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Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club by [HARRIET BEECHER STOWE]

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Title
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club
Author
[HARRIET BEECHER STOWE]
Seller
Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[HARRIET BEECHER STOWE]. Broadside. Uncle Tom's Cabin playbill. Announcing performance by the Prospect Harbor, Maine, Dramatic Club, managed by E.W. Cleaves. Ca. 1890s. 1 p., 15⅜ x 27⅜ in. Historical Background Edwin W. Cleaves was active in Prospect Harbor's local politics and society, and kept a hotel described in 1900 as "one of the most homelike one strikes anywhere on the coast." The Prospect Harbor Dramatic Club was active in the 1890s, and Cleaves was the manager of a masquerade ball in Prospect Harbor in February 1895. Although Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the nineteenth century, far more Americans saw the story as a stage play or musical than read the book. In only its first year alone, 1852, the book sold 300,000 copies. One scholar estimates that at least three million people saw a musical or play based on it during the nineteenth century. (Eric Lott, Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 211-33.) Lax copyright laws and Stowe's refusal to "authorize" a particular dramatic version led to the proliferation of productions, many based only loosely on her novel. Some changed Tom's grim death to a happy reconciliation between Tom and his oppressors who come to see the error of their ways. "Tom shows" remained popular into the twentieth century when producers created silent film versions. By the beginning of the twentieth century, more than four hundred separate companies traveled and performed some theatrical version of the story. With these blackface minstrel productions, the book that Abraham Lincoln credited with starting the war that led to Emancipation was thus unfortunately used over several generations to reinforce stereotypes of African Americans. Edwin W. Cleaves (1833-1928) lived his entire life in Steuben and Prospect Harbor/ Gouldsboro, Maine. In the 1860s, he became a blacksmith and an expert ship iron man. He was a Mason, a Republican, and one of the founders of the Union League at Prospect Harbor. He taught several terms and also served as superintendent of schools there. He kept a hotel from at least 1876 to 1908. He married Isabell P. Cole (1837-1899), and after her death married Mrs. Ophelia Foster Burnham (1838-1923) in 1900. Condition Large bold wooden type, professionally mended and lined from the verso. A rare survival.
The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old

The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old by Wain, Louis (illustrator); John Hannon

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The Kings and the Cats. Munster Fairy Tales for Young & Old
Author
Wain, Louis (illustrator); John Hannon
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Burns & Oates, Ltd, 1908. First edition. Publishers red cloth, front cover ruled and lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, plain endpapers. Spine ends a little worn, slight staining to upper cover . Quarto (9 7/16 x 6 3/4 inches; 240 x 171 mm.). Collating xiv, 78. Including monotone frontispiece and ten full- page monotone plates. Light marginal foxing, otherwise an excellent copy of this extremely unusual Louis Wain title. This is a fascinating little book with very unusual and atypical drawings by Louis Wain. The frontispiece The Wise Old Woman of the Wicklow Hills depicts a witch looking over her cauldron whilst two cats, one black and one white, look on... is at first glance more in the style of the Victorian artist, Sidney Sime. In fact throughout this volume only one of the eleven illustrations Little Fiss and the Wicked Enchanted Bull (facing page 40) is remotely similar to the Louis Wain that we all love, admire and enjoy. Dale, 93.
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Tryptophan biosynthesis in Salmonella typhimurium. Offprint by Brenner, Sydney

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Tryptophan biosynthesis in Salmonella typhimurium. Offprint
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Brenner, Sydney
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
1955. Brenner, Sydney (1927- ). Tryptophan biosynthesis in Salmonella typhimurium. Offprint from Proc. Nat. Aca. Sci. 41 (1955). 862-863pp. Single sheet, without wrappers as issued. 258 x 176 mm. Light browning, one corner worn, holes punched in left margin. Very good. Z First Separate Edition. "Recent studies have demonstrated that tryptophan [an amino acid] is synthesized in Escherichia coli from anthranilic acid via indole. A study has been made of tryptophan auxotrophs of Salmonella typhimurium, and the results, reported below, indicate that the same pathway of tryptophan biosynthesis is followed in this strain" (p. 862). .
REVISTA DE REVISTAS: EL SEMANARIO NACIONAL. AÑO XXIII. NUM. 1232. 24 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1933

REVISTA DE REVISTAS: EL SEMANARIO NACIONAL. AÑO XXIII. NUM. 1232. 24 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1933

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REVISTA DE REVISTAS: EL SEMANARIO NACIONAL. AÑO XXIII. NUM. 1232. 24 DE DICIEMBRE DE 1933
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Condition
(wrps. and spine worn)
Description
México, D.F.: Excelsior Cía Editorial, 1933. (wrps. and spine worn). b/w plates, illustrations, advertisements, musical notes, portraits, color pictorial wrappers. Año XXIII. Num. 1232. 24 de Diciembre de 1933.
A Herald of the West: an American Story of 1811-1815

A Herald of the West: an American Story of 1811-1815 by ALTSHELER, J[oseph] A.

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A Herald of the West: an American Story of 1811-1815
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ALTSHELER, J[oseph] A.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1898. First Edition. First printing. Small octavo. Pictorial cloth; viii,359pp. Wear to cloth at spine ends and board corners; faint stains and some moisture rippling to text block edges; rear endpaper lacking: a flawed copy, no better than Good, but retaining decent shelf appearance. A hard-to-find Altsheler title, and one of the few never to have been reprinted.
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Ansel Adams: Classic Images by Alinder, James, and John Szarkowski

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Ansel Adams: Classic Images
Author
Alinder, James, and John Szarkowski
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Boston: New York Graphic Society, Little, Brown, [1986] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. With 76 duotone illustrations. Fine in dust jacket that is lightly rubbed in a few places.
The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope. Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy on January 7-10, 1997.

The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope. Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy on January 7-10, 1997. by BARBIERI, Cesare; Jurgen H. RAHE; Torrence V. JOHNSON; Anita M. SOHUS (eds.).

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The Three Galileos: The Man, The Spacecraft, The Telescope. Proceedings of the Conference held in Padova, Italy on January 7-10, 1997.
Author
BARBIERI, Cesare; Jurgen H. RAHE; Torrence V. JOHNSON; Anita M. SOHUS (eds.).
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
ISBN
9780792348610
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Dordrecht, Boston, London:: Kluwer Academic, 1997., 1997. Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library. 8vo. xvii, 459 pp. Pictorial yellow boards. Fine. ISBN 10: 0792348613 Contents: THE MAN. Galileo's Telescopic Observations: The Marvel and Meaning of Discovery, [by] G.V. Coyne. The Discovery by Galileo of Jupiter's Moons, [by] E. Bellone. The Abodes of Galileo Galilei in Padova, [by] C. Bellinati. The Galileo Spacecraft. Project Galileo - The Jupiter Mission, [by] W.J. O'Neil. The German Contribution to Project Galileo, [by] R. Killinger. Galileo at Jupiter: First Results, [by] T.V. Johnson. Images from the Galileo Mission, [by] M.J.S. Belton, The Galileo Imaging Team. The Galileo Spacecraft Architecture, [by] W.J. O'Neil. THE GALILEO SPACECRAFT: A Communications Legacy for Future Space Flight, [by] L.J. Deutsch. Galileo's Telecommunications Using the Low-Gain Spacecraft Antenna, [by] J.I. Statman, L.J. Deutsch. Navigation of the Galileo Spacecraft, [by] L.A. D'Amario. Galileo Spacecraft Operations, [by] M.R. Landano. Galileo's Legacy to Cassini: Historical, Philosophical, and Physical, [by] D.L. Matson. THE MEDICEAN MOONS. The Evolution of the Jovian System, [by] A. Coradini. Geology of Europa, [by] R. Greeley. The Bombardment History of the Jovian System, [by] G. Neukum. Atmospheres of the Medicean Moons, [by] W.-H. Ip. The Io Plasma Torus, [by] N. Thomas. Observations of Mutual Events Between Jupiter Satellites, [by] C. Blanco. Control Networks of the Galilean Satellites: Solutions for Size and Shape, [by] M.E. Davies et al. ATMOSPHERES. Chemistry and Clouds of the Atmosphere of Jupiter: A Galileo Perspective, [by] S.K. Atreya, et al. Galileo Infrared Observations of Jupiter, [by] T. Encrenaz, et al. The Dynamics of Jupiter's Atmosphere from the Galileo Orbiter Imaging System, [by] D.B. Banfield, et al. Galileo Probe Measurements of the Deep Zonal Winds of Jupiter, [by] D.H. Atkinson. On the Origin of Jupiter's Atmosphere and the Volatiles on the Medicean Stars, [by] T.C. Owen, et al. MAGNETOSPHERES. The Magnetic Fields of the Galilean Moons of Jupiter: The Galileo Spacecraft Magnetometer Results, [by] D.J. Southwood, M.G. Kivelson. Dust Measurements from Galileo's Second Orbit About Jupiter, [by] H. Kruger, et al. The Energetic Particles Detector (EPD) aboard the Galileo Spacecraft: First Results in the Jovian Magnetosphere, [by] N. Krupp, et al. THE GALILEO TELESCOPE. The Galileo Italian National Telescope and its Instrumentation, [by] C. Barbieri. The Galileo Telescope's Active Optics System, [by] F. Bortoletto. The Adaptive Optics Module for the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, [by] R. Ragazzoni. Instrumentation and Observing Techniques from Galilei to the TNG, [by] S. di Serego Alighieri. Data Handling and Archiving at the Galileo Telescope, [by] A. Balestra, et al. Remote Control of the Galileo Telescope and the EU `REMOT' Project, [by] A. Balestra, et al. SARG: The High Resolution Spectrograph of TNG, [by] R.G. Gratton, et al. A Real-Time Speckle Facility for the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, [by] E. Marchetti, et al. Seeing Prevision - A Possible Application to the TNG Telescope at La Palma, [by] E. Masciadri, et al. Eclipse Observations of the Lunar Atmosphere from the TNG Site, [by] M. Mendillo, et al. COORDINATION OF SPACE AND GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS. Dynamics in the Jovian System, [by] G.B. Valsecchi. Ground-based Remote Sensing of Energetic Neutral Atoms in Jupiter's Magnetosphere, [by] M. Mendillo, et al. Analysis of Galileo Doppler Measurements During the Solar Occultations in 1994 and 1995, [by] R. Wohlmuth, et al. Plates. Organizing Institutions and Committees. Author Index."
At a Venture

At a Venture by Bennett, Charles A.

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Title
At a Venture
Author
Bennett, Charles A.
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good+ in Fair dj
Description
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling and rubbing to red topstain; jacket has numerous chips (especially at spine, including loss of most of book title), and is split at rear hinge, but front panel is substantially complete and still attractive]. (20 full-page line drawings) Humorous essays by "a philosopher by profession, a humorist by nature, a New Englander by residence, an Oxford man by education, and an Irishman by birth." (That's just one guy, not five.) The author's "topics range from the jazz orchestra of the future to the next war." .

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