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Long Walk to Freedom by MANDELA Nelson

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Title: Long Walk to Freedom
Author: MANDELA Nelson
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1994. First Edition. MANDELA, Nelson. Long Walk to Freedom. (Randburg, South Africa): Macdonald Purnell, (1994). Thick octavo, original black paper boards, cartographic endpapers, original dust jacket. $6500.The preferred first South African edition of the stirring autobiography of the esteemed Nobel Peace Prize winner and South Africa's first black president, signed on the half title: ""N Mandela, 27-2-96.""""The Nelson Mandela who emerges from his memoir is considerably more human than the icon of legend Mandela is, on the evidence of his amazing life, neither a messiah nor a moralist nor really a revolutionary but a pragmatist to the core, a shrewd balancer of honor and interests. He is, to use a word unhappily fallen into disrepute, a politician, though one distinguished from lesser practitioners of his calling mainly by his unwavering faith in his ultimate objective, ending white minority rule"" (New York Times). Stated ""First Published in South Africa in 1994 by Macdonald Purnell (PTY) Ltd."" on the copyright page. Editions were issued in the same year in England and the United States by Little, Brown and Company. This Illustrated with 24 pages of black-and-white photographs. Gift inscription (in Afrikaans).Fine condition.

Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy) by [Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L.

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Title: Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, Esq. [Bound with] Views in London. By an Amateur...Dedicated to Sophia, Countess Darlington [Bound with] Miscellaneous Poems. Dedicated to Lord Colchester (Presentation Copy)
Author: [Law, Hon. Elizabeth Susan] [Lady Colchester] E. S. L.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Not Published, 1849. First editions. Three volumes bound in one and including a presentation inscription to the verso of front endpaper: "The Marchioness of Salisbury, with Lady Colchester's Love." Additional signature to title of second volume. Full straight grain morocco presentation binding by White of Pall Mall, with gilt title to spine. Boards and turn-downs stamped in gilt. All edges brightly gilt. Yellow endpapers. Measuring 187 x 111mm, bound in reverse chronological order and collating complete with half titles: [8], 61, [1]; viii, 66; [2], vi, 104. Spine sunned and a large patch of discoloration to the rear board; joints cracked but holding firm. Occasional marginal foxing, but overall fresh with the author's occasional handwritten corrections. Each printed privately, Law's poetry titles are each scarce, with OCLC reporting 15, 10, and 8 copies respectively. Drawn together here with feminist political associations, Lady Colchester bestows the works on Mary, the second Marchioness of Salisbury (nee Sackville-West) who was an active Tory in addition to overseeing a salon that included Charles Darwin and Benjamin Disraeli among its visitors. The author of several privately printed poetry collections, in addition to published translations, Elizabeth Susan Law Abbot, Lady Colchester was noted in her own time for deploying "anecdotal, self-deprecating, and ironic" tones that complicated her otherwise polite literary output (Comic Women's Poetry of the 19th Century). The three books combined here demonstrate that tendency. Folded within seemingly common upper-class topics are reflections on intelligent women's loneliness in a marriage economy that devalued their selfhood (in the opening poem Le Beau Ideel of her volume dedicated to Lord Colchester); on the ways a woman's appearance might cause society to overlook her "rarest gifts...a head with heart combin'd" (in the dedication of her volume to the late Sophia, Countess Darlington); and on exercises of musical lyricism and translation in the volume dedicated to Joseph Jekyll, the political raconteur best known for ensuring that his friend Ignatius Sancho's biography reached publication and spread the story of his birth during the Middle Passage and his life as a free Black intellectual. Even Lady Colchester's recipient speaks to her political interests. Mary, the Marchioness of Salisbury, was the second wife of the Marquess; and she was noted for her public engagement with political and intellectual figures including Benjamin Disraeli and Charles Darwin. Knowing of the Marchioness' own intellect and ambition, her choice to present these three books speaks to the deeper meanings hidden within her own writing. Jackson 193.3 and 193.6.

A Pageant of Great Women by Hamilton, Cicely

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Title: A Pageant of Great Women
Author: Hamilton, Cicely
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Suffrage Shop, 1910. First edition. Very Good. Small quarto. 69 pp. (printed on one side only). With fifteen photo plates (including frontispiece) by Lena Connell (1875 - 1949) of suffragists and actresses in costume as the great women of history. The photographs, which capture stars like the leading acress Ellen Terry (as Nance Oldfield) and the theater producer Edith Craig (as Rosa Bonheur), were sold to raise funds for the suffrage cause and were later exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society. Publisher's gray paper over boards, holding firm despite some separation to paper at front hinge. Some toning to edges of boards. Toning to endpapers and a bit of foxing to edges of leaves. Front free endpaper with the presentation inscription of Marie Sugden, secretary of the Manchester branch of the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), to a Mr. Palmer, "In grateful appreciation of your help in the Woman's Cause - October 1910," and a mounted ALS from Sugden to Palmer that accompanied her gift of the book. A Very Good copy of one of the most famous suffragist promotional plays. Cicely Hamilton (1872 - 1952), a suffragist, birth control advocate, and abortion law reformer, was invited by the actress Edith Craig to write A Pageant of Great Women in 1910. The play features a cast of fifty-two women (including Jane Austen, Marie Curie, Sappho, the Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Indian revolutionary Rani Lakshmibai) to highlight women's independence and leadership. At the time, suffrage plays were an effective and popular method of spreading the word of the women's movement, and A Pageant of Great Women became one of the most popular entries in the genre, alongside Hamilton's How the Vote Was Won and Elizabeth Robins' Votes for Women. These plays spread through the United Kingdom as the numerous local suffrage groups, many of them united within the NUWSS, staged performances. Hamilton was involved with the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union and co-founded her own suffragist organization, the Women Writers' Suffrage League, with Bessie Hatton in 1908. The group, which grew to around four hundred members, included Elizabeth Robins, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Beatrice Harraden, Alice Meynell, and Olive Schreiner. Hamilton was also the author of Marriage as a Trade (1909), an "uncompromising outburst of indignation against...the tyranny of marriage which women were often compelled to enter because it was the only trade for which they had received any training" (ODNB). Marie Sugden was a suffragist and actress involved with the NUWSS. In 1909, she served as the secretary of the Manchester branch of the NUWSS, and became the secretary of the Letchworth branch in 1913. The Manchester branch presumably performed A Pageant in October of 1910, and Sugden presented this copy of the book to Mr. Palmer as a thanks for his help in the effort. Sugden writes, "Will you accept this little book with many thanks from a very grateful suffrage secretary? It is hardly a 'classic' but I think it may be, in years to come, a rather interesting memento of the women's struggle for the vote and of your share in the fight on one particular occasion.". Very Good.

The End of the Affair by Greene, Graham

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Title: The End of the Affair
Author: Greene, Graham
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1951. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good +. Dust jacket panels a little foxed, with a little chip to head of spine. The cloth spine somewhat dulled. A Near Fine copy of the book in a Very Good + dust jacket. An important and deeply personal work from "the most accomplished living novelist in the English language" (John Irving),.The End of the Affair follows a tryst between a writer and married woman that was, in fact, based on a liaison Greene himself was carrying on at the time. Evelyn Waugh praised the book as "singularly moving and beautiful..." The End of the Affair has been adapted into numerous films, including a 1999 one directed by Neil Jordan, which garnered an Oscar nomination for Julianne Moore. "Mr. Greene's verbal skill is as impressive as ever" (contemporary New York Times review). Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket.

Atlante di Biologia by [anatomical drawings; anatomy]

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Title: Atlante di Biologia
Author: [anatomical drawings; anatomy]
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Italy, c. 1830. Hardcover. Very Good+. Modern half morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped lettering and ornament on spine; 430 x 560 mm; contains 26 anatomical drawings in red and grey chalk, most of them full-page, but also including double-page spreads tipped onto stubs. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; some faint dampstaining; a few leaves with repaired tears. Images of skeletal and muscular representations of arms, legs, feet, torsos, and heads.

Vida, Martyrio, y Beatificación del Invicto Proto-Martyr de el Japón San Felipe de Jesús, Patrón de México, Su Patria ... by Medina, Fray Balthasar de

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Title: Vida, Martyrio, y Beatificación del Invicto Proto-Martyr de el Japón San Felipe de Jesús, Patrón de México, Su Patria ...
Author: Medina, Fray Balthasar de
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Madrid: Imprenta de los Herederos de la Viuda de Juan Garcia Infanzon, 1751. Hardcover. Good. Segunda Edición, 4to, (28) 176pp. Errata printed on page (17). Woodcut on p. 70 of the kind of cross on which San Felipe was crucified in Japan. Woodcut chapter heads and tails. 19th cent (?) speckled calf spine, tooled in blind and gilt, leather lettering label, gilt, marbled boards and endpapers. The title page is soiled and has been remargined with slight loss to the corners of the printed boarder; some page corners have been repaired; the final page (index) has been mounted on tissue for strength; a small stamp on the upper right corner of the title, else this is a good copy. Some copies of this have a portrait of San Felipe preceding page 70; this copy is bound without it. Franciscan Friar Philip of Jesus (San Felipe de Jesús), 1542-1597, a native of Mexico City, was traveling from Manila to Mexico to be ordained when his ship was driven by a storm onto the coast of Japan. There he and his companions were jailed and ultimately executed. He was canonized in 1862. Palau notes the first edition was printed in 1683. Fairly scarce. In Spanish. .

Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Matthews, John

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Title: Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Author: Matthews, John
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780063243125
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: HarperDesign, 2022. First US edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Small 4to. 406pp. Pictorial boards, deep blue endpapers. Foreward by Neil Gaiman. Illustrated by John Howe. A fine, as new copy. A collection of Arthurian stories either unknown to Malory or written in other languages. Some are the earliest tales of Arthur from Celtic tradition. .

A Child-World by RILEY, James Whitcomb

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Title: A Child-World
Author: RILEY, James Whitcomb
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. First American Edition. [POETRY]. First American edition, later printing. 12mo (7 ¼" x 5"); 209pp + [11]pp publisher's ads; bright red cloth over board, gilt-stamped title and author on front with a gilt-ruled border, gilt vining and lettering on spine; top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; fp and one additional plate; spine lightly sunned; fine. First printed in England in 1896. This first American edition has the printer's error: Proem on page 11, but contents immediately follow, and sections are numbered. Page 121 final line battered: I can not... (BAL 16622). James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was a popular poet from Indiana. He is often called the "Children's Poet" or "Hoosier Poet" as his home state was Indiana. His poems about children and places are often sentimental.

Costume Design and Illustration by TRAPHAGEN, Ethel

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Title: Costume Design and Illustration
Author: TRAPHAGEN, Ethel
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1918. 1st Edition. Cloth. Very good. [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]. First edition. 4to; 199pp; brown stamped cloth over board with the title and author on front cover and spine; inscription to a student and signature on free front endpaper; signed on title page; illustrated throughout text and with full page black and white illustrations; tipped in Spectrum Color Chart and Value Scale; newspaper clipping laid in and verso last page several newspaper clippings pasted in with offsetting to rear free endpaper, notes in pencil on rear free endpaper and pastedown; a few spots, scuffing of cover corners and edges, light age toning of page edges; very good. Fashion icon and self-taught designer, Ethel Traphagen (1882-1963), and fashion world leader of the early 20th century. She developed a system of education for designers entering the fashion world. Incudes a history of fashion by era, a reading and reference list of fashion and a listing of artists whose work impacted fashion.

Simplicius. [Piano-vocal score] by STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899

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Title: Simplicius. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: STRAUSS, Johann, Jr. 1825-1899
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Hamburg: Aug. Cranz [PN C. 27869], 1889. Large octavo. Modern half dark red cloth with patterned boards, original publisher's upper printed wrapper laid down to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso contents), 3-162 pp. With performance markings in blue and lead pencil; occasional additional text in lead pencil. Upper wrapper trimmed. Minor wear to lower outer corners; inner margin of title reinforced with white paper. First Edition. Weinmann p. 135. Simplicius, to text by Léon after J.J.C. von Grimmelshausen's Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus, was first performed in Vienna at the Teater an der Wien on 17 Dec 1887.

Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus by Uebinger, Joh

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Title: Die Gotteslehre des Nikolaus Cusanus
Author: Uebinger, Joh
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Munster und Paderborn: Druck und Verlag von Ferdinand Schoningh, 1888 First edition. Rebound in cloth, original front wrapper bound in. Octavo. Very good.

Myths and Attitudes: An Inside Look at the Coloured People [Inscribed] by [APARTHEID] VAN DER ROSS, R. E.

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Title: Myths and Attitudes: An Inside Look at the Coloured People [Inscribed]
Author: [APARTHEID] VAN DER ROSS, R. E.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Cape Town]: Tafelberg, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (22cm). Black paper-covered boards in orange dust jacket; cartographic endpapers; [viii],116pp; ad to rear jacket panel. Inscribed by the author on title page, 1981, to J. Wayne Fredericks, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961-67. Lightly rubbed at extremities, else Fine. Jacket rubbed at edges, small perforation and tear to center of rear panel, else Very Good. During apartheid, "coloured" was a legally defined racial classification, codified in 1950. It was the category used for everyone who was not designated white or Black, including people who were mixed-race, and people descended from East Asians brought to South Africa as slaves and indentured workers. Richard E. van der Ross, who was categorized as Coloured under apartheid, was a political organizer in the 1960s, the first president of the Labour Party of South Africa, and eventually the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape. [62767].

Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed] by APPELBAUM, Stephen A.; George Leonard, foreword

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Title: Out in Inner Space: A Psychoanalyst Explores The New Therapies [Inscribed & Signed]
Author: APPELBAUM, Stephen A.; George Leonard, foreword
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's cloth-backed boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxii,529pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, spine a shade faded, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Inscribed and signed in the year of publication: "To Denise, Here's to joyful inner spaces. Stephen A. Appelbaum.

Coronet. March, 1942. Contains an unsigned essay "The Nine Young Men. by Supreme Court, United States

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Title: Coronet. March, 1942. Contains an unsigned essay "The Nine Young Men.
Author: Supreme Court, United States
Seller: The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description: 1942. Nine Young Men" [Supreme Court, United States]. "The Nine Young Men," Coronet. Volume 11, Number 5 (March, 1942). 180 pp. Softbound, light shelfwear, internally clean. $65. * This issue has an interesting unsigned essay with photos about the U.S. Supreme Court. At this time the justices were Harlan Fiske Stone, Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, William O. Douglas, James F. Byrnes, Owen Roberts, Stanley Reed and Hugo Black.

SOMERSET WHIG

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Title: SOMERSET WHIG
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Description: 1838. THE SOMERSET WHIG. Somerville: S.L.B. Baldwin, Jul. 3, 1838. Vol. IV no. 204. Worn.

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Everything We Had: An oral history of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers who fought it by SANTOLI, Al

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Title: Everything We Had: An oral history of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers who fought it
Author: SANTOLI, Al
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394512693
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Random House, 1981. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Later. Very good in an about Very good dust jacket; Book shows rubbing/bumping, dust jacket shows Tear on top of front panel-spine hinge.

A True American: The Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War Veteran by Cale, Sterling

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Title: A True American: The Story of a Pearl Harbor Survivor, World War II, Korean and Vietnam War Veteran
Author: Cale, Sterling
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781936626601
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Waipahu, Hawaii: Pacific Historic Parks, 2014. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x0. Signed by author. Inscribed and signed by author on title page ('To Mark, S Cale PMS. USN, 2/13/15'). Minimal wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2014 Trade Paperback. 56 pp. Color and black-and-white photographs. From a farm in Illinois to Hawaii, Guadalcanal, Korea and Vietnam, Pearl Harbor survivor Sterling Cale's military career has taken him around the world and back again. With a front row view of the attack, Cale bravely rescued men from the burning water of Pearl Harbor and collected bodies from the wreckage of the USS Arizona. His story is one of service, sacrifice and what it means to be a true American.

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