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Dirty Jim (Original artwork) by Greenaway, Kate, artist

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Title: Dirty Jim (Original artwork)
Author: Greenaway, Kate, artist
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London, 1883. First edition. A 5 x 6 inch original pen, ink and watercolor illustration by Greenaway that is reproduced on page 24 of the book Little Ann and Other Poems (London: George Routledge & Sons, 1883). A gentle image of a young boy and two women; one in a brown dress and apron cleans the young child's hand while opposite a woman in a fine pink dress holds the boy's other hand. This illustration has all of the typical sweetness and warmth that made Greenaway's work so beloved. "Victorian-era children's book artist and author Kate Greenaway began her career during the early 1870s illustrating greeting cards," (NYPL) but she soon turned her successful brush towards book illustration. "Like fellow illustrators Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, Greenaway sought to publish innovative children's works of the highest quality. Her focus on depictions of children, however, set her illustrations apart from those of her contemporaries. Greenaway's work is cherished today for its unaffected, pastoral imagery" (NYPL). Famous critic John Ruskin was known to be a huge admirer of her art. Greenaway worked on illustrations for Little Ann and Other Poems (based on poems by Jane and Ann Taylor) throughout the spring of 1883. The artist Henry Stacy Marks wrote of Little Ann, "on the whole, I might say entirely, your best book..."(Engen). This illustration accompanied a poem, which reads: "There was one little Jim, 'Tis reported of him, And must be to his lasting disgrace, That he never was seen With hands at all clean, Nor yet ever clean was his face. His friends were much hurt To see so much dirt, And often they made him quite clean; But all was in vain, He got dirty again, And not at all fit to be seen. It gave him no pain To hear them complain, Nor his own dirty clothes to survey: His indolent mind No pleasure could find In tidy and wholesome array. The idle and bad, Like this little lad, May love dirty ways, to be sure: But good boys are seen To be decent and clean, Although they are ever so poor.

Infantine Stories; in Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables by Fenwick, Eliza

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Title: Infantine Stories; in Words of One, Two, and Three Syllables
Author: Fenwick, Eliza
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. Early edition. Very Good. Twelvemo. 144 pp. With six copper-engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary quarter roan over drab boards. Spine titled and ruled in gilt. Edgewear, mostly to corners. Contemporary ink inscription, "Schoolroom Eatington" (?), to front pastedown. Tear to center of one plate with minor loss to part of the image. Fore-edge of lower flyleaf cropped a bit short. Some contemporary ink marginalia. Still a Very Good, internally clean copy. Early edition, first published as a part of Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile and School Library in 1810. All editions are scarce: OCLC records only eight copies of any earlier editions (four in the US, three in the UK, and one in the Netherlands) and one copy of this edition (Kent State). Eliza Fenwick (1766 - 1840) wrote several of these books between 1804 and 1805, and Infantine Stories seems to be the last entry she wrote for the Library. These didactic stories ("The Ball Dress," "The Frenchman," "The Deaf and Dumb Boy," etc.) utilize simple words, with any multisyllable words broken up with hyphens to simplify their reading. Fenwick was a novelist, children's writer, and key member of Mary Wollstonecraft's circle (who even attended the birth of Mary Wollestonecraft's daughter, the future Mary Shelley). In 1795, Fenwick published her most enduring work: Secresy; or, The Ruin on the Rock, a novel about a young man marrying a wealthy older woman for her money that also draws an analogy between slavery and women's oppression. The novel was "a significant contribution to radical fiction, and to broader 1790s debates concerning education and gender" (ODNB). When Fenwick's marriage crumbled, however, she began writing children's books to support her family. "Eventually, Fenwick moved to Barbados, becoming the founder of a school while confronting the realities of slavery in the British colonies. She would go on to establish schools in numerous cities across the United States and Canada, all the while caring for her daughter and grandchildren, and maintaining her relationships with the English feminists she left behind" (Lissa Paul). Fenwick's pedagogical theory, also reflected in her didactic writing, was "progressive...based on cultivation of the feelings as well as the reasoning capacity, and was devoted to the moral welfare of her family and of the pupils in her care" (ODNB). Though Fenwick is now best remembered as a close friend of Wollstonecraft, her educational writing was well regarded and used widely schools throughout the nineteenth century. Very Good.

JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON'S EMPRESS by (BINDINGS - COSWAY-STYLE). (BONAPARTE, JOSEPHINE). FORESTER, C. S.

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Title: JOSEPHINE, NAPOLEON'S EMPRESS
Author: (BINDINGS - COSWAY-STYLE). (BONAPARTE, JOSEPHINE). FORESTER, C. S.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Metheun & Co, 1925. FIRST EDITION. 216 x 140 mm. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2"). vii, [i], 246 pp. SUPERB CONTEMPORARY DEEP BLUE MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE FOR ASPREY, WITH MORE THAN 60 INLAYS, front cover with center medallion featuring inlaid teal blue crossed "J's," surrounded by gilt wreath and crown as well as inlaid pink flowers, lovely gilt floral sprays with more inlaid pink flowers in corners of both covers, raised bands, spine beautifully gilt and inlaid in the same floral vine pattern, DOUBLURES OF CRIMSON MOROCCO with inlaid blue flowers in corners, as well as an intricate series of patterned rules against deep blue morocco border, FRONT DOUBLURE WITH FINE INSET HAND-PAINTED IVORY MINIATURE OF JOSEPHINE, watered silk free end papers, gilt edges. In a slightly scuffed but sturdy and attractive morocco-backed plush-lined folding cloth box, gilt titling on spine. With 12 illustrations (all photographs of portraits), as called for. ◆A CHOICE BINDING IN IMMACULATE CONDITION. Our sumptuous binding would no doubt have pleased the subject of this work, known for her exquisite taste and love of beautiful things. When she met and captivated Napoleon Bonaparte in 1795, Josephine de Beauharnais (1763-1814) was a Martinique-born widow of an aristocrat who had died in the Reign of Terror. Josephine married the general in January of 1796, despite the fact that she was (a shocking) six years his senior. In this biography, the British writer C. S. Forester (1899-1966), best known for his beloved Horatio Hornblower series, portrays the empress with great sympathy. Sanford V. Sternlicht notes that in telling the dramatic story of her rise to the imperial throne and her fall when she was unable to produce an heir for the emperor, "Forester almost treats Josephine as a fictional character as he finely draws a portrait of a poorly educated but clever woman who . . . rolls with the punches of fate and outlives her foes." The so-called "Cosway" binding, featuring handsome morocco inset with one or more painted miniatures, apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909. It was in that year that G. C. Williamson's book entitled "Richard Cosway" (dealing with the British miniature painter of that name, 1742-1821) was remaindered by Sotheran and presumably given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway" was then used to describe any book so treated, whoever its author. Although the artist of our miniature is unidentified, the work here is remarkably well done, with carefully painted detail showing the empress at the prime of her life, bedecked with emeralds, pearls, and rubies, but with a sadness in her large brown eyes that foreshadows the heartbreak to come..

Ideal Husband by WILDE Oscar

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Title: Ideal Husband
Author: WILDE Oscar
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1899. First Edition. WILDE, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899. Octavo, original lavender cloth gilt, uncut; housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $4800.Limited first edition, one of 1000 unnumbered copies, a very nice copy in original decorative cloth designed by Charles Shannon.Wilde's play premiered in January 1895 to an audience that included the Prince of Wales, and was an immediate success. Four months later, Wilde was in disgrace following his arrest for soliciting homosexual acts and his name was removed from the play's marquee (similarly, it appears nowhere in this edition). The play closed shortly thereafter and did not appear in print until this first edition. Mason 385. Text about-fine, cloth spine with slight fading, small mark near base. An extremely good copy.

[Broadside:] "'Woman Suffrage Co-Equal with Man Suffrage.' (Quoted from the Platform of Principles of the American Federation of Labor)." by [ Woman Suffrage Party. Catt, Carrie Chapman.]

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Title: [Broadside:] "'Woman Suffrage Co-Equal with Man Suffrage.' (Quoted from the Platform of Principles of the American Federation of Labor)."
Author: [ Woman Suffrage Party. Catt, Carrie Chapman.]
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York, [n.d., ca. 1910]. This broadside was issued by the Woman Suffrage Party to demonstrate solidarity between the labor movement and suffragists. Quotes by three labor leaders are printed here, including one by UK Labour Party founder Keir Hardie that reads, "I would advise all the Workers of America to work for Woman Suffrage…My message to them is COURAGE." Another quote by American Federation of Labor president Samuel Gompers reads, "I am for unqualified woman suffrage as a matter of human justice…MEN would feel that they were used badly if they did not have that right, and WOMEN naturally feel the same." . Sheet of purple paper toned at edges. . 7 x 9 in. Chip missing from top edge (touching a couple letters but not affecting meaning). Mounted on a larger piece of blue paper with adhesive at corners. A good copy of a rare and fragile item. The work exemplifies the efforts of the Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) to build solidarity with other political movements. The WSP was founded in New York by Carrie Chapman Catt in 1909 as a union of suffrage organizations in the city. The WSP was notable for its broad campaign that brought in women from immigrant and working-class backgrounds, Black and Chinese women, and Catholics. In 1917, women gained the right to vote in New York, and the WSP helped women exercise their voting rights through education, literacy efforts, and helping immigrant women gain citizenship.

Essay on Gothic Architecture. With Various Plans and Drawings for Churches: Designed Chiefly for the use of the Clergy by Hopkins, John Henry

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Title: Essay on Gothic Architecture. With Various Plans and Drawings for Churches: Designed Chiefly for the use of the Clergy
Author: Hopkins, John Henry
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: Burlington (VT): Printed by Smith & Harrington, 1836. 4to. 275 x 225 mm., [10 ¾ x 9 inches]. vi. 46 pp. Lithographic title-page and 13 full-page lithographic plates. Original cloth, paper label on spine; cloth discolored and shows some remnants of water staining, spine and tips expertly repaired with tissue, spine label chipped; tide marks to preliminary leaves, frontispiece and title-page, plates 12 and 13 and rear end leaves. With fault a good copy. First edition. Illustrated with fourteen finely drawn and printed lithographs designed by the author and printed by the Pendleton's Lithographic Company, Boston. "John Pendleton, Lithographer. Born in New York State. While traveling in France, he became interested in lithography and studied the art under the best masters in Paris. On returning to America, he settled in Boston with his brother, a copperplate printer, and they established a lithographic establishment in 1825." John Henry Hopkins was an Irish immigrant, home schooled by his mother, who became a lawyer, musician, ordained minister, bishop and author of over thirty publications. He studied gothic architecture during his time in Pittsburg where he was charged with supervising the construction of Trinity Church. Dismayed with the unsightly designs of most churches in America he decided to compile his information as a guide to the elements of style and design characteristics of the gothic. He became of the most notable experts in the field and he published this work, one of the first of its kind in America, for the benefit of local ministers charged with the building of churches in the gothic style. Hitchcock American Architectural Books, 606. Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers, p. 278. Peters, American on Stone, pp. 312-323. Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors I, p. 885. (571).

The Taste of Ashes by Browne, Howard

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Title: The Taste of Ashes
Author: Browne, Howard
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Inscribed by Browne to pulp writer Robert Randisi. Very Good in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.95), generally rubbed and creased, chips at the head and foot of the spine. Quarter grey buckram with red paper on the boards, rubbed at the corners. Square, bound with some reading wear, toned pages. The fourth Paul Pine mystery, a classic in the genre.

Contes Danois by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

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Title: Contes Danois
Author: ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Tour: Ad Mame Et Cie, 1853. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. Original publishers cloth binding; nicely gilt with multiple inlaid colors. A very well preserved copy, this issue with the plates colored, and uncommon thus. Text in French. Traduction nouvelle.

Poets of Today VI (Northwind and Other Poems, The Clothing's New Emperor and Other Poems, Poems 1955-1958) by WHEELOCK, John Hall (Editor); Donald Finkel, Gene Baro and Walter Stone)

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Title: Poets of Today VI (Northwind and Other Poems, The Clothing's New Emperor and Other Poems, Poems 1955-1958)
Author: WHEELOCK, John Hall (Editor); Donald Finkel, Gene Baro and Walter Stone)
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo; cloth in DJ. Inscribed by Donald Finkel.

AIRS WATERS GRACES by Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron

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Title: AIRS WATERS GRACES
Author: Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: [Dunsyre]: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975. First edition. Near fine.. Minimalist artist's book that contrasts classical Greek and Roman imagery with modern war machines. Ian Hamilton Finlay was a Scottish poet known for his concrete poetry and artist's books, many of which were printed on at the Wild Hawthorn Press on his Little Sparta estate. 10.25'' x 7''. Original brown wrappers. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. [16] pages. Signed in ink and numbered by Finlay "CXLII (142)" to colophon. Wrapper with very light edgewear, tiny closed tear to upper margin. A clean, sharp copy.

Exhibition card: Blockade ‘69: Raum VIII Reiner Ruthenbeck (26 September-29 October 1969) by (RUTHENBECK, Reiner)

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Title: Exhibition card: Blockade ‘69: Raum VIII Reiner Ruthenbeck (26 September-29 October 1969)
Author: (RUTHENBECK, Reiner)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Black & white illus., printed on one side. Pictorial card. Berlin: Galerie René Block, 1969. Announcement card for Ruthenbeck’s room at René Block’s Blockade ‘69 exhibition. Beuys. Palermo, Hödicke, Panamarenko, Lohaus, Knoebel, and Polke also had rooms. Fine.

Catalogue of Fashions for Winter 1902-03 by [BUTTERICK PUBLISHING CO.]

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Title: Catalogue of Fashions for Winter 1902-03
Author: [BUTTERICK PUBLISHING CO.]
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: Paris, London, New York: The Butterick Publishing Co., Ltd, 1902. [EPHEMERA] [FASHION] [SALES CATALOG]. 4to (11 3/16" X 8 1/8"); 32pp; salmon-colored pictorial wrapper, front features a vignette of a stylishly dressed woman, front wrapper imprinted with the name "C.W. Corrin, Dealer in Millinery and Butterick Patterns, No. 45 Main Street, Bangor, ME."; rear wrapper an advertisement for 3 items sold by C.W. Coffin, Bangor, ME; ad on verso front wrapper; 29pp b&w illustrations of patterns to purchase; damp staining to bottom, chipping to corners and fore edge, age toned paper; very good minus. This issue not found in OCLC. The Butterick Pattern Company issued the fashions for the Winter of 1902-1903 in a catalog featuring small illustrations of women's, children's, and men's clothing with descriptions and a corresponding sewing pattern number with price. The verso of the front wrapper features an illustrated advertisement for Kabo Corsets. One page gives instructions on body measurements to determine pattern size, and 2 pages and the inside of the rear wrapper feature lists of books published by the Butterick company.

Ordeal By Innocence by Agatha Christie; Laura Hope [illus.]

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Title: Ordeal By Innocence
Author: Agatha Christie; Laura Hope [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: The Folio Society, 2023. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society, 2023. First Printing, stated. Illustrated. Octavo (22.5cm). Publisher's pictorial binding; housed in brown slipcase. Brown endpapers. 234pp. Corners square. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Very slight rubbing to bottom right front corner. Otherwise, book and slipcase in Fine/Near Fine condition.

ADDINE DEANE by ADLEMAN, Robert H

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: ADDINE DEANE
Author: ADLEMAN, Robert H
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: NY, WORLD, 1971. ALDERMAN FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F.

Instinct: vol. 1, #4, May/June, 1998: How to Survive Pride

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Title: Instinct: vol. 1, #4, May/June, 1998: How to Survive Pride
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: North Hollywood: Instinct Publishing, 1998. Magazine. 64p., 8.25x10.75 inches, very good condition glossy Gay male magazine in stapled pictorial wraps. Fashion, music, film, sex, entertainment.

ROMAN FEVER AND OTHER STORIES by WHARTON, EDith

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Title: ROMAN FEVER AND OTHER STORIES
Author: WHARTON, EDith
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: WHARTON, Edith. ROMAN FEVER AND OTHER STORIES. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1970. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. 238 pages. A collection of beautifully written stories set in Italy, France and America, and they are powerful portraits of women who live in "The world of propriety" the turn of the century. They tell of the emotions women feel in love, in jealously, when they long for children or seek independence - and when their passions lead them to overstep the bounds laid down by exacting conventions. Good.

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