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Sporting Notions by ALKEN, Henry

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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

Title: Sporting Notions
Author: ALKEN, Henry
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: T. McLean, 1838. A Fine Contemporary Album Containing Eighteen of Henry Alken's Highly Amusing Hand Colored Lithographs ALKEN, Henry, illustrator. [Sporting Notions]. [London: T. McLean, 1831-33]. Small oblong quarto (6 11 /16 x 8 3/8 inches; 170 x 212 mm.). Eighteen fine hand colored lithographs mounted on G. Whatman watermarked paper. all plates heightened with gum arabic. Average plate size: 4 7/8 x 6 5/8 inches; 124 x 168 mm. Nineteenth century blue patterned paper boards (ca. 1838), covers decoratively bordered in gilt, spine worn and chipped, otherwise near fine. Front flyleaf with ink date "1838". This is an intriguing little album of eighteen fine hand colored lithographed plates, each of which has been cut to the border thus losing it's title. We have been able to identify eleven of the images - nine are very similar to the illustrations in one of Henry Alken's rarest titles Sporting Notions (London, 1831-33) and the other two are very similar to the illustrations in his equally rare Ideas, Accidental and Incidental To Hunting and Other Sports (London, 1830). However the plates in our album are approximately one inch less all round in size and all of the images are 'in reverse'. A fine contemporary album with amusing plates. The plates: 1. Woo - Woo- I have a notion that I shall lose him... 2. [Horse and rider over water] 3. I have a Notion that you are going the wrong way, don't you see our party out yonder. 4. [Horse and rider jumping over stile and water] 5. [Horse and rider jumping over stile] 6. I have a Notion you must pull him over or persuade him to pull you back again. 7. [Horse and rider jumping over gate] 8. Two horses and their riders going through gate] 9. I have an Idea that this Fence is either too High or that my Horse is too Short (Sporting Ideas) 10. I have an Idea that this is a situation that this of considerable difficulty (Sporting Ideas) 11. [Horse and rider jumping over fence] 12. I had a Notion that that there was room for two to go through at a time. 13. I had no Notion of the Comforts of Hunting by Water. 14. I have a Notion that this may be called "Riding to the hounds at a Smashing rate." 15. I had not the most distant Notion that my Horse was going to stop. 16. I had a Notion that Timber jumping was quite an easy thing. 17. [Horse and rider having caught a large branch] 18. This gives me a Notion that its better to "Look before you leap." See: Tooley 54; Siltzer p. 73; Dixon 95; Mellon/Snelgrove 34; Schwerdt l, p.23; Mellon/Podeschi 136; Tooley 36; Schwerdt I, pp. 17-18; Siltzer, p. 72.

Ethel Waters Signed and Inscribed Autobiography "To Me It's Wonderful", First Edition 1972 by Ethel Waters

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Title: Ethel Waters Signed and Inscribed Autobiography "To Me It's Wonderful", First Edition 1972
Author: Ethel Waters
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1972. [African American][Film and Entertainment] Waters, Ethel. To Me It's Wonderful. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First edition. Original wrappers. Inscribed on the title page by the author: "In His Precious Love / Ethel Waters." A compelling first-person memoir by trailblazing African American actress and singer Ethel Waters. Waters rose to fame on the Harlem Renaissance stage and in Hollywood before undergoing a profound religious conversion later in life. This work, her second autobiography following His Eye is on the Sparrow (1951), departs from a conventional career retrospective in favor of a testimonial narrative documenting her embrace of evangelical Christianity and her close association with Rev. Billy Graham, to whom the book is dedicated ("To my precious child Billy Graham and my entire Team family"). Waters, an emblematic figure of 20th-century Black performance history, broke barriers as the first African American woman nominated for a Primetime Emmy and among the earliest to star in her own television program. Her legacy includes her profound impact on jazz, blues, and gospel music, as well as her courageous navigation of a white-dominated entertainment and religious sphere. Wrapper with modest edgewear and vertical creasing along spine, minor surface rubbing to rear. Overall very good condition. An uncommon signed copy of Waters' second autobiography.

Annual Dinner, Second Panel Sheriff's Jury, Thursday, January 27th, 1898, Delmonico's by Anonymous

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Seller: ZH BOOKS

Title: Annual Dinner, Second Panel Sheriff's Jury, Thursday, January 27th, 1898, Delmonico's
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: New York: The King Press, 1898. Near fine. First edition; 6 1/2 x 4 1/4; pp. [8]; light-blue cloth over boards, embossed and decorated in gilt and dark-blue; page edges gilt; very minor wear and spotting to cloth; in very good to near fine condition.The Sheriff's Jury of New York, grand name notwithstanding, was primarily an exclusive social club for wealthy Manhattan gentlemen, established in the first half of the 19th century and abolished in the 1970s. The Sheriff appointed three panels of 150 individuals each, who met periodically to assess non-criminal cases, mostly property questions, competency hearings, etc., referred to them by the said Sheriff. They were, in fact, exempted from service on ordinary grand, petit, and special juries. Membership was attained through the recommendation of one of the heads of the three panels. They would become widely-known for their outrageously-elaborate annual dinners. The current booklet, published for the annual dinner of the Second Panel at Delmonico's and personally dedicated to each of the members - in this case, Hon. Peter F. Meyer, contained the lavish menu, the names of the Committee and a list of the members of the panel for 1897 - 1898.

Twin-Born by Wyllarde, Dolf

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Title: Twin-Born
Author: Wyllarde, Dolf
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: The Macaulay Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1934). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, top corners slightly bumped; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, slight fading at spine, minor soiling to rear panel]. Twin brothers, sons of English gentry, are separated by novelistic contrivance, er, I mean, circumstances (a shipwreck, how original!), at the age of sixteen. Brother Arthur, "thrown amongst savage races," on an island somewhere off the coast of British Somaliland, "[loses] touch with civilization" but develops into a mighty warrior/hunter and eventually goes in for a bit of piracy; meanwhile, Brother Alfred is educated at Oxford, and despite being the melancholy and ascetic type (who suffers from an "over-strained mentality"), somehow manages to head up an expedition to find his long-possibly-lost brother. This leads to a reunion, and the contrast between their savage-vs.-civilized personal development is played off against their romantic relationships with a couple of women who are also radically different from one another. A contemporary reviewer sniffed that the book was "not quite so wild and puerile as the Tarzan yarns." The author (a woman, by the way) churned out dozens of books between 1897 and 1936, many of them romantic adventure tales set in exotic locales. .

SIUSA News

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Title: SIUSA News
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Washington, D.C.): Survival International U.S.A.. (1981-1982). Volume 1, No. 1 and Volume 2, Nos. 2, 3/4. Four issues (one double issue, so 3 items). One issue folded for mailing; two issues sunned; near fine. No Binding. Near Fine.

Workers Viewpoint. vol. 1, no. 2 (September 1974)

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Title: Workers Viewpoint. vol. 1, no. 2 (September 1974)
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: [Asian Study Group], 1974. 78p. staplebound journal, 7.75x10.5 inches, printed on evenly toned newsprint, very good. Single issue of the journal issued by Jerry Tung's group, which became the Workers Viewpoint Organization in 1976. Coverage of Watergate here supplements the usual polemics against competing Marxist-Leninist political groups (the Communist League and Revolutionary Union).

Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) by Pelley, Patricia M

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Title: Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)
Author: Pelley, Patricia M
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780822329664
Condition: Very Good
Description: Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2002. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x9. First edition. Light edge wear, spine and edges a bit faded. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2002 Trade Paperback. x, 326 pp. New nations require new histories of their struggles for nationhood. Postcolonial Vietnam takes us back to the 1950s to see how official Vietnamese historians and others rethought what counted as history, what producing history entailed, and who should be included as participants and agents in the story. Beginning with government-appointed historians' first publications in 1954 and following their efforts over the next thirty years, Patricia M. Pelley surveys this daunting process and, in doing so, opens a wide window on the historical forces and tensions that have gone into shaping the new nation of Vietnam. Although she considers a variety of sources - government directives, census reports, statistics, poetry, civic festivities, ethnographies, and museum displays - Pelley focuses primarily on the work of official historians in Hanoi who argued about and tried to stabilize the meaning of topics ranging from prehistory to the Vietnam War. She looks at their strained and idiosyncratic attempts to plot the Vietnamese past according to Marxist and Stalinist paradigms and their ultimate abandonment of such models. She explores their struggle to redefine Vietnam in multiethnic terms and to normalize the idea of the family-state. Centering on the conversation that began in 1954 among historians in North Vietnam, her work identifies a threefold process of creating the new history: constituting historiographical issues, resolving problems of interpretation and narration, and conventionalizing various elements of the national narrative. As she tracks the processes that shaped the history of postcolonial Vietnam, Pelley dismantles numerous cliches of contemporary Vietnamese history and helps us to understand why and how its history-writing evolved.

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