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[Three Letters Written Home to Waco by Ensign John Francis Marshall While Aboard the U.S.S. Montgomery]

[Three Letters Written Home to Waco by Ensign John Francis Marshall While Aboard the U.S.S. Montgomery] by [U.S. Navy]. [South America]

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Seller: McBride Rare Books
Title
[Three Letters Written Home to Waco by Ensign John Francis Marshall While Aboard the U.S.S. Montgomery]
Author
[U.S. Navy]. [South America]
Seller
McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
About very good.
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[Argentina & Brazil, 1900. About very good.. Three letters, totaling [12]pp., with original mailing envelopes, plus one later photograph. Previously folded, with scattered minor loss at fold points, slightly affecting text. One letter with two-inch closed tear at top edge; another letter with a chip, still present but costing a few words of the first line of text. Otherwise, minor wear and tanning. Three letters from a United States Navy Ensign, John Francis Marshall, Jr. (1874-1948), written while aboard the USS Montgomery, and sent to his mother, a widow in Waco TX. The ship was part of the South Atlantic Squadron, which operated along the Atlantic coast of South America and was formed specifically to support good relations with the countries there and to forward United States interests in the region. Marshall describes in great detail the social events to further these aims, writing at first from La Plata, Argentina, where the squadron hosted the Argentine President, and where the Americans in Buenos Aires hosted the whole crew. Then, writing from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Ensign Marshall describes a huge event at Petropolis, overseen by Admiral Admiral Winfield S. Schley. After a stop in Bahia, Marshall writes from Pernambuco, describing his having to accompany the Negro Consul ("However I took it philosophically and didn't mind it in the least. Thought I would stand him if the government could"). He writes that they will stop at Barbados, then St. Lucia, then home to New York. Marshall had graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1895; served as an ensign on Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olympia, and had taken part in the Battle of Manila Bay, before his tour of duty on the Montgomery. With a group photograph of John Francis Marshall and the officers of the South Atlantic Squadron taken in May 1900 at Petropolis, including the Envoy Extraordinary Col. Charles Page Bryan (1975 copy from the US Naval Historical Center - handstamped released). Interesting detail about the social and political missions of the U.S. Navy at the turn of the 20th century.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Wilde, Oscar; John Vassos

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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Wilde, Oscar; John Vassos
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Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very good
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New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1930. Early printing of the edition illustrated by John Vassos. Hardcover. Very good/very good. John Vassos. 124pp. Small quarto [24 cm] 1/4 black cloth with blue patterned paper over boards. The edges of the boards are a bit faded. There is a very brief gift inscription on the recto of the frontispiece, and there is a semi-lengthy poem in pen on the recto of the rear free endpaper. In a very attractive dust jacket, with clipped corners, chipping to the ends of the spine, and a small chip along the front fold of the spine. Includes sixteen black and white illustrations by the illustrator of Salome, John Vassos. John Vassos was a 1930's book illustrator and long-term industrial designer. Vassos' interpretation of Wilde's masterpiece, illustrating the emotional experiences of a condemned prisoner in his last days.
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JEAN-BAPTISTE MARIE PIERRE, 1714-1789. (Cahiers du Dessin Français. No. 9.) by Aaron, Olivier.

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JEAN-BAPTISTE MARIE PIERRE, 1714-1789. (Cahiers du Dessin Français. No. 9.)
Author
Aaron, Olivier.
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Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description
Paris/Boston (Galerie de Bayser/Ars Libri, Ltd.), 1993.. 83, (1)pp. 63 illus. Lrg. 4to. Wraps.
All That Was

All That Was by Williams, Tanya E

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All That Was
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Williams, Tanya E
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9781989144121
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Near Fine
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Rippling Effects, 2020. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author on bookplate affixed to front flyleaf. An excellent copy. 2020 Trade Paperback. 307 pp. "Separated by a century. Bonded by loss. Will examining all that was invoke comfort or calamity? Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a decade ago. After she died in 1935, Elizabet Thomas was devastated when her beloved husband wasn't waiting for her on the other side. A lost soul, she's wandered their church for the past eighty years, desperate to find him. And now she must persuade a young, living lawyer that the historic building needs to be preserved rather than sold and torn down. Discovering a diary among the disarray in the building's basement, Emily is first engrossed and then moved by the dead woman's words. And as the fate of her home unravels, Elizabet realizes she and the grieving archivist have more in common than she ever would have guessed. Can Emily and Elizabet save themselves and their cherished sanctuary? All That Was is an uplifting standalone women's literary fiction novel deeply woven with historical elements. If you enjoy dual-perspective storylines, complex female characters, and the rekindling of lost hope, then you'll love Tanya E Williams's soul-stirring tale.

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