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[Photographically-Illustrated Memoir About South Carolina Former Slave, Charlie Adams] by [African Americana]: [South Carolina]: [Adams, Charlie]

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Title: [Photographically-Illustrated Memoir About South Carolina Former Slave, Charlie Adams]
Author: [African Americana]: [South Carolina]: [Adams, Charlie]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: [N.p., likely South Carolina, 1933. Good.. [2],8,[1]pp. typescript, printed and numbered on rectos only, plus six additional leaves with original tipped-in photographs, some with typed captions, stapled. Tiny remnants of wrappers in the staples, minor edge wear, photographs mildly faded. A curious and bibliographically interesting biography of Charlie Adams, a former slave in South Carolina who lived to be 108 years old, and who is pictured in all six photographs tipped into the present work. The work was seemingly compiled by Charles S. Clifford, who learned about Adams while visiting Chester, South Carolina in 1928, evidenced by the text of a letter included here. At the time Clifford met him, Adams was 104 years old and a local legend, as he had survived forty years in slavery and over sixty years beyond the clutches of the peculiar institution. The preponderance of the work contains an eight-page account of the author's first encounter with Charlies Adams, titled "Under Southern Skies." The author first meets Adams' son of the same name while cutting down a tree, and desires to meet the father. Soon after, the author declares his purpose: "to meet this old man, to hear the real stories of old Slavery Days which he was sure to have and to get some characteristic pictures of him." The author relates the story of meeting Adams, his wife "Muh," and numerous grandchildren at Adams' house. He describes Adams' physical appearance as the former slave tells him about the kind of manual labor he still performs, even at his advanced age. The author then describes Adams' "personal charms," his "extremely gentle" manner, his "soft and beautiful" voice, and his possession of "a dignity and a self-confidence that marks him as a Patriarch of his race." At this point, the tone of Adams' account changes, as the author records Adams' nostalgic longing for the days of slavery, a time when Adams "never had no hard time." The author then inserts his own glistening, idealized, and "hazy" description of "the sun-lit cotton fields of the Old South," punctuated with "the shouts and laughter of many Negroes, their black skins glistening in the sunlight" and "soulful music with the rhythm of care-free and happy hearts." Here, the author takes leave of Adams, though he stayed in touch with the son for some years afterward. On the last page, the author records in manuscript that Adams died in January 1933 at the age of 108, though the month and year are curiously scratched out. Interestingly, the author records all quotes by Adams or other African Americans in dialect. The author also mentions within the text that he took pictures of Adams. Indeed six photographs feature Adams sitting by himself, as well as with his wife Muh. According to one of the captions, Charlie and Muh had been married for seventy-five years. Most of the photographs feature Adams weaving a wicker basket while sitting on the porch of his house. Some of the photographs are captioned with exchanges between Adams and his wife in African American dialect. The present work does not contain a title page, nor does it retain wrappers, though very small remnants of wrappers remain in the binding staples along the spine. We are confident the work is textually complete, as it begins even before page one, appears to carry a complete account of Clifford's visit with Adams, and concludes with several leaves containing photographs. We surmise that the work is perhaps a unique hand-made memoir, or at most was produced in only a few copies, due to the nature of the typescript, the textual emendations within the text, and the presence of the photographs, which would have been expensive to produce for such a vanity project, and the first of which seems very much intended as a frontispiece. In the end, however, we cannot be entirely sure the work is complete, but provide our price for the value of the material that is in fact present here. Internet searches of each name, place, and the title, "Under Southern Skies" produced nothing similar to the present work, and the WPA's efforts to interview former slaves would not come until several years after the present work, when Adams had already passed away. A mesmerizing and perhaps unique vernacular production memorializing the life of a South Carolina man who far outlived the vile institution of slavery, though the author (no doubt a white man) manages to create here a sly entry in the literature prevalent in the South at the time that contended that African Americans were better off under slavery than with their subsequent freedom.

Progress of the Negro in Texas by [African Americana]: [Texas]: Hall, Charles E.

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Title: Progress of the Negro in Texas
Author: [African Americana]: [Texas]: Hall, Charles E.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Description: [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936. 8pp. Original printed self wrappers, 8 x 5 inches, printed as a ten-panel, fold-out booklet. Moderate staining and soiling, minor edge wear, short closed tear to bottom edge throughout. Good plus. A scarce pamphlet published to educate the attendees of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition on African-American life. The work was compiled by Charles E. Hall, touted here as a "Specialist" in "Negro Statistics" on behalf of the U.S Department of Commerce. The publication features demographic data regarding the African-American population in Texas, with detailed statistics on population (with a table of census data back to 1850), birth rates, "marital condition," family size, home ownership, illiteracy, school attendance, occupations, prison populations, religion, agricultural employment ("Texas Colored Farmers"), retail store ownership, "Negro Market Areas," and "Negro Religious Bodies." The last page presents a complete list of the African American population in 1930 by county, and the penultimate page prints an advertisement for a new publication on "Negro Progress" titled Negroes in the United States 1920-1932. According to his introduction, Hall compiled the work to highlight the contributions of African Americans, who are now "celebrating, with other citizens, the Centennial of their native or adopted State." The present pamphlet appears to be one of three works on African-American life in Texas specially produced for the 1936 Centennial Exposition, along with W.E.B. Du Bois's What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas and the Commerce Department's A Selected List of Books By and About the Negro.

The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1500-1550 (complte set) by Max Geisberg. (Revised by Walter S. Strauss)

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Title: The German Single-leaf Woodcut 1500-1550 (complte set)
Author: Max Geisberg. (Revised by Walter S. Strauss)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Hacker Art Books, 1974. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Four volumes, each near fin - apparently unused. No PON, bookplates, etc.

The Natural History of Foreign Butterflies by Duncan, James

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Title: The Natural History of Foreign Butterflies
Author: Duncan, James
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: Edinurgh: W. H. Lizars, 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. 206pp. Contemporary full red leather, gilt spine title, boards embossed in blind, gilt inner dentelles, yellow coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Billed as having 33 plates: there are 30 handcolored plates of butterflies (one double, making 31), an engraved title page with a handcolored vignette, and an engraved frontispiece. As the Preface explains, this totals 33 plates. In addition to the engraved title, the typeset title is also present. The colored plates have all offset to some degree onto the facing pages; in all cases but one this offset is to a facing blank page; the exception is the engraved title which has offset to the frontispiece. Two small chips to the spine tips, only a trace of wear to the binding, else this is a fine copy with bright coloring.

A Large Run of Ivan Tyktor's "The Club of Friends of the Ukrainian Book" Publications by Various

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Title: A Large Run of Ivan Tyktor's "The Club of Friends of the Ukrainian Book" Publications
Author: Various
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Winnipeg: Ivan Tyktor, Publisher. Good. Twenty-nine volumes: 1-5, 8-11, 13-29 + four odd volumes; 7 x 5; pictorial wraps; some volumes with small labels with manuscript numbers to tail of spine and previous owner's signature to title page; a bit of wear to edges and corners; in good to very good condition.Ivan Tyktor (1896 - 1982) was a Ukrainian-Canadian publisher and social activist, who, before immigrating to Canada, would found in 1923 and run Ukrainska Presa Publishing Company in Lviv - arguably the largest and most important and successful Ukrainian publishing house in Western Ukraine. After settling in Winnipeg in 1948, he would establish The Club of Friends of the Ukrainian Book - in essence, an influential book club - which revised and republished a number of significant books issued by his earlier Ukrainska Presa (the current ones). Authors included Oleksa “Alex” Hay-Holowko, V. Birchak, Volodymyr Lopushanskyi, and many others. The beautiful cover art of the books was created by Myron Levytskyi (1913 - 1993) - famed Ukrainian-Canadian graphic designer, artist, illustrator, journalist, and author.

The Song of Songs. Original Manuscript. by [Americana] [Manuscript] [Women]

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Title: The Song of Songs. Original Manuscript.
Author: [Americana] [Manuscript] [Women]
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: America, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-covered boards, backed in brown morocco; oblong 4to (340x265mm); approx. pp. 120, interleaved tissue and laid paper with untrimmed edges; composed of pen and ink drawings, woodblock cuts, and calligraphic text, translating "The Songs of Songs" from Hebrew into English. A unique artist's book by an American woman, impressively carried out. Some scuffing along spine, else fine. With colophon statement, "This book was transcribed, illustrated, and bound by Beverly Wechsler, September 1955-May 1956; bound in half leather and ornamental brocade cloth-covered boards, gray endpapers, edges uncut (losses to leather backing, corners bumped); two pressed botanical specimens tucked inside back board; 10 3/8 x 13 ¼ in. The Cooper Union alumni records make mention of her graduating in 1956. One wonders whether this book, created during the period of an average school term (September to May), was a senior thesis project.

The Restriction Act Knocked Out, The Wasp by Barkhaus, Henry [illus.]

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Title: The Restriction Act Knocked Out, The Wasp
Author: Barkhaus, Henry [illus.]
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1518. San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4 , pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8 , text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. ß From the original edition of this issue of The Wasp. The Supreme Court s decision in Chew Heong drew criticism from exclusionists, and it became difficult to enforce the exclusion law. Henry Barkhaus s cartoon illustrates the failing efforts of several key federal officials in San Francisco in preventing Chinese immigrants from landing through litigation. The cartoon uses a satirical baseball game in which the Chinese are clearly winning to make its point. Political cartoons such as these provided one of the more effective vehicles for the anti-Chinese movement. The Wasp was well known for is satirical cartoons.

George Meredith 1909 by Barrie, J.M.

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Title: George Meredith 1909
Author: Barrie, J.M.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1909. London: Constable and Co., 1909. 12mo, 16pp. Full page illustration following title-page. Original cream cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover, with red border on both covers. Pages untrimmed and bordered in red. Mild browning to endpapers. Very good. ß First edition, first printing.

Land (Signed) by GORMLEY, Antony

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Title: Land (Signed)
Author: GORMLEY, Antony
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Condition: Fine copy in papered boards with affixed titles.
Description: The Landmark Trust, 2016. Fine copy in papered boards with affixed titles.. First Edition. Duodecimo. SIGNED by Gormley to half-title page in red ink. Published to commemorate a series of life-sized sculptures installed by Antony Gormley across five British sites, commissioned by the Landmark Trust to mark its 50th anniversary. Illustrated with color photographs from Clare Richardson; additional text by Jeanette Winterson.

Intermission: a True Tale [SIGNED] by Baxter, Anne

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Title: Intermission: a True Tale [*SIGNED*]
Author: Baxter, Anne
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Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1976). 4th impression. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [faint foxing to top edge of text block, no other significant wear; the jacket is a bit wrinkled at the top of the spine, and bears a large "Autographed at Hunter's" label affixed to the lower right corner of the front panel (probably removable if you wish) (the label is day-glo green, although it appears almost white in the scanned image)]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the half-title page. Memoir by the Academy Award-winning actress ("Eve" in ALL ABOUT EVE, although that wasn't what she won for), centered around her four years living in the Australian outback -- "the greatest challenge of her life," a move undertaken at the height of her career, to be with the man she loved. No doubt her publisher said, "nobody wants to read about THAT, Miss Baxter," ergo the narrative is interspersed with numerous flashbacks to her professional career. Signed by Author .

[RICHMOND] A FAMILY TAPESTRY: THE HUTZLERS AND RICHMOND by Melvin I. Urofsky

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Title: [RICHMOND] A FAMILY TAPESTRY: THE HUTZLERS AND RICHMOND
Author: Melvin I. Urofsky
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Richmond, VA: Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives Trust, 1984. 9"x6" 24pp soft-cover program published by the Congregation of Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives Trust in conjunction with an exhibit at the museum and written by VCU history professor Melvin Urofsky. ~~This exhibit and companion program trace the family history and community involvement of several generations of a Jewish family whose ancestor immigrated from Bavaria in the early 1900s. Scarce. Excellent.

A CATECHISM OF OUTPOST DUTY INCLUDING ADVANCE GUARDS, REAR GUARDS AND RECONNAISSANCE by WAGNER, Lieut-Colonel Arthur L.

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Title: A CATECHISM OF OUTPOST DUTY INCLUDING ADVANCE GUARDS, REAR GUARDS AND RECONNAISSANCE
Author: WAGNER, Lieut-Colonel Arthur L.
Seller: Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description: Kansas City, MO.: Hudson-Kimberly Publishing Co., 1895. Fifth Edition. Signed presentation from Capt. R.W. Ropes to Lt. Frank S. Perkins on the front endpaper, with stamped date of Nov. 9 1899. Both men were Company B Second Corps Cadets with the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Perkins was a commander of field artillery. With the tiny bookplate of Bent and Bush- a Boston-based military supply store on the front pastedown. 16mo., blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 134 pages plus ads. Illustrated With Diagrams & Large Fold-Out Plate. Very Good (covers bright with (minor wear covers, small repair to one plate with clear, archival tape).

Three Books of Occult Philosophy. by AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius.

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Title: Three Books of Occult Philosophy.
Author: AGRIPPA, Henry Cornelius.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: St. Paul: Llewellyn, 2003.. First printing of this trade paperback edition.. lxxii + 938 pp w/index. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in glossy printed wrappers. Translated by James Freake. Edited and annotated by Donald Tyson.

Cordelia. A Story For The Homemaker And The Breadwinner by ZIMMERMAN, L.M.

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Title: Cordelia. A Story For The Homemaker And The Breadwinner
Author: ZIMMERMAN, L.M.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Baltimore, Maryland: (Press of Meyer & Thalheimer), 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. Color frontispiece illustration. Modest wear to the extremities of the boards, very good.

Bones by CARTER, Keith

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Title: Bones
Author: CARTER, Keith
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
ISBN: 9780811812580
Condition: fine
Description: San Francisco: Chronicle, 1996. First. hardcover. fine/near fine. CARTER, Keith. Richly illustrated with b/w photographs of dogs. Unpaginated. Square 4to, brown boards, d.w. (minor wear to spine ends). San Francisco: Chronicle, (1996). First edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.

CIENCIA GASTRONOMICA. RECETAS DE GUISOS I POTAJES PARA POSTRES. SANTIAGO = FEBRERO DE 1851 = IMPRENTA DE LA REPÚBLICA.; Prólogo de Esteban Cabezas. Colección Asi Fuimos

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Title: CIENCIA GASTRONOMICA. RECETAS DE GUISOS I POTAJES PARA POSTRES. SANTIAGO = FEBRERO DE 1851 = IMPRENTA DE LA REPÚBLICA.; Prólogo de Esteban Cabezas. Colección Asi Fuimos
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9789569114038
Description: Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Mandrágora, 2012. recipes, ind., endpapers, pict. wrps. OCLC 827043982. (La edición original de libro fue impresa en 1851 por la Imprenta de La República en Santiago de Chile -- Colofon). Editorial Mandrágora rescued in facsimile editions the 3 first cooking books that were printed in Chile (in 1851, 1865 and 1872) considered bibliographical treasures of Chilean gastronomy. Regarding this first small format cookbook, Esteban Cabezas comments in his foreword. "This is not a book with recipes for today (at least not all). There are flavors that would provoke speeches even in the more experimental of gourmets (such as milk sauces). There are also other proteins, such as capons and pigeons. And a much more leisurely life, for preparing these dishes, and later consume them as well as enjoy them." (Our translation) --P. 6.

Trust Me by UPDIKE, John

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Title: Trust Me
Author: UPDIKE, John
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. 8vo. 302, [6] pp. Original cloth-backed boards; dust jacket. Whites of jacket slightly toned, generally fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION of this collection of short stories.

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Peppa Pig La leccion de ballet by Astley, Neville; Baker, Mark

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Title: Peppa Pig La leccion de ballet
Author: Astley, Neville; Baker, Mark
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9781338329681
Condition: Very Good
Description: Scholastic, 2003. Very Good. Astley, Neville. Peppa Pig La leccion de ballet. Baker, Mark. NY: Scholastic, 2003. Illustrated. Square 8vo. Stapled paperback. Book condition: Very good. En espanol.

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