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Ryder by Barnes, Djuna

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Title: Ryder
Author: Barnes, Djuna
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's royal blue cloth stamped in bright red and gilt; red topstain. xi, [1], 323 pp. Near fine in a Near Fine dust jacket; corners machine-cut, price un-clipped but with a revised price label over the printed price, toning; light wear and a small closed puncture to spine panel and small interior chip at rear cover. An uncommonly nice example of Barnes' first novel, a modernist romp with themes of free sexuality and polygamy.

THREE POST CIVIL WAR PHOTO ALBUMS BELONGING TO THE TURNER AND CUTTS FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON, DC, AND MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1860s - ca.1920s

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Title: THREE POST CIVIL WAR PHOTO ALBUMS BELONGING TO THE TURNER AND CUTTS FAMILIES OF WASHINGTON, DC, AND MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA, 1860s - ca.1920s
Seller: Bartlebys Books (United States)
Description: [various places, 1920. Three albums spanning the lives of a few generations of members of the Turner and Cutts families. Many of the men in the Cutts family served in the military from the Civil War era to the Spanish American War to World War I. The images document their time in Washington, DC; Lima, Peru; Mare Island, California; and a scattering of other places. Civil War Brig. General Richard Domincus Cutts' image is present. His son Richard Malcolm Cutts (1846-1886), a graduate of the Naval Academy was posted to the Naval base on Mare Island in California, the first US naval base on the west coast. He died at age 40 in California, and his wife continued to live on the island until her death in 1918. His son Richard M. Cutts, Jr., USMC was married on Mare Island in 1900 and many of the images in the second and third albums are from his family's time there. A collection of some 326 carte-de-visites, cabinet photos, tintypes, cyanotypes, and black & white images, varying in size, many with captions below the photos. A few are faded, one shows insect damage, else very good, clear. The first album is an elaborately bound Turkey morocco and gilt photo album, 10 x 8 in., manufactured by William W. Harding of Philadelphia, with approx. 135 photos, including some 104 carte-de-visites, 6 cabinet photos, and 5 tintypes. Gilt decorations on spine, gilt stamped title "Photographs" and gilt lettering at the base of the spine "Flexible Chain-Backed Pat'd Oct. 17, 1865." Embossed gilt panels on front and rear boards, all edges gilt, secured by two metal clasps. Gilt ownership name in a recessed panel on front board: "[?] Turner." Some scuffing and wear to leather. Photos are inserted into cut-out "pocket" windows, the cabinet cards one to a page, carte-de-visites four to a page. Several have late 1860s or early 1870s dates in pencil or ink on the versos. Some light soiling to album pages, occasional tears to edges of the pocket windows. Approximately 27 of the images are of men in uniform, likely veterans of the Civil War. Many of the photographers are identified by their imprints on the versos: W. Kurtz, NY; Solano Photographic Art Studio, Vallejo, CA; M.P. & A.I. Rice, Wash. DC; Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco; Courret Hermanos, Lima, Peru; Philp & Solomons Metropolitan Gallery, Wash. DC; Morse's Palace of Art, San Francisco [advertised in color on verso of photo]; Photographic Artist B. Moses, New Orleans; and several more. There are two carte-de-visites of Dolley Madison (1768-1849), one identified on the verso as being from the studio of Alexander Gardner, No. 511 Seventh St., Wash. DC; the other from Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway & Tenth Sts., NY & No. 352 Pennsylvania Ave., Wash. DC. [Matthew Brady is known to have made two daguerreotypes of Dolley Madison not long before her death. These two photos are similar but not identical to those images]. This album apparently belonged to a member of the Turner family, people well represented in the images, along with their closely connected relatives the Cutts. Many of them lived in the Washington, DC area, others in California. Some were evidently posted to Lima, Peru. One image is of Richard Dominicus Cutts (1817-1883), a Union Army Brevet Brig. General and a nephew of Dolley Madison. He served on Major General Halleck's staff during the war, and later was a member of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The first cabinet photo in the album is of Lucia Cutts, Richard Dominicus Cutts' daughter, identified by name in pencil on the verso. She edited the "Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison," her great aunt, which were published by Houghton Mifflin in 1886. Another photo shows Lucia sitting in the midst of a group of women, also annotated in pencil on the verso as "Aunt Lucia." The second cabinet photo is of Dr. John Mills Brown, Surgeon General, USN, husband of Alice Turner. [Alice Turner's sister Emily was married to Richard Dominicus Cutts' son Richard Malcolm Cutts (1846-1886)]. Another of the cabinet photos is of another of R.D. Cutts' children, Gertrude, who married Moorfield Storey (1845-1929). The rest of the album contains of images of women, children, and men in uniform, many identified by name on the versos: Daniel K. Turner; Richard M. Cutts; Montgomery Fletcher; T.B.M. Mason; a carte-de-visite of three young men in letter sweaters, identified on the verso as students at the U.S. Naval Academy, Newport, RI [a prep school]. Another of a very young man in navy garb, taken at the photo studios of Courret Hermanos in Lima, is identified on the verso as "Wm. Adams (App. Boy), deserted U.S. [Str.?] Ossipee March 1." [We found his name on the muster rolls for the Ossipee dated Dec. 31, 1867, noting that he had enlisted in Newport in June 1865, for service until the age of 21, and came aboard the Ossipee in Oct. 1866. He was born in Roxbury, MA in ca. 1850. A note in a column of the muster roll says he was "reduced from Lds by Sum. Ct. M'l 11/27/[1867]."] A group of photos show ladies in costume, including a woman covering all but her eyes with a shawl, another in a church costume for the feast of a patron saint, another dressed as a nun, etc. The five tintypes include two approx. the size of carte-de-visites, the others very small, including one in a gilt frame. There are also about a dozen street scenes, several of them from Lima, one of which shows the "Circo De Toras," the oldest bullfighting stadium in the Americas. In addition there are eleven reproduced images of classical sculptures. The second album is 7 x 10 in. bound in rust red fabrikoid, with "Photographs" lettered in gilt on the front cover. On the patterned endpapers in ink is a note that the photos "were taken by my father, Richard M. Cutts," a reference to R.D. Cutts' grandson R.M. Cutts (1878-1934), a Colonel in the US Marine Corps who saw service in the Spanish American War. There are 58 photos laid down on 13 leaves, including 48 cyanotypes and 10 black & white images, most with captions in ink below. They vary in size from 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in. to 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. Several show facilities on Mare Island, a row of tents labeled "Marine Barracks," a cook tent, troops drilling with firearms. There are also images of the USS Wisconsin from a distance, at port, on deck showing a Maxim Nordenfelt 6 pndr., torpedos leaving a tube, the Marine Guard of the USS Wisconsin at Magdalena Bay, Mexico, March 1901. Local scenes of the Hotel Del Monte, Cypress Point, Monterey, Mt. Tamalpais, and a picnic at Bremerton show members of the family and friends. The third album, bound in limp suede, with "Kodaks" stamped on the front cover, measures 8 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. and contains approx. 133 black & white photos laid down on thin album sheets, varying in size from 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. to 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 in., some with captions. Some wear and scuffing to covers. There are views of the Mare Island lighthouse; the Spar Deck, Golf Links, Mare Island as well as images of holes No. 4, 5, and 9 [some 11 images of various parts of the golf course, likely taken ca. 1900s-1910s]; the residence of Mrs. Cutts on the island; two photos of children dressed in elaborate bird costumes; 5 photos of Native Americans [Hopi?], including one of a woman fashioning a squash blossom hairdo for another; and many other domestic and family scenes. [The Golf Links on Mare Island were opened in 1892, making it the oldest golf course west of the Mississippi. It was originally laid out for the use of the Navy but became a public course about 100 years later when the Naval base closed. See Michael Gordon's article in the Times Herald, 2/21/2020]. Many of the Turner and Cutts family members identified in these albums had connections to the Washington, DC area in the Civil War era. Richard Dominicus Cutts was the son of Richard Cutts (1771-1845), a U.S. Congressman from Maine and his wife Anna Payne, Dolley Madison's sister. Daniel Turner (1796-1860) was a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina. Two of his daughters married into the Cutts and Browne families. Later generations continued in military service in the west. Richard Malcolm Cutts Jr. (1878-1934) was an ensign in the Navy during the Spanish American War. He transferred to the Marine Corps in 1899, was married at Mare Island, became a colonel in 1922, and in 1923-4 was commandant of the Dominican Republic National Army. He died in San Diego. According to his obituary in Washington's Evening Star on Nov. 29, 1934, he and his son Lt. Richard M. Cutts III were co-inventors of the Cutts compensator, "an ordnance shock absorber" used by the Government.

Telepathy: The Cosmic or Universal Language. Correspondence Course /bound with/ The Origins of This World's Religions /bound with/ Guy J. Cyr papers /bound with/ Contactee Miscellany by Honey, Carol Adin [George Adamski] [Guy J. Cyr] [Desmond Leslie] [Echo Pettit] [James D. Wardle]

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Title: Telepathy: The Cosmic or Universal Language. Correspondence Course /bound with/ The Origins of This World's Religions /bound with/ Guy J. Cyr papers /bound with/ Contactee Miscellany
Author: Honey, Carol Adin [George Adamski] [Guy J. Cyr] [Desmond Leslie] [Echo Pettit] [James D. Wardle]
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Anaheim, CA: Science Publications, 1964. 118+33+10+10+[2]+[2]+[2]+[2]+[1]+[1]+[1]+5+4+2+4+2+2+[4]+[4]+[3]pp. Postbound with red vinyl covers. Mostly very good. We are unable to locate any institutional holdings for any of this material. Nice collection of rare contactee and ufology compiled by James D. Wardle (The Socrates of Salt Lake's State Street) that is primarily from C.A. Honey but also includes others. This work contains C.A. Honey's entire telepathy correspondence course that was sent to James D. Wardle and used, underlined, and filled out by same. Followed by Honey's short work on World Religions, which is followed by two letters from Rev. Guy J. Cyr to C.A. Honey and then a number of short works: - A Letter from Desmond Leslie. - Book Review by C.A. Honey - The Effects of Fallout by C.A. Honey - The Great 44,000 Mile Crack by C.A. Honey - Report from Mariner II by C.A. Honey - Sense Mind and Soul Mind by C.A. Honey - Shelter Insanity by C.A. Honey - Information About C.A. Honey by James D. Wardle - George Adamski's Special Report #1 Trip to Saturn by George Adamski - George Adamski's Special Report #2 Trip to Saturn by George Adamski - Telepathy Experiment Report by Echo Pettit - Telepathy Experiment Report by James D. Wardle - A Challenge to Spiritual Leaders by George Adamski - Spiritual Crusade for Survival, Part 1 by George Adamski - Spiritual Crusade for Survival, Part 2 Results of Nuclear Testing by George Adamski - Think This One Over! MacArthur Forsees 'War of Worlds' - Your Attention Please!!! by George Adamski - Outline of Future ICAP Projects After the Death of George Adamski Carol Adin Honey (1928-2007) was a prominent American ufologist, researcher, and author who is best known for his close, complicated association with famous 1950s UFO "contactee" George Adamski. Working in the background of early ufology, Honey transitioned from Adamski's primary ghostwriter and secretary to one of his sharpest critics. Professionally, Honey was an aerospace engineer for Hughes Aircraft (with a security clearance) and a pioneer in hypnotism training in California (he operated the first school approved by the California State Board of Education). After retiring from Hughes Aircraft, Honey operated a television repair ship in Ontario, California, for nearly two decades. George Adamski (1891-1965) was a Polish-American author who became the first and most famous UFO "contactee" of the 1950s. Adamski developed an early interest in occultism, and by the 1930s he had establishedhimself as a 'guru' in Southern California's mystical scene. He founded the Royal Order of Tibet, whose teachings drew on his psychic channelings from Tibetan masters. He gained international notoriety by presenting photographs of what he claimed were alien spacecraft and asserting that he had regular personal encounters with friendly extraterrestrials from within our solar system. While mainstream scientists, researchers, and skeptics widely dismissed his stories and photos as elaborate hoaxes, Adamski developed a massive following and authored several bestselling books on his experiences. James D. Wardle (1915-1997) 'The Socrates of State Street' was a prominent lifelong resident of Salt Lake City and an elder in the RLDS Church (now Community of Christ), a local barbershop owner, an award-winning figure skater, and a prolific collector of religious and philosphical books and tracts.

Stiletto (Original screenplay from the 1969 film) by A.J. Russell (screenwriter); Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Harold Robbins (novel); Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, Patrick O'Neal (starring)

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Title: Stiletto (Original screenplay from the 1969 film)
Author: A.J. Russell (screenwriter); Bernard L. Kowalski (director); Harold Robbins (novel); Alex Cord, Britt Ekland, Joseph Wiseman, Barbara McNair, Patrick O'Neal (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: New York: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1968. Revised Draft for the 1969 film. Script belonging to uncredited crew member, with their name in manuscript ink in three places in the script. Additionally included with the script is a vintage reference photograph from the film, showing cast and crew members on location. Based on the 1960 novel by Harold Robbins. A Mafia hit man is ready to retire, but his employers, not happy with this idea, send a hit man out after him. Shot on location in New York City and Puerto Rico. Red titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 9/27/68, with credits for novelist Harold Robbins, screenwriter A.J. Russell, and director Bernard L. Kowalski. PAGES leaves, with last page of text numbered 121. Mimeograph duplication, rectos only, with pink, yellow, blue, and green revision pages throughout, dated variously between 10/15/68 and 11/5/68. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, bound with two gold brads. Photograph: 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Fight Back! Monthly Newspaper of the Attica Brigade (Vol. 1, No. 1)

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Title: Fight Back! Monthly Newspaper of the Attica Brigade (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Staten Island, NY: Attica Brigade, 1973. Original wraps. Near Fine. The September-October 1973 maiden issue of "Fight Back! Monthly Newspaper of the Attica Brigade, an Anti-Imperialist Student Organization". The front cover of this issue is devoted to an ongoing, massive strike at University of Wisconsin, Madison and the mission statement on pg. 2 declares that the purpose of this paper is to "spread the growing antiimperialist struggles and consciousness to canpuses throughout the country". This copy is crisp and very well-preserved: clean, bright and Near Fine. Neatly folded in half for mailing purposes but, happily, there's no mailing label attached -- or any other marks to speak of. A very sharp copy of the first issue of "Fight Back

The Pelcari Project. Cárcel de árbolas. Translated by Paul Bowles by (Bowles, Paul) ; Rey Rosa, Rodrigo

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Title: The Pelcari Project. Cárcel de árbolas. Translated by Paul Bowles
Author: (Bowles, Paul) ; Rey Rosa, Rodrigo
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Cadmus Editions, 1997. First edition. Cloth, plastic jacket, fine. Copy 47 of 150 numbered and signed.

The Betrayal of Iran by 'Abd al-Rahman

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Title: The Betrayal of Iran
Author: 'Abd al-Rahman
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Charlotte, 1979. Staplebound. Good. Staplebound. 8" X 5 3/4". 89pp. Wear to paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Staple binding is sound. With color postcard of unknown man laid in. An overall solid copy of the 89 page booklet by Dr. 'Abd al-Rahman criticizing the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and America and Britain's role in it.

Hero Souls Filled with New Wine! A Parable of the Living Air of San Francisco by Aked, Charles

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Title: Hero Souls Filled with New Wine! A Parable of the Living Air of San Francisco
Author: Aked, Charles
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Description: San Francisco: By the author, 1912. Softcover. First edition; 8 1/4 x 5 1/4; pp. 3-12; speckled grey wraps, printed in black; very minor fading and spotting to wraps; faint discoloration to fore-edge of first several leaves; very good condition.An exuberant sermon on life in the City by the Bay by Baptist Preacher Charles F. Aked, it was delivered at The First Congregational Church of San Francisco on March 3, 1912. Aked was born in Nottingham in 1864 and, while still very young, became famous for taking on a dying church at Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool and quickly revitalizing it. His first lecture tour of the United States in 1893 was a roaring success. He would eventually accept the pastorate of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in New York in 1907.

Catalogue of The Works of Art Belonging to The City of New York by Art Commission of The City of New York

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Title: Catalogue of The Works of Art Belonging to The City of New York
Author: Art Commission of The City of New York
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good+. Cover off and ripped, rest is very clean, tight and fresh. Needs attention but a good example
Description: City of New York, 1909. Softcover. Good+. Cover off and ripped, rest is very clean, tight and fresh. Needs attention but a good example. Stiff wraps. xvii, 241 pp. 112 bw plates. Plates include 54 paintings, 10 murals and 48 works of sculpture. Index lists the subjects, but not the artist or sculptor. All the works listed in this catalogue had been acquired by Sept. 1, 1908. A terrific listing of portraiture ansd sculpture, and a valuable reference. Poorly bound initially, and while still tight and complete, would greatly benefit from being rebound.

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