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Amelia Earhart Writes Trailblazing Photographer and Journalist Margaret Bourke White on the “demonstration of what ability lurks within women”

Amelia Earhart Writes Trailblazing Photographer and Journalist Margaret Bourke White on the “demonstration of what ability lurks within women” by Amelia Earhart

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
Amelia Earhart Writes Trailblazing Photographer and Journalist Margaret Bourke White on the “demonstration of what ability lurks within women”
Author
Amelia Earhart
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
31/08/1933. A very rare letter of Earhart lauding what women can accomplish, and showing why she was an inspiration to women everywhereIn her brief life, Amelia Earhart became a record-breaking female aviator whose international fame improved public acceptance of aviation and paved the way for other women in commercial flight. She was also an inspiration to women in all walks of life, and made it possible for women to become involved in fields traditionally reserved for men. On her twenty-fifth birthday, Earhart purchased a Kinner Airster biplane. She flew it, in 1922, when she set the women’s altitude record of 14,000 feet. In 1928, publisher George Putnam - seeking to expand on public enthusiasm for Charles Lindbergh’s transcontinental flight a year earlier- tapped Earhart to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane. She succeeded, though as a passenger. But when the flight from Newfoundland landed in Wales on June 17, 1928, Earhart became a media sensation. Putnam remained her promoter, publishing her two books: 20 Hrs. 40 Mins. and The Fun of It. In 1932, she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic - as a pilot - and became a symbol of what women could achieve. Her awards included the American Distinguished Flying Cross and the Cross of the French Legion of Honor. In 1929, Earhart helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization of female aviators.Margaret Bourke White was a pioneering female documentary photographer and photojournalist. She was known as an architectural and commercial photographer for the first half of her career, representing corporate clients and highlighting the success of industrial capitalism with black and white images of steel factories and skyscrapers. In 1930, she became the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of the Soviet Union. In 1933, NBC commissioned her to create a monumental photo mural about radio for its rotunda at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, then considered the largest photo mural in the world. The success of her corporate commissions led her to work at Fortune magazine in the 1930s. She took the photograph of the construction of Fort Pack Dam that became the cover of the first issue of Life magazine. She was the first female staff photographer at Life. The second half of her career represents her transition to photojournalism, beginning with her work during the Depression documenting the people of the Dust Bowl. She was the first American female war photojournalist, photographed the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, and was with Patton's Third Army in the spring of 1945 when she famously documented the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. She also covered the Korean War for Life magazine in the early 1950s.Earhart and White connected in 1933, when White sent Earhart a photograph of the new George Washington Bridge. The two women were then amongst the best known women in the United States, and that photograph is now a famous one.Typed letter signed, on her personal letterhead, Rye, New York, August 31, 1933, to Margaret Bourke White, thanking her for the photograph, but more importantly expressing her strong feelings about the abilities of women. “Dear Miss White, I have just returned from out of town to find your gift of the beautiful span. I think you have caught the spirit, or what should be the spirit, of the Washington Bridge subtly and exactly. Thank you for sending it - as an example of photographic art, and also, as a demonstration of what ability lurks within women.”An extraordinary letter from one of America’s most famous women to another. This is just the second time in four decades that we have seen a letter of Earhart about what women can accomplish, and this one is more expressive.
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Nihon fuzoku (Japanese costumes) by BOULTON, Emily Bishop

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Seller: Ursus Books
Title
Nihon fuzoku (Japanese costumes)
Author
BOULTON, Emily Bishop
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1890. BOULTON, Emily Bishop. Nihon Fuzoku [Japanese customs.] 3 Volumes: 27; 26; 26 pp. colour woodcut plates with one foldout. 8vo. (102 x 70 mm.) publisher's wrappers. Osaka, Tsujiko Kumataro, 1890. The plates depict among other subjects, courtiers, military commanders and soldiers, daimyos (feudal lords), scholars, servants, merchants, "A bully's wife", samurai, noble men and princes and princesses. From the Preface, "These books are not only designed to please children, but to show the manners and customs of the ancient and modern people of Nippon. The fine illustrations afford an important aid in this respect. It is through the eye that the understanding itself is most quickly reached." Emily Bishop Boulton, born in England in 1855, travelled out to Japan with Bishop Poole, the first English Bishop in the countr arriving in Osaka in December, 1883. She joined Miss Oxlad in the Eisei (Eternal Life) school, the nucleus of the Bishop Poole Girls' School, where she also worked for some years after its opening in 1890. OCLC lists copies at Harvard and Princeton
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THE TRUE ARISTOCRACY by Bradford, E. E.

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Seller: Commonwealth Books
Title
THE TRUE ARISTOCRACY
Author
Bradford, E. E.
Seller
Commonwealth Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth. 125 pp. Light rubbing to head, heel, and corners. Spine slightly cocked. Bookseller label to front pastedown, and previous owner's signature to front free endpaper. Occasional underlining in pencil. Very good, no jacket, with faults as noted. Scarce.
Catalogue d'une nombreuse collection de livres en tout genre, rares et curieux

Catalogue d'une nombreuse collection de livres en tout genre, rares et curieux by Auction Catalog.

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Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.
Title
Catalogue d'une nombreuse collection de livres en tout genre, rares et curieux
Author
Auction Catalog.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
Two-part catalog of an auction originally scheduled for 1763, but not held until 1765. Complete listings A-Z, with many prices r
Description
La Haye, France: Chez Nicholas van Daalen & Benjamin Gilbert., (1765). Two-part catalog of an auction originally scheduled for 1763, but not held until 1765. Complete listings A-Z, with many prices realized written in a contemporary hand in the margins. Part One, A-L, bound with Part Two M-Z. Very good condition, bound in later half calf over marbled boards.. 20 cm. 240; 236 pp.
Poems.

Poems. by Allinson, William J.

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Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co.
Title
Poems.
Author
Allinson, William J.
Seller
Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition
First and only edition. A near fine copy of the work of this minor Quaker poet, author and essayist, deservedly scarce in the tr
Description
Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1873. First and only edition. A near fine copy of the work of this minor Quaker poet, author and essayist, deservedly scarce in the trade: "When to the lyre of Heaven / Another string was given / The angels saw it glisten / And hushed their harps to listen" etc. Bound in publisher's cloth with gold spine lettering.. 17.5 cm. viii-275 pp. b/w head and tail pieces.
BEN SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART

BEN SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART by Soby, James Thrall (text)

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Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB
Title
BEN SHAHN: HIS GRAPHIC ART
Author
Soby, James Thrall (text)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: George Braziller, 1957. First Edition (Limited). Hardcover. Very Good. Shahn, Ben. This #30 of 250 copies, with original print hand colored by Shahn tipped in across from title page. Signed by artist Shahn and author Soby on the colophon. Spine sunned, and slipcase present but broken at seams. Internals of book and print fine.
Rambling Rose

Rambling Rose by WILLINGHAM, Calder

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
Rambling Rose
Author
WILLINGHAM, Calder
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Delacorte, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Fuchsia cloth hardcover; dustjacket; pink publisher's top-stain, 309pp. Minuscule scuff at base of rear board, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at spine-folds and extremities, VG+. Quite nice copy of the Atlanta-born author's 1972 semi-autobiographical coming of age novel, set in his native Georgia during the Great Depression. Willingham himself adapted the screenplay for the 1991 feature film, directed by Martha Coolidge and starring Laura Dern and Robert Duvall. A best-seller in paperback, the cloth issue is considerably less common.
The Oakdale Affair

The Oakdale Affair by Edgar Rice Burroughs; Frank Frazetta Cover Art

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA
Title
The Oakdale Affair
Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs; Frank Frazetta Cover Art
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
NY: Ace Books, 1974. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Previous owner's ink stamp on inside of front, slightly tanned, else a very good, tightly bound example with a flat, uncreased spine.

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