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Humble Address by SMITH Adam BURKE Edmund TUCKER Josiah

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Title: Humble Address
Author: SMITH Adam BURKE Edmund TUCKER Josiah
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1775. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (BURKE, Edmund) TUCKER, Josiah, D.D. An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland Whether a Connection with, or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of these Kingdoms. Gloucester: R. Raikes Sold by T. Cadell, 1775. Slim octavo, period-style half brown morocco and marbled boards, raised bands; pp. (1-3), 4-93 (3). $3200.First corrected edition, second overall, issued within days of the same year's first edition of the ""important and influential"" British economist's seminal rebuke of Edmund Burke, charging him with a crucial misunderstanding how the political economics of self-interest would best prevent further ""Disturbances and Disputes"" with America, urging Britain in 1775 to ""separate totally from the Colonies to enter into Alliances of Friendship, and Treaties of Commerce , as with any other sovereign, independent States,"" handsomely bound.""A controversial figure during his lifetime,"" particularly in his views on the economics of Britain's stance toward the American colonies, Tucker was well known to Adam Smith and Founding Fathers Madison and Jefferson, who each owned copies of his writings. ""Increasingly recognized as an important and original 18th-century theorist"" (ODNB), Tucker was ""espousing the cause of American separation as early as 1766, before the Americans themselves had considered this eventuality with any seriousness"" To key scholars, ""Tucker analyzed the American conflict more accurately than his contemporaries [yet] so different were his views from all those around him that he has been noted as a 'visionary' (Trevelyan) or a 'fanatic' (Clark)"" (Rashid, ""Tucker's Proposal,"" in Journal of the History of Ideas V43, No.3, 439). His assessment of American independence was not motivated ""by any sympathy for the Americans."" Instead, ""their rapid economic growth and dislike of regulation would, he believed, eventually lead them to separate from Britain through self-interest [and] the developing American crisis over taxation touched upon all Tucker's major interests: the need to maintain a mutually self-interested and beneficial trade between Britain and her colonies, his dislike of war and mock patriotism, and his distrust of political radicalism"" (ODNB). ""Central to Tucker's philosophy of economy is the concept of 'self-love,' which became part of Adam Smith's concept of the 'invisible hand' Tucker regarded trade as Britain's glory [and] went so far as to suggest that the colonies should be detached from Britain to allow greater freedom of trade, a view which brought him into conflict with Edmund Burke"" (Dictionary of 18th-Century British Philosophers V2:898).When Burke attacked Tucker in the famed March 22, 1775 Speech on Conciliation with America, Tucker quickly responded with Humble Address. Here he marshals arguments and evidence to counter claims that Britain would lose its profitable commerce if America broke free. Tucker contended the ""greater part of the colonial trade was motivated by self-interest and it was a simple corollary that neither shipping nor navigation could be hurt by the independence of the colonies."" To further support his position, he details ""customs-house figures from 1765-72 to show that it was not Americans, but Germany and Holland, who purchased more British exports than the Americans"" (Rashid, 454). To F.P. Lock, ""Tucker anticipated one of Adam Smith's shrewdest insights, that regulations and restrictions impeded commerce rather than protecting it. For Tucker, imperialism was uneconomic Let the Americans be independent, and they will continue to trade with Britain as long as British goods are competitive, Thus Tucker, like Smith, denied the economic value conventionally attributed to the possession of colonies. Burke disagreed in the 1770s Burke still held to the mercantilist belief that exclusive or preferential trade with its colonies benefits the home country"" (Edmund Burke, I:388). Copies of Tucker's works ""including those on the colonies are found to be in Adam Smith's library"" (Rashid, 456), and works by Tucker in Jefferson's library included Humble Address, ""initialed by Jefferson"" (Sowerby 3061). ""Second Edition, Corrected"" on title page. With folding chart of exports; rear advertisement leaf. Engraved ornamental initials, heading and tailpiece. Preceded by the November 1775 first edition. ESTC T36739. Adams, American Controversy 75-144b. Sabin 97350. Goldsmith's 11300. Kress 7174. A fine copy.

Almayer's Folly by CONRAD Joseph

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Title: Almayer's Folly
Author: CONRAD Joseph
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1895. First Edition. CONRAD, Joseph. Almayer's Folly. A Story of an Eastern River. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. Octavo, original green cloth, top edge gilt, uncut. Housed in a custom cloth slipcase. $2400.First edition, first state, of Conrad's scarce first book, one of only 2000 copies printed.It was after meeting the real ""Olmeijer"" in East Borneo in 1887 that Conrad began working on what was to become his first novel, which he finished six years later in 1894 (he was also active as a seaman during most of this period). He submitted the completed manuscript to Unwin for consideration as part of their ""Pseudonym Library,"" adopting the pseudonym ""Kamudi"" (Malayan for ""rudder""). However, Unwin's reader Edward Garnett saw the manuscript's promise and accepted it for separate publication under Conrad's own name. Almayer's Folly was not published serially, and makes its first appearance in print here. This copy first state, with the letters missing from the last two lines of page 110 and the period missing after the headline on page 43. Cagle A1a.1. Bookplate.Interior generally clean, text block expertly reinforced, original cloth with mild discoloration along upper edges. An extremely good copy of Conrad's scarce first book in the original cloth.

The Many Faces of Jake Zeitlin. A Photographic Essay. (Association Copy) by [ZEITLIN, JAKE]. BLANCO, Amanda (Photographer); Ritchie, Ward

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Title: The Many Faces of Jake Zeitlin. A Photographic Essay. (Association Copy)
Author: [ZEITLIN, JAKE]. BLANCO, Amanda (Photographer); Ritchie, Ward
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Northridge, CA: Santa Susana Press, 1978. Book. Fine. Unbound. Signed by Author(s). Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. #11 of 36 copies, with twelve original mounted photographs by Amanda Blanco (each numbered and signed on the mount by her) PLUS an addtional larger version of photograph #12, titled "Zeitlin explains a detail to Gary Steigerwald and Jonathan Hill", 7 1/4" x 8 3/4" signed in pencil to mat board "To Gary Steigerwald Amanda Blanco '78" and also SIGNED in ink by Jake Zeitlin. With signed print by Hans Burckhardt, the usual curl at edge from the print being too large for the box. Unbound sheets, printed rectos only, laid in publisher's original beige cloth folding box, title; half-title; [i], quotation page; ii-x; text pages; 1-12, 12 original mounted photographs 11 b&w, the last in color. Commemorates the 76th birthday celebration of the life of famed bookman Jake Zeitlin. Fine in every respect, a great Association and Presentation Copy..

Henri Michaux: Oeuvres Recentes 1959 - 1962 by MICHAUX, Henri

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Title: Henri Michaux: Oeuvres Recentes 1959 - 1962
Author: MICHAUX, Henri
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Paris: Daniel Cordier, 1962. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Text in French. Features a contribution by Genevieve Bonnefoi. Includes color and black and white illustrations with several gatefolds. A very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear and from the library of the Marlborough Gallery with their marks. A very nicely printed catalog and with an interesting provenance.

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Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: (Baltimore, MD: Thomsen Ellis Press), 1927. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. Thomsen Ellis Press. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 44 pages. Vol. VIII, No. 1. Table of contents, note on typography of this work. Printed in three colors. Frontispiece and black and white plates throughout text. A collection of specimens by the Pridemark organization. Covers lightly soiled.

ALBERT; Apres le bombardement

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Title: ALBERT; Apres le bombardement
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Description: Cliche Section Photographique de l'Armee. An album, 8-1/8" wide by 5" deep, with 18 photographs of a French town, presumably during WWI, after it had been razed--whether by artillery or by aerial bombing is not clear. Not postcards. Captions in French and English. Red paper cover, tied with silk ribbon, printed in gilt.

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