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An Archive of Songs, Some Annotated, and a Partial Draft of Woody Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People from the Collection of Harold Ambellan, Guthrie’s Collaborator and Benefactor by [Music - Folk Music] Guthrie, Woody; Ambellin, Harold

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Title: An Archive of Songs, Some Annotated, and a Partial Draft of Woody Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People from the Collection of Harold Ambellan, Guthrie’s Collaborator and Benefactor
Author: [Music - Folk Music] Guthrie, Woody; Ambellin, Harold
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Description: New York, 1940. Eighty-five pages, including sixty loose pages and a partial draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, totaling twenty-five pages. With one handwritten page. One page - a typewritten copy of “The Ballad of Harry Bridges” - with a handwritten note by Guthrie to Ambellan. With photocopies of several letters from Guthrie to Ambellan included. Also with a broadside of the Carol Tree Carol by Alan and Elizabeth Lomax (1940) and a notecard with the lyrics to “Hawl Away Joe” written Inscription states “Here you are Harold, hope it aint late. Well if it is will be singing about old Harry for a many a day to come. Pour it on em, Boy. Woody G.”. A fascinating collection of material from the collection of Harold Ambellan, Woodie Guthrie’s friend, collaborator and landlord during an important creative period for Guthrie in the 1940s. The group contains a partial draft of Guthrie’s Hard Hitting Songs for Hard Hit People, which was written while Guthrie was living in Ambellan’s loft, as well as a collection of over sixty loose songsheets not included in the book. Of these, over thirty are not listed in Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Center finding aid. The sixty pages include variant titles and verses to recorded and published versions, with some items attributed to Ledbelly, and overall the group should shed light on scholar’s efforts to map out the landscape of the American folk song at the time of Guthrie’s work. The typescript draft generally matches the published version, with the occasional typo. Nora Guthrie writes in her introduction to Hard Hitting Songs of the influence of Ambellan on Guthrie’s creative process. Ambellan was an artist and sculptor and part time musician, and Guthrie lived in Ambellan’s loft on 21st Street. “The loft was mostly filled with Ambellan’s sculptures, which were abstract and very large. However, the couple managed to throw a cot up in the back of the loft for Woody to crash on… Evenings at the loft often included impromptu hootenannies, where Woody and Pete’s [Seeger] musician friends would gather to raise some money to help pay the Ambellans’ rent… There was a lot of singing, and a lot of songwriting, and it was in the 21st Street loft that Hard Hitting Songs came into existence.” Guthrie wrote “Vigilante Man” and “Hard Travellin” while staying at the Ambellans’ loft. Nora Guthrie continues: “ Alan Lomax’s father, John Lomax, had collected a group of songs that dealt with migrant workers’, share crop farmers’, and industrial workers’ issues, many of the lyrics protesting workers’ conditions and advocating for their rights. At the time, the material was considered ‘too hot to handle’ by government employees, so Alan handed it over to Pete [Seeger] and Woody to browse through. They loved the material and together with Alan, they decided to create a new songbook they would embellish with their own writings and commentary, as well as some additional original songs. Working fourteen hours a day, they completed the songbook in about five months. […] The manuscript, which they had titled Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People, was left behind in the loft, literally saved by Elisabeth Higgens until its existence became known in the 1960s, when it was first published in 1967.” Overall a very scarce relic of an important period in Guthrie’s career with a fantastic association. Guthrie ephemera and archival pieces are notoriously scarce on the market, with single letters occasionally surfacing.

Copperheads in Council! Declarations of the Leaders. Read and Ponder What They Say! [Anti-Copperhead Broadside, Produced for the 1863 Election] by [Civil War - New Hampshire] [Copperheads, or Peace Democrats]

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Title: Copperheads in Council! Declarations of the Leaders. Read and Ponder What They Say! [Anti-Copperhead Broadside, Produced for the 1863 Election]
Author: [Civil War - New Hampshire] [Copperheads, or Peace Democrats]
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Description: New Hampshire: Printer Unknown, 1863. First Edition. Printed broadside, 16 ½ x 11 ½ inches, archivally mounted and matted. A very good copy with some light toning, small closed tear at upper margin, light foxing at upper margin, very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Franklin Pierce remained politically active upon his return to New Hampshire following his presidency, advocating for the Democratic cause and generally opposing the Civil War and Lincoln’s policies. This scarce pro-Union anti-slavery broadside, printed for the 1863 New Hampshire elections which happened March 12, takes aim at Pierce and his fellow Democrats, repeating the unfounded claim first made in 1862 by William Seward that Pierce belonged to the secret Knights of the Golden Circle, the secret society formed with the goal of forming a new territory out of the CSA, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. There was never evidence that Pierce had any involvement in the KGC, though the society had members in southern parts of some Union states such as Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri. The broadside, printed for the March 12 elections, quotes heavily from Pierce as well as the other Democrat candidates and party officials who were either running for office in New Hampshire or involved in politics, a group which included Ira Eastman, John Goerge, Josiah Minot, Thomas Treadwell, Daniel Marcy, William Burns and George Stevens. The broadside includes an engraving of coiled snakes, each with these politicians named, and the caption “et id omne genus.” Eastman, the Democratic candidate for governor, won the popular vote but lacked the constitutional majority necessary for election. Marcy was successful in his bid for the First District. “Men of New Hampshire!,” the broadside asks: “Will you Vote the Ticket Made up by Such Men?,” with the final line imploring to “Please paste up in a Conspicuous Place.” Overall an uncommon survival from the 1863 elections. A very good copy with some light toning, small closed tear at upper magin, light foxing at upper margin, very tiny spot of loss to illustration at fold. Quite scarce, with OCLC locating two copies only, at the Huntington Library and the New York Historical Society.

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three by King, Stephen

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Title: The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
Author: King, Stephen
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1987. Signed Limited Edition; Publisher's Copy. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hale, Phil. Signed limited first edition; signed by Stephen King and illustrator Phil Hale. An extreme rarity, one of twelve copies reserved for the publisher. Published in an edition of 800 [of 850] numbered copies, there were also 40 copies marked "Author's Copy," 10 reserved for the artist marked "Artist's Copy," and an undetermined amount marked "Presentation Copy," and as found here, 12 copies marked "Publisher's Copy." Publisher's buff coarse cloth stamped in metallic bronze, in unclipped dust jacket and publisher's grey cloth slipcase. Near Fine.

Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) thanking the publishers for sending an art book by Rodin, Auguste

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed (ALS) thanking the publishers for sending an art book
Author: Rodin, Auguste
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Rue de Varenne, 1913. One sheet, Rodin's personal stationary, folded into four leaves, written on the first leaf only. One additional crease where the letter was folded, otherwise in excellent condition. Roughly translated as follows: "77 Rue de Varenne (VII') | February 11, 1913 | Gentlemen, I received your superb edition of the book on art and thank you infinitely for sending it, which has given me great pleasure and I send you all my thanks for this volume which is a beautiful work of (lithography?) and delicate engravings. Be assured, gentlemen, of the expression of my highest esteem and my very kindest regards. Aug. Rodin

Northern Fairy Tales. Translated from P. C. Asbjornsen's Norwegian Fairy Tales and H. C. Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales. by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Translated by H.L. Braekstad]

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Title: Northern Fairy Tales. Translated from P. C. Asbjornsen's Norwegian Fairy Tales and H. C. Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales.
Author: ANDERSEN, Hans Christian [Translated by H.L. Braekstad]
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: London, n.d. [1880]. Hardcover. Very Good+. Publisher's pictorial blue gilt stamped cloth; a.e.g. A nice decorative binding of the period, expertly (and we mean expertly) recased. Full page color illustrations (36) by R. T. Pritchett and Clifford Merton. Quite uncommon. Edges of binding rubbed, but still lovely overall.

Shopotnye aforizmy (Whispering Aphorisms) by Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)

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Title: Shopotnye aforizmy (Whispering Aphorisms)
Author: Sharshun, Sergei (Charchoune, Serge)
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Parizh (Paris): Vopros, 1969. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 5 x 3 3/4; pp. 3-14; brown wraps, printed in black;small nicks to tips of spine; manuscript letter to front wrap and title page; in very good condition.Sergei Sharshun (1888 - 1975) was an important modern painter and the first Russian Dada poet, who arguably never belonged to an individual School of Art and whose style was described as an "alternative abstraction," when compared to his contemporaries. Spending most of his life in France, he founded the Dadaist group "Palata poetov" and was known to take inspiration for his art from classical composers, particularly Tchaikovsky and Bach.

The Darkness Surrounds Us by SORRENTINO, Gilbert

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Title: The Darkness Surrounds Us
Author: SORRENTINO, Gilbert
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine copy.
Description: Highlands, (NC): Jonathan Williams, 1960. First edition. With a preface by Joel Oppenheimer. Jargon 40. Signed by Sorrentino on the front free-endpaper. Fine copy.. Thin 8vo, frontispiece by Fielding Dawson, original unprinted wrappers, dust jacket. Fine copy.

THE CODE OF HONOR. ITS RATIONALE AND USES, BY THE TESTS OF COMMON SENSE AND GOOD MORALS, WITH THE EFFECTS OF ITS PREVENTIVE REMEDIES. SECOND EDITION, REVISED by [Wilson, John Lyde? Quintero, J.A.?]

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Title: THE CODE OF HONOR. ITS RATIONALE AND USES, BY THE TESTS OF COMMON SENSE AND GOOD MORALS, WITH THE EFFECTS OF ITS PREVENTIVE REMEDIES. SECOND EDITION, REVISED
Author: [Wilson, John Lyde? Quintero, J.A.?]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: New Orleans: E.A. Brandao & Co., Print, 34 Magazine Street, 1883. 42pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Wrappers dusted, else a lightly toned but clean text. Good+. Some institutions listed on OCLC attribute authorship to one J.A. Quintero. My humble efforts have not confirmed or rebutted that claim. Neither his name [nor that of any other author] appears in this pamphlet, which sets forth in punctilious detail the proper way for gentlemen to schedule or avert a duel. "The Code of Honor consists of rules for the government of gentlemen involved in such personal grievances. It is a digest of approved usages. It has the sanction of time and experience, and derives its authority from custom, among the refined, in the most enlightened nations, during several centuries, to this day. It is for civilized communities, and prevails among men of gentle manners. It therefore, recognizes no necessity for gentlemen to wear concealed weapons, and gives no countenance to that barbarous and homicidal practice. It urges, that an insult in public, by word or behavior, should not be resented there; and that a good quarrel will always keep for appropriate settlement." OCLC 10683349 [11] as of December 2021.

Cleopatra by Delayen, Gaston

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Title: Cleopatra
Author: Delayen, Gaston
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. . 8vo., 280pp. Sharp Stated First Edition. Translated from the French by Farrell Symons. Bound in red cloth with lettering in black on spine and front board. Square, tight and clean throughout save a small stain on the for-edge. Mild wear to spine ends and tips. Very attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust jacket has very mild edge-wear. Spine toning. Still fresh and bright with no chipping or tears. A very pretty collectable copy.

OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1851 by Secretary of War

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Title: OFFICIAL ARMY REGISTER, FOR 1851
Author: Secretary of War
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Washington: Adjutant General's Office, 1851. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. Sewn paperback. Minor loss and beginning of separation at the head and tail of the spine. With no marks; overall in Very Good condition. Very Good binding.

Conference Reports: April 1931 to October 1932.

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Title: Conference Reports: April 1931 to October 1932.
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1932. Very Good. Conference Reports: April 1931 to October 1932.. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1932. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt lettering.. Book condition: Very good with a gently rubbed and bumped exterior.. Ex-libris David O. McKay, former LDS Church President, with his name embossed in gold onto front cover..

The Bohemians: John Reed & His Friends Who Shook the World by CHEUSE, Alan

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Title: The Bohemians: John Reed & His Friends Who Shook the World
Author: CHEUSE, Alan
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts: Apple-wood Books, 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 358pp. Near fine with some rubbing and a few interior pages lightly toned from where a now-absent newspaper clipping was laid in very good dust jacket somewhat sunned at the spine, moderate edgewear and waviness to the paper. Inscribed by the author: "February, 1982 For Anne & Peter, My love and friendship, All best, Alan." With publisher's promotional of "Forthcoming Titles for 1982" laid in.

In the Shadow Pike's Peak: A View Book of the Pike's Peak Region by [No Author]

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Title: In the Shadow Pike's Peak: A View Book of the Pike's Peak Region
Author: [No Author]
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Colorado Springs, Colorado: A.A. Walling & Martin Slaughter, 1910. Soft Cover. Good. 0x0x0. Stevens, Harlan; et al. No publisher date (circa early 1900s). Wrappers loosening but still holding. 1910 Soft Cover. Unpaginated. Tipped in photographic plates. Images include: Denver, Colorado Springs, Pike's Peak after a storm; Pike's Peak Avenue Colorado Springs; Stratton Park; Pillars of Hercules; Seven Falls; Point Sublime; St. Peter's Dome; Cathedral Park; Cripple Creek; Bear and Seal; Cathedral Spires; The Three Graces; Balanced Rock; Major Domo; Manitou; Soda Spring; Williams Canon; Ute Pass; Rainbow Falls; Ute Iron Spring; Half Way House; Pike's Peak from Pilot Knob; Cog Wheel Railroad above Timber Line; Summit of Pike's Peak; Royal Gorge.

Photography and Photographers to 1900: An Annotated Bibliography (First Edition) by Robert S. Sennett

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Title: Photography and Photographers to 1900: An Annotated Bibliography (First Edition)
Author: Robert S. Sennett
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ISBN: 9780824087289
Description: New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. First Edition. Fine, with no dust jacket as issued.

CLEARVIEW/LIE by GREENWALD, Ted

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Title: CLEARVIEW/LIE
Author: GREENWALD, Ted
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: (New York): United Artists Books, 2011. First Edition. Near fine.. Poetic memoir by the noted Language poet. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound glossy illustrated wraps. Near fine. ASSOCIATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Greenwald to title page for poet Doug Lang: "For Doug / Take care - / Ted." Upper corner of rear wrapper shows some smoke damage, also visible to page edges. Else clean, sharp overall. 193pp.

ORIGINAL "MANTAN MESSES UP" MOVIE POSTER

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Title: ORIGINAL "MANTAN MESSES UP" MOVIE POSTER
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: 1946. One Sheet (measures 27 in. x 41 in.). In Good plus condition. Moderate bumping to top left and both bottom corners as well as bottom edge, .25 in. open tear on Lena Horne's leg, dent and .5 in closed tear at top edge, light crease lines, and light age toning overall. Shelved in Room A. FJ Consignment. 1375134. Special Collections - Upstairs.

The Dinner Year-Book by Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]

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Title: The Dinner Year-Book
Author: Harland, Marion; [Mary Virginia Terhune]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13 cm.), 713, [2] pages. Publisher's advertisements. FIRST EDITION, "Common Sense in the Household Series" issue; identical to the first regular issue but on cheaper paper stock, and lacking the six chromolithograph illustrations. Menus for every day of the year with recipes for each. Harland (pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune) attempts "To accomplish an agreeable variety in the family bill of fare." Her list of goals is long, but includes: "to build fragments into a structure about which should linger no flavor or staleness or sameness; so as to manage a long succession of meals that yesterday's repast and the more frugal one of to-day should not suggest the alternation of fat and lean in the Hibernian's pork, or the dutiful following of penance upon indulgence ; to shun, with equal care, the rock of parsimony and the whirlpool of extravagance..." Pages darkened throughout; pages approaching brittle. In edgeworn and soiled green cloth, blind and gilt stamped. Good. [Bitting, page 214; Brown 2402; Cagle 330; Wheaton & Kelly 5945].

Bilder ABC Nr 311 by ABC

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Title: Bilder ABC Nr 311
Author: ABC
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: No Place: J F S I E, 1900 Color printed wraps with small losses and old tape mends, darkened, spine reinforced, text and images clean. A simple object ABC printed entirely in color. . Pictorial Wraps. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Uncredited. 12mo.

THIS TIME. NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Stern, Gerald

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Title: THIS TIME. NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Author: Stern, Gerald
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780393046403
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: W.W.Norton, 1998. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Stern on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. National Book Award winner.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.The images are of the book described and not stock photos.

Sir Philip Sidney by Addleshaw, Percy

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Title: Sir Philip Sidney
Author: Addleshaw, Percy
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: G. P. Putnams Sons, 1909. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. With 12 illustrations.

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A World of Art and Museums by ZIGROSSER, Carl

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Title: A World of Art and Museums
Author: ZIGROSSER, Carl
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780879820145
Condition: very good(+)
Description: Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press, 1975. hardcover. very good(+). 309pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. Philadelphia: The Art Alliance Press, 1975. Very good(+) copy.

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