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The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.)

The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.) by Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Poets of Great Britain (Extra-illustrated in 5 vols.)
Author
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York and London: Chiswick Press and Charles Whittingham and Co, 1900. Later edition. Near Fine. A nearly Fine copy. Five small octavo volumes (6 1/2 x 4 inches; 165 x 102 mm.). [iii]-lxvi, [1]-203, [1, blank]; [vi], [1]-294, [1, printers device], [1, blank]; [iii]-xii, [1]-380; [iii]-x; [1]-345, [1, printers device]; [iii]-xiv, [1]-366, [1, printers device], [1, blank] pp. Title-pages printed in black and red. With a memoir at the beginning of volume one. The last volume contains an index of first lines and a general index. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of twenty-six engraved plates, including eight hand-colored. Handsomely bound almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery ca. 1900, in full red morocco, covers with double gilt border with fancy corner-pieces, enclosing a spray of flowers elaborately stamped in gilt and with green morocco leaf inlays and buff morocco inlaid flowers. Spines with four raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments and with three olive green morocco flower inlays. Highly decorative gilt turn-ins surrounding an oval panel of green morocco decorated in gilt with a large central gilt flower with inlaid red morocco flower head, green moire silk end-leaves, all edges gilt. Minimal rubbing and repairs to the outer joints, otherwise fine. Although unsigned the binding is almost certainly by The Harcourt Bindery. An exquisitely bound collection that celebrates the talents of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), one of the most significant Romantic poets in the English language. Husband to Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and friend of Lord Byron, Shelley moved in a radical literary circle and died a tragic early death. From sonnet to epics, he is celebrated for his moving philosophical verse, such as famous poems Queen Maub, Ozymandias, Mont Blanc, Ode to the West Wind, or Prometheus Unbound. Since 1900, The Harcourt Bindery of Boston has made fine cloth and leather art bindings by hand, and it remains the largest for-profit hand bookbindery in the U.S. When it was founded in 1900, Boston was home to over 47 book binderies and 1,452 craftsmen (Harcourt Bindery). Since its founding the binder has weathered the Depression, WWII, and changing hands three times between 1927 and 1931. Not only does the Harcourt Bindery offer professional services, but it also offers educational courses to keep the arts of hand binding and book making alive. Near Fine.
Hoover Thanks the Red Cross For Giving Medical Assistance

Hoover Thanks the Red Cross For Giving Medical Assistance by Herbert Hoover

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
Hoover Thanks the Red Cross For Giving Medical Assistance
Author
Herbert Hoover
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
3/2/23. After World War I ended in late 1918, Herbert Hoover became head of the American Relief Administration, which organized shipments of food for millions of starving people in Europe. He did such a fine job in that capacity, saving millions of lives, that it made his reputation and led to his political career. In 1921, President Harding named him Secretary of Commerce. From there he would go on to the presidency. As for the American Relief Administration, it wound down its activities in early 1923 and concluded its efforts in June of that year.Thomas Newkirk Phillips was a former White House pharmicist who went on to work for the Red Cross at its national headquarters in Washington. When World War I broke out, he was instrumental in coordinating Red Cross supplies being sent to Europe. After the war, he coordinated Red Cross medical assistence to Herbert Hoover and his American Relief Administration.Typed Letter Signed on Commerce Department letterhead, Washington, February 3, 1923, to Phillips, thanking him as Red Cross representative for helping make the American Relief Administration’s work a success. “Now that the final reports have been sent to the President and to Congress on the disposal of the army surplus medical stocks, which by Congressional Act were turned over to the American Relief Administration, I want to express to you my warm personal appreciation for your very fine services in connection with the selection and handling of these stocks. Without your expert help it would have been a great test for us to build up a machine competent to take care of this intricate and highly technical problem. The way in which you handled the whole thing was more than satisfactory to us, and we are deeply in your debt.” 
Southern genre scene of African-American woman doing laundry

Southern genre scene of African-American woman doing laundry by Wing, E B - WATERCOLOR

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Title
Southern genre scene of African-American woman doing laundry
Author
Wing, E B - WATERCOLOR
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good; colors a bit faded (?); small waterstain at the edge of one vertical margin.
Description
ca1930. Not framed.. Good; colors a bit faded (?); small waterstain at the edge of one vertical margin.. Original watercolor mounted to board meas. appx. 280 x 380 mm. A southern genre scene in watercolor by E B Wing. Signed in the lower right. See C G Woodson, "The Negro Washerwoman, a Vanishing Figure" in Journal of Negro History, 15, #3, 1930.
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朝井閑右衛門画集 [= Kan'emon Asai: Collected Works] by 朝井閑右衛門 [= KANEMON Asai]

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
朝井閑右衛門画集 [= Kan'emon Asai: Collected Works]
Author
朝井閑右衛門 [= KANEMON Asai]
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Hatsubai Nichidō Shuppanbu, 2000. First, Limited Edition. First printing, no. 447 of 700 numbered copies. Quarto (35cm). Cloth hardcover in dustjacket and publisher's card slipcase; 279pp; illus. A very fine copy, free of markings or wear, in like slipcase. Housed in publisher's original cardboard box with printed title label. Catalog raisonné of the painted works of the celebrated Western-style figural painter Kan'emon Asai (1901-1983). Text entirely in Japanese. Rare in the U.S., with only four locations noted in OCLC.
Exhibition postcard: Sigmar Polke, Fotos (April-June 1978, opens 14 April)

Exhibition postcard: Sigmar Polke, Fotos (April-June 1978, opens 14 April) by (POLKE, Sigmar)

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Exhibition postcard: Sigmar Polke, Fotos (April-June 1978, opens 14 April)
Author
(POLKE, Sigmar)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Photographic illus. with text on recto. Pictorial postcard, mailed. Munich: Galerie Gerhild Grolitsch, 1978. Postcard invitation to Polke’s first presentation of photographs from his six-month road trip through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Fine. Mailed to the art magazine Zweitschrift in Hannover.
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The monotype recorder. Vol. 41, no. 3

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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books
Title
The monotype recorder. Vol. 41, no. 3
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
London: Monotype Corporation Limited, 1958. 4to, pp. 21, [1]; photo-reproductive plates and text illustrations throughout; printed paper wrappers, near fine. Commemorating the exhibition held at Monotype House of lettering and type designs by Eric Gill. Laid in is a bifolium of photos from the exhibition, a photo of Eric Gill guiding the hand of W. I. Burch, and a transcript of the address opening the exhibit from Sir John Rothenstein.
The Salt Lake City Post Office [1849-1869]

The Salt Lake City Post Office [1849-1869] by Whall, Les

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Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Title
The Salt Lake City Post Office [1849-1869]
Author
Whall, Les
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Salt Lake City, UT: Crabtree Press, 1982. First printing. Paperback. Very Good. 202pp. Octavo [21 cm] Light orange and black printed wraps. From the Preface- "In summary, Mormon Church leaders and the Great Salt Lake Valley residents were both acquainted with and dependent upon a scheduled and reliable postal service. The Church's intentional isolation in the far western Rocky Mountains brought a momentary security and seclusion, but it also immediately magnified Mormon dependence upon a very long and difficult interchange of communications between their Zion and the rest of the world.