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Ambrotype Folk Art Portrait of a Haitian Revolutionary Officer

Ambrotype Folk Art Portrait of a Haitian Revolutionary Officer by [Haitian Revolution - Folk Art]

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Ambrotype Folk Art Portrait of a Haitian Revolutionary Officer
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[Haitian Revolution - Folk Art]
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American, 1864. First. Sixth plate ambrotype, heavily hand-painted, 2 ½ x 3 inches, cased in 4 ½ x 5 inch thermoplastic hanging frame. Very Good. The Haitian Revolution had a profound affect on attitudes toward slavery in Antebellum America, influencing black attitudes regarding Pan-Africanism and self-governance, stoking fear in southern slaveholding whites of slavery’s bloody aftermath, and fueling the rise of abolitionism. Alfred Hunt, in Haiti's Influence on Antebellum America: Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean, states: “Haiti became a primary symbol for those blacks who were trying to counter the argument that free blacks were incapable of sustaining civilization outside the confines of slavery. Obviously, the founding of a black republic in the New World also contributed to the development of a sense of black nationalism. In this way, Haiti was related to later black militancy and Pan-Africanism.” The revolution was embraced by abolitionists as an example to follow, and with the rise of militant abolitionism in the North, the Haitian Revolution and the figure of Toussaint Louverture in particular were prominent in abolitionist iconography. Offered here is a wonderful and quite unusual Civil War-era folk art portrayal of an officer in the Haitian Revolution wearing the distinctive Haitian uniform and holding what is presumably the Emancipation Decree. Given the folk art form, the symbolic nature of the revolution in its entirety, and the lack of reliable imagery of most participants in the Haitian Revolution, it is impossible to say with certainty if the image is intended to represent anyone specific. Of all the likely candidates, the likeness perhaps best resembles published portraits of Jeanne-Pierre Royer. Though this picture looks nothing like other portraits of Louverture, his iconic status certainly makes it possible, probable perhaps, that this picture was intended to be of him, or if not of him then perhaps its intent was to symbolize the Haitian Revolution in a more abstract form. “The rise of militant abolitionism in the North in the 1830s resulted in sustained interest in what Toussaint’s life symbolized,” states Hunt. Louverture was the frequent subject of abolitionist articles, and was popular too with the literati of the day, and the story of the revolution serialized many times in magazines. Louverture and the Haitian Revolution were prominent in the work of William Wells Brown, perhaps the most prominent African-American author of the antebellum period, was well-versed in the Haitian Revolution and wrote about it extensively. He profiled seven Haitian leaders in The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius and His Achievements (1863). “Although black and white abolitionists portrayed Toussaint as larger than life,” states Hunt,” they emphasized different aspects of his character… whites… stressed Toussaint’s racial moderation and temperance; blacks admired his qualities as a Spartacus who threw off the yoke of oppression.” Despite the fascination with Louverture, there was little uniformity to how his likeness was portrayed. After a wave of portraits of L’Ouverture early in the nineteenth century - most made by people who had never seen him - few new portraits were produced until Nicolas Eustache Maurin’s portrait of 1838. Maurin’s portrait, though considered to be racist by some modern scholars for its use of stereotypical caricature, was perhaps based on a picture, now lost, that L’Ouverture had given to Roume Saint-Laurent in 1801. David Geggus, in his essay The Changing Faces of of Toussaint L’Ouverture, states: “Most of the pictures of Toussaint that were published in his lifetime or shortly afterward were drawn by people who had neither seen him nor even been to the Caribbean. The portraits that were hurriedly concocted in 1802 for the works of Dubroca and Cousin d’Avallon, for the Vita privata in Italy, and the Frühere Geschichte in Germany, and the two portraits published in Mexico City in 1806 bear little resemblance to one another except for their rather cartoonish appearance.” The ambrotype was invented in the mid 1850s and was in existence until it was superceded by the tintype in the early 1860s. This is the only example we have ever encountered of a folk art image referencing the Haitian Revolution from this period. We find no other photographic folk art examples of L’Ouverture portraits from the nineteenth century. The process of painting over ambrotypes and other images was fairly common, though this example is more heavily painted than others we have encountered. Overall a unique and important survival. Some chips at edges (not visible framed), rear emulsion with a few small spots of loss (also not visible), but overall a very good example. References: Hunt, Alfred N. Haiti’s Influence on Antebellum America, Slumbering Volcano in the Caribbean. Baton Rouge, LSU Press, 2006. Geggus, David. The Changing Face of Toussaint Louverture. https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/exhibitions/toussaint/index.html accessed 6/1/2020. Offered in partnership with Daniel / Oliver Gallery.
As I Lay Dying [First Edition, Second Printing] [Fine Binding]

As I Lay Dying [First Edition, Second Printing] [Fine Binding] by Faulkner, William (1897-1962)

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As I Lay Dying [First Edition, Second Printing] [Fine Binding]
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)
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Blind Horse Books [ABAA - FABA] (United States)
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Fine
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New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, 1930. First Edition, Second Printing. Fine Binding. Fine/No Dust Jacket. A LANDMARK OF AMERICAN MODERNISM, FAULKNER'S STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS MASTERPIECE IS HERE PRESENTED IN A SOPHISTICATED FINE BINDING. Published in 1930, this volume represents the second state of the first edition, featuring the corrected 'I' initial on page 11. Through the fragmented perspectives of fifteen narrators, Faulkner reconstructs the Bundren family's grueling journey to bury their matriarch, creating a 'Total Work of Art' that redefined the Southern Gothic genre. KEY FEATURES +++ Binding: Later quarter morocco over tan cloth; spine features raised bands with dark brown lettered and decorated compartments. +++ Bibliographic State: First edition, second printing. Features the corrected initial 'I' on page 11; part of the initial 2,522-copy run produced before the firm of Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith dissolved. [only 750 copies were printed in the first state] +++ Content: A foundational work of 20th-century literature, utilizing a complex narrative structure to explore grief, poverty, and the human condition. +++ Rarity: Uncommon in any early printing; the original 1930 run was relatively small for a major American novel. +++ Imprint: New York: Jonathan Cape : Harrison Smith, 1930. [First Edition / Second Printing]. +++ Specs: 7.5 inches tall / [4], 252 pages. CONDITION: Fine -- A handsome, well-preserved copy in a superior binding. The bindings are tight and square with only minimal shelf handling. The text is clean with light, even age-toning consistent with the paper stock of the era. Gift quality. HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- 'As I Lay Dying' is arguably Faulkner's most technically daring work, famously written in a six-week burst of creativity while he worked nights at a power plant. By employing fifteen different narrators, Faulkner moved beyond traditional Southern regionalism into the realm of high Modernism. The novel's influence on the structure of the American novel cannot be overstated, serving as a primary text for the study of narrative perspective and psychological realism. The publication history of this Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith edition is particularly notable for bibliophiles. The 'dropped I' on page 11 occurred in only the first 750 copies, making the corrected second state (this copy) part of the final, successful collaboration of the publisher before it was reorganized. This copy, preserved in morocco, is an ideal specimen for a collector seeking a durable and elegant copy of a quintessential American classic. SUBJECTS: American Literature, Southern Gothic, Modernism, Mississippi History, Psychological Fiction, The Bundren Family, Modern Firsts, Fine Binding, Southern Literature, Literary Masterpiece. BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Peterson A7c; Howard A7.1b; Massey 16; Brodsky, 63ff.
TWENTY LEAVES OF ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BY PROFESSIONAL WELDER AND PART-TIME CARTOONIST KERN UDO WHIPPLE, MANY SIGNED "WHIP" AND SOME LIKELY DONE FOR HIS COMPANY'S NEWSLETTER "THE SCOOP." ACCOMPANIED BY SIX OF WHIPPLE'S POCKET DIARIES, 1928-1933, DEPICTING A WORKING MAN'S LIFE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

TWENTY LEAVES OF ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BY PROFESSIONAL WELDER AND PART-TIME CARTOONIST KERN UDO WHIPPLE, MANY SIGNED "WHIP" AND SOME LIKELY DONE FOR HIS COMPANY'S NEWSLETTER "THE SCOOP." ACCOMPANIED BY SIX OF WHIPPLE'S POCKET DIARIES, 1928-1933, DEPICTING A WORKING MAN'S LIFE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION by WHIPPLE, Kern Udo (1900-1971)

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TWENTY LEAVES OF ORIGINAL PEN AND INK DRAWINGS BY PROFESSIONAL WELDER AND PART-TIME CARTOONIST KERN UDO WHIPPLE, MANY SIGNED "WHIP" AND SOME LIKELY DONE FOR HIS COMPANY'S NEWSLETTER "THE SCOOP." ACCOMPANIED BY SIX OF WHIPPLE'S POCKET DIARIES, 1928-1933, DEPICTING A WORKING MAN'S LIFE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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WHIPPLE, Kern Udo (1900-1971)
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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Evansville, IN, 1933. A collection of accomplished pen and ink drawings by a self-taught artist, some more fully realized them others, some just preliminary sketches, done by a welder working for the Bucyrus-Erie Company's branch plant in Evansville, Indiana in the boom-times of the 1920s and the early years of the Great Depression. Whipple's drawings, on company stationery, stiff card stock, or plain drawing paper, often done on both the recto and verso of the sheet, vary in size from 3 x 5 in.to 8 1/2 x 11 in. Some are signed, a few are dated between 1931-1934, and one in 1937, approx. 19 are full page illustrations, the remainder have more than one image on the page. One is a caricature of a welder studying a design; another shows a man in boots smoking a pipe, with a caption title "Whip Walking Around During the 37 Flood"; another is a poster-style image, a National Recovery Act sign, of an American Eagle holding a gear in one claw and lighting bolts in the other, entitled "NRA Member U.S. We Do Our Part." Others are political cartoons, addressing topics of the day: one refers to the on going conflict between Japan and China in 1933, depicting a small Japanese soldier standing in front of a much larger Chinese man, and captioned "Pick Him Up and Spank Him"; another is a delightful image of "Old Man Prohibition," a long nosed fellow in a top hat. Other sketches offer up caricatures of people, male and female, and several drawings have western themes: a lone cowboy on a horse, a man on a bucking bronco, two Native Americans on horseback watching the passing of a wagon train, etc. A few have Christmas scenes, including one of Santa Claus, finished with colored pencil or crayon; and one a proposed design for a 1933 Christmas Seal greeting. Accompanying the group is a printed rejection slip from the NEA Service [Newspaper Enterprise Association] based in Cleveland, signed in type by H.M. Cochran, Editor of the Comic Art Dept., stating that "...it is not possible for NEA to introduce a new comic into the service at this time..." and returning his drawings. Udo Whipple (his preferred name) was born in Indiana and was working for the Bucyrus Company by the time he turned 18, according to his World War I draft card. He was employed as a riveter and a welder. He continued at the plant, a manufacturer of industrial steam shovels, bulldozer blades, and mining equipment, for the rest of his adult life. His six small pocket diaries, all leather bound, one approx. 4 x 2 3/4 in., the rest 5 1/4 x 2 3/4 in., depict the difficult times his family, friends, and the company went through in the early years of the Great Depression. In brief daily entries, approx. 15-20 words a day from January 1928 - December 1933, he records his work schedule, family activities, and interactions with friends and relatives, including playing cards, bottling beer, getting a radio, hunting squirrels, mushrooms, and ginseng, going fishing, dealing with a broken down car, and often, in the quiet evenings, a mention that he was "drawing for scoop." This is a reference to the company's publication of a quarterly magazine with business news, stories and information, often with illustrations by employees. [A copy of the March 1930 edition of "The Scoop," held by the South Milwaukee Public Library, lists Udo Whipple from Evansville among its cartoon contributors.] Most of Whipple's entries for 1928 and 1929 begin with the word "worked." He was working 5 or 6 days a week at Bucyrus-Erie in the boom years of the late 1920s. By November 1930, however, he begins to mention days off, "not much work at shop," or "off to-day work is bad." His note at the end of the year says "1930 was not so good. I lost much time..." and he hopes for better in the new year. The entries for 1931 make it clear things were not getting better and he was beginning to juggle his bills. In May he notes that business "is very bad and going to get worse." In September he had to let their insurance drop. He also records the least amount of pay he had ever drawn since starting at the company, $6.84 on Sept. 22. His note at year's end: "The year is about gone and business is sure bad.... This year a bad year for everybody." At the ends of each diary he lists his income by month, giving yearly totals of $1268.07 in 1928, and $1472.72 in 1929. There was a precipitous drop to $494.27 by the end of 1931, with worse news by the end of 1932, a total of $259.68. He occasionally received money from merchants in the town who paid him to make signs or posters, but at one point in March 1932 he had to get $30 from the Company in order to pay his rent. In April there was a big lay-off. The machine shop was stopped on May 16, and only 8 men were kept working. By mid-July all the men were laid off and he was out of work for 5 weeks. He also mentions the closing of several banks in town. The last diary in the group is for 1933. A small membership/identification card dated 1924 from an unidentified organization is laid in at the front. Whipple mentions an assassination attempt on the President Roosevelt in February. On March 6, 1933 he mentions that all the banks were closed for a week, a reference to the President's bank holiday, and that the company had sold 2 machines. In June he was laid off again. The remainder of the year, his entries list him as looking for work or working odd jobs, occasionally for the county or doing road work, or cleaning or mowing for people in town. By fall he sometimes mentions "work at shop" (presumably Bucyrus-Erie) and his year-end income as $466.49. His entry on Dec. 30: "One more day in this year. I have had peace and trouble but have had health in my home. I am thankful to be with my family and may the Lord bless them and me with health and employment for the next year. -- Whip." Udo Whipple continued to work for Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company until he retired five years before his death. According to an article by Keith Haddock in the Encyclopedia of Milwaukee (online), the Bucyrus Company, originally founded in Ohio in 1880, provided machinery used in the California gold fields, the New York State Barge Canal, and the Panama Canal in the early 1900s. Bucyrus merged with the Erie Steam Shovel Company in 1927 becoming Bucyrus-Erie. The company survived the Great Depression, successfully aligning with a British firm, Ruston & Hornsby in 1930, acquiring Armstrong Drill Company in 1933 and, a year later gaining control of the Monighan Manufacturing Corporation. By the time the United States entered World War II, the company was on solid footing. Mention is made of their war efforts in the Evansville Press edition of June 24, 1944, in an article entitled "Caricatures of Buddies in Service Spur Bond Drive." Udo Whipple features prominently: “Most effective salesman proved to be Udo Whipple, an electric welder who doubles as a cartoonist. In his spare time, Whipple drew caricatures of former employees now in service on battle fronts. Since almost every department has someone in the fight, every department got one of his big cartoons- and the likenesses are unmistakable. Boys known to every man in every department appeal to them from the walls.”.
Map of Louisiana

Map of Louisiana

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Map of Louisiana
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Chicago, (IL): Rand McNally [for] Southern Pacific Lines, 1926. Revised edition (?). Broadside map of Louisiana, 22 x 27 inches, highlighting the Southern Pacific Railway lines in the state in bold red, major highways in dark green, index to towns and cities in lower margin; verso prints 15 panels of promotional description, including resources, development, topography, and climate, and a national railroad map for the Southern Pacific. Cover title: "Map of Louisiana, with a Brief Description of Its Resources, Development, Topography, and Climate." OCLC locates only Southern Pacific published maps for 1902 and 1927. Very good. Folded to narrow 8vo. Original illustrated self wrappers. (#5586).
Mungin, Horace (editor-in-chief). Black Forum [Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1977)]

Mungin, Horace (editor-in-chief). Black Forum [Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1977)]

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Mungin, Horace (editor-in-chief). Black Forum [Vol. 1, No. 2 (Winter 1977)]
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
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Bronx, NY: Black Forum, 1977. Very good. 10” x 7”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 48. Very good: front wrap lightly spotted with moderate coffee stain to side, corner dogear and small bite to bottom edge, all extending to first few leaves; several leaves with faint stains at edges. This is a heavily illustrated issue of an uncommon African American poetry and literary journal, Black Forum (BF). BF was founded in the mid-1970s by Horace Lee Mungin, a poet, artist and activist known for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement and a decades-long literary career. Mungin wrote several books, including one inspired by his observations as a 20-year New York City subway driver, and his writing has appeared in Essence, The New York Times and poetry anthologies. The magazine forms part of the permanent exhibitions at the National Museum for African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. This issue ran an illustrated interview with noted Harlem artist G. Falcon Beazer, as well as profiles on three leading contemporary Black creators: a poet, a painter and a dancer. There is a center photographic spread introducing the BF staff, including Julia Coaxum, the new Managing (and “only female”) Editor, which also noted that Mungin would be ceding his position as Editor-in-Chief to published poet and New York City social worker Revish Windham. Mungin contributed a short story to the issue, along with an opinion on literary “Style and Content,” while Coaxum wrote the introduction to Ron Hill's “Notes of a Black Revolutionary.” Hill, a leader and organizer with the New York Black Panther Party and Black/Puerto Rican community, was incarcerated for seven years and, “through poetry and essay style notes . . . imparts his ideology of universal freedom for blacks.” Importantly, the issue holds two poems by Nikki Grimes, a Harlem-born, prolific poet, writer and artist of children's books. Grimes has earned numerous prestigious honors, including the Coretta Scott King Award, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal and, in 2012, the NAACP Image Award for Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope. There are several other poems, as well as compelling artwork and photographic images, a crossword puzzle and a subscription form for “Black Forum's Second Year.” A scarce and important publication of African American arts and poetry. OCLC locates this issue at eight institutions. Danky Hady 857.
Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary

Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary by [AFRICAN AMERICANA] PEERY, Nelson

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Black Radical; The Education of an American Revolutionary
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] PEERY, Nelson
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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New York: New Press, 2007. First American Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's red spine over brown paper covered boards, titled in silver gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 242pp. Very light wear and bumping to spne ends, a touch of sunning to the upper edge; internally clean, signed and dated (10th October 2007) by the author to the front flyleaf; in a clean, bright dustjacket with an "autographed copy" bookseller's sticker to the front panel. A very good copy indeed. A signed example of Peery's next memoir piece following "Black Fire"; "Black Radical" takes up Peery's story after his return from WW2 as a member of the fabled 93rd Infantry Division and his attempts to reintegrate into society, covering the period from 1946 to the height of the Civil Rights struggles of 1968. Signed copies of this milestone radical memoir are surprisingly scarce in trade.
The Union Club Mysteries

The Union Club Mysteries by Asimov, Isaac

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The Union Club Mysteries
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Asimov, Isaac
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
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9780385188067
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New York: Doubleday & Co., 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, old tape mend bottom edge of spine, rear panel uniformly toned, light wear at edges. 30 mystery short stories not previously collected in a book..
Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History
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Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History by Mackay, Christopher S.

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Ancient Rome: A Military and Political History
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Mackay, Christopher S.
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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9780521809184
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Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A sharp, flawless copy. Beautifully illustrated with black and white photography. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 395 pages.
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An Introduction to Mineralogy; Adapted to the Use of Schools and Private Students. Illustrated by Nearly Two Hundred Wood Cuts. by Comstock, John L., M. D.

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An Introduction to Mineralogy; Adapted to the Use of Schools and Private Students. Illustrated by Nearly Two Hundred Wood Cuts.
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Comstock, John L., M. D.
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New York: Pratt, Woodford & Co., 1847 pp. Octavo, leather-backed black boards, gilt lettering, 369 pp + 12 pp. Very Good with edgewear.

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