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Genealogical Tables showing descent of Miss Ruth Moore (Mrs. Arthur H. Lee.) [Manuscript and watercolor title] by [Moore, Ruth.]; Hawley, Miss M.L. (genealogist); Abbott, W.H. (artist)

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Title: Genealogical Tables showing descent of Miss Ruth Moore (Mrs. Arthur H. Lee.) [Manuscript and watercolor title]
Author: [Moore, Ruth.]; Hawley, Miss M.L. (genealogist); Abbott, W.H. (artist)
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York, 1900. Very good. 13¼” x 10”. Full leather, gilt title to front board, thin card leaves. 19 handwritten and illustrated pages. Very good due to moderate wear to boards; internally near fine with a hint of dust soiling. This is a gorgeous and strikingly illustrated genealogy commissioned by a 25 year-old New York socialite not long after the loss of her well-known father as well as her marriage to a British military officer. Ruth Moore was born in Brooklyn around 1874 and was the daughter of John Godfrey Moore. John Godfrey was a major industrialist during the Gilded Age and was best known for successfully suing the United States government in 1893 to stop the new income tax act, ultimately delaying it by 20 years. He died suddenly and unexpectedly in 1899, leaving Ruth with half of his massive estate. Ruth married Arthur Hamilton Lee soon after her father's death in 1899. With Ruth's inheritance, Arthur was able to retire from the military in his early 30s, and start a very successful political career in Britain, being elected to the House of Commons in 1900. Arthur also maintained a robust correspondence with President Theodore Roosevelt. The couple later donated their country estate – Chequers – in 1917 to the British government for use in perpetuity by successive prime ministers. Arthur became Viscount Lee of Fareham, a member of the House of Lords, and Ruth became a Viscountess until her death in 1965. The genealogist was a woman, Miss M.L. Hawley, and we are unable to find anything about her. The artist, W.H. Abbott, ran a business in New York called “The Bureau of Heraldry,” and published Heraldry Illustrated in 1897. This book begins with an elaborately designed title page in ink and watercolor and Moore's family is traced back to 1653. Included among the handsomely written data are 30 heraldic crests in ink and watercolor. They are as large as five inches by three inches and many are heightened with gold and/or silver. All leap off the page while colorfully representing the following families: Andrews, Bidwell, Bissell, Capron, Champernowne, Cutts, Denison, Dodge, Dyer, Filley, Fitch, Garfield, Goodhue, Griswold, Green, Howland, Littlefield, Millet, Newberry, Parish, Phelps, Pinney, Ridley, Stoughton, Thayer, Tracy, Tuttle, Wadsworth, Warham, Wilson. Simply stunning.

Black Mischief by Waugh, Evelyn

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Black Mischief
Author: Waugh, Evelyn
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1932. First Edition, First Printing. Three Quarter Leather. Near fine. First issue of Black Mischief by Evelyn Waugh.. Octavo, vii, [1], [9]-303pp. Bound in three-quarter blue morocco, title in gilt on spine, raised bands with gilt decorations. Top edge gilt. Stated "first published October, 1932" on copyright page. Faint foxing to contents page, frontispiece map with tissue cover. A near fine example, with a decorative binding by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, England.

HELP US TO HELP YOU! [Handbill Advertising the United Afro-American Union] by [African-Americana – Great Depression – Progressive Politics – New York City] United Afro-American Union

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Title: HELP US TO HELP YOU! [Handbill Advertising the United Afro-American Union]
Author: [African-Americana – Great Depression – Progressive Politics – New York City] United Afro-American Union
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Folded with some wear; excellent.
Description: New York City, 1938. Handbill measuring 5 ¾ x 9 inches. Folded with some wear; excellent.. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was established in 1933 (replaced in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration) to provide paid employment and other aid to unemployed people during the Great Depression. In 1937, the WPA laid off half a million of its workers, prompting the Workers’ Alliance of America—an organization founded by the Socialist Party of America in 1935—to hold a Jobs March in Washington, D.C. Though the march was relatively sparsely attended, it became fodder for anti-Communist backlash, leading to further cuts to the WPA budget, which dropped 1.5 million more workers from the program in 1939. The Depression hit the majority-Black neighborhood of Harlem especially hard. At its peak, the unemployment rate in Harlem reached fifty per cent, double the countrywide average. Offered here is a handbill published by the United Afro-American Union, an unemployment union for African American Harlemers. The Union was formed by Louis Campbell and Frankie Duty, former leaders of the Workers’ Alliance in Harlem, following a dispute with the Alliance.[1] The handbill reads in part: “Join with us in this struggle against Relief Cuts. [...] ‘In unity there is strength,’ is our motto. Negroes on Relief must join hands together for their common good. [...] Don’t let grasping Landlords deprive you of your right to shelter. Our program is to fight against all forms of Negro Discrimination, whether it is found here or elsewhere. You can ‘Help Us to Help You,’ by joining the -- UNITED AFRO-AMERICAN UNION.” The organization was apparently quite short-lived, lacking organization and any significant support.[1] Of interest to historians of Harlem and African American activism during the Great Depression. We find no copies in OCLC. [1] Abner Berry, “A Black Harlem Communist Speaks,” Unknown Interviewer, Liberation School, October 22, 2019, audio, https://liberationschool.org/abner-berry/.

RAILROAD BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA, 23 ITEMS by RAILROAD - VARIOUS

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Title: RAILROAD BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA, 23 ITEMS
Author: RAILROAD - VARIOUS
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: [RAILROAD] RAILROAD BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA, 23 ITEMS. As follows: 1. DETROIT LUBRICATOR COMPANY. "GENUINE DETROIT" MODEL A LOCOMOTIVE FORCE FEED OILER, CATALOG NO. 174. Detroit, MI [n.d.] 56 pp. including folding charts and b/w and two-color illustrations, and halftone photos. 8vo., heavily soiled printed stapled wrappers, yellow. Some soil to page edges. 2. DETROIT LUBRICATOR COMPANY. DETROIT BULLSEYE LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS, CATALOG NO. 38 L. Detroit, MI, 1918. 62 pp. Halftone photos. 8vo., moderate soil to printed stapled wrappers with 3 color embossed front cover. Light offset to front and rear pages, and some soil to page edges. 3. WORTHINGTON PUMP AND MACHINERY CORPORATION. WORTHINGTON LOCOMOTIVE BOILER FEED PUMP AND FEED WATER HEATER, TYPES B AND BL, GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR OPERATION BK-1608-F. New York, May 1927. 36 pp. Stiff green printed wrappers with green cloth tape spine, rounded corners. 12mo., moderate soil to covers and a few pages, b/w folding diagram, two-color folding diagram, b/w figs. in text. 4. SNODGRASS, J. M. et al. THE ECONOMICAL USE OF COAL IN RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES. Urbana: University of Illinois Bulletin, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Sept. 9, 1918. Circular No. 8, Engineering Experiment Station. 76 pp. 8vo., printed stapled wrappers. Covers soiled, light soil to a few page edges. Boston and Maine Railroad office loan slip tipped in on inside front cover. 6 pp. of color illustrations of fireboxes. 5. FRANKLIN RAILWAY SUPPLY COMPANY. THE LOCOMOTIVE BOOSTER TYPES C-1 AND C-2 INSTRUCTION BOOK NO. 102. New York, 1927. 114 pp. 12mo., stiff red printed wrappers with rounded corners and red cloth spine tape. Minimal external soil, interior clean. B/w, halftone and two-tone illustrations. 6. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS. CONSTITUTION OF THE GRAND LODGE, DISTRICT AND LOCAL LODGES, INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MACHINISTS. Washington, DC, 1925. 96 pp. + 15 pp. index. 24mo., blue printed stapled wrappers. Minor soil to covers, interior clean. 7. THE LESLIE COMPANY. INSTRUCTION CARD NO. AK-6: THE LESLIE TURBO GENERATOR AND STEAM HEAT PRESSURE REGULATOR, 1 1/2" X 2" CLASS "AK". Lyndhurst, NJ [n.d.] White cardstock, printed on one side, 10" x 8 1/4", folded in half. B/w diagram. 8. RAILWAY EDUCATIONAL BUREAU. WHEEL DEFECT GAUGE. Omaha, NE. Meta.

Anna Freud - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth

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Title: Anna Freud - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth
Seller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN: 9780671616960
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: New York: Summit Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1988. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 067161696x . First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition in alike dust-jacket with small "v" chip to upper right corner; The biography of the founder of child analysis, who was Sigmund Freud's youngest daughter, analysand, colleague, confidante, and nurse ; 8vo; FSA .

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