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[Scrapbook Assembled by Willia Lucille Pettiford, an African-American Student at the Mary Potter School] by [African Americana]: [Education]: [North Carolina]: Pettiford, Willia Lucille

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Title: [Scrapbook Assembled by Willia Lucille Pettiford, an African-American Student at the Mary Potter School]
Author: [African Americana]: [Education]: [North Carolina]: Pettiford, Willia Lucille
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: [Oxford, N.C., 1939. Very good.. [32] leaves, illustrated with many dozens of ephemeral items, mostly school-related printed materials, newspaper clippings, and greeting cards pasted in or laid in. Folio. Contemporary dark green cloth backstrip, light green boards with floral illustration inset into front cover, string tied. Moderate scuffing and edge wear to boards. An intriguing scrapbook assembled by a young Black woman named Willia Lucille Pettiford of Jamaica, Long Island while attending the African-American Mary Potter Academy in Oxford, North Carolina in the late-1930s. The scrapbook is populated with dozens of newspaper and magazine clippings of notable African Americans, as well as famous performers, a combination of Black and white stars of the stage and silver screen. Willia pasted in excerpts about W.E.B. Du Bois, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Bentley, Florence R. Beatty, Mary McLeod Bethune, Paul Robeson, and others. Willia also included several printed event programs, invitations, and notices from the school, including a hand-made program for the Mary Potter Athletic Banquet on April 25, 1938; a May 3 violin recital sponsored by the Oxford Music Lovers' Club; a May 13, 1938 "Oratorical Contest" at the school; an April 17, 1939 performance of the "Oxford Music Lovers' Club;" a May 13, 1939 meeting of the Young People's League of the Cape Fear Presbytery; and the Mary Potter School's baccalaureate exercises for both 1938 and 1939. She also cut out portions of the school newsletter or yearbook and used them in the scrapbook. "Mary Potter Academy was launched in 1889 with George Clayton Shaw as principal, a post he held until 1936. Shaw was born to slaves in Louisburg in 1863. His mother, Mary Penn Shaw, had been provided what he described as 'a fairly good education' and she instilled the importance of education in her six children, all of whom became educators. George Shaw graduated from Lincoln University (in Pennsylvania) in 1886. He studied at Princeton Theological Seminary before completing studies at Auburn Theological Seminary (New York) in 1890. While in New York, Shaw met Mary Potter, secretary to the Presbyterian Freedmen's Board and benefactor of the educational improvement of freedmen. Potter provided funding to establish the first school for African Americans in Granville County (Oxford), where in 1888 he founded Timothy Darling Presbyterian Church. Called Timothy Darling (for Shaw's teacher) until 1892, the school was funded by the Board of Missions for Freedmen, New York Synodical Society, and Albany Presbytery. It would later serve as a private boarding school, until the 1950s, then as a public high school until 1969. In 1970 Mary Potter became an integrated middle school" - NC.gov.

Constitution for College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [wrapper title] by [African Americana]: [NAACP]

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Title: Constitution for College Chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [wrapper title]
Author: [African Americana]: [NAACP]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: New York, 1948. About very good.. 19pp. Original printed self wrappers, stapled. Minor edge wear, light soiling, small chip to outer edge of first leaf, short closed tear to outer margin throughout. The very rare 1948 constitution written specifically for college or university chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The constitution's stated objects are delineated in Section 2, the first of which seeks "to inform students of the problems affecting the Negro and other minority groups, to advance the economic, educational, social, and political status of colored people and other minority groups and their harmonious cooperation with other peoples." The college groups are also intended "to stimulate an appreciation of the Negro's contribution to civilization." The constitution is organized into fifteen articles covering the typical areas, but also with campus-specific needs: name, objects, officers, faculty adviser, committees, membership qualifications and dues, meeting rules, order of business, and so forth. The main qualification for membership is defined as "any student regularly enrolled in College or University." We locate no copies of this 1948 constitution in OCLC, though some examples may certainly reside in larger archival collections. A 1978 edition appears in an archival collection at Yale.

Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch

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Title: Tintype and albumen portrait photographs of a women housed in a double-sided brooch
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: 1870. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in. Fine. One albumen and one tintype oval seated portrait photograph in a decorative gilded swivel-mount brooch with pin. 2-1/2 x 2 in.

Freyschütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen arrangé en Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto & Violoncelle par Joseph Küffner ... Pr. 5 fl. 36 Xr. [Set of parts] by WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826

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Title: Freyschütz Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen arrangé en Quatuor pour Deux Violons Alto & Violoncelle par Joseph Küffner ... Pr. 5 fl. 36 Xr. [Set of parts]
Author: WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Mayence: Chez B. Schott fils Editeurs de Musique de la Cour de S. A. R. le grl Duc de Hesse [PNs 1754-1755], 1823. Folio. Disbound. Title-page lithographed, with a fine bust-length portrait of Weber; music engraved. Excerpts from Weber's opera arranged for string quartet by Joseph Küffner. Violino primo: [i] (title), 2-23, [i] (blank) pp. Violino secondo: [i] (blank), 2-22 pp. Viola: 2-19, [i] (blank) pp. Violoncello: [i] (blank), 2-19, [i] (blank) pp. Occasional minor soiling, foxing, and small stains. Jähns p. 305. OCLC 1513693817, 778430768. "With the overwhelming success of his opera Der Freischütz in 1821 [Weber] became the leading exponent of German opera in the 1820s and an international celebrity. A seminal figure of the 19th century, he influenced composers as diverse as Marschner, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Liszt." Michael C. Tusa in Grove Music Online.

EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1933, 1940) Set of 2 photos by Np

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Title: EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1933, 1940) Set of 2 photos
Author: Np
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Np. No binding. Fine. One vintage original 4 x 5" (10 x 13 cm) and one 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white glossy gelatin silver photo. Both have information blurbs and stamps on verso, both fine. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote prose under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. Millay is primarily known for her poetry, particularly her famous lines "My candle burns at both ends / it will not last the night / but ah my foes, and oh my friends it gives a lovely light," from the poem First Fig. She is also recognized as the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923 for her collection The Ballad of the Harp Weaver. Beyond her poetry, she was a prominent voice for women's rights and sexual freedom during the Roaring Twenties. (Wikipedia) Smaller photo is date stamped June 5 1933, and its original blurb on verso states that the Vassar graduate will be awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Larger portrait shows her speaking on radio and is dated Aug. 1, 1940, with text noting she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, ON THE CANALS OF NEW YORK, FOR THE YEAR 1857 by [N.Y. Canals]

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Title: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, ON THE CANALS OF NEW YORK, FOR THE YEAR 1857
Author: [N.Y. Canals]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, Printer to the Legislature, 1858. Original printed front title wrapper [old rubberstamp, light dust and wear]. 192pp, plus folding canal-related maps and plans [several clean splits at the folds]. Clean text. Bound in modern cloth with gilt-lettered spine title. Good+.

Letter From Col. Doyle Commander in Chief Office Head Quarters Calcutta Jan. 23, 1819 to the Right Honorable Geo. Caning

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Title: Letter From Col. Doyle Commander in Chief Office Head Quarters Calcutta Jan. 23, 1819 to the Right Honorable Geo. Caning
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Description: Doyle announces that Ensign H.C. Jones of the Bengal Engineers (Recommended by Camming) will be constructing public buildings in Mayapore. Good with the usual folds.

[INDIA] HINDU ICONOGRAPHY IN TANTRAYANA BUDDHISM by R. S. Singh

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Title: [INDIA] HINDU ICONOGRAPHY IN TANTRAYANA BUDDHISM
Author: R. S. Singh
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: New Delhi: Ramanand Vidya Bhawan, 1993. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Large 8vo.; burgundy cloth binding; 92 pages, followed by xix pages of photographic images; there are no ownership marks in the book; the front board is a bit stained and slightly bowed. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.

A TO Z OF SMALL CREATIONS: PEOPLE, PRESSES, PUBLICATIONS by Yule, Dorothy A.

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Title: A TO Z OF SMALL CREATIONS: PEOPLE, PRESSES, PUBLICATIONS
Author: Yule, Dorothy A.
Seller: Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Middleton, Ohio: The Miniature Book Society. Fine. 2017. Hardcover. Bound in red silk, with gilt stamping on the upper cover and spine and contents are bright and clean with illustrations. This book is a Limited Edition, one of 340. A beautiful copy in Fine condition measuring 2 3/4 x 2 1/4 inches. .

The Last Judgement by Iain Pears

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Title: The Last Judgement
Author: Iain Pears
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780575055841
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. SIGNED by the author to the title page. A pristine copy of this novel, the 4th from Pears featuring Jonathan Argyll and Flavia di Stefano; uncommon signed. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Dining for Moderns, With Menus and Recipes: The Why and When of Wining. Compiled by Mrs. G. Edgar Hackney. Wine notes by Peter Greig. Edited by Ann R. Silver by [Hackney, Irmgard, compiler]; [New York Exchange for Woman's Work]

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Title: Dining for Moderns, With Menus and Recipes: The Why and When of Wining. Compiled by Mrs. G. Edgar Hackney. Wine notes by Peter Greig. Edited by Ann R. Silver
Author: [Hackney, Irmgard, compiler]; [New York Exchange for Woman's Work]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [New York]: Published by and for the benefit of The New York Exchange for Woman's Work; [Elert Printing Company, Inc.], 1940. Octavo-size (23 x 15 cm.), 72 pages. Cover title: New York Woman's Exchange Presents Dining for Moderns. Advertisements inside covers and interspersed. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook of sorts, that is, one compiled to benefit a cause, but one aimed not at cooks but rather at gentlewomen who employ them. "The first rule to remember," instructs Irmgard Hackney, Chairman [!] of the Woman's Exchange Revue," concerns your cook. Don't make her nervous" (preface, page 5). The menus and recipes of Dining for Moderns were drawn from the first three years of the Revue (1938-1940; though the serial had begun life under the name Exchange Revue in 1936), an organ of a New York instantiation of the woman's exchange movement incorporated in November 1878. Originally established to benefit "women of cultivation in reduced circumstances," the Exchange prospered long (its last store, on East 60th Street, closed in 2003) and became as well known in the middle decades of the last century for its restaurants as for its promotion of domestic arts and crafts by women. Irmgard Glinicke (Mrs. George Edgar) Hackney (1892-1976) perceived the need for a kind of manual for women with maids who must fulfill the duties of society hostess but do not particularly relish the role. "You'll be astonished how often you can repeat your dinners with only slight variations to fool your husband" (in her case, an investment analyst for a firm on the Stock Exchange). Patés, canapés, consumés, Lobster Thermidor, Noisette d'Agneau--a snapshot of the cuisine of philanthropic board members, not of those in "reduced circumstances." The "wine notes" by Peter Greig –a name some may recall from the inaugural issue of Gourmet Magazine – might be (only slightly unfairly) summarized: "all that is necessary is to ask a wine merchant" (page 6). A few marginal ink marks, and some light spotting throughout; some pages have creases. In publisher's wire spiral-bound, tan and burgundy stiff wrappers. Some rubbing to edges, otherwise near very good. [OCLC locates seventeen copies; Brown 2324 (corporate name misspelled); not in Cagle].

A Goddess Named Gold by Bhattacharya, Bhabani

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Title: A Goddess Named Gold
Author: Bhattacharya, Bhabani
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, generally soiled and rubbed, bumped at the corners. Quarter yellow cloth, faded at the edges, with black paper on the boards, bumped at the corners. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. Bhattacharya's modern fable of India at the time of Independence, the story of a village girl who receives a magical amulet that turns copper into gold if she does good deeds.

Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927 by Ward, Algernon, ed. Bearder, Noel J., assistant editor

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Title: Bible Lands. Quarterly Paper of The Jerusalem and the East Mission. No.113, Vol.VII. July, 1927
Author: Ward, Algernon, ed. Bearder, Noel J., assistant editor
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good -
Description: Leicester, UK: W. H. Lead, 1927. Paperback. Very Good -. Paperback. Very good minus in original pictorial wrappers, side-stapled. Chipping and tearing along rear fore edge of wrapper; soiling to some portions of wrapper. Light soiling to a few portions of interior; top corner of several pages folded over in rear; no loose pages. Illustrated with b/w photos. Antiquated signature to front cover. Pages 799-822. In wraps. Religion. REL/01074.

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