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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)

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$3,500.00
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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Author
Twain, Mark (Samuel L. Clemens)
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1889. First edition. Very Good +. Second state lacking: "The S King" on p. 59 and with damaged type on p. 72, but this copy with the extremely scarce half-title. "Most collectors are content with a copy with early states of pages 59 and 72, and any copy with the extremely rare half-title is coveted regardless of the other states" (Kevin MacDonnell, "Collecting Mark Twain...") A Very Good+ copy overall with a dampstain affecting the lower spine and lower boards near the spine. Several of the early leaves with a faint tide-mark near the gutter. Front inner hinge professionally repaired. Contemporary 1889 Christmas gift inscription on the first blank, otherwise internal contents are generally fresh and clean. One of the great humorist's classic works. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" follows the adventures of an engineer who is sent backwards in time to the Middle Ages - and the realm of King Arthur. Twain worked on the book in stops and starts in the 1880s, before finishing it in 1889. Strangely enough, along with some contemporary works by H.G. Wells and Edward Bellamy, "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" is considered one of the early works in the science fiction, "time-travel" genre. "...we feel that in this book our arch-humorist imparts more of his personal quality than in anything else he has done. Here he is to the full the humorist, as we know him; but he is very much more.... The delicious satire, the marvellous wit, the wild, free, fantastic humor are the colors of the tapestry, while the texture is a humanity that lives in every fibre. At every moment the scene amuses, but it is all the time an object-lesson in democracy. It makes us glad of our republic and our epoch; but it does not flatter us into a fond content with them" (William Dean Howells in the Atlantic). Very Good +.
Where Trails Have Led Me

Where Trails Have Led Me by Blackstone, Tsianina Redfeather

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Where Trails Have Led Me
Author
Blackstone, Tsianina Redfeather
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Burbank, California, 1968. First edition. Fine. The scarce, self-published first printing of the autobiography of Muscogee singer and activist Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone. 215 x 140 mm. [4], 144 pp. Amply illustrated throughout with photo reproductions, including many striking images of Blackstone. Publisher's pale blue printed paper wrappers. Some fading at spine, otherwise a Fine copy of this autobiography chronicling the decades-long career of an extremely popular (and now largely forgotten) early-twentieth-century Native artist and public figure. Between 1909 and 1935, Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone (1882 - 1985) toured as a singer and speaker in both in the United States and Europe. Though she fell into obscurity in the second half of the twentieth century, Blackstone was a widely admired performer in her day: "The Muscogee singer's perfect enunciation, great vocal range, superb legato, exquisite musical intelligence, genuine presence, and overall graceful charm were the talk of every town" (Smithsonian Magazine). Blackstone began her career performing and discussing Native music history with Charles Wakefield Cadman, a composer with a deep interest in Native music who took Blackstone on a tour of the Chautauqua circuit. "The duo accomplished a five-year run of tours throughout the U.S., stopping at schools, universities, fairs and expositions to educate concertgoers about Native culture through lecture-style performances" (Smithsonian). By 1916, Blackstone was drawing crowds of over seven thousand people, and embarked on a tour through France and Germany to perform for American troops. Soon after her return, Blackstone and Cadman collaborated with librettist Nelle Richmond Eberhart to compose the semi-autobiographical opera Shanewis (or The Robin Woman), which became the first American opera to be revived for a second season at the Metropolitan Opera House. The opera was later revived at the Hollywood Bowl in 2026. Blackstone, in the lead role, performed to a audience of twenty thousand people. Blackstone was an advocate for Native rights throughout her career. She performed for activist groups like the Society of American Indians; founded the First Daughters of America, a Native women's organization; and served on an Indian affairs advisory council after her retirement from performing in 1935. For the last fifty years of her life, Blackstone lived in Burbank, California, where the present work was published. Thomas, Briana A. "The Forgotten History of Tsianina Redfeather." Smithsonian Magazine (March 31, 2023). Fine.
Wonderful Stories for Children

Wonderful Stories for Children by Anderson, Hans Christian [Andersen]

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books
Title
Wonderful Stories for Children
Author
Anderson, Hans Christian [Andersen]
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
Wiley & Putnam, 1846. first. hardcover. very good. First US edition, very good. Slightly leaning, tanning to spine and edges of covers, some foxing throughout, some water stains, cracking to gutters, small lower corner piece missing of rear free end paper.
During The Post-World War II Economic Funk, President Truman Asks Banker Edward Hopkinson To Join An Economic Committee

During The Post-World War II Economic Funk, President Truman Asks Banker Edward Hopkinson To Join An Economic Committee by HARRY TRUMAN

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
Title
During The Post-World War II Economic Funk, President Truman Asks Banker Edward Hopkinson To Join An Economic Committee
Author
HARRY TRUMAN
Seller
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
HARRY S. TRUMAN (1884-1972). Truman was the Thirty-Third President, serving in that role during the end of World War Two and in the post-war period.TLS. 1pg. June 17, 1946. The White House, Washington. A typed letter signed Harry S Truman as President on official The White House letterhead. In the wake of World War Two, Truman wrote to investment banker Edward Hopkinson Jr. of Drexel and Company, asking him to serve on a Presidential economic committee. Dear Mr. Hopkinson: It is of vital importance to our country and to the stabilization of the international economy, that we proceed as rapidly as possible with another of the major objectives of our reconversion program: namely, to tie in our national productive capacity with the worlds reconstruction requirements. The conduct and financing of our foreign trade should be handled by private industry with the cooperation and such assistance as is necessary from the proper Government agencies. I am asking you to serve on a committee of 12 leading industrialists and bankers to draft a report on the problem, and recommendations for handling it, to be presented to the National Advisory Council which has the duty of preparing a definite plan of procedure. I do not hesitate to ask for your time and effort because it is a service which the country and the world gravely need at this time. A list of the members of this Advisory Committee is attached and I hop you will wire me your acceptance. Sincerely yours, Harry S Truman. A typed list of committee members is also included, as is the telegram by which Hopkinson accepted Trumans invitation. All three pieces are in very good condition with some toning.
Hits and Misses

Hits and Misses by Brown, Paul

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Hits and Misses
Author
Brown, Paul
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Derrydale Press, 1935. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Brown on the limitation page. Good. Quarter black buckram with yellow buckram on the boards, generally toned, rubbed, bumped, and soiled. Square and firmly bound, toned at the edges but clean internally. A facsimile of Brown's sketchbook of impressions from watching polo matches.
Dirty Work

Dirty Work by Brown, Larry

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Dirty Work
Author
Brown, Larry
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780945575207
Condition
Fine
Description
Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($16.95). Quarter dark blue cloth with blue paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Brown's novel about two soldiers from Mississippi lying next to one another about being wounded in the Vietnam War.
ON POETRY

ON POETRY by [AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John

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Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
Title
ON POETRY
Author
[AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson B77. Published in an edition of 2500 copies, none of which were for sale, in white card covers with a grayish green printed wrapper. This is St.-John Perse's Nobel Acceptance Speech translated by Auden and printed here in both the original French and Auden's English translation. SIGNED by Auden on the title page. Quite uncommon, especially signed.
[Teal Coming to the Pool, by the Willow on a Misty Morning]

[Teal Coming to the Pool, by the Willow on a Misty Morning] by SCOTT, after Sir Peter Markham (1909-1989)

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Title
[Teal Coming to the Pool, by the Willow on a Misty Morning]
Author
SCOTT, after Sir Peter Markham (1909-1989)
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: The Curwen Press for Arthur Ackermann, 1981. Coloured offset-lithograph by the Curwen Press, signed in pencil by the artist (lower right just beneath the image) In pristine condition. A very fine signed print from the one of the greatest bird artists of the 20th century. An exquisite image of a flock of teal coming in to land in the wetlands on a mid-winter's afternoon. Sir Peter Scott was best known in later life for his work as a founding member and chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, but in "the period before and after the war, Peter Scott became undoubtedly the most popular artist in the United Kingdom" (J. Ford, Ackermann 1783-1983, 1983, p.202). The son of the Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Peter initially turned to wildlife art as an extension of his early love of wildfowling. He traveled the world, hunting and painting rare birds. He held his first one-man exhibition at Ackermann's in 1933, and from the late 1930s onwards became increasingly concerned with conserving wildfowl rather than hunting them. From 1946, in tandem with a series of highly successful shows at Ackermann's, Sir Peter founded and ran the Wildfowl Trust which has gone on to become a major force in the conservation of endangered duck and geese. From 1935 up until about 1983, Ackermann's published a limited number of colour prints of Sir Peter's work. Many of the original oils are in major private and public collections, and these prints, signed by the artist himself, offer a rare chance to own an image by one of the greatest bird artists of the 20th century.
Street Magazine (Japanese Streetwear Fashion Photography, Issues 4-7)

Street Magazine (Japanese Streetwear Fashion Photography, Issues 4-7)

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Seller: Underground Books, ABAA
Title
Street Magazine (Japanese Streetwear Fashion Photography, Issues 4-7)
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
Tokyo: Street Magazine, 2010. First Edition. Paperback. Good +. First Edition. Paperback. 10 1/4" X 8". Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages of all volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound. A clean, solid collection of four issues of STREET, the Japanese magazine on streetwear and photography. IN THIS COLLECTION: No. 224 Paris Collections Part II No. 225 New York Collections No. 226 New York Collections Part II No. 227 London.
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OTTO DIX - Der Krieg: Radierungen, Zeichnungen. Sept.-Nov. 1977. Text by Fritz Löffler. (Veröffentlichungen der Städtischen Galerie Albstadt. 9/1977.) by Albstadt. Städtische Galerie.

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Title
OTTO DIX - Der Krieg: Radierungen, Zeichnungen. Sept.-Nov. 1977. Text by Fritz Löffler. (Veröffentlichungen der Städtischen Galerie Albstadt. 9/1977.)
Author
Albstadt. Städtische Galerie.
Seller
Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description
Albstadt, 1977.. 103pp. 68 plates. Sm. 4to. Wraps.

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