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1943ref. 148600Culver City CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1943. Draft script for the 1944 film here under the working title "Russia" with annotation in manuscript ink above title of "Song of" amending it to its release title date annotation in manuscript pencil on top right and "Rerun" "Mar 9 1943" stamps to the lower right all on front wrapper. Annotations in manuscript pencil on verso of front wrapper on screenwriter revision check sheet printed on verso of wrapper. Bold annotations in manuscript pencil on recto and verso on ten leaves likely written by a child some responding to the action of script some appearing unrelated. One annotation of page number and one of a name not in the same hand as above both in manuscript pencil and two copied annotations of revision dates in script. Laid in is an additional page 85 dated 3/3/85 and a newspaper clipping circa 1944 of a photo of two Army personnel with mortars. Famed conductor John Meredith Robert Taylor tours Soviet Russia shortly before the 1941 invasion by NAZI Germany falling in love with sweet peasant girl Nadya Susan Peters. A positive portrayal of the Soviet Union during the wartime alliance with the US which after the end of the war would be cited by the House Un-American Activities Committee HUAC as an example of "pro-Soviet propaganda films" made by Hollywood. Cited and derided by Ayn Rand during her 1947 testimony before HUAC. Set in the Soviet Union. Yellow titled wrappers noted as COMPLETE on the front wrapper rubber-stamped production No. 195 dated 1-15-43 with credits for screenwriters Paul Jarrico and Richard Collins. Title page integral with first page dated 3/13/43. 124 leaves with last page of text numbered 107. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with pink and white revision pages throughout dated variously between 1/15/43 and 4/5/43. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with light soiling and cello tape to verso and recto of rear wrapper and closed tear at spine of rear wrapper bound with two gold brads. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1961ref. 158005N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman and cinematographer Floyd Crosby capturing a scene with Vincent Price on the set of the 1961 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story about a young Englishman who travels to Spain to investigate his sister's death. The second Poe adaptation released by American International Pictures following Corman's "The House of Usher" in 1960. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and wear on the corners. N.p. unknown
1961ref. 158005N.p.: N.p. 1961. Vintage reference photograph of director Roger Corman and cinematographer Floyd Crosby capturing a scene with Vincent Price on the set of the 1961 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story about a young Englishman who travels to Spain to investigate his sister's death. The second Poe adaptation released by American International Pictures following Corman's "The House of Usher" in 1960. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with light toning and wear on the corners. N.p. unknown books
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown
1974ref. 155950N.p.: N.p. 1974. Vintage two-color one sheet poster for the 1974 film here under its original release title "Black Agent Lucky King." Former Oakland Channel 20 television talk show host Sal Watts in response to complaints from his audience about current black action films was determined to make a quality motion picture for African American audiences. The result was "Solomon King" which Watts produced wrote co-directed and starred a first for an independent black producer. Believed lost this obscure Blaxploitation classic is scheduled for restoration and re-release from Deaf Crocodile Films in 2022. Ex-Green Beret Solomon King Watts vows vengeance when his former lover Princess Oneeba is murdered by Arab agents from the country she once escaped. With the aid of several fellow Vietnam veterans brother Maney King and CIA agent O'Malley King plans a commando raid into the Arab country to kill the hit man. Featuring a cameo from Watt's friend baseball player Tito Fuentes. Set in Oakland California and an undisclosed Arab nation shot on location in Oakland California. 27 x 41 inches folded as issued. Very Good with pinholes some creasing and soiling two modest closed tears three small chips and an annotation in manuscript ink on the outer middle right margin. Howard Blaxploitation Cinema p. 195. N.p. unknown books
1930ref. 9229London: Longmont Green and Co 1930. First Edition. Full leather. Very good . 8vo. 278 pp. full leather with gilt dentelle inside border marbled endpapers frontispiece 2 illustrations map bibliographical notes. -- Authors personal copy with her booklplates. Probably a presentation copy from the publisher. -- A small amount of rubbing to the top and bottom shoulder joints of the binding and to the heel of the spine. "Sir William Johnson 1st Baronet c.1715-11 July 1774 was an Irish official of the British Empire. As a young man Johnson moved to the Province of New York to manage an estate purchased by his uncle Admiral Peter Warren which was located amidst the Mohawk one of the Six Nations of the Iroquois League. Johnson learned the Mohawk language and Iroquois customs and was appointed the British agent to the Iroquois. Because of his success he was appointed in 1756 as British Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the northern colonies. Throughout his career as a British official among the Iroquois Johnson combined personal business with official diplomacy acquiring tens of thousands of acres of Native land and becoming very wealthy."-wiki. Longmont, Green and Co hardcover
1856ref. 68086Boston:: Little Brown 1856. Hardcover -. Good condition overall although the original tan leather binding has significant rubbing previous owner's name on front endpaper and discoloration from binder's glue on endpapers this is still a sturdy tight copy. . Fourth Edition. The last of Story's commentaries originally published in 1845; the editor of this fourth edition Edmund Hastings Bennett states that more than 400 cases have been added. Joseph Story who is perhaps best known for his opinion in The Amistad case was not only the youngest person ever appointed to the Supreme Court at age 32 he was also one of the most influential serving on the Court for 34 years first under Marshall and then Tanney until his death in 1845. List of cases cited index. xxxvi 696 pp. Little Brown, hardcover
1829ref. 707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown
1843ref. 844991843. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. The Last Authorial Edition of Story on Bailments Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations From the Civil and the Foreign Law. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown/London: A. Maxwell & Son 1843. xliv 636 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.5 x 14.6 cm. Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards raised bands and lettering piece and fragment of owner label to spine. Light rubbing to boards front board partially detached moderate rubbing to extremities heavier rubbing to spine corners bumped and worn offsetting to margins of endleaves very light toning to interior. A good copy. $450. Third edition the last by Story. Marvin: "Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions whatever Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded on illustration of the law of bailments Joseph Story collected and combined with surprising industry and wonderful learning.Story's Bailments affords one of the best examples in modern times of the illustration which our laws are susceptible of by the aid of foreign jurisprudence." Marvin Legal Bibliography 668-669. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2454. unknown
1847ref. 793381847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story Joseph 1779-1845. Story William Wetmore 1819-1895 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange Foreign and Inland As Administered in England and America; With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. London: V. and R. Stevens and G.S. Norton; Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. xxvii 664 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked with raised bands blind fillets and retained lettering piece to spine hinges mended with tissue. Light rubbing some shallow scuffing and a few small stains to boards corners bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior somewhat lighter or heavier in places occasional light foxing outside corners of a few leaves folded light soiling and small chips to edges of a few leaves faint dampstain to pp. 251-371. Housed in cloth slipcase. $450. Second edition. In The Formative Era of American Law Pound refers to the Commentaries on the Laws of Bills of Exchange as one of the standard texts of the nineteenth century. As Marvin pointed out in 1847 it was certainly the most complete and wide ranging text of its day. In addition to American and English sources Story draws on the work of Heineccius and other civil-law jurists. Apart from James Kent no man has had greater influence on American law than Joseph Story. He was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. William Wetmore Story was one of his children. A highly regarded lawyer and legal writer he later abandoned the law moved to Italy and became a notable poet and sculptor. Marvin Legal Bibliography 673. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2556. unknown
1874ref. 769231874. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Nicholas St. John Green's Notable Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Green Nicholas St. John 1830-1876 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. xl 706 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Original textured cloth rebacked retaining existing spine with gilt title and blind ornaments blind frames and large arabesques to boards hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to board edges some chipping to spine ends corners bumped. Light toning to interior early owner signature to verso of front free endpaper which is lightly browned along with title page most likely from a laid-in sheet of acidic paper. Book housed in attractive cloth slipcase. $450. Only edition by Green eighth edition overall. An important lawyer and philosopher Green a friend of Holmes and Peirce was a leading member of the Metaphysical Club and one of the founders of pragmatism. As a lawyer his "favorite target was legal formalism-the belief that legal concepts refer to something immutable and determinate. His criticism of legal formalism was Wright's criticism of Spencer's evolutionary philosophy: he thought it treated what were merely tools of analysis as though they named actual entities" Menand. Green's was the penultimate edition of Story's Agency which was first published in 1839. The final edition by C.P. Greenough was published in 1882. Menand The Metaphysical Club 224. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:671. unknown
1839ref. 747151839. London: A. Maxwell 1839. 1st English edition. London: A. Maxwell 1839. 1st English edition. First English Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Agency As a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil & Foreign Law. London: Reprinted Under the Direction and Sanction of the Learned Author By A. Maxwell 1839. xxiv 476 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Contemporary calf rebacked in period style blind fillets to boards gilt library insignia to front board raised bands blind fillets and retained contemporary lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards corners bumped and somewhat worn. Moderate toning to interior finger smudges fold lines and inkspots in a few places faint marks and underlining in pencil to several passages offsetting to margins of preliminaries and final leaves of text. $450. First English edition published the same year as the first American edition. This treatise was written during the period when Story was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A standard work for decades Pound included it in a list of the most influential and authoritative American treatises written during the nineteenth century. Pound The Formative Era in American Law 140-141. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:343. unknown
1874ref. 735211874. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Nicholas St. John Green's Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Green Nicholas St. John 1830-1876 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. xl 706 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked blind rules to boards gilt library insignia to front boards raised bands and existing lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Heavy rubbing to boards with notable wear to edges and corners. Light toning to interior marks and brief annotations in a few places mostly in pencil fold lines to corners of a few leaves light soiling to title page. $450. Eighth edition. An important lawyer and a philosopher Green was a friend of Holmes and Peirce leading member of the Metaphysical Club and one of the founders of pragmatism. As a lawyer his "favorite target was legal formalism-the belief that legal concepts refer to something immutable and determinate. His criticism of legal formalism was Wright's criticism of Spencer's evolutionary philosophy: he thought it treated what were merely tools of analysis as though they named actual entities" Menand. Green's was the penultimate edition of Story's Agency which was first published in 1839. The final edition by C.P. Greenough was published in 1882. Menand The Metaphysical Club 224. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:671. unknown
1839ref. 747151839. London: A. Maxwell 1839. 1st English edition. London: A. Maxwell 1839. 1st English edition. First English Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Agency As a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Jurisprudence With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil & Foreign Law. London: Reprinted Under the Direction and Sanction of the Learned Author By A. Maxwell 1839. xxiv 476 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6". Contemporary calf rebacked in period style blind fillets to boards gilt library insignia to front board raised bands blind fillets and retained contemporary lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Moderate rubbing to boards corners bumped and somewhat worn. Moderate toning to interior finger smudges fold lines and inkspots in a few places faint marks and underlining in pencil to several passages offsetting to margins of preliminaries and final leaves of text. $450. First English edition published the same year as the first American edition. This treatise was written during the period when Story was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. A standard work for decades Pound included it in a list of the most influential and authoritative American treatises written during the nineteenth century. Pound The Formative Era in American Law 140-141. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:343. unknown books
1843ref. 844991843. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. Boston: 1843. 3rd ed. Revised Corrected & Enlarged. The Last Authorial Edition of Story on Bailments Story Joseph 1779-1845. Commentaries on the Law of Bailments: With Illustrations From the Civil and the Foreign Law. Revised Corrected and Enlarged. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown/London: A. Maxwell & Son 1843. xliv 636 pp. Octavo 9-1/4" x 5-3/4"; 23.5 x 14.6 cm. Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards raised bands and lettering piece and fragment of owner label to spine. Light rubbing to boards front board partially detached moderate rubbing to extremities heavier rubbing to spine corners bumped and worn offsetting to margins of endleaves very light toning to interior. A good copy. $450. Third edition the last by Story. Marvin: "Whatever was to be found in the English and American decisions whatever Roman and Continental jurisprudence afforded on illustration of the law of bailments Joseph Story collected and combined with surprising industry and wonderful learning.Story's Bailments affords one of the best examples in modern times of the illustration which our laws are susceptible of by the aid of foreign jurisprudence." Marvin Legal Bibliography 668-669. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2454. unknown books
1874ref. 769231874. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Nicholas St. John Green's Notable Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Green Nicholas St. John 1830-1876 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. xl 706 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Original textured cloth rebacked retaining existing spine with gilt title and blind ornaments blind frames and large arabesques to boards hinges mended. Light rubbing to boards moderate rubbing to board edges some chipping to spine ends corners bumped. Light toning to interior early owner signature to verso of front free endpaper which is lightly browned along with title page most likely from a laid-in sheet of acidic paper. Book housed in attractive cloth slipcase. $450. Only edition by Green eighth edition overall. An important lawyer and philosopher Green a friend of Holmes and Peirce was a leading member of the Metaphysical Club and one of the founders of pragmatism. As a lawyer his "favorite target was legal formalism-the belief that legal concepts refer to something immutable and determinate. His criticism of legal formalism was Wright's criticism of Spencer's evolutionary philosophy: he thought it treated what were merely tools of analysis as though they named actual entities" Menand. Green's was the penultimate edition of Story's Agency which was first published in 1839. The final edition by C.P. Greenough was published in 1882. Menand The Metaphysical Club 224. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:671. unknown books
1874ref. 735211874. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. 8th ed. Nicholas St. John Green's Edition of Story on Agency Story Joseph 1779-1845. Green Nicholas St. John 1830-1876 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Agency as a Branch of Commercial and Maritime Law. With Occasional Illustrations from the Civil and Foreign Law. Boston: Little Brown and Company 1874. xl 706 pp. Octavo 9" x 5-3/4". Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards rebacked blind rules to boards gilt library insignia to front boards raised bands and existing lettering piece to spine endpapers renewed. Heavy rubbing to boards with notable wear to edges and corners. Light toning to interior marks and brief annotations in a few places mostly in pencil fold lines to corners of a few leaves light soiling to title page. $450. Eighth edition. An important lawyer and a philosopher Green was a friend of Holmes and Peirce leading member of the Metaphysical Club and one of the founders of pragmatism. As a lawyer his "favorite target was legal formalism-the belief that legal concepts refer to something immutable and determinate. His criticism of legal formalism was Wright's criticism of Spencer's evolutionary philosophy: he thought it treated what were merely tools of analysis as though they named actual entities" Menand. Green's was the penultimate edition of Story's Agency which was first published in 1839. The final edition by C.P. Greenough was published in 1882. Menand The Metaphysical Club 224. Catalogue of the Library of the Harvard Law School 1909 II:671. unknown books
1829ref. 707451829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. The First Legal Work Bearing Story's Name Story Joseph 1779-1845. Oliver Benjamin L. 1788-1843 Editor. A Selection of Pleadings in Civil Actions With Occasional Annotations on the Law of Pleading. With Additions by Benjamin L. Oliver. Boston: Published by Carter and Hendee 1829. xv 709 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 6-1/4". Contemporary sheep blind fillets to boards blind fillets and red and black lettering pieces to spine. Light rubbing and some shallow scuffing to boards somewhat heavier rubbing to extremities some chipping to head of spine early owner signature of Edwin Conant to front free endpaper below small struck-through signature. Moderate toning to text somewhat heavier in places occasional light foxing light soiling to a few leaves. $450. Second edition. This is both the first legal work bearing Story's name and the first American book of entries of precedents. According to Marvin the work's "notes and references show that the author had made no ordinary attainments in the science of special pleading." Story was Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court a professor at Harvard Law School and the most respected and prolific legal writer of his time. Edwin Conant 1810-1891 was a prominent Worcester Massachusetts lawyer businessman and philanthropist. Marvin Legal Bibliography 668. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 9275. unknown books
1847ref. 793381847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. One of the Standard American Texts of the Nineteenth Century Story Joseph 1779-1845. Story William Wetmore 1819-1895 Editor. Commentaries on the Law of Bills of Exchange Foreign and Inland As Administered in England and America; With Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe. London: V. and R. Stevens and G.S. Norton; Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown 1847. xxvii 664 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-3/4". Contemporary sheep blind rules to boards rebacked with raised bands blind fillets and retained lettering piece to spine hinges mended with tissue. Light rubbing some shallow scuffing and a few small stains to boards corners bumped and worn. Moderate toning to interior somewhat lighter or heavier in places occasional light foxing outside corners of a few leaves folded light soiling and small chips to edges of a few leaves faint dampstain to pp. 251-371. Housed in cloth slipcase. $450. Second edition. In The Formative Era of American Law Pound refers to the Commentaries on the Laws of Bills of Exchange as one of the standard texts of the nineteenth century. As Marvin pointed out in 1847 it was certainly the most complete and wide ranging text of its day. In addition to American and English sources Story draws on the work of Heineccius and other civil-law jurists. Apart from James Kent no man has had greater influence on American law than Joseph Story. He was Dane Professor of Law at Harvard and an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. William Wetmore Story was one of his children. A highly regarded lawyer and legal writer he later abandoned the law moved to Italy and became a notable poet and sculptor. Marvin Legal Bibliography 673. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 2556. unknown books
1894ref. 218641894. Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil circa 1890s is a slavery-themed work of popular fiction presented in autobiographical form and centered on plantation life racial hierarchy and sexual coercion under slavery. The book belongs to late nineteenth-century slavery fiction rather than verified enslaved-person testimony making its value documentary in relation to post-emancipation literary culture racial fantasy and commercial representations of the Old South. Its title-page claim to reveal "a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten" situates the work within sensational fiction about slavery interracial desire and plantation power rather than within abolitionist slave narrative tradition. HathiTrust catalogs the work as fiction concerning slavery in Alabama and notes the cover title Slavery's Social Evil. Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil. Place of publication not identified: Published for the trade 1890s. First edition not verified. 192 pages. Original black-and-white illustrated wrappers no jacket as issued 8vo. The title page reads in part "A realistic revelation of a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten" and the narrative is framed as the life story of Paul an enslaved man born in Alabama who learns to read and write works first as a field hand and later becomes a house servant on a Choteaux family plantation. The contents page includes the name Paul Hamilton Hayes although no author is credited. The plot centers on Paul's relationship with Virginia Choteaux his enslaver's daughter her pregnancy the family's arrangement of her marriage to a white man and later news of her death after the Civil War. The book is significant as a late nineteenth-century commercial treatment of slavery that romanticizes plantation life while foregrounding sexual relations across the color line a subject shaped by the violence and power imbalance of slavery even when fictionalized in sentimental or sensational terms. A Chicago edition was published by Wesley Elmore and Benson in 1894 while this "Published for the trade" issue appears bibliographically related but distinct in wrapper form. Title page with one-inch chip affecting text contents page detached from binding front and rear wrapper edges with chips and tears otherwise clean internally with no writing underlining or highlighting; good. A fragile popular-fiction treatment of slavery race and sexual power useful for studying post-emancipation literary memory and the commercial afterlife of plantation narratives. unknown
1894ref. 218641894. Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil circa 1890s is a slavery-themed work of popular fiction presented in autobiographical form and centered on plantation life racial hierarchy and sexual coercion under slavery. The book belongs to late nineteenth-century slavery fiction rather than verified enslaved-person testimony making its value documentary in relation to post-emancipation literary culture racial fantasy and commercial representations of the Old South. Its title-page claim to reveal "a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten" situates the work within sensational fiction about slavery interracial desire and plantation power rather than within abolitionist slave narrative tradition. HathiTrust catalogs the work as fiction concerning slavery in Alabama and notes the cover title Slavery's Social Evil. Anonymous. The Story of a Slave: Slavery's Social Evil. Place of publication not identified: Published for the trade 1890s. First edition not verified. 192 pages. Original black-and-white illustrated wrappers no jacket as issued 8vo. The title page reads in part "A realistic revelation of a social relation of slave times hitherto unwritten" and the narrative is framed as the life story of Paul an enslaved man born in Alabama who learns to read and write works first as a field hand and later becomes a house servant on a Choteaux family plantation. The contents page includes the name Paul Hamilton Hayes although no author is credited. The plot centers on Paul's relationship with Virginia Choteaux his enslaver's daughter her pregnancy the family's arrangement of her marriage to a white man and later news of her death after the Civil War. The book is significant as a late nineteenth-century commercial treatment of slavery that romanticizes plantation life while foregrounding sexual relations across the color line a subject shaped by the violence and power imbalance of slavery even when fictionalized in sentimental or sensational terms. A Chicago edition was published by Wesley Elmore and Benson in 1894 while this "Published for the trade" issue appears bibliographically related but distinct in wrapper form. Title page with one-inch chip affecting text contents page detached from binding front and rear wrapper edges with chips and tears otherwise clean internally with no writing underlining or highlighting; good. A fragile popular-fiction treatment of slavery race and sexual power useful for studying post-emancipation literary memory and the commercial afterlife of plantation narratives. unknown books
1993ref. 309442NY: DC COMICS. Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. First edition. SIGNED in silver ink on front cover next to their portraits by actors Walter Koenig Mr. Chekov and by James Doohan 'Scotty'. Fine in stapled pictorial printed wrappers. 10" X 6 3/4"; 10" x 6 3/4"; Signed by Actor . DC COMICS. paperback
ref. 117141Paris Joubert 1843. 8vo. iii-ix blank LXXI blank 390; 2 498 1 pp. Foxing a small tear 109-110 in part two. Worn contemporary half calf rubbed gilt spine. Two volumes. French translation by Paul Odent 1811-85 of Joseph Story’s important ”Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States” published as the first part in his ”Droit public des états moderne”. The English original was published in 1833. Joseph Story 1779-1845 was a conservative lawyer and politician professor at Harvard and one of the most influential and important of the lawyer of his time.The work the orgingal ”.is the second comprehensive treatise on the provisions of the U.S. Constitution and remains a critical source of historical information about the forming of the American republic and is still the standard treatise on the subject.” unknown
2016ref. 2081502111900468Chinese social sciences 2016. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Chinese social sciences paperback
19488vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with a sepia-toned frontispiece, 53 sepia-toned plates on 19, 5 full-page maps in the text and endpaper maps, small blind stamp on title; handsomely bound in yellow full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Glubb Pasha commanded Transjordan's Arab Legion from 1939 to 1956. Enser, p.425.
