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[Manuscript] Ledger for the Redstone Paper Mill, July 1825 - Nov. 1826 by Anon. - AMERICAN PAPER MAKING

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Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books

Title: [Manuscript] Ledger for the Redstone Paper Mill, July 1825 - Nov. 1826
Author: Anon. - AMERICAN PAPER MAKING
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy; first 60 pages have been utilized as a scrap book in 1880s.
Description: Brownsville [PA]: Redstone Paper Mill, 1825/1826. Manuscript. Original reverse calf.. A good copy; first 60 pages have been utilized as a scrap book in 1880s.. Folio, appx. 280pp. A rare and valuable account ledger for the Redstone Paper Mill that was founded on Redstone Creek in Fayette City (4 miles from Brownsville) appx. 50 miles outside of Pittsburgh in western Pennsylvania in 1796 by Jonathan Sharpless and Samuel Jackson. This paper mill was the first in Pennsylvania west of the Alleghenies and supplied newsprint for the Pittsburgh Gazette and newspapers as far away as Cincinnati. It was also a manufacturer of all kinds of printing and special purpose papers. At the time of inception the paper mill consisted of paper mill, grist mill, and tenements for the work staff. By 1797 the mill employed appx. 25 people. By 1823, the only year of an extant ledger for the mill, there were 13 women employed (primarily at making paper). The business was finally destroyed by fire in the 1840s at which time its inventory of paper was valued at nearly $20,000. Ownership had descended directly to members of the Sharpless family and one Job Harvey. The ledger offered here is 280 pages in length. The first 60 pages have been used as a scrapbook and will require the removal of all kinds of paper advertising to be legible. This should not be a great nuisance and once accomplished will reveal another two months of activities. The narrative, however, is unencumbered between Aug. 30, 1825 and the end of the journal Oct. 31, 1826. The record is a day-to-day narrative of shipments and purchases at the mill site. It includes all shipments of paper (by type) and transport into Pittsburgh, purchases of rags, books for a local school, binding charges, blank book production, the order and evolution of the manufacture of book binding boards (including the purchase of machinery), occasional statements on the employment of women, payments to the Sharpless family etc . It is a full and unusually detailed accounting of income and expenditures relating directly to the manufacture and sale of paper and the book arts in frontier America. By the 1820s the Redstone Mill had also grown to include a small local store and undertaken many of the commercial tasks associated with mill work, e.g., carding, grinding fees.These records are also present in the daily accounts. By reading through the ledger one is given the impression of substantial commercial activity and community centered on the paper mill. There is also the record of a drought in 1825 that brought production to a close for a short time. A magnificent resource.

Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication) by Charles Willeford

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Poontang (First Edition, inscribed in the year of publication)
Author: Charles Willeford
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1967. First Edition. Issued in green and gray wrapper variants (no priority), this being the gray variant. INSCRIBED and dated in the year of publication by the author on the front endpaper with typical aplomb: "To Les Dubinas / I hope you all like 'Poontang' / Chas Willeford / 23 Jan '67." A self-published book of poetry by the noted crime author with a print run of 500 copies, making it one of the more difficult Willeford titles. Very Good plus overall, with no wear apart from toning at the wrapper edges. Herron 13.

The Roger Williams Coal Mining Company [wrapper title]

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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books

Title: The Roger Williams Coal Mining Company [wrapper title]
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Boston: printed at the Daily Mail Establishment, Nos. 14 and 16 State Street, 1847. 16mo, pp. 16; original printed yellow front wrapper, rear wrapper wanting; very good. Articles of Incorporation for a mining company ready to extract coal in Cumberland and Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and a 5-page account of Coal Exploration in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Not in OCLC, not in American Imprints.

PRESENTE DE LA LIRICA MEXICANA (ANTOLOGIA HOMENAJE) by Manuel Altolaguirre

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Title: PRESENTE DE LA LIRICA MEXICANA (ANTOLOGIA HOMENAJE)
Author: Manuel Altolaguirre
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good+ binding
Description: Mexico: El Ciervo Herido, 1946. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good+ binding. Beautiful copy. The pages are unopened. Original glassine mostly present. #200 of 500 copies. Very Good+ binding.

Herzog by Saul Bellow

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Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA

Title: Herzog
Author: Saul Bellow
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: New York: Viking Press, 1964. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Viking Press, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); 341pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $5.75 price intact; boards bound in blue cloth with blindstamping at front panel and silver stamping at spine. Dust jacket lightly bumped; small green sticker at spine. Boards likewise bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock, and endsheets, and interior pages lightly toned. A Very Good or better copy of this National Book Award winner.

The Anderson Ellipsoid or safe Float System For Carrying the Foreign Mails, Exports and Imports of Money by Anderson, Josiah B.

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Title: The Anderson Ellipsoid or safe Float System For Carrying the Foreign Mails, Exports and Imports of Money
Author: Anderson, Josiah B.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fair
Description: Washington DC: Gibson Brothers Printers and Bookbinders, 1897. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover. 48pp; 24 folding plates. Contemporary brown leather over boards. Most of spine perished, boards damaged at corner with a dampstain to the front; hinges starting but still holding fast, internally clean. Includes plans, specifications, a general and specific official estimate, drawings, and laudatory letters. Plans and description of a float device that would save the cargo [maybe the passengers] of any sinking steamer with which the device was fitted to. Anderson's design was inspired by the 1895 sinking of the steamer The Elbe by collision. From what we can find it seems this invention was never adapted, and if it was, it wasn't widely used.

MONEY FOR NOTHING by Wodehouse, P. G.

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Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY

Title: MONEY FOR NOTHING
Author: Wodehouse, P. G.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: MONEY FOR NOTHING, Herbert Jenkins, (ca. 1939), tenth printing, lower rear fore edge corner bumped, else a bright vg+ copy in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper with some slight wear and tear and some fading (from red to orange) to the dust-wrapper spine.

Two Years Under Arms: A Novel of Life in a Military School by Adam, Robert J.

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Title: Two Years Under Arms: A Novel of Life in a Military School
Author: Adam, Robert J.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
Description: New York: Exposition Press. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1953). First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [moderate shelfwear, light fading to cloth at edges, light discoloration in gutters; jacket a little edgeworn, spine is browned with some minor staining, a few tiny nicks here and there]. The author, a native of Dunlap, Kansas, and a then-resident of Lyons, Kansas (about 110 miles to the west, in case you were wondering), novelizes his experience at military school -- by all accounts the sort of thing you never quite get over, although it doesn't necessarily obligate you to write a book about it -- to present a "vivid and authentic account of .... the hazing, the maneuvers, the sports, the youthful rebellion, and all the other countless facets of cadet life." Like many vanity-romans-a-clef, the author effectively anonymizes the actual locations of the action -- his protagonist hails from "Centerville" (but the description of the town doesn't match Centerville, Kansas) and attends "Sterling Military Academy in Longmont, Missouri." (There never has been either a military school or a Missouri town by those names, near as I can tell.) The novel is set mostly during 1934 and 1935, and although the locus is primarily the doings at the school itself, there are at least some references to what was going in Depression-era America, and a visiting lecturer even speaks of the rise of Hitler. (There's also a kind of amusing passage in which the protagonist takes a girl to see the movie LIMEHOUSE BLUES (Paramount, 1934), which he dismisses as "a morbid piece [with] many sordid, undesirable scenes.") All in all, it presents a pretty balmy picture of life in a military academy -- even the "hazing" referenced above doesn't amount to much more than a sergeant who yells a bit and calls the cadets "the sorriest bunch of recruits I've ever seen." It does kind of leave you wondering, though, if the author -- especially since the book was published smack-dab in the middle of the McCarthy Era -- quite knew what he was doing when he named his protagonist "John Reed." .

Tiriel. Facsimile and Transcript of the Manuscript, Reproduction of the Drawings, and a Commentary on the Poem by G.E. Bentley by Blake, William. Bentley, G.E.

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Title: Tiriel. Facsimile and Transcript of the Manuscript, Reproduction of the Drawings, and a Commentary on the Poem by G.E. Bentley
Author: Blake, William. Bentley, G.E.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
Description: 1967. OUP: 1967. 4to, (9), 94 pages. Illus. Original cloth, dust-jacket a bit soiled and torn § First edition of this important facsimile. Bentley, Blake Books, 204.

Summer 1981. by ADAM, Helen.

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Title: Summer 1981.
Author: ADAM, Helen.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller-ABAA (United States)
Description: (np): Toothpaste Press,, 1983.. First edition.. 7 1/8 x 5 1/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Produced for distribution at the Bookslinger A.B.A. booth, Dallas, June 1983.

Mountbatten by ZIEGLER, Philip

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Title: Mountbatten
Author: ZIEGLER, Philip
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 2nd prt. Very good in very good dust jacket. Remainder mark at top edge of book. Small water stain on inside of dust jacket.

Floodtide: the wave of the future [newsletter] vol. 6, #1, Winter 1994; PEP & IntiNet Join forces to create Loving More Magazine

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Title: Floodtide: the wave of the future [newsletter] vol. 6, #1, Winter 1994; PEP & IntiNet Join forces to create Loving More Magazine
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: San rafael: IntiNet Resource Center, 1994. 12p., 8.5x11 inches, news, events, ads, services and resources, very good newsletter. Polyamory organization in Marin.

A catalogue of the Maxwell Anderson collection at The University of Texas by Avery, Laurence G., compiler

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Title: A catalogue of the Maxwell Anderson collection at The University of Texas
Author: Avery, Laurence G., compiler
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ausstin: University of texas, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hardcover. This renowned collection includes manuscripts of Anderson's plays, poems, and essays, both published and unpublished works, as well as letters and diaries. It is the largest assemblage of his papers preserved in one place. Bound in brown cloth with gilt title to spine. In near fine condition in very good dust jacket with light bumping and nicks. 175 pages. BOB/111616.

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