I Was a Tireless Dancer." [Streeter A3]. Wraps. 8vo. Very good or better overall in stapled pictorial wraps designed by Fielding Dawson. Touches of sunning to edges. Faint rubbing here and there. Else clean and sound. INSCRIBED by Dorn to Ted Wilentz.

The Far East. Vol. 1 no. 1

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Title: The Far East. Vol. 1 no. 1
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Description: [Tokyo]: Kokumin no tomo, 1896. 8vo, pp. [4], 38, [8]; 1 plate, gray printed paper wrappers; spine perished, light edgewear and toning, signature of M(?) Campbell Davidson on upper cover, good and sound. The first issue of a short lived periodical that appears not to have made it past the third volume. It was published as an English language companion to the Kokumin no tomo, or Countryman's friend, which lasted a decade. Articles cover issues of international politics, Christianity in Japan, and news and notes.

TIM AND GINGER by Ardizzone, Edward

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Seller: Type Punch Matrix

Title: TIM AND GINGER
Author: Ardizzone, Edward
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in near fine jacket.
Description: London: Oxford University Press, 1965. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of the eighth story of Tim's adventures, in which Tim has to search for his missing best friend - a beautiful copy. Edward Ardizzone was a central figure in midcentury British children's books, known for his warm and dynamic pen-and-ink drawings with watercolor washes that emphasized everyday adventure. Winner of the inaugural Greenaway Medal (for TIM ALL ALONE, 1956), Aridizonne earned many further accolades and titles, named a CBE, Royal Designer for Industry, and Senior Member of the Royal Academy. 10'' x 7.5''. Original pictorial boards. In original unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated by Ardizzone in color and black and white throughout. [48] pages. Light spotting to top edge of book and jacket, else bright and clean.

FROM DEATH TO MORNING by Wolfe, Thomas

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Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA

Title: FROM DEATH TO MORNING
Author: Wolfe, Thomas
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 304 pages. In Very Good condition with Good dust jacket. Black and orange spine with fray and orange text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to spine edges and corners, creasing to rear cover, moderate edge wear, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has slight toning. 1373003. Special Collections - Downstairs.

Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Growth versus Economic Democracy by Yamamura, Kozo

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Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

Title: Economic Policy in Postwar Japan. Growth versus Economic Democracy
Author: Yamamura, Kozo
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A very good copy in an edgeworn dust jacket.
Description: Berkeley: Univ. California Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A very good copy in an edgeworn dust jacket.. xvii, 226 pp. Illus. with 65 tables. 8vo.

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