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Future Frederick the Great, Here 9 Years Old, Writes His King Father, William I, King of Prussia, Hoping to Come Visit by Frederick the Great

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Title: Future Frederick the Great, Here 9 Years Old, Writes His King Father, William I, King of Prussia, Hoping to Come Visit
Author: Frederick the Great
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 09/1721. Theirs was a famously combative relationship; Frederick would attempt to flee to Britain 9 years laterIn his early youth, Frederick lived with his mother and sister Wilhelmine, although they regularly visited their father's hunting lodge at Königs Wusterhausen. Frederick and his older sister formed a close relationship, which lasted until her death in 1758. Frederick was educated to speak both French and German, and many of his tutors were French Calvinists.The relationship between Frederick the Great and his father Frederick William I was deeply strained and often hostile. Frederick William I was a rigid, militaristic ruler who valued discipline, obedience, and a strong army above all else, while his son was drawn to music, literature, and French Enlightenment culture. The King saw these interests as weak and unmanly, and he frequently criticized and even physically punished Frederick in an attempt to force him into a more soldierly mold.Their conflict reached a peak in 1730 when Frederick attempted to flee Prussia to escape his father’s control. The plan failed, and Frederick William I reacted harshly—he had Frederick arrested and forced him to watch the execution of his close friend, Hans Hermann von Katte, who had helped in the escape attempt. Although Frederick later became a brilliant military ruler, the emotional distance between father and son never fully disappeared. In fact, Frederick’s later embrace of culture and philosophy can be seen partly as a reaction against his father’s severity.Wusterhausen was an important royal residence in early 18th-century Prussia and played a key role in the upbringing of Frederick the Great. In the early 1720s, when Frederick was still a child, he spent time there with his father, Frederick William I, who used the palace as a retreat from Berlin. The site was known for the King’s informal “Tobacco Parliament,” where political and military matters were discussed. For the young Frederick, Wusterhausen symbolized the strict, militaristic environment imposed by his father, which sharply contrasted with his own developing interests in culture, music, and Enlightenment thought—tensions that would later shape his character and reign.Autograph letter signed, in old Germanic script, from then Prince Frederick to the King, ""My dear Papa"", ""in September 1721."" The General mentioned is likely Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.""I hope that my dear Papa is still doing well, and I am longing very much to go to Wusterhausen. I am constantly hoping that my dear Papa will order for me to come. I am awaiting with the greatest impatience to see my dear Papa. I am humbly requesting my dear Papa that he may let me come to Wusterhausen. I remain my dear Papa’s Most obedient servant and son, Frederich.""""The general Schulenburg has told me that my dear Papa is still doing well, about which I am very glad, and he also asked me to be godfather.""

Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense by [Sex Work] [Wilson, Harriette]

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Title: Clara Gazul, or Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense
Author: [Sex Work] [Wilson, Harriette]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Printed and Published by the Author, 1830. First edition. Three volumes bound in one. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, with gilt and morocco to spine. All edges speckled red. Green endpapers. Measuring 180 x 110mm and collating [2], civ, [2, half title], 196; [2], 313, [1, blank]; [2], 282: with half title of volume I bound out of order and without half titles to remaining volumes, else complete. A tight, square copy with a bit of shelfwear to extremities and some rubbing along rear joint. Internally with occasional marginal staining to volumes I and II; heavier staining to pages 117-21, 160-66, and 196 of volume I and to pages 20-21 of volume II with all text remaining legible. Volume III largely fresh and unmarked. A scarce book institutionally and in trade, the last copy appeared at auction nearly 70 years ago. The present is the only example on the market. Published five years prior, Harriette Wilson's notorious memoir promised readers a controversial and unapologetic take on the famed courtesan's life. "I shall not say how and why I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven. Whether it was love...or the depravity of my own heart, or the winning arts of the noble Lord which induced me...does not now much signify," she states in her opening line. Henceforth, Wilson departed her father's household and embarked on a storied career in sex work, counting among her patrons "the most distinguished men of the day, from the Duke of Wellington to Lord Byron. She held court in a box at the opera, attended by statesmen, poets, national heroes, aristocrats, and members of the beau monde who hoped to be immortalized by her glance" (Blanch). Written and published as she began showing signs of age, and thus began a fall out of favor, Wilson used her words to remain in the public eye, reveling in the life she had built. Unrepentant, Wilson cast herself as "spirited and single-minded...ducking and diving through society, making sure, in a world heavily weighted towards men, she was always on the winning side. Her life story, although controversial, set the early nineteenth century alight by holding up a mirror to the double standards that riddled male and female behavior" (Dangerous Women Project). Clara Gazul followed the Memoirs as a clear attempt to continue keeping her name in society. Though the majority of the work is presented as fiction, Wilson opens the introduction by connecting the two books and teasing their autobiographical contents: "Though my Memoirs have long been before the public, I have not yet explained how or why I became the mistress of Lord Craven at the age of fifteen...I am now disposed to gratify curiosity, provided the reader has the grace to "a plain and unvarnished" statement of facts." In the lengthy introduction that follows, Wilson narrates childhood abuse at the hands of her father and various boarding school mistresses, learning feminine graces and more humanistic pursuits from her eldest sister and a fascination with men and romance from the remaining four sisters. Ultimately, the relationship with Lord Craven becomes a mere afterthought in the Introduction's final pages, as he offers her an escape from loneliness and neglect. It is a sympathetic and not at all scandalous chapter, and one that Wilson strategically uses to set up her novel -- likely drawn from the famed acquaintances and scandals of her own life.

Murders in the Rue Morgue by POE, Edgar Allan

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Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Author: POE, Edgar Allan
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [n.d. c.a. 1932]. First photoplay edition. In publisher's dust jacket. Octavo (8 x 5 3/8 inches; 202 x 136 mm). [4], 315, [1, publisher's ads] pp. "Illustrated with scenes from the Universal Photoplay, presented by Carl Laemmle." With photographic endpapers, frontispiece and six additional movie still black-and-white plates, one of which is double paged. These film stills are from the Universal motion picture of "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" starring Bela Lugosi. Full publisher's red cloth. Front board and spine lettered in black. Top edge green. Black-and-white photographic endpapers. The smallest amount of shelfwear to head and tail of cloth spine. In publisher's full color illustrated dust jacket. Some chipping along top and bottom edge of jacket. A few small chips at head and tail of jacket spine. Overall an about fine book in a very good, and exceptionally bright dust jacket. The Murders in the Rue Morgue is the holy grail of mystery and detective fiction, and one of the cornerstones of that genre. Poe wrote it during the height of his literary powers, and it remains, to this day, the standard by which all mystery fiction if compared. BAL. Heartman and Canny,. HBS 68209. $1,850.

Lecture by General W. C. Westmoreland, United States Army, Retired. Tufts University. Medford, Massachusetts Wednesday, 12 December 1973 by WESTMORELAND, William W.

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Title: Lecture by General W. C. Westmoreland, United States Army, Retired. Tufts University. Medford, Massachusetts Wednesday, 12 December 1973
Author: WESTMORELAND, William W.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Medford, Massachusetts: Tufts University, 1973. Unbound. Near Fine. Quarto. 25 photomechanically reproduced quarto leaves printed rectos only. Stapled in upper left corner. Faint offsetting on first leaf, else near fine. Detailed address by Westmoreland concerning the conduct of the Vietnam War and the domino theory. Presumably this was issued at the time of lecture. Exceptionally scarce. *OCLC* locates no copies.

Preliminary Report to The President of the United States on the Location, Construction, and Management of the Union Pacific Railroad by Snow, Chauncey H.

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Title: Preliminary Report to The President of the United States on the Location, Construction, and Management of the Union Pacific Railroad
Author: Snow, Chauncey H.
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Washington, D.C.: Intelligencer Printing House, 1869. Paper wraps. Date corrected in pencil. 17 pp in good condition.

Now Available 20 [September 1979] by NIGEL GREENWOOD INC LTD BOOKS, bookseller

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Title: Now Available 20 [September 1979]
Author: NIGEL GREENWOOD INC LTD BOOKS, bookseller
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Five mimeographed A4 sheets, printed on rectos only, stapled. London: 1979. Scarce bookseller list. It offers artists’ books by Higgins, Hiller, Kozlowski, Kosuth, Long, McKeever, Michals, Rainer, Snow, Weiner, E. Williams, etc. and catalogues on Andre, Aycock, Close, Dimitrijevic, Hesse, Heizer, Hockney, Kelly, Oldenburg, Pollock, Richter, Sieverding, Smithson, Thomkins, Tuttle, etc. Fine, folded for mailing.

La France De Profil by Strand, Paul; Roy, Claude

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Title: La France De Profil
Author: Strand, Paul; Roy, Claude
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN: 9780893818746
Condition: Fine
Description: Aperture, 2001-06-15. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x0x12. First printing of this second edition (and first English language edition), with full number line. Grey cloth boards under photographic dust jacket priced $45. Fine in all regards. Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF BOOKS IN THE NATIONAL OBSERVER

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Title: WIDE, WIDE WORLD OF BOOKS IN THE NATIONAL OBSERVER
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Description: N.P.: National Observer, n.d.. paper wrappers. National Observer. large 4to. paper wrappers. (viii), 88 pages. Reproduces hundreds of reviews of important books that had been done in the National Observer. With comments on the best known authors of the day.

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