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The Complaint, and The Consolation; or Night Thoughts by Young, Edward. William Blake, artist

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Title: The Complaint, and The Consolation; or Night Thoughts
Author: Young, Edward. William Blake, artist
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: R. Noble for R. Edwards, 1797. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. Elephantine folio, 44 by 34 cm. viii, [2], 95, [2] pp. 43 of the pages have Blake's expansive, charismatic illustrations surrounding the text. Four of these are section heads, the balance, being border ornamentation, but even the latter are far more than merely decorative. The distinctive Blake artwork fires the imagination regardless. In fact, the text, which is framed with ruled lines, seems to cover some of the illustration. Last two pages are the Explanation of the Engravings, which are often not present. The full navy blue morocco is fairly heavily rubbed along the edges, a bit less so, by the joints. Some scattered soiling within, but the pages are generally quite clean. There are a few closed tears, not of great length, and one repaired close tear which was somewhat longer. The Explanation of Engravings leaf has two repaired tears. Notwithstanding these flaws, this is an attractive, appealing copy.

Inventory of the Goods &c of Andrew Bradford Late of Philada, decd Taken the 7th Day of March 1742/3” by Bradford, Andrew (1686?-1742) printer and journalist

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Title: Inventory of the Goods &c of Andrew Bradford Late of Philada, decd Taken the 7th Day of March 1742/3”
Author: Bradford, Andrew (1686?-1742) printer and journalist
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: folio, 10 pages, on unwatermarked 18th century paper, likely of American manufacture, formerly folded in quarters, docketed twice on final leaf. There are significant condition issues, paper browned and brittle, separated along folds with considerable loss at intersection of center fold, tears repaired with archival tissue. Despite the issues of condition, a unique document listing the estate inventory of a unique figure, a pioneer printer, publisher, and journalist in colonial Philadelphia. Manuscript estate inventory of Andrew Bradford, pioneer printer and journalist of Philadelphia, who died November 24, 1742. Bradford printed the first newspaper in the middle colonies and the first magazine in America. Andrew Bradford, like his father William was also a pioneer supporter of the idea of a free press and is credited with setting "forth those principles that later enabled Andrew Hamilton, in New York City, to free John Peter Zenger in the most famous case for press freedom in colonial days." The inventory lists Bradford's personal and household effects as well as the inventory of his business. Bradford not only was a printer he also, like most other printers, had attached to his office a large store. Bradford operated at "The Sign of the Bible" an early eighteenth-century general store which carried a wide range of goods and in which he did a considerable business. Bradford's store, like his paper the American Mercury, was a popular and profitable undertaking. The wealth of the colony had increased by 1742, the year of Bradford's death, and Bradford's stock includes more luxurious and expensive items, as shown in the present inventory. The inventory lists a large stock of books, including dozens of Bibles and Testaments, Prayer Books, schoolbooks and primers, including "31 Dozen Horn Books", dictionaries, literary works, bibles, of all sizes and "quality", religious books, including 17 copies of Pilgrim's Progress, medical books, including "1 doz Aristotle's Midwife," German and Welsh language books, likely the products of Bradford's press (Bradford printed the first Welsh book in America, in 1721), elegantly bound blank books, large amounts of paper, vellum and parchment, printed forms, and legal stationery, scientific instruments, dozens of pairs of spectacles, parcels of almanacs and pamphlets, many likely the product of Bradford's press, unbound books, bibles and pamphlets, likely to be bound in Bradford's own bindery, the inventory includes "41 calf and sheep skins", as well as many other items of the stationer's trade, slates, pencils, quills, etc. Bradford's furnishings are also listed, dishes, silver, gold, and silver watches, "a Chaise and Harness", textiles, and finally three slaves: "One Negro Man Named Harry", "One Negro man Named Tonsy" and an unnamed "Negro Woman". The goods were appraised at over £ 942, by Jon Danby and Richard Sewell. Andrew Bradford, printer, and journalist, as well as a bookseller, bookbinder, and slave owner - given the evidence from his estate inventory offered here. "Bradford was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1686, the son of William Bradford, a printer and journalist, and Elizabeth Sowle, whose father, Andrew Sowle, was a printer in London. After being arrested and released for printing a pamphlet by Quaker apostate George Keith, William Bradford moved his family to New York and opened a print shop. Here, Andrew Bradford was trained as a printer. Little is known about his childhood or formal education, but Bradford was probably not the "illiterate" printer Benjamin Franklin was to call him in the disparaging remarks in his Autobiography on the state of printing in Philadelphia upon his arrival in the city. Bradford was listed as a freeman and printer of New York in 1709, the same year he declined Rhode Island's offer to become the colony's printer. In 1710-1711 father and son were in partnership and published three books together; they maintained close business ties throughout their careers. In 1713 Andrew Bradford returned to Philadelphia and was hired to publish "The Acts and Laws of the Province of Pennsylvania, October 14th, 1712 to March 27th, 1713," the first printed collection of the colony's laws, and thus became the unofficial provincial printer. He was the only printer in Philadelphia until 1723 and published the acts of the assembly, Indian treaties, and Governor William Keith's letters and proclamations. Almanacs by Jacob Taylor, Titan Leed, and John Jerman bore Bradford's imprint, as did various books and pamphlets on social, political, and religious matters." Bradford, in addition to being the official printer for the Province, was also the printer for the Society of Friends'. Bradford's the American Weekly Mercury, the first newspaper in Philadelphia, commenced publication on 22 December 1719 and remained in publication for twenty-six years. The venture was initially a partnership with John Copson, a local bookseller at the time. They were assisted by William Bradford, who remained in New York, but took in advertisements for the Mercury until he started his own paper, the New York Gazette, late in 1725. The American Mercury had a wide circulation, and Bradford enjoyed the advantages of being colonial postmaster from 1728 to 1737, which allowed him to accumulate news and to send his own mail at no cost – both of which greatly increased the American Mercury's circulation. Until 1728 the American Mercury did not have any local competition, but upon hearing that Benjamin Franklin was planning to bring out a newspaper, another Philadelphia printer and one of Franklin's former employers, Samuel Keimer, began publishing the Universal Instructor in All Arts and Sciences; and the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin, joined later by Joseph Breintnall, sent thirty-two letters modeled on Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison's London essay periodical, the Spectator, to Bradford for publication in his newspaper. These essays, together called The Busy-Body, included remarks designed to attack Keimer and drive him out of the newspaper business; they were a success. Franklin took possession of the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729 and became Bradford's chief competition. Early in his newspaper's existence, Bradford used it to criticize local government. After a pamphlet critical of the provincial government's financial condition was published, perhaps by Bradford, the American Mercury included a remark also critical of the province's "sinking credit." Brought before the council, Bradford denied printing the pamphlet and claimed that the newspaper remarks were inserted by a journeyman. Admonished against printing remarks on the colonial governments, Bradford was released, but in 1723 he published an account of James Franklin's censure and imprisonment in New England for publishing "scandalous libels" against the colonial government there. The account included remarks supportive of Franklin and generally of freedom of the press. In 1727 and 1728 Bradford again printed several pamphlets on political topics but was not censured. In 1729, however, Bradford was called before the council again. The government and council found Busy-Body essay number twenty-seven, in which Breintnall presents an argument for rotation of public office, to be offensive, appearing, as it did, just before an election. Bradford was jailed but returned to the press shortly, where he continued to publish the Busy-Body essays in the American Mercury. Bradford's quiet resistance of the council's wishes has been seen as an early principled conflict between the press and government in the colonies. Bradford also published the first magazine in America. The American Magazine, edited by John Webbe, was modeled on Edward Cave's Gentleman's Magazine, initiated in London some years earlier. Webbe approached Franklin about the venture, but objecting to Franklin's terms, brought the plan to Bradford. In an advertisement in the American Mercury announcing the venture, the editor sets out numerous objectives: to carry news of communities without a press, and t promote liberty and freedom of the press and speech, without engaging in licentious abuses. Franklin, in the meantime, decided to bring out his own General Magazine, and he and Webbe waged an editorial battle in the Gazette and American Mercury. When the magazines were issued, weeks later, Bradford and Webbe had beaten Franklin into print by three days. Both magazines failed, however, in just a few months. Bradford was married to Dorcas Boels of Freehold, New Jersey, and after her death in 1739, to Cornelia Smith in 1740. His only child by Dorcas, died in infancy or childhood. Sometimes mentioned as a foster son, William Bradford III was Bradford's nephew and was apprenticed to him in the 1730s. After Bradford's death in Philadelphia, Cornelia Bradford continued to publish the American Mercury until 1746. Bradford's reputation rests primarily upon his publication of the first newspaper in the middle colonies and the first magazine in America, as well as upon his consistent if undramatic resistance to the provincial government's desire to control the press." American National Biography, volume 3 pp., 352-353 Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 1, part two, pp. 552-553 Ferree, Water L., Andrew Bradford" A Pioneer Printer of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3 (July, 1954) pp. 214-227, Penn State University Press, https:// www.jstor.org/stable/27769516 Willard, J., Tailer William, Clark, John, and Anna Janney de Armond, Andrew Bradford, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Oct. 1938, Vol. 62, No. 4 (Oct. 1938), pp. 463-487, University of Pennsylvania Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20087144

MAPLEWOOD PARK [cover title]

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Title: MAPLEWOOD PARK [cover title]
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Description: Nashville, TN: Maplewood Suburban Home Co, 1891. First edition. Oblong 4to (6 3/8 x 9 ½ inches). (30) pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, full-page plates (residences), double-page panorama view as frontispiece, folding plat map of the subdivision [dated “1891”]. The development of 1400 acres on the northeast side of Nashville, up the Gallatin Pike, with the “Best Society in the South, fine churches, good water, lot on easy terms which will double in value before the end of the year,” and more inducements. Half-title: A Few Facts Regarding the Thriving City of Nashville and Its Beautiful Suburb Maplewood Park. Apparently not recorded on OCLC. Original decorated wrappers (a little chipping to corners and edges), regional map on rear wrapper. Very good.

Violence (First Edition) by Cornell Woolrich

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Title: Violence (First Edition)
Author: Cornell Woolrich
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Description: New York: Dodd, Mead, 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Collects six of Woolrich's longer pulp stories for the first time, including his only horror story, "The Moon of Montezuma." "Violence" is one of the few Woolrich titles to feature an author photo on the jacket's rear panel: the author is shown almost smiling, next to his beloved mother. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly faded at the spine as almost always found. An attractive copy.

COMBINED LOADINGS IN THE THEORY OF PLASTICITY by Życzkowski, Michał

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Title: COMBINED LOADINGS IN THE THEORY OF PLASTICITY
Author: Życzkowski, Michał
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9789028600171
Description: Warszawa: Polish Scientific Publishers, 1981. First English Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, xx, 714 pages. In Good minus condition. Dust jacket is white with black lettering, housed in a brown slip case. Dust jacket has light sunning and age toning. Light creasing and shelf wear to dust jacket. Binding has significant shaking, but boards and pages are securely attached. Significant splitting to gutter after front end paper and before back end paper. NOTE: Shelved in ND-HV. 1378484. FP New Rockville Stock.

NYOKA, THE JUNGLE GIRL. VOLUME 2: THE MASTER COMICS STORIES (GWANDANALAND COMICS #1196-A, READERS COLLECTION, ECONOMICAL BLACK & WHITE VERSION)

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Title: NYOKA, THE JUNGLE GIRL. VOLUME 2: THE MASTER COMICS STORIES (GWANDANALAND COMICS #1196-A, READERS COLLECTION, ECONOMICAL BLACK & WHITE VERSION)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9798623847119
Description: Middletown: Gwandanaland Comics, 2021. Softcover. Quarto; VG-; Paperback; Spine, blue with whtie print; Cover has light edgewear, but is clean and bright; Text block clean and tight; 134 pages, illustrated (b&w). [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QA (ND-QA). 1366794. FP New Rockville Stock.

The cod head by WILLIAMS, William Carlos

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Title: The cod head
Author: WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: [n.p.]: Harvest Press, 1932. LIMITED EDITION. Uncorrected proof sheet, pale blue paper, folded once. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed at the Harvest Press for the friends of Milton Abernethy. This copy has neither the place nor the date printed on the title, and the dedication and copy number are different from the first edition of this leaflet (Wallace A, 14). Not in Wallace.

CHILDREN OF THE RITZ by Cornell Woolrich

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Title: CHILDREN OF THE RITZ
Author: Cornell Woolrich
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Boni & Liveright, 1927. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. The Second Printing from October of 1927 (the first was in July of that same year). Some light spotting to the boards, but basically a clean and tight copy. Very Good binding.

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Aperture 137 David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires In The Social Landscape by WOJNAROWICZ, David, Lucy R. Lippard, Nan Goldin, et al.

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Title: Aperture 137 David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires In The Social Landscape
Author: WOJNAROWICZ, David, Lucy R. Lippard, Nan Goldin, et al.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780893815677
Description: New York: Aperture, 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 82 pages. Monograph on artist and photographer David Wojnarowicz. Features texts by Lucy R. Kppard, C. Carr, Elizabeth Hess, Kiki Smith, Carlo McCormick, David Cole, Karen Finley, Vince Aletti, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, and Tom Rauffenbart. Also features an interview of Wojnarowicz by Nan Goldin and an interview of Fran Lebowitz by Melissa Harris. Includes numerous black and white and some color images by Wojnarowicz. A clean near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards and in a very near fine dust jacket.

Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws With a.. by Black, Henry Campbell

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Title: Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws With a..
Author: Black, Henry Campbell
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ISBN: 9781584778851
Description: 2008. ISBN-13: 9781584778851; ISBN-10: 1584778857. Black on Legal Construction and Interpretation Black, Henry Campbell. Handbook on the Construction and Interpretation of the Laws: With a Chapter on the Interpretation of Judicial Decisions and the Doctrine of Precedents. Originally published: St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 1896. xi, 499, [32] pp. Reprinted 2008, 2011 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584778851; ISBN-10: 1584778857. Hardcover. New. $39.95 * Reprint of the first edition. "The following pages contain a condensed statement and exposition of the accepted canons and rules for the construction and interpretation of the written laws, whether constitutional or statutory. In accordance with the general plan of the Hornbook Series, these rules have been formulated somewhat after the manner of a code, expressed in brief black-letter paragraphs numbered consecutively throughout the book, and explained, developed, and illustrated in the text" (Preface, iii). Henry Campbell Black [1860-1927] was also the author of the standard American law dictionary, A Dictionary of Law Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern Including the Principal Terms of International, Constitutional, and Commercial Law, first published in 1891 and now in its 9th edition, and other works.

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United States Combat Aircrew Survival Equipment: World War II to the Present by Breuninger, Michael S.

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Title: United States Combat Aircrew Survival Equipment: World War II to the Present
Author: Breuninger, Michael S.
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ISBN: 9780887407918
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Description: Schiffer, 1995. Fine. Breuninger, Michael S.. United States Combat Aircrew Survival Equipment: World War II to the Present. Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer, 1995. 201pp. Illustrated. 4to. Paperback. Book condition: Near fine with gentle bumping.

King Richard II by Shakespeare, William; Ure, Peter

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Title: King Richard II
Author: Shakespeare, William; Ure, Peter
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Harvard University Press, 1956. Very Good. Shakespeare, William. King Richard II. Ure, Peter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956. 207pp. 12mo. Cloth. Book condition: Very good with light bumping and yellowing. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with rubbed, bumped, and chipped edges. 2 inch loss of top spine end.

The Children of Hurin by Tolkien, J.R.R.; Tolkien, Christopher

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Title: The Children of Hurin
Author: Tolkien, J.R.R.; Tolkien, Christopher
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ISBN: 9780618894642
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 2007. Reprint. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x0x8. Lee, Alan. 2024 27th printing. Corners lightly bruised, otherwise an excellent copy. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2007 Hard Cover. 313 pp. Color plates by Alan Lee. The Children of Hurin, begun in 1918, was one of three 'Great Tales' J.R.R. Tolkien worked on throughout his life, though he never realized his ambition to see it published. Though familiar to many fans from extracts and references within other Tolkien books, it has long been assumed that the story would forever remain an unfinished tale. Now reconstructed by Christopher Tolkien, painstakingly editing together the complete work from his father's many drafts, this book is the culmination of a tireless thirty-year endeavor by him to bring J.R.R.Tolkien's vast body of unpublished work to a wide audience.

Valiant Voyaging. by Saunders, Hilary St. George.

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Title: Valiant Voyaging.
Author: Saunders, Hilary St. George.
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Condition: First edition. "A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-194." Bound in blue c
Description: London: Faber and Faber, 1948. First edition. "A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-194." Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Near fine in good dj.. 20 cm., 216 pp. b/w plates.

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