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In a Moment of Passion by Christel [Frank Radcliffe]

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Title: In a Moment of Passion
Author: Christel [Frank Radcliffe]
Seller: Biblioctopus (United States)
Description: London: F.V. White & Co, 1886. First Edition. 3 vols. A novel of propinquity, suggesting that short memory is a poor substitute for clear conscience. Original cloth. Near fine, with only the lightest rubbing to the corners and spine ends, beautiful beyond good fortune and take a look at the numbers. A great rarity, not buyable elsewhere, in any condition, let alone like this. RBH records no set at auction, Wolff didn't have it, and there are only 5 institutional libraries with a copy (Cornell, British Library, Cambridge, Oxford and The National Library of Scotland).

A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings from the Collection of… at Stubbings House, Maidenhead. By Alfred Scharf by (MERTON, Thomas Ralph)

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Title: A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings from the Collection of… at Stubbings House, Maidenhead. By Alfred Scharf
Author: (MERTON, Thomas Ralph)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Frontis. & 33 plates. 78 pp. Large 4to, orig. crimson half-morocco & cloth, orig. printed dust jacket (a few inoffensive tears). London: Chiswick Press, 1950. The specially bound copy for the author of this privately printed catalogue. Merton (1888-1969), was a scientist specializing in spectroscopic research and was knighted in 1944 for his work during World War II. Merton’s small but sophisticated collection focused on early pictures from between 1450 and 1520. The catalogue describes 32 paintings and drawings, amongst which are featured van der Weyden’s Portrait of Guillaume de Fillastre (Courtauld Institute), Botticelli’s Portrait of Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici (on loan at the National Gallery of Art, Washington), and works by other major artists of the period. A lengthy description accompanies each work, as well as dimensions, references, and notes on provenance. Very fine copy.

[Collection of a Coast Guardsman Before and During World War II] by Sloan, John

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Title: [Collection of a Coast Guardsman Before and During World War II]
Author: Sloan, John
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Locations including North Africa, Chicago, San Francisco and Virginia, 1944. Very good. Most items around 11” x 8½”. Six newspaper clippings (2 mounted, 4 smaller loose) + 6 letters (4 handwritten, 2 typed, about 1,350 words) + 13 official military documents + 4 pages of handwritten notes. Generally very good with light to moderate wear; some old folds, scattered foxing and chipping; old adhesive to clippings. This is a collection of personal reminiscences and correspondence, official military ephemera and great photographic clippings documenting the illustrious career of United States Coast Guardsman John Sloan. In the years preceding and during World War II, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) grew exponentially, with nearly 250,000 men and women serving over the course of the war. The Guard supported both combat and traditional service missions, not limited to amphibious operations, search and rescue, marine safety, port security and beach patrol. Sloan served on important USCG missions aboard the ship Shoshone, patrolling Alaskan waters and the Bering Sea from 1940 to 1941, and the USS Joseph T. Dickman, which commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in 1941 and saw action in several major World War II campaigns. This collection holds his transfer request of April 1943, revealing that “it has been two years since I have been home or seen my mother. I enlisted in the Coast Guard in October, 1939 and have had 3 years continuous sea duty.” He served 19 months aboard the Dickman “in the Eastern, African, Middle European and Asiatic waters, and was a coxwain [sic] aboard an invasion barge at French Morocco. It would be greatly appreciated if I could be stationed somewhere around San Francisco, California, which is near my home at Windsor, California.” A few present clippings identify Sloan as part of a USCG Amphibious Force (“they call them the boys with 'one-way tickets'”) that gained honor for a raid on “a Nazi submarine nest under the guns of a North African fortress . . . after nine hours of stubborn fighting the enemy resistance was broken.” The men returned to the United States at the turn of 1943. A Windsor newspaper printed Sloan's letter home telling the thrilling tale: “So, mother, dear, we did a good job and it looks like the defeat of Hitler will be very soon.” He also made headlines for his work fighting a San Francisco pier fire, and a few clippings concern tragedies that occurred on other USCG ships. The collection holds fantastic letters to Sloan from former shipmates, relating personal stories of service on new assignments, as well as a few handwritten notes. These include the lyrics to a “Coast Guard song,” day-by-day details on the Shoshone's movements, and musings on “Amphibious transport”: “The USS Dickman A.P. 26 was called the Dirty Dick by US sailors because of the Mines, Bombs, and Torpedoes we encountered landing troops on enemy beaches and getting a little liberty.” One typed letter on Columbia Broadcasting System letterhead told Sloan where to check in to “be weighed in, examined, and matched for your second bout in the Tournament” and one friend wrote, “we salute Jarring Jawn Sloan, welter weight champ of the C.G. (restricted of course to the C.G. 64021-F and pier #5 San Francisco).” There are also a dozen or so military documents, including a Dickman Drift newsletter of November 1942 with news of the war in French Morocco and North Africa as well as a memo from the ship's Commanding Officer lauding the “splendid work done by the officers and crew prior to and during the recent exercise. This type of operation, consisting of a surprise landing at night on a strange and hostile shore, is the most difficult that a ship can be called upon to perform.” There are forms of his applications and graduations from USCG institutes, certificates of honorable discharge with enlistment and service data recorded, and a list of ribbons and stars Sloan had earned by April 1943. The collection also holds a worksheet on Indian currency and common phrases, and two copies of a hand-drawn signal map “for the Brushwood Task Group” on the USS Dickman. A fantastic group of firsthand materials from a member of the United States Coast Guard. An inventory of contents is available.

Paul Rand: His Work from 1946 to 1958 by RAND, Paul; Yusaku KAMEKURA, editor

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Title: Paul Rand: His Work from 1946 to 1958
Author: RAND, Paul; Yusaku KAMEKURA, editor
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: A fine copy with the previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, in a very good plus dust jacket with a 2-inch closed tear
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. First American edition. A fine copy with the previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown, in a very good plus dust jacket with a 2-inch closed tear on front and several abrasions along the spine. The slipcase is not present. 9.5 x 10 inches. 132 pages. Text in English and Japanese. Original cloth; in the original pictorial dust jacket. This book was conceived and produced entirely in Japan, and it contains informal texts by Bernard Rudofsky, Giovanni Pintori, and Hans Schleger, as well as the editor Yusaku Kamekura.

Heathens and Revolutionary Art by Baraka, Amiri

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Title: Heathens and Revolutionary Art
Author: Baraka, Amiri
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Original wraps. Fine. Signed limited edition of Heathens and Revolutionary Art by Amiri Baraka.. Octavo, [16pp]. Original white wraps, title in black on front cover. Solid text block, small crease to bottom of spine. One of 250 total copies, this one is listed "83" of 97 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the title page. LeRoi Jones (1934-2014), later known as Amiri Baraka, was an American poet, playwright, and activist. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he became a leading figure in the Beat Movement before transitioning to Black nationalism and later Marxism. His works, including the play Dutchman (1964) and the poetry collection The Dead Lecturer (1964), explored themes of race, identity, and politics. In 1965, he founded the Black Arts Repertory Theatre/School, a cornerstone of the Black Arts Movement. Baraka's writing and activism often sparked controversy for its confrontational tone, but he remained a significant voice in American literature and political discourse.

Briséïs Drame en Trois Actes ... Ephraïm Michaël & Catulle Mendès ... Partition Piano et Chant Réduite par l'Auteur Prix net: 10 Francs. [Piano-vocal score] by CHABRIER, Emmanuel 1841-1894

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Title: Briséïs Drame en Trois Actes ... Ephraïm Michaël & Catulle Mendès ... Partition Piano et Chant Réduite par l'Auteur Prix net: 10 Francs. [Piano-vocal score]
Author: CHABRIER, Emmanuel 1841-1894
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Paris: Enoch & Cie. [PN E. & C. 2006], 1899. Large octavo. Quarter mid-brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto half title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance and named cast list, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto contents, verso printer's note), 124 pp. Named cast list 1897 performance includes Engel, Ghasne, Nicolaou, Chrétien-Vaguet, and Éléanore Blanc and for the 1899 performance Vaguet, Renaud, Fournets, Chrétien-Vaguet, and Lucy Berthet. From the collection of French baritone André Baugé, with his small handstamp in blue ink to upper outer corner of free front endpaper. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. In three acts to a libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's Die Braut von Korinth, Briséïs was first performed in Paris at the Concerts Lamoureaux on 31 January 1897, under the direction of Charles Lamoureau and later in Paris at l'Académie Nationale de Musique in May 1899, under the direction of Bertrand and Gailhard. A noted French Romantic composer, Chabrier was equally at home in both the musical and the artistic and literary circles of late 19th century Paris; he was a friend of composers Fauré, Chausson, and d'Indy, artists including Monet and Manet, and writers Zola, Daudet, Richepin, and Mallarmé.

The self-pronouncing New Testament [of] Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek and with the former translation[s] frequently compared and revised ; the smallest in the world. [MINIATURE BOOK] by Bible

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Title: The self-pronouncing New Testament [of] Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ : translated out of the original Greek and with the former translation[s] frequently compared and revised ; the smallest in the world. [MINIATURE BOOK]
Author: Bible
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. brown leather. Very good
Description: Np: Np, 1900. leather_bound. Orig. brown leather. Very good. 185 unnumbered pages. 3 x 2 cm. Illustrated. As miniature as one can possibly imagine.

LEAVES OF CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED, OR VOICES FROM THE SILENT LAND by Mrs. H. Dwight Williams (author)

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Title: LEAVES OF CONSOLATION FOR THE AFFLICTED, OR VOICES FROM THE SILENT LAND
Author: Mrs. H. Dwight Williams (author)
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: near Very Good binding
Description: Philadelphia: Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1865. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding/no dust jacket. Small Octavo; sound binding; light rubbing to edges of spine and front cover; offsetting to pages 10 and 11 no markings in text. Page 49 has small chip to bottom corner (not obscuring text). This is a scarce item, protected in a hand-cut mylar cover. near Very Good binding / no dust jacket.

The Scoop -&- Behind the Screen by The Detection Club (Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, et al.)

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Title: The Scoop -&- Behind the Screen
Author: The Detection Club (Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, et al.)
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: New York: Harper & Row. (c.1983). 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. [minor shelfwear only, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase and brief note in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is bright and clean, flawless but for a tiny bit of wear at the spine ends]. Two mystery novellas, written in collaboration by the members of the Detection Club -- Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Hugh Walpole, E.C. Bentley, Anthony Berkeley, Clemence Dane, Ronald Knox, and Freeman Wills Crofts -- originally composed for radio broadcast in 1930, but not published in book form until the 1980s (by Gollancz in the U.K., just before this U.S. edition). "The Scoop," a murder tale set in a newspaper office, was plotted in outline form before the writers set to work; "Behind the Screen," by contrast, "was approached more in the spirit of a game: Walpole launched the story entirely on his own; Christie and Sayers continued as they fancied, each where her predecessor left off; and only the last three authors consulted together on how to unravel the clues presented by the first three -- in other words, they themselves had to solve a mystery." Introduction by Julian Symons, who gives a brief history of the Detection Club itself. .

North Carolina Transportation Museum Spencer, North Carolina by Wrinn, Jim; Boyd, Candice; Cox, Lynn

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Title: North Carolina Transportation Museum Spencer, North Carolina
Author: Wrinn, Jim; Boyd, Candice; Cox, Lynn
Seller: Americana Books ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781891468193
Condition: Very good
Description: Lawrenceburg, IN: The Creative Company, 2001. First Edition. Soft cover. Very good. Tall soft cover. 32 pages. Color illustrated glossy covers. Illustrated in color.

Starlight (Review Copy) by Scott Ely

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Title: Starlight (Review Copy)
Author: Scott Ely
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9781555840471
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only some very light rubbing to the spine ends. Review copy with the review slip and publisher's letter laid in. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection and will ship in a sturdy box.

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A destroying angel;: The conquest of smallpox in colonial Boston by Winslow, Ola Elizabeth

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Title: A destroying angel;: The conquest of smallpox in colonial Boston
Author: Winslow, Ola Elizabeth
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN: 9780395184530
Condition: Good
Description: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x5x0. Hardcover First printing with a dust jacket. Jacket has some sunning to the spine and a few sections have been torn/ chipped. Not price clipped. Now in an archival protective wrappers. Bright, clean cloth covered boards. has a gift inscription and a corner clipped on the half title page. Internally Clean, has a good binding, no marks or notations. Prompt shipping.

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