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Parian Bust of Shakespeare by [Robinson & Leadbeater]

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: Parian Bust of Shakespeare
Author: [Robinson & Leadbeater]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1880. 18 inch Parian bust atop 3 1/2 inch socle, previously joined by brass nut and bolt (now detached and in need of repair). Faint hairline fissure from upper button of shirt across shoulder and around to rear. Mild soiling typical of Parian, otherwise an exceptional example notable for its exquisite detail and translucence. This superb Parian bust of the Bard of Avon is exact in almost all aspects to that from Robinson & Leadbeater pictured in the key reference, The Parian Phenomenon, differing only in size, the slight tilt of Shakespeare's head and subtle facial features. The blouse, buttons, tassels, collar, drape of the cloak, lapel, and sleeve at the left shoulder are identical in all detail to the ten and a half inch Shakespeare bust produced by Robinson & Leadbeater c. 1880. Further, though the smaller sizes for R&L busts were modeled with integral socles, the larger sizes possessed separate socles, as here. Most significant, however, is that Robinson & Leadbeater's designs were original and exclusive to them alone. All evidence considered, we can confidently state definitive attribution to this, amongst the small handful of Parian producers considered to be the finest. "One of the few potteries to concentrate entirely on the production of high quality Parian, the partnership of Robinson & Leadbeater was established in the early 1860s in Hanley [U.K.]...The company quickly became one of the largest and most ambitious manufacturers of Parian, with a large share of the Home market and an extensive export trade in the United States [whence this example]" (Parian Phenomenon). This bust is unmarked, typical of Robinson & Leadbeater's early wares, but as Godden notes (British Pottery & Porcelain Marks) of those produced after the mid-1870's, the R&L mark was found only on figures and groups. A most attractive Robinson & Leadbeater piece indeed, and rare in this size. Cf. The Parian Phenomenon, fig. 747.

Women's Suffrage. A Short History of a Great Movement by Fawcett, Millicent Garrett

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Title: Women's Suffrage. A Short History of a Great Movement
Author: Fawcett, Millicent Garrett
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London & Edinburgh: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1912. First edition. Fine. Small octavo (measures 165 x 107mm). Original green publisher's cloth binding with spine and front board lettered in black. A clean, square, tight copy. Offsetting to front and rear endpapers, else internally a surprisingly fresh, clean-margined copy. Well represented institutionally but uncommon in trade, this title rarely appears in such pleasing condition. "The torch which was lighted by Mary Wollstonecraft was never afterwards extinguished," Fawcett asserts at the beginning of her book, as she considers the early founders of the women's equality movement including Wollestoncraft and Mott. In the face of insult and ignorance, she explains, women have pushed forward to create a more just world through their writing (as in the case of Elizabeth Barrett Browning) or their activism (as in the case of Elizabeth Fry). But Fawcett is not only focused on the history of the movement -- though she does recount its high spots. She is even more interested in its progress, and she details international successes in the pursuit of enfranchisement for women. She believes that the current year of 1912 shows promise for even further gains, particularly in the U.S. and U.K. where suffragists increasingly embraced logical, political campaigns over violence. "He who runs [for office] must read the signs of the times. Everything points to the growing volume and force of the women's movement. Even if victory should be delayed, it cannot be delayed long." Fine.

During the Mexican War, President Polk Appoints an Officer That Saw Action at Monterey and Mexico City by James K. Polk

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Title: During the Mexican War, President Polk Appoints an Officer That Saw Action at Monterey and Mexico City
Author: James K. Polk
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 24/12/1846. Benjamin H. Arthur served in the Mexican War. He was with General Taylor as adjutant in Northern Mexico, where his unit did gallant service at the capture of Monterey. He was also present during the occupation of Mexico City in 1847. He fought in the Indian wars as well, skirmishing with the Apaches along Live Oak Creek near present-day Batesville, Texas.,This is his commission as First Lieutenant, signed by President Polk. Document signed, with an eagle, stars, flags and cannon, Washington, December 24, 1846, naming Arthur First Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Infantry, effective September 1, 1846. He would soon achieve the rank of Captain.He died in 1856 and his widow received a pension.

Instructions in Relation to the Preparation of Vessels of War for Battle: to the Duties of Officers and Others When at Quarters: and to Ordnance and Ordnance Stores (bound with) Form of Exercise and Manoeuvre for the Boat-Howitzers of the U.S. Navy. by US Navy (and) Lieut. J.A. Dahlgren.

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Title: Instructions in Relation to the Preparation of Vessels of War for Battle: to the Duties of Officers and Others When at Quarters: and to Ordnance and Ordnance Stores (bound with) Form of Exercise and Manoeuvre for the Boat-Howitzers of the U.S. Navy.
Author: US Navy (and) Lieut. J.A. Dahlgren.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: In an effort to further standardize ordnance procedures throughout the Navy, Commodore Charles Morris, Chief of the Bureau of Or
Description: Washington: C. Alexander, 1852. In an effort to further standardize ordnance procedures throughout the Navy, Commodore Charles Morris, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, issued these detailed instructions. They cover all phases of fighting a ship, including gunnery, gunpowder, shot and shells, station bills, table of allowance, etc. There are plates of guns and carriages, and also a section on hydrography, with plates (one folding) of hydrographic instruments. This is bound with Dahlgren's important treatise on boat howitzers. See Smith II, 3831 and 3832. Both these titles are scarce, with nothing but reprints available online. Worldcat cites one example of the two titles bound together, but shows no library holdings. Bound in half diced calf over marbled boards. Front blanks are waterstained, but this does not intrude into text or plates, which are all in very good condition. . xii, (2), 180, iii-xvii pp. (and) (4), 5-16 pp. b/w plates.

Complete Amateur Boat Building. In Wood, Glass Fibre and Metal. by Verney, Michael.

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Title: Complete Amateur Boat Building. In Wood, Glass Fibre and Metal.
Author: Verney, Michael.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: VG, dj.
Description: 1963. VG, dj.. 21.5 x 14 cm. 309 pp. b/w illust and plates.

THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH by Rostow, W.W.

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Title: THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
Author: Rostow, W.W.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good in near fine dust jacket.
Description: Cambridge: At the University Press, 1960. First edition. Very good in near fine dust jacket.. First printing of the title that established a particularly influential model of historic economic growth, by economist and National Security Advisor W. W. Rostow. In THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, Rostow proposes what would later be known as the Rostovian take-off model of economic growth. This model was shaped by the current status of the Cold War, pitting the state of the US economy against those of Russia and various third world countries to compare their historical trajectories. The success of THE STAGES OF ECONOMIC GROWTH brought Rostow to the attention of John F. Kennedy, who appointed him as an advisor before he became president. During Kennedy's presidency, he was a vocal advocate for the Vietnam War, and after Kennedy's assassination, he served as National Security Advisor to Johnson. An important work in the history of modern economics. 8'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Original unclipped ($3.75) dust jacket. 180 pages, including index. Small ink owner name to front pastedown. Underlining in red to the first 48 pages. Jacket with mild edgewear, tiny spot of soil to rear near spine; spine a bit sunned. Front flyleaf with a couple shallow creases to corner, small area of loss to corner of rear flyleaf. Else clean and tight.

Vietnam War Protest Documents Showing Military Dissent, Port Chicago Direct Action, SANE Petitioning, and Women Strike for Peace Budget Critique by Antiwar Protest Movement

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Title: Vietnam War Protest Documents Showing Military Dissent, Port Chicago Direct Action, SANE Petitioning, and Women Strike for Peace Budget Critique
Author: Antiwar Protest Movement
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1965. Student Peace Union, SANE, Women Strike for Peace, and Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Vietnam antiwar ephemera archive, 1965 and 1966, documents the early system of Vietnam War opposition before mass antiwar demonstrations became the movement's dominant public form. The archive shows the mechanisms of early peace mobilization through enlisted servicemen's testimony, newspaper-ad petitioning, economic argument, congressional criticism, and planned obstruction of military logistics, revealing how dissent moved between elite public statements, women's peace activism, campus networks, and local civil disobedience. In 1965, the antiwar movement remained a loose coalition built around teach-ins, lobbying, persuasion, rallies, picketing, and independent local actions, while radicals increasingly connected the war to domestic injustice and American power; these documents provide primary-source evidence for studying that formative transition from policy dissent to organized resistance. Four antiwar documents dating from 1965 to 1966, issued by or associated with the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, Women Strike for Peace, the Student Peace Union, and Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Vietnam, with formats including mimeographed circulars, flyers, and broadsides. The materials include a SANE broadside reproducing a February 19, 1965 New York Times advertisement, a double-sided Women Strike for Peace and J. William Fulbright budget-and-war broadside from 1965, a Student Peace Union circular dated April 30, 1966 containing anonymous letters from Marines stationed at Chu Lai, and a Contra Costa protest flyer calling for action at Port Chicago on August 7, 1966. The archive differentiates several strands of early antiwar practice: public appeals by nationally known signatories, women's household-economy critique of military spending, active-duty military dissent circulated through student networks, and locally organized direct action aimed at munitions shipment infrastructure. Port Chicago carried additional historical resonance as a military logistics site associated with the 1944 munitions explosion and subsequent Black sailors' resistance to unsafe loading conditions, making its later use as a Vietnam protest site especially charged within histories of war labor, race, and military discipline. National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Vietnam: America must decide between a full scale war and a negotiated truce. New York: National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, 1965. Broadside reproducing a full-page advertisement originally printed in The New York Times on February 19, 1965, warning that escalation in Vietnam could produce "a major war involving the U.S. and China-a war nobody wants and no one can win." The statement, signed by figures including Dr. Benjamin Spock, Linus Pauling, Norman Mailer, I.F. Stone, and clergy, labor, academic, and literary figures, urges ceasefire, negotiation, and public pressure on Congress and the White House, demonstrating how established liberal and pacifist networks converted newspaper advertising into political mobilization. [2] Women Strike for Peace and Fulbright, J. William. Unhappy About High Food Prices? [N.p.]: Women Strike for Peace, 1965. Double-sided broadside connecting the cost of Vietnam to food prices, taxation, and domestic social need, with a pie chart asserting that "3/4 of your tax dollar is spent for military and space purposes" and a "Ballot on the War Budget" stating, "I object. I don't want all that spending for death and destruction." The verso prints an abridged version of Senator J. William Fulbright's October 14, 1965 Kansas State College address, in which he asks whether the United States wants to be "the world's policeman" or "an intelligent and humane society," linking women's peace activism to Senate-level critique from the longtime chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, whose papers document his central role in Vietnam-era foreign policy debate. Student Peace Union. United States Marines Speak Out. [N.p.]: Student Peace Union, 1966. Two-page mimeographed circular dated April 30, 1966, reproducing letters from two anonymous Marines stationed in Chu Lai, South Vietnam, with names withheld for safety. The first Marine writes, "I feel this war is a waste of time, people and money," while the second calls the conflict "a hollow, political, cold war" and pleads, "Let us help these people with kindness not death," offering unusually direct evidence of active-duty moral opposition circulated through student antiwar networks. [4] Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Vietnam. Port Chicago's Where the Action Is. Contra Costa County: Contra Costa Citizens Against the War in Vietnam, 1966. Green flyer announcing an August 7 day of coordinated protest and civil disobedience at the U.S. Naval Weapons Station at Port Chicago, with instructions to rally at Concord City Park, march to the munitions gate, and maintain a vigil by those "prepared to risk arrest." The text identifies Port Chicago as a site through which ammunition and explosives for Vietnam passed and uses stark language to describe napalm trucks, explosives trucks, and "trainloads of bombs," ending with the slogan "One man / One truck / A thousand lives," showing how local organizers translated antiwar conviction into targeted obstruction of military supply lines. Condition information not supplied in the provided description, and overall condition cannot be responsibly assigned without examination. Substantive early antiwar archive preserving the movement's developing infrastructure of persuasion, dissent, and direct action during the first major phase of Vietnam escalation.

JUDY GARLAND GLAMOUR POSE | ZIEGFELD GIRL [1941] Photo by Clarence Bull by Clarence Sinclair Bull

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Seller: Walterfilm, Inc.

Title: JUDY GARLAND GLAMOUR POSE | ZIEGFELD GIRL [1941] Photo by Clarence Bull
Author: Clarence Sinclair Bull
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: About Fine
Description: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [1941]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white double weight glossy studio photo. Full typed blurb and ink stamp of photographer Clarence Bull on verso. Crease at top left corner, overall about fine. Judy Garland is featured in a demure glamour pose in Adrian costume which she wears for vaudeville song "Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides". Though not one of her best-remembered numbers, her musical contribution to this extravaganza surely is.

stanley brouwn by (BROUWN, Stanley)

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Title: stanley brouwn
Author: (BROUWN, Stanley)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 14 black & white illus. [10] pp. 4to (270 x 215 mm.), printed softcover. Eindhoven: prins bernhard fonds, 1980. Rare Stanley Brouwn (1935-2017) catalogue, published to mark the artist receiving the David Röell-Prijs from the Prins Bernhard Fonds in 1980; printed in an unknown edition size. It contains reproductions of this way brouwn drawings from 1964 and 1 m, 1 step (1980). The text by museum director Rudi Fuchs is in English. In near fine condition. Ownership stamp on title-page. ❧ Harry Ruhé, ed., stanley brouwn: a chronology (2nd ed.: 2005).

Original photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, circa 1968 by Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky (subject)

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Original photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, circa 1968
Author: Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky (subject)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1968. Vintage borderless photograph of Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, in what appears to be Washington Square Park, circa 1968. Layout annotations in manuscript pencil on verso. Ginsberg and Orlovsky met and fell in love in San Francisco, 1954, remaining partners until Ginsberg's death in 1997. 9.5 x 6.75 inches. Light wear at the extremities, else Near Fine.

Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches by TWAIN, Mark

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Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA

Title: Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches
Author: TWAIN, Mark
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Slote, Woodman & Co, 1878. Second Edition. Cloth. Very good. Second edition. 16mo; 140pp [4]; green cloth, black stamped vignette designs and title, author and a caricature of Twain on the front cover, gilt stamped title to spine, design blind stamped to back cover; glazed cream eps with no decoration; Author's name in facsimile autograph on title page; Mark Twain's Scrap Book advertising to rear paste down; scuffing to cover edges with bumped corners and loss, light soiling, age toning of paper, light foxing on a few pages; very good minus. (BAL 3378). Includes the following stories: Punch, Brothers, Punch!, Speech on the Weather at the New England Society's Seventy-First Annual Dinner, Rogers, Map of Paris (with Map), Random Notes of an Idle Excursion, Speech at a Dinner of the Knights of St. Patrick, An Encounter with an Interviewer, The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence, Etc., and The Canvasser's Tale.

Different Aspects. Frederick Willam Rolfe & The Foreign Office Venice by [TRAGARA PRESS] Donald WEEKS, editor

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Title: Different Aspects. Frederick Willam Rolfe & The Foreign Office Venice
Author: [TRAGARA PRESS] Donald WEEKS, editor
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1976. 8vo. 36 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF ONLY FOUR COPIES on Saunders paper, from an edition of 125.

Beyond the Dark by ABBEY, Kieran (Helen Reilly)

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Title: Beyond the Dark
Author: ABBEY, Kieran (Helen Reilly)
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: NY:: Scribner's,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. Hardcover. B001J2P8H8 . First printing. A few small spots of foxing to boards, else very good in a very good (minor edge wear, moderate sized abrasion at mid spine, a bit faded along the spine) dust jacket.; 235 pages .

Memorial Services in Honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant, 1812 - 1904, Mother of Civil Rights in California, Friend of John Brown by The San Francisco Negro Historical and Cultural Society

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Title: Memorial Services in Honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant, 1812 - 1904, Mother of Civil Rights in California, Friend of John Brown
Author: The San Francisco Negro Historical and Cultural Society
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: S. l. (San Francisco): Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, 1965. First Edition. Near fine. Large brochure; 10 x 7; pp. [4], text to rectos only; vream stock, printed in black in several ornamental fonts; very minor wear - in near fine condition.A beautiful memento, it commemorated the services held on February 12, 1965 in Napa, California in honor of Mary Ellen Pleasant (1812 [?] - 1904) - the African-American enterpreneur, financier, abolitionist, and self-made millionaire (allegedly long before Madam C. J. Walker). Known as Mammy Pleasant, she would be hailed as the mother of Civil Rights in California. The program briefly outlined the events and speakers at the memorial.

Not So Much Love of Flowers, Poems 1969-1972 by Appel, Allan

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Title: Not So Much Love of Flowers, Poems 1969-1972
Author: Appel, Allan
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: West Branch IA: Toothpaste Press, 1975. First edition. One of only 26 copies (of 501 total) issued in hardcover; hand-cased and signed by the author, of which this is Copy C of the 26 lettered and signed copies. Orange-red cloth covers with paper spine label; tall 12mo. Harvard College Library embossed stamp on front end paper, with the library's blind-stamped release mark. A special (and scarce) sample of Toothpaste Press in hardcover. Ex-libris else Very Good. Toothpaste Press began when Allan Kornblum bought a press in 1972 and moved it into Anslem Hollo's garage according to Coffee House publisher Chris Fischbach; a decade or so later Toothpaste became Coffee House.

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