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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY by WHARTON, Edith

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Title: THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
Author: WHARTON, Edith
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight foxing to the front endpaper and a few other pages; rear endpapers with library slip and pocket, also stamped; front hinge cracked and a little loose. Covers are bright with strong gilt, a small white ink symbol on the spine. Easily Very Good or better, despite the library markings. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'For Miss Reubell/from Edith Wharton/Nov. 1913." A scarce book to find signed, this is to Henrietta "Etta" Reubell, described by Wharton in her autobiography, A BACKWARD GLANCE, as "my old friend, and Henry James's" (Chapter 11). Reubell had a salon at her home where cosmopolitan expatriate writers and artists would visit including James McNeill Whistler, Oscar Wilde, and John Singer Sargent, who painted her portrait. In an 1876 letter from Paris to his brother, William James, Henry describes several women, including Reubell: "The other is a certain Miss Reubell, who has lived here always, is twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old and extremely ugly, but with something very frank, intelligent and agreeable about her. If I wanted to desire to marry an ugly Parisian-American, with money and toutes les elegances, and a very considerable capacity for development if transported into a favoring medium, Miss R would be a very good objective" (Edel, Leon: HENRY JAMES LETTERS, Volume II, pp. 41-42). James wrote more than 100 letters to Reubell. It is not known how many he received from her. This copy has 7 minor corrections made to the text, certainly by Wharton. The most recent inscribed copy we could locate at auction, which sold at Christies London in 2002 for about what we are charging for this copy, was noted as having 3 corrections, matching 3 of the 7 here. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of The American Library in Paris Inc. 1920.

[Phenomenal Annotated Photograph Album Memorializing the Career of Eminent Mining Engineer Frank Robbins, Who Managed Some of the Most Legendary Mines in the American West] by [Nevada]: [California]: [Mining]: Robbins, Frank

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Title: [Phenomenal Annotated Photograph Album Memorializing the Career of Eminent Mining Engineer Frank Robbins, Who Managed Some of the Most Legendary Mines in the American West]
Author: [Nevada]: [California]: [Mining]: Robbins, Frank
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: [Various locations in Nevada, California and British Columbia, 1914. [19] leaves, illustrated with 176 photographs (a combination of albumens, cyanotypes, silver gelatin, and printing out paper images), most with penciled captions on the album leaves, plus relevant newspaper clippings to first and last leaves, and a folder of original drawings, letters, manuscript poetry, and additional newspaper clippings laid in. Oblong folio. Contemporary black pebbled cloth, spine bound with two screw posts. Minor wear and dust soiling to covers, edges and corners worn. Very good. An extraordinary annotated vernacular photograph album memorializing the career of legendary mining manager Frank Robbins (1856-1914). The compiler of the album was likely Robbins' son George C. Robbins, who followed his father into the mining and geology fields. Frank Robbins was born in Portland, Oregon in 1856. He studied science at Upper Canada College before first practicing his profession at the celebrated mining camp at Eureka, Nevada, where he apprenticed to prominent mining and metallurgical engineer Max Moeller. He became partners with Moeller before managing the famous lead mine at Eureka, then mining camps at Leadville, Colorado; various locations in southern California and northern Mexico; and Hells Canyon, New Mexico, and two notable mining concerns in British Columbia. He served in various advisory positions including a term as president of the British Columbia Mine Owners Association before moving to Los Angeles in 1902. The newspaper clippings in the album provide further biographical details on Robbins' life and career. The album is not presented in chronological order, with the photographs beginning with two of Robbins' last managerial stints at the North Star Mine in Kimberley, East Kootenay, British Columbia and the Brooklyn Mine in Phoenix, B.C. The North Star images include several shots of the mining campgrounds, the assay office, and some of the miners. The Phoenix Mine is presented in several cyanotypes and other photos, showing the grounds and buildings from various angles, as well as a few shots of Robbin's son Tom Robbins, who died of typhoid fever at age twenty at the Phoenix mine camp. The next series of over twenty photographs emanate from the Jacalitos geological formation in southern California, and are interspersed with shots of Robbins' family residences at San Diego and some images of the mining camp at Leadville, Colorado. The Jacalitos images also include shots taken at Tijuana and Carrissa Valley. These are followed by about twenty images of Robbins and others with their drywasher and other scenes in the Goler Mining District in the Mojave Desert near Randsburg, California. The next series of twenty photographs capture Robbins traveling to and exploring Cedros Island in Baja California. As with other series in the album, several other people are identified in the captions in this section, providing important details on Robbins' crew at each stop of his career. These images are followed by a series of over thirty images from Julian, San Diego County, and Deer Park, California. A handful of these images feature mining-related buildings, but most of the photos in this section show Robbins and his family and friends. The album concludes with a series of six images from the Hells Canyon Mining District in New Mexico. The images showing Robbins' various mining camps are sometimes interspersed with numerous shots of his family, capturing group shots, family scenes while traveling, exterior and interior scenes of their residences, and so forth. A couple of images capture indigenous peoples in the various places Robbins visited ("Indians at Needles, Calif."). The photographs and newspaper clippings in the album are accompanied by a folder containing numerous original materials that were probably intended to be mounted in the album but the compiler ran out of room. These items include thirteen illustrations in ink. All of these were likely executed by Frank Robbins himself, as one is a self portrait signed by him. The other illustrations are largely comic or satirical scenes of travels and voyages and early California, with one scene seeming to lampoon religious intrusion on Robbins' North Star Mine, showing two nuns pushing a mine cart full of "glittering ore," with the mine cart labeled "Souvenir d' Etoile de Nord 1901." The folder also includes a few letters sent home by Robbins and two manuscript poems by him from a mining camp in 1897. Amongst these items is a letter from George Robbins, Frank's son, docketed on the verso as "George's first letter Sep. 20 1886." George was probably the compiler of the present album, as the last page is mostly taken up with newspaper clippings of his professional activities as assayer and chemist, namely as manager of the Jay Gould Mine in the Chewelah Mining District in Washington. Altogether, the album and laid-in folder constitute a unique record of the life and career of one of the American West's most prominent mining engineers of the late-19th century.

CARMEN MIRANDA COACHES MICKEY ROONEY TO BE... CARMEN MIRANDA (1941) Photo - 2 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Title: CARMEN MIRANDA COACHES MICKEY ROONEY TO BE... CARMEN MIRANDA (1941) Photo - 2
Author: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Near Fine. [Los Angeles]: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1941]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white single weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Near fine. For a musical number paying honor to her, Carmen Miranda visited Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios to coach Mickey Rooney on how to perform like her, the Bombshell from Brazil, as this series of images was titled on its attached paper blurb with ink production number on verso. Carmen and Mickey run through some dance moves here.

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