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The View by CELMINS, Vija; Milosz,Czeslaw; VIJA CELMINS

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Title: The View
Author: CELMINS, Vija; Milosz,Czeslaw; VIJA CELMINS
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1985. CELMINS, Vija. The View. Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Unpaginated. Illustrated with four mezzotints by Celmins. Tall 4to., 377 x 280 mm, bound in original publisher's black morocco spine, grey paper over boards in matching slipcase. Uncut. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985. Considered to be one of the most important artist's books published by the Whitney Library Fellows. Celmins, American painter, sculptor, object-maker and draughtsman of Latvian birth, provided four mezzotints to accompany Milosz's poems in this beautifully printed book. Milosz's melodic words are a perfect accompaniment to the tranquil work of Celmins; the combination serves to create an ethereal symphony of words and image. Edition limited to 120 copies. Signed on the colophon by Milosz and Celmins. A fine copy.

Kolbasy i miasokopchenosti. Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie miasnoi promyshlennosti.3 Volumes by SOVIET TRADE CATALOGUE

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Title: Kolbasy i miasokopchenosti. Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie miasnoi promyshlennosti.3 Volumes
Author: SOVIET TRADE CATALOGUE
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1936. SOVIET TRADE CATALOGUE. Kolbasy i myasokopchenosti. [Sausages and smoked meats]. Soviet Union. Glavnoe upravlenie miasnoi promyshlennosti. 3 volumes. 1: Livernyye i krovyanyye kolbasy. [Liverwurst and Blood Sausages.] 32 pp. 1936. 2: Kopchenyye kolbasy. [Smoked sausages.] 68 pp. 1937. 3. Zil'tsy i studni. [Brawns and Aspics.] 32 pp. 1937. Illustrated throughout. Oblong 8vo, 146 x 214 mm., publisher's blind-stamped wrappers. Moscow; Leningrad: Pishchepromizdat, 1936 & 1937. These three surreal homages to the sausage are a modest forerunner to the massive work produced in 1938 by the same publisher. While far smaller, the plates, each with an individual sausage, still have a somewhat surreal quality. While they do not have the avant-garde sensibility of Telingater's ball bearing catalogue or Piet Zwart's wire catalogue, these odes to the sausage can certainly lay claim to a place in surrealist literature. These are rare books and are not listed on OCLC.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Two Original Scripts for the 1945 Film) by Slesinger, Tess and Frank Davis (screenwriters); Elia Kazan (director); Betty Smith (novel, 1943); Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and James Dunn (starring)

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Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Two Original Scripts for the 1945 Film)
Author: Slesinger, Tess and Frank Davis (screenwriters); Elia Kazan (director); Betty Smith (novel, 1943); Dorothy McGuire, Joan Blondell, and James Dunn (starring)
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, 1944. Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-198 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Final draft script for the 1945 film. Blue titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped, internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three), typed spine label. Noted as FINAL on the front wrapper, copy number 190, dated April 5, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 190, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated April 5, 1944 and noted as Final Script, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages very good with a few pencil annotations throughout, damp-staining to the bottom right, not touching text, wrappers with some splits and creasing. [AND] Letter (292 x 232mm), pp. [distribution page], [title], [1], 2-178 (mimeographed duplication, rectos only). Shooting final script for the 1945 film. Repurposed (wartime conservation efforts?) decorative beige titled continuous card wrapper, rubber stamped (on a label covering a stamp for "The Purple Heart"), internal two brass brad binding (though punched for three). Noted as SHOOTING FINAL on the front wrapper (second revised final crossed out), production number 944, copy number 121, dated May 1, 1944. Perforated distribution page, stamped copy number 121, bottom receipt removed. Title page present, also dated May 1, 1944 and noted as Shooting Final, production number 944, and contribution credit to Anita Loos who was left uncredited for the film. Pages near fine with only the slightest toning, wrapper with creasing, short tears, pencil marks, and staining to the spine, else very good. Ex-Richard Manney; Gene Hackman. Custom double cloth box (for both scripts). Based on the classic coming of age novel by Betty Smith, in early twentieth-century Brooklyn, a bright, book-loving girl navigates poverty and family hardship alongside her pragmatic mother and her charming but alcoholic father, whose death forces the family to confront both grief and the sacrifices required for survival. Through resilience and reconciliation, the family endures, with the young heroine emerging stronger; symbolized by the tenement courtyard tree that, as her father once promised, refuses to die. Set in Brooklyn, shot on set at 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles.

The Diary of a Madman by Gogol, Nikolai; Garnett, Constance (Translator); Magaril, Mikhail (Illustrator)

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Title: The Diary of a Madman
Author: Gogol, Nikolai; Garnett, Constance (Translator); Magaril, Mikhail (Illustrator)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Summer Garden Editions, 1998. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Mikhail Magaril. Number XXX of 100 copies, large octavo size, 49 pp., signed by Mikhail Magaril. Mikhail Magaril (b. 1950) came to the United States from Russia where he had earned a Master's Degree from the Moscow Graphic Art School; today, he is a highly regarded illustrator, artist, and sculptor with his works in collections such as Yale and Princeton. Magaril "draws extensively on the visual culture of the Soviet avant-garde book illustration, where meaningful arrangements of the image and typography underscore daring linguistic experiments of poets and writers" (n.b., from the artist's web site). "The Diary of a Madman" is a short story written in first-person diary-entry format by Russian dramatist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852), whose work lends itself so well to the artistic treatment by Magaril. The story follows the life of a titular counselor during the corrupt and repressive reign of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia; the descent of the protagonist Arksenty Ivanovich Poprishchin coincides with poor treatment by his superiors and the unrecognized love of a woman engaged to another man. Eventually Poprishchin loses touch with reality, believing himself to be the heir to the throne of Spain. The story begs the question: is going mad the sane response to a mad world? The nine illustrations are composed of tortuous lines, with an abstract and almost frantic quality that builds on the world of the narrator. Illustrated, designed, printed, and bound under the direction of Mikhail Magaril and published under his own imprint, Summer Garden Editions. ___DESCRIPTION: Original coptic bound tan linen covered boards with an illustration by the artist stamped in brown to the upper board, fore-edge uncut, title-page printed in black and brown, nine drypoint plates including frontis, hand-lettering and sketches by the artist throughout; Monotype Van Dijck type, Rives BFK paper, large octavo (10" by 6 5/8"), pagination: [i-vi] 1-49 [1 colophon], limited edition of 100 copies, this number XXX, signed by the artist. Housed in a wood and leather fall-down-back box with a pull-tab, designed to look like a leather journal that has been repeatedly scratched, paper label to the upper board and backstrip, lined in brown paper hand lettered by the artist. ___CONDITION: Fine, like new, in a fine case. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

[ORNAMENT]. Katalog Der Ornamentstichsammlung Der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. TOGETHER WITH: Katalog der Architektur- und Ornamentstichsammlung Teil 1 (all published) - Baukunst England (1977) by Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Kunstbibliothek Berlin

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Title: [ORNAMENT]. Katalog Der Ornamentstichsammlung Der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin. TOGETHER WITH: Katalog der Architektur- und Ornamentstichsammlung Teil 1 (all published) - Baukunst England (1977)
Author: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Kunstbibliothek Berlin
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Description: Berlin: Ad 1: Verlag fur Kunstwissenschaft; Ad 2: Verlag Bruno Hessling, 1939. First Edition. Together 2 vols. Ad 1: xv, [5], 782, [2] pp. With 77 b/w illustrations in the text. Attractively (and very sturdily) bound in contemporary red quarter morocco over glazed red boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, all original wrappers bound in (sic!) -- Ad 2: 183 pp. With 43 illustrations in the text. Original publisher's orange cloth. Original edition. B.H. Breslauer copy of the justly famous catalogue of the vast collection of ornamental books and prints of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, at one time the most comprehensive in existence in the field of decorative art and architecture. It comprised printed material from the late 15th to the early 19th century. The collection was based upon that of Hippolyte Destailleur, the great connoisseur, which was acquired in 1879, to which was added the extraordinary holdings of the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kupferstichkabinett. The catalogue is a model of its kind, with complete descriptions and plate counts (often missing in reference works that claimed to "succeed" it) of no less than 5,435 items. The collections suffered greivous losses during WWII, but the present catalogue remains of permanent value to bibliographers and art historians alike, as is attested by the facsimile reprints of it, all greatly inferior to ours on account of the shoddy reproductions of the illustrations. Our copy is attractively bound, with all the original wrappers of the first 12 fascicles bound in. This original edition is scarce, having been published in Berlin at the worst possible time in publishing history, namely from 1936-1939. Ad 2: Printed in 1977, the books described in this "English Architectural Art" volume were completely lost during WWII, and thus the rebuiding of this collection became a priority for the Kunstbibliothek Berlin, aided with a generous grant from the Volkswagon Foundation. The results are herein and present 119 titles of rare English architectural and topographical books, ranging in date from Dugale's "Monasticon Anglicum" (1661) to Robinson's "Designs for Gate Cottages" (1837), all very capably described.

The Stray Lamb by Thorne Smith

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Title: The Stray Lamb
Author: Thorne Smith
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: First UK Edition; A Very Good or better book in a Near Fine dust jacket. An outstanding copy of this novel by the American writer famous for his outlandish and sometimes racy works; this is the first UK edition, uncommon in the marketplace, particularly in this condition. This copy is in very good or better condition with only light age spotting to the exterior text block and various page edges, mostly to the first dozen pages or so, else near fine or better. Housed in a near fine remarkably well preserved dust jacket that shows only some mild age-toning and spotting to the panels and some light rubbing and chipping to the spine ends and corners. One would be hard pressed to find a nicer copy than this one! Not remaindered, not price clipped (price on spine), not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Wisdom of Our Fathers; Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons by Tim Russert

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Title: Wisdom of Our Fathers; Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons
Author: Tim Russert
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ISBN: 9781400064809
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the half title page. An outstanding copy of this memoir from the popular moderator of Meet the Press. "Signed Copy sticker to front panel (may be removed.) Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Billy Budd (Original screenplay for the 1962 film) by Herman Melville (novella); Peter Ustinov (director, screenwriter, starring); Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen (screenwriters); Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas (starring); Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman (play)

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Title: Billy Budd (Original screenplay for the 1962 film)
Author: Herman Melville (novella); Peter Ustinov (director, screenwriter, starring); Robert Rossen, DeWitt Bodeen (screenwriters); Terence Stamp, Robert Ryan, Melvyn Douglas (starring); Louis O. Coxe, Robert H. Chapman (play)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1961. First Draft script for the 1962 film. Based on Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman's 1949 play, which was based in turn on Herman Melville's 1924 novella. A seaman's innocence and optimism win him the affection of the entire crew except the abusive master-at-arms, who eventually wrongly accuses the seaman of conspiracy to mutiny. The feature film debut of Terence Stamp, who was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance. Yellow wrappers with a die-cut title window in the British style. Title page present, dated March 21, 1961, noted as FIRST DRAFT, with credit for screenwriter Peter Ustinov. 127 leaves, with last page of text numbered 123. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink and blue revision pages throughout, dated variously between May 5 and August 22, 1961. Title page lightly toned, else pages Near Fine, wrapper about Near Fine, bound internally with three silver brads.

Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Because…" [Pro-suffrage broadside.] by [ Woman's Suffrage ]. Nation Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).

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Title: Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason Because…" [Pro-suffrage broadside.]
Author: [ Woman's Suffrage ]. Nation Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: [National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company Inc., n.d., ca. 1917] Probably printed ca. 1917. An earlier printing by the Libbie Printing Co. (Boston), which was printed with the name of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association rather than the NAWSA, states "Because 5,000,000 women in the United States are wage workers…" This flier states the number as "8,000,000," which conforms with a holding at the University of Houston dated 1917. . Orange paper sheet printed in black. . Broadside (7 x 10 "). A couple small nicks to edges of paper. A very good copy of a fragile, scarce item. The broadside presents ten arguments for why women should have the right to vote, including "because women must obey the laws just as men do, they should vote equally with men" and "because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, they should vote equally with men." Other arguments include the fact that millions of women worked industrial jobs at the time, so they deserved a voice in improving workplace legislation; and that "mothers want to make their children's surroundings better." The final reason reads, "Because women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and women are people, they should vote equally with men."

THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE by DICKENS, Charles

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Title: THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE
Author: DICKENS, Charles
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1908. DICKENS, Charles. WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS, EDITION DE LUXE, 14 VOLUMES. Boston: C. T. Brainard Publishing Company, 1908. One of 1000 copies, unnumbered (although limitation page states the sets are numbered). Volumes I - IX, XI - XV. 8vo., half deep green leather sunned to caramel brown at spine, with gilt spine lettering and decoration, over green marbled paper covered boards. Seven volumes are slightly chipped at crown. Volume II is split at the front joint (backstrip only, binding intact). Top edges brightly gilt, many pages unopened. Monochrome frontispiece and plates, with title pages decorated in red and green. "With Introductions, Arguments, etc." Spines are headed "Dickens' Works". Near fine overall. As follows: I. Bleak House. 888 pp. II. Pickwick Papers. 817 pp. III. Our Mutual Friend. 857 pp. IV. David Copperfield. 882 pp. V. Nicholas Nickleby. 846 pp. VI. Dombey and Son. 898 pp. VII. Martin Chuzzlewit. 865 pp. VIII. Little Dorrit. 860 pp. IX. Christmas Books, Christmas Stories. 411 + 512 pp. XI. Barnaby Rudge, Hard Times. 646 + 269 pp. XII. A Tale of Two Cities, Uncommercial Traveller, Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, No Thoroughfare. 358 + 102 + 127 + 350 pp. XIII. The Old Curiosity Shop, Reprinted Pieces. 551 + 352 pp. XIV. Great Expectations, Master Humphrey's Clock, Mugby Junction, Mystery of Edwin Drood. 461 + 115 + 63 + 263 pp. XV. Child's History of England, Pictures From Italy, Hunted Down, Holiday Romance, George Silverman's Explanation, American Notes. 393 + 178 + 23 + 36 + 252 pp. One closed tear p. 26 (4th section).

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM "HD. QTRS FORCES MIDDLE TENN. NOV. 23RD" [1862]. LT. COL. BUCKNER, GENERAL JOHN BRECKINRIDGE'S AAG, URGES BRIGADIER GENERAL AND CHIEF OF CAVALRY JOSEPH WHEELER TO "SO ARRANGE IT THAT COURIERS MAY ARRIVE EITHER BEFORE 12 M. OR AFTER DAY LIGHT. WE ARE SO SITUATED THAT EVERY ONE IN THE HOUSE IS AROUSED BY ANY COURIER THAT ARRIVES IN THE NIGHT. OF COURSE WHEN PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT SEND THEM AT ANY HOUR. by Buckner, John A.

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Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED FROM "HD. QTRS FORCES MIDDLE TENN. NOV. 23RD" [1862]. LT. COL. BUCKNER, GENERAL JOHN BRECKINRIDGE'S AAG, URGES BRIGADIER GENERAL AND CHIEF OF CAVALRY JOSEPH WHEELER TO "SO ARRANGE IT THAT COURIERS MAY ARRIVE EITHER BEFORE 12 M. OR AFTER DAY LIGHT. WE ARE SO SITUATED THAT EVERY ONE IN THE HOUSE IS AROUSED BY ANY COURIER THAT ARRIVES IN THE NIGHT. OF COURSE WHEN PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT SEND THEM AT ANY HOUR.
Author: Buckner, John A.
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Middle Tennessee, 1862. Single sheet, written on recto in ink and signed "John A. Buckner, AAG." Docketed on verso, "Refers to Couriers & Blank Paroles." Very Good. Buckner sweetens his criticism of Wheeler by thanking him "for your kindness in sending late papers. We have quite a feast when they arrive." Buckner also requests Wheeler to send him some "blank Paroles today if any can be obtained from the Commandant of the Post." John Alexander Buckner [1832-1903], born in Kentucky, graduated from Centre College in 1852, studied theology at Princeton and later at Union Theological Seminary, was a missionary in Brazil until 1856, and settled in Carroll Parish, Louisiana, where he became a successful plantation owner. Buckner enlisted in September, 1861, as Captain, Company A, 8th Kentucky Confederate Regiment. In July 1862 he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General under General John Breckinridge. He also fought under his relative and future Governor of Kentucky Col. Simon Bolivar Buckner. [Necrological Reports and Annual Proceedings Princeton Theological Seminary, Vol. III, 1900-1902, pp. 294-295; Buckner: THE BUCKNERS OF VIRGINIA. . . 1907, pp. 44-49, 186-188.] He served at Shiloh, the Battle at Baton Rouge, and with the Confederate Army of Tennessee during the Stones River Campaign. He was promoted to the rank of major and brevetted Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry in battle. After the War, he returned to work his plantation and was for a time president of the Board of Commissioners of East Carroll Parish.

Crib Death by Stanford, Frank

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Title: Crib Death
Author: Stanford, Frank
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: [Tucson]: Ironwood Press, 1978. First edition. Near Fine in original printed wraps, with just a touch of rubbing to spine ends and small chip to upper front corner. Internally a crisp, unmarked copy. The first posthumously published work of the author. An increasingly scarce example of Stanford's maturing work, cut short by his suicide at 29. Crib Death, like so much of Stanford's poetry, is immersed in the vivid language of pain, loneliness and death. It also provides a glimpse into how his voice was growing -- leaving us with the emptiness of unanswered questions about where his work might have evolved. "Graphic and crude at times, and deeply centered around life in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas while being filled with unexpectedly beautiful, surprising, insightful imagery that adds as much mystery as meaning" (Lochaven Review).

Achille Castiglioni: Complete Works by POLANO, Sergio

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Title: Achille Castiglioni: Complete Works
Author: POLANO, Sergio
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9781904313045
Condition: fine
Description: Milan: Electa, 2002. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Achille Castiglioni. Illustrated with b/w and color images throughout. 476 pages. Large square 4to, navy boards, d.w., some minor scuffing. Milan: Electa, (2002). First English language edition. A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper.

A letter from a gentleman of quality in the countrey, to his friend … being an argument relating to the point of succession of the crown … by E.F.

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Title: A letter from a gentleman of quality in the countrey, to his friend … being an argument relating to the point of succession of the crown …
Author: E.F.
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: [London]: n.p., 1679. FIRST EDITION. Woodcut headpiece and initial. Disbound; some discoloration on the title page. Preserved in a cloth clamshell box. First edition. Written in the form of a letter addressed “To my Honoured Friend A.B.” and signed “Your Faithful and Humble Servant, E.F.”, the author was a supporter of Charles II and the monarchy. The pamphlet was issued during a moment of political and religious strife in England following restoration. Charles’s brother, James II, who was next in line to the throne was a Catholic. This angered the Protestants in Parliament who attempted to pass the Exclusion Bill of 1679 that would specifically prevent James II from taking the throne. E.F. opposes the legislation, writing in favor of Charles II and James II by stating that “the Parliament of England cannot by the Laws of England exclude the next Heir of the Blood from the Succession to the Crown” based on numerous historical precedents. A member of the House of Commons only identified as G.H. issued a scathing response entitled The power of Parliaments later that same year (Wing, H34).

Fiesta of San Estevan -- Acoma (B). Vintage photogravure by Curtis, Edward S.

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Title: Fiesta of San Estevan -- Acoma (B). Vintage photogravure
Author: Curtis, Edward S.
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Seattle, 1922. Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Seattle, Wash.] : Edward S. Curtis, 1907-30, volume 12, plate 220. Printed on Japanese vellum. Framed. Trimmed within plate mark. Stains at corners from mounting. Additional shipping required.

Autograph Letter Signed (“Mort”), Dec. 12, 1918, no place; undoubtedly written in France but inexplicably postmarked by the French military post in Smyrna, Turkey, to Laurance J. Scott, Burlingame, California. by Stelle, Major Morton,

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Title: Autograph Letter Signed (“Mort”), Dec. 12, 1918, no place; undoubtedly written in France but inexplicably postmarked by the French military post in Smyrna, Turkey, to Laurance J. Scott, Burlingame, California.
Author: Stelle, Major Morton,
Seller: Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Description: Quarto, 9 pages, plus original mailing envelope, paper folded, and lightly browned, otherwise in very good, clean and legible condition. 1918 US Military officer, American expatriate artist, volunteer Ambulance driver for the French at the start of the World War, witnesses President Wilson's arrival for the Peace Conference. 41 year-old Morton Burr Stelle, Jr. was a Cornell graduate, son of a Larchmont yachtsman from an old Virginia family, and a New York stockbroker who had retired at an early age to become an amateur painter in pre-war France. His wife, a relative of Republican Senator Mark Hanna, whom he had met at a tennis match, was the daughter of a millionaire Ohio breeder of racehorses. The recipient of this letter, the best man at Stelle's wedding, was son of the president of a San Francisco iron works who had been a best friend of President William McKinley's. Living in his Villa in an artist's colony in Brittany when the European war began, Stelle had immediately joined the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps founded by the French millionaire who headed the Morgan Bank in Paris to transport wounded Allied troops from the battlefields to French hospitals. The Corps was later numbered among its volunteers John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and Ernest Hemingway, but when Stelle offered his services, it had only two ambulances and four drivers. While his wife became a Red Cross nurse in a hospital, he remained in the Corps through the entire years of War until the US entered the conflict, when he was commissioned as and transferred to the US Army Ambulance Service and Motor Transport Service as liaison to the French, commanding 30 American and 25 French officers and 1500 soldiers who organized the truck transport of nearly half a million soldiers, using "lanterns by night and in secret" during the bloody fighting in the fall of 1918. At War's end, he went to Metz to receive the Croix de Guerre, awarded him "for his untiring and earnest work" since the start of the War, "which I would rather have than be a General." He was thus present at Metz and Strasbourg "to see the entrance of the President, Generals, etc. and it was a sight I shall never forget. The towns were a mass of flags and it was so pleasing to see the real joy of the people, at being once more French. The Streets were a mass of dancing, laughing, people…I saw one procession of dancing people lead by two French Generals, last with two girls on their arms laughing as boys. The Cafes were open all night but… I did not see one person drunk. It was a real fete and there were almost no Americans there…I hope Wilsons trip over here will do him a lot of good…I believe it a good idea for him to see for himself what a shelled town looks like and to see at first hand the damage done by the Hun…" Where villages had been there was nothing left, "not a wall a foot high…The fields so torn by overlapping shell holes that I doubt if a man could ride a horse across the fields at that sport…" The defeated German was "still a danger and will be for years. He can do many things well and these we can learn from him. His cities are clean and his railroads are good, but he is Vulgar and Coarse from the highest down…" Most of the letter is Stelle's gripe that he had not received a promised promotion to Lt. Colonel, but also a harrowing account of his wartime experiences that were far from the lifestyle of a rich dilettante. "The way to get promotion seems to be to sit at a desk in Washington." One of the ushers at his wedding had received done so, receiving that rank processing Artillery contracts at the War Department. Stelle read a letter from his friend, complaining of the "hard and trying life" in Washington, while he himself was at the front, having "worked hard all day and was wet and very cold as I was freezing and my feet were wet… and at night found myself forced to sleep in a… small and smoky… room with no windows as they had been shot away. From the windows one could see in the fields dead Americans French and Bosch." There was also no bed in the room, so Stelle dozed off wearing his uniform in a chair in front of a fire. To get my feet warm I had to get so close that my shins were too hot and all the time my back was freezing." The letter "was too funny to make me mad…" and having a good laugh, made him warmer. He was proud of the American soldiers who had come "over there". "Our men have been wonderful fighters, young and very fit and would be stopped by nothing. But Stelle was "only waiting for my French decoration to come along to ask to get out" of the service. "I want to go home and dig in the garden and would not stay a month longer in the Army for any parade down the Champs Elysees. I have had war four years of it and am tired and my reason for going in was to beat the Boche at a time when my country thought otherwise. They are more than bean now and the boys from the rear can rush to the front for all I care and parade all they wish. I want to wear a straw hat and flannels…" He had no intention of returning to America. "…We have bought our place here and will rebuild after things settle…"

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