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Propos sur l'Intelligence by Valery, Paul

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Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
Propos sur l'Intelligence
Author
Valery, Paul
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Paris: a l'Enseigne de la Porte Etroite, 1926. Limited Edition. Paperback. Very Good+. Original printed wraps, in glassine dust jacket. Limited Edition, one of 30 copies reserved for friends of Valery, and inscribed by him to Elisabeth Henaux on the FFEP. Chip at tail of spine, with gatherings exposed; corners gently rubbed. Dust jacket just a little chipped along the edges, with larger chip at tail of spine. An attractive copy, internally bright and clean.
An Archive of General William F. "Baldy" Smith to General William B. Franklin

An Archive of General William F. "Baldy" Smith to General William B. Franklin by WILLIAM F. SMITH

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Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
Title
An Archive of General William F. "Baldy" Smith to General William B. Franklin
Author
WILLIAM F. SMITH
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Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description
Archive. WILLIAM F. SMITH (1824-1903). William Smith, a Civil War general, graduated from West Point in 1845 and fought at Bull Run, Gettysburg and Cold Harbor. He was President of the International Telegraph Company from 1864 to 1873. WILLIAM BUEL FRANKLIN (1823-1903). Franklin was a Civil War general who saw action at Antietam and Fredericksburg. Archive. 5 letters. October 186_, December 5, 1871, April 28, 1882, March 26, 1887 and July 19th 18__. New York and Washington, DC. A collection of five autographed letters from William F. Smith to William B. Franklin: a) LS. 1pg. 5 " x 9". Oct 186_. New York. A letter signed " Wm. F. Smith" on International Ocean Telegraph stationery: "Enclosed herewith please find a proxy made out in my name for the purpose of voting your stock at the next election of Directors." This vote would eventually propel Smith to the head of the Ocean Telegraph Company only a few years after Cyrus West Fields laid the first successful transatlantic cable. The letter has a few pinholes that touch a few words. b) ALS. 2pg. 5 " x 9". Dec 5th 1871. New York. An autograph letter signed " Wm. F. Smith" on International Ocean Telegraph stationery. It concerns Franklin's activities at Colt. Following the Civil War, America became the largest arms exporter in the world of both new and used pistols and rifles, supplying the growing and warring armies of Europe: "I hope to be able to sell some pistols which are to go out of the country. They will also want ammunition." At the time of the letter, the Franco-Prussian War had just ended and British troops were fighting from Africa to India, all relying on arms and ammunition from America. Smith seemed to be employing his telegraph company to help sell Franklin's arms abroad, "and I want to make enough to pay for my time." c) ALS. 2pg. 5 " x 9". April 28th 1882. New York. An autograph letter signed " Wm. F. Smith" and also initialed, written on Globe Mutual Life Insurance stationery: "I saw in the paper some time since that Gatchell an agent of Boiler Insurance Co. had attended some experiments of Lamson... can you tell me about what was his report was and whether your company has any interest or whether it would be for interest to see the new system carried out. I have bought the European rights for the patents and want all the information I can get on the subject." Lamson tubes, also known as pneumatic tubes, were used extensively in Victorian England by telegraph companies to transport messages from cable stations to nearby buildings. The letter is an interesting example of technology and patents at the dawn of the 20th Century. d) ALS. 4pg. 5" x 8". Mch 26, 1887. Washington. An autograph letter signed " Wm. F." and penned on Naval Department stationery. The letter deals extensively with questions regarding the production and sales of various guns and ammunitions to the Navy. "As to ammunition Sec. Wm. C. (Sec. of the Navy) will draw your shells. I should say caliber .45 with bullets, 500 grains of charge 200 to 250 grams compressed powder (Hebler's cartridge) you might with a suitable length of barrel have a velocity of 200 f s and a penetration of 1.5 meters." Smith proceeds to identify the ideal weapon he is seeking, "to have at least 600m. for infantry and to render useless all light breastworks and play the part of specialty for the thin sided torpedo boats". Smith was also an early proponent of domestic arms production, " the necessity for having them made in this country is that we may be able to get them always when we want them." William C. Whitney, Grover Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, early on recognized the danger of PT boats to a modern navy, and sought a modern gun to combat them as well as more modern armor. e) ALS. 1pg. 5" x 8". July 19th. No place. An autograph letter signed " Wm. F.": "The friends of Patrick Dooley known as The Horse at Ft. Leavenworth wish him transferred to Ft. Monroe. The claim is that his family... in case of death they can bring him to be buried with his kin. I promised to write and this does not require an answer." The letter seems to be a request to General Franklin to allow the transfer of Dooley, a prisoner at Leavenworth to a brig closer to his home. Overall, this archive is an interesting set of letters following the path of two Civil War generals through the Gilded Age of capitalism and technology, and yet how they stayed closely tied to the military complex then developing within the nation. All letters are in excellent condition with no age or wear marks
Reefer Madness poster

Reefer Madness poster

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
Reefer Madness poster
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
1970. 17" x 11" offset. Fine. 17" x 11" offset. The infamous 1936 film Reefer Madness was funded by a church group and made in earnest as anti-marijuana propaganda depicting the extreme perils of drug abuse. In the 1972 the film was rediscovered and shown as satire to throngs of stoned audiences who found all of the messages comically absurd. Underground film maker Jack Smith wrote an appreciation for The Village Voice in which he stated that "it is a beautiful film, and everyone in the arts should see it." There are subsequently a lot of variant posters that were made in the '70s to promote midnight screenings of the film however this may well be the most racy of them all.
The Land of Heart's Desire

The Land of Heart's Desire by Yeats

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller
Title
The Land of Heart's Desire
Author
Yeats
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James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Bound in cream-coloured vellum wrappers printed in green, The spine and extremities of the covers are lightly browned, else a ne
Description
Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, 1909. First (American) edition thus, by this publisher, later printing, limited to 500 copies, printed on Japan Vellum [see Wade 13A; first issued in 1903 by Mosher]. pp. xx, 32 pages. Small 4to. Bound in cream-coloured vellum wrappers printed in green, The spine and extremities of the covers are lightly browned, else a near fine copy. First (American) edition thus, by this publisher, later printing, limited to 500 copies, printed on Japan Vellum [see Wade 13A; first issued in 1903 by Mosher]. pp. xx, 32 pages. Small 4to. Wade 13A
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The autocrat of the breakfast table by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
The autocrat of the breakfast table
Author
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894. Half-title and title in red and black, frontispiece in each volume. With 13 plates. Full vellum, decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. A bright, clean and uncut copy with the bookplates of Carroll Atwood Wilson and Edwin B. Holden. Large paper limited edition, number 1 of 250 numbered printed. Pyle (1853-1911) was one of America’s foremost illustrators known for the timeless quality of his work. Some of the other works written and illustrated by him are Book of pirates; The story of King Arthur and his knights and The merry adventures of Robin Hood. BAL, 9215; C&T, p. 81.
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The school boy by HOLMES, Oliver Wendell

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts
Title
The school boy
Author
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. FIRST EDITION. With engraved frontispiece, 25 cuts, and 4 engraved plates. Original decorated cloth over beveled boards, with decorated pictorial end-papers, lightly rubbed at corners, as well as head and foot of spine, small tear to top right corner of top board; some off-set browning and spotting to end-papers, and some light spotting to preliminaries. Bookplate of the “House of Whittemore” tipped in to recto of fly-leaf. First edition of this poem, which was read on June 6, 1878, at the centennial of the founding of Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the school Holmes’ attended as a boy. This, the first published edition, was preceded by a private printing, which bore neither a title page, a title, or the author’s name. BAL, 8931; C&T, p. 169.
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Special Troops 2d Inf Div. Camp Swift Texas 18 March 1946 [caption title] by [United States Army]: [Texas Photographica]

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Title
Special Troops 2d Inf Div. Camp Swift Texas 18 March 1946 [caption title]
Author
[United States Army]: [Texas Photographica]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Good plus.
Description
San Antonio: C. Ekmark Photo, 1946. Good plus.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 48.25 inches. Minor staining and soiling, light creasing. A vivid yardlong image capturing the "special troops" of the Second Infantry Division while training at Camp Swift, Texas in the wake of the Second World War. Seven groups of soldiers are ranged across the photograph, with the band in the middle, all posed in front of a long line of tanks, transport trucks, and half-tracks. Camp Swift, located just west of Austin in Bastrop County, can be seen in the far background. "Special troops" are a unit of the special forces designed to provide command and control of a larger Army unit, among other duties. "During World War II, [Camp Swift] reached a maximum strength of 90,000 troops and included, at different times, the 95th, 97th, and 102d Infantry divisions, the 10th Mountain Division, the 116th and 120th Tank Destroyer battalions, and the 5th Headquarters, Special Troops, of the Third Army.  Swift was the largest army training and transshipment camp in Texas. It also housed 3,865 German prisoners of war. After the war much of the site was returned to former owners. The government retained 11,700 acres as a military reservation. That land housed parts of the Texas National Guard, a medium-security federal prison, and a University of Texas cancer research center" - Handbook of Texas online. The photographer, Carl John Ekmark of San Antonio was a noted and somewhat prolific chronicler of military life throughout the Lone Star State.
Nordenskiölds rejse omkring Asien og Europa.

Nordenskiölds rejse omkring Asien og Europa. by HOVGAARD, Andreas Peter (1853-1910).

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Title
Nordenskiölds rejse omkring Asien og Europa.
Author
HOVGAARD, Andreas Peter (1853-1910).
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Description
Copenhagen: Forlagsbureauet i Kjøbenhavn, 1881. First edition. 23 cm; xlii, 356 pages, [24] tinted lithograph plates, numerous woodcut text illustrations, 3 color maps (2 folded). Text in Danish. Bound in original cloth stamped in gilt, silver, and black, with gold-and-silver lozenge of the global map on upper board; spine stamped in gilt with images of nautical and navigational instruments; lower board stamped in blind. Edges and joints worn thin, and spine faded in sunlight, but a very good copy. Original Danish edition of this account of the expedition of the "Vega" to trace a Northeast Passage through the Arctic (1878-1880) led by the Finnish-born Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901). The "Vega" was the first ship to make the passage along the northern coasts of Europe and Asia. Starting from Karlskrona on 22 June 1878, the Vega doubled Cape Chelyuskin in the following August, and after being frozen in at the end of September near the Bering Strait, completed the voyage successfully in the following summer. Upon returning to Stockholm, Nordenskiöld was made a baron and a Commander in the Order of the North Star. Many geographical features in Greenland and off the coast of Siberia are named for him.
[CEREMONY] GRADUATION AND WEDDING OF MISS ROUSH

[CEREMONY] GRADUATION AND WEDDING OF MISS ROUSH by Stella L. Roush

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Title
[CEREMONY] GRADUATION AND WEDDING OF MISS ROUSH
Author
Stella L. Roush
Seller
Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Molina, Illinois, 1943. Stella Lucille Roush (1925-1995) earned a diploma from Moline High School in Moline, Illinois, on June 11, 1943. Moline High School was originally built as a two-room schoolhouse in 1873 and nicknamed “the Castle” based on its architectural style. ~~Mounted on a maroon cardstock and tied with white ribbon, Ms. Roush’s diploma is contained in its original envelope bearing her name. Accompanying her diploma is a graduate program for the celebration of her senior class, featuring an invocation by Rev. W. A. Tillberg. Curiously, Stella is not listed as one of the graduating seniors in the program. ~~Stella married Virgil Ralph McConnell, a second-class seaman, in 1944 at age 18. An 8 ¾” x 6 ¾” Gibson & Co. wedding book commemorating its details and containing the napkins from the event as well as a clipping of the marriage announcement. Her husband survived service in the army in WWII and they went on to have two children.~.
VICTOR FLEMING [ca. 1939] Photo by László Willinger

VICTOR FLEMING [ca. 1939] Photo by László Willinger by László Willinger

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Title
VICTOR FLEMING [ca. 1939] Photo by László Willinger
Author
László Willinger
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
About Fine
Description
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No binding. About Fine. Los Angeles: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [ca. 1939]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white double weight glossy silver gelatin photo. Smudge at top right blank white margin. Stamp of MGM photographer Willinger as well as typed information on verso. About fine. Portrait of the distinguished director of some of the top classic films of all time, including The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind (for which he won the Academy Award).
ESQUIRE (November 1969; Volume LXXII, Number 5)

ESQUIRE (November 1969; Volume LXXII, Number 5) by Baldwin, James; Hansberry, Lorraine

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Title
ESQUIRE (November 1969; Volume LXXII, Number 5)
Author
Baldwin, James; Hansberry, Lorraine
Seller
Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
New York: Esquire, Inc, 1969. First edition. Very good.. Includes Baldwin's "Sweet Lorraine," a memoir of Lorraine Hansberry. Baldwin's tribute precedes and introduces "My Name is Lorraine Hansberry, I Am a Writer," selected sections from the then-forthcoming TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK, a posthumous collection of Hansberry's autobiographical writings. 13'' x 10''. Original wrappers. 280 pages. Light edgewear and scuffing to wrappers, wear and soil to spine.
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William Blake: catalogues 26 - 29 - 32 by Blake reference

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William Blake: catalogues 26 - 29 - 32
Author
Blake reference
Seller
John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description
1995. San Francisco: John Windle, 1995-98-2001. 3 vols., 8vo, 241, 221, 410 lots, illustrated. Original wrappers, as issued. § Three of the earliest catalogues devoted to Blake and his circle by Windle -- the latest catalogue (available on request) is # 65 and contains some 800 entries.
Warren Rohrer

Warren Rohrer by ROHRER, Warren (artist); David CARRIER (contributor); Elaine MEHALAKES (contributor)

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Warren Rohrer
Author
ROHRER, Warren (artist); David CARRIER (contributor); Elaine MEHALAKES (contributor)
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9781882011643
Condition
A near-fine copy
Description
Philadelphia: Locks Art Publications, 2016. A near-fine copy. 13.5 x 10 inches. 256 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original black cloth; dust jacket. First edition. "Warren Rohrer (1927-95) emerged from the experimental Philadelphia art scene in the early 1970s and became known for his luminous, color-saturated abstractions. This monograph, authored by philosopher and art critic David Carrier, is the first to trace Rohrer's trajectory over 40 years and describes the highly unorthodox arc of his life, from Mennonite stock in rural Pennsylvania to prominence as an exceptional abstract painter of the late 20th century. Carrier's account gives a rich understanding of Rohrer's quest to unite paint with atmosphere, land and light, and his enduring connection to Lancaster County, where he grew up. An essay by Elaine Mehalakes looks at the enigmatic late work of the artist, his Field Language series. The book includes 120 beautifully reproduced paintings, drawings and sketchbooks, and an illustrated chronology, representing the most comprehensive presentation of Rohrer's life and work to date" (the publisher).
Aperture 18:2 Celebrations: An Exhibition of Original Photographs

Aperture 18:2 Celebrations: An Exhibition of Original Photographs by WHITE, Minor (editor)

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Title
Aperture 18:2 Celebrations: An Exhibition of Original Photographs
Author
WHITE, Minor (editor)
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780912334578
Description
New York: Aperture, 1974. First edition. Softcover. Preface by Gyorgy Kepes for a show at MIT. Includes images by Leonard Freed, Joseph Koudelka, Wayne Miller, Dennis Stock and many others. A near fine copy in wrappers with some very minor wear. Internally a clean copy.
Art and Character

Art and Character by Bailey, Albert Edward

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Art and Character
Author
Bailey, Albert Edward
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
New York: The Abingdon Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. 354pp. Lightly edgeworn, else very good in an edgeworn and price clipped dust jacket.

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