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An American Treasure: Washington Irving's Original Manuscript, Not Only His Final Piece of the Life of Washington But His Last Published Piece, Summing Up His Pride in Washington, His Goals in the Work, and His Career by Washington Irving

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Title: An American Treasure: Washington Irving's Original Manuscript, Not Only His Final Piece of the Life of Washington But His Last Published Piece, Summing Up His Pride in Washington, His Goals in the Work, and His Career
Author: Washington Irving
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 1859. This was published in the work as the Preface to the final book; Written after the completion of the book and included and sent along with the final, the concluding touches on a shining literary career The statement of principle, written for publication in virtual letter form, for a work of great importance in American literature and biography Irving: The Work is “the crowning effort of my literary career.” Washington Irving, Literary Giant and First American Professional Author & Biographerhttps://vimeo.com/1021899779?share=copy For Washington Irving, telling the story of George Washington was a lifelong passion. Irving’s mother named the future writer after Washington and took the boy to the hero’s first inauguration in 1789, where the President supposedly blessed him. It is said among the first things Irving ever wrote was on George Washington, whose biography he hoped one day to write.Washington Irving’s career as a writer started in journals and newspapers. He published Salmagundi (1807-08), and from 1812 -1814 was an editor of Analetic Magazine in Philadelphia and New York. In 1809 appeared Irving’s comic “A History of New York”, by the imaginary Dietrich Knickerbocker, who was supposed to be an eccentric Dutch-American scholar. The book became part of New York folklore. Irving’s success continued with “The Sketch Book”, a collection of stories that included the short stories for which he is so well known, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle”. The success of these stories allowed him to become America’s first professional writer, earning his living from the craft of literature.In 1828 he wrote his notable biography of Columbus, “The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,” which led the Spanish to elect him to the Royal Academy. In 1842 President John Tyler appointed him Ambassador to Spain, and he served in that position until 1845.After returning from Spain, Irving researched and wrote his great 5 volume magnum opus, his immortal “The Life of George Washington”, which was published from 1855-59. He died just a few months later. It is perhaps the first great American biography and he the first prominent American biographer. As such it deserves a place in the literary history of the United States.In April 1859 Irving completed his “Life of Washington.” It was the last literary work he would ever write and a book of monumental importance, as he died just seven months later. Perhaps he had a premonition, as in the famous Preface to Volume 5, he thanks the public for its acceptance of his work for over half a century, resigns his last volume to its fate, and warmly speaks of the pleasure preparing this biography of Washington has given him. Again, he speaks for himself.“The present volume completes a work to which the author had long looked forward as the crowning effort of his literary career. The idea of writing a life of Washington entered at an early day into his mind. It was especially pressed upon his attention nearly thirty years ago while he was in Europe, by a proposition of the late Mr. Archibald Constable, the eminent publisher of Edinburgh, and he resolved to undertake it as soon as he should return to the United States, and be within reach of the necessary documents. Various circumstances occurred to prevent him from carrying this resolution into prompt effect. It remained, however, a cherished purpose of his heart, which he has at length, though somewhat tardily, accomplished.“The manuscript for the present volume was nearly ready for the press some months since, but the author, by applying himself too closely in his eagerness to finish it, brought on a nervous indisposition, which unfitted him for a time for the irksome but indispensable task of revision. In this he has been kindly assisted by his nephew, Pierre Munro Irving, who had previously aided him in the course of his necessary researches, and who now carefully collated the manuscript with the works, letters, and inedited documents from which the facts had been derived. He has likewise had the kindness to superintend the printing of the volume, and the correction of the proof sheets. Thus aided, the author is enabled to lay the volume before the public.“How far this, the last labor of his pen, may meet with general acceptation is with him a matter of hope rather than of confidence. He is conscious of his own short- comings and of the splendid achievements of oratory of which the character of Washington has recently been made the theme. Grateful, however, for the kindly disposition which has greeted each successive volume, and with a profound sense of the indulgence he has experienced from the public through a long literary career, now extending through more than half a century, he resigns his last volume to its fate, with a feeling of satisfaction that he has at length reached the close of his task, and with the comforting assurance that it has been with him a labor of love, and as such has to a certain degree carried with it its own reward. Washington Irving. Sunnyside, April 1859.”Other manuscripts of Washington Irving are unsigned and fragmentary and situated in the middle of other sections, making this unique in our experience. It is signed, complete as a section, and a great summation of Irving's work and intent.

[Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts by Lascaris, Constantine (1434-1501)

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Title: [Ἐρωτήματα (Grammatica Graeca)] and associated texts
Author: Lascaris, Constantine (1434-1501)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Venice: apud Aldum, mense octobri, 1512. THIRD ALDINE EDITION. “This edition of 1512 is certainly the third, and later than the one without a date (ca. 1502-3, Renouard p. 262, Ahmanson-Murphy 50), in which we do not find the three treatises on the Greek dialects, added to this one. Hardcover. Fine. A truly fine copy. Bound in 16th c. German blind-stamped pigskin over beveled wooden boards with the original clasps preserved (one clasp with small defect, minor wear to extremities, lightly soiled, small abrasions, rear board peppered with tiny wormholes.) A fine, crisp copy with bright leaves; contemporary manuscript headlines and numbering added (a few small wormholes at end, small nick in margin of final leaf, a little light soiling to first and final leaf). Text in Greek (type 3, second casting) and Latin (R6:90), Hebrew alphabet at end. Aldine device A2 on title page and penultimate leaf of main text (but without “ALDVS” on t.p. version). Provenance: Bundesdenkmalamt Wien (Cultural heritage institute, Vienna, established in 1853). The treatises on the Greek dialects contain 60 leaves, of which the penultimate is blank; they begin with the signature x, with a kind of title containing an opinion of Aldus, in Latin. On the back of sheet y iiii is another notice in which Aldus complains of the excessive fatigue caused him by the work of his printing press. The rare third Aldine edition of the important Greek grammar by the Byzantine humanist Constantine Lascaris. This edition pairs Lascaris’ original Greek text, corrected by Lascaris’ pupil Pietro Bembo, with a facing Latin translation (first published in 1480) by the lexicographer Giovanni Crastone (ca. 1420-1498), who had studied Greek in Constantinople. Lascaris’ grammar was first printed at Milan in 1476 (the first book printed entirely in Greek). The first Aldine appeared in 1495. For his second edition of ca. 1502-3, Aldus added an introduction to the Hebrew language, printed in a large Hebrew type. For this third edition, which reprints the material from the second edition, Aldus has added supporting texts on dialects. “It should come as no surprise that the first fully Greek printed book to appear in the West was a grammar. The Renaissance was in full bloom, with scholars thirsting for the new knowledge made available with the rediscovery of the Greek classics. Thus, with Constantine Lascaris a new stage began in the resurrection of Hellenic antiquity and in the study of the Greek language. “Furthermore, as demand rose for Greek writings it was suddenly seen that profits could be made. Aldus inaugurated his printing enterprises with Lascaris's ‘Erotemata’ in 1495. By then the ‘Erotemata’ had already been published (in 1476) and reprinted (in 1480), and was so famous that Aldus would speak of it as the ‘divinum opus’… “Popular as these early editions were, since they were printed entirely in Greek their usefulness was limited. The need for Latin translations quickly became apparent. Geanakoplos points out that the most widely accepted method of teaching Greek in the period was that of providing students with both Latin and Greek versions of a work in order that they might look to the Latin for the unfamiliar Greek words. [In this edition], the Greek and parallel Latin translations were printed so that they could be bound either one after the other, or as with the BYU [and this] copy, with the Greek and Latin interleaved. Aldus explains in the preface how these interleaved texts can work for the student in the self-instruction of Greek.” (In Aedibus Aldi, The Legacy of Aldus, BYU). “Constantine Lascaris (1434-1501) was born in Constantinople. After the fall of that city to the Ottoman Turks (1453), Lascaris went to Milan, where he became tutor to the Duke of Milan’s daughter, Ippolita Sforza, and wrote for her his ‘Erotemata’ (1476). He held university chairs at Naples in 1465 and at Messina from 1467 to his death; he tutored the writer Pietro Bembo in 1491–93. A scholarly copyist, Lascaris produced many valuable manuscripts, including collections of the Greek rhetoricians and epistolographers.”(Britannica) Renouard’s note on the collation: “A Greek register and a Latin note which immediately precede the Appendix are indispensable guides for collating this book, because of the confusion resulting from the alternate intercalation of Greek and Latin leaves. It should be noted that the Latin leaf hiiii is mistakenly listed as C iiii [corrected by hand in this copy], which has sometimes caused it to be put out of place.”(Renouard).

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs avec des reflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu by Elias Stein (1748-1812)

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Title: Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs avec des reflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu
Author: Elias Stein (1748-1812)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: viii+x+254 pages with illustrations. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/4") bound quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt lettering to spine Page ends marbled. This first edition was not for sale and intended for subscribers only, of which an interesting list is added with 196 names. The princes themselves subscribed for 24 copies. With some copies for the author about 250 copies would have been printed. (Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 547) First edition.Elias Stein was a Dutch chess master, born in Lorraine into a Jewish family, he settled in The Hague. There he became the royal court's player. He explicitly related the experience of playing chess to military strategic ability. He was teacher of the princes of Orange to whom the book is dedicated in print, among them the later King William I.He recommended the Dutch Defence as the best reply to 1.d4 in his book Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu (1789), later published in Dutch (1834).His biography was written by F.W. von Mauvillon in a book Anweisung zur Erlernung des Schachspiels.Condition:Wear to boards, corners bumped and rubbed, spine ends rubbed with some chips, slight crack at front head hinge, previous owner's label to front pasted down, name to page 2 else a good copy of a scarce item.

Solomon King [Black Agent Lucky King] (Original poster for the 1974 Blaxploitation film) by Sal Watts (director, screenwriter, starring); Jack Bomay (director); Jim Alston (story); James Watts, Samaki Bennett, Claudio Russo (starring)

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Title: Solomon King [Black Agent Lucky King] (Original poster for the 1974 Blaxploitation film)
Author: Sal Watts (director, screenwriter, starring); Jack Bomay (director); Jim Alston (story); James Watts, Samaki Bennett, Claudio Russo (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film, here under its original release title, "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host, Sal Watts, in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films, was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King," which Watts produced, wrote, co-directed, and starred, a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost, this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King (Watts) vows vengeance when his former lover, Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans, brother Maney King, and CIA agent O'Malley, King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend, baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland, California and an undisclosed Arab nation, shot on location in Oakland, California. 27 x 41 inches, folded as issued. Very Good, with pinholes, some creasing and soiling, two modest closed tears, three small chips, and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard, Blaxploitation Cinema, p. 195.

BUNGALOW RESIDENCES by Harrison, Percival T. Harrison

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Title: BUNGALOW RESIDENCES
Author: Harrison, Percival T. Harrison
Seller: Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description: London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1909. Green cloth, moderate wear. Illustrated with 22 plates and numerous textual diagrams.

SB2U Vindicator in Action: Aircraft Number 122 by Adcock, Al

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Title: SB2U Vindicator in Action: Aircraft Number 122
Author: Adcock, Al
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780897472746
Condition: Very Good
Description: Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 50pp. Wraps just slightly edgeworn, else very good.

Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish by Adamson, Thelma

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Title: Folk-Tales of the Coast Salish
Author: Adamson, Thelma
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780803226685
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Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 430pp. Very good in publisher's wraps.

New Zealand Journal of Geography #93 April 1992

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Title: New Zealand Journal of Geography #93 April 1992
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: NZ: Allied, 1992. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Fine in wrappers.

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