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President Zachary Taylor Recognizes a Consul of Venezuela to the Port of Philadelphia

President Zachary Taylor Recognizes a Consul of Venezuela to the Port of Philadelphia by Zachary Taylor

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
President Zachary Taylor Recognizes a Consul of Venezuela to the Port of Philadelphia
Author
Zachary Taylor
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
30/07/1849. On July 9, 1850, after only 16 months in office, a seemingly healthy Taylor died after a sudden illness of four days duration. The cause of his death is still disputed, and although his doctors blamed cholera morbus or gastroenteritis, rather general diagnoses, many suspected that he had been poisoned. He had certainly made some very powerful political enemies in the months leading up to his demise.Jose C. Keef is listed as a consul for Venezuela in Philadelphia, according to the 1852 American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge. He started his stint in Philadelphia with this document, whereby President Zachary Taylor recognized his status.Document signed, Washington, July 30, 1849. “Satisfactory evidence having been exhibited to me that Jose C. Keef has been appointed Consul of Venezuela for the port of Philadelphia, I do recognize him as such…” With the seal intact, and countersigned by Secretary of State John M. Clayton.Because of his early death in office, documents signed by Taylor as President are extremely uncommon. This is just the fourth we have had in all these years.
One-Way Ticket (Presentation copy)

One-Way Ticket (Presentation copy) by Hughes, Langston

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
One-Way Ticket (Presentation copy)
Author
Hughes, Langston
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition. Very Good/Very Good. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Happy Holidays to Marion - Sincerely, Langston, Christmas, New York, 1948." A Very Good copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, spine lettered in bronze, yellow paper sides, front cover lettered and decorated in blind, top edge blue, fore edge untrimmed. Lightly rubbed, hint of sunning to spine ends, contents slightly toned but clean. Unclipped jacket split at front fold. Head of front panel slightly creased and extremities lightly worn. The recipient, Marion Palfi (1907-1978), was a photographer who fled to the US from Germany as a refugee during the Second World War. She befriended Hughes in Harlem shortly after her arrival, and he invited her to speak to his class at Atlanta University in 1947, where he was teaching his first semester as Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (see Rampersad, p. 128). Palfi photographed Harlem Renaissance writers throughout the 1940s: her portraits are featured in Arna Bontemps's who's who of Black America, We Have Tomorrow (1945), and several of her photographs of Hughes are held among the poet's papers at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Her photographs also featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1950, and she won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967. Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes: Volume II, 1941-1967, 1988. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Namen en Adressen - Verbale, Visuele, en Luister Werken, 1973-1980 / Names and Addresses - Verbal, Visual, and Aural Works, 1973-1980

Namen en Adressen - Verbale, Visuele, en Luister Werken, 1973-1980 / Names and Addresses - Verbal, Visual, and Aural Works, 1973-1980 by CARRIÓN, Ulises

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Title
Namen en Adressen - Verbale, Visuele, en Luister Werken, 1973-1980 / Names and Addresses - Verbal, Visual, and Aural Works, 1973-1980
Author
CARRIÓN, Ulises
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Many black & white illus. [15] leaves, printed on rectos only (except for one leaf). Small folio (295 x 210 mm.), pictorial wrappers, fastened with black plastic clasps. [From verso of the first leaf]: Amsterdam: Agora Studio, Sept. 1980. A rare exhibition catalogue, printed in an edition of 200. Carrión (1941-89) devised this as a retrospective of his works and communications with his collaborators, for which he investigated the use of names and addresses. This catalogue, with the introduction in parallel Dutch and English, is fully illustrated with reproductions of Carrión’s earlier works and performances, including pieces such as Arguments (1973), Homage to Van Gogh (1975), and The Muxlows (1978). A near fine copy of this scarce catalogue; some sunning at the edges. WorldCat records just five examples in North America. ❧ Quant aux Livres / On Books (2008), p. 210.
PERIL AND PROWESS / THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY

PERIL AND PROWESS / THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY by ANTHOLOGY Doyle, Arthur Conan & Henty, G. A. & Jacobs, W. W.

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PERIL AND PROWESS / THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY
Author
ANTHOLOGY Doyle, Arthur Conan & Henty, G. A. & Jacobs, W. W.
Seller
THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description
PERIL AND PROWESS, W. R. Chambers, 1899, first edition, a very good to very good plus copy in bright full color pictorial binding. Contributions by Arthur Conan Doyle (THE MYSTERY OF SASASSA VALLEY / his first appearance in print first published in 1879), G. A. Henty, W. W. Jacobs, George Manville Fenn, David L. Johnstone, David Ker, C. R. Low, James Workman, Andrew Balfour, Harold Blindloss, et.al. Illustrated. A curiously rare book.
Advertising Carte de Visite National Stereograph Co. Studio

Advertising Carte de Visite National Stereograph Co. Studio

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Seller: De Wolfe and Wood
Title
Advertising Carte de Visite National Stereograph Co. Studio
Seller
De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Freeman Street, Greenpoint, New York. c.1870. Good condition with light soiling.
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The Gods Arrive by Wharton, Edith

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
Title
The Gods Arrive
Author
Wharton, Edith
Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: D. Appleton, 1932 Blue cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Octavo. Back hinge starting to crack. A very good copy in very good jacket. Jacket has light edgewear and light dampstain on back cover.
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Among The Trees. by BAKER, Richard St. Barbe.

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Title
Among The Trees.
Author
BAKER, Richard St. Barbe.
Seller
Savoy Books (United States)
Description
Book. With a forward by Theo. A. Stevens. London: Privately printed for The Men of the Trees, 1930. 4to, 3/4 japan vellum and cloth. Pp. xiii, 95, uncut; with 49 full page half-tone and gravure photo plates. A little soiled, early owners correspondence tipped in at front. First edition, one of a thousand copies, signed by the author. "This book has been written for the pleasure of tree lovers who recognize the spiritual as well as the aesthetic and economic value of trees to human life." Baker was involved in forest protection and tree husbandry, and lectured world-wide on the subject..
God's Gift of Grace

God's Gift of Grace

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Title
God's Gift of Grace
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Philadelphia: Protestant Episcopal Book Society, No. 1224 Chestnut Street, 1874. Wraps. Very good +. [CHAPBOOK] [RELIGION]. 32mo (4 3/16" x 2 13/16"); 16pp; blue wrapper, lettering printed inside a decorative border on the front, rear wrapper reads "Presented by the / United States Christian Commission, / Central Office, / No. 13 Bank Street, Philadelphia. / George H. Stuart, Chairman. / Joseph Patterson, Western Bank, Treasurer. / Rev. W. E. Boardman, Secretary."; gift inscription in ink on verso title page; chipping at foot of spine with loss, light spotting; very good plus. Scarce. OCLC locates only one copy at AAS. A small evangelistic booklet explaining man's sin and God's grace and salvation.
The Floating Light Bulb
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The Floating Light Bulb by Allen, Woody

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Title
The Floating Light Bulb
Author
Allen, Woody
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN
9780394524153
Description
Random House. F. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. first edition, f/f.
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Random. by ZIMMON, Howard.

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Title
Random.
Author
ZIMMON, Howard.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Iowa City: Seamark Press, , 1975.. First edition. . [56 pp]. Fine in wrappers and very near fine blue printed dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Poems.

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