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Democracy in America [with] Democracy in America. Part the Second (in 4 vols.) by De Tocqueville, Alexis; Henry Reeve (translator)

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Title: Democracy in America [with] Democracy in America. Part the Second (in 4 vols.)
Author: De Tocqueville, Alexis; Henry Reeve (translator)
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Saunders and Otley, 1840. First English language editions. Near Fine. This first complete English translation (with all four volumes) is extremely scarce at auction and in the trade. Four volumes, octavo (leaves 212 x 133 mm). xliv, 333, [1]; viii, 462; xvi, 333, [1]; viii, 365, [1], [2] ads pp. Volumes one and two bound without the terminal leaf of ads in each volume, but otherwise complete, with the folding map and the half-titles. Volume three lacking the terminal ad leaf, otherwise complete. Volume four complete, retaining the ad leaf. A Near Fine copy. Attractively rebound in full polished calf with gilt spine in compartments. Red sprinkled edges. Occasional pencil marginalia, otherwise clean and bright throughout. The first English language edition of de Tocqueville's seminal work on American government, first published in Paris. De Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, visited America between 1831 and 1832, ostensibly to study the penal system, although his interest was considerably broader. It seems logical that France would look to America as a beacon of hope for a successful democracy. After France embraced the goal of democracy in 1789 at the start of the French Revolution, it found itself first in a dictatorship under Napoleon and then in one constitutional monarchy after another during the years following. De Tocqueville's astute observation of several aspects of American society and culture provides an invaluable lens of foreign perspective on our young nation's political growth. Democracy in America was an immediate and sustained success. Almost from the beginning it enjoyed the reputation of being the most acute and perceptive discussion of the political and social life of the United States ever published. Whether perceived as a textbook of American political institutions, an investigation of society and culture, a probing of the psyche of the United States, or a study of the actions of modern democratic society, the book has maintained its place high within the pantheon of political writing. "No better study of a nation's institutions and culture than Tocqueville's Democracy in America has ever been written by a foreign observer; none perhaps as good" (The New York Times). HOWES T-278, 279. Sabin 96062, 96063. Clark III:111. Near Fine.

IWAYA MONOGATARI 岩屋物語 [“The Tale of the Hut in the Rocks”]

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Title: IWAYA MONOGATARI 岩屋物語 [“The Tale of the Hut in the Rocks”]
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Three finely illustrated handscrolls (emakimono) on fine smooth torinoko gold-sprinkled paper, with 16 finely executed brush & polychrome paintings, accompanying text in a fine calligraphic cursive hand, rich “golden mud” borders at top & bottom of each painting, speckled with cut gold leaf on reverse side. Three scrolls (323 x 11,640, 12,760, & 17,925 mm.), outer front endpaper covered with blue silk brocade with gold motifs, inner front endpapers of scored gold paper, manuscript label on outside of each scroll on fine decorated paper with nature motifs, entitled “Iwaya monogatari,” modern core rollers with finely decorated colored enamel caps. [Japan]: early Edo. Our three large-format, long, and beautiful “Nara emaki” scrolls contain 16 luxurious paintings, enriched with a dazzling display of gold and rich pigments, illustrating the immensely popular story Iwaya monogatari from the Muromachi era (1136-1573). The story has much in common with the West’s Cinderella, employing many of the same themes. Our scrolls were created at the height of the popularity of Nara ehon and emaki, a time of artistic expression at it most luxurious. The Iwaya monogatari is very much part of the otogi zōshi genre from the Muromachi era, shorter prose narratives that often blended folklore, moral lessons, and elements of fantasy. It tells the story of the hardships of Tainoya, a beautiful young woman who suffers mistreatment and exile at the hands of her stepmother. She finds herself on a rock off the coast of Awaji island, where she is eventually rescued by a fisherman. After further travails, she is recognized at court as “the fairest lady of the land.” These are “deluxe” scrolls with lavish amounts of gold pigment, gold leaf, and gold sprays (kindei 金泥, “golden mud”) in the complex images. All of the text sections — many of which are very long and written in a fine cursive calligraphic hand — have been subtly decorated with underpaintings in gold “mist” and various gold plant and flower motifs using kindei as the pigment. These patterns, known as shitae 下絵, were made on the sheets before the calligrapher began his work. The images are finely painted and highly detailed, with the faces delicately tinted, the patterns of the complex kimono patterns carefully portrayed, sliding doors with images painted on them, complex views of the architecture of the mansion rooms, furnishings, artwork, and tastefully designed gardens with a lush variety of flora. The artist has often used the fukinuki yatai 吹抜屋台 (“blown-off roof”) method to reveal the scene in full. Fine condition, with one small repeating wormhole in the final scroll. Preserved in a wooden box.

NEW MAP OF CHICAGO, Comprising the Whole City Taken from Lowe’s Map with All the Recent Additions, Subdivisions, & Extensions

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Title: NEW MAP OF CHICAGO, Comprising the Whole City Taken from Lowe’s Map with All the Recent Additions, Subdivisions, & Extensions
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: Chicago, IL: Hall & Co. (E. D. Mendel, Lithographic & Map Publishing Office, Chicago), 1855. Lithograph map of Chicago, 30 ½ x 24 inches, the map fully enclosed within a wide ornamental border (1 3/8 inches); accompanied by its cloth folder (gilt stamped “Directory Map of Chicago”; very worn and warped). “Shows parks, public buildings, railroad stations, land ownership, and railroads; includes population statistics for 1840 through 1855” (OCLC). Published to be included in The Chicago City Directory, and Business Advertiser, compiled by E. H. Hall (Fourth Annual Edition, with a New map of the City. Chicago: Robert Fergus 1855; AII Ante-Fire Imprints 131). Only a handful of copies of the map are known, however, and Goodspeed’s cataloguing from 1946 states “The corresponding directory of the city calls for a map, but we know of no copy having one; apparently the map was issued separately in this form.” Of the known copies, only one other seems to have the wide floral border as here (the others are enclosed within a simple bold rule). Not in Phillips, Graff, Eberstadt, or Streeter sale. Rare in trade with no copies noted at auction in the past 45 years (ABPC, 1976-2021 and RareBookHub) and the last copy offered for sale on RareBookHub, by Goodspeed, was in 1960. This copy has been laid down on archival paper, with cracks at several folds infilled and with the loss of a little delineation; despite those defects and a little browning, still an attractive copy of this rare map.

Dark Prophecy: A Mystery Novel by Alan, Marjorie

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Title: Dark Prophecy: A Mystery Novel
Author: Alan, Marjorie
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: M.S. Mill Co. Inc, 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. (Published in the UK earlier under the title Masked Murder.) [iv], 188 pp. Publisher's gray cloth with green lettering. Near Fine with light foxing to edges and endpapers, former owner's bookplate on paste down, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with foxing to flaps, a few small scratches. A mystery in the "Had I But Known" style popularized by Mary Roberts Rinehart; the publisher primarily sold to lending libraries, so copies in this nice of condition are especially scarce.

From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee A Study in Frontier Democracy by Abernethy, Thomas Perkins

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Title: From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee A Study in Frontier Democracy
Author: Abernethy, Thomas Perkins
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/good. Octavo. Brown cloth hardcover with green title label on the spine. Light green dust jacket with printed title and blurb on the front cover. Front hinge is cracked and cover is loose. Rear hinge has a small crack. Several news clippings regarding the book and author, some folded, are pasted down on the front and rear end sheets and the half title page. The right front flyleaf is chipped on the edge. Title page has a narrow thin section where some sort of paper was removed. The front and rear end sheets are toned brown from contact with the clippings. Interior contents are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a couple of small splits at the folds and light edge wear. Price of 3.50 printed on the front inner dust jacket flap. Inscribed on the right front flyleaf, "To Ida Robertson Abernethy the co-author from the main author Perkins." From the preface the author writes, "It is fitting that I should acknowledge here my indebtedness to Ida Robertson Abernethy, my wife, who edited and typed the entire work.

One Time, One Place; A Mississippi Album by Welty, Eudora

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Title: One Time, One Place; A Mississippi Album
Author: Welty, Eudora
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394473086
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, faded at the spine, some rubbing at the edges, color transfer on the verso of the spine. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, a stain at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of 100 photographs taken by Welty during her time as a WPA publicity agent during her college years and into the Great Depression.

SNCC: The New Abolitionists by Zinn, Howard

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Title: SNCC: The New Abolitionists
Author: Zinn, Howard
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780896086791
Condition: Fine
Description: Cambridge: South End Press, 2002. Paperback. Fine. Second Printing. Fine. Wraps faintly rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The first book in the "Radical Sixties" series put out by the press.

Laurel, Archaic, Rude: A Collection of Poems Presented to Yvor Winters on His Retirement by the Stanford English Department by WINTERS, Yvor

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Title: Laurel, Archaic, Rude: A Collection of Poems Presented to Yvor Winters on His Retirement by the Stanford English Department
Author: WINTERS, Yvor
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Stanford, CA: Department of English, Stanford University, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Number 199 from an edition of 300 copies. Features poems by Howard Baker, J.V. Cunningham, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Ellen DeYoung Kay, Philip Levine, Janet Lewis, N. Scott Momaday, and numerous others. A near fine copy in paper covered boards and in a very good plain paper dust jacket with some toning to the edges and spine. Inscribed and initialed by Ellen Kay on the front free endpaper.

Lisa Yuskavage by YUSKAVAGE, Lisa (artist)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Title: Lisa Yuskavage
Author: YUSKAVAGE, Lisa (artist)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9780976913658
Condition: Generally a clean copy
Description: New York: David Zwirner, 2006. First edition. Generally a clean copy. 10 x 8.5 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. Includes 80 colored images, and a foreword by David Zwirner. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery in 2006.

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Better Than Laughter by AARON, Chester

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Title: Better Than Laughter
Author: AARON, Chester
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780152069506
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Description: NY:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 015206950X . First printing. Near fine in a very good (age toning along the spine) dust jacket. .

Gay Youth Groups and Meetings [handbill]

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Title: Gay Youth Groups and Meetings [handbill]
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: [San Francisco]: no publisher, 1970. Single 8.5x11 handbill printed both sides either mimeograph or early photocopy, very good. Simple list of contacts including Gays Under 21 at MCC, Glide Gay Rap Group, GYCC and several Gay Student Unions at SF State, City College, UC Berkeley etc.

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