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Typed letter signed. WITH: As We Remember Joe. WITH: Publisher's mailing list and supporting materials by KENNEDY John F.

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Typed letter signed. WITH: As We Remember Joe. WITH: Publisher's mailing list and supporting materials
Author
KENNEDY John F.
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1944. First Edition. Signed. KENNEDY, John F. Typed letter signed. WITH: As We Remember Joe. WITH: Publisher's mailing list and supporting materials. The Palace Hotal, San Francisco; and Cambridge, Massachusetts, Undated [1945] / 1945. Single leaf of The Palace Hotel, San Francisco letterhead, measuring 7-1/4 by 10-1/2 inches; typed on recto and verso for two pages. Book: octavo, original maroon cloth, original glassine, original mailing box. Mailing List, together over 50 pages, and supporting materials: original heavy card portfolio, 9 by 11-1/2 inches, hand-lettered on front cover. $27,500.Exceptional typed letter by John F. Kennedy to the secretary of the publisher of the moving tribute to Joe Kennedy Jr., As We Remember Joe, noting that JFK was pleased with the book and requesting that it be sent to several people in England, boldly signed. Together with a presentation copy of the book, inscribed by JFK on the front free endpaper in the month of publication: ""For Mr. Sherrill, with the greatest appreciation for all of his thoughtfulness, from Jack Kennedy, May 1945."" Together with the publisher's typed mailing list and an archive of correspondence and other related materials.The undated letter, typed on The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, stationery to Mr. Edgar Sherrill, the secretary at the University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reads in part: ""Dear Mr. Sherrill: ""The book could not have been better and you have certainly done a wonderful job—and I know Dad was pleased. There are several people in Enlgand [sic] that I promised to send it to:"" He then provides the names and addresses of six additional recipients in England—among them Lady Sykes and the Duchess of Devonshire—and an additional two in the United States, concluding: ""Thanks a lot—I should be up there within a couple of weeks. Sincerely, [signed] Jack Kennedy.""John F. Kennedy edited As We Remember Joe, the collection of 20 essays (and also wrote the first, ""My Brother Joe"") memorializing his eldest brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., who won the Naval Cross and was killed in action in 1944.The materials in the accompanying archive comprise: - Three typed letters from Joseph P. Kennedy or his secretary Marilyn McElwee to Sherrill, enclosing a list of 191 mostly typed mailing addresses [present, on 7 sheets], requesting six copies of the book, or listing a dozen additional mailing addresses. Together, 10 pages, quarto, letters on JPK personal stationery. Palm Beach, 19 April 1945; Hyannisport, 29 May; 3 July 1945.- Four typed copies of the mailing list, two in alphabetical order, with scattered corrections in unknown hands, each containing between 204 and 263 addresses. Together over 40 pages, quarto, written or printed on rectos only. Circa 1945- Group of 4 index cards, each with typed note including date, indicating 500 copies of As We Remember Joe, 500 mailing cartons, 500 shipping labels, or 5000 ""From the Desk of"" slips. 29 January; 20 April; 18 May 1945; 26 May 1953.- Typed letter from JFK's secretary Janet Des Rosiers to University Press, requesting an inventory of the remaining copies of As We Remember Joe. A note at lower edge of page states that 75 copies remain, in unknown hand. With a retained copy of the typed reply letter reporting the inventory of 75 copies. 2 pages, quarto. Hyannisport, 4 October 1950.- Typed letter from Kennedy family attorney William Peyton Marin to University Press requesting delivery of the printing plates for As We Remember Joe. With copy of receipt from courier service for delivery of plates to Stephen E. Smith, attached with staple at upper left. 2 pages, quarto or 12mo. New York, 2 August 1970. Book first issue, with winged device on the title page printed in red, one of 390 copies of the first issue (the second issue was of 250 copies). Supporting archive with expected signs of handling. Book fine, short closed tear and light edge-wear to fragile original glassine, often not present; light wear to box, rarely present. Typed letter signed by JFK with faint fold lines, but fine, signature bold.
Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerreotype

Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerreotype by HUNT Robert

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Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerreotype
Author
HUNT Robert
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1841. First Edition. HUNT, Robert. A Popular Treatise on the Art of Photography, including Daguerréotype, and All the New Methods of Producing Pictures. Glasgow: Richard Griffin, 1841. Octavo, early plain blue paper wrappers and endpapers. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6500.First edition of Hunt’s landmark photographic work, with 29 in-text illustrations and frontispiece featuring one of the earliest representations of a negative print.In the dramatic years of photography's early growth, with Niépce developing heliography, Daguerre the daguerreotype and Fox Talbot the calotype, Robert Hunt (1807-87), a British chemist, geologist and photographer, broke new ground with this ""very first general treatise on photography"" (Reilly, Albumen & Salted Paper Book). A pioneering text, it successfully broadened the influence, art and scientific uses of photography while also exploring new photographic processes. ""On the discovery of photography Hunt at once began a series of careful experiments, and soon published in the Philosophical Transactions several papers on his results, one being the discovery that the protosulphate of iron could be used as a developing agent"" (DNB). ""With characteristic unselfishness, Hunt made [his and other discoveries] public during the early '40s."" His innovation of ""protosulphate of iron had many advantages over gallic acid as a developing agent… Its importance in shortening exposure time ""compels us to pay particular attention to its introduction into photography"" (Eder, 326). Two years after this book's publication, Hunt produced what many consider to be the first color photograph, using a chromatype process to create a direct positive image in hues of orange or lilac. With frontispiece plate of a photographic positive and negative—one of the earliest known representations of the negative print. Gernsheim Incunabula 653. Some edge-wear to brittle text, a few stains to title page and gutter margin of Introduction. Foxing to later wrappers. A very good copy of this scarce and seminal work.
In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]

In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof] by Derek Walcott

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In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 [Uncorrected Proof]
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Derek Walcott
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Very Good +. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Uncorrected Proof. Small, slim octavo; publisher's light olive card wrappers printed in black with repeating Cape logo; 78pp. Very light wear and toning, else a Very Good to Near Fine example. Early uncorrected proof copy in generic publisher's wrappers of the Saint Lucian poet's first work published outside of the Caribbean--another proof copy featuring the dust jacket art was issued later. Thirty years later Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1992.
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The Estelle Doheny Collection Part V: Prined Books and Manuscripts Including Early Printing, Literature and Fine Bindings

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The Estelle Doheny Collection Part V: Prined Books and Manuscripts Including Early Printing, Literature and Fine Bindings
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc.. Fine. 1987. Hardcover. A Fine edition that has a stamp on the front flyleaf along with a red price dot sticker that is also located on the front board cover; 125 pages .
Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator. A New Edition, with Additional Tables. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department

Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator. A New Edition, with Additional Tables. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department by No Author

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Useful Tables from Bowditch's Practical Navigator. A New Edition, with Additional Tables. Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department
Author
No Author
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The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. SCARCE. Good 3/4 leather bound marbled boards. Leather very worn, scuffing & rubbing to boards. Front board detached but present. Interior is very brown with age, but otherwise pretty clean. Faint dampstain to bottom right corner. Contains mathematical tables. Maritime/Navigation MARI/5023.
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Candlesticks by Wills, Geoffrey

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Title
Candlesticks
Author
Wills, Geoffrey
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Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition
Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Description
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1974. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 120 pages. 27 x 22 cm. 117 black and white photographs. Bibliography.

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