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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A by WHARTON, Edith

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Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A
Author: WHARTON, Edith
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Normal creases. Near Fine
Description: Letter. Normal creases. Near Fine. Four-page letter on both sides of one 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" sheet of Curtis Hotel, Lenox Massachusetts stationery folded in half and addressed to Mrs. Bell and SIGNED as "E. Wharton." Wharton states that she has received a letter from her husband following his talk with Mrs. Bell "& of the more hopeful attitude of the board," adding "I am so afraid of having shown trop de zèle in my long screed to Mr. Opdycke (written on the way here) that I send this line to ask you all to believe that all I want is to help & not to direct this movement." Wharton further asks her correspondent to tell Mr. Opdycke "to disregard, in my letter, whatever is not relevant, & above all, not to bother to answer it.... Just forward this to Mr. Opdycke & ask him to regard it as a postscript. I am always haunted by the fact that we started this campaign with so few specific cases in hand & I simply wrote him suggesting points which might be made against the Society's general management." In a postscript Wharton reports, "Here is a small instance of the Soc.'s methods. A very respectable man whom Teddy has known for years, & who owns valuable shooting dogs, told me that five or six years ago he lost a very valuable Irish setter, a pedigree dog. Being convinced it had been stolen, he went, after two or three months, to the S.P.C.A., stated his case & asked if they would look through their record of newly licensed dogs (it was just after licenses had been given out) & see if the dog could be traced. The answer was: 'Too much trouble''. He then offered to pay the expenses if they wd. employ some one to have it done, & they refused.-- Result: one possible subscriber alienated." Wharton's correspondent was likely Edith Bell (1857-1946), wife of Leonard Opdycke Sr. (1856-1914), a New York lawyer and social philanthropist. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in New York in 1866.

American Commercial Specimens. Second Series. by HEIM, Josef

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Title: American Commercial Specimens. Second Series.
Author: HEIM, Josef
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1898. HEIM, Josef. American Commercial Specimens, Second Series. 24 ff., printed on one side only of which 17 are all or partly in colour. Folio, 320 x 240 mm., publisher's illustrated cloth-backed boards, Vienna: Josef Heim, 1898. A stunning and somewhat mysterious piece of Americana. The album was published in Vienna, but the plates were printed in Milwaukee by the Gugler Litho. Co. The work consists almost completely of reproductions of calling cards of American businesses. The only listing on OCLC is of a copy with the same pagination in St. Gallen, but with no mention of second series.

An Autobiography by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Title: An Autobiography
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition, first printing of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the scarce dust jacket, designed by the author.. Square octavo, iv, 371pp. Black cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, top edge dyed red, light rubbing to corners, faint offsetting to endpapers. Free of marks or notations, possibly unread. Complete with 65 illustration, photographs and plates designed by the author. In the publisher's scarce but soiled dust jacket, price-clipped, with dampstained edges and a small loss to top left corner. (Sweeney 303) No impact from dust jacket dampstain to cloth or text block. This first edition of An Autobiography by Frank Lloyd Wright, published in 1932, is considered his best writing. It was released to widespread acclaim and reissued in 1933 with a limp cloth cover and dust jacket. Wright also published The Disappearing City in 1932, published by William Farquhar Payson (Sweeney, 328).

New Bath Guide, The by CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; ANSTEY, Christopher

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Title: New Bath Guide, The
Author: CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; ANSTEY, Christopher
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Hurst, Chance & Co., 1830. The Adventures of the Blunderhead Family in Bath One of a Few Copies with the Cruikshank Etchings on India Paper With a Signed George Cruikshank Letter asking for Money... CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. ANSTEY, Christopher. The New Bath Guide; or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D family, in a series of Poetical Epistles: by Christopher Anstey, Esq. A new edition; with a biographical and topographical preface, and anecdotical annotations by John Britton. Embellished with engravings. London: Hurst, Chance & Co., 1830. First edition with Cruikshank Illustrations and John Britton's notes. Octavo ( 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches; 197 x 124 mm.). [i]-lxxvi, [1]-176. Frontispiece and vignette title by S. Williams. Five etched plates on India paper mounted, by George Cruikshank. Handsomely bound by Bayntun-Rivière ca. 1960 in full dark blue morocco, covers with triple-gilt borders, spine with five raised bands, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, cockerl style endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With the small oval bookplate of Adrian W. Flühmann on front paste-down. Bound without the 24 page catalog. A very fine copy with an interesting one-page ALS on pale blue paper, by George Cruikshank asking for money "Amwell St. 28 Feb. [18]46): "My Dear Behnes, I am sorry to be so troublesome - but at this moment, any kind of coin, would be acceptable from a Four penny piece up to a Five pound note. so pray do that's a good fellow try & help your (indecipherable) Geoerge Cruikshank". We know that Cruikshank had money problems throughout his life. The recipient, "My Dear Behnes", is probably the English sculptor William Behnes (1795-1864) who in 1854 produced a bust of George Cruikshank exhibited in the Crystal Palace. Cruikshank lived at 69-71 Amwell Stree, London EC1 from 1824-1849. "A few copies were issued with the five etchings by Cruikshank taken on India paper, but the woodcuts by Williams are on ordinary paper" Cohn, p. 16. The writer and poet Christopher Anstey (1724-1805) was inspired by his frequent visits to Bath - where he settled in 1770 - to compose these letters in verse retracing the adventures of the Blunderhead family (a Fenouillard family style) . His New Bath Guide appeared for the first time in 1766. The work, which made the delights of Horace Walpole among others, knew more than thirty editions from 1766 to 1830, testifying to a continuous success. Cohn, 34; Not mentioned in Patten.

Grundriß der Luftfahrtmedizin. 2nd ed by Ruff, Siegfried; Hubertus Strughold

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Title: Grundriß der Luftfahrtmedizin. 2nd ed
Author: Ruff, Siegfried; Hubertus Strughold
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1944. Ruff and Strughold. Grundriß der Luftfahrtmedizin. Vi, [2], 249pp. Text illustrations. Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1944. 232 x 156 mm. Original quarter cloth, printed boards. Endpapers a little foxed, but fine. Second edition Ruff and Strughold's work, revised and expanded to incorporate the advances in aviation medicine gained during World War II. .

Medieval Epic to the "Epic Theater" of Brecht: Essays in Comparative Literature by Armato, Rosario P.; Spalek, John M., Eds

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Title: Medieval Epic to the "Epic Theater" of Brecht: Essays in Comparative Literature
Author: Armato, Rosario P.; Spalek, John M., Eds
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Los Angeles: University of Southern California Press, 1968. Softcover. vg. 8vo. viii, 252 pp. Yellow stiff paper binding. Essays by comparative literature instructors at colleges and universities across the country, including. In very good condition.

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