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Writings

Writings by THOREAU Henry David

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Writings
Author
THOREAU Henry David
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1906. Signed. THOREAU, Henry David. The Writings. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. Twenty volumes. Octavo, original three-quarter brown crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt, uncut. $37,500.Manuscript Edition, beautifully bound and illustrated, limited to 600 copies, with manuscript leaf from Walden (two sides) entirely in Thoreau’s hand.Each set in this important limited edition includes a Thoreau manuscript leaf mounted and bound into the first volume. The leaf in this set is from the chapter entitled ""Baker Farm"" from Walden, Thoreau's masterwork. The leaf reads, in large part: ""[If it had] lasted longer it might have tinged my employments and life. As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect. One who visited me declared that the shadows of some Irishmen before him had no halo about them, that it was only natives that were so distinguished…"" (See Volume II, p. 224). The verso of the leaf is from an earlier section of this chapter. It reads, again in part: [I know but one small] grove of sizable trees left in Concord, supposed to have been planted by the pigeons that were once baited with beechnuts near by; it is worth the while to see the silver grain sparkle when you split this wood; the bass; the hornbeam; the Celtis occidentalis, or false elm, of which we have but one well-grown; some taller mast of a pine, a shingle tree, or a more perfect hemlock than usual…"" (See Volume II, p. 224). ""Thoreau's Walden occupies a special place in our American heritage. Moreover, the book is still alive and vibrant, and it reaches out to touch the life of each one of us who is receptive… it has come to be thought a central document in the American experience…"" (Thorpe, Treasures of the Huntington Library). ""Solid chunks of thought, in the midst of a solid chunk of nature, proving that the minimum of cash expenditure and of creature comfort may result in the maximum of acute observation and celebration—for almost a hundred years an inspiration to nature-lovers, to philosophers, to sociologists… and to persons who love to read the English language written with clarity"" (Grolier, 100 Influential American Books 63). This beautiful set also contains a foldout map of Concord, reproductions of Thoreau's journal illustrations, and over 100 tissue-guarded illustrations, several beautifully hand-finished in color. Number 476 of 600 sets, signed by the publisher on the limitation page. Boswell & Crouch 1721. BAL 20145. Borst A20.1.a. Owner signature and stamp in each volume.Fine condition. A beautiful set, with exceptional and valuable manuscript leaf from Walden.
The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Ernest

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books
Title
The Sun Also Rises
Author
Hemingway, Ernest
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. first. hardcover. very good. First edition, 1926 on title and copyright page. Book very good, Previous owner's name and date on half-title page, attached to rear free end paper is a typed poem by Malcolm Cowley. Laid-in is a cutout from the back of a dust jacket for this book with Hemingway on it, and also laid in is the photo of a famous matador after whom the matador in this book was partially modeled. Housed in a custom-made slipcase.
Catalog No. 23: Butchers' Cooling Rooms, Refrigerators, and Butchers' Supplies

Catalog No. 23: Butchers' Cooling Rooms, Refrigerators, and Butchers' Supplies by [Trade Catalogue – Butcher Equipment; G.H. Jenkinson Company]

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Title
Catalog No. 23: Butchers' Cooling Rooms, Refrigerators, and Butchers' Supplies
Author
[Trade Catalogue – Butcher Equipment; G.H. Jenkinson Company]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Sioux City, IA: G.H. Jenkinson Company, 1910. Oblong folio in wrappers, 36 pages. Illustrated. Trade catalogue with a vast array of items for the butcher shop and home, manufactured by the G.H. Jenkinson Company, including platform scales, meat slicers, lard presses, salt and pepper shakers, hotel linens, and candy maker supplies, among many other things. Over two hundred categories of items outlined in the index. Hole punch through upper left corner for hanging. Near fine condition in publisher's green and orange printed wrappers with brick red cloth spine. [OCLC locates just one copy, at Iowa State Historical Society; Jenkinson does not appear in Romaine].
You Were There / You Were in Little Rock if You… Belonged to the NAACP

You Were There / You Were in Little Rock if You… Belonged to the NAACP by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Nine] NAACP

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Title
You Were There / You Were in Little Rock if You… Belonged to the NAACP
Author
[African-Americana – Civil Rights Movement – Little Rock Nine] NAACP
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Fine condition.
Description
New York City, 1958. Folded flyer measuring 7 ¾ x 5 ⅝ inches, bifolium. Fine condition.. A membership flyer printed in April of 1958 published as part of a fundraising drive around the Little Rock Nine. The NAACP was actively fundraising in 1958 to raise money for legal costs in the face of state-led actions in the south attempting to ban the organization. The risk of membership lists from the south being published made the growth of membership in the northern and western US of paramount importance for the organization. The final leaf offers the reader to “stand with the Little Rock Nine and enclose $... for membership.” We find no examples of this flyer in auction records or on the market at the time of writing (January 2026).
Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books The Life of a Doll

Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books The Life of a Doll by [VALENTINE, Laura B.J.]

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Title
Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books The Life of a Doll
Author
[VALENTINE, Laura B.J.]
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Frederick Warne & Co, 1866. Wraps. Very good. [ILLUSTATED] [WOMAN AUTHOR]. Kronheim & Co., London, printer. Small 4to (10 3/8" x 9 1/8"); [12] leaves printed one side only; stiff glazed pink wrapper, brightly colored decorative border surrounding lettering on front, rear wrapper is publisher's advertisement for "Warne's Nursery Literature;" publisher's string binding; 6 full page illustrations with offsetting to opposite page of text; light wear and soiling to wrapper, binding holding but pulling in wrapper fold, split in wrapper fold, pages age-toned; very good minus. Carpenter & Prichard 37. One of Frederick Warne's lushly illustrated Toy Books. In this story, an English girl named Fanny receives a walking doll named Violet for her birthday at an elaborate party. Fanny takes Violet on a trip first to India and then to France where they are presented at the court of Empress Eugenie (wife of Napoleon III) so that she can see a walking doll. An intriguing story highlighting the life of a wealthy mid-19th century girl, packed with lessons for girls and their preparation for motherhood. The dating of the book is found in the clue on the rear wrapper in the review of Warne's Toy Books from the Atlas dated January 1866. Waddleton collection at Cambridge through Pi Co Boo website.
Piccolo Pete

Piccolo Pete by BAXTER, Phil

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
Title
Piccolo Pete
Author
BAXTER, Phil
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Kansas City, Mo: J.W. Jenkins Sons' Music Co, 1929. Ephemera no binding. Very good. Phil BAXTER, music.. 12" x 9 1/4"; 6 [1]pp; color pictorial front wrapper; ad for Phil Baxter's New Song Success, "Blame It On the Moon" on rear wrapper; very good. Ted Weems and his Orchestra's Greatest Novelty Record.
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Autograph Letter Signed, Liverpool, England, November 21, 1837 to her niece, Mrs. Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy, New Harmony, Ohio [sic] by Stewart, Mary

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Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC
Title
Autograph Letter Signed, Liverpool, England, November 21, 1837 to her niece, Mrs. Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy, New Harmony, Ohio [sic]
Author
Stewart, Mary
Seller
Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
folio, 4 pages, plus stamp-less address leaf, text neatly written in ink, splits along folds, else in good, legible condition. Robert Owen's sister-in-law writes to his daughter, future school mistress at the failed New Harmony Utopian Colony. The first famed Anglo-American advocate of Utopian Socialism, Robert Owen began his rise to wealth as a textile manufacturer in England and Scotland, marrying the daughter of Scottish merchant David Dale, who came to share Owen's passion for improving the condition of factory workers through education, and eventually established Socialistic communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Dale's other daughter married James Haldane Stewart, a prominent British clergyman who was born in Boston but educated in England. His wife, Owen's sister-in-law, wrote this letter. In 1824, when his daughter Jane – recipient of this letter – was 18, Owen sailed for America and invested much of his fortune in establishing a "cooperative" Utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana, the preliminary model for his utopian ideas. When the Socialistic "experiment" failed after a few years, despite attracting more than a thousand residents, Owen returned to England to continue his work. But the town of New Harmony remained, as did many of the resident scientists, educators and artists, and in 1833, after her mother had died in Scotland, Jane Dale Owen and her brothers settled there. And it was there in 1835, two years before she received this letter, that Jane married Robert Henry Fauntleroy, a civil engineer from Virginia who partnered with his brothers-in-law in a castro-bean enterprise at New Harmony. Fauntleroy went on to become an officer in the U.S. Coast Survey while, in his absence, Jane, after giving birth to three children, became the school mistress of New Harmony, establishing a small academy for young ladies which put into practice some of her father's ideas of educational reform. Jane received this long letter from her aunt in the earlier years of her marriage, much of it concerns family and domestic news about the relatives she had left behind in England, but there are some significant lines concerning what had become of her father. Her aunt hoped Jane was "as truly happy in the marriage state as we are", and lamented that "it is so very long since I have heard or read of you… I have not had a letter from you for more than a year and I have been daily expecting to receive a letter in answer to a very long one which I wrote to you giving a full and particular account of your dear Father's visit to us at … the Sea Side…I have not had the pleasure of seeing him since that time, although he fully expected then to return to Liverpool to stay some time and we were anticipating the pleasure of seeing him. He went then first to Manchester where I heard from him and … he after that went to Scotland where he remained much longer than he intended when first he went there and he wrote to me and I heard of him from very many old friends. Mary Campbell wrote a very full account of him and so did Ellen Grindlay who writes very frequently to me … Grindlay was delighted to see him and he to see her … During our visit in Ireland I had a Manchester Newspaper from your dear Father which had a printed letter in it from Robt to your Father in which he gave particulars of himself and said that his wife Mary Jane remained at New Harmony to attend upon you, his sister at your Confinement and now this is the last account we have heard of you or any of you since May and I have only heard that your Father is in Paris and I am quite surprised that I have not heard from him as he has never been so long of writing to me …" In the travels described in this letter, Owen, no longer a wealthy capitalist, having sunk much of his personal fortune in New Harmony, "remained the head of a vigorous propaganda effort to promote industrial equality, free education for children, and adequate living conditions in factory towns. In addition, he delivered lectures in Europe and published a weekly newspaper to gain support for his ideas." Years later, after she was prematurely widowed in 1849, Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy went to Europe to see her 82 year-old father who still looked back fondly, after nearly three decades, on the birth of his New Harmony utopia. She and her children remained on the Continent for a time, while her brother, Robert Dale Owen was US envoy to the Kingdom of Naples, but then she returned to New Harmony before her own death the year the American Civil War began. Letters by both Owen's sister-in-law and his daughter are rare. The New Harmony papers at Indiana University have only one letter written by Mary Stewart (to Jane's brother) and one other written by Jane herself.
WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS Series of 1931 (Issues 61-70)

WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS Series of 1931 (Issues 61-70) by (West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company). (Bradley, Will)

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Title
WESTVACO INSPIRATIONS FOR PRINTERS Series of 1931 (Issues 61-70)
Author
(West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company). (Bradley, Will)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
(NY): West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Fabulous 1931 Art- Deco period trade catalogs cum samplers printed by Westvaco to show off how effectively its paper for printing could be used for commercial and aesthetic purpose. This 1931 series includes all issues for the year, numbers 61 - 70, bound in sleek Art Deco designed green cloth cover stamped in silver, which is moderately worn at edges and smudged/ soiled here and there. Internals fine displaying color printing processes brilliantly. Issue 63, includes a 4-page illustrated article on American typographer and book designer Will Bradley.
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Christo by Christo Javacheff ; David Bourdon; Otto Hahn; Pierre Restany

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Title
Christo
Author
Christo Javacheff ; David Bourdon; Otto Hahn; Pierre Restany
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
Milan: Edizione Apollinaire, 1966. First edition. Christo. Boards, corners bumped, else fine. Texts by David Bourdon, Otto Hahn, Pierre Restany. Illustrated.
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NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL by Wodehouse, P.G.; Westbrook, Herbert

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Title
NOT GEORGE WASHINGTON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL
Author
Wodehouse, P.G.; Westbrook, Herbert
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 205 pages.Very Good minus in a Very Good Minus dust jacket. Spine has red and black lettering on a white background. Dust wrappers is in a mylar sleeve. Some light wear on the top of the jacket, bottom rear also has some wear. Bound in green cloth boards with gold embossed lettering on the spine. Slight dents to the spine ends. Text block edges ate lightly fixed and age toned. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W (ND-W). 1402466. FP New Rockville Stock.

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