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New Goose (Association Copy)

New Goose (Association Copy) by NIEDECKER, Lorine

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Seller: Harper's Books
Title
New Goose (Association Copy)
Author
NIEDECKER, Lorine
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Near fine, in tan cloth boards with gilt lettering, in near fine jacket, with minor wear at corners and creasing to top edge of
Description
Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. Near fine, in tan cloth boards with gilt lettering, in near fine jacket, with minor wear at corners and creasing to top edge of the over-sized jacket. Housed in custom clamshell case, with leather lettering piece to spine. A pleasing association copy of a scarce work.. First Edition. Duodecimo. First book of poetry from Niedecker, which grew out of her work for the WPA Federal Writers' Project. This association copy INSCRIBED by Niedecker to Edwin Honig in 1950; the two poets having worked together in the the Madison chapter of the Writers' Project.
Il Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura

Il Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura by MOLLINO, Carlo

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Title
Il Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura
Author
MOLLINO, Carlo
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Puncture to rear joint, not affecting contents, with general creasing to illustrated jacket. Includes original wraparound band,
Description
Torino: Pressa la Casa Editrice Chiantore di Torino, 1949. Puncture to rear joint, not affecting contents, with general creasing to illustrated jacket. Includes original wraparound band, with edge-tears, and separation at front joint, but complete. A very good copy, with sound binding, in a very good jacket.. First Edition. Large quarto. Text in Italian. Mollino's important survey of photography from its inception to the date of publication, including reproductions of his own work, alongside photographs by Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, and very early Richard Avedon, among others. With 15 tipped-in color plates. This elegantly designed book is widely considered one the best Italian photobooks of the 20th century.
Dean & Son's Moveable Book of The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & The Crystal Palace

Dean & Son's Moveable Book of The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & The Crystal Palace by (Moveable)

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Seller: Thorn Books
Title
Dean & Son's Moveable Book of The Royal Punch & Judy as Played Before the Queen at Windsor Castle & The Crystal Palace
Author
(Moveable)
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Stiff card wraps
Description
London: Dean & Son, 11 Ludgate Hill, 1859. Poor. Stiff card wraps. 4to. Bound in thin card with covers printed in color. 16 pp., printed on one side only, with eight full page hand-colored illustrations showing Punch and Judy, et al., in the upper portion with text and drummer below. Each plate has moveable parts operated by a lever at the foot which operates the movement in the upper window; in addition 3 of the drummers move when the tabs are activated. The drummers on the remaining pages have their arms in the form of tabs which fit into a slit in the page. They are affixed on the other side. There is nothing to suggest that they were ever intended to move. To the best of our knowledge all copies of this title have all puppets movable but only three drummers. It is as though Dean had intended to make them all movable but gave up on the idea. Later printing of this work have the drummers all immovable, printed on the page with the text reset to go around the illustrations. This is a very good copy of a truly rare item. There is general soil from use; several tabs have been strengthened or replaced, but all of the moveable scenes are operative. Montanaro, p. 69. The dating of this item is problematic, but likely about 1859. Montanaro suggests a date of 1860, but the Cotsen copy in the Diana Rexford Tillson collection has an inscription dated March, 1859. The rear board has the code 4000--3,59 which indicates a publication date of March, 1859. Dean and Son was the first publisher to produce movable books on a large scale. In the late 1850's, the firm can be credited with inventing another first: the use of a mechanism that moved or was animated by pulling a tab.
Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection

Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection by WRIGHT-MOLYNEUX

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Title
Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection
Author
WRIGHT-MOLYNEUX
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description
London: Typographic Etching Company, 1880. Typographic etching, Sheet measures 19 3/4 x 28". Uncommon facsimile map issued by the Hakluyt Society, named after Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616), the influential English geographer and compiler of travel accounts. This map reproduces the Wright-Molyneux world chart, originally published in 1599 and derived from a 1592 globe by English globe maker Emeric Molyneux. The map first appeared in Edward Wrights seminal work, 'Certaine Errors in Navigation', which for the first time clearly articulated the mathematical foundations of the Mercator projection. Notably minimalist, the chart omits details for unexplored regions, leaving them blank. An early reference to the Great Lakes appears as Lake Tadouac. A decorative cartouche in the upper left bears the royal motto Dieu et mon droit 'God and my right' used by Queen Elizabeth I and later British monarchs (excluding those in Scotland). Curious details include the upside-down engraving of Estotiland, a legendary island from the apocryphal voyage of the Zeno brothers, and an early use of the name Canada, echoing its appearance on Forlani's 1560 Italian map. Condition: Even overall toning with light creasing; otherwise in very good condition. Provenance: from the collection of Polish artist Stanislaw Szukalski.
Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York

Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York by [Social Activism] [Mental Health] [Neuro Diversity] Tuke, Samuel

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Title
Description of the Retreat, an Institution Near York
Author
[Social Activism] [Mental Health] [Neuro Diversity] Tuke, Samuel
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
York: W. Alexander, 1813. First octavo edition. Octavo (leaves 129 x 210 mm). There was also a quarto edition in 1813, generally described as a large-paper copy. Collating: xx, 227, [1 page errata]; complete including frontis and two folding plates. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with gilt and five raised bands to spine. Generally a bit shelfworn and rubbed, but a tight, square copy. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Original owner's notes on recto and verso of title page in ink: "Purchased at...8 Sept 1821. Visited the Retreat Saturday aftern., 8 September 1821...with cleanly appearance & admirable arrangement of buildings, the Inmates looked far happier than could have been expected. The Matron & her husband have the most benevolent countenances that we had ever beheld." Light scattered foxing throughout, else unmarked. An account of the groundbreaking work of the Tuke family and the Society of Friends for improving the care and dignity with which mental illness was treated. At a time when the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness was often inhumane, William Tuke stepped forward in 1796 to found The Retreat. Its goal was to create safe, pleasing, and dignified conditions for those being institutionalized; and from its inauguration, The Retreat kept its doors open to public visitors who may want to witness and document the conditions of its campus and patients. In the present work, William's grandson Samuel Tuke publicizes the institution's "internal economy of management" as well as its "mild system of treatment." Transparency is key to continued progress, Tuke asserts; and he wants the Retreat's successes to assist in further advances in the field. "The interests of humanity and science alike call upon us to communicate freely the discoveries we make or the failures which happen to us...If persons engaged in the management of the insane were more generally to publish the results of their observation, we might reasonably hope that the causes of this obscure and affecting disorder would receive some illustration." While William Tuke's work remains revolutionary in improving method of caring for the mentally ill, Samuel Tuke's book "helped popularise the approach...to use the moral treatment method for restoring self-esteem and self-control in individuals" suffering from a range of ailments (Quaker World). As awareness of the model spread, so too did institutions build on its principles, with hospitals emerging in the UK and US.
[AUTOBIOGRAPHY] UP FROM SLAVERY

[AUTOBIOGRAPHY] UP FROM SLAVERY by Booker T. Washington

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Title
[AUTOBIOGRAPHY] UP FROM SLAVERY
Author
Booker T. Washington
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1902. 8vo; in publisher’s burgundy cloth binding; with titling on the upper board and spine in gilt; ix, 330 pages including the Index; the boards have silverfishing and minor water damage to the bottom corners; there is a small amount of bleed to the pastedowns; ~~Early edition of Washington’s autobiography with his facsimile signature under his image opposite the title page. Contains bookplate of Philip Alexander Bruce. Annotated on front endpaper, “Philip A. Bruce – Pulaski, VA 1902 - from the author”.
THE AGE OF ANXIETY

THE AGE OF ANXIETY by AUDEN, W. H

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Title
THE AGE OF ANXIETY
Author
AUDEN, W. H
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Owner name on front endpaper and copious but light pencil notes on rear endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with som
Description
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper and copious but light pencil notes on rear endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some darkening and soiling. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
BATTLE OF ANGELS

BATTLE OF ANGELS by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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BATTLE OF ANGELS
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WILLIAMS, Tennessee
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Usual minor tears to edges; spine darkened with small chips at head and heel. Very Good
Description
Murray, UT: Pharos, Spring 1945. First Edition. softcover. Usual minor tears to edges; spine darkened with small chips at head and heel. Very Good. Pharos: Numbers 1 & 2. Playwright's first play and first book, a double number of this periodical in original pale blue-gray wraps with yapped edges printed in red.
A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT

A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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A PERFECT ANALYSIS GIVEN BY A PARROT
Author
WILLIAMS, Tennessee
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
(New York): Dramatists Play Service, Inc, 1958. First Edition. wraps. Fine. Printed blue wraps. Crandell A24.I.a. The First Separate Printing, originally published in ESQUIRE magazine.
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NEW JERSEY 1800 Cumberland County Census Index

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NEW JERSEY 1800 Cumberland County Census Index
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description
NEW JERSEY 1800 Cumberland County Census Index. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems, [ca. 1980]. 4to. [3], 32, [30], 42 leaves. Cloth. "Special limited edition. Second edition," but in reality an exact reprint of the 1977 edition. Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson. An indexed transcription of a surviving contemporary copy of the Cumberland County part of the lost 1800 New Jersey census.
Aprons and Caps, 405, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, Scranton, Pa

Aprons and Caps, 405, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, Scranton, Pa by [PICKEN, Mary Brooks]

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Title
Aprons and Caps, 405, Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts & Sciences, Scranton, Pa
Author
[PICKEN, Mary Brooks]
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
No place listed: International Educational Publishing Company, 1922. Staplebound. Very good. 8vo; 51 + 1pp; blue printed pictorial cover on grey stiff wrapper; 2 staple binding; illustrated; chip to bottom front cover corner and through first 8 pages without loss to text, light age toning of paper; very good. Illustrated instructional construction techniques for sewing different styles of aprons and caps from the famous American author and founder of the school. Included is one instruction for "Maid's Apron
Death on the Nile; A Hercule Poirot Mystery

Death on the Nile; A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Christie, Agatha

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Title
Death on the Nile; A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Author
Christie, Agatha
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780062073556
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: William Morrow, 2020. Paperback. Fine. Later Printing. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed, sticker on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
The Art of Pamphleteering

The Art of Pamphleteering

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Title
The Art of Pamphleteering
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1967. Pamphlet. [8]p., stapled wraps, 3.75x9 inches, two titles circled in pencil, rubberstamp and splash stain on rear wrap, else good condition. Mostly consists of a list of pamphlets published by LID. Undated, but most of the listed pamphlets are from 1965 to '67.

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