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Autograph Letter Signed on Women’s Suffrage by MILL, JOHN STUART

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company

Title: Autograph Letter Signed on Women’s Suffrage
Author: MILL, JOHN STUART
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Avignon: np, 1867. First edition. custom folder. Very Good. JOHN STUART MILL CHAMPIONS WOMEN’S RIGHTS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC, REVEALING HIS PASSION FOR EQUAL RIGHTS AND HIS DESIRE TO FIGHT FOR THEM “BY EVERY… INFLUENCE I POSSESS.”. John Stuart Mill, one of the most influential 19th-century philosophers of the English language, sought to combine the best of 18th-century Enlightenment thinking with new movements such as Romanticism and Historical Philosophy. This intellectual pioneering extended to Mill’s social views—drawing on principles of associationist psychology, Mill believed that human character was entirely shaped by upbringing, advocating for an early type of feminism. Mill critiqued the prevailing view that women were inherently different from men and better suited to the gendered, apolitical roles common in 19th-century Europe and North America. He viewed the dismantling of oppressive structures—such as the denial of women’s suffrage and property rights—as essential for their social and political liberation. Only once women were granted these rights, Mill believed, could western political institutions truly represent all constituents and fulfill the Enlightenment promise of access to a good and happy life. [1] This ideology was realized in Mill’s philosophy. His 1869 work The Subjection of Women—written in collaboration with English philosopher, suffrage activist, and his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill—argues (in brief) that women’s legal disabilities reflect their degraded social and economic positions. The text champions an early feminist vision: that women and men would be found to possess equal ability, if only granted equal opportunity. [2] Mill’s beliefs were mirrored in his political actions as a member of the English parliament and public thinker. In this 1867 letter, Mill writes to a Kansas Suffragist vocalizing his disappointment, that a Kansas bill which had attempted to extend to women the right to vote, had been defeated, but claiming faith that this bill will one day be passed. He then commits to further writing on the subject of suffrage (perhaps alluding to the forthcoming book The Subjection of Women), and expresses faith in the progress of the movement for equal rights. The letter, written on Mill’s monogrammed stationery, reads in full: Avignon Dec. 16. 1867 Dear Madam “I beg to acknowledge your letter of Nov. 20. and to express my strong sympathy with the feelings you express respecting the claim of women to the suffrage. Both in my place in Parliament, in my writings, and by every other influence I possess, I have long done the best I could to promote the admission of women not only to political but to all other rights in the same conditions as men. I intend to persevere in this course and I am happy to say that in my own country as well as in the United States, the cause is making far more rapid progress than I thought even a short time ago that there was any probability of its making in my lifetime. I am disappointed at the rejection, by the people of Kansas, of the measure proposed to them by their legislature on this subject; I am confident that its adoption in that and probably in some other states of the Union will not be long delayed. I am Dear Madam Yours very sincerely [signed]J.S. Mill Mrs. Speight. This letter identifies Mill as an individual deeply interested in lived experience connected to his political thought—remaining committed to the cause of feminism even when separated by an ocean, even in defeat. The recipient, apparently the “Mrs. Speight” written at the end, is possibly the British suffragist Ellen (Swaine) Speight, although Speight worked and lived in England and New Zealand, not the United States (though that wouldn’t of course preclude her watching with interest the developments for women’s suffrage in the States). Avignon: 16 December, 1867. One sheet, 8 ⅝ x 6 ⅝ inches (218x170mm), folded to create four pages, with Mill’s text on three pages, stationary embossed with Mill’s monogram at top of first page. Usual mailing folds; apparently once framed, with remnants of cello tape at upper edge of third page and remnants of mounting along center vertical fold. “John Stuart Mills” written lightly in pencil at top of first page in a later unknown hand. Mill’s text (in ink) fine, strong, and crisp. Housed in custom presentation folder. J.S. MILL LETTERS WITH SUCH OUTSTANDING CONTENT ARE EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. References: [1]Macleod, Christopher, "John Stuart Mill", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.). [2] Annas, Julia. “Mill and the Subjection of Women.” Philosophy 52, no. 200 (1977): 179–94.

The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq (in 10 vols) by Fielding, Henry

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq (in 10 vols)
Author: Fielding, Henry
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1882. Limited to 1000 sets, this being set number 164. Ten large octavo volumes (8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches; 225 x 165 mm.). Contemporary full paneled speckled calf for Hopkins of Glasgow (stamped to verso of front free endpaper). Floral corner devices in gilt. Double ruled gilt borders. Five gilt ruled raised bands. Six compartments, two of which have morocco labels, the remaining four gilt ornamented and decorated. Dentelles. All edges gilt. Frontispieces. Black and white illustrated plates with tissue guards throughout. A Fine set. "Fielding is generally agreed to be an innovating master of the highest originality He himself believed that he was 'the founder of a new province of writing' and Sir W. Scott commended him for his 'high notions of the dignity of an art which he may be considered as having funded'... In breaking away... he devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which are in effect the first modern novels in English" (OCEL).

The North. With three original etchings by Avigdor Arikha by Beckett, Samuel ; Arikha, Avigdor

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Title: The North. With three original etchings by Avigdor Arikha
Author: Beckett, Samuel ; Arikha, Avigdor
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Enitharmon Press, 1972. First edition. Avigdor Arikha. [5], 7 p., 3 leaves. 41 cm. Wrappers, in paper folder, cloth chemise and slipcase. Chemise lettering slightly faded, otherwise fine. One of 130 press-numbered copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press on English handmade paper, signed by Beckett and with each etching signed by Arikha. The text is a previously unpublished fragment from Le Dépeupleur (1970, in English in The Lost Ones, 1972). The etchings, printed by Studio Prints, London are: "The Vanquished I," "Hair," and "The Vanquished II

Lincoln Park. Offering to the Colored People for the First Time, the Finest Home Sites in North Carolina [caption title] by [African Americana]. [North Carolina]

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Title: Lincoln Park. Offering to the Colored People for the First Time, the Finest Home Sites in North Carolina [caption title]
Author: [African Americana]. [North Carolina]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good plus.
Description: [Asheville, N.C., 1948. Good plus.. Large broadside, measuring 14 x 22 inches, printed on card. Upper left and lower right corners chipping. Some dampstaining, creasing, and mild wear. The years following World War II saw a significant economic expansion in the United States. Part of this expansion was a massive boom in suburban housing development, made possible by federal programs such as the Federal Housing Administration’s mortgage financing and the GI Bill. However, these programs’ implementation purposefully excluded African Americans; for instance, the FHA would not insure mortgages in and around Black neighborhoods in a practice known as “redlining,” non-whites were barred from buying homes in many new developments, and attempts to create integrated housing were stymied at every turn. Nonetheless, African Americans were participants in American suburbanization, though their place in it was hard fought, often requiring the financial ability to buy up enough land to create their own neighborhoods. Offered here is an advertisement for an exclusively African-American housing development called Lincoln Park in Shiloh, a neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina. Shiloh, which was settled after the Civil War, was originally located in what is now Biltmore Estate, and relocated to its current location in South Asheville in 1889. The poster advertises “Terms as low as $1.00 per week” for home sites that included “Water - Lights - Telephone” in “A Seclusive Colored Development.” Shiloh started out fairly rural; from the poster’s language it seems as though the property owner, O. E. Roberts, was a farmer who decided to subdivide his land for the development. Unfortunately, it does not seem that Lincoln Park ever came to fruition; the subdivision was platted in 1948 but was only ever partially laid out -- it is not to be confused with Lincoln Park in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, an African-American postwar suburban community that was completed in 1953 and is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Of interest to historians of segregation and postwar suburbanization.

Manual of the Corporation of the City of New-York for the Years 1842 & 3 by Valentine, D. T. [David T. Valentine]

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Title: Manual of the Corporation of the City of New-York for the Years 1842 & 3
Author: Valentine, D. T. [David T. Valentine]
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Thomas Snowden, printer, 1842. First Edition. Quarter Calf. Blindstamped and gilt stamped cloth boards. Calf is modern, not original to volume. Good. Association copy, with penciled dedication or gift inscription from Valentine to Hamilton Fish, with a location and date written of Nyack, 1843, which we assume was the location of Hamilton Fish. This would be the first Hamilton Fish -- later generations had descendants with the same name who remained active in politics as Congressmen. This, the first of the line, had the most illustrious career of the the Fishes -- he was Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a Senator for one term immediately afterward, and a greatly esteemed Secretary of State under Grant, as well as his most influential advisor generally. Valentine (1801-1869) was the Chief Clerk of the City Council for many years, responsible for the publication of the successive city manuals, which under his authorship became much more than dry factual almanacs, as he came to enrich the manuals with city history and trivia, and by the 1860s, his manuals were replete with color plates of the city's landmarks and views, now highly collectible, both as separate plates but also in their original book form. His significance to New York history and nostalgia is evidenced by the fact that in the twentieth century there were a good many anthologies about bygone New York bearing his name. 12mo. 13 by 9.5 cm. 253, [1] pp. With fold-out map and fold-out plate of Croton Dam, drawn and lithographed by G. Hayward. Rebacked with calf spine. Edgewear to boards, and moderate wear and soiling generally to boards. Title page chipped and heavily toned along edge. Other leaves have more moderate, and to be expected, age toning.

Year Book of the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Title: Year Book of the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Oakland?]: (Education Committee of the Northern California Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), 1918. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 26pp. followed by ads. Illustrated reproducing two pages of photographs of NAACP members. Pictorial wrappers reproducing a photograph of Moorfield Story on the front cover. Slight soiling on wrappers, staples are oxidized else a near fine copy. *OCLC* locates six copies. The Year Book, covering events in 1917, is devoted to "Fighting Prejudices: A History of the Anti-Segregation Fight," with commentary by E. Burton Ceruti, described as a "noted (colored) attorney from Los Angeles," about the U. S. Supreme Court decision in a Louisville segregation case, and articles about the East St. Louis riots and police misconduct in Houston, written by Martha Gruening.

Forty Years of Oratory Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses and Speeches in Two Volumes by Voorhees, Daniel Woolsey; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and Daughter Harriet Cecilia Voorhees

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Title: Forty Years of Oratory Daniel Wolsey Voorhees Lectures, Addresses and Speeches in Two Volumes
Author: Voorhees, Daniel Woolsey; Compiled and Edited by His Three Sons and Daughter Harriet Cecilia Voorhees
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Indianapolis, IN: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1898. Book. Near Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In the original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations, both volumes are Near Fine, cloth lightly rubbed, front hinge on volume II cracked. Daniel Woolsey Voorhees was a United States Senator from Indiana, a leader of the Democratic party and an anti-war Copperhead during the Civil War. A close friend of Abraham Lincoln, due to his stature he gained the nickname "the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash". A quite SCARCE and handsome 2 volume set..

JOHN HENRY SMITH A HUMOROUS ROMANCE OF OUTDOOR LIFE by Adams, Frederick Upham

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Title: JOHN HENRY SMITH A HUMOROUS ROMANCE OF OUTDOOR LIFE
Author: Adams, Frederick Upham
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: JOHN HENRY SMITH A HUMOROUS ROMANCE OF OUTDOOR LIFE, R. F. Fenno, 1909, white lettering flaking from covers, else a tight vg copy with a bright full color pictorial paste-on to the front cover. A golf novel with many such Illustrations to prove it!

Death Valley: Sunshine and Scenery by Death Valley Hotel Company

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Title: Death Valley: Sunshine and Scenery
Author: Death Valley Hotel Company
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Death Valley Hotel Company, 1947. Single sheet [46 cm x 40.5 cm] / [18" x 16"] printed on both sides that folds to digest size [23 cm x 10 cm] / [9" x 4"] Very good. Folds as issued. Promotional piece from the Death Valley Hotel Company touting the beauty of the area and their lodgings: Furnace Creek Inn, Furnace Creek Ranch, and Amargosa Hotel. Illustrated with photos from Burton Frasher and a large nice map [21.5 cm x 35 cm] by Burke. Includes mileage chart from Death Valley to towns in California and Nevada and a list of points of interest. "Death Valley is a vast storehouse of beautiful and unusual scenery. Many of these scenic spots are off the main highways, however, the roads to them are maintained in good condition by the National Park Service.

Thunder on the Left; a play in three acts, from the novel of the same name by Christopher Morley by Black, Jean Ferguson

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Title: Thunder on the Left; a play in three acts, from the novel of the same name by Christopher Morley
Author: Black, Jean Ferguson
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: Samuel French. Very Good+. (c.1934). French's Standard Library Edition. Softcover. [a bit of age-toning, very slight damage to base of spine; binding intact and internally clean]. (stage diagram) An adaptation of Morley's 1925 semi-fantasy novel about a ten-year-old boy who finds himself projected twenty years into the future, and able to observe himself and his friends as adults. The play had a brief run (31 performances) at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York at the beginning of the 1933/34 Broadway season; among the cast members (mostly forgotten names) was Eleanor Audley, who went on to a long career in theatre, radio, and television -- the latter most memorably as Eddie Albert's mother in the 1960s sitcom "Green Acres." .

ROMA; Vaticano Appartamento Borgia

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Title: ROMA; Vaticano Appartamento Borgia
Seller: Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description: Rome: Edizione dei Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. Book of 20 monochrome postcards in faded brown paper wraps, printed in gilt. Cover somewhat chipped, o/w VG.

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Judgement at Proteus by Zahn, Timothy

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Title: Judgement at Proteus
Author: Zahn, Timothy
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780765361943
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tom Doherty, 2013. Very Good. Zahn, Timothy. Judgement at Proteus. NY: Tom Doherty, 2013. 513pp. 16mo. Mass Market. Book condition: Very good.

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