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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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Title: LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
Author: Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. Octavo. first issue, with DeVinne press imprint on page 210, signature mark "12" on page 177 and "14" on page 209. Brown coated end papers. Bound in publisher's original brown pictorial cloth, decorated in red, black and gilt. A lovely copy. From the Douglas Young Jr. collection, with his name in gilt on chemise. Housed in a handsome quarter leather slipcase, with chemise. BAL 2064.

COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, APRIL 11 1793. RECEIVED OF ELIJAH ABEL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS OF STATE PAPER, BEING IN FULL OF A BALANCE DUE HIM. VIZ. 2 STATE NOTES ... AMOUNTING TO FORTY POUNDS 12/9 1/2 LAWFUL MONEY, FOR WHICH SUM THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN MAY 1792, ARE ACCOUNTABLE AGREEABLE TO THE DIRECTIONS CONTAINED IN AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT FOR ENLARGING THE POWERS AND INCREASING THE FUNDS OF YALE-COLLEGE by [Yale College]

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC

Title: COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, APRIL 11 1793. RECEIVED OF ELIJAH ABEL THE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTIONS OF STATE PAPER, BEING IN FULL OF A BALANCE DUE HIM. VIZ. 2 STATE NOTES ... AMOUNTING TO FORTY POUNDS 12/9 1/2 LAWFUL MONEY, FOR WHICH SUM THE COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN MAY 1792, ARE ACCOUNTABLE AGREEABLE TO THE DIRECTIONS CONTAINED IN AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT FOR ENLARGING THE POWERS AND INCREASING THE FUNDS OF YALE-COLLEGE
Author: [Yale College]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Hartford], 1793. Single printed leaf, 6" x 7-3/4,"completed in ink manuscript. Signed in ink at the end by one of the duly appointed Commissioners, "A. Kingsbury on acct of the State." Very Good. Andrew Kingsbury, along with John Trumbull and William Hart, was appointed a Treasury Commissioner of the State of Connecticut by Act of May 1792, to collect balances due on taxes owed to the State. According to Section 2 of the Act, amounts so collected "are hereby appropriated to, and for the use and benefit of Yale College in New-Haven, to be applied in manner following, out of the avails thereof, for the purpose of erecting a new building or college for the reception and accommodation of the students; and the residue shall be, and hereby is established, as a fund for raising an annual revenue, forever hereafter to be applied to, and for the support of, necessary professors in the various arts and sciences, for the benefit of the college." In May 1793 Kingsbury relinquished the office of Commissioner in order to become Treasurer of the State of Connecticut. Not located on ESTC or the online sites of AAS or Yale. Not in Evans, Shipton & Mooney.

The Right to be Well Born, or Horse Breeding in its Relation to Eugenics by Stokes, William Earl Dodge

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Title: The Right to be Well Born, or Horse Breeding in its Relation to Eugenics
Author: Stokes, William Earl Dodge
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: C.J. O'Brien, 1917. First edition. EUGENIC DIATRIBE BY NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE SUED BY HIS PUBLISHER--INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO A RECIPIENT WHO LATER ADDED A NYT CLIPPING ABOUT THE BOOK'S ROLE IN HIS FINANCIAL RUIN. 12.5x19 cm decorative blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover, with color image of baby in oval gilt frame, gilt stork to rear board, gilt title to spine. Laid in front paste-down, New York Times clipping, June 27, 1922, titled, "Stokes as Author Debated at Hearing: Merits of 'The Right to Be Well Born' Discussed by Opposing Counsel." Ink inscription front free endpaper, "To [illegible] Grant Kahn, with the best wishes of the Author/ May 6, 1917," also an ink signature in another hand. Frontispiece facing title page photographic portrait of W. E. D. Stokes, copright 1917 verso title page, 256 pp. Light wear to corners, spine gilt dulled, offsetting of news clipping to front free endpaper, light browning to pages. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. CHAPTER HEADINGS: Humans and Animals Are Governed by the Same Laws of Heredity; Cause of Sex; Contribution of Horsemen to Eugenics; Influence of Great Sires in Founding All Breeds; Sterility; Education and Heredity; Defectives, Like Unfit Animals, Should Be Sterilized; The Number and Cost of Defectives; Evils of Labor Unions; The Labor Registry; The Jockey Registry; Birth Control; Germs; Child Labor; How the City of Churches Looks After Its Children and Their Amusements; Some Races Are Backward; Subnormal Children in New York Public Schools; Public School Children of Seattle Show Great Intelligence and Seattle's Death-Rate Is the Lowest; Infant Death-Rate in Seattle 1.44 in a Thousand, in Manhattan 43.37 in a Thousand; Making American Citizens; Conservation of Brains Man's Greatest Duty; Evils of Social Diseases; Hereditary Insanity from Disease; Needed Laws; Things to Avoid; The Importance of the Health of the American Hog; Alcohol America's Curse - Its Effects on the Unborn; Distillery Mash and Cattle; Motherly Instincts; Relative Influence of the Sexes; Laws of Heredity the Same in Man, Plant or Beast; My Duty; The Wizard of the Thoroughbred Turf; How to Establish a Family; England's Strength Was Built Up By Younger Sons; Some Races Possess No Elements of Improvement; Crossing of Distinctly Different Races Dangerous; Selective Breeding Among the Jews; Inbreeding and Inherited Talents; Record Office and Research Foundation; Present System of Marriage Wrong in Theory and Practice; The Mixing of the Breeds; Our Old New York Families Have Bred Out; In Old New York; The Old London Social Set Bred Itself Out; Plain Facts; Records of Death; Modern Methods of Breeding Are Scientific; Grading of Men Who Are Candidates for Marriage; Government Records Prove That 75% of Our Young Men Are So Inferior in Breeding That They Cannot Pass the Simplest Army and Navy Mental and Physical Tests; If Our Army and Navy Compel Examinations of Men Who Are to Be Food for Cannons and Submarines, Our Government Must Pass Laws Requiring the Same Kind of Examinations Before Marriage of Our Young Men and Women, If Their Offspring Are to Be Our Future Soldiers and Sailors; America Needs Able Champions of Her Unborn Babes; The Value of Registry Associations; Medical Men Must Make a Record of All Cases of Syphilis; The German Kaiser's Contribution to Beneficial Sciences; Our Government Excludes Illbred or Unsexed Animals, Except Under a Penalty, But Welcomes Human Curs; Conclusion. WILLIAM EARLE DODGE STOKES (1852 - 1926) was an American multimillionaire responsible for developing much of New York's Upper West Side. In 1895, aged 43, Stokes married 19 year old Rita Hernandez de Alba Acosta. The couple moved into one of Stokes's new developments at 262 West 72nd Street. In 1898 Stokes began work on a new mansion at 4 East 54th Street. However, in 1900, just as the house was nearing completion, Rita Stokes filed for divorce, and neither ever lived in the house. The divorce settlement was said to be $2 million, a record at that time. In February 1911, Stokes, then aged 59, secretly married the 24-year-old Helen Blanche Ellwood. He married in secret because when he was divorced by his first wife, Rita de Acosta Stokes, the judge had told him he could not marry again during her lifetime. In 1917 Stokes wrote The Right to be Well Born (the copy offered here was inscribed by him May 6, 1917). In this book, Stokes, who was a horse breeder, extended his theories from the equine, advocating selective breeding in humans and the grading of men who are candidates for marriage. He writes that the genealogical records of the working class should be kept so that prospective employers can assess their capabilities. The book was so ill received that the publishers sued Stokes for the recovery of their costs. In 1918, Stokes filed for divorce from Helen Stokes. Stokes was represented by attorney Max Steuer, and started what proved to be a very acrimonious legal case. In February 1922 Rita de Acosta Lydig appeared before the Supreme Court of Justice on behalf of Helen Stokes, claiming that Stokes used to beat her during their marriage. This is the case described in the NYT clipping dated June 27, 1922, presumably placed in the book by its recipient from Stokes in 1917. In 1923, after paying $1 million in legal fees, Stokes' request for a divorce from his wife was denied; she won a counterclaim for separation. Stokes died on May 18, 1926 aged 74, and The New York Times noted in his obituary that, even though Stokes had been involved in "almost incessant litigation," he had left about $8 million in his will. However, in 1928 that estimate was reduced to $300,000, and even that would be erased, The Times said, "if his estate lost all the many pending lawsuits that plagued his controversial career, even after death".

Steel by Marguerite Engler Schwarzman, Th. D. Luykx (illus.)

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Title: Steel
Author: Marguerite Engler Schwarzman, Th. D. Luykx (illus.)
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Fair. Toning, light dust soiling, a couple nicks. Wrappers brittle and separated as a result from spine. Text block paper brittl
Description: New York, New York: Georges Dupleix, 1937. Fair. Toning, light dust soiling, a couple nicks. Wrappers brittle and separated as a result from spine. Text block paper brittle but holding.. An illustrated children's book about the wonders of steel-making and how it has led to various technological innovations throughout history, by the prominent educator Marguerite Engler Schwarzman. features illustrations by Th. D. Luykx in a modern, attractive style. Describes in detail the process of making steel with illustrations, and shows it in use by knights in armor, American colonists, and in transportation. First soft cover edition. Single vol. (8.5" by 9.5"), pp. [28], illus., in original illus. wrps. Marguerite Engler Schwarzman (1892-1985) was a librarian and education advocate who founded the Children's Laboratories in 1927, a museum for children devoted to teaching youngsters about science and natural history.

Letters to Unitarians Occasioned by the Sermon of the Reverend William E. Channing at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Sparks by Woods, Leonard

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Title: Letters to Unitarians Occasioned by the Sermon of the Reverend William E. Channing at the Ordination of the Rev. J. Sparks
Author: Woods, Leonard
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Removed and trimmed else very good.
Description: Andover: Flagg and Gould, 1820. First edition. Removed. Removed and trimmed else very good.. v, 160 pp. Sm. 8vo. Leonard Woods (1774-1854) was Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at the Theological Seminary in Andover, a Dartmouth graduate, and editor of "The Theological Review from 1834 to 1836. Channings original sermon set off a string of responses that lasted for four to five years and defined Unitarianism. Sabin 105131. Amer. Imprints 4326.

Old English Ditties, Selected from W. Chappell's "Popular Music of the Olden Time;" With a New Introduction: The Long Ballads Compressed, and Occasionally New Words Written, by J. Oxenford; The Symphonies and Accompaniments by G.A. Macfarren by CHAPPELL, William 1809-1888

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Title: Old English Ditties, Selected from W. Chappell's "Popular Music of the Olden Time;" With a New Introduction: The Long Ballads Compressed, and Occasionally New Words Written, by J. Oxenford; The Symphonies and Accompaniments by G.A. Macfarren
Author: CHAPPELL, William 1809-1888
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: London: Chappel & Co., 50, New Bond Street, W. Also to be had of Cramer & Co., 201, Regent Street, W., 1870. Quarto. Original publisher's dark green cloth with titling gilt within decorative blindstamped border, titling to spine gilt, light yellow endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso printer's note), [iii]-xiii, [iv] (Index to Vol. I), 2-241, [i] (printer's note) pp. With a signed autograph inscription "To Mrs. Ginsburg from Wm. Chappell" to upper outer corner of title. Binding slightly worn, soiled, rubbed, and bumped; endpapers soiled. Light uniform browning; some signatures loose. Chappell was a noted English music publishing firm founded by Samuel Chappell in 1813. His eldest son, William, "was noted for his interest in early music. In 1840, with Rimbault, Macfarren and others, he founded the Musical Antiquarian Society, which met at his firm's premises; he edited Dowland's songs for the society (1843). He had earlier published his A Collection of National English Airs (1838-40), copiously annotated with historical details, and this was subsequently expanded into his major work, Popular Music of the Olden Time (2 vols., 1855-9). William Chappell left the family firm in about 1843 and in 1844 went into partnership with Cramer and Beale, as Cramer, Beale & Chappell, remaining until his retirement in 1861." W.H. Husk, revised by Margaret Cranmer, Peter Ward Jones, and Kenneth R. Snell in Grove Music Online.

Rahab: A Drama in Three Acts [Autograph Letter Signed in Original Envelope Tipped in] by Richard Burton

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Title: Rahab: A Drama in Three Acts [Autograph Letter Signed in Original Envelope Tipped in]
Author: Richard Burton
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1906. Near Fine. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1906. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey decorative cloth stamped in yellow and dark blue; [2],117,[1],[4](ads)pp. Corners bumped, else a Near Fine copy. Post-marked envelope dated 1908 tipped to front pastedown and containing 1.5pp. autograph letter signed by the author, addressed to a Professor Charles Richardson of Dartmouth College, admonishing Richardson for purchasing a copy of the book. The American lyricist Richard Burton (not to be confused with the explorer or the actor) takes on the Biblical personage of Rahab, "the woman of Jericho," in this, his first attempt at drama.

Rambling Through the West by Gross, William B.

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Title: Rambling Through the West
Author: Gross, William B.
Seller: De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description: Brunswick Maryland, 1934. Paper wraps. 38 pp, plus ads. The author recounts a trip of 13,244 miles taken in a 1931 Chevrolet. Good condition.

THE BEACH BOYS (ca. late-1960s) Set of 2 photos by Np

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Title: THE BEACH BOYS (ca. late-1960s) Set of 2 photos
Author: Np
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Np. No binding. Near Fine. Set of two vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photos, one with facsimile signatures of the entire band. Near fine. The Beach Boys are shown performing live in one photo; in the other, all of the band members are individually shown accompanied by their respective facsimile signatures.

The elementary spelling book; by Webster, Noah.

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Title: The elementary spelling book;
Author: Webster, Noah.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Acceptable
Description: Montpelier, VT: E. P. Walton, n.d., but after 1843. Last Revised Edition. Acceptable. 12mo (18 cm); 168 pages. Woodcut frontispiece, title page with woodcut ornamental border, and seven woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in quarter cloth over printed boards, with title page reproduced on upper board. Worn and thumbed, yet sound and entire. Published in the year of the author's death.

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