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NOVEMBER BOUGHS

NOVEMBER BOUGHS by WHITMAN, Walt

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Title
NOVEMBER BOUGHS
Author
WHITMAN, Walt
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Few very small stains on front cover, front hinge gently cracked. Close to Fine with superb signature and inscription
Description
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1888. First Edition. Hardcover. Few very small stains on front cover, front hinge gently cracked. Close to Fine with superb signature and inscription. Decorated green cloth. BAL 21430: Printing 3. Winship believes this is one of 400 copies printed in 1891 and intended by Whitman to be bound with GOODBYE MY FANCY until illness prevented him from pursuing his plans. SIGNED by the author on the front blank and INSCRIBED by Horace Traubel on the front free endpaper in 1903 to Larson Butler with initialled note below the inscription by Traubel stating that "this edn of N. B. bound in green was designed by W.W. for his friends, not for the market, + was never anywhere put on sale." Fine association.
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[Pair of YEAR'S FLIGHT Yearbooks from Butte High School, Gila River Internment Camp, All Owned by and Inscribed to Student Ben Mura] by [Japanese American Internment]: [Arizona]

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Title
[Pair of YEAR'S FLIGHT Yearbooks from Butte High School, Gila River Internment Camp, All Owned by and Inscribed to Student Ben Mura]
Author
[Japanese American Internment]: [Arizona]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description
Rivers, AZ, 1944. 1) 1943 Year's Flight. Rivers, Az.: Associated Students of Butte High School, 1943. [122]pp., profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original padded tan buckram decoratively stamped in blue. Moderate edge wear and soiling. Hinges tender but stable, minor dampstaining along upper margin, rear endpaper detached but present. Good condition. 2) 1944 Year's Flight. Rivers, Az.: Associated Students of Butte High School, 1944. [148]pp., profusely illustrated. Quarto. Original padded cream buckram decoratively stamped in black. Minor edge wear and dust-soiling. Very good. A nice pair of annotated yearbooks documenting the high school years of Japanese American students attending Butte High School in Rivers, Arizona, during their internment at the Gila River Internment Center. Year's Flight is among the scarcest Japanese internment camp yearbooks in the market. Butte High School was located in one of two camps at Gila River, located on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. Internees began to arrive at Butte Camp on August 21, 1942. The population of 8,301 was at its peak on March 21, 1943. The majority of internees were from central Los Angeles and the southern coastal regions of California. This pair of the first two yearbooks issued at Gila River belonged to young Ben Mura, a 1944 graduate of Butte High School, who has signed his name to the top of each free endpaper. In addition, his name is stenciled in gilt on the front cover of the 1943 yearbook. Mura was possibly the son of Shigeko Mura, a Japanese immigrant from California who was interned at Gila River. Ben Mura contributed a poem entitled "Clouds" to his school's p[ublication, Cactus Blossoms 1945, where he reflected on his desire to escape confinement. The present yearbooks are profusely signed and/or inscribed to Mura by some faculty and staff members, as well as legions of his fellow students. The signatures and inscriptions appear on the rear endpapers and some interior pages of each book. Interestingly, Mura's fellow students have inscribed messages to him in both English and Japanese. While the majority of the inscriptions celebrate Mura's success or reflect on his friendship, some also share the sombre tone of his poem. One example: "Best of luck in the future as you deserve it. I hope you will someday be able to relocate and maybe graduate from some college with high honors, Always, Hideo Itabashi." High school yearbooks are a vital primary source on life inside the various Japanese-American internment camps throughout the Second World War. Photographs in the yearbook show typical student portraits and activities such as taking part in a school play and a variety of sports, as well as Armistice Day. Amidst the student portraits and images of classroom and school functions, sport & club activities, and other extracurricular pursuits are glimpses of housing blocks, wire fences, and the desolate landscapes faced by internees and which defined the existence of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans relocated and incarcerated during World War II. The yearbooks were edited and published by the students themselves. One or more editions of Year's Flight reside in only nine institutions according to OCLC. A rare opportunity to acquire a pair of them, both owned by the same interned student.
SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe

SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe by Eliot, George [Marian Evans]

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Title
SILAS MARNER: The Weaver of Raveloe
Author
Eliot, George [Marian Evans]
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1861. [the "A" binding, fine] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 16 pp undated ads + 4 pp (Carlyle) ads bearing January 1861 reviews. Original blind-stamped cinnamon-brown cloth. First Edition of George Eliot's only single-volume novel ("a short and simple one, but flawlessly fashioned"). SILAS MARNER is a novel of remarkable quality. Idyllic, certainly, but nowhere does it strain belief or offer coincidence as a resolution... There is not a superfluous line in the narrative and the book has charm, a quality rarely found in the work of the great Victorian novelists [CGEL]. This was George Eliot's third novel, following ADAM BEDE and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS (published in the prior two years, also by Blackwood); after SILAS MARNER she would temporarily abandon her successful environment of rural England, and fail miserably with ROMOLA, sited in 1490s Italy. This copy is in Carter's "binding A," with the more elaborate giltwork on the spine (a variation also present on Eliot's two prior novels); Carter theorizes that if either binding preceded the other, it would have to be "A", but acknowledges that the two may have been concurrent. (In our experience "A" is certainly the scarcer, in any event.) This copy has the two leaves of Alexander Carlyle ads at the rear; these extra leaves appear only in some copies, and in some cases they are bound in at the front instead. This is a remarkably fine copy (a tiny hole in the rear endpaper gutter, but otherwise without wear or soil). The leaves have very little foxing. Baker & Ross A6.1.a; Sadleir 819 (his was a "B" binding); Wolff 2063 (binding not specified); Carter BV pp 110-112. Housed in a handsome morocco-backed clamshell case with marbled covers. Provenance: the front paste-down bears the 1960 bookplate of the famed bibliophile and bibliographer (and biographer of R.M. Ballantyne), Eric S. Quayle (1921-2001).
THE BISHOP'S APRON. A Study in the Origins of a Great Family

THE BISHOP'S APRON. A Study in the Origins of a Great Family by Maugham, W. Somerset

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THE BISHOP'S APRON. A Study in the Origins of a Great Family
Author
Maugham, W. Somerset
Seller
Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description
1906. London: Chapman and Hall, 1906. Original rose linen-grain cloth. First Edition, believed to have consisted of no more than 1500 copies. In 1900 Punch Magazine had asked Maugham to contribute a couple of stories, one of which was "Cupid and the Vicar of Swale." Over the next few years he converted this story in two ways: into the play LOAVES AND FISHES (written in 1902 but not performed until 1911 and not published until 1924), and into this full-length novel THE BISHOP'S APRON -- which describes Canon Spratte's campaign to wed a beer heiress and obtain a bishopric. The tone was farcical, the dialogue epigrammatic. This insipid period piece... found favor with reviewers. The Bookman in its April [1906] issue said "the whole book is an admirable blend of cynical gaiety and broadly farcical comedy; it is the smartest and most genuinely humourous novel that the season has yet given us." The Punch reviewer... said on February 21 that it was "the best clerical novel since BARCHESTER TOWERS." [Morgan] Toole Stott points out that "No record is now available of the number [of copies] of the first edition. The author believed it was 1,500 but the book's scarcity suggests it was small." The book did not sell well; yet there are some of these 1,500 copies (not this one) with "Second Edition," "Third Edition" or "Fourth Edition" added to the title page. This anomaly is explained by the fact that careful examination of the type shows all four "editions" were printed from the same casting of type at the same time -- in other words, the publisher added such "Edition"s to the title page to deceive the public into thinking this was a hot-selling book they should buy. The primary binding for this novel was red cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, and with "Chapman & Hall" at the foot of the spine. This is a binding variant of rose linen-grain cloth, with no print on the front cover, and with the author's full name but no publisher's name on the spine. The existence of such a secondary binding (plus another bearing only Maugham's last name) lends further credence that this book did not sell well, with C&H binding up copies ever more cheaply in an effort to move them. Condition is near-fine -- fine except for the inevitable fading of the spine and the presence of a former owner's blind-stamp on several leaves including the title. Toole Stott A9a (no mention of this variant binding).
Diario Historico del Ultimo Viaje Que Hizo M. de la Sale para Descrubrir el Desembocadero y Curso del Missicipi...Traducio al Espanol por el Coronel Jose Maria Tornel, Ministro de Mejico en los Estados Unidos

Diario Historico del Ultimo Viaje Que Hizo M. de la Sale para Descrubrir el Desembocadero y Curso del Missicipi...Traducio al Espanol por el Coronel Jose Maria Tornel, Ministro de Mejico en los Estados Unidos by [Tornel, Jose Maria]. Joutel, Henri

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Title
Diario Historico del Ultimo Viaje Que Hizo M. de la Sale para Descrubrir el Desembocadero y Curso del Missicipi...Traducio al Espanol por el Coronel Jose Maria Tornel, Ministro de Mejico en los Estados Unidos
Author
[Tornel, Jose Maria]. Joutel, Henri
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Nueva York: Jose Desnoues, 1831. Very good.. 156pp. 12mo. Contemporary full calf presentation binding by C. Brown of New York (binder's ticket at top of front pastedown), spine gilt extra, boards bordered in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, presentation inscription on front board reading, "El Ciudadano Jose M. Tornel al Ciudadano Rafael Mangino." Minor wear and light scuffing to extremities. Substantial foxing throughout. First Spanish edition of Joutel's landmark Journal Historique de Dernier Voyage Que Feu M. la Sale Fit dans le Golf de Mexique (Paris, 1713), translated for the Mexican market by Jose Maria Tornel, veteran of Mexico's war of independence and former secretary to Santa Anna. This copy was presented by Tornel to his relative and fellow Mexican government official Rafael Mangino y Mendivil, president of the congress who crowned Iturbide in 1822 and who later served as chancellor of the exchequer. Joutel's original work was praised by Howes as the "most reliable eye-witness account of la Salle's two year's wanderings in Texas." Sabin states that "this edition, though printed in New York, was put forth for the Mexican market" with a preface and valuable notes provided by Tornel. Peter Decker relates a more specific and timely reason for the translation: "This expedition of Joutel was ordered printed in New York by the Mexican Ambassador for the purpose of bolstering the Mexican government’s dispute with the United States over priority rights on the lower Mississippi." A striking association copy of a scarce U.S.-Spanish-language imprint in a sumptuous presentation binding executed by a noted though somewhat obscure early-19th-century New York binder. Howes J266 (ref). Basic Texas Books 114D. Sabin 36761. American Imprints 7778.
Ukiyoe Monyo^ KOSODE HYAKUSEN

Ukiyoe Monyo^ KOSODE HYAKUSEN by [DESIGN] Kano^ Shu^ho^, artist

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Title
Ukiyoe Monyo^ KOSODE HYAKUSEN
Author
[DESIGN] Kano^ Shu^ho^, artist
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1936. [DESIGN] Kano Shuho, artist. Ukiyoe Monyo KOSODE HYAKUSEN. [Kyoto, Happodo, Showa 11 {1936}]. 36.7 x 27.2 cm. Though this copy has no colophon or textual material, it consists of 48 of the 50 woodblock printed sheets, each with two designs, so 96 of 100 designs. Each design is identified by the original ukiyo-e artist's name. The printings are fine, the condition good overall. With the original title page, all in a clasped chitsu case. Sold with all faults.
SHIKISHI

SHIKISHI by [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]

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Title
SHIKISHI
Author
[DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]
Seller
Boston Book Company (United States)
Description
1901. [DESIGN BOOK] Kamisaka SEKKA [Yoshitaka]. SHIKISHI. Kyoto: Tanaka jihei, Meiji 34 [1901]. 2 folios, each 31.2 x 21.5 cm. Volume one has 2 color prints and 30 b+w sumi prints, volume two has 30 b+w sumi prints. An interesting design book of subtlety. The covers are quite worn and stained and there is some internal wear and spotting as well. But overall a good early printing. Cord-bound fukuro-toji Japanese style with the title printed on the covers. Complete.
The Front Page [Broken run of 11 issues]

The Front Page [Broken run of 11 issues] by Baxter, Jim

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Title
The Front Page [Broken run of 11 issues]
Author
Baxter, Jim
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Raleigh, North Carolina: Bugle Publishing, Inc, 1980. Very good. 15" x 11½", folded at center. Newsprint. Most pp. 12, a few pp. 16-20. Publication sequence: Vol. 1, Nos. 1 (Oct 25 1979), 4 (Dec 6-19 1979), 5 (Dec 20 - Jan 9 1979), 6 (Jan 10-23 1980), 7 (Jan 24 - Feb 13 1980), 10 & 11 [one issue] (Mar 20 - Apr 9 1980), 12 (Apr 10- 23 1980), 14 (May 8-20 1980), 15 (May 21 - Jun 11 1980), 16 (Jun 12-26 1980), 17 (Jun 27 - Jul 9 1980). Generally very good: a few issues with light wear, toning and dust-soiling, predominantly at edges; a bit of scattered spotting and a few small stains. This is a group of eleven rare early issues of The Front Page (TFP), known as "The News & Entertainment Paper for N.C.'s Gay Community." TFP was founded and produced for over 26 years by North Carolina native Jim Baxter. Jim Baxter entered college in North Carolina in the early 1970s and volunteered for a monthly publication called the Greensboro Sun. In his words, "The Sun came along too late to be 'underground' and too early to be 'alternative.'" He wrote a column called "On Being Gay," which was "scandalous at the time, and helped with production." In 1979, Baxter started TFP, a free biweekly publication for the gay and lesbian community. He subscribed to a clipping service, receiving any story about homosexuality that appeared in any North Carolina newspaper, and would cull the newsworthy items down to 200 words or less, with attribution. Over the years, the regularly published TFP offered the North Carolina LGBTQ+ community a way to spread news, announce meetings and run personal ads. In 1984, the writer John Preston called TFP one of the "great bulletin boards of the gay world" with "marvelously inventive and creative advertisers" and a "great source of amusement and assignations." TFP published its final issue in May 2006 after a 26 year run, then merged with Q-Notes. Based out of Charlotte, North Carolina, Q-Notes is the largest print publication serving the LGBTQ+ community in the American Southeast. On offer here are eleven of the scarce first 17 issues of TFP, spanning October 1979 to July 1980. The "Editor Emeritus" for each issue was listed as "Hildy Johnson," Baxter's clever tribute to the main "ace reporter" character of Broadway play (and 1931 film) The Front Page. That film was the inspiration for His Girl Friday, released in 1940, which used the exact same plot but switched Hildy's character from a gay man to a straight woman. Each issue was filled to the brim with North Carolina and national news covering legal issues, acts of Congress, marches and protests, advancements (and regression) in civil rights. The paper also covered lifestyle, entertainment, sexuality and venereal disease. There were music and book reviews, social calendars, and a plethora of fantastic illustrated advertisements for local gay-friendly bars, clubs, churches, art galleries and bookstores. TFP ran small cartoons and photographic images revealing noteworthy players in the fight for gay rights such as Captain Robert Coronado, who was dishonorably discharged from the United States Air Force for "consensual sodomy with an Army enlisted man," and the North Carolina winner of the "Man of the Year" contest. There were reports connecting gay rights to immigration, the Holocaust and the press, as well as headlines covering a memorial held for Harvey Milk, actions of the National Gay Task Force, the "Christian right" and the "Morality" march on Washington. While most of the issues were printed and folded like a standard newspaper, four were printed to include a full-page illustrated ad on the rear cover, including two with photographic images of half-dressed men. The issues also ran directories of groups and services as well as classified ads. A fantastic trove of news, activities and resources available to the North Carolina LGTBQ+ community. OCLC shows 19 institutions with holdings of The Front Page. Checking individual catalogs revealed that only five institutions have all of the first 17 issues (and at least three of these appear to be bound volumes). There is also one other institution with issue no. 7, one with no. 12, and two with nos. 14-17.
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Work by Ritts, Herb

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Title
Work
Author
Ritts, Herb
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Boston: Little, Brown. First edition. Ritts, Herb. Folio, cloth. Faint bump to upper corner, else fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Ritts. [Additional shipping required].
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[Framed Copper Engraving] Crembs by Grossmann, Carl August [Engraver]

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
[Framed Copper Engraving] Crembs
Creator
Grossmann, Carl August [Engraver]
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Augsburg: Grossmann, Carl August, 1780. Very Good. This is a high quality eighteenth century re-strike of the original seventeenth century engraving by Merian. The only difference with the Merian version, as far as we can discern, is the discreet addition of Grossmann's name in the lower right. The city of Crembs is spelled nowadays as Krems, and it is a popular tourist attraction on the Danube about 80 km, or 50 miles, to the northwest of Vienna -- or an hour by train. As a well-preserved Medieval city, the Krems of today retains a good deal of the appearance captured in the print. N.d., circa 1780. (The original version is circa 1650.) The visible portion of the print is 18.5 by 33 cm. The simple painted black frame is 37 by 47 cm. We could find no other copies of the Grossmann Crembs print, and the original Merian is also scarce, although there are known copies. The wide matting is a manila color with age toning that essentially blends with the original color. However, there is a large albeit light damptstain in the upper left portion of the matting. Perhaps this can be cleaned, but one might just as well replace the matting, which isn't exciting regardless, even if one wishes to hold onto the frame. There are a few light small fox marks on the print proper. Given how inconspicuous these are, we would say that the print reads as clean, and is easily in Very Good or better condition, as is the whole package.
Making Mother Happy (In Dustjacket)

Making Mother Happy (In Dustjacket) by Bertha Baldwin Tralle

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Title
Making Mother Happy (In Dustjacket)
Author
Bertha Baldwin Tralle
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Sam'l Gabriel Sons & Company, 1927. Mary LaFetra Russell. The 1927 1st edition of this lovely children's tale, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and VG to VG+ (very light soiling at the spine) in a crisp, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and the tips, and a bit of mild creasing and offsetting to the rear panel's edges. Still though, very presentable and uncommon as such, in the fragile dustjacket. Octavo, wonderfully illustrated throughout (mostly in pencil sketches but a bit in color as well) by Mary LaFetra Russell.
We will be free... Karl Armstrong for D.A. [poster]

We will be free... Karl Armstrong for D.A. [poster]

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Title
We will be free... Karl Armstrong for D.A. [poster]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
[Madison, WI?], 1972. Poster. 17x22.5 inch poster, neatly creased from having been folded into quarters. Formerly from the collection of J. Wesley Miller, with his rubberstamp and penned signature on the blank verso. Date of November 2, 1972 penned below "institutions." Facetious endorsement of Karleton Armstrong for District Attorney. He was the oldest of the bombers who targeted the Army Math Research Center (AMRC) at UW-Madison in 1970 to protest the Vietnam War. After the bombing, Armstrong went into hiding for 18 months until his capture in Toronto in 1972. This poster was issued after his arrest, quoting him as saying that "We see the AMRC blast as more than just the destruction of one building. We see it as part of a world-wide struggle to defeat Amerikan imperialism. And there could be no greater support for me than renewed attacks on these institutions.
The Maritime Customs. I. Statistical series: nos. 3 and 4. Returns of trade (55th issue) and trade reports 49th issue), 1913. Part III. - Analysis of foreign trade. Vol. I. - Imports. [Vol. II. - Exports]

The Maritime Customs. I. Statistical series: nos. 3 and 4. Returns of trade (55th issue) and trade reports 49th issue), 1913. Part III. - Analysis of foreign trade. Vol. I. - Imports. [Vol. II. - Exports]

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The Maritime Customs. I. Statistical series: nos. 3 and 4. Returns of trade (55th issue) and trade reports 49th issue), 1913. Part III. - Analysis of foreign trade. Vol. I. - Imports. [Vol. II. - Exports]
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs, 1914. Small folio (11" x 8½"), pp. [4], 735, [1]; tables galore throughout; bound with Index to Annual Trade Reports 1908-12, Shanghai, 1914, pp. [4], 19, [1]; original cloth-backed printed yellow paper-covered boards, paper label on spine; a little soiling but very good and sound. Text in Chinese and English, old German library rubberstamp on title page. Includes an "Appendix. Foreign Trade of China: imports (gross) and exports for 1911, 1912, and 1913.
THE BEACH BOYS [ca. 1968] UK stamped portrait

THE BEACH BOYS [ca. 1968] UK stamped portrait by Photography 33

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Title
THE BEACH BOYS [ca. 1968] UK stamped portrait
Author
Photography 33
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Photography 33. No binding. Near Fine. Photography 33, [ca. 1968]. Vintage original borderless 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) British black-and-white photo. Light rippling at top if photo is held at an angle to the light, near fine. Stamped by a British photographic agency, and a striking portrait of the band while on one of their earliest concert tours in Europe.
These measures all point to one conclusion, that motherhood is a crime. The woman who is guilty of it, unless...she is rich and independent, shall not eat bread for six months thereafter" 1874

These measures all point to one conclusion, that motherhood is a crime. The woman who is guilty of it, unless...she is rich and independent, shall not eat bread for six months thereafter" 1874 by Lucy Wilson

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These measures all point to one conclusion, that motherhood is a crime. The woman who is guilty of it, unless...she is rich and independent, shall not eat bread for six months thereafter" 1874
Author
Lucy Wilson
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1874. [Women Employment] Lucy Wilson. "Women and Legislation." Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. June 20, 1874. Original paper wrappers. 4 pages. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 in. A Letter addressed to the Editors of the Leeds Mercury. "These measures all point to one conclusion, that motherhood is a crime. The woman who is guilty of it, unless...she is rich and independent, shall not eat bread for six months thereafter, or twelve, as the House may determine." In this open letter, Wilson decries legislation which would forbid new mothers from working, yet fails to provide any public assistance for them to care for their families. "No Act has been passed decreeing that such women shall not suffer cold or hunger, or to 'deem that they commit an offence' if they are hungry." Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights was a British organization dedicated to watching, restraining, and influencing legislation especially in matters affecting the interests of women, and the personal rights and liberties of the people. Small losses along spine. Very good condition.
Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers.

Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers. by Tyler, Rev. Josiah

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Title
Livingstone Lost and Found, or Africa and Its Explorers.
Author
Tyler, Rev. Josiah
Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Hartford, Conn.: Mutual Publishing Company, 1873. Book. Very Good. Half-Leather. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Half red morocco over purple moire silk covered boards gilt lettering and rules to the spine, hand-made end papers. Very Good. "With over one hundred illustrations and maps". Spine top front joint has a 1" closed tear with 1/2" diagonal closed tear, both with old repairs, small rubs at corners, hinges reinforced and tight, scattered light foxing throughout. Uncommon in lovely binding. .
The Psychology of Sound

The Psychology of Sound by Henry J. Watt

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Title
The Psychology of Sound
Author
Henry J. Watt
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. 241 + 2 pp. publisher's advertisements. Printed dust jacket. Blue cloth stamped in black at spine. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges with tear to top edge of front panel; tape mending to front and spine near top edge; general smudging and rubbing. Boards lightly edgeworn and sunned. Binding sound. Soiling and spotting to edges of text block and endpapers, but interior text clear and legible throughout; a Very Good copy; scarce in dust jacket.
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HASTY RECOGNITION OF REBEL BELLIGERENCY, AND OUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN OF IT by Bemis, George

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Title
HASTY RECOGNITION OF REBEL BELLIGERENCY, AND OUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN OF IT
Author
Bemis, George
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Boston, 1865. viii, 57pp. Disbound roughly, original printed front wrapper [chipped, loose]. Else Good+. Bemis denounces Britain's diplomatic support for the Confederacy, defending the right of the North to impose its naval blockade and calling the South's secession an illegal rebellion. I Harv. Law Cat. 150. Bartlett 393.
Jane WIthers, Twentieth Century-Fox Star, Her Life Story

Jane WIthers, Twentieth Century-Fox Star, Her Life Story by PACKER, Eleanor

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Jane WIthers, Twentieth Century-Fox Star, Her Life Story
Author
PACKER, Eleanor
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1936. Staplebound wraps. Very good. 8vo; 32pp; color illustrated stiff wrapper with Jane Withers' portrait to cover; 3 staple binding tight; black and white photographic illustrations with text; light shelf scuffing, chip to top front wrapper, scratch to back wrapper and creases at spine with color loss; very good minus. Biography of the Hollywood child star, Jane Withers.
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LA VIDA INVADE LAS PALABRAS: MIGUEL CARINI

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LA VIDA INVADE LAS PALABRAS: MIGUEL CARINI
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN
9788496660151
Description
Spain: Museo Casa de los Tiros, Granada (2006); Monasterio de Santa Inés, Sevilla (2007); Museo de Almería (2007), 2006. color plates, ind., color pict. wrps. Exhibition catalogue of paintings of Carini (b. Buenos Aires; lives and works in Spain).
There Are No Islands, Any More

There Are No Islands, Any More by St. Vincent Millay, Edna

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There Are No Islands, Any More
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St. Vincent Millay, Edna
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
Description
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Wraps. Very Good. Very Good in wraps, lightly rubbed at the edges, a small tear at the foot of the spine, pen name above the title. Clean and firmly bound. A ten-page poem written by Millay "in the cause of democracy," with all proceeds going to a war relief agency.
The Rimers of Eldritch & Other Plays

The Rimers of Eldritch & Other Plays by WILSON, Lanford

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The Rimers of Eldritch & Other Plays
Author
WILSON, Lanford
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Hill and Wang, 1967. First edition and first printing. Softcover. 122 pages. Wilson's second book, a collection of five short plays. A very good copy in wrappers with some very minor wear and with an acting agency sticker to the half title page.
The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Liberalism

The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Liberalism by Fromer, Yoav

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The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Liberalism
Author
Fromer, Yoav
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780700629527
Condition
Very good +
Description
Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 290pp. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about how this could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an unlikely source: the fiction of John Updike. Though commonly viewed as an East Coast chronicler of suburban angst, the gifted writer (in fact a native of the quintessential rust-belt state, Pennsylvania) was also an ardent man of ideas, political ideas whose fiction, Fromer tells us, should be read not merely as a reflection of the postwar era, but rather as a critical investigation into the liberal culture that helped define it. Several generations of Americans since the 1960s have increasingly felt "left behind." In Updike's early work, Fromer finds a fictional map of the failures of liberalism that might explain these grievances. The Moderate Imagination also taps previously unknown archival materials and unread works from his college years at Harvard to offer a clearer view of the author's acute political thought and ideas. Updike's prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans decades before conservatives sought to exploit them. In his writing, he traced liberalism's historic decline to its own philosophical contradictions rather than to only commonly cited external circumstances like the Vietnam War, racial strife, economic recession, and conservative backlash. A subtle reinterpretation of John Updike's legacy, Fromer's work complicates and enriches our understanding of one of the twentieth century's great American writers-even as the book deftly demonstrates what literature can teach us about politics and history.(Publisher).
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Every Man for Himself. by Bainbridge, Beryl.

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Every Man for Himself.
Author
Bainbridge, Beryl.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
London: Duckworth, (1996). First Edition. Octavo, black boards (hardcover), 224 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with mylar protector.

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