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Verses (Presentation copy) by Rossetti, Christina G.

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Title: Verses (Presentation copy)
Author: Rossetti, Christina G.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: G. Polidori's, 1847. First edition. Fine. A Fine copy, inscribed on front blank "E.H. Polidori / from Christina Rossetti / July 1847." Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches; 159 x 98 mm.). [iv], 66, [2, blank] pp. Page 55-56 are in the corrected state: dated 1847 at the end; stanza 5, line 1 reads "And now that thou art gone"; stanza 5, line 3 reads "And see the clouds"; stanza 6, line 1 reads '"Yes, oftentimes I sit beneath it now"; stanza 8, lines 1-2 have quotation marks; stanza 8, line 1 ends with a semi-colon. A superb exhibition binding by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900. Full green morocco, covers with an elaborate floral decoration in gilt with red morocco inlays. Spine with five raised bands elaborately gilt with red morocco floral inlays and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, tan morocco liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. Joints expertly and invisibly repaired. Publishers blue patterned cloth wrappers bound in. With the engraved bookplate of Charles Plumptre Johnson on verso of front endpaper and the armorial bookplate of Dr. Samuel L. Sieger on first blank leaf. Housed in a full dark green morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. A spectacular rare first edition in a beautiful 'Exhibition' binding of Christina Rossetti's first book. Printed by her grandfather Gaetano Polidori's private press in Park Village East near Regent's Park when the author was just sixteen years old, the delicate book contains 42 poems, two of which are in Italian. It includes the first poem Rossetti ever wrote-a birthday present for her mother-as well as the poems The Dead City and The Water Spirit's Song, and several centered around the rose, the author's personal emblem (Marsh, Hayward). A highly important and delightful example of a young poet's talent foreshadowing her creative career to come. This volume was presented to Eliza Harriet Polidori (1809-1893), Christina Rossetti's maternal aunt, a brave woman who worked as one of Florence Nightingale's nurses in the Crimean War and "managed the stores at the Barrack Hospital at Scutari" where injured soldiers were brought from battle to be treated (Bostridge). Christina wished to serve alongside her aunt at the barrack Hospital, but was rejected due to her young age. Dante Gabriel Rossetti took a less favorable view of Polidori, calling her his "maniac aunt" in a letter to William Bell Scott in 1854 (Fredeman). Following Polidori's death by cancer, Christina would inherit her aunt's fortune. Fredeman 44.2; Hayward 267; Ashley IV, p. 99; Tinker 1784; CBEL III, 497; CBEL (3) IV, 659; Marsh pp. 32-41, 72-76. Fine.

Feats on the Fjord by [Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet

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Title: Feats on the Fjord
Author: [Rackham, Arthur] Martineau, Harriet
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Limited/E.P. Dutton & Company, 1914. Second edition. Publisher's original blue cloth pictorially and ornamentally stamped in gilt, gilt lettered and ornamented spine with "Dent London" at foot. Onlaid color plate to upper board and blue cloth label with "With Many Coloured Illustrations" pasted over small rectangular panel. Original pictorial dust jacket (with "J.M. Dent & Sons" at foot printed in green at foot). Neat gift signature to front paste-down. With all the plates in color, in an unrecorded binding variant. Octavo (7 x 5 in; 178 x 127 mm). 128 pages. Eight color plates, including frontispiece (all dated 1899). A Fine copy in the very scarce dust jacket (jacket slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine). Both Latimore & Haskell and Riall note binding in red or green cloth but not blue, as here. The half-title reads: Tales for Children from Many Lands Edited by F.C. Tilney. "I have seen a copy that causes a confusion as to which is the 1st edition. The cover has a label pasted over With Coloured Illustrations by Arthur Rackham to change the title to With coloured illustrations , and on the title page there is no mention of Coloured by W. Cubitt Cooke. There may have been a mistake of ommitting the the colouring had been done by another on the title page so the pasted plate was added to the cover until the 2nd. issue" (Riall). Just to complicate matters further - our copy has the label on the front cover AND Coloured by W. Cubitt Cooke on the title-page. In the first edition of 1899 [The Temple Classics for Young People], the twelve plates, with the exception of the frontispiece, are in black and white, and the title page thus lacks the credit to W. Cubitt Cooke. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Riall 122.

Harvard 1660: Girls in the Dorms, “Lascivious” Conduct, Students Drinking and Carousing by Harvard

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Title: Harvard 1660: Girls in the Dorms, “Lascivious” Conduct, Students Drinking and Carousing
Author: Harvard
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 1660. The earliest document relating to Harvard we have had, and the first we’ve seen on the market about young people partying at the collegeThe Massachusetts Bay Colony was first settled in 1630, when a flotilla of ships sailed from England in April bearing 700 Puritans under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop. The colonists began arriving at Salem in June. Thousands more followed from Old England to New. Nathaniel and Anna Bowman were among them, arriving in Watertown with the earliest settlers in 1630. According to Watertown historian, Marilyn Roach, Bowman “received several grants of plow land and meadow in town and farmed here for decades before the couple and their seven children moved in 1651 to the part of Cambridge that later became Lexington.”Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. With some 17,000 Puritans migrating to New England by 1636, it was founded in anticipation of the need for training clergy for the new commonwealth. The new College, an early tract said, was a “first flower in their wilderness,” intended to prevent “an illiterate ministry when our present ministers shall lie in dust.” So Harvard was designed as an institution to promote religion, and in Massachusetts that generally meant the Puritan variety known as the Congregational Church.But it seems that not all Puritans were as puritanical as one would assume, and that young people of every generation have much in common. There was a muster of the local militia in Cambridge, a periodic event that tended to draw an audience. There was one in the summer of 1660, and quite a number of the youths went looking for a good time. On July 24, 1660, court records show that constables were ordered to summon over a dozen young men and women to appear “to answer for lascivious meeting together at the general training last at Cambridge, both in an ordinary [bar] and at the college [Harvard] among some of ye students.” Two of these were 20-year-old Nathaniel Bowman, Jr. and his 18-year-old sister Johanna.Following up on this, on September 24, 1660, the constable of Cambridge was ""required to warn Nathaniel Bowman & Johannah Bowman to appear before me at my house on the last day of this instant week about nine of the clock in the morning then & there to answer for their being at a lascivious meeting of sundry young men & maids at the general training lately held at Cambridge”.Middlesex Court Records now housed at the Massachusetts Archives include a collection of statements by witnesses to the “questionable"" behavior that ensued after the muster when local youths and Harvard students began to carouse. According to records, witnesses encountered “singing and smoking” at the camp in the field,” wine drinking in a tavern, young women perched on a young man’s lap, and unauthorized girls in Harvard dorm rooms. Breaking parietals with girls in the dorms, 1660 style.The community elders were outraged; and the transgressors must be brought to confession or punishment. Document Signed, Watertown, Mass, 1660, a confession and plea for pardon from Nathaniel Bowman. The document reads, in part: ""The humble acknowledgement of Nathaniel Bowman humbly confesseth in answer to what is charged against him by this Honored Court that he desireth heartily to be sorrowful that he was so far overtaken in being in both such company & whereas so much dishonor came to God; and so much cause of offence to his people and trouble to this Honored Court; with thankfullness to the Honored Deputy for his good advice, which through the grace of God I hope will worke a better change in my heart. So craving humble pardon from the Honored Court, for the offenses done.”

Friedrich Auguste Böhme, R.S. Musikdirektor und Posannen Konig zu Dresden. Original drawing executed in pencil, black chalk, and colored washes by [TROMBONE - German - 19th Century]. Alvensleben, Oscar von 1831-1903

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Title: Friedrich Auguste Böhme, R.S. Musikdirektor und Posannen Konig zu Dresden. Original drawing executed in pencil, black chalk, and colored washes
Creator: [TROMBONE - German - 19th Century]. Alvensleben, Oscar von 1831-1903
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: 300 x 204 mm. Signed "O.v. Alv." and dated 18 April [18]76. On light blue paper with watermark 'G.G." The subject is depicted three-quarter length in military dress, holding a top hat in his left hand and a cigar in his right. His first finger points up towards a small drawing of a musical staff with a trombone and several musical notes. Alvensleben was a German artist working in Dresden where he studied at the Kunstakademie. The Wiener Zeitung reported that Böhme performed three concert pieces on the trombone at the Carl-Theater there on 3 August 1860.

Photographie 1936 by Abraham, Pierre; Jean Vétheuil; R. Auvillain (Text by); Gaston Paris; George Hurrel; John Somerset Murray; Marcel Bovis; Mitsutaro Fuku; Kardas; Maurice Tabard; Harry Meerson; Herbert List; Hein Gorny; Cecil Beaton; Pierre Boucher; Thérèse Le Prat; Geo

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Title: Photographie 1936
Author: Abraham, Pierre; Jean Vétheuil; R. Auvillain (Text by); Gaston Paris; George Hurrel; John Somerset Murray; Marcel Bovis; Mitsutaro Fuku; Kardas; Maurice Tabard; Harry Meerson; Herbert List; Hein Gorny; Cecil Beaton; Pierre Boucher; Thérèse Le Prat; Geo
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1935. First edition. Softcover. vg. Folio (12 1/4 x 10"). [14]pp (Text), 120pp (Plates), 121-139, [1]pp (Text and advertisement). Original spiral bound decorative wrappers by Pierre Boucher. "Photographie" was an annual special issue of the magazine "Arts et Métiers Graphiques" entirely dedicated to modern photography, and which published the work of the leading photographers and photographic agencies of the period. This 1936 edition contains 120 striking photographs reproduced in heliogravure, and taken by the following photographers: Gaston Paris; George Hurrel; John Somerset Murray; Marcel Bovis; Mitsutaro Fuku; Kardas; Maurice Tabard; Harry Meerson; Herbert List; Hein Gorny; Cecil Beaton; Pierre Boucher; Thérèse Le Prat; George Platt Lynes; Erwin Blumenfeld; Willy Prager; Marianne Breslauer; Lucien Vogel; Bill Brandt; Chin San Long (Lang Jingshan), and many others. Minor shelf wear. Tip of lower front corner slightly bumped, thus slightly affecting pages throughout. Text and captions in French. Wrappers in overall good+ to very good, interior in very good condition.

Descriptive Catalogue Frost & Adams Importers of Artist Material, Draughting Papers, Tracing Cloth and Mathematical Instruments

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Title: Descriptive Catalogue Frost & Adams Importers of Artist Material, Draughting Papers, Tracing Cloth and Mathematical Instruments
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Framingham, MA: Lakeview Press, 1882. Pocket Edition. Paper wraps. 148pp. Covers with with a few holes. Foxing.

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Keep It Simple by Terry Bradshaw

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Title: Keep It Simple
Author: Terry Bradshaw
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780743417303
Condition: Fine
Description: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine copy in Like Jacket first Edition/First Printing.$24.00 On Flap.Signed by the AuthorOn Ttle-Page.Large Signature of this Super-Bowl Quarterback From Pittsburgh. Ink Stamp On Front Board.

Retro Blakesberg. Volume One: The Film Archives by Blakesberg, Jay; Coyne, Wayne (foreword); Franti, Michael (intro)

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Title: Retro Blakesberg. Volume One: The Film Archives
Author: Blakesberg, Jay; Coyne, Wayne (foreword); Franti, Michael (intro)
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780965369503
Condition: Like New
Description: Rock Out books, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. Blakesberg, Jay. Hardcover with pictorial boards, 12" x 9.75", 312 pp., photographic endpapers, full color photography throughout. Signed by Blakesberg on title page. This is not the limited edition. Photos of rock performers & fans from Blakesberg's long career. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

The Port of Missing Men by NICHOLSON, Meredith

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Title: The Port of Missing Men
Author: NICHOLSON, Meredith
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1907. Clarence F. UNDERWOOD. [LITERARY WORK] [FICTION] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [DECORATIVE BINDING]. Clarence F. UNDERWOOD, illustrations. First edition. 12mo; 399, [1]pp + [4]pp publisher's ads; navy pictorial cloth over board, lettering in red, a tree framed pastoral scene stamped on front in color, decorated spine; ownership on ffep; fp with tissue guard + 6 additional plates in b&w; light shelf wear; near fine. "The story combines elements of mystery and adventure, centering on the character John Armitage, an enigmatic figure with a past intertwined with European nobility." (Project Gutenberg). In 1914 this book was turned into a silent movie by the same title. The Port of Missing Men was #3 on the 1907 national best selling list. Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was an author and politician. He became the U.S. Minister to first Nicaragua, then Venezuela, and Paraguay under the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. (WIKI).

Retrospect: Biennale of International Photography by PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER OF SKOPELOS

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Title: Retrospect: Biennale of International Photography
Author: PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER OF SKOPELOS
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A few marks on wrappers, otherwise fine
Description: Skopelos, Greece: Photographic Center of Skopelos, 1990. First edition. A few marks on wrappers, otherwise fine. 11.25 x 8.25 inches. Text in English and Greek. 110 pages. Profusely illustrated in black-and-white. Original wrappers. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held from 26 June to 20 August.

Hello; A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976 by Creeley, Robert

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Title: Hello; A Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976
Author: Creeley, Robert
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: New Directions, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Creeley on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned at the edges. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Creeley's "verse journal" of his travels through Southeast Asia.

Tambay Gold by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

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Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA

Title: Tambay Gold
Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: NY: Dell, 1943. Mass market paperback. Very good. Mass market paperback. First printing. Spine rolled, wraps darkened and rubbed, else a very good, tightly bound example.

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