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A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage

A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage by [Poetry – Women – Vermont] Fay, Mary S.

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Title
A Book of Poems by Amateur Poet Mary S. Fay, With Several Concerning Temperance and Women’s Suffrage
Author
[Poetry – Women – Vermont] Fay, Mary S.
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Overall very good minus.
Description
Reading, Vermont, 1943. 156 pp, with approximately 207 poems, plus a 1934 rejection letter from Perry Mason & Co. Spine broken, cover nearly detached and pages coming detached; some toning and wear to edges of pages, with smell. Overall very good minus.. A book of poems by Vermonter Mary S. Fay (likely 1875–1968). Fay’s topics include friends’ special events; current events such as “Titanic” (May 15, 1912) and “America We Are Ready” (1915, presumably concerning World War I); nature themes and seasonal poems; and especially nostalgic and sometimes defensive poems about Vermont, including “Strike Not The Land That Shelters”, which was “Written on learning slurs cast in Vermont by alliens who come to Vermont to reside”. However, Fay sometimes took up expressly political causes in her poetry. For instance, in April 1911 she penned “Equal Rights Proclaiming”: “Sister Woman, look ahead, / For there dawns the gladsome time / When thy queen, Equal rights, treads / O’er the land with light sublime: / O, raise your voice on high, / Loudly in sweet acclaim, / ‘Till they reach yonder sky / And there, the rights proclaim. [...] Sister Woman, of today, / Thou have striven long and well, / Thou’ve waited in twilight grief / For the ring of Freedoms bell. / Though at times all seem’d as lost / Thou upheld thy banner height; / And you counted not the cost / But press’d onward thru’ the night.” In March 1915, she took up the topic again, in a poem titled “Enfranchisement”: “Fled the years of servile shame! / Woman ‘tis this hour at last, / Honor thy glorious name, / Spread thy banner to the blast. / Brave my sisters, in thy might, / Steadfast yet and valiant be; / On thy noble standard write / Equality, law and liberty. [...] Enfranchisement, thus we vow, / Shall be ours ere we abate / Our strife which thru and thru / Of our life’s blood we consecrate / Upon the altar, upon the shield / Equality for all eternity; / Shall be ours at home, afield:- / Equality, law and liberty.” Despite the efforts of groups such as the Vermont Equal Suffrage Association, formed in the early 1880s, Vermont women did not get the right to vote until the rest of the country did, ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment in 1921. She also writes an intriguing, more general protest poem, seemingly for labor rights, titled “Justice Where?” (August 1911): “Tho labor’s toils in day by day / Beneath the heat and the cold; / While the oppresser sits in grandest state, / With a mere pittance to pay, / To keep hunger from the fold, / And in false pride his tyranny relate. / Awake, all ye toilers [?], / Drive at the oppresor bold! / Unfurl thy glorious standard of Right, / O’er many a dear home fold, / And thus ever protect it with thy might.” Another of Fay’s causes was temperance; in 1914 she wrote “A Temperance Boy”, dedicated to “six year old Clark A. Ritchie”: “A little temperance boy am I, / And proudly its banner I will fly. / Pure cold water is what I drink, / And its the best of all I think. / A big promise, don’t expect of me / for I’m only a little boy you see.” She objects to smoking as well, writing in “Why is it” (1932) that “I must relate, / smoking I hate. / ‘Be a sport girls’ / That is the cry / If in the whirl / They are a bit shy.” Overall a charming document of a woman’s progressive politics, expressed in verse.
HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete]

HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete] by Whitson, William W. [Translator]; Chin-Chih, Lai [Translator]; Wen-Wei, Yang [Translator]; Yu-chien, Chu [Editor]...et al

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HISTORY OF SINO-JAPANESE WAR [Two Volumes, Complete]
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Whitson, William W. [Translator]; Chin-Chih, Lai [Translator]; Wen-Wei, Yang [Translator]; Yu-chien, Chu [Editor]...et al
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Taipei: Office of Military History, Military Assistance Advisory Group, 1967. Hardcover. Quarto, two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Boards have scuff marks, adhesive wear along the tail end of the front boards, bumping to spine head/tails and fore corners, and wear to edges. Volume 1 has tears in the cloth along the rear joint edge. Volume 2 has tears along the spine head end. Textblocks have discoloration to end papers, air pockets to pastedowns, black stamps to the front and rear matter, black smudge marks to some pages throughout, mild age toning, and stains to edges. Volume 1 has soiling and slight offsetting to verso of frontispiece. Volume 2 has tipped in maps, causing pages to ripple. Shelved in Room A Oversized. CONTENTS: VOL. I: (xxx, 458 pages);-- VOL. II: (459-590, 78 pages, plus 59 maps). 1400851. Special Collections.
THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS

THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS by CONFUCIUS

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THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
Author
CONFUCIUS
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Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Split to front panel of box which is loose and partly detached. Fine in a Very Good box
Description
Shanghai: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Softcover. Split to front panel of box which is loose and partly detached. Fine in a Very Good box. Octavo (8" x 11") bound in full silk brocade wrappers and housed in a Chinese redwood box with lettering incised by hand, as published. Copy #8 of 1500 translated with an introduction by Lionel Giles and printed on handmade Chinese paper. Four illustrations printed on double folded leaves. Issued unsigned. Monthly Letter laid in. Lovely production and scarce in this condition.
Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper

Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper by Vierge, Daniel (Illustrator)

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Pablo De Segovia the Spanish Sharper
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Vierge, Daniel (Illustrator)
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Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Full vellum lightly soiled with back cover scratch. Very good
Description
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First English language edition. leather_bound. Full vellum lightly soiled with back cover scratch. Very good. Vierge, Daniel. Folio, 239 pages (one blank). 35 x 26 cm. First English edition limited to 440 copies -- this version was published ten years after the Paris first edition. With the English edition containing 20 more illustrations. The story of a scoundrel who failed in his attempt to become a gentleman. Translated from the original of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge. With comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell. An essay on the life and writing of Quevado by Henry Edward Watts. 110 illustrations. Raised bands, spine tooled in gilt compartments with eight raised bands, all edges stained red. Interior contents generally clean.
The Dark Place (Signed First Edition)

The Dark Place (Signed First Edition) by Aaron J Elkins

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The Dark Place (Signed First Edition)
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Aaron J Elkins
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780802755650
Condition
Near Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only light age-toning to the pages and a previous owner's bookplate under the front flap. SIGNED without inscription to the title page. An outstanding copy of this author's 2nd published work; a Professor Gideon Oliver mystery; an uncommon title, particularly signed. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.
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William Blake: Illuminated Books and Engravings. A Loan Exhibition by Blake, William

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William Blake: Illuminated Books and Engravings. A Loan Exhibition
Author
Blake, William
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Description
1969. Edinburgh: National Library of Scotland, 1969. 8vo, 34pp, 129 exhibits listed with 2 illustrations. Near fine in wrappers. § Bentley, Blake Books 699.
The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers

The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers by AMICHAI, Yehuda

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The Great Tranquility: Questions and Answers
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AMICHAI, Yehuda
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781878818683
Description
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: The Sheep Meadow Press, 1997. Softcover. 79 pages. Translated from the Hebrew by Glend Abramson and Tudor Parfitt. A clean very near fine in wrappers.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE by Woodbury, C.J.H.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTON MANUFACTURE
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Woodbury, C.J.H.
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New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. cloth. 8vo. cloth. 213 pages. Reprint of the 1909 first edition.

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