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Photograph Signed

Photograph Signed by YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. [BOUGHTON, ALICE]

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Photograph Signed
Author
YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. [BOUGHTON, ALICE]
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: np, 1903. First Edition. nb. Very Good. EXCEEDINGLY RARE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY ALICE BOUGHTON. ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SIGNED YEATS PHOTOS. A rare bust portrait of Yeats as a young man, signed and inscribed by Yeats to U.S. politician and later U.S. secretary of state Bainbridge Colby: "To Mr. Bainbridge Colby with kind regards from WB Yeats March 1904." Inscribed in ink on the flush board mount beneath the photograph. On the verso of the photograph mount is written in pencil: "Young Yeats photo [????] not to be used without Mr. Yeats permission." The photograph was taken by the photographer Alice Boughton during Yeats's first American tour (November 11, 1903 - March 9, 1904), almost certainly on December 22, 1903, when Yeats's friend and champion, the Irish-American collector John Quinn, arranged for the sitting with Boughton. Quinn wrote to Alice Boughton on January 7, 1904, to thank her for four prints (two solio prints and two platinum prints) he received and noted that "Yeats received the three photographs which you sent him and was charmed by them." The studio portraits are of Yeats in different poses and it is possible that this print - presumably one of the three given to Yeats - is a unique example. We have not found it reproduced anywhere. The American photographer Alice Boughton "opened her own portrait studio in New York in 1890, and her subjects were prominent literary and theatrical figures. Her studies of children are also noteworthy and she is remembered for her photographs of female nudes in allegorical or natural settings. Her studio remained open for forty years. In 1928 a collection of her portraits, Photographing the Famous, was published. Her work is in the permanent collections of several major museums" (National Portrait Gallery). Boughton, a significant figure in the Photo-Secession movement, gained a considerable following during her time - unusual for a female photographer. Her work was championed by Alfred Stieglitz, with six of her photographs appearing in a 1909 issue of Stieglitz's Camera Work. Provenance: From Yeats to Bainbridge Colby. Yeats presumably met Bainbridge Colby on his 1903-04 American tour. Colby (1869-1950) was a young and successful lawyer with many well-known clients (including Mark Twain). By 1904 he had already entered politics, having just concluded a term as a member of the New York State Assembly. He would later ascend to U.S. Secretary of State (1920-1921) under Woodrow Wilson and was a champion of the women's suffrage movement. (It was Colby who issued the proclamation announcing that the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote had been ratified.)

 Platinum print on original board mount. New York: 1903. Archivally framed with UV-protected museum glass. Photo including margin with inscription: 8.5x11in. Photo alone: 7x9in. Framed: 14.5x17.5in. Toning to mount, some abrasions to photo. AN EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT EARLY SIGNED PHOTO OF YEATS.
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Harmonium by STEVENS, Wallace

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Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC
Title
Harmonium
Author
STEVENS, Wallace
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
Zeitlin ookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, a few minor blemishes to the dust jacket, which is cleanly split along the front f
Description
N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition, third binding, of Stevens's first book. One of 715 copies bound in 1926 (from a total edition of 1500). Although the same dust jacket was used on all three binding issues, the jacket as well as the sheets were trimmed slightly for this third issue. Edelstein A1a, Connolly, One Hundred Modern Books, 46. Zeitlin ookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, a few minor blemishes to the dust jacket, which is cleanly split along the front fold where it joins the front inner flap, otherwise a remarkably attractive copy, in a cloth slipcase.. 8vo, original blue cloth, printed yellow paper spine label, dust jacket. Zeitlin ookseller's ticket on rear pastedown, a few minor blemishes to the dust jacket, which is cleanly split along the front fold where it joins the front inner flap, otherwise a remarkably attractive copy, in a cloth slipcase.
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Forty Stories by ANDERSEN, Hans

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Seller: Argosy Book Store
Title
Forty Stories
Author
ANDERSEN, Hans
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
near fine
Description
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott. hardcover. near fine. Newly translated from the Danish by M.R. James. Illustrated by Christine Jackson with 24 color plates. 466pp. Thick 8vo, beautifully rebound in 3/4 scarlet morocco, gilt-decorated spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, (no date, circa 1930). First American edition. Near Fine.
PETITION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES

PETITION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES by [Bibb, George M.]

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Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
Title
PETITION TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
Author
[Bibb, George M.]
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
[Frankfort KY, 1824. 12pp. Disbound with caption title, as issued. Uniformly toned, scattered light to moderate foxing, upper blank corner of first leaf torn. Signed in type at the end. Good+. George Bibb is the first of nine "undersigned counsellors and attorneys at law, admitted as practitioners in the court of the United States, for the seventh Circuit and Kentucky district." John J. Crittenden [Governor, U.S. Senator, U.S. Attorney General] is among the signers. They offer suggestions to improve the administration of the Supreme, Circuit, and Kentucky courts. Docketing schedules require Judges "to adjourn the Supreme Court, to attend the circuits, leaving from sixty to seventy cases on the docket uncalled. . . Very many of the cases now on docket have been standing there for eight years untried." Additionally, circuit-riding requirements place unreasonable travel burdens on the Judges. Six states "are without the benefit of the circuit system. In those six states the opinion of the single District Judge is final and without appeal" in many cases. Bibb and his colleagues also criticize the use of Supreme Court judges to determine circuit court cases. Other aspects of federal court jurisdiction and the provisions of the Judiciary Act are carefully examined and analyzed. Not in Cohen, Sabin, American Imprints, Coleman. OCLC 1304165511 [4- Yale, Dayton, Queens U, CA W Law], 40333397 [Trinity, Notre Dame, Boston Ath.], 1322267290 [1- NY Soc. Lib.] as of April 2024.
L.-L. Boilly, Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe; Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, 1761-1845

L.-L. Boilly, Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe; Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, 1761-1845 by Harrisse, Henry

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Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc
Title
L.-L. Boilly, Peintre, Dessinateur et Lithographe; Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre, 1761-1845
Author
Harrisse, Henry
Seller
Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
1898. Boilly. 230 pp. monograph on the genre painter, descriptive catalogue of over 1300 works incl. paintings exhibited at the Salons 1791-1824, notes, list of engravings, lithographs, etc., after Boilly, index, 30 illus. in the text and on plates. Some foxing throughout. 4to. Orig. printed wrpps., top of front cover quite rubbed. Paris (Soc. de la Propagation des Livres d'Art) 1898. Lucas p. 125. Freitag 1046.
PETER ALLEN [ca. 1967] Photo of early TV appearance as The Allen Brothers

PETER ALLEN [ca. 1967] Photo of early TV appearance as The Allen Brothers by NBC TV

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Title
PETER ALLEN [ca. 1967] Photo of early TV appearance as The Allen Brothers
Author
NBC TV
Seller
Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
No binding. Very Good. Photo New York: NBC, [ca. 1967]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white photo, USA. With text on verso, some marginal creases, VERY GOOD+.Peter Allen, with his then-bandmate Chris Allen, in a very early American television appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Allen eventually came out as gay and, sadly, died young of AIDS.
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PAPYRI VON DER INSEL ELEPHANTINE by Zauzich, Karl-Theodor

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Seller: Hoffman Books
Title
PAPYRI VON DER INSEL ELEPHANTINE
Author
Zauzich, Karl-Theodor
Seller
Hoffman Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Very Good. 1978. Hardcover. Berlin: Akademie - Verlag, 1978. Lieferung one of the series, Demotische papyri aus den staatlichen museen zu Berlin. Cloth-backed portfolio containing text and twenty reproductions of papyri on separate sheets (many folding). With a note to Herbert Spiegelberg from the author, (The work is dedicated to Herbert Spiegelberg's father.) and a letter to Herbert Spiegelberg from a Classics professor at Washington Univ. St. Louis, "This handsome work of Zauaich... impressive because almost all the pieces are whole and the lettering clear and easily read - not the usual thing in collections of papyrii." Fine condition in fine portfolio. .
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James Talbot, and the Suspected Boy by -

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Title
James Talbot, and the Suspected Boy
Author
-
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Collectible; Very Good
Description
Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1845. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1845 1st edition of this precious children's title, published out of Boston. VG- in its decorative blindstamped cloth, with lightly-faded gilt-lettering to the spine. Light staining to the front endpapers and a forgivable degree of foxing scattered thruout the text. Stilll tightly-bound and very solid. 16mo, 127 pgs.
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Shanghai Pierce, a Fair Likeness by Emmett, Chris

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Title
Shanghai Pierce, a Fair Likeness
Author
Emmett, Chris
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1953 Book. Illus. by Eggenhoffer, Nick. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. Pp. xiii, [1], 326. Illustrations by Nick Eggenhoffer, photographs of views and portraits, 3 maps. Bibliography and index. Brown cloth lettered on spine in brown on a yellow background. The slightest of rubbing to spine ends and corners. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, light wear to top edge). A well-written biography of one of Texas' most colorful cowmen. "Pierce was a grand original. He was the first cattle king of Texas..." (Reese). "There is some material on the Taylor-Sutton feud and on John Wesley Hardin, Jack Helm, Ben Thompson, Wild Bill Hickok, and other gunman" (Adams). [Adams, Herd: 764; Adams, Six-Guns: 678; Reese, Six-Score: 38]..
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Dvoinik (The Double) by Cherentsova, Olga

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Title
Dvoinik (The Double)
Author
Cherentsova, Olga
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Moscow: Literaturnaia Uchioba, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. First Russian edition; 8vo; pp. [7], 8-302; original pictorial boards; a few rubbed spots to head and tail of spine and corners, else clean; very good. 1 of 1000 copies. Cherentsova lives in the US. In her current book-the two novels are separate, yet connected to each other by a common thread-women.
Greco-Carillo Defense Committee [fundraising mailer]

Greco-Carillo Defense Committee [fundraising mailer]

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Title
Greco-Carillo Defense Committee [fundraising mailer]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
New York: the Committee, 1927. Four-panel brochure, 8.5x11 inches, fold-creased, some splitting at the main crease, small hole on page 3, impinging on a couple of letters of text; Rand School rubberstamp and orange pencil notation on front panel. The cover message is co-signed by Robert Morss Lovett and Norman Thomas. On the case of Calogero Greco and Donato Carrillo, anarchists accused of killing Joseph Carisi and Nicholas Amoroso, two local fascists. Clarence Darrow led their defense. "Is Fascism to kill two innocent men in America?" ... "In the memory of Sacco and Vanzetti, stop!
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Knickerbocker Holiday by ANDERSON, Maxwell

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Title
Knickerbocker Holiday
Author
ANDERSON, Maxwell
Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
Washington, DC, Anderson House, 1938., 1938. First edition. 8vo. Illustrated by Robert H. Mutrux. Dust jacket (unclipped; spine slightly darkened). Very good. 109 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
READY AND WILLING

READY AND WILLING by JAY, Peter B.

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Title
READY AND WILLING
Author
JAY, Peter B.
Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
Condition
Near fine.
Description
n.p.: Continental Classics, 1969. Near fine.. Late '60s sleaze erotica, described in a perfunctory and fanciful preface as a bestseller in London banned by protests by the outraged clergy, "one of the few books that have ever described Lesbian practices in such intimate detail." OCLC locates one copy (Duke). Wraps. Mass market paperback. Green printed wraps with yellow Eiffel Tower logo. Minor edgewear, scuffing to spine ends. 160 pages. Near fine.
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Central Sun Vol. 1. by ALLAN. et al.

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Title
Central Sun Vol. 1.
Author
ALLAN. et al.
Seller
Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description
Middletown: The Central Sun,, 1972.. Winter.. Folio. 31 pp. Newsprint tabloid. Near fine with a few light stains to internal pages. Trippy art, recipes (chunky soy spread, anyone?), new age poetry, new age commune floor plan, etc.
Manners and Murders in the World of Louis Napoleon

Manners and Murders in the World of Louis Napoleon by Williams, Roger L.

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Title
Manners and Murders in the World of Louis Napoleon
Author
Williams, Roger L.
Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. black cloth. Near fine
Description
Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated. Bibliography. Index. Orig. black cloth. Near fine. 206 pages. Contains the Thunderhead murders.
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FRENCH PAINTINGS FROM THE USSR by French Painting

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Title
FRENCH PAINTINGS FROM THE USSR
Author
French Painting
Seller
L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description
London., National Gallery Publications., 1988. 4to. Softcover. 107pp. Exhibition catalogue of paintings from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (Now St. Petersburg) In good condition.

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