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The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches

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Title: The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Bound in gold tooled red morocco. Fore edge painting. Ownership bookplate on first pastedown, with additional ownership signatur
Description: Oxford: Printed at the Clarendon Press by W. Dawson, T. Bensley, and J. Cooke, 1798. 8vo. Bound in gold tooled red morocco. Fore edge painting. Ownership bookplate on first pastedown, with additional ownership signatures. In red cloth slipcase. 8vo. A lovely rebound copy of the Clarendon Press' 1798 "cum privilegio" edition, with a slightly faded yet highly detailed fore-edge painting of Oxford. The two inscriptions on the first blank, dated 1806 and 1837, as well as the annotated bookplate affixed to the first pastedown endpaper, delineate nearly a century of ownership by the women of one family. The first inscription - "This Book Property of / Sarah Evans / 2d August 1806 / 13 Thavies Inn" - was almost certainly written at the time of her wedding to Thomas Evans in London. This notion is supported by the second inscription just beneath it - "Sarah Elizabeth Evans / from her affectionate Mother / 1837" - as that is year when her daughter married a Spanish wine merchant, Miguel Joaquin Yglesias, on September 9th. Sarah Yglesias died in 1896, the date noted in autograph on the bookplate of her daughter, Frances Yglesias, indicating she likely inherited the book from her mother. While it is unknown exactly when the lovely fore-edge painting was created, the style points to the period around when the book became the property of Sarah Evans, which itself was only shortly after it was published. Provenance: Gift of Bishop Stephen Fielding Bayne, Jr.; Frances Yglesias (1896); Sarah Elizabeth Evans Yglesias (1837); Sarah Evans (1806). Griffiths, D.N. Book of common prayer, 1798, 2; ESTC T190770

Hope Trueblood by Worth, Patience; Pearl Lenore Curran; Caspar S. Yost [Editor]

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Title: Hope Trueblood
Author: Worth, Patience; Pearl Lenore Curran; Caspar S. Yost [Editor]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1918 and "Published, May, 1918" on copyright page.) vi, 363, [1], [6 ads] pp. Bound in publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with a few minor spots of foxing to fore edge but bright and clean both inside and outside, in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to spine panel. Rare in such a lovely jacket.The second novel by bestselling author and poet Pearl L. Curran, who claimed to be channelling the spirit of Patience Worth, a 17th century English immigrant to America. In a Smithsonian Magazine article Gioia Diliberto writes: "Speaking through a Ouija board operated by Pearl Lenore Curran, a St. Louis housewife of limited education, Patience Worth was nothing short of a national phenomenon in the early years of the 20th century. Though her works are virtually forgotten today, the prestigious Braithwaite anthology listed five of her poems among the nation's best published in 1917, and the New York Times hailed her first novel as a 'feat of literary composition.' Her output was stunning. In addition to seven books, she produced voluminous poetry, short stories, plays and reams of sparkling conversation-nearly four million words between 1913 and 1937.".

Fitch Hambletonian! This Celebrated Stallion, Purchased of William Fitch, of Norwich, CT., by H. J. Rockwell and W. H. Allen will make a Short Season at the Metropolitan Stables, N. London Connecticut by (Stud Broadside)

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Title: Fitch Hambletonian! This Celebrated Stallion, Purchased of William Fitch, of Norwich, CT., by H. J. Rockwell and W. H. Allen will make a Short Season at the Metropolitan Stables, N. London Connecticut
Author: (Stud Broadside)
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: New London, Ct.: Printed at the Office of the Daily Star, 1871. Broadside, matted and framed. Folio. Visible image size 340 x 258 mm., [13 ½ x 10 inches.]; frame size 420 x 370 mm., [16 ½ x 14 ½ inches]. Illustrated with woodcut image very well executed and printed in deep rich black ink. Some minor shadow effect from large wood type, text and image printed within a decorative border. Appears to be in very good condition although not removed from the frame. Will remove upon request. The woodcut image of the large, virile stallion rearing against the reins and constraints imposed by the hot walker, is beautifully cut and printed. The broadside is surprisingly clean as the ink used to accentuate the cut has not oxidized. In the background is a young black child walking a white horse, presumably the mare suggested by the advertisement. Although unsigned the woodcut is expertly designed and cut with delicate parallel line which accentuates the movement of the stallion. Rare broadside, with only one copy cited in OCLC at Connecticut Historical Society. A copy was offered for sale by William Reese and Company earlier in the year, presumably sold. .

Greater Boston Subway System and Trolley Cars Large Archive of Over 40 Photos Showing the Expanding Public Rail System in the 1930s by Boston Subway System

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Title: Greater Boston Subway System and Trolley Cars Large Archive of Over 40 Photos Showing the Expanding Public Rail System in the 1930s
Author: Boston Subway System
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1935. [Public Transit][Massachusetts] Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area, including Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence, Saugus, Marblehead, Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars, trolley routes, terminals, and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit, with additional views tied to Springfield, Providence, and Connecticut operations, placing the photographs within the broader interurban rail network that linked Boston to surrounding towns before the official creation of the MBTA. Boston's subway system is the oldest in the United States, created in the 1890s by the Rapid Transit Commission in response to severe streetcar congestion on Tremont Street. The system created by the Boston Elevated Railway Company at the turn of the century helped define the infrastructure of modern Boston transit. These photographs preserve the street-level operating environment in the early years of expanding public transport in the city: destination boards, transfer points, yard scenes, terminal loops, and rolling stock moving through dense commercial districts, snowbound streets, and residential outskirts prior to the establishment of the MBTA in 1947. Photo archive of 41 silver gelatin photographs, approximately 3 x 5.5 inches, greater Boston and nearby cities in New England, circa 1934-1946. The archive includes single-car and articulated streetcars, coupled cars, work or service equipment, and yard scenes photographed in active street settings. Visible destination and route identifiers include Main, Myrtle, Lakeside, Watertown, Boston, Tunnel, Beach Bluff, Saugus Branch, Essex St Lawrence, Main St line Haverhill, Oak Park line, and Marblehead Depot, with captions on verso marking dates and locations. Several photographs show cars in dense commercial blocks with visible storefronts and wall advertising, including American Loan & Savings Association, Whitworth's Rubber Sporting Goods, M. Casey & Co. Cigars & Tobacco, Coca-Cola, Pillsbury's Best Flour, Harms School of Business, and Rem for coughs; others show cars at depots, loops, and yards, including Hooker St Yards. Repeated fare and service slogans are also visible on the cars, especially "Save money with weekly pass" and "Ride all day for $1 20 cities, 51 towns," makes the archive particularly strong as evidence of regional transit marketing and network integration. Other images capture scenes of the train cars in the snow, at crossings, switching tracks, and running beside early automobiles, an active record of the trolley system functioning within everyday urban traffic. This archive preserves the operating network that fed a larger system of public transit across city neighborhoods and outlying towns serviced by America's oldest subway system. The photographs show the routes, terminal circulation, yard storage, and municipal reach of this system, especially in the Eastern Massachusetts territory where one fare structure and one rolling-stock family served dozens of communities. Light handling wear and some discoloration on verso, images clean and complete. Overall very good condition. A large visual record of the Greater Boston street railway service moving through city streets, suburbs, and terminals.

Wild Apples, first printing in The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862 issue by Thoreau, Henry David

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Title: Wild Apples, first printing in The Atlantic Monthly, November 1862 issue
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First edition, first printing. FIRST PRINTING OF THOREAU'S HISTORY OF THE APPLE TREE, EMERSON ON EMANCIPATION OF THE SLAVES, AND WHITE ON EMANCIPATION OF RUSSIA'S SERFS. 6 1/4 X 10 inches single issue of periodical in printed brown paper wraps, pp 513-648, 2 leaves publisher's advertisements; Wild Apples pages 513-526. Also included are The Development and Overthrow of the Russian Serf-System [Edict Emancipation of Russia] (by Andrew Dickson White, pages 538-552) and The President's Proclamation [Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation] (by Ralph Waldo Emerson, pages 638-642). Light soiling to covers, wear bottom of spine, pages crisp and unmarked with scattered light foxing, binding tight, very good in custom archival mylar cover. Wild Apples is a reflective exploration of the apple tree and its significance, combinig elements of natural history, philosophy, and botany, focusing on the wild apple's cultural and ecological importance. Thoreau intertwines his appreciation for the wild apple with commentary on human cultivation and the subtleties of nature, thus creating a celebration of the natural world. He reflects on the beauty, flavors, and fragrances of wild apples while illustrating their connection to rural life and folklore. Through rich descriptive language, he evokes the sensory experiences of encountering wild apples, emphasizing their unique character and the joy of foraging. Thoreau also addresses the decline of these wild trees, lamenting the loss of traditional practices and the increasing preference for cultivated varieties, thus calling attention to the broader implications of human activity on nature. HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862), the naturalist, philosopher, and author of such classics as Walden and Civil Disobedience, contributed a number of writings to The Atlantic in its early years. As noted in the Preface to The Atlantic Index, A List of Articles, With Names of Authors Appended, Published in "The Atlantic Monthly" From Its Establishment in 1857 to the Close of the Sixty-Second Volume in 1888 (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York, 1889), "The articles, at first, were not signed, the publishers did not publicly announce them, and the table of contents accompanying each volume did not contain the names of authors annexed to their several contributions. This last practice was begun in the ninth volume, and at several contributions. This last practice was begun in the ninth volume, and at the beginning of the twenty-sixth the present custom was adopted of signing each article with the author's name."

The Conscription of a People by the Duchess of Atholl M.P by [ATHOLL, Katharine]

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Title: The Conscription of a People by the Duchess of Atholl M.P
Author: [ATHOLL, Katharine]
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, 1931., 1931. First edition (from English sheets). 8vo. Frontispiece, one plate. Original gilt stamped red cloth. Dust jacket (price clipped).. F. Hardcover.

Letters from the South: Written During a Journey to Algiers, Etc. by Campbell, James.

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Title: Letters from the South: Written During a Journey to Algiers, Etc.
Author: Campbell, James.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836. "The South" being the south of Europe, presumably. Campbell writes a series of twenty-five descriptive letters from in-country, based on his dealings with other ex-pats, local officials, trades people, and natives, and much on social and political life. Bound in original cloth with spine label, but a fair copy only, and inexpertly recased. . 307 pp.

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by Baldwin, James

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Title: GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
Author: Baldwin, James
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: (New York): Dell, 1970. Near fine.. Dell "Contemporary Classic" paperback edition of Baldwin's first novel, his semi-autobiographical "extended rite of exorcism" (Harris) - with new cover art by Leo and Diane Dillon. In writing this book, Baldwin did more than draw from his own experiences growing up with a religiously domineering father in 1930s Harlem: he wrote and re-wrote the work for ten years as a way to come to terms with the painful relationship with his father. In the novel as in Baldwin's own life, the hero's path to acceptance lies not in obedience and acceptance but in the intellectual liberation achieved through books and education. One of TIME's "Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005," and an American classic. 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers with uncredited art by Leo and Diane Dillon, Dell 3007, cover price 95c. All edges stained green. Publisher's ads at rear. 221, [3] pages. Trace edgewear. Leaves with light toning. Tight.

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