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A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Title: A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition. First printing of 3,000 copies, with “lifed” for “lifted” on page 21, line 3, but this is no ordinary copy of the 1st printing. It’s in the publisher’s deluxe gift binding (likely less than 10% of the total first printing run), easily identified by the oval design on the front cover being in gilt, but also the gilt decorations, and the gilt edges, and only a small fraction of the 1st edition was issued in this binding. Slightest rubs to spine tips and corners, else in fine, fresh condition, exceptional quality for this 1st printing when it’s in this binding. Engraved frontispiece by Hobart and Robbins (who did Uncle Tom’s Cabin the same year) and 6 plates by Baker from designs by Billings. Half morocco case. Provenance: Ex–Frank Maier. Ex–the great Frank Hogan, at the pinnacle of antiquarian ancestry, and among the paramount libraries ever auctioned (1945). Ref: Clark, A 18.1.a. BAL, 7606. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, page 6. For 5 years Hawthorne had pondered the idea of removing the starch from ancient fables, but when he decided to actually do it, he wrote A Wonder Book in only 8 weeks. He was at the peak of his powers, with all his magnificent style available, and he was under the spell of his neighbor, and at the time inseparable friend, Herman Melville, who was busily writing Moby–Dick (Moby is dedicated to Hawthorne and the nudges of each author on the other are evident in both books). Hawthorne’s was a revolutionary re–sculpting of the Greek myths, a de–marbleizing of the Olympian gods, goddesses and heroes, where everyone’s a deity and no one cleans the fireplace, and in it he recast the immortals in a style suitable for young adults. In his Preface, he wrote: “Children possess an unestimated sensitivity to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilders them.” –the last line of the Preface’s wonderful last paragraph The 6 stories are: The Gorgon’s Head (Perseus and Medusa), The Golden Touch (King Midas), The Paradise of Children (Pandora and her box), The Three Golden Apples (Hercules, Atlas, and the Hesperides’ orchard), The Miraculous Pitcher (the kindness of Baucis and Philemon to 2 strangers, Zeus and Hermes in disguise), and The Chimæra (Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the monster).

Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from and Antiphonal with Miniature of King David; Psalms 110, 111 by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF

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Title: Illuminated Manuscript Leaf from and Antiphonal with Miniature of King David; Psalms 110, 111
Author: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Italy: np, 1525. first edition. vellum; framed. Very Good. ILLUMINATED ANTIPHONAL LEAF WITH EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL OF KING DAVID AS PSALMIST. The recto features a stunning, large (6 1/4 x 7 in.) initial “T” featuring a miniature of David the Psalmist, captured mid-song with instrument in hand as an angel unfurls the opening of the Psalm 110 (Dixit Dominus)—a classic image of divine inspiration rendered with rich pigments and a thickly burnished gold initial “T”. The “T” frames and divides the image, with King David and the angel occupying the right half. The Psalm’s beginning (“DIXIT DOMINUS”) is displayed on the angel’s banner, emphasizing the divine inspiration for the Psalm. David is pictured with elegant flowing blue robes and, while he’s playing a stringed instrument, there is another harp lying beneath his feet. The left side of the “T” (for the opening “Tecum principium”) depicts a finely painted landscape, with a winding road, a bridge, and a town in the distance. The verso continues Psalm 110, but then transitions – with a large red-and-organge painted “R” into a section of Psalm 111 (Redemptionem misit Dominus populo suo…). Leaf size: 13x19.25 inches; archival framed to an overall size of 19x26 in.) Likely Italian, c.1550-1550. Vellum. Some mild toning and creasing to vellum. Some lines of cracking to color on miniature from the creasing. Small closed tear at top margin. Overall, the color (particularly the gilt) is exceptionally bright. A magnificent leaf.

Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable by Beckett, Samuel

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Title: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies and the Unnamable
Author: Beckett, Samuel
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Grove Press, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Grove Press Edition 1959 stated on the copyright page, INSCRIBED by Samuel Beckett on the title page. First collected edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

Collection of 22 notebook reports regarding production levels of sake in Higashine village in Yamagata Prefecture by SAKE MANUFACTURING IN YAMAGATA PREFECTURE 山形県, LATE EDO

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Title: Collection of 22 notebook reports regarding production levels of sake in Higashine village in Yamagata Prefecture
Author: SAKE MANUFACTURING IN YAMAGATA PREFECTURE 山形県, LATE EDO
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Yamagata Prefecture: 1819-68. Ushu province (today’s Yamagata Prefecture) has a long tradition of making sake. The region has abundant fresh water, and the climate is well-suited for growing sake rice. This archive of 22 manuscript reports was produced for local tax collectors by two sake manufacturers in Higashine village, Murayama, Ushu province: Genshirō 源四郎 (20 reports) and Hachizaemon 八左衛門 (two reports). Neither is in business today. Sake was a heavily regulated industry in Edo Japan and a major source of tax revenue. The shogunate also controlled production levels in order to conserve rice in times of shortage and to regulate prices. The government also required manufacturers to brew only in winter time to improve quality. These official reports contain statements of amounts of sake-making rice used and production levels of sake by number of barrels. One report was prepared in 1819, one in the 1820s, five in the 1830s, four in the 1840s, two in the 1850s, and nine in the 1860s. Most of the reports consist of four folding leaves of text. In fine condition. The archive’s original wrapper is present.

NELSON MANDELA GIVING SPEECH AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTORATE OF LAW CEREMONY PHOTOGRAPH [Signed]

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Title: NELSON MANDELA GIVING SPEECH AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTORATE OF LAW CEREMONY PHOTOGRAPH [Signed]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998. Color photograph measuring 8" x 10". In Good minus condition. Photo features Nelson Mandela delivering his speech at the convocation ceremony for his honorary doctorate of law from Harvard University. Pen smearing on photo. Signed and dated 19-11-98 by Mandela on backside. Shelved in Case 1 1/2. On September 18, 1998, South African President Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was presented with an honorary doctorate of law from Harvard University. The ceremony in which the degree was conferred marked only the third time that Harvard held a special convocation for a single person-the first being George Washington in 1776 and the second Winston Churchill in 1942. 1412774. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Dinner [Menu] for the Visiting Governors of Several States attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia by WILSON, S. David

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Title: Dinner [Menu] for the Visiting Governors of Several States attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia
Author: WILSON, S. David
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Philadelphia: E. A. Wright Co, 1936. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Near fine. 10" x 7 ¾"; [12pp]; die-cut, stiff copper-colored embossed front cover menu in the shape of the Liberty Bell of Philadelphia, yellow and blue twist silk cord and tassel to top fold; all pages printed one side except one; gilt-embossed seal of the city of Philadelphia to first page; light crease to bell hammer else fine. S. David Wilson was the Mayor of Philadelphia at the time of this Convention. This important dinner features a multi-paged menu with a listing of the food and beverage, the program and the guests. Listed as guests are 28 state governors, the Vice President of the United States, The President's Cabinet, and various other federal, state, and local dignitaries. The dinner menu is complete from cocktails to dessert and demi-tasse, as well as the wines listed as "Graves Sauterne", that is from that region of France, and the after dinner "Cigarettes" and "Cigars". The presidential election in 1936 featured the incumbent President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his Vice-President, John Nance Garner facing off to the Republican candidate, Alf Landon and Frank Knox. Roosevelt and Garner were re-elected that November.

The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225) by Blomkvist, Nils

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Title: The Discovery of the Baltic: The Reception of a Catholic World-System in the European North (AD 1075-1225)
Author: Blomkvist, Nils
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9789004141223
Condition: Very good
Description: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 9 5/8" X 6 3/8". viii, 774pp. Bound in glossy pictorial printed purple cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in white. Mild edgewear to binding, with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine, light dust soiling, and small tape repair to tear on bottom margin of leaf 101/102. Binding is firm, sound, and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this study of the Europeanization of the Baltic Rim between 1075-1225. Part of Brill's The Northern World Series: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400-1700 AD, Peoples, Economies and Cultures, Volume 15. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Nils Blomkvist discusses how the Baltic Rim was initially Europeanized between 1075 and 1225 AD. He compares the indigenous civilisations to the prevailing western European one. After the expansive Viking period, European penetration became a process of discovery. The importance of the Catholic Reform movement and its unintentional ties to the formation of an endurable commodity market are outlined. Clashes and compromises are investigated in case studies of the Kalmarsund region, Gotland and the Daugava valley. Dissimilar cases of state formation are compared: those of Sweden and Livonia. Many classical scholarly problems are revisited. A new approach to the period's narrative sources brings to life Scandinavian, German, Russian, Finno-Ugrian and Baltic attitudes and day-to-day concern in the midst of a change of epic dimensions. (Publisher).

Seacoast Artillery, Basic Tacticsand Techniques

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Title: Seacoast Artillery, Basic Tacticsand Techniques
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Harrisburg: Military Service Publishing Company, 1944. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 891 pp. including illustrations, tables, diagrams. Envelopewith folded map and two protractors laid in at the back.Dust jacket is chipped at the edges with a few tears.

Flora: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson by Barrow, Kenneth

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Title: Flora: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Dame Flora Robson
Author: Barrow, Kenneth
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Heinemann, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A nice copy in dustwrapper. Signed by both Kenneth Barrow and Flora Robson.

YOUR OWN BEST SECRET PLACE / FULL COLOR PICTORIAL POSTER by Baylor, Byrd & Parnall, Peter

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Title: YOUR OWN BEST SECRET PLACE / FULL COLOR PICTORIAL POSTER
Author: Baylor, Byrd & Parnall, Peter
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: YOUR OWN BEST SECRET PLACE / FULL COLOR PICTORIAL POSTER, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979, Author Byrd Baylor, Illustrator Peter Parnall, first printing, measuring approximately 24" by 16" and most suitable for framing. A fine copy. Baylor & Parnall have earned three Caldecott honor books.

Remembering Sri Sarada Devi's Disciple: Swami Aseshananda As We Knew Him by Esther Warkov

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Title: Remembering Sri Sarada Devi's Disciple: Swami Aseshananda As We Knew Him
Author: Esther Warkov
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780578046600
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Compendium Publications, 2010-01-01. paperback. Near Fine. 10x8x1. Trade paperback, 4to, 305 pp. Slight shelf wear, owner's mark in pencil to first page.

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