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A Family Scrapbook Of The Political Career Of Arthur W. Mitchell, The First Black Democrat Elected To Congress by (CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR MITCHELL)

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Title: A Family Scrapbook Of The Political Career Of Arthur W. Mitchell, The First Black Democrat Elected To Congress
Author: (CONGRESSMAN ARTHUR MITCHELL)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ARTHUR W. MITCHELL (1883-1968). Mitchell was the first Black Democrat elected to Congress. He served Illinois from 1935 to 1943, and he was the only Black member during that time. Born in Alabama, he attended the Tuskegee Institute, Columbia University and Harvard University. Although Mitchell was a Republican early in life, he switched parties in 1932 with the election of Franklin Roosevelt. In 1934, he defeated the Black Congressman Oscar De Priest. Much of his time in Congress was spent introducing anti-lynching and anti-discrimination bills.Scrapbook. Approximately 50 pages. Circa mid 1930s. A scrapbook covering the early political career of Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell; it was kept by Harriet Mitchell in Birmingham, Alabama (this is likely his sister, as Congressman Mitchell was from Alabama). The scrapbook mostly consists of press clippings, many with original halftone images of Mitchell. The origin of the clippings is clearly marked, and many of them are from prominent Black newspapers, such as The Washington Tribune, The Afro American (with stories like No Rear Door For Mitchell at Abes Tomb and To Attend White House Reception), The Pittsburgh Courier (Congressman Mitchell Fights Discrimination In The Civil Service), The Second Ward Square Dealer of Chicago (Millions Laud Congressman Mitchell For Great Act) and The St. Louis Argus. There are also pasted-in articles from more mainstream newspapers, such as The Birmingham News, Chicago World, The Birmingham Weekly Review (Congressman Mitchell Defies Foes, Defends His Pet Bill), Time magazine, The Chicago Daily Times and others. Also tipped in are ten separates from The Congressional Record (Not Printed At Government Expense, so the Congressman paid for these). They record Mitchell speeches, mostly about lynch mobs but one on Booker T. Washington and another on The Negro and the Democratic Party. There is a photograph of a Franklin D. Roosevelt signed letter to Mitchell. There is also an illustrated political campaign broadside of Mitchells dating from mid 1930s against his opponent DePriest in which he denigrates DePriest for allowing black Gold Star Mothers to be sent overseas via a cattle boat to visit their sons graves. As the scrapbook was ephemeral, the pages are brittle and loose from the original binding, although no pages are seemingly missing. Some pages have various degrees of soiling. One page uses two rusted paper clips. Despite the condition issues, this scrapbook is historic; Mitchells election heralded the future many Blacks found in the Democratic Party, leaving behind the party of Lincoln. It is also a family memento, indicating the pride that his sister felt for her accomplished brother.

The introduction of reindeer into Alaska, volume 2 [with] Government Printing Office extracts from Senate records containing texts of volumes 1 and 2 by JACKSON, Sheldon.

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Title: The introduction of reindeer into Alaska, volume 2 [with] Government Printing Office extracts from Senate records containing texts of volumes 1 and 2
Author: JACKSON, Sheldon.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington: Government Printing Office, 1893. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good. Octavo (24 cm); 36, 39 pages, text illustrations, 5 half-tone plates and folding map. Half morocco over marbled paper boards, with ownership ink stamp of career diplomat Reed Paige Clark (1878-1958). Autograph of Reed Paige Clark on title page of second title. Very good condition. Volume two of the annual report on the introduction of domestic reindeer into Alaska, bound together with the GPO extracts, printed in 1904, of the first two volumes of the series, without illustrations or maps. In effect, the extracts (paginated 1091-1128) present volume one in the series, the "Preliminary Report of the General Agent for Education for Alaska to the Coommissioner of Education," along with the repeated text of volume two. After industrial whaling had decimated a traditional food source of the indigenous people of Alaska, the Government Commissioner of Education sought to alleviate mass starvation by transporting domestic reindeer from Siberia to western Alaska. Using funds raised by members of his church, Jackson began by transporting 16 reindeer in 1890, followed by nearly 200 more in 1892. He also hired Siberian herders to teach Alaskans the necessary skills. (These were replaced in short order by Scandinavian Lapp "instructors.") In 1896, Congress began to fund the project, and small herds were distributed to mission schools throughout western Alaska. The program grew in scope as the transplanted population of reindeer took root and grew. Jackson lost Government support after 1906, when investigations revealed that the Scandinavian advisors were taking profits on the program. The population of reindeer in Western Alaska reached a peak in the early 1930s of some 600,000 animals, a number that has since decreased to about 20,000. In volume two of the reports, offered here, Jackson lays out for the Senate the his justification of the program, including an account of the 1891 boatlift of reindeer from Siberia, and a glowing vision of reindeer giving the indigenous Alaskans a permanent food supply, domestic transportation (with sketches fo saddled reindeer), commerce, revenue, and the basis for the repopulation and civilization of a people decimated by starvation.

L'Espace et la nouvelle: Flaubert, Huysmans, Ionesco, Sartre, Camus. by Issacharoff, Michael.

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Title: L'Espace et la nouvelle: Flaubert, Huysmans, Ionesco, Sartre, Camus.
Author: Issacharoff, Michael.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Jose Corti, 1976. Wraps. Very Good. 120 p. unopened.

The Edge (Inscribed) by Francis, Dick

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Title: The Edge (Inscribed)
Author: Francis, Dick
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam, 1989. First American Edition. Fine/Fine. octavo, 324 pages; pictorial dust jacket, with price of $18.95 on front flap. INSCRIBED on half-title "Hi Arthur! / Dick Francis" - first printing with full number line on copyright page. Inscribed to mystery collector Arthur Parson.

Stanley and The Women by AMIS, Kingsley

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Title: Stanley and The Women
Author: AMIS, Kingsley
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780671603175
Description: New York: Summit Books, 1984. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. Review copy with laid in slip, author photograph and publisher information sheets. A comic novel from the author of "Lucky Jim and the Booker Prize winning "The Old Devils." A near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear.

Journal of The Senate of Virginia November Session, 1794 by Richmond. Commonwealth of Virginia

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Title: Journal of The Senate of Virginia November Session, 1794
Author: Richmond. Commonwealth of Virginia
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. tan buckram. Very good
Description: Richmond: Commonwealth of Virginia, 1951. Hardcover. Orig. tan buckram. Very good. 105 pages. Prefatory Note by Wilmer L. Hall. With a full Index which was lacking in the original document. A reprint with correction published ina Limited edition one of 200.

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