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De la démocratie en Amerique

De la démocratie en Amerique by TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
De la démocratie en Amerique
Author
TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à la cour royale de Paris, l'un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis. Orné d'une carte d'Amérique. Paris: Librairie de Charles Gosselin, 1835-1840. [Together with] Correspondance et Oeuvres Posthumes de Alexis de Tocqueville. Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1866-67. [From the Oeuvres Completes D'Alexis De Tocqueville Publiees par Madame de Tocqueville]. First edition, first issue of Volumes I and II, second edition of Volumes III and IV of "one of the most important texts in political literature" (Printing and the Mind of Man 358 note). All together, six octavo volumes. [4], xxiv, 367, [1, blank]; [4], 459, [1, blank]; [4], v, [3], 333, [1, blank]; [4], 363, [1, blank]; [4], 474, [2, blank]; [4], 500 pp. With large hand-colored folding lithographed map by Benard after Tocqueville in Volume I. Similarly bound in contemporary quarter green calf over marbled boards. Spines decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I and II with dark yellow dyed edges, volumes III and IV with light yellow dyed edges. Volume I-IV with edges speckled gray. Spines with consecutive gilt numbering. Some minor rubbing to extremities. Occasional foxing and toning to volumes, mainly volumes I and II. A closed tear to the rear endpaper of volume II. Previous owner's old ink signature on title-page of volumes III and IV. Overall a very handsome set. "One of the most important texts in political literature" (Printing and the Mind of Man 358 note). One of the most penetrating political and social analyses of the United States ever written, De la démocratie en Amérique is based on Tocqueville's travels through America in 1831 and 1832 in company with Gustave Auguste de Beaumont. Charged by the French government to study the prison system of the United States, the two officials made a sweeping tour of the west and south after completing their penal studies in the east, visiting Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, the Carolinas, Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. "During the last twenty years of his life, and for perhaps half that time after his death, Tocqueville had an increasing European fame. His manner, which is partly imitated from Montesquieu, has considerable charm; and he was the first and has remained the chief writer to put the orthodox liberal ideas which governed European politics during the first half or two-thirds of the 19th century into an orderly and attractive shape...and he had the great advantage of writing absolutely the first book of reasoned politics on democratic government in America" (Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition, p. 1043). Clark, Travels, III, no. 111. En français dans le texte 253. Howes T278. Sabin 96060-61 and 96061. Streeter. HBS 68567. $15,000.
KOKUGA O^GI

KOKUGA O^GI by [DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer

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KOKUGA O^GI
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[DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1938. [DESIGN] HAPPO^DO^, publisher/printer. KOKUGA O^GI. Kyo^to, Happo^do^, N.D. [other sources indicate a date of 1938] Very large oblong brocade porfolio, 36.5 x 59.0 cm. Contains an undated Happo^do^ colophon and 50 design prints (49 in color and one as a textual calligraphic introduction to the work) A source indicates the designs were done by Yamaoka Chinpei. The prints are extraordinarily lavish, with sprinkled metal flakes, overprinting, metallic inks, etc. A wonderfultribute to the Neo-Rimpa and Deco sensibilities of the age. The case has been restored, the prints are quite clean.
Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969)

Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969) by (RYMAN, Robert)

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Exhibition card: Robert Rymann Bei Konrad Fischer (11 November-12 December 1969)
Author
(RYMAN, Robert)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Black & white photographic illus. to recto. Large pictorial card. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1969. Exhibition announcement for Ryman’s second show with the gallery. The photograph depicts the artist’s Prototypes (1969). Ryman presented 14 fiberglass paintings for this exhibition. Fine. ❧ D. Fischer, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer: Düsseldorf Oktober 1967-Oktober 1992 (Edition Marzona: 1993) 27.
THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China

THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China by Anonymous

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THE IRON LUNG IN WW2. U.S. Navy transfer of Marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China
Author
Anonymous
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Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
Tsingtao, China, 1947. 1947 ORIGINAL PHOTOS REVEAL CHALLENGES IN TRANSPORTING A US MARINE IN IRON LUNG FROM CHINA TO AMERICA. Archive of photographs documenting U.S. Navy transfer of marine PFC Herbert E. Watts, polio victim in an iron lung, from the hospital ship USS Repose docked in Tsingtao, China, 1947. Included are (3) official 4 X 5-inch sepia-toned photographs, showing Watts in the iron lung prior to transfer from the ship; 2 prints with typescript paper annotations affixed to verso marked "Official U.S. Navy PHOTO", all 3 prints inscribed, "November 1947"; TOGETHER WITH (8) 2 ¾ X 4 ¾-inch photographs with deckled edges, 5 of which are inscribed verso, "USS Repose/ October 1947" including one marked, "Watts", showing the transfer of the patient to a truck on the dock. The month inscribed in one set of prints is presumably incorrect, as all images appear to portray the same event. The remaining 3 prints are inscribed, "Tsingtao, China, January 1948, one of which shows Pier 2 in the snow, and the other 2 showing the air strip. ADDITIONAL (3) 3 ¼ X 4 ½-inch prints marked as follows, "Christmas Day, Tsingtao, China, 1947", "Air Strip, Tsingtao, China, 1948", and "General Mann [troop transport ship], Tsingtao, China, July 1948". All photographs are unmounted and in good condition with light scuffs and occasional edge bumps. This grouping of 14 photographs mostly depicts private, first class, Herbert E. Watts, confined to an iron lung, being hoisted from the deck of a hospital ship to an awaiting truck which would take him to a naval air transport service plane for relocation stateside. Known as "infantile paralysis" at the time and prior to Dr. Jonas Salk's development of a polio vaccine in the 1950s, Watts contracted the disease while stationed in China in Charlie Company, Third Marines. He required the negative pressure ventilator (iron lung) for survival. Watts was born in Alabama in 1929 and died in 1957 at the age of 28. USS REPOSE. With a bed capacity of 750 and a complement of 564, the hospital ship USS Repose departed Norfolk on July 8, 1945 for the Pacific. Serving as a casualty transport from various ports in the Pacific Ocean, the Repose also served as a base hospital ship in Shanghai and later Tsingtao (now known as Qingdao), China, supporting the occupation forces in northern China. The Repose remained in Asian waters, with an occasional return trip to the States until July 1949. After World War II, the Chinese Nationalist Party allowed Qingdao to serve as the headquarters of the Western Pacific Fleet of the US Navy from 1945 through 1948. In 1949, the Red Army entered Qingdao and the city and province have been under control of the People's Republic of China since that time.
Typed Letter Signed New York, May 23, 1934, on the Letterhead of the Saturday Review of Literature, to Mrs. Henry Pleasants Jr., West Chester, Pennsylvania

Typed Letter Signed New York, May 23, 1934, on the Letterhead of the Saturday Review of Literature, to Mrs. Henry Pleasants Jr., West Chester, Pennsylvania by Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) American writer

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Typed Letter Signed New York, May 23, 1934, on the Letterhead of the Saturday Review of Literature, to Mrs. Henry Pleasants Jr., West Chester, Pennsylvania
Author
Morley, Christopher (1890-1957) American writer
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
Octavo, one page, some tape residue to left edge of sheet, where letter was affixed in an album, else very good. Morley writes: "… I am sorry to have been tardy in answering your nice note. I was away when it arrived. "Pandora" is a secret favorite of my own. I wish it were still in print! Of course if you send along your copy I will be happy to sign it. I have just been enjoying Thomas Mason's Adventures. … Christopher Morley" Morley is perhaps best known for The Haunted Book Shop (1919) and Kitty Foyle (1939) which was made into an Academy Award winning movie.
That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel

That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel by AMIS, Kingsley

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That Uncertain Feeling: A Novel
Author
AMIS, Kingsley
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. First Edition. Octavo (19cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 254pp. Light tanning to spine and board edges, with shelf-soil, trace foxing to edges of textblock and interior, and bookshop sticker and residue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 12/6 net), tanned, with shelf-soil, and chips and creases to upper spine panel and extremities; Very Good. Novel follows John Lewis, a young librarian, as he navigates his inadequate salary, unhappy marraige, and deeper desires. [84675].
Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook (Publisher's Promotional Poster)

Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook (Publisher's Promotional Poster) by Yolen, Jane; Illustrated by Rosekrans Hoffman

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Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook (Publisher's Promotional Poster)
Author
Yolen, Jane; Illustrated by Rosekrans Hoffman
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Homesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, 1992. Poster. Near Fine. Poster. First Printing. 22" h x 17"w. Publisher's promotional poster, 22" h x 17"w. Featuring charming illustrations by Rosekrans Hoffman. Near Fine, faint creases. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in sturdy mailing tube..

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