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A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title: A True Story, and the Recent Carnival of Crime
Author: Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877. First edition. Very Good +. A Very Good+ copy overall, spine very slightly cocked and a little dulled (with minor wear at the extremities). Original terra cotta cloth, stamped in black and gold. Endpapers printed in red with publisher's advertisements. This is Blanck's first binding state, with the JRO & CO monogram on the front of the cover. Each of these two sketches first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly: "A True Story" in November 1874; and "Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime" in June 1876. The first book appearance of "A True Story" was in Sketches New and Old in 1875, though "The Recent Carnival of Crime" had not appeared in book form before its publication here. This tiny pocket book was issued in Osgood's popular Vest-Pocket Series. Twain invested years of work into this rare little book, which collects two stories originally published separately. "A True Story," which purports to be the true account of a former slave, is the heart-wrenching tale of an enslaved family separated on the auction block. Twain revised the story endlessly in an attempt to make the story's dialect feel authentic. "The Recent Carnival of Crime" is based on the premise that a man who kills his conscience is joyously liberated. These short pieces illustrate Twain's social conscience, his skill as a storyteller, and his use of humor. Very Good +.

What is Man? (Limited edition) by [Twain, Mark] [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title: What is Man? (Limited edition)
Author: [Twain, Mark] [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: De Vinne Press, 1906. First edition. Near Fine. First edition, limited issue, number 143 of 250 copies; a presentation copy, inscribed beneath the limitation by Twain's friend and literary executor, "John S[andborn] Phillips from A[lbert] B[igelow] Paine." Second issue, as usual, with p. 131 ending, "thinks about | it" (APG). Original blue-gray boards, morocco label, gilt. Near Fine copy with a previous owner's bookplate (John C. Gerber). Lower corners gently bumped and faint soiling to front board. Inscribed by Twain's friend and literary executor, "John S[andborn] Phillips from A[lbert] B[igelow] Paine February 8, 1917." Lacking the publisher's glassine and cardboard slipcase. The recipent was the publisher and co-founder of Mclure's Magazine, which published work by Twain, including dairy excerpts later collected in Following the Equator (1897). In one of the major works of Twain's late years, he sets forth his Deterministic philosophy using Socratic dialogue form. Twain originally published the work anonymously, even concealing his identity from the publisher. The author's earnest debate on the nature of man, free will and destiny. The work also inspired science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his story "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him," the title of which completes Psalm 8-4, the verse quoted by Twain for his own title. Because Twain had the print run delivered directly to his home, giving away only a handful of copies in his final years, the remainder of the run disappeared for a time after his death. It is believed that upon his death in 1910, Paine took possession of the remaining copies to continue distributing them (as here). BAL 3490. Near Fine.

Catalogue of the Extensive, Genuine, and highly Valuable Collection of Pictures, late the Property of the Hon. John Clerk of Eldin, one of the Senators of the College of Justice…which will be Unreservedly sold by Auction by Messrs Thomas Winstanley & Sons (of Liverpool), at No. 16, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 14th of March 1833, and thirteen following days… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELDIN, John Clerk, Lord)

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Title: Catalogue of the Extensive, Genuine, and highly Valuable Collection of Pictures, late the Property of the Hon. John Clerk of Eldin, one of the Senators of the College of Justice…which will be Unreservedly sold by Auction by Messrs Thomas Winstanley & Sons (of Liverpool), at No. 16, Picardy Place, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 14th of March 1833, and thirteen following days…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: ELDIN, John Clerk, Lord)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Folding engraved frontis. & five engraved plates. 2 p.l., 2, 32 pp., [2], 33-103. 8vo, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards (rejointed & extremities rubbed), spine gilt. Edinburgh: Printed by J. Hutchison, [1833]. A famous sale with fatal results; it is clear that this copy survived the collapse of the floor on which the sale was held. John Clerk, Lord Eldin (1757–1832), was one of the leading Scottish lawyers of his time; “he acquired so extensive a practice that, it is said, at one period of his career he had nearly half the business of the court in his hands. As a pleader he was remarkable, both for his acuteness and for his marvellous powers of reasoning, as well as for his fertility of resource. Possessed of a rough, sarcastic humour, he delighted in ridiculing the bench, and was in the habit of saying whatever he liked to the judges without reproof.”–ODNB. He was appointed a judge in 1823. Clerk accumulated immense collections of paintings, engravings, drawings, china, bronzes, terra cotta, coins, and books. Upon his death, his collections were sold by auction at his house in March of 1833. On the third day of the auction of his estate, the floor collapsed, due to overcrowding and the poor construction of Clerk’s house, killing one person and injuring a number of other bidders and spectators, all of whom fell 16 feet to the floor below. With this catalogue we are able to deduce that the floor caved in somewhere between lot 118 and lot 168 due to the wear and few tears on these particular pages of the catalogue. Clerk was a bachelor with a penchant for the fine arts and devoted much of his leisure time either to drawing or adding to his considerable collections. His consulting room was said to be “overrun by his collection of art, literature, and animals [with] all manner of trash, dead and living, and all in confusion.” He possessed paintings, prints, and drawings by Rembrandt, Holbein, Rubens, Dürer, Breughel, along with many other old masters. Additionally, Clerk had amassed “a most extensive and exceptional” collection of 55 volumes with hundreds of architectural drawings by Robert Adam, which he had inherited from his mother, Susannah, sister of the celebrated Adam brothers, the architects (pp. 75-6). The five plates and the frontispiece in the first catalogue are reproductions of items in Clerk’s collection, including “The Adoration of the Magi.” Nice copy. Ownership inscription of “George Anderson 142 High Street,” a bookseller in Forres, Elginshire in the early 20th century. On page 2, a printed slip with additional information has been pasted over the final paragraph: “It may be added that the Catalogue of the Pictures and Prints was drawn up by Messrs W. & S. Woodburn of St. Martin’s Lane, London; and that the Outline Etchings which accompany the Catalogue, are by Mr. Walter Grinke of this city.” ❧ ODNB.

Notice de Tableaux de différentes Ecoles, et autres Objets, Après le Décès de… Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera le Jeudi 23 Septembre… by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: DAGUILAN, –)

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Title: Notice de Tableaux de différentes Ecoles, et autres Objets, Après le Décès de… Par F. L. Regnault-Delalande. Cette Vente se fera le Jeudi 23 Septembre…
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: DAGUILAN, –)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 16 pp. 8vo (199 x 125 mm.), modern aubergine cloth, title on upper cover. Paris: Potier & Regnault-Delalande, 1819. A very rare auction catalogue of primarily paintings, issued by the prolific expert François Léandre Regnault-Delalande (1762-1824); we locate no example of this volume in North America. This was Regnault-Delalande’s 300th public sale catalogue The seller’s first name is unknown, but Daguilan was secretary-general of the prefecture of the department of Deux-Nèthes, which comprised parts of present-day Belgium and the Netherlands. 72 lots, 68 of which are paintings lots. It includes works by Boullogne, A. Brauwer, J. van Goyen, Kalf, Lucas van Leyden, Teniers, Tintoretto, Wijnants, etc. Each entry has a concise description, notes on attribution, and measurements. The final four lots are miscellaneous drawings and prints. Fine copy; we are aware of only three other surviving copies. In the characteristic binding of the Bibliothèque Heim, and with the library’s stamp on the verso of title. ❧ Lugt 9659.

A Brief History of Maine, Second Edition by VARNEY, George J.

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Title: A Brief History of Maine, Second Edition
Author: VARNEY, George J.
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Portland, Maine: McLellan, Mosher & Co, 1890. Second Edition. Cloth. Near fine. 12mo; 336pp; blue cloth over board, stamped in black with art nouveau stylized pine needles and decorative borders, title gilt-stamped; edges marbled; small floral relief printed endpapers; wood engraved frontispiece printed in purple; 10 listed illustrations in text; newspaper clippings hand dated 1892 and 1894 with notes pasted to recto rear fly-leaf, with offsetting to corresponding page of text; light scuffing to corners, head & tail of spine; near fine. Written and dedicated to "The Young People of Maine", each chapter is followed by questions for discussion. Published by McLellan, Mosher & Co., a publishing firm formed by Mosher and McLellan after the death of Aurin Dresser and the dissolution of Dresser and McLellan, it was only briefly in business before bankruptcy. Thomas Bird Mosher would go on to form the Mosher Company, important in the world of private press.

Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 2, July 1938 by William T. Dewart, President

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Title: Railroad Stories, Formerly Railroad Man's Magazine, Volume XXIV, No. 2, July 1938
Author: William T. Dewart, President
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: New York City: The Frank A. Munsey Company, Publisher, 280 Broadway, 1938. Small 4to (9 7/8" x 6 7/8"); 144pp; color pictorial wrapper featuring a train on the front and an ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on the rear; chipping and small splits to edges, paper age-toned, binding tight; very good minus. Railroad enthusiast's monthly magazine, the Table of Contents is divided into the following sections: Illustrated Features, Fiction, True Tales, and Popular Departments. See the Table of Contents in the Photos.

The Social Glee Book: Being A Selection Of Glees And Part Songs, By Distinguished German Composers; Together With Original Pieces by William Mason and Silas A. Bancroft. Mendelssohn, et al (composers)

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Title: The Social Glee Book: Being A Selection Of Glees And Part Songs, By Distinguished German Composers; Together With Original Pieces
Author: William Mason and Silas A. Bancroft. Mendelssohn, et al (composers)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Mason Brothers, 1847. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Oblong 8v0. green pebbled cloth, blind stamp rule and garland surround to titles in gilt, 128 pp. Uncommon 19thC American song book in uncommonly un- or little-used condiution. No ownership markings. Musical scores set by A. P. Kendrick, music typographer, 20 Devonshire St, Boston.

War Songs

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Title: War Songs
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: New York, NY: Ukrainian Book Store, 1920. 64 pp. Fair condition. A scarce collection of Ukrainian war songs published around the time of World War I.

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