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Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins by CAULKINS Nehemiah

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins
Author: CAULKINS Nehemiah
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1849. First Edition. CAULKINS, Nehemiah. Narrative of Nehemiah Caulkins, An Extract from ""American Slavery, As It Is."" New York: American And Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1849. Slim octavo, original printed self-wrappers, later marbled wrappers; pp. (i-iv), (5), 6-22 (2). $1600.First separate edition of Caulkins' devastating Narrative documenting slavery's unrelenting brutality on a North Carolina plantation, exceptional in original self-wrappers.In this still controversial work, the narrator writes of resistance by the enslaved, of those like Harry, who took to the woods when his owner was away: ""to escape the cruel treatment of the overseer"" while staying close to those he loved. ""When he was caught, Henry was imprisoned in manacles and padlocks in ""the stocks day and night for a week and flogged every morning."" In describing the everyday fury aimed at men and women who labored in the cotton fields, Caulkins notes: ""the whip and gun, or pistols, were companions of the overseer scarcely a day passed while I was on the plantation, in which some of the slaves were not whipped. I do not mean that they were struck a few blows merely, but had a set flogging (emphasis in original). Whipping was so common ""that it would be too great a repetition to state the many and severe floggings I have seen. They were flogged for not performing their tasks, for being careless, slow, or not in time, for going to the fire to warm &c."" He bluntly documents, as well, the many deaths, including an enslaved man who ""had run away"" and survived in the ""woods for a long time till one day he was discovered by two men they shot him and carried his head home.""The controversy over this Narrative is partly found in histories that still err in identifying the author as a freed or fugitive Black man. Caulkins (alt. Calkins) was, however, a white Connecticut carpenter who worked a number of winters on the plantation of North Carolina slaveowner John Swan. This chilling record of unending cruelty stands as evidence of slavery's brutalityyet, to many at the time of publication, its substantiation came from Caulkins' declared status in the text as a ""white man."" The Narrative can also be seen as revealing the hypocrisy of one who long witnessed the brutality, seemingly without intervening. In many ways, however unintentionally, it also exposes what scholarship increasingly documents as slavery's foundational role in fusing the financial interests of North and South, and ensuring the nation's territorial and economic growth. One result was slavery's dominance of the presidency, in which eight of the first twelve presidents owned slaves. In his conclusion Caulkins blames ""our government for allowing Slavery to exist under its own jurisdiction. Second, the States, for enacting laws to secure their victims. Third, the slaveholder, for carrying out such enactments in horrid form enough to chill the blood. Fourth, every person who knows what slavery is, and does not raise his voice by silence gives consent to its continuance"" (emphasis in original). First separate edition: initially included in American Slavery As It Is (1839), edited by Theodore Dwight Weld, and Angelina and Sara Grimké. Sabin 11575 (variant). Dumond, 35. Text generally fresh with faint soiling, mostly to self-wrappers, a very elusive near-fine copy.

White Trash Cooking by Mickler, Ernest Matthew; [Jonathan Williams]

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Title: White Trash Cooking
Author: Mickler, Ernest Matthew; [Jonathan Williams]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1986. Issued as Jargon 101. Large spiral-bound octavo (23.5 x 19 cm.), 134, [6] pages. Blank pages at rear for additional recipes. FIRST EDITION. A cookbook often seen as satirical, but which is in fact a genuinely appreciative work of culinary Americana. One of the more unusual titles in Jargon's run and its only bestseller. Publisher Jonathan Williams, reveals how one might "explain what these recipes and snapshots were all about to some grand maitre like Paul Bocuse, you'd say: 'listen here, buddy, this be the vittels of white, Southern, rural peasants (excepts we call them folks, not peasants). Hit'll eat! Besides, you've already met the dark cousin, Soul Food." (publisher's statement, inside panel of front board). Fine in publisher's photographically illustrated stiff boards, in a double Wire-O binding. Inscribed by Mickler in the year of publication, "To Dean, Ernest Matthew Mickler, 3.7.86." and additionally signed by publisher Jonathan Williams. Also laid-in is a two-page obituary for Mickler by Williams signed by him, "JW for SDW". The obituary is top-stapled and folded once. With an introduction by the publisher and inscribed to his life-long friend, Stanley Dean Willis. Willis attended St. Albans High School with Williams and was his best friend there. The obituary here included was eventually published in Williams' book BLACKBIRD DUST. A warm and intimate association for one of Jargon's best-known titles. [Jaffe B52].

Procession of St Estevan -- Acoma (A). Vintage photogravure by Curtis, Edward S.

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Title: Procession of St Estevan -- Acoma (A). Vintage photogravure
Author: Curtis, Edward S.
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Seattle, 1922. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, v. 12, p. 222. Printed on Japanese vellum. Marginal spot. Framed. Additional shipping required.

A Joseph Heller Signed Catch-22 by JOSEPH HELLER

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.

Title: A Joseph Heller Signed Catch-22
Author: JOSEPH HELLER
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: SB. 568pp. No date. No place. A Catch-22 signed Joseph Heller in blue ballpoint ink on the endpage page. This classic novel is an Everymans Library edition printed in 1995. Light wear to the top and bottom of the dustjacket, but in fine condition.

Vox Clamantis in Deserto; Some Notes From a Secret Journal by Abbey, Edward

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Vox Clamantis in Deserto; Some Notes From a Secret Journal
Author: Abbey, Edward
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Santa Fe: The Rydal Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited edition of Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Some Notes From a Secret Journal by Edward Abbey, signed by the publisher, Clark Kimball of Rydal Press.. Octavo, xiv, [2], 96pp, [4]. Brown hardcover, title printed on paper label affixed to green cloth spine. Fine condition, appears unread. With the original clear dust jacket, fine condition. Housed in the matching slipcase, near fine with light rubbing along edges. One of the publisher's reserved copies, so stated on the colophon, and signed by Clark Kimball. Vox was published in 1989, two-weeks before Edward Abbey's passing. Clark Kimball was a Santa Fe antiquarian bookseller and fine-press publisher who revived the Rydal Press name in the mid-1980s, publishing limited Southwestern and literary editions. Vox later appeared commercially from St. Martin's Press as "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness.

Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks series. 39 volumes. Cooking the ... Way: Israeli, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, Brazilian, etc. including How to Cook a Gooseberry Fool by Lerner; various authors

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Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper

Title: Easy Menu Ethnic Cookbooks series. 39 volumes. Cooking the ... Way: Israeli, Japanese, African, Middle Eastern, Brazilian, etc. including How to Cook a Gooseberry Fool
Author: Lerner; various authors
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Like New
Description: Lerner Publications Co, 1995. Hardcover. Like New. Glossy pictorial hardcovers in two formats. There are 27 books printed in the original format (1990s) which are 7.25" x 8.5" and there are 12 books printed in the later format (2000s) which are 9" x 7.5". EXTRA POSTAGE FOR INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY. Titles: Brazilian, Italian, North African, West African, East African, Southern African, Indonesian, Central American, Middle Eastern, Turkish, Cuban, Mediterranean, Swiss, French, Desserts around the World, Lebanese, Russian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, Ethnic/Microwave, Vegetarian, Irish, Italian, Vietnamese, Caribbean, Norwegian, Indian, Austrian, African, Japanese, Israeli, Gooseberry Fool, Australian, Korean, Thai, English, Chinese, German. Possibly a complete set, but the publication information on these is sparse. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

Howling at the Sky; Draconian Architecture and the Sabian Keys by Williamson, Roger

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Title: Howling at the Sky; Draconian Architecture and the Sabian Keys
Author: Williamson, Roger
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780971811225
Condition: Fine
Description: Minneapolis: Magus Meta Media, 2003. Second Edition. Paperback. Fine. After the First Edition limited to 50 copies. This copy inscribed by Williamson on the title page. About Fine. Purple card covers, faintly rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A guide to opening ourselves to original states of consciousness, with ten pages of illustrations, detailed rituals, guided meditations, and an in-depth analysis of the Golden Dawn System.

The High School Gazette. An Amateur Paper devoted to the Scholars, Alumni and Others interested in the School. Vol. 1, No. 2. July 1878

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Title: The High School Gazette. An Amateur Paper devoted to the Scholars, Alumni and Others interested in the School. Vol. 1, No. 2. July 1878
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Peoria, IL: H.E. Hardin, 1878. Magazine. [4] pp. + 2 page supplement. 8.75 x 6.25 in. Old vertical fold. An amateur newspaper devoted to the “thrilling and startling themes of High School life” in late 1870s Peoria, Illinois. Stories cover the commencement at Peoria High School, the editor of the “rival” amateur paper, the Just for Fun, and news about a circus then visiting the town. Local papers such as these, published for fun rather than profit, were popular during the latter 19th century, especially the 1870s-90s, which the American Antiquarian Society refers to as the “golden age of amateurdom.”.

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