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The Lady's Country Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (Presentation copy) by Loudon, [Jane]

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Lady's Country Companion; or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally (Presentation copy)
Author: Loudon, [Jane]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845. First edition. Very Good. Presentation copy, inscribed "To Mrs. Norman with the kind regards of the author" on upper flyleaf. Rebound in modern half brown leather over marbled boards. Octavo. Dampstaining to frontispiece, but largely clean throughout. Octavo. xi, 396, 32 [publisher's catalogue] pp. Complete with frontispiece and three full-page illustrations, plus text figures. Very Good. A scarce example of Jane Loudon's practical advice to women who find themselves living in the countryside, OCLC records only six copies in the United States. Jane Loudon, nèe Webb (1807 - 1858), horticulturalist and early science fiction writer, compiled "the present work, which is the only one I have ever written with any reference to farming...principally for the use of ladies who have been brought up in a town but who from circumstances have been induced to reside in the country...Having lived in the country myself, I know both the inconveniences and enjoyments...in the following pages I have endeavored to save my readers the pain of buying their own experience." Across the book, Loudon addresses the kinds of loneliness and monotony women might encounter when separated from the kind of feminine company available in town. She also gives practical input on the real work of the countryside so that women would not solely rely on men: advice on building fires; on laying out kitchen gardens and managing fruit trees; on keeping livestock and fish; and on attiring oneself appropriately for cold weather, long rides, and rambling walks. Notably, her words are delivered in an epistolary format as she converses with a woman named Anne - a stylistic choice that further assists her readers in assuaging feelings of isolation and feeling connected to other women in similar circumstances. Jane Loudon was married to the botanist, writer, and illustrator John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843). She wrote over a dozen botanical books, some of which she also illustrated, and assisted her husband in the writing and editing of his own works on botany, including his Encyclopedia of Gardening (1834). Loudon was also a pioneering author of science fiction: she published The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century (1827), which is set in the year 2126 and is the first English-language work to feature a reanimated mummy, when she was just twenty-two. The Mummy! was published less than a decade after Frankenstein and a year after The Last Man, and Loudon's work belies the inspiration she took from Mary Shelley's groundbreaking novels. Loudon arguably pushes the bounds of early science fiction further, however, in her invention of an all-new universe of technological and social advancement in which women in the queen's court wear trousers and hair ornaments of gas-powered flame, and "steam-powered automata surgeons and lawyers...speak briefs fed into tubes in their bodies" (Hopkins). It was through The Mummy! that Loudon met her husband, who favorably reviewed the work, eventually leading to her career in botanical writing that is documented here. Hopkins, Lisa. "Jane C. Loudon's 'The Mummy!': Mary Shelley Meets George Orwell, and They Go in a Balloon to Egypt" (2003). Very Good.

THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story by Dickens, Charles

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Title: THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Sumner & Stillman (United States)
Description: 1846. London: Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in gilt, all page edges gilt. First Edition of the fourth of Dickens's five illustrated Christmas books -- following A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE CHIMES, and THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH, and preceding THE HAUNTED MAN. This is an unusual tale in which two sisters love the same man, both ultimately settling in with him (though only one is married to him) -- according to Thackeray "a wretched affair." It is in fact quite autobiographical: Dickens loved Mary Hogarth, married her sister Catherine, and then was happy to have his household run by their sister Georgina. This copy has the vignette title page in the fourth and usual state (Todd's state E1), with an angel holding the banner and with no publisher's imprint; in our experience, at least 90% and perhaps 95% of the copies encountered are of this state. This is a bright, near-fine copy, with very little wear; atypically, the original delicate endpapers are not cracked (the front paste-down bears the bookplate of the late Chicago professor Thomas S. Moch, and a small corner of the rear paste-down is chipped). Smith II pp 60-65; Podeschi (Yale) A116.

Dr. Sam:Johnson, Detector (Association copy with Signed Letter by Ellery Queen) by De La Torre, Lillian

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Title: Dr. Sam:Johnson, Detector (Association copy with Signed Letter by Ellery Queen)
Author: De La Torre, Lillian
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine/Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine/Very Good. Small 8vo., 257pp. Sharp Stated First Edition of this anthology of historical mystery tales featuring the eminent Doctor and his scribe, James Boswell. Bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save some softness to spine ends. Spine gilt a touch dulled. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.75), has few short closed edge-tears and a couple of shallow creases on the rear panel. Light rubbing to hinges. Still bright, complete and quite presentable. Laid in is a holograph note in the hand of Richard Dannay, and signed "Ellery Queen", (the other half of Ellery Queen is Manfred Lee), to the father of Lillian de la Torre, Jose de la Torre Bueno In it, he is wishing him a happy birthday and praising him because he also knows his daughter, presumably because she frequently contributed stories to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Torre-Bueno himself was a noted author and expert on entymology who first published in 1937 his still widely used and influential Torre-Bueno Glossary of Entomology. Not perfect but a presentable copy at a great price.

They Knew Lincoln by Washington, John E.

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Title: They Knew Lincoln
Author: Washington, John E.
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1942. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. frontis portrait, photos, 244p. plus an unnumbered appendix of 21 pages. Original blue cloth. dj. 22 cm. Spine lightly sloped. Worn jacket with backstrip heavily chipped and also split along front panel. The author, an African American, was a dentist and teacher, and a collector of Lincolniana. This scarce book, which is partly autobiographical, is mostly focused on the lives and recollections of African Americans who knew or remembered Abraham Lincoln or his wife Mary Todd Lincoln. The last part of the book is devoted to Elizabeth Keckly, whose veracity and very existence had been challenged, mostly by various Southern whites, including David Rankin Barbee, a Texas-born writer on Southern history. As whether she wrote or had help in writing her "Behind the Scenes," Washington argued persuasively that James Redpath, the Northern abolitionist, helped, based partly on the recollections of Hannah Brooks, an elderly African American. This book was reprinted in 2018 by Oxford University Press with a carefully researched and extensively footnoted Introduction by Kate Masur (found at pages ix-lxxx).

NEW JERSEY: Spotlight on Government

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Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc.

Title: NEW JERSEY: Spotlight on Government
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description: 1972. NEW JERSEY: Spotlight on Government. [N.p., 1972]. 425 p. Illus. Cloth. Edited by Elizabeth Brody. Analysis of state and local government in New Jersey.

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