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Essays on Philosophical Subjects by SMITH Adam

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Essays on Philosophical Subjects
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SMITH Adam
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1795. First Edition. SMITH, Adam. Essays on Philosophical Subjects… To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author by Dugald Stewart. London: for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, et al., 1795. Large quarto (9 by 11-1/4 inches), period-style full speckled brown calf, raised bands, red morocco spine label; pp. [i-iii], iv, [v]-vi, [vii-ix], x-xcv, [blank], [1-3], 4-93, [94-97], 98-111, [112-115], 116-129, [130-133], 134-184, [185-187], 188-194, [195-197], 198-244; slipcase. $13,800.First edition of this core volume of Smith's essays, issued posthumously, featuring the important first publication of History of Astronomy that seeks ""to explain what drives 'philosophers' to ask the questions they do,"" an impressive wide-margined volume handsomely bound.Though Essays on Philosophical Subjects appeared five years after Smith's death, most were likely written before the publication of his Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759. Essays was compiled by his literary executors, physicist Joseph Black and geologist James Hutton. Prior to his death Smith ""instructed them to destroy his manuscripts but allowed them, at their discretion, to publish a set of essays"" (Berry, Cambridge Companion, 116). As noted herein, Smith had begun work early in his career on ""a connected history of the liberal sciences and elegant arts,"" but ""found it necessary to abandon that plan as far too extensive."" These writings thus represent Smith's longstanding attempts at such a ""connected history,"" and range over philosophy, aesthetics and the history of science. A biographical Account of Smith and his work is followed by the extensive History of Astronomy, which was the only writing Smith did not want destroyed; indeed, he specifically arranged for its posthumous publication. Black and Hutton used their authority to incorporate its momentous first publication into this collection. Astronomy ""was probably begun decades before Smith's death, perhaps as early as 1746, and was at one time intended to form a chapter of a much larger work… Astronomy purports to explain what drives 'philosophers' to ask the questions they do and to seek explanations for the things they observe"" (Otteson, Adam Smith, 22-3). Astronomy ""has occasioned much scholarship… Just as The Wealth of Nations was titled an enquiry into its 'natures and causes' so Smith says at the end of the preliminary section of Astronomy that the design of the essay is to consider the 'nature and causes of the three sentiments""—identified by him as ""Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration."" Citing Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Descartes and others, Astronomy aims ""to illustrate how philosophy is an activity that addresses itself to the imagination"" (Berry, 116-117, 123). Also included in this volume are his essays on ""Ancient Physics,"" ""Ancient Logics and Metaphysics"" and the ""Imitative Arts,"" along with a concluding essay on perception in the five ""External Senses."" One of 1,000 copies. Containing the first publication in book form of Dugald Stewart's Account of the Life and Writings of Adam Smith, which had appeared in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1794. Stewart's Account ""formed the basis upon which everyone drew for biographies of Smith that began to appear in the early 19th century"" (Tribe 55). Without initial blank. Goldsmith 16218. Kress B3038. Rothschild 1902. Trace of early owner signature above title page.Interior very fresh, period-style calf fine. An elemental Adam Smith work.
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Manchild in the Promised land by BROWN Claude

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Manchild in the Promised land
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BROWN Claude
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1965. First Edition. Signed. BROWN, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land. New York: Macmillan, (1965). Octavo, original red cloth, original dust jacket. $2400.First edition of Claude Brown's moving 1965 account of his journey out of poverty and crime in Harlem, inscribed by him, ""To B— L— from Claude Brown,"" in scarce original dust jacket.Brown's controversial ""Manchild in the Promised Land chronicled his ascent from a harrowing childhood of violent crime and poverty in Harlem and became a classic of American literature… It is written with brutal and unvarnished honesty… in language that is fierce, uproarious, obscene and tender, but always sensible and direct… though not published as a memoir, it closely paralleled Brown's life in virtually every detail"" (New York Times). ''Claude Brown makes James Baldwin and all that old Rock of Ages rhetoric sound like some kind of Moral Rearmament tourist from Toronto come to visit the poor"" (Tom Wolfe). ""Manchild, published at the height of the civil rights movement, instantly put Brown in a class with Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin and Richard Wright as the premier interpreters of Black urban life"" (Washington Post). First edition, first printing: with no statement of edition or printings on the copyright page, red topstain; dust jacket with $5.95 on front flap. Blockson 3327. Interior very fresh with trace of soiling to cloth; light edge-wear, minimal soiling to verso of very elusive dust jacket. An attractive copy.
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Labels by LABELS; TOBACCO

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Labels
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1935. TOBACCO LABELS. A collection of 1875 labels, boxes, etc. tipped in to 34 notebooks. Small folios, 310 x 225 mm, bound in pail blue paper wrappers labeled 'Dessin' with a woodcut illustration of a hot air balloon flying over a townscape on the front of each. France: ND. [Early 20th century]. A compendium of tobacco related commercial design from the first half of the Twentieth Century. The compiler of these albums has neatly ruled most pages of 34 sketch books in red and black and thoughtfully arranged over 1800 examples of cigar and cigarette labels, cigarette cards, matchbooks, etc. from around the world. The third dimension of what would have been boxes for the labels, has been drawn in by hand for each example, sometimes filled in with colorful gouache or silver ribbon. The imagery on the labels range from exotic locals, architectural scenes, costume, nouveau aesthetics, American Western themes among much else. The collection also includes a large number of cigarette cards from the Algerian company Melia featuring colour tinted photographic glamour shots of women, often seductively posed. In all the there are 471 cigarette packs or cards, 103 cigar packs or boxes, 249 cigar labels, 1032 match boxes and 20 razor blade wrappers. A remarkable, aesthetic assemblage that remains in exceptional condition with just the odd tear and minor discoloration to a some labels.
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Styling with Color. by TOWLE, H. Ledyard

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Styling with Color.
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TOWLE, H. Ledyard. Styling with Color. 28 pp. Colourfully illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to, 215 x 275 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new orange cloth box. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Paint Company, 1939. A brilliant cover design for this paint trade catalogue, fully illustrated with colourful pages of interior and exterior paint jobs.
The Lower Depths (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)

The Lower Depths (Original screenplay for the 1957 film) by Akira Kurosawa (director); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring); Maxim Gorky (play); Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto (screenwriters)

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The Lower Depths (Original screenplay for the 1957 film)
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Akira Kurosawa (director); Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura (starring); Maxim Gorky (play); Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto (screenwriters)
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Tokyo: Toho Company, 1957. Draft script for the 1957 film. All titles and text in Japanese. Based on the 1902 play by Maxim Gorky, and filmed several times prior, most notably by Jean Renoir in 1936. In Kurosawa's version, the story is moved from Gorky's Volga (Russia) setting to the Edo period in Japan. Off-white perfect-bound titled wrappers, with a protective plastic cover adhered to the spine. Approximately 53 leaves, with last page of text numbered c-29. Mimeograph duplication, printed on rectos and versos. Pages lightly age toned else Near Fine, wrapper and protective cover Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 239.
Collection of Letters Pertaining to Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, American Missionary to Ahmednagar, Maharatta, present day Maharashtra, India and her family of Henniker New Hampshire and later Amherst, Massachusetts, dated 1821-1874

Collection of Letters Pertaining to Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, American Missionary to Ahmednagar, Maharatta, present day Maharashtra, India and her family of Henniker New Hampshire and later Amherst, Massachusetts, dated 1821-1874 by Ballantine, Elizabeth Darling (1812-1874)

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Collection of Letters Pertaining to Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, American Missionary to Ahmednagar, Maharatta, present day Maharashtra, India and her family of Henniker New Hampshire and later Amherst, Massachusetts, dated 1821-1874
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Ballantine, Elizabeth Darling (1812-1874)
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29 letters, 84 manuscript pages, 11 related ephemeral items, manuscript and printed, in very good, clean and legible condition. Collection of letters written by and to Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, of Henniker, New Hampshire who became an early American Missionary in Ahmednagar, India, along with her husband Henry Ballantine. The letters chronicle mission life in India, where the couple ran schools for both male and female students. Elizabeth Ballantine was a student of Mary Lyons, the founder of Mount Holyoke College, at the schools she ran for women in India. Elizabeth Ballantine established a female boarding school in Ahmednagar where she incorporated some of Lyons's ideas in her curriculum for women's education Ballantine and her husband remained in India at their station for thirty years with only a single furlough after which she left some of her children in America, which caused her considerable heartbreak and pain. Ballantine's husband died returning to America from India in 1865, after which Ballantine settled in Amherst, Massachusetts. Elizabeth Darling was born in Henniker, New Hampshire January 5, 1812. She was the daughter of Judge Joshua Darling. She was educated at Ipswich Female Seminary run by two pioneers of early women's education: Zilpha Polly Grant and Mary Lyon (1797-1849), the founder of Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College). Darling was married to Rev. Henry Ballantine (1813-1865) April 6, 1835, and the couple sailed to India May 16th that year. They arrived in Bombay as missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. With only one home furlough (1850-1852) the Ballantines worked in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India for 30 years. Elzabeth Darling Ballantine was the first of Mary Lyon's six students to arrive in Maharashtra. Ballantine supervised the girls boarding school in Ahmednagar, she introduced significant innovations in the form and content of education in India, including regularly scheduled hours of instruction and new areas of study such as grammar, history and geography, in part inspired by Lyon's' ideas. Ballantine carried forward Lyon's interest in maps, and published A Small Geography in Marathi in 1847. Ballantine also ran day schools for adults at the mission in her later years. Ballantine's husband, Henry, and her partner in her missionary work was born in Schodack New York in 1813. Ballantine graduated from Ohio University at Athens (1829) and Andover Seminary (1834). He was noted for his fluency in Marathi and was widely respected as pastor, preacher, Bible translator, and editor of a semi-monthly mission paper in English and Marathi. Described as the Isaac Watts of Marathi hymnology, he prepared two hymnbooks, one for church use and one for children. He translated some of the hymns from English and wrote others himself. He was secretary and treasurer of the Marathi mission for several years, and during his last five years he also taught two theological classes of young men who were preparing for the ministry. On a doctor's advice he and his family sailed for home in September 1865, but he died en route and was buried at sea off the coast of Portugal. The Ballantines had nine children, most of whom were engaged directly or indirectly in mission work. After her return to America she settled in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1866, two of her sons graduated from Amherst and played a role in the missionary life of the community. She died May 8, 1874. Sample Quotes: Boston, Sept. 26, 1831, Elizabeth Darling to her brother J. C. P. Darling, Andover, Massachusetts "My dear Brother, … You judged rightly in supposing that I should rejoice in your being so pleasantly situated at Andover, & my dear brother, I am not the only person in Boston, who rejoices. No, your dear Uncle & Aunts, are if possible as much pleased as is your sister Elizabeth. You are now dear Cleaveland placed in a situation in many respects different, from what you have ever before been while at school. You are boarding in a pious family, where you enjoy precious privilege, so much so, that should you now slight them, you will hereafter have it to repent of. You are in the midst of a powerful revival of religion, & many hundreds I understand are now inquiring for the bread of life. O! my dear brother, could I but hope you are among that number, how much, I think, I should rejoice, but if you are not, do not let this long be said, do, while it is so favorable a time, press forward into the kingdom of Christ. The doors of mercy are now extended wide, & you are now nearer the entrance, than you were ever before, or, perhaps will be again. Do then enter in, & happiness will be your eternal portion; but I would not have you so much seek religion for the comfort it affords, as for the sake of doing the will of God. If you have not yet given yourself away to Christ, to be his forever, then you are living in an awfully dangerous state, a state of open rebellion to God, your best friend, where your every action however good, in your own eyes, is abhorred by God, because your motives for doing so, are to please yourself, Now, were you required by your teacher to do something, which in itself was very pleasing to perform, you go, & do it, you are soon asked, Have you done it? You answer yes, I did it not to please you however, but to please myself. Would your teacher like this kind of obedience? You know he would not. Well, now this is just the manner in which, in which you do your good deeds, you do them because God will be pleased, but because they are in some way agreeable to yourself. Now dear brother, let me entreat you to live no longer thus. You see, I know you must, how foolish, how wicked, how dangerous it is to live wholly for one's self. Do commence a different course immediately. All that is meant by being a Christian, is just to do what God requires you & one & the most important requirement is to believe, that Christ is able to save & to be willing to have him save you. Depend upon it dear Cleaveland, the moment you are willing to have Christ save you, he will save you, yes he will not wait a moment, but give you joys unspeakable whenever you are willing. Are you not willing now to be happy? O! you must, it can not be, that you are so unwise as to be willing to be miserable. Let me ask you one plain question Cleaveland, you have now for a year past sought for pleasure (that is what the world calls pleasure) in various ways, you have done those things, which it appeared to you would certainly produce a vast degree of happiness. You have had your own will in everything, now I I would ask, Are you in reality as happy, as you were two years ago when you were willing to obey your Parents in all things, & were not unwilling to spend your evenings at home. I know you are not; but still while you were at home, you followed on in the same ruinous path, because your own evil heart chose so to do & be[cause] you were surrounded by evil companions, who led you farther & farther on, but dearest brother, your situation is now entirely different. You are far away from your former associates, & I would advise you ever to keep so; do not write to them, nor suffer them to write you, will you not make this promise, & write it in your next letter? Another thing, I would beseech you never to indulge yourself in using the name of God irreverently. If you cannot avoid using profane language for the sake of obeying the third commandment, I would advise you to, for the sake of pleasing your friends, but you can do it for both reasons. Be respectful to your teachers, kind to your companions, attentive to your school duties, & you will carry joy to the heart of every friend, but do so from the motive of obedience to God's commands, & you will also cause joy in Heaven. Now my very dear brother neglect not to seek religion. Read your bible. Pray over it; & ask God for Jesus sake to teach you his will, & then may you do it from right motives, & God will certainly bless you, & give you a seat at his right hand, where we would hope our dear Mother now is, "singing Hallelujahs to God & the Lamb for ever & ever." I have written very plainly, because my conscience dictated; not because I supposed myself better than you. No. I am also a great sinner, & need continually to ask God's forgiveness for my transgressions & I would hope I have in times past asked in some measure aright & that God has but a listening ear for his son Jesus Christ's sake, to whom be glory for ever & ever. May you my dear brother be among those, who will sing Praise to God & Jesus Christ throughout the endless ages of eternity & may you & I ever have a heart to pray for these blessings for all our dear friends & the whole world … Sister Elizabeth D." Henniker, Dec. 20, 1834, John Darling, to his sister Elizabeth, Ipswich, Massachusetts "Dear Sister, Your letter directed to me came by Mr. Wallace on Saturday eve from Boston, also Fathers came to hand the same eve by mail – You will doubtless be somewhat supprized on the reception of this in finding me at Henniker, but for the future you may if you please, direct your letters to this place as I am now attending school to brother Timothy also William Ballard we have a fire in the east room & it makes quite a convenient school room I am attending to grammar & Geography. I think if we apply ourselves as we should we shall receive a great deal of instruction this winter. I cant say we are quite so studious as you are but we stick to it pretty close. Maria & myself returned from Boston three weeks since on our arrival home she was taken quite sick & as soon as we arrived she was unable to leave the room for about two weeks. Julia left the next Wednesday for N.Y. she had none of Marias help she being sick a bed but however she got off pretty well & arrived safely after spending a day in Boston Mr. Butler had prepared a home for them prior to their arrival the next Monday the Irish Girl was taken sick threatened with a fever – but however she soon recovered so far as to be carried up to Mr Colby's in Bradford where her brother is labouring. Then Aunt Abigail was left alone to attend to both sick & well Uncle Proctor paid us a visit of one night during the time accompanied by another Gentleman from the city, they had business in Hillsboro, however with William's & my help we were able to get along pretty well I learned to be half cook about that time. Maria is very much better doing work about House we also have a very good girl now from Bradford came last Thursday 18 years of age. Aunt Abigail has retired to the Hermitage although she is with us to day it being washing day – I am very much obliged to you for your very affectionate letter. I hope I shall have the pleasure of perusing another very long one from you soon, be not so studious as to ruin your health we were sorry to learn that your sister Mary were out of health we all hope ere this reaches you will be intirely recovered colds are very prevalent in this place now. … John C. Darling … P.S. … Father wishes you not to think to much about our Household affairs as you have enough to attend too … J.C.D…." Fitchburg, April 1, 1836, Elizabeth D. Ballantine, to her sister Mary I commence my letter Dearest Mary with a quotation from one of your own "though I have neglected writing to you certainly not been forgotten" you have daily been remembered with that same ardent affection which marked our childhood and has so oft repeated in later years. From a friend whom we love very dearly may we not hope very much? It is needless for me to tell you how much I love you it would be but a tale repeated for the thousandth time. But I will tell that I even venture to hope that you are not quite out of patience with me and I shall write just as if you were not in the least angry with me or as if I had not given you the least reason to be. Tell me in your next, whether I have presumed too much. And if I have not I want to be assured this from your own pen very soon Let me see written by your own hand and dictated by your own heart "Elizabeth I remember you neglect no more." Dear Mary may I hear from you in a fortnight from the time you receive this, It really seems as if I could wait no longer than that. And in return require one of me, as soon as you may please, and you shall have it. If you ask it, I will deprive myself of my usual repose rather than be delinquent. That deprivation however would not be a very rare one. It is what I am accustomed to as often as I write. I have reasoned myself into the belief that I cannot compose my thoughts at all for writing unless when retired. And retirement is what I cannot have, but "while others sleep". I acknowledge it is not a very good habit, but it is one in which you have indulged yourself, you must know how difficult it is to conform to any other. … I cannot tell of how many of my glowing thoughts you are deprived by interruptions of this same kind – not so very trifling, however as they might be. For here I am supreme mistress of the mansion for an hour or two, this afternoon, during Mother's little absence, and every moment, expecting to be interrupted by company, or something of that kind which you know would devolve upon the Lady of the house. Then I am the principal nurse too, for Sister Judith who has just so far recovered from sickness, as to like a good deal of attention – not more, however, than I am glad to bestow upon her. Besides here stands little Rhoda and a more inquisitive child you never saw, continually asking me questions, and to attract my attention, if I chance not to hear her at first, she occasionally gives me a tap on my elbow – probably to enable me to form my letters with a better grace. I need not point out to you the precise words upon which I have had her assistance. Your discerning eye will easily discover those written with peculiar elegance – and please to bear in mind that the credit belongs to her. In my multitude of thoughts, I had well nigh forgotten to tell you that I am attending school. One that has been recently established in the chapel since I last wrote you, and a pleasant one it is. From this circumstance you may infer whether I think it very foolish in you to attend school old as you are – Why you have not yet to be so infirm as to be unable to walk without assistance have you? If so, I shall be daily expecting to be reduced to the same decrepit state. Oh! Dear Mary, a grand thought has just occurred to me. There is here in Fitchburg the most ingenious mechanic in the vicinity and I dare say, he would make crutches admirably, would it not be a good plan to engage him to turn a few pair for us? I will charge him to make them particularly easy and nice. If you would like to communicate with him upon the subject, his address is "Laughing Joe." – To be serious – I do feel that I am older than I should be for my attainments – but certainly not too old to learn more. I believe some of our studies are the same and I sincerely wish we were persuing them together. I think you told me that you were attending to Intellectual Philosophy. It is my favourite study which with some pretty difficult Latin, weekly compositions, arithmetic, &c occupies my whole time. My Latin reading is Virgil, 1st book of the Aeneid. I like it very much find it rather difficult. I was interested in your particular accounts of your situation and yourself Remember that no subject upon which you can write can possess more charms for me than that. … I hope however, the other young Ladies have been so tractable, having had such an able teacher, as long since to have assisted you to bear that burden. You express a wish that you might have me for your roommate Nothing could delight me more, but I fear it cannot be. But I will propose a substitute which will answer – not a word of objection Mary. Leave it with me to arrange the whole We came from H then yours since the last of April and you were expected home in a day or two after. So if the Ipswich terms on the same now, you must be thinking of returning home, in 2 or 3 weeks. Now you must make your arrangements to come by Fitchburg and make me a visit. I want you to come and see how we are situated, but most of all. I want to see you. Dear Mary – don't take this as an invitation from politeness or ceremony; but it is neither. I have made it seriously and most certainly shall expect you … Elizabeth" [India, November 1836, incomplete, unsigned letter likely by Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, describing missionary life] "Miss Farrar* remains at Bombay & will do all in her power to get up a female boarding school & we trust she will succeed, for the mission will now allow her to hold out the inducement of 10 rupees (f dollars) to every girl who continues three years & fifteen rupees more for five years continuance, besides food and clothes during the whole time. Heretofore parents have said we will not send our children without some reward. Such is the degradation of the heathen. They do not value education enough to give it or rather to have it given their children without the promise of pecuniary reward To know the heathen, & to become acquainted with the impediments the missionary meets with almost constantly, you must dwell amongst them & study attentively their character… I believe I should rather have shrunk from being so conspicuous in the "Young Ladies Maheratta Society" Not from an unwillingness to serve them, but from an inability. Of course a Hindoo girl of high caste is desired, but Mrs. Groves for 17 or 18 years, & Miss Farrar for eight, have been searching for females to dwell with them, & be as one of them, but have never been able to succeed. I have also made great inquiry & as yet have been unsuccessful. Still I do not give up the search. Now that I have come to Nugger & know a little more of the language, I will redouble my efforts. Possibly by allowing the friends of the child to bring food to her, & not interfering at all with the name, I may succeed. The time has not yet come for them to like English names, as well as their own which are generally connected with their religion; not infrequently the names of their gods are given to their children. The name however I think is of little consequence. I am aware that this failure of mine to obtain a child, will greatly disappoint the expectations of the Society, & very likely some will think it wholly owing to a want of perseverance on my part. The young ladies of Henniker are certainly very fortunate in the bestowment of their charities, for from a letter of Mr. Scales, I learn they hear nothing from their little Tamulian, who should, if 12 dollars are sufficient, be found among the female boarders bearing the name of Nancy B. Scales I regret exceedingly there should have been any disappointment in such worthy causes & I fear that many of the bright eyes of the little sabbath scholars, I saw sparkling with interest at the thought of bringing little heathen girls from their degradation to their happy condition will no longer glisten with delight, because of the hope that their labors are not in vain. But I will not fill up my letter to you upon this subject you had rather hear what we are actually doing, than what we fear we cannot do. I cannot write much to encourage you, I may tell you what is now in progress, but in a few months from [now] all may be at an end. I do not write this desponding, because I do hope brighter days are in store for us. He who has all power in his hands, can easily overrule all these defeats for his own glory, even in the promotion of his kingdom here. One year ago, I wrote you, giving a flaming account of the little Parsee girl's school whereas if I had only considered the character of this people, I should have been more cautious, for I do think Christians at home, only to have them bitterly disappointed. The Parsee women of high caste are never seen abroad. These children were of that order, & though the oldest was only 12, yet it was thought she was too old to appear in public. Parsee girls, like Hindoo children, are married very young. They are quite under the control of their parents in law & what they say to them do, must be done. Such was this kind of parents, that is parents in law, to these children, & the married ones were frequently called away from school weeks at a time. Others were not married, & when the season for weddings came, the school completely fell through. I have frequently written respecting the English school, Mr. Ballantine had charge of. He had been in the school but a short time, when he became convinced that it would never accomplish the designs of the mission. They wished it to become a school of high order – one in which much religious instruction should be given. But to give it in English was absurd, for many of the scholars understood no English, & not one of them enough to comprehend half that should be said. To give it to them in their own languages, one would have needed a "diversity of languages", for it was made up of Hindoos, Parsees, Portuguese, Mussulmen, Jews & so on, At the general meeting, in consideration of this, and of the wishes of the Board, that less attention should be paid to English instruction & more to Maharratta, it was resolved to discontinue it. You may now ask what the mis[ion] mean to do? They mean to have the Maharatta language … first & principal; as they advance, English will be introduced for there are some branches that can be taught better in English than Maharatta; that is, when they have become considerably acquainted with English. Besides the natives think so much of learning English, this is a powerful inducement for them to send their children. Mr. Abbott has now in Nugger a very promising school of 40 boys conducted on this plan. He has gone so far that all of them eat and sleep in the compound. Their food is brought by their parents & some of them live in the adjoining villages. You would be very much interested to go out & see them seated in little companies on the ground, eating their rice & curry. When I first came to Nugger, not more than two thirds of them ate & slept in the compound. But they were soon told they must all do it or leave the school. One half left. One little bright boy lingered with tears in his eyes, not knowing what to do. But those who decided to leave began to laugh at him & soon influenced him to join them. In a short time, however, many of them came back & the school was soon as full as ever – we do hope this school will continue. It certainly now bids fair to. It is to be conducted very much on the plan of the Ceylon boys boarding school. Mrs. Abbott has also a very pleasant school of 40 girls. They are making great improvements in sewing. Some of the older ones already work lace & muslin quite well. Those that work receive at the end of the week six piie, provided they are punctual in their attendance. The younger ones, who cannot yet sew, receive four pice on the same conditions. If the little sabbath school children wish their spending cents to be useful, why will they not give them to these little girls so that they may attend school, and not be obliged to stay at home to earn their bread? Their parents are [most] of them extremely poor ^+& cannot give them food & clothes like in America. Another way that children at home can do good is to save their money to buy needles, thread, thimbles, scissors & all the materials for work & send them to little Maharatta girls. These things are very dear here, & very poor. Will you tell this to Mary Ann Wallace, Annette & Helen, & any others, or rather will Mary do it? If Mary could get me a box of implements of this kind & put in it some little specimens of any new work, like chains, beadwork, she would be doing a great work. She might by this comparatively little thing, be the means of bringing many heathen girls from all the degradation of idleness. Mary can direct the box to me & how I shall prize it. I hope to get up a school of my own soon & then these articles will be very useful. If I do not succeed in getting a little Maharatta girl to be my own, I shall I think propose to the young ladies a different plan for their disposal of their money. I hope to be able to write to them soon on this subject, but I find my hands full of work now. Nov. 18 1836. I regret I cannot write to the Young Ladies Maharatta Society (Is this the right name?) But the Quill sails five days sooner than I expected & it is not possible for I am now in the greatest haste. I wish you would ask them if the would be willing , If I can not succeed in obtaining a Hindoo that I should like A Portuguese or a Jewess – both will have as much influence over the Maharattas as a Hindoo, that had lost caste & they must lose caste if they come into a Christian family & eat our food … March 19, 1836" * Likely Cynthia Farrar (April 20, 1795, Marlborough, New Hampshire – January 25, 1862, Ahmednagar, India) was a Christian missionary from the United States of America. She was a teacher and founded girls' schools in Bombay and Ahmednagar. She was one of the first single American women recruited as a missionary to work and live abroad. In 1848 Jyotiba Phule visited her school in Ahemadnagar and was inspired to open a school for girls in Poona (Now Pune). It was first ever school for girls founded and run by an Indian. Later Phule enrolled his wife Savitribai Phule in Farrar's school for a course of teacher training. Bird, Isaac*, Boston, July 8, 1837, to the Young Ladies Maharatta Society, Henniker, N.H. "My dear friends, According to request I have made inquiry of the Treasurer at the Missionary Rooms respecting the child to be educated by you at Bombay. The reply was that it was not known whether any such child has been selected, or whether the missionaries will find it practicable to give names to children at Bombay as they have done at Ceylon – that the Society at Henniker had better ascertain, by direct correspondence with Mrs. Ballantine, whether the child has been obtained, or in what way their charities can be most advantageously applied, & the Treasurer of the Board will be most happy to follow the Society's directions. Let me, in the mean time, beg the Society not to be discouraged by this delay in the accomplishment of their object, nor cease to exert themselves in this good work. Their contributions, though unapplied by the missionary, are always of present use to the order & direction of the young ladies until the opportunity shall occur for their missionary to make use of it in the manner they wish. It was an honorable mention that was made of the good people of Henniker at the meeting of the county conference in regard to their contributions for missions of the past year. But I dare say they feel that they could do a great deal more, in a case of necessity. And is it not now a case of necessity? If ever there was a time for every Christian in our land to question himself solemnly as to what the Lord requires of him in behalf of the heathen, that time is now. Is not every Christian bound like all his brethren, to exert himself to spread the gospel. Ought we not all to cooperate, & to make nearly equal sacrifices for this object? Do our sacrifices then, in this work, compare with those made by Paul, or those made by Brainerd, or Martyn, or many other missionaries now living & laboring among the heathen? Suppose the good young ladies of the Mahratta Society should pass a vote that they will devote to missions, the avails of two weeks' labor each year, would this be a large proportion? Would it not afford you a holy gratification, would it not greatly help your prayers, to feel that you are enduring your own proper share of the fatigue & inconvenience required by Christ in the great enterprise of the world's conversion? … Isaac Bird" "Ahmednuggur August 14, 1838 [Elizabeth Ballatine, to her sister, Nancy Wallace, Henniker, New Hampshire] My dear Sister Nancy, Every packet of letters from home I search for one that I think may be from you, but I have always been disappointed For more than three years I have not heard one word from you to shew me, that I have been remembered – that is from you or your pen. I know you have many cares & that you dislike letter writing, but I did think when oceans should separate us you would conquer this aversion to writing & give me this one proof of your love. I have written you twice in this time, which I know seems but a very few times to write to a very dear sister – but you must remember I have a great many letters to write for all must be remembered. I should think Annette & Helen would love to write to their Auntie they used to love. I think much of them They are now quite young ladies. Annette must be 16 years old – How much I should love to see them. Do they go to school? I presume they are fine scholars. I should love to know how you are situated. Since Mr. Wallace gave up his store I have heard nothing from you. I do not know but what you may be settled down in some of the western states. Do you think you would like a western home? You would find things & people quite different from what you do in old N. England. Great changes have taken place with you since I left. What a blank has the death of our dear sister occasioned. Our number is no longer one unbroken ten, but nine only remain. Who would have thought Julia, who was always so cheerful & active would have been the first to be called? I often used to ask myself who will be the first called from our number…. I think much of her dear children… What are your little girls all doing? Annette is now of an age to be very useful to you. She, that I used to call little Mary, is now I presume quite a large girl – Little Elizabeth too must be now a little too old to call your baby, at last our Mary is, & she is six or seven months younger than your little E – but perhaps you have not had another little one stepping in to deprive your Elizabeth of her baby right as Mary has. Our little one we too call Elizabeth as doubtless you have heard before this. Mary was you know needed by a native woman & she is a great strong girl. … Ever since she was seven months old, she has been troubled with sore eyes a disease common in this country. For two or three months they will be quite well, then they will be suddenly taken & before an hour has passed from the time you first perceive d any thing was the matter, they will be very red all about the eye, & the lid is so swollen that she can with difficulty open them, but by washing them constantly with warm alum wash & putting at night some kind of ointment in the eyes & by taking a great deal of medicine… Our work continues much the same – I have two schools which I superintend & feel much interest in. I try to study a little every day & this with my babies makes me quite busy from morning to night. Mr. Ballantine superintends some four or five schools preaches to the natives & studies, studies, studies. However I think he has learned that too much study will sometimes make a man sick, for he has had several slight sicknesses but recently an attack of fever, which was very severe. We are subject to sudden attacks of sickness, but though we may be very sick at the time, yet we get well as suddenly as we were taken. As a whole I do not think the climate near as trying as I feared it might be. We are obliged to take great care of ourselves & then we get along quite comfortably. It was only a little exposure to the sun that brought on Mr. Ballantine's last fever. He had been out into the villages to visit his schools & coming home he rode a little too long after the sun had become too hot. We can only travel in this country mornings & evenings. … Elizabeth" *Isaac Bird (1793–1876) was one of the first Protestant missionaries in Syria.[1] He was best known for his 1876 publication Bible work in Bible lands: or, Events in the history of the Syria mission.[2] He undertook a number of journeys throughout Syria and Palestine, primarily in the 1820s and 1830s. In 1825 he had a school with 85 Syrian pupils. In 1833, he wrote his Thirteen Letters in reply to the Maronite Bishop of Beirut, which were printed in Arabic at the American Press that had been moved to Beirut in April of that year. He left Syria in 1836, and died forty years later in Hartford, Connecticut. Ahmednuggur June 16 1840 [Elizabeth Darling Ballantine, to her father] "My dear Father, … we have a good house here, perhaps some would call it a palace – It was originally built by a great Mussulman Nobleman. An English officer took it & introduced changes to make it comfortable for Europeans to dwell in. Upon his marriage he left it for a more favored retreat & Mr. Boggs after a little time rented it. When Mr. Boggs took it, he had in view to devote a large room below to a place for preaching. It was thus devoted till the large mission chapel on the mission premises was built. Since we came here Mr. Ballantine has made it a preaching place for sabbath afternoon. It is there we collect the little girls & all about us for Maharatee prayers daily. Joining them are two nice rooms, but the little girls are now in a large mud house, which we have recently built for them. Here they are willing to assemble to eat their food & to sleep, before this, they eat out doors under the shade of a tree fearing to come very near each other lest they should be defiled. This we regard as a little step towards civilization. At night they throw down their coarse woolen mats with an equally coarse black blanket upon them & sleep apparently as soundly as kings upon their beds of down. The upper part of the house is our abode. We first ascend a flight of 30 stone stairs so narrow that we can hardly walk side by side. This takes us up far above our neighbors & gives us good air & a fine prospect. … Everything now is neat & clean, but it was not until after a plenty of brimstone had been burnt & twice white washing in our sleeping room that we could prevent the bed bugs from falling down from the beams above. Now we never see one unless it is crawling upon some native. I remarked one day to one Pundit that in our country we should be much ashamed to have one seen upon our persons. In astonishment he asks why? Thinking himself it no more disgrace than to have a fly upon him … After you have ascended the stairs, you enter the entry or passage way. A door at the left leads into the only room in this wing. It is one large sitting room. Here we eat & sit whenever we have leisure. Leaving this room & going a little farther on in the passage way another door at the left leads you into a little room which is Mr. Ballantine's study. A very little walk in the passage way brings you to its close which takes you into a good sized room for the children. Here they sleep & play most of their time. Out of this is a large bed room which we occupy; this you shall have when you come to see us. You would like it because it is airy & because there is attached to it a bathing room & other conveniences. Bathing rooms in this country are considered as necessary a part of the house as sitting rooms. I wish they were at home & I am sure health would be a more common blessing. June 18th Nine years this day since our dear mother bade us a last farewell. Well she has been just so many years in the delightful service of her God above. How has she increased in knowledge & how have her powers expanded till she is no longer like us of earth. Here sins innumerable fetter us, there there is nought but perfect freedom. Here we have sorrows to remind us of our earthly state & lead us to fix our hearts in heaven where all sorrow is wiped away there they have only the purest bliss. Afflictions however are good for us here we had better not be without them for "whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." I still feel our affliction deeply. One has gone from uswhom we all loved. O, the desolation of feeling in my heart. But I would not call him back. No he he is now learning the service of God & here he would have been learning the service of sin. Here he is safe in the bosom of our God, there we will leave the dear child & strive ourselves to be prepared to be partakers of the same joys. July 3d This is the season for rain, but we have very little. The sun is very hot but clouds now & then protect us from his great heat – Mr. Ballantine is turning his attention a little to gardening & he already feels the beneficial effects of it upon his health. Instead of being laid up with repeated fevers as he has years past during the rains, he has tus far done more at study & labor than for a long time before. We have a fountain of water in our yard which affords sufficient water just now to do something in the way of gardening – but a good American hoe is not to be obtained. I have never seen anything to which I could give the name of rake. … July 4th – You are all no doubt rejoicing & perhaps no class more than the Sunday school children of our happy land … Our little children are shut out from all those pleasures, but they are very happy here – Mary says a good deal about going to America & to see Grandfather, but poor child – she knows nothing of the long weary way, or the anguish of feelings we must have, if these children must go from us. If they were Christians I believe it would be nearly as easy to give them up to God to take them from the world, as from us. Yet I try to commit all to Him who will direct one very step. We have some encouragements here – To day a woman has called upon me from a neighboring village, or rather at the distance of about 20 miles. She says she wishes to know about our religion, for it appears to her to be the true religion. I noticed her in our chapel last Sabbath, & she gave the most fixed attention After meeting I asked her who she was, & she told me she was a stranger here but that a man in the employ of our mission … had invited her to attend our meeting. Miss Farrar & myself invited her to come see us & to day she has come. We do hope she may prove a sincere seeker after the truth. 11th The Hindoo woman has come again bringing with her, her husband, an interesting looking man - They have had a long conversation with Hurripont His very soul seems to have taken fire from seeing these people; he says its what he never saw before, a husband & wife from among their people seeking to know the right way. They both appear well O, may they be directed into "the strait & narrow way, which leads to everlasting life." 12th Sabbath The man & woman both at meeting this morning & both attentive hearers. This afternoon both came to our meeting at our house. We do hope the spirit of God is really striving with them but so deceitful is man that we dare not be too confident. They return to their village tomorrow & we pray that the spirit of God may go with them. We fear to have them go from us & we fear to urge them to remain hoping that it may be better for them to go & think quietly for themselves…" "Bombay December 7th, 1852 My dear Sister Mary, Again must I address you from India's shores. It appears so natural here with the exception of not being able to see the faces of my three eldest ones that that I sometimes almost feel that it was next to seeing you not at all. … Mr. Wallace, the dear nieces and yourself were unremitting in your attentions to us. Often has the thought of it brought tears to my eyes … I thought much about the childrens visit to you while I was on board ship and felt almost sorry that I urged it for I feared you would have other friends & that it would make quite too much care for you. From the children's journal I see that your house was full but they enjoyed their visit so much and became so much better acquainted with their own dear Aunt and went away feeling so much attachment to you & their cousins that I cannot but rejoice that they went … I have a great work before me to take care of these children still spared to me, to look after my house, and to do my mission work. I long to be where I can begin to have a system. I can accomplish so much more But I find I have not so much strength as I had in America. My memory too is failing me. That parting from my children well nigh crushed me I was very sea sick the first part of the way Johnnie refused his preserved milk altogether the whole voyage. There was so little for him to eat that he was obliged depend principally upon me. The Captain was a swearing unprincipalled person but not unkind to us any part of the way … We found on arriving here a most cordial welcome from our missionary circle and from our native friends. Our Christian flock at Ahmednuggur call loudly to us to come quickly to them. We shall try to leave next week They need more laborers in Bombay more in Ahmednuggur All look so deadly pale I feel they may faint by the way. Mr. Wood was one of the first to come on board ship to meet us … Elizabeth" "Ahmednuggur March 22d 1853, Henry Ballantine, to his sister "Dear Sister, Elizabeth wrote you from Bombay but at time I had so many other letters to write. I thought I would defer writing to you till some other time – But ever since I have found the same difficulty, and so I find I must not put off writing any longer – I believe we have not written you anything since we reached Ahmednugger though you doubtless have heard through our children that we reached here safely We arrived here on the evening of Dec. 31st and so were able to commence the new year here at our station. It was pleasant to meet with so many of our former acquaintances here many of whom were unable to restrain their tears when they first saw us. They told us they had given up all hope of ever seeing us again and they feel that God had great mercy on them in bringing us back again. … We have a comfortable house, one that we can shut up so that we can keep the thermometer inside down to 85⁰, while outside in the shade it rises to 100⁰. … I feel strong for preaching – I love to preach in Maratha to these people When I can get any body to listen to me. I do not want any employment more pleasant than this. Besides our regular preaching. I have been giving lectures once a week to a class of interesting young men who are coming around us and some of whom are disposed to inquire in regard to the truth of Christianity some of these young men are Deists and have no confidence in any religion. I have been endeavoring to bring before them the arguments presented in Butler's Analogy and some of the evidences of Christianity. This is a pleasant work … We have quite a number of candidates for admission to the church here and those we are instructing and thus preparing them for an intelligent reception of the truth. I have a good many things to encourage us in this work and some things to discourage our only course is to go on trusting in God & watching the movements of his providence … H. Ballantine" Ahmednuggur July 8, 1853 Elzabeth D. Ballantine to her sister Mary "My dear Sister Mary, I would not write to you at this time did I not wish to send a letter to Cleaveland I know not his address, Will you please write him a few lines and enclose my letter to him. It is a year today since I took dinner with you in Boston at cousin Lucias. That was a sad day to me. I took my leave I may say of you that day for though I had a few hurried moments with you on board ship yet it was not seeing you at all satisfactorily. The farewell was said there, but from the agony of my feelings, I have scarce a recollection of it. You have been much in my thoughts of late, and I have hoped every mail, that a letter in your well known hand would come shewing me that I have not been altogether forgotten by you. But it comes not, and I am constrained to think that I have been cast off by every relative save my own dear children. You know not the bitterness of this feeling. May you never know it. The reason must be because I left my children and came back to this land. . We did it dear sister from a conviction of duty as you well know. O, glad indeed would I have been to see it plainly my duty to stay with my children. … … Every thing in relation to finding homes and friends for those dear children shewed the hand of God so plainly that I could not doubt his will. All the letters from them too only confirm this belief. Julia says in a letter received yesterday "I have lately tried to examine my heart and see if I loved you more than the saviour & I do not think I don't think I love my saviour best Not that I love you any the less, but I love my Saviour more. O, he is precious, very precious to me. I feel that this separation has been for the best. It has made me trust and lean more upon my Father in heaven. It has made me love him more, think more of him and strive more to be like him". But though she writes thus she is not cold in her feelings I will give you a little more of her own words. She says Sometimes when I read your journals I feel so bad I don't know what to do. It seems as if I could not live a moment longer in America. I throw myself on the bed and cry & pray that God would comfort me and preserve me to see my beloved parents, brothers & sisters in safety, and after praying I feel comforted." Mary & Lizzie express themselves very much in the same way. They all feel that this separation has bound them with a far stronger cord of love of to their saviour and at the same time their hearts are filled with much more tender love for their Parents. I know we can say the same and I sometimes feel that I can bless God for enabling me to make the sacrifice. Need I make any apology for writing so freely. I want you to know my feelings I want you to know my childrens. We are all very well indeed. The heat of April & May was most fearful but we were all preserved and it only troubled the children by covering them with prickly heat which increased till great boils sprang up over their faces & arms. Johnnie is not well yet of them… The children often speak of cousin Bobbie they would so love to have him for a play fellow for they have no little English boys. Bobbie would not love to come to India. I think Henry & Willie became very tired of being shut up all day long in the hot season. It is cloudy now and as soon as they get through with their lessons they go into the garden & play. Henry says in very sorrowful tones, this country is not as good as America. Willie is full of play from morning till night. We think he looks very much as little Robbie did when we first saw him, Anna is very well she is great company for me. She is about as quiet as you were when a little girl. She often cries for Julia poor girls. Henry is quite a companion for her, he is a much better boy than he was. I have much work on my hands. Teaching the women and the school girls, looking after my family and teaching the children leave me no time to rest. My work is of a different kind from what it was in America but I think it is quite as arduous. I often feel that I should love make this dish or that or make a particular kind of cake but I have not the time and I have not the materials. We have cake and other good things and though they do not taste as good as they would made with my own hands yet why should I complain? I do not. I feel that the mercies of God are showered down upon me and I trust I am in some measure grateful for them and that I love to speak forth his praise. … Elizabeth" "Belapoor, Feb. 9, 1855 My dear Sister Mary, It is long since I wrote to you and longer still since I heard from you. I have had no leisure for writing to any but my children for the last three months & more. We are away from home now on a tour of the villages to the north of Nuggur. Dr. Anderson wishes us to do as much as possible of this work of making known to the people in these villages Jesus Christ & his salvation. This mode of life, tent life, is conducive to health and it gives me far more leisure & quiet than I enjoy at home but it is very fatiguing & inconvenient to break up house every day pack up all our things again & again & travel on six or seven miles farther to find a new home. We are obliged to take everything with us but wood or water milk & chickens. These we can generally find though often of a very inferior quality. Our bread all comes from Nugger & it becomes very hard & dry. The children are perfectly delighted with this mode of life as they can play out under the trees nearly all day. Today is William's birthday & they are improving it by making mud houses & ovens. They would like to have their cousin Roby with them to help them play. They have no companions now at all for Mr. Hazens little boys have gone with their parents to Bombay to live. We are almost left alone in Nuggar now. Miss Farrar remains there & Mr. & Mrs. Barker until their house is built in Kloken a village 40 miles to the North of Nuggar. They have come out with us now to see about a building spot. Mr. & Mrs. Murger have gone to Tetara to live. I wish you had seen the new Mrs. Murger. She is a very cheerful lady like person, looks like the first Mrs Burgess & smiles & talks like the last. She is from a rich family in Chicago. It is a most singular match & nothing but her piety & her desire to do good could have led her out here. Her age is I think near 40. Dr. Anderson & Mr. Thompson have been out here paying us a visit. They stayed with us six weeks. During that time we had a general meeting of all the missionaries this side of India which lasted 20 days. Our houses were full of company. A most thorough investigation was made in to all the operations of the mission & many changes were made. Sickness & death have so reduced our numbers & our strength that one had to be sent here & another there to supply the deficiencies, hence in Nuggur where there is work enough for three or four missionaries Mr. Ballantine is left with the whole upon him. Two native ministers were ordained while the deputation were with us as pastors over two churches in Nuggur. Harripont over the first church & a colony of 12 went out from this church & form a new church & over this Ramkrishnaput was ordained as pastor. Mr. B. is expected to superintend both these churches & to preach once in each every Sabbath. Thus his work is no lighter & his care doubled. But he undertakes it cheerfully & I am happy to have him do it my only concern is that he may break down under all this load. My work too is greatly increased. Mrs. Hazen helped me very much. Miss Farrar will do so now, but her health is feeble & she has her own cares. O, that more laborers would enter into the great harvest. I think of the young men & women in your land that are living at ease… why wont some of them come here & stay up our feeble hands I am greatly rejoiced to hear of the loving kindness of God to my dear namesake Libby B. I trust she is a bright & shining Christian. Will not Mary join her, will she leave her alone to walk the road to Zion … You will have heard of Mr. Wood with his little motherless boys being o the way to America. Mr. W became very nervous & low spirited before he left this country. His health was poor & he has been too long alone. Yet he dreads the idea of marrying again His heart is bound up in his little boys & it be hard indeed for him to tear himself away from them to return to this land. Harder than it was for me to leave my children. And that day when I turned away from those dear girls to see them no more for long, long years & perhaps never here, was a day so full of darkness That I cannot now call it to mind without a shudder & tears. But dear Mary do not think I did wrong to leave them, I left them in his hands who has never ceased to bless them & smile upon them. Julia often feels very sad & she sometimes writes us such entreating letters to be permitted to come out here again& live at home that my heart dies within me. But at the same time in those very letters she will write of Jesus' being near her & of the comfort he gives her were it not that we see she has help such as Father & Mother cannot give we should sink under this load. In a few years these children here must go home but I do not look forward. My heavenly father will provide a way & give us grace to walk in it. I think Julia is in danger of studying too hard & I have written to Uncle P about her about spending the summer in Quincy with him. There she can have an opportunity to learn to play the piano for Mr. Abbot who is a good judge thinks she will learn very easily… E. Ballantine" "Ahmednugguer Ap. 14, 1855 My dear Sister Mary, … We returned home from our tour all well & we have all been kept in health ever since. It is now the middle of our hot season but still the heat not being so great as in many years we get on very comfortably. Anna feels the heat a good deal & is often quite languid. I have no doubt it would be better for her to be in America but how can I spare her? I must have one daughter with me how often I feel that it would be very pleasant for me to have them all here. Mary is nearly through her course at S. Hadley perhaps she may come out here sometime next year. Mr. Fairbank of the Bombay Mission who lost his wife nearly there years ago has made proposals to her. She has not decided fully though I think she is inclined to accept. Mr. F is a good deal older than she is & has one child in America but he is a very fine man & will make her one of the kindest & best of husbands. If she concluded to come out here you will hear of it & I hope you will see something of her & Mr F before they leave. If the decision is against it you will not here of it probably from any other source & I wish you never to speak of it. I should not write about it but I want you to know of it but I want you to pray for her & for me. She is very young but her heart is in the work & she longs to be here. You must see how pleasant it will be for her to have Mary so near to me but still I shrink from having her undertake so much especially while she is so young. If I had not clearly seen the indications of Providence in this matter I could not have given my assent. Poor Lizzie & Julia will be left alone. But the Lord will take care of her. It is true that they often feel that they are far from a mother & without a home but the Lord does not allow them to want for any thing. Mr. Wood will be in Am as soon as this letter perhaps may he be prospered with regard to his children & in the matter of a wife. The latter will be more difficult I think for he will look rather high. Give much love to Mr. Wallace he never writes to us now do you feel the effect of the hard times in Henniker. Food must be rather dear especially flour … Elizabeth" Portland, Oct. 12, 1856, Livona L.Bagley, Portland, Maine, to Mary Darling Wallace "My dear Mrs. Wallace, I was very happy to receive a letter from you in behalf of the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Henniker. It is always interesting to me to hear from the place of my nativity, & it is now particularly so, as I learn of the efforts of good ladies there to benefit both the sailor & the Home Missionary. We will gratefully receive all the articles you mentioned except the ladies hose & be assured they will all turn to the advantage of the sailor either at or away from the 'Home'. Since the establishment of the Sailor's Home here, nearly two years since, more than one thousand sons of the ocean have been welcomed & received its benefits. About fifty have been so destitute from shipwreck & otherwise as to require every necessary to be supplied by charity – they are often very grateful, & you may hope by means of your charity to the poor sailor to receive the blessing of some who were ready to perish. We have accommodations for sixty, a bible in every room & a large room containing a library of well selected books & bibles in many languages. This room is ever open to the sailor where he may read & reflect without any interruption – The whole family assemble here for missionary & evening prayers & occasionally Capt. Bagley calls upon some pious seaman to lead the devotions. A prayer meeting is sustained in this room every Friday evening & we trust some souls have experienced the new-birth here, Several conversions have also occurred within two years at the Marine Hospital near us. There is a fine brick house of worship holding five hundred persons called the Bethel, from whose top waves the long flag when religious services are to be held inviting those in ships & the sailor on shore to come & hear the story of the cross & of all blessings of the gospel. There is no settled minister at the present time. The commerce of this port is constantly increasing & the necessity of helping the wretched & miserable as well as providing a Christian home for the sailor who is far from his birthplace will be also increasing. We have one room yet to be furnished by some benevolent person or persons & recruits are often called for in the furnished rooms. Every thing earthly perishes with the using. Towels & bedding of all kinds for the supply of the Home is ever very acceptable. We have now Rev. Mr. Merrill, formerly of Buxton, M preaching at the Bethel & we hope we may be able to retain him a long time. … Please direct the box to the care of Capt. C. T. Bagley, Sailor's Home, Portland, Me … Livona L. Bagley" Amherst March 25, 1869, Elizabeth D. Ballantine to her sister Mary, Henniker "My dear Sister, A letter from Julia just received tells me that our Bro. Harrison died last Sunday at 11 A.M. She learned this from Margie. Margie had received a letter from Lottie the Friday before saying that her father was sick but was not considered dangerously sick. A telegram from Henry Jenks on Sunday told of his death now it may be that some one has written or telegraphed to you this painful news but I should not have known of it if Julia had not written. I therefore write a few lines to tell you of it fearing you may have been passed by as I was … Harrison wrote to me only two weeks ago He was then well My heart is very sad as I think that this brother is gone. I had hoped he would come on & visit us this summer. It will be a great shock to Timothy & his wife in their feeble state What is to come of those poor children I feel for them more than I can express. I wrote to Harrison to let Lottie come here to me but he said she had been away a great deal of late (she spent weeks in New Haven last summer) he thought she had better stay at home for the present. I know that Amherst is not a good place for young girls but I thought would be as safe with me as with her mother's friend in New Haven. She & her mother have not got on very well together But I do hope all will be well for them now under her care. Harrison made a will some time ago & made his wife sole guardian of his children & dispose of all affairs. … I hope she will have wisdom given her & will be kind & thoughtful of all their interests. She is called to fill a difficult place … Elizabeth" Amherst Mass Nov. 12, 1869 "My Dear Sister, … Lizzie was thinking of going to Auburndale with me before she went to Painesville. Her going there was very sudden & unexpected. It was very trying to me at first but I think it has been well for her to have more responsibility thrown upon her. I hope she will come home soon – she will go to S. Hadley next term. Julia has just finished her school in Hatfield. She is now getting ready to go to Painesville to teach there. She was wanted when Lizzie went out but she had promised the people at H. It is a school on the S. Hadley plan – Henry is attending to book keeping here & teaching two private scholars … E. Ballantine" "Amherst Mass Oct. 3, 1871 My dear Sister, I have written Amherst on the tope but I should have written Boston for I came here last evening on my way to the meeting of the Board in Salem which commences today I have come away from home hoping to be able to get a little rest & strength, that I may return & take up my duties again … I came prepared to stay away four or five weeks & I thought I should like to spend two or three of them with you if perfectly convenient … I feel that it is long since we met I have hoped on till the last that you would come & make me a long visit, but you have not. Perhaps I can persuade you to go home with me… I do not take boarders this year I was too much worn down to think of it for I have had heavy burdens to bear for the past few years. Mary;s two older children are with me but I do not have any of the care of them for I did not feel able. Mrs. Judd a very kind judicious lady lives with me & takes the charge of them. She shares with me in housekeeping expense, care &c … Willie came with me yesterday as far as Palmer on his way to New York for his second medical course of lectures. Julia is teaching school in New Haven & the young man Mr. Greenwood to whom she is engaged is there in the Theological Seminary. … E. Ballantine" Amherst, Mass May 28th 1874, John Ballantine, to his Aunt Mary "My Dear Aunt Mary, … We have all been very busy here at home, arranging about a great many things in the house, as we shall soon separate; probably in the middle of July when I graduate here. It was quite remarkable I think that mother could have been spared to see all her children through, or nearly through, their education which was her great desire, and for which she moved to Amherst. I was very glad that one or two of my class-mates came down at once after learning of Mother's death, and offered to do anything in their power to help me. In that way I was able to dictate to them quite a large number of letters … speaking of her death &c Friends in town have been exceedingly kind and were only sorry they could not do more for us. Many of the Professors and their wives have been in and helped us in many ways. In fact three of the Professors served as Pall-bearers at the Funeral. The service here at the house and at the grave were conducted by President Stearns and Prof. Julius Seelye in a very fine way. Pres. Stearns prayer was a wonderfully beautiful and comforting prayer and Prof. Seelye with his grand voice read selections from the Scripture in a very impressive manner. The rooms were filled at the time of the funeral and many were here that had only a little acquaintance with mother. … About a week ago today President Stearns eldest son Mr. Wm Stearns, doing finances in New York and formerly a very successful business man in Bombay, died very suddenly, leaving a wife and seven young children. It was a great blow to the family here and especially to the father, Dr. Stearns… I was asked with five other senior to act as Pall-bearer… We graduate here next July and then I expect to teach for a year at least. Julia expects to be married in a quiet way in a few weeks, though the time has not been fixed … John Ballantine" See: The Missionary Herald, 1866, 37-41, and Missionary Herald, Vol. LXX, 1874 Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, (New York: 1998), p. 42
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, Group of Three Letters written by Anthony Corkrin, Philadelphia merchant, to Vito (Victor) Viti, Fellow Merchant of Philadelphia, while Viti was traveling, in Ohio, New Orleans and New Bedford, 1840-1847 by Corkrin, Anthony

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, Group of Three Letters written by Anthony Corkrin, Philadelphia merchant, to Vito (Victor) Viti, Fellow Merchant of Philadelphia, while Viti was traveling, in Ohio, New Orleans and New Bedford, 1840-1847
Author
Corkrin, Anthony
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description
three letters, five pages, quarto, some splitting along horizontal folds, otherwise in good, legible condition. Vito (Victor) Viti is listed in the 1840 Philadelphia City Directory as a merchant at 269 S. Front Street. Ann H. Corkrin, presumably Anthony Corkrin's sister Anna, mentioned in the letters, is listed in the same directory as being in the dry goods business at S.E. 4th and Gaskill Streets. Viti and his family were early Italian settlers in Philadelphia. Viti's business apparently took him away from Philadelphia for long periods of time. Corkrin apparently rendered business assistance to Viti and looked after his family. Corkrin's sister Anna, who was in the dry goods business, apparently also corresponded with Viti. Philadelphia, Nov. 20th, 1840, Anthony Corkrin, to Vito Viti, Cincinnati "My Dear Sir, Yours of the 14th inst came to hand with an enclosed check on the Pennsylvania Bank for Four hundred ninety seven 69/100 dollars $ 497 69/100, which I deposited in the same Bank and passed to your credit. I believe the Grand contest is over, and the Old General is Elected thank God with an over majority the Loco Focos console themselves with the anticipation of the General going in but one term, but that is but poor satisfaction, the Loco foco papers is recommending Harrison, not to do as Jackson did to turn all out of office that was opposed to his principals, but to continue in office those that was his vilest enemys, but I think the General is not such a fool but I would recommend him to turn all Out, to have a clear start. The Business continues the same and no alteration. Your family are in good health, and all the girls and myself are the same … Anthony Corkrin" Philadelphia, Anthony Corkrin, to Vito Viti, New Orleans, March 15, 1841 "Mr. V. Viti My Dear Sir, Your favour past mark'd 4th inst came to hand this morning I am extremely sorry that the error was committed in the account current, of $ 89.26 on the U States Bank of N York which I received but I did not give you credit in the account current but that error is easy corrected as I gave you credit in the Book. Our Business continues the same as last year very near but the U States Bank business has made some difference but not material, but if we had some way of disposing of her notes we would have done a better business but Anna was fearfull of taking them, as the merchants would not give her no encouragement to take them, but we cannot complain than God of the business at present for we average about $ 375 a week … Your family are in good health with the exception of Vito he has had several fits of the ague & fever, but he is now getting better … he has had Mary's doctor in attendance … Anthony G. Corkrin"
William Jeffers vs. John Tyson, being an Action for Crim. Con. Tried at the late Sitting of the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday the 28th of October, before the Honorable Pierre C. Van Wyck, Recorder of the City of New York. With the Evidence, Arguments of Counsel, and Charge of the Judge at full length. Taken in Short Hand, By a Gentleman of the Bar.

William Jeffers vs. John Tyson, being an Action for Crim. Con. Tried at the late Sitting of the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday the 28th of October, before the Honorable Pierre C. Van Wyck, Recorder of the City of New York. With the Evidence, Arguments of Counsel, and Charge of the Judge at full length. Taken in Short Hand, By a Gentleman of the Bar.

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William Jeffers vs. John Tyson, being an Action for Crim. Con. Tried at the late Sitting of the Court of Common Pleas, on Friday the 28th of October, before the Honorable Pierre C. Van Wyck, Recorder of the City of New York. With the Evidence, Arguments of Counsel, and Charge of the Judge at full length. Taken in Short Hand, By a Gentleman of the Bar.
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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octavo, 44 page pamphlet, ex-library, handstamps on titlepage, text somewhat browned, else good. American Imprints 11987
Among the Shoshones

Among the Shoshones by Wilson, Elijah Nicholas

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Among the Shoshones
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Wilson, Elijah Nicholas
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Salt Lake City, UT: Press and Bindery of Skelton Publishing Company, 1910. Suppressed First Edition. Very good. 222pp. Octavo [21 cm] Green cloth with the title in black on the front board and backstrip. Chief in headdress on the front board in black and yellow. Moderate wear to the boards with minor bumping and rubbing at the corners. Rear endsheet cracked along the hinge. Gentle wear throughout. Suppressed first edition of the beloved story of the life of 'Uncle Nick' and his time in Northern Utah, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. A captivating story of a rugged pioneer and the settlement of the Interior West, this version recounts the story of Wilson's beloved girl, being married off as a polygamous wife of a local LDS leader, while Wilson was sent off on a ruse. According to Flake/Draper: When original edition was in sheets objections were made to the passage from p. 194-222. "When the book was in sheets, ready for binding, objection was made to the passage beginning on page 194. Under pressure I rewrote that part and added 25 pages to the original but had 20 copies bound [actual number may vary but is close to 20] as originally written. These I kept for the members of my family." - Elijah Nicholas Wilson (Journal of Mormon History 33:3 p. 221) "In about two weeks I received a letter from my mother in which she said that I was about to lose my girl, for she was going in second wife to an old man that stood high in the church. I lost no time in writing the young lady, and the next mail brought my letter back to me. I wrote again and sent them both to her, but they came back. I wrote again, and then the letter came back. I then wrote to the mother and enclosed a letter to the girl, and asked mother to give it to the girl herself. Mother gave it to her, but in a few days it came back. Then Mother told me not to write to the girl anymore, for this man was working very hard to injure me in her sight, and it would do no good for me to write to her anymore." -p. 197. Howes W520. Flake/Draper 9909.
In Memoriam" Book Safe

In Memoriam" Book Safe

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In Memoriam" Book Safe
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
Topeka, KS: Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, 1950. Hardcover. Good +. Octavo [24cm]. Brown leatherette decoratively blind and gilt stamped, with embossed "In Memoriam" on spine and front board. Gilt "textblock" edges. Interior lined with metallic gold paper. Fabric split along front gutter, but binding is strong. A unique item gifted to the deceased's next of kin by Wall-Diffenderfer Mortuary, a defunct midwestern funeral home. Originally intended as a receptacle for cards, letters and other valued rememberances.
[Sheet music]: Ching A Ring Chaw

[Sheet music]: Ching A Ring Chaw

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[Sheet music]: Ching A Ring Chaw
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Baltimore: Geo. Willig, Jr., 1833. Softcover. Very Good. Unknown edition. Folio. Single bifolium making four pages. Notched and worn along the fold from once being bound within an album, foxing throughout, some light internal offsetting, and some edgewear including a small tear towards the bottom of the fold on the front cover, still a very good and complete copy. For voice and piano, written in dialect with a total of 11 verses. Also published under the title, "Sambo's Address to his Bred'ren," published by Thomas Birch (1833). This is not the cleaned-up Aaron Copland version from his 1952 song set *Old American Songs*, this is the original minstrel song, estimated by the Library of Congress to have been published around 1833. The lyrics, written in full phonetic dialect, revolve around the yearning for a better life. Though the overall sentiment of the lyrics might have rang true to many African-Americans, the dialect, combined with the word choice and the overall framing of the piece, resulted in a song that is offensive and demeaning. Copland, in rewriting the piece, chose to keep the sentiment, the yearning for a better life, but set out to purge the lyrics of their minstrel origins, saying of his version, “I did not want to take any chance of it being construed as racist.” Just as notable as the lyrical content, are the six illustrations displayed on the front cover showing African-Americans as laborers busy at their tasks but also attending a dance and strolling about town while dressed to the nines. *OCLC* locates five holdings. An uncommon and striking piece of American music history.
Stone Desert

Stone Desert by ZUVIRIA, Gustavo Martínez writing as Hugo Wast

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Title
Stone Desert
Author
ZUVIRIA, Gustavo Martínez writing as Hugo Wast
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc. / Modern Reprint Library, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint. Jacket by Malaga Grenet. Translated by Louis Imbert and Jacques le Clercq. Octavo. 302pp. Bookplate on front pastedown else just about fine in somewhat worn, very good dust jacket with slight loss at the folds and a couple of short tears.
Meister Jordan, oder Handwerk hat goldenen Boden. Ein Feierabend-Bu?chlein fu?r Lehrlinge, versta?ndige Gesellen und Meister [Master Jordan, or Craftsmanship is worth its weight in gold. An after-work booklet for apprentices, intelligent journeymen and masters]

Meister Jordan, oder Handwerk hat goldenen Boden. Ein Feierabend-Bu?chlein fu?r Lehrlinge, versta?ndige Gesellen und Meister [Master Jordan, or Craftsmanship is worth its weight in gold. An after-work booklet for apprentices, intelligent journeymen and masters] by ZSCHOKKE, Heinrich

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Title
Meister Jordan, oder Handwerk hat goldenen Boden. Ein Feierabend-Bu?chlein fu?r Lehrlinge, versta?ndige Gesellen und Meister [Master Jordan, or Craftsmanship is worth its weight in gold. An after-work booklet for apprentices, intelligent journeymen and masters]
Author
ZSCHOKKE, Heinrich
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Aarau, [Switzerland]: Heinrich Remigius Sauerlander, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 184pp. Text in German. Publisher's cloth with spine gilt, page edges sprinkled. Two small owner stamps ("C.M.") on front fly and title page. Binding a bit cocked with light soil on the lower board, rubbing at the spine ends, and front cover with slight loss and a crease at one corner, sound and near very good.
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Young America's Aviation Annual

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Title
Young America's Aviation Annual
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: McBride, 1941. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus. Name on inside cover, browning.
Signed Diary of a Madman Tour Program, 1982

Signed Diary of a Madman Tour Program, 1982 by [Osbourne, Ozzy]

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Signed Diary of a Madman Tour Program, 1982
Author
[Osbourne, Ozzy]
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
[1982] First edition. Signed by Osbourne in blue ballpoint pen on p. [2], on a full page color photo of Osbourne. With a JSA Letter of Authenticity. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, with concert photos to front and rear wrappers, lettered in white. Near fine, with some edgewear to wrappers. Overall, a great example of this visually striking program. This Diary of a Madman tour program features full-page color concert photos and brief biographies of the members of Ozzy's band, including Ozzy, Randy Rhoads, Rudy Sarzo, Tommy Aldridge, and Don Airey. The last page includes an in-depth breakdown of the equipment used by the band members on the tour. The tour was marked by tragedy, with Randy Rhoads dying during the North American leg in a plane crash on March 19, 1982. Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) was a legendary British vocalist, who fronted the pioneering heavy metal group Black Sabbath in the 1970s and continued to have a successful solo career through the 1980s. Known for his outrageous antics on- and off-stage, he and his family were the focus of the popular early 2000s MTV reality show, The Osbournes.. Signed. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Near Fine.
The Family Reunion; A Play

The Family Reunion; A Play by Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)

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Title
The Family Reunion; A Play
Author
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939 First American edition, first printing; first state dust jacket with $1.50 price to front flap. One of 2,500 copies. Publisher's black cloth, gilt stamping to spine; original yellow dust jacket printed in brown, with white lettering. About fine book, with light offsetting to endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, and The Holliday Bookshop ticket to rear pastedown; very good unclipped dust jacket, with shallow chipping to spine ends, light toning to extremities, and a small closed tear to top edge of front panel. Overall, a clean copy of this Eliot drama. Gallup A33b. The Family Reunion was first published in March of 1939 by Faber & Faber in London, with the first American edition published later in the same month. It is a verse drama that combines elements of Greek tragedy with modern psychology. The plot follows Harry Monchensey as he returns home to his family estate, haunted by guilt over his wife's death. The Eumenides, Greek goddesses of vengeance who most famously appear in Aeschylus's Oresteia, manifest as a symbol of Harry's inner torment, both psychological and mythical, which he attempts to reconcile.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included.
19th CENTURY JAPANESE SILK FABRIC TAPESTRY TWO DRAGONS

19th CENTURY JAPANESE SILK FABRIC TAPESTRY TWO DRAGONS

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19th CENTURY JAPANESE SILK FABRIC TAPESTRY TWO DRAGONS
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
c.1890. 19th century Japan (likely Meiji period) silk fabric tapestry measures ~110" x 21" and features two dragons. Wear throughout tapestry with some loss of fabric; some lose gold threads and stitching (primarily the faces of the dragons); stitching along the seams (all sides) has frayed/broken in some places; one area on back appears to be a patch (upper left corner). CB Consignment. Shelved Rockville Room D. 1358748. Arts & Antiques.
California and the West

California and the West by Charis and Edward Weston

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California and the West
Author
Charis and Edward Weston
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1940. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good +. SIGNED BY EDWARD WESTON on the front free endpaper. A sharp copy to boot of the 1940 stated 2nd printing. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the panel edges and just a touch of light wear at the spine ends. (The dustjacket is a stated 3rd printing jacket). Quarto, 96 of Weston's crisp, lovely black-and-white reproductions thruout.
A Day in the Bleachers

A Day in the Bleachers by [Arion Press] Hano, Arnold; Mark Ulricksen, illustrations

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A Day in the Bleachers
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[Arion Press] Hano, Arnold; Mark Ulricksen, illustrations
Seller
The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2006. Fine. Number 284 of 400 numbered copies with additional lettered copies for private distribution. Signed by the author and the illustrator. This is a delightful book by Arnold Hano, who attended the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the Cleveland Indians. The book was published with great delight by the proprietor of the Arion Press, who was a devoted season ticket-holder at the San Francisco Giants stadium. It was originally published in 1955 by Thomas Y. Crowell. It was soon recognized as a classic of the genre and has been in print continuously since then. Arnold Hano (1922 - 2021) was an American editor, novelist, biographer and journalist, best known for his non-fiction work A Day in the Bleachers, a critically acclaimed eyewitness account of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, that centered on its pivotal play, Willie Mays' famous catch and throw. The Catch was a baseball play made by New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. In the eighth inning, with the score tied 2-2, Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a deep fly ball to center field that had the runners on base poised to score. However, Mays made an over-the-shoulder catch while on the run to record the out, and his throw back to the infield prevented one of the runners from advancing. The Giants won the game 5-2 in extra innings, and eventually the World Series. The Catch is regarded as one of the greatest plays in baseball history. The illustrator, Mark Ulriksen, is a highly regarded artist, perhaps best known for the witty covers he created for the New Yorker magazine. The book includes 14 illustrations in egg tempura, with one in color and the others in shades of white, gray, and black. They are printed as single page to triple spread foldouts. Bound in blue cloth with black titling to spine and a black and white inset reproduction of the book's illustration titled "seventh-inning stretch" on the front cover. Printed on Zerkall Book Laid paper using Cushing Old Style and Stationers Gothic Bold types. The endpapers show the game's box score for September 29, 1954. A handsome copy in fine condition. Accompanied by the prospectus. Measures 7.5 x 11 inches. 172 pages plus 14 sewn in leaves for the illustrations. PRI/110724.
Handmade Paper Figures with Horse and Moving Cart

Handmade Paper Figures with Horse and Moving Cart

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Handmade Paper Figures with Horse and Moving Cart
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Eclectibles (United States)
Condition
Very good. Toned, light spotting.
Description
United States, 1890. Very good. Toned, light spotting.. A charming paper play set made by a child from cut paper with pencil artwork, including a husband and wife, horse, and a working movable cart. The cart has been cleverly designed (perhaps with the aid of an adult) from two paper wheels and a folded paper box suspended with thin straw to help the wheels turn. The figures measure approx. 5" in height, and together the horse and carriage measure approx. 9.5" in length. Most likely Pennsylvania or Ohio folk art.
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Let Us Be Your Tailor. American Woolen Mills Co. Chicago. Style Book. Standard Fashions Fall & Winter 1903-1904

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Let Us Be Your Tailor. American Woolen Mills Co. Chicago. Style Book. Standard Fashions Fall & Winter 1903-1904
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Chicago: American Woolen Mills Co, 1903. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 30 by 22 cm. Unpaginated, 20 pp. Eight of the pages can be described as color plates, with their illustrations of men in the company's suits, overcoats, vests. Seven pages feature large photos. Five of these gray/red and white photos are of the company's plant -- the stock department, the designing (cutting) department, the coat shop, etc. These photos hark back to when much of the work in a garment factory was done by hand, with significant input from machines. Captured is the press of workers in these large, cavernous rooms. With the color plates, the fashions are shown with three or four men per page, and these men, all drawn, epitomize the ideal handsome man of the day. Scarce -- no copies found on OCLC First Search or elsewhere. A 1920/1 catalogue of the company is held by U. of Rhode Island. Condition: light foxing on title page. Closed tear along fold of first leaf. Light to moderate wear besides.
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty by White, Edmund

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Title
The Beautiful Room Is Empty
Author
White, Edmund
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White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo.
THE WHITE KITTEN BOOK

THE WHITE KITTEN BOOK by Aldin, Cecil

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THE WHITE KITTEN BOOK
Author
Aldin, Cecil
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Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909. Near fine.. Beautiful first US edition, a departure from Aldin's usual canine subjects. The narration and illustrations of this story are both credited to a little white kitten named Snow, who gets up to a variety of adorable hijinks. 9'' x 8.5''. Cloth backed color pictoral boards. Twelve color full-page illustrations on thick brown paper with black and white frontis and line illustrations throughout. [56] pages. Ink gift inscription dated Christmas 1911 on front flyleaf, Philadelphia toy shop ticket on rear pastedown. Edges very lightly rubbed, with tiny infills, else an exceptional copy.
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The American spelling book. Containing the rudiments of the English language for the use of schools in the United States by WEBSTER, Noah

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
The American spelling book. Containing the rudiments of the English language for the use of schools in the United States
Author
WEBSTER, Noah
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Concord, NH: J. Perkins, 1817. Woodcut headpieces. Original cloth-backed blue boards; boards rubbed and soiled, title-page faded, light age toning. Revised edition.
[MENU] JOYCE CHEN

[MENU] JOYCE CHEN by Chen, Joyce

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Title
[MENU] JOYCE CHEN
Author
Chen, Joyce
Seller
lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
Cream illustrated wraps. Very good
Description
Cambridge, Mass., c. 1971. Staplebound. Cream illustrated wraps. Very good. 8 pages. 28 x 21 cm. This menu likely dates from the final period of Joyce Chens original restaurant at 617 Concord Avenue in Cambridge, before she moved to a larger space. At the back of the menu, Chen notes that the existing dining room had become too small and that guests were sometimes uncomfortable, and she explains that a new building was expected to be completed within a year to better fulfill her vision for the restaurant. The buffet dinner was offered on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and on Sundays from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., at a cost of $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for children under 10, and $1.00 for children under 5. The offerings were extensive, with sections for appetizers, soups, poultry, beef, pork, seafood, eggs, vegetables, fried rice, Chinese-style soft noodles, chow mein, chop suey, complete American dinners, desserts, and beverages, reflecting the breadth of Chens early menus at 617 Concord Avenue. Covers lightly soiled, interior lightly creased.
[QUACKERY] [TRADE CARD] PERRY DAVIS' VEGETABLE PAIN KILLER

[QUACKERY] [TRADE CARD] PERRY DAVIS' VEGETABLE PAIN KILLER

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[QUACKERY] [TRADE CARD] PERRY DAVIS' VEGETABLE PAIN KILLER
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lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
White printed cards. Near fine
Description
London: Perry Davis & Son, c. 1890. Cards. White printed cards. Near fine. 11.5 x 7.5 cm. British - European Branch Trade Card. Legend has it, Perry Davis concocted his "all vegetable" patent medicine in 1839 after becoming ill himself - a combination of mostly alcohol. Card lists agency addresses: General Agency: 74 High Street, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Western Branch: 7 College Buildings, Walnut St., Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., Canada Branch: 378 St. Paul Street, Montreal, D.E., European Branch, 17 Southampton Row - Holbein, London. W.C. Written on verso in ink: 1 Prim Pump, 1 flue measure 1. 2. 4. gl
The Road

The Road by John "Jack" Griffith London (1876-1916)

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Title
The Road
Author
John "Jack" Griffith London (1876-1916)
Seller
The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition
Good to very good
Description
xii+224+[4 ad] pages with 48 plates including frontispiece. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with pictorial cover in black and gilt design with gilt lettering to spine and cover. Head end pages in gilt. 5,360 copies published. This is part of London's autobiography (BAL 11906) (Sissions & Martens 37). First edition.The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police. He also tells of the thirty days that he spent in the Erie County Penitentiary, which he described as a place of "unprintable horrors," after being "pinched" (arrested) for vagrancy. In addition, he recounts his time with Kelly's Army, which he joined up with in Wyoming and remained with until its dissolution at the Mississippi RiverCondition:Inner hinges cracked, spine ends and corners rubbed, corners bumped, stain on back board, some internal soiling. Over all good to very good lacking dust wrapper.
Mules and Men

Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston; Franz Boas [intro.]; Miguel Covarrubias [illus.]

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Title
Mules and Men
Author
Zora Neale Hurston; Franz Boas [intro.]; Miguel Covarrubias [illus.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. Very Good. New York: Negro Universities Press, [1969]. Facsimile Reprint. Octavo (22cm); publisher's teal cloth, black spine titling; 342pp.; illus. and sheet music throughout. Light shelf wear, brief foxing to top textblock edge, else Very Good and sound. Scarce facsimile reprint of the first (1935) edition.
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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste by Alison, A

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Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste
Author
Alison, A
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good; crisp copy; small chip to the head of the spine.
Description
Boston: Cummings & Hilliard, 1812. First American Edition.. Full contemporary calf.. Very good; crisp copy; small chip to the head of the spine.. 8vo. One of the minor classics of the philosophy of aesthetics published at the end of the 18th century. It was constantly in print throughout the early 19th century. In addition to philosophy the author also devotes himself to questions of color, form, and composition. S & S #24584; see DNB I, 286-7.
TUESDAYS AT TEN: A GARNERING FROM THE TALES OF THIRTY YEARS ON POETS, DRAMATISTS AND ESSAYISTS

TUESDAYS AT TEN: A GARNERING FROM THE TALES OF THIRTY YEARS ON POETS, DRAMATISTS AND ESSAYISTS by WEYGANDT, Cornelius

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Title
TUESDAYS AT TEN: A GARNERING FROM THE TALES OF THIRTY YEARS ON POETS, DRAMATISTS AND ESSAYISTS
Author
WEYGANDT, Cornelius
Seller
Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 1928. First edition. Signed by Weygandt on the half-title page. Tall 8vo., cloth & patterned boards in dust jacket; 325 pages. Very Good (cover nice & bright with little rubbing edges & touch of fading top edge; contents clean & tight); very nice (extremely minor wear with touch of sunning) d/j.
[Six event handbills by the Chicago branch of Solidarity]

[Six event handbills by the Chicago branch of Solidarity]

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Title
[Six event handbills by the Chicago branch of Solidarity]
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Chicago: Solidarity, Chicago branch, 1990. Handbill. Six 8.5x11 inch handbills; mild handling, otherwise in very good condition. Events span from topics covering feminism to racism in Europe.
Japan: A Pictorial Interpretation / Le Japon: Une Interpretation par l'Image

Japan: A Pictorial Interpretation / Le Japon: Une Interpretation par l'Image

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Title
Japan: A Pictorial Interpretation / Le Japon: Une Interpretation par l'Image
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, 1936. Hardcover. 272p., cloth-covered boards, chiefly illus., boards edgeworn, gift inscription on free front endpaper, else very good later printing. Text in English and French.
Factsheet Five: The Definitive Guide to the Zine Revolution; #51

Factsheet Five: The Definitive Guide to the Zine Revolution; #51 by [Roberts], Larry-bob, Luigi-Bob Drake, Jerod Pore and Miriam Wolf, contributing editors

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Title
Factsheet Five: The Definitive Guide to the Zine Revolution; #51
Author
[Roberts], Larry-bob, Luigi-Bob Drake, Jerod Pore and Miriam Wolf, contributing editors
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
San Francisco: R. Seth Friedman, 1994. Magazine. 127p., stapled glossy wraps with newsprint pages, 8.5x11 inches, light handling wear, old price sticker on front wrap, else very good condition. Cover title is "Factsheet 5." Directory of zines with brief reviews. Categories of zines covered include "personal," "queer", "grrrlz", "punk", "politics", and "arts & letters." Contributing editor Larry-bob Roberts is the publisher of long-running queer zine Holy Titclamps.
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La Civilisation de la Sardaigne du Debut de l'Eneolithique a la Fin de la Periode Nouragique: IIe Millenaire - Ve Siecle Avant Notre Ere by Zervos, Christian

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Title
La Civilisation de la Sardaigne du Debut de l'Eneolithique a la Fin de la Periode Nouragique: IIe Millenaire - Ve Siecle Avant Notre Ere
Author
Zervos, Christian
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
Good- (boards highly scuffed & rubbed; foxing & tanning to edges. spine tanned. approx 10inch tear/split to spine edge w/ tear p
Description
Paris, France: Cahiers d'Art, 1954. Hardcover. Good- (boards highly scuffed & rubbed; foxing & tanning to edges. spine tanned. approx 10inch tear/split to spine edge w/ tear pronounced at lower edge; binding visible; board rattled. densing foxing to textblock edges w/ remnants to pg edges; endpapers foxed). Off-white cloth over boards with blue lettering. 380 pp. 461 bw plates. Text in French. A study of prehistoric Sardinia, including weaponry, sculpture, architecture, and more. Approximately 10lbs for shipping.
Lyonel Feininger

Lyonel Feininger

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Title
Lyonel Feininger
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG. light scuffs to cover; light tanning to back cover spine edge; upper cover corner creased. title pg foxed, upper corner tann
Description
New York: Curt Valentin Gallery, 1952. Softcover. VG. light scuffs to cover; light tanning to back cover spine edge; upper cover corner creased. title pg foxed, upper corner tanned from cover crease. light foxing throughout; center pgs at staples have hight concentration of foxing.. White/pale pinkish stapled wraps, brown lettering. [14] pp. 16 BW plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held March 18 to April 12, 1952. This exhibition was arranged in celebration of the artist's eightieth birthday, which took place on July 17, 1951. Catalogue lists 26 oils and 22 watercolors and drawings.
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Persian Ceramics and Related Material by Zetterquist, Eric

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Title
Persian Ceramics and Related Material
Author
Zetterquist, Eric
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG but for "ceramics" written in ink on ffep in one copy. Other copy has only light shelf wear.
Description
New York: Eric Zetterquist, 1993. Softcover. VG but for "ceramics" written in ink on ffep in one copy. Other copy has only light shelf wear.. Brown matte wraps with copper lettering; unpaginated with 40 pp. and 17 color plates. Catalogue from the exhibition shown Nov.-Dec. 1993. Published in conjunction with Hadjibaba Ancient Art, London. With a one-page introduction and each work briefly annotated.
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Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. by ADAMS, Henry.

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Title
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.
Author
ADAMS, Henry.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Franklin Center:: Franklin Library,. Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" laid in. Octavo, fully bound in burgundy leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Fine. .
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Souvenir Condensed History of New Orleans for the Tourist, as Presented by Official Gray Lines-Yellow Lines Guides of Toye Bros. Yellow Cab Co. by Anonymous

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Souvenir Condensed History of New Orleans for the Tourist, as Presented by Official Gray Lines-Yellow Lines Guides of Toye Bros. Yellow Cab Co.
Author
Anonymous
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New Orleans: s. n.. Very good. Early edition, n. d. (first half of the 20th century); 6 x 4 1/2; pp. [1], 2-16; stapled pictorial wraps in orange, blue, and white; very light wear and creasing to tips of spine and corners; in very good to near fine condition. A lovely, albeit short, guide to the history and landmarks of what the authors call the "Paris of America."

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