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Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America by Zavala, Lorenzo de

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Title: Viage a los Estados-Unidos del Norte de America
Author: Zavala, Lorenzo de
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Contemporary red morocco, marbled endpapers. Minor foxing and toning
Description: Paris: Imprenta De Decourchant, 1834. First edition. vii, 374pp. Scattered annotations. 12mo. Contemporary red morocco, marbled endpapers. Minor foxing and toning. First edition. vii, 374pp. Scattered annotations. 12mo. Exiled from Mexico in 1830, Zavala came to New York to seek colonization for his empresario grants in southeastern Texas, transferring his interests to the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company. "From December 1832 until October 1833 he again served as governor of the state of Mexico, before returning to the Congress as a deputy for his native state of Yucatán. Named by President Antonio López de Santa Anna in October 1833 to serve as the first minister plenipotentiary of the Mexican legation in Paris, he reported to that post in the spring of 1834. When he learned that Santa Anna had assumed dictatorial powers in April of that year, Zavala denounced his former ally and resigned from his diplomatic assignment. Disregarding Santa Anna's orders to return to Mexico City, he traveled to New York and then to Texas, where he arrived in July 1835. From the day of his arrival, he was drawn into the political caldron of Texas politics. Although he first advocated the cause of Mexican Federalism, within a few weeks he became an active supporter of the independence movement; he served in the Permanent Council and later as the representative of Harrisburg in the Consultation and the Convention of 1836. At the convention he signed the Texas Declaration of Independence, along with Jose Francisco Ruiz, Jose Antonio Navarro, and fifty-six other delegates" (Handbook of Texas). The present work described his journey and impressions of the United States during his visit from 1830-1831 and was published while stationed in Paris in 1834. Raines praises the work as "One of the few books of travel in the U.S. worth reading. A fine picture of American manners, customs, and institutions, by a Mexican republican, with some notice of Austin's colonization in Texas ... A true patriot and uncompromising lover of liberty" (Raines). The work is further noted as "an incredibly important, although little known...meticulously written narrative about the democratic culture and institutions of the United States. Zavala's narrative not only stands as a major document of early Mexican-American letters, but also as one of the first theoretical and ethnographic examinations of democracy as a political and cultural institution. Thus, Zavala's book challenges the widespread acceptance by American scholars that Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America (1835) is the first book to take United States democracy as a focus of political and cultural study ... Zavala's story of democratic peoplehood will no doubt, in time, be read as one of the founding political texts of U.S. and Mexican democratic culture" (John-Michael Rivera in the introduction of the 2005 English translation of the present work, published by Arte Público Press, University of Houston, 2005). Clark, Old South III:118; Howes Z3; Palau 378349; Raines, p. 224; Sabin 106280; Streeter Texas 1156

[Novels of Surtees] (SIx Volumes); Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Handley Cross, Ask Mamma, Plain or Ringlets? and Mr. Romford's Hounds by Surtees, Robert Smith. Illustrations by John Leech, Phiz, H. K. Browne

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Title: [Novels of Surtees] (SIx Volumes); Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, Hawbuck Grange, Handley Cross, Ask Mamma, Plain or Ringlets? and Mr. Romford's Hounds
Author: Surtees, Robert Smith. Illustrations by John Leech, Phiz, H. K. Browne
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. Half Morocco. Cloth boards. Fine. Six volume set of Surtees bound in green half morocco by Bayntun Riviere. N.d., circa 1890. 8vo. 22 by 14.5 cm.

PUBLIC, READ! | AT THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CLUB OF BRAVES, HELD AT THE RESIDENCE OF RASTAS SPOTTEDHORSE, ON THE NIGHT OF THE 3D INST., ON MOTION, SANOHHIA ENOCH WAS CALLED TO THE CHAIR, AND CHALESTIA FREDQUICK APPOINTED SECRETARY.. by [An Undeciphered Broadside]

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Title: PUBLIC, READ! | AT THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CLUB OF BRAVES, HELD AT THE RESIDENCE OF RASTAS SPOTTEDHORSE, ON THE NIGHT OF THE 3D INST., ON MOTION, SANOHHIA ENOCH WAS CALLED TO THE CHAIR, AND CHALESTIA FREDQUICK APPOINTED SECRETARY..
Author: [An Undeciphered Broadside]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [np, 1850. Broadside, printed in two columns beneath caption title. 6-3/8" x 12-3/8". Old folds, closed tear at blank upper margin, lightly spotted at center. Good+. The broadside is filled with 'insider' references; they have resisted our effort to comprehend them. It consists of a series of complaints against one Hinchman, whose "advent among us was not agreeable, and he came without solicitation... The emigration of the said Hinchman from among us is the wish of each member of this club; and furthermore, resolved, that we will bring about said emigration peacibly if we can, forcibly if we are obliged to; kill him, if we must." Hinchman, among his other sins, "has been guilty of stealing the bills which the Braves stuck up in and about this city." We locate no reference to this mysterious broadside.

Complete Specification. Improvements in Baby-walkers (An American's Application for a British Patent) by Firnhaber, Edward

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Title: Complete Specification. Improvements in Baby-walkers (An American's Application for a British Patent)
Author: Firnhaber, Edward
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Redhill: Published for Her Majesty's Stationary Office, by Malcomson & Co., Ltd., 1899. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 10 x 7 1/4; self wraps, pp. [1], 2-3, [5]; illustrated with a small vignette at the top of first page and two photolithographed, reduced-scale plates from the original, manuscript engraving and drawing; faded stamp to top margin of first page; repairs to spine; in good to very good condition.A patent application for a bizarre contraption, it pertained to a baby walker on rails, invented by Edward Firnhaber - a Nebraska farmer and breeder of poultry. The walker consisted of an oval, elevated track - easily put together in sections and disassembled in one's living room - and a carriage with wheels, the latter moving along the track, with the child standing on the ground, holding on to the edges of the carriage, and moving along with it. According to Firnhaber, the system effectively contained (more precisely, trapped) the toddler, not allowing it to wander off, easily done with the free-moving walkers of his competitors, and thus keeping it safe from getting hurt, or getting underfoot of moms and nannies. The carriage also contained a seat in the back, allowing the kid to sit and rest, and a removable tray for toys, entertaining the child, while he/she was learning to walk. One could surmise from the document that a strong selling point for the system was the fact that the toddler would naturally lean his/her weight on the frame of the walker, thus preventing his/her legs from bowing outward and damaging the still-developing bones.

Selected Poems [Signed and Inscribed] by Gwendolyn Brooks

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Title: Selected Poems [Signed and Inscribed]
Author: Gwendolyn Brooks
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. Later Printing. Octavo (21 cm); x,127pp. Boards in pictorial teal and black paper wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket ($4.95). Jacket rubbed at extremities with sunning to spine and mild loss to spine ends. Pen to title on front panel and puncture near head of spine joint. Board extremities bumped and worn with sunning to top margin. Page edges lightly foxed and interior clean. Previous gift inscription to first free endsheet dated 1972. A Very Good or better example in like jacket. Signed by Brooks at title page dated 1996.

Monsieur Beaucaire by Tarkington, Booth

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Title: Monsieur Beaucaire
Author: Tarkington, Booth
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1900. New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1900. 8vo, 127, (1), pp. frontispiece and five other illustrations by C.D. Williams in two colors with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, faint spotting to the cloth, front free endpaper splitting at hinge but holding. Custom quarter leather slipcase. § First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel which was adapted twice into film, the first starring Rudolph Valentino in 1924 and the second starring Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield in 1946. Tarkington was one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

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The Legal Protection of Personality Rights Chinese and European Perspectives by Oliphant, Ken, Zhang Pinghua and Chen Lei (Eds.)

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Title: The Legal Protection of Personality Rights Chinese and European Perspectives
Author: Oliphant, Ken, Zhang Pinghua and Chen Lei (Eds.)
Seller: Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN: 9789004276291
Condition: LikeNew
Description: Leiden; Boston: Brill; Nijhoff [2018]. Hardcover. 9.5" x 6.25". X, 227pp. Publisher's brown boards. Fine. ISBN 9789004276291 . LikeNew. Hardcover .

Tight Shot by ALLMAN, Kevin

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Title: Tight Shot
Author: ALLMAN, Kevin
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780312119041
Condition: near fine
Description: New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 262 pages, 8vo, black boards, dust wrapper with mylar cover. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1995). First edition. Near fine. Signed in full by the author on the title page.

Shadow Land by Peter Straub

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Title: Shadow Land
Author: Peter Straub
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780698110458
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition; A Near Fine book in a Near fine dust jacket. A handsome copy of this novel by one of the horror masters! This copy is in near fine condition with only a light crimp at the spine ends, else fine; housed in a near fine dust jacket that shows mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and edges and one small closed tear to back panel top corner, else clean and bright. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; protected in a mylar cover and shipped in a sturdy box.

'The Executive of Utah' Selected Utah War Documents and Commentary Relating to Thomas L. Kane's Lost Lecture in Defense of Governor Alfred Cumming New York Historical Society 21 March 1859 by Kane, Thomas L. Introduced and edited by William P. MacKinnon

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Title: 'The Executive of Utah' Selected Utah War Documents and Commentary Relating to Thomas L. Kane's Lost Lecture in Defense of Governor Alfred Cumming New York Historical Society 21 March 1859
Author: Kane, Thomas L. Introduced and edited by William P. MacKinnon
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Norman: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2016. 1/55. 29pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by MacKinnon on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 11 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'At Sword's Point, Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859.' The Utah War of 1857-58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil Wars. The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier,' is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core.

Wonders of the Invisible World by Barzak, Christopher

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Title: Wonders of the Invisible World
Author: Barzak, Christopher
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780385392792
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 339pp. Very good hardback in a very good dust jacket.

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