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Large Archive of Correspondence Detailing the Publication of William B. Edwards' "The Story of Colt's Revolver by [Firearms] Stackpole, Edward J.; Edwards, William B.; et al.

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Title: Large Archive of Correspondence Detailing the Publication of William B. Edwards' "The Story of Colt's Revolver
Author: [Firearms] Stackpole, Edward J.; Edwards, William B.; et al.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks (United States)
Description: Chicago; Harrisburg, PA; et alibi, 1953. Archive of over 100 pieces of correspondence, generally very good with a few instances of staining and soiling. An incredible archive of correspondence between several important figures in the American guns and sports publishing world, surrounding the publication of William B. Edwards' definitive work on Samuel Colt and his revolver. Firearms expert, Bill Edwards, was the founder and technical editor of Guns Magazine, and wrote other historical books on the subject, including the well-received Civil War Guns (1955). His most authoritative monograph, The Story of Colt's Revolver: The Biography of Col. Samuel Colt was published Edward J. Stackpole (1984-1967) in 1953. Stackpole, a veteran officer who served in both World Wars was publisher of the Harrisburg Telegraph, and founder in 1930 of one of the important sporting and military publishing companies of the mid 20th century, Stackpole Books. The bulk of this archive contains original typed and signed letters from Stackpole to Edwards beginning in April of 1951 when the book was first pitched. They discuss in minute detail the evolution of the project from initial manuscript which was rejected out of hand, through negotiation over content, design, and other details including the gathering of historic photographs for inclusion, to the editing and publishing of the seminal work. Carbon copies of Edwards' replies and prompts are also included. A couple excerpts to give a taste of the content, which is incredibly broad in scope: Edwards (9 March 1952): "Colt has been a forgotten man in American history. Professor Morse has been published a dozen times, while Polk, Zach Taylor, Old Hickory, Sam Houston, Whistler, and all the dozens of men that moulded mid-nineteenth century America from the dry dust of the West and the blood-wet mud of Manassas, have found their chroniclers often. It is in an effort to show in some measure just where Samuel Colt fits in this scene, this burnt-oil hum of the late Industrial Revolution and the real West, more wild than any movie, that I [am doing] this work. To place him in context, among the guns that were his life-work, and to give him again a spirit of reality that once he had as alive, is my purpose and design." Stackpole (18 March 1852): "We believe that the technical and detailed part of the Colt Revolver should be accented, with the biographical material secondary. We should like to see the details and particulars of the many early Colt revolvers, to settle in the minds of collectors just what is what, and why. We feel that this sort of technical work would also sell to the average shooter, who of course greatly exceed collectors in numbers." The archive contains: 37 TLS's on Stackpole Co. stationary to Edwards, 53 pages, approximately 10,000 words. Several sketches and notes by Edwards on versos of letters. 46 carbon copies from Edwards to Stackpole, 78 pages, approximately 20,000 words. 7 TLS's from Charles K. Fox, editor of the book, on Stackpole stationary to Edwards. 10 TLS's from other Stackpole employees concerning the book. 3 letters to the Connecticut Historical Society discussing copyright concerns. 13 Typed and autograph letters signed to Edwards from friends expressing congratulations on the publication, including one from John E. Parsons, prominent firearms historian. Several other related items: memoranda, memos, a greeting card, clippings, etc. In all, this set of primary materials provides a revealing look into the relationship between publisher and author, detailing the production of one of the revered works on the great American inventor, Samuel Colt. .

The Motion Picture Boys in the Jungle by Appleton, Victor

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books

Title: The Motion Picture Boys in the Jungle
Author: Appleton, Victor
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A very good early edition in the rare dust jacket, complete but tanned, still very good. Front flap lists to one title after this one, so this may be a second printing.

Alizim by Zvi, I.; Yosef Snuni (illus.)

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Title: Alizim
Author: Zvi, I.; Yosef Snuni (illus.)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g+ to vg+
Description: Tel Aviv: Barlevy/Barlevi, 1950. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg+. Oblong octavo. 6.5x9.5".15pp. Illustrated tan stiff wrappers with a stapled binding, and red lettering on the front cover. The work is a charming work of illustrations and songs (verse) for children. Profusely illustrated throughout with lithographically printed images in color (6 + the covers) and b/w. Included are images of children's playrooms, dolls, toys and teddy bears. Wrappers with some smudges and light staining to the front cover and along the spine. Light rubbing to corners and edges. Staples along the spine rusted. Minor smudges to a few pages throughout. Images clean, bright and vibrant overall. wrappers in good+, interior in very good+ condition overall. Scarce. Protected by modern mylar. This is book #180 from Barlevy Publishing.

Before You, Santa Claus, Life Was Like A Moonless Night [SIGNED] by Alessio, Andrea

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Title: Before You, Santa Claus, Life Was Like A Moonless Night [SIGNED]
Author: Alessio, Andrea
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN: 9781590053980
Condition: Near fine condition
Description: Portland, Oregon: Nazraeli Press, 2013. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 1/500. Unpaginated. Original black boards with gray lettering and vignette on cover, gray lettering on spine, with printed band folded vertically around front cover. Half-title printed in four stages to four heavy parchment pages in variant sizes. Frontispiece photograph. Title page with vignette. Signed by Andrea Alessio on title page. A photographic artist book by all intents and purposes. Printed to heavy stock Scheufelen paper, except the first four on parchment, like a calendar turned sideways. Printed and bound in Italy by Vianello srl - TV with book design by Fabrizio Radaelli. The thirty-one photographs by Alessio represent "a night journey through Northeast Italy, immersed in the silence and in the darkness of the night, if it weren't for those Christmas lights." (Flavio Franzoni). Text in English and Italian. Back board with very light rubbing.

Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Title: Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Cannon, 1897. Good. Sacred Hymns and Spiritual Songs for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. SLC: Cannon, 1897. 22nd edition. 366pp. 24mo. Blue cloth. Book condition: Good with rubbed extremities and frayed corners. The endsheets have a few previous owners' names. Front endsheet is split, but the binding holds. A few of the rearmost pages have underlining and marginalia in pencil. In protective mylar.

Weatherby's Magnum Rifles Catalog

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Title: Weatherby's Magnum Rifles Catalog
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Weatherby's. Very Good. Weatherby's Magnum Rifles Catalog. South Gate, California: Weatherby's, ND. 7th edition. 100pp. Illustrated. 4to. Color printed stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges, a light bump to top corner of text block and tiny abrasion to head of spine.

Marching Through Georgia by Hedley, F. Y.

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Seller: Thorn Books

Title: Marching Through Georgia
Author: Hedley, F. Y.
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelly & Sons, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. 490pp. Brown cloth blocked in black, blue and gilt. Black coated endpapers. Illustrated by F. L. Stoddard. Light wear to the spine tips and edges else a very good copy. Long inscription from the author on the first blank: To my dear old friend, Harvey V. Smith, from F. Y. Hedley. With Love, Respect, and Best Wishes for His Happiness and Prosperity. Rare signed, much less inscribed. .

Births, Marriages and Deaths

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Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Title: Births, Marriages and Deaths
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description: Royal College of Art: The Lion and Unicorn Press, 1954. Limited Edition. Quarto. No pagination. Limited to 100 copies. The present copy is number 7. Inscription from Arthur Houghton for Robin Darwin, a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art and son of the British artist golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. This book was a technical exercise to enable those students taking part, the illustrators, the typographers, the designers, and the book binders to face the problems, both aesthetic and technical, which only arise in acute and realistic with an actual production job. The Lion and Unicorn Press was started at the Royal College of Art. This is their fourth book. A few stories included, Trollop's The Last Chronicles of Barset; Dicken's Oliver Twist; Flaubert's Madam Bovary; Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and others. Bound in marbled paper covered boards, paper label printed in black, some wear along spine and corners. A very good copy of this scarce work.

Peter and Alexis (The Modern Library of the Worlds' Best Books, ML 175) by Merejkowski, Dmitri; Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

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Title: Peter and Alexis (The Modern Library of the Worlds' Best Books, ML 175)
Author: Merejkowski, Dmitri; Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1936. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. 1936 printing of Toledano 175.1, binding/jacket style 7f, orange Rockwell Kent endpapers. Very good in good jacket. A few light spots on fore edge, pages lightly toned, jacket edges rubbed with two closed tears along edges, jacket toned (especially spine). vi, 591, [6] pp. Translated from the Russian with an introduction by Bernard Guilbert Guerney. Merejkowski was part of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, an influential figure in the Symbolist Movement, and a nine-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in fiction, Merezhkovsky sought to develop his theory of the Third Testament, an apocalyptic vision of Christianity's fulfillment in twentieth century humanity. Peter and Alexis, the final work in the trilogy, is preceded by The Death of the Gods (1895) and Resurrection of the Gods (1900). Well received internationally, The Christ and Antichrist Trilogy was largely ignored by Russian critics at the time of its publication, but has since been recognized as his most original and vital literary work. â€œ'Antichrist is coming. He, the last of devils, has not yet come himself; but the world is teeming with his progeny. The children are preparing the way for their father. They twist everything to suit the designs of Antichrist. He will appear in his own due time, when everywhere all is prepared and the way smoothed. He is already at the door. Soon will he enter!'â€ In Peter and Alexis, Merezhkovsky moves his groundbreaking vision of spiritual progress and the historical development of humanity to the world of the Russian Empire. The novel portrays Peter the Great's conflict with his son, the Tsarevich Alexei, as the inevitable confrontation between Antichrist and Christ for the soul of humanity. Rejecting the historical view of Peter as a powerful and honorable leader, Merezhkovsky suggests that he was a tyrant whose desire for progress and control came at the cost of countless lives.

Here Comes the Polly! by Becker, Ethel Anderson.

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Title: Here Comes the Polly!
Author: Becker, Ethel Anderson.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: History of the Politkofsky, a Russian gunboat built to protect the Bering Sea fur trade, and her subsequent career as a work
Description: Seattle: Superior Publishing, (1971). History of the Politkofsky, a Russian gunboat built to protect the Bering Sea fur trade, and her subsequent career as a work boat in Alaska. Much Alaskan history, fascinating vintage photos reproduced. First ed. VG, dj.. 27 cm. 127, (1) pp. b/w plates.

From New Bedford to Siberia. by Beatty jr., Jerome.

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Title: From New Bedford to Siberia.
Author: Beatty jr., Jerome.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: Doubleday and Company, Inc., (1977). "A yankee whaleman in the frozen North". V G in D J. . 20.5 cm. 143 pp. B/W ills and map.

The Black Scholar: The Black Male Vol. 2, no 10. (June 1971) by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STAPLES, Robert, George JACKSON and Charles WATKINS

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Title: The Black Scholar: The Black Male Vol. 2, no 10. (June 1971)
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] STAPLES, Robert, George JACKSON and Charles WATKINS
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Sausalito, CA: Black World Foundation, 1971. First Edition. Small quarto (26cm); original pictorial card wrappers; 64pp. Light rubbing and soiling to wrappers; address label on rear wrapper; contents clean, complete; Very Good. This issue includes "The Myth of the Impotent Black Male" by Robert Staples; "Simple: The Alter Ego of Langston Hughes" by Charles A. Watkins; and "Struggle and the Black Man" by George Jackson. 87233.

The Healing Community: Dynamics of the Therapeutic Milieu by ALMOND, Richard

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Title: The Healing Community: Dynamics of the Therapeutic Milieu
Author: ALMOND, Richard
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Jason Aronson, [1974]. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket, pink topstain; xlviii,415pp. General shelf wear and shallow chipping to jacket extremities, tiny loss at bottom edge of rear panel not approaching text, minor soil, else Very Good and sound.

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God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 93 by Langman, Lauren, George Lundskow

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Title: God, Guns, Gold and Glory: American Character and its Discontents Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 93
Author: Langman, Lauren, George Lundskow
Seller: Brattle Book Shop (United States)
ISBN: 9789004323391
Condition: LikeNew
Description: Boston: Brill 2016. Hardcver. 9" x 6". xxxvi, 358 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Fine. ISBN 9789004323391 . LikeNew. Hardcover .

Jeff Wall by WALL, Jeff (artist); Peter GALASSI (text by); James RONDEAU (text by); Neal BENEZRA (foreword by)

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Title: Jeff Wall
Author: WALL, Jeff (artist); Peter GALASSI (text by); James RONDEAU (text by); Neal BENEZRA (foreword by)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9780870707070
Condition: A fine, unmarked copy; dust jacket with some very light shelf wear, one short tear at lower edge
Description: New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007. First edition. A fine, unmarked copy; dust jacket with some very light shelf wear, one short tear at lower edge. 11.5 x 10 inches. 170 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. "Over the past three decades, Vancouver artist Jeff Wall's large color transparencies have won international acclaim. Wall has created a unique, seductive and complex pictorial universe by drawing upon philosophy, literature, nineteenth-century painting, Neo-Realist cinema and the traditions of both Conceptual art and documentary photography. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wall's 2007 American traveling retrospective will include all of the artist's major works to date. In addition to color plates and illuminating details, the exhibition catalogue includes an essay by Peter Galassi that explores the full range of Wall's artistic and intellectual interests and offers fresh perspectives on one of the most adventurous creative achievements of our time. The essay is followed by an interview with the artist by James Rondeau, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the exhibition will be on view during the Summer of 2007" (the publisher).

Souvenir View Book of the White Mountains, N.H., As Seen Through the Eye of a Camera, The Land of Scenic Splendor

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Title: Souvenir View Book of the White Mountains, N.H., As Seen Through the Eye of a Camera, The Land of Scenic Splendor
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Tichnor Brothers, Inc, 1945. Stiff wraps. Fine. 4to; [64pp]; color pictorial stiff wrapper; 3 staple binding; ink date: "Sept. 12, 1945" to verso front wrapper; text to verso front wrapper, map of the White Mountain area to rector rear wrapper; 64pp b&w photographic illustrations with titles; one small light stain to fore-edge not extending to pages; fine. Text inside front wrapper titled, "The White Mts. Of N.H. "The Switzerland of America". Crawford Notch and Mt. Washington.

Night Landings by McDONALD, Walter

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Title: Night Landings
Author: McDONALD, Walter
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780060551476
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Row, 1989. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. Spine sunned else near fine illustrated wrappers. Poetry by a vet about the Vietnam War.

The Kremlin; Nerve-Centre of Russian History by ALEXANDROV, Victor

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Title: The Kremlin; Nerve-Centre of Russian History
Author: ALEXANDROV, Victor
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(-)
Description: New York: St. Martin's, 1963. hardcover. very good(-)/good. Illus. 8vo, red cloth, d.w. torn, back cover of cloth lightly soiled. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1963).

Little Tom of England by Brandeis, Madeline

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Little Tom of England
Author: Brandeis, Madeline
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6. Illustrated light blue cover boards, 8.5x5.5 inches, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white pictures; slight edge wear to boards, otherwise a bright, clean copy that has maintained it's vivid color; head and tail of spine of dust jacket is rubbed. Aside from it's vintage allure, this volume has a disclaimer denoting it's compliance in printing, "under wartime conditions, in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials.

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