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The Colossus. Poems

The Colossus. Poems by PLATH, Sylvia

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
The Colossus. Poems
Author
PLATH, Sylvia
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket
Description
London: Heinemann, (1960). First edition of Plath's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Plath on the front free endpaper: "For Luke & Cynthia / with love - / Sylvia / April 13, 1961." A highly important association copy, rich in personal interest and history: E. Lucas (Luke) Myers, an aspiring writer from Tennessee, was intimately connected to Ted Hughes and Plath. Plath met Luke Myers at Cambridge, where she and Myers were studying, and admired his poetry and fiction. In her journal entry for February 25, 1956, she wrote: "I have learned something from E. Lucas Meyers (sic) although he does not know me and will never know I've learned it. His poetry is great, big, moving through technique and discipline to master it and bend it supple to his will. There is a brilliant joy, there, too, almost of an athlete, running, using all the divine flexions of his muscles in the act. Luke writes alone, much. He is serious about it; he does not talk much about it. This is the way." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 207. On March 3, Plath commented on Myers' fiction: "A chapter - story from Luke's novel arrived, badly typed, no margins, scrawled corrections, & badly proofread. But the droll humor, the atmosphere of London & country which seeps indefinably in through the indirect statement: all this is delicate & fine. The incidents & intrigues are something I could never dream up . . . Nothing so dull & obvious & central as love or sex or hate: but deft, oblique. As always, coming unexpectedly upon the good work of a friend or acquaintance, I itch to emulate, to sequester." - Plath, The Journals, p. 344. Luke Myers was a close friend of Ted Hughes, and it was outside the chicken coop behind the rectory of St. Botolph's Church that Myers rented from Mrs. Helen Hitchcock, the widow of a former rector, that Hughes used to pitch his tent on weekend visits to Cambridge University, from which he had graduated a year and a half before. St. Botolph's rectory "was a poets' haven, anarchic and unjudgmental", with Mrs. Hitchcock "turning a blind eye to the capers, bibilous and otherwise, of her undergraduate lodgers, of whom she was very fond." - Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (London: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 73. In February, 1956, a group of young Cambridge poets including Luke Myers, Ted Hughes, Daniel Huws and David Ross, among others, had just put together a little magazine appropriately named the St. Botolph's Review after Luke Myers' digs where they often gathered, and the launch party for the magazine (of which only one issue was published) was to be the occasion for the first fateful meeting between Plath and Hughes on Saturday, February 25, 1956. Plath, who had read some of the poetry by the St. Botolph's group - and two of whose own poems had been criticized recently by one of them, Daniel Huws, in the student magazine Chequer - purchased a copy of the Review on the morning of the party, and memorized several of Hughes's poems in anticipation of attending the party and meeting him. According to Plath's journal entry, after dancing for a while with a drunken, "satanic" Luke Myers, she ran into Hughes. Amid the crush of the party, "I started yelling again about his poems and quoting: 'most dear unscratchable diamond' and he yelled back, colossal, in a voice that should have come from a Pole, 'You like?' and asking me if I wanted brandy, and me yelling yes and backing into the next room . . . And then it came to the fact that I was all there, wasn't I, and I stamped and screamed yes, . . . and I was stamping and he was stamping on the floor, and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hair band off, my lovely red hairband scarf which has weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never again find, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals, pp. 211-212. As Diane Middlebrook put it: "Ted Hughes may not have been looking for a wife that night, but Sylvia Plath was looking for a husband, and Ted Hughes met her specifications exactly." - Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage (London: Viking, 2003), p. 5. A month later in London, Hughes, not wanting "to declare his interest . . . asked Lucas Myers to play go-between. Myers could meet Plath for a drink somewhere, then just drop in on Hughes at the flat on Rugby Street, as if by chance. Myers admits in his memoir that he had taken a dislike to Plath, and that he agreed to this ploy reluctantly. He duly invited Plath to join him and Michael Boddy, another of Hughes's friends, at a pub called the Lamb, in Conduit Street - a poets' hangout - and shortly afterward suggested a visit to Hughes. It didn't take long to see that Hughes and Plath wanted to be alone." Later that night, at Plath's hotel, they spent - in Plath's words - a "sleepless holocaust night" together. - Middlebrook, p. 24. Soon after, Hughes left the job he had in London and moved to Cambridge, sharing a flat with Myers in Tenison Road, meeting Plath every day, and abruptly marrying her on Bloomsday, June 16, 1956 - secretly, with Plath's mother, Aurelia, the only family member at the wedding. In later years, Myers was witness to the difficulties in the marriage, and aware of its tenuous nature. In a measured attempt to explain "Sylvia's behavior and volte-faces between pleasantness and bitchiness" to Olwyn Hughes in a letter dated March 12, 1960, Myers wrote: "I have the feeling that it is best to think of Sylvia as being always pretty much as she was this weekend . . . Ted suffers a good deal more than he would ever indicate or admit, but he also loves her and I think it is best to assume he will stay with her. And she very evidently loves him in the self-interested and possessive way of which she is capable." [quoted by Stevenson, pp. 188-189] For her part, Plath clearly valued her own, and Ted Hughes's, friendship with Luke Myers. In 1961, anticipating the publication of her novel The Bell Jar, "Sylvia must have decided to protect herself, in view of the novel's public portrayal of her mother and of a devastating period in her own personal history, by publishing it under a pseudonym, Victoria Lucas. It was a name drawn from Ted's world: 'Victoria' after his favorite Yorkshire cousin, Victoria (Vicky) Farrar, and 'Lucas' after his friend Lucas Myers." - Stevenson, p. 227. Plath committed suicide at the age of 31 in February 1963. It is perhaps worth noting that the date of Plath's inscription to Lucas and Cynthia Myers is exactly the same as that of the inscription in the copy of The Colossus that Plath gave to the poet Theodore Roethke. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. 8vo, original green cloth, dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket.
A Photographic Archive of Women with Musical Instruments

A Photographic Archive of Women with Musical Instruments

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A Photographic Archive of Women with Musical Instruments
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Biblioctopus (United States)
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1930. Various locations worldwide, predominantly 19th century with most dating pre-1920. This archive comprises 366 individual photographs, including a single album containing 90 cyanotypes and one focused collection of 19 photographs documenting Vaudeville actress and violinist Mabelle Adams. The archive spans multiple photographic formats: 70 real photo postcards; 65 smaller format silver prints and albumens (under 5” x 7”, excluding CDVs and cabinet cards); 18 large format albumen, platinum or silver prints (over 5” x 7”); 48 cabinet cards; 26 CDVs; 9 stereoscopes; 17 tintypes (including two 1/2 plate, one 1/4 plate, and twelve 1/6 plate); 1 ambrotype (1/6 plate); 2 daguerreotypes (one 1/6 plate and one 1/2 plate); 1 glass negative; and the aforementioned photo album containing 90 cyanotypes. Overall condition is very good. Photographs measure from 1” x 1” up to 9 3/4” x 12 7/8”. Note: approximately 150 photographs remain unphotographed; requests for specific images can be accommodated. Musical instruments feature prominently throughout the collection. While most photographs post-1890 depict genuine musicians, earlier studio portraits often show subjects posed with instruments they likely didn’t play. The collection showcases diverse instruments including guitars, violins, pianos, flutinas, bagpipes, banjos, tambourines, ukuleles, drums, trumpets, flutes, accordions, harps, lutes, violas, biwas, shamshirs, kotos, and possibly one of the earliest known photographs of a woman playfully using a broom as a guitar. The Mabelle Adams [Humberstone] (1880-1935) archive offers insight into the accomplished violinist who performed for the B.F. Keith Vaudeville Circuit during the early 20th century. As an understudy of Maude Adams (niece of the great American stage actor Edwin Booth), she enjoyed a successful career that extended to Broadway. This mini-archive includes 9 smaller format platinum and silver prints (4 showing her with violin), 2 RPPCs (1 of her playing violin), and 8 larger format platinum or silver prints (1 with violin). Several are theatrical headshots with NY theatre stamps (Orpheum and Palace), two feature actress Marion Murray, and there is one lengthy letter to Adams from Paris. Her son, H. Bruce Humberstone, became a prolific film director. The photo album (Boston, 1897) documents New England Conservatory of Music students Marie Crosby and Louise Mather. Measuring 10” x 7” with tan cloth over stiff paper boards, it contains 90 cyanotypes (1” x 1” to 3½” x 3½”) with captions. The album begins with their visit to Mather’s family home in Indiana, showing them riding bicycles and in horse-drawn carriages. Later photographs capture their dormitory, campus life, Boston scenes, and musical practice—Crosby studied piano and organ while Mather pursued vocal studies. Particularly charming are the playful moments between studies, with one photograph of a friend making a silly face captioned “Jo- the Monday face,” and another labeled “the rehearsal” showing Marie at her piano while Louise stands singing with sheet music in hand. The intimate nature of these images offers rare documentation of women’s daily experiences in higher musical education during the late Victorian era. Her career continued at Winthrop College (State College of South Carolina) and Howard Payne College in Texas, where she established herself as a well-known female composer in the early 1900s. Subjects have been identified in 35 photographs, with 29 providing information about orchestras or bands. Notable subjects include the African American Fisk University Jubilee singers, the McGibeny Family (1877), members of the Shepard Family of Musicians from NY, Vaudeville actress Marian MacLaren (with 1923 press photo and newspaper clipping about her murder), the Berger family of bell ringers, an all-female Salvation Army group, a Parisian class of 23 students, the Liverpool-based Jamaican Native Choir, and the Alpha Orchestra of Attleboro, MA with a contemporary newspaper clipping. Geographic diversity spans North America (with photographs from 20 states including California, New York, Massachusetts, and others), alongside 56 photographs from the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. International highlights include 10 photographs of Geishas from Japan, and others from New Zealand, Java, and Indonesia. Of particular historical significance is a large format platinum print (c.1920s) of a mixed-gender, racially integrated band—predating the recognized first integrated American band of 1938. This collection traces the democratization of both photography and musical instruments across class lines, from expensive early daguerreotypes suggesting wealthy subjects to accessible postcards documenting working musicians. The technological and economic shifts visible in these images parallel broader social transformations of the era, as cultural production became increasingly accessible beyond elite circles. Early photographs featuring orchestral instruments give way to folk instruments like banjos and guitars in later images, illustrating how musical expression expanded across socioeconomic boundaries. The archive serves as a visual chronicle of how technological innovation in photography simultaneously documented and facilitated widening participation in musical culture. The archive also illuminates the gendered dynamics of musical performance during this period. Women like Mabelle Adams and Marie Crosby navigated a cultural landscape where musical accomplishment functioned both as a marker of middle-class refinement and as a pathway to professional independence. The photographs reveal the complex negotiation between respectability and visibility for female performers—from conservatory students to Vaudeville professionals. While pianos and harps were traditionally associated with domestic performance, this collection documents women’s engagement with diverse instruments—challenging simplistic gender categorizations. The all-female Salvation Army group and images of women in integrated bands further document the expansion of women’s access to public musical spaces previously dominated by men.
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American Slavery As It Is by WELD Theodore Dwight GRIMKE Angelina GRIMKE Sarah

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American Slavery As It Is
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WELD Theodore Dwight GRIMKE Angelina GRIMKE Sarah
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1839. First Edition. [WELD, Theodore Dwight; GRIMKÉ, Angelina; GRIMKÉ, Sarah]. American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. Octavo, modern half black calf. $1900.First edition of the monumental abolitionist work by Weld and the Grimké sisters that drew upon over 20,000 Southern newspapers to use first-hand accounts and slaveholders' own words against them, a searing indictment of slavery that Harriet Beecher Stowe virtually memorized, saying she ""kept this book in her work basket by day and slept with it under her pillow by night, till its facts crystallized into Uncle Tom's Cabin.""This electrifying 1838 abolitionist work by Theodore Weld, Angelina Grimké and Sarah Grimké ""was the most important antislavery publication before Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (Lerner, Feminist Thought, 27). It had such a profound effect on Harriet Beecher Stowe that she ""all but memorized American Slavery As It Is, later telling Angelina Grimké that she 'kept this book in her work basket by day and slept with it under her pillow by night, till its facts crystallized into Uncle Tom's Cabin'"" (Crunden, Brief History, 94). It remains ""the greatest of the antislavery pamphlets… the most devastating of all indictments of slavery… in all probability, the most crushing indictment of any institution ever written."" To historian Dwight Dumond, this seemingly modest volume ""is as close as history can come to the facts"" (Anti-Slavery, 247-50).American Slavery As It Is was propelled by Weld, ""one of the great humanitarian reformers of the 19th century"" (Berry, From Bondage to Liberation, 137). In 1837, during the Grimké sisters' abolitionist lectures in New England, ""Weld wrote to them and said that their attacks on slaveholders would be particularly powerful because 'you are Southerners'"" (Muelder, Theodore Dwight Weld, 100). By 1838, the same year he married Angelina Grimké, all three had become convinced new antislavery tactics were required. They decided the slaveholder could best be condemned by his own words: that ""Southern newspapers and the testimony of those who viewed slavery personally might provide the most telling case against bondage. Beginning late in 1838, working six hours a day and for six months, the sisters searched through more than 20,000 copies of Southern newspapers, marking and clipping proofs of slavery's depravity. Meanwhile Weld had prepared a form letter requesting testimony from those who had visited or were then living in the South. This mosaic of clippings and firsthand accounts, tied together by trenchant analyses by Weld himself, became American Slavery As It Is. Two of the 1,000 witnesses were Sarah and Angelina; each contributed lengthy descriptions of slavery as they had known it in Charleston"" (Abzug, Passionate Liberator, 210-212). Portraying ""the treatment of slaves in the American south as heartless and brutal… the text was organized to answer questions the public frequently asked about slaves and slaveholders… It described overworked and exhausted men and women who were flogged, mutilated and sometimes 'branded with red-hot irons.' The book gave accounts of young boys forced to brutally fight one another for the amusement of their masters, described female slaves bred like livestock, and related stories of runaway slaves shot to death while trying to escape"" (Muelder, 64). To support their testimony ""the Grimkés and Weld deposited the newspaper clippings and other sources for their book at the New York City office of the American Anti-Slavery Society to enable the skeptical and the curious to examine it firsthand. American Slavery delivers what it promises. Over the course of some 200 pages, the authors lay out their indictment of slavery, drawing on the words of clergymen, judges, merchants, lawyers, physicians, professors, overseers and drivers… They also cite court records, highlighting such cases as State v. Mann (1830), in which the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that slaveholders could not be prosecuted for assaulting their slaves. By far the most powerful sources are the runaway advertisements culled from Southern newspapers. Under the heading 'Brandings, Maimings, Gunshot Wounds, &c.,' for example, are 119 quotations from representative newspapers… But American Slavery is more than a collage of horrors. In its final section, entitled 'Objections Considered—Public Opinion,' its authors probe the psychology of denial and offer cogent insights that have become the staples of the modern-day historiography of slavery… a fitting capstone to a decade of earnest agitation"" (Varon, Disunion!, 138-40). With ""Anti-Slavery Examiner No. 10"" page and final eight pages of index present in facsimile. Blockson 9148. Sabin 102547. Early ink owner signature on title page.Tiny hole at top edge of title page, light foxing to text. Near-fine condition.
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Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners by CRIME

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Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners
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CRIME
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1720. First Edition. (CRIMINALS). The Dying Speeches and Behaviour of the Several State Prisoners That Have Been Executed the Last 300 Years. London: J. Brotherton and W. Meadows, et al., 1720. Octavo, modern full dark blue calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers. $1250.First edition of the last words of almost 100 prisoners executed in Great Britain, along with brief accounts of their lives and crimes, handsomely bound.Arranged chronologically from Lollard martyr William Sawtre in 1401 to Scottish spy William Gregg in 1708, this compilation presents the final words of prisoners executed for high treason or heresy, along with descriptions of their last moments, lives and characters. Subjects include Sir Thomas More, Mary Queen of Scots, King Charles I and Sir Walter Raleigh along with many less well-known names. The preface cites a related but separate work published in 1719, The Compleat Collection of State-Tryals and Proceedings upon Impeachments for High Treason, which is now attributed to Thomas Salmon; it seems possible that the anonymously published Dying Speeches may have been compiled by Salmon as well. ESTC T11590. Goldsmiths' I:5916. A few instances of early penciled underlining and bracketing. Early inked owner's name on preliminary leaf; laid-in armorial bookplate of previous owner John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton, the eminent lawyer and politician.Fine condition.
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Lord John Signatures by KING Stephen

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Lord John Signatures
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KING Stephen
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1991. First Edition. Signed. KING, Stephen. Lord John Signatures. Northridge, California: Lord John Press, 1991. Oblong octavo, original dark blue cloth gilt, autograph-print endpapers. $1100.First edition of an unusual autograph book, number 275 of 400 copies, signed by Stephen King and dozens of popular writers.This compilation of authors' photographs accompanied by their original signatures is signed by Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John Updike, Gerald Ford, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ray Bradbury and John Barth, among many others. It opens with an intriguing essay on collecting autographs and authorial memorabilia written by Stephen King (and signed by him) and, following the section of author's autographs, closes with a section of facsimiles of autographs and autographed objects from noted literati, presidents, and others—including a reproduction of a page from King's manuscript for the story ""Secret Window, Secret Garden."" The William Everson and Richard Yates signatures are in facsimile, as in all copies. Brooks C288.1. Without publisher's slipcase. Contents and binding in fine condition.
THE SONNETS

THE SONNETS by Berrigan, Ted

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THE SONNETS
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Berrigan, Ted
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Very good.
Description
[New York]: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. Very good.. Signed first edition of the definitive statement of the Second Generation of the New York School as well as Berrigan's most influential, popular, and lasting work, edited by Ron Padgett (who also typed the stencils). The only major American collection of the last fifty years to go through four separate editions, each at different publishers. From an edition of "300 plus an unspecified number of unnumbered copies" (Fischer p. 24), this is from the unnumbered series, estimated (by Berrigan himself; again see Fischer) to be about 100. Decidedly uncommon signed; this is the first we've handled. 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Joe Brainard, offset duplicated; remainder mimeographed. With the usual toning, mild edgewear. Faint penned notation to top edge of front cover. Final leaf (colophon) loose. Lacking rear cover and terminal blank (as in many copies; we suspect many were issued this way). [66] leaves mimeographed rectos only; last leaf detached from staples. Signed by Berrigan to title page.
Voyage to Abyssinia

Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo (1592?-1678)

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Voyage to Abyssinia
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Jeronimo Lobo (1592?-1678)
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
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Near Fine
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xii+396+[8 contents] pages with tile-page printed in red and black. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5") bound in full period leather with raised spine bands and red labels in gilt, gilt decoration to spine and ruled edges in gilt of boards, page ends marbled. Edited by Samuel Johnson. Translated from the Portuguese by Joachim le Grand. First English edition, first printing.Jeronimo Lobo, a Jesuit missionary, was born in Lisbon, and entered the Order of Jesus at the age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to India, and in 1622 he arrived at Goa. With the intention of proceeding to Abyssinia, whose Negus (emperor) Segued had been converted to Roman Catholicism by Pedro Paez, he left India in 1624. He disembarked on the coast of Mombasa, and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla country, but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again, accompanied by Mendez, the patriarch of Ethiopia, and eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red Sea, and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as superintendent of the missions in Tigre. He remained there until death deprived the Catholics of their protector, the emperor Segued. Forced by persecution to leave the kingdom, in 1634 Lobo and his companions fell into the hands of the Turks at Massawa, who sent him to India to procure a ransom for his imprisoned fellow-missionaries. In this he was successful, but could not induce the Portuguese viceroy to send an armament against Abyssinia. Intent upon accomplishing this cherished project, he embarked for Portugal, and after he had been shipwrecked on the coast of Natal, and captured by pirates, arrived at Lisbon. Neither at this city, however, nor at Madrid and Rome, was any countenance given to Lobo's plan. He accordingly returned to India in 1640, and was elected rector, and afterwards provincial, of the Jesuits at Goa. After some years he returned to his native city, and died there on the 29th of January 1678. Lobo wrote an account of his travels in Portuguese, which appears never to have been printed, but is deposited in the monastery of St Roque, Lisbon. Balthazar Telles made large use of the information therein in his Historia geral da Ethiopia a Alta (Coimbra, 1660), often erroneously attributed to Lobo. Lobo's own narrative was translated from a Manuscript copy into French in 1728 by the Abbe Joachim le Grand, under the title of Voyage historique d'Abissinie. In 1669 a translation by Sir Peter Wyche of several passages from a manuscript account of Lobo's travels was published by the Royal Society (translated in M. Thevenot's Relation des voyages in 1673). An English abridgment of Le Grand's edition by Dr Johnson was published in 1735 (reprinted 1789). In a Memoire justificatif en rehabilitation des peres Pierre Paez et Jerome Lobo, Dr C T Beke maintains against Bruce the accuracy of Lobo's statements as to the source of the Abai branch of the Nile.Condition: Recased else a near fine copy.
Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged by Rand, Ayn

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Atlas Shrugged
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Rand, Ayn
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
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Original green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover, black and gilt on spine, illustrated color dust jacket designed by George Salter
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New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition, Second Printing, in the first state, unclipped dust jacket with the correct price of $6.95 and 10/57 present on front flap (same as First Edition, First State). [viii], 1168 pp, with additional two-page author's note at rear. Thick 8vo. Original green cloth, stamped in gilt on cover, black and gilt on spine, illustrated color dust jacket designed by George Salter, priced $6.95 blue topstain, Very Good dj with small loss at back panel, spine with split and rubbing, tear top of front panel. First Edition, Second Printing, in the first state, unclipped dust jacket with the correct price of $6.95 and 10/57 present on front flap (same as First Edition, First State). [viii], 1168 pp, with additional two-page author's note at rear. Thick 8vo. This not only is Rand's longest work, but also the last one published in her lifetime. In her author's note at the rear of the main text, she writes, "To all the readers who discovered The Fountainhead and asked me many questions about the wider application of its ideas, I want to say that I am answering these questions in the present novel and that The Fountainhead was only an overture to Atlas Shrugged." (This quote is repeated on the back of the dust jacket.) She expresses, too, her "philosophical debt" to Aristotle, and then adds, "My other acknowledgement is on the dedication page of this novel. I knew what values of character I wanted to find in a man. I met such a man - and we have been married for 28 years. His name is Frank O'Connor." The novel formed the basis of Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, and later became a touchstone for modern conservative thinking on economics, individual rights, and the role of government in society.
Court Docket Ledger for Magistrate's Court Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1818-1824

Court Docket Ledger for Magistrate's Court Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1818-1824 by (Chester County)

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Court Docket Ledger for Magistrate's Court Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1818-1824
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(Chester County)
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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folio ledger, 169 manuscript pages, entries dated 1818-1824, bound in half-leather, marbled paper backed boards, spine lacking, corners worn through, boards and edges very worn, otherwise good, written in ink, in a legible hand, comprising summaries of 725 cases. A printed carrier's address the "News Boy's Address, To the Patrons of The American Republican. January 1, 1820, - Almanac included" [Downingtown: Printed by Charles Mowry, 1819], not in American Imprints, McDonald, Checklist of American newspaper carrier's address, 934, is pasted on front paste-down, it includes 5 stanzas of printed verse (68 lines total) on the left hand side, and a printed calendar for the year on the right hand side. Rear paste-down has a printed circular pasted in entitled: "Magistrate's Fee Bill," which lists the various charges of the magistrate. This volume is a docket book for a Magistrate's District Court in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The names in the ledger match those found in Chester County and with West Chester being the county seat; it is undoubtedly for the Magisterial District Court based in West Chester. The summaries of the cases are generally 4 to 5 cases per page, with three columns to the page. The first column is the plaintiffs and defendants' names with some notes such as costs for justices, constables, or witnesses' names. The second column is the arresting or issuing constable with some notes, usually dates when appearance was requested, etc. The third column is a summary of the case, which might include outcome, costs, follow ups, etc. All of the cases appear to be financial in nature, dealing with debts, monetary claims, etc., with the amount not exceeding $100.00. The constables for the large majority of the cases are Griffith Griffith, John King, Joseph Aikins, Andrew Kirkpatrick, John Wynn, Balthzer Essick, William Guest. There was a Griffith Griffith at this time who was a resident of East Nantmeal Township, in Chester County. A typical case might look as follows: "924. S. & W. Kirk John Wynn Summons - debt not exceed- vs. Isaac Barnard issued Feb'y 8 to ap ing $100 - served says con- Costs: Justices $0.35 pear the 15 instant stable. Feb 15, 1823 demand Constables $0.40 at 3 o'clock WM. book acc of $ defendant made default in appearance therefore judgment for plffs. For $ Costs" Today the commonwealth of Pennsylvania consists of 67 counties. In every county except for Philadelphia County, there are Magisterial District Courts. These courts are inferior courts of limited jurisdiction. They handle landlord-tenant matters, small civil claims, summary offenses, violations of municipal ordinances, and preliminary hearings and arraignments in greater misdemeanor and felony offenses pursuant to Pennsylvania's Rules of Criminal Procedure which go on to be tried in the Court of Common Pleas. In some counties, such as Chester County, Magisterial District Courts may issue emergency protection from abuse orders when the Domestic Relations or Court of Common Pleas is closed. For the time period of this ledger (1818-1824), the rules for this court were likely similar to today, except today the small claims are cases under $12,000.00, whereas in the early 19th Century, it appears to be cases under $100.00.
The Holy Bible - Old Testament; The Holy Bible - New Testament; The Book of Mormon; The Doctrine and Covenants / The Pearl of Great Price (4 volumes)

The Holy Bible - Old Testament; The Holy Bible - New Testament; The Book of Mormon; The Doctrine and Covenants / The Pearl of Great Price (4 volumes)

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The Holy Bible - Old Testament; The Holy Bible - New Testament; The Book of Mormon; The Doctrine and Covenants / The Pearl of Great Price (4 volumes)
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
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American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, Inc. Collector's Edition. Leather bound. Very Good +. Quarto [28.5]. Bound in black leather, with gilt stamped titles and ornamentation on each spine and front board. All have illustrated paper labels on the front covers. Each encased in an illustrated box. Extra charges may apply due to size and weight. Heavily illustrated KJV family bibles and LDS scripture.
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Annual Publications Historical Society of Southern California 1917 (Mormon content - Fragmentary notes on the life histories of the two George Millers, father and son, the former of whom started for California in 1846)

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Annual Publications Historical Society of Southern California 1917 (Mormon content - Fragmentary notes on the life histories of the two George Millers, father and son, the former of whom started for California in 1846)
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Los Angeles: Historical Society of Southern California, 1917. Paperback. 177pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Tan and black printed wraps. Good only. The front cover is completely detached, but present. There are numerous losses from the edges of the front wrap, and there are losses from the edges of the paper spine. The rear wrap is absent. The Miller family name has been written in pencil on the spine. The pages are very mildly browned. Some uncut pages. Subjects include Thomas R. Bard and the Beginnings of the Oil Industry in Southern California, Larkin's Description of California, De Tal Palo Tal Astilla (Mormon content), and more.
The Autobiography of William L. Woolf

The Autobiography of William L. Woolf by Woolf, William L.

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The Autobiography of William L. Woolf
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Woolf, William L.
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very good
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1979. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 282pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] In a dust jacket, with rubbing, and light chipping to the edges.
Stroker. Nos. 1 (1999) and 2 (2002) (all published)

Stroker. Nos. 1 (1999) and 2 (2002) (all published)

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Stroker. Nos. 1 (1999) and 2 (2002) (all published)
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Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
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Stroker, 1999-2002. First Edition. 85, 75 pp. metal and hard rock fanzine, illus. 4to. Near fine. Stab stapled pictorial wrappers. [1690] NOTE: To be distinguished from the more commonly held 1970s New York poetry serial of the same name, "this [Stroker] magazine is for all rockers everywhere because the power of rock is to live for. I hope this magazine provides you with a moment of reflection while you're listening to a hair-shaking groove or in between doing the more important things: Makin' Out, Gettin' Down, Rockin' Out, and attaining your right high by whatever means necessary." Not in OCLC.
Proverbes et Dictons Populaires, avec les Dits du mercier et des marchands et les Crieries de Paris aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, publiés d'après les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Roi

Proverbes et Dictons Populaires, avec les Dits du mercier et des marchands et les Crieries de Paris aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, publiés d'après les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Roi

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Proverbes et Dictons Populaires, avec les Dits du mercier et des marchands et les Crieries de Paris aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles, publiés d'après les manuscrits de la bibliothèque du Roi
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good Minus
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Paris: Crapelet, 1831. Book. Very Good Minus. Morocco. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCARCE. In full contemporary red morocco, signed "Lebrun Relieur", the back covered with repeating gilt decoration, the covers with triple gilt rule outer border and triple gilt rule inner border around gilt tooled floral band and with gilt decorations at corners, all edges gilt, marbled end papers, a lovely example of early 19th century fine French binding. Very Good mInus, old dampstain mostly to margins and where in text not affecting legibility, rear end page edge chipped, small chip to morocco at head of spine. With two fold-out facsimiles at rear, one in color..
The Brightfount Diaries

The Brightfount Diaries by Aldiss, Brian W.

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The Brightfount Diaries
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Aldiss, Brian W.
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Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780224009034
Condition
Fine
Description
Londion: Faber and Faber, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 200pp. Beautiful First Edition of the author's first book. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear at the spine ends but quite minor. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, (12s, 6d net), has a miniscule closed tear on the bottom rear edge. Mild toning on rear panel edges. Still fresh and bright with no creases or chipping. A sharp collectable copy.
Daniel Webster. A Discourse Pronounced in the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Sunday Evening, November 28th, 1852

Daniel Webster. A Discourse Pronounced in the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Sunday Evening, November 28th, 1852 by Rogers, Rev. E. P.

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Daniel Webster. A Discourse Pronounced in the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Sunday Evening, November 28th, 1852
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Rogers, Rev. E. P.
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
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Augusta, Georgia: J. A. Carrie & Co, 1853. First Edition. Wraps. Good. Wraps. 9" x 6". 30 pages, [1]. Peach wraps with title on the front cover. Inscribed, not signed, by the author on the front cover. Light edge wear to the covers. Paper spine lightly chipped. Derenne Vol. 2 page 558.
Meanings of the Battle of Bennington: An Address On the One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the Battle, At a Union Home Week Service held at First Church, Bennington Centre, Vermont, Sunday Evening, August 16, 1903

Meanings of the Battle of Bennington: An Address On the One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the Battle, At a Union Home Week Service held at First Church, Bennington Centre, Vermont, Sunday Evening, August 16, 1903 by [American Revolution] [Vermont] Beach, David N.

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Meanings of the Battle of Bennington: An Address On the One Hundred and Twenty Sixth Anniversary of the Battle, At a Union Home Week Service held at First Church, Bennington Centre, Vermont, Sunday Evening, August 16, 1903
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[American Revolution] [Vermont] Beach, David N.
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Americana Books ABAA (United States)
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Poor
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Bennington, Vermont: Perry & Keeseman, Printers, 1903. First Edition. Wraps. Poor. Wraps. Poor condition. Missing the front cover? Rear cover is detached. Text is loose and separated. Missing the frontispiece illustration. One map and illustrated plate in text. Previous owner name top of the title page. Paper is clean.
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1957 Popular Photography Color Annual by DOWNES, Bruce-Editor

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1957 Popular Photography Color Annual
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DOWNES, Bruce-Editor
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Ziff-Davis Pub. Co, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good in wrappers; Book shows rubbing of spine/panels, bumping of corners-edges, foxing.
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Balzac by ZWEIG, Stefan

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Balzac
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ZWEIG, Stefan
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: Viking, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by William Rose. Very good Name on end paper. Cover rubbed with browning.
Akazukin

Akazukin by MIYAGI, Yukari

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Akazukin
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MIYAGI, Yukari
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
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9783905714548
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Zurich, Switzerland: Nieves, 2009. First edition. Softcover. Artist book/zine. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very near fine copy stapled wrappers.
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Sheny-ta. Medecine Egyptienne en Crete Minoenne a l'epoque paleopalatiale. by AUSSANT, Pierre Edouard.

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Sheny-ta. Medecine Egyptienne en Crete Minoenne a l'epoque paleopalatiale.
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AUSSANT, Pierre Edouard.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Paris:: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1969., 1969. 270 x 210 mm. 4to. 19, N4, B13, C1 pp. 1 map, 6 figs., 26 plates, bibliog. Pictorial wrappers. Ownership rubber stamp on title. Very good.
Marking and Labeling

Marking and Labeling by Locher, Thomas

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Marking and Labeling
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Locher, Thomas
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Bungalow Books, ABAA (United States)
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New York: Jay Gorney Modern Art. Very Good. 1991. Booklet. One folded sheet with 6 double sided panels. Catalog of an exhibition held May 11-June 1, 1991. Parallel text in English and German. A smudge to the front cover, else unmarked. Covers slightly creased, with a tiny mark to the front cover. ; [12] pages .
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Judith Murray, Painting: Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculpture by Zimmer, William

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Judith Murray, Painting: Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sculpture
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Zimmer, William
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
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Good+; very clean, tight interior but with ink underlining on cover
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Greenvale, New York: Hillwood Art Gallery, 1985. Softcover. Good+; very clean, tight interior but with ink underlining on cover. Grey stapled wraps with black lettering; 48 pp.; 27 plates, 19 bw, 8 color; 8 bw fig; 4 bw photos. From the exhibition held at the Hillwood Art Gallery at Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, from November 6 - 27, 1985; Essay by William Zimmer; Includes interviews with Murray and Von Rydingsward by Judy Collischan van Wagner.
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CAMARÍN DE SAN DIEGO Y SU GEOMETRÍA SIMBÓLICA.; M. Alejandro Sifuentes Solís...[et al.]

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CAMARÍN DE SAN DIEGO Y SU GEOMETRÍA SIMBÓLICA.; M. Alejandro Sifuentes Solís...[et al.]
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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9789686259520
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Aguascalientes, Ags., Méx: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 1998. b/w plates (some facs.), plans, bibl., indices, fldg. pict. wrps. Very detailed study of the architecture, iconography, and architectural detail of one of the most important landmarks in the state of Aguascalientes built at the end of the 18th century. IMPORTANT REFERENCE ON 18TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE.
Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music

Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music by Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)

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Ring Round the Moon: A Charade with Music
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Anouilh, Jean (translated by Christopher Fry)
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ReadInk (United States)
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Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description
New York: Oxford University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1950. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear, a touch of soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly dog-eared at top of spine, horizontal wrinkle along top edge of front panel]. Preface by Peter Brook, who directed the original London production at the Globe Theatre. The original French title was "L'Invitation au Chateau." .
Black Folk Culture 1983-84

Black Folk Culture 1983-84

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Black Folk Culture 1983-84
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Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
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Very good
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Nashville: Fisk University, 1984. Very good. Single 8.5 by 11 inch sheet folded to make [2]pp. Number 31 in a series of Publications on Themes in the Black Experience: a Learning Library Program.
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A Country Romance. With Illustrations. by Collins, P. V.

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A Country Romance. With Illustrations.
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Collins, P. V.
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
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Milwaukee, Wis.: J. H. Yewdale & Sons Co., 1896. Duodecimo, tan cloth (hardcover), gilt lettering, 138 pp. Very Good, with light soiling to covers and former-owner signature.

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