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Duchamp. The Large Glass and Related Works, Volume II

Duchamp. The Large Glass and Related Works, Volume II by Arturo Schwarz

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Title
Duchamp. The Large Glass and Related Works, Volume II
Author
Arturo Schwarz
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Milan: Galleria Schwarz (Arturo Schwarz), 1967–1968. The complete artist's book comprises nine original etchings, accompanied by title, text, and justification pages, issued loose as conceived. The work is signed in pencil by Marcel Duchamp and Arturo Schwarz on the justification page and is one of 150 numbered copies, with an additional fifteen copies numbered in Roman numerals. The sheets and printed matter are preserved in the original wrappers, housed in the publisher's orange linen-covered portfolio embossed in purple with the title, and further contained within the original wooden box. The second volume of The Large Glass and Related Works emerged from the close collaboration between Marcel Duchamp and the Milan gallerist Arturo Schwarz, who, following their authorized replicas of the readymades, sought to extend the intellectual and visual reach of La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (Le Grand Verre) (1915–1923). Conceived not as a conventional catalogue but as an artist's book, the publication translates Duchamp's lifelong meditation on desire, delay, and irony into a limited-edition graphic form. If Volume I anatomized the structure and notes of The Large Glass, Volume II acts as its imaginative sequel. According to Schwarz, these etchings were intended to suggest the consummation of the frustrated erotic drama staged in the Glass, in which the "bachelors" eternally aspire toward the remote and mechanized "bride." Here, love and eroticism move to the foreground, rendered through a cycle of nine etchings executed by Duchamp in 1967–1968 on handmade paper watermarked THE LARGE GLASS II. The series consists largely of erotic reinterpretations of canonical works of art, which Duchamp mischievously revises through displacement, doubling, and linguistic wit. Rodin's The Kiss is subtly altered; Ingres' Oedipus and the Sphinx intertwines with The Turkish Bath; Courbet's sensual nude becomes the subject of a bilingual pun when Duchamp adds a falcon—con signifying both falcon and a vulgar term for female genitalia—anticipating the voyeuristic structure later realized in Étant donnés (1946–1966). One of the most significant plates, derived from Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve, functions in part as a self-portrait. Rather than quoting the Renaissance painting directly, Duchamp based the image on a well-known Man Ray photograph documenting a 1924 performance (Ciné Sketch) in which Duchamp, nude, posed as Adam beside Bronja (Brogna) Perlmutter as Eve during the intermission of Francis Picabia's Surrealist ballet Relâche. In this way, the historical source, the photographic document, and Duchamp's own body converge, collapsing authorship, appropriation, and self-representation into a single visual gesture. Another etching depicts a kneeling nude at a prie-dieu; in a darker second state, Duchamp instructed that the illuminated contour should resemble a wedding dress and veil—an ironic resolution of the "bride" who, in The Large Glass, was "stripped bare by her bachelors, even." Throughout the series, Duchamp's visual "rhymes" parallel the wordplay of his readymades and inscriptions, fusing eroticism, satire, and art-historical quotation into a meditation on desire fulfilled—if only in parody. Overall dimensions of the boxed set: 49 × 31.5 × 9 cm. The etchings were previously framed, but there are no signs of discoloration, mat burn, stains, or tears. The images and front edges are clean. On the back of each etching, there are two small remnants of Japanese hanging paper at the top edge, but the prints themselves show no evidence of prior framing. Reference: Schwarz 643, 658.
Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus ; From Science, Vol. 81, No. 2113, pages 644-645

Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus ; From Science, Vol. 81, No. 2113, pages 644-645 by Stanley, Wendell M.

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Isolation of a Crystalline Protein Possessing the Properties of Tobacco-Mosaic Virus ; From Science, Vol. 81, No. 2113, pages 644-645
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Stanley, Wendell M.
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Lancaster, PA: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1935. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo bifolium (229 x 153mm), pp. 4. Some light creasing, a short tear to the fold, near fine. Signed by Stanley. A landmark paper in twentieth-century biology, announcing the first isolation of a virus in crystalline form and demonstrating that the resulting material retained full biological activity; a result that forced a fundamental reconception of what viruses were and how they should be studied. The implications were immediate and disorienting: if a virus could be crystallized, it possessed the ordered molecular structure of a chemical substance rather than the biological organization of even the simplest cell, and the boundary between living and non-living matter was suddenly in question. Although Stanley initially characterized the material as a pure protein, later work established it as a nucleoprotein containing RNA; a correction that, far from diminishing the paper's significance, placed it at the foundation of the molecular biology of viruses and of RNA as a carrier of biological information. The paper was among the principal achievements recognized by Stanley's share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1946, shared with James Sumner and John Northrop for work on the crystallization of enzymes and virus proteins. Carried out at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in Princeton, the paper reports the isolation of crystalline material from the juice of Turkish tobacco plants infected with tobacco-mosaic virus. Stanley brought the juice to 0.4 saturation with ammonium sulfate, removed the precipitated globulin fraction by filtration, repeatedly fractionated the dark brown globulin portion, removed residual color by precipitation with lead sub-acetate at pH 8.7, eliminated an inactive protein fraction at pH 4.5 with celite, and induced crystallization by slowly adding glacial acetic acid to a 0.5 saturated ammonium sulfate solution, when small needles approximately 0.03 mm long appeared immediately and crystallization was complete within an hour, yielding slightly more than 10 grams of active crystalline protein in total. The crystalline material contained 20 percent nitrogen and 1 percent ash, gave strongly positive results with Millon's biuret, xanthoproteic, glyoxylic acid, and Folin's tyrosine reagents, and returned negative Molisch and Fehlings tests; its infectivity, chemical composition, and optical rotation were unchanged after ten successive crystallizations, and a fractional crystallization experiment confirmed that the first small portion to crystallize from solution was as active as the mother liquor, establishing that activity resided in the crystalline protein itself rather than in a contaminant. The molecular weight, estimated by osmotic pressure and diffusion, was of the order of a few millions. Activity measurements against Early Golden Cluster bean and Nicotiana glutinosa showed the crystals to be over 100 times more active than a suspension prepared by grinding diseased Turkish tobacco leaves and approximately 1,000 times more active than twice-frozen juice from diseased plants, with one cubic centimeter of a 1:1,000,000,000 dilution of the crystals having usually proved infectious. The paper closes with the characterization of tobacco-mosaic virus as an autocatalytic protein that, for the present, may be assumed to require the presence of living cells for multiplication, and a conclusion stated with the caution that the evidence warranted, and one that subsequent decades would substantially complicate and enrich.
Precaution, a Novel

Precaution, a Novel by COOPER James Fenimore

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Precaution, a Novel
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COOPER James Fenimore
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1820. First Edition. COOPER, James Fenimore. Precaution, a Novel. New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1820. Two volumes. Small octavo, 20th-century full brown morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. $5500.First edition of Cooper's first novel, published anonymously, handsomely bound by Bennett.""Playfully challenged by his wife's cousin to write a better book than one he was reading aloud, Cooper, after a false start, produced Precaution (1820), an imitation of an English novel of manners, which… brought him to the attention of the New York literary world"" (ANB). Until the publication of Precaution, Cooper had been a gentleman farmer with large debts. His literary career was so immediately successful that his financial problems were solved by 1826, the year in which The Last of the Mohicans appeared. His writing career continued until 1850, one year before his death. ""His worldwide fame attests his power of invention, for his novels have been popular principally for their variety of dramatic incidents, vivid depiction of romantic scenes and situations, and adventurous plots. But a more sophisticated view caused a revival of interest in the mid-20th century concentrating on Cooper's novels in their creation of tension between different kinds of society, between society and the individual, between the settlement and the wilderness, and between civil law and natural rights"" (Hart, 165-66). Bound without errata leaf. Spiller & Blackburn 1. BAL 3825. Bookplates. Contemporary owner signature on first page of text in Volume I partly trimmed away.Scattered foxing and dampstaining, more so in Volume I. A rare Cooper title.
Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding]

Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding] by [Madame de Maintenon] "N.D.T." [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet?]

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Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding]
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[Madame de Maintenon] "N.D.T." [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet?]
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Paris: N. Bonnart, 1690. Very Good. Paris: N. Bonnart, [ca. 1690]. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); armorial binding of Madame de Maintenon, full crimson morocco adorned with her coat-of-arms on both covers, triple-ruled in gilt with diminutive repeating rampant lions at each corner, elaborate gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 100pp.; illus. and calligraphic text printed entirely from copper-plates, this copy featuring the more often-found depiction of an empty cross within a crown of thorns printed on title page verso. Light rubbing to extremities, brief discoloration to upper cover from exposure to damp, inoffensive surface abrasion to front pastedown from previously-removed ex libris, slightly later ink note in Latin to front flyleaf, else a Very Good or better copy of an exquisite production in a desirable presentation binding. Though dedication signed in text "N.D.T.," a sermon of this title can be found in the complete works of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), tutor of the same children to whom Maintenon had served as governess. Small and beautifully-produced prayer book dedicated to Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), by then the morganatic not-so-secret second wife of Louis XIV, published for the use of the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, a boarding school Maintenon founded in St. Cyr for the education of the orphans and children of the poorer French nobility. The text, printed entirely from copper-plates, is interspersed with delicate vignettes of flowers, views of the French countryside, and soothing religious imagery (the lamb asleep on the cross), details presumably dotting the text to keep Maintenon's wards engaged while deep in prayer. Volumes bound in the Maintenon armorial bindings are relatively scarce, their owner having not organized any semblance of a personal library until quite late in life. Though married to the king of France for over thirty years, Madame de Maintenon (née Françoise d'Aubigné, later Madame Scarron) came from a modest background she never forsook. Raised in the Calvinist church, the young Aubigné was orphaned at an early age and subsequently educated in an Ursuline convent where she converted to Catholicism, her devotion to the Church one of her most notable qualities throughout her long and increasingly illustrious career. By the time she reached womanhood, her straitened circumstances led her to marry the significantly older and paralytic author Monsieur Scarron, noting that "I have entered a union in which the heart requires little and the body, in truth, nothing at all" (my translation). Widowed within less than a decade, the beautiful and pious Madame Scarron had by now seduced the French nobility at court and was quickly summoned by the Marquise de Montespan to be governess to the children she had borne Louis XIV out of wedlock. It was in this role that she caught the king's attention, who bestowed upon her the money which she used to purchase the Chateau de Maintenon as well as the title of Marquise de Maintenon. During the decade of the 1670s the king spent more and more of his time with his children's governess, causing a predictable rupture between her and the Marquise de Montespon, though Maintenon forever avowed that she never stooped to the level of mistress. In 1683 Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon were married in a secret ceremony, and while she never filled the role of Queen of France, she was the king's chief advisor until the end of his days. (See Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, "Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France" (1886), pp. [269]-272.) A note about the binding: The example of the Maintenon coat-of-arms depicted on this volume not listed in Olivier-Hermal-Roton, presumably having been produced specially for this, the dedication copy--the British Library notes a similar example of another unique cut, on their dedication copy of Cordemoy's "Divers Traitez de Controverse" (1701).
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. Very Good. New-York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition, First State with De Vinne Press slug on p. [210] and correct signature marks. Small quarto; publisher's pictorial tan cloth stamped in red, black, and gilt; brown endpapers. Xi, [1], 210, [1], [14] [ads] pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illus. throughout, many full-paged, complete. Boards edgeworn with brief exposure to extremities; scuffing to front and rear; light rubbing to spine. Moderate lean to boards and opens a bit easily between gatherings, binding else holding soundly. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown; gift inscription from Christmas Day 1886 in pencil to front flyleaf; interior else unmarked. A Very Good copy. [BAL 2064].
Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set]

Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set] by Thomas Roncallius [ed.]

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Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set]
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Thomas Roncallius [ed.]
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Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. Very Good. Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. First Edition. Two volumes; large quartos (29cm.); contemporary parchment over block-printed paper-covered boards, tan gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges speckled red; collated complete; text printed in double columns. Ex-St. Charles Seminary Library with spine shelf labels and rather extensive rubber-stamping throughout text blocks, parchment quite dust-soiled, boards a bit scuffed at margins, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound set.
Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]

Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager] by Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]

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Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]
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Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00), pictorial endpapers printed in green; xi,[3],331pp. Light toning and soil to jacket, corners tapped, textblock margins rather heavily foxed, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed and signed to American historian Henry Steele Commager in which Horgan admits that he is breaking Commager's law, "which forbids an author to give away his books.
Recollections and Reflections

Recollections and Reflections by J.J. Thomson

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Recollections and Reflections
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J.J. Thomson
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New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. Very Good. New York: Macmillan Company, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown gilt-lettered cloth, grayish topstain; viii,[2],451pp.; portrait frontispiece, nine leaves of halftone plates. Corners bumped, spine gilt a bit flaky, ownership ex libris of the late chemist and bibliophile Sydney Ross to front pastedown, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy. Memoirs of the physicist J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1906 after discovering the electron using cathode rays. Thomson also headed the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, managing no fewer than ten future Nobel laureates during his career as an educator and researcher.
Map of Part of Northern Ontario Showing the Northern Part of the District of Nipissing, Algoma and Thunder Bay [caption title]

Map of Part of Northern Ontario Showing the Northern Part of the District of Nipissing, Algoma and Thunder Bay [caption title] by [Canadian Mining]

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Map of Part of Northern Ontario Showing the Northern Part of the District of Nipissing, Algoma and Thunder Bay [caption title]
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[Canadian Mining]
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
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Very good, in original condition.
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[Toronto], 1907. Very good, in original condition.. Giant folding map, consisting of four separate sheets, the total measuring approximately 62 x 74 inches. Printed in black and light blue. A few short separations at folds. Light tanning, very occasional small patches of light staining and minor wear. A scarce and massive map of Ontario that depicts Canadian forest preserves, mining areas, and significant geographical features, with notes on land quality and natural resources, in the northern regions of the province at the beginning of the 1900s. The map shows the results of a survey conducted in 1900 by the Department of Crown Lands under the direction of its Commissioner, E.J. Davis, with a view toward developing officially unexplored areas and their resources in Ontario. In scope, it extends from the southern edge of James Bay and the mouths of the Albany and Moose Rivers in the map's upper right corner to Thunder Bay and Lake Superior at lower left. The report on the results of the exploration and survey were published in 1901, and a first issue of the map was published separately. According to OCLC, copies of the first issue map itself are held by five institutions, and copies of the present 1907 issue, evidently the second, are held in three. No copies of any issue of the map appear in auction records. An imposing and significant visual distillation of the Canadian understanding of its natural resources in Ontario at the dawn of the 20th century.
State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title]

State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title] by [Mexican Revolution]

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State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title]
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[Mexican Revolution]
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About very good.
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Chicago: Rand McNally, 1913. About very good.. Color printed map, approximately 16 x 22 inches. Previous folded, lacking card wrappers (with some residue on otherwise blank verso). Two contemporary ink stamps. Light toning. An odd and scarce map that details American understanding of the situation in Mexico during the Revolution of the 1910s. Starting with a garden-variety Rand-McNally map of the country, an entrepreneurial employee has made extensive use of red overprinting to show the "chief centers of the rebellion and names of leaders," the "principal garrisons of Federal-Mexican troops in the North," major American forts along the border, and the locations of U.S. consular offices across Mexico. The map was produced in 1913, before any American involvement in the conflict following the Tampico Affair and the subsequent occupation of Veracruz in 1914. Still, the overall impression is that the United States possessed the overwhelming force to play a major role in the Revolution, when it was in fact largely an internal affair. The map was issued as a promotional by the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, who no doubt wanted to demonstrate the dangers of international travel at that point in time and the desirability of their products, and bears the small ink stamps of a Portland, Oregon, sales agent.
Chronicles of Border Warfare, or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites of North-western Virginia: and of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in that section of the State…

Chronicles of Border Warfare, or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites of North-western Virginia: and of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in that section of the State… by Withers, Alexander Scott

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Chronicles of Border Warfare, or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites of North-western Virginia: and of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in that section of the State…
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Withers, Alexander Scott
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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12mo, period full tree sheep, morocco spine label, edges stained yellow, 319 pp. plus one ad leaf. Spine dull with minor rubbing, some shelf wear, a bit of cracking to spine and joints, old ink number (125) to front free endpaper bleeding through to following leaves and faintly to title, one front free endpaper loose, bookplate, a little bit of foxing or staining to a few pages, and light mottled patch to pp. 17-18. However, internally is generally bright and clean; and near fine overall. This is a first edition of one of the classic book concerning the hostel settlement of the Ohio country. According to Field, “the author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed.” This copy is without the four page table of contents, which is typical for this work, but does include the advertising leaf. Field also indicates that because this book was issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed for local consumption, most copies were read “until scarcely legible.”
World War II Pacific Theater Third Fleet Landing Force Memorandum to Correspondents, Occupation of Japan, circa August 1945

World War II Pacific Theater Third Fleet Landing Force Memorandum to Correspondents, Occupation of Japan, circa August 1945 by Japan's surrender

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World War II Pacific Theater Third Fleet Landing Force Memorandum to Correspondents, Occupation of Japan, circa August 1945
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Japan's surrender
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Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
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1945. Clement, William T. "Memorandum to Correspondents - Third Fleet Landing Force," circa August 1945, establishes direct evidence of how United States Marine Corps command structured press activity, security protocol, and narrative control at the moment of Japan's surrender and the beginning of Allied occupation. Issued to accredited correspondents attached to the Third Fleet Landing Force, including Reuters journalist David Brown, the document situates embedded war reporting within formal military governance as Allied forces prepared to enter Tokyo and the Tokyo Bay region following the announcement of surrender. The memorandum documents the transition from active combat to occupation administration through prescriptive instructions governing correspondent conduct, information flow, and risk management, providing a primary record of how military authorities mediated public knowledge at the close of World War II. Memorandum to Correspondents - Third Fleet Landing Force. Tokyo Bay area: United States Marine Corps command, circa August 1945. Seven-page mimeographed memorandum issued by Brigadier General William T. Clement to accredited war correspondents, accompanied by original Reuters correspondent identification card issued to David Brown. The memorandum details operational expectations, including security conditions, correspondent assignments, accreditation procedures, and logistical coordination as journalists transferred from naval bases into occupied Japan. It specifies that "Disarmed Japanese Military and Naval personnel will be treated with dignity while in our custody... while the Japanese have agreed to disarm and demilitarize the Tokyo Bay Area the possibility of treacherous employment of all weapons can not be overlooked," and further instructs that U.S. troops "will carry pieces loaded... they will open fire only when fired upon." The closing directive-"The people of the United States and Allied Nations have long awaited the news that we are soon to announce. My wishes for your success are with you"-places the document within the immediate aftermath of surrender, when the global announcement of peace depended in part on controlled correspondent transmission. This archive provides a focused view of press-military relations during the earliest phase of Allied occupation, when censorship, safety, and logistical oversight converged in a rapidly shifting geopolitical environment. The inclusion of Brown's Reuters identification card connects the memorandum to the international news infrastructure responsible for disseminating early reports from occupied Japan, demonstrating how global media networks operated under direct military supervision. The document's emphasis on both dignified treatment of disarmed Japanese personnel and continued readiness for armed resistance reflects the uncertainty of August 1945, when formal surrender did not eliminate concern over localized violence or noncompliance. Materials documenting occupation-era correspondent directives with named journalistic provenance remain infrequently preserved, particularly in association with identifiable press credentials, strengthening its relevance for research into wartime media systems, military information control, and the administrative mechanics of postwar transition. Light handling wear; memorandum remains clean and legible; identification card well-preserved with minor age toning. Overall very good.
SELECTED POEMS

SELECTED POEMS by Cunningham,. J. V. Hamady, Walter (book design)

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SELECTED POEMS
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Cunningham,. J. V. Hamady, Walter (book design)
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Fine
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Perishable Press, 1972. First Edition Limited. Hardcover. Fine. Brown quarter-morocco over marbled boards, title stamped in black on spine. Number 96 of 120 copies on Shadwell paper. Signed by J.V. Cunningham on leaf following title page. Walter Hamady (1940-2019) was an American artist, book designer, papermaker, poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing, bookbinding, and papermaking. In the mid-1960s, he founded The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill, and soon after joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for more than thirty years. Colophon states that the paper created for this book included bedsheets from the poet himself.
Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte

Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte by Wyss, Johann David

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Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte
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Wyss, Johann David
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Genève: Lador, 1833. 3 volumes in 1, small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 253, [3]; 279, [1]; 276, [2]; engraved folding map (short tear entering from the stub), and 16 lithograph plates; contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on gilt-paneled spine, later maroon morocco label on the upper cover noting a "Prix d'Exames" for one Fanny Jaquemet; fore-edge swelled due to a tight rehinging; otherwise good and sound. The 2-volume Montolieu continuation is not present.
第一次滿蒙學術調查硏究團報告 / Report of the first scientific expedition to Manchoukuo under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaga, June - October 1933. Part I, Section VI

第一次滿蒙學術調查硏究團報告 / Report of the first scientific expedition to Manchoukuo under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaga, June - October 1933. Part I, Section VI by Yawata, Ichiro, and Tsurumatsu Dono

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第一次滿蒙學術調查硏究團報告 / Report of the first scientific expedition to Manchoukuo under the leadership of Shigeyasu Tokunaga, June - October 1933. Part I, Section VI
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Yawata, Ichiro, and Tsurumatsu Dono
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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[Tokyo: Waseda University], 1935. 8vo, pp. [2], 106, [2]; 29 plates, largely of archaeological fragments; text in Japanese with synopses in English; stiff card covers; duplicate stamp on upper cover, upper cover bowed, very good. Includes two papers: "Contribution to the prehistoric archaeology of Southern Jehol" by Ichiro Yawata, and "On the chemical investigation of a bronze vessel unearthed in the vicinity of Pei-Piao in Chao-Yang Prefecture" by Tsurumatsu Dono.
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IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide ...

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IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide ...
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
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1810. THE IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide to a Healthy, Wealthy, & Happy Life. In Three Parts.... Mill-Hill, near Trenton: Daniel Fenton; printed by Brown and Merritt, Philadelphia, 1810. [4], 323 p. + [6] p. list of subscribers' names + [2] p. Fenton advts. Contemporary sheep (hinges broken). A Mason L. Weems production, with a recommendation by George Washington. Includes Franklin's "The Way to Wealth." For additional information see Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 903.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Bigelow, John

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Bigelow, John
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
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Near Fine
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The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and 2 raised bands to spine with all page edges gilt. High-quality patterned paper with gilded edges, orange ribbon marker, and orange silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. Near fine book, scratches on forend and bottom edges, light soiling on top edges, and scuff marks on bottom edge of front and back cover, corners, spine, and back cover.
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Hasidic Exclamation On Stevie Smith's Poem "Not Waving But Drowning by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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Hasidic Exclamation On Stevie Smith's Poem "Not Waving But Drowning
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WILLIAMS, Jonathan
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James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Fine copy
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(Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1974). First edition. One of 300 copies. Jaffe A82. Fine copy. 16mo, broadside poem. Fine copy.
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Wright, Thomas

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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Wright, Thomas
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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9780805089936
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Fine in Fine dust jacket
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New York: Henry Holt and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805089934 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in a like dust-jacket, each of which has two small indentations on the front surfaces and mild edgewear; In this detailed and captivating biography, Wright tells the story of Oscar Wilde, one of the most brilliant and prolific writers in English history. From his earliest years, Wilde was consumed by reading, devouring any and all books he could get his hands on. Wright explores the influence reading had on Wilde's life and work, detailing his life as a writer, his scandalous trials and tribulations, and his lasting legacy.; 8vo; 370 pages .
Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters

Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters by Anderson, Harry H

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Milwaukee at the Gathering of the Waters
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Anderson, Harry H
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
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Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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Tulsa, OK: Continental Heritage. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A fine first edition in slightly rubbed dust-jacket with 2" closed tear to front panel; Historical and pictoral book about the city; 4to; 224 pages; FSA .
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Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 2

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Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 2
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
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Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.
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Tokyo: The Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research, 1940. Staplebound. Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.. Quarto. Staplebound. Plain paper wraps with black titles and seal. English entries: Yuasa, Akira; Studies in the Cytology of Pteridophta Yuasa, Akira; Critical Observations on the Origin of the Blepharoplast and Centrosome in Plants.
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The Great Pyramid: God's Witness in Stone by Corbin, Bruce

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The Great Pyramid: God's Witness in Stone
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Corbin, Bruce
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
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Good
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Guthrie, Oklahoma: Truth Publishing, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Tan illustrated wraps, 8-1/2" x 5-3/4", 126 pp., illustrated. Wear to wraps, a few pencil markings to text, but generally a "good+" copy. Evangelist Bruce Corbin is noted for his study "Tabernacle in the Wilderness", but this is an earlier effort combining both evangelism and prophecy. He uses then-recent discoveries in the Great Pyramids of Gizeh to pinpoint various Biblical events (Jesus was born 10/5 in 4 B.C., baptized 9/9 27 A.D., and died 4/7/30. Corbin rightly predicts that Hitler would be of huge impact to modern Jews, but pinpoints Sept. 16, 1936 as the date of a major worldwide event or revelation, which doesn't seem to have occurred.
Mr. Webster's Speech, in the U.S. Senate, March 23, 1848, upon the War with Mexico

Mr. Webster's Speech, in the U.S. Senate, March 23, 1848, upon the War with Mexico by Webster, Daniel

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Mr. Webster's Speech, in the U.S. Senate, March 23, 1848, upon the War with Mexico
Author
Webster, Daniel
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Removed from larger volume else a very good clean copy.
Description
Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1848. First edition. Removed. Removed from larger volume else a very good clean copy.. 23 pp. + note [1 pp.]. 8vo. MU Daniel Webster Speeches Collection 51. LCP Afro-Americana 11012.
An Illustrated Catalogue of Engravings & Etchings. No. 21

An Illustrated Catalogue of Engravings & Etchings. No. 21 by Barnard, A.M. and Barnard, Osbert H.

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An Illustrated Catalogue of Engravings & Etchings. No. 21
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Barnard, A.M. and Barnard, Osbert H.
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A good+ copy, heavy soiling on front wrapper, stains bled through to spots on first several leaves including first plate.
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Tunbridge Wells, England: Craddock & Barnard, 1929. First edition. Stapled paper wrappers. A good+ copy, heavy soiling on front wrapper, stains bled through to spots on first several leaves including first plate.. 32 pp. Illus. with b/w plates. 8vo. 352 items listed.
Erinnerungen eines Weltreisenden

Erinnerungen eines Weltreisenden by Wegener, Georg

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Erinnerungen eines Weltreisenden
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Wegener, Georg
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Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Repaired with cellotape, otherwise a good reading copy. Clean.
Description
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1921. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Repaired with cellotape, otherwise a good reading copy. Clean.. 158 pp. Illus. with b/w photos plus 1 map. 8vo. In German. Travel to Asia including India.
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The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays. by Woolf, Virginia

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The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays.
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Woolf, Virginia
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Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
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London: Hogarth Press, 1950. First UK Edition, A30b. [Hardcover] Octavo, cedar brown cloth (hardcover), [iv], 5-224] pp. Near-fine with a bit of toning along hinges, in a dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell with the spine just a bit darkened, in a mylar protector.
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The Journal... Including an authentic Account of his Expedition to Surinam, in 1772. Edited by Stanbury Thompson by Stedman, John Gabriel

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The Journal... Including an authentic Account of his Expedition to Surinam, in 1772. Edited by Stanbury Thompson
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Stedman, John Gabriel
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
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1962. London: Mitre Press, 1962. 8vo,xxiv, 437pp. With a portrait frontispiece, 16 plates, and 5 illustrations in the text. Original red cloth, dust-jacket a bit worn and chipped at edges, very good. § First edition of the journal, which was published in 1796 by Johnson as "Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam..." with 16 plates engraved by Blake.
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre intermittente. . . by WEST, Arthur.

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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre intermittente. . .
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WEST, Arthur.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Edinburgh:: P. Neill, 1825., 1825. 208 x 131 mm. 8vo. [viii], 23 pp. Self-wraps. Fine.
REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 3

REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 3

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REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 3
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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México: Secretaria de Educación Publica; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1965. b/w plates, ports., wrps., ISSN: 0185-3570. OCLC: 2266971. Issue published six numbers a year, devoted to art, literature and culture.
FRESH EGGS

FRESH EGGS by Wood, P.W.

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FRESH EGGS
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Wood, P.W.
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
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n.p.: n.p., n.d.. broadside. 4.5" by 6.75" broadside. An engraving by Wood. A fine copy.
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Letters to Apprentices by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Letters to Apprentices
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Wright, Frank Lloyd
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Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
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Fresno: Press at California State University, 1982. Selected and with commentary by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer. x, 211p., b/w illus., original stiff wrappers.
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Journal of Discourses, Volume 18 by Young, Brigham

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Journal of Discourses, Volume 18
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Young, Brigham
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Very Good
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General Printing and Lithograph, 1961. Very Good. Young, Brigham. Journal of Discourses, Volume 18. Los Angeles, CA: General Printing and Lithograph, 1961. Reprint. 376pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Spine lightly rolled.
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Architecture In Michigan by ANDREWS, Wayne

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Architecture In Michigan
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ANDREWS, Wayne
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(-)
Description
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967. First. paperback. very good(-)/very good(-). 105 photo Illus. Thin oblong 8vo, black cloth, d.w. chipped and partially repaired with tape, cloth lightly soiled, many pages slightly wavy. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967.
Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse

Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse by Zolotow, Charlotte

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Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse
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Zolotow, Charlotte
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E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
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Fine
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1987 Hard cover in illustrated dust jacket with original price intact ($11.95). Originally published in 1964 with different artwork. A young boy tells his little sister all of the wonderful things he will do for her as she grows up. Soft color artwork throughout.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Robin Spowart. Square 8vo..

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