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La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit

La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit by WATTIER, Édouard; WATTIER, Émile

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Title
La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit
Author
WATTIER, Édouard; WATTIER, Émile
Seller
David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826. The Day of an Actress, or Twelve Scenes of Day and Night Twelve Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates WATTIER, Édouard. [La Journée d'une actrice, ou Douze scènes de jour et de nuit, Lithographiées par Ed. Wattier. Paris: Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition. Large folio (14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches; 362 x 267 mm.). Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Engelmann & Langlumé. Bound without the four leaves of text. Mid twentieth century olive green cloth with red leather spine label ruled and lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. A few minor marginal tears. Front and rear free endpapers a little chipped on fore-margin. An excellent example of this very rare suite. A charming suite of twelve hand colored lithographs depicting the life in the day of an actress from 10:00 am to midnight. Rare. OCLC & KVK locate just two examples in libraries and institutions worldwide: Boston Public Library (MA, US); Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany) Note: According to AKL Online it is a matter of dispute whether the drawings are by Édouard Wattier or by his brother Émile. Édouard Wattier (1793-1871). Brother of Émile Wattier, he was a printmaker and painter/draughtsman. Émile Wattier (1800-1868). Brother of Édouard, he was also a painter, illustrator, engraver and lithographer. The plates are captioned: "10 heures du matin. Conseil de toilette" "Onze heures du matin. Visite au Journaliste" "Midi. Réception de l'Auteur" "Deux heures après midi. Comité de Lecture" "3 heures après midi. Les amateurs à la répétition" "Quatre heures du soir. Promenade sentimentale au bois" "Cinq heures du soir. Diner au rocher de Cancale" "7 heures du soir. Préparatifs de triomphe" (small chip/paper fault to lower fore-margin) "8 heures du soir. Entrée en scène" "10 heures du soir. Disgrace!!" "Onze heures du soir. Consolations" "Minuit. Repos." Lipperheide 3694.
California and Oregon Trail

California and Oregon Trail by PARKMAN, Francis

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Title
California and Oregon Trail
Author
PARKMAN, Francis
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. Full Description: PARKMAN, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First edition, first issue, terminal catalogue B, binding A. Binding A is noted on first printing sheets only according to BAL Parkmans's name on spine without serif. Octavo (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 186 x 127 mm). [2, ads], [3]-448, [8, ads] pp., With sepia-tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page, both by F. O. C. Darley. Publisher's green blind-stamped cloth, restored at the top and bottom of the spine. Spine lettered in gilt. Cloth at head and tail of spine a bit chipped. A bit of wear to corners. Boards a bit soiled. Inner hinges repaired. Scattered mild foxing to interior (as to be expected in an American book of this period). Some occasional soiling to leaves. Previous owner's old ink signature to front free endpaper. Overall a very good copy of the superlatively scarce first issue. Parkman's reasons for traveling the Oregon Trail in 1846 were to restore his health, as well as to learn more about Indian life and gather information that would be useful in writing the history he planned of the conflict between the French and the British in North America. The result of his travels ended up to be a very different story, one part history and two parts travel narrative and adventure story. He, along with his traveling companion Quincy Adams Shaw started their journey in New York, then across Kansas and Nebraska, and then to Fort Laramie, where Parkman went to join a band of Sioux. He lived and traveled with them in the 'Black Hills' (i.e. the Laramie Mountains). "This is the portion of the narrative which is not only the most vivid but also of greatest historical value...Parkman has given us a unique picture of life in a Sioux village before it was changed and eventually destroyed by contact with the white man..." (Printing and The Mind of Man, p. 199). Due to ill health when Parkman arrived home, he dictated his account of their journey to Shaw. The first publication was serialized, beginning in February 1847 in irregular monthly episodes in the Knickerbocker Magazine under the title 'The Oregon Trail, or A Summer's Journey Out of Bounds. The title was changed by the publisher in hopes that he could capitalize on the publics interest in the California gold rush. The first edition of one thousand copies appeared in March and sold out in a month. This is one of the great literary and historical narratives of the American experience and "the classic account of the emigrant journey to the Rockies" (Grolier). This controversial text has remained a classic of the American West despite criticism directed at it. In part enthusiastic and in part pessimistic, the work offers a microcosm of the changes then taking place at the far western reaches of U.S. expansion. Particularly debated since its publication has been Parkman's view of Native Americans. Although he apparently successfully lived with a tribe of Sioux, he pronounced Native Americans a doomed people. In any case, this is the opening chapter of a highly successful literary career. BAL 15446. Grolier, 100 American, 58. Howes P97. Printing and the Mind of Man 327. Sabin 58801. Wagner-Camp 170:1b. HBS 69007. $2,500.
View from the West Side of the Plaza, Marysville [caption title]

View from the West Side of the Plaza, Marysville [caption title] by [California Pictorial Letter Sheets]

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Title
View from the West Side of the Plaza, Marysville [caption title]
Author
[California Pictorial Letter Sheets]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[N.p., possibly Marysville]: R.A. Eddy, 1850. Very good.. Single folded quarto sheet on blue wove paper, with a large engraved street scene on one page, a later pencil drawing of a floral embellishment on an interior page, with the remainder blank. Slightly trimmed with minor loss to sky section, minor creasing and dust soiling, a handful of short repaired closed edge tears. An unusually obscure Gold Rush-era pictorial letter sheet, featuring a detailed scene of a crowded Marysville plaza before the city caught fire on August 30, 1851. The work was produced by Marysville bookseller and stationer R.A. Eddy, and depicts a busy scene in Marysville with horses, wagons, and people carrying bundles in the foreground, and the buildings of the frontier town in the background. The buildings are identified, from right to left, as follows: Stage, Yuba House, Magnolia, El Dorado, Exchange, Eddy Book [the publisher], Sites, Jones, Shafer, St. Louis Hotel, Bartlett. This scene was also issued under a slightly different title, View from the North Side of the Plaza, Marysville. Both titles appear to be very rare, with one copy of the alternate title in OCLC, at Yale, and two others per Baird, at the British Library and in a private collection; the only two copies of the present work we could locate reside in a scrapbook at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and in the de Young Collection at the Society of California Pioneers. Baird 280a. Clifford 290.
A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage

A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage by [Poetry – Women – Vermont] Fay, Mary S.

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Title
A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage
Author
[Poetry – Women – Vermont] Fay, Mary S.
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Overall very good minus.
Description
Reading, Vermont, 1943. 156 pp, with approximately 207 poems, plus a 1934 rejection letter from Perry Mason & Co. Spine broken, cover nearly detached and pages coming detached; some toning and wear to edges of pages, with smell. Overall very good minus.. A book of poems by Vermonter Mary S. Fay (likely 1875–1968). Fay’s topics include friends’ special events; current events such as “Titanic” (May 15, 1912) and “America We Are Ready” (1915, presumably concerning World War I); nature themes and seasonal poems; and especially nostalgic and sometimes defensive poems about Vermont, including “Strike Not The Land That Shelters”, which was “Written on learning slurs cast in Vermont by alliens who come to Vermont to reside”. However, Fay sometimes took up expressly political causes in her poetry. For instance, in April 1911 she penned “Equal Rights Proclaiming”: “Sister Woman, look ahead, / For there dawns the gladsome time / When thy queen, Equal rights, treads / O’er the land with light sublime: / O, raise your voice on high, / Loudly in sweet acclaim, / ‘Till they reach yonder sky / And there, the rights proclaim. [...] Sister Woman, of today, / Thou have striven long and well, / Thou’ve waited in twilight grief / For the ring of Freedoms bell. / Though at times all seem’d as lost / Thou upheld thy banner height; / And you counted not the cost / But press’d onward thru’ the night.” In March 1915, she took up the topic again, in a poem titled “Enfranchisement”: “Fled the years of servile shame! / Woman ‘tis this hour at last, / Honor thy glorious name, / Spread thy banner to the blast. / Brave my sisters, in thy might, / Steadfast yet and valiant be; / On thy noble standard write / Equality, law and liberty. [...] Enfranchisement, thus we vow, / Shall be ours ere we abate / Our strife which thru and thru / Of our life’s blood we consecrate / Upon the altar, upon the shield / Equality for all eternity; / Shall be ours at home, afield:- / Equality, law and liberty.” Despite the efforts of groups such as the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association, formed in the early 1880s, Vermont women did not get the right to vote until the rest of the country did, ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921. She also writes an intriguing, more general protest poem, seemingly for labor rights, titled “Justice Where?” (August 1911): “Tho labor’s toils in day by day / Beneath the heat and the cold; / While the oppresser sits in grandest state, / With a mere pittance to pay, / To keep hunger from the fold, / And in false pride his tyranny relate. / Awake, all ye toilers [?], / Drive at the oppresor bold! / Unfurl thy glorious standard of Right, / O’er many a dear home fold, / And thus ever protect it with thy might.” Another of Fay’s causes was temperance; in 1914 she wrote “A Temperance Boy”, dedicated to “six year old Clark A. Ritchie”: “A little temperance boy am I, / And proudly its banner I will fly. / Pure cold water is what I drink, / And its the best of all I think. / A big promise, don’t expect of me / for I’m only a little boy you see.” She objects to smoking as well, writing in “Why is it” (1932) that “I must relate, / smoking I hate. / ‘Be a sport girls’ / That is the cry / If in the whirl / They are a bit shy.” Overall a charming document of a woman’s progressive politics, expressed in verse.
HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete]

HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete] by Whitson, William W. [Translator]; Chin-Chih, Lai [Translator]; Wen-Wei, Yang [Translator]; Yu-chien, Chu [Editor]...et al

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Title
HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete]
Author
Whitson, William W. [Translator]; Chin-Chih, Lai [Translator]; Wen-Wei, Yang [Translator]; Yu-chien, Chu [Editor]...et al
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Taipei: Office of Military History, Military Assistance Advisory Group, 1967. Hardcover. Quarto, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Boards have scuff marks, adhesive wear along the tail end of the front boards, bumping to spine head/tails and fore corners, and wear to edges. Volume 1 has tears in the cloth along the rear joint edge. Volume 2 has tears along the spine head end. Textblocks have discoloration to end papers, air pockets to pastedowns, black stamps to the front and rear matter, black smudge marks to some pages throughout, mild age toning, and stains to edges. Volume 1 has soiling and slight offsetting to verso of frontispiece. Volume 2 has tipped in maps, causing pages to ripple. Shelved in Room A Oversized. CONTENTS: VOL. I: (xxx, 458 pages);-- VOL. II: (459-590, 78 pages, plus 59 maps). 1400851. Special Collections.
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS

THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS by CONFUCIUS

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Title
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
Author
CONFUCIUS
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Split to front panel of box which is loose and partly detached. Fine in a Very Good box
Description
Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Softcover. Split to front panel of box which is loose and partly detached. Fine in a Very Good box. Octavo (8" x 11") bound in full silk brocade wrappers and housed in a Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand, as published. Copy #8 of 1500 translated with an introduction by Lionel Giles and printed on handmade Chinese paper. Four illustrations printed on double folded leaves. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in. Lovely production and scarce in this condition.
Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper

Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper by Vierge, Daniel (Illustrator)

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Title
Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper
Author
Vierge, Daniel (Illustrator)
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Full vellum lightly soiled with back cover scratch. Very good
Description
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First English language edition. leather_bound. Full vellum lightly soiled with back cover scratch. Very good. Vierge, Daniel. Folio, 239 pages (one blank). 35 x 26 cm. First English edition limited to 440 copies -- this version was published ten years after the Paris first edition. With the English edition containing 20 more illustrations. The story of a scoundrel who failed in his attempt to become a gentleman. Translated from the original of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge. With comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell. An essay on the life and writing of Quevado by Henry Edward Watts. 110 illustrations. Raised bands, spine tooled in gilt compartments with eight raised bands, all edges stained red. Interior contents generally clean.
[Photographs Depicting a School Fashion Show as well as a Banquet]

[Photographs Depicting a School Fashion Show as well as a Banquet] by Sharp, Nat

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Title
[Photographs Depicting a School Fashion Show as well as a Banquet]
Author
Sharp, Nat
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1974. Good +. 40 loose black and white photos, all but 2 measuring 5" x 7". Good plus or better due to varying degrees of wear and/or creasing. This is a group of photos documenting two school events in the Cincinnati area taken by a Black photographer, Nat Sharp, all but two of which have his backstamp. Per Mae Naijiyya Duncan's "A Survey of Cincinnati's Black Press & Its Editors" (Xlibris Corporation, 2011), Sharp was a staff photographer at the Cincinnati Herald as well as Pride Magazine which was published from 1968 to 1978. The event from November 1974 is seen in a 13 shot series with many having a banner in the background reading "1st Annual Falcon and Falconettes Banquet of 1974." It's clear from the ages of the students that it's an elementary school, but we cannot identify either school. Images include award presentations, speakers, and a few show students eating at tables. The other group is a 23 shot series of a student fashion show. While a couple of photos show teens or tweens, its clear this event was also at an elementary school as part of a holiday pageant. All photos in this series show students posing on the 'runway.' Worthy of further research and documenting the work of a Black photographer in Cincinnati.
The Dark Place (Signed First Edition)

The Dark Place (Signed First Edition) by Aaron J Elkins

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Title
The Dark Place (Signed First Edition)
Author
Aaron J Elkins
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780802755650
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-toning to the pages and a previous owner's bookplate under the front flap. SIGNED without inscription to the title page. An outstanding copy of this author's 2nd published work; a Professor Gideon Oliver mystery; an uncommon title, particularly signed. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
The Clockmaker's Daughter

The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

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Title
The Clockmaker's Daughter
Author
Kate Morton
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781451649390
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only light shelf wear to the spine ends. SIGNED by the author on the 2nd free paper without inscription. Not remaindered, not price clipped ($28.00 intact), and not ex-library; an outstanding copy in a protective mylar cover."A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day".
The Almanac of Society: "The 500" -- 1947

The Almanac of Society: "The 500" -- 1947

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The Almanac of Society: "The 500" -- 1947
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Almanac of Society Association, 1947. Cloth. Near Fine. 1947 compilation by "The Almanac of Society" of the 500 "elite" families in America of the day. Tight and Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth, with bright gilt-titling at the front panel. One or two tiny marks to the boards, otherwise clean as could be. 12mo, "330" stamped of the front free endaper (possibly denoting the size of the print run or this specific copy's print number in an undetermined number of copies issued?).
And Napalm Does Not Help

And Napalm Does Not Help by Yeo, Robert

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And Napalm Does Not Help
Author
Yeo, Robert
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Singapore: Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd, 1977. 1st ed. Paperback. Very Good. 47p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Poetry. Foreword by Ee Tiang Hong.
Nightbitch
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Nightbitch by Yoder, Rachel

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Nightbitch
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Yoder, Rachel
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780593312148
Condition
New
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New. New book.
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William Blake: Illuminated Books and Engravings. A Loan Exhibition by Blake, William

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William Blake: Illuminated Books and Engravings. A Loan Exhibition
Author
Blake, William
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1969. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1969. 8vo, 34pp, 129 exhibits listed with 2 illustrations. Near fine in wrappers. § Bentley, Blake Books 699.
The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers

The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers by AMICHAI, Yehuda

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Title
The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers
Author
AMICHAI, Yehuda
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781878818683
Description
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1997. Softcover. 79 pages. Translated from the Hebrew by Glend Abramson and Tudor Parfitt. A clean very near fine in wrappers.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE by Woodbury, C.J.H.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE
Author
Woodbury, C.J.H.
Seller
Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 213 pages. Reprint of the 1909 first edition.

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