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Dark Carnival

Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury

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Title
Dark Carnival
Author
Ray Bradbury
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Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Arkham House, 1947. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Author's First Book. Fine Copy In like Jacket.Author's First Book.$3.00 on flap.First Edition (1947).Beautiful Fresh Copy.Scarce in this Condition. Bookplate under front flap.Excellent Copy. .
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Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials by DOUGLASS Frederick HENSEL W. U.

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Title
Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials
Author
DOUGLASS Frederick HENSEL W. U.
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1911. First Edition. (DOUGLASS, Frederick) HENSEL, W.U. The Christiana Riot and The Treason Trials of 1851. Prepared and Published for the Commemoration of these Events, September 9, 1911. Lancaster, PA: New Era Printing Company, 1911. Octavo, original pale red wrappers. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $1600.First edition of Hensel's comprehensive report, including much newly documented information in print for the first time, detailing the famed 1861 Christiana riot and treason trials that challenged the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act when a slave owner was killed trying to seize fugitive slaves at the farm of an ex-slave and a crowd of mainly black neighbors fought to protect the fugitives, with Frederick Douglass hailing the uprising as ""the battle for liberty at Christiana"" and aiding the fugitives' escape to Canada. Published on the 50-year anniversary of Christiana with extensive new coverage of the uprising, the indictments of 35 blacks and five whites—""the largest number of treason indictments in U.S. history (as of 1984) for a single incident or crime""—and ultimately the treason trials that failed to convict any of the accused. With 12 full-page illustrations.The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, passed only five years after Frederick Douglass' first autobiography, placed him in renewed and immediate peril despite documentation of his freedom. ""Nothing had ever forced him to clarify his principles like the reality of the Fugitive Slave Law."" He stood before a Boston crowd and urged ""all Northern blacks to be 'resolved to die rather than go back.' If a slave catcher sought to take the slave back, shouted Douglass, he 'will be murdered in your streets.'"" Douglass soon ""got his own opportunity to directly aid fugitives escaping after violent resistance"" following the infamous September 11, 1851 Christiana riot. On that day Gorsuch, a Maryland slave owner, went to the Pennsylvania farm of Parker, a former slave, to seize a group of fugitive slaves. Gorsuch and an armed group that included a U.S. Deputy Marshal were met by Parker and a crowd of neighboring blacks and a few whites who stood ready to defend the runaways. In the violent skirmish Gorsuch was killed. Parker, who knew ""of Douglass' work in helping fugitives into Canada, quickly led two of the desperate slaves, named Pinckney and Johnson, on a two-day, 500-mile journey"" to Douglass in western New York. There he quickly helped the three men cross to Canada. Douglass would recall: ""'I received from Parker the revolver that fell from the hand of Gorsuch when he died… a memento of the battle for liberty at Christiana'… That gun remained a sacred talisman in the Douglass family"" (Blight, Frederick Douglass, 241-44).By year's end 41 men—thirty-six blacks and five whites involved in the Christiana uprising—were indicted in Pennsylvania for treason: ""a function of President Fillmore's desire to punish those who challenged the federal law."" But when the first person to be tried, a white man, was found innocent, the remaining indictments were dropped. ""These 41 indictments represent the largest number of treason indictments in U.S. history (as of 1984) for a single incident or crime. The Christiana riot itself was the most violent episode in the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act"" (Finkelman, Slavery in the Courtroom, 98). Christiana ""showed that African American men and women could organize themselves to actively resist any attempts to kidnap fugitive slaves or disturb their communities"" (Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia). This authoritative work by William Uhler Hensel, a respected Pennsylvania attorney, publisher and state Attorney General, was commissioned by the Lancaster County Historical Society and issued to commemorate the 50-year anniversary of Christiana and the treason trial. Hensel seeks an even-handed microcosm of ""the great struggle of opposing ideas that culminated in the shock of the Civil War."" He draws on official trial reports, as well as contemporary accounts ""tinged with sectional prejudice"" or flawed in their compliance with the Maryland Attorney General's Office. He also includes, for the first time in print, extensive ""personal reminiscences"" of key figures and neighbors of Parker. In addition, he draws on diaries, family records, interviews with descendants of Gorsuch, ""and many other original sources of information,"" also in print for the first time. Featured are extensive sections titled, ""The Treason Trials"" and ""Parker's Own Story."" With frontispiece and eleven full-page illustrations. This copy is bound as the entirety of Papers Read Before the Lancaster Historical Society Vol. XV. No 8, which is on the front wrapper and first leaf; it is also found in offprint form, differing only in the front matter before the title page. See Blockson 2591; Finkelman, Slavery in the Courtroom, 95-102. Fine condition.
Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Goshu^

Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Goshu^ by [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist

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Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Goshu^
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[DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist
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Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1906. [DRAWING TEXTBOOK] ASAI CHU^, artist. Chu^to^ ENPITSUGA TEHON Dai Goshu^. To^kyo^, Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan, Meiji 39 [1906]. 2nd printing. Oblong 8vo., wrappers. 18.4 x 26 cm. Containing 10 sheets of sumi-e woodcut reproducing pencil sketches by Asai Chu^ and meant to serve as a guide for secondary students in their drawing classes. The Japanese Education Ministry, the Monbusho^, had commissioned Asai Chu^, one of the foremost artists and educators of the day to create a series of such handbooks for schools. This is the fifth volume. This brief notice is not the place to expand but it should be noted that this series represents an important milestone in the see-saw cultural battle being waged between artistic traditionalists and "modern" Western-style artists. The fact that the Asai Chu^ strove to familiarize students with the use of the pencil rather than the brush is significant in that context. Asai, himself, actually, though an accomplished Western-style oil painter who had studied in France was also a skilled traditional painter and a top-rank graphic designer, as well. It appears he believed in giving students all the tools, all the media, available for their expression. His textbook series are rightly famous though almost never found, being fragile to begin with and meant to be used by students. This volume is in very good condition - the pages are loose. It should also be noted that Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan was a famous house, capable of great skill in woodblock printing projects.
An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study

An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study by [COLLIER, Jane]

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An Essay of the Art of Tormenting; with Proper Rules for the Exercise of that Amusing Study
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[COLLIER, Jane]
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Some minor spotting, generally clean and crisp
Description
London: Printed for Andrew Millar; reprinted for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co. Some minor spotting, generally clean and crisp. 12mo (6 1/8 x 3 3/4 inches). 229 pages, 2-pages ads. Engraved frontispiece by James Gillray of a cat tormenting a mouse. Contemporary mottled calf (front cover detached, rebacked). Third edition (first Bulmer). Provenance: 1804 gift inscription in ink on front free endpaper from Mrs. Legge to Harriet St. Leger(?). Considered to be perhaps the first extended non-fiction satire written by an English woman.
VERY GOOD, JEEVES

VERY GOOD, JEEVES by Wodehouse, P.G.

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VERY GOOD, JEEVES
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Wodehouse, P.G.
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xi, 312 pages. In Good minus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Spine is bound in publisher's orange cloth with black lettering. Boards have significant tears and fraying along the corners, stains and rubbing wear throughout. Textblock has stains and tears on some pages throughout, splitting along the gutter in several places throughout, creasing on pages 91, 198, 256, 282, pen mark on page 144, pencil inscription from a previous owner on the front end-page, age toning and stains along the pastedown pages, end-pages and edges. Shelved in Room C. 1394293. Special Collections.
Tradition und Tradenten in den Schulen Palästinas und Babyloniens. Studien und Materialien zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Talmuds

Tradition und Tradenten in den Schulen Palästinas und Babyloniens. Studien und Materialien zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Talmuds by Bacher, Wilhelm

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Tradition und Tradenten in den Schulen Palästinas und Babyloniens. Studien und Materialien zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Talmuds
Author
Bacher, Wilhelm
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
Leipzig: Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, G. m. b. H., 1914. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XI, [1], 704pp. Quarter black cloth over marbled paper boards. Fascinating work compiling studies and materials about the history of the Talmud. Some age wear on binding with lower front corner bumped, and some abrasion along lower edges. Dr. Alexander Guttmann's signature on inside of front board and on title-page. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in German. Binding in overall good-, interior in good to very good condition. Wilhelm Bacher was a 19th and early 20th century Jewish scholar and liberal rabbi. He studied languages at the University of Budapest and later Breslau as well as Talmud with Samuel Löb Brill. Later he served as rabbi in Szegedin. As a scholar Bacher authored or co-authored approximately 750 works. He also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Catalogue of the Shells of the United States with their Localities

Catalogue of the Shells of the United States with their Localities by Wheatley, Charles

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Catalogue of the Shells of the United States with their Localities
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Wheatley, Charles
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
New York: [n.p.], 1845. Second edition. 35 pp. Good with a tattered spine. Wheatley was a member of the Lyceum of Natural History, New York. This pamphlet is interwoven with blank pages for collectors to record their shell collections. This example was used by Henry Willis to record his shell collection in 1846.
Guojia xingtai yu shehui zhixu [State forms and social order] 国家形态与社会秩序

Guojia xingtai yu shehui zhixu [State forms and social order] 国家形态与社会秩序 by Zhao, Jing 赵京

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Guojia xingtai yu shehui zhixu [State forms and social order] 国家形态与社会秩序
Author
Zhao, Jing 赵京
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780557030866
Description
San Ramon, CA: Lulu / Zhong Ri Mei bi jiao zheng ce yan jiu suo 中日美比较政策研究所, 2008. iv, 168p., very good in wraps. Text in Chinese. Original work by Jing Zhao (who was radicalized as an anarchist while a student in Japan watching the Tiananmen Square crackdown on television), later head of the US-Japan-China Comparative Policy Research Institute in San Ramon, CA.
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SPIRIT OF '76, WHY NOT NOW by WARD, Barbara

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SPIRIT OF '76, WHY NOT NOW
Author
WARD, Barbara
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
WARD, Barbara. SPIRIT OF '76, WHY NOT NOW? Williamsburg, Virginia: Colonial Williamsburg, 1963. 8vo. Wrappers. 29 pages Cover spotted, else very good.
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Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape

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Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Vintage, 1972. Very Good. Anna Christie, The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape. Ny: Vintage, 1972. 232pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing..

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