Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$14,380.00
Shipping:	$52.69
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$14,432.69
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $101.05 2 - 6 days

Standard Shipping $52.69 2 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $14,432.69 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$14,380.00
Shipping:	$52.69
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$14,432.69
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

Original black & white silver-print photograph of Elizabeth Bishop, 9 1/2 x 7 inches, signed by Bishop on the verso by [BISHOP, Elizabeth]

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.00

Details

$10,000.00

( US$)

Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC

Title: Original black & white silver-print photograph of Elizabeth Bishop, 9 1/2 x 7 inches, signed by Bishop on the verso
Author: [BISHOP, Elizabeth]
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: The photograph is in fine condition
Description: In this image, Bishop is standing in front of a stone wall, gazing off to the right. The portrait is reproduced. in reduced format, as Figure 25 in Brett Millier's biography of Bishop. On the verso, Bishop has written: "Please return to Elizabeth Bishop 437 Lewis Wharf Boston, Massachusetts 02116. The photograph is in fine condition. The photograph is in fine condition.

Second Annual Report of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society (Educational Commission). Presented to the Society, April 24, 1864 by [African Americana]: New England Freedmen's Aid Society

2 to 8 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.70

Details

$2,750.00

( US$)

Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

Title: Second Annual Report of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society (Educational Commission). Presented to the Society, April 24, 1864
Author: [African Americana]: New England Freedmen's Aid Society
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the activities of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society (NEFAS), an activist group formed to assist emancipated Black Americans in may aspects of life, especially with gaining academic and practical educations following the Civil War. The present work is especially important for the long section titled, "Condition of the Freedmen" which occupies pages 11 to 51 (about half of the total work). This section details the population, state of education, labor and industry opportunities, general condition, and more of free African Americans in several regions of the country, namely the Military Department of the South, Key West and the Tortugas, Military Department of Virginia and North Carolina, the District of Columbia, the Mississippi Valley, Middle Tennessee, Western Arkansas, and Louisiana. Interestingly, a substantial subsection of the section on the Department of the South is devoted to a discussion of arable lands available to freed slaves around Beaufort and Port Royal, known to modern audiences as "Forty Acres and a Mule." Regarding the land in this area, the report states that "It was a matter of course that the lands should all be taken, for those blacks who did not wish to turn cultivators were perfectly aware that they could sell their 40 acres for many times the government price." The organization was also notable for its mission, specifically aimed at education, and for the critical role women played in its work. "The New England Freedmen's Aid Society was founded in Boston in 1862, in response to an appeal...on behalf of 8,000 formerly enslaved people at Port Royal, SC. Originally named the Educational Commission, its mission was to provide teachers and other aid for 'the industrial, social, intellectual, moral, and religious' advantage of freedmen" (Massachusetts Historical Society). As was the case with many abolition and aid groups, women were in the vanguard of the NEFAS. They recruited, trained, and even served as educators in the program. For much of the twentieth century, if historians wrote about the first teachers among freed people at all, they characterized them as foolish, even dangerous, women...who bore a heavy responsibility for the racial tension after the Civil War and whose work caused Southern educators to avoid Black education" (The Freedmen's Teacher Project). Yet scholars in the 1960s and after -- particularly women and Black researchers -- have returned to the documents of the Society to uncover the serious and often intersectional work being done by both white and Black activists in Port Royal, reframing "the freedmen's education movement as not primarily a gift of northern largess...but as autonomous actions of hundreds of Black communities across the South demanding access to literacy and numeracy" (The Freedmen's Teacher Project). In this sense, those "dangerous" women were troubling because they heard the call of Black peoples, took their needs seriously, and reacted accordingly. The movement was thus "largely Black-inspired, abetted by female missionary teachers" whose shared goals were to prepare "former slaves for lives of freedom in a democratic America" (The Freedmen's Teacher Project). The present Annual Report shows the early efforts of this Society including fundraising, allocation of funds, educational programs and educational gains, and future goals. Included in the list of Officers are eleven white women in leadership roles; indeed, women were the majority in the Committee on Teachers and the Committee on Clothing and Supplies. Among them are more well-known activists who appear in American Abolitionists and Antislavery Activists, i.e. Ednah Cheney and Sarah Barrett Cabot, who had raised her daughter to become a leader in the movement. Most, however, are lesser or unknown, denoted largely by their husbands' names rather than their own. Even less visible but even more important were the unlisted Black women who were members of the group and contributors to the grassroots work. "Nearly one-fifth of the Northern teachers were Black...Black teachers were fifteen times more likely to give a few years of their lives to Southern Black education...the rest of the recruited teachers were native to the South; many had been enslaved, while others were Southern free Black women and other men of color" (The Freedmen's Teacher Project). The accomplishments in the report -- fundraising, equipment, educational gains -- can largely be attributed to their efforts. The report for the first year of the organization is exceedingly rare, with only one example listed in OCLC; twelve copies of the present report appear in OCLC, though no copies have appeared in modern auction records, and no other copies are currently in trade. An important and scarce historical document preserving the accomplishments of a fairly short-lived intersectional activist group with vital reports on the activities of freed slaves throughout the southern part of the country.

Wiener Taschenbuch 1803 by ALMANAC)

6 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$500.00

( US$)

Seller: Argosy Book Store

Title: Wiener Taschenbuch 1803
Author: ALMANAC)
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: near fine
Description: Vienna: Degen, 1803. First. hardcover. near fine. Frontispiece, title vignette, and 16 engraved plates, 3 of them double paged. 32mo, leather backed boards, with spine label & gilt decorations. (Wien): Degen (1803). Near fine copy (spine label lightly chipped) of this attractive "pocket book" including views of Trieste & Spalatro (Split) , Croatia.

Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute by MARK HOPKINS

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $3.50

Details

$450.00

( US$)

Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc.

Title: Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute
Author: MARK HOPKINS
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: 1851. No binding. Fine. Autograph Letter Signed, as President of Williams College, [perhaps to Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian], November 13, 1851. 1 p., 5 x 6 1/4 in. ""What they may turn out to be I cannot say, but should like the liberty of choice when the time comes..."" Mark Hopkins (1802-1887) graduated from Williams College in 1824, and from the Berkshire Medical College in 1829. He returned to Williams College as professor of Moral Philosophy and Rhetoric, and was licensed to preach by the Congregationalists in 1833. He became president of the college in 1836, serving until 1872. President James Garfield, who attended Williams College in the 1850s, said in 1871 that his idea of an ideal college would be Mark Hopkins and a student together in a log cabin. Hopkins delivered three lectures at the Smithsonian on the evenings of January 5, 7, and 9, 1852, on ""Method,"" ""Method applied to investigation,"" and ""Subject concluded, viz: Method.""Complete Transcript Williams College Nov 13th 1851Dear Sir, I am just now writing some lectures for the Smithsonian Institute. What they may turn out to be I cannot say, but should like the liberty of choice when the time comes to give you one of them or another, and as I presume the announcement of the subject cannot be of much importance, I will, if you please leave it indefinite for the present. Very Respectfully yours, M. HopkinsHistoric BackgroundWith a bequest from the nephew of British scientist James Smithson, the Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846. The Smithsonian not only collected artifacts and specimens, but was also generally committed to the ""increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."" To accomplish this mandate, the institution published books and pamphlets and hosted lectures on a variety of subjects.Earlier in 1851, Senator Stephen A. Douglas had criticized the Smithsonian Institution for wasting its funds on theoretical research such as studying the moon. In June 1852, Douglas renewed his attack on research with ""no practical bearing,"" such as studies of ""sea weeds and such trash."" Joseph Henry, who served from 1846 to 1878 as the Smithsonian's first Secretary, reportedly responded angrily, declaring that ""All knowledge was practical, how abstruse so ever it might to the uninitiated appear, and in good time would always vindicate itself in subserving the practical wants and necessities of mankind."" Henry and Douglas later apologized, and in 1854 Douglas became a Smithsonian Regent.

Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue by STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE

3 to 7 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.50

Details

$300.00

( US$)

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue
Author: STEVENS-NELSON PAPER CATALOGUE
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy
Description: New York: Stevens-Nelson, 1953. First edition. A fine copy. Folio (29.9 x 24.6 cm). 107 specimen sheets, some with illustrations. Original quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, gilt-lettered on spine. In the publisher's plain board slipcase (light wear). With presentation leaf to Sidney Cockerell. According to notes left by the binder Laura S. Young, the book was a gift from Peggy Loos in 1954 when it was being discarded (her husband Melvin Loos was the manager of the Columbia University Printing Office). In the1950’s Ms. Young was teaching bookbinding (along with Gerhard Gerlach) in the Columbia Graphic Arts Program, and Hollis Holland, who did the calligraphy presentation page, was also teaching in the program. The marbled paper on the cover is not a Cockerell paper, and it is that is the possible reason that this copy was not presented to him. A tour-de-force of midcentury design and printing techniqueson a wide variety of paper and other media – including a specimen of Print magazine printed on wood veneer (no. 40). The cover of the 1952 exhibition catalogue of the Estelle Doheny collection of Bibles is no. 77. The 8-page price list dated July 1953 is loosely inserted, with inkstamp noting that 50 new handmade papers have been added to stock since the printing of the list. "Probably the most varied sample book of handmade and mould-made papers ever done, this book contains the work of more than 150 designers, printers and papermakers of ten countries. Papers of both the West and the Orient are included" (Schlosser 59). The texts were designed or printed by Bruce Rogers, Joseph Blumenthal, the Curwen Press, Mardersteig, the Plantin Press et al.

100% Linen Protest and Survive Tea Towel by Elaine Sturtevant

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $6.00

Details

$300.00

( US$)

Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: 100% Linen Protest and Survive Tea Towel
Author: Elaine Sturtevant
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Whitechapel Gallery, 2009. Ephemera. Near Fine. A 2009 comment --in the form of a "tea towel"--by American artist Elaine Sturtevant (1924-2014) on the "Protest and Survive" show at London's Whitechapel Gallery in 2000, which was called a "rallying cry for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at a time when it was believed this was still possible". Sturtevant's "tea towel" placed inside of a sealed envelope, featuring the "appropriated" cover of Sturtevant's own 1988 "Beuys La rivoluzione siamo Noi" catalogue of her Whitechapel exhibition. An all-but-pristine copy, with a few creases here and there. Inspired, confusing, wonderful.

First Love by BECKETT, Samuel

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $3.99

Details

$50.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Sanctuary Books

Title: First Love
Author: BECKETT, Samuel
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Calder & Boyars, 1973. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. 62 pp. Original pink cloth. A few marks and underlining in red. DJ is spine faded.

Mr. Webster's Second Speech on The Sub-Treasury Bill. Delivered March 12, 1838 by Webster, Daniel

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$30.00

( EU VAT US$0)

Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB

Title: Mr. Webster's Second Speech on The Sub-Treasury Bill. Delivered March 12, 1838
Author: Webster, Daniel
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: A very good or better copy with two small punch holes along inner margin and a mail fold.
Description: [Washington, D. C.]: n.p., 1838. First edition. A very good or better copy with two small punch holes along inner margin and a mail fold.. 29 pp. Sm. 4to. One of either three or four editions published that year according to Sabin. In this, Webster's second speech on the Sub-treasury bill, are important remarks on Calhoun, on nullification, and perhaps one of his most graphic pieces in which he imagines General Jackson coming out retirement, walking into the senate, and looking across "to the seats on the other side." Sabin 102309. Kress 30486. MU Daniel Webster Speeches Collection 32.

Secure Checkout