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The trotting horse industry in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, as viewed through an extensive collection of more than 800 breeding farm and auction catalogues, with additional related ephemeral items. At least one of the catalogues is inscribed by the farm owner to John Hankins Wallace, publisher of Wallace's American Stud Book (1867) and editor and publisher of Wallace's Monthly (begun in 1875), a magazine devoted to the trotting horse, from whose archives this collection comes

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The trotting horse industry in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, as viewed through an extensive collection of more than 800 breeding farm and auction catalogues, with additional related ephemeral items. At least one of the catalogues is inscribed by the farm owner to John Hankins Wallace, publisher of Wallace's American Stud Book (1867) and editor and publisher of Wallace's Monthly (begun in 1875), a magazine devoted to the trotting horse, from whose archives this collection comes
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Highlights in the collection include the rare 1857 catalogue for Kentucky’s Woodburn Farm, apparently the second known copy of the earliest single-farm horse stock catalogue that we could identify, that farm’s 1864 catalogue, printed in the midst of Civil War, the 1870 catalogue for Kentucky’s Forest Park farm, featuring three mounted photographs, including two views of the farm’s grounds, two catalogues for the farm owned by New York Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert, both with chromolithographic covers, hundreds of items printed in small town job shops, etc. Various places, 1857-1940. The collection of 859 catalogues and other items is divided into five groups: I. New England, Mid-Atlantic States, and the Midwest, including Maine (4 catalogues), New Hampshire (4), Vermont (10), Massachusetts (44), Rhode Island (3), Connecticut (2), New York (103), New Jersey (10), Pennsylvania (37), Ohio (63), Indiana (5), Illinois (40), Michigan (9), Wisconsin (13), Minnesota (2), Iowa (23), Missouri (7), Nebraska (4), Kansas (4), Canada (2), and ephemera for those locales (24), a total of 413 items II. California (18 catalogues) III. Kentucky (361 catalogues and ephemeral items) IV. The South, including Maryland (9), Virginia (4), North Carolina (3), West Virginia (7), Tennessee (33), and Mississippi (1), a total of 57 items V. Broadsides (10). Virtually all of the catalogues, broadsides, and ephemera offered here were printed in the location of the respective breeding farms they advertised, resulting in today's scarcity; most were published 1870-1900, though a small number, almost all from Kentucky, are earlier, and a somewhat larger group dates from the first four decades of the 20th century. Spot checking on OCLC, we have found only a small percentage located, and most of those recorded describe one copy or a few; likewise, a generic search on the internet finds fewer than fifty examples offered, most priced in the $50-300 range. While individual catalogues turn up with regularity, a collection such as the one offered here, especially with a good association, would be difficult, if not impossible, to replicate. Pricing for the collection is by group: I. 413 items, $20,000; II. 18 items, $2,000; III. 359 items, $42,500; IV. 57 items, $7,000; V. 10 items, $8,500. For the collection of 859 items, in its entirety $65000 A detailed 48-page catalogue of the collection will be e-mailed on request; accommodation will be made for duplicates. The overall condition of the collection is very good, although a substantial number are disbound (i.e., once bound together with other pamphlets in a sammelband, now separate); almost all are affected by storage soiling, but almost all are in original printed wrappers; a very few lack their outer wrappers. (4012). Harness racing reached the height of its popularity in the late 19th-century when a circuit at major fairs around the United States was established; as it had become popular, the "Standardbred" was developed, the name taken from the practice of basing all harness-racing speed records on the standard distance of a mile. "Harness racing flourishes in the United States as nowhere else in the world and the American standard-bred trotter has been accepted as the country's most important contribution to the ranks of domestic livestock … standard-breds are exported every year in numbers to many different countries for both racing and breeding purposes … race meetings are as a rule confined to a few days, the betting is a minor feature, a large proportion of the meetings given are features of state and county fairs, and many of the contending horses are owned and trained by their drivers, who indulge in the sport as a matter of inclination or diversion rather than financial profit … trotting horse breeding is largely centralized in Kentucky. In both its breeding and racing affairs, the light-harness industry presents more of an unprofessional aspect and touches much more nearly the everyday life of the people than does thoroughbred racing" ("Dictionary of American History"). John Hankins Wallace (1822-1903), a native of Pennsylvania, moved to Iowa in the mid-1840s, began to farm, and was active in the State Agricultural Society, managing the state fairs in the 1850s. Over the next decade he collected information concerning thoroughbred pedigrees, publishing “Wallace's American Stud Book" in 1867. Turning his attention to trotting horses, he published the first volume of "Wallace's American Trotting Register" in 1871; "it represented years of untiring labor, travel through all parts of the United States and personal investigation of hundreds of important pedigrees which before has been altogether unknown, or in hopeless confusion" (Gue's "History of Iowa from the Earliest Times"). Wallace moved to New York and established "Wallace's Monthly," a magazine devoted to the trotting horse and later began publishing "Wallace's Year Book," a statistical work containing reports of all races trotted or paced in the United States and Canada, together with elaborate tables of pedigrees. He continued the three publications through 1891 when a dispute with influential breeders soured his associations, causing him to sell his interests in the effort to the American Trotting Register Association. His final work, "The Horse in America" (1897), "contains the cream of all his earlier publications … his whole interest and labor were in tracing and classifying pedigrees and records and drawing from the statistics so collected and classified deductions as to the sources of speed, the laws of heredity, and the way to improve the breed of trotting horses" (Gue). Further details will be provided upon request.
Official Program: Third Annual Tournament of the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association under the Auspices of the Gunnison Game and Fish Protective Association, Gunnison Colorado, July 22, 23 and 24, 1928 [caption title]

Official Program: Third Annual Tournament of the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association under the Auspices of the Gunnison Game and Fish Protective Association, Gunnison Colorado, July 22, 23 and 24, 1928 [caption title]

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Official Program: Third Annual Tournament of the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association under the Auspices of the Gunnison Game and Fish Protective Association, Gunnison Colorado, July 22, 23 and 24, 1928 [caption title]
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Gunnison, CO: The association (Printed by The News-Champion), 1928. Program for the tournament. Narrow 8vo. (19) pp. Includes a description of the gathering, rules for the fly casting and trapshooting tournaments, schedules for the various events, lists of prizes, and a one-page promotional for Gunnison County, Colorado, emphasizing outdoor activities, especially fishing and golf; many ads for local businesses. OCLC Apparently does not locate any material from the Western Colorado Sportsmen's Association. Very good. Front wrapper employed as a mailing panel, addressed and stamped. (#6825).
Negro Spirituals for Four-Part Mixed Voices. De Gospel Train

Negro Spirituals for Four-Part Mixed Voices. De Gospel Train

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Negro Spirituals for Four-Part Mixed Voices. De Gospel Train
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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New York: Harold Flammer Publisher, 1938. Music and lyrics for this song. 8vo. 8 pp. Very good. Original decorated wrappers. (#6671).
During the War, Albert Einstein Assists an Old Friend and Relative to Get a Visa to Leave Europe and Immigrate to Mexico

During the War, Albert Einstein Assists an Old Friend and Relative to Get a Visa to Leave Europe and Immigrate to Mexico by Albert Einstein

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During the War, Albert Einstein Assists an Old Friend and Relative to Get a Visa to Leave Europe and Immigrate to Mexico
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Albert Einstein
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The Raab Collection (United States)
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20/12/1941. Brigitte Kaufmann was born in Germany, but when the Nazis came to power in 1933 she fled to Paris. In France, Kaufmann worked as an actress under the name of Brigitte Châtel, and translated documents. She met her future husband, Alfred Alexander-Katz in Paris, and they married in 1939; the following day, her husband was taken to an internment camp. He was given the choice of being interned in a labor camp or joining the Foreign Legion and chose the latter. Alexander was then sent to Clermont in Vichy France and the family relocated there.Dr. Walter Rudlin was a social science professor at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and actively involved in anti-fascist activities. He was the author of “The Growth of Fascism in Great Britain”. In September 1942 he left his position and joined the U.S. Board of Economic Welfare, whose chair was Vice President Henry Wallace. His wife Eryl was interested in bringing Jews in Europe out of harm’s way, and she knew the Alexander-Katz family.So Eryl sought to get Brigitte and her family safely out of Europe to Mexico, and sought Einstein’s help. On March 12, 1941, Einstein responded, noting that Brigitte is his relative. “Thank you very much for your letter of March 11th. I am very gratified indeed to learn that our mutual friends, Fred and Brigitte Alexander-Katz, have some prospect to receive a visa into Mexico. I am certainly willing to vouch for their reliability and integrity, both personal and political. I have known Mrs. Brigitte Alexander-Katz - whose family is related to mine - since she was a little girl. Her husband, a very able engineer, will certainly be useful to any country which receives him. If you will send me the address of the proper Mexican authority, I shall gladly send any letter of recommendation desired.” This was a warm letter indeed, expressing true concern and friendship for the Alexander-Katz family.On April 3, 1941, Einstein again wrote Rudlin, noting “Enclosed I am sending you the requested letters in the hope that they may be successful.” But there were delays and no visa, so Rudlin wrote Einstein seven months later, asking him to take the matter up with the Mexican government.Typed letter signed, on his blind-embossed letterhead, Princeton, December 20, 1941, to Mrs. Eryl Rudlin, saying that he expects the visa to be granted, but does not feel he ought to approach the Mexican government directly. “The Mexican authorities know that I am interested in the case of the Alexander-Katz family; they have kept me informed about the whole development of the matter. I have no doubt that admission to Mexico will be granted as it has been granted to hundreds of people in the same situation. I can give Mr. Alexander-Katz a recommendation but it is out of the question that I ask the Minister of Education to send him an official invitation. I have already done what could be done without intrusion.”Despite what he writes here to calm Mrs. Rudlin, Einstein might have exerted some gentle pressure on Mexico by contacting the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., Gilberto Bosques; or the Alexander-Katz visas may have already being granted at that moment. The Einstein Archives is silent on this subject. But soon after Einstein soon wrote this letter, in 1942 a telegram to the young Alexander-Katz family arrived stating that Einstein and Rudolph Uhlman, a lawyer in New York, had secured visas through Ambassador Bosques for them to escape to Veracruz, Mexico aboard the ship San Thomé.In Mexico Brigitte she became a noted author, actress, director and translator. She became the first woman in Mexico to produce and direct television programs. Speaking five languages, she also worked as a translator for UNESCO and Amnesty International. Her daughter Susana and granddaughter Sophie also became actors.
Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland

Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland by Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]

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Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates, a Story of Life in Holland
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Dodge, M.E. [Mary Mapes]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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New York: James O'Kane, 1866. First edition. Near Fine. Publisher's brown cloth titled in gilt. Twelvemo. 346, [2, ads] pp. Complete with four plates (including frontispiece). A bright copy with a small smudge to lower board and just a bit of foxing to endpapers and preliminary blanks. Otherwise clean and fresh throughout. Small contemporary ink gift inscription to preliminary blank. A Near Fine copy. Hans Brinker, the story of a Dutch boy who hopes to win a pair of silver skates in an ice skating race, is one of the most successful books in the history of children's literature (ANB). The novel introduced American children to a charming Dutch backdrop inspired by Dodge's readings on the history of the Netherlands and the firsthand accounts of her Dutch immigrant neighbors. Notably, the novel also popularized the legend of a Dutch boy who saves his city by plugging a hole in a leaky dike with his finger (in Hans Brinker, the story is recounted in a classroom scene); the legend has inspired many American retellings, including a poem by Dodge's family friend Phoebe Cary, since the novel's publication. Along with writing many books for children, Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 - 1905) also edited the periodical St. Nicholas Magazine, a companion to Scribner's Monthly intended for a juvenile audience, for over thirty years. Dodge was skilled at soliciting contributions from both popular, sought-after writers and new talent: the works of Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louisa May Alcott, and Rudyard Kipling appeared alongside that of emerging writers like Frances Hodgson Burnett, who serialized her first major success, Little Lord Fauntleroy, in the magazine. Dodge's work on St. Nicholas Magazine set the standard for other juvenile magazines and helped launch the careers of influential writers who would shape the genre of children's literature; in other words, the magazine left "an indelible imprint on American juvenile publishing" (ANB). Near Fine.
Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (Inscribed to a poet)

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (Inscribed to a poet) by Bukowski, Charles

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Cold Dogs in the Courtyard (Inscribed to a poet)
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Bukowski, Charles
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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Chicago: Literary Times & Cyfoeth Press, 1965. First edition. Near Fine. One of five hundred copies of the first edition, this copy inscribed on the title-page by Charles Bukowski to poet Jack Grapes. Cover design by Betsy Milam. A Near Fine copy with just a bit of toning to the spine. This chapbook compiles thirteen of Charles Bukowski's poems that had been previously rejected by literary magazines and book publishers. In his "Foreward" [sic], Bukowski writes, "The poems in this book...have been overlooked (or looked-over and shunned) by those people who, for reasons unknown to society, publish collections of poesy. This, I hope, will be the sixth gathering of my work since I began writing at the cobby age of 35, a sad long 9 years back, and these are the poems the editors didn't want for the earlier books...I went through the magazines looking for turned-away poems. I found 20 poems I wish I had never written, 20 I didn't give a damn about one way or the other. The others you will find in here." Jack Grapes is a Los Angeles poet, publisher, and former editor of the poetry journal ONTHEBUS (1989-2017). Notably, Grapes' poems appeared alongside Charles Bukowski's in an issue of the short-lived but influential Loujon Press literary journal The Outsider (1960-1969). Bukowski also corresponded with Grapes and inscribed several books to him. In the spring of 1965, Grapes, then a young poet with a burgeoning career, wrote to Bukowski to share his chapbook This Thing Upon Me (titled from the first line of Bukowski's poem "Old Man, Dead in a Room") and to ask for advice from the more experienced writer. In Bukowski's response, he praised Grapes' poetry chapbook ("the first 4 lines of poem 10 are as good as anybody can write") and added, "Well if you want advice from an old man - the writing comes out of the living and if you've got to sell-out to stay alive, sell as little as possible, save what you can. it's when you give it all up to them that you are dead. don't be in a hurry to make it. it's more important to sit around in the sunlight or sleep. it will come along if you let it...I am honored, of course, that you 'stole' the title THIS THING UPON ME, and hope that you find some poems in CRUCIFIX. I have signed some pages, one of them to you, must get them in the mail so the people can get their books. It seems so strange to be signing pages. is this the way it happens? your turn now. hail, Buk" Krumhansl 16. Near Fine.
Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital

Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital by Weller, Charles Frederick

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Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital
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Weller, Charles Frederick
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. With a chapter by Eugenia Winston Weller. Photographs by Weller, Lewis Hine, and Donald Glascoff. Dedication copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Weller to his mother. Very Good. Green cloth, bumped at the corners, rubbed and with some fraying at the edges, with some soiling to the white ink lettering and designs. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, clean internally. Weller's muckraking work exposing the housing conditions of many within the nation's capitol. In his introductory letter, President Theodore Roosevelt praises Weller's mission, stating, "I believe that your study will be helpful both in pointing out the evils which block the way and in suggesting remedial measures. We of this country are just beginning to appreciate the social problems which have developed while our cities have been growing so marvelously and while our people have been over-absorbed in their industrial and commercial tasks. We are now becoming conscious of some of the unevenness which has naturally resulted from the rapidity of material growth, the over-absorption in material things ; we are beginning to think of the neighbors and neighborhoods which have been neglected. In a democracy like ours, it is an ill thing for all of us, if any of us suffer from unwholesome surroundings or from lack of opportunity for good home life, good citizenship and useful industry." If Weller's inscription is to be believed, this is one of the first three copies of the book bound, the other two reserve for President Roosevelt and Weller's wife.
Mémoires. L'intervention française au Mexique

Mémoires. L'intervention française au Mexique by Blanchot, Charles ie Auguste Charles Philippe (1834-1918

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Mémoires. L'intervention française au Mexique
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Blanchot, Charles ie Auguste Charles Philippe (1834-1918
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
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Good
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3 volumes. Volume 1. vi+314 with frontispiece and plates; volume 2. 372 pages with frontispiece and plates. volume 3. 518 pages with frontispiece and one plate. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x6 1/4") Bound in quarter leather with gilt lettering to spine and raised spine bands; marbled boards. Preface par M. le Cte de MoüyFirst edition.Mémoires: L'Intervention Française au Mexique by Charles Blanchot. This very rare memoir by Charles Blanchot was aide-de-camp to General Bazaine, Supreme Commander of French Forces in Mexico during Mexico's Second Empire. There is so much in here that has never seen light in either Spanish or English, for instance: the powerful if behind-the-scenes role of Doña Juliana de Gómez Pedraza, widow of Manuel Gómez Pedraza, and the vicious if, as Blanchot suggests, unfounded rumors circulating in Mexico City about Bazaine in 1866-7. Blanchot, who married an American of French origin in Mexico City, also offers a detailed and lively portrait of Mexico City society at the time.Condition:First signature of volume one detached with some edge wear along the fore-edges, title to volume two detached, binding edges and hinges rubbed, spines darkened. A good copy of a very rare and scarce work.
Godot: An imaginary staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Godot: An imaginary staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett by [Arion Press] Wiley, William T., author and afterword; David Littlejohn, introduction; Andrew Hoyem, program note and synopsis

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Godot: An imaginary staging by William T. Wiley of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
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[Arion Press] Wiley, William T., author and afterword; David Littlejohn, introduction; Andrew Hoyem, program note and synopsis
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San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 286 of 300 numbered copies for sale with 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution. Signed by William T. Wiley on the colophon. This exuberant and mordantly witty edition of this book was published on the hundredth anniversary of Beckett's most famous work. William T. Wiley (1937 - 2021) was an influential artist and educator who helped found the funk art movement and establish the San Francisco Bay Area art scene as an unfiltered alternative to what he saw as the flagrant commercialism of New York, The funk art movement took its name from "Funk," a seminal exhibition organized by the curator Peter Selz in Berkeley in 1967. It included, among others, Mr. Wiley, the painter Joan Brown, the sculptor Robert Hudson and the ceramist Robert Arneson. None, it seemed, could ever fully agree on what funk art was, only on what it was not [from the NYT obituary of Wiley] For this Arion Press publication, Wiley made fifty-two cartoon-like drawings. In his program note, Hoyem writes that the audience should remember that this is not the play Godot. It is a book about the play with a critic's appreciation and an artist's comments. It is an artist's book by Wiley inspired by Waiting for Godot. The synopsis is only a guide. This book was designed by Andrew Hoyem, who provided the program note that appears before the curtain rises, and a synopsis that runs in five-line segments beneath the Wiley illustrations. The binding of the book and its slipcase have yellow paper sides and blue cloth spines and labels, imprinted with the titling and images by Wiley. Printed on mouldmade Hahnemüle paper using Century Expanded type. The wordplay on the slipcase includes the palindrome "To Dog Godot" and is surrounded by a field of Irish potatoes. [from the accompanying prospectus] This Arion Press edition was provided for free to purchasers of the bilingual Grove Press edition of Waiting for Godot. It is present here. In fine condition. Measures 10 x 15 inches. 68 pages. PRI/112524.
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Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance by AINSWORTH, W. H.

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Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance
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AINSWORTH, W. H.
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London: Henry Colburn, 1843. First. hardcover. very good(+). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Ainsworth by Maclise. Illustrated with 14 etchings by George Cruikshank & 4 plates by Tony Johannot; 87 wood-engravings & woodcut title by W. A. Delamotte. xii, 324pp. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere & Son in full navy blue calf with ornate gilt-stamped spine; inner dentelles; uncut edges (light edgewear to leather with minor repairs to joints; scattered foxing throughout). London: Henry Colburn, 1843. Very good (+). First Edition in one volume. Cohn 19.
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Prometheus Bound & Prometheus Unbound by AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysse

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Prometheus Bound & Prometheus Unbound
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AESCHYLUS & SHELLEY, Percy Bysse
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fine
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Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1965. Limited. hardcover. fine. Translated by Rex Warner. With a Preface by Rex Warner and Drawings by John Farleigh. With 16 illustrations. 161pp. Tall 8vo, gilt-stamped cloth' publisher's board slipcase. Haarlem, Holland: The Limited Editions Club, 1965. A fine copy. One of 1500 numbered copies.
Micromegas Histoire Philosophique

Micromegas Histoire Philosophique by Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de

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Micromegas Histoire Philosophique
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Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de
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Orig. full two-toned brown leather, covers decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine
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Paris: Rene Kieffer, 1923. leather_bound. Orig. full two-toned brown leather, covers decorated in blind, backstrip lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine. 54 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 95 of 500 on velin la forme with 45 vignettes in pochoir by Joseph Hemard. An exquisite copy bound by Kieffer with his label on verso of front cover paste-down. Hémard’s lasting fame, however, lies in his book illustrations – always with a distinctly French character, usually comic, and often mildly erotic. He was probably the most prolific book illustrator in the first half of the twentieth century in France.
A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of Their Works (5 Volumes)

A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of Their Works (5 Volumes) by Walpole, Horatio. Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park

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A catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland, and Ireland; with Lists of Their Works (5 Volumes)
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Walpole, Horatio. Enlarged and continued to the present time, by Thomas Park
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London: John Scott, 1806. Full Decorated Calf. Very Good. Scarce large paper edition! 4to. 29 by 23 cm. xxxii, 326, x, 352, x, 343, x, 400, x, 408 pp. With 138 copper engraved portraits. Condition: rebacked, with black stamped ornamentation on newer spine, and elaborate gilt decoration on contemporary calf boards. Foxing scattered throughout volumes. Regardless, an appealing copy, both externally and internally.
Mickey7; Antimatter Blues

Mickey7; Antimatter Blues by Ashton, Edward

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Mickey7; Antimatter Blues
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Ashton, Edward
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Oxford: Solaris, 2023. First British Edition. Fine/Fine. First British edition, first printing of both novels. Each signed by Edward Ashton on a tipped-in page at front. 309, [2]; 314, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's blue or gray paper over boards, silver lettering to spines. Fine in Fine dust jackets; as new. The first novel, Mickey7, inspired the Bong Joon-ho 2025 film Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson.
The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per Cent!!!

The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per Cent!!!

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The Whole Art of Dress! Or, The Road to Elegance and Fashion at the Enormous Saving of Thirty Per Cent!!!
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London: Effingham WIlson, 1830. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Small 8vo. vii,(1),100pp. Hand colored frontispiece, plus six lithographed plates. Modern quarter morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, leather lettering label, gilt; cloth boards; vellum corners; marbled endpapers. With the original wrappers bound in at the rear. Without the publisher' s catalogue, sometimes present. Title, frontispiece and plates lightly soiled and stained; the bound-in covers are darkened and badly rubbed. A good copy in a fine binding. None of the bibliographical references assign an author. The front cover shows a “swell” in front of a cheval mirror, surrounded by boots, hats, brushes, combs, etc. The rear cover shows a scruffy gent in a bookshop with the caption “I want The Whole art of Dress!” The plates are of pantaloons, stocks and neck cloths, ties, hats, boots, etc. Rare. Abbey, Life, 422. Hiler, p. 989. Colas 3075.
Handwritten Speech; Dances with Wolves; Library Tour Ephemera

Handwritten Speech; Dances with Wolves; Library Tour Ephemera by Blake, Michael

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Handwritten Speech; Dances with Wolves; Library Tour Ephemera
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Blake, Michael
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2002. Five items relating to Michael Blake and his Library Tour of 2002: 1. "Dances with Wolves", NY, Newmarket Press, 1991. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine, clipped dustwrapper. 2. Blank notebook with Blake's holograph library speech on the first 10pp. The remaining pages are blank. Some pages have been removed from the beginning, probably earlier speech drafts removed by Blake himself. 3. Two programs from the tour: Hattiesburg(?), MS, Sept. 23 and Notre Dame, Sept. 28. The first is fine; the second as been folded. Both are a single sheet folded to make four pages. 4. Doug Knott, Binder containing original 'Doug Knott Presents the Lhasa Shows' sheets from 1985 to 1987 and with a handwritten notice at the beginning, "...for Mr. Blake to meet some old friends...". Laid in are six typewritten draft sheets of Knott's poetry "...for perusal of Sr. Blake 5/27/91." .
A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body

A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body by Bird, William

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A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body
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Bird, William
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1642. of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes. of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes. "Nobilitie of the Realme" [Bird, William]. A Treatise of the Nobilitie of the Realme. Collected Out of the Body of the Common Law, With Mention of Such Statutes as are Incident Hereunto, Upon a Debate of the Barony of Aburgavenny. With a Table of the Heads Contained in this Treatise. London: Printed by A.N. for Mathew Walbanke and Richard Best, 1642. [iv], 157, [1] pp. Woodcut illustrations (genealogical tables). Octavo (5-1/2" x 3-1/2"). Recent period-style calf, blind rules and fillets to boards, gilt-edged raised bands, blind ornaments and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Title page and text printed within ruled borders. Light browning to text, somewhat heavier in places, occasional faint dampspotting, some edgewear to title page and a few other leaves, internally clean. $250. * Only edition. The occasion for this treatise was a contemporary controversy regarding the legitimacy of Edward Nevill's claim to the title of Lord Bergavenny. His claim is the starting point for a general review of peerage law. Another edition, with additions by Sir John Doddridge, was published later in 1642 as The Magazine of Honour; Or, A Treatise of the Severall Degrees of the Nobility of this Kingdome. Both editions are scarce. OCLC locates 8 copies of Treatise in North American law libraries (Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Library of Congress, Ohio State, University of Minnesota, University of Pennsylvania, York University). English Short-Title Catalogue R18509.
[STEREOVIEW] LIBBY PRISON. No. 4 FROM VIEWS OF RICHMOND, VA. AND VICINITY

[STEREOVIEW] LIBBY PRISON. No. 4 FROM VIEWS OF RICHMOND, VA. AND VICINITY

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[STEREOVIEW] LIBBY PRISON. No. 4 FROM VIEWS OF RICHMOND, VA. AND VICINITY
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Very Good binding
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Richmond: Geo. O. Ennis, 1865. Very Good binding. Stereoview from the 1860s, showing Libby Prison from the south side. The image was issued by Richmond’s Geo. O. Ennis, with the publisher’s list of images available printed on blue paper and affixed to the back of the card -- “~. Libby Prison is No. 4 on the list. “The subject published on this card is indicated by a mark under the name and number. | For sale at the principal hotels and book-stores throughout the city”. Very Good binding.
[MILITARY] ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865

[MILITARY] ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865

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[MILITARY] ARTILLERY FOR THE LAND SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES. 12 PDR GUN NAPOLEON #20. 1849 - 1865
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Port Huron, MI: Anitque Ordinance Publishers, 1984. Oblong 4to with coated card stock covers. Illustrated with facsimile diagrams throughout.
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Things Fall Apart. by ACHEBE, Chinua.

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Things Fall Apart.
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ACHEBE, Chinua.
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London:: Folio Society,. Near Fine. 2008. Hardcover. First edition thus. Fine in a near fine slipcase. ; 175 pages .
Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir.
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Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir. by ACKERMAN, Diane.

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Twilight of the Tenderfoot: A Western Memoir.
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ACKERMAN, Diane.
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9780688036058
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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NY:: William Morrow,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. 0688036058 . Black and white photographs. First printing. Review copy with slip and publisher's press release laid in. Very good in a very good (age toning to rear panel and flaps) dust jacket. .
Karel Appel: Street Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa El Salvador

Karel Appel: Street Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa El Salvador by APPEL, Karel; RESTANY, Pierre; Allen GINSBERG (photographer)

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Karel Appel: Street Art, Ceramics, Sculpture, Wood Reliefs, Tapestries, Murals, Villa El Salvador
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APPEL, Karel; RESTANY, Pierre; Allen GINSBERG (photographer)
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9780896595217
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A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear
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New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. Hardcover. A fine copy in a very good plus jacket that has some light wear. 15.5 x 12 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition.
Pleasure Drives Around Cape Ann.

Pleasure Drives Around Cape Ann. by Anon.

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Pleasure Drives Around Cape Ann.
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Anon.
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This turn-of-the-Century tour reveals long forgotten sights. Names are named and specific sites described. Also a good collectio
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Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Advertiser, 1896. This turn-of-the-Century tour reveals long forgotten sights. Names are named and specific sites described. Also a good collection of early photos. Scarce. Bound in publisher's pebbled cloth with gold cover lettering. Very good condition. . 20 cm. 100 pp. b/w plates
Addresses by Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., Delivered at the Annual Commencements, from 1808-1818; with a Sketch of His Character

Addresses by Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., Delivered at the Annual Commencements, from 1808-1818; with a Sketch of His Character by Appleton, Jesse

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Addresses by Rev. Jesse Appleton, D.D., Delivered at the Annual Commencements, from 1808-1818; with a Sketch of His Character
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Appleton, Jesse
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Brunswick: Joseph Griffin, 1820. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First edition. Binder's copy. 1820 Hard Cover. xxxi, 176 pp. Sabin 1802. A collection of addresses by the president of Bowdoin College. Includes: Copies of the Application and Answer; Sketch of the Character of President Appleton; Inaugural Address: Annual Addresses: Commencement 1808: Classical Literature; Commencement 1809: Essential Difference of Moral Actions; Commencement 1810: Independence of Character; Commencement 1811: Love of Praise; Commencement of 1812: Philosophical Principles of Liberal Education; Commencement 1813: Harmony of Character; Commencement 1814: Connexion Between Intellectual and Moral Improvement; Commencement 1815: Immutability of Moral Distinctions; Commencement 1816: Practical Utility of Intellectual Philosophy in Public Life; Commencement 1817: Importance of Application; Commencement 1818: Influence of Liberal Education in Society; Introductory Lecture, Dangers and Securities of a College Life; Letter to the Students of Bowdoin College.
YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2

YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2 by CARRIGAN, Andrew G.

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YOU POEMS: The Crowfoot Poetry Series Volume 2
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CARRIGAN, Andrew G.
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Near fine in a near fine jacket.
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Ann Arbor: Crowfoot Press, 1979. Limited ed. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed limited edition, one of only 350 copies. A nice association between Carrigan and the Mikolowskis, who had published several of the poems included here via their Alternative Press imprint; a nice edition from another Ann Arbor fine press. Wraps. Small 4to. Plain white card wraps with printed paper dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. ASSOCIATION: INSCRIBED by Carrigan in the year of publication to Ken and Ann Mikolowski of Ann Arbor's Alternative Press, at title page. Light handling wear to jacket and wraps. Interior bright, crisp, and clean. Good and sound. Unpaginated.
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Fighting Trim at Navy Overseas Freight Terminal by Anonymous

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Fighting Trim at Navy Overseas Freight Terminal
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Anonymous
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S. l. (San Francisco): Navy Overseas Freight Terminal, 1944. First Edition. Very good. First edition presumed, n. d. (ca 1944); 5 1/4 x 4; pp. [30]; beige, mimeographed, stapled wraps; mimeographed illustrations and text to rectos only; a small chip to upper corner of one leaf, else minor wear; in very good or better condition. An unrecorded booklet, it was distributed among the enlisted personnel at the Navy Overseas Freight Terminal in San Francisco and proudly proclaimed: "We count on every man and woman to be ON DUTY every Day. Accidents are sabotage. They wreck equipment, ruin schedules, and injure valued employees. Accidents are comfort to the enemy...this book shows you safe ways to work - to KEEP FIGHTING TRIM." And showing it did, with caricaturish illustrations, how to pay attention to signs, how to work and not horse around, how to realize a mild discomfort is turning into a big deal, and so on. The Navy Overseas Freight Terminal was responsible, among other things, for the sourcing, shipping, and accounting for the vast amount of supplies needed for the war in the Pacific.
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ON BOOKS, AN INFORMAL TALK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, APRIL 17, 1953 by Adler, Elmer

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ON BOOKS, AN INFORMAL TALK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, APRIL 17, 1953
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Adler, Elmer
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ON BOOKS, AN INFORMAL TALK AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, APRIL 17, 1953, Plantin Press, 1953, first edition, fine in boards with cloth spine. Inscribed by the author to former premier Walt Whitman collector, bibliophile and philanthropist, Charles Feinberg. Adler was the publisher and co-founder of The Colophon.
The national policy of the Soviet Union

The national policy of the Soviet Union by Rysakoff, A.

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The national policy of the Soviet Union
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Rysakoff, A.
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New York: International Publishers, 1932. Hardcover. vi, 71 p., dark blue cloth boards, very good condition lacking the jacket. B&W photos of minority group members, two maps.
The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself

The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself

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The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself
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Tucson: See Sharp Press, 2013. Pamphlet. 24p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch pamphlet, as New. "This essay was originally published in the United States in 1975 by The Spectacle under the title "Self-Theory: the pleasure of thinking for yourself." An extensively revised edition was published in London in 1985 by Spectacular Times under the title "Revolutionary self-help: a beginner's manual," and it has appeared twice since then in American periodicals under the title "Revolutionary Self-Theory"; in 1989 it was published in a slightly revised edition by OVO, and in 1992 in a further revised edition by No Longer Silent (NLS). The 1992 See Sharp Press (SSP) pamphlet edition was an extensively rewritten and somewhat expanded version of the text that appeal in NLS. This 2013 edition is a revised and expanded version of the 1992 SSP edition." - first page.
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Forty Fourth Infantry Division- Fort Lewis, Washington, April 1953

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Forty Fourth Infantry Division- Fort Lewis, Washington, April 1953
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Baton Rouge: Army and Navy Publishing Company, 1953. Hardcover. Quarto [31 cm] Blue cloth covered boards with silver and orange ink stamped title and design on the front cover. Very good. The spine ends and edges of the covers are very gently bumped and rubbed. The text block is beginning to crack at the beginning. The pages are mildly age-toned. Includes Fort Lewis history and 44th Infantry Division history. Other subjects include machine guns, bazooka, grenades, and more.
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SPEECH...AT ABINGTON, OCTOBER 9, 1848 by WEBSTER, Daniel

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SPEECH...AT ABINGTON, OCTOBER 9, 1848
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WEBSTER, Daniel
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Second Life Books Inc (United States)
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8vo, pp. 8. Paper. Some foxing, o/w VG. A speech in support of Gen Taylor as the Whig nominee for President.

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