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What's to be Done? A Romance

What's to be Done? A Romance by [Chernyshevsky] Tchernychewsky, N. G.

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Title
What's to be Done? A Romance
Author
[Chernyshevsky] Tchernychewsky, N. G.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1886. First English language edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy of this scarce first translation into English. Originally serialized in the journal Sovremennik between 1862 - 1863. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in brown on the front board. Some wear to the spine ends and corners, slight dampstain to the lower edge of the front board, brown stamping rubbed. Rear inner hinge just starting, but holding well. Complete and unrestored. With the penciled signature of Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne's son, on the front free end paper. A few pencil annotations within the text and on the rear end paper, presumably also made by Julian Hawthorne. "[T]he first and most influential of a long succession of tendentious radical novels" in Russian literature (Mirsky p. 225). This first translation into English was undertaken and self-published by Benjamin R. Tucker, an outspoken American anarchist who defied the Boston police by selling banned literature, including Whitman's Leaves of Grass among others. This may explain the scarcity of copies to come to market, with only one appearing in Rare Book Hub (from 1899 for a 2nd edition copy). And no other copies currently appearing with book dealers worldwide. Tucker published this in the same year that War and Peace, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment and a new translation of Dead Souls all came out in America. Written during Chernyshevsky's imprisonment for his revolutionary activities, the novel was seen as a simple love story by the authorities, masking its true radical themes. It was written in part as a response to Turgenev's Fathers and Sons. Dostoevsky and Tolstoy both responded to this work in their writings, with Dostoevsky notably attacking Chernyshevsky's utilitarianism and utopianism in Notes from the Underground (1864). A hugely influential work, not only within literary circles, but socially and politically as well, often seen as inspiring the populist, nihilist and Marxist revolutionaries. Literary scholar Joseph Frank writes: "Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution." Very Good +.
Readings on Poetry

Readings on Poetry by Edgeworth, Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth

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Title
Readings on Poetry
Author
Edgeworth, Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: R. Hunter, 1816. First edition. Contemporary roan over marbled boards with remnants of the original paper label. All edges speckled blue. Measuring 135 x 85 mm and collating complete: xxviii, 213, [11, publisher's adverts]. A square, solid copy with boards and spine generally rubbed and worn. Internally pleasing, with contemporary ownership signature of A. D. King to front pastedown and annotation in the same hand to the rear endpaper verso; minor spotting to outer margin of preliminaries and short closed tear to outer margin of second advert leaf, with all text legible. In all a pleasing copy of a scarce book, which has only sold twice at auction since 1972. The present is the only example on the market. While the daughter-father duo responsible for this work consider the poetic educations of both sexes, Maria was largely responsible for the book's lessons and shaped it as a resource for mothers and daughters who hadn't the privilege of a literary education (Slade). Her mark can be seen in Readings on Poetry much as it can be in Practical Education. Yet here, eighteen years later, she makes a more overt argument for the personal and social need of educating women. "The same means which form a masculine understanding will give strength to the female judgement and should therefore be employed with the same steadiness in the education of young women." With an understanding for both parents' potential conservative objections, Maria also addresses these. "Nor need mothers feel any apprehension that thus strengthening the understandings of their daughters should injure that elegance and grace which are undoubtedly the charms of women...Men no longer desire that women should be kept in ignorance, and women no longer find it necessary to be, or to affect to be uninformed in order to fascinate." On the surface, her justification suggests that women's right to education is based on what men find attractive in possible mates. But below the surface, by allaying the concerns of parents that their intelligent and trained daughters will be unmarriageable, she opens the door to their studying a variety of fields not limited to the present study of poetry. With an early ownership signature that could belong to a reader of any sex, it is a testament to how these ideas dispelled patriarchal notions to the benefit of all.
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Plays of William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE STEEVENS George JOHNSON Samuel

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Title
Plays of William Shakespeare
Author
SHAKESPEARE STEEVENS George JOHNSON Samuel
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1785. SHAKESPEARE. The Plays of William Shakespeare… With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which Are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, et al., 1785. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and dark green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, four volumes rebacked with original spines and labels laid down. $9800.Third edition of Johnson and Steevens' Shakespeare, ""the standard for future editors and publishers,"" in handsome contemporary tree calf boards.Samuel Johnson and George Steevens' edition of Shakespeare ""was considered the best edition that had appeared up to that time, and was long regarded as the standard"" (Grolier Shakespeare's Plays, 19). ""This edition, in which were united the native powers of Dr. Johnson with the activity, sagacity, and antiquarian learning of George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers"" (Lowndes, 2261). The plays are copiously annotated throughout, with numerous introductory pieces including Johnson's famous preface. Illustrated with three engraved portraits of Shakespeare, a facsimile of his signature on his will, and a delightful folding plate of Morris dancers. ESTC T138853. Armorial bookplate in each volume.Minor spotting and offsetting, mostly to first and last few leaves. A handsome set.
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains

Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains by [Morgan, John Pierpont]

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Title
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
Author
[Morgan, John Pierpont]
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Privately printed by order of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan, 1904 Illustrated with 77 chromolithographs, protected by tissue guards, and a 26-page illustrated index at the rear of the book, showing the specific arrangement of the wares in their cases. Notes by William M. Laffan. First edition. One of 250 copies printed for private distribution. Publisher's full brown morocco, with board margins double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, decorated, lettered, and ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, wide turn-ins, green moire silk and morocco doublures. Very good, with some marks to front board, wear to spine bands, joints, and corners, "John Shaw Billings" bookplate to verso of front free endpaper, and some offsetting to pages facing plates, otherwise very clean internally. With an ALS from J.P. Morgan to librarian John Shaw Billings on "23 Wall Street" (the J.P. Morgan Building) letterhead, referencing the gifted copy of Chinese Porcelains. About fine ALS, with light soiling, two fold marks (one vertical, one horizontal), and two blue checkmarks (according to a Letter of Provenance from the most recent owner, the checkmarks were made by Billings as part of his filing system, denoting that two copies of the book had been received). Overall, a wonderful association and a gorgeously executed catalogue of the priceless holdings of the Morgan Library & Museum. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains is the first of two volumes (the second volume was printed in 1911, also in a privately printed run limited to 250 copies) outlining the museum's magnificent inventory of Chinese porcelains. The book features descriptions of 1115 Chinese porcelains, including vases, bowls, statues, bottles, figures, teapots, boxes, among others. In his Notes section at the beginning of the book, publisher and editor William M. Laffan surveys the history of Chinese porcelain and addresses some of the challenges that experts encounter while attempting to identify and classify the objects. Shortly after J. P. Morgan's death in 1913, his entire collection of Chinese porcelains was sold off, with the sole exception of the "Morgan Ruby" - a 17th century bottle vase that Morgan had special fondness for, and which he kept on his desk in his private library. This copy was gifted by J.P. Morgan to the brilliant librarian and polymath John Shaw Billings (1838 - 1913). After serving as a battlefield surgeon in the Civil War, Billings went on to create the National Library of Medicine, and turn it into the world's most comprehensive medical library (According to a publication by the National Institutes of Health, "Within a few years Billings had acquired practically every issue of every medical journal ever published in the United States and Canada, and 75 per cent of all medical periodicals ever published throughout the world"). Drawing upon this vast repository, Billings founded the monthly Index Medicus, an important bibliographical resource for medical and life science books. Billings also planned and organized John Hopkins Hospital and New York Public Library (the latter was created by combining Astor and Lennox Libraries) and created a branch library system for three of the New York City boroughs - Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx - thanks to funding from Andrew Carnegie. He served as the first director of the New York Public Library, from 1895 until his death in 1913. One of the titans of the Gilded Age, John Pierpont Morgan (1837 - 1913) was an enormously powerful American banker who, at his height, owned one-sixth of the nation's railroads (approximately 5,000 miles of track). Before the Federal Reserve existed, he helped bail the government out financially multiple times, notably during the Panic of 1907 financial crisis. Morgan was a prodigious collector of art and books from around the world - he donated thousands of pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (he served as president of the institution from 1904 until his death in 1913) and founded the Morgan Library & Museum, which houses more than 350,000 objects today. ALS Transcription: Sept. 20 / 05 J. S. Billings, Esq. Director, N.Y. Public Library, Astor Library Building. 40 Lafayette Place, N.Y. Dear Sir, I am in receipt of your letter of 16th September, and take pleasure in finding you herewith, for the New York York Public Library, a copy of the Catalogue (which I have recently had printed for my private use) of my Collection of Chinese Porcelains, which I have loaned loaned (sic) to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. I also send you here with another copy of said Catalogue for yourself which please accept with my compliments. Sincerely Yours, J.P. Morgan . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.
A monograph of the cranes

A monograph of the cranes by BLAAUW, F.E.

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A monograph of the cranes
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BLAAUW, F.E.
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Leiden and London: Brill & Porter, 1897. FIRST EDITION. With 22 chromo-lithographed plates. Original publisher’s pictorial green cloth, title in gilt to spine and top cover, with patterned end-papers; edges stained green. Label pasted on to the front paste-down indicating that this copy is No. 26 of 170 copies of this edition, with the stamp of the Librairie et Imprimerie ci-divant E.J. Brill with a signature. First edition of this beautifully illustrated work, which includes not only adult birds but also their chicks and their eggs. Taken from the birds living in the Amsterdam Zoological Garden in 1872, the illustrations were commissioned by G.F. Westerman (1807-90), the director of the Gardens. Westerman, wanting to enlighten the public as to the beauty of these birds, appointed the great German artist and illustrator Heinrich Leutemann (1824-1905), who created fifteen of the plates. As Westerman died before the monograph was completed, the Dutch naturalist Blaauw (1860-1936) stepped in and supplied the text, commissioning an additional seven plates by the renowned bird artist and illustrator J.G. Keulemans (1842-1912). Only 170 copies were printed of this stunning work, of which ours is number 26.
Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .

Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .

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Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Venezia (unstated. Zoppino was from Ferrara originally and active there as well): Nicoló Zoppino, 1519. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. One of the earliest tour guides, written for pilgrims who were in the early modern era the closest equivalent to today's tourists. The guide touches on the city and sights beginning in Venice, and proceeds along the eastern Adriatic Coast in what is now Croatia, visits numerous places on the Aegean, before reaching its destination of Jerusalem. But in the Holy Land, the book explores places outside of it, including the Red Sea and Cairo, which would add a more distant leg to the traveler, but of course would be of interest for their Biblical significance. 15 by 11 cm. Unpaginated, 117 leaves. With many woodcuts, 128 by our count. Three double paged woodcut panoramas, eight full page, or nearly so (only three or four lines of text), woodcuts, including title page. 60 woodcuts of some size -- between half page or nearly so and three quarters of the page. And 65 pictorial woodcut vignettes, not including purely ornamental flourishes. Up to 30 lines of text per page. As the book was conceived as an aide for pilgrimages, there is an emphasis on stopping at significant churches, monasteries, and other religious points-of-interest along the way. And back then, there weren't museums and the like to draw the tourist, or perhaps, one could equate churches with museums, as much art, maybe the vast majority of art, was created for churches then. And monasteries served as hotels when there was no such concept. But the book isn't exclusively a religious Baedeker; it goes into many other things of interest. Our favorite topic and digression is a discussion of animals -- the elephant, the giraffe, the goat, the ostrich, all shown in not necessarily the most realistic woodcut illustrations. The binding has a paper pastedown that was made to look like tree calf, and does so convincingly. It has some rubbing and wear, with the spine looking as if it might have been squeezed hard. In the upper front corner of the board is a small label with a number, which might be a stock number for a store or a library notation. Whatever it is, it is probably 19th century, and we think it doesn't detract from the binding in the least. There are also two small labels mounted onto the spine, one with the title, one, given the date of 1518. We hedge this dating by adding 1519 because that conforms to the dates given on the last page of the book. These spine labels, while mounted with no thought to the aesthetic effect and might have looked like mounted band-aids at one time, now blend in with the binding and are inconspicuous, their chipping and soiling not a serious issue to us. The front endpapers have some pencil and ink scribbling and a rather ugly but small modern bookplate with writing in English and Hebrew. Throughout the book there are some light smudges, some light foxing, and other stains, but the leaves overall read as on the clean side. There is one short marginal closed tear, and certainly one could cite other less than desirable examples of wear and tear, but we think no one would take issue with our grading of this book as Very Good, if not slightly better than that.
L'Empire Chinois, illustre´ d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux

L'Empire Chinois, illustre´ d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux by PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM

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L'Empire Chinois, illustre´ d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux
Author
PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1845. PELLE, Clement and Thomas ALLOM. L'Empire Chinois, illustre d'apres des Dessins pris sur les Lieux. 4 Volumes. [4], 68, 26; 76; 74; 73, [3] pp., illustrated with 4 engraved added title-pages and 124 full page steel engraved plates. 4to, 275 x 214 mm., bound in publisher's elaborately decorated red cloth. Paris: Fisher, 1845. First edition in French, profusely illustrated with superb steel engravings after designs by Thomas Allom (1802-1872) executed by a number of master-engravers. The work also contains copies of Chinese drawings from Staunton's collection, executed by Captain Stoddard and others (reproduced in Alexander's The Costume of China, 1805). The study centers mainly on the south-east of China (Canton, Macao, Nanjing, Shanghai) although there are excellent images of Peking and Yehol. Of the greatest rarity in the splendid publisher's bindings and virtually free from the foxing that mars almost all copies.
Plough's Black and White Birthday and Dream Book

Plough's Black and White Birthday and Dream Book

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Title
Plough's Black and White Birthday and Dream Book
Seller
Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Toned with some nicks, wear.
Description
Memphis, Tennessee: Plough, 1927. Very good. Toned with some nicks, wear.. Dreams of Beauty Do Come True": advertising booklet for Plough brand creams, powders, and other skin care products, marketed to women. Includes sections of dream meanings, birthstones and personality traits for each birth month, and plenty of photos of smiling young ladies, including the early Metro darling Estelle Clark. Note the subtle ageism throughout (e.g. "Smooth away the years!") and reinforcement of gender roles (e.g. use of words such as "pure", "dainty", "delicate", etc.). The cover illustration depicts a slim beauty asleep in bed as a handsome young gentleman looks on. Single vol. (6.75" by 4.75"), pp. 32, illus. in original illus. self wrps. Ink stamp of sales agent on lower wrapper. Some sample dream meanings: FOX-- Risky love affairs. LEMONS-- You are jealous of your lover. THIMBLE-- Dependence; poverty. VALENTINE-- Weak but ardent lover. ZINC-- Progress in business.
The Invention of 1870, Paine's Culinary Apparatus

The Invention of 1870, Paine's Culinary Apparatus

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Title
The Invention of 1870, Paine's Culinary Apparatus
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
General wear.
Description
Philadelphia, PA: Paine & Wells, 1870. General wear.. A single fold circular for Paine's Culinary Apparatus, a machine which cooked food via steam. Invented by Clinton J. Paine, the apparatus "cooked in TWO-THIRDS the time, with an outlay of half the labor and ONE-TENTH of the expense required in the use of an ordinary cook stove." The machine could be placed any where in the home, such as on the parlor table. Supposedly it was able to cook a meal at the cost of one cent of fuel, and as such would play for itself within sixty days. The front has an illustration of the machine, which features a container for the fuel, a tea pot shaped container to heat the water in and produce the steam, and a box in which the food cooked in. Single fold circular. Printed in blue ink. Measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" (folded),
THE JUNGLE TOY BOOK

THE JUNGLE TOY BOOK

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THE JUNGLE TOY BOOK
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
London: Dean & Son, Limited, 1914. Very good.. Scarce first edition of this vibrant book with cloth-mounted leaves, featuring animals rendered in their natural colors and in rainbow. This is quite a scarce work, despite its cotton cloth-mounted leaves: we locate only one holding on OCLC. Slightly psychedelic, entirely charming. 7.75'' x 10.75''. Original color pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [6] leaves, mounted on cotton cloth. Boards with edgewear, a bit of soil and rubbing; glue repair to spine. Leaves with light soil to margins. Colors bright.
The Man Who Cried I Am

The Man Who Cried I Am by John A. Williams

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Title
The Man Who Cried I Am
Author
John A. Williams
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston: Little, Brown and Co, 1967. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED BY JOHN A. WILLIAMS on the title page. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1967 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact ($6.95), VG+ to Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of rubbing alomng the front panel. A collector's copy.
Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library of Boston, together with the Acts of Incorporation, and the By-Laws and Regulations Adopted January, 1848

Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library of Boston, together with the Acts of Incorporation, and the By-Laws and Regulations Adopted January, 1848 by Boston

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Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library of Boston, together with the Acts of Incorporation, and the By-Laws and Regulations Adopted January, 1848
Author
Boston
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
Boston: Printed for the Association, 1848. 8vo.  235 x 140 mm., [9 ¼ x 5 ½ inches].  135 pp.  Original  salmon-colored printed wrappers; some darkening of the wrappers and foxing to the text block, endpapers discolored;  shelf mark in ink on lower part of spine and endpapers; a sound and not unattractive copy. The Mercantile Library of Boston was established in 1820 to facilitate the moral and intellectual development of all classes of the community, especially young men.  The first pages of this catalogue describe the rise and near fall of the Association and its final stabilization in the 1840's. In 1842, Daniel Webster contributed $500 to the library fund which was matched by $1,000 from ten of the Association's prominent members for the purchase of books.  With this move more money were raised and the Association Library became "one of the best of its kind in the Country." After the history of the association, constitution and by-laws are printed, along with an eight-page list of members.  The catalogue of the library is comprised of 112 pages, listing in short-title format, the books, daily newspapers and periodicals in the collection.  It represents an impressive group of books, with focus on American history and literature, local history, business, English books, and travel.  By 1877 the collection grew to 18,000 books and was merged with the collections of the Boston Public Library.
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Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. by Baily, John.

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Central America; Describing Each of the States of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.
Author
Baily, John.
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Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
"Natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization..." I guess you can see where this book is hea
Description
London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. "Natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization..." I guess you can see where this book is headed. Despite the obvious interest, and the author's attention to the wealth of natural resources and possibilities for agriculture, the above countries were able to avoid Commonwealthization. Sabin 2771. Signature clipped off top of title page. Lean to spine. Bound as issued in blind stamped blue cloth with gold spine lettering. Very good condition.. 11.5 x 20 cm. xii, 164 pp. Sepia-toned lithograph plates.
Nautical Antiques. (With Value Guide)

Nautical Antiques. (With Value Guide) by Ball, Robert W.D.

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Nautical Antiques. (With Value Guide)
Author
Ball, Robert W.D.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
V G. in D J.
Description
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., (1994). V G. in D J.. 28 cm. 240 pp. B/W plates and ills.
Poems by Sarah E. Carmichael. A Brief Selection, Published by Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation

Poems by Sarah E. Carmichael. A Brief Selection, Published by Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation by [Women Authors; LDS Poetry] Carmichael, Sarah E.

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Title
Poems by Sarah E. Carmichael. A Brief Selection, Published by Permission of the Authoress, for Private Circulation
Author
[Women Authors; LDS Poetry] Carmichael, Sarah E.
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
San Francisco: Towne and Bacon, Publishers, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 72pp. Sextodecimo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth titled in gilt. Yellow endpapers. Ex-college library coby with only penciled numbers to copyright page and rear pastedown, else no other library markings. The backstrip has broken off and some pieces are laid in. The text block is cracked at the beginning. Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael, a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, came to the Salt Lake Valley in 1850. She nurtured her literary talent despite pioneer Utah's limited educational resources. Her first signed poem, Truth, was published in the Deseret News in 1858. Over the next eight years, the paper would publish fifty more of her poems. Her poems also appeared in the Daily Union Vedette and the Mormon feminist newspaper Woman's Exponent. Sarah was also recognized outside of Utah. For example, William Cullen Bryant anthologized her poem, Stolen Sunbeam, retitling it "The Origin of Gold." Her most famous poem is President Lincoln's Funeral, which is included in this work. Due to the fact that most of her poems were published in newspapers, the span of her work may never be known. In 1866, Carmichael, who was an opponent of polygamy, married Jonathan M. Williamson, an army doctor of non-Mormon background, alienating her somewhat in her environment. Soon after her marriage, Sarah began to experience a drastic mental decline, which continued to progress for thirty years. She spent her final years in a mental hospital.
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Broadcasting and the Bill of Rights.; Statements presented by representatives of the broadcast industry during hearings on the WHITE BILL (S.1333) to amend the Communications Act of 1934

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Broadcasting and the Bill of Rights.; Statements presented by representatives of the broadcast industry during hearings on the WHITE BILL (S.1333) to amend the Communications Act of 1934
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: National Association of Broadcasters, 1947. First edition. Publisher's cloth, very good. 1947 gift inscription from Robert Justin to Jennie May "in memory of an historic day
Social Justice in the Liberal State.
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Social Justice in the Liberal State. by ACKERMAN, Bruce A.

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Title
Social Justice in the Liberal State.
Author
ACKERMAN, Bruce A.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780300024395
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
New Haven:: Yale Univeristy Press,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0300024398 . First printing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else near fine in a near fine (minor edge wear) dust jacket. .
Max's Nineties

Max's Nineties by Beerbohm, Max

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Title
Max's Nineties
Author
Beerbohm, Max
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Fine First Edition of this retrospective of Beerbohm's drawings from the 1890's. With an Introduction by Osbert Lancaster. 10 pp. of text plus 45 full page black and white illustrations. Decorative paper covered boards with maroon cloth spine with gilt titles.Virtually no wear to the book. Square, tight and clean throughout. Equally attractive unclipped pictorial dust wrapper has tanned some, more so along the edges but no tears or chips. A very sharp example of a fragile wrapper. A nice collectable copy.
America's Interest and the Palestine Controversy

America's Interest and the Palestine Controversy by Ziff, William Bernard, 1898-1953

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America's Interest and the Palestine Controversy
Author
Ziff, William Bernard, 1898-1953
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McBlain Books (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
New York: American League for a Free palestine, Inc, 1947. Near Fine. 18p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21 cm. Keynote address delivered at the opening session of the Conference on Hebrew Liberation sponsored by the American League in New York on Feb. 8, 1947. Ziff and Bernard Davis founded the book and magazine publisher Ziff Davis, Inc. in 1927. Ziff was a committed Revisionist Zionist (meaning that they wanted a larger Israel since they equated the Land of Israel with all of mandatory Paletine and Transjordan). This Zionist speech was dismissive of any rights of those who would be displaced. Ziff assumed that Palestinian Arabs could and should be relocated to Arab lands. He claimed that least 95% of the 20,000 members of the Communist Party in Post-WWII Palestine were Arabs.
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Gift Certificate for $50.00

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Gift Certificate for $50.00
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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This gift certificate may be used in the shop or on our website www.Lauriebooks.com. All website and in-shop discounts will apply to your purchase. As always, domestic shipping is free!!
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Letters and Images 1916-1984 by ADAMS, Ansel

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Letters and Images 1916-1984
Author
ADAMS, Ansel
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN
9780821216910
Condition
fine
Description
Boston: Little Brown, 1988. First. hardcover. fine/very good(+). Ansel Adams. Edited by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Frontispiece, and over 100 black and white illustrations, 402 pages. Short 4to, black cloth, d.w. (spine somewhat sunned, as usual). Boston: Little, Brown, (1988). First Edition. Fine in very good(+) dust wrapper.
Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1975: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter

Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1975: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter by Adler, Betty [founding editor]; Maclean Patterson

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Menckeniana: A Quarterly Review. 4 issues from 1975: Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter
Author
Adler, Betty [founding editor]; Maclean Patterson
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1975. Paperback. Near Fine. Paperback. All 4 issues from 1975, numbers 53 - 56. Green side stapled paper wrappers with black titles to front wrappers. Each issue is 16 pages. Mencken. MENCK/011117.
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The Corsair Vo. 2 No. 10

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The Corsair Vo. 2 No. 10
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Albany: Teral Garrett, 1943. Softcover. Octavo; VG; softcover; white spine; covers have some shelfwear, minor rubbing on spine edges, two folding creases running horizontally; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1300266. Full-priced Rockville.
Superman & Batman - Geracoes 2; Uma Saga Imaginari. AJUSTE DE CONTAS - 1986-1997

Superman & Batman - Geracoes 2; Uma Saga Imaginari. AJUSTE DE CONTAS - 1986-1997 by Byrne, John

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Superman & Batman - Geracoes 2; Uma Saga Imaginari. AJUSTE DE CONTAS - 1986-1997
Author
Byrne, John
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro: DC Comics Inc, 2002. Comic. Unpaginated, probably around thirty pages, 10.5x6.5 inch comicbook, vivid color all the way through, the usual format - except that it's in Brazilian Portuguese. Front cover is corner-creased, expect mild crimpings, a good to very good copy: sound, clean and unmarked in any way. Editora Opera Graphica No. 3.
Camouflage and Markings RAF Northern Europe 1936-45: N.A. Mustang

Camouflage and Markings RAF Northern Europe 1936-45: N.A. Mustang

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Camouflage and Markings RAF Northern Europe 1936-45: N.A. Mustang
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Ducimus Books, nd. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 26-48pp. Slightly tanned and edgeworn, else very good in publisher's stapled wraps.
Assignment: Manchurian Doll (Sam Durell No. 18)

Assignment: Manchurian Doll (Sam Durell No. 18) by Aarons, Edward S

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Assignment: Manchurian Doll (Sam Durell No. 18)
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Aarons, Edward S
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
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Good
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Greenwich: Fawcett, 1963. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 7x4x0. First edition - a paperback original. Pages toned, light edge wear. 1963 Mass Market Paperback. 159, [1] pp. A Russian agent needs Sam Durrell's help to defect, but the mission is made almost impossible by the agent's KGB-trained girlfriend Nadja.

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