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Thoughts and Adventures [bound with:] Painting as a Pastime

Thoughts and Adventures [bound with:] Painting as a Pastime by Churchill, Winston S.

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Thoughts and Adventures [bound with:] Painting as a Pastime
Author
Churchill, Winston S.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1948. First edition. Very Good. First editions, handsomely bound together. "The broadest range of Churchill's thought between hard covers, Thoughts and Adventures comprises essays on a wide array of subjects, attesting not only to the breadth of the author's comprehension but of his personal experience" (Langworth, p. 154). The essays muse on his career, his hobbies, the First World War, politics, and the future. Painting as a Pastime was published as one of the essays. It was then published separately in 1948. We have never handled the pair bound together before. Churchill began painting during the First World War, and remained a keen painter throughout his life. 2 works in 1 volume, octavo (211 x 132 mm). Photographic frontispiece, several cartoons in text. Mid-20th-century blue half morocco by Bayntun, spine lettered in gilt, blue cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bookplate of John Thoburn Williamson (1907-1958), Canadian diamond magnate who built a significant book collection. Spine sunned with some soiling, a little foxing. A very good copy. Cohen A95.1a; Cohen A242.1.a. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Very Good.
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Belgian Congo and Indigenous Ceremony During Prince Regent Charles's Visit to Paulis, Photo Archive of 24 photographs with captions, including Chief Tongolo and Governor General Jungers, 1946-1952 by Belgian Congo

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Belgian Congo and Indigenous Ceremony During Prince Regent Charles's Visit to Paulis, Photo Archive of 24 photographs with captions, including Chief Tongolo and Governor General Jungers, 1946-1952
Author
Belgian Congo
Seller
Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description
1946. Congolese ceremonial and colonial encounter photo archive showing indigenous ceremonial dance, dress, and culture, uniformed troops, and Belgian officials in the Belgian Congo during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Key scenes are tied to the 1947 visit of Prince Regent Charles to Paulis. Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908 until independence on June 30, 1960, after the Belgian parliament took over King Leopold II's Congo Free State following international exposure of forced labor and mass abuses. Several captions appear to place the photographs during the governorship of Eugène Jungers, Governor General of the Belgian Congo from December 31, 1946 to January 1, 1952, a period when Belgian rule promoted "paternal" administration while Congolese political pressure and demands for advancement were growing. The strongest scenes center Congolese public ceremony rather than colonial officials alone: men dancing in lines, drummers seated before large instruments, children gathered for viewing, and performers facing crowds in open fields and palm-lined roads. Chief Tongolo and his daughter appear among colonial representatives during the Prince Regent's visit, giving the archive a named Indigenous presence within a public ceremony shaped by Belgian authority. Photo archive of 24 silver gelatin photographs, measuring approximately 3" x 4" each, Belgian Congo, 1940s-1950s. Several French captions can be translated; "Governor General Jungers"; "the regiment's standard at the cemetery"; "parade of the veterans"; and "Congolo gives his speech." Congolese men dance in feathered or fiber headdresses, body ornaments, patterned waist cloths, shields, and drums, sometimes advancing across open ground before lines of onlookers. Belgian men in white suits and pith helmets stand with Congolese adults and children outside official buildings and in outdoor assembly areas, while other scenes show African soldiers in formation, a ceremony near railroad tracks, a colonial cemetery observance, and a station or compound with crowds gathered along walls and platforms. After the Second World War, Belgium's Congo policy remained formally paternalist, while urbanization, war service, missionary education, and wage labor created new Congolese claims to political recognition that colonial rule could not contain;within thirteen years of Prince Regent Charles's 1947 visit, the Congo gained it's independence and became Republic of the Congo. Light handling wear, toning, and minor curling; captions remain legible on several versos, images remain clean and clear. Overall in very good condition. The archive records Congolese ceremonial life at the point where public dance, veteran commemoration, colonial ceremony, military display, and Belgian administrative power occupied the same public spaces.
The Second Generation Problem: Some Suggestions Toward Its Solution

The Second Generation Problem: Some Suggestions Toward Its Solution by Akagi, Roy Hidemichi

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
The Second Generation Problem: Some Suggestions Toward Its Solution
Author
Akagi, Roy Hidemichi
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York City: Japanese Students' Christian Association in North America, 1926. Very good.. 39pp. Original blue printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and fading to edges. A scarce pamphlet issued by the Japanese Students' Christian Association in North America (JSCA, a branch of the YMCA), and written by Roy Hidemichi Akagi, intended as the first in a series of publications on Japanese-American issues in the mid-1920s. The author was a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, a scholar and historian, and served as the General Secretary of the JSCA. The present pamphlet originated in discussions among JSCA members on the Pacific Coast regarding the titular issue, the "Second Generation Problem," specifically centered on the inability of primarily English-speaking Nisei to connect with other Americans or with their Japanese-speaking parents and older relatives. Akagi's suggestions concentrate on efforts to promote Nisei civic culture, education, and connection with Issei and other Americans. OCLC locates about a dozen copies in American institutions.
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Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout by Appleton, Victor

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Seller: Bookbid Rare Books
Title
Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout
Author
Appleton, Victor
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
Grosset & Dunlap. later. hardcover. near fine/good. Later edition, with Tom Swift and his Airline express listed last on front flap. Book near fine, very minor wear, small bookstore stamp to front free end paper. Dust jacket good, some pieces missing, some wear, chipping.
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Patriotic Parties and Games by Brannen, Esther; et al

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Title
Patriotic Parties and Games
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Brannen, Esther; et al
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Des Moines, Iowa: Editorial Service Department People's Popular Monthly, 1920. First Edition. Very good. First edition, n. d. (ca 1920); 8 x 5 1/4; pp. [6], including text to covers' verso; off-white, pictorial wraps; illusrated with photographs and drawings; vertical crease through the middle, else minor wear; very good condition. An interesting little booklet, it was published by the editors of People's Popular Monthly and featured suggestions and descriptions for games, costume parties, songs, decorations, etc. to be enjoyed at various patriotic holidays, including Flag Day, Independence Day, Lincoln's Birthday, and so on. Not in OCLC, not in the trade.

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