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John Barleycorn by London, Jack

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Title: John Barleycorn
Author: London, Jack
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books (United States)
Description: New York: The Century Co, 1913. First Edition. 8vo. [vi], 343, [3] pp. Frontispiece and 7 plates by H. T. Dunn. Publisher's blackish-green cloth with gilt lettering & design; in rare publisher's unrestored illustrated dustjacket with the price "$1.30" printed in red on spine. Book is in about fine condition, with light rubbing to spine ends. The dust jacket is in fine condition (faint small circular stain on spine; short closed tear & crease at upper front edge). London's autibiographical novel dealing with his enjoyment of drinking and struggles with alcoholism. The title is taken from the British folksong "John Barleycorn". (BAL 11946; Sisson & Martens, p. 72).

THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR by Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.

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Title: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR
Author: Miller, Francis Trevelyan; Lanier, Robert S.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: New York: Review of Review Co, 1911. Third issue. Very good.. First edition of this towering landmark of Civil War history, "the grandfather of pictorial histories" (Eicher) with nearly 3400 photographs of battlefields, artillery, enlisted personnel and officers, prisons, hospitals, camps, and maps, with text by veterans. While images from the Mexican-American War (1846-48) and the Crimean War (1853-56) exist, no conflict prior to the American Civil War was so extensively captured via the new medium of photography. Photographers in both the North and the South - including Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan, George S. Cook, McPherson & Oliver - distilled for public audiences the brutality of battle and its shattering aftereffects in ways little seen before: "If [they have] not brought bodies and laid them in our door-yards and along streets, [they have] done something very like it[.]" Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the War's beginning, PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR gathered thousands of images - many published here for the first time - from historical societies, universities, various state and federal governmental departments, and the general public itself. Each of the ten volumes groups material thematically: (1) The Opening Battles, (2) Two Years of Grim War, (3) The Decisive Battles, (4) The Cavalry, (5) Forts and Artillery, (6) The Navies, (7) Prisons and Hospitals, (8) Soldier Life / Secret Service, (9) Poetry and Eloquence, and (10) Armies and Leaders. The bedrock of any Civil War collection. Increasingly scarce in such collectible condition. 10 volumes, 11'' x 8.5''. Original blue "silk" cloth with blind-stamped military regalia to front board and gilt-lettered spine. Top edges gilt. Patterned endpapers with vignette portraits of Grant & Lee (front) and Lincoln & Davis (rear). Volume 10 with third issue index. Pages ranging from about 320-370 each. Light wear to spine ends, minor rubbing to boards with a few spots of soil, light scattered foxing to fore-edges and some front matter. Volume 9 with abrasion to lower corner of rear board. Bright overall.

THE DANCE OF DEATH PAINTED BY H. HOLBEIN AND ENGRAVED BY W. HOLLAR [bound with] THE DANCE OF MACABER

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Title: THE DANCE OF DEATH PAINTED BY H. HOLBEIN AND ENGRAVED BY W. HOLLAR [bound with] THE DANCE OF MACABER
Seller: The Book Block (United States)
Description: [London James Edwards, 1789]. 8vo., very handsome full polished calf with a series of decorative borders (gilt and blind) in the manner of Edwards of Halifax; spine with five raised bands and a black morocco label with gilt and blind decoration within the compartments. A.e.g., pink endleaves.Based upon Holbein's original 15th century designs, Wenceslaus Hollar, the Bohemian etcher born in Prague in 1607 created copper plates for his own Dance of Death. In 1647 an edition of 30 copperplates was brought out in London; another edition from these plates was published in 1651. The plates then disappeared from sight until the late 18th century when several editions from the "newly discovered" plates began to appear. The copperplates apparently came into the hands of an English family of nobility, from whom the bookseller, Edwards, obtained them. We have compared the plates of our edition with the plates of the ALSO SCARCE 1804 edition (printed by C. Whittingham for John Harding) and with the more common 1816 edition (printed by B. McMillan for J. Coxhead) and notice unmistakable differences in small details, which may be the result of the copperplates having been "rebitten with great care," according to Douce, or entirely recut.The title-page of our edition carries no place, date of publication, or publisher's name. We have inferred, however, that is it the 1789 printing of the plates (before the rebiting); the 1794 Edwards edition (See: No. 249 in the Minns Catalogue) is described thus, "Printed from the original plates rebitten with great care to prevent injury in the retouching."See: Warthin, A. The Physician of the Dance of Death. pp. 72-76. Douce, F. Holbein's Dance of Death. pp. 111-113. IN QUITE A FINE BINDING

Letter to John K. West, Member of the Notorious "New Orleans Associates," Discussing a Conversation with John Austin Wharton Concerning a Crime in Texas, a Hanging, and Fugitives in Jamaica, 1838 by [Crime - Texas - New Orleans] Andrews, Edmund

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Title: Letter to John K. West, Member of the Notorious "New Orleans Associates," Discussing a Conversation with John Austin Wharton Concerning a Crime in Texas, a Hanging, and Fugitives in Jamaica, 1838
Author: [Crime - Texas - New Orleans] Andrews, Edmund
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
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Description: Republic of Texas, 1838. Stampless letter, folded, with red two-line handstamp of Steam Packet Columbia on January 16, 1838 from Brazoria Tex. to New Orleans. Fine condition. Fine. An intriguing letter written by Edmund Andrews, a judge in Brazoria, Texas, who had arrived in Stephen Austin’s colony eight years before he penned this, in 1830. The letter is written to John K. West, the New Orleans attorney who was an original member of the notorious “New Orleans Associates.” Andrews discusses a conversation he had on behalf of West with John Austin Wharton, who would die later in 1838, relating that Andrews had a conversation with Wharton on West’s behalf. The conversation with Wharton revolved around a man with the last name Chase and Andrew Mills, who had both left Texas, presumably, and traveled to Kingston, Jamaica, where Mills was hanged for an undisclosed crime. Andrews writes that Wharton related that that Mills told him he “would not have done it if he had not been drunk,” presumably talking about the crime for which he was hanged. Overall a very intriguing letter relating to crime, exile and misdeeds in the Republic of Texas, which should be of interest to scholars of the Republic. Full text follows: Brazoria, Jan'y 16, 1838 Mr. John K. West Sir, Since I wrote to you in reply to yours under date 19th ulto., I have seen Col. John A. Wharton upon the subject contained in your favor. He says he does not recollect who the person was referred to in yours, but recollects to have heard Haney speak of it, and says, he, Haney told him that he actually saw Andrew Mills hung and says he described the rope he was hung with. Col. Wharton seems to think Haney's statement entitled to credit. These facts can be known, if they are really facts, by sending a commission to Kingston, Jamaica, for although both Chase and Mills had no doubt assumed names, yet a person of so much notoriety as Capt. John Chase must have been known to some there. Haney said Mills begged him when he saw him in Kingston never to make known his fate and that he would not have done it if [he] had not been drunk. The foregoing is the substance of the conversation held with Col. J. A. Wharton. I am yours truly, Edmund Andrews.

Canneries That Produce Deming & Gould Company’s Salmon by [Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State - Pacific Northwest Fishing Industry - Salmon] Deming & Gould Company

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Title: Canneries That Produce Deming & Gould Company’s Salmon
Creator: [Alaska, British Columbia, Washington State - Pacific Northwest Fishing Industry - Salmon] Deming & Gould Company
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Description: Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1917. Folding map measuring 38 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. Tape repairs to verso, some tears at folds and edges, still bring and attractive, good to very good overall with excellent restoration potential. A map of the canneries in Alaska, British Columbia and Washington operated by the Deming and Gould Company, who were influential in the growth of the Alaskan salmon trade. The map’s date of printing, 1917, suggests that perhaps it was related to the war effort, as salmon demand increased during this period. The Demings, based in Chicago, were influential in the growth of the salmon trade in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, founding Pacific American Fisheries Inc. in 1899 and continuing in various iterations until their sale of the firm in 1934 due to president E.B. Deming’s ailing health. The map shows seventeen different canneries, several on the Alaska peninsula and the one in Bellingham. We find no record of this imprint, only a later and small version held at the University of Washington.

A Treatise on the Diseases and Special Hygiène of Females by Colombat De L'Isere, Marc. Meigs, Charles D. (Translator)

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Title: A Treatise on the Diseases and Special Hygiène of Females
Author: Colombat De L'Isere, Marc. Meigs, Charles D. (Translator)
Seller: Abacus Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Hard cover. Full leather binding with gilt on leather spine label. Octavo. [xvi] pp17-719 (32) Publisher's catalog. Diagrams within the text. St. Louis bookseller's ticket to front pastedown, Occasional foxing throughout. A foundational 19th century medical text, it explores the physiological, physical, and moral states of women across puberty, pregnancy, menstruation, and menopause. Dr. Meigs, the translator, is noted in medical history for advocating against the usage of anesthesia during childbirth and against the use of sanitary practices to prevent the transmission of postpartum infections. The text is heavily influenced by his traditionalist views (see the chapters on Hysteria and Nymphomania amongst others).

Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert. by TUTTLE, Richard

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Title: Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert.
Author: TUTTLE, Richard
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Description: 1978. TUTTLE, Richard. Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert. 10 pp. Oblong 12mo., bound in illustrated wrappers, in a board portfolio. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1978.

Elementary Mathematical Concepts from the Historical and Logical Point of View by ZANT, James & DIAMOND, Ainsley

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Title: Elementary Mathematical Concepts from the Historical and Logical Point of View
Author: ZANT, James & DIAMOND, Ainsley
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: Minneapolis: Burgess, 1941. paperback. very good(+). 125 pages. Slim 8vo, stiff red wrappers, spiral-bound. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing, 1941. Scarce. A very good(+) copy. Ownership name on title.

[Fanzine]: Science Fiction Review – February 1981, Vol. 10, No. 2, Whole Number 39 by (DICK, Philip K., Ursula K. Le Guin)

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Title: [Fanzine]: Science Fiction Review – February 1981, Vol. 10, No. 2, Whole Number 39
Author: (DICK, Philip K., Ursula K. Le Guin)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Portland, OR: Richard Geis, 1981. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. Cover by Stephen Fabian. Quarto. 67pp. About fine in stapled pictorial wrappers. Interior cover states "February," but should have been May. Includes: a letter from Philip K. Dick mostly addressing Ursula Le Guin's concerns, after reading *VALIS,* about his intellectual and emotional well-being and assures her that he is not a madman simply because the protagonist in the novel is a madman. Also included in the letter section is a letter from Ursula Le Guin stating that she also received a letter from Phil explaining *VALIS* and shares the letter she wrote back to him telling him that he's a great artist but was upset by *VALIS* and can no longer follow his art that used to bring her solace and joy, but she keeps trying. Also includes "The Two Tractates of Philip K. Dick" by Steve Brown, and an interview with Gene Wolfe.

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