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Freida the Jongleur by Hemphill, Barbara

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Title: Freida the Jongleur
Author: Hemphill, Barbara
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, 1857. First Edition. 3 vols, 8vo. (206 x 137mm), pp. [4], 316; [4], 310, [2]; [4], 315, [1], 32, [4]. Publisher’s olive green cloth with a decorative design in blind, gilt spine, glazed endpapers. Presentation copy of Hemhill's final novel, with the first volume inscribed by Hemphill's son Charles H. Hemphill, 1st Baron Hemphill, PC QC (an Irish politician and barrister) to the Duchess of Bedford. Bound in at the back of volume three is a 32-page publisher's "Catalogue of Books" dated February, 1857, followed by a four-page advertisement (with specimen pages from Carlyle's French Revolution and Lever's Harry Lorrequer) dated February 2, 1857. Light sunning at the spines, a bright, near fine set in the original publisher's binding. OCLC locates only six copies. Loeber, A Guide to Irish Fiction 1650-1900. Set against the politics and pageantry of the late medieval court, Freida the Jongleur opens with the arrival of Charles de Valois in Munich and his intense, ill-starred passion for Beatrix Visconti. Hemphill combines chivalric display, dynastic ambition, and frustrated desire from the outset, suggesting a historical novel driven as much by court intrigue and emotional conflict as by scenic medieval color.

WONDER BOOK FOR GIRLS & BOYS by (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S). HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. WALTER CRANE, Illustrator

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Title: WONDER BOOK FOR GIRLS & BOYS
Author: (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S). HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. WALTER CRANE, Illustrator
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Boston: [Printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, for] Houghton Mifflin & Co, 1893. EDITION DE LUXE. No. 120 OF 250 COPIES. 252 x 175 mm. (10 x 7"). x, 210 pp. Publisher's ivory-colored embossed boards, upper cover with a depiction of Mercury in his winged helmet and sandals, after a design by Crane, within an Art Nouveau frame, gilt title panel, lower cover with same frame and embossed title, smooth spine with embossed floral design and gilt lettering, patterned gilt endpapers, top edge gilt. IN THE ORIGINAL LIGHT GREEN BUCKRAM DUST JACKET with gilt titling on upper cover and spine. With 60 designs by Walter Crane, including headpieces, decorative initials, an illustrated half title mounted on Japanese vellum, and 19 COLOR PLATES mounted on Japanese vellum, all but three with original tissue guards (despite publisher's notice tipped onto front flyleaf assuring the reader these "temporary protection[s] . . . may be removed at pleasure"). From the Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin Collection of Publishers' Bookbindings. Rear board and small areas of the front cover lightly foxed, spine of jacket a little darkened, very slight fraying at head of spine, but A BEAUTIFUL COPY--entirely clean, fresh, and bright internally, in an incredibly well-preserved binding and jacket. This is an almost astonishingly well-preserved copy of a work often found the worse for wear at the hands of its youthful readers. One of the major literary figures in American history, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was among those who first inspired the idea of a national literature from the United States that could take its place alongside its long-established European forebears. Probably more than any other writer of stature in 19th century America, Hawthorne combined vivid imagination with careful, structured craft. Although best remembered for his novels, he published several books of stories for children, including the present work, which ANB tells us was produced in 1851 "to support his growing family." Hawthorne's delightful retelling of Greek myths of Perseus, King Midas, Pandora's Box, Hercules, and Baucis and Philemon is much enlivened here by Crane's charming illustrations. Perhaps the most accomplished and influential book illustrator of his day, Walter Crane (1845-1915) served his apprenticeship with the wood-engraver W. J. Linton. Deeply influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement, Crane, like William Morris, was a multi-purpose craftsman, creating designs for wallpaper and pottery as well as book illustrations. But he made his name as a book illustrator by creating images for the 37 "Toy Books," a very popular series for young children. Under the influence of his friend Morris, he became a socialist and soon lent his talents to that cause. According to DNB, "He became the artist of the cause, designing posters, trade-union banners, cartoons, and newspaper headings, adapting the emblematic figures of his paintings to socialist themes." For the present work, he returned to the wonder and magic of childhood, with great success. As DNB notes, "His best things were his lightest things." This volume comes from the splendid collection of publisher's bindings assembled over three decades by Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin, and exhibited at the Grolier Club in 2000. In a review of the sumptuous catalogue for the exhibition, written for the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Andrea Krupp praises the "pristine condition" of this "glittering and opulent collection.".

Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline by [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]

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Title: Hints for the Improvement of Early Education and Nursery Discipline
Author: [Hoare, Louisa Gurney]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: London: Printed for J. Hatchard and Son, 1819. First edition. Very Good +. Nineteenth-century half tan calf over marbled boards with gilt spine. Twelvemo. [4], 188 pp. Front hinge a bit tender. Some foxing to first and last few leaves, otherwise very clean throughout. A Very Good+ copy of an uncommon work promoting the rights of children in education and the home. Louisa Gurney Hoare (1784 - 1836) wrote her guide to early childhood education for mothers and nannies teaching children at home. In preparation for later formal schooling, Hoare directed her readers to instruct children in proper conduct and instill the virtues of justice, independence, and perseverance while respecting their rights and individuality and avoiding harsh punishments. She criticized the common practice of "terrorizing children into obedience by threatening immediate divine retribution" and warned that parents could make religion dull and frightening if they ignored or punished children's natural curiosity into the logic of religious belief (Rosman, Evangelicals and Culture, p. 102). Hoare's ideas were heavily influenced both by her Quaker upbringing and by writers like Samuel Johnson, Thomas Babington, and John Locke, the latter of whom she quotes twice on the title-page and several times throughout the work. Hoare was influenced both by Locke's ideas of personal liberty and his observations on the role of education in shaping children's futures ("I think I may say, that, of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education"). Hints for the Improvement of Early Education was extremely popular, running to nineteen editions in England by the late 1870s and even more in the United States. Hoare was born into the Gurney family, a large and prominent clan of English Quakers that included many abolitionists, reformers, and educational advocates. One of those reformers was Elizabeth Fry (1780 - 1845), Hoare's elder sister, who was best remembered for her efforts to reduce the sexual exploitation of incarcerated women, most notably the 1823 Gaols Act mandating sex-segregated prisons. Hoare's family by marriage also included prominent abolitionists like Samuel Hoare (1751 - 1825), her father-in-law, who was a founding member of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Very Good +.

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by WOLFE Tom

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Title: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Author: WOLFE Tom
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1968. First Edition. WOLFE, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1968). Octavo, original white cloth, original dust jacket. $950.First edition of Wolfe's lively ""celebration of psychedelia,"" a handsome copy in the colorful Milton Glaser dust jacket.""The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is to the hippie movement what Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night was to the Vietnam protest movement. Wolfe is precisely the right author to chronicle the transformation of Ken Kesey from respected author of And One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest to an LSD enthusiast, to the messianic leader of a mystical band of Merry Pranksters, to a fugitive from the FBI, California police and Mexican Federales. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a celebration of psychedelia, of all its sounds and costumes, colors and fantasies It is an astonishing, enlightening, at times baffling and explosively funny book"" (New York Times). ""It really is one hell of a special book, you knowa lifechanger, a rabble-rouser, a mind-blower, a gathering of the tribes, a call to arms, a manifesto for a new society, a car repair manual, a fly on the paisley-patterned wall account of a cultural revolutiona masterpiece!"" (Jarvis Cocker, ""How Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Changed My Life""). With ""First Printing, 1968"" on copyright page. Dust jacket designed by Milton Glaser. Book with slight discoloration to edges, vibrant dust jacket with minor rubbing to extremities and tiny closed tear at spine head. A bright, near-fine copy.

The Jingle of a Jap by Thurston, Clara Bell

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Title: The Jingle of a Jap
Author: Thurston, Clara Bell
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good Plus
Description: Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co, 1906. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Box. Very Good Plus. With both the scarce three dimensional doll attached to the binding and the original box. 8vo. 23 by 18 cm. Unpaginated, with 23 chapters, each a page or two, with lovely color illustrations throughout. Condition: one side of box lid -- lower side -- detached, with closed tearing by other edges. Soil on the paper pastedown of the box. Doll on front cover is beheaded -- we have the head, though, and this can be inconspicuously repaired. Fabric of doll's kimono slightly frayed, worn-looking.

Iscrizioni greche e latine. Per Evaristo Breccia. (Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée dAlexandrie. Nos. 1 - 568.) by Alexandria. al-Mathaf al-Yunani al-Rumani.

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Title: Iscrizioni greche e latine. Per Evaristo Breccia. (Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée dAlexandrie. Nos. 1 - 568.)
Author: Alexandria. al-Mathaf al-Yunani al-Rumani.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Osnabrück (Otto Zeller Verlag), 1976.. xxxi, (1), 273, (1)pp., 59 plates. Text figs. Sm. folio. Cloth. Reprint of the Cairo 1911 edition.

Cabinet card of General Sherman, Civil War general by Sherman, William T., Gen

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Title: Cabinet card of General Sherman, Civil War general
Author: Sherman, William T., Gen
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Description: 1870. Cabinet card portrait, albumen print, with title printed below in gold. Head and shoulders of Sherman in uniform, but taken after the war, depicting a somewhat older man. 4 1/4 x 6 1/2", image 3 1/2 x 5 1/4". Obviously enjoyed by some collector as there are four pin holes, one on each corner, a little faded. Otherwise very good.

Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest by Foreman, Grant

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Title: Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest
Author: Foreman, Grant
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Condition: Good, book plate glued inside front cover, small blindstamp to frontispiece illustration and title page
Description: Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1926. Good, book plate glued inside front cover, small blindstamp to frontispiece illustration and title page. 9 1/2 x 6 inches, cloth, front cover soiled, prominent stain at lower edge of spine suggesting the removal of library shelf numbers, edgeworn, corners lightly bumped, 349 pages plus 3 leaves of plates and 1 folding map.

The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962. by [JEFFERS, Robinson]. Ridgeway, Ann N. [Editor].

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Title: The Selected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, 1897-1962.
Author: [JEFFERS, Robinson]. Ridgeway, Ann N. [Editor].
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Very fine
Description: Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1968 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Foreword by Mark Van Doren. Small quarto. 9¼ x 7 inches. Pp. xx, 407. Illustrated throughout from photographs by Leigh Wiener; appendix, index. Beige cloth-backed green boards, matching paper spine label. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price-clipped and slightly soiled on the front. First edition. Includes nearly 400 letters arranged chronologically from the age of ten until the day before Jeffers' death. The letters range over wide subject areas and a variety of recipients, such as George Sterling, Mary Austin, Albert Bender, E.A. Robertson, and Lawrence Clark Powell, among many others. However, they have continuity - especially in his love for his wife and in his friendship with the poet George Sterling. .

JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE by Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 [author] ; Ochiai, Teisaburō, 1875-1946 [editor]

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Title: JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE
Author: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 [author] ; Ochiai, Teisaburō, 1875-1946 [editor]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Tokyo: Hokuseido, [1928?]. Hardcover. Octavo, 305 pages. In Good condition. Ex-library with library stamp on half-title page. Spine is green with black print. Boards in green cloth, pastedown title label on front panel; light wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has bookplate on front pastedown, small remainder of removed label on rear pastedown. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column BB. 1413207. FP New Rockville Stock.

"A case in which the gladiolus was trephined for pus pent up in the anterior mediastinum." with: DICKINSON, William Howship (1832-1913). "Introductory lecture on the differences between children and adults in regard to morbid action and the effects of treatment." by BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1856-1936).

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Title: "A case in which the gladiolus was trephined for pus pent up in the anterior mediastinum." with: DICKINSON, William Howship (1832-1913). "Introductory lecture on the differences between children and adults in regard to morbid action and the effects of treatment."
Author: BALLANCE, Sir Charles Alfred (1856-1936).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: In [London]:: The Lancet. . ., Vol. II, No. XVIII, (November 3, 1888)., 1888. 283 x 199 mm. 4to. 857-859; 851-853 pp. (Entire vol.: 36 [ads], (851)-900, 37-70 [ads] pp. Illus. Self wraps; extremities chipped, top cover off, soiled. Ex library rubber stamps on top cover and page 851. Good. FIRST EDITION. Sir Charles Ballance was a skilled neurosurgeon and contributed many ideas that were quite modern for their day. Ballance was the youngest of four brothers who were all physicians. He received his medical education at University College, London, served with the British Expeditionary Force during World War I, and returned to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital where he was consulting surgeon for many years. Ballance was one of the first neurosurgeons to perform a radical mastoidectomy with ligation of the jugular vein and one of the earliest to graft the facial nerve. In 1865, William Howship Dickinson, of Brighton, England, demonstrated that the proximal stump of a severed nerve eventually undergoes atrophy.

CASTELLAN 1966 by Anonymous

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Title: CASTELLAN 1966
Author: Anonymous
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Description: CASTELLAN 1966, The Student Staff of the Class of June 1966 Cooley High School Detroit, Michigan, first edition, a tight near fine copy, replete with photos on virtually every page with many autographs and a section of local ads. The 1966 yearbook of this major Detroit, Michigan high school

Dictionary of Christian Theology by Angeles, Peter A

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Title: Dictionary of Christian Theology
Author: Angeles, Peter A
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition stated from 1985. Dust jacket has faded spine, otherwise very good. Black paper boards and binding are very good. Top page edge has a light smudge. Name and date in pen on front endpaper. Interior pages are clean and unmarked. 210 pages. LO

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