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[Three Documents Concerning the Sale of Native American Lands in Oklahoma by the Federal Government] by [Oklahoma]: [Native Americans]: [Curtis Act of 1898]: Adams Brothers, et al.

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Title: [Three Documents Concerning the Sale of Native American Lands in Oklahoma by the Federal Government]
Author: [Oklahoma]: [Native Americans]: [Curtis Act of 1898]: Adams Brothers, et al.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Oklahoma, 1911. Three documents (two printed broadsides and one typed letter): 12 x 6; 11 x 8.5; and 12 x 8.5 inches. Folded, with slight scuffing to some edges; one with notes in pencil. Otherwise excellent. Three documents concerning the United States government's auction of appropriated Indigenous land in Oklahoma following the 1898 Curtis Act. The Curtis Act was an amendment to the 1887 Dawes Act that extended its authority to the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). These acts were essentially land grabs that also allowed the state to break up tribal governmental and social structures. Among other provisions, they allotted households or individuals in the tribe plots of land, and the surplus land was sold at auction by the government. The present group includes two broadsides and a letter concerning the auction of Choctaw and Chickasaw land in 1911. The earlier broadside is dated August 1, 1911, and was issued from Muskogee by J.G. Wright, the Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes. Here, Wright provides the date and location of auctions in each county for "unallotted lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations" to be sold at "public auction," and information about the terms of the auction. A previous owner of the broadside, perhaps a participant in the auction, has added numerous notes in pencil regarding population in various counties and other information. The slightly later broadside was issued by the Adams Brothers in Ardmore. They provide terms for the auction sale, noting land is being sold at a minimum of $8 per acre and that such lands are "considered as agricultural land for the purpose of this sale." Drilling for oil or minerals will not be allowed on any tract until "the full purchase price has been paid." In addition, the Adams Brothers remind potential buyers that both small and large tracts of land are available, to satisfy a range of needs (grazing, timber, farming, and more). The broadside also advertises services to prospective buyers, both in showing locations and in bidding on behalf of clients. It promises that if clients purchase land and improve on it they "will soon wake up to the realization that you are worth some money you can hardly account for." The letter comes from A. Hilton, passenger agent with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. It advises A. M. Sawyer of Fort Recovery, Ohio, about the railroad's "Homeseekers tickets," which seem to have been tickets out to areas where these sorts of land auctions were happening. An interesting trio of documents encapsulating 20th-century efforts towards cultural assimilation of Indigenous Americans in Oklahoma, and spreading the wealth of the mineral richness of lands in Indian Territory, by dispersing their lands to the highest bidder.

George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile by Bush, George H.W. [David Valdez]

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: George Herbert Walker Bush: A Photographic Profile
Author: Bush, George H.W. [David Valdez]
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9780890967799
Condition: Fine
Description: College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. First Edition / Limited Edition. Cloth. Fine. Signed limited edition of A Photographic Profile by White House photographer, David Valdez. Signed by President George H.W. Bush.. Quarto, xv, 147pp. Blue cloth, gilt title stamped on spine. Matching blue cloth slipcase, in fine condition, with embossed presidential seal and gilt signature on cover. Book itself is fine, likely never read. From a limited edition of 1250 copies signed by President George H.W. Bush and White House photographer David Valdez. An attractive historical record of the first Bush administration and the life of President George H.W. Bush. Includes over 200 color photographs.

Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India by BURTYNSKY, Edward

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Title: Salt Pans. Little Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India
Author: BURTYNSKY, Edward
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9783958292406
Condition: A fine copy
Description: Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artists proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground. Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape." – Edward Burtynsky. For this series, the photographer traveled to Gujarat, India, to make images of the Little Ranch of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. "Salt has been their main industry for the last four hundred years. Receding groundwater levels and declining market values will in time make this way of life obsolete and will cause the salt pans to disappear." Taken from an aerial vantage point, some 500-800 feet about the ground, Burtynsky's images show a landscape of multi-colored interlocking rectangles, spanning across the delta: "Burtynsky’s photographs have become increasingly abstract as a result of his topographical perspective and fascination with finding similarities in the industrialized landscape to painting. Salt Pans continues in this direction with Burtynsky exploring the subtle modulations of tone and compositional balance of the pans, and the calligraphic tracks from vehicles referencing scale and human activity.

Torre De Collserola [the First of June Nineteen Ninety-five - Collserola Tower - Barcelona

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Title: Torre De Collserola [the First of June Nineteen Ninety-five - Collserola Tower - Barcelona
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description: Barcelona: Privately Printed, 1995. Square Octavo. 110 unnumbered pages of a great celebration in Barcelona with black and white photographs in and of the tower--The 1995 celebration held in the Torre de Collserola for seventy-five select guests. Copies were later mailed to the guests and were not available to the public. Bound in gray pictorial paper over boards lettered and decorated in whit, a light bumping to corners, else a near fine copy.

Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts by Ward, Lynd

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Title: Madman's Drum: A Novel in Woodcuts
Author: Ward, Lynd
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Jonathan Cape; Harrison Smith, 1930. First trade edition. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Octavo [22 cm] 1/4 black cloth over black and white pictorial paper over boards with a paper title label on the spine. With the publisher's black top stain. Black endpapers. The spine is rolled and the boards are moderately rubbed at the edges. There is a brief contemporary gift inscription on the front flyleaf. In the dust jacket, with occasional closed and open tears in the edges. The deepest tear is closed, backed with tape, and measures 2" long. The spine of the jacket is darkened and a bit moisture stained. Dance 005. Lynd Ward (1905 - 1985) was an American artist most famous for his wood engravings — in particular, his novels without words, in which he tells a story only with woodcuts. His style mixes Art Deco with German Expressionism. This is the second of Ward's six wordless novels.

The cosmology of finding your spot by Dorn, Ed

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Title: The cosmology of finding your spot
Author: Dorn, Ed
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Lawrence, Kansas?]: Cottonwood, 1969. First edition, broadside (approx. 432 x 279 mm.); long poem printed in wavy formation; previous fold, a few soil spots, else very good. "Presented April 10, 1969 at the United Campus Christian Fellowship benefit reading for the draft registers league.

Skulpturer by TAJIRI, Shinkichi

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Seller: Harper's Books

Title: Skulpturer
Author: TAJIRI, Shinkichi
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: First and last page lightly worn, else near fine in screwbound wrappers.
Description: Malmö: Lunds Konsthall, 1971. First and last page lightly worn, else near fine in screwbound wrappers.. First Edition. Duodecimo, bound with single plastic screw-post. Innovative artists' book made in conjunction with exhibition at Lunds Konsthall, Malmö, during October, 1971. Functions as flip book, animating photographs of Tajiri blowing up a balloon alongside Swedish text. Reverse direction, contains hundreds of black and white photographs of Tajiri and his artworks alongside English captions. Tajiri was a Japanese-American artist who resided primarily in the Netherlands and was associated with Karel Appel and COBRA; this book also suggests a shared affinity with Fluxus.

The Romantick Lady (Frances Hodgson Burnett): The Life Story of an Imagination by Burnett, Vivian

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Title: The Romantick Lady (Frances Hodgson Burnett): The Life Story of an Imagination
Author: Burnett, Vivian
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York/London: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [front hinge a little weak, but otherwise a good sound copy, with some spotting/foxing on the top edge of the text block; small vintage bookplate on the front pastedown]. (B&W plates) A biography of the author of the children's classics "The Secret Garden," "A Little Princess," and "Little Lord Fauntleroy," written several years after her death by the younger of her two sons (who was said to have been the model for the latter character). Obviously Vivian had unfettered access to his mother's papers -- the book quotes extensively from her correpondence -- but his obvious high regard for her, unfortunately, doesn't seem to have compelled him to place them in an appropriate library or archive, as an online search turns up no such resource. (In a rather fanciful introduction -- actually titled "Fantasy" -- he asserts that her creative nature was due to her having been "partly a fairy, [as] she herself was quite willing -- even eager -- to admit." He goes on to spin a tale of how his mother, "a princess," had been visited upon her birth by a gaggle of fairies, who showered her with their blessings and imbued her with her many fine qualities.) .

Poem Begun on Thursday, October 14, 1993, at O'Hare Airport, Terminal 3, around Six O'Clock P.M. by UPDIKE, John

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Title: Poem Begun on Thursday, October 14, 1993, at O'Hare Airport, Terminal 3, around Six O'Clock P.M.
Author: UPDIKE, John
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very fine copy
Description: Louisville, KY: The Literary Renaissance, 1994. First edition in book form, after an issue as a broadside. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Updike, this being copy "9". Printed by Carol J. Blinn at the Warwick Press. Very fine copy. Small 8vo, original gray wrappers. Very fine copy.

The Doings of Dicky Daw by WAGSTAFF, Hester

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Title: The Doings of Dicky Daw
Author: WAGSTAFF, Hester
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: [New York]: Coward-McCann, Inc., Publishers, 1940. Boards. Near fine/near fine. Hester WAGSTAFF. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR & ILLUSTRATOR]. First U.S. edition; previously published by Hamish Hamilton in 1939. Small 4to; color pictorial boards, blue front board decorated with illustrations of birds and a sleeping cat; color pictorial endpapers of a bird flying over a busy city scene; color pictorial title page; illustrated in black, yellow and blue throughout the text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, light shelf wear; near fine in near fine dj. The charming story of a jackdaw named Dicky Daw and the author-illustrator who saved him.

The Bloody Bridge and Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 (Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion) by Fitzpatrick, Thomas

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Title: The Bloody Bridge and Other Papers Relating to the Insurrection of 1641 (Sir Phelim O'Neill's Rebellion)
Author: Fitzpatrick, Thomas
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1903. 1st Edition. Publisher's Cloth. Good. 8vo., 296pp. Solid First Edition, Enlarged with Notes; published originally in 1868. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Square and solid with wear to spine ends, edges and tips. minor bumping and wear to spine ends and tips. Wear to surface with some dings and scratches. Penciled notes on front end-paper and paste-down. some notes, check marks and underling with the text. Top edge gilt dulling. Some rubbing and very light toning to spine. Some space between the crown cloth and text-block but quite secure. Ownership signature on front end-paper, Off-setting to end-papers but little or no foxing. From the library of noted New Jersey Irish-Ameican author, collector and professor of Irish history and literature, Tom Fox with his unobtrusive blind-stamp on the title page. Fox was called by Nicholas Basbanes, ",,, a kindred spirit...assembler of an uncommonly distinctive collection of Irish history and literature". Not perfect but a presentable and collectable copy at a great price.

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