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Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2 letters from acquaintances of Gunn to Whitney and Senator Mark Hanna by (Zoar, Ohio) Gunn, Alexander

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Title: Collection of 36 Autograph Letters, signed, from Alexander Gunn to William C. Whitney, and 2 letters from acquaintances of Gunn to Whitney and Senator Mark Hanna
Author: (Zoar, Ohio) Gunn, Alexander
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Generally in very good condition, some with original envelopes
Description: 1901. 1 vols. Various sizes. Generally in very good condition, some with original envelopes. 1 vols. Various sizes. Gunn, a friend of William C. Whitney, McKinley, and Mark Hanna, was a wealthy Cleveland businessman who retired to spend the last 20 years of his life in Zoar, the commune in Ohio. His note-books, covering 1883-1901, were discovered after Gunn's death, edited by Don Seitz and published by WILLIAM COLLINS WHITNEY. Wesson, in MIDLAND NOTES, states: "Gunn's notes provide us with an enchanting picture of the pellucid life in the famous community of which he became a member. Though he fought to the last for the preservation of the community which he loved so dearly, ironically enough, it was his fireside stories of life in the land of flesh-pots that resulted in its dissolution by the dissatisfied younger members." The Zoar Society originated after 1817, when approximately 350 German immigrants, mostly poor, came to eastern Ohio and settled on a tract of 5,000 acres of land, along the banks of the Tuscarawas River. They were comprised of both Lutherans and Roman Catholics, who were coming to America to escape persecution. Joseph Bimeler was a teacher who became their political and religious leader. The village was named after the biblical city to which Lot fled from Sodom and Gomorrah. Under the community Articles of Association, the earnings of every individual were to be turned over to a common treasury. While some families remained intact, there were some families which were broken up due to poverty, so that some homes were comprised only of men, while others were comprised only of women. The primary occupation in the community was farming, producing food for the community and for sale. Gunn was was taken with Zoar and at the time of his retirement, the Society gave him the right to occupy one of the cabins in the northeast end of town, which Gunn named "The Hermitage." Gunn was the first "outsider" to be allowed into the village as a resident. He soon remodeled and furnished The Hermitage in luxury, and it became a fabulous club house where he did a great deal of entertaining. Among his guests were men such as William Whitney of New York and Mark Hanna of Cleveland. Most of these letters were written while Gunn was at Zoar, many on "Zoar Society" stationery, others headed "The Hermitage." Gunn refers to Whitney several times as his best friend, and several of the letters offer anxious inquiries about the health of Whitney's wife, Flora, and deep condolences after her death. In a letter dated April 23, 1900, Gunn tells Whitney of the arrival of the book "The Cookbook by Oscar of the Waldorf," which included several of Gunn's cocktail recipes and which was inscribed to him by Oscar Tschirky; he transcribes the recipes for Whitney. Other letters are written from abroad: Paris, San Francisco, Santa Barbara. Gunn sends Whitney a leaf from his journal, written at Lake Como in 1883. Also included is a telegram from Gunn to Whitney, dated April 29, 1901, shortly before Gunn's death, requesting that Whitney arrange to pick him up at the New York train station and transport him to a hospital. Gunn died shortly thereafter.

Photographic Archive of an African-American State Employee in Ohio, Spanning Over Seventy Years, With Much From the Civil Rights Era by [African-Americana – Civil Rights Era – Desegregation] Johnson, Dorothy

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Title: Photographic Archive of an African-American State Employee in Ohio, Spanning Over Seventy Years, With Much From the Civil Rights Era
Author: [African-Americana – Civil Rights Era – Desegregation] Johnson, Dorothy
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Overall near fine
Description: Ohio, 2008. Approximately 426 pieces: 414 photographs and twelve pieces of printed ephemera. Of the photographs, seventy-seven are 8 x 10 inches and smaller; forty-seven 5 x 10 inches and smaller; ninety-nine 4 x 6 inches and smaller; forty-nine 3.5 x 6 inches and smaller; 112 3.5 x 4.5 inches and smaller, and thirty 2.5 x 4.5 inches and smaller. Fifty-six photographs are dated, between 1935 and 1999; eighteen of these (nearly one-third) date to 1964. Overall near fine. Dorothy Yvette Johnson (c. 1932–deceased), née Fisher, was a lifelong Ohio resident and an employee of Ohio’s state government. She worked as a deputy to Clerk of Courts Frank Yacobucci and in the office of the Auditor of State under Roger Cloud and Thomas E. Ferguson. She was possibly involved with the Ohio GOP—a copy of the Ohio Republican Council newsletter is included in the archive—and with the Akron branch of the NAACP. Johnson was married twice: to Theodore Wilbert Thomas in 1957 and to James Horace Johnson in 1963. Records on Johnson’s life are otherwise sparse. Offered here is a very large archive of Johnson’s photographs alongside some pieces of printed ephemera, covering at least seventy-three years. The oldest dated item, from August 18, 1935, is a photograph of a couple posing in their yard; the newest, from May 24, 2008, is a program for a scholarship fundraiser dinner and dance in Cincinnati. The intervening years’ photographs are mainly of unidentified friends and family, along with photos from what look to be work or political events; portraits of members of the Ohio state government including Roger W. Tracy and Summit County Sheriff Russell Bird; military and police photos from the men in Dorothy’s life; and many glamor shots of Dorothy herself. Ohio passed its Civil Rights Act, which prohibited employment discrimination, in 1959, and it was likely this legislation that allowed Johnson and her friends to work for the state. The 1958 portrait of the Summit County sheriff’s office in the archive shows a nearly entirely white group of employees; a likely later set of photographs shows several young African-American men in sheriff’s deputy uniforms. Johnson’s work photos also suggest a relatively quite integrated workplace. However, the Ohio Republican Council newsletter, dated December 1963, gives newly-elected Governor James A. Rhodes a significant portion of the credit for integrating employment: he had apparently signed an executive order regarding fair employment practices and directing the Ohio Civil Rights Commission, established by the 1959 legislation, to help employers in this regard. The OCRC’s website makes no mention of Rhodes’ order; to his credit, though, the newsletter lists quite a number of employees with an asterisk to indicate “that it is the first time in the history of Ohio that a Negro employee has held such a position”. Johnson herself was involved in activism, at least to some extent; included in the archive is a pamphlet for the Akron Branch NAACP’s Freedom Fund Dinner in 1960. The dinner featured Wylie Branton as a speaker; two years earlier, a suit that Branton had filed against the Little Rock school system—Cooper v. Aaron—had been heard by the US Supreme Court, which had forced Little Rock Central High School to integrate. Outside of work, the photos show Johnson’s rich social life – she had a large, multi-racial friend group and was involved in local fashion shows. Many of the men in her life were military; of the military photos at least one appears to have been taken on deployment, and shows a man standing in front of a truck and a barracks, labeled “me” and “my hut”. Other military photos suggest this may have been World War 2. Overall a sizeable, visually engaging archive documenting the life of an ordinary woman as the US began to desegregate.

I Grattacieli ed i Loro Alleati in Terra, in Mare ed in Cielo. The Skyscrapers and Their Allies on Land, Water and in the Air by Picasso, Renzo

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Title: I Grattacieli ed i Loro Alleati in Terra, in Mare ed in Cielo. The Skyscrapers and Their Allies on Land, Water and in the Air
Author: Picasso, Renzo
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Good -
Description: Genova: Arti Grafiche Caimo & C., 1936. Good -. 11¾” x 8½”. Pictorial thin card wrappers. Pp. 188, [3, index] + 10 color plates and maps (8 folded) bound in + two 11” x 23” folded promotionals laid in. Good minus: approximately 12 pages with moderate to severe adhesion damage resulting in tears and areas of text loss; wrappers a bit sunned with a touch of corner wear; light creasing and spotting to edges; some leaves unopened. This is a remarkable work on city planning and infrastructure created by an Italian engineer, architect and designer, Renzo Picasso, and inspired by American and international cities. Renzo Picasso was born in Genoa in 1880. His father and grandfather were both architects who had contributed immensely to his hometown. He traveled widely through European cities gaining inspiration for his work, and was heavily impacted by a trip to New York in 1911. Deviating from his family's traditional styles, Picasso created countless drawings and plans for skyscrapers, public transports, stacked roadways, towers and underground walkways before he died in 1975. Per an online archive working to collect his creations, the majority remain unpublished, and “While he is responsible for some of the buildings that currently stand in Genoa, his grander ideas remain only in their printed form.” This work is written nearly wholly in Italian, with some English appearing mostly in the copious in-text diagrams and bound-in color plates. Picasso shows us junctions in the New Jersey “H-M 'Tube'” as well as “The two greatest competitors in Piccadilly Circus: 'Tube' and 'Bus'.” There are tables of statistics on vehicle registrations, building elevations, sea and airport traffic, as well as mathematical equations. One page has the illustrated “Champions” of height in New York and Chicago and another the “Sezioni di traffico,” sections of subways where one “need not set foot in street.” There are images of “self supporting” and “aerial” bridges, the “Skyline Genesis” of New York from 1679 to 1930 and a “Zeppelin mooring mast.” This copy has two gorgeous promotionals for the book laid in, both with color images to three front panels and text in five languages on the reverse. One has aerial city center plans for Genoa, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and New York, and the other shows “veicoli e regolatori di via,” transit vehicles and traffic lights, with diagrams of intersections and a layout of Central Park. They boast of this book: “All the Skyscrapers-Champions, all the means of transport, from the slowest natural to the swiftest mechanical, surface, elevated, subterranean, subwater and aerial, are illustrated and analised in their position, form and value.” The publication is undated and our research points to a release of 1936. OCLC shows cataloging discrepancies, but there appear to be 15 holdings in the United States and seven in Europe.

Persten' Ioanna Groznago [The Ring of Ivan the Terrible, A Story] by Vitukhin, V.

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Title: Persten' Ioanna Groznago [The Ring of Ivan the Terrible, A Story]
Author: Vitukhin, V.
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Berlin: Russkii knizhnyi mag Grad-Kitezh, 1922. Paperback. Very Good. Original wraps; pp. 63, [1] (ads). Spine tips very lightly chipped; some gentle rubbing along edges of covers and text block; some light staining in gutter of text block, from rusty staples. Otherwise a nice, clean copy. An excellent reading copy of the author's first novel.

The Birds of Washington [Large Paper Edition]. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 372 Species of Birds Found in the State by Dawson, William Leon; Bowles, John Hooper; Brooks, Allan (illustrator)

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: The Birds of Washington [Large Paper Edition]. A Complete, Scientific and Popular Account of the 372 Species of Birds Found in the State
Author: Dawson, William Leon; Bowles, John Hooper; Brooks, Allan (illustrator)
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Seattle: The Occidental Publishers, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes, green leather spine & corners over marbled paper-covered boards, five raised bands to spines with gilt lettering, marbled endpapers, paintings and photographic plates with tissue guards, 12-3/4" x 10â€, 997 pp., number 137 of 200 large-paper copies, signed by Dawson at colophon. Minor wear to covers, bindings slightly shaken, repairs to the tops of a few text pages.A primary book of Northwest natural history with both academic and aesthetic appeal. With the bookplate of Charles Francis Clise & Rosalind Hammer Clise. The Clise family were important Seattle real estate developers, and Charles Cliseâ€™s 1930s purchase of real estate in the Denny Regrade area would eventually be to Amazon in the 2010s. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

Jan Henle: Topographical Film Drawings by Auping, Michael

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Title: Jan Henle: Topographical Film Drawings
Author: Auping, Michael
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/500. Folio. Unpaginated. Tan cloth in original dj. Minor staining to free front endpaper. "This is not simply drawing as a form of photographic impression. Rather, Henle defines drawing in a provocatively broad manner, encompassing not only a unique means of marking (the land pieces represented here have actually been painstakingly worked with plow and shovel by the artist), but drawing as a function of unusually oblique sight lines that distill the landscape into a dynamic set of contours and spatial planes". Illustrated with full page b/w photographs as well as one color photo. In fine condition.

MEMORIALS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI by Whittemore, Bradford Adams, 1908-1986

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Title: MEMORIALS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI
Author: Whittemore, Bradford Adams, 1908-1986
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Boston: The Society, 1964. Hardcover. Octavo, xliv, 852 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is tan with black print, heraldry. Dust jacket is tan with black and brown print; light edge wear, with tears at bottom of flap folds. Boards in brown cloth. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece portrait and two plates (portraits). NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1409018. FP New Rockville Stock.

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