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East of Eden (Signed limited edition) by Steinbeck, John

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Title: East of Eden (Signed limited edition)
Author: Steinbeck, John
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: The Viking Press, 1952. First edition. Fine/Good. One of 1,500 copies of the signed, limited edition, 750 of which were for sale. A bright, Fine copy in chipped publisher's acetate dust jacket, Good only. Lacking the slipcase. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt. Edges stained red. Ink gift inscription, dated 1957, to upper pastedown. An excellent example, very clean and fresh throughout. Dust jacket lacking lower third of spine and about a quarter of the back panel. Set in the Salinas Valley of California, East of Eden is Steinbeck's classic tale of the Trask and Hamilton families. The Nobel Prize-winning writer considered this his greatest work and, in fact, a young Steinbeck actually makes a small appearance in the novel as a character. East of Eden was a bestseller and became extremely popular upon its release. Steinbeck wrote a friend: "I am getting flocks of letters...People write as though it were their book." Nearly fifty years after its publication, the book would undergo a resurgence in popularity when it was chosen as an Oprah's Book Club pick in 2003. More famously, the book was adapted into a 1955 film directed by Elia Kazan and featuring James Dean in one of his few starring roles. "...no one can doubt its merits as the work of a great storyteller. It compels and holds the reader's fascinated attention from the first chapter to the last" (contemporary review in the Washington Post). Fine in Good dust jacket.

En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot] by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot]
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. First edition. Very Good. A Very Good copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book. Front wrapper reattached and a tear repaired on p 29. Spine creased and a bit toned, text block also a bit browned, as often. Beckett's hugely influential tragicomedy is one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century theater. Beckett had originally written the play in French between the fall and winter of 1948-1949, but would not translate the play into English until its London premier in 1955. In fact, this edition of the play - the Minuit edition - was released in 1952, before the play's first performance the next year. Beckett was thought to have been inspired to write the work after viewing Caspar David Friedrich's painting "Mann und Frau den Mond betrachtend" (Man and Woman observing the Moon). "It arrives at the custom house, as it were, with no luggage, no passport and nothing to declare: yet it gets through as might a pilgrim from Mars. It does this, I believe, by appealing to a definition of drama much more fundamental than any in the books. A play, it asserts and proves, is basically a means of spending two hours in the dark without being bored" (Contemporary Observer review from the famed drama critic Kenneth Tynan.). Very Good.

The Drought by Ballard, J.G.

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Title: The Drought
Author: Ballard, J.G.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. First edition. Fine/Fine. The preferred first British and hardcover edition. Original brown cloth gilt in dust jacket. Top edge red, a small Foyles book ticket to foot of front pastedown. A Fine, pristine copy in like dust jacket, rarely found in such beautiful condition. An exceptional example of Ballard's classic science fiction novel. Originally published in the United States in 1964 under the title The Burning World, it was retitled and published by Jonathan Cape in 1965. One of Ballard's key 'climate novels' and part of what some critics describe as his 'catastrophe trilogy' alongside The Drowned World and The Crystal World. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

Queen Victoria Writes the Dean of Windsor’s Widow With Her Personal Condolences, and Saying the Pain of Loss Will Last a Long Time by Queen Victoria

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Title: Queen Victoria Writes the Dean of Windsor’s Widow With Her Personal Condolences, and Saying the Pain of Loss Will Last a Long Time
Author: Queen Victoria
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 18/10/1882. “It has been a great pleasure for me to mark my respect & gratitude to my beloved friend, in doing any thing for you. I fear the blank, the dreary objectlessness comparatively speaking must increase for some time.”Gerald Wellesley, nephew of the great Duke of Wellington, was appointed personal chaplain to the Queen in 1849, becoming Dean of Windsor in 1854. He married Magdalen ‘Lily’ Montagu, daughter of Lord Rokeby, in 1856. The couple were in constant contact with the royal family, and he was one of the Queen’s closest advisors. He died in 1882. The couple’s only child died in early 1883 at age 18. Both were laid to rest in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. Prince Albert, Victoria’s husband, had died in 1861, and Victoria went into deep mourning. Thus, in 1882 both Victoria and Lily had lost their husbands to early deaths, and Lily would lose a son soon after.Autograph letter signed, on her Loch Munch letterhead, October 18. 1882, to Lily, saying that she’s happy to be of help but that the pain of loss will last a long time and she should avoid idleness. “I have to thank you so much for your kind letters & the precious hair. — It has been a great pleasure for me to mark my respect & gratitude to my beloved friend, in doing any thing for you. I fear the blank, the dreary objectlessness comparatively speaking must increase for some time; only while your dear Father is spared you will have him to look after & devote yourself to - which is a great mercy.“It is very kind of you to have written to Mr Carver & he feels it very much. He is such a kind man, & so sympathetic that he appreciates such kindness deeply.“I cannot say how I dread the return to Windsor which is a week earlier than usual on account of the return of the Troops. How that would have interested him, & especially to hear my dear Arthur [her son Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn] so well spoken of. It is only a month yesterday that our dear Dean was taken. It seems much longer. Windsor - always gloomy will be doubly so now - where we shall miss Him every where!“No doubt as you say — it is all sent in mercy for Him but not for us! I hope your Father is pretty well.”This letter shows her continued preoccupation with death and loss, and surprisingly indicates she does not like Windsor, unlike her great-great granddaughter Elizabeth II.

Ernst, Prévert. Les chiens ont soif. With 2 etching signed. by Max Ernst, Jacques Prévert

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Title: Ernst, Prévert. Les chiens ont soif. With 2 etching signed.
Author: Max Ernst, Jacques Prévert
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris, Au Pont des Arts, 1964. Jaques Prévert, text illustrated by Max Ernst with 2 original etchings in color signed in pencil, and 25 lithographs in color in full page. Limited numbered edition in 320 copies, printed on Velin d'Arches pur chiffon. Loose as issued, illustrate wrappers by Ernst, original chemise and case. Very good. Please, ask for complete condition report.

The Arabella and Araminta Stories by Smith, Gertrude

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Title: The Arabella and Araminta Stories
Author: Smith, Gertrude
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Good. Illustrated by Ethel Reed.. 4to. (8),103,(1)pp. Tan cloth printed in black. Red pictorial endpapers. Title page in red and black. Illustrated with 15 full page illustrations. Introduction by Mary E. Wilkins. Occasional light scattered foxing and staining; rebacked with original spine paid on (lacking spine tips); edge and corner wear, and inner hinges worn. Still, a good copy of a rare children's book. Signed by Gertrude Smith and Mary Wilkins on the verso of the front free endpaper. Rare Peter Parley to Penrod title. The Helen Younger list of Collectible Children's Books selection for 1895.

The Olden Time" in THE NEW YORK MIRROR. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Volume XII : 5 July 1834 -- 27 June 1835 by WHITMAN, Walt

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Title: The Olden Time" in THE NEW YORK MIRROR. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Volume XII : 5 July 1834 -- 27 June 1835
Author: WHITMAN, Walt
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: The last issue missing one leaf but otherwise complete with the addition of a loose 1835 issue laid in. Little foxing but some d
Description: New York: Wilson & Company, 1834 - 1835. First Edition. Hardcover. The last issue missing one leaf but otherwise complete with the addition of a loose 1835 issue laid in. Little foxing but some dampstaining, occasionally heavy, but with little effect on the page with Whitman's piece. A few pages frayed at the edges. Front cover a little loose but binding is sound. Very Good. Folio (10-1/2" x 14-1/4") bound in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with the gilt-lettered red morocco ownership label of Maria Youngs on the front cover; 416 pages including index. Includes the first printing in the 29 November 1834 issue of "The Olden Time," signed "W," THE FIRST PUBLISHED PIECE BY WALT WHITMAN still extant, published when he was 15 years old. Not in Myerson, though he refers to a possible Whitman work in THE MIRROR in 1835 as not seen (Myerson I3). In the three-paragraph piece Whitman talks about how though New York City may feel old and "civilized," there were still likely people around who "conversed with men who once saw the present great metropolitan city as a little dorp or village." He gives examples of two men who died in the mid-1700s--a Negro Harry and John Crockeser--who must have spoken to some still alive when he wrote the piece: "How these very aged persons serve as counters to diminish time, and to seem to draw all the mighty past, so seemingly long, into the compass of but two or three lives!" THE MIRROR was an 8-page weekly containing: A piece of music with words and notes on the last page of each issue; book reviews; literary criticism; poetry; letters from abroad; medicine; city improvements; fine arts; humor; New York theater; etc. Other articles on New York University; Cure of an Opium-Eater; Wilson, the Ornithologist; the Witches of Lancashire of 1612; Charles Lamb on Modern Gallantry; English Writers of America by Washington Irving; two poems by William Cullen Bryant; and more. Illustrated an engraved title page, text engravings and 3 full-page plates: the presidents of the United States, a view of Newburgh, NY, and "A Scene in the Highlands, NY."

An Archive of Manuscripts, Printed Materials and Ephemera Concerning the Pro-Fascist Anti-War Movement in The United States by [WW2] [ AMERICAN FAR-RIGHT POPULISM] BEHRENS, Ernest H.

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Title: An Archive of Manuscripts, Printed Materials and Ephemera Concerning the Pro-Fascist Anti-War Movement in The United States
Author: [WW2] [ AMERICAN FAR-RIGHT POPULISM] BEHRENS, Ernest H.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1920's-1940's. 58+ individual pieces of manuscript material by one Ernest H. Behrens, written on a variety of sheets of paper, notes, and envelopes, many running to a number of pages; comprising short letters to publications, letters to Congressmen and Administration Representatives, speeches and addresses, quotations from relevant figures and notes on how these might be incorporated into the main thrust of the material. Behrens was (according to his business card, present here) was a Buyer's Agent and Factory Representative of Bloomfield, New Jersey. Where dates are available they span the late-1920's up to the late 1930's and the declaration of war with Germany and Japan. A quantity of the material consists of drafts of letters to the New York Daily News, among other publications, from Behrens in support of controversial religious figure Father Charles Coughlin, taking Coughlin's position on American neutrality for the benefit of trade, and the pressing need to make trade deals with Nazi Germany. Behrens signs his letters for publication with a variety of pseudonyms including "Robinhood", "Churchill Jr.", "Anti-Tory" and others. That there was a Nazi funded effort to keep the US out of the war is a matter of historical record, as is Coughlin's involvement; whether or not Mr. Behrens was a paid contributor or merely a vocal fanboy remains to be discovered. At one point in the mid 1930's it is estimated that Father Charles Coughlin's reach via publications and his syndicated radio show "Golden Hour" covered approximately a quarter of the US population. His efforts to promote American neutrality, and even allyship with Fascist Germany and Italy to defeat the communist threat garnered praise, and indeed financial contributions from both Nazi Germany as well as fascist Italy under Mussolini. Behrens' strident editorial letters and other writings collected here place him clearly in the orbit - ideological, if not personal - of Coughlin's admirers: "...."Tradition has always upheld Freedom of Speech in time of Peace. What are we doing today, Truthtellers like Lindbergh and Father Coughlin are put off the air by powerful interests. What are we doing today. We're backing Britain the greatest international monopolizer of world trade especially since 1918. Britain, the monopoly power that caused the world depression. Tradition has always found England our enemy...a word to the wise would have been sufficient. I've deluged you with mail and you still can't see and won't print. Out of 28 letters you've printed half of one. YOU DOPES, YOU DOPES, YOU DOPES. God Bless America and keep it right, you Dopes who back Roosevelt can't...." The call for US exceptionalism, "Greatness", and the need to "Keep out of foreign entanglements" along with a strong undercurrent of anti-semitic conspiracy theorizing, becomes more and more strident as the writing continues; references to the gold standard, the overarching concept of trade being the universal language of the universe, and a willingness to overlook atrocity in favor of commercial harmony form the main avenues of Behrens' thought. Together, these writings provide a close-up picture of the transmission of right-wing populism in the years prior to WW2, a subject that should be of keen interest to scholars of the current historical moment.

I Write What I Like by [APARTHEID] BIKO, Steve

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Title: I Write What I Like
Author: [APARTHEID] BIKO, Steve
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Harper & Row, [1978]. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Tan paper-covered boards, backed in light brown cloth, in black dust jacket; viii,216pp. Slight rubbing at lower edge, minor mark to fore-edge, else Fine. Jacket lightly rubbed, mildly toned along extreme edges, with price label to front panel: Very Good or better. Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, a leading figure in the South African Students' Organisation, and a developer of the Black Consciousness Movement. This anthology of his work was published a year after he was killed by South African state security officers.

An Essay on Musical Expression by Avison, Charles

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: An Essay on Musical Expression
Author: Avison, Charles
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: C. Davis, 1753. Second Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Second edition of An Essay on Musical Expression by Charles Avison, complete with four musical plates, published in 1753.. Octavo, [x], 152pp; 43pp; 53pp, [6]. Bound in three-quarter morocco with marbled paper boards. Title in gilt over black on spine. New endpapers. Stated "The Second Edition" on title page. Includes half-title, but lacks advertisement leaf before half-title. Solid text block, internally fine. Rebound by Chivers of Bath, with label on rear pastedown. Complete with four fold-out musical plates, lightly foxed. A rare piece from a notable English composer. The first printing of An Essay on Musical Expression was published 1752 for C. Davis of London. (Eitner, 248) (Hirsch I, 40) Avison's treatise is one of the most important English contributions to musical aesthetics. It contains discussions of the effect of music on the emotions and draws comparisons with the effect produced by other, arts such as painting. Avison was also a composer of some well-known concerti grossi; his published music often contains substantial, informative and occasionally controversial prefaces. Full Title: An Essay on Musical Expression. The Second Edition, with Alterations and Large Additions. To Which is Added, A Letter to the Author, Concerning the Music of the Ancients, and Some Passages in Classic Writers, Relating to that Subject. Likewise, Mr. Avison's Reply to the Author of Remarks on the Essay on Musical Expression. In a Letter from Mr. Avison, to His Friend in London.

Rahman, Abdul (illustrator). "Remember the African Holocaust"/Lynchings. [Caption Title]

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Title: Rahman, Abdul (illustrator). "Remember the African Holocaust"/Lynchings. [Caption Title]
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: High Awareness, Inc, 1992. Very good. Poster measuring 23¾" x 18". Very good with scattered light creases. This is a large calendar meant to bring awareness of the history of slavery, as well as lynchings in the United States. The days of the calendar are in columns at opposite edges of the poster, with three large illustrations in the middle. The illustrations depict the process of enslaving Africans, with visceral drawings of the capturing of new slaves, the middle passage, and breaking camp. Interestingly, in the breaking camp image, a young man is being whipped and the aggressor is also Black. At the bottom of the poster are two columns of text which detail the lynchings which are highlighted in red on the calendar. In between those columns is text dedicating the poster to Ida B. Wells whose early investigative journalism led to the topic of lynchings becoming part of the national conversation. A searing reminder of slavery and lynching. OCLC locates no copies.

Violinschule ... mit erlaeuternden Kupfertafeln. Original Ausgabe ... Preis fl. 15._C.M. / Rthlr. 10._ by SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859

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Title: Violinschule ... mit erlaeuternden Kupfertafeln. Original Ausgabe ... Preis fl. 15._C.M. / Rthlr. 10._
Author: SPOHR, Louis 1784-1859
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Wien: Tobias Haslinger [PN T.H. 6050.], 1833. Folio. Full mid-blue paper with original teal blue upper wrapper with titling within decorative border laid down to upper board printed, paper title label to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3ff. (3 full-page engraved plates of the violin and bow and playing positions), 250 pp. Engraved. With bust-length lithographed frontispiece portrait by Kriehuber printed by L. Hofelich. Former owner's signature ("Arthur Krone") in ink to verso of frontispiece. With bookplate of noted music collector David Wolman to free front endpaper. Original wrapper somewhat worn and soiled. Slightly worn and soiled; occasional foxing; titling to upper margin of plate 3 slightly cropped. Re-issue of the first edition. Gothel WoO45, p. 316. A noted German composer, violinist, and conductor, [Spohr's] "violin method, completed in 1831, documents his importance as a teacher. Numerous violinists from all over the world came to him for instruction, the most famous being Hubert Ries, Ferdinand David and Spohr's grandson August Wilhelmj." The New Grove Vol. 18, p. 11. It became "one of the most respected and widely used violin methods of the century. ... Regarded by many contemporaries as worthy of a place beside Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven in the pantheon of the greatest composers, [Spohr] has, together with Gluck and Cherubini, been allotted a considerably lower status by posterity. Mozart's Figaro and Wagner's Tristan were both composed during Spohr's lifetime; his own work looks, Janus-like, towards both the formalism and clarity of the Classical tradition, and the structural and harmonic experimentation associated with 19th-century Romanticism." Clive Brown in Grove Music Online.

That Da Da Strain (Medina-Dowell) Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters A Black Swan Record (14120-A) and Georgia Blues (Russell & Herbert) Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters A Black Swan Record (#14120) by Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977

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Title: That Da Da Strain (Medina-Dowell) Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters A Black Swan Record (14120-A) and Georgia Blues (Russell & Herbert) Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters A Black Swan Record (#14120)
Author: Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Pace Phonograph Corp, 1922. Very Good. 33 rpm phonograph record. The record label is slightly worn. A little visible shallow scratching. Later generic white record sleeve. We have no record player so have not attempted to play either side of this record. Ethel Waters was the star vocalist on the Black Swan label. She was "born again" after attending a Billy Graham Crusade in 1957 and often sang "His Eye is on the Sparrow" and perhaps other songs, but probably neither of the songs on this record, at Billy Graham Crusades during the last two decades of her life. The "Jazz Masters" who accompanied her on this record are thought to have been members of Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra.

Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm

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Title: Zuleika Dobson
Author: Max Beerbohm
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: John Lane, 1912. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In Illustrated Boards. Gorgeous Front Board With Jazz Woman. First Edition.1912 Rare In This Condition. Excellent Copy Of This Classic..

Chance in Chains by Thorne, Guy

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Title: Chance in Chains
Author: Thorne, Guy
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Sturgis & Walton, 1914. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good/Very Good. 8vo., 180pp. Beautiful First US Edition. Original green cloth with titles in white on spine and front board though mostly faded on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with perhaps a hint of toning. Minute wear to spine ends and tips but barely noticeable. Attractive and quite scarce wrapper with $1.00 price on the spine, ($1.10 postpaid), has some soiling, tiny nicks at the spine ends and tips, and toned spine. A couple of tine closed tears and paper tape reinforcement at the spines on the verso. Looks a lot better than it sounds and the front panel image, which is also the frontis, (by Howard T. Graves), is still fresh, bright and visually pleasing. An interesting story about scamming the Monte Carlo casino by controlling a Roulette wheel with a wireless. Guy Thorn is the pseudonym of Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull, (Hubin, p. 394), A simply beautiful collectable copy of a quite uncommon title in any condition. In this high grade and with the rare dust-wrapper, a real find indeed.

G is for Gumshoe (Signed First Edition) by Grafton, Sue

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Title: G is for Gumshoe (Signed First Edition)
Author: Grafton, Sue
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780805004618
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1990. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 259p. Beautiful Stated First Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Equally attractive unclipped wrapper, ($16.95), isl fresh and bright with no chipping, creases, toning or tears. Dated, signed and inscribed by Grafton on the title page, "To ___, Respectfully submitted, Sue Grafton, 1990"' A beautiful collectable copy at a great price.

Per l'aguste nozze delle altezze reali Massimiliano Giuseppe Maria Duca di Sassonia con l'infanta Donna Luisa Carlotta di Borbone Principessa di Lucca. by Bandettini Landucci, Teresa (1763-1837).

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Title: Per l'aguste nozze delle altezze reali Massimiliano Giuseppe Maria Duca di Sassonia con l'infanta Donna Luisa Carlotta di Borbone Principessa di Lucca.
Author: Bandettini Landucci, Teresa (1763-1837).
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Lucca: Tipografia Ducale, 1825. Original edition. Fine. Octavo (20 cm); 8 pages. In stiff green marbled-paper wraps. Epithalamion by the celebrated improvisational poet, Teresa Bandettini, who packed theaters and thrilled audiences with her spontaneous verses accompanied by dance. The marriage--between the 62-year-old Prince Maximilian of Saxony and the 23-year-old Maria Luisa Carlotta--took place in Lucca by proxy without the bride being present! (They had a second ceremony in person in Dresden later that year.) Max had been Luisa Carlotta's uncle by marriage. Anyway, the important thing here is the poetry of Teresa Bandettini, who had returned to her native Lucca after a career on the road as an improvvisatrice. The poem is a hymn to Hymen, the Greek deity associated with marriage and, of course, the wedding night.

The Photographs of Lyle Bonge. With an Introduction by A. D. Coleman, an Afterword by Jonathan Williams, & Writing by Lyle Bonge by BONGE, Lyle

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Title: The Photographs of Lyle Bonge. With an Introduction by A. D. Coleman, an Afterword by Jonathan Williams, & Writing by Lyle Bonge
Author: BONGE, Lyle
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Published as Jargon 89. Mint copy.
Description: (North Carolina): Jargon Society, (1982). First edition. Published as Jargon 89. Mint copy.. 4to, boards, dust jacket. Published as Jargon 89. Mint copy.

How Many Miles from St. Jo? The Log of Sterling B.F. Clark, a Forty Niner. With Comments by Ella Sterling Mighels. Together with a Brief Autobiography of James Phelan, 1819-1892, Pioneer Merchant by Clark, Sterling B.F.

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Title: How Many Miles from St. Jo? The Log of Sterling B.F. Clark, a Forty Niner. With Comments by Ella Sterling Mighels. Together with a Brief Autobiography of James Phelan, 1819-1892, Pioneer Merchant
Author: Clark, Sterling B.F.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by James D. Phelan, son of James Phelan. 12mo. 56pp. Illustrations. Cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial pastedown on front cover. A fine copy. Sterling Clark left Holliday, Pennsylvania in 1849 for Saint Joseph. After a short stay, he resumed his journey, stopped in Salt Lake City, and followed the Humboldt-Carson Route into California. He arrived in Sacramento on August 2. He sold his mule for $50, purchased mining equipment, and washed gold at Mormon Island and Sandwich Island diggings. Supplementing the diary are extracts of letters from Sterling to Rachel Mitchell, his future bride, describing life in California and urging her to come. Clark invested in land in Sacramento and San Jose and became the Alcalde of Natoma, or Mormon Island. He went back home to marry but on the return trip became ill crossing Nicaragua and died in San Francisco at the age of twenty-eight. His daughter was born posthumously. Includes comments by the author's daughter, Ella Sterling Mighels, together with a brief autobiography of James Phelan, 1819-1892, pioneer merchant. Phelan donated the original diary to the Society of California Pioneers in 1930. This copy with the tipped-in slip, "With the compliments of James D. Phelan." [Kurutz: 137]..

North by TOWLE, Tony

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Title: North
Author: TOWLE, Tony
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A few small nicks to jacket edges, otherwise fresh and bright
Description: New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1970. A few small nicks to jacket edges, otherwise fresh and bright. 8vo. 75 pages. Original black cloth; dust jacket designed by Jasper Johns. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by Towle on the half-title. This won the Frank O'Hara Award, and was Towle's first commercially published book (there were two earlier privately printed volumes).

Ant Communities and How They are Governed: A Study in Natural Civics by McCook, Henry C.

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Title: Ant Communities and How They are Governed: A Study in Natural Civics
Author: McCook, Henry C.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1909. First edition. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED STUDY OF ANT SOCIETY COMPARED TO HUMAN CULTURE. 13 x 20.5 cm hardcover, green cloth binding, title to cover, small signature of Robert Stebbins to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. i-xvii, [2], 321 pp, many fine illustrations. Light spine fading, corners bumped, very good in custom archival mylar cover. HENRY CHRISTOPHER McCOOK (1837 - 1911) was an American Presbyterian clergyman, naturalist, and prolific author on religion, history, and nature. He was a member of the celebrated Fighting McCooks, a family of Ohio military officers and volunteers during the American Civil War. He learned the printing trade as a youth, then taught school for several years. attended Jefferson College. After graduation in 1859, he studied theology privately and in the Western Theological Seminary in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in the 41st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a chaplain with the rank of first lieutenant, and helped tend the wounded. As a minister in Clinton, Illinois, St. Louis, and Steubenville, Ohio, McCook became known for his compassion and intellect, and for his leadership in the movement to create Sunday Schools. In 1869, he became pastor of the Seventh Presbyterian church of Philadelphia, where he lived for the rest of his life. He spent his summers studying the behavior of ants and spiders. He published his observations and discoveries in a number of journals and books, as well as in a series of well-received illustrated children's books that explained the insects characteristics and traits in language and drawings for young minds. Many of McCook's books used illustrations drawn by Daniel Carter Beard, the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. McCook was Vice President of both the American Entomological Society and the Academy of Natural Sciences. In 1880, Lafayette College conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity to McCook. In 1895, he designed the official flag of the city of Philadelphia. He again served as an Army Chaplain during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

Songs of Sussex and Other Verse by AVERY, FRANK

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Title: Songs of Sussex and Other Verse
Author: AVERY, FRANK
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1936. AVERY, FRANK. Songs of Sussex and Other Verse. Newton, [1936]. [6], vi, 5-6, [2], [7]-174, [8] p. Cloth. Poetry, some relating to Sussex County.

Kindred Spirits: The E. Maurice Bloch Collection of Manuscripts Part 1: Books and Printed Matter

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Title: Kindred Spirits: The E. Maurice Bloch Collection of Manuscripts Part 1: Books and Printed Matter
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mass: Ars Libri, LTD, 1992. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine. Art catalogue with prices. Corners rubbed.

Azmat al-Khalij wa-mustaqbal al-Sharq al-Awsat: Ruá Arabiyah wa-Amrikiyah. Ahmad Sidqi al-Dajani [et al.]; tahrir Sad al-Din Ibrahim, Hasan Wajih. (Silsilat Dirasat azmat al-Khalij. 5.) by al-Dajani, Ahmad Sidqi, et al.

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Title: Azmat al-Khalij wa-mustaqbal al-Sharq al-Awsat: Ruá Arabiyah wa-Amrikiyah. Ahmad Sidqi al-Dajani [et al.]; tahrir Sad al-Din Ibrahim, Hasan Wajih. (Silsilat Dirasat azmat al-Khalij. 5.)
Author: al-Dajani, Ahmad Sidqi, et al.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: al-Qahira/al-Kuwayt (Markaz Ibn Khaldun lil-Dirasat al-Inmaiyah/ Dar Suad al-Sabah), 1992.. 227pp. Wraps.

Harvard 1925 Decennial Report

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Title: Harvard 1925 Decennial Report
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Description: Cambridge, 1935. Red Cloth. Very Good/No Dj.

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Azmat al-Khalij wa-mustaqbal al-Sharq al-Awsat: Ruá Arabiyah wa-Amrikiyah. Ahmad Sidqi al-Dajani [et al.]; tahrir Sad al-Din Ibrahim, Hasan Wajih. (Silsilat Dirasat azmat al-Khalij. 5.) by al-Dajani, Ahmad Sidqi, et al.