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Commerce of the Prairies by Gregg, Josiah

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: Commerce of the Prairies
Author: Gregg, Josiah
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with only New York in imprint), complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest. The large folding map is the first to display the Staked Plains of Texas. Hailed as a cartographic landmark, it includes the locations of forts, military roads, and trading posts. It also identifies the Oregon Trail and Native American settlements, and traces the routes of the earlier explorers Boone, Long, Pike, and Cooke. Convinced that a journey west was necessary to restore his health, Josiah Gregg, in 1831 set out from Missouri on the first of what was to become eight journeys across the prairies. An acute observer, Gregg took careful notes of the geography and geology of the Southwest, and the attitudes and culture of the people (including particularly valuable insights into the Indians of Texas and New Mexico). Over a decade later, "Gregg began compiling his travel notes into a readable manuscript and in the summer of 1843 went to New York to secure a publisher. His Commerce of the Prairies, which came out in two volumes in 1844, was an immediate success. It went through two new editions in 1845, later a fourth and fifth edition, and in 1857 appeared in a sixth edition under a different title. The book, which also had a large sale in England and was translated into French and German, remains the cornerstone for all studies of the Santa Fe Trail" (H. Allen Anderson, Handbook of Texas Online). New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Two volumes. A clean, bright, un-restored copy in the original cloth: text clean with only light foxing. Scarce and fragile map fine save for one closed tear at the far right hand side, starting at the main horizontal crease and continuing for 2" diagonally upward and to the left; some loss to head and tail of spine of volume I, bindings unusually clean and bright.

Miscellaneous Poems and Translations by Pope, Alexander

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Title: Miscellaneous Poems and Translations
Author: Pope, Alexander
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1712. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, containing the FIRST APPEARANCE of Pope's The Rape of the Lock. "The earliest version of Pope's mock heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, composed in a fortnight during summer 1711, had for nine months been anonymously printed in Bernard Lintot's Miscellany. The masterpiece of Pope's earlier period, The Rape of the Lock (1712, 1714) had its origin in a quarrel between two Catholic families, apparently over the provocative cutting off of a lock of hair by Lord Petre from the head of Arabella Fermor... "The poem... is far from being a mere social satire in which a trivial quarrel is mocked by being presented in epic terms. Indeed, by the time the poem has been thoughtfully read it is not really clear that the quarrel is trivial. The 'Heroi-Comical' in Pope's hands is a volatile mixture: some of its comedy rebounds on the epic conventions that are primarily deployed to mock the foolish and vain. In the shining lock of hair Pope contemplates beauty, reputation, conquest in love and war, anger, humour, and resignation. The political facets of the poem, parts only of the total multi-faceted effect, have recently come more into the light, so that the work has its own angle on historical change. Not only does the poem have many targets, all seen through the prism of Belinda and her lock, but it also has many tones, those of subtle comedy, outright farce, and lofty sadness" (DNB). Pope sold this 2-canto version to Lintott for 7 pounds in March 1712; in 1714 an expanded 5-canto version was issued. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1712. Octavo, contemporary paneled calf rebacked. With engraved frontispiece and half-title. Some light marginal worming, light occasional dampstaining (not affecting Pope's verses). A handsome copy.

Almanach des Dames pour l'An 1823; Almanach Lyrique

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Almanach des Dames pour l'An 1823; Almanach Lyrique
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Turbingu and Paris: Chez I. G. Cotta; Chez Truettel & Wurtz, 1822. First Edition. Cartonnage, Slipcase. Very Good. 12mo. (13 x 9 cm.) 238 pp. Six engraved plates. Scarce, with only two copies located on OCLC. Soiling on the binding and more on the slipcase. Otherwise, quite clean and tight.

Tarzan on Mars by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Bloodstone, John

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Title: Tarzan on Mars
Author: [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Bloodstone, John
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: [n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]. Paperback. Fine. With a reproduction of a letter Bloodstone, the pseudonym of Stuart J. Byrne, sent to editor Ray Palmer during the original submission. Fine. Comb-bound with card covers, illustrated at the front. Firmly bound, clean internally. An unofficial publication of John Bloodstone's 1954 Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche.

Tiny Alice: A Play by ALBEE, Edward

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Title: Tiny Alice: A Play
Author: ALBEE, Edward
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description: NY: Atheneum. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a near fine (minor edge wear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. .

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