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[NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF AND A RABBI]. John Dorn Promoter by BANKS, Charles Eugene

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Title: [NATIVE AMERICAN CHIEF AND A RABBI]. John Dorn Promoter
Author: BANKS, Charles Eugene
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Chicago: Monarch Book Co, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Very good. 8vo. Illustrations by August Abelmann. Original brick-red publisher's cloth, blocked in gilt, ochre, and black. Some dust-soiling on the top edges and front binder's blank, otherwise unmarked and free from ugly stamps. A lovely copy, the text and binding in crisp and fresh state. NOT ex-library! UNKNOWN CIVIL WAR-ERA WEIRDNESS. "John Dorn Promoter" is quite unlike anything we have encountered hitherto. Briefly, it is proported to be a romance novel but some of the main themes are the timber industry and renewable forestry, the perilous state of Native Americans and their lands, the absence of business opportunities for women, and the plight of American Jews. It features a swindling Count, a heroic Indian Chief (Eagle Wing) and his side-kick (a Rabbi), and -- bizarrly -- miniature "Thought-Elfs" and telepathy. Is this the start of a bad joke? And of course, this couldn't be a "real" romance novel without sexual tensions and a subplot of good vs. evil. The novel commences in the South after the Civil War when a young man returns home to find nothing left, and no one remaining. The once grand Virginia estate is in shambles and the tobacco fields are overgrown; the young man stares at the ruins, turns, and says farewell. The young man goes to Yale, gets married, and decides to return and fix up the estate; the scheme fails of course (how could it be otherwise). The couple and their daughter, Helen Chadbourne, move north to Chicago. Although adept at business, Helen finds few opportunities for women and wants to dedicate her life to helping others. However, she does find the love of of two men: John Dorn and Ned Danvers, and she inspires each of them to have chthonic spiritual experiences (sic). Helen's uncle is negotiating for the lumber rights to Indian lands on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Helen identifies with Chief Eagle Wing's plight of wanting to aid his impoverished tribe, while not wanting to destroy their land. Her uncle believes only clear-cutting timber will be financially viable; Helen convinces Dorn and Danvers not only to aid the Indian tribe with money, but ensure that they will still be able to live in a forest. Dorn comes up with a plan to create the Lumber Securities Company, a syndicate of the leaders of the timber industry, who would agree to a renewable forestry plan. Helen inspires Dorn to help impoverished Jewish immigrants by creating a lending library and a savings bank. She then inspires Danvers to become a writer, and through the aid of Chief Eagle Wing, Danvers is able to reveal his deepest thoughts to Helen telepathically (sic!). But there are evil forces at work in Chicago that seek to destroy the Lumber Securities Company through stock manipulation. At a crucial moment, Eagle Wing and the Rabbi (whom Helen has aided) combine forces to defeat evil men. "The forces of spiritual enlightenment win, Danvers writes a play with a spiritual theme that is a great success, Dorn wins Helen for his bride, and everyone involved with the Lumber Securities Company stands to make a fortune" (SOURCE: James A. Kaser, The Chicago of Fiction: A Resource Guide, no. 86 and pp. 30-31). Our copy is preserved in outstanding condition and is likely to be the finest and freshest in private ownership.

WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE by Ashbery, John

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Title: WHO KNOWS WHAT CONSTITUTES A LIFE
Author: Ashbery, John
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Calais: Z Press, 1999. First edition, limited to 200 copies and 26 lettered copies and an unspecified number of hors commerce copies. This is one of the hors commerce copies, marked "H.C." on the limitation page. Original seven color print by Elizabeth Murray bound-in with tissue guard laid-in as issued. Signed by Ashbery on the limitation page and by Murray on her print. Sewn wraps with French fold flaps and printed label on the front wrap. Number 3 in the publisher's series. Designed by Kenward Elmslie and C.W. Swets. Faint beginning toning on the spine edge; otherwise, in Fine condition. Ashbery is the only poet to have received the Pulitzer, the Nat'l Book Award and the Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award.. Signed By Author & Artist. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Typed Letter SIGNED, in German, 4to, Vienna, Oct. 28, 1916 by STEKEL, WILHELM

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Title: Typed Letter SIGNED, in German, 4to, Vienna, Oct. 28, 1916
Author: STEKEL, WILHELM
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Stekel writes to the painter, Ludwig Hessheimer (1872-1956) giving his view of Hessheimer's exhibition. In full. "Dear Mr. Hessheimer, I just returned from your exhibition. It made a deep and lasting impression on me. You have seen everything with the eyes of a poet. I like the mood pictures best. There were quite a few people there, all of whom were full of praise. Even painters...and that means something. The pictures of Ohrida lake are reminiscent of Bocklin. They have depth and grandeur. In the picture 'Longing' I was perturbed by the angel on high. He is not giving a fortunate impression which may be due to the position of his legs. Also the etching in which the images of wife and child appear to the soldier in the snow suffers from the flaw that visions must be expressed more shadowy, like a delicate breath which spreads across the distance. The contrast between the real and the vision must be more pronounced. But these are just trifles. You now have a foothold in Vienna and we hope to greet you as one of our own soon...." He signs, "Dr. Wilhelm Stekel." With full translation. The letter gives insight into Stekel's ability as an art critic. Stekel argued in "Bisexual Love" (1922) that both heterosexuality and homosexuality require repression and sublimation of natural urges.

AUBERT EDITEUR, "ONE MUST SAY THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS A VERY PECULIAR HEAD" by TRAVIES, CHARLES JOSEPH (1804-1859)

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Title: AUBERT EDITEUR, "ONE MUST SAY THE HEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT HAS A VERY PECULIAR HEAD"
Creator: TRAVIES, CHARLES JOSEPH (1804-1859)
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris, La Caricature, 1831. Lithograph. As published in La Caricature. Ferment 323. Image: 7¾ x 11. Margins: 10¾ x 13 . Fold visible on verso.

The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation, Called The Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hereford, from the Founding Thereof, in 793, to its Dissolution , in 1539.; Exhibiting the Life of Each Abbot, and the Principal Events Relating to the Monastery, During its Rule and Government by Newcome, Peter

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Title: The History of the Ancient and Royal Foundation, Called The Abbey of St. Alban, in the County of Hereford, from the Founding Thereof, in 793, to its Dissolution , in 1539.; Exhibiting the Life of Each Abbot, and the Principal Events Relating to the Monastery, During its Rule and Government
Author: Newcome, Peter
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Printed, for the Author, J. Nichols, 1795. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. xiii, (i), 547,(i)pp. Engraved frontispiece of the abbey; folding hand-colored map of Hertford, and two folding plans of the abbey. Contemporary full calf, nicely rebacked to style in matching calf, red leather lettering label, gilt. Frontispiece mounted without loss, some offsetting and light soil, rebacked, else a very good copy. Apparently this is a reissue of the sheets of an edition printed in 1793-95; either way it is the first separate publication relating to St. Alban's. ESTC TS 3399.

A letter from the Secretary of War transmitting ... A report of the number and station of all the military posts in the United States, and of the distribution of the army..

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Title: A letter from the Secretary of War transmitting ... A report of the number and station of all the military posts in the United States, and of the distribution of the army..
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1821. 8vo, pp. [3] plus 4 large folding tables and one smaller folding table; removed. Includes an early mention on the second table of "Cantonment Leavenworth, on the river St. Peter's," under the command of Colonel Snelling, with other particulars given with regard to its detachment of 345 soldiers. Cantonment Leavenworth became, on the death of Snelling, Fort Snelling, which continues to stand at the confluence of the present day Minnesota River and the Mississippi. Another table relates mostly to the forts and outposts along the Mississippi.

1900 – Envelope from one of the best-selling patent medicines of all time that transitioned into a food condiment after the Food and Drug Administration stepped in by Mann S. Valentine

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Title: 1900 – Envelope from one of the best-selling patent medicines of all time that transitioned into a food condiment after the Food and Drug Administration stepped in
Author: Mann S. Valentine
Seller: Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Richmond, Virginia, 1900. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This business envelope bears the printed return address of Valentine’s Meat-Juice Company of Richmond, Virgina. It was sent from Richmond to the Director of the Private Maternity Hospital of Berlin, Germany. It is franked with a 5-cent Grant stamp (Scott #281) that has been canceled with a Barry Postal Supply Company machine postmark, dated 21 February 1900. The reverse is filled with assorted postal labels, handstamps in various colors, and manuscript annotations related to its delivery despite having an insufficient address. In nice shape. In downtown Richmond, Mann S. Valentine, a prosperous merchant lived with his family in a large neoclassical home. In 1870, his wife, Anne Maria fell ill from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion,” that prevented her from eating solid food. Doctors had given up on curing Anne Maria, so Valentine took it upon himself to concoct his own highly concentrated protein and iron tonic which he distilled from a mix of eggs and beef broth. It worked wonders. Valentine, ever a merchant, began to create more, which sold well in his store. Seeing the possibility of ever-increasing sales, he began to canvass local, then regional, then nationally known physicians for their endorsements. Some replied with glowing reviews reporting they used it effectively, not just as a nutritional supplement, but as a treatment for everything from nausea to dysentery and cholera. Valentine began to publish these reviews in advertisements and business boomed. He took his meat juice to the International Paris Exposition in 1878 and introduced it to a global market. Recognizing the importance of physician recommendations, Valentine began to contact European doctors for their endorsements. This envelope was, no doubt, used for that purpose. In 1906, the newly created Food and Drug Administration began its crackdown on patent medicines. Seeing the writing on the wall, Valentine stopped promoting his meat juice as a curative and began to market it as a cooking supplement for flavoring various dishes. As such, it was even more popular than medicine and became a staple on grocery store shelves throughout the country for years until demand finally wore off, and the factory, located at Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue shut its doors. . Valentine amassed a fortune during the last quarter of the 19th century and became an inveterate collector of art and artifacts. In his will, he provided a large endowment to establish a museum to house his collection, and it, much expanded, continues in operation as the famed Valentine Museum in Richmond. (For more information, see “The history of Valentine’s Meat Juice” at the RIC Today website and Castellano’s “In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice” at the Atlas Obscura website.) Old meat juice bottles are frequently sold on or encountered in antique malls. Company envelopes used to request endorsements from domestic physician endorsements occasionally appear on or in philatelic auctions. Evidence of Valentines attempts to secure international professional recommendations are seldom encountered; this is the first we have seen. .

Coro-Coro: The World of the Scarlet Ibis. by ZAHL, Paul A.

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Title: Coro-Coro: The World of the Scarlet Ibis.
Author: ZAHL, Paul A.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: Indianapolis:: Bobbs-Merrill Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Black and white photographs. First edition. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear) dust jacket. .

I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry ‘Cause I Lost the Map to Where I Was Going: Poems. by ANDERSDATTER, Karla Margaret.

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Title: I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry ‘Cause I Lost the Map to Where I Was Going: Poems.
Author: ANDERSDATTER, Karla Margaret.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Second Coming, (1978).. First edition.. 39 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.

The Coast of Amalfi. by Afeltra, Gaetano.

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Title: The Coast of Amalfi.
Author: Afeltra, Gaetano.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Salerno (Edition Matonti), 1995.. 112pp. Prof. illus. in color. 4to. Wraps.

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