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Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions

Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions by Becher, Bernhard; Hilla Becher

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Title
Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions
Author
Becher, Bernhard; Hilla Becher
Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine Fine
Description
New York: Wittenborn and Co, 1970. First American Edition. Near Fine Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing, American issue, published simultaneously in Germany and America. Signed by Hilla Becher on the title page. Near Fine with light splaying to the boards and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning, rubbing and several short closed tears to edges. The first monograph of the Bechers and often considered their magnum opus. Minimal and clean in design, the viewer is quietly immersed into the couple's distinctively stark style. "In this book we show objects predominantly instrumental in character, whose shapes are the result of calculation and whose processes of development are optically evident. They are generally buildings where anonymity is accepted to be the style. Their peculiarities originate not in spite of, but because of the lack of design." Roth 101, p. 194.
Z Asie do Evropy (From Asia Back to Europe)

Z Asie do Evropy (From Asia Back to Europe) by Zemek, Oldrich; Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova [Illustrations]

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Z Asie do Evropy (From Asia Back to Europe)
Author
Zemek, Oldrich; Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova [Illustrations]
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Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Brno: Vydalo Druzstvo Moravsky Legionar, 1926. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing of an autobiographical travel account of a 1919 journey from Vladivostok to Prague. [vi], 155, [5] pp. with several black and white photographic illustrations and a folding map of Eurasia at rear. Loose sheets laid into printed wraps, as issued. Wraps are illustrated by Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, widely recognized as the first female graphic novelist. Very Good with slight lean to binding, slight fading and creasing to spine with light rubbing, soiling and wear to wraps. An uncommon work between two artistic luminaries, both members of the Moravian Writers' Circle. Their association would continue as Zemek would sit for a series of graphite portraits by Helena in the '30s. WorldCat indicates a mere four institutional holdings.
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Sefer Metsah Aaron. Al Megilot Esther, Targum Rishon ve-Targum Sheni ("Aaron's Brow." On the Book of Esther, with the First and Second Targumim) by Aaron ben Mordecai HaLevi of Rödelheim (trans.)

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Title
Sefer Metsah Aaron. Al Megilot Esther, Targum Rishon ve-Targum Sheni ("Aaron's Brow." On the Book of Esther, with the First and Second Targumim)
Author
Aaron ben Mordecai HaLevi of Rödelheim (trans.)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g+ to vg
Description
Fiyorda [Furth]: Hayim Ben Tzevi Hirsh, 1768. Second edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Square octavo. 54 leaves. Rebound in modern brown cloth over marbled paper boards, decorated with gilt. Decorative woodcut border on the title page. The scarce second edition of Rabbi Aaron ben Mordecai of Rödelheim's (born ca.1695) Yiddish translation of the two known Targumim of the biblical book of Esther. The first of the Aramaic Targumim (Aramaic Translations or paraphrases of the books of the bible) is more common and well known, while the second targum is noted for its embellishments on the Biblical account, with considerable additional apocryphal material, not always evidently related to the Esther story. The Yiddish text here is printed throughout in the traditional Vaybertaytsh script. This is the Rabbi Aharon's most notable work, and the first addition was originally published in 1718 in Frankfurt. Binding with light rubbing to extremities. Back board lightly bumped along the side edge. Interior with some chipping/fraying to the edges of the first two leaves resulting in some minimal loss of text. Pages throughout with some sporadic soling or dampstaining. Some chipping and fraying to the final leaf as well. Binding in very good, interior in good+ condition overall. Quite scarce. Hebrew title: ספר מצח אהרן, על מגילות אסתר, תרגום ראשון ותרגום שני Author: אהרון בן מרדכי של רודליים Publication: אהרון בן מרדכי מטריביטש Alternate transliterations: Sefer Mezach Aharon Bibliographic references: Vinograd, Furth, 387 *Bought at the Parke-Bernet Galleries auction from the Michael Zagayski collection, May 12th 1970. Catalog of sale no. 3046, #68, page 36. Original typed slip with auction information laid in at the front cover of the book.
L'Union Indochinoise Francaise ou Indochine Orientale; Régions Naturelles et Geographie Economique

L'Union Indochinoise Francaise ou Indochine Orientale; Régions Naturelles et Geographie Economique by Agard, A.

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Title
L'Union Indochinoise Francaise ou Indochine Orientale; Régions Naturelles et Geographie Economique
Author
Agard, A.
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
vg
Description
Hanoi: Imprimerie d'Extreme-Orient, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Lg. 4to. 370,[2],pp. Brown cloth spine over map illustrated paper-covered front cover, illustration in duo-tone on back board, black lettering on spine. Binding protected by modern mylar jacket. Signature of previous owner on inside of front board. Fascinating study and analysis of French Indochina by Prof. A. Agard, includes many statistics. Illustrated with 14 full-page color maps (some in rich vibrant colors), b/w photographic reproductions of photographs, as well as full-page and in-text maps in b/w. Age wear on binding, some abrasions on back cover. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped and rubbed. Age toning to outer edges of text pages. 11" x 15 3/4" "Tableau d'Assemblage," laid in. Table has been folded, printed in red, purple on front, charts in b/w on verso. Text in French. Tight copy with binding in good, interior in overall very good condition. Généralités physiques - Tableau des Régions Géographiques naturelles ou Pays de I'Indochine Francaise: Généralités physiques; Structure et notions sur I'histoire géologique; Principes de division. Tableau des Régions Naturelles ou Pays de I'Indochine Francaise; A) Les pays de I'Indochine Orientale regardant la Mer de Chine. B) Les pays internes du Haut et du Moyen-Mékong indochinois. C) Les pays du Mékong inférieur tournés vers les Mers du Sud. I: Le Cambodge, II: La Cochinchine. L'armature du plan francais.
Parliamentary Debates, 4th Series (1892-1908), lacking 16-77, 100

Parliamentary Debates, 4th Series (1892-1908), lacking 16-77, 100 by Great Britain; Parliament

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Parliamentary Debates, 4th Series (1892-1908), lacking 16-77, 100
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Great Britain; Parliament
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
Description
1891. Debates in Parliament, 1892-1908 [Great Britain]. [Parliament]. The Parliamentary Debates [Fourth Series]. London: Reuter's Telegram Co. [and Others], 1892-1908. 136 of 199 volumes, lacking Volumes 16-77 (1893-1899) and 100 (1901). Contemporary cloth, blind frames to boards, gilt titles to spine. Several volumes bound in three-quarter calf over paper-covered boards, some with cloth-reinforced spines, a few bound in recent buckram. Moderate to heavy shelfwear with chipping to spine ends, most hinges cracked, several boards loose or detached, interiors clean. Ex-law school library. Location labels to spines, bookplates and other markings to pastedowns and endleaves. $1,995. * Fourth Series. Authorized by Parliament, this series was the successor to Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, which succeeded the series commenced by William Cobbett in 1804.
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Memphis Riots and Massacres by BLACK HISTORY WASHBURNE E. B. WASHBURNE Elihu B.

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Memphis Riots and Massacres
Author
BLACK HISTORY WASHBURNE E. B. WASHBURNE Elihu B.
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1866. First Edition. (BLACK HISTORY) WASHBURNE, E[lihu]. B. Memphis Riots and Massacres. 30th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Report No. 101. (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1866). Octavo, contemporary pebbled brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down; pp. (1), 2-394. $1600.First edition of the July 1866 congressional Report of the House Select Committee containing hundreds of pages of official testimony and eyewitness accounts of the brutal May 1866 Memphis Massacre that killed over 45 Black men, women and children, and destroyed hundreds of Black homes and churches, sending ""the unmistakable message that the North may have won the war, but it did not win the hearts and minds of the white ruling class that clung to white supremacy.""The 1866 Memphis massacre was ignited by a quarrel between a white man and a Black man. ""A group of recently discharged Black veterans intervened, and a white crowd began to gather"" (Foner, Black Reconstruction, 262). Eyewitnesses reported that as the dispute escalated, a white Memphis policeman told some of the Black men, ""'Your old father, Abe Lincoln, is dead and damned.' This phrase, reported more than once by those who later testified to the House Select Committee, sums up the attitude of many of those who perpetrated the Massacre."" One man, who was shot but survived, testified that he saw white men drag a Black man out of a house and shoot him ""'right in his mouth.' Another man then 'kicked him over, and shot him again.' Said he, 'God damn you, you will never be free again.' The violence of the first three days of May 1866… sent the unmistakable message that the North may have won the war, but it did not win the hearts and minds of the white ruling class that clung to white supremacy and Black inferiority. White southerners refused to abandon their 'property interest' in Black lives… If 'war is politics continued by other means,'"" then the violence in Memphis ""could be understood as the Civil War continued by other means"" (Donald, When the Rule of Law Breaks Down, 1631-39). Before the violence subsided in Memphis, ""one of the bloodiest outbreaks in this violent era,… at least 48 persons (all but two of them Black) lay dead, five Black women had been raped, and hundreds of Black dwellings, churches and schools were pillaged or destroyed"" (Foner, 262).An investigator reported: ""'women and children were shot in bed.' An African American woman… 'was shot and then thrown into the flames of a burning house and consumed'… in some instances houses were [set ablaze] and armed men guarded them to prevent the escape of those inside… In the aftermath, no arrests or attempts at prosecution were made. Federal civil-rights enforcement was lacking and… Memphis Mayor Park washed his hands of the matter"" (Schermerhorn, ""Civil-Rights Laws,"" Atlantic). That July the House of Representatives Select Committee issued this Report. Herein, refusing to call the three days in Memphis a ""riot,"" it declares the violence a ""massacre… the mob, finding itself under the protection and guidance of official authority… [was] actuated by feelings of the most deadly hatred to the colored race."" Nevertheless, there were still ""no arrests, no trials and no convictions."" To historian Calvin Schermerhorn, the violence of those days in 1866 continues to have ""a powerful legacy… the Lorraine Motel, where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, sits only a few blocks from the site of the Memphis Massacre of 1866"" (Atlantic). First edition: House of Representatives Report No. 101: ""July 25, 1866—Ordered to be printed."" First text leaf with small marginal notation, ""x 16521."" 1874 library bookplate.Interior very fresh with minor expert repairs to rear blanks, both pastedowns and front inner hinge. An excellent copy of a very scarce book.
Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]

Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...] by BERTOLA DE’ GIORGI, Aurelio (1753-1798)

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Title
Elogio storico per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa Principessa del S.R. Imp. e della Rocella [...]
Author
BERTOLA DE’ GIORGI, Aurelio (1753-1798)
Seller
Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Good
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A VERY RARE BODONI OFFPRINT Large 4to (286x207 mm). [4], 35, [1 blank] pp. Frontispiece with a portrait of Livia Doria Carafa engraved by Raffaello Morghen after a design by Fedele Fischetti. Fine engraved initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary mottled half calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt foliate tools, gilt title on a red morocco lettering piece, panels covered with marbled paper, red edges (some losses to the headcaps, slightly worn and rubbed). Some occasional very light foxing. A very good copy printed on strong paper. A separate edition of the Elogio storico written by Bertola de' Giorgi as an introduction to the collection Prose e versi per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa. This work was printed in 1784 by Giambattista Bodoni at the behest of the Neapolitan prince Vincenzo Carafa della Roccella (1739-1814), in honour of his late wife, Livia Carafa Doria del Carretto (1745-1779). For the offprint publication of the Elogio, Bodoni inserted a preliminary two-leaf quire, including a new title page and a short address to the readers by Bertola de' Giorgi. As in the collection Prose e versi of 1784, the frontispiece features a portrait of Livia Carafa designed by Fedele Fischetti (1732-1792) and engraved by Raffaello Morghen (1758-1833). The separate edition bears no printing date, but it may have been issued in 1785, coinciding with Bertola de' Giorgi's stay in Parma. To date, we have identified only one copy of the Elogio on the market. This copy once belonged to Hugh Cecil Brooks -author of the well-known Compendiosa bibliografia di edizioni bodoniane (1927)- and was sold at the auction of his collection of Bodoni books. Bertola de' Giorgi was born in Rimini into a noble family. At 16 he entered the Siena monastery of Monte Oliveto, but a few years later we find him fighting in Hungary against the Turks. His early life was quite an adventurous one until the age of 24, when in 1776 he began teaching. He taught first in Naples and later universal history in Pavia, whose university at the time was one of the most celebrated in Italy: Volta, Spallanzani, and Scarpa, among many others, hold a chair there (E. Bigi, Bertola de' Giorgi, Aurelio, in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", vol. 9, 1967, s.v.). De Lama, II, pp. 30-31; Brooks, 252; A. Piromalli, Aurelio Bertola nella letteratura del Settecento. Con testi e documenti inediti, Florence, 1998; M. Pisani, Una famiglia di pittori: i Fischetti, in: "Napoli nobilissima", 27, 3-4, 1988, pp. 112- 121; Id., I ritratti di Livia Doria Carafa principessa di Roccella di Fedele Fischetti e di Giuseppe Sanmartino: un contributo alla ritrattistica napoletana, in: "Antologia di belle arti. Il Neoclassicismo", n.s., 35-38 (1990), pp. 30-41; F. Fedi, Aurelio Bertola de Giorgi: un poeta massone e la letteratura come riposo, in: "Rassegna europea di letteratura italiana", 2, 1993, pp. 25-39; G. Giarrizzo, Massoneria e Illuminismo nell'Europa del Settecento, Venice, 1994, pp. 49-97; P. M. Cátedra, Tace il testo, parla il tipografo. Memoria e autorappresentazione nei libri commemorativi bodoniani, in: "Teca", 4, 2013, pp. 9-51; R. Cioffi - M. L. Chirico, Agli Amici della Virtù. Arte, epigrafia e massoneria nell'Italia di fine Settecento, in "Colligere fragmenta. Studi in onore di Marcello Rotili per il suo 70° genetliaco", G. Archetti et al., eds., Spoleto, 2019, pp. 909-942; G. Greco, Di marmo o d'inchiostro? Vicende ed equivoci sulla ricezione del ritratto di Livia Doria Carafa di Giuseppe Sanmartino e del suo 'doppio a stampa' nelle fonti grafiche del Settecento, in: "L'Illustrazione", 4, 2020, pp. 85-95; G. Pecci, Le opere a stampa di Aurelio Bertola, in: "Studi su Aurelio Bertola nel secondo centenario della nascita (1953)", Bologna, 1954, pp. 285-319.
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Old Inns by Aldin, Cecil

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Old Inns
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Aldin, Cecil
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
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Very Good+
Description
London: William Heinemann, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 4to. Quarter vellum and decorated boards. Limited edition copy #357 of 380 copies signed by the author and illustrator, and with an original drawing in black pencil and colored pencil added to the limitation page. The limitation page also bears the name of Sidney Pawling (Heinemann publisher) Xmas, 1921. From the library of Nelson Doubleday with his bookplate fixed to front pastedown. Doubleday purchased a controlling stake in the London publishing house, Heinemann, in 1921.
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Cartes-de-Visite. Albumens. Gelatin Silver Prints.

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Cartes-de-Visite. Albumens. Gelatin Silver Prints.
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Very Good. Collection of 15 Cartes-de-Visite, albumens and gelatin silver prints. Images are about 4-by-5.5-inches, on printed mounts (4.25-by-6.5-inches). Five of the images are rubbed and a little soiled, but the rest remain crisp and clean.
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De Re Metallica. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover by Agricola, Georgius ; Hoover, Herbert

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De Re Metallica. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 with biographical introduction, annotations and appendices upon the development of mining methods, metallurgical processes, geology, mineralogy & mining law from the earliest times to the 16th century by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover
Author
Agricola, Georgius ; Hoover, Herbert
Seller
Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Published for the translators by The Mining Magazine, 1912, 1912. Folio, original vellum, slight spotting, a very good copy, with a presentation inscription from Hoover to Judge Frederickick Wells. First edition of Hoover's translation, reproducing all the original woodcut illustrations.
Le Torchon Brûle. Menstruel. Nos. 1 (1971) through 6 (1973) (all published)

Le Torchon Brûle. Menstruel. Nos. 1 (1971) through 6 (1973) (all published)

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Le Torchon Brûle. Menstruel. Nos. 1 (1971) through 6 (1973) (all published)
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Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare (United States)
Description
Six issues, 16-24 pp. each, comprising a complete run of the illustrated French-language serial, as issued by the publishers in 1982. Folio. 27 x 39 cm. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps reproducing the graphic art from issue 1. Small marginal tear to front wrapper. [1857] A French feminist newspaper published by the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes ("Movement for the Liberation of Women," known colloquially as the MLF) between 1971 and 1973, amongst whom Marie Dedieu, Juliette Kahane, Marielle Burkhalter, Nadja Ringart, and Sylvina Boissonnas featured prominently. The cover of each issue offered a joke about its slightly unpredictable publication schedule, adverrtising itself as a "menstruel" (i.e., "menstrual") instead of a "mensuel" magazine, which means "appearing monthly." From the rear cover: "LeTorchon Brûle gave expression to younger members of the [French feminist] Movement, by letting their rage, humor, and moods explode onto the page : upset, disputation, spontaneity, love and hate, impulsiveness, abundance, diversity, contradictions. It gave voice to revolution at the surface level through contested realities, discourse, reactions, and also to the deeper revolutions of memories, and of bodies, whose first beginnings stirred in October 1968 and continue today, as adults, both in their maturations and the revolutions in the Mouvement de Libération des Femmes." Scarce complete.
Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro; Poëme de Muée le Grammairien; traduit de grec en françcois, avec le texte. [With:] Héro et Leandre, poeme en quatre chants, suivi de poesies diverses par P. Denne Baron, Troisième édition. Paris, 1806

Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro; Poëme de Muée le Grammairien; traduit de grec en françcois, avec le texte. [With:] Héro et Leandre, poeme en quatre chants, suivi de poesies diverses par P. Denne Baron, Troisième édition. Paris, 1806

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Les Amours de Léandre et de Héro; Poëme de Muée le Grammairien; traduit de grec en françcois, avec le texte. [With:] Héro et Leandre, poeme en quatre chants, suivi de poesies diverses par P. Denne Baron, Troisième édition. Paris, 1806
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Later 19th-century full crimson morocco, a.e.g., by Café, with small oval leather ex libris of James Hartmann and engraved book
Description
Paris: Chez Nyon Lejeune, Place des Quatre Nations, 1784. Frontispiece by Delaunay after Cochin (bound after the Advertissement) and extra-illustrated with 8 plates (2 in 2 states, one on China paper) and one original pencil sketch. ix, [1], 45; xx, 168 pp. (the first title with parallel text in Greek and French). 1 vols. 12mo. Later 19th-century full crimson morocco, a.e.g., by Café, with small oval leather ex libris of James Hartmann and engraved bookplate of Emmanuel Martin. Joints rubbed. Frontispiece by Delaunay after Cochin (bound after the Advertissement) and extra-illustrated with 8 plates (2 in 2 states, one on China paper) and one original pencil sketch. ix, [1], 45; xx, 168 pp. (the first title with parallel text in Greek and French). 1 vols. 12mo.
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Nederlandsche Gist- & Spiritusfabriek 1870-1930 by ROMEIN, Bernard

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Nederlandsche Gist- & Spiritusfabriek 1870-1930
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ROMEIN, Bernard
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1930. ROMEIN, Bernard. Nederlandsche Gist- & Spiritusfabriek 1870-1930. 136 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Delft: 1930]. A splendid piece of Dutch book design illustrated with wonderfully evocative photographs. A rare book with OCLC listing only SMU in the US, with copies in Europe.
Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed

Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed by Bannerman, David; J. A. Vella-Gaffiero

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Birds of the Maltese archipelago + autograph letter signed
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Bannerman, David; J. A. Vella-Gaffiero
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Valletta, Malta: Museums Dept, 1976. Bannerman, David A. (1886-1979). (1) Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent. 4pp. on 2 sheets. N.p., n.d. [ca. 1976]. 211 x 148 mm. Small ink smear on last page. Laid into: (2) Bannerman and Joseph A. Vella-Gaffiero. Birds of the Maltese archipelago. Foreword by Dom Mintoff. xix, [3], 550pp. 22 plates, folding map, text illustrations. Valletta [Malta]: Museums Department, 1976. 230 x 155 mm. Original cloth, dust-jacket (slightly worn and soiled). Together 2 items. Very good to fine. An excellent letter from the noted British ornithologist, author of numerous definitive works on the birds of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic islands. The letter is laid into the above-listed First Edition copy of Bannerman's Birds of the Maltese Archipelago, a work that contains the first full description of the hundreds of different species of birds recorded in the Maltese islands and stresses the crucial role the Maltese archipelago plays in bird migration between Europe and Africa. Bannerman's letter bears no salutation but is complete, as the second leaf is numbered "2"; it was undoubtedly written to the recipient of this copy. The letter contains intriguing details about the book's publication and reception: "You may be interested in the photograph inside the cover of this volume [not present], which was sent to me by Francis Mallia, Director of Malta's museums. It shows Dom Mintoff [Prime Minister of Malta] reading the inscription which I wrote when he was presented with a copy of my book . . . "The foreword by Mintoff (the first he has ever written I am told) may also interest you. As a Vice-President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (England), I had stressed in these pages the importance of more government protection for the migratory birds which pass through Malta en route to Africa to winter and receive abominable treatment at the hands of ignorant Maltese farmers. Mintoff has expressed his views-and my opinion-very forcefully in his foreword. This book which I was invited to write by some resident members of the Malta Ornithological Society for which they had raised a substantial sum to pay for the publication, among themselves, was finally take over as an official Museums Dept. publication & the entire cost of publication authorized by Dr. Cossar & Mintoff on behalf of Government . . . "The Secretary of the M.O.S. opposed the publication as he was secretly writing a book himself which he never divulged to me & which you all have. It's quite good in its way, but the jealousy displayed by the authors Saltana [sic] & Co. did them no credit. They even got a member to raise in their parliament why a "foreigner" (!) had been permitted to write a book on Malta's birds . . ." Dom Mintoff (1916-2012) was Prime Minister of Malta from 1971 to 1984. "Saltana" refers to Maltese ornithologist Joe Sultana (1939-2018), author of Guide to the Birds of Malta (1975). .
Wanted Poster: "$700.00 Reward For Jesse Coe - Negro. Wanted for Murder of Police Officer Chas. Russell, on night of September 30, 1906.

Wanted Poster: "$700.00 Reward For Jesse Coe - Negro. Wanted for Murder of Police Officer Chas. Russell, on night of September 30, 1906. by [COE, Jesse]

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Wanted Poster: "$700.00 Reward For Jesse Coe - Negro. Wanted for Murder of Police Officer Chas. Russell, on night of September 30, 1906.
Author
[COE, Jesse]
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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Indianapolis, IN: N.P., 1906. Original lithographed wanted poster, with text and photographic portrait printed in black on recto only; measures 10.75" x 7". Thin strip of paper reinforcement along top edge verso, a few faint folds and small tears; brief penciled notation to left of portrait; Very Good, clean example, without loss. A reward bulletin issued by the Indianapolis, IN Chief of Police, Robert Metzger, for gunman Jesse Coe (alias Cole). About 8pm on the night of September 30, 1906, Coe shot officer Charles J. Russell at close range in a neighborhood near 24th Street and Indianapolis Avenue; he was later taken to an Indianapolis hospital, where he died of his wound. Russell's partner, Edward J. Petticord, chased after the alleged gunman (Coe), and was shot in the back by another suspect. Petticord died two days later, and the man accused of killing Petticord was arrested, convicted, and hanged at the Indiana State Prison in February, 1907. Law enforcement officials launched a nationwide manhunt for Coe, who was believed to have left Indianapolis by train, disguised as a laborer. Two years after the shooting, Coe's cousin led authorities to him while he was squirrel hunting in Kentucky; when approached by authorities, Coe was shot dead after pointing his rifle at them. The broadside is rare, with no example held by any OCLC member institution. A presumably later example is held by Kent State, offering a higher reward of $1500 for Coe. Of particular interest on the present example is the penciled notation to the left of Coe's portrait, stating "Capd. Shot - 11/13/06," clearly giving a date that is much earlier than the documented capture and shooting of Coe two years later. A rare ephemeral survival from a high-profile killing of a police officer by an African American.
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS by Duyckinck, E. A.

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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS
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Duyckinck, E. A.
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Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts (United States)
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Chappel, Alonzo. (Chappel, Alonzo)illus. NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY OF EMINENT AMERICANS by E. A. Duyckinck. Johnson, Fry & Co., NY, 1862. 2 vols., 4to., 3/4 brown morocco over brick-red pebbled cloth, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, 119 steel engraved plates after paintings by Chappel. A superb set, unusually fresh inside and out.
BOMBARDMENT OF VERA CRUZ, MARCH 25th, 1847

BOMBARDMENT OF VERA CRUZ, MARCH 25th, 1847

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BOMBARDMENT OF VERA CRUZ, MARCH 25th, 1847
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Bartlebys Books (United States)
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New York: N. Currier, 1847. Hand-colored lithograph, 10 x 13 inches. Matted. Some browning to margin, but very good. The print pictures General Winfield Scott and his troops around an artillery battery. A caption in the lower margin describes the action during the battle.
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The Incredible Planet by Campbell, John W.

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The Incredible Planet
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Campbell, John W.
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Very Good
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Fantasy Press, 1949. Very Good. Campbell, John W.. The Incredible Planet. Reading: Fantasy Press, 1949. 1st edition. 344pp. 8vo. Purple cloth. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and light soiling on edges.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbing and short closed tears in edges. Twin hole punches in rear flap. In DJ protector.. Signed by John W. Campbell on title page..
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SOWING, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1880 TO 1904 along with GROWING, BEGINNING AGAIN, DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY & THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Woolf, Leonard

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SOWING, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1880 TO 1904 along with GROWING, BEGINNING AGAIN, DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY & THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Author
Woolf, Leonard
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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SOWING, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1880 TO 1904, Harcourt Brace, 1960, first American edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos. Along with Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962, first American edition, tiny indentations to front board, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos. Along with BEGINNING AGAIN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1911 TO 1918, Harcourt Brace & World, 1964, first American edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos. Along with DOWNHILL ALL THE WAY, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1919 -1939, Harcourt Brace & World, 1967, first American edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper. Illustrated with photos. Along with THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1939 -1969, Harcourt Brace & World, 1970, first American edition, fine in like dust-wrapper. Five volumes completing the distinguished author/publishers autobiography.
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Wood, Peggy

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TYPED LETTER SIGNED
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Wood, Peggy
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THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED ( 1935 ), about 240 words mentioning author Irwin S. Cobb.
ORIGINAL AUTOMOTIVE FABRICS. 1971

ORIGINAL AUTOMOTIVE FABRICS. 1971 by [Fabric Sample Book]

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ORIGINAL AUTOMOTIVE FABRICS. 1971
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[Fabric Sample Book]
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Tavistock Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Some light general wear & soiling to binder. Signs of modest use to mounting leaves. Very Good.
Description
San Francisco / Sacramento: Distributed by Scovel & Sons Co, 1971. 1st Edition Thus. Dark green 3 ring binder, with gold printing to front board. Explanatory text printed to paste-downs. Some light general wear & soiling to binder. Signs of modest use to mounting leaves. Very Good.. 24 pp, with 12 subject tabs to right side [e.g., "Ford & Mercury"]. 819 vinyl & cloth samples affixed to the 24 pages.h Oblong format: 11-3/8" x 15-1/2" Sample book by this Northern California automotive supplier, providing cloth & vinyl samples for model year 1971, for US makes of cars, including Ford, Mercury, Lincoln, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick, Plymouth, Dodge, Oldsmobile, Chrysler & Rambler.
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Arret Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Concernant les Armemens de Commerce pour les Isles & Colonies Francoises. Du 31 Octobre 1784. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.

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Arret Du Conseil D'Etat Du Roi, Concernant les Armemens de Commerce pour les Isles & Colonies Francoises. Du 31 Octobre 1784. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'Etat.
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1784. No Binding. Near Fine. quarto, 3, [1], very good clean condition. Wroth & Annan 1987, (Ford no. 419), noting three copies AD, BM, JCB. Reprinted in Moreau de St. Mery, [1784-1789], Maggs, The French Colonisation of America, 622
Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey

Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey by Sesshu (Binding)

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Title
Sesshu's Long Scroll. A Zen Landscape Journey
Author
Sesshu (Binding)
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Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1959. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. Bound in wooden boards, with accordian style text. 39 pages. Original publisher's band in red and black, and with publisher's clear acrylic slip-cover. Introduction and commentary by Reiko Chiba. A lovely copy.
Šotci Krále Holce

Šotci Krále Holce by PROCHÁZKA, Fr. S. [František Serafínský]

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Šotci Krále Holce
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PROCHÁZKA, Fr. S. [František Serafínský]
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Praze [Prague]: Nakladatelstvi J. Otty, 1906. Viktor OLIVA. [JUVENILE] [POETRY] [CZECH LANGUAGE]. V. [Viktor] OLIVA, illustrator. 4to; 79pp; taupe colored cloth over board, gilt-stamped decorative lettering on front and spine, 3 red gnome-style figures on front, publisher's name blind stamped on rear; title page printed in red and black; rubricated drop caps, decorative red titling; onlaid illustrations in blue and red halftone, many with tissue guards; some delamination or bubbling of the cloth from the front board, small cut to foot of spine, small stain to bottom front edge of pages; very good plus. OCLC locates only 2 copies, one at Princeton University and one at the Cleveland Public Library. (Beran, Tschechische Kinderbücher, Cat. 80, 360.). The author, František Serafínský Procházka (1861-1939), was a Czech author, poet, translator, and librarian. The illustrator, Viktor Oliva (1861-1928), was a Bohemian born Art-Nouveau illustrator and painter who studied in Prague, Germany, and France. He lived and worked in Paris for many years before relocating to Prague. The publishing house of Nakladatelstvi was the premier publisher in Prague during the "Golden Era" of Czech culture and printing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The binding in this book is unusual in that the gatherings are both sewn and stapled.
Personal Adventures During the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude

Personal Adventures During the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude by William Edwards, Esq

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Personal Adventures During the Indian Rebellion in Rohilcund, Futtehghur, and Oude
Author
William Edwards, Esq
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1858. Decorative Cloth. Very Good +. A very presentable copy of the 1858 1st edition, in its bevelled, blindstamped boards. Solid and VG+, with a touch of light foxing at the fore-edge, one small spot to the rear panel and light wear along the spine crown. Octavo, 206 pgs. of text plus publisher's ads at the rear.
The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan of al-Imam abu-l Abbas Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri [Two Volumes]

The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan of al-Imam abu-l Abbas Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri [Two Volumes] by Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri; Philip Khuri Hitti [trans.]

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The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan of al-Imam abu-l Abbas Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri [Two Volumes]
Author
Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri; Philip Khuri Hitti [trans.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
New York: AMS Press, 1976. Very Good +. New York: AMS Press, 1968 [but 1976]. Two octavo volumes (22.2cm); green buckram with gilt lettering; I: [xii],518pp; II: xii,299pp. Boards are sturdy and square with nudging at spine ends. Bindings sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library. Reprint of the 1916 Columbia University Press edition, issued as Volume LXVII, parts 163 & 163-A of their Studies in History, Economics and Public Law series. Major work of the 9th-century Muslim historian.
[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890

[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890

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[CHILDREN] [VICTORIAN] OBJECT LESSONS. A B C LINEN No. 890
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
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Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co, 1890. 8vo.; stapled printed wrappers; [8] pages, not including the wrappers; printed in color or in sepia; no date, but clearly an early version of this oft-printed Donahue production, printed on Linen.~~The wrappers are a bit soiled, but nonetheless an attractive copy of this charming Victorian ABC book.
THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ISRAEL

THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ISRAEL by BAKER, Henry E.

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THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ISRAEL
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BAKER, Henry E.
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
Oceana Publications Inc, 1961. BAKER, Henry A. THE LEGAL SYSTEM OF ISRAEL. London: Sweet & Maxwell/ NY: Oceana Publications Inc., [1961]. 8vo., blue cloth in dust jacket; 132 pages. First English/American Edition, with another edition published in Tel Aviv the same year. This English/American Edition, however, is harder to find. Baker was a Relieving President for District Court in Jerusalem and a professor at Hebrew University there. Signed presentation from Baker on the front endpaper, to a fellow justice: "To Reuben Lurie with the compliments of the author. Henry A. Baker. President District Court, Jerusalem, Israel 5/10/64." Reuben Levi Lurie was a Justice of the Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston. With the bookplate of Michael L. Abraham on the front pastedown. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight; small "4.2" in ink (old price, call number?) on front endpaper); some browning edges, few short tears & little edgewear) to a very fragile d/j. $85.00.
VORT #3: Summer 1973

VORT #3: Summer 1973 by Alpert, Barry

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VORT #3: Summer 1973
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Alpert, Barry
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
Silver Spring, MD: Vort, 1973. First Edition. Very good.. DC area poetry mag featuring work by Robert Creeley, David Bromide, Donald Powell, Kenneth Irby and others. Wraps. 4to. Saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Very good. SIGNED by Alpert to first page. Touches of darkening to wraps. Interior bright and clean. 87pp.
THE SOPHIST

THE SOPHIST by BERNSTEIN, Charles

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THE SOPHIST
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BERNSTEIN, Charles
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Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN
9780940650794
Condition
Near fine in a fine jacket.
Description
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1987. First Edition. Near fine in a fine jacket.. Collection of verse from the noted Language Poet. Wraps. 8vo. Orginal color pictorial wraps. Near fine with touches of wear. Else clean and sound. 177pp.
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Marco Paul's Travels and Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge: on the Erie Canal. by [Abbott, Jacob].

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Marco Paul's Travels and Adventures in the Pursuit of Knowledge: on the Erie Canal.
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[Abbott, Jacob].
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Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
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16mo, leather spine with gilt title and illustration, 2 illustrations, including frontispiece, 140 pp. Some wear to spine and extremities, a bit of foxing, one signature partially sprung; otherwise very good. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) is considered one of the most prolific writers of children's books in the 19th century. He and his brothers produced a well received set of historical biographies, which included stories on Xerxes, Darius the Great, and Alexander the Great. He also produced a few travel and adventure books. The current tile is about life along the Erie Canal in the mid 19th century. The OCLC locates 4 copies of this edition. heritage-history website. OCLC.
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Church Psalmist; or, Psalms and Hymns, Designed for the Public, Social, and Private Use of Evangelical Christians. Containing, also, Directions for Musical Expression. With Supplement

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Church Psalmist; or, Psalms and Hymns, Designed for the Public, Social, and Private Use of Evangelical Christians. Containing, also, Directions for Musical Expression. With Supplement
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
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Very good
Description
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1847. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in full leather, covers stamped and decorated in blind, spine stamped in gilt. Rubbed at the edges and extremities. All edges gilt. Previous owners name in ink on the ffep.
The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1831

The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1831

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The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1831
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
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London: Charles Knight, 1831. 12mo, pp. 72; 240; bound with: The British almanac of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge for the year 1832, pp. 72, 240; Each almanac with a substantial Companion to the Almanac bound after; together, 2 volumes in original full green cloth, leather label on spine; joints starting, sewing snapped near upper hinge resulting in casing separating from spine (still attached at lower hinge); textblock clean and sound; good.
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AUTUMN LIST OF BOOKS

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AUTUMN LIST OF BOOKS
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Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
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PORTLAND, MOSHER, 1897. 8 PAGE PAMPHLET FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F.
Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii

Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii by ZWIEP, Mary

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Pilgrim Path: The First Company of Women Missionaries to Hawaii
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ZWIEP, Mary
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780299129040
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Fine
Description
(Madison, Wisconsin): University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Inscribed by the author to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco.
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Whatever Goes Up: The Hazardous Fortunes of a Natural Born Gambler by TYLER, George C. with J. C. Furnas

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Whatever Goes Up: The Hazardous Fortunes of a Natural Born Gambler
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TYLER, George C. with J. C. Furnas
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
IN: Bobbs, 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. Pages light brown from age, clean text. Illustrated. Spine lightly faded on red cover. Spine ends bumped.
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Esopus

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Esopus
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
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Fine
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New York City: The Esopus Foundation, 2009. Softcover. Fine. Softcover. Numbers 11 and 12. Two issues of this provocative and influential publication. The Esopus Foundation was a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of providing an unmediated space through which artists, writers, musicians, and other creative professionals could connect directly with the general public. The Foundation was primarily devoted to creating 25 issues of the award-winning arts periodical Esopus; publishing a range of books and artists' editions; and mounting more than 100 events and exhibitions. The legal dissolution of the Foundation occurred in 2025. In addition to the several articles and photographs featured in each issue, these soft cover publications include a CD with several songs by various artists. In fine condition. PER/052226.
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. FIFTH EDITION

AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. FIFTH EDITION by Webster, Daniel

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AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. FIFTH EDITION
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Webster, Daniel
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, and Company, 1825. Original printed wrappers, stitched, 40pp. Untrimmed. Inconspicuous rubberstamp in blank corner of front wrapper. Very Good. American Imprints records five editions of this pamphlet printed in 1825. AI 23269 [5].
William James and Phenomenology: A Study of "The Principles of Psychology

William James and Phenomenology: A Study of "The Principles of Psychology by Wilshire, Bruce

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William James and Phenomenology: A Study of "The Principles of Psychology
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Wilshire, Bruce
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
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Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Good +/Good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xi, 251pp. This book is from the collection of Anders Ericsson, renowned Swedish Psychologist. Toning, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. There are several open and closed tears along the edges of jacket. Some are tape repaired. Toning, creasing, and chipping to jacket spine. Multiple tears to inside flaps. Toning to jacket interior. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Mild rubbing to corners of boards. Gentle bumps to head and tail of spine. Dust-spotting to text block. Few instances of upper page creasing due to earmarking. A few instances of inked underlining and marks to margins of pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Wilshire argues that James, while not explicitly a phenomenologist, developed insights that foreshadowed the method and concerns of phenomenology, particularly concerning the nature of thought and its relation to the world. Wilshire contends that James's work in psychology, especially his "Principles of Psychology," reveals a move from a semi-behaviorist approach to a more phenomenological understanding of experience. Wilshire's argument focuses on how James's initial attempt to correlate thoughts with brain states led him to recognize the importance of understanding the nature of thoughts themselves, which in turn pushed him towards a phenomenological analysis of thought's intentionality. James realized that thought cannot be understood in isolation from its object and that experience is structured by and for consciousness. This realization, Wilshire argues, challenged the mind-body dualism that James initially embraced and laid the groundwork for a more intentional, worldly understanding of thought. Wilshire suggests that James's work anticipates key aspects of phenomenology, such as the primacy of perception, the intentional unity of experience, and the importance of understanding consciousness in terms of its lived experience. While James's work was not explicitly phenomenological, Wilshire argues that it provides a valuable historical link to the development of the phenomenological method. (Publisher).
Dover Books on Music: Advertising Poster

Dover Books on Music: Advertising Poster by Ethel Reed (Artist)

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Dover Books on Music: Advertising Poster
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Ethel Reed (Artist)
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Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780486592411
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982. Poster. Fine. Poster. First Thus. 19" w x 29" h. Advertising poster for a Dover Book publication. A reproduction offset lithograph poster featuring Arts and Crafts Movement artist Ethel Reed's "Miss Traumerei", originally printed in 1897. Fine, as issued, on thick paper. Well suited for framing, will be shipped loosely rolled in a mailing tube..
The Sun is also a Star

The Sun is also a Star by Nicole Yoon

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The Sun is also a Star
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Nicole Yoon
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780375978241
Condition
Fine
Description
Barnes & Noble exclusive collector's edition stated with the complete number line; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the 2nd free paper. In as new, unread condition; a beautiful copy that is the basis for the movie. In archival protection.
A Celebration of Moss Hart - University of Southern California, 12 April 1970

A Celebration of Moss Hart - University of Southern California, 12 April 1970

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A Celebration of Moss Hart - University of Southern California, 12 April 1970
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ReadInk (United States)
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Very Good+
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[Los Angeles]: Friends of the Libraries. Very Good+. 1970. First Edition. Stapled wraps. [nice clean copy with only minor edgewear to covers, some minor discoloration to the front cover]. (B&W photo frontispiece) 43-page booklet, a transcript of a tribute to the memory of playwright Moss Hart (1904-1961) at USC. There was quite a star-studded list of participants, although listed here are only those who are well-represented in the transcript: Julie Andrews, Bennett Cerf, George Cukor, Laurence Harvey, Gregory Peck, Irving Paul (Swifty) Lazar, Garson Kanin, Danny Kaye, Kirk Douglas, Louis Jourdan, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, and Kitty Carlisle Hart. One of the highlights of the evening was a group reminiscence of the production of Hart's 1943 play "Winged Victory," in which a dozen members of the original cast participated, among them John Forsythe, Kevin McCarthy, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Ritt, and Don Taylor. .
Max Dellfant

Max Dellfant

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Max Dellfant
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG
Description
New Haven, CT: New Haven Colony Hist. Soc, 1975. VG. Wraps. 20 pp. 14 bw plates. Catalogue lists 52 works, which seem to be just about all that this artist produced. All depict scenes in and around New Haven during the early part of the 20th century. Published to accompany an exhibition held from June 2 to Sept. 28, 1975.
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Nauchnye Osnovy Kurortnogo Lecheniia v SSSR [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Scientific Foundation of Sanitarium Treatment in the Soviet Union) by Aleksandrov, V. A.

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Nauchnye Osnovy Kurortnogo Lecheniia v SSSR [Stenogramma Publichnoi Lektsii, Prochitannoi v Tsentralʹnom Lektorii Obshchestva v Moskve] (Scientific Foundation of Sanitarium Treatment in the Soviet Union)
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Aleksandrov, V. A.
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Moscow: Pravda, 1951. Softcover. First edition; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2; pp. 24; stapled printed wraps; minor wear to spine tips and corners; near fine. Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo po Rasprostraneniiu Politicheskikh i Nauchnykh Znanii (The All-Union Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge) replaced the League of Militant Atheists, also called The Union of the Godless, in 1947. The League had been formed in 1925, by the Communist Party, as an atheistic and anti-religious organization of common workers and intelligentsia. In 1947 the Society commenced publishing journals and propaganda materials and it sponsored lectures, demonstrations and parades. Dedicated to eradicating religious beliefs and promoting science and knowledge, the public lectures were diligently recorded and printed (example of which is the current one) in a pamphlet form occasionally with numerous illustrations. The topics covered medicine, scientific discoveries, Communist leaders’ works and speeches, history, notable names, anti-Imperialist propaganda, etc. In 1963 the organization was yet again renamed to ‘Znanie’ (Knowledge) and it is still in existence today. Sanitarium treatments in the Soviet Union.
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The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume VII: The Old Regime, 1713-63, edited by J.O. Lindsay

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The New Cambridge Modern History. Volume VII: The Old Regime, 1713-63, edited by J.O. Lindsay
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Cambridge: At the University Press, 1957 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate, rubberstamp. Very good in lightly chipped d.j.
I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)

I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film) by Allan Dwan (director); Alan LeMay (screenwriter); Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy (starring)

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I Dream of Jeanie (Original photograph from the 1952 film)
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Allan Dwan (director); Alan LeMay (screenwriter); Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy (starring)
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Royal Books (United States)
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Los Angeles: Republic Pictures, 1952. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1952 film. Production number rubber-stamped and in ink on the verso. A biographical musical about American composer Stephen Foster. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.
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BORN IN AMERICA: SEVEN AMERICAN ARTISTS.; Exposición No. 52. Catálogo No. 29

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BORN IN AMERICA: SEVEN AMERICAN ARTISTS.; Exposición No. 52. Catálogo No. 29
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Caracas: Museo Jacobo Borges, 2000. b/w and color plates, bios., ports., bibl., cat., wrps. Exhibition on photography, sculpture, and installation art of young United States artists who have participated in an exchange program with Venezuela by Venezuelan born artists. The simulated works serve as a metaphor for the real, existing cultural contradictions between the two cultures. LIMITED EDITION OF 500. SPANISH AND ENGLISH TEXT.

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