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FREETHOUGHT BRANN WC.; JD. Shaw biography W. C. J. D.
Brann the Iconoclast: A Collection of Writings of W.C. Brann. With a Biography 2 vols
Waco TX: Herz Brothers 1898-99. First Edition. Two volumes; octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's blue-green cloth boards decorated in blind titled in gilt on spines and front covers; 464463pp.; photographic portrait frontis. bound in first volume. Light external wear but a clean tight and unmarked set Very Good or better. Volume 1 dated 1898 on title page; Volume 2 dated 1899 on title page. The writings of journalist William Cowper Brann 1855-1898 editor and owner of the Waco Texas newspaper "The Iconoclast." The notorious Brann was one of America's first succesful "attack journalists" launching vicious broadsides against everything from harlotry to Baptism to New York society often conflating the three. He once famously stated: "I have nothing against Baptists -- I just don't think they were held under long enough." The present anthology of his writings was issued shortly after Brann's assassination in 1898 at the hands of a perhaps unsurprisingly irate Baptist. Herz Brothers unknown books
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Rose John; Evelyn John compiler and preface; Jeffers Robert H. supplementary biography
The English Vineyard Vindicated. with an address where the best plants are to be had at easie rates
Falls Village Connecticut: The Herb Grower Press 1965. Duodecimo 17.5 x 10.5 cm. 48 1 27 1 pages. Bibliographical references. ~ Facsimile of the 1675 edition published in London by T.R. & N.T. for B. Tooke; with a supplementary "appendix". FIRST EDITION THUS limited to 250 numbered copies this is number 26 of 250. Originally published in London 1666 "printed by J. Grismond for John Crook at the Ship in St. Pauls Church-yard". The original contains a preface by John Evelyn 1620-1706 "Philocepos". It is believed Evelyn compiled the text based on "matter" given to him by Rose. This facsimile contains an appendix by Robert H. Jeffers on the life of John Rose. Rose 1619-1677 was gardener to King Charles II. by Robert H. Jeffers. The original work was later appended to the text of the English edition of Nicolas de Bonnefons The French Gardener 1669. Late ownership inscription to foot of free front endpaper otherwise fine in publisher's paper-covered boards printed and titled in red and gold. OCLC locates eleven copies of this facsimile edition; Gabler G34730 incorrectly stating 1966 as the publication date. The Herb Grower Press hardcover books
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Maddow Ben illustrated biography
LET TRUTH BE THE PREJUDICE. W. EUGENE SMITH: HIS LIFE AND PHOTOGRAPHS.; Afterword by John G. Morris
NY: Aperture 1985. First edition. Smith W. Eugene. Folio 240 pp. numerous text and full-page b&w photo-illustrations. A fine as new copy in dust jacket sealed in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition. <br/><br/> Aperture unknown books
Bookseller reference : 52201
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Jon Dennis Michael; with an essay by Kristin Makholm; and artist biographies by Marla J. Kinney
Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue 1977-1992
Minneapolis MN: Minneapolis Institute Of Art 2006. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated boards. <br/><br/> Minneapolis Institute Of Art hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 9008545 ISBN : 0816649723 9780816649723
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ADLER David A
Picture Book of Helen Keller
NY: Holiday House. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 0823408183 . Illustrated by John and Alexandra Wallner. Book club edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Holiday House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 22537 ISBN : 0823408183 9780823408184
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Westvaco. Callihan John C. Foreword & Biographies
Voices from an Earlier America. An Anthology of Poetry Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
n.p.: Westvaco 1980. Privately Published Limited Edition. Cloth. A very good copy. No slipcase. Illus. with b/w etchings and drawings. Twenty-four poets from Bradstreet to Riley accompanied by excellent reproductions of b/w drawings from "United States Illustrated" ed. by Charles Dana c.1850. Westvaco hardcover books
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American Biography
PUBLIC CHARACTERS OR COTEMPORARY sic BIOGRAPHY; CONTAINING MEMOIRS OF THE FOLLOWING PERSONAGES: LORD NELSON.MARQUIS CORNWALLIS. BUSHROD WASHINGTON.
New York: G. & R. Waite 1805. 4100pp. Contemporary calf gilt leather label. Minor edge wear. Contemporary ink notations on front flyleaf light foxing. Very good. Second American edition condensed from the first American edition published in Baltimore in 1803. This edition presents eight biographies of various important American and British figures of the American Revolutionary period including Lord Nelson Cornwallis Bushrod Washington and Edward Jenner the discoverer of the vaccine for smallpox. Scarce with only five copies located on OCLC. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9222. SABIN 66511. OCLC 24492244. G. & R. Waite hardcover books
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London Charmian Kittredge 1871 1955 inscribed
Our Hawaii
xiv2-345-34 ad pages with illustrations from photographs including frontispiece portrait of Jack London with facsimile signature. Octavo 8 1/4" x 4 2/4" bound in original publisher's blue cloth lettered & decorated in gilt. Inscribed. First Edition.<br /><br />Written by Jack London's wife. Visits to Hawaii in 1907 and again in 1915 to 1916 right before his early death in 1916. This copy is inscribed by Charmian London on the front free endpaper; "Dear Jessie: - Here's the yarn at last: and I know you'll read it for the love story it is. Lovingly Charmain Gen Ellen May 31 1918." This copy is from the library of Becky London and is signed by her on the half title page.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper. Some wear and soiling to boards rubbing at extremities a few corners slightly bumped; scattered foxing throughoutbrowning at page edges else very good. Macmillan Company hardcover books
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London Charmian Kittredge 1871 1955 inscribed
The Log of the Snark
4875 ad pages with 20 photo plates including frontispiece. Small octavo 7 1/2" x 5 3/4" issued in light blue cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. inscribed by Charmain on front end paper. First Edition.<br /><br />Charmian Kittredge London November 27 1871-January 14 1955 was Jack London's second wife. After divorcing Bess Maddern London in 1904 London married Charmian Kittredge the following year. Biographer Russ Kingman called Charmian "Jack's soul-mate always at his side and a perfect match." She was the author of several books about her life with Jack London: The Log of the Snark Our Hawaii and The Book of Jack London. The last is considered by scholars to be an important but flawed source of biographical information on London: Clarice Stasz calls it "an uneven account that omits Jack's illegitimacy yet has surprisingly frank information nonetheless concerning his personality." Their relationship became the subject of a book Clarice Stasz' American Dreamers. The couple had no children who survived them. One died soon after being born and another pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Shortly after the death of Jack London Charmian had an affair with Harry Houdini. A PBS source cites an Houdini biographer saying: Most of the evidence of their affair convincingly reconstructed by Houdini biographer Kenneth Silverman comes from brief entries in Charmian's diaries. They saw each other over several weeks early in 1918 while Charmian was living in New York where Houdini was starring in the patriotic World War I extravaganza "Cheer Up." Charmian wrote that after they saw each other a few times Houdini made a "declaration" that "rather shakes me up." They became intimate a short time later. She wrote that one visit by Houdini had "stirred me to the deep" and that he apparently felt the same declaring "I'm mad about you" and "I give all of myself to you." Throughout she refers to him alternately as "Magic" her "Magic Man" or "Magic Lover." As intense as it apparently was their attachment did not last long. Charmian the "New Woman" whose marriage to London had included open sexual experimentation never stopped seeing other men.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Inscription to front end paper. Edge wear length paraphrasing to back end paper corners bumped else a very good copy lacking jacket. Macmillan Company hardcover books
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Hollywood Biography Martinetti Ronald
The James Dean Story - A Myth-Shattering Biography of An Icon Inscribed
New York: Carol Publishing Group 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound octavo in dustwrapper. 190 pp. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A biography of the Hollywood icon. Very good condition in dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author to fellow journalist Al Aronowitz. Carol Publishing Group hardcover books
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Phillips Dr. Harlan B.
Felix Frankfurter Reminisces Recorded in Talks with Dr. Harlan B. Phillips
New York: Reynal & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1960. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. The book and its contents are in mostly clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed on the front endpaper by the subject Felix Frankfurter. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks and beginning chips along with some lightish spots of rubbing to the spine ends and front cover. "Felix Frankfurter November 15 1882 February 22 1965 was a jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Frankfurter was born in Vienna and immigrated to New York at the age of 12. He graduated from Harvard Law School and was active politically helping to found the American Civil Liberties Union. He was a friend and adviser of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1939. Frankfurter served on the Supreme Court for 23 years and was a noted advocate of judicial restraint in the judgments of the Court." This book was "the only commercially published oral history conducted with a Supreme Court justice." . Reynal & Company hardcover books
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PARSONS EDWARD ALEXANDER
Jean Lafitte in the War of 1812
Worcester Massachussetts: American Antiquarian Society 1941. First Separate Edition. Near fine in original saddle-stitched blue printed wrappers. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.75 in. 22 pp. Scarce. <br/><br/> American Antiquarian Society unknown books
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GARROW DAVID J.
Bearing the Cross; Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
New York: William Morrow 1986. First Edition First Printing. Near fine in original quarter-cloth and very good dust jacket. A few unnecessary internal mends to verso of jacket. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.375 in. 800 pp. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Biography. Signed by David Garrow on title page. Uncommon signed. <br/><br/> William Morrow hardcover books
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MCDONALD WILLIAM N.
A History of the Laurel Brigade; Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery
Mrs. Kate S. McDonald 1907. First Edition. Very good in original green cloth titles in gilt. With supplied handmade dust jacket. Octavo.6.5 x 9.25 in. 499 pp. Illustrated with black & white photographic plates. Tipped-in signature of editor B.C. Washington pictured opposite p. 176; tipped-in signature of Major General Thomas L. Rosser pictured opposite p. 196; bookplate of Richard D. Steuart journalist who wrote for the Baltimore News-Post under the pen name Carroll Dulaney—all affixed to front pastedown. Howes M-87; ITC 119; CWB I 125. <br/><br/> Mrs. Kate S. McDonald hardcover books
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CUSHING FRANK HAMILTON
The Pepper-Hearst Expedition; A Preliminary Report on the Exploration of Ancient Key-Dweller Remains on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Philadelphia: MacCalla & Company 1897. First Edition. Paperback. Very good in original printed wrappers. Octavo. 5.875 x 9.125 in. 120 pp. Illustrated with ten plates including reproductions of black & white photographs charts and figures. Eminent archaeologist and ethnologist Matthew Stirling's copy with his ownership signature on first page. <br/><br/> MacCalla & Company paperback books
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SANDBURG CARL
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years Four-Volume Set Inscribed to Jack Kapp
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1939. First Trade Edition. Near fine in original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine. Octavo. 7 x 9.5 in. xxxi 660; xii 655; xiii 673; xii 515 pp. With black & white illustrations throughtout; each volume with photographic frontis. Inscribed at half-title to legendary record producer Jack Kapp: "Jack Kapp / as between fellow Americans / working in sound-recorded / Americana—also as between / old-time Chicagoans familiar / with the dust of West Madison / street / Carl Sandburg." Jack Kapp president of Decca Records 1934-1949 produced everything from Bing Crosby and the Boswell Sisters to the hugely successful original cast recording of Oklahoma! in 1943. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover books
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MCCULLOUGH DAVID
John Adams
New York: Simon & Schuster 2001. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in fine pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. 6.5 x 9.5 in. 751 pp. Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Signed by McCullough on title page. <br/><br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover books
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ROOSEVELT FRANKLIN D.
D-Day Prayer; By Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House June 6 1944 Here printed for his friends at Christmastide 1944
Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original vellum-backed marbled boards with gilt-lettered morocco spine label in original blue slipcase. Small quarto. 7.25 x 10.25 in. 10 pp. Printed beautifully with large calligraphic typeface title printed in red capitals in red and blue pages ruled in red. Limited edition numbered 61 of 100 copies. Inscribed by FDR to Jonathan Daniels on front free endpaper. Daniels son of Josephus Daniels was FDR's administrative assistant and served as his press secretary in the month before the president died. <br/><br/> (U.S. Government Printing Office) hardcover books
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MORGAN ROBERT
Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion Signed Limited
Asheville NC: The Captain's Bookshelf 2011. First Limited Edition. As new in tan textured Japanese silk cloth lettered in black on the spine and housed in a textured black Japanese silk cloth slipcase adorned with a photograph of the mountains near Abiquiu New Mexico by Dobree Adams mounted on the front panel. Octavo. xxviii 497 pp. With eight pages of black and white illustrations and nineteen maps. One of 52 specially-bound and numbered copies. The first 12 copies of this limited edition have been reserved for the author Algonquin Books Morgan's trade publisher and The Captain's Bookshelf and are not offered for sale. Signed by Morgan. A handsome companion to Morgan's earlier non fiction title Boone also made into a limited edition by The Captain's Bookshelf. <br/><br/> The Captain's Bookshelf hardcover books
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MORGAN ROBERT
Boone: A Biography
Asheville NC: The Captain's Bookshelf 2007. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. As new in tan textured Japanese silk cloth lettered in black on the spine and housed in a textured black Japanese silk cloth slipcase adorned with a reproduction of the mountains of the Cumberland Plateau at dawn by Dobree Adams mounted on the front panel. Octavo. 6 x 9.25 in. xxii; 538 pages. With a few black-and-white illustrations and five maps. One of 100 specially-bound and numbered copies. The first 30 copies of this limited edition have been reserved for the author Algonquin Books Boone's trade publisher and The Captain's Bookshelf and are not offered for sale. Since its October publication Boone has been enjoying enormous critical success with extended glowing reviews in The Washington Post The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Book Review. Signed by Morgan. <br/><br/> The Captain's Bookshelf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 12654 ISBN : 1565124553 9781565124554
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Houdini Harry
A MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS
<p> Harper & Brothers New York and London 1924 Octavo bound in original slate gray cloth with gilt titles 294 pp. including index. Top edge stained yellow. Stated first edition in the <b>RARE ORIGINAL DUST WRAPPER.</b> Offsetting from old moisture damage evidenced by a white residue mark running the width of the rear cover approximately one inch from the top edge. The damage mirrors a stain on the wrapper's rear panel and spine. The stain while noticeable is less detracting than one might expect not affecting the spine of the book itself that is otherwise fine and bright. There is other minor soiling and wear to the dust wrapper but it is unfaded and complete lettered in navy blue against a pale turquoise ground. '"Price $4.00" is printed on the inner flap along with a list of Harper publications on psychology and psychoanalysis. The back flap and rear panel also serve as advertisements for current Harper publications. The front cover of the dust wrapper however is fully dedicated to the promotion of Houdini ".He dissects with an especially keen scalpel he does not wield it as one determined to destroy but rather a seeker after truth. Although he has the utmost respect for the honest belief of any person he is the relentless enemy of deliberate fraud and the account of his adventures in the investigation and detection of it forms a valuable chapter in the crusade for the truth." Thus the wrapper is indeed a marvelous historical document in its own right. Not just a mere ornamental cover for a book it stands as a publisher's clever harnessing of the public's endless fascination with the magician and man who was the Great Houdini.</p> Harper & Brothers hardcover books
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MILLINGTON Barry editor
Wagner Compendium: A Guide to Wagner's Life and Music
NY:: Schirmer Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0028713591 . First American printing. Phone number on front paste-down else very good in a very good dust jacket. . Schirmer Books, hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 40958 ISBN : 0028713591 9780028713595
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Literary Biography White Edmund Jean Genet
Genet A Biography Inscribed by White
New York: Alfred Knopf 1993. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Quarter cloth over boards. Stated first American edition of this comprehensive 728 pp biography of Genet. Illustrated with some black and white photographs. A very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper has a short tear near the spine crown. This copy has been briefly INSCRIBED by White on the title page. The book includes a chronology by Albert Dichy. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 31144
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Weese Kitty B.
HARRY WEESE HOUSES
Chicago: Review Pr. 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Intro. by Allan Temko. Square 4to. Mostly illus. in color. <br/><br/>Presentation copy by Harry & wife Kitty author. Review Pr. hardcover books
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Literary Biography Lennon Florence Becker Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll a Biography
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd 1947. First edition. Cloth. Very Good /very good . Handsome first UK edition. 358 pp including six full-page illustrations. Clean and unmarked a lovely collectible copy in pale blue cloth binding in lightly toned but otherwise gorgeous unclipped illustrated dustwrapper. A biography of the author of Alice In Wonderland. Cassell & Co. Ltd unknown books
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Biography Holroyd Michael George Bernard Shaw
The Search For Love / The Pursuit of Power Signed / The Lure of Fantasy 1918 - 1951 A Biography of Bernard Shaw Three Volumes
New York: Random House 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Sold here together are the first three volumes of Michael Holroyd's monumental biography of one of the greatest playrights in English from the last century. All volumes in clean very good condition. Volume three's front flap is clipped otherwise are are in very good or better dustwrappers. Volume II has been SIGNED and dated by Holroyd in 1989. 486 421 and 544 pp respectively. Large heavy volumes. Additional postage charges may apply. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover books
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GAMBACCINI Peter
Billy Joel: A Personal File
NY:: Quick Fox. Very Good. 1979. Paperback. 0825639409 . Black and white photographs. First edition paperback. Faded along the spine else very good in pictorial wraps.; 128 pages . Quick Fox, paperback books
Bookseller reference : 41350 ISBN : 0825639409 9780825639401
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Americana Political History Biography Daniel Webster
Bound Volume of Eulogies Sermons Orations Discourses and Biographical Commemorations Regarding the Life and Death of Daniel Webster
United States of America: Various 1852. 15 individually-published items all in their original paper wraps and bound in a single volume; condition notes are provided at each title as listed below. Including: Woods Leonard Jr. D.D. President of Bowdoin College. A Eulogy on Daniel Webster delivered by request of the City Government and Citizens of Portland Wednesday Nov. 17 1852 Brunswick Maine 1852. 55 pages. Printed and Published by J. Griffin. A few pencil lines in margins. Allen William H. LL. D. President of the Girard College for Orphans. Eulogy on the Character and Services of the Late Daniel Webster pronounced at the Request of the Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia January 18 1853. Philadelphia 1853. 51 pages. Crissy & Markley Printers Goldsmiths Hall Library Street. Previous owner name insc. at top of title page; laid-in couple of manuscript notes regarding Webster; Young Men's Christian Union label on front cover; few pencil lines in margins; covers darkened foxing edge-soiling within. Webster Rev. George W. A Sermon Preached to the First Independent Congregational Society of Wheeling Va. on the Occasion of the Death of Daniel Webster. Second Edition. Wheeling: Printed by Swearingen & Taylor No. 21 Water Street 1853. 24 pages. Light foxing on last leaves. Weiss John. A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster Delivered in the Unitarian Church New Bedford November 14 1853. 27 pages; with tissue-guarded engraved portrait by A.H. Futchie after a Daguerreotype by John A. Whipple. Portrait darkened offsetting of image on title page. Mason Rev. Charles Rector of Grace Church Boston. A Discourse on the Death of Daniel Webster Delivered Oct. 31 1852. Printed by Request for Private Circulation 1852. Boston. Printed by John Wilson & Son 22 School Street. 25 pages. King Thomas Starr Pastor of the Church. The Death of Mr. Webster: A Sermon Preached in Hollis-Street Meeting-House on Sunday Oct. 311852. Boston: Benjamin H. Greene 124 Washington Street. 40 pages. Lothrop Rev. S.K. A Sermon Preached in the Brattle Square Church On the Sunday Succeeding to the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster. Published by Request Boston: 1852. Eastburn's Press. 20 pages. McCoy Amasa. Funeral Oration on the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster Delivered at a Commemoration in the Presbyterian Church Ballston Spa N.Y. Monday Evening November 8 1852. Third Edition. Boston: C.C.P. Moody Printer 52 Washington Street. 1856. 4 39 pages. The preliminary pages are printed with "Letters from Distinguished Sources in Connection with the Death of Hon. Daniel Webster." Choate Rufus. A Discourse Delivered Before the Faculty Students and Alumni of Dartmouth College on the Day Preceding Commencement July 27 1853 Commemorative of Daniel Webster. Eight Thousand. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company 1853. 88 pages. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins at the top edge of the title page. Parker Joel LL.D. Royall Professor. Daniel Webster as a Jurist. An Address to the Students in the Law School of the University at Cambridge. Second Edition. Cambridge: John Bartlett 1853. 71 pages. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins Jr. at the top edge of the title page; cover with the inscription "Mr. Calvin Stebbins South Wilbraham for W.S. Burt." Stearns Rev. William A. The Great Lamentation: A Sermon in Commemoration of Daniel Webster Delivered in Cambridge On Sunday Morning November 21 1852. Second Edition. Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company. 44 pages. A little foxing & spotting on first and last leaves. With the small name-stamp of Calvin Stebbins at the top edge of the title page. Adams Nehemiah D.D. Pastor of Essex Street Church Boston. A Sermon Preached to the Congregation at the Essex Street Church October 31 1852 the Sabbath after the Interment of Hon. Daniel Webster. Printed by the Young Men of the Congregation for their Private Use. Boston: Press of Geo. C. Rand Cornhill. 1852. 23 pages. Cover with the inscription "Mr. C. Stebbins with N.C. Leeds's regards." Back edge of cover wrap with old paper repair of closed edge-tear. Bartol C.A. Junior Minister. The Hand of God in the Great Man: A Sermon Delivered in the West Church Boston Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster. Published by Request. Second Edition. Boston: Crosby Nichols and Company 111 Washington Street. 1852. 22pages. Walker T. Oration on the Life and Public Services of Daniel Webster. Delivered Before the Bar of Cincinnati November 22d 1852. Published at the Request of the Cincinnati Bar. Cincinnati: Morgan & Overend Printers. 1852. 45 pages. Previous owner name of John E. Thayer Esq. Boston on front cover at top edge. Spear Charles Editor of "Prisoners' Friend." Incidents of the Hon. Daniel Webster in Relating to the Late Mission to England. Boston Prisoners' Friend Office 130 Washington Street. 1853. 8 pages. With tissue-guarded engraved portrait by O. Pelton; W.T. Goddard printer. Portrait with edge-foxing spotting; A little offsetting of image on title page. Various Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts Secretary of State for the United States: Delivered in the Senate and in the House of Representatives of the United States Fourteenth and Fifteenth December 1852. Washington: Printed by Robert Armstrong. 1853. 86 pages. Contemporary inscription on title page partially legible. Spotting and foxing to much of the first few dozen pages & title cover. Previous owner bookplate of E.F. Keene on front endpaper. Tipped-on at top of that endpaper is a typed list of the titles found within. also A typed letter from Erwin F. dated July 11th 1928 noted in handwriting below as "Replying to Chambers of July 14." which is in regards to various writing projects of Keene including a biography of Webster and others and physical difficulties which he has faced preventing completion. Approx. 6" x 9" size; bound in beige linen cloth dark brown leather spine title label gilt simply lettered 'Webster.' Covers worn soiled spotty & faded inner hinge-papers split; still solidly bound. Contents as described above generally clean and in good condition. Daniel Webster 1782 - 1852 American lawyer & statesman. ".Websters remarkable political diplomatic and legal careers were aided by his intellectual brilliance and personal magnetism. He contributed significantly to the concept of American nationality to the idea of a perpetual Union to perspectives on economic growth to a modern legal system and to the rising importance of the United States in foreign relations." Maurice G. Baxter in the ANB . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Various paperback books
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Biography Gaddis Eugene R. Chick Austin
Magician of the Modern - Chick Austin and the Transformation of the Arts in America Inscribed by Gaddis
New York: Alfred Knopf 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Stated first edition. A detailed 494 pp biography of Chick Austin an arts director at bothe Wadsworth Athaeneum Museum in Hartford as well as the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. A very good copy in dustwrapper. Nicely INSCRIBED by Eugene R. Gaddis and dated in year of publication. Alfred Knopf hardcover books
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Twain Mark PSUED Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835 1910
Life on the Mississippi
<p>624 pages with frontispiece and over 300 black and white illustrations. Royal Octavo 9" x 6 1/4" bound in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine and black and gilt lettering with pictorial to cover. Lacks the illustration of Twain's head in flames on page 441 and the corrected "St Charles Hotel" on page 443. Simultaneously published in 1883 in the United States and Great Britain the book is the first submitted to a publisher as a typewritten manuscript BAL 34II Second state of the first American edition.<br /><br />Twain once remarked that he considered this book his masterpiece the book that would outlive his other works and endure as a classic. Of course Twain once defined a classic as a book everybody talks about but nobody ever reads. At first glance it seems to be a travel book but it is really a highly readable discursive autobiographical account of Twain's boyhood and his region and of a culture that radically changed since he left home 30 years earlier. It makes good reading as background for <i>Huck Finn</i>. The only thing that is known of the printing history is what Twain wrote in 1891: that 50000 copies were printed and bound but only 32000 sold. Implication is that the unsold copies were reissued by Charles L Webster between 1884 and 1891 when he took over Osgood's stock. Copies are found with Osgood's sheets and Webster cancel title-page in Webster bindings dated 1888 and 1891. As a subscription book this book was similar in size to the hefty tomes of the American Publishing Company but the handsome pictorial brown cloth binding ranks with the binding of <i>Huck Finn</i> as one of the best on a Twain first edition. It could be ordered with gilt edges in full sheep three-quarter morocco and three-quarter calf. MacDonald: <i>Firsts</i>.<br /><br />This is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War and also a travel book recounting his trip along the Mississippi River from St. Louis to New Orleans many years after the War. The book begins with a brief history of the river as reported by Europeans and Americans beginning with the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto in 1542. It continues with anecdotes of Twain's training as a steamboat pilot as the 'cub' apprentice of an experienced pilot Horace E. Bixby. He describes with great affection the science of navigating the ever-changing Mississippi River in a section that was first published in 1876 entitled "Old Times on the Mississippi". Although Twain was actually 21 when he began his training he uses artistic license to make himself seem somewhat younger referring to himself as a "fledgling" and a "boy" who "ran away from home" to seek his fortune on the river and playing up his own callowness and naïveté. In the second half Twain narrates his trip many years later on a steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans. He describes the competition from railroads and the new large cities and adds his observations on greed gullibility tragedy and bad architecture. He also tells some stories that are most likely tall tales. In 1980 the book was adapted as a TV movie for American public television with David Knell performing as Sam Clemens and Robert Lansing as Horace Bixby the steamboat pilot who mentored him. The film used many tall tales from the book woven into a fictional narrative. In 2010 <i>Life on the Mississippi</i> was adapted as a stage musical with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City Missouri and Door County Wisconsin. <br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased in original spine some occasional foxing and finger soiling one signature slightly sprung else a very good and bright copy.</p> James R Osgood and Company hardcover books
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Wolff Tobias
IN PHARAOH'S ARMY. MEMORIES OF THE LOST WAR
NY: Knopf 1994. Advance Review Copy ARC for first edition. Glossy perfect bound wraps. Signed by Wolff on the front free endpage as issued. Card slipcase. Unread copy in Fine condition. The slipcase has corner wear. Wolff's second memoir. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Readers Copy. Knopf Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 51944 ISBN : 0679402179 9780679402176
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Wolff Tobias
IN PHARAOH'S ARMY
NY: Knopf 1994. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Printed wraps. Publisher's material w/color reproduction of the trade edition dustjacket stapled to the inside of the front wrap. Signed by Wolff on the title page. Very shallow crease at one corner; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition. The least common of the pre-publication issues for this title. Wolff's second memoir. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Galley/Proof. Knopf Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 10675 ISBN : 0679402179 9780679402176
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Wolff Tobias
IN PHARAOH'S ARMY. MEMORIES OF THE LOST WAR.
NY: Knopf 1994. Advance Reading Copy ARC for first edition. Glossy wraps. Signed by Wolff as issued with printed card slipcase. Unuread copy in Fine condition. The slipcase has slight edgewear mostly on the bottom edge corners. Wolff's second memoir. Signed by Author. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy. Knopf Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 60126 ISBN : 0679402179 9780679402176
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Biography Wilson Forrest Harriet Beecher Stowe
Crusader in Crinoline; The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
London: Hutchinson & Co 1942. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. Hardbound octavo. 376 pp. With 24 illustrations. Bookplate of Margaret Hallberg Rankin afixed to the front endpaper. A very good copy in rough green cloth binding. Spine lettering a bit dulled with age. Hutchinson & Co unknown books
Bookseller reference : 25871
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Who's Important in Medicine Institute for Research in Biography.
American Men of Medicine; Third Edition of Who's Important in Medicine.
Farmingdale:: Institute for Research in Biography 1961. 1961. Thick 8vo. 6 vi 2 768 pp. Red gilt-stamped pebbled cloth. Very good. Interesting artifact of another era when it was presumed that all the important physicians were male. The Institute for Research in Biography IRB was a for-profit database modeled on Who's Who existing on revenue generated by the copies ordered by those profiled. It remains an excellent source of medical biography and a reminder that ego is as great a force in publishing sometimes as achievement. Institute for Research in Biography, 1961. hardcover books
Bookseller reference : MMRM1666
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McPhee John
THE HEADMASTER FRANK L. BOYDEN OF DEERFIELD
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1966. First edition first prnt. Full cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Signed by McPhee on the title page. Black and white photographs from the collection of Robert Crow. Minimal shelfwear at cloth corners short closed tear on the front free endpage foreedge; distjacket with a price-clip faint dampstain on spine bottom edge. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. McPhee's second book. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 31811
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Michener James A.
Holograph Note Signed. Hawaii
np: np 1956. Printed invitation card on stiff paper stock requesting an RSVP to an invitation by the President of Hawaii-Tahiti Air Cruises Ltd to be a member of a charter flight to South Seas islands departing from Hawaii in May 1956. Contains Michener's holograph note that he had forwarded to his friend the New York Post columnist Leonard Lyons. "Leonard If you can go no cost cable me Capitol Investment Honolulu. I can't which proves I'm really married & in love. But I'd see you here & after. Jim Michener." Michener has underscored "really." Card folded in half as issued. Minor soiling. Very Good condition. Lyons a long-time friend of Michener's was a syndicated NY columnist "The Lyons Den" and peripatetic world traveller at times with Michener. Michener had recently married his third wife Mari Yoriko Sabusawa to whom he remained married until her death in 1994. . Inscribed. Unbound. Very Good/Not Issued. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Association Copy. (np) Paperback books
Bookseller reference : 41718
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Auster Paul and JM. Coetzee J. M.
HERE AND NOW. LETTERS 2008 - 2011
NY: Viking 2013. First edition first prnt. Signed by Auster on the title page. NY bookstore promotional card laid-in. Spine ends lightly pushed remainder stripe on bottom edge; dustjacket with minimal shelfwear mostly on the flap folds and corners Unread copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Viking Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 31723 ISBN : 0670026662 9780670026661
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Milford Nancy
ZELDA. A BIOGRAPHY
NY: Harper & Row 1970. First edition first prnt. One of an unspecified number of copies issued signed by Milford on a leaf tipped-in between the front free endpage and the half-title page. Most likely a Kroch's & Brentano's 1st Edition Circle copy but without the 1st Edition Circle bookmark. Full green cloth and gilt lettering. Prologue. Index. List of illustrations. Spine end cloth lightly pushed; dustjacket with with small edge chips and tears and shorth crease on front flap. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Row Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 71617
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Ambrose Stephen E.
EISENHOWER. THE PRESIDENT
NY: Simon & Schuster 1983. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Ambrose on the half-title page. "For Bill Hockstad With all best wishes Merry Christmas 1984 Sincerely Stephen E Ambrose." Quarter-cloth and paper-covered boards. Contents. Introduction. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographs. Beginning toning to board and cloth edges and page edges spine lettering lightly rubbed faint beginning foxing on page edges small compression at spine topedge; dustjacket with tiny perforation on front flap fold not immediately apparent touch of shelfwear light soiling on rear panel beginning foxing on interior not apparent on the outside. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Second volume of Amnbrose's Eisenhower biography. Inscribed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 91523 ISBN : 0671499017 9780671499013
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Naipaul VS. V. S.
FINDING THE CENTER. TWO NARRATIVES
NY: Knopf 1984. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Naipaul on the title page. Wrinkle on bottom edge of spine cloth; dustjacket with touched corners and minimal shelfwear mostly on the spine bottom edge. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Knopf Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 1144 ISBN : 0394537777 9780394537771
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Wilson Meredith
BUT HE DOESN'T KNOW THE TERRITORY
NY: Putnam 1959. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Wilson on the front free endpage. "To Dolores Kindest regards Meredith Wilson Nov 6 '59." Spine cloth with beginning toning beginning foxing on the page edges; dustjacket with light rubbing on the spine and flap folds beginning toning on the flaps' top and bottom edges minimal soiling. Tight copy in Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Wilson writes about the troubles of developing "The Music Man.". Inscribed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Putnam Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 121012
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McCourt Frank
ANGELA'S ASHES. A MEMOIR
NY: Scribner 1996. Advance Reading Copy ARC for tte first edition. Perfect-bound pictoral wraps. Signed by McCourt on the title page. Corners touched and three shallow indentations of the front wrap. Very Good condition. McCourt's first book. Winner Pulitzer Prine and the National Book Critics Circ le Award . Signed by Author. First Edition. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy. Scribner paperback books
Bookseller reference : 1103 ISBN : 0684874350 9780684874357
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Miller Arthur & Inge Morath
CHINESE ENCOUNTERS
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1979. First edition first prnt. Signed by Miller and Morath on the title page. Color and black & white photographs by Morath. Boards have faint beginning toning along the top and bottom edges; dustjacket with a short closed tear on the rear panel topedge faint beginning toning on the flap edges and minimal edgewear mostly at the spine topedge and corners. Near Fine condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author & Photographer. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Inge Morath. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 30655 ISBN : 0374122083 9780374122089
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Douglas Kirk
THE RAGMAN'S SON
NY: Simon & Schuster 1988. First edition first prnt. Signed by Douglas on the title page. Black & white photographs. Faint foxing and soiling on edges; dustjacket with slight offsetting on front flap and minimal edgewear. Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Simon & Schuster Hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 80428 ISBN : 0671637177 9780671637170
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Chen Da
COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN
NY: Random House 1999. Advance Readers Copy ARC for the first edition. Illustrated perfect-bound wraps. Signed and dated "1/28/03" by Chen on the half-title page with "good Health.". Additionally Chen has drawn a calligraphic symbol and stamped his red chop. Also inscribed by Chen three months before publication on the second half-title page. "To Richard: Happy Reading Da Chen 9/25/99." Unread copy in Fine condition. Chen's first book a memoir of growing up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution. Inscribed & Signed By Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reader's Copy.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Random House paperback books
Bookseller reference : 2031 ISBN : 037575511X 9780375755118
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Chen Da
CHINA'S SON
NY: Delacorte 2002. First edition first prnt. Signed and dated by Chen on the front free endpage. Additionally Chen has drawn a calligraphic symbol and stamped the page with his red chop. "'longevity' Da Chen 1/28/03." Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Chen's second book. Uncommon signed. Signed & Dated by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. <br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Delacorte hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 2033 ISBN : 0385729294 9780385729291
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Powell Colin L. with Joseph E. Persico
MY AMERICAN JOURNEY
NY: Random House 1995. First edition first prnt. Signed by Powell on the title page. One text page with tiny tear on top edge; dustjacket with shallow crease on front panel. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Random House hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 6027 ISBN : 0679432965 9780679432968
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Shelnutt Eve ed. Lee K. Abbott contrib.
MY POOR ELEPHANT. 27 MALE WRITERS AT WORK
Atlanta: Longstreet Press 1992. First edition first prnt. Edited by Eve Shelnutt. Black & white photos. Bibliographies. Signed & dated "1-12-99 Columbus" by Abbott at his contribution "The True Story of Why I Do What I Do. An Essay." Contributions by Bell Chappell McKnight et al. Minor board edge nicks. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Contributor. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Anthology.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Longstreet Press hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 101105 ISBN : 1563520281 9781563520280
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Williams CK. C. K.
MISGIVINGS. MY MOTHER MY FATHER MYSELF
NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 2000. First edition first prnt. Inscribed by Williams on the title page. "for_ with best regards C.K. Williams." Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Inscribed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
Bookseller reference : 70240 ISBN : 0374199841 9780374199845
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