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Manuscript Eulogy for George Washington written by a Military Man Delivered to his Fellow Soldiers in Arms, circa February 22, 1800 by (Washington, George) [Anon.]

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Title: Manuscript Eulogy for George Washington written by a Military Man Delivered to his Fellow Soldiers in Arms, circa February 22, 1800
Author: (Washington, George) [Anon.]
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: [N.p.] Anonymous, 1800, small quarto, 22 manuscript pages, on laid paper, no watermark, tied with ribbon (not original) through two of three slits, front wrapper detached but present entitled: "In Eulogy on the life of General George Washington" Text somewhat worn, upper right hand corners somewhat dogeared, front wrapper worn and chipped, rear wrap missing, otherwise very good. Apparently Unpublished Eulogy on Washington by a Military Man to his Fellow Soldiers. This eulogy or oration written by an anonymous militia commander and likely read to his fellow "soldiers in arms," it extols the virtues of their fallen "Chieftain" on what would have been Washington's 68th birthday: Sample of the Text: "Countrymen & Fellow Citizens. Permit me by request your humble Eulogist, to address you, on this no less solemn than afflicting occasion. The Parent of our rights, the Guardian of our liberties, the Saviour of our Country, is no more. The illustrious Washington, the accomplished Statesman, the intrepid Veteran, has discharged the demands of nature, and rests in dust. This day, sixty eight years past, ushered the deceased into being. How are the mighty fallen – Not as Saul and Jonathan, in the field of Battle – but expired like Moses, on Pisgah's Mount, in the full vigour of age. … The Hero of Monongahela witnessed to the world the same magnanimity of mind through the whole course of his life, as he did at the moment, when he saved a shattered army from impending ruin. And millions this day mourn the loss of their mighty Chieftain dead. … He conquered not like Alexander, to enslave millions, but to disseminate among them the rights and privileges of men. Like Cincinnatus he took the field but to silence the enemies of his Country & like him again retired to rural repose. He was biased by no sinister motives, but was entreated by the purest principles of friendship, for his distressed Countrymen. And by his Patriotic exertions, liberated thousands from impending thralldom… He never took to his hallowed lips, the sacred name of Deity; but with the greatest reverence and awe – He united the characters of Moses and Joshua in leading and counseling the Armies of America. Like Moses he took us, when to all external appearance human aid could not avail. Although he resigned not his breath on Vernon's top, until like Joshua he led us into the promised land of freedom… In war he was our palladium in peace our oracle. … The moment when that the immortal sage was named to command our armies; Europe stood astonished, and Great Britain trembled to the center. The knew the worth of our Chief – to them his name was a host – this they were made sensible of even to a demonstration. … With what perfect composure did he command himself, at that precarious moment, when flying through the Jerseys, with an handful of undisciplined Militia, and they upon the point of deserting him, giving up their Country for loss With a voice more than human he rallied their remains, - Spoke and they obeyed – and set his Country free – It was here the Illustrious Chief turned the current of the American war, and rolled the tide of its baneful effects, upon an exulting foe, glutted with success. … Soldiers in arms, Permit me, to consider with you, on this trying occasion, and with you to lament the loss of your guide in war and friend in peace. The honorable name of Soldier, ought to involve in it, every thing that is great and good. The deceased War worn General, whose death you are now lamenting, gloried in the epithet of Soldier. Although the ages of many of you put it out of your power to be acquainted with his noble exertions, yet you are reaping the advantages which his noble soul aspired to. He in his life set you an example worthy the imitation of an Hannibal. By his intrepidity, he has taught you to defy death – and when your Country calls, his noble pattern, has declared that your lives are not your own. When his demanded his attention, he was the first to appear in the midst of danger and could not bear that a soiled tongue should couple with name of coward an American Veteran. If there are any in this assembly, who were present when he unfurled the banners of Independence, they will declare, what a torrent of anxiety swelled his benevolent soul, at that initial moment. The fate of your Country, the lives of you Parents, and your own existences, depended on that momentous event. With diffidence and a reserved dignity, which characterized him, above his comrades in war, he took the command of our forces. He organized into a regular army, a raw, although virtuous yeomanry, He led them on to victory. He subdued the enemies of our Country and gave peace to our American climes. Whilst the tear of sensibility steals from your cheeks, in commemoration of your departed Hero; Let this conflating plea, sooth the pangs of grief, that his happiness is now compleat. Let his virtue stimulate you, like him, when called upon, to tread in the paths of glory, and then you will receive the plaudits of your Countrymen, and rest like him, in eternal Bliss." This eulogy or commemorative address is apparently unpublished. The author's allusion to New Jersey, which he refers to as "here", within the text, may offer a hint to its origin.

Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority by [Japanese-Americana – Internment] Foote, Caleb; Lange, Dorothea

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Title: Outcasts! The Story of America’s Treatment of Her Japanese-American Minority
Author: [Japanese-Americana – Internment] Foote, Caleb; Lange, Dorothea
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine.
Description: New York: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1944. Illustrated with photographs by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McLelland and Tom Parker. Near Fine.. A booklet published by the Quaker anti-war group Fellowship of Reconciliation concerning the evacuation and resettlement of west-coast Japanese Americans. The booklet was written from federal prison by conscientious objector Caleb Foote, who would later become a leading scholar of criminal justice reform; with a foreword by prominent anti-internment activist Galen Fisher. Fisher describes its contents: “[I]t strikes a body blow to keep the Constitution valid for all, and takes square issue with those who would expurgate it for persons of Japanese descent. It is not an appeal for sympathy for the evacuees, but an argument for justice, and that is what the evacuees themselves want. Facts are arrayed about the whole gamut of evacuation and resettlement, but the emphasis on the deeper issues affecting our American democracy is at the core of the booklet.” The booklet is illustrated with photographs of Japanese internment taken by Dorothea Lange, Clem Albers, Francis Stewart, Joe McClelland, and Tom Parker. Lange, Albers, Stewart, and Parker worked for the War Relocation Authority; and McLelland worked at the Granada camp in Colorado, where his wife was a teacher. Lange is best known for her Depression-era photos; much of her documentation of the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans was impounded by the US government until after the war. Though fairly common institutionally, no other copies are offered for sale at the time of listing.

THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. [and] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID by (BINDINGS, PROVINCIAL ENGLISH). CHURCH OF ENGLAND

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Title: THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. [and] A NEW VERSION OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID
Author: (BINDINGS, PROVINCIAL ENGLISH). CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, 1823. 142 x 83 mm. (5 1/2 x 3 1/8"). 22, 510 pp., [1] leaf (blank), 81, [1] pp. VERY ATTRACTIVE CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO BY RUSSELL'S OF GUILDFORD (their ticket on front pastedown), covers with central sunburst medallion containing the Tetragrammaton within a triangle from which the dove of the Holy Spirit descends, surrounded by a blind-tooled roll and multiple gilt rules, foliate cornerpieces, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments with floral cornerpieces, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. Housed in a very nice felt-lined cloth folding box with red morocco back, gilt lettering. For the binding: Ramsden, p. 144. A little soiling to leather and a couple of trivial imperfections internally, but a very fine copy inside and out. This pretty little prayer book is a lovely example of provincial English bookbinding, and very typical of an era in which such luxurious volumes were popular gifts among the moneyed classes. The Russell firm is recorded by Ramsden as operating in Guildford, in southern England, and the ticket in the present book notes that they were also booksellers, stationers, printers, cutlers, and silversmiths in addition to binders. This charming devotional work has been carefully looked after by its previous owners, and comes down to us in excellent condition..

Box of Happiness by Austin, Alice, book artist

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Title: Box of Happiness
Author: Austin, Alice, book artist
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Philadelphia: Alice Austin, 2009. Fine. Number 36 of 40 copies signed and numbered by the book artist on its box. This inventive work from Alice Austin has an unusual structure that is described on her website as having a construction that is reminiscent of the children's toy {called a buzzer or buzz saw) in which twine or cord passes through something like a button so that the suspended button can be picked up by the tails of twin on each side. If you hold the ends of twine and toss the button in a circular motion, you twist the twine that can be pulled taut, and the button spins. The resultant work is a ball of happiness with pages that read "eat more pie," "travel far," "sleep late," and more. As was written in New Yorker Book Notes, sometimes all that matter is what a book looks like. The book is handset with metal type and linoleum cuts printed on a Vandercook press, the paper is made from abaca cotton and shredded money, handmade by Michele Wilson for the artist. It measures 3.25 x 3.25 x 3.25 inches. It is housed in a lidded lightweight green paper box . In fine condition. Alice Austin is a printmaker, book artist and painter living and working in Philadelphia. She has been on the faculty at the University of the Arts, teaching book structures, and has also taught workshops at the Center for Book Arts in New York, Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland, The Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, and other institutions. She earned a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and has been an active member of the Guild of Book Workers since 1998. She worked as a rare book and paper conservator for over 20 years at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Alice has also been awarded several artist residencies in Europe, and her work is widely held in private, public and special collections worldwide. ARTB/012925.

A day in the apartment by Zimmon, Howard

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Title: A day in the apartment
Author: Zimmon, Howard
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Iowa City, Iowa: Cat's Paw Press, 1972. Edition limited to 75 copies, 8vo, pp. [8]; fade-line along the fore-edge of the upper wrapper, else fine in original printed gray wrappers. From the library of Kim Merker. Zimmon was for a while a partner with Kay Amert at the Seamark Press, also in Iowa City. "Soon after coming to Iowa, Kay had met and fallen in love with an Iowa native by the name of Howard Zimmon. He lacked her brilliant eye, but he matured into a capable pressman with an insatiable hunger for poetry and a verdant imagination. He was born nine years earlier than she (in 1938) and died nine years earlier (in 1999). They lived together from 1967 until 1979 - the period in which she did most of her serious printing. The Seamark Press has therefore sometimes been described as a partnership between the two, and in some respects no doubt it was" (Bringhurst, Robert, "In Memoriam, Kay Louise Amert" as in Parenthesis 16). OCLC locates only the copy at Iowa.

Cat Improvement Company by Aldiss, Brian W.

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Title: Cat Improvement Company
Author: Aldiss, Brian W.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press, 2004. 1/85. Broadside. Patrick Eddington. 46 cm by 27.5 cm. Broadside of an original poem by Brian Aldiss. Signed by the author and the artist. Illustrated by Patrick Eddington. Printed by The Green Cat Press. 13/85.

España y los judios en la Segunda Guerra Mundial by Ysart, Federico

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Title: España y los judios en la Segunda Guerra Mundial
Author: Ysart, Federico
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
Description: Barcelona: Dopesa, 1973. 227 [4]p., b/w illus., original stiff printed wrappers (Testimonio de actualidad, 29).

Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story by Said Hyder; Burton, Susan Akbar

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Title: Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story
Author: Said Hyder; Burton, Susan Akbar
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781582345208
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First US Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the title page. An exceptional copy of this memoir, winner of multiple awards. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

The Canticle Kingdom by Young, Michael

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Title: The Canticle Kingdom
Author: Young, Michael
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bonneville, 2010. Very Good. Young, Michael. The Canticle Kingdom. Springville, UT: Bonneville, 2010. 247pp. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good.

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