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American Types

American Types by Zim" [Zimmerman, Eugene, after]

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
American Types
Author
Zim" [Zimmerman, Eugene, after]
Seller
James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Some foxing, wear to mount with some loss
Description
1893. 23 pen and ink drawings affixed to a sheet of ruled paper on card mount, signed "from sketches by 'Zim'" lower right on paper. Some foxing, wear to mount with some loss. 23 pen and ink drawings affixed to a sheet of ruled paper on card mount, signed "from sketches by 'Zim'" lower right on paper. Highly accomplished sketches after Eugene "Zim" Zimmerman (1862 - 1935), a Swiss-American cartoonist, an early pioneer in the exaggerated "big foot" style of caricature, who did much work for Puck and Judge. This grouping of "American types" includes racial and ethnic stereotypes of blacks, Jews, Italians, and so on. [With:] "A Sample of American Humour," a two-panel pen-and-ink drawing involving a Chinese and Native American, inscribed "from 'Judge'", possibly after "Zim" [and:] "A Page from America" and "Another Page from America," two sheets containing 9 pen-and-ink comic drawings, some hand-colored, signed "W.O.H." Many with highly problematic portrayals of race and gender.
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Poems. New and enlarged edition by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
Poems. New and enlarged edition
Author
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston: William D. Ticknor & Company, 1849. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Full calf, spine gilt in compartments with red label, gilt rule borders to covers and gilt dentelles, edges gilt. With contemporary ownership inscription to front free end-paper dated Dec., 1848. First edition, first issue, with the characteristic misprint “Perpischore” at the top of page 187. Several of the poems appear here for the first time in book form, including A modest request; Nux postcœnatica; A song of other days; and The stethoscope song. “The [Ticknor and Fields] Commission account book A, page 214, under the date December 12, 1848, notes five copies in full calf.” BAL, 8750; C&T, p. 42.
Apollo 11 Homecoming Coverage and Post-Landing Quarantine in the Los Angeles Times, 1969

Apollo 11 Homecoming Coverage and Post-Landing Quarantine in the Los Angeles Times, 1969 by Buzz Aldrin

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Seller: Max Rambod Inc.
Title
Apollo 11 Homecoming Coverage and Post-Landing Quarantine in the Los Angeles Times, 1969
Author
Buzz Aldrin
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1969. Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1969 issue. This newspaper documents the public return of the Apollo 11 crew immediately after the first successful manned lunar landing, preserving one of the defining moments of twentieth-century space history in a contemporaneous mass-circulation format later signed by Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon. The issue records the recovery, quarantine, and national reception of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Aldrin at the precise moment when NASA's lunar program had shifted from technological ambition to realized achievement. It supports research into Cold War science, American mass media, presidential spectacle, and the public presentation of astronauts as national figures following the mission's July 24, 1969 splashdown. NASA required quarantine for the Apollo 11 lunar crew as part of its back-contamination procedures, and postflight quarantine remained in place through Apollo 14 before being discontinued. Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. July 25, 1969. Complete edition, signed by Buzz Aldrin. Front-page headline reads, "Moon Explorers Home; What's Next Step in Space." The cover photographs show the three astronauts stepping from the recovery helicopter aboard the USS Hornet in quarantine garments, while another image shows President Richard Nixon greeting them from outside the Mobile Quarantine Facility. These visual elements place recovery protocol, presidential theater, and lunar triumph within the same news frame, emphasizing that the return to Earth was itself treated as a major event. Aldrin's bold signature adds direct association with the mission and transforms the issue from a commemorative newspaper into an inscribed artifact tied to the individuals who carried out the first Moon landing. Issued one day after splashdown, the newspaper captures the immediate transition from mission completion to public interpretation, when the United States presented Apollo 11 as both scientific accomplishment and geopolitical success. The juxtaposition of quarantine imagery with celebratory headlines preserves an important transitional moment in which uncertainty about lunar contamination still shaped NASA procedure even as the astronauts were being welcomed as national heroes. Light general handling wear and expected horizontal fold from original distribution; signed front page remains bold and legible. Overall very good condition. A strong signed example of contemporary press coverage from the Apollo 11 homecoming, joining astronaut autograph material with one of the most recognizable newspaper moments of the space age.
Blind Mouths [*SIGNED* by film producer Walter Wanger]

Blind Mouths [*SIGNED* by film producer Walter Wanger] by Tweed, Thomas F.

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Seller: ReadInk
Title
Blind Mouths [*SIGNED* by film producer Walter Wanger]
Author
Tweed, Thomas F.
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London: Arthur Barker, Ltd.. Good. 1934. Advance copy. Softcover. (plain brown wraps) [spine roll, modest external wear]. An advance copy of this uncommon politically-themed novel, about a dictator who rules over a confederation of six central European countries, and the messianic faith-healer who champions the region's peasants in their opposition to the dictator's plans for state-controlled farming. The author's previous (and apparently only other) novel was also in a politically-charged vein: published in 1933 in the U.K. as "Rinehard: A Melodrama of the Nineteen-Thirties" and in the U.S. as "Gabriel Over the White House" (by "Anonymous"), it served as the basis for a 1933 film (using the American title) produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions. And here's where the provenance of this copy gets really interesting: scrawled on the front endpaper is "W.W. Inc." and the signature of Walter Wanger; Wanger was the producer of GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE, and the film's screenwriter was Carey Wilson, from whose library this book comes (although it's not marked as such). The logical conclusion from these bits of evidence is that Wanger and Wilson, fresh from their collaboration on the adaptation of Tweed's earlier novel, had the inside track on this book and considered it for possible film production. (No film was ever made, though.) This book also had a U.S. publication under a different title, "Destiny's Man" (Farrar & Rinehart, 1935). Signed by Associated .
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Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 10, 1848

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 10, 1848
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Orson Spencer, 1848. Good. Latter Day Saints Millennial Star vol 10, 1848. Liverpool: Orson Spencer, 1848. 380pp. 8vo. Full diced brown leather. Book condition: Good only. Original binding shows considerable wear and has been salvaged with the spine repaired, and text block reset with new inkjet-marbled endsheets. Lacks title page and index. Contents collated complete, but a bit shabby with occasional light spotting and creases.
1918 – A letter from an overweight, overtired, and, especially, overworked but dedicated medic who managed a ward in an overcrowded base hospital near Nantes, France

1918 – A letter from an overweight, overtired, and, especially, overworked but dedicated medic who managed a ward in an overcrowded base hospital near Nantes, France by J. K. Leister

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1918 – A letter from an overweight, overtired, and, especially, overworked but dedicated medic who managed a ward in an overcrowded base hospital near Nantes, France
Author
J. K. Leister
Seller
Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Base Hospital #38 near Nantes, France, 1918. Very good. This four-page letter from J. K. Leister of Base Hospital #38 near Nantes, France to his mother back home in Pottstown, Pennsylvania is dated 17 August 1918. It is enclosed in its original mailing envelope and bears a manuscript “Soldiers Mail” annotation along with a standard censor handstamp. Although APO 767 is referenced in Leister’s return address, the cover is not postmarked. In nice shape In this letter, Leister reports “Last night was the first night I’ve had my clothes off since Sunday. . .. A red cross train came in Monday and I’ve been on the go ever since. Another is due to-night at 830 so little Johnny won’t sleep again for several days. It will be work, work, work from morning until night, and then all night. But that’s what I’m here for and as long as I can stand it. . .. You’ve never had to handle a fifty-bed ward with one assistant and no nurse. I’m just about ready to drop. . .. I wonder how much longer it will last.” . During World War One, base hospitals were the most sophisticated medical facilities in theater. Located far behind the front lines, they treated only the most severely wounded soldiers after they had already been stabilized at more forward hospitals and aid stations. They had x-ray departments, multiple operating theaters, large medical staffs, and many beds for both treatment and stabilization before further evacuation to the states or possibly rehabilitation and return to the front. Base Hospital No. 38 was formed primarily from the medical staff of the Jefferson Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. After the war, it published an informal history/yearbook. It notes that Leister was consistently teased for his weight and always wanting to sleep. The caption under his photo read, "Please go ‘way and let me sleep.” A very nice letter documenting the endless work required of the staffs in the medical units of the American Expeditionary Force.
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MY HARTFORD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Chapman, Helen Post

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Title
MY HARTFORD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Author
Chapman, Helen Post
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near fine copy with glassine wrapper, over which is pictorial dustjacket that is worn and soiled yet quite presentable. Inscribed by author on the title page.
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AUDEN: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY by AUDEN, W.H.] HOGGART, Richard

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Title
AUDEN: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Author
AUDEN, W.H.] HOGGART, Richard
Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
LONDON, CHATTO & WINDUS, 1961, 1961. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED) FIRST EDITION, 2ND PRINTING VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover.
THE USE OF REASON

THE USE OF REASON by Toibin, Colm

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Title
THE USE OF REASON
Author
Toibin, Colm
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Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780330445733
Condition
Fine
Description
London: Faber and Faber, 2006. First edition, first prnt. Perfect bound illustrated wraps. No hardcover edition. Cover illustration by Roderick Mills. One in the "Picador Shots" series which includes Ellis, Kneale, Salter, Winton, et al. Unread copy in Fine condition. Contents are the title story. Soft Cover. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Chapbook. The images are of the book described and not stock photos.
Webster's dictionary of quotations: a book of ready reference for all familiar words and phrases in the English language

Webster's dictionary of quotations: a book of ready reference for all familiar words and phrases in the English language

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Webster's dictionary of quotations: a book of ready reference for all familiar words and phrases in the English language
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
New York: R. Worthington, n.d., 1880. 8vo, pp. 295, [1], [18] ads for Ward, Lock & Co. (London); original green cloth; spine stamped in gilt and black; hinges cracked, else very good.
TRADITION OF AQUINAS AND BONAVENTURE, TEXT AND COMMENTARY DURING SEVEN CENTURIES

TRADITION OF AQUINAS AND BONAVENTURE, TEXT AND COMMENTARY DURING SEVEN CENTURIES

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TRADITION OF AQUINAS AND BONAVENTURE, TEXT AND COMMENTARY DURING SEVEN CENTURIES
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Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 1974. stiff paper wrappers. Aquinas. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (24) pages. An exhibition catalogue. A fine copy.
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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to its Collections. by YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

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Title
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to its Collections.
Author
YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New Haven:: Yale University Library,. Near Fine. 1974. Paperback. First edition (paperback). Near fine in oversized illustrated wraps. .

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