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Fort Worth Trade Review [caption title] by [Texas]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books

Title: Fort Worth Trade Review [caption title]
Author: [Texas]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About very good.
Description: Fort Worth: W.W. Dexter, 1890. About very good.. 8pp. Newspaper folio, uncut, folding out to approximately 45 x 30 inches. Previously folded, with small loss at centerpoint of folds and minor wear along fold lines. A few nicks along edges, light toning and dust soiling. Contemporary ink stamps on first leaf recto. One full side printed in blue. A mammoth newspaper-style promotional for the Texas Spring Palace of 1890 in Fort Worth, "The most unique and attractive exhibit ever presented to the public; constructed, ornamented and decorated entirely with Texas products." This "special issue," more likely a one-off, is filled with illustrations of architecture and scenes from around the burgeoning city, as well as portraits of the men who served on the Texas Spring Palace committee. Included are a large, central image of the city stockyards, plus illustrations of significant commercial buildings, religious and cultural edifices, and the homes of several important personages. The final page carries a full-page real estate advertisement for the neighborhood of Arlington Heights by the Chamberlain Investment Company, its developer. Several additional advertisements are scattered on page six, including a number soliciting subscriptions to the Fort Worth Trade Review. Perhaps the most fanciful image is that of a prospective Texas Capitol building, backed by a promise of $4,000,000 in local investment should the state government decide to remove its seat to Fort Worth. Although subscriptions for the trade review are advertised, it does not seem to have been published regularly; of this "Texas Spring Palace 1890" promotional we locate only one other copy, at UT Arlington. A very good document of Fort Worth's exponential growth and ambition in the late-19th century.

A painted and lacquered letter case, with maritime decoration by LETTER TUBE

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Title: A painted and lacquered letter case, with maritime decoration
Author: LETTER TUBE
Seller: Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: [France, late 18th or early 19th century]. Two-part cylindrical case (125 mm. long, diameter 21 mm.), in a light, lacquered wood, the central compartment lined with a tortoiseshell tube which is inserted into upper compartment, flattish ends, both compartments relined with cork, incised gilt metal bands at each juncture; the cases painted with sailboats on a windy sea viewed from the shore with trees, on a bright emerald green ground, small roses painted on each end. Fine condition (a couple of small dents in the gold bands).*** A brightly painted and lacquered tubular case for love letters. Tubes for billets doux were common objects of 18th- and 19th-century France: they were intended as discreet vehicles for possibly compromising correspondence. While some “étuis à message” contained tiny smelling salts bottles that fit in the upper compartment, this one does not have an insert for that additional feature. In the 18th century both large decorative objects and trinkets such as cosmetic cases, snuff boxes, and, occasionally, small bookbindings, were often painted using one of several faux lacquer methods. Loosely known as “vernis Martin,” after the four brothers Martin, vernisseurs du roi active from ca. 1730 to 1770, who specialized in such work, the term in fact covers several different techniques and formulas. Such “false” lacquers imitated Chinese and Japanese wares, but their “basic ingredient was usually copal varnish, not the true Rhus vernicifera used in Oriental lacquer” (Osborne, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Decorative Arts [1988], p. 811).

The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts, respectfully dedicated to the friends and patrons of the Detroit Home of the Friendless by Duffield, M.B. [Mary B. Duffield]; I.G.D.S. [Isabella Duffield Stewart]

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Title: The Home Messenger Book of Tested Receipts, respectfully dedicated to the friends and patrons of the Detroit Home of the Friendless
Author: Duffield, M.B. [Mary B. Duffield]; I.G.D.S. [Isabella Duffield Stewart]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Detroit: E.B. Smith, 1873. Octavo ( x cm.), [6], 5-137 pages. Illustrated with frontispiece engraving of the home. FIRST EDITION of Detroit’s first cookbook. A second edition was published in 1878. In the early days of the Civil War, Rev. George Duffield, Minister of the First Presbyterian Church, located at the corner of State and Farm Streets in Detroit, convened a meeting of the women of the church. He called on them to help the “worthy and indigent persons in this City constantly suffering for the necessaries of life.” In 1862, the First Presbyterian women, led by Rev. Duffield’s daughter, Isabella Duffield Stewart, brought together a group of women from more than a dozen Detroit churches (see below) for the purpose of helping the less fortunate in the city. They met in what they called the “Home of the Friendless” which they had recently purchased and which became the name of the agency. Isabella Duffield Stewart was its founder and president until her death in 1888; the agency is still in existence today as the Children’s Aid Society. Recipes include Canadian red relish, “mother’s rich cup cake,” railroad cake, cole slaw, German salad dressing, corn pone, etc. Very little meat included, as it would have been expensive. Very light soiling internally; all edges red. In publisher's textured and blind-ruled light brown cloth; gilt-lettering to spine and front panel. Very near fine. Scarce. [OCLC locates thirteen copies; Brown 1714; Cook 131; not in Bitting or Cagle].

1940-1941 – Archive of letters from a Jewish mother in Hamburg, Germany to her son in San Francisco which stopped shortly before she was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where she would die before the end of World War II by Thekla Bornstein

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Title: 1940-1941 – Archive of letters from a Jewish mother in Hamburg, Germany to her son in San Francisco which stopped shortly before she was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where she would die before the end of World War II
Author: Thekla Bornstein
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Hamburg, Germany, 1941. Unbound. Very good. This lot consists of six letters (19 total pages of text) written by Thekla Bornstein of Hamburg, Germany, to her son, Ernst [Bruno] Heilbuth of San Francisco, California. All of these airmailed letters are franked with Hindenburg “medallion” postage stamps. All of the letters are in legible German cursive and are easily read by Google’s image translation app. On their reverse, all bear censorship labels emblazoned with a Nazi eagle and swastika that read, “Geöffnet / Oberkommando der Wehrmacht” (Opened / Supreme Military Command). All are in very nice shape. Information about Thekla and Ernst is sparse. Thekla was born in 1872, Ernst in 1902. After her first husband, Ernst’s father, died, Thekla married Paul Bornstein in 1907. Ernst married Lilly in 1939. Ernst and the couple’s adopted teenage stepson, Walter Singer, left Germany just as persecution became intense. While mass, systematic murder would not begin until 1941, at the time these letters were written, the Nazis had just begun implementing brutal policies that impoverished and killed hundreds of thousands of Jews through starvation and disease in newly created ghettos where they were forced to live, isolated and separated from the gentile population. Ernst and Walter arrived in New York on board the USS Manhattan, and Lilly joined them several days later, arriving on the USS George Washington. Together, they then made their way west and settled in California, where Ernst and Walter opened an auto parts store, and Lily worked as a practical nurse. None of Thekla’s letters mention persecution of the Jews by the Nazis, which is understandable as all of them were censored by the Oberkommando, which was charged with ensuring no sensitive or negative information about the Third Reich was sent out of the country. (Internal censorship was the responsibility of Josef Goebbels’ Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.) Thekla did, however, keep Ernst aware of the status of family and friends, presumably those who had not yet been sent to concentration, forced labor, or extermination camps. As well, she continuously asked from whom he had heard. Her letters are generally upbeat and never express anything overtly negative about her situation. However, reading Google translations of her letters between the lines with hindsight, it is possible to infer her apprehension and resignation. For example, “Everything is so vague and so torn apart.” “From us, I can’t say good news.” “I am very happy you have received so many messages from relatives.” “Regarding your letter. I have a lot to say, but I’ll refrain from doing so because it has some relevance.” “Your anger [has] played a role for me [but] life goes on in its new show.” . Still, that did not save her. The Nazis constructed Theresienstadt at the Czech border town of Terezin in 1941 to serve two purposes. One was to serve as a transit camp for Jews being sent east to forced labor and extermination camps. The other was as an ersatz retirement ghetto for Jews whose disappearance might generate difficult-to-answer international attention and inquiries about persons over the age of 65, World War One veterans, and well-known cultural or political figures. The ghetto was also used for propaganda purposes, including a highly scripted stage visit by the International Red Cross that left the impression its residents were well treated, enjoying life, and able to enjoy a variety of activities, when, in fact, nothing could have been further from the truth. Life at Theresienstadt was only marginally better than in other concentration camps. Although the ghetto was governed by a Jewish Council of Elders, the Council was completely dependent upon the Nazis. Food was scarce, clothing was sparse, people doubled or tripled-up in primitive beds stacked three-high, sanitation was poor, fresh water was intermittent, and disease ran rampant because although there was a hospital, it had no medicine. 33,000 of the ghetto’s 140,000 prisoners died from deprivation, starvation, and disease. At the time Thkla sent her last letter to Ernst, she would have been about 69 years old and was, no doubt, rounded up the following November along with all of Hamburg’s 1,955 Jews and transported to Theresienstadt. Only 22 of that group survived the war, Lilly was not among them. Although neither the date nor the cause of her death was recorded, her name appears on the ghetto’s list of deceased prisoners. The Hindenburg medallion stamps that frank these letters were first issued in 1932 to honor the former Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, who had partially restored calmness in post-World War One following his election as President of the Weimar Republic. Hindenburg was a popular figure and so were these stamps, which were originally printed on paper with a ‘waffle’ watermark. Recognizing Hindenburg’s popularity, when he died in 1934, the Nazis, who had assumed control of the government the year before choreographed a massive Wagnerian funeral in his honor and continued to issue this series of stamps in an attempt to suggest that they had Hindenburg’s full support. There was, however, one small difference in the stamps; they were then printed on paper with very a visible swastika watermark, nearly impossible to miss when affixing them to an envelope. (For more information, see “Theresienstadt: ‘Retirement Settlement’ for German and Austrian Jews” at the Holocaust Museum website, Hoffman’s “Highlights from Hamburg-A Delicate Balance” at the Jewish Chicago Family Service website, Gedenkbuch - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 (Memorial Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945) at the Bundesaarchiv, and Coffey’s “The Riddle of the Hindenburg Medallions” at the Richard Frajola website.) Postal cards and letters from prisoners held at the Theresienstadt concentration camp, though scarce, are far more common than correspondence from prisoners held at other camps or ghettos and even Jews that had not yet been rounded up. Other papers related to Ernst Heilbuth are held by the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. .

East Part of Salt Lake City by Savage, C.R. [Charles Roscoe]

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Title: East Part of Salt Lake City
Author: Savage, C.R. [Charles Roscoe]
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City: C.R. Savage Photo, 1885. Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [12.5 cm x 20 cm] unmounted. Some minor wear to the head. Image of Salt Lake City from the Gardo House with State Street in the foreground. Includes the City Hall, St. Mark's School, and the Feramorz Little residence. Poplar trees and vegetation obstruct the view of most other buildings and residences. Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was an accomplished and prolific photographer who lived successfully within his Salt Lake City community and traveled widely throughout the West taking photographs and befriending other important photographers of his day such as Carleton Watkins, Edward Wilson, Timothy O'Sullivan, Alfred Hart and A.J. Russell. Savage took several of the West's most famous images at the celebration of the joining of the transcontinental railroads at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869. Savage also took the first photographs of what became Zion National Park.

Is Sex Necessary?; Coming of Age Edition by Thurber, James; White, E.B.

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Title: Is Sex Necessary?; Coming of Age Edition
Author: Thurber, James; White, E.B.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New Introduction by E.B. White. A-I on the copyright page. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), unevenly faded, lightly soiled, some black staining at the bottom edge, a tear at the front flap fold. Black cloth, rubbing and some moisture stains on the bottom edge, bright gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A new edition of Thurber's classic, brought up-to-date with the youth's then-current attitudes toward sex.

Sonnets and Songs by Whitney, Helen Hay

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Title: Sonnets and Songs
Author: Whitney, Helen Hay
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 81p. Original dark cloth. 19 cm. Ends of backstrip and corners slightly rubbed. Spotting on back cover. Former owner's name label ("James Rowland Lowe") on front free endpaper. No jacket. Poetry.

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