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It Catches My Heart in its Hands by Bukowski, Charles

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: It Catches My Heart in its Hands
Author: Bukowski, Charles
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New Orleans: Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. First edition, first printing. One of 777 unnumbered copies, signed by Charles Bukowski in silver paint pen and dated 5-25-63. [vi], 99, [2] pp. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets bound into stiff white wrappers, in decorated cork lined wrap-around dust jacket. Fine. A truly excellent, crisp copy with hardly any wear. Gift card of Philip Boatwright, editor of Steppenwolf, laid in. An early Bukowski poetry collection, lovingly produced by Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb at their Loujon Press.

Unterricht über das Beschlag, und die Behandlung gesunder und kranker Hufe der Pferde - BOUND WITH - Hulfsbuch zur Erlernung der Anatomie für angehende Huffschmiede by Langenbacher, Johann / König, Johann - THE HORSE HOOF

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Title: Unterricht über das Beschlag, und die Behandlung gesunder und kranker Hufe der Pferde - BOUND WITH - Hulfsbuch zur Erlernung der Anatomie für angehende Huffschmiede
Author: Langenbacher, Johann / König, Johann - THE HORSE HOOF
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; some toning and dustiness; covers somewhat chipped and worn.
Description: Wien und Triest: Geistinger Buchhandlung, 1819 / 1820. Second / First Edition. . Contemporary marbled paper over paste paper boards.. Very good; some toning and dustiness; covers somewhat chipped and worn.. 8vo, I - [8], [1] - 182, [2 - adverts] pp. + 6 folding copper plates (on extended stubs for ease of viewing with text); II - [4], [1] - 236 pp. + 4 folding copper plates. Both texts focus on the importance of the horse's hoof and the maintenance of good health and practices. The title of the second tract is specfic in noting its importance for farriers. Both are extensive and well illustrated. Absent from Dingley, Washington State, and Billmeyer-Conant collection sale catalog; no copies of either title in America.

1873-1883 –A ten-year correspondence collection from a future head librarian of the University of Nevada updates his cousin on a periodic basis after his pioneering family emigrated to California by covered wagon by Joseph D. (Dieffenbach) Layman

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Title: 1873-1883 –A ten-year correspondence collection from a future head librarian of the University of Nevada updates his cousin on a periodic basis after his pioneering family emigrated to California by covered wagon
Author: Joseph D. (Dieffenbach) Layman
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: California, 1883. Envelope or Cover. Very good. These four letters were sent by Joseph D. (Dieffenbach) Layman in California to his cousin, John E. Dieffenbach in Pulaski, Iowa. The letters are enclosed in their original mailing envelopes. All of the letters and two of the envelopes are in nice shape; one of the envelopes has significant foxing, and one has some light blue toning. The correspondence begins with Joseph reporting that he and his sister are attending primary school and ends with him reporting that he has become a teacher and is considering enrolling in college. They read in part: 7 Dec 1873 – Plainsburg, Merced Co., California. Two-page letter. Mailing envelope is franked with a two-cent Washington stamp (Scott #147). “I take pen in hand to let you know how we are getting along in California. We are all pretty well at the present time. . .. The ground is ready to plow as soon as the top dries off a little so that it will not [be] so muddy. We are living in the same rental house that we had rented two years ago but it has been built on [and] we have more room than we had then. Mary and I go to school. [She] is in the fourth reader [and] pretty far advanced in arithmetic and she is in Montheith’s Primary Geography, she writes also. I read and spell in the sixth reader. I am in Progressive Practical Arithmetic, I study Montheith’s Physical and Political Geography and I also write. I have a few ducks now, last year I bought four [and then] two more. [Now,] I have seven. . .. I did not have good luck [selling them] last year. . .. This year I made six dollars and some cents clear off of my ducks. . .. It snowed a little last Wednesday . . . and Mary came home pretty near freezing her hands and feet. . .. We expect [my Aunt Anna] over here on Christmas. . .. I wish that Santa Clause will treat you all well, for he was pretty kind last Christmas here. . .. Mary is [now] singing so much that I can barely write. . ..” 30 Dec 1877 – Lakeport, Lake Co., California. Three-page letter plus a fourth page, written in a different hand, in what appears to be a difficult-to-decipher cramped German script (perhaps docketing by Diffenbach or one of his family members). The letter is enclosed in a three-cent postal stationery envelope (Scott #U83) cancelled with a “TS” handprint identified by a previous owner as a scarce stagecoach cancellation. “We are all pretty well. . .. Crops are about all in and look splendid. . .. I have made some garden yesterday. I transplanted some lettuce and mustard. . .. I went hunting a few times this winder and killed only one duck. Santa Claus was around this year as usual. He left us all some cany nuts stockings and a raw potatoe apiece. Besides this little Daniel got a tin cow. Johnny got a tiger and a pair of shoes. Mary got a china teacup saucer & plate. I got a linen collar and handkerchief. Ma got a half dozen of sauce dishes. In town there were two christmas trees but we did not go to either of them. There was a ball on Christmas night in Lakeport. . .. School commences again next Wednesday. I study Latin Geometry and Algebra. . .. Mary has not gone to school any this winter. . ..” 25 May 1879 – Lakeport, Lake Co., California. Four-page letter. Enclosed in a three-cent postal stationery envelope (Scott #U83). “Our winter is hardly over yet. It has rained a little almost every week since Easter. And a little while ago we had a frost which done considerable damage to the corn and potatoes and the grapevines. I think the crop of grapes will be light. . .. In some parts of the state the grain crop will be very light, but here . . . big crops are expected. . .. I have been going to school since last September. . .. There was an excursion and picnic. The people went across the lake on a scow steamer. I was told that they had music and a splendid time. No one from our family went. . .. I have but one classmate and he is about one half of a year older than myself. . .. The students of my school have formed themselves into a literary society [with] about ten members. . .. We have a few hives of bees here. They have sent out three swarms already. I hived two of them. But one left after I hived it. So I have only one new one left. . .. Mother has been tending to her chickens and turkeys. . .. Johnny is learning to milk [our] five milking cows. . ..” 30 May 1883 – Middletown, Lake Co. California. Two-page letter. Enclosed in a three-cent postal stationery envelope (Scott #U163). “I am now teaching again in Loconomi School District. My term will be out here in about a month, then after a short vacation I want to go off somewhere to school myself. I feel that my education is not nearly yet completed. When I heard from home last the folks were all well. The were still living in Lakeport although father has been looking around for some other place. . .. We are later than usual with our haying, but now at last we are all at it. Machines for cutting are in demand. . .. Yesterday the school girls thought it was time to scrub the school room floor and so they did it and it’s slow drying. . .. The boys go out fishing occasionally and bring home a mess of mountain trout. . .. A week ago last Saturday, I walked about 7 miles into a neighboring school district where a Lakeport friend of mine is teaching. She has a school of two dozen scholars. Last week some of my little boys and girls got to rubbing poison oak over their hands and faces and consequently part of them got poisoned and one so badly that she is not coming to school yet this week. . ..” . Layman did, indeed, continue his education. He entered the University of California at Berkeley later in 1883 and, after graduation, served as the school’s assistant librarian for 19 years. He was then selected to become the head librarian at the University of Nevada. He left Reno and retired to Oakland in 1929 where he remained interested in librarianship. Following his wife’s death in 1942, he became the director of Fairmont Hospital Library at age 80 and served in that position until he retired again in 1958 at age 96. Layman died three years later in 1962, shortly before his 100th birthday. An entertaining and informational set of letters about the early one-room school house education that prepared a young man to graduate from the University of California and eventually become the head librarian of an important state university. (For more information, see Joseph Dieffenbach Layman at ancestry.com and the Find-A-Grave websites.) At the time of listing, nothing similar is for sale in the trade; the Rare Book Hub shows nothing similar has appeared at auction, and OCLC shows nothing similar in any institutional collection.

A Story About You" -- 1960s Booklet for Pre-Teens on Puberty, Human Reproduction, Sex Education

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Title: A Story About You" -- 1960s Booklet for Pre-Teens on Puberty, Human Reproduction, Sex Education
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Description: Chicago, Illinois, 1966. A 1960s-era educational booklet on puberty and reproduction, published for older children and pre-teens by the American Medical Association. Divided into seven chapters, it covers the following topics: how bodies change and grow during childhood and adolescence; how human reproduction works at a biological level; how babies grow and develop; gender; growing and learning; and how adolescence works. Note the chapter "Boy or Girl?" which reinforces society's gender binary based on sex. A valuable look into the kind of information made available to children born in the 1950s and 1960s from their schools, medical providers, and public health officials. Single vol. (9" by 6"), pp. 43, [3], in original illus. orange wrps. with image of children going to school on front.

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

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Title: The Black Dahlia
Author: James Ellroy
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780712619950
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only a slight lean to the binding and gentle rubbing to the jacket edges, else fine. SIGNED by the author to the title page. An outstanding copy of this novel, basis for the fine 2006 film starring Josh Hartnett and Scarlet Johansson. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

The Long Arm of Lee or The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. With A Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance by Wise, Jennings Cropper

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Title: The Long Arm of Lee or The History of the Artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia. With A Brief Account of the Confederate Bureau of Ordnance
Author: Wise, Jennings Cropper
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Lynchburg: J. P. Bell Company, Inc, 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Octavos. 2 volumes. Volume I: [1], 496 pages. Volume II: [1], pages 497-995. Errata page. Later bindings. Burgundy cloth hardcovers. Faded titles on the spine. "Barnes and Noble" publisher name stamped on the bottom of the spines. The text was remaindered to Barnes and Noble. Set is not a reprint. Front hinge cracked volume 1 at the half title page. Light edge wear to the cloth extremities. Tall Cotton 196; Nevins I p.181 "An exhaustive, valuable study, often consulted and widely quoted; included a summary of the Confederate Ordnance Bureau.

The Architecture of MAXIMILIAN GODEFROY by Alexander, Robert L.

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Title: The Architecture of MAXIMILIAN GODEFROY
Author: Alexander, Robert L.
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Description: Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 246 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. More than 100 illustrations. Index. Most of Godefroy's life in America, 1805-1819 was spent in Baltimore. KARPEL B1097a. "... describes Godefroy's masterful reconciliation of the blunt demands of the industrial age with the tastes of the `ancien regime.

Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedmins by (BEDMINSTER)

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Title: Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedmins
Author: (BEDMINSTER)
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1948. (BEDMINSTER). The Historical Background and Growth of the Bedminster Church, Bedminster, N. J. [Bedminster, 1948]. 55, [1] p. Wrappers. "Historical paper by David Layton ... Prepared ... under his direction by Harold D. Hayward." Somerset County.

Pangaea. The first issue

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Title: Pangaea. The first issue
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Berkeley: United People of Color, 1990. 43p., staplebound journal, very good, 8.5x11 inches. Contributions by students activists at UC Berkeley.

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The Devil's Arithmetic by Yolen, Jane

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Title: The Devil's Arithmetic
Author: Yolen, Jane
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780142401095
Condition: Fine
Description: Puffin Books, 2004. Fine. Yolen, Jane. The Devil's Arithmetic. New York City: Puffin Books, 2004. 170pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine.

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