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John Jackson's Arcady by Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: John Jackson's Arcady
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boston: Walter H. Baker, 1928. First edition. Fine. First separate edition and first edition in book form, following its publication in The Saturday Evening Post on July 26, 1924. An excellent, Fine copy of a Fitzgerald rarity. 192 x 126 mm. 8 pp. Publisher's orange wrappers printed in bluish-gray and black. Bookplate (Charles John Muto, 1962) to inside of front cover. Fresh and unmarked throughout. This scarce publication has only appeared at auction five times, and only once in the twenty-first century. Similarly, OCLC records copies at just twenty-six institutions - remarkably few holdings for a work by one of the most important authors in American literary history. "John Jackson's Arcady" was the last short story Fitzgerald published before departing for the French Riviera to write The Great Gatsby. The story, which follows a disillusioned businessman who flees his office life for his hometown, was "written in a period when Fitzgerald was clearly preoccupied with the composition of Gatsby," and foreshadows several crucial themes later found in Fitzgerald's masterpiece (Mangum, p. 56). Fitzgerald's "can't repeat the past" theme, which echoes in one of the most famous scenes in The Great Gatsby, is prototyped in "John Jackson's Arcady," as well as themes of nostalgia, longing, and regret that would later reappear in the novel. Interestingly, "John Jackson's Arcady" may also have served as inspiration for the 1938 short story "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern, which was then adapted into the classic 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life (see Mangum). This edition is the only book publication of "John Jackson's Arcady" until its collection in The Price Was High: The Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald (1979). It was issued here for use as a monologue by students practicing elocution. Mangum, Bryant. "Echoes of Arcady." The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, Vol. 5 (2006), pp. 54-64. Fine.

Il gazzettiere americano contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo della loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico e Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, e Commercio Con una esatta descrizione delle Città, Piazze, P by [Gazzettiere Americano]

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Title: Il gazzettiere americano contenente un Distinto Ragguaglio di Tutte le Parti del Nuovo Mondo della loro Situazione, Clima, Terreno, Prodotti, Stato Antico e Moderno, Merci, Manifatture, e Commercio Con una esatta descrizione delle Città, Piazze, P
Author: [Gazzettiere Americano]
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: First Italian edition of this comprehensive geographical dictionary of the New World. “This translation of the American Ga
Description: Livorno: Marco Coltellini, 1763. First Italian edition of this comprehensive geographical dictionary of the New World. This translation of the American Gazetteer [3 vols., London, 1762], is practically a new work, having been greatly enlarged, and with eighty plates and maps engraved for this edition (Borba, p. 347). In the Italian editors introduction, he explains that Americas growing importance in French and English affairs had produced a need for a general text on the continent, suitable for curious amateurs. Of non-Iberian Europe, Italy probably had the longest tradition of travel literature. It was therefore natural for the Italian public to be avidly interested in the new discoveries, even though... these discoveries did not directly concern the Italians (Penrose, p. 304). Of Cuban interest: vol. I contains 4 text pages (pp. 140-44) and a folding map of the islands; vol. II contains 5 text pages and a plan of the port of Havana. Naturally Cuba also appears in the volumes regional maps. The Gazzettiere focuses on the current state of affairscommerce, the arts, and European political influencesas opposed to the history of discovery. As much as it purports to cover all areas of the New World, an English bias is evident; there are extensive articles devoted to the New England area, particularly Boston, the pre-eminent city of the British Empire in America (vol. I, p. 42). A 5-page entry on Brazil appears in the first volume, featuring engravings of a toucan and a monkey. Also included is a map of Condamines 1743 expedition down the AmazonThe majority of the 21 maps contained in the Gazzettiere were based on those of Emanuel Bowen (1714-67), Royal Geographer of George II and Louis XV. * Sabin 26814; Howes, A 207; Borba, p. 347, faulty collation.. Folio. 3 vol. (3) ff. incl. engr. frontis. and title, xxiii, (1), 216 pp, (1) ff.; 256 pp.; 253 pp. (1) ff. 78 maps and plates. Most likely a married set, with vol. 1 in contemporary vellum, lower edge of front cover exposed to pasteboard; remaining vols. in somewhat later vellum, with spines partially rebacked; 19th-century ownership inscription (G. Traccalossi) on verso of frontis., library stamp on half-title and frontis. Light finger soiling, repair to first map, occasional staining but generally good.

Modernizing Fire Departments in Massachusetts and the Northeast, Archive of 33 Photos Documenting the Transition from Horse-Drawn Steam Engines to Modern Automotive Fire Trucks, 1910-1940s by Fire Department Modernization

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Title: Modernizing Fire Departments in Massachusetts and the Northeast, Archive of 33 Photos Documenting the Transition from Horse-Drawn Steam Engines to Modern Automotive Fire Trucks, 1910-1940s
Author: Fire Department Modernization
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1910. [Technology][Rescue Operations] American fire engine modernization archive documenting the transition from horse drawn steam engines to motorized trucks and rescue wagons in Massachusetts and across the Northeast between the 1910s and 1940s. Fire departments across the U.S. began to transition from horses and steam pumpers to gasoline powered apparatus to account for urban growth, taller buildings, electrical wiring, and automobile traffic, changing the speed and scale of emergency response. The archive records identified departments and apparatus makers, including Mack, GMC, Ford, Seagrave, Studebaker, American LaFrance, and Maxim, mostly showing departments across Massachusetts departments and with additional images from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Photo archive of 33 silver gelatin photographs, many with captions, ranging from 2 x 3 to 4 x 6 inches, chiefly Massachusetts, with additional material from Vermont, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island, 1910s to 1940s. Fire engines and firefighters appear in station fronts, street parades, apparatus portraits, airport grounds, and active fire scenes. Captions identify New York City Rescue 1 Mack; Syracuse Rescue 1 GMC; Highland Park, Pennsylvania Rescue 2 Mack; Plainfield, New Jersey Rescue GMC; Chelmsford, Massachusetts Emergency No. 7 Studebaker; Camp Edwards, Massachusetts Mack Engine 4; Needham, Massachusetts Mack Engine 3; Lawrence, Massachusetts Engine 3 American LaFrance; Boston Ladder 8, Ladder 9, and Ladder 21; Cambridge Engine 3; Canton, Massachusetts Mack engine; Shrewsbury, Massachusetts Engine 3 and Ladder 3; Barrington, Vermont; Stoneham, Massachusetts Bell Block; River Street, Boston; First Scientist Church, Somerville; and Fort House, Somerville. Horse drawn apparatus appears outside Hope No. 1 in Pittsburgh and in a parade scene, while motorized ladder trucks carry long wooden extension ladders, hose reels, searchlights, bells, sirens, polished pumps, and side mounted tools. The images provide a side by side record of old and new fire protection: horse teams, exposed steam machinery, open cab ladder trucks, and later motorized emergency vehicles. Chas. E. Beckwith's Fire Dept. Photographer stamp connects at least part of the group to a specialist working for Massachusetts fire departments. Photographs stapled to eight disbound black album pages; scattered fading, handling wear, with legible captions. Some with additional handwritten captions on versos. Overall in good condition.

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Studien zur Philologie und zur Musikwissenschaft

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Title: Studien zur Philologie und zur Musikwissenschaft
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9783110217636
Description: Berlin, New York: Walther de Gruyter, 2009. Herausgegeben von der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. 292p., b/w illus., original red cloth (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Philologisch-Historische Klasse. Neue Folge, Bd. 7. Sammelband I).

A History of American Marine Painting. by Wilmerding, John.

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Title: A History of American Marine Painting.
Author: Wilmerding, John.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: The complex history of American marine painting is presented here in a clear, readable and above all, in a visually satisfying m
Description: Salem MA.: The Peabody Museum., (1968).. The complex history of American marine painting is presented here in a clear, readable and above all, in a visually satisfying manner by an internationally renowned authority. A superbly handsome book, very generously illustrated, it is in fine condition in its dust jacket.. 28.5 cm. xxiii; 279 pp. Color and b/w portraits, seascapes, and landscapes as plates.

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