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Poems - Second Series

Poems - Second Series by Dickinson, Emily

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Poems - Second Series
Author
Dickinson, Emily
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892. Second printing. Near Fine. One of 1,000 copies of the second printing (with 1891 on the copyright page and 1892 on the title-page). Publisher's green cloth over white boards decorated in gilt (Myerson's A binding). 230 pp., with the four page facsimile of "Renunciation" in the preliminaries. All edges gilt. An attractive copy, bright and fresh throughout, with just a bit of soiling to boards. Contemporary ink ownership signature to preliminary blank. Near Fine. "One of the most popular and enigmatic American writers of the nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems. Nevertheless, her work was essentially unknown to contemporary readers since only a handful of poems were published during her lifetime, and a vast trove of her manuscripts was not discovered until after her death in 1886. Often typecast as a recluse who rarely left her Amherst home, Dickinson was, in fact, socially active as a young woman and maintained a broad network of friends and correspondents even as she grew older and retreated into seclusion" (The Morgan Library). Called the "great poet of inwardness" by Joyce Carol Oates and "the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries" by Harold Bloom, Dickinson was a master of short-form poetry who deployed metaphors drawn from the natural world to explore experiences of wonder, death and loss, religious faith and doubt, meaning and meaninglessness, and selfhood. Near Fine.
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Mid-19th-century Watch Paper by Williams, J. H

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Seller: ZH BOOKS
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Mid-19th-century Watch Paper
Author
Williams, J. H
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
St. Clairsville, Ohio: J. H. Williams, Watch Maker. Jewelry, Watch and Fancy Store, 1854. Very good. Watch paper; 1 3/4 inch in diameter; text in various fancy fonts to recto; manuscript note to verso; a bit of age-toning and minor foxing; several tiny nicks to edges; in very good condition. Watch papers, popular in the 18th- and 19th- centuries, were round paper disks, placed between the inner and outer cases of pocket watches to protect their inner workings. While most were engraved and illustrated and featured business names and advertisements for watchmakers, some were letterpress printed and a few were hand-drawn. There were also entirely hand-made ones, which were often created by young women - to be given to their sweethearts as proof of affection - and which were to be kept in the latter's watches, close to their hearts. The verso was often used to record repairs, over the life of the timepiece. This particular one advertised the services of J. H. Williams, Watchmaker, with a small manuscript name of the original owner of the watch and a date to verso - "Allen Dorsey / April 8, 1854." Though research has revealed little, it seems Williams might have also been a bookseller and a printer at one point in his career.
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Dry Land: Man and Plants. by Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.

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Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA
Title
Dry Land: Man and Plants.
Author
Adams, Robert; Adams, Marina; Willens, Alan; Willens, Ann.
Seller
Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1979). First Edition, Review Copy. Quarto, blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, vii, 152 pp. Good+, with soiling to page edges, neat former-owner stamps, former-owners published review pasted to rear endpaper, in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From jacket: Over a quarter of the world’s surface is arid or semi-arid, and there are fears that this total may increase sharply as the result of climatic change and growing pressures from an expanding and hungry world population. Urgent needs have led man himself to contribute alarmingly to the continuous depletion of the stock of usable lands through unconsidered exploitation: fertile areas are degrading rapidly and marginal ones are turning into deserts. This timely book shows how the threats to such fragile territories can be arrested, controlled and reversed through the careful management of dry-land ecosystems. It examines the characteristics of arid and semi-arid environments throughout the world and describes the kinds of vegetation they are able to support. Drawing thier lessons from nature, the authors show how indiginous vegetation can be used to create developments which are self-sustaining in the long run, based on an apporach that works with nature rather than against it. They set out in great detail the techniques that are involved, from the preliminary survey of climate, topography, soils and water through the analysis of the existing ecosystem, to the planning of developments with plants and regimes of irrigation, plant propagation and management of soil, water, vegeation, and human settlements....

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