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Vernacular Picture-Book Dedicated to New Jersey Music Teacher Bertha Battersby by [Bertha Battersby] Henry S. Hulse, Jr.

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Title: Vernacular Picture-Book Dedicated to New Jersey Music Teacher Bertha Battersby
Author: [Bertha Battersby] Henry S. Hulse, Jr.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good -
Description: Elizabeth, NY, 1956. Very Good -. Elizabeth, NJ: 1956. Large quarto scrapbook (33x26cm.); black paper over paste-paper boards; [27]ll. filled to two-thirds completion. Boards rather scuffed and toned, leaves brittle with shallow chips and tears to margins not affecting contents, preliminary leaf separated but present; overall Good to Very Good, contents remaining clean and sound. This hand-made picture book opens with an autograph poem dedicated to Bertha Battersby (1891-1960) and signed by a Henry S. Hulse, Jr., the presumed compiler of this work. The book includes four leaves of original typescript poetry; eight leaves of typescript narrative; and fifteen ink and watercolor illustrations die-cut where Battersby could put a small cut-out of her photograph if so desired. The work concludes with a local news clipping announcing Battersby's retirement after forty-three years of teaching, the final twenty-five years at Elizabeth and Newark, New Jersey. A wonderful record of the career of lifelong music teacher Bertha Battersby. The compiler, either a very devoted student, friend, or fellow-teacher, both lovingly and facetiously places his subject in light of major world events, opening with her birth: "There were two-world shaking developments of the very, very late nineteenth century to make their appearance on the American scene. One took place in Detroit--the horseless carriage. The more important event took place in Pennsylvania--Bertha Battersby." In this version of events, Battersby takes up women's rights ("So we speculatively see Bertha 'Suffragette' Battersby parading down Broad St., Elizabeth, demanding her equal rights--her right to vote"); contributes to the ascension of American capitalism alongside her peers Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Harvey Firestone ("Bea's ever increasing interest in surf and turf was given a new stimulus with the psychic pay she was receiving in Elizabeth, so she allowed herself the luxury of an occasional two bucks at Saratoga or two bucks at Atlantic City"); and dances her way through prohibition ("But due to high caloric content of liquor, Bea wouldn't know anything about 'booze' or 'bathtub gin' or 'speakeasies' or 'grog-shops'"). The final section of the text is devoted to Battersby's career as the Supervisor of Music at the Burnet Street School in Elizabeth, where she mounted the final Christmas pageant to great acclaim. The news clipping announcing her retirement reproduces a photograph of Battersby at the event, looking a right jolly woman.

Binding, Fine) Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti; con una notizia intorno agli autografi delle tragedie conservati nella mediceo-laurenziana, ed alle prime e principali edizioni di Esse by Alfieri, Vittorio

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Title: Binding, Fine) Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti; con una notizia intorno agli autografi delle tragedie conservati nella mediceo-laurenziana, ed alle prime e principali edizioni di Esse
Author: Alfieri, Vittorio
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good Plus
Description: Firenze: Successori Le Monnier, 1866. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. Second Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Two volumes, with the bookplates of Louis Dyer, Sunbury Lodge, Oxford front paste downs. Louis Dyer (1851-1908) was an American educator and autho and was a lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. Two volumes bound in contemporary unsigned full vellum, covers with double gilt rules bordering gilt tooled emblems of Oxoniensis Academia (Fronts) and Coll deBal Oxon (rear covers), the backs with two red morocco labels and intricate gilt tooled decorations, marbled end papers, edges dyed yellow. Overall a thoroughly delightful Oxford binding. Very Good Plus, the vellum lightly soiled, scattered toning to end papers. interior text clean and bright. Frontispiece portrait engraving and fold-out chart Vol. I. A rather SCARCE edition, text in Italian..

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Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Roles by Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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Title: Baryshnikov at Work: Mikhail Baryshnikov Discusses His Roles
Author: Baryshnikov, Mikhail
Seller: Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780394403458
Condition: Near Fine
Description: U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Edition as stated by Second Printing on copyright page. Signed by author on half title page. Inscribed by previous owner on front free endpaper. Original price of 30.00 on dust jacket. Near fine book, dent on bottom front cover, and bumps on corners of front and back cover, sides of spine, and bottom back cover. Near fine dust jacket, shows use of wear on corners of spine, back, and bottom front cover, darkening on the inner flaps.

Uomini e Civilta Agraria in Territorio Veronese Volumes I and II by Borelli, Giorgio [edited by]

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Title: Uomini e Civilta Agraria in Territorio Veronese Volumes I and II
Author: Borelli, Giorgio [edited by]
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Banca Popolare di Verona, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Hardcover. TWO VOLUME SET. Volume I is the 9th-17th centuries and Volume II is the 18th-20th centuries. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Minor rubbing to spine ends of both volumes and Light bumping to corners. Both volumes have a small bump to the bottom edge of the front board and a small and light scratch to the bottom edge of the text block. Very very slight, barely noticeable yellowing to the edges of the pages. Else is clean and bright with many illustrations throughout. Dark blue illustrated dust jackets with white titles to front and spine panels. One small closed tear to bottom edge of front dust jacket panel on volume I corresponding with the bump on the board. Slight rubbing to edges of dust jackets. TEXT IN ITALIAN. ITAHIS01/092199.

Illustrirte Dorfzeitung des Lahrer Hinkenden Boten. VI Band by Boten, Lahrer Hinkenden

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Title: Illustrirte Dorfzeitung des Lahrer Hinkenden Boten. VI Band
Author: Boten, Lahrer Hinkenden
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Lahr: J.H. Gieger, 1868. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. (Illustrated Village Newpaper. Volume 6) Includes 52 issues bound together in one volume. Good in half leather with marbled paper covered boards. Boards are rubbed, front cover is detached, and leather spine panel is missing. Previous owner inscription to front endpage dated 22/3/69. First two pages are present but detached and have a few chips along the edges. Browning to margins of pages. Includes numerous illustrations. Some of the original yellow paper wrappers bound into rear. 401 pages. A good reading copy. German. GER/4223.

Chansons des Clochers-a-Jour suivies de Chansons en marge by Botrel, Theodore

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Title: Chansons des Clochers-a-Jour suivies de Chansons en marge
Author: Botrel, Theodore
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: G. Ondet, 1912. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Very good in modern rebinding, black cloth with gilt lettering. Original illustrated wraps bound in. Black and white photographs. Gift inscription on early blank. Music. MUS1/8240.

A Glass Face in the Rain; New Poems by Stafford, William

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Title: A Glass Face in the Rain; New Poems
Author: Stafford, William
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780060150464
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Stafford on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($12.95). Purple cloth with gilt lettering on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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