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Shijuhattana [48 Shelves]

Shijuhattana [48 Shelves] by (SHELVES)

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Title
Shijuhattana [48 Shelves]
Author
(SHELVES)
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
48 full-page woodcuts. 25 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers (wrappers rather tired, occasional light staining), new stitching. N.p.: 1658. First edition and very rare; WorldCat does not locate a copy. This is a very early and highly specialized monograph describing the design and construction of 48 different kinds of shelves, each with a specific purpose. They include staggered shelves; shelves to display art objects; shelves with pillars; ornamental shelves; shelves built to hold heavy loads; shelves which can be used as desks; a shelf for a bird cage; shelves to display fans; shelves to suggest cherry blossoms, plum blossoms, and pine, willow and maple trees; folding shelves; shelves with sliding doors; shelves for baskets; shelves tall enough for a two story house; symmetrical pairs of shelves; shelves for religious and ceremonial objects; shelves to store kimono; etc., etc. The colophon leaf states that the designs and techniques of construction had hitherto been passed on by word-of-mouth and practical experience. Throughout this book, a contemporary annotator has furnished measurements for each shelf design, with the occasional comment. Very good copy of an extremely rare book. Minor worming.
The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women

The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women by [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [GREAT BRITAIN] JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]

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The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women
Author
[WOMEN'S HISTORY] [GREAT BRITAIN] JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. First Edition. 12mo (17cm). Flexible red cloth boards, lettered in gilt; [i-viii],[1]-156,24pp. Binding spotted and a bit rubbed at edges, but still a pretty copy, clean, tight and unmarked; with bookplate of Arthur Hoe to front pastedown. A late but important work by the noted Anglo-Irish feminist, art historian, and traveller. The first portion of the lecture is taken up with a discussion of English laws regarding ownership of property after marriage, which Jameson characterizes as "cruel" and "unjust." The remainder of the work seeks to answer the question "whether there be not a possibility of [woman] sharing practically in the responsibilities of social as well as domestic life?" (p.3). Jameson goes on to enumerate a group of occupations suited to women in the fields of welfare and relief, including hospital-work, prison reform, reformatories, penitentiaries, and workhouses. Perhaps most interesting is a lengthy section devoted to the education and training of women, which begins with the proposition: "There is no adequate provision for the practical education of the middle and lower classes of girls in this country...[and] no one in power thinks it worth while to treat this part of educational statics with any particular attention" (p.109). Jameson goes on to suggest a number of rather radical reforms to the British educational system, including co-educational schools, vocational training of young women for "active, and social, and responsible avocations;" and the creation of colleges for working women. Infrequent in trade and, though not strictly rare, surprisingly (for a work by a well-known British author) narrowly held in American institutions - OCLC noting fewer than fifteen copies in North America, of which several would appear to be either circulating copies or mis-catalogued electronic resources.
Axis in Agony! Presenting a Series of Caricatures from the Brush of Boris Artzybasheff

Axis in Agony! Presenting a Series of Caricatures from the Brush of Boris Artzybasheff by [WW2] ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris

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Axis in Agony! Presenting a Series of Caricatures from the Brush of Boris Artzybasheff
Author
[WW2] ARTZYBASHEFF, Boris
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, 1944. First Edition. Oblong octavo (14cm x 19cm); black and white printed wrappers, stapled; [48pp]; chiefly illus. A few tiny stains to rear wrapper, else very Near Fine. A corporate paean to the defeat of the Axis powers, reproducing 23 caricatures by Boris Artzybasheff painted expressly for the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company, a prominent steel manufacturer during the first half of the 20th century. Artzybasheff cleverly incorporated a different Wickwire Spencer product into each of the caricatures, turning the volume into both a catalog for the company, as well as a propaganda tool for distribution. Scarce, with OCLC showing 10 holdings in member institutions.
The Wind and the Whirlwind

The Wind and the Whirlwind by [ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen

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The Wind and the Whirlwind
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[ANARCHISTS & I.W.W.] [BENJAMIN TUCKER] BLUNT, Wilfrid Scawen
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Boston: Benj. R. Tucker, 1884. First thus. Small square quarto (17cm.); original japan vellum over cardstock wrappers; 30pp. Unopened. Slight browning to edges, else a neat, unworn copy. Scarce printing (possibly unauthorized) of Blunt's anti-Imperialist polemic, attacking British policy in the Sudan. Though Tucker generally limited his publishing ventures to projects that explicity furthered his individualist anarchist views, he occasionally found time for projects such as this; finely printed in two colors throughout and attractively bound in japan vellum.
The Victoria Woodhull Reader

The Victoria Woodhull Reader by WOODHULL, Victoria (text); STERN, Madeline B. (editor)

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The Victoria Woodhull Reader
Author
WOODHULL, Victoria (text); STERN, Madeline B. (editor)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [vi],[640]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. A substantial compilation of works by Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), a noted suffragist and social reformer who in 1872, had been the first woman to run for President of the United States. The volume has a lengthy introduction by Madeline B. Stern, partner in the firm of Leona Rostenberg Rare Books in New York City. Contents include works on sexual relations, eugenics, political theory, women's suffrage, women in political office, internationalism, and economics.
[Drop title] The Politics of Touch

[Drop title] The Politics of Touch by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.

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[Drop title] The Politics of Touch
Author
[WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Baltimore, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. printed from typescript. Near Fine condition. "The act of touching, when nonreciprocal, is, I believe, an even more subtle physical threat used to remind persons of their status, and is particularly used by men against women" (p.2). A paper presented at the 1970 meeting of the American Psychological Association "as part of a panel discussion of 'Social Psychology and Women's Liberation.'" The Pittsburgh-based women's liberation association Know, Inc., would reprint this paper the same year. OCLC locates three copies of this edition as of April, 2019, at Central Connecticut, Northwestern, and U. Michigan.
Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)

Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946) by [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William

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Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)
Author
[ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Why, 1946. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a substantial extract from B. Traven's The Death Ship, "Kurt from Memmel." Uncommon anarchist periodical.
The Lively Commerce: Prostitution in the United States

The Lively Commerce: Prostitution in the United States by [WOMEN] [PROSTITUTION] WINICK, Charles and Paul M. Kinsie

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The Lively Commerce: Prostitution in the United States
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[WOMEN] [PROSTITUTION] WINICK, Charles and Paul M. Kinsie
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; x, 320, [6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with a bit of light overall shelfwear. Serious study of prostitution as a social problem, as a profession, as an institution, and as a way of life. Written by a professor of sociology at the City College of New York and a prostitution investigator in the profession for 50 years.
A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club

A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club by ANSON, Adrian C.

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A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club
Author
ANSON, Adrian C.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Chicago: Era Publishing Co, 1900. Cloth over board. Very good +. [SPORTS] [AUTOBIOGRAPHY]. 8vo; 339 + [3], [i], ii-viii + [16]pp advertisements for Chicago area businesses; pictorial green cloth over board, vignette of a ball player and bat with mitt on front, lettered spine; brown flowered endpapers; ownership address sticker to half-title; portrait frontispiece of the author plus 27 b&w glazed plates; scuff to board edges, light shelf-wear, abrasion to ffep with loss of ep pattern & small closed tear to edge; very good plus. Adrian Constantine Anson (1852-1922) was an early superstar major league baseball player, beginning his career in May 1872 with the Rockford Forest Citys [Illinois] and ending in October 1897 with the Chicago Colts. The Chicago Colts were a founding member of the National League and became the Chicago Cubs in 1903. Though a baseball phenom, Anson was also a known racist and one of the players forcing racial segregation of the game. Black and white photographic illustrations of A.C. Anson's Billiard Room and Bowling Alleys founded in his retirement, and many portraits of the teams and their international travels. The text is followed by an Appendix of "Some Newspaper Comments" and interesting advertisements from Chicago merchants including major and local railroad routes, mineral water, the Keeley Brewing Company, banks, etc. A treasure for the die-hard Chicago Cubs baseball fan and those interested in the history of the National League.
The Wonders of Alaska, Illustrated

The Wonders of Alaska, Illustrated by BADLAM, Alexander

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The Wonders of Alaska, Illustrated
Author
BADLAM, Alexander
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
San Francisco: The Bancroft Company, 1890. [TRAVEL] [ILLUSTRATED] [STIGMATIZING LANGUAGE]. 8vo; 152pp; aquatint fp + [25] b&w half-tone photographic illustrations + 8 maps + [6] illustrations of steamships and their blueprints; green pictorial cloth over board, illustration of the Muir Glacier and decorative lettering on front, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; floral eps, heraldic bookplate of Florence Bailey Swift (1854-1915) on front pastedown; scuffed corners and head and tail of spine; very good. An interesting travel book covering Alaska from its earliest history, cities, the inland passage, glaciers, the people, totems and shamans, education, animal life, resources, mirages, the Chinook jargon, and travel from San Francisco to Alaska on different routes.
Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author

Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author by SHELLEY, Henry C.

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Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
Author
SHELLEY, Henry C.
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
Boston: Litte, Brown, and Company, 1908. Cloth. Near fine. H.C. COLBY. H.C. COLBY, illustrator. Colonial Press, Boston. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. 8vo; [xiii], ix-xv, [i] [2], 341pp; gilt stamped pictorial on blue cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; owner's bookplate on front pastedown; tri-chromatic half-tone photographic illustration frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional color plates; b&w vignette on title page; 32 b&w photographic illustrated plates; small line drawings in text; small mark to spine, small damp stain to fore-edge ffep; near fine. A tour around England illustrated with wonderful black and white photographic illustrations reproduced by half-tone show scenes in and around the country. A bookplate reading "Ex Libris Henry Hornblower" designed and signed by Edmund H. Garrett 1911 is affixed to the front pastedown. The plate pictures a pastoral scene with a river, and a decorative border features shells, pinecones, and books. Henry Hornblower (1863-1941) was an investment banker and lifelong resident of Massachusetts. Edmund Garret was an American book-plate designer, illustrator, painter, and author.
Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. XV Containing The Baxter Manuscripts edited by James Phinney Baxter, A.M., Litt. D., Published by the Maine Historical Society, Aided by Appropriations from the State

Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. XV Containing The Baxter Manuscripts edited by James Phinney Baxter, A.M., Litt. D., Published by the Maine Historical Society, Aided by Appropriations from the State by BAXTER, James Phinney

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Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. XV Containing The Baxter Manuscripts edited by James Phinney Baxter, A.M., Litt. D., Published by the Maine Historical Society, Aided by Appropriations from the State
Author
BAXTER, James Phinney
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
Portland [Maine]: Lefavor-Tower Company, 1910. [STATE OF MAINE] [HISTORY]. First edition. Small 4to; xviii, 478pp; dark brown textured cloth over board; gilt stamped lettering on spine-faded; light scuffing to boards, light shelf soiling to top edge; very good plus. From the Preface by James Phinney Baxter, Mackworth Island, August 30, 1910: "The publication of the documents in this volume gives and idea of the important part sustained by the people of Maine in the War of the Revolution, and of the sacrifices made by them in what must have appeared to the world as an almost hopeless struggle. It also places in enduring form the names of men worthy of remembrance. I hope to be able to complete the publication of documents relating to the Revolutionary period within the next two years.".
Windsor

Windsor by [QUINTON, Alfred Robert]

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Windsor
Author
[QUINTON, Alfred Robert]
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Sevenoaks, England: J. Salmon, Ltd, 1900. Wraps. Very good +. [VIEW BOOK] [SOUVENIR] [TRAVEL]. 8vo oblong (8 ¾" x 11"); 9 leaves; 9 tipped-in color illustrations; stiff mottled brown wrapper and leaves; publishers brown twisted tie binding; brown stamped title on front wrapper; a few spots on wrapper; light creasing to bottom corner of leaves, no damage to plates; very good plus. Not located in any OCLC library, unrecorded. Printed and published by J. Salmon, Ltd., Britain's oldest art print publisher of calendars and postcards (1880-2017). This small souvenir-type book contains 9 full-color plates of scenes from Windsor Castle. The prints are signed "ARQ" for Alfred Robert Quinton (1853-1934), a British watercolor artist known for his landscapes.
Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation

Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation by ARNOLD, Nason H.

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Title
Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation
Author
ARNOLD, Nason H.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1931. Cloth. Near fine. Griswold TYNG. 12mo; 272pp; black pictorial of a dog at a shoreline on mustard buckram; gift inscription to ffep dated "Xmas 1933"; b&w frontispiece; dog portrait to title page; b&w illustrations in text; laid in pencil sketch of Rusty; light sunning of spine, age-toning of eps; near fine. Located in only 5 WorldCat libraries. The only printing of this sequel to the author's book, Rusty, the Adventures of a Little Dog, published in 1930.
Fine large three-quarter length lithograph by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886) of the violinist in formal dress, leaning in Napoleonic stance on a decoratively carved sideboard on which rest an apparent musical manuscript in progress entitled "Adagio," an inkpot, and quill pen, with a violin on a carved chair to the subject's left

Fine large three-quarter length lithograph by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886) of the violinist in formal dress, leaning in Napoleonic stance on a decoratively carved sideboard on which rest an apparent musical manuscript in progress entitled "Adagio," an inkpot, and quill pen, with a violin on a carved chair to the subject's left by ARTÔT, Alexandre [Montagny, Joseph] 1815-1845

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Fine large three-quarter length lithograph by Charles Baugniet (1814-1886) of the violinist in formal dress, leaning in Napoleonic stance on a decoratively carved sideboard on which rest an apparent musical manuscript in progress entitled "Adagio," an inkpot, and quill pen, with a violin on a carved chair to the subject's left
Creator
ARTÔT, Alexandre [Montagny, Joseph] 1815-1845
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
430 x 315 mm. + wide margins. Signed by the artist ("C Baugniet") in the stone. On chine-appliqué, with "Dessins d'Après Nature par Baugniet," "Imprimé par Degobert" and "Lithie. de la Société des Beaux-Arts" printed to mount just beneath image. Margins slightly soiled and foxed; edges slightly worn. A highly talented Belgian virtuoso, Artôt was a student of both Rodolphe and Auguste Kreutzer. "In 1843 Artôt [he] on a concert tour of America and Cuba with the soprano Cinti-Damoreau. He was one of the first violin virtuosos to visit America, the others being Vieuxtemps and Ole Bull; they vied with each other for the admiration of the American public, the French elements preferring Artôt's Parisian elegance to the awkward but modest stage presence of Ole Bull. While in America Artôt showed the first symptoms of the lung disease from which he died. His compositions include a Concerto in A minor (1845), fantasies and airs with variations and, in manuscript, string quartets and a Quintet for strings and piano." Alexis Chitty and Manoug Parikian in Grove Music Online.
Summer Amusement or An Adventure at Margate (Music Partly Compiled by Arne, Giordani, Dibdin). [Piano-vocal score]

Summer Amusement or An Adventure at Margate (Music Partly Compiled by Arne, Giordani, Dibdin). [Piano-vocal score] by ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802

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Summer Amusement or An Adventure at Margate (Music Partly Compiled by Arne, Giordani, Dibdin). [Piano-vocal score]
Author
ARNOLD, Samuel 1740-1802
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description
Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills, 1970. Oblong folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. [i] (title), [i] (blank), 41, [v] (blank) pp. Wrappers very slightly worn. Facsimile of an early edition.
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Ludwig Spohr: Ein Vortrag by [SPOHR]. Schletterer, H. M.

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Title
Ludwig Spohr: Ein Vortrag
Author
[SPOHR]. Schletterer, H. M.
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J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Boards, with original upper wrapper bound in. Pp. 127-162; xxxix ("Verzeichnis der Werke Spohr's") pp. Hinges partially split. Some browning. Sammlung Musikalischer Vorträge 29.
Document Signed

Document Signed by (SLAVERY -- WRIT OF REPLEVIN -- ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI). TUTER, Reuben (?-?)

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Document Signed
Author
(SLAVERY -- WRIT OF REPLEVIN -- ST. CHARLES, MISSOURI). TUTER, Reuben (?-?)
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (United States)
Description
Confidant of Missouri pioneer Jonathan Bryan (1759-1846) of the noted St. Charles family whose relatives included their neighbor Daniel Boone. DS, 1p, 7½" X 12", St. Charles County, MO, 1847 February 2. Near fine. Acknowledgment that Tuter, who signs himself as "Administrator of the Estate of Johnathan Bryan," has had a writ of replevin made out and issued to the St. Charles sheriff, Edward C. Cunningham (1809-65), for delivery to an unnamed offender. The writ seeks to recover the following property apparently wrongfully taken from Jonathan Bryan's estate: "one negro man a Slave named Heney one Two horse waggon and one pair of Briches Two Black horses one Lorrel horse with bold face one walnut Cupboard one clock one Bureau one bedstead and bedding one walnut Table one Trunk one Bible...." In other words, everything but the kitchen sink. Signed at the conclusion by Tater (in his definitely untutored hand). Tales of slaves are found in the Bryan family lore, such as: "Mrs. Jonathan Bryan, a kinswoman of Daniel Boone, was working in her yard with a slave woman when a boy slave screamed. She saw an Indian warrior heading for them with a tomahawk in one hand, and a gun in the other. The women ran for the house. Just as they were slamming the door, they caught the warrior's head and right arm between the door and facing. The slave woman grabbed the hatchet from his hand and killed him with a sharp blow. The women had barely recovered from their fright when the boy shouted again...." Could the slave boy in this old family legend by none less than the "Slave named Heney" whose return is demanded in this replevin suit? Quite unusual slavery item with an intriguing history.
1969-1970 - Photographic archive documenting a teenagers' successful two-year Soap Box Derby Career

1969-1970 - Photographic archive documenting a teenagers' successful two-year Soap Box Derby Career by Assembled by David Brenstuhl and family

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1969-1970 - Photographic archive documenting a teenagers' successful two-year Soap Box Derby Career
Author
Assembled by David Brenstuhl and family
Seller
Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition

Very good

Description
Includes many photographs of the national All-American Soap Box Derby finals at Akron, Ohio Lancaster and Akron Ohio, 1969-1970. This archive contains approximately 140 photographs ranging in size from 2.25" x 2.75" to 8" x 10". Most are b/w (about 30) and color (about 110) 3.5" square or 3.5" x 5" snapshots. The others are b/w and include official "photo finish" shots and professional publicity photos. Also included is a letter with a xerographic image of another racer and his car. All are in nice shape; about a half dozen of the snapshots have faded a little, and a similar number are blurred. A few of the images have notations in the margins or on their reverse. A few also have insignificant paper remnants on their reverse, presumably from a scrapbook. These photographs capture David's and his family's involvement in the competition process, various cars, travel, race starts and finishes, cars speeding down derby hills, spectators at local events and packing the grandstands at Derby Downs, celebrity involvement, ceremonies and award dinners, trophy presentations, etc. including: Two color snapshots from a party showing the 1969 national champion, Steve Souter of Texas, and the first national champion from 1934, Robert Turner, An inscribed xerographic image of the 1970 national champion, Sam Gupton, and his racer sent by Gupton following the championship and complimenting Brenstuhl on his car and racing skill, Parade snapshots of celebrities participating in the 1969 national championship: Joanne Worley from Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, John Havlicek of the Boston Celtics, Hugh O'Brien from Wyatt Earp, Jackie Benington (the 1969 America's Junior Miss), Lorne Greene from Bonanza, and hometown basketball star, Gus Johnson from the Baltimore Bullets. (Also one photo shows Greene climbing to a seat in the grandstand.), and An 8" x 10" publicity photograph of the three participants of the 1970 celebrity race held along with the national championship: Lloyd Hughes from Room 222, James Drury from The Virginian, and Apollo 13 Astronaut Dick Gordon, who apparently won the event since he is holding the Oil Can Trophy. Based on some photo dates, Brenstuhl entered Soap Box Derby competitions in 1969 and 1970 when he twice won the city championship for Lancaster which qualified him to compete in the national All-American Soap Box Derby held annually in July at Derby Downs in Akron, Ohio. A terrific visual record of what at the time was a major annual competition that generated considerable national interest. Two years later the Derby lost Chevrolet as its primary sponsor for being "outdated and too expensive." It also lost its innocence the following year, when the national champion was disqualified after the discovery that his engineer uncle had doctored the racer's tires with a solution to reduce rolling resistance and installed a hidden electromagnetic device that pulled the car forward when the starting paddle receded. At the time, the Akron prosecutor compared the cheating to another then current scandal involving Marilyn Chambers, "It's like discovering that your Ivory Snow girl has made a blue movie." At the time of listing, nothing similar is for sale in the trade, and no similar archives have sold at auction per the Rare Book Hub. OCLC shows two institutions have much smaller groupings related to local races and the Akron-Summit Public Library has a 450-item collection including artifacts, films, documents, and official photos, but apparently not much in the way of vernacular photos from a competitor's viewpoint.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. by VERNE, Jules.

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Author
VERNE, Jules.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Franklin Center:: Franklin Library,. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Mendor T. Brunetti. Limited edition ("The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books"). Octavo, fully bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along the spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine.; 472 pages .
Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir)

Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir) by [RAVENSCROFT, Edward James [1816-1890] - James BLACK

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Seller: Donald Heald Rare Books
Title
Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir)
Author
[RAVENSCROFT, Edward James [1816-1890] - James BLACK
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
Edinburgh & London, 1873. Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. A very fine plate from Ravenscroft's 'The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees' Ravenscroft's work is the third (in order of publication) of the three great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century, following Bedford and Lambert. The very fine plates fall into two categories: botanical studies of details of the needles and fruit of the individual trees, and landscape studies of examples of individual trees in their natural habitat. This plate is an outstanding example of the former group, here drawn by James Black and lithographed by Robert Black. Cf. Nissen BBI 1588; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.127; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 8685.
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Il rinascimento parla ebraico. by Busi, Giulia; Silvana Greco, eds.

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Title
Il rinascimento parla ebraico.
Author
Busi, Giulia; Silvana Greco, eds.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
ISBN
9788836642694
Condition
Fine
Description
Milano and Ferrara: Silvana editoriale and il Museo Nazionale di Ebraismo Italiano, 2019. Original edition. Fine. 24 cm; 304 pages, illustrated. Stiff wraps. With contributions from scholars on a variety of topics related to Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. From the introduction: "There is no Italian Renaissance without Judaism, and we cannot imagine Italian Judaism without the Renaissance." Generously illustrated. Text in Italian.

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