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World War I Red Cross Leadership William Howard Taft 1918 Letter Introducing Mabel Boardman to U.S. Ambassador in France by Howard Taft

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Title: World War I Red Cross Leadership William Howard Taft 1918 Letter Introducing Mabel Boardman to U.S. Ambassador in France
Author: Howard Taft
Seller: Max Rambod Inc. (United States)
Description: 1918. Taft, William Howard. Typed letter signed, March 11, 1918, documenting the leadership and international coordination of the American Red Cross during World War I, written to United States Ambassador to France William G. Sharp. Composed while Taft served as Chairman of the American Red Cross following his presidency, the letter records efforts to expand American humanitarian operations abroad during the first year of U.S. involvement in the war. The correspondence highlights the role of Mabel Boardman in shaping the organization's structure and effectiveness, providing direct evidence of Red Cross administration and diplomatic coordination during a period of rapid institutional growth. Taft, William Howard. March 11, 1918. Two pages. Typed letter signed on official American Red Cross letterhead. Addressed to Ambassador Sharp, the letter introduces Mabel T. Boardman as a Red Cross representative traveling to France to observe and report on relief operations. Taft writes: "Miss Boardman really founded the Red Cross, and brought it to its efficient organization for peace purposes down to the beginning of our participation in the war," and explains that her visit is intended "to bring home to us information as to how we can improve, if possible, the Red Cross functions abroad." He further requests assistance, noting her "great ability, high character and charming personality," and emphasizing her longstanding role within the organization, including leadership of the Washington chapter and membership on the National Executive Committee. Written during the expansion of American wartime relief infrastructure, the letter situates the Red Cross within broader efforts to mobilize civilian support and coordinate international aid following U.S. entry into World War I in 1917. Under Taft and Boardman's leadership, the organization grew to include millions of volunteers and became a central instrument of American humanitarian engagement overseas. The document provides insight into the administrative networks connecting Washington, diplomatic missions, and field operations in Europe. Original fold lines with light handling wear; overall very good. A clear example of high level Red Cross correspondence linking leadership, diplomacy, and wartime relief.

Naked Hollywood by WEEGEE.[written by] Mel Harris

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Title: Naked Hollywood
Author: WEEGEE.[written by] Mel Harris
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1953. 4to. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto. Original quarter yellow cloth, black boards, titles to cloth in black. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. dust jacket rubbed and creased to edges, chip to upper corner, price of 5.00 not clipped. First Edition. The follow-up to Weegee’s infamous Naked City.

ON CUTANEOUS DISEASES; VOLUME I. by Willan, Robert

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Title: ON CUTANEOUS DISEASES; VOLUME I.
Author: Willan, Robert
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Kimber and Conrad, 1809. Early edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto, 420, [2] pages. In Good minus condition. Spine brown with black text on a brown label. Brown paper quarter binding with green paper boards. Boards show moderate shelf wear and moderate soiling. Significant rubbing wear to board edges; sections of exposed board at fore corners, and ends of joints, and along fore edge of front board. Bumping to fore corners. Significant splitting along joints/hinges; boards are mostly detached as a result. Horizontal cracking along length of spine. Loss of material at head and tail of spine. Text block is significantly age toned with significant foxing present throughout. Dog-ear crease affects top corners of pages 93-116 and bottom corner of pages 417 onward. Edges are untrimmed and somewhat brittle. Shelved in Room A. While this work was intended to consist of multiple volumes, only the first was ever published. 1401058. Special Collections.

Letter Describing a Lonely Holiday Spent Cooking Alone, Cool Sulphurs, Arkansas, 1854 by [Women - Domestic Life - Race Relations] Author Unknown

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Title: Letter Describing a Lonely Holiday Spent Cooking Alone, Cool Sulphurs, Arkansas, 1854
Author: [Women - Domestic Life - Race Relations] Author Unknown
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Arkansas, 1854. Letter measuring 8 x 6 ½ inches. Some slight tears at folds, near fine. Fine. An interesting letter written by a woman to her sister after spending a holiday by herself without domestic help. The author quotes a passage from Marion Harland’s poem “”Alone,” and laments her holiday spent alone. She writes: “Mother gave the D—--- free ticket and it was either work or starve, so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking, such as making cakes and nick knacks, but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits, but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money.” She then elaborates on her loneliness, stating: “It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe, even for the mountains. One snow after another. “ The letter is signed as “Lizzie,” and we are unable to identify the author by last name. We believe her location to be in Arkansas despite not finding an exact match for the town Cool Sulphurs based on the provenance, which included several other family papers from Arkansas. An interesting letter overall documenting a woman’s loneliness with insight into the domestic sphere of the time. Full text follows: My Dear Jennie, I have just received Tesh's letter which I assure you was quite welcome, enthroned in solitude as I am now. Mat and Saraph have been in Lexington for some time and I am all alone. I am alone the last light tread And laughs have died upon my ear; And I may weep unchecked - nor dread The scorn, that forces back the tear. You see the blues have moved me to poetry. Oh! How much I would like to see you all. It is so terribly lonely here. I will give you an account of my Christmas Holidays. Mother gave the Darkies free ticket and it was either work or starve, so into the kitchen I went. I like the preliminaries of cooking, such as making cakes and nick knacks, but when it comes to the sober reality I say quits, but it would have amused you to see me shaking my fat sides sifting corn meal. Flour isn't fashionable up here. It can be had for neither love nor money. I don't know what I would give for some of Aunt Cynthia's nice hot biscuits. We had a nice molasses stew and eggnog. Tesh did not give me a description of her holidays. Write me all about them. Well now, I will interrogate you a while. Who is it Mr. Taylor visits so often, you or Tesh? Who are you traveling up to F- so often to see? I will acknowledge the last is rather a straightforward question, but you know I am interested. These and those visits to Cousin Addis excite the Green Eyed Monster. Mr. Jones, who is he after? Answer these in your next. I haven't seen hair nor hide of a man since I came home but once. There has been such a marrying about here lately that all the beaus that were presentable have disappeared. What has become of Pet Perry and Fannie, married yet? Tell Eliza to write and give me an account of the conquest she made in L- how Cora was dressed and everything. Mother intends commencing your apron as soon as Mat gets back from L, as she was compelled to send there for the articles to work with. I am in hopes it will be pretty. It is Sabbath evening and I feel particularly lonely as I look from my chamber window on the mountains clad in their raiment of pure white and listen to the howling of the wind. I wish like the psalmist that I had wings to fly from this bleak and dreary region. The weather has been unusually severe, even for the mountains. One snow after another. Mat writes that the sleighing is fine in L. She has been attending several parties but they were dancing parties and I guess Saraph's conscientious scruples prevented her attending. Tell Tesh not to let anyone but Moses out. Give Aunt C a great deal of love, also Uncle O. I would give anything in this world to see you all. Kiss Joe for me and Ned. Much love to Cousin Will. Tell him Mother intends writing to him in a few days. Tell Uncle Oscar, Cook says he intends sending him a nice venison ham. He came in yesterday with a very nice fine deer on his shoulder. You never saw such a prouder creature. He is going to have the skin tanned to make us some gloves. He almost furnishes us with meat. It distresses me to see him leading such a roving life, but he is yet young enough to enter College. Mother does not care about his graduating so soon. He studies very diligently at nights, but I guess you are tired of home details, so I will close with much love to all. Answer this soon and believe me ever your Dear Cousin, Lizzie P.S. Give my love to Cousin Em when you write. Adieu.

Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers by Crane, Walter

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Title: Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers
Author: Crane, Walter
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Cassell & Company Limited, 1890. Hardcover. Very Good. Crane, Walter. Decorative boards with blue cloth spine, 40 pp., doubled/folded/japanese style sheets, all pages printed in color. Hinges repaired, spine rebacked, minor wear to boards, minor soiling to a few pages, pencil owner inscription. A strong and very presentable copy. "The lithographic reproductions for Flora's Feast are of rare excellence." (Konody, Walter Crane.) Note: racial & ethnic depictions from 1890 may be offensive. First edition was 1888, this is an early printing in the original format.

Celebration a Lyon du centenaire de la mort d'Andre-Marie Ampere 1836-1936 by (AMPERE, Andre-Marie)

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Title: Celebration a Lyon du centenaire de la mort d'Andre-Marie Ampere 1836-1936
Author: (AMPERE, Andre-Marie)
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: Lyon: Chalumeau, 1936. paperback. very good. Compte rendu des Journees 5,6,7 et 8 Mars 1936. Numerous plates and text illustrations. 2 vols, 4to, original printed wrappers; upper hinge of vol. I worn.(Lyon: Chalumeau, 1936). Very good. Among the papers presented at this conference in honor of the great French physicist who formulated the mathematical basis of electro-dynamics were contributions by Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Auguste Lumiere, Maurice Broglie, and Frederic and Irene Joliot-Curie.

Andy Warhol: His Early Works 1947–1959 [Exhibition catalog] by Andy Warhol; Andreas Brown

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Title: Andy Warhol: His Early Works 1947–1959 [Exhibition catalog]
Author: Andy Warhol; Andreas Brown
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. Very Good. New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1971. First Edition. Oblong octavo (22cm); 72pp. Publisher’s pink illustrated wraps retaining $6.50 price at front panel; staple-bound. Illustrations throughout. Wrappers bumped and smudged. Binding sound. Textblock toned with small stain at foreedge; interior pages clean. Very Good. Catalog for an exhibition of the artist’s early work (chiefly commercial commissions), which was on display at Gotham from May 26–June 26, 1971.

One Fat Englishman by AMIS, Kingsley

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Title: One Fat Englishman
Author: AMIS, Kingsley
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Victor Gollancz, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The fifth novel from the author "Lucky Jim." A very near fine copy in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with a few small edge tears and one tiny tape repair to the verso.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Miniatures Painted in America 1720-1850 by [MINIATURES]. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

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Title: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Miniatures Painted in America 1720-1850
Author: [MINIATURES]. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927., 1927. First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. Preface by Edward Robinson. Introduction by H.B. Wehle. Index of portraits. Short artist biographies. Original green wrappers stamped in black. Very good. 75 pages + 30 pages b/w plates. One of 2,000 copies. Printed by the Yale University Press.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Gerhard Richter: Red | Yellow | Blue by RICHTER, Gerhard; Helmut FRIEDEL

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Title: Gerhard Richter: Red | Yellow | Blue
Author: RICHTER, Gerhard; Helmut FRIEDEL
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9783791338606
Condition: A fine copy with the slightest hints of shelfwear to the jacket
Description: Prestel, 2007. A fine copy with the slightest hints of shelfwear to the jacket. 11.5 x 9.75 inches. 128 pages. Boards; dust jacket. "Startling colors, soft grays, undulating lines and large canvases are the hallmark of Richter's abstract period. Like all of Richter's painting, these works defy categorization, reflecting the artist's own journey towards understanding the world around him, a journey he invites his viewers to share with him. Three of his seminal works of this period: Red, Yellow, and Blue, are given particular attention and are presented here in luxurious foldout spreads. An illustrated essay by Robert Storr, perhaps the foremost authority on Richter, provides illuminating background to the artist's rich and complex oeuvre. Art critic Helmut Friedel interviews the artist and offers his own perspective on Richter's converging interests in painting and photography.

ZEITSCHRIFT FUR BUCHERFREUNDE by Witkowski, Georg

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Title: ZEITSCHRIFT FUR BUCHERFREUNDE
Author: Witkowski, Georg
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1928. stiff paper wrappers. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Variously paginated. The complete run of volume 20, nos. 1-6 (1928) in 6 issues. This German periodical contains essays relating to all aspects of the book arts. Topics range from the care and cultivation of book collections to reviews of newly published books. Issues are indexed and illustrated in black-and-white. Some yellowing of covers.

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