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The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; by (SHAKESPEARE - Early Reference) WINSTANLEY (William):

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Title: The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus;
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Description: (SHAKESPEARE - Early Reference) WINSTANLEY (William): The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; in a brief Essay on the Works and Writings ... from the time of K. William the Conquerer to the reign of His Present Majesty King James II. London: H Clark for Samuel Manship, 1687. Copper-engraved frontispiece by F H Van Houe (the whole mounted on front fly-leaf). 8vo, [xxii] 221pp lacking preliminary leaf a4 (supplied in facsmile) + [8]pp early mss. index to the writers included; 19th century half-leather, marbled boards (scuffed) with bindery ticket of J Winstanley, Manchester. Bookplate of Frederick Wormersley on inside front cover. William Winstanley (1628-1698) was an influential poet and journalist of the 17th century. Aside from chronicling this early record of poets (the entry on William Shakespeare runs nearly 4pp), he is also responsible for salvaging the celebration of Christmas following the death of Cromwell (1658) whose Puritan teachings made the holiday illegal, even to the banning of mince pies.

The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress, containing the games of the International Chess Tournament held at New York in 1889 by William Steinitz (1836-1900)

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Title: The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress, containing the games of the International Chess Tournament held at New York in 1889
Author: William Steinitz (1836-1900)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: xxxviii+490 pages with table and diagrams. Royal octavo (9 3/4" x 7") bound in original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and black chess pictorial to both covers. Limited to 500 copies. This is copy 88 issued to F M Teed of Brooklyn New York. (Betts: 25-26). First edition. Contains the report of the Congress Committee and all 432 games with notes by Steinitz. This was a 20-man Double Round Robin Tournament. One of the longest tournaments in history. In the first half of the tournament, draws were counted as a half point. In the second half, they were replayed once. Between the 38 regular rounds, 8 replay rounds, and 4 game playoff for first at the end, there were 50 rounds all told (!). Like the 4th Congress, this tournament consisted largely of foreign masters. The retirement of Captain Mackenzie seems to date from this time (though some sources credit him as US Champion until his death in 1891), giving the top American finisher some claim on being de facto US Champion. The top American finisher was Solomon Lipschutz, who finished in 6th Place with a score of +22-9=7 Chess was on the rise in the United States during the 1880s, and the imagination of the world was captured in the form of a new individual: the World Chess Champion. Wilhelm Steinitz had claimed the title for himself after defeating Johannes Zukertort in a match in 1886, and in the following years in his new adopted home of the USA Steinitz would be a positive promotional force. W. W. Ellsworth and Constantine Schubert, with the urging and support of Steinitz, prepared a proposal for the Sixth American Chess Congress. The main event would be a double round robin tournament of twenty players. A world championship match would then follow on the results. When the required sum of $5000 became available in 1888, the tournament was scheduled for the following year. It was during this period that Steinitz and Mikhail Chigorin played their first world championship match in Havana from January 20th until February 24th 1889. Steinitz won 10½-6½. New York 1889 started a month later. Steinitz withdrew as a participant, much to the horror of the organizing committee, but he remained available for administrative tasks and as journalist to report on the games each day. He would also later author the tournament book. Participants included ten Europeans: Henry Bird, Joseph Blackburne, Amos Burn, Mikhail Chigorin, George Gossip, Isidor Gunsberg, James Mason, William Pollock, Jean Taubenhaus, and Max Weiss; and ten players from the Americas: D. G. Baird, J. W. Baird, Constant Burille, Eugene Delmar, James Hanham, Max Judd, Samuel Lipschütz, Nicholas MacLeod, Dionisio Martinez, and Jackson Showalter. The schedule called for six games played per week at 8 Union Square. Play began at 1pm and continued until 5pm with a break for dinner and then resumed as necessary at 7pm with games adjourned at 11pm. Adjourned games were completed on rest days. A time limit of 15 moves per hour was regulated by stop-clocks. Draws counted as half a point in the first cycle of nineteen rounds, but had to be replayed once during the second cycle, with the second result standing. The tournament lasted from March 25th until May 27th 1889. The 6th Chess Congress consisted of 38 normal rounds, 8 replay rounds, and 4 playoff rounds, for a grand total of 50 rounds. A $50 cash prize donated by Frank Rudd and Fred Wehle was awarded to Gunsberg for the best game of the tournament for his win against Mason in the first cycle of rounds. A second $50 cash prize donated by Isaac Rice was awarded to Pollock for his brilliant win over Weiss in their game from the second cycle of rounds. The star of the event was Max Weiss. He won sixteen and drew seven games before the first replay round during the second cycle. That day started with a win in 68 moves. Thereafter the game against DG Baird was replayed. Weiss achieved a won endgame but lost in 113 moves eventually. His accuracy was gone and he lost against Blackburne in 57 moves the next day. At the end Weiss shared the first prize with Chigorin after the world vice-champion bounded up in the standings. A four game play-off was intended to determine a clear winner to face Steinitz for the world crown, but the two men, no doubt exhausted from the colossal tournament, drew all their games. Lipschütz, as the highest placing American, lobbied to be considered the American champion that year, but was unable to generate unanimous support. Jackson Showalter, "The Kentucky Lion", was also making a name for himself in the Midwest at this time, winning at Cincinnati 1888, and at Saint Louis, in February 1890 (The 3rd Congress of the US Chess Association). The rivalry between the two culminated in a short match in 1890, won by Showalter, who claimed the National Title. New York 1889 can be regarded as the first candidates' tournament. The winner had the obligation to start a match against Steinitz within a month. Neither Weiss nor Chigorn wished to be compelled to play a championship match against Steinitz. As a result, the Committee decided to cancel the event. Weiss returned to Austria. He went on to win the Kolisch Memorial in Vienna in 1890, doing so without a loss. Thereafter he concentrated on his work for the Rothschild Bank. His solid chess can be seen to precede the style of Georg Marco, Carl Schlechter and Geza Maróczy. The third prize winner Gunsberg was interested in a match against Steinitz in New York. First Gunsberg drew a match against Chigorin in Havana at the beginning of 1890 (11½-11½). Upon the strength of that result his challenge was accepted by Steinitz. They played a match at the Manhattan Club later that year. Steinitz won with 10½-8½. Steinitz extensively wrote about New York 1889 in the International Chess Magazine and The Book of the Sixth American Chess Congress, New York 1891. His publications showed profound positional insights. A match between Steinitz and Weiss would have brought together the best positional players of 1889. Frank Melville Teed served as secretary of the Brooklyn Chess Club and treasurer of the Manhattan Chess Club. But he was most interested in and proud of chess compositions and considered himself more a composer than a player. He was editor the problem department of Orestes Augustus Brownson's "Dubuque Chess Journal" and an associate editor for the "American Chess Magazine." He collected over 30,000 chess problems which he collated in a system of his own device. He himself authored over 800 problems, most of which were published. Condition:Corners bumped, soiled, spine ends and corners rubbed exterior hinge cracked 1" at back head spine, Teed's gift inscription on title and individual who received the book name erased, some occasional internal soiling, spine sunned else a good copy of a scarce item.

Letters to a Friend at Howard University Discussing Black Theater and Greek Life in 1920s Los Angeles by [African-Americana – Los Angeles – Theater] Kennedy, Alice; Harrison, Angie Bell; Sessions, Dwight B.

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Title: Letters to a Friend at Howard University Discussing Black Theater and Greek Life in 1920s Los Angeles
Author: [African-Americana – Los Angeles – Theater] Kennedy, Alice; Harrison, Angie Bell; Sessions, Dwight B.
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Condition: One letter quite torn though not affecting legibility; one letter appears incomplete; remainder very good to excellent; overall
Description: Los Angeles, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1933. Three letters totaling seven pages and one postcard. Two letters from 1927 and one from 1928; postcard appears to be stamped 1933. One letter quite torn though not affecting legibility; one letter appears incomplete; remainder very good to excellent; overall very good.. Letters from friends in Los Angeles to James M. Jones, who has moved away to attend Howard University. The friends discuss African-American fraternities, including Alpha Kappa Alpha, founded at Howard in 1908, and Kappa Alpha Psi, founded at Indiana University Bloomington in 1911. The friends are very interested in theater; Alice Kennedy describes a production of Chester De Vonde and Kilbourn Gordon’s Kongo with an integrated cast: “At this writing I’m all of a whirl over the most marvelous performance of ‘Kongo’ at the Orange Grove theater. Impossible to tell you in writing for no words of mine can adequately express what the optics saw – and how! Remember ‘White Cargo’ not quite so risque as that and not near so unpleasant for us but, me lad, it was really a salty. There are a number of real Negro men in it – big, fine, muscular fellows. There is one, Fuzzie, who particularly impressed me; could be a perfect model for any sculptor – [...] Of course they would be the natives of Kongo. They had deep, rich round voices that one couldn’t help enjoying. My dear boy, it was simply grand.” (January 7, 1928) Kennedy is excited about the recognition that African-Americans in the arts were getting. She writes: “Mr. DePreiss, the famous Negro tenor is in L.A. He was heralded by the California Eagle as ‘New York capitalist and singer.’ Imagine it. In the near future the élite will give a public reception in his honor at the Masonic Temple – admission 75¢ – can you bear it? My people!!!” (January 7, 1928) Kennedy means blues musician Reese DuPree, an early OKeh Records artist. The Eagle—a Black newspaper—reported that he was spending the winter in LA and was convinced to do a twice-weekly concert on KNX radio, for which he would be paid “the highest [rate] ever paid to any other artist” for the job.[1] Jones’ other friend, Angie Bell Harrison, writes in 1927, commenting on Howard University’s new medical building and describing the opening of the Lincoln Theater. The Lincoln was an African-American movie theater which still stands on South Central Ave and 23rd Street: “Yes the Lincoln is finished and it is as fine as any theater in Los Angeles. The opening nite the streetcars on the avenue were stopped and trafic was terrible. There is the hottest 12 piece band there in the world. There is a show from Chicago. Pretty ursheretts and everything that makes a big show. Saturday nite they have [a] midnight show beginning at 11:30 and ending at 2:30. Your friend Tom Griffin is the doorman also manager of publicity. He is all dolled up in a rather nifty uniform. So are the ursheretts. [...] I forgot to tell you that everybody working in the Lincoln is colored and that half the people that come are white.” (November 1, 1927) The Lincoln’s opening night included appearances from Allen “Farina” Hoskins of Our Gang and Willis Tyler, a lawyer and civil rights activist. Also included in the collection is a later postcard from Dwight B. Sessions, “a white man” in Albuquerque who asks Jones what “the negros think” of the “American African Movement”. Though it is unclear who James Jones is (the University of Delaware social psychologist of the same name is too young), this does suggest that, following his time at Howard, he had a role in Black activism. [1] “Mr. Reese DuPree to Broadcast Two Programs Weekly,” California Eagle, December 30, 1927, 1.

Capital Almanac. 1893 by [Almanacs – Washington, D.C.]

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Title: Capital Almanac. 1893
Author: [Almanacs – Washington, D.C.]
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Description: Washington, 1893. 4to, lithographed wraps, 40 pp. Wraps detached, contents excellent, good overall. Good.. A scarce almanac for Washington, D.C., with the first portion containing elaborately illustrated calendars for each month, with accompanying information on natural phenomena for the months including sunrise, sunsets, etc. The second part of the book contains a lengthy description of the federal government, with the final few pages describing the merits of the Louisiana State Lottery. Though the OCLC entry for the book —which finds no physical holdings—lists the publisher as “Almanac Publishing Co.,” it is quite possible that the title was published by the Louisiana State Lottery as an advertising tool. The cover shows what appears to be Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show, which famously performed at the Chicago World’s Fair that year, but to our knowledge never performed in Washington, D.C.

Desperation - SIGNED by King, Stephen

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Title: Desperation - SIGNED
Author: King, Stephen
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ISBN: 9780670868360
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Viking, 1996. A First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket, Signed by the author on the title page. Light wear to top of jacket spine.

THE FRED ASTAIRE & GINGER ROGERS BOOK Signed twice by ASTAIRE by ASTAIRE, FRED

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Title: THE FRED ASTAIRE & GINGER ROGERS BOOK Signed twice by ASTAIRE
Author: ASTAIRE, FRED
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Description: The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book by Arlene Croce, New York City, Galahad Books, 1972. Dancer and choreographer Fred Astaire signed the book twice, on the publication page and again next to the Table of Contents. Bound in yellow boards, with yellow dust jacket showing Astaire and Rogers formally dressed in dance pose, the book is filled with black and white movie stills, close up photos and some off camera images. The dust jacket is protected with a plastic cover, however, there is a some visible paper removal to the top of the blue circle and soiling above; additional soiling to the yellow cover. A note on the images showing the two signatures: The book's pages are in fine condition, fully black and white with no shading at the sides.

Henry Miller, Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez, and Kay Boyle

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Title: Henry Miller, Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez, and Kay Boyle
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Description: Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1977. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY of Erica Jong, Thomas Sanchez, Kay Boyle, and Henry Miller's "Four Visions of America." Published in Santa Barbara, CA by Capra Press in 1977. Signed by all four authors on page preceding back free end page, which also reads: "For Peter Trump." Book fine, except for some fading along edges of covers. DJ fine, except for slight wear at ends of hinges and top end of spine and a small tear and some creasing at edges of back cover. Also, a faint line of wear running down front cover and back cover. DJ price reads "$8.95" on front flap. We will provide a certificate of authenticity for this item.

Miky Miky" -- Dark Blue Fabric Dye Using Early Version of Mickey Mouse in Marketing

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Title: Miky Miky" -- Dark Blue Fabric Dye Using Early Version of Mickey Mouse in Marketing
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Condition: Very good. Toned.
Description: [Spain], 1930. Very good. Toned.. A Spanish-language printed packet using an early version of Mickey Mouse to market its contents, a concentrated dark blue fabric dye powder. Includes directions on the front to use the powder to dye wool, silk, cotton, and other fabrics, and tips on the back for best results. Presumably, this was not a product sold by Walt Disney, and it is an early example of businesses copying the popular character to sell products-- before the Disney legal and copyright enforcing machine came into full force. Packet measures approx. 4.75" by 3", printed in blue.

Haibun [March 3, 2005]. by ABBOTT, Keith.

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Title: Haibun [March 3, 2005].
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Description: [Berkeley]: Tangram, (nd).. First edition.. 10 x 7 inch broadside. Fine. One of 70 (of 140) copies printed on Zerkall mould-made paper.

What You Know With No Name For It. by ABBOTT, Keith.

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Title: What You Know With No Name For It.
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Description: San Francisco: Cranium Press,, 1976.. First edition.. [20 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 copies. Great Michael Myers linocut illustration on cover and title page.

Late Antiquity: a guide to the Postclassical World. by Bowersock, G.W.; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar, eds.

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Title: Late Antiquity: a guide to the Postclassical World.
Author: Bowersock, G.W.; Peter Brown; Oleg Grabar, eds.
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ISBN: 9780674511736
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Description: Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. About fine.. 27 cm; 780 pages. In red cloth in original dust jacket, protected in mylar. With contriburtions by leading scholars on a wide variety of subjects relating to the post-classical period in Europe.

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