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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by EVANS, Walker and James Agee

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Title: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Author: EVANS, Walker and James Agee
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Some scuffing to black cloth boards, with minor blemish at joint; close to near fine. In an unclipped copy of the illustrated ja
Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Some scuffing to black cloth boards, with minor blemish at joint; close to near fine. In an unclipped copy of the illustrated jacket, with typical fading to spine, minor edge-wear, and slight creasing to crown; also close to near fine.. First Edition. Thick octavo. It's a testament to Evans' vision that thirty-one of his photographs—bound in the front of a book published with little fanfare, and set against the backdrop of over 450 pages of verbose text—could have had such an influence on the history of documentary photograph. (Parr/Badger, v1, 44; Roth 108-109).

Berrycraft Counter Book by BERRY BROTHERS

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Title: Berrycraft Counter Book
Author: BERRY BROTHERS
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Description: 1925. BERRY BROTHERS. Berrycraft Counter Book. 24 leaves, many with tipped-on colour samples. Oblong folio, 255 x 325 mm, publisher's decorated cloth. Detroit: Berry Brothers, [1925]. A fine copy of this splendid and rare trade catalogue for paints, which is not listed on OCLC.

Enemies of the Constitution Discovered by THOMAS William

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Title: Enemies of the Constitution Discovered
Author: THOMAS William
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Description: 1835. First Edition. (THOMAS, William) Defensor. The Enemies of the Constitution Discovered, or, An Inquiry into the Origin and Tendency of Popular Violence. Containing a Complete and Circumstantial Account of the Unlawful Proceedings at the City of Utica, October 21st 1835; The Dispersion of the State Anti-Slavery Convention By the Agitators, The Destruction of a Democratic Press with a Concise Treatise on the Practice of the Court of His Honor Judge Lynch Accompanied with Numerous Highly Interesting and Important Documents. New-York: Leavitt, Lord, 1835. Small octavo (4-3/4 by 7-1/2 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth; pp. (i-iii), iv-viii, (ix), x-xii, (9), 10-183 (1). $1800.First edition of a momentous record of the 1835 Utica Riot in which a mob attacked delegates of the American Anti-Slavery Society, forcing them to flee and reconvene at the estate of Gerrit Smith, triggering his rage at anti-abolitionists' attempts to deny free speech, with Smith's fiery speech together in book form for the first time with abolitionist Alvan Stewart's bold Utica speech proclaiming: ""the tyrant is at your doors, liberty is bleeding, liberty is dying when you are speechless, liberty is dead,"" an exceptional copy in original cloth.News of Denmark Vesey and the subsequent 1831 Nat Turner Insurrection sparked the ""debut of American antislavery constitutionalism"" and the first meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), which galvanized the the rise of a dedicated movement in Utica, New York (Wiecek, Sources of Antislavery Constitutionalism, 171). While the state abolished slavery by 1827, fugitives from slavery could still be arrested and returned to owners from other states. At rumors of that planned Utica meeting, the town's merchants rose in opposition, arguing it would damage the city's commercial progress and a potential role in the presidential campaign of New York's Martin Van Buren, who later declared the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirmed his belief that the word ""citizen"" in the Constitution ""was not intended to embrace the African race."" In Utica, a year after abolitionist lawyer Alvan Stewart was burned in effigy, the town's anti-abolitionists united against the AASS convention. As documented in this first edition of Enemies of Constitution, published the same year, merchants raged against what they called intent to promote ""insurrection among the slaves and dissolve the union."" That opposition exploded in what is known as the Utica Riot, in which the anti-abolitionists declared ""the whole south is waiting with trembling anxiety to know how we bear ourselves we call upon the citizens of New York to arrest these madmen."" Minutes after AASS delegates began their meeting in a Utica church, a mob of hundreds attacked, crying ""break down the doors! Damn the fanatics."" The mob ""stamped and yelled like savages and madmen,"" tore up AASS documents and forced the delegates out of town.Despite the mob violence, delegates quickly reconvened in Peterboro at the estate of Gerrit Smith, making Utica and Oneida County ""an important center of the Abolitionist Movement The rioters' challenge to freedom of speech prompted Smith, one of America's wealthiest men, to lend financial and political support to the movement"" (Oneida Freedom Trail). Notably included herein are documents by mob leaders, along with a lengthy letter from the Postmaster General on free speech in the mail, saying: ""abolitionists may have a legal right to its use for distributing their papers in New-York but it does not follow that they have a legal right to that privilege in for such a purpose in Louisiana or Georgia."" Also featured is an early printing of Alvan Stewart's October 21 Utica speech, declaring: ""THE TYRANT IS AT YOUR DOORS, LIBERTY IS BLEEDING, LIBERTY IS DYING when you are speechless, LIBERTY IS DEAD"" (emphasis in original). This is joined by Gerrit Smith's October 22 Peterboro speech, where Smith, like Stewart, invokes: ""the right of free discussion purchased by the blood and toil of our fathers [and] the demand which slave-holders now make on us to surrender the right."" By rejecting the right of free speech, he proclaims that slaveholders have, in effect, conceded ""slavery cannot live, unless the north be tongue-tied."" First edition, first printing: copies found in original brown (this copy) and blue-green cloth, no priority determined. Mispagination as issued without loss of text. Sabin 19264. Bookplate of the prestigious Library Company of Philadelphia with deaccession inkstamp. Separate partially obscured bookplate.Text fine, inner paper hinges expertly reinforced, expert restoration to spine ends of original cloth.

Lorca: The Poet and His People by Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]

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Title: Lorca: The Poet and His People
Author: Barea, Arturo; Ilsa Barea [Translator]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Arturo Barea on the front free endpaper, inscribed in Spanish and dated April 1952. xvi, 176 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black lettering. Lima's notes in pencil at front, else Near Fine, in About Very Good dust jacket with chipping along spine panel, small stain to back panel, tape mends on verso, unclipped ($3.00). A rare signature from the author of the classic Spanish Civil War memoir Forging of a Rebel on his biography of gay Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was murdered by Francoist forces in 1936. This copy's former owner was Robert Lima, a Cuban-born poet, playwright and professor at Penn State; he edited and translated the first critical book on Borges to appear in English and was also quite friendly with Mario Vargas Llosa, among other Latin Americans.

Proposing and preparing for hunting trips, reporting on hunting possibilities and results, soliciting business, and other matters relating to big game hunting in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, as recorded in five letters, autograph and typed letters, from four guides: W.L. Stinson, a guide in Jackson Hole, Wyoming

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Title: Proposing and preparing for hunting trips, reporting on hunting possibilities and results, soliciting business, and other matters relating to big game hunting in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains, as recorded in five letters, autograph and typed letters, from four guides: W.L. Stinson, a guide in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Description: (ALS, 3 pages, approx. 450 words), Charles Madsen, of Kodiak Guides in Alaska (ALS and TLS, with list of equipment needed for a hunt, 6 pages, approx. 2000 words), Eli Metrokin, a Kodiak, Alaska guide (ALS, 4 pages, approx. 400 words), and Arnold Schueren, a hunting companion and author of Foxy's Lions Tales (TLS, one page, approx. 250 words; accompanied by two photographs, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, picturing his Alaska moose trophy), all to Gordon Hovey, 1939-1940. 8vo and 4to. 14 total pages, approximately 3000 words. Stinson's long letter trying to interest Hovey in a Jackson Hole trip recounts recent successes, possibilities, package prices, and references; Madsen's letters finalize details concerning an upcoming trip for Kodiak bear, with detailed descriptions of needed equipment and travel arrangements; Metrokin's letter recounts recent successes for Kodiak bear; and Schueren's letter describes a moose, recently taken in Alaska, pictured in enclosed photographs, included here. An excellent picture of the big game hunting business on the eve of World War II. Folded for mailing. Very good lot. (3020).

A REVIEW OF WORK RELIEF ACTIVITIES IN ARKANSAS, APRIL 1st, 1934 to JULY 1st, 1935

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Title: A REVIEW OF WORK RELIEF ACTIVITIES IN ARKANSAS, APRIL 1st, 1934 to JULY 1st, 1935
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: [Little Rock, Ark: Parke-Harper Company, 1935. Green velvet paper bound pamphlet. 28 cm. 152 pp., including photo illustrations, portraits, maps (1 folded), plans, tables, and diagrams. Arkansas state flag stamped in red on front cover Cover title, in silver: ARKANSAS EMERGENCY RELIEF ADMINISTRATION, April 1, 1934 to April 1, 1935. Edges of covers and spine faded; old tidelines to upper margins of the first few and last few pages, not affecting text. Accompanied by an edition of the newspaper "Arkansas Democrat Gazette," May 5, 2018, printing an article by Bill Bowden entitled "National Register accepts Cash boyhood home, after redo." Singer Johnny Cash's boyhood home was in the Dyess Resettlement Colony built in 1934 as part of a Federal Emergency Relief Administration program. W.R. Dyess, a local businessman, was the program's state administrator. The Dyess agricultural colony was designed to provide families who had lost their farms due to the Depression with a home, 20-40 acres of farmland, and outbuildings to make a fresh start.

Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, Forschungen by von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo (1818-1899)

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Title: Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, Forschungen
Author: von Heydebrand und der Lasa, Tassilo (1818-1899)
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Good to very good
Description: viii+260+[ii ad] pages with diagrams and figures. Small quarto (10 1/4" x 7 1/4") bound in half leather with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. (Bibliotheca van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 242) 1st edition.Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa" was an important German chessmaster, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School (the Berlin Pleiades). His name is usually abbreviated as "von der Lasa", as this is how he signed his letters. However both contemporary and more recent writers have used other abbreviations, such as "von Heydebrandt" (which is a mis-spelling) and "Der Lasa". The Prussian King (later Emperor) William I made a joke out of the confusion by saying, "Good morning, dear Heydebrand. How is von der Lasa doing?" Von der Lasa was born 17 October 1818 in Berlin. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin. From 1845 he was a diplomat in the service of Prussia. His career took him to Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Rio de Janeiro, among other places. He retired from the diplomatic service in 1864, and thereafter devoted himself to the world of chess. He played several matches and defeated the strongest masters in the period 1843-1853. He won against Henry Thomas Buckle 2-1 (1843), Adolf Anderssen 4-2 (1845), Johann Löwenthal 6-1 (1846), John Schulten 4-1 (1850), Anderssen 10-5 (1851), and Howard Staunton 7-6 (1853). To the modern chess world he is known above all as the main author of the Handbuch des Schachspiels (first published in 1843). His friend Paul Rudolf von Bilguer, responsible for the original plan, had died in 1840, with the work still in the early stages. Von der Lasa took over, and, in a noble gesture of friendship, put his friend's name as author. In later editions of the Handbuch, in German commonly called der Bilguer, von der Lasa was named as co-author. In 1850 von der Lasa published in the Deutsche Schachzeitung (German Chess Magazine) a call for an international chess tournament, the first ever, to be held in Trier. Instead the first such tournament was held in 1851 in London. Von der Lasa did not play in tournaments, being usually busy as an organizer, but played well in off-hand games against such leading masters as Howard Staunton and Adolf Anderssen. He was also a renowned chess investigator and theoretician, publishing numerous articles in the German Chess Magazine and, in 1897, his great work Zur Geschichte und Literatur des Schachspiels, Forschungen (Researches in the History and Literature of Chess). In the course of his researches he traveled extensively (including a trip around the world in 1887–88) and accumulated a comprehensive chess library, to which he published a catalog in 1896. In 1898 the German Chess Federation saluted his tireless efforts and accomplishments by conferring on him its first honorary membership. One of von der Lasa's last services was to encourage HJR Murray to pursue further researches into the early history of chess. Von der Lasa died on 27 July 1899 in Storchnest bei Lissa, now in western Poland. His library is still intact at Kórnik Castle near Poznañ.Condition:Spine ends scuffed, corners bumped and rubbed, soiled, extremities rubbed, label on front cover else a good to very good copy.

Ed Ruscha: Paintings by RUSCHA, Edward (artist) Tom MCCARTHY (text by)

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Title: Ed Ruscha: Paintings
Author: RUSCHA, Edward (artist) Tom MCCARTHY (text by)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9781951449087
Condition: A clean copy
Description: New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2021. First edition. A clean copy. 7 x 10.5 inches. 62 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original pictorial boards. "This catalogue was published on the occasion of Ed Ruscha: Paintings at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, an exhibition of new paintings by the artist. In these works, rendered with great delicacy and detail in idiosyncratic formats, Ruscha revisits the leitmotifs of the flag, the tire, and the mountain. The flag becomes newly distorted in RIPPLING FLAG (2020), this time abnormally widened to extend past the frame, its flowing surface creating twisted shapes and shadows over the red and white stripes. A shredded tire tread, or “gator,” hovers over a barren, red-skied landscape in Hardscrabble (2020). And in new mountain paintings, Ruscha presents one of his archetypal snowy ranges, but inverts one of the peaks so that it appears to descend from the sky" (the publisher).

Lectures on the Diseases of Women. Part I.-Diseases of the Uterus. [bound with:] Brown, Isaac. On Some Diseases of Women, Admitting of Surgical Treatment. Illustrated with Twenty-Four Wood Engravings. [Two volumes bound into one]. by West, Charles. Brown, Isaac.

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Title: Lectures on the Diseases of Women. Part I.-Diseases of the Uterus. [bound with:] Brown, Isaac. On Some Diseases of Women, Admitting of Surgical Treatment. Illustrated with Twenty-Four Wood Engravings. [Two volumes bound into one].
Author: West, Charles. Brown, Isaac.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1857. [With] Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1856. Octavo, half calf & marbled boards, viii, [17]-316 pp.; viii, [9]-276 pp. Illus. Barely Very Good; with the spine rubbed, the front hinge beginning, and moderate foxing throughout.

REGULATIONS AND PREMIUM LIST OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL WENONA UNION FAIR. TO BE HELD AT WENONA, ILLINOIS, ON SEPTEMBER 28, 29, 30, OCTOBER 1 AND 2, 1885. $4,869.25 OFFERED IN PREMIUMS. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE WORLD. BRING THIS LIST WITH YOU TO THE FAIR by Wenona Union Fair Association

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Title: REGULATIONS AND PREMIUM LIST OF THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL WENONA UNION FAIR. TO BE HELD AT WENONA, ILLINOIS, ON SEPTEMBER 28, 29, 30, OCTOBER 1 AND 2, 1885. $4,869.25 OFFERED IN PREMIUMS. COMPETITION OPEN TO THE WORLD. BRING THIS LIST WITH YOU TO THE FAIR
Author: Wenona Union Fair Association
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Wenona, Ill., 1885. 12mo, original printed wrappers and staples, 36pp. Near Fine. The pamphlet lists the Association's officers, directors, superintendents; its Constitution, Rules and Regulations; List of Premiums by Class and Lot; the other 1885 Fairs; and the Program for the Fair. FIRST EDITION. Not in Eberstadt, Decker.

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Creation's Journey; Native American Identity and Belief

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Title: Creation's Journey; Native American Identity and Belief
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9781560984535
Condition: Fine
Description: Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian, 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Edited by Hill, Tom; Richard W. Hill Sr. Bound in publisher's original full red cloth with spine stamped in silver. Profusely illustrated with many full-page plates. 9 1/4 x 11 7/8 inches. 256 pages.

The Sophisticates by Atherton, Gertrude

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Title: The Sophisticates
Author: Atherton, Gertrude
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Horace Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1931. 4th printing. Hardcover. [nice tight copy, apparently unread, just a trace of wear to bottom edge, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store, The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few tiny edge-nicks, soft diagonal crease in rear flap]. Novel about the "young, beautiful and incomprehensible ruler of the sophisticated set in a middle Western town," a woman who compensates for her unhappy marriage to a middle-aged banker by channeling her intellectual striving into the organization of a salon comprised of the local intelligentsia, such as they are. "Fascinating, enigmatic, maddening to the half dozen men who adored her, she seemed to be a woman of ice. Was she also a murderess?" (The latter question arises when her husband is found poisoned, and she is subsequently put on trial for the crime.) .

A Fairy Tale About Love: Wedding Graphic Design

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Title: A Fairy Tale About Love: Wedding Graphic Design
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good +
Description: Hong Kong: Artpower International Publishing Co., Ltd, 2018. Hardcover. Good +. Hardcover. 11 1/2" X 8 3/4". 253pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper over boards. Very gentle bumps to corners of both boards. Rubbing and mild surface paper loss to head of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: a focused and DIY approach to planning the invitation design to your own wedding! A wedding is an invitation for friends and family to witness the strength of a couple's love. As such, even the tiniest details require careful attention, to ensure that the occasion reaches its full potential. Whether you are a wedding planning company, a graphic designer, or a spouse-to-be, this book is a necessity!The Devil is in the details – it's the small stuff that will make your big day. Wedding invitations, RSVPs, save the date cards, posters, thank you cards and table cards... These small but essential items express the lovers' personalities, making each wedding a unique experience. This book is dedicated to the minutiae of a wedding, exploring how these seemingly insignificant pieces are actually the backbone of the event, consolidating the wedding's theme and providing continuity throughout.Containing over 100 pictures from marriage ceremonies across the world, A Fairy Tale about Love aims to show its readers all the latest styles. Creative, elegant, and modern, these beautiful works are a feast for the eyes. The book also displays the design concept, design style and printing process behind each piece, making it an excellent reference book.(Publisher).

On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules. by ADDISON, Thomas, 1793-1860.

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Title: On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules.
Author: ADDISON, Thomas, 1793-1860.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: London: Highley, 1855; Birmingham:: Classics of Medicine Library, 1980., 1980. Folio. 43 pp. 11 color plates. Full deep green gilt and blind stamped cowhide, a.e.g. Fine. Special edition. "Addison was the first to draw attention to the importance of the adrenals in clinical medicine . . . [This work] described the conditions, which later became known as 'Addison's disease'. . ." Garrison and Morton 3864.

South of Appomattox by Burger, Nash K.; Bettersworth, John K.

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Title: South of Appomattox
Author: Burger, Nash K.; Bettersworth, John K.
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1959. Very Good. Burger, Nash K.. South of Appomattox. Bettersworth, John K.. NY: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1959. 376pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. White cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped corners and lightly faded spine. Small stain on bottom edge.. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair with small sticker on head of spine with rubbed and chipped edges..

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