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The Blue Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew [editor]

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Title: The Blue Fairy Book
Author: Lang, Andrew [editor]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: Vizetelly & Co, 1889. First Edition. 8vo (188 x132mm), pp. viii, 390. The first of Lang's fairy books, the best of them and the scarcest. Blue cloth decorated and titled inn gilt, coated black (dark brown?) endpapers. A fine copy, with a small stain to the recto of the read endpaper and points of rubbing at a couple extremities of the incredibly delicate glossy cloth. Half morocco box. illustrations by H.J. Ford and G.P. Jacomb Hood. A significant contribution to children's literature through its comprehensive compilation of traditional fairy tales from diverse cultural origins. The collection features thirty-seven stories, including both well-known European tales and narratives from more distant sources. An impressive breadth of folkloric tradition, with some of today’s most famous fairy tales such as "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Jack the Giant-Killer," "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Aladdin," "Sleeping Beauty," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Puss in Boots," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Beauty and the Beast." The collection also features less frequently anthologized works such as "East of the Sun and West of the Moon," "The Black Bull of Norroway," and "The Forty Thieves." Lang's editorial approach, while modernizing elements of these tales for Victorian readers, maintained their essential narrative structures and motifs, establishing a new standard for fairy tale collections that would influence generations of subsequent children's literature. Lang's Blue Fairy Book became an influential literary landmark that democratized access to these formative cultural narratives for young readers across the English-speaking world.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED by ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR

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Title: TYPED LETTER SIGNED
Author: ROOSEVELT, ELEANOR
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Washington, D.C., 1943. n/a. Very Good. MAGNIFICENT WARTIME LETTER BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ON ACHIEVING LONG-LASTING PEACE. This letter, signed and typed by world-renowned social reformer Eleanor Roosevelt on White House letterhead and dated June 28, 1943 (World War II), is addressed to Mr. Jerome Darrow, soldier and army newspaper editor, and reads in full: The White House Washington June 28, 1943. Dear Mr. Darrow: I am very glad to send you a message for Talkie-Talkie, your weekly Army newspaper. I understand only too well how hard it must be for our soldiers who stand guard in the jungle and outposts which we are now occupying. I want to say to them that on every hand I hear how wonderfully the men are accepting the strange new conditions under which they live and how cheerfully they live through discomfort and boredom. I only hope that beneath it all they realize they are part of the great fighting force which can only win because each unit has done its part. I lived through the last war and its aftermath and therefore I am very much concerned about the future which we build as a result of this war. I hope that we have learned that peace is not something which comes because we sign a piece of paper. It is something which has to be built year by year and the piece of paper is only the foundation. It is the justice and the change for a better future for the whole world which will make our peace foundation stronger and our change to bring a continuance of peace in the future, better. To do this for the world we must do it at home also and I hope that the boys in the jungle are thinking and talking of the things they wish to see done to bring about future employment, a high national income and a healthier and happier people in the future. Good luck to all of you and may you all come back and work for peace and feel that you are building something constructive when this victory is won. Very sincerely yours, [signed] Eleanor Roosevelt The date is June 28, 1943. Finally, the tide of the war was starting to turn, and Americans could see an end to this very bloody, and very prolonged conflict. "The Battle of Midway, (June 3-6, 1942), [which was] fought almost entirely with aircraft, was a World War II naval battle, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. Together with the Battle of Guadalcanal, [August 1942-November 1943] the Battle of Midway ended the threat of further Japanese invasion in the Pacific" (Encylopedia Britannica) . Yet, as so meaningfully articulated by Eleanor Roosevelt in this letter, the work--to better the post-war lives of Americans and to achieve a long-lasting and effective peace--would continue long after the fighting was over. On boosting soldier's morale and the return to normalcy "I only hope that beneath it all they realize they are part of the great fighting force which can only win because each unit has done its part [...] I hope that the boys in the jungle are thinking and talking of the things they wish to see done to bring about future employment, a high national income and a healthier and happier people in the future." Perhaps one of Roosevelt's most enduring legacies of her wartime work was her commitment to improving the lives of soldiers both during and after World War II. General Halsey, a high-ranking officer at Guadalcanal, was awed by Roosevelt's character and compassion upon her visit to his base and hospitals: "When I say that she inspected those hospitals, I don't mean that she shook hands with the chief medical officer, glanced into a sun room and left. I mean that she went into every ward, stopped at every bed, and spoke to every patient: What was his name? How did he feel? Was there anything he needed? Could she take a message home for him? I marveled at her hardihood, both physical and mental, she walked for miles, and she saw patients who were grievously and gruesomely wounded. But I marveled most at their expressions as she leaned over them. It was a sight I will never forget." True to her words, the First Lady's efforts were not merely excluded to wartime work. Postwar, Roosevelt continued to press for worker's rights, helping to ban racial discrimination in many industries, a crusade which culminated in the establishment of the Fair Employment Practices Commision. She was also instrumental in helping FDR to draft the G.I. Bill of Rights, a piece of legislation which helped to secure many educational and vocational opportunities for WWII veterans. On postwar peace "I hope that we have learned that peace is not something which comes because we sign a piece of paper. It is something which has to be built year by year and the piece of paper is only the foundation. It is the justice and the change for a better future for the whole world which will make our peace foundation stronger and our change to bring a continuance of peace in the future, better." Just as Roosevelt's work with soldiers extended well-beyond the end of World War II, so did her humanitarian work. Even after her position as First Lady ended and official peace negotiation had long concluded, Roosevelt continued to push for peace with the help of the United Nations. The sense of unfulfillment, or more specifically of an unfulfilled peace, is as clearly discernable in her writing after WWII as it is in the 1943 letter to Mr. Darrow. In the November 13, 1946 edition of her daily syndicated newspaper column My Day, she explains that "in the United Nations, we have set up the machinery for creating a climate in the world in which peace can grow. However, just as I have sensed for many years that Armistice Day did not have the meaning for the mass of our people that it should have if we were going to preserve peace, so I feel now that this is not yet a day on which we dedicate ourselves to living and working along the lines which will make peace possible throughout the world." After FDR's death, she remained at the nucleus of American and global politics for two more decades. "In 1946 President Harry S. Truman appointed her as a delegate to the United Nations, the institution that she believed to be her late husband's most significant legacy to the world. She served as chair of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and with her unique blend of grandmotherly tact and political realism helped hammer out the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights enacted by the General Assembly in 1948. She was now routinely hailed as "the First Lady of the World" (American National Biography). In fact, Roosevelt did write a piece for Jerome Darrow's one-man newspaper "Talkie-Talkie". An excerpt from Darrow's hometown newspaper reports that "the editor [Jerome Darrow] has perked things up by getting famous people to write their innermost thoughts straight to his G. I.'s. Groucho Marx, Eleanor Roosevelt, Charlie McCarthy, Wendell Willkie, Grantland Bice and Betty Grable have already taken advantage of this splendid opportunity" (Ironwood Daily Globe). This document is noteworthy for its wartime date as well as its provocative content. A truly rare letter that so stirringly sums up Roosevelt's seemingly simple, but actually complicated wish: peace. Washington, D.C.: June 28, 1943. Quarto, one page on White House stationery. Signed in ink at the end of the letter. Usual folds, light toning, and a paperclip impression to the top edge, otherwise in fine condition. An important piece of correspondence by the "First Lady of the World.".

The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. .. by Gildas

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Title: The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
Author: Gildas
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some contemporary names and notes mostly on the beginning and ending blanks. A fine copy. Gildas provides some of the earliest commentary on the war effort associated with King Arthur. The first edition of the original Latin was pubished as Opus de Calimitate, Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae in 1525. STC 11895. Potthast, I, 525. Sarton I, 455. Lowndes, p. 790. ESTC S103163.

Life, Adventures, and Travels in California ... to Which are Added the Conquest of California and Travels in Oregon by Farnham, T. J.

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Title: Life, Adventures, and Travels in California ... to Which are Added the Conquest of California and Travels in Oregon
Author: Farnham, T. J.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Nafis and Cornish, 1849. Hardcover. Good. Pictorial Edition. 8vo. iv, 5-468p. Brown sloth decorated in gilt on the boards and spine. Marbled edges. Illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Cloth is worn at spine tips, hinges, edges and corners, textblock shaken, but still a good copy. Some copies of this edition were apparently issued with a large map; this copy was not. Howes F49; Graff 1294' Wagner Camp 107; Cowan 83A. .

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Beston, Henry

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Title: The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Author: Beston, Henry
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1928. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Henry Beston on the front free endpaper and inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to cloth at edges and spine, mottling to spine cloth. Former owner bookplate to front pastedown, browning to endhseets and toning to pages. A classic of nature writing, chronicling a year of living in the Cape Cod dunes. Signed copies of the first edition are scarce.

Marks of Honour: Untitled (Days of Night) / Black Sun: The Eyes of Four. [Limited to 5 Copies] by ANDERSEN, Morten / HOLBORN, Mark

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Title: Marks of Honour: Untitled (Days of Night) / Black Sun: The Eyes of Four. [Limited to 5 Copies]
Author: ANDERSEN, Morten / HOLBORN, Mark
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Untitled (Days of Night) is fine in cloth boards, sans jacket as issued. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four is fine in a near fine pric
Description: [N.p. / New York: Self-published / Aperture, 2005 / 1986]. Untitled (Days of Night) is fine in cloth boards, sans jacket as issued. Black Sun: The Eyes of Four is fine in a near fine price-clipped jacket. Both books housed together in a plain cloth slipcase.. First Edition. Quartos. Set of two books, including a limited-edition artists' book by Morten Andersen and the exhibition catalogue Black Sun: The Eyes of Four by Mark Holborn. Issued as part of the Marks of Honour series, in which a contemporary photographer's book is paired with the work that inspired it. Here, Andersen has highlighted the photography of Daido Moriyama and the Provoke school, featured in the accompanying catalogue for Black Sun: The Eyes of Four, which informs the grainy black-and-white Tokyo images of his Untitled (Days of Night) series. Number 3 of a limited edition of 5 numbered copies, Andersen's artists' book is SIGNED and consists of 24 leporello-bound barite prints, with the photographer's notes written in pencil on the versos. A loose photocopied sheet, reproducing a letter by Andersen describing the project, has been laid in.

Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: A History of Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889 by Wunder, John R.

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Title: Inferior Courts, Superior Justice: A History of Justices of the Peace on the Northwest Frontier, 1853-1889
Author: Wunder, John R.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Westport: Greenwood Press, 1979. First Edition. 246pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles. Near fine. Contributions in Legal Studies, Number 7. "At the time of the migration to the American colonies, justices of the peace had reached a high point in their judicial and administrative evolution, and, therefore, a thriving, powerful English institution was easily transplanted to the American frontier. here the colonists perceived a need for order and laws, and justices of the peace readily filled colonial demands." - from the Introduction.

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