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The Complete Blanche White Series by Neely, Barbara

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Title: The Complete Blanche White Series
Author: Neely, Barbara
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. First Edition. Complete set of the Blanche White detective series by Barbara Neely: 4 volumes, all in fine condition with fine dustjackets, each signed by the author. Also included is an advance proof of the debut novel, "Blanche on the Lam" (1992), fine in the original printed wrappers. This pioneering series features the first Black woman amateur detective as protagonist in American crime fiction. The collection is comprised of: "Blanche on the Lam" (1992), "Blanche Among the Talented Tenth" (1994), "Blanche Cleans Up" (1998), and "Blanche Passes Go" (2000). "Blanche on the Lam" predates Eleanor Bland's "Dead Time" by several months, though Bland's Marti MacAlister character is a professional police officer, while Neely's Blanche White works as a domestic worker who solves crimes as an amateur detective. The late emergence of Blanche White in 1992 constitutes a significant lacuna in American literary representation, particularly given the substantial presence of Black women in law enforcement and investigative professions throughout the twentieth century. This disparity between lived professional experience and fictional portrayal exemplifies what scholars have identified as systematic exclusion within the publishing industry's canonization process. The absence of Black female detectives in literature prior to Neely's work represents not merely an oversight but rather a manifestation of intersectional invisibility, wherein identities marginalized along multiple axes experience compounded erasure from cultural narratives. Neely's introduction of Blanche White thus serves as both literary innovation and historiographic intervention, challenging the artificial constraints of a genre that had long privileged certain perspectives while relegating others to the periphery of criminal justice fiction.

Liebesverse by Bethge, Hans & Georg A. Mathey

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Title: Liebesverse
Author: Bethge, Hans & Georg A. Mathey
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. full red morocco. Teg. Very good
Description: Leipzig: Privatdruck, 1922. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. full red morocco. Teg. Very good. Unpaginated. 29.3 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 12 of 20 Deluxe leather bound copies signed by Bethge and Mathey (from total edition of 150). Etched title vignette and six full page etchings signed by Mathey, and printed in Haenel-Antiqua on Zanders-Butten hand made paper. Privately printed at the Werkstatten der Staatlichen Akademie fur Graphische Kunste und Buchgewerbe zu Leipzig. From the collection of Crosby Gaige with his bookplate. RODENBERG 187. Metallic gold endpapers with gilt stamped binding by Hubel & Denck. Extremity and spine wear.

The railroad Burroughs. Freight claim agent by Burroughs Adding Machine Company

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Title: The railroad Burroughs. Freight claim agent
Author: Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Detroit: Burroughs, 1908. Burroughs Adding Machine Company. Railroad Department. The railroad Burroughs. Freight claim agent. Detroit: Burroughs Adding Machine Co., May 25, 1908. Original printed wrappers. 5 [1]pp. Color halftone tipped to p. 2. 210 x 136 mm. One of a series of brochures promoting the Burroughs Railroad Machine, Style 15. Each of the brochures is aimed at a specific branch of a railroad accounting department. The Burroughs Adding Machine Company designed mechanical calculating machines specially adapted to railroad accounting needs and established its own Railroad Department, the purpose of which was "to get in very close touch with the accounting of the railroads of the United States and Canada" and to advise railroads how Burroughs machines could be used to effect shortcuts in accounting. Origins of Cyberspace 231. .

Moods, Cadenced & Declaimed [Upper jacket title: Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed] by Theodore Dreiser; Hugh Gray Lieber [illus.]

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Title: Moods, Cadenced & Declaimed [Upper jacket title: Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed]
Author: Theodore Dreiser; Hugh Gray Lieber [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. Very Good+/Very Good+. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First Trade Edition. Thick octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in pink dust jacket printed in red and blue; xi,[3],385pp.; frontispiece, fourteen leaves of plates. Light shelf wear, chiefly at cloth spine ends, small shallow losses at top margin of rear jacket flap not approaching text, spine panel a shade toned, else a Very Good or better, internally fine copy. Substantial poetry collection, preceded by a signed limited edition issued in 1926.

[CHILDREN] [HUMOR] THE STORY OF JUST KIDS [LICENSED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE NO. 283] by [Ad Carter]

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Title: [CHILDREN] [HUMOR] THE STORY OF JUST KIDS [LICENSED BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE NO. 283]
Author: [Ad Carter]
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Good binding
Description: Springfield, Mass: McLoughlin Bros, 1932. Soft Cover. Good binding. Quarto; stapled in printed wrappers; beginning of separation at the spine, but all is hold sell.~~Featuring Mush Stebbins, and his pals Fatso Dolan and Pat Chan.~~. Good binding.

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