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Giacomo Puccini Promises to Send a Photograph of Himself to a Young Admirer

Giacomo Puccini Promises to Send a Photograph of Himself to a Young Admirer by Giacomo Puccini

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Seller: The Raab Collection
Title
Giacomo Puccini Promises to Send a Photograph of Himself to a Young Admirer
Author
Giacomo Puccini
Seller
The Raab Collection (United States)
Description
11/11/06. Giacomo Puccini was a Italian composer, who left us some of the great operatic works, including La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot.In late 1906, a girl wrote to Puccini, sending her photograph, and asking for one from Puccini. He apparently knew her family and responded with this Autograph letter signed, November 11, 1906, Paris, on Grand Hotel de Londres letterhead. ""Dear Miss, A thousand and thousand thanks for your photography.  I will reciprocate as soon as I receive one from the photographer - at present I don't have one - but the first one that I shall receive will be yours.  My respects to your dear mother.""
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge by Coolidge, Calvin

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
Title
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Author
Coolidge, Calvin
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1929 Illustrated with 12 black-and-white photographs, including a frontispiece of Coolidge. One of 1,000 numbered copies signed by Coolidge on the limitation page, this being number 26. Publisher's quarter navy cloth, with gray paper-covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, laid paper; lacking publisher's slipcase. Near fine, with a touch of rubbing to spine ends, some light red staining to top of front board, moderately worn corners, and light soiling to front free endpaper. Overall, a sturdy and handsome copy. Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933) was the 30th President of the United States (1923 - 1929), ascending to the position after President Warren Harding died in office in 1923. Known as a quiet and principled president, he signed the war-denouncing Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), the Indian Citizenship Act (1924), which granted citizenship to Native Americans born in the US, and the Revenue Acts of 1924, 1926, and 1928 to reduce the national debt. In 1927, he famously responded to reporters questioning whether he would run for another term by handing out slips of paper with the statement "I do not choose to run for President in 1928." . Signed. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine.
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The Seaman's Guide Round Java .... by Melvill van Carnbee, Pieter [Baron] - EAST INDIES NAVIGATION

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Title
The Seaman's Guide Round Java ....
Author
Melvill van Carnbee, Pieter [Baron] - EAST INDIES NAVIGATION
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Good with overall toning.
Description
London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1850. First Edition.. Full contemporary leather - with the owner's initials "A T Q" on the spine.. Good with overall toning.. 8vo, x, [2], [1] - 252 pp.. There are some additional autograph navigational notes on the rear endpaper along with a signature of A T Quijano. Baron Melvill was an officer in the Dutch Royal Navy. The book offered here is based on his experience and research. The research was enhanced by efforts of the Dutch Governor-General of the Indies (van der Capellen) who in 1821 established a commission in Batavia to collect sailing instructions and reports for the Indies. The combined resources resulted in the book offered here. It is supplemented by the work of Lt. H D Smits (Hydrographer at Batavia) who covered the islands east of Java. Smits' work was first published in Batavia in 1848 in both Dutch and English and preceded by a rare illustrated pamphlet on the Banka and Gaspar straits printed at Singapore in 1847. Smits, " ... availed himself of every source of information within his reach; and his descriptions of that chain of islands, however brief, his directions for the channels between them, and his judicious hints about the monsoons and currents cannot fail of being highly useful when crossing that imperfectly explored region." See Ujifusa, Barons of the Sea, pp. 237-242; OCLC cites only one location.
Melissa

Melissa by Caldwell, Taylor

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Title
Melissa
Author
Caldwell, Taylor
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Red cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket priced at $3.00. Mild edgewear to book & jacket, but a nice copy overall. 1948 on title page, no "A" on CR page.
The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
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The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq by AJAMI, Fouad

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Title
The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
Author
AJAMI, Fouad
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN
9780743236676
Condition
very good(+)
Description
New York: Free Press, 2006. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). xix + 378 pages. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. New York: Free Press, (2006). First edition. Pages rather toned, else near fine in a very good(+) dust wrapper.