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The Ballad of Reading Gaol by [Wilde, Oscar] C. 3. 3

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Author: [Wilde, Oscar] C. 3. 3
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Leonard Smithers, 1898. First edition. Fine. One of thirty copies printed on Japanese vellum paper, this being copy twenty-four. Published under the pseudonym "C.3.3.," Wilde's cell number while he was at Reading Gaol, in an attempt to separate Wilde's then-notorious name from the publication. A lovely, Fine copy. Wilde's long poem "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," published just two years before his death, draws on the experience of being imprisoned at Reading after his conviction for gross indecency in 1895. Wilde had, famously, faced a highly publicized trial that ended with a sentence of two years hard labor, which he served at Pentonville Prison, Wandsworth, and finally at Reading. The poem was directly inspired by Charles Thomas Woolridge, a fellow inmate who was executed at Reading after being convicted of murdering his wife. The crime was metaphorized by Wilde in his poem, which contains one his most famous lines: "Yet each man kills the thing he loves..." In the last three years of his life, which he spent in exile in Naples and then in Paris, Wilde continued to edit and publish his plays - the first editions of An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest were published during this period - but he wrote very little, having "lost the joy of writing" (Ellman, Oscar Wilde). "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," then, was the last new literary work of Wilde's career, and perhaps his most haunting. He concludes his poem with the elegiac stanza: "And all men kill the thing they love, / By all let this be heard, / Some do it with a bitter look, / Some with a flattering word, / The coward does it with a kiss, / The brave man with a sword." Fine.

President Theodore Roosevelt Appoints Victor H. Metcalf Secretary of Commerce and Labor by Theodore Roosevelt

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Title: President Theodore Roosevelt Appoints Victor H. Metcalf Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 7/12/04. An extremely uncommon Cabinet appointment, the first of TR that we have hadVictor H. Metcalf was a Congressman who served from 1899 to 1904. In Congress he served on the Naval Affairs and the Ways and Means committees, where he pressed for the construction of a large battleship navy. His legislation for reclamation of arid lands by irrigation put him in touch with President Theodore Roosevelt, who liked the idea so much he inserted it into his party’s platform in 1904.President Roosevelt appointed Metcalf Secretary of Commerce and Labor in 1904. He was only the second person to hold that post, which was created in recognition of the importance and magnitude of the nation’s commercial and industrial growth and expansion. His department contained the Bureau of Manufactures, the Bureau of Statistics, the Bureau of Navigation, the Bureau of Standards, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Lighthouse Service, the Inspection of Immigrants, the Seal Fisheries of Alaska, the Steamboat Inspection Service, the Bureau of the Census, and more.Document signed, large folio, Washington, December 7, 1904, naming Metcalf Secretary of Commerce and Labor. The document is countersigned by John Hay as Secretary of State.In the post of Secretary of Commerce and Labor, TR sent Metcalf to San Francisco in 1905 as an intermediator between the San Francisco school board and 91 Japanese students who were refused entry to public schools. A compromise was reached whereunder the students were permitted into the schools. As President Roosevelt's personal representative, Metcalf traveled to San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire to survey the damage. He issued a lengthy report to the President, who provided significant Federal aid to help the city get through the crisis and rebuild. Metcalf served until December 12, 1906, when he was appointed Secretary of the Navy. During his term there, he oversaw the world cruise of the Great White Fleet.Appointments to presidential cabinets are quite uncommon, this being the first of TR that we have ever had.

Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria by Brunner, J C von - DIABETES - NEUROLOGY

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Title: Glandulae Duodeni seu Pancreas ... accedit Dissertatio de Glandula Pituitaria
Author: Brunner, J C von - DIABETES - NEUROLOGY
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; bright; front joint broken and cover detached.
Description: Frankfurt & Heidelberg: Joh. Maximilian. `a Sande, 1715. First Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. Very good; bright; front joint broken and cover detached.. Small 4to, [14], [2 - blank], 199, [1 - errata] pp. + large engraved folding plate (composed of two joined sheets). Brunner was a noted 17th century pathologist. This tract brings together two of his most important works. The first contains the discovery of 'Brunner's Glands' and his near discovery of pancreatic diabetes. The second is his monograph on the pituitary body. There is apparently a variant imprint in the same year - there is no priority established. There is also a discrepancy in some listings citing one or two plates. In some copies the sheets with the individual figures are joined making for one large plate with two figures (as in this copy); in other copies the sheets are bound individually so that each figure is counted as a separate 'plate' when in fact it is not the case. See G - M #975 & 3927; Waller #1568; Hirsch I, 738.

The Broken Ground by Berry, Wendell

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Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Title: The Broken Ground
Author: Berry, Wendell
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc, 1964. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition. Signed by Wendell Berry on the title page. [viii], 56 pp. Bound in publisher's light brown paper covered boards over light gray buckram with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight lean to binding, small stain to foredge and light toning to contents. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with toning to spine and rubbing to extremities, front joint has small closed tear at foot; toning to top edge of flap and verso. The pastoral poet's third book, scarce signed.

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