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Norwood by PORTIS Charles

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Norwood
Author: PORTIS Charles
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1966. First Edition. Signed. PORTIS, Charles. Norwood. New York: Simon and Schuster, (1966). Octavo, original blue cloth, original dust jacket. $6800.First edition of the first novel from the author of True Grit, in the elusive original dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper by Portis: ""For J C of Spokane, with best regards, Charles Portis Aug. 15 1994 Little Rock.""The publicity-shy Portis, who died in in early 2020, ""drew a cult following and accolades as the work of possibly the nation's best unknown writer"" (New York Times). ""For longtime readers, new fans, and especially writers who try to write funny stuff and know how hard it is, Portis' work is peerless."" Norwood, his first novel, ""depicts the road trip of Norwood Pratt, a Marine and would-be country singer from Ralph, Texas, who travels to New York City and back to try and collect a debt from an old service buddy, Joe William Reese. Along the way Norwood meets a travel writer who never goes anywhere, 'the world's smallest perfect man,' and Joann the Wonder Hen. When it was published on July 29, 1966 the first printing sold out by the end of August and the New York Times called it 'delightfully original'"" (Oxford American). First edition, with ""First Printing"" on copyright page. Serialized in part in the Saturday Evening Post the same year. Small authentication sticker on front free endpaper verso.Book in fine condition, dust jacket very nearly so. An attractive inscribed copy.

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Woodson, Carter Godwin

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Title: The Mis-Education of the Negro
Author: Woodson, Carter Godwin
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Washington, D.C.: The Associated Publishers, Inc, 1938. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. xiv, [2], 207 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with slight sunning to spine, light wear to extremities, and faint foxing to upper textblock edge. Contemporary ownership signature and address to each pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with sunning to spine and extremities, scattered foxing, and light edgewear. Three tape repairs to verso, shallow chip to tail. A classic examination of racism in American education. This copy was owned by Henrietta Roberts, a teacher whose great-grandfather was born into slavery and held office during Reconstruction; her father built one of the the earliest Black-owned grocery stores in San Antonio.

Holograph manuscript fair copy of the poem "Crow's Playmates", fourteen lines, signed and dated by the poet at the bottom, Ted Hughes - December 1975", on single page of thick deckle-edged paper; together with a carbon typescript of the poem "Crow's Battle Fury" , one page, with four corrections in Hughes's hand, signed by the poet at the bottom of the page by HUGHES, Ted

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Title: Holograph manuscript fair copy of the poem "Crow's Playmates", fourteen lines, signed and dated by the poet at the bottom, Ted Hughes - December 1975", on single page of thick deckle-edged paper; together with a carbon typescript of the poem "Crow's Battle Fury" , one page, with four corrections in Hughes's hand, signed by the poet at the bottom of the page
Author: HUGHES, Ted
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Both manuscripts are in fine condition.
Description: Both manuscripts are in fine condition.. Both of these poems appeared in Crow (1970); Hughes's fair copy of "Crow's Playmates" matches the published text; however, in the typescript of "Crow's Battle Fury", there is one five-line stanza in parentheses which does not appear in the published text; and is this stanza which bears Hughes's holograph corrections. Both manuscripts are in fine condition.

Sapoli-o-lic" Promotional Booklet features Selections from H.M.S. Pinafore

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Title: Sapoli-o-lic" Promotional Booklet features Selections from H.M.S. Pinafore
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Description: New York: Enoch Morgan Sons Co. (E.M.S), 1879. An 18 pp booklet using altered selections from HMS Pinafore to promote Sapolio polishing and cleansing soap. Illustrations from the comic opera and altered verses to include Sapolio thoruhgout interspersed with testimonials for the product. Also inlcudes words and music for The Merry Maiden and the Tar and I'm Called Little Buttercup. Measures 5" x 3 3/8

E.I. DU PONT AND THE MERINO MANIA IN DELAWARE 1805-1815 by Pursell Jr., Carroll W.

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Title: E.I. DU PONT AND THE MERINO MANIA IN DELAWARE 1805-1815
Author: Pursell Jr., Carroll W.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: 1962. stapled self paper wrappers. 8vo. stapled self paper wrappers. pp.91-100. Reprinted from Agricultural History, Vol. 36, No.2 (April 1962). B2-27. Discussion of the sale of the wool from Merino sheep and the business started by du Pont, Dupont, Bauduy & Co. Reproduces a factory label used by the company. .

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