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Frederick Douglass Celebrates His Return to America a Free Man, and Reunion with His Family, While Telling of His Treatment During the Voyage by FREDERICK DOUGLASS

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Title: Frederick Douglass Celebrates His Return to America a Free Man, and Reunion with His Family, While Telling of His Treatment During the Voyage
Author: FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frederick Douglass Celebrates His Return to America a Free Man, and Reunion with His Family, While Telling of His Treatment During the Voyage "I caught Frederick [Jr.]in my arms, and took Lewis by the hand and pressed with all speed into the house, and relieved the anxious bosom of my Dear Anna, you must imagine my feelings, for I cannot express them. For once all public cares departed. Even the slave was forgotten, and my glad soul was thoroughly absorbed in grateful rapture. "You are aware that I was subjected to proscription on board the Cambria. This was a mesirable attempt to propetiate the American slaveholders and their abettors. These would have felt degraded to have been seated at the table with me, but not one of them but who would have been glad to have owned me as his slave. These wretched creatures could not indure me as a free man.?" Due to significant threats, Douglass left America for England in 1845. While there, he travelled widely to speak about slavery. By 1847, Douglass was anxious to return despite the risks, but two English sisters negotiated with Douglass' owner and purchased his freedom. Here, Douglass describes his return from England to Boston aboard Cunard's British Steamship Cambria, his joyous reunion with his wife and children, and the racism he faced during the voyage. Prior to boarding, treatment of Douglass by Cunard ticket agents had already sparked outrage in the United Kingdom, where such overt discrimination was more unusual. Reports such as this after his voyage furthered the reaction. Samuel Cunard issued a public apology. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Autograph Letter Signed to Sarah Hilditch of Wales, April 29, 1847, Lynn, Massachusetts. 4 pp., 5 x 7� in. Complete Transcript[1] Lynn Mass. U.S. 29th April 1847 My Dear Friend: I am at home, within the warm bosom of my beloved family and surrounded by the beloved ones of my heart, here I am at home sweet-sweet home. It is good to be here. Let us thank God, the giver of every good and perfect gift whose tender mercies are over all, and whose protecting goodness is extended to the humblest, so that even a sparrow may not fall to the ground without the notice of his eye.[2] All thanks to him I have been preserved, and am now enjoying the pleasures of home. After more than sixteen days of fierce conflict with adverse winds, boisterous waves, and the innumerable perils of the wide waste of waters, I am surrounded by the calm and tranquilizing influences of home. You will be glad to learn that I found my family all well All at home within and without was in a much better state than I expected to find. My Dear Boys Lewis and Frederick[3] have grown rapidly and have improved surpassingly Both knew me well, and when within a few rods of the house, both saw with eyes sparkling and dancing for very joy to meet me. I caught Frederick in my arms, and took Lewis by the hand and pressed with all speed into the house, and relieved the anxious bosom of my Dear Anna, you must imagine my feelings, for I cannot express them. "Kings might be blest, but I was glorious over all the ills of life victorious."[4] For once all public cares departed Even the slave was forgotten, and my glad soul was thoroughly absorbed in grateful rapture. You are aware that I was subjected to proscription on board the Cambria. This was a mesirable attempt to propetiate the American slaveholders and their abettors. These would have felt degraded to have been seated at the table with me, but not one of them but who would have been glad to have owned me as his slave. These wretched creatures could not indure me as a free man. Well, this miserable attempt, this mean servility on the part of the agents, after all was more of a blessing than a curse, for by it I was Placed beyond the social influence of a band of profane, uproarous, gambling tiplars. There was no affinity and their could have been no unity, even though I had been allowed to enter the saloon where they were. Their foul mouthed utterances interposed an impassable gulf between us. During the first few days of the voyage, I was weak enough to feel the degradation of my position[.] I felt a degree of loneliness. Had I been on the deck of an American steamer, I could have indured the proscription better. I was well provided for, and my apartments were as good as any on board, but I could not but feel I was there by compultion and not there by option. I was there as a slave, and not as a man. There I was in the midst of my fellow men children of a common father having the same faculties of body and soul yet forbid to eat with them because I have a skin not colored like their own. Thus solitary and alone, I could give myself up completely to the pleasure of contemplation. My spirit soared above the troubled waters, and dwelt with rapture and delight on the beloved friends who when a stranger and sojourner, opened to me their hands their homes their hearts. I read your Dear Letter, and thought on the nature of our friendship, and thanked heaven that I ever met you, and especially that I had ever been under your roof My Beloved Sarah. I am writing with the pen of speed. I have much to say but the time fails. Remember me Lovingly to my own Dear Sister Blanche, To Mr Clare and Mrs Clare, to Mr & Mrs Thornly, and to the kind friend who sent the ginger bread Yours Always / Dear Sarah Frederick Douglass [2]Douglass here paraphrases several passages of the Bible, including James 1:17, Psalm 145:9, and Matthew 10:29. [3]Lewis Henry Douglass (1840-1908) was six years old, and Frederick Douglass Jr. (1842-1892) was five. [4]The poem "Tam O'Shanter, A Tale" by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) includes the lines, "Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, / O'er a' the ills o' life victorious!"

HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION by Warren, Mercy

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Title: HISTORY OF THE RISE, PROGRESS AND TERMINATION OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Author: Warren, Mercy
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
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Description: Boston: Manning and Loring for E. Larkin, 1805. Very good plus.. First edition of this landmark history of the Revolutionary War, by the most prominent woman historian of the fledgling United States. As a playwright, poet, political agitator, prolific letter-writer, and Jeffersonian anti-federalist, Mercy Otis Warren was deeply ensconced in the political and literary circles of pre- and post-Revolutionary Boston, lauded by several future Founders for her polemical and satirical talents and a firsthand observer of many of the people and events she would go on to chronicle and criticize. At one time Warren counted Abigail Adams and John Adams among her friends; her relationship with both would grow increasingly less friendly due to political differences, culminating in John Adams's private declaration, after reading this book, that history was "not the Province of the Ladies." Adams had once admired her "masterly pen," but hell hath no fury like the man who searches a book for references to himself and is not pleased by what he finds. Jefferson, on the other hand, ordered "subscriptions of Warren's History for himself and his cabinet" (Library of Congress). An exceptional copy, rare intact in a contemporary binding. Three octavo volumes in fours, 8.25'' x 5.25'' each. Contemporary full brown sheep, black morocco spine labels, raised bands. Yellow stained edges. xii, 447, [1]; vii, [1], 412; vi, 475 pages. Bindings worn and rubbed, with small expert reinforcement to spine heads; some chipping to spine ends. Interior intermittently toned as usual (due to improper sizing of paper at time of production), some foxing. Firm and handsome.

War Pictures; Menthol Pictures; Menthol Wars by PRINCE, RICHARD

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Title: War Pictures; Menthol Pictures; Menthol Wars
Author: PRINCE, RICHARD
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
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Description: NY: Displayed at Artists Space, Cepa Gallery, Printed Matter, 1980. First. Very Good. RARE COMPLETE COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS OF EARLY AND RARE RICHARD PRINCE NARRATIVE ARTWORK. Richard Prince is known for pushing the boundaries of art through his revolutionary re-photography technique—photographing existing commercial images and presenting them as his own. By removing images from their original context, Prince examined how media and consumer culture reflect and often share hidden cultural desires [Smith]. Prince’s early works are particularly rare— in a 1988 interview, Prince implied that he’d destroyed almost all of them, feeling he had grown out of these works as an artist. Still, Prince’s first artist-book series— War Pictures, Menthol Pictures, and Menthol Wars— marks a pivotal stage in his development, combining brief texts to create a type of Narrative Art. In these books, Prince explores narrative subjectivity, challenging the boundaries between individuals and consumer ideals, and introducing his early perspectives on media consumption [Pécoil], [Smith]. The New York Times Art Review commented on Prince’s early work: “[Prince is] an artist who leaves few stones unturned as he progresses from generic to original to radical, carrying with him a fascination with language, photography and a range of printing and printmaking techniques, as well as the more banal forms of urban postwar Americana and a disconnected, decidedly male blankness. He conjures ancestor-gods like Johns, Warhol and Duchamp, and uses the monotype process meticulously and probably simply, if you could only figure out how” [Smith]. In War Pictures, Prince fragments narrative across multiple pages and uses blank space to both convey and disrupt the story. Menthol Pictures unfolds in three parts— War Picture, Horror Picture, and Sex Picture— while Menthol Wars, is the most extensive of the series, even including a table of contents and page numbers. War Pictures debuted at Artists Space in New York; Menthol Pictures appeared at Buffalo’s CEPA Gallery, where Prince met Director Larry Clark; and Menthol Wars was installed in a Printed Matter storefront window. Later, the original cover images from all three books were repurposed for a 1991 exhibition at Metro Photographs [Pécoil]. An excerpted section of each booklet is included below. Menthol Pictures: “Our collective unconscious holds all kinds of cliches, cliches so immediate, so obvious, that at times we respond to pedestrian situations as if they had existed before. A lot of these collected cliches come from hours of late-night cinema viewing. We have seen thousands of hours of what is generally considered appropriate behavior in 'tight spots.' " War Pictures: "We are clients and agencies. We are performers and observers in a caterveld. We are not intellectual sloths asking noxious questions with an assumption. Our healthy conceit keeps us from physical waste and animal death. Our motive is to taste power and abdicate." Menthol Wars: "As I said before, Nancy likes James Bond movies because the punches are amplified before they even land. But her boyfriend, Frank, he likes the punches in 'Requiem For A Heavyweight,' because he says, you never actually see the punches thrown, Anthony Quinn just wears them on his face." FIRST EDITIONS. Together, three volumes. New York and Buffalo, New York: Printed Matter, Artists Space and CEPA, 1980. Thin octavos, original photo-illustrated stiff wrappers; housed together in custom box. Only trivial wear to wrappers. Essential works for understanding the artistic development of Richard Prince, Narrative Art, and the intimate relationship between media and the cultural unconscious. RARE. References: - Nos. 1, 2, 3 in "Bibliothèque d'un Amateur : Richard Prince's Publications" by Vincent Pécoil, Yann Sérandour, Francine Delaigle, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié. Paris / Foligno, France / Italy : &: Christophe Daviet-Thery / VIAINDUSTRIAE Publishing, 2014, pp. 49, 50, 51, 131, 132, 133. - Smith, Roberta. 2007. “Tracing a Radical’s Progress, Without Any Help From Him.” New York Times, February 7, 2007. - Richard Prince in Kristine McKenna, "On Photography: Looking for Truth Between the Lies," Los Angeles Times, 19th May 1985, p. 91.

Collection of a Dozen Postcards Featuring Original Watercolors and Ink and Pencil Drawings

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Title: Collection of a Dozen Postcards Featuring Original Watercolors and Ink and Pencil Drawings
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Description: 1907. Very Good. An extraordinary group of original artwork from the early twentieth century, with short text written on a few of the cards. The artwork was all done by a B. Vinya and sent to a D. Enrique Montagut in Alicante, which is on the Mediterranean Coast of Spain. Subjects of the watercolors include an elderly guitarist, a young family looking off to the sea's horizon where there is the fishing craft of the father and husband, a picturesque old mill, two country landscapes, several sailing vessels, a European woman dressed like a Geisha, lovers on coastal rocks and a woman with a fan with a Venetian backdrop. The three ink or pencil drawings are stylistically quite varied, with elements of Daumier in one, more contemporary caricature in another, and yet the third a good-hearted depiction of carousing monks. Each of the pictures is of a quality worthy of framing, and cumulatively they make for an uncommon and pleasing oeuvre.

The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A New Approach to the Bio-Dynamics of Voice and Speech by Arthur Lessac; David Simon, Robert Arnout, and Peter Kunz [illus.]

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Title: The Use and Training of the Human Voice: A New Approach to the Bio-Dynamics of Voice and Speech
Author: Arthur Lessac; David Simon, Robert Arnout, and Peter Kunz [illus.]
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [New York]: [s.i.], 1960. Very Good. [New York]: [s.i.], 1961. Second printing. Large octavo. 265 pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrated wraps. Toning to edges; mild curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good. "Second Printing" stated on copyright page though with following notice printed on title page - "This preliminary printing is for limited distribution to my students, colleagues and others interested in the field. All suggestions as well as critical comments are solicited and appreciated.

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