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Madeline by Bemelmans, Ludwig

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Title: Madeline
Author: Bemelmans, Ludwig
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. Reprint. Very Good/Very Good. Early printing. Signed by Ludwig Bemelmans and inscribed to former owner on front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pictorial boards. Very Good with wear at the extremities and light soiling to covers, pages lightly thumbed and tanned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities, soiling, chipping to edges and spine ends. Copies signed by the author are scarce.

A Collection of Eleven Works ; Including: A Broadside of Poetry International 1967; Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club Handbill; Moon-Whales; Selected Poems; River by Hughes, Ted

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Title: A Collection of Eleven Works ; Including: A Broadside of Poetry International 1967; Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club Handbill; Moon-Whales; Selected Poems; River
Author: Hughes, Ted
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: various: various, 1992. 11 volumes and ephemeral items in various formats. Condition generally fine or near fine. Notable items include the scarce handbill for Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club's Sunday Night Poetry and Jazz (1964)—featuring Hughes, Stevie Smith, and Adrian Mitchell with Glenda Jackson among the readers, marking Jackson's first and last meeting with Smith before her award-winning portrayal in the play Stevie; the Poetry International 1967 broadside—psychedelic design incorporating names of featured poets including Ginsberg, Auden, Yevtushenko, Neruda, and Berryman, verso with Hughes's statement on poetry's universality; and Moments of Truth (1965)—one of 100 copies offered for sale, with contributions from Barker, Gunn, Betjeman, and others.

One Month Ago by GUYTON, Wade

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Title: One Month Ago
Author: GUYTON, Wade
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Condition: Fine in printed wrappers, fine jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Description: New York: Karma, 2014. Fine in printed wrappers, fine jacket. Still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. First Edition. Quarto. Edition of 500 copies. An artists' book of appropriated images captured by Guyton off sfcrewcut.com.tumblr on January 13, 2013.

A (Signed) by HALPERN, Gregory

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Title: A (Signed)
Author: HALPERN, Gregory
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Fine in cloth boards, with color image affixed to front panel.
Description: Atlanta: J&L Books, 2011. Fine in cloth boards, with color image affixed to front panel.. First Edition. Quarto. 96pp. SIGNED by Halpern to front end-paper. Images shot on a trip through the American Rust Belt. Halpern has a keen eye for the overlooked and mundane, made beautiful in these color photographs. Includes a postcard from the exhibition at Clamp Art in New York City which coincided with the book's release.

A CURTAIN OF GREEN by Welty, Eudora

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Title: A CURTAIN OF GREEN
Author: Welty, Eudora
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine in very good jacket.
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First edition (stated). Near fine in very good jacket.. First printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first collection of short stories, introduced by Katherine Anne Porter. A CURTAIN OF GREEN includes Welty's first-published and most famous story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," as well as the much-anthologized "A Worn Path" and fifteen other stories "where external act and the internal voiceless life of the imagination almost meet and mingle on the mysterious threshold between dream and waking" (Porter). An attractive copy. 8'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth stamped in white and green. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. 285, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, offsetting to endpapers. Scuffing and minor chipping to jacket edges, faint soil to rear panel, a few small closed tears with tape repairs to verso. Sunning to spine. Overall, sound.

MORGANA: Two Stories From 'The Golden Apples' by Welty, Eudora; Wolfe, Mildred Nungester

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Title: MORGANA: Two Stories From 'The Golden Apples'
Author: Welty, Eudora; Wolfe, Mildred Nungester
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780878054015
Condition: Fine in near fine slipcase.
Description: Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. First printing. Fine in near fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Welty's stories "June Recital" and Moon Lake," originally collected in THE GOLDEN APPLES, here illustrated by Wolfe and followed by the author's new afterword. 10.75'' x 7.25''. Original quarter blue cloth with gilt-lettered cream boards. Cream endpapers. In original blue cloth slipcase. Black and white illustrations by Wolfe. Edition of 250 signed and numbered copies; this copy no. 169, signed by Welty and Wolfe below limitation statement. 151, [1] pages. Slipcase with minor rubbing and shelfwear, cloth at upper corner peeling slightly.

Chess Fruits: a selection of direct mate, self-mate, picture and letter problems, poems and humorous sketches from the compositions of Thomas B Rowland, a few of Frideswide F Rowland's latest productions, popular games by leading players, and others of ge by Rowland, Thomas B (1850-1925) and Frideswide F Rowland

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Title: Chess Fruits: a selection of direct mate, self-mate, picture and letter problems, poems and humorous sketches from the compositions of Thomas B Rowland, a few of Frideswide F Rowland's latest productions, popular games by leading players, and others of ge
Author: Rowland, Thomas B (1850-1925) and Frideswide F Rowland
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: About Very Good
Description: 172+[4 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 5 ") issued in black lettering to spine and front cover and ruled black edges to covers. (Betts:33-73) First edition.A collection of 51 two-movers, 16 three-movers, 14 self-mates and 7 others, some chess "puzzles", a number of chess sketches involving problems, chess poems, and 6 games. Solutions appear on pages 156-172.Condition:Spine age darkened, previous owner's neat hand to dedication page, front and back end papers, and back paste down, corners bumped, rubbing to spine ends else about very good issued without jacket.

1802 Letter Discusses Massachusetts Politics And Gerrymandering: A Bill Disturbing The Commonwealth For Fed Representatives by (GERRYMANDERING)

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Title: 1802 Letter Discusses Massachusetts Politics And Gerrymandering: A Bill Disturbing The Commonwealth For Fed Representatives
Author: (GERRYMANDERING)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: WILLIAM EUSTIS (1753-1825). Eustis served as a military surgeon during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Bunker Hill, as a Congressman and Governor of Massachusetts, and as United States Secretary of War during the War of 1812. ALS. 3 pgs. 8 x 14. February 23, 1802. Cambridge. An autograph letter signed AH to Wm Eustis Esquire: The opposition party you see continue to vent their chagrin by saucy paragraphs in the paper devoted to their cause, but they are more moderate in mixed company than when you left us; it is nevertheless my opinion that they will make a great exertion to retain their superiority in the next legislature, but with much less confidence than on proceeding occasions: Our Gerry & General Heath will again be held up by one party, whilst the other will run Mr. Strong for Governor, & (it is said) will hold up Mr. Robbins & Genl. Knox for Lieut. The motion for an address to the President has been disposed of nearly as I expected, & if the Fools exult in their numbers, it is done in private & only in their own circles, & believe they were on that occasion but so completely on the rack that they have not wished to hear a word about it since that time: Since the motion for an address no questions involving Politics have come before us excepting the Maryland Amendments, & these have been referred to the succeeding Legislature. An interesting subject is however in train in the House, & the Committee are about to report the XX for a Bill disturbing the Commonwealth for the choice of Fed representatives, in substance as follows Viz. Berkshire to make one District, Hampshire two, Worcester two, Suffolk together with Charlestown, Midford & Malden one, Essex with Reading two, Norfolk with Newton, Natick, Sherburn, Holliston & Hopkinton one The rest of Middleton one Plymouth one Bristol one with the exception of New Bedford which is to be joined with Barnstable Dukes County & Nantucket in order to make one District to accommodate Mr. Williams, then make thirteen & four in Main {sic} will make up the number York one, Cumberland one, Lincoln, Kennebec, Hancock & Washington one to make two districts but the manner of dividing them I have not ascertained; what the result of this Business will be is uncertain & the only remark which I shall now make on it, is, that if it is to be carried into execution it will not operate unfavorably to the cause of Republicanism This letter was written to William Eustis, then serving as a U.S. Congressman representing Massachusetts. The letter was most likely written by Aaron Hill, a deacon and local politician whose namesake house in Cambridge is one of just seven still standing from the decades before the American Revolution. Both were members of the Democratic-Republican Party which, while in charge nationally, were still the minority party in Massachusetts. As such, the letter discusses both the upcoming 1802 state elections and attempts by the majority-Federalist legislature to configure the states congressional districts. Statewide, Federalist Caleb Strong (1745-1819) and his Lieutenant Governor Edward Robbins (1758-1829) would easily defeat the Democratic-Republican Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) and General William Heath (1737-1814). Additionally, though Eustis would narrowly win re-election that fall (as would Lemuel Williams (1747-1828), the Federalist congressmen whose district was altered to aid his re-election), he would lose in 1804 to his Federalist predecessor Josiah Quincy (1772-1864). However, Gerry and the Federalists would get the last laugh. Gerry would finally be elected Governor on his fifth try in 1810 and with a Democratic-Republican legislative majority would reconfigure the states congressional districts in such odd shapes that the map was dubbed a Gerry-mander, giving partisan redistricting the new it goes by to this day. The letter is in good condition, though it has some tears along the edges, and will be worthwhile for any student of Massachusetts, Early America, or gerrymandering.

Killing Fur Seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska by Winter, Lloyd & E. Percy Pond

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Title: Killing Fur Seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska
Author: Winter, Lloyd & E. Percy Pond
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Juneau, AK: Winter & Pond, 1895. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11.5 cm x 19 cm] on a tan Winter & Pond mount [14.5 cm 22 cm] with a Winter & Pond backstamp. Title in the negative. Gentle wear to mount. Image shows uniformed men clubbing seals with poles. Alaskan photographers Lloyd Winter and E. Percy Pond documented the Klondike Gold Rush, mining operations in the Juneau Gold Belt District and traditional Tlingit Indian culture. Winter & Pond operated their Juneau-based curio and photography studio for over 50 years. They expanded their business by publishing scrapbooks or albums of original photographs on subjects of interest to the tourist trade.

Verve 7. Les Très Riches Heures de Duc de Berry

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Title: Verve 7. Les Très Riches Heures de Duc de Berry
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Description: Editions de la Revue Verve. Paris, 1940. Tipped-in heliogravures after the 15th-century Book of Hours commissioned by the Duke de Berry. One of the most celebrated illuminated manuscripts of the late Gothic era, it was painted between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg Brothers. Verve publisher Tériade, long inspired by the work, sought to recreate its richly detailed images of the canonical hours—prayers marking the divisions of the day—as faithfully as possible for the public to study and admire.The seventh volume of Verve, The French Review of Art and Literature, entered production in Paris in March 1939, continuing even as World War II began. The meticulous process of reproducing the manuscript's vibrant colors was completed amid the turmoil, and the issue was published in March 1940, a fitting moment when, as during the Great War, prayer felt especially vital.

HAZEL BROOKS EXOTIC LOOK | ZIEGFELD FOLLIES [1944] Photo by Clarence Bull by Clarence Sinclair Bull

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Title: HAZEL BROOKS EXOTIC LOOK | ZIEGFELD FOLLIES [1944] Photo by Clarence Bull
Author: Clarence Sinclair Bull
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1944]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy silver gelatin photo. Clarence Bull photography stamp on verso, fine. Follies girl Hazel Brooks, who would become a film noir femme fatale and marry MGM scenic designer Cedric Gibbons, was prominent in several of the extravagant musical numbers directed by Vincente Minnelli for the Arthur Freed-produced Ziegfeld Follies. Mostly filmed in 1944 but not released until 1946, by which time Brooks had been cast in such noir thrillers as Body and Soul.

Le monde et Le pantalon suivi de Peintres de l'empêchement by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: Le monde et Le pantalon suivi de Peintres de l'empêchement
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1990. First collected edition. 43 p. 19 cm. Wrappers, fine.To the two piece published together the previous year, this adds a text written 1945 on occasion of the exhibitions of Abraham and Gerardus van Velde and published in Cahiers d'art, vols. 20-21,

The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. by Ward, Nathaniel. [Thomas de la Guard].

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Title: The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America.
Author: Ward, Nathaniel. [Thomas de la Guard].
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Deftly manipulating the cobbler trope, Ward offers to
Description: Ipswich, MA: Ipswich Historical Society, n.d. (circa 1905). Deftly manipulating the cobbler trope, Ward offers to "help mend his native country... both in the upper-leather and sole." Ward was born in England but emigrated to Massachusetts in 1634 after having been reprimanded by the Bishop of London. Already in his 60s, he served for two years as the first minister in Ipswich. After the English Civil War Ward returned to England, where he died in 1652. His eccentric and essentially conservative "Simple Cobler" was first published in England in 1647 under the alias Theodore de la Guard. This facsimile was published in 1905 by the Ipswich Historical Society. It reprints the entire text of the fourth edition of 1647 and includes a lengthy biographical note about Nathaniel Ward and the politics surrounding the creation of this work. Bound as issued in cloth over boards. About fine condition.. 24 cm. (4), 104 pp.

The Whole Story by Bibesco, Elizabeth

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Title: The Whole Story
Author: Bibesco, Elizabeth
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Description: New York/London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good+. 1926. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy, tight and square, paper spine label browned, light dust-soiling to top edge; slight fraying to cloth at bottom front corner]. The author's fourth book (and third story collection), dedicated "To Jean Cocteau." The eldest child of Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister from 1908-1916) and the sister of film director Anthony Asquith, Elizabeth was somewhat the Chelsea Clinton of her day, thrust into the public eye at an early age; her 1919 marriage to Romanian Prince Antoine Bibesco brought her into the circle of his pal Marcel Proust, who is said to have praised both her intelligence and her beauty. (Virginia Woolf was considerably less impressed, once describing her as "pasty and podgy, with the eyes of a currant bun.") .

Best Radio Plays of 1980: The Giles Cooper Award Winners by (TREVOR, William, Peter Redgrove, Stewart Parker, and Martyn Read)

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Title: Best Radio Plays of 1980: The Giles Cooper Award Winners
Author: (TREVOR, William, Peter Redgrove, Stewart Parker, and Martyn Read)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780413486004
Condition: Fine
Description: (London): Eyre Methuen/BBC, 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning, and a tiny stain on the rear panel. Includes: *Beyond the Pale* by William Trevor, *Martyr of the Hives* by Peter Redgrove, *The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner* by Stewart Parker, and *Waving to a Train* by Martyn Read.

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