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Waiting for the Barbarians by COETZEE John Maxwell

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Waiting for the Barbarians
Author: COETZEE John Maxwell
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1980. First Edition. Signed. COETZEE, John Maxwell. Waiting for the Barbarians. London: Secker & Warburg, (1980). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket. $2700.First edition of this novel universalizing a raw and terrible moment in South Africa's history, inscribed: ""For John, J.M. Coetzee.""""I have known few authors who can evoke such a wilderness in the heart of a man Mr. Coetzee knows the elusive terror of Kafka"" (The Sunday Times). ""Waiting for the Barbarians was written in 1980, during the apartheid regime in South Africa. But what it says about torture remains true today. If the state wants to stand up to barbarity, it cannot validate it by unleashing it on its own prisoners"" (NPR). Book fine, dust jacket near-fine, with toning to spine. A handsome inscribed copy.

1924 Christy Walsh Syndicate Broadside by [Johnson, Walter]

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Title: 1924 Christy Walsh Syndicate Broadside
Author: [Johnson, Walter]
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Christy Walsh Syndicate, 1924 First edition. Original broadside printed in black, with photo of Johnson to front, facsimile signature and quote by Johnson in red along left side. Johnson’s personal copy; hand-addressed from Mayor Edwin Roberts to Johnson on rear of broadside with contemporary stamp. A good example with a bit of toning and rubbing to front and rear, cleanly split in half horizontally along mailing fold, some tape repair to both sides. Overall, a handsome copy that presents very nicely. Includes a letter signed and dated by Johnson’s grandson, Henry W. Thomas, attesting that the broadside came from Johnson’s personal scrapbook. This Christy Walsh Syndicate broadside announces an authorized story of Walter Johnson, described as “36 illustrated installments by the idol of baseball’s greatest awakening.” Johnson was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, a group known as the “Five Immortals” (Walter Johnson, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner). An all-time great pitcher, Johnson had a fastball that according to Ty Cobb was, “Just speed, raw speed, blinding speed, too much speed.” The broadside is addressed to Johnson by Edwin Roberts, who served as mayor of Reno, Nevada from 1923 to 1933. Roberts’ daughter, Hazel Lee Roberts, was married to Walter Johnson for 16 years, until her untimely death in 1930. . First Edition. Broadside. Good.

A Pair of Letters Written by the Wife of a 105th Illinois Officer at the Close of the Civil War, Centered on a Suspicious Figure Carrying a Valuable Object and the Fear of Deception, and of Losing Her Husband: “He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture […] Such conflicting ones create suspicion.” by [Civil War – Women – Illinois] Dutton, Rosina

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Title: A Pair of Letters Written by the Wife of a 105th Illinois Officer at the Close of the Civil War, Centered on a Suspicious Figure Carrying a Valuable Object and the Fear of Deception, and of Losing Her Husband: “He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture […] Such conflicting ones create suspicion.”
Author: [Civil War – Women – Illinois] Dutton, Rosina
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Folded at center else fine.
Description: [Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois], 1865. Two autograph letters, signed “Rosa,” docketed on rear likely in Everell Dutton’s hand, 4 and 5 pages, 8 x 5 inches. Folded at center else fine.. Two letters written in the final weeks of the Civil War by Rosina Adelpha Paine Dutton of Sycamore, Illinois, to her husband Everell Fletcher Dutton, then lieutenant colonel of the 105th Illinois Infantry, engaged in the closing campaigns of the war. The couple had met through their mutual friend Helen Barns Woodmanse and began an unusually close correspondence at the outset of the war, at times exchanging two or three letters a day through 1863. They married in Sycamore on December 31, 1863, and spent several months together in Nashville while Dutton was detailed to the Examination Board, residing at Mrs. Jernigan’s boarding house, before Rosina returned to Illinois and Dutton rejoined his regiment in the field. Rosa wrote a considerable amount of letters to her husband during the war, some of which were collected by the Sycamore History Museum for the exhibition General Dutton’s America. The two letters here, written a week apart, show Rosina’s fears and the general mood in the days prior to Lincoln’s assassination, with a focus on a mysterious favor done for an unsavory character. The April 2 letter reflects Rosina’s anxiety as she awaits news from the regiment: “Five hours later. I got to feeling so badly I could not write. I will now resume my chat. I know dear one you are tired of receiving dark gloomy letters from me, but you must not hope for better while you remain in the army. Love you know is always strongly anxious when the loved one is absent. I would give everything we possess in the world if it would but bring you safely home. I am in hopes we will hear something definite from the Regt. tomorrow. I am so anxious and yet I tremble to hear from the Regt… O my Husband if you should be taken from me.” She searches the newspapers repeatedly—“no list of casualties in the Tribune […] sent Ida after the Times […] sent Winnie & Mary […] for the Evening Journal”—but finds “no relief of mind.” The strain is constant: “whenever I spoke […] the tears would come,” and even at church “I could not keep the tears from my eyes.” She notes that the 105th “could not have been through so severe a contest without losing very many men.” The April 12 letter is dominated by Rosina’s pointed suspicion toward a man she calls “Gerret,” who appears to have entrusted Dutton with a valuable object: “Gerret said you had in your valise for him, said it was worth $500.00. If I were in your place I would get rid of it if I had to burn it. I wouldn’t carry anything five miles for that miserable scamp. No one scarcely believes his story about being captured &c. They think he made his way home as best he could & I would not be at all surprised if that were the case. He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture. He ought to have learned his story before he came home, and then told it. Such conflicting ones create suspicion. Father said if he were in your place he would turn it over to Government & then bid it in.” No individual of this name appears in the rosters or known correspondence of the 105th Illinois, and the tone of the letter suggests he was not a member of Dutton’s regiment. She closes: “My darling husband, do come and thereby make me the happiest woman in the world, [..?..] try, dear one. I don’t believe but that they will accept resignation now before long. May the good Father of us all take care of you is my constant prayer. Devotedly yours for all eternity. Rose.” Overall an interesting pair of letters from a well documented and significant correspondence.

White Mule by WILLIAMS, William Carlos

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA

Title: White Mule
Author: WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1937. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 293 pages. A novel from this author who was perhaps best known for his poetry, particularly the "Paterson" series. A tight close to near fine copy in white cloth boards that are very slightly soiled and with a slight lean to the spine. No dust jacket.

Cupola 1951: Moorestown, New Jersey

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Title: Cupola 1951: Moorestown, New Jersey
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: NJ: Moorestown, 1951. Very Good. Very good. Edges of spine slightly rubbed.

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