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[Cedula, or Identification Document, for a Chinese Indentured Servant in Cuba during the 1850s]

[Cedula, or Identification Document, for a Chinese Indentured Servant in Cuba during the 1850s] by [Cuba]. [Indentured Servitude]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
[Cedula, or Identification Document, for a Chinese Indentured Servant in Cuba during the 1850s]
Author
[Cuba]. [Indentured Servitude]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Good plus.
Description
[Havana, 1857. Good plus.. Small broadside form, approximately 8.5 x 12.5 inches. Previously folded, with some separation and minor loss along vertical fold. Completed in manuscript, with additional manuscript docketing on blank verso. Ink burn, causing additional minor loss in a few small areas. Light edge wear; some staining and offsetting; light tanning. A 19-century Cuban identification form, known as a cedula, filled out in manuscript to authorize the travel of an Asian indentured servant between plantations in early May 1857. The document was completed for a twenty-six-year-old Asian fieldhand named Chan, who had signed a contract to work for one Gallego Toriceo [?], to be transferred to the premises of "P. Soler y Comp[añi]a." Printed at the left and right edges are nine articles from an 1855 decree that outline the regulations for issuing and keeping such documents, including the following: "Estas cédulas servirán de documentos de seguridad, y además de licencias de transito para los colonos que se trasladen de un punto á otro de la Isla. Los patronos respectivos cuidarán de que los colonos no emprendan el viage sin licencia expresa suya que haràn constar al pié de la cedula.... Si algun colono fuere hallado sin cédula, deberá ser detenido y puesto à disposicion del Gobernador ó Capitan del partido mas inmediato, e cual dará conocimiento al patrono dentro de segundo dia." On the otherwise blank verso is additional, contemporary manuscript docketing concerning the transfer of the cedula (and therefore the laborer concerned) to the receiver, located in Matanzas. A very interesting document of the bureaucracy and control of indentured servitude in Cuba during the mid-19th century.
Alice and the Stork. A Fairy Tale for Workingmen's Children

Alice and the Stork. A Fairy Tale for Workingmen's Children by Schnittkind, Henry T[homas]

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Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC
Title
Alice and the Stork. A Fairy Tale for Workingmen's Children
Author
Schnittkind, Henry T[homas]
Seller
Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Boston/Toronto: Richard G. Badger/The Copp Clark Co., Limited, 1915. Very good +. 7½” x 5 1/8”. Red cloth over boards, dust jacket. Pp. 95, [1, publisher's ad]. Book very good plus: one small scuff to front board; the occasional bit of thumb-soiling or minute corner crease. Jacket good: moderately chipped, foxed and dust soiled. This is a rare political parody of Alice in Wonderland, published by a socialist-leaning Boston press in 1915. Henry Thomas Schnittkind, who also wrote under the pen name Henry Thomas, was born in the Russian Empire (now Lithuania) in 1886 and emigrated to New York with his family at the age of ten. He earned a BA, MA and PhD from Harvard between 1909 and 1913, and wrote prolifically on all manner of subjects from mathematics and politics to biographies and philosophy. This book, seemingly his first, is a radical reworking of the beloved Alice in Wonderland story, with a strong socialist and pro-women's suffrage bent. In this tale's version, Alice is eight years old and “the most beautiful child in the town . . . Her father was a rich landlord, and . . . the nurse always told her that poor people who cannot buy a house for themselves are lazy and good-for-nothing.” Alice gradually learns compassion over a series of dream adventures; in one chapter, after being scolded for playing with poor children, she is visited by the “American Eagle” and shown a land “in which one man makes money out of the life and the happiness of others.” When she asks how the misery can be remedied, the eagle tells her of the “brave people” who “fight alone against the whole world . . . They want all men to be Comrades, and they are trying to make a world where there will be no grindstones to grind money out of the laughter and life of men and women and children.” Alice grows up over the course of the narrative, ending it as a married woman with a child of her own and a thoroughly egalitarian frame of mind. The book features a publisher's ad at the rear offering “Important Radical Books” such as The ABC of Socialism, Morris Rosenfeld's Songs of Labor and Letters from Prison by Bouck White, “Pastor of the Church of the Social Revolution.” A rare satirical take on the classic Alice in Wonderland tale. OCLC shows one holding.
Living Costs Are Sky-Rocketing, Employers Refuses Negroes Jobs, Wall St. Plans to Capture Elections, Fascist War-Dogs Destroy Peace. How Can We Stop Them? These Are Some of the Burning Questions That Will Be Answered by James W. Ford...[caption title]

Living Costs Are Sky-Rocketing, Employers Refuses Negroes Jobs, Wall St. Plans to Capture Elections, Fascist War-Dogs Destroy Peace. How Can We Stop Them? These Are Some of the Burning Questions That Will Be Answered by James W. Ford...[caption title] by [African Americana]: [Ford, James W.]

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Living Costs Are Sky-Rocketing, Employers Refuses Negroes Jobs, Wall St. Plans to Capture Elections, Fascist War-Dogs Destroy Peace. How Can We Stop Them? These Are Some of the Burning Questions That Will Be Answered by James W. Ford...[caption title]
Author
[African Americana]: [Ford, James W.]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
[Buffalo, 1937. Very good.. Photo-illustrated broadside, approximately 12 x 9 inches. Tanned, darker around the edges, with minor creasing. Small manuscript note at bottom, reading "Buffalo, 1937." A striking and seemingly unrecorded broadside advertising a speech by James W. Ford, the "Outstanding Negro Leader - twice Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist Party - Just returned from Spain and Ethiopia." Ford's quarter-length portrait adorns the top left of the broadside. The broadside was published by the John Brown Branch of the Communist Party, and printed in Buffalo, evidenced by the Buffalo Allied Printing Trades Council seal at the bottom center. Ford's speech took place at Kaisers Hall on October 26, 1937. By the time of this speech, Ford had indeed run twice as the Communist Party's candidate for vice president, and he would do so again in 1940. James W. Ford (1893-1957) was born in Alabama and graduated from Fisk University in Nashville. He served in France during the First World War, afterwards settling in Chicago where he became a union leader and a notable member of the Communist Party. Ford rose quickly through the labor and Communist ranks, becoming a section organizer in Harlem in 1933. While there, Ford helped found the National Negro Congress, assisted in numerous local political campaigns, provided for the defense of the Scottsboro Boys in the state of his birth, and helped organize protests against employment and housing discrimination, all while continuing to work as a champion of organized labor and the Communist Party. No copies in OCLC.
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Man O'War by Page Cooper and Roger L.Treat

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB
Title
Man O'War
Author
Page Cooper and Roger L.Treat
Seller
Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Julian Messner Inc., 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Near Fine Jacket.$3.00 on Flap.First Edition.The Great Biography Of one of Finest Thoroughbreds .Beautiful Copy..
ARTIST OF MYSTERY: ORIGINAL WORKS BY EDWARD GOREY [Signed]

ARTIST OF MYSTERY: ORIGINAL WORKS BY EDWARD GOREY [Signed] by Whyte, Macolm; Gorey, Edward [Artist]

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Title
ARTIST OF MYSTERY: ORIGINAL WORKS BY EDWARD GOREY [Signed]
Author
Whyte, Macolm; Gorey, Edward [Artist]
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
San Franciso, California: Cartoon Art Museum, 1993. Signed Edition, #87/100 Copies. Other. Square octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good condition. Grey paper covers bound to text block with staples. Light shelf wear and fading. Signed and numbered by Gorey on limitation page in back of book. Shelved in case 3. 1412081. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
SONGS AND VERSES

SONGS AND VERSES by Whyte Melville, G. J. and Lionel Edwards [illustrator]

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Title
SONGS AND VERSES
Author
Whyte Melville, G. J. and Lionel Edwards [illustrator]
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. First thus. Large Octavo, 148pp. Hardcover without jacket in G+ condition. Spine is vellum with gilt text. Bumping and shelf-wear. Vellum over boards. Head edge gilt. Rubbing and soiling to boards. No markings or creases to the text. Boards bowed. Binding is sturdy. Includes numerous tipped in plates. TJ CONSIGNMENT. Oversized order. Additional shipping and handling may be necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy international shipping unavailable due to size/weight restriction(s). Contact seller if you have any questions. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #2. 1235805. FP New Rockville Stock.
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George W. Littlefield. Texan by HALEY, J. Evetts

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
George W. Littlefield. Texan
Author
HALEY, J. Evetts
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Publisher's beige cloth, in the original dust jacket; a fine copy, though the dust jacket is chipped with a two-inch closed tear on rear panel. First edition of this outstanding biography of an early Texas cattleman. Illustrated by Harold D. Bugbee.
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Oeuvres Completes by Arthur Rimbaud

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Title
Oeuvres Completes
Author
Arthur Rimbaud
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
France: Bibliotheque de la Pleiade, 1954. Leatherette. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1954 1st thus, the 1st appearance of the compact, wonderful Pleiade edition of Rimbaud's complete works. Clean and Near Fine in its dark-green leatherette. And in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket (plus the publisher's thick, unprinted, outer mylar dustjacket). 12mo, over 850 pgs of text (exclusively in its native French). Includes "Les Illuminations", "Une Saison en Enfer", "Correspondance", etc.
The Girl from Hollywood

The Girl from Hollywood by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Title
The Girl from Hollywood
Author
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1923. First Edition, Second State without "he said" on frontis. Octavo; 320pp. Illustrated frontis. Publisher's rough, horizontal-weave red cloth with green lettering and design. Missing dust jacket. Boards bumped at spine ends and lightly rubbed at corners, with dulling to lettering and some general smudging to surface. Top corner of front free endpaper torn away and math problem solved on verso of final blank, else pages unmarked. Opens easily between gatherings but binding is secure. Zeuschner notes a rather acrobatic history of attempts to establish priority with this edition. As of his 2016 bibliography, copies with the rough, horizontally-woven cloth binding and additional "he said" text on the frontis have priority, matching a pre-publication review copy found in 2004. Copies such as this, identical apart from the "he said" omission, are given tenuous secondary priority, with the acknowledgement that a pre-publication copy with this variant frontis could easily also appear, thus giving the variants equal weight. [Zeuschner (1996) 164-165 & (2016) p. 102-104].
The Pageant of History in Northern California

The Pageant of History in Northern California by ADAMS, Ansel and Nancy Newhall

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
The Pageant of History in Northern California
Author
ADAMS, Ansel and Nancy Newhall
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
San Francisco, CA: American Trust Company, 1954. First edition. Large softcover. A collection of nicely printed black and white images along with text by Nancy Newhall. A clean and bright very good plus copy in spiral bound wrappers some light wear. Internally a clean copy.
A Man in Full; A Novel

A Man in Full; A Novel by Wolfe, Tom

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)
Title
A Man in Full; A Novel
Author
Wolfe, Tom
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780374270322
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in publisher's original illustrated vinyl. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 742 pages.
Big Table 1

Big Table 1 by ROSENTHAL, Irving (editor)

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Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts
Title
Big Table 1
Author
ROSENTHAL, Irving (editor)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers
Description
Chicago: Big Table Inc, 1959. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table – founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough. This first issue of Big Table, founded in the wake of this episode, was impounded by the U.S. Post Office. A court trial resulted in its favor, and the journal continued through another 5 issues. Rosenthal's novel Sheeper is a classic of the era, and one of the great minor novels of American literature. See Clay & Phillips, A Secret Location on the Lower East Side, p. 45.

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