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On the Prisons of Philadelphia

On the Prisons of Philadelphia by LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC
Title
On the Prisons of Philadelphia
Author
LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: Moreau De Saint-Mery, 1796. EDDY, Thomas. . By A European. Philadelphia: Moreau De Saint-Mery, 1796. Full Description: [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD LIANCOURT, author]. [EDDY, Thomas, Association]. On the Prisons of Philadelphia. By A European. Philadelphia: Moreau De Saint-Mery, January 1796. First American edition. printed at the same time as the first edition on French of a treatise on the Philadelphia prison system (Both registered for publication on Jan. 2, 1796). Octavo (7 13/16 x 4 13/16 inches; 198 x 120 mm). 46, [2, blank] pp. With two pages of tables. Title-page with ownership signature of Thomas Eddy, a New York politician charged with the oversight of the construction of the first State Prison in New York and its first Director. Pamphlet bound in quarter red cloth over marbled boards. Remnants of a bookplate that has been removed to front pastedown. Some general foxing and toning to leaves. Title-page and table leaves trimmed close. Touching Eddy's signature and a portion of the chart. Final three leaves with small tears to upper, outer corners, not affecting text. A one-inch closed tear to leaf B, just touching a few letters but with no loss. Overall a very good copy. This anonymous treatise is attributed to La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, "a French social reformer who was forced to flee to England in 1792 due to his support of King Louis XVI during the French Revolution. Arriving in America in 1794, La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt toured the northern United States and Canada for several years before leaving for Hamburg in 1797 and returning to France in 1799." He also wrote "Travels through the United States of North America." This work focuses on the economic and social conditions of the United States and Canada. (Lehigh University). "In the late 1700s, on the heels of the American Revolution, Philadelphia emerged as a national and international leader in prison reform and the transformation of criminal justice practices. More than any other community in early America, Philadelphia invested heavily in the intellectual and physical reconstruction of penal philosophies, and the region's jails and prisons reflected these evolving principles. Throughout the 1800s, global and local observers looked to Philadelphia-particularly the Pennsylvania system of solitary confinement pioneered at Eastern State Penitentiary-as they modeled penal practices in their communities..." (Annie Anderson, The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia). It is often argued that Walnut Street Prison in Philadelphia is the first prison in the United States. "One of [Thomas] Eddy's most noted philanthropic achievements was the reform of New York's penal laws. In the early 1790s, he began a campaign to end branding, whipping, and solitary confinement in the state prisons. In 1796, he shepherded a bill through the state legislature that established new standards for the penitentiary system. He was appointed to oversee the construction of the first state prison and served from 1797 to 1801 as its first director." Evans 30674. Sabin 39054. HBS 69290. $2,250.
A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900

A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900 by [Industrial Photography] Reading Crane and Hoist Works

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A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900
Author
[Industrial Photography] Reading Crane and Hoist Works
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Reading, 1900. Oblong 8vo, black cloth covered boards. With 101 prints, 70 on silver and 31 on printing out paper. Each picture captioned. Near Fine. The Reading Crane and Hoist Company, later Roeper Hoist and Crane Works, installed cranes throughout the Northeast, many of which are pictured here. Many pictures show designs patented in the late 1890s, making the production date most likely circa 1900-1910. The photographs are well composed, proto-modernist and quite detailed. Unrecorded in OCLC. One page detached else about fine with minimal wear.
Press Photo of Olive Moorefield’s Mother on the Porch of Moorefield’s Childhood Home, 1952

Press Photo of Olive Moorefield’s Mother on the Porch of Moorefield’s Childhood Home, 1952 by [African-Americana – Theater – Opera] International News Photos

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Press Photo of Olive Moorefield’s Mother on the Porch of Moorefield’s Childhood Home, 1952
Author
[African-Americana – Theater – Opera] International News Photos
Seller
Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Homestead, Pennsylvania, 1952. 7 x 9 inch photograph. International News Photos and Tribune 4th Edition stamps verso, with newspaper clipping. Marked “623” in pencil recto. Fine. Olive Moorefield (b.1932) is an American opera singer and theater and film actress from Homestead, Pennsylvania. As the newspaper clipping on the back of this photograph—from very early in Moorefield’s career—explains, “She had earned $22 by baby sitting and decided to go to New York in hopes of auditioning for a play. She was given a try at a part in ‘My Darlin’ Aida’ [...] She made the grade”. Following Aida, she was brought to Vienna by the US Information Service to sing for servicemen, and would go on to sing for the Vienna Volksoper, Oper Frankfurt, Schauspielhaus Zürich, and others. She would also star in a number of German and Viennese films. Offered here is a photograph of Moorefield’s mother sitting on the porch of Moorefield’s childhood home. The clipping states that her mother “urged her to try for the part” of Lolly in Aida.
PARIS IS BURNING (1991) One sheet poster

PARIS IS BURNING (1991) One sheet poster by Prestige

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PARIS IS BURNING (1991) One sheet poster
Author
Prestige
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Prestige. No binding. Fine. New York]: Prestige, 1991. Vintage original 41 x 27" (104 x 69 cm.) one sheet poster, unfolded, fine. An immaculate example of the theatrical poster for this now classic documentary by Jennie Livingston. "Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it. Critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the 'Golden Age' of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America. "In 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'." (Wikipedia)
Apes and Scrapes (with Kittens' Lesson)

Apes and Scrapes (with Kittens' Lesson) by Weatherly, F E (Frederick Edward)

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Title
Apes and Scrapes (with Kittens' Lesson)
Author
Weatherly, F E (Frederick Edward)
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London & New York: Hildesheimer & Faulkner / Geo. C. Whitney, 1890 16 pgs including covers (unpaginated. Color printed card covers with string binding, light edge wear, faint owner's name on cover, a few finger marks, but clean overall. Contains the verses Kittens' Lesson and Apes and Scrapes. I believe the cover and one illustration of kittens is by H H Couldery and the rest are by H R Miller (possibly early work by H R Millar) The artwork for both verses is amusing, featuring humanized animals, all in color. Not in Necker. One copy located on Worldcat, at Princeton University. . Card Covers. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by H H Couldery (Henry Horatio) & H R Miller (Harold Robert Millar?). Oblong 16mo..
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M. annaei lucani pharsalia, sive de bello civili caesaris & pompeii by LUCAN

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M. annaei lucani pharsalia, sive de bello civili caesaris & pompeii
Author
LUCAN
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Venice: Stephani Curti, 1689. Engraved title by Portio F., second letterpress title with woodcut engraving of a lion, decorated initials. Seventeenth century vellum over pasteboards, spine hand-lettered, front cover lacking, spine torn and detached from inner hinge; small stain at upper fore-edges, text not affected. An edition of Lucan's ten books on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey as well as an excerpt from Petronius's Satyricon consisting of the writer's "poem" on the civil war. The annotator, Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), a major figure in the history of law, first published his notes on Lucan in 1614. Housman remarked that, despite criticisms, "[Grotius'] exercise of choice and judgment was serious and steady; he is the greatest critic, excepting Bentley, who ever edited Lucan; and even now it is often necessary to a bandon Cortius and Oudendorp and the rest of his successors and return to the text of Grotius.
Les flottes de guerre au combat. De la Guerre de Sécession à la Grande Guerre (1861-1914). [Tome I only]

Les flottes de guerre au combat. De la Guerre de Sécession à la Grande Guerre (1861-1914). [Tome I only] by Wilson, H.W.

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Title
Les flottes de guerre au combat. De la Guerre de Sécession à la Grande Guerre (1861-1914). [Tome I only]
Author
Wilson, H.W.
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A very good+ copy, spine ends rubbed, foxing to endpapers, leaves just browning.
Description
Paris: Payot, 1928. First edition. Three quarter black morocco over marbled boards, spine decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in. A very good+ copy, spine ends rubbed, foxing to endpapers, leaves just browning.. 444 pp. Illus. with 12 b/w photos and 16 plans. 8vo. Collection de mémoirs, études et documents pour servir a l'histoire de la guerre mondiale.
That Uncertain Feeling

That Uncertain Feeling by AMIS, Kingsley

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Title
That Uncertain Feeling
Author
AMIS, Kingsley
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1956. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 247 pages. The second novel from the author of "Lucky Jim." A clean near fine copy in cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with numerous small edge chips and other light wear. Despite the chipping a pleasing copy with none of the usual sunning to the spine.
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Cavedweller. by ALLISON, Dorothy.

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Title
Cavedweller.
Author
ALLISON, Dorothy.
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Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
NY: Dutton. Fine. 1998. Paperback. Advance reading copy (paperback). Fine in glossy pictorial wraps. .
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THE MOSAICS OF ST. SOPHIA AT ISTANBUL. SECOND PRELIMINARY REPORT: WORK DONE IN 1933 AND 1934, THE MOSAICS OF THE SOUTHERN VESTIBULE by Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-

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THE MOSAICS OF ST. SOPHIA AT ISTANBUL. SECOND PRELIMINARY REPORT: WORK DONE IN 1933 AND 1934, THE MOSAICS OF THE SOUTHERN VESTIBULE
Author
Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Paris: Oxford University Press for The Byzantine Institute, 1936. Softcover. Quarto, 57 pages + 20 leaves of b&w plates. In Good minus condition. Spine is brown with black print. Cover is brown with brown print, creasing to overlarge edges, tear to front hinge, surface tear on rear. Text block has mildly cocked spine. Illustrated with b&w plates. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Netdesk Column QA (ND-QA). 1369369. FP New Rockville Stock.

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