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The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth by (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Jeffrey of Monmouth) Galfridus, Monumentensis, Bishop of St. Asaph

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Title: The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth
Author: (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Jeffrey of Monmouth) Galfridus, Monumentensis, Bishop of St. Asaph
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: J. Bowyer, et al., 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, light brown lettering label, gilt, edges sprinkled red. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present (including Isaac Newton). A fine copy with only light rubbing to the hinges and edges. Geoffrey's Historia dates from the 12th century and purports to be a history of Britain from its first settlement by Brutus to the death of Cadwallader in the 7th century. In contains one of the earliest developed narratives of King Arthur and dwells on Merlin and his prophecies. Originally written in Latin, this is the first translation into English, made by Aaron Thompson, who provides a lengthy preface giving his views on the authenticity of the History. Thompson based his translation on the Heidelberg edition of 1587; J. A. Giles later updated it in his edition of 1848. Scarce, and the earliest edition of Geoffrey in English. Housed in a custom slipcase. ESTC T146343. .

National Sports of Great Britain, The by ALKEN, Henry

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Title: National Sports of Great Britain, The
Author: ALKEN, Henry
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. He could draw Hunting and write about it because he hunted himself, as Ferneley did, or Herring" Fifty Fine Hand-Colored Etched Plates Depicting The National Sports of Great Britain ALKEN, Henry. The National Sports of Great Britain, by Henry Alken. Fifty Engravings with Descriptions. London: Printed for Thomas M'Lean, 1825. First Edition with these illustrations. Royal octavo (10 5/16 x 6 11/16 inches; 262 x 170 mm.). Imprint size 5 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 143 x 220 mm. viii, 50 leaves of text. Fifty fine hand-colored soft-ground etched plates by and after Alken, with tissue guards. Some spotting to four text leaves "The Hunter"; "Pheasant-Shooting"; "Fowl Shooting"; "A Prize-Fight" and their facing guards but not affecting plates. Plates dated 1824 and with pre-publication "J. Whatman 1823 & 1824" watermarks. The text is watermarked "1818". Contemporary half red calf over pink boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt, hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired, all edges sprinkled red. With the bookplate of Joel Spitz on front paste-down. A near fine copy with all the plates bright and fresh. Provenance: FH (crowned monogram stamped on front pastedown). Despite having the same title as the folio of 1821, this work, published at three guineas, contains a different series of plates, some drawn from earlier works. The work includes six plates of horse racing, ten of fox hunting, six of coursing, twelve of shooting, and two of fishing, together with others of poaching and the baiting sports about which Alken himself was so critical. No doubt he believed that representing them as 'National Sports' was better than pretending they did not exist. The one sport depicted that does not involve animals is prize fighting. "Alken himself seems to have drawn in colours and engraved the plates, which like most of his book illustrations are peculiarly pleasing on account of their small size. The preface deals with, and condemns, the prevailing practice of baiting animals, although the three last plates depict various forms of this barbarous sport." (Schwerdt) Mellon/Podeschi 121; Schwerdt I, p. 20; Siltzer p. 72; Tooley 43.

Traité des échecs et recueil des parties jouées au tournoi international de 1900 by Rosenthal, Samuel (1837-1902)

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Title: Traité des échecs et recueil des parties jouées au tournoi international de 1900
Author: Rosenthal, Samuel (1837-1902)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: 460 pages with frontispiece and index. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in half blue cloth with raised spine bands and gilt lettering to spine and marbled boards. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 5256) First edition.Like the historic London competition nearly half a century earlier (1851, the third Paris international tournament was conducted in the exciting splendor of the world's fair. A total of 17 players from Germany, Hungary, Mexico, Austria, the Untied States, England, Russian and France competed for 12,800 in prize money and four valuable Servres fases donated by the French Government. The Grande Cercle club served the visiting masters free coffee, tea and lemonade during the competition. The participants were permitted to take all their meals in the club, which was known for its superior cuisine. The Paris organizing committee, following the example of the London 1883 and New York 1889 tournaments, required that all drawn games be replayed. Only the result of the second game would count. In another attempt to encourage fighting chess, the committee announced that ties at the end of the tournament would be broken by number og games won. Schlechter fell victim to this tie-breaking system: he posted a +9 -5 =2 score to finish even with Marco and Mieses (both +10 -6 =0) in seventh-ninth places but went without a prize, since he had won fewer games. The London-domiciled Lasker (+14 -1 =1)began in impressive fashion with successive victories against Schlechter, Didier, Burn and Mieses. He then suffered his only defeat, this at the hands of the exciting 23 year old American rookie, Marsha. The Paris victory was Lasker's fourth in international competition and clearly established him as the world's premier player. The "American Eagle" Pillsbury (+12 -3 =1) soared into an early lead, but losses to Marshall (26 moves), Lasker (23 moves) and Burn consigned him to second place. Marshall, another brash young invader from across the Atlantic, also covered himself with glory (+11 -3 =2). He entered the final round with 12 points, then suffered a painful setback at the hands of the grimly pursuing Marcozy. The loss dropped him into a tie for third and fourth places with his Magyar conqueror. Enroute to his impressive showing, Marshall scored a 5 1/2 out of seven points against the other prizewinners. Burn (+11 -5 =0) distinguished the cause of British chess by securing the fifth of eight prizes - while the courageous Tchigorin (+9 -4 =3), overcoming a faltering start (losses in three of his first four games), fought back to claim the sixth prize. Just outside the prize list was Schlecter, who played below his usual strength. Nonetheless, he did manage to author a number of good games. His contest with Mason was singled out for inclusion in the 500 Master Games of Chess.Condition:Hinges cracked with rubbing, shelf wear, corners bumped rubbed, some foxing else a good to very good copy.

Il Capo Centuria by GIOVENTU ITALIANA del LITTORIO.

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Title: Il Capo Centuria
Author: GIOVENTU ITALIANA del LITTORIO.
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Description: 1936. GIOVENTU ITALIANA del LITTORIO. Il Capo Centuria. 196 pp., with 16 black and white photographic plates and 13 colour plates. 8vo, 212 x 151 mm., publisher's wrappers, in a new folding box. Roma: Comando generale della G.I.L., 1936. A typical production of the fascist era showing the physical education of youth. What lifts it above its fellow works of propaganda are the striking colour illustrations by an anonymous but gifted artist. Some wear, but overall sound. OCLC lists Hoover Institute and LC.

Andr Gide Responds To A Proposal Concerning His Play King Candule by ANDRE GIDE

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Title: Andr Gide Responds To A Proposal Concerning His Play King Candule
Author: ANDRE GIDE
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ANDR GIDE (1869-1951). Gide was a Nobel Prize-winning French author. He is best known for his work concerning morality and the human condition.ALS. 1pg. September 24, 1948. Grasse, Alpes Maritimes, France. An autograph letter signed Andr Gide. Gide wrote, in French, to Roland von Weber concerning Gides play Le Roi Candule (King Candule). Gide wrote (in translation): Dear Roland von Weber I receive from you a delightful letter (of August 11) and that fills me with joy. Yes, what you tell me of my theatre makes me smile, because even among admirers, this part of my oeuvre still remains often unrecognized, unknown, to discover. I therefore agree with pleasure to your projects on the subject of my Candaule if it is true that I can still arrange it, and I immediately pass on your letter to my son-in-law Jean Lambert Ibis Street Vaneau Paris (same address as me) I ask him to inform you: Too tired to write you as long as I would likeWarm wishes of success and the assurance of my good sentimentsAndr Gide No, I dont know The Ides of March of Thornton Wilder, and I accept with pleasure your suggestion. The letter is in very good condition with stains, and it written on thin onionskin paper. It includes a the original mailing envelope and a handwritten transcription of the French.

FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCE PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE by BARTLETT, John

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Title: FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS: BEING AN ATTEMPT TO TRACE TO THEIR SOURCE PASSAGES AND PHRASES IN COMMON USE
Author: BARTLETT, John
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good
Description: Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1878. Seventh Edition. Hardcover. Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Front endpaper detached; hinges cracked. Slight fraying to the spine head. Good. Original cloth. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front blank to a noted abolitionist: "Mrs. Maria W. Chapman/with the respects of/John Bartlett/1878." With Chapman's early pencil signature using her maiden name above Bartlett's inscription. Maria Weston Chapman was an American abolitionist who was the principal lieutenant of the radical antislavery leader William Lloyd Garrison. She edited THE LIBERATOR, a widely-circulated abolitionist publication.

A HAP-HAZARD SONG FOR THE Peo-Ple by [Rhode Island – Legal History – Hazard Family] “Miss Terious Devil-up-ments”

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Title: A HAP-HAZARD SONG FOR THE Peo-Ple
Author: [Rhode Island – Legal History – Hazard Family] “Miss Terious Devil-up-ments”
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Very good to excellent.
Description: Newport, Rhode Island: N.p., 1855. Broadside measuring 21 ¾ x 10 inches, folded with some damage to edges, with two holes in the center intersecting with text. Very good to excellent.. A HAP-HAZARD SONG was written around 1855 by an author using the pseudonym “Miss Terious Devil-up-ments”. It concerns the legal cases of Ives vs. Hazard and Ives vs. Armstrong, which involved a dispute over the sale of a farm belonging to Charles T. Hazard, a less well-off cousin in the prominent Hazard family. Hazard, assisted by his better-known cousin Thomas R. Hazard, wanted to back out of the sale of his farm to wealthy Providence merchant Robert H. Ives, claiming that his wife had not agreed to it. In 1855 the court decided against Hazard. The broadside mocks the Hazards’ efforts; it opens by telling the story of an “insane jackass” (later “Assard”, i.e., Hazard) who is stung to death by bees and has its hide used to bind Thomas Hazard’s 1857 book concerning the case, An Appeal to the People of the State of Rhode Island in Behalf of the Constitution and Laws. It then launches into a parodical song, which seems to allege that it was Thomas Hazard, not Mrs. Charles Hazard, who wanted to keep the farm, and that Hazard’s book accused Ives of greed when it was really the Hazards who were greedy; and mocks the opposition to farmland being sold off to the wealthy merchant class: “Then they made tremendous speeches, / All about ‘the rights of man’, / Which literally translated, means, / ‘Each one get all you can!’” The chorus, which is “to be sung ironically”, reads: “Ho! Yeomen of Rhode Island, / Wherever you may stand, / The farms belong to all of us, / It is our Native Land.” We find nine copies of A HAP-HAZARD SONG on OCLC.

How Far the Promised Land?" by NAACP Leader Walter White on Civil Rights Progress, First Edition 1955 by Walter White

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Title: How Far the Promised Land?" by NAACP Leader Walter White on Civil Rights Progress, First Edition 1955
Author: Walter White
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1955. [African American][Civil Rights] White, Walter. How Far the Promised Land? Foreword by Ralph J. Bunche. New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Publisher's green cloth, in original dust jacket designed by Robert Hallock. The final book by civil rights activist Walter White (1893-1955), longtime executive secretary of the NAACP and one of the most important civil rights leaders of the twentieth century. Completed shortly before his sudden death in March 1955, How Far the Promised Land? surveys the progress and setbacks in African American life during the preceding fifteen years. White evaluates landmark achievements such as the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the desegregation of the armed services, and the growth of Black political participation and trade unionism, while also acknowledging the persistence of prejudice, segregation, and economic inequality. The work stands as both memoir and manifesto: a summation of White's lifetime of activism, and a statement of faith in the democratic process as a means of resolving "the Negro problem." Particularly notable is his rejection of Communism as a political solution, reflecting debates within mid-century Black intellectual and political life. With a foreword by Nobel Prize-winning diplomat Ralph J. Bunche, the book underscores its place in the civil rights discourse at the dawn of the modern movement. Dust jacket shows edgewear, small chips at head and tail of spine, with mild soiling to rear panel; still bright and well-preserved. Cloth binding clean and firm, textblock crisp. Overall, a very good copy in good only jacket. A significant primary source for historians of the civil rights struggle, published at a pivotal moment between Brown v. Board and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Cave of the Numinous; Tantric Physics I. by Williams, Craig

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Title: Cave of the Numinous; Tantric Physics I.
Author: Williams, Craig
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Condition: Fine
Description: Germany: Theion Publishing, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Standard Edition limited to 540 copies. Fine. Red cloth with gilt lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Handbook on Soviet Tactics: The Rifle Regiment (Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 30-75) by Department of the Army

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Title: Handbook on Soviet Tactics: The Rifle Regiment (Department of the Army Pamphlet No. 30-75)
Author: Department of the Army
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Washington, D.C: Department of the Army, 1953. Stapled Binding. Fair. Insect damage to wrappers, fore edge margin lightly stained. 1953 Stapled Binding. 112 pp. Restricted security information printed by the United States Army during the Cold War, detailing the offensive and defensive tactics of the Soviet Rifle Regiment.

The Black Camel (Charlie Chan Mystery) by Biggers, Earl Derr

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Title: The Black Camel (Charlie Chan Mystery)
Author: Biggers, Earl Derr
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Readers League of America, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 312pp. Wear to green cloth over boards with rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in pencil to front free endpaper. Toning to endpapers and paste-downs. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. A quite charming, vintage Readers League of America edition of this Charlie Chan mystery by Earl Derr Biggers. The character of Charlie Chan was created by Earl Derr Biggers as a counter to the stereotype of "Yellow Peril," and as an alternative to the common practice of media to portray Asian characters as stoic, menacing villains. Chan was characterized as heroic, intelligent, handsome, and honorable, and was received well by the general public. His stories would go on to be featured in numerous movies, as well as radio and television adaptations. ABOUT THIS BOOK: "Death is the black camel that kneels unbidden at every gate." This is what Charlie Chan tells the guests of the unfortunate Shelah Fane, a glamorous Hollywood movie star who has been murdered while on location beach side in Honolulu. Here the detective confronts his most perplexing case of his long and illustrious career. Chan is aided by a mysterious fortune teller named Tarneverro the Great. It appears that Miss Fane had summoned Tarneverro to Honolulu as she strongly believes in his mystical powers. A number of bystanders do not have alibis in this case, and it takes every bit of Chan's considerable powers to untangle this intricate web of deception and murder.(Publisher).

A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society by Bawer, Bruce

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Title: A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual in American Society
Author: Bawer, Bruce
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Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Poseidon Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Written in the early 90s - "this moving, eloquent work - both meditation and manifesto - on the nature of homosexuality is Bawer's attempt to set things right. He strips away the misconceptions that underlie homophobia, critically scrutinizes the lockstep mentality of the extreme gay subculture, and defines the complex moral predicament of the gay individual" (jacket flap). Very good in very good jacket with white title to grey spine panel. 8vo. 269 pages. ANTH112191.

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