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Tale of Peter Rabbit by POTTER, Beatrix

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC

Title: Tale of Peter Rabbit
Author: POTTER, Beatrix
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: London: [Privately printed], 1902. POTTER, Beatrix. London: Privately Printed by Strangeways], February 1902. First (privately printed) edition, second issue. One of 200 copies printed. Twelvemo (5 3/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 131 x 103 mm.). [84] pp. Color frontispiece and forty-one full-page black and white text illustrations. Original olive green boards pictorially stamped and lettered in black on front cover. Spine rounded (not flat). Spine a bit darkened, with extremities very lightly rubbed. A few minor scratches to front cover. Occasional very minor finger soiling. A near fine copy of this extremely rare edition. Housed in a quarter speckled calf clamshell case. An excellent association copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper to Victoria, the youngest daughter of Blanche Wrigley (née Potter), Beatrix Potter's cousin: "To/'Victoria'/from/Grandmama/Feb. 13th, 1902." "Grandmama" was probably Mary Anderson, the wife of Beatrix Potter's uncle, Edmund Crompton Potter. "The first issue comprised 250 copies; they are distinguished by a flat-backed binding of gray-green boards, printed with a black-line drawing. The books were ready on 16 December and Miss Potter began giving them away to selected friends and relatives and selling them to others at one shilling two pence each. By this time, however, Beatrix Potter's career had already been given its first impetus, for the publisher Frederick Warne & Co. had agreed to accept the book for publication in a regular trade edition. But in February 1902, before the trade edition was ready, Miss Potter ordered another 200 copies to be printed of her private edition, this second issue had a rather better binding, with a rounded back and darker printed boards. In October 1902 the Warne commercial edition was published" (Morgan Library, Early Children's Books, 220, describing the 1901 first issue). Linder, p. 420. Quinby 1A. HBS 69526. $35,000.

Matisse. Dessins Thèmes et Variations by Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse

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Title: Matisse. Dessins Thèmes et Variations
Author: Louis Aragon, Henri Matisse
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Martin Fabiani, 1943. Preface Matisse-en-France by Louis Aragon. Limited numbered edition in 950 copies, of which this is copy N 404. Loose as issued in the original publisher's lace-up hard chemise. Illustrated by Matisse with an original linocut on a black background in frontispiece, three lithographs, and 158 reproductions of drawings in full page and hors-texte. Ref: C. Duthuit, Les Livres Illustres, No. 9.; Monod 7847.Chemise is missing spine and is detached, some of the reproductions are lightly tanned but linocut is in very good condition.

Art D'Aujourd'Hui: Le Cubisme, Serie 4 No 3-4 by Degand, Leon, & Others

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Title: Art D'Aujourd'Hui: Le Cubisme, Serie 4 No 3-4
Author: Degand, Leon, & Others
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Description: Paris: Paris: Art d'Aujourd'hui, 1953, 1953. Art Magazine, with original glassine over paper cover, with a silk screen print by Juan Gris' named "Le compotier". French text..

A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield (Signed First Edition) by [Sex Work] Muilman, Teresia Constantia

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Title: A Letter Humbly Address'd to the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield (Signed First Edition)
Author: [Sex Work] Muilman, Teresia Constantia
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Printed for the Author and sold at her House in White-Harte Street, 1750. First edition. Modern drab wrappers, all edges speckled red. Bound with blank pages to rear. Measuring 175 x 100mm. Collating [2], 41, [1, blank]: bound without the half title, else complete. Signed on the final page of text by the author: "Your Lordship's most obed[ient] serv[ant]! T. Muilman." Internally fresh and unmarked, with pages closely trimmed; no loss to printed text, but minor loss to final letter of author's signature. One of three issues with unknown priority, the present first edition of A Letter Humbly Address'd conforms to ESTC T82111, including the dash in White-Harte and the author's signature to "prevent imposition" (Sloane Museum). All variants are scarce institutionally and in trade. No copy of any variant has come to auction in the last 25 years. Having entered the sex trade at the age of 12, Teresia Constantia Phillips Muilman leveraged her marginalized position to publicly narrate her experiences in ways often denied to women within the patriarchally sanctioned marriage economy. Beginning with her celebration of non-normative sexuality in The Happy Courtezans (1735), she became a master of generating and then utilizing scandals around her to achieve greater reputation. While the responses to The Happy Courtezans prompted her to further publish The Fateful Courtezans and The Secrets of a Woman's Heart, her autobiographical works have solidified her historical fame. Her Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. TC Phillips, "written in three parts, the first of which was published in 1748," provide us with much of what we know of her life, though she was an admittedly unreliable source and the salacious details may have been designed to blackmail men she felt had wronged her (Murden). In the present work, released in three variant issues in 1750, Muilman takes an opportunity to show that she is not only an appetitive figure roiled in sexual scandal. A Letter Humbly Address'd -- reissued a decade later as The Real Duty of a Woman -- was a space where she logically takes patriarchy to task, considering the academic and social educations of women as well as the double standards placed upon them. "My Lord," she begins, "when you jocosely recommended to me the writing of the Whole Duty of Woman, I dare say you imagined the Thought expir'd in the Birth: first, that I believe your Lordship does not conceive me capable of such a Task of such Solidity and good Judgement, and lastly that my own Actions have been conducted with so little Wisdom and Discretion that it is hardly possible to imagine that she, who has judged so ill for herself, can have any conception of what the Duty of a Woman really is, or ought to be." While Muilman admits to her past choices, allowing the reader to place some blame upon her, she does not seek forgiveness. Rather, she embraces a position of "a female rake" whose "libertinism is marked by a double transgression of gender as well as class" and who can defend socially vulnerable women because she no longer is one (Wilson). Thus, in calling out her own actions she also calls to task the men who do the same; she asks why they should not be condemned or punished alike, if their actions violate the same rules. "I think, in Honour and Justice, there should be some lesser Punishment [for seduction] than that of eternal Infamy, affix'd to a Crime in Which men are the principal Aiders and Abetters, or else that Crime should be equally odious in both: for at present, the Thief is exempted from Punishment, and it is only the Party despoiled who suffers." ESTC T82111.

Martha's Vineyard Tested and Reliable Recipes, by... Price 35 cents by Norton, Mrs. Ernest R.

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Title: Martha's Vineyard Tested and Reliable Recipes, by... Price 35 cents
Author: Norton, Mrs. Ernest R.
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [Martha's Vineyard: n.p., 1910. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (10 x 15 cm.), 8 pages. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. A slight but interesting single author cookbook, with thirty short recipes in narrative form. About the author, Mrs. Ernest R. Norton, or her husband, we know little, though Norton is a name of great significance on the island of Martha's Vineyard, going all the way back to the original 16th century settlers. Waterstain to gutter of text block; some age-toning to leaves. In original brown wrappers, titled in black on the front panel; small chip to front wrapper panel. Light tide line to text block at the gutter. Near very good. Not located in any relevant bibliographies or online. Unrecorded. [OCLC locates no copies].

Hymns and spiritual songs

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Title: Hymns and spiritual songs
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Glasgow: Andl. Kerr script, 1815. 32mo (approx. 4½" x 2¾"), 132 pages of neat manuscript containing the lyrics of 118 songs, many from Isaac Watts. Bound before: The Psalms of David in metre: translated and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations. More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text, than any heretofor. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1812; pp. [106], 26; engraved frontispiece; text laid out in horizontal triple columns. Together 2 parts (1 manuscript, 1 printed) in 1, contemporary full straight-grain maroon morocco, double gilt rules on covers, smooth spine laid out in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2. Lightly rubbed; very good, sound and clean.

Vietnam: crisis of conscience by Brown, Robert McAfee, Abraham J. Heschel, & Michael Novak

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Title: Vietnam: crisis of conscience
Author: Brown, Robert McAfee, Abraham J. Heschel, & Michael Novak
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: New York: Association Press, 1971. First edition, 16mo, pp. 127, [2]; near fine in original pictorial wrappers. "The war in Vietnam is 'impossible to justify'. An appeal of moral urgency, rallying Catholic, Jew, and Protestant to join in blood steps to end the conflict." (upper cover).

Six Months at Graefenberg; with Conversations in the Saloon, on Nonresistance and Other Subjects by WRIGHT, H[enry] C.

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Title: Six Months at Graefenberg; with Conversations in the Saloon, on Nonresistance and Other Subjects
Author: WRIGHT, H[enry] C.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Charles Gilpin, 1845. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; viii, 358, [2]pp; with two pages of publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Rachel R. Janes; ownership inscription of Edward Wayne, 1946. Slightly cocked, faded, and rubbed; sewing slightly loosened with one or two gatherings lightly pulled; two-inch split to cloth over rear hinge; minor foxing and fingersoil throughout: Good or better. Reformer and abolitionist Wright (1797-1870) became ill during an 1840s trip to the U.K. and was sent to Graefenberg, "a famous water-cure establishment in Silesia" (ANB). His account simultaneously discusses health treatments, pacifism, and nonresistance. Uncommon in the trade, with 5 copies recorded in OCLC. See PERRY (Childhood, Marriage, and Reform) p.350.

Mother (Delcassee) of the Hoboes and Other Stories by A-No. 1 (Leon Ray Livingston)

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Title: Mother (Delcassee) of the Hoboes and Other Stories
Author: A-No. 1 (Leon Ray Livingston)
Seller: Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description: Later printing. 135 pp., letterpress on brown stock in printed wrappers. With some black and white illustrations. Stated fifth edition. Small 4to. Good +. Minor, general toning, edgewear, spotting, but interiors clean and binding sturdy, overall remarkably intact considering its age and cheaper production. [2019] A book of stories by A-No. 1, pseudonym of Leon Ray Livingston, "The Famous Tramp, Written by Himself from Personal Experiences," per the title page. Sometimes called "The King of the Hoboes," Livingston (1872-1944) had many admirers and followers, including at one time a young Jack London. He wrote a series of twelve books about his travels and lifestyle, of which this is numbered the ninth. The title is given variously as "The Mother of the Hoboes" and "Mother Delcassee of the Hoboes".

Hot Countries by Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward

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Title: Hot Countries
Author: Waugh, Alec; Lynd Ward
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, 1930. Early printing. Hardcover. Good +. Lynd Ward. 304pp. Octavo [22 cm] Bluish green cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title and linear borders on the spine, and a gilt stamped palm tree vignette on the front cover. Yellow endpapers. The spine is faded and prominently rolled, there is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown, and the pages are browned. With woodcuts by Lynd Ward. A book relating the journeys of a vagabond in the Far East, including Tahiti, Ceylon, and the New Hebrides.

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