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A Woman of No Importance by Wilde, Oscar

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

Title: A Woman of No Importance
Author: Wilde, Oscar
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: John Lane at the Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894 First edition, limited large paper copy, with "Of this edition 50 copies have been printed" statement on the verso of the fourth preliminary page, and no publisher's catalogue at the back of the book. Publisher's yellow buckram boards with gilt decorations by Charles Shannon to covers and spine, spine lettered in gilt. Near fine, with some toning to spine and board edges, light wear to spine ends with a very shallow chip to cloth at foot of spine, bottom right corner of front board worn to boards, and heavy offsetting to endpapers. Overall, a beautiful copy of one of Wilde's four celebrated drawing-room plays. Mason 365. A Woman of No Importance is a four-act play that was first produced in London at the Haymarket Theatre on April 19, 1893. Like many of Wilde's plays, it satirizes the English upper-class and criticizes Victorian society. The title "a woman of no importance" refers to the character Mrs. Arbuthnot who bears the illegitimate son of Lord Illingworth. Although societal conventions deem her a sinful woman, Wilde proves Arbuthnot a respectable widow who is rewarded with a son who treats women respectfully. In contrast, Illingworth, one of Wilde's archetypal dandy figures, is rejected by his son and many of the women in the play, making him a "man of no importance." A Woman of No Importance was published simultaneously in two formats: small octavo (the standard edition of 500 copies) and quarto (the "Large Paper" issue of 50 copies). While both constitute the first edition of A Woman of No Importance, the large paper copies are decidedly rarer than the octavos; intended to be more exclusive and deluxe publications, large paper formats were typically produced using higher quality materials, lacked the publisher's advertisements, and were printed in small print runs. Because they were intended as collectibles from publication, large paper copies of Wilde's plays are exceedingly scarce.. First Edition, Limited Large Paper Copy. Hard Cover. Near Fine.

Cartilla Elemental de Agricultura by Miranda Prieto, Benito Ceferino

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Title: Cartilla Elemental de Agricultura
Author: Miranda Prieto, Benito Ceferino
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Havana: Establecimiento Tipografico de Barcina, 1850. Very good.. 173,[2, blank],10pp. Contemporary presentation binding of full orange calf, spine gilt extra, boards with elaborate gilt floral borders, stamped in gilt on front board, reading "Escmo. S.D. Francisco Armero y Penaranda." All edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned, boards a bit rubbed, light wear to extremities. Minor foxing to title page, occasional light thumb-soiling to margins. A decidedly-rare and informative primer on Cuban agriculture published in Havana in 1850. The author, Benito Ceferino Miranda Prieto is described on the title page as an agronomist at the College of San Fernando in Madrid. In this, the second edition of his work after the first published in Spain in 1847, Miranda Prieto states in the "Advertencia" that he has provided a corrected and updated work tuned to the needs of farmers working in Cuba. The work includes detailed information on the construction and life cycle of plants; the proper tending and fertilizing of the land; the correct timing for planting wheat, rye, oats, beans, and numerous other crops; the importance and practices of irrigation; the proper cultivation of numerous vegetables, including lettuce, celery. peppers, strawberries, potatoes, beets, asparagus, carrots, onions, and others; the proper method and timing for planting dozens of different types of flowers and succulents; details on the planting and cultivation of trees; and how to cultivate olives and vines for making olive oil and wine. The work also includes an alphabetical index of terms and farm products. OCLC records just three institutional copies, at the University of Florida, the University of Miami, and the National Library of Spain.

[Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Memory Book Assembled by Reber Woods, Memorializing Her Senior Year at Vashon High School] by [African Americana]: [Missouri]: [Woods, Lillian Reber]

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Title: [Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album and Memory Book Assembled by Reber Woods, Memorializing Her Senior Year at Vashon High School]
Author: [African Americana]: [Missouri]: [Woods, Lillian Reber]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: [St. Louis, 1934. Good.. [34] leaves, illustrated with fifty-one mounted photographs (most inscribed), with 4 loose photographs laid in, plus numerous pages containing manuscript messages by fellow students, various ephemeral items pasted in throughout, and with some ephemera laid in. Original pre-printed Girl Graduate's Journal published by Reilly & Lee of Chicago, bound in light blue cloth with decorative stamping in gilt and white on front cover, string tied. Noticeable wear and soiling to covers. Some leaves detached, some lightly chipped. With additional autograph book laid in, numbering fifty-five pages, dated 1929-1930. Original blue cloth, spine tied with bow. Half of front cover chipped away, heavy crease to rear cover. Minor dust-soiling and toning to text. A wonderful senior-year memory book compiled by Lillian Reber "Snookie" Woods (1915-1982), a young African-American woman graduating from St. Louis's segregated Vashon High School in June 1934. Vashon High School was the second high school built for Black students in St. Louis when it opened in 1927. Woods has filled out a few preliminary pages with information on her school, its colors, the school "yell," her personal motto ("To Thine Ownself Be True" and "Excelsior!"), and the names of the class officers, among other information. Thereafter, the contents comprise over fifty original photographs, friendly inscriptions from classmates and teachers, and various ephemeral items. Almost all of the photographs are small-format portraits of Woods' classmates, almost all of which have been inscribed by each subject, providing critical identifications for other students attending and/or graduating from Vashon in 1934. The inscriptions to Woods are typical of student memory and yearbooks, with teachers and students wishing Woods a happy future, praising her as a student, offering life advice, and so forth. The ephemeral items (both pasted in and laid in) flesh out Woods' school and graduation experience, and include a four-page manuscript "Last Will and Testament" from the senior class, the printed program for the June graduation ceremony, a ticket to a senior-year boat excursion for all St. Louis-area graduates, five of Woods' high school report cards, and a few clippings. An additional autograph book is laid in containing over fifty pages of inscription to Woods from her classmates in 1929-1930. The inscriptions seem to emanate from Woods' final year of her middle school years at the Sampson School. Also laid in are two alumni lists (one listing January 1934 graduates and the other June 1934 graduates) dated in 1971, with addresses for many of the alumni and with some students listed as "deceased." Woods also revisited her graduation program in the present album and noted deceased students on the program. High school memory books for Black women in the Jim Crow years are incredibly rare. Out of the few we've handled, the present example is the most charming, with a wealth of sincere messages contained within the inscriptions and a wealth of information to be gleaned from the inscribed photographic portraits of her fellow students.

Northern Tour A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland.. by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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Title: Northern Tour A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England and Scotland..
Author: Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1838. London: Printed for the Author..., 1838. 2 vols, royal 8vo, (i-v) vi-xv [xvi], (10, subscribers, plates, contents), (1) 2-436, (i) ii-xxx (supplement), (1, errata) +12 plates; (iv), (437-39) 440-1090 pp. With 40 plates and woodcut vignettes on titles and throughout the text. Original pinkish buff boards, printed paper labels, skillfully rebacked retaining the original backstrips. Binding signed "J. MacKenzie Binder 4 Crown St. Westminster". Bookplate of Charles Sebag-Montefiore. § First edition, regular paper copy. Dedicated to Frances Mary Richardson Currer. The dedicatee subscribed for nine copies, eight on large-paper. Arthur Freeman has one of these, still in original boards and Roxburghe quarter roan, inscribed by Dibdin, 'To Miss Currer From the Author April 19.1839. The first copy into boards.' Jackson states that there were 100 large-paper copies bound in three volumes with a third title-page inserted before p. [815] and with the index at the end of vol.3. The quantity of the regular issue is not known. The Barlow copy in original boards uncut has an eighteen-page Bohn catalogue (an octavo and an additional leaf) bound at the end of vol.I. 'I think it belongs there, since it is printed by the same printer as the book on what appears to be the same paper....The unusual thing ... is that it appears to be excerpts from a rare book catalogue [selected specifically for this book] rather than a publisher's catalogue.' (Barlow, in litt.) Freeman's 'first copy into boards' has only pp.17-18 (the last, single leaf) of this catalogue bound in at the end. This copy, like Barlow's has the entire catalogue. Tipped into vol. 1 is an autograph letter from Dibdin dated 20 November 1848, addressee unknown. "May I venture to solicit your transferring your name from my "Reformation Lectures" (which are postponed, perhaps sine die) to the enclosed work. Perhaps the same favour could be obtained from your Brother?" signed T/F. Dibdin. Provenance: Lister; Colin Franklin; Sebag-Montefiore. Windle A65.

History of Gwinnett County Georgia 1818-1993. Volume III by Worthy, Marvin Nash

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Title: History of Gwinnett County Georgia 1818-1993. Volume III
Author: Worthy, Marvin Nash
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780964467903
Condition: Very good
Description: Atlanta: Stein Printing Company, 1994. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. xxxvi, [1], 316 pages, [120] pages index. Black hardcover with title on the front cover and spine. Light shelf wear to the front cover. Inscribed and signed on the front blank end sheet by Marvin Worthy.

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