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An Authentic Account of the Conversion and Experience of a Negro by Anonymous

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Title: An Authentic Account of the Conversion and Experience of a Negro
Author: Anonymous
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: T. Wilkins, 1795. First British edition. First separate edition. Measuring 205 x 120mm and complete in 4 pages. A Fine example. Scarce in all formats, it was first printed in Vermont in 1793 and also contained a"faithful narrative...towards Polly Davis" (one copy survives at AAS); soon after, an edition was released from Maine containing "a poem on Christian Experience" (only two copies survive, both at NYPL). The present first British edition is also the first separately printed edition, recorded by ESTC at only 9 libraries. It has come to auction on only five occasions, with the present being the only example currently in trade. An Authentic Account records a brief encounter between a white Englishman and an enslaved Black man on a plantation in New York. Focusing their dialogue on the word of God and on salvation, the white narrator asserts that the two men could find common ground as "children of God...equally effectual with him" despite their diametrically opposed positions within the social power structure. "Neither the color of his body, nor the condition of his present life, could prevent him from being my dear brother in our dear saviour." Despite this argument for the spiritual equality of men of all races, the white narrator in An Authentic Account never questions nor seeks to subvert a power structure that would empower him while violently debasing Black people. Rather, he passively participates in the Evangelical attitude so common of the era, which considered enslavement an opportunity for saving the souls of uncivilized peoples who otherwise could not access the word of God. It was a position which abolitionist Evangelicals including William Wilberforce and Hannah More would decry as the height of hypocrisy in their own work during the period, calling upon Christians not only to see Black people as spiritual equals but also as humans deserving equal liberty and dignity. ESTC T224026.

A DISSERTATION ON THE DISORDER OF DEATH by WHITER, Walter

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Title: A DISSERTATION ON THE DISORDER OF DEATH
Author: WHITER, Walter
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: Printed For The Author, 1819. WHITER, Walter. A DISSERTATION ON THE DISORDER OF DEATH. Or That State Of The Frame Under The Signs of Death Called Suspended Animation; To Which Remedies Have Been Sometimes Successfully Applied, As In Other Disorders, In Which It Is Recommended, That The Same Remedies Of The Resuscitative Process Should Be Applied To Cases Of Natural Death, As They Are To Cases Of Violent Death, Drowning, &c, Under The Same Hope Of Sometimes Succeeding In The Attempt. Norwich: Printed For The Author, 1819. 8vo., early brown half-calf leather & marbled boards. First Edition. The author believes that the dead should be preserved with the view of restoration to life. An rare title in the first edition! Very Good (some general wear to the binding; ink name front blank page; another ink name [Caleb Elwin] & small ink initials on title page). $1,500.00.

THE SORROWS OF HERBERT, OR THE CHANGES OF LIFE by NO AUTHOR

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Title: THE SORROWS OF HERBERT, OR THE CHANGES OF LIFE
Author: NO AUTHOR
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: W. Harper, 1821. NO AUTHOR. THE SORROWS OF HERBERT, OR THE CHANGES OF LIFE; AND FRIENDSHIP'S CONSOLATION IN DISTRESS. Halesworth: W. Harper, 1821. 12mo., original blue boards with white spine. First Edition. Good (some edgewear, ink name on the front endpaper & small bookplate front pastedown, little foxing text). Scarce! $500.00.

Complete Set with original outer wrap - Infants' Library No. 11, Library for the Little Ones at Home

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Title: Complete Set with original outer wrap - Infants' Library No. 11, Library for the Little Ones at Home
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: American S. S. Union, 1869. Eight (8) American Sunday School Union chap books including the original exterior paper wrap. Contents includes No. 417- The Rainbow, No 418 - The Ten Commandments, No. 419 - The Village Reformed, No. 420 - Ann and Ellen, and the Kitten, No. 421- John the Score; or, The Penitent Robber, No. 422 - The Happy Children, No. 423 - The Sunday Scholar and (no number) Little Child's Scriptural Lessons (Rhyme). Each 16 pp. paper wraps.

Chertezhi i nazvaniia zapasnykh chastei dlia parovykh molotilok, fabrikuemykh firmoiu Ransom, Sims i Dzheferis, Orvelskii zavod, Ipsvich, Angliia (Drawings and Names of Spare Parts for Steam Threshers Manufactured by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich, England) In English and Russian by Anonymous

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Title: Chertezhi i nazvaniia zapasnykh chastei dlia parovykh molotilok, fabrikuemykh firmoiu Ransom, Sims i Dzheferis, Orvelskii zavod, Ipsvich, Angliia (Drawings and Names of Spare Parts for Steam Threshers Manufactured by Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich, England) In English and Russian
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: Odessa: Tip. Tovarishchestva "Bratia Kulberg', 1884. Softcover. First edition, n. d. (ca 1884); 9 1/2 x 7 1/4; pp. 37; pink wraps faded to dark yellow, illustrated with wood engravings; small loss of paper to tips of spine; crease to upper right corner; illustrated with drawings; overall very good condition. In English and Russian.An uncommon survivor of the 19th century, the catalog was published strictly for the Russian market of one of the biggest British manufacturers of agricultural machinery and general engineering products from the late 18th until the end of the 20th century. The enterprise was started by Robert Ransome (1753-1830) in the 1780s, when he was casting ploughshares in a disused malting in Ipswich and discovered, entirely by accident, chilled casting - the process of hardening a metal's surface by initiating contact between molten metal and cold metal. By 1851 export trade was initiated, including opening a branch establishment in Odessa, and by the early 1900s it would become much more important than the home market, with more than four-fifths of the threshing machines and steam engines sales being exported abroad. The catalog contains drawings and descriptions, on facing pages and both in English and Russian, of spare parts for the company's steam threshers. Not in OCLC or in the trade (as of January 2015).

Ophiolatreia ... Serpent Worship .... by Anon.

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Title: Ophiolatreia ... Serpent Worship ....
Author: Anon.
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good; unopened.
Description: [London?]: Privately Printed, [1889]. First Edition.. Original publisher's stamped white paper binding; bevel edges.. Very good; unopened.. 8vo, viii, [1] - 131, [1 - blank] pp. A history of serpent worship and it origins. The book touches on sexual matters hence the "private printing". The text is a survey of cultural forms of serpent worship. This has application to medical topics. The cover is boldly stamped in red with a caduceus.

Schofield & Rhodes account book

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Title: Schofield & Rhodes account book
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: [Providence], 1855. Folio, 25 manuscript pages in ink of accounts; stiff marbled paper wrappers; very good. An account book from the provisions business of Schofield & Rhodes in Providence. The business opened in 1855, at 118 Benefit Street with investments in foodstuffs and clothing from Thomas Harris Rhodes (1800-1876) and Albert G. Schofield (b. 1809). The account book shows items such as flour, sugar, tea, raisins, molasses, coffee, cotton sheeting, calico, etc. and the names of the purchasers. Albert Schofield was apparently the same business man and teacher who founded Schofield's Commercial College at 81 Westminster Street in Providence in 1846. His college was successful and lasted a number of years. Rhodes was a bank cashier at State Bank at the time the two went into business together. The business struggled early on since an accounting dated July 1, 1856, shows an overall loss of .45. They began with an investment of about $8000. The last three pages of the book are copies of promissory notes; " Providence, RI. March 1, 1856. $210. Sixty days from date for value received I promise to pay to the order of Scholfield & Rhodes Two Hundred and Ten Dollars at the Arcade Bank Providence. Ralph Stodard." Several dozen financial interactions are shown.

The Wall That Is My Skin: A Poem by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GOELL, Milton J.; Hall Johnson, fwd

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Title: The Wall That Is My Skin: A Poem
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] GOELL, Milton J.; Hall Johnson, fwd
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: Wendell Malliet and Company, 1945. First Edition. Slim octavo (21cm.); original cloth in pale grey dust jacket printed in maroon; 41pp. A fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $1.50 at lower front panel); very lightly worn with a short closed tear to top edge of upper panel, spine a shade darkened; Near Fine. A book-length cycle of "...Poems Inspired by the Negro's Fight for Democratic Rights," authored by a young Jewish-American lawyer/poet. The book is dedicated to the memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt; the African-American composer Hall Johnson contributes a brief foreword; Eleanor Roosevelt is quoted in a blurb on front jacket panel. Uncommon in dustwrapper, especially in such nice condition.

Municipal Art Society of New York Bulletin 1-12 by Municipal Art Society of New York

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Title: Municipal Art Society of New York Bulletin 1-12
Author: Municipal Art Society of New York
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good + ex-lib copies. Associated library stamps and markings present
Description: New York: Municipal Art Society of New York, 1915. Hardcover. Good + ex-lib copies. Associated library stamps and markings present. Tan boards. Contains 12 iissues. each issue individually paginated.

Sokrovishcha Russkogo Narodnogo Iskusstva: Rez'ba i Rospis' po Derevu (Treasures of Russian Folk Art Carving and Painting on Wood) by Zhegalova, S.K. with others

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Title: Sokrovishcha Russkogo Narodnogo Iskusstva: Rez'ba i Rospis' po Derevu (Treasures of Russian Folk Art Carving and Painting on Wood)
Author: Zhegalova, S.K. with others
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG, clean and tight but for ink writing in English on title page. Dj wearing, with chipped edges and a 1" tear at top of spine.
Description: Moskva: Izd. Iskusstvo, 1967. Hardcover. VG, clean and tight but for ink writing in English on title page. Dj wearing, with chipped edges and a 1" tear at top of spine.. Pearl grey cloth over boards with blind-stamp folk art image. Cyrillic lettering on spine. Color-illus. dj with gold spine lettering. 262 pp. with color and bw images throughout. Text in Russian but with a one-page summary and list of plates in charming English (at back). The contents are divided into chronological order and cover the old, treasured folk art of wood carving and painting. Included are folk themes (Sirin the bird, Polkan the centaur, and the unicorn); and the usual themes of nature. Birch bark wares, wooden boxes, furniture, vessels and more are included with their intricate designs, in full view and enlargements of detail. A beautiful, informative book about a dying but vibrant, vital art and part of Russian culture.

Formes, edition Francaise IV, Avril MCMXXX by Zahar, Marcel (ed.)

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Title: Formes, edition Francaise IV, Avril MCMXXX
Author: Zahar, Marcel (ed.)
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG interior but with sunning to covers and tape on spine.
Description: Paris: Editions des Quatre Chemins, 1930. Softcover. VG interior but with sunning to covers and tape on spine.. Tan card wraps with black lettering. 26 pp. text; 42 pp. plates; vi pp. adverts and 2 color plates. Tissue between color plate. Text in French. Art periodical with articles about Matisse, Maillol, Picasso, Russian Icons, an exhibition of Flemish art in Venice, a Rembrandt exhibition in Berlin, and more.

Manhattan Nights by Baldwin, Faith

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Title: Manhattan Nights
Author: Baldwin, Faith
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. [a lovely clean copy, with no significant wear but the very faintest spotting to the bottom page edges (less squinty eyes would call it Fine with nary a pause); jacket lightly soiled at the rear panel, with some light wear and a couple of tiny tears along the top edge, very attractive nonetheless]. "A Panoramic Novel," sayeth the dust jacket -- which is another way of saying that the ever-popular Miss Baldwin (or her publishers) was not above pulling one of the oldest New-York-novelist tricks in the book, that of concocting a stew of "interrelated stories" about a wide array of urban characters, from sophisticated Social Register types to "racketeers, taxi-drivers, maids, actors, secretaries, and interns," in the hope that it would magically bubble into a novel with a unifying central theme. The double-copyright date, though (1936 and 1937), blows its cover: all eight stories in this book were published in Cosmopolitan as novelettes (most under the same titles) from October 1936 through May 1937; were they "interrelated" at that point, I wonder, or was their anthologization the equivalent of a literary shotgun marriage? (One story, by the way, "Comet Over Broadway," was filmed under that title in 1938.) And just to tie up the packaging in a nice neat bow, at the very end of the book is a three-page preview of her next novel, "Twenty-Four Hours a Day," also blurbed on the rear jacket flap. .

The Yersin Phono-Rhythmic Method of French Pronunciation, Accent and Diction by M.And J. Yersin

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Title: The Yersin Phono-Rhythmic Method of French Pronunciation, Accent and Diction
Author: M.And J. Yersin
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1897. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. The 1897 1st edition. VG in its navy-blue cloth. Both nner hinges starting (but still holding sturdy), othwerwise very solid. 12mo, Also includes laid-in Yersin French School charts and ephemera.

Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading. (New Series) Vol. II (July-December, 1872)

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Title: Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading. (New Series) Vol. II (July-December, 1872)
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 724p. 1/2 leather. 27cm. Extremities rubbed. Includes a contribution at pages 15-17 by Richard F. Burton on Palmyra (which had previously appeared in Cassell's Magazine).

SHAKESPEARE AND CHARACTER: THEORY, HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND THEATRICAL PERSONS by Yachnin, Paul [Editor]; Slights, Jessica [Editor]

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Title: SHAKESPEARE AND CHARACTER: THEORY, HISTORY, PERFORMANCE, AND THEATRICAL PERSONS
Author: Yachnin, Paul [Editor]; Slights, Jessica [Editor]
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780230572621
Description: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 259 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine grey and pink with black lettering. Slight bumping to rear corners of boards. Some markings in pencil throughout interior pages. Shelved Shakespeare Criticism. 1395043. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

[POETRY] provincetown poets by Bernheimer, Alan & Charles Boyle, Louis Postel, William V. Ward, Marty Nakell (Editors) Jernigan, Candy (Art Editor)

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Title: [POETRY] provincetown poets
Author: Bernheimer, Alan & Charles Boyle, Louis Postel, William V. Ward, Marty Nakell (Editors) Jernigan, Candy (Art Editor)
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Black and white photo wraps. Near fine
Description: Provincetown, MA: TOTAL WORLD SERVICES, 1976. Staplebound. Black and white photo wraps. Near fine. 6s pages. 22 x 16. Cover art by Walker Jones. Interior cover poem - Leroi Jones. Contributors include Mary Oliver, Hugo Rizzoli, Kay Yousif, Jim Loomis, Bobl Perelman, Chris Busa, and many more. Interior and wraps crisp and clean.

Innuendo a Todd Mills mystery by Zimmerman, R. D.

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Title: Innuendo a Todd Mills mystery
Author: Zimmerman, R. D.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780385323772
Description: New York: Delacorte Press, 1999. Hardcover. 307p., signed and inscribed by the gay mystery writer, very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Gunn page 233.

1987 American Film Institute Video Festival

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Title: 1987 American Film Institute Video Festival
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: American Film Institute, 1987. Paperback. 96p., shelfworn wraps, 8.5x11 inches. Unobtrusive owner's stamp on title page. Still shots from films, summaries, and biographies of filmmakers.

Cotes de Granit. Poemes by Andre - Boulin, Madeleine

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Title: Cotes de Granit. Poemes
Author: Andre - Boulin, Madeleine
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: 1980. Paperback. Very Good+. Paperback. Scarce. White paper wrappers with maroon title to front panel. Minor soiling to front wrapper. Clean, bright interior. Signed by previous owner. Includes an extra laid-in poem by the author. In French. 70 pages. FRE/080508.

Paintings From The Collection of The University of Iowa Museum of Art

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Title: Paintings From The Collection of The University of Iowa Museum of Art
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Chicago, IL: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1973. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 21 through March 28, 1978. Introduction by Ulfert Wilke. Includes 18 illustrations with 6 in color. A very near fine copy in stapled wrappers.

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