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The Departure of the Argonaut. by CLEMENTE, Francesco; Savinio, Alberto; FRANCESCO C

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Title: The Departure of the Argonaut.
Author: CLEMENTE, Francesco; Savinio, Alberto; FRANCESCO C
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1986. CLEMENTE, Francesco. The Departure of the Argonaut. By Alberto Savinio. [102] ff. With 49 photolithographs, 46 in color and 3 in black on cream paper. Elephant folio, bound in original wrappers and beige linen box designed by Rudolph Rieser. London: Petersburg Press, 1986. Clemente's images are extraordinary and elevate this work to one of monumental bookmaking in conception, design, and production. The artist's designs range from monochromatic and brooding to intensely imaginary and vividly colourful. The text itself, first issued in 1917, is the travelogue and wartime diary of Alberto Savinio, one of the seminal figures in 20th-century Italian arts and letters. It is translated here from the Italian for the first time. Limited to 200 copies signed by the artist. Johnson, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000, No. 169. Castleman, A Century of Artists Books, p. 217.

Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Subjects: Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Inform the Manners, and Enlighten the Understanding by Bennett, Rev. John

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Title: Letters to a Young Lady on a Variety of Subjects: Calculated to Improve the Heart, to Inform the Manners, and Enlighten the Understanding
Author: Bennett, Rev. John
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: Hartford [CT]: Hudson & Goodwin, 1791. First American edition. Two volumes bound in one. Contemporary calf rebacked to style with morocco spine label. A tight, square copy. Contemporary ownership signature of Mary L. Hurd to header of first title page; pencil equations to the rear pastedown. Light scattered foxing and toning throughout, as is common in American imprints of this period; closed tear to the inner margin of 17-18 not affecting text. In all, pleasing and unmarked. Collating xii, 142; [2], 155, [1]: complete, including half and full titles for both. A scarce and early work on women's education, predating the American release of Bennett's Strictures on Female Education by one year, it was one of the earliest and most progressive titles on the subject to be printed in the young Republic. ESTC reports 8 institutions with copies worldwide (and only 2 of the London first edition of 1789). It appears only twice in the modern auction record, in 1986 and 2002. The present is the only copy on the market. The American seminary movement, establishing rigorous institutions for women's higher education, would not begin until 1821. Three decades before, only 15 years into the founding of the Republic, the American release of John Bennett's Letters to a Young Lady helped initiate a conversation about how the new nation would approach the education of its girls. Epistolary in form, the book contains a series of letters from a gentleman to a young woman Lucy after the loss of her mother, to whose care her education would have fallen. The gentleman acknowledges that she likely has plenty of guidance in religion, but that more worldly knowledge is more difficult for women to acquire because of the lack of structures provided to them. Much of what they learn is derived, problematically, from their society: "The education of women is unfortunately directed rather to such accomplishments as will enable them to make noise and sparkle in the world, than to those qualities which might ensure their comfort here," Bennett writes. Boarding schools reinforce this problem, he claims, taking away domestic context and failing to ground their pupils in piety, virtue, and intelligence. Across his letters, he directs Lucy to learn more substantial lessons from the works of the humanists: "The immortal Locke analysed the powers of the human understanding," he tells her at one point. "Mason on self-knowledge is the anatomist of the heart. If you would see yourself in your true colors, you must daily be conversant with these books." Indeed, throughout he guides her on the types of books to read (Locke and Cicero) and those to avoid (Sterne) to take her education into her own hands. One year later, Bennett's more structured Strictures on Female Education would follow up the present title; and it would push readers to see that women could not take on sole responsibility for their learning, but should be provided rigorous, standardized schools designed for that end. ESTC W13575.

President Truman Signs A 1946 Memorandum About Transferring White House Office Employees by HARRY S. TRUMAN

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Title: President Truman Signs A 1946 Memorandum About Transferring White House Office Employees
Author: HARRY S. TRUMAN
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: HARRY TRUMAN (1884-1972). Truman was the Thirty-Third President. Archive. 1945-1946. The White House. An archive of materials related to transferring White House and Executive Department personnel shortly after Truman took over as President. The highlight is a June 28, 1946 typed memorandum signed M.C. Latta Executive Clerk addressed to Truman. The content states The attached list has been prepared pursuant to your approval of the transfer to this office of certain employees now on detail from various Departments and agencies of the government and the promotion of some of these as well as regular White House Office employees to grades approved by the Civil Service Commission. Action as indicated, effective July 1, 1946, is hereby recommended. At the conclusion, Truman wrote Approved Harry S Truman. The memorandum is stapled to a ten page typed list of various Executive Department employees, including their name, the department where he or she works, their title, pay grade and salary. There are several other similar typed memoranda, several signed by Frank K. Sanderson, an executive administrator in the Truman White House. Overall, the pieces are in very good condition. Most unusual Presidential content, reminding people that the President also runs one-third of the Federal government.

WHEREFORE CHANGE?" MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED REASONS WHY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON SHOULD AND WILL HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRACY, FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN PREFERENCE TO MARTIN VAN BUREN. BY A WORKINGMAN by Workingman, A.

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Title: WHEREFORE CHANGE?" MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED REASONS WHY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON SHOULD AND WILL HAVE THE SUPPORT OF THE DEMOCRACY, FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, IN PREFERENCE TO MARTIN VAN BUREN. BY A WORKINGMAN
Author: Workingman, A.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Printed by Tuttle, Dennett & Chisholm, 1840. 16pp, stitched as issued. Light scattered foxing, Good+. 119 reasons, to be precise. The Jacksonian Era has created an "imperial" presidency; Harrison will restore the office to its proper role. "There is no republicanism in Van Burenism." Corrupt characters populate the Van Buren Administration; Harrison is the ideal of simple republicanism. Cronin & Wise 151 [Harrison]. AI 40-4754 [5]. Not in Miles.

The Unmaking of a Mayor by Buckley, William F., Jr.

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Title: The Unmaking of a Mayor
Author: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Seller: Brattle Book Shop (United States)
Condition: VeryGood
Description: New York: The Viking Press [1966]. Hardcover. First Edition. 9" x 6". X, 342 pp. Publisher's brown cloth boards in a illustrated DJ. Inscribed by Buckley on the verso of the ffep. There is also a typed note to the recipient initialed by Buckley in red pen loosely inserted in the book. Spine and edges lightly sunned; some faint toning to text block. Some minor wear to DJ; spine sunned; small (1/4 inch) chip to bottom of spine. Near Fine in a VeryGood DJ. . VeryGood. Hardcover .

Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose

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Title: Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Minneapolis: Coffee House Press. 1993. The uncorrected proof copy. Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, Eudora Welty, Michael Ondaatje, Ntozake Shange and many others. Foxing to cover; near fine in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine.

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Essays on Music in the Western World ... Foreword by Lewis Lockwood by STRUNK, Oliver

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Title: Essays on Music in the Western World ... Foreword by Lewis Lockwood
Author: STRUNK, Oliver
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780393021783
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Norton, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full black cloth with titling gilt to spine. 200 pp. With several illustrations and numerous musical examples. From the collection of musicologist Stanley Boorman.

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