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OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL by Wolf, Emma

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Title: OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL
Author: Wolf, Emma
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Company, 1892. Very good.. First edition of this interfaith contemporary romance - the "first American novel written by a Jew on a Jewish theme for an American audience" (D. G. Myers) - inscribed by the author to her brother. Wolf was a Jewish woman and wheelchair user born in California; her father, an immigrant from France, helped settle the Bay area in the 1840s. In the Gilded Age, most Jewish representation focused on the Eastern European immigrants living on the East Coast, especially New York City: Wolf's novels of high society in the West add welcome complexity to the literary landscape and counteract monolithic interpretations of US Jewish culture. This was Wolf's first novel, and its importance was immediately recognized, as evidenced in a letter Israel Zangill sent to the author, telling her: "Certainly you are the best product of American Judaism since Emma Lazarus." An interfaith romance between a Jewish woman and Christian man set in 1880s San Francisco, OTHER THINGS BEING EQUAL was a popular and influential novel that navigates the potential obstacles of an intermarriage with a poise and delicacy. When her mother becomes ill, the heroine comes into contact with the local doctor, a young and charming Christian man. The two fall in love and agree to get married, neither concerned about their differing religions nor expecting the other to convert. But the heroine's father objects to the marriage on the grounds that the gulf is too wide. Unable to proceed with a marriage her father cannot accept, the heroine breaks off the engagement. After attempting and failing to match her with a Jewish cousin, the heroine's father can no longer ignore the connection between the couple and gives them his blessing. What is especially remarkable about this romance is that it remains prominently interfaith, focusing on their common beliefs (e.g. in God, human goodness) while creating space for each to cherish their individual beliefs. A landmark in American fiction and the history of romance literature. 6.75'' x 4''. Original brown cloth with black-stamped floral frame on front board, gilt-lettered spine. Publisher's ads at rear. 275, [1], [4] pages. Inscribed by Wolf: "With 'the author's' love to her dear, every day dearer brother." Spine lean, wear along front joint and spine ends, bumping to corners: interior clean.

How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans by [New Orleans Board of Trade; Department of Agriculture; Louisiana Rice Exhibit]

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Title: How to Cook Rice. Presented by the Louisiana Rice Exhibit, New Orleans
Author: [New Orleans Board of Trade; Department of Agriculture; Louisiana Rice Exhibit]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [New Orleans]; New York: [The Board of Trade; Printed by] H. R. Elliot & Co., Printers and Embossers, 1910. Stapled booklet (10.25 x 15.25 cm.), [14] unnumbered leaves; printed text decorated with red borders, on rectos only. Cover title: Recipes for Cooking Rice. Author information inferred from external evidence. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A promotional publication designed “to create a greater interest” in a foodstuff that had yet to become a staple in many parts of the United States. With a dozen recipes, including Gumbo Soup, Jambalaya, Belle Calas (fritters), Rice Pudding, Riz au Lait. ~ The phrase “Louisiana Rice Exhibit” can be found in reference to displays in the agricultural halls of world’s fairs – the World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), for instance, as well as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (St. Louis, 1904) – but in the event the phrase is better understood not as an installation but as a program. The New Orleans Board of Trade had indeed exploited opportunities to educate the public by such means (cf A. C. Cantley, “Rice Display by Louisiana at World's Fair of 1904,” The Planter and Sugar Manufacturer 32, no. 7 [February 13, 1904], page 121), but it would have been highly unlikely for booklets such as How to Cook Rice to have been produced specifically for them without bearing any mark of the association. Moreover, Louisiana Rice Exhibits, so-named, were also staged at parish fairs, livestock shows, even horse races. Their visual aspect was meant to entrance and amuse. “The New Orleans Board of Trade made a very splendid exhibit,” a trade paper reported, “at the National Farm and Livestock Show with a display of all the products it handles, with the centerpiece a working model of a rice mill” (“Current Rice News Notes,” The Rice Journal and Southern Farmer 19, no. 12 (December 1916), page 33). ~ Founded in 1880, the Board itself coordinated, among many other activities, rice shipments from mills in Louisiana and, to a smaller extent, from eastern Texas and Arkansas, too. In this case, their printing contract with H. R. Elliot & Co. places the publication later than the Chicago Exposition, as this form of name was not in use until after 1900 (“The Manufacturing Stationer,” Walden’s Stationer and Printer 31 [Spring 1909], page 16). The date of issue proposed here rests on reports that the Board of Trade distributed booklets in or perhaps slightly before 1910 (a note, for example, from the American Poultry World recorded that recipes from the Louisiana Rice Exhibit of New Orleans had been received (1, no. 5 [March 1910], pages 354-355). ~ Interior clean and bright. Stapled in ivory wrappers with gilt illustration of rice plants overseen by a pelican (in honor of the Pelican State). Near fine. [OCLC locates four copies; Uhler 252; New Orleans Culinary History Group, page 152; not in Bitting, Brown or Cagle].

COAL-MINE WORKERS AND THEIR INDUSTRY. AN INDUSTRIAL HANDBOOK PREPARED BY THE EDUCATIONAL BUREAU OF THE I. W. W. FOR COAL-MINE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. 220, I. W. W. by Industrial Workers of the World

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Title: COAL-MINE WORKERS AND THEIR INDUSTRY. AN INDUSTRIAL HANDBOOK PREPARED BY THE EDUCATIONAL BUREAU OF THE I. W. W. FOR COAL-MINE WORKERS INDUSTRIAL UNION NO. 220, I. W. W.
Author: Industrial Workers of the World
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Chicago: Prepared by the Industrial Workers of the Word, 1922. 108, [4] pp. Original stapled pictorial wrappers. Cartoon illustration on verso of title page. Light wear, Very Good. The front wrapper depicts a happy coal miner, "ORGANIZED" in the IWW; and a nasty top-hatted capitalist oppressing an unhappy worker, "UNORGANIZED." The book is "The Story of a Great Industry and the Men Who Work in It." Topics: 1. What is coal? How did it come into existence? -- 2. The coal resources of the world -- 3. The coal fields of United States and Canada -- 4. The early history of coal in the United States -- 5. Who is a coal miner? -- 6. Who is who in the coal mining industry? -- 8. Coal production in the United States -- 9. Can the coal miners of the United States get justice through political union? -- 10. The struggle towards organization among the coal mine workers -- 11. The United Mine Workers of America -- 12. The International Miners' Federation -- 13. Relative importance of union and non-union fields -- 14. How is the product of the coal mine workers divided? -- 15. The false argument of the operators -- 16. The proposed nationalization of the coal mines -- 17. The principles and methods of the I.W.W. -- 18. Why the coal miners should join Coal-Mine Workers' Industrial Union No. 220 of the Industrial Workers of the World. OCLC records over forty institutional locations; we have discovered no other copies in commerce.

“A Bird’s Eye View of The Whittington Press” by John Randle

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Title: “A Bird’s Eye View of The Whittington Press”
Author: John Randle
Seller: John Howell for Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: GERRY, Vance (1929-2005). "Los Angeles Printers: Some Recent Books About Them," In: Matrix, Number 7, Winter 1987, pp. 93-97. WITH: RITCHIE, Ward (1906-1996). "A Medley of Printers Past," pp. 83-92. WITH: RANDLE, John. "A Bird's Eye View of The Whittington Press," pp. 164-166. Manor Farm, Andoversford, Glouchestershire: The Whittington Press, 1987. 4to. 11 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. [vi], (168) pp. Gerry's article lists 11 recent publications about Los Angeles printers, and 4 books in progress with bibliographical descriptions and comments upon the contents, plus a tipped-in photograph of the books under discussion. Ritchie's article reminiscences about the fine printers that influenced his development as a printer, and includes 2 photographic illustrations of influential books, Randle's article accompanied by a folding plate, "Bird's Eye View of the Whittington Press," typical illustrations and plates accompanying the various articles; text clean, unmarked. Patterned paper over flexible-paper wrappers, printed dust-jacket; binding square and tight, spine lightly faded, head of spine and top edge of front panel of dust jacket with tears and fading, corners of the binding lightly bumped, as they extend over the text-block yapp-style. PD123-002. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION of 960 copies, this is one of 850 copies in wraps, set in 12-point Monotype Caslon, printed at the Whittington Press on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. For this observer, the most interesting article in this issue is the John Randle article on the Miriam Macgregor Bird's Eye View. This illustrates how printers and artists in different countries can inspire and provoke one another to exciting work. Randle writes: "We were so intrigued with Vance Gerry's 'A Map of the Castle Press circa 1943, as it is sentimentally if not accurately remembered by a printer's devil' which appeared in his Weather Bird no. 7 in 1981, that we reprinted it in Matrix 6 to illustrate his article 'Some Fond Reminiscences of a Boy Printer at the Castle Press.' We have now gone one stage further and taken a leaf out of Vance's book by doing the same thing for the Whittington Press. It took some persuasion to get Miriam Macgregor to agree to do it. Vance's easy (but accurate) line makes the job seem deceptively simple. But finally, after much talk of perspective and vanishing points, and balancing precariously on stools, Miriam succeeded in recording the Press at one instant in its life. I would rather she had been a little less literal (tidier floor and emptier waste-paper baskets) but she has preferred to show it warts and all. It was originally drawn as a keepsake for our trip to America in May, but then we thought it would also be of interest to those readers of Matrix who have hot had the opportunity to visit the Press." p. 164. In addition, this issue of Matrix contains 24 other articles on all aspects of the book arts by such contributors as Simon Lawrence, Christopher Skelton, Sebastian Carter on Victor Hammer, Roderick Cave, John Dreyfus, Brooke Crutchley; on the distaff side we find Edwina Ellis, Fiona Ross, and Enid Marx, among others.

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