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ANDREW & NATHANIEL PLIMER, MINIATURE PAINTERS: THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WORKS by (BINDINGS - COSWAY BINDINGS). WILLIAMSON, GEORGE C.

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Title: ANDREW & NATHANIEL PLIMER, MINIATURE PAINTERS: THEIR LIVES AND THEIR WORKS
Author: (BINDINGS - COSWAY BINDINGS). WILLIAMSON, GEORGE C.
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. No. 128 OF 365 COPIES. 320 x 230 mm. (12 3/4 x 9). xv, [1], 163, [1] pp. SUPERB OLIVE GREEN MOROCCO COSWAY-STYLE BINDING BY RIVIERE & SON (stamp-signed on front turn-in), EACH COVER WITH FIVE MINIATURE PORTRAITS UNDER GLASS inspired by the work of the Plimers, these surrounded by ornate gilt strapwork and flowering vines, raised bands, spine compartments filled with a leafy floral spray, gilt lettering, gilt-ruled turn-ins with floral cornerpieces, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in contemporary chamois-lined burgundy morocco pull-off box. With five full-page illustrations of the Plimers' pencil sketches, and 50 black & white plates reproducing groups of miniature portraits, all with lettered tissue guards identifying the owner and the subjects of the paintings. Stephen Ratcliffe, "List of Authentic Cosway Bindings," citing "Renaissance" sale catalogue, item #129 in Cosway Bindings, Part II. Occasional trivial smudges, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean, fresh, and bright internally, IN A SPARKLING BINDING. This is an exquisite specimen of the so-called Cosway-style binding, studded with miniatures that reproduce the work of two painters who trained under the "Cosway" whose name is attached to this particularly recognizable binding design. The Cosway style of binding, with painted miniatures inlaid in handsome morocco, apparently originated with the London bookselling firm of Henry Sotheran about 1909, when art historian George C. Williamson's book on the miniaturist Richard Cosway was remaindered by Sotheran and given this special decorative treatment. The name "Cosway" then was used to describe any book so treated, whatever its subject. Our subject here is the brothers Andrew (1763-1837) and Nathaniel (1757-1822) Plimer, who came from a family of Shropshire clockmakers but who ran away to London to pursue their artistic dreams. They trained under the aforesaid Cosway before launching their own successful careers as miniature portraitists. Like Cosway's biography, Williamson (1858-1942) wrote the Plimers' story, that account being printed in the present volume, along with abundant illustrations of their miniatures, 10 of which are reproduced on the covers of our striking binding. These cover portraits are reminiscent of the work of Caroline Billin Currie (1849-1940), who executed finely painted miniatures on Cosway bindings from 1910 until her death, usually for bindings executed (as here) by the long-established Riviere bindery. Because Currie's work is normally signed, we do not think these cover paintings were done by her, but, in any case, the delicacy of the 18th century originals is recreated here with a deft hand in soft pastels that seem to glow next to the surrounding rich green morocco. Stephen Ratcliffe, who may well have studied Cosway bindings more than anyone, lists and pictures our volume in his definitive catalogue, but he does not comment on the painter..

Hot Water Music by Bukowski, Charles

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Title: Hot Water Music
Author: Bukowski, Charles
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Number 320 of 400 hardcover copies, signed by Charles Bukowski, with an added small self-portrait. Fine in original acetate wraps, which have a bit of wear at tips, housed in a pretty orange slipcase. A collection of semi-autobiographical short stories including "Long Distance Drunk," "Scream When You Burn" and "A Working Day.

The Bell Jar by Plath, Sylvia

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Title: The Bell Jar
Author: Plath, Sylvia
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First American edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. The novel was first published in the United Kingdom under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Some fading to topstain. Dust jacket with very slight edgewear. Overall a very appealing copy. The Bell Jar was Plath's only novel and the final book she published in her lifetime. A largely autobiographical work, The Bell Jar reflects Plath's downward spiral into mental illness; she committed suicide a month after the novel's publication in 1963. Through her character Esther Greenwood, Plath unfolds a fictionalized account of her own life that is "told with blistering honesty and vivid attention to detail. It's a raw, unsettling book with flashes of brilliance, a roman a clef that's a tormented footnote to Plath's tormented poetry" (The Guardian). Like Plath herself, Esther struggles in the space between genius and madness; having escaped from a controlling mother, she seeks to own her life but falls into a deep and smothering depression. "Esther's predicament is how to develop a mature identity as a woman, and be true to that self rather than conform to societal norms. It's this quest that makes The Bell Jar a founding text of Anglo-American feminism" (The Guardian). Feminist Companion, 859. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

SIGNED. The Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space by Roadman, Charles H., Strughold, Hubertus and Mitchell, Roland B.

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Title: SIGNED. The Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Bioastronautics and the Exploration of Space
Author: Roadman, Charles H., Strughold, Hubertus and Mitchell, Roland B.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Springfield, Virginia: Aerospace Medical Division, United States Air Force, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. Clearinghouse for Federal, Scientific and Technical Information, 1968. First edition. 1968 SYMPOSIUM ON AMERICAN AEROSPACE MEDICINE ONE YEAR BEFORE AMERICANS LANDED ON THE MOON--SIGNED BY THE 3 EDITORS. 9 1/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's ivory cloth binding, decorative cover with title and staff of Asclepius surrounded by symbols for 9 planets, signed on front free endpaper by the 3 editors, i-xiii, 620 pp, many illustrations in text, light soiling to covers, very good in custom archival mylar cover. CONTENTS include Harold C. Urey on evolution of atmospheres and oceans, Alberto Hurtado on evolutionary adaptation to life at high altitude, and Fred L. Whipple on scientific advances resulting from the space program. CHARLES H. ROADMAN (1914 – 2000) entered active military duty with the Medical Corps in October 1940. He completed the School of Aviation Medicine in 1941, and entered flying training and received his pilot wings in 1942. During World War II, he assisted in the development of the Central Pilot Instructor's School, and actively instructed both in the flying and ground school phases. In September 1946 he was assigned to the School of Aviation Medicine as chief of the Preventive Medicine Division, with subsequent assignments as director of operations and executive officer. In November 1961 General Roadman was assigned director, Aerospace Medicine, Manned Spaceflight, NASA, where he was responsible for the planning, programming, and implementation of all medical development and medical support for Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo, and the Manned Lunar Landing Program. He received the Missileman Badge for duty performed with NASA. In July 1963 General Roadman was assigned to Headquarters Air Defense Command, Ent Air Force Base, Colo., as command surgeon.In May 1966 he assumed command of the Aerospace Medical Division, Brooks Air Force Base Texas. HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD (1898 –1986) was a German-born physiologist and prominent medical researcher. In 1928 Strughold traveled to the United States on a year-long research fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation. He conducted specialized studies into aviation medicine and human physiology at the University of Chicago and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He would also visit the medical laboratories at Harvard, Columbia and the Mayo Clinic. Strughold returned to Germany the following year and accepted a teaching position at the Würzburg Physiological Institute, eventually becoming an adjunct professor there in 1933. Beginning in 1935 he served as chief of aeromedical research for the Luftwaffe, holding this position throughout World War II. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Strughold's organization was absorbed into the Luftwaffe itself and was attached its medical service. It was renamed the Air Force Institute for Aviation Medicine, and placed under the command of Luftwaffe Surgeon-General Erich Hippke. In October 1942, Strughold attended a medical conference in Nuremberg at which SS physician Sigmund Rascher delivered a presentation outlining various medical experiments he had conducted, in conjunction with the Luftwaffe, in which prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp were used as human test subjects. Following the German defeat in May, 1945, Strughold claimed to Allied authorities that, despite his influential position within the Luftwaffe Medical Service and his attendance at the October 1942 medical conference, he had no knowledge of the atrocities committed at Dachau. He was never subsequently charged with any wrongdoing by the Allies. However, a 1946 memorandum produced by the staff of the Nuremberg Trials listed Strughold as one of thirteen "persons, firms or individuals implicated" in the war crimes committed at Dachau. In October, 1945 Strughold returned to academia, becoming director of the Physiological Institute at Heidelberg University. He also began working on behalf of the US Army Air Force, becoming Chief Scientist of its Aeromedical Center. In 1947 Strughold was brought to the United States, along with many other highly valuable German scientists, as part of Operation Paperclip. He was assigned to the US Air Force School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field near San Antonio, Texas. It was while at Randolph Field that Strughold began conducting some of the first research into the potential medical challenges posed by space travel, in conjunction with fellow "Paperclip Scientist" Dr. Heinz Haber. Strughold coined the terms "space medicine" and "astrobiology" to describe this area of study in 1948. The following year he was appointed as the first and only Professor of Space Medicine at the US Air Force's newly established School of Aviation Medicine, one of the first institutions dedicated to conducting research on "astrobiology" and the so-called "human factors" associated with manned spaceflight. Under Strughold, the School of Aviation Medicine conducted pioneering studies on issues such as atmospheric control, the physical effects of weightlessness and the disruption of normal time cycles. Between 1952 and 1954 he would oversee the building of the space cabin simulator, a sealed chamber in which human test subjects were placed for extended periods of time in order to view the potential physical, astrobiological, and psychological effects of extra-atmospheric flight. Strughold obtained US citizenship in 1956 and was appointed Chief Scientist of the NASA Aerospace Medical Division in 1962. While at NASA, Strughold played a central role in designing the pressure suit and onboard life support systems used by both the Gemini and Apollo astronauts. He also directed the specialized training of the flight surgeons and medical staff of the Apollo program in advance of the planned mission to the Moon. Following his death, Strughold's alleged connection to the Dachau experiments became more widely known following the release of US Army Intelligence documents from 1945 that listed him among those being sought as war criminals by US authorities. These revelations did significant damage to Strughold's reputation and resulted in the revocation of various honors that had been bestowed upon him over the course of his career. ROLAND B. MITCHELL was Chief, Biological Sciences Division, Directorate of Research and Development, Aerospace Medical Division (AFSC), Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. OPERATION PAPERCLIP was a secret program of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency after the end of World War II, in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun, were recruited in Germany and taken to the U.S. for government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members, and some were former leaders, of the Nazi Party. The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War, and the Space Race. The Joint Chiefs of Staff established the first secret recruitment program, called Operation Overcast, on July 20, 1945. In November 1945, Operation Overcast was renamed Operation Paperclip by Ordnance officers, who would attach a paperclip to the folders of those rocket experts whom they wished to employ in America. In a secret directive circulated on September 3, 1946, President Truman officially approved Operation Paperclip and expanded it to include one thousand German scientists under "temporary, limited military custody". Between 1945 and 1952, the United States Air Force sponsored the largest number of Paperclip scientists, importing 260 men. The New Mexico Museum of Space History includes the International Space Hall of Fame. Three Operation Paperclip members were inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame: Wernher von Braun (1976), Hubertus Strughold (1978) and Ernst Steinhoff (1979). Several of the Paperclip scientists were later investigated because of their links with the Nazi Party during the war, leading to Strughold's removal in 2006. No Paperclip scientist was found guilty of any crime, in America or Germany.

Women in Trade Unions in San Francisco. by Matthews, Lillian Ruth

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Title: Women in Trade Unions in San Francisco.
Author: Matthews, Lillian Ruth
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Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1913 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Thin quarto. 100pp. Printed gray wrappers. Edges of covers toned, edges lightly chipped and worn. A very good copy, internally fine and complete. First edition, Vol. 3, No. 1 of the University of California Publications in Economics. The author was a "Flood Fellow" in Economics at the University. This was her PhD. thesis. Chapters include Early History, Steam Laundry Workers, Bindery Women, Press Feeders, Typographical Union, Tobacco Workers, United Garment Workers, Office Employees, Bottle Caners, Glove Workers, and a host of other categories. [Rocq: 10403]. .

The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain

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Title: The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain
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Description: London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1848. 8vo, pp. [4], 36, 35, [1], 47, [1], 40, 48, 39, [1], 32, 52, 56, 48, 36, 24; text illustrations throughout with full-page engravings heading each section; contemporary green cloth, gilt title on spine; light wear to extremities, edges spotted, very good with contemporary inscription reading: "To William Saunders a small present from his friend [?] Lovels." With sections on paper, glass, leather, parchment, glue, sugar, and various textiles.

Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, March 25, 1865. Vol. IX. No. 430. by [Harper’s Weekly].

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Title: Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization. New York, Saturday, March 25, 1865. Vol. IX. No. 430.
Author: [Harper’s Weekly].
Seller: Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (United States)
Description: Folio, newspaper, illustrated, 177- 192 pp. Chips, small tears and folds in margins, a little soiling, aging and browning; otherise very good. This is a Civil War issue, that includes coverage of General Philip Sheridan's campaign. There is a small map showing his progress outside Richmond, and a full page wood engraving illustrating his men moving into position. This issue also includes a lot of coverage of "The Triumph In New York", which was a city celebration fueled by the march toward the end of the war.

BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN by Bock, Charles

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Title: BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN
Author: Bock, Charles
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781400066506
Condition: Fine
Description: NY: Random House, 2008. First edition, first prnt. Signed and dated "3/3/8" by Bock on the title page. Spine topedge lightly bumped; otherwise, an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover.. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lindner by Ashton, Dore

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Title: Lindner
Author: Ashton, Dore
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Berkeley: University of California, 1969. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. Unpaginated. Lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.

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