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Pilote de Guerre by Saint Exupéry, Antoine de

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Pilote de Guerre
Author: Saint Exupéry, Antoine de
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Paris: Gallimard, 1942. First edition. Original wrappers, fine, unopened. One of 58 numbered copies on vélin (second paper, after 21 on Mûrier d'Annam). Gallimard had been given approval to print 2,100 copies of Saint Exupéry's account of his reconnaissance flights during the Battle of France in 1940. When it appeared in November 1942 "the scandal broke. The collaborationist press went wild....Vichy did not wait for the press campaign to develop: at the first 'denunciations' by anonymous Frenchmen protesting the antinational character of the work, Gallimard was asked to recall all the copies that had been distributed" Assouline, Gaston Gallimard, p. 270. The recall was particularly effective and very few copies of the Gallimard edition survived. It was replaced by an edition of 500 printed in New York, and then by a series of clandestine mimeographed printings.

[Three Group Photographs of Students at Meharry Medical College] by Anderson, George H.

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Title: [Three Group Photographs of Students at Meharry Medical College]
Author: Anderson, George H.
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Nashville, Tennessee: Geo. H. Anderson, 1923. Good. Three black and white photographs, each measuring 8" x 10" on card mounts measuring 11 ½" x 13 ½". Photos very good with a few minor surface abrasions and one small stain in the background of one photo; mounts good with moderate wear, chipping and a bit wavy. This is a group of three spectacular photographs by a prolific Black photographer in Nashville which showcases Meharry Medical College's [MMC] pharmacy school graduating class of 1923, as well as the members of its Phi Beta Sigma chapter. MMC was the first medical school for African Americans in the South when it was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College. The school was chartered separately in 1915 and in the early 21st century became the largest HBCU devoted solely to educating scientists and healthcare professionals. The 1923 graduating class was Meharry's largest to that point with 198 degrees conferred and 20 of them going to women. While we cannot locate the names of the graduating students, thanks to contemporary news accounts, we know the students shown here are from the School of Pharmacy, and two of those graduates are women. The other photo shows the men of the Meharry's Beta Phi Sigma chapter, a group that is still active today. The year 1923 was very important to Meharry as it received an "A" rating from the American Medical Association after [years of struggling?. According to the University of Richmond's History Engine website, the AMA adopted standards for medical education in 1904 that made it nearly impossible for African American schools to obtain an A rating: school like Meharry could not cover the increased cost of operation while complying with new standards. By 1923, the AMA's grading system rendered all but two African American medical schools unsatisfactory, but Meharry managed to receive its A rating that year, in part due to a donation from the Carnegie foundation. The AMA accreditation was announced at graduation and was met with a five minute standing ovation. The African American photographer, George H. Anderson, was prolific and well known in Nashville. Anderson's credit is seen in publications from Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State Teachers College and he had a studio located at 417 Cedar Street (now Charlotte Avenue) in the heart of the African American downtown business district in Nashville from 1912 to 1951. Wonderful images of students at Meharryby an important Black photographer and taken in a critical year for the school's accredidation. Google and OCLC searches reveal nothing similar.

[Letter Written by a Miner from the California Gold Fields] by [California Gold Rush]. Pine, Moses "Old Mose

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Title: [Letter Written by a Miner from the California Gold Fields]
Author: [California Gold Rush]. Pine, Moses "Old Mose
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Coyoteville: September 12, 1855. Very good.. [2]pp., plus integral blank. Original mailing folds, moderate toning, staining, and ink spotting, but still easily readable. Bottom fourth of integral blank excised. An informative Gold Rush letter about mining in the long-vanished ghost town of Coyoteville, which was an extraordinarily rich gold area for a couple of years in the early 1850s. A noted tunneling method, nicknamed "coyoteing" was developed in the town, and subsequently inspired the name of the town. In the present letter, Moses Pine writes to "Catherine" in Branch County, Michigan, and signs his name simply as "Mose Esq" at the conclusion. The author informs Catherine, presumably his wife or sister, of his activities, some of the economic realities, and some of the practical details of prospecting for gold in California. Presuming that "it would be impossible for the whole of Branch County to raise $10 unless they sell a horse," Pine comments that he had ginger bread on the Fourth of July after working all day and yielding a "half Ounce Gold Dust." He then provides a detailed description of his mining: "I am now tunneling in a hill. We are 150 feet under the ground. Day before yesterday we got small respect 25 cents to the pan for the first and the bed rock pitching. I think we will find good pay in the going 100 feet further the expense is heavy as we have to blast and timber the tunnel." Pine also talks of his health and that "I work hard every day do my cooking and baking." He then expresses his hope to get back to Michigan to "rest a few months," but knows nothing of other Michigan folks in California: "Have not seen nor heard anything of them in a year. I guess they have all gone home with a fortune in a horn. Well good luck to the lucky. Old Mose will come home after a while with a pretty hat on." A nicely-detailed letter from an unusual and obscure Gold Rush location.

REWARDS AND FAIRIES by Kipling, Rudyard

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Title: REWARDS AND FAIRIES
Author: Kipling, Rudyard
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1910. With Illustrations by Frank Craig. London: Macmillan and Co., 1910. 2+8 pp undated ads. Original red cloth with ganesha device in gilt. First Edition of this collection of tales and poems that form a continuation of the Puck stories begun in PUCK OF POOK'S HILL (1906). Included are four plates by Frank Craig; in later editions these were replaced with twelve illustrations by Charles Brock. REWARDS AND FAIRIES contains the first appearance in book form of the famous poem "If", which starts off If you can keep your head when all about you | Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; ... (Because of this poem's position in this book, at the end of the tale "Brother Square-Toes" which includes George Washington as a character, many thought that "If" referred to him; in fact, Kipling later asserted, he had in mind L. Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson Raid in the Transvaal in 1895.) This is a near-fine copy (light rubbing of the front cover medallion, minor foxing on pages toward each end of the book, slight fading of the red spine as usual). Loosely inserted is Macmillan's Autumn 1910 leaflet for New Books; at the bottom of the front free endpaper is the discreet inkstamp of the original bookseller, H. & C. Treacher of Brighton. Richards A242; Stewart 329.

COAL TAR COLOURS... AND THEIR APPLICATION IN DYEING COTTON, VOL. 1 by TEXTILES - DYEING

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Title: COAL TAR COLOURS... AND THEIR APPLICATION IN DYEING COTTON, VOL. 1
Author: TEXTILES - DYEING
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1907. (TEXTILES - DYEING). THE COAL TAR COLOURS OF MEISTER LUCIUS & BRUNING, HOECHST, LTD. AND THEIR APPLICATION IN DYEING COTTON AND OTHER VEGETABLE FIBRES. First Volume. New York: H. A. Metz & Co., 1907. Volume 1 only of 3. A trade catalog regarding the application of artificial colors to cotton and other vegetable fibres and containing many swatches of dyed cloths and yarn. Frontispiece shows the factory in Germany. Text is in English. 236 pp. 4to., brown cloth back, light brown paper boards, title printed to spine, patterned endpapers. Bindings show light shelfwear and some general light soiling. Quite clean within and very-good-plus overall.

Alice thro’ the looking-glass, and other fairy plays for children by FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate

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Title: Alice thro’ the looking-glass, and other fairy plays for children
Author: FREILIGRATH-KROEKER, Kate
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1880. With 4 full-page plates and numerous pages of music. Publisher’s gilt- and black-illustrated cover. A fine copy. First edition. Following the success of her publication of children’s plays which included Alice in Wonderland, the author adapts Lewis Carroll’s next classic, Through the looking-glass, as well as three other works, Dame Holle, or servantgalism in fairy land, The princess and the white wolf, and King Thrushbill and Princess Disdain. These popular children’s stories are intended to be acted out by children, and includes music for all pieces. $ 100.00 Freiligrath-Kroeker (1845-1904) was the daughter of German poet and translator of English ballads Ferdinand Freiligrath. She followed in her father’s footsteps, becoming a writer and translating poetry and children’s stories from German into English. Her other works include A Century of German lyrics; A Domestic syndicate; as well as translations of New fairy tales of Brentano; Gottfried Keller: A selection of his tales; and Poems selected from Heinrich Heine. She served as editor for the translation of her father’s best-known poetry into English.

Jamie Wyeth by Wyeth, Jamie

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Title: Jamie Wyeth
Author: Wyeth, Jamie
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/near fine. Signed first edition of Jamie Wyeth, a collection of paintings by Jamie Wyeth.. Octavo, 143pp. Blue cloth, title in silver on spine. Stated "First Printing" on copyright page, with the full number line. Solid text block, dust remnants to top edge, near fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $30.00 retail price on front flap, touch of shelf wear, otherwise fine. Signed by the author on the title page: "For Ruby - Merry Christmas / Jamie Wyeth." Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946) is the son of painter Andrew Wyeth and grandson of illustrator N.C. Wyeth.

(Hip hop) THE FAT BOYS [ca. early-1980s] Publicity photo by Fred W. McDarrah

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Title: (Hip hop) THE FAT BOYS [ca. early-1980s] Publicity photo
Author: Fred W. McDarrah
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Fred W. McDarrah. No binding. Near Fine. Np, [ca. early-1980s]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white photo. Their name is inscribed in black magic marker in blank bottom margin. Photographer stamp of Fred W. McDarrah on verso, near fine. The Fat Boys were an American hip-hop trio from Brooklyn, New York, who emerged in the early 1980s. The trio is widely known for using beatboxing in their songs. The Fat Boys were one of the first rap groups to release full-length albums, along with Run-DMC, Whodini and Kurtis Blow. Beloved for their comedic, self-deprecating rhymes, the group released seven studio albums, four of which went Gold by RIAA. Fred W. McDarrah was a longtime staff photographer for The Village Voice. (Wikipedia)

THE GREAT LINGARD JOKER

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Title: THE GREAT LINGARD JOKER
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Frederic A. Brady, 1870. Other. 32mo (145x95mm), 41pp in illustrated wraps. Condition is Very Good with a small chip at upper right of front cover, 5mm closed tear near top of hinge, rear hinge is worn, has a closed tear for about 55mm, corner folds and a chip at top left. Spine is chipped at both ends and has wear in the middle. Slight soiling or browning overall. The colors are bright, and the rest of the book is tight. There is a library bookplate with a deaccession stamp inside the front cover. 1279915. FP New Rockville Stock.

The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition] by Jack Vance

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Title: The Bagful of Dreams [Limited Edition]
Author: Jack Vance
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Columbia: Underwood / Miller, 1979. Very Good. Columbia: Underwood/Miller, 1979. Limited Edition (600 copies, unnumbered). Tall octavo (9.25" x 6"); [viii], 37pp. Illustrated blue paper wraps with black illustration and red. Covers are clean and crisp; spine a touch faded with a slight bump at head. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Victorian Vineyard by Faith, Nicholas

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Title: Victorian Vineyard
Author: Faith, Nicholas
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Maroon boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper
Description: Gloucestershire: Constable - In association with Christie's Wine Publication, 1983. Hardcover. Maroon boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 160 pages. 22 x 25 cm. In 1875, two English brothers - Walter and Alfred Gilbey - Bought from an ancient French noble family the château, vineyard and estate of Loudenne, in the heart of the Médoc. They were the first English to venture into the world of French viticulture, and Loudenne remains the longest wholly English-owned vineyard in Bordeaux. A fascinating portrait of an ambitious family, with all its foibles, factions and intrigues - including unpublished diaries and family records. Laid in: two letters from Martin Bamford on Château Loudenne's stationary. Martin Bamford was the director of IDV - International Distillers and Vintners. Also laid in, "an appreciation" of Martin after his death. Owner's presentation on half title page: "For Dottie and Bob, Remembering Martin - Belle and Barney, 21 January 1984" Illustrated throughout. Interior clean and crisp, dust wrapper price-clipped, and lightly toned.

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Soul Mountain by Xingjian, Gao

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Title: Soul Mountain
Author: Xingjian, Gao
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780066210827
Description: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. 1st American Edition. Translated from the Chinese by Mabel Lee. xi, 510p., b/w front., dj.

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