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1966rif. 2297541New York: The Modern Library 1966. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x5x1. 1966 first thus Toledano 365.1 binding/jacket style 11l blank verso $2.45 jacket price grey Rockwell Kent endpapers. Jacket edges rubbed jacket lightly toned ink garage sale price on front endpaper. Binding tight and square text clean and unmarked. vi 510 10 pp. Translated by H.T. Lowe-Porter. "A modern reworking of the Faust legend in which Germany sells its soul to the Devil. Mann's protagonist the composer Adrian Leverkuhn is the flower of German culture a brilliant isolated overreaching figure his radical new music a breakneck game played by art at the very edge of impossibility. In return for twenty-four years of unparalleled musical accomplishment he bargains away his soul - and the ability to love his fellow man. Leverkuhn's life story is a brilliant allegory of the rise of the Third Reich of Germany's renunciation of its own humanity and its embrace of ambition and nihilism. It is also Mann's most profound meditation on the German genius - both national and individual - and the terrible responsibilities of the truly great artist. The Modern Library hardcover books
1962rif. 000392New York: Limited Editions Club 1962. hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Felix Hoffmann. Two quarto volumes 7" x 10-7/8" bound in linen shelfback with the title stamped in gold on a gray-green label of Italian Roma paper and boards covered with a smoke-brown mould-made French paper impressed with a design by Max Caflisch. Illustrated with 53 wood engravings including 10 full page printed in three colors by Felix Hoffmann. Copy #1098 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1850rif. 62509Boston: Redding and Company 1850. Opposing the Extension of Slavery in the Territories with Interesting Provenance Boston edition of a speech by Horace Mann before the United States House of Representatives in which Mann declares his opposition to the extension of slavery in the territories. Horace Mann 1796-1859 was an education reformer politician and abolitionist from Massachusetts. In 1848 following the death of John Quincy Adams Mann was elected to the U.S. House to serve out the remainder of Adams's term. For more than a decade Mann had fought for education reform as secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and he hoped his seat in Congress would give him the opportunity to bring about reform at the national level. Instead however Mann found himself preoccupied with what was perhaps the most pressing political issue of the day: slavery and its extension in the territories. This is the subject of the present speech given on the floor of the House of Representatives on February 15 1850. In it Mann states his opposition to slavery and its extension on moral and legal grounds. Embracing "the epithet 'Free-Soiler'" Mann insists that he "will engage in any honorable measure most likely to secure freedom to the new Territories" and "resist any and every measure that proposes to abandon them to slavery." Mann goes on to adopt the rallying cry "No more slave Territories no more slave States." Given the South's ultimatum of extension or secession Mann closes with what turned out to be his most forceful – and most controversial – statement: "In conclusion I have only to add that such is my solemn and abiding conviction of the character of slavery that under a full sense of my responsibility to my country and my God I deliberately say better disunion - better a civil or a servile war - better any thing that God in his providence shall send than an extension of the bounds of slavery." Much to Mann's disappointment later that year saw the passage of the Compromise of 1850 which not only failed to prohibit slavery's extension in the territories but worse still Mann thought included the Fugitive Slave Act which required the return of escaped slaves to their owners while denying them the rights of habeas corpus and a trial by jury. Mann's outspoken opposition to the act as well as his criticism of fellow Whig Daniel Webster who helped broker the compromise cost Mann the party's nomination for his congressional seat in 1850. However in a turn of events that in retrospect made his comments from the previous February about being a "Free-Soiler" seem prophetic Mann managed to secure the Free Soil nomination before going on to win reelection by a landslide. This copy bears the bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer 1914-2003 a lawyer intelligence officer and book collector. Pforzheimer was one of the founders of the Central Intelligence Agency having served as an Army Air Force intelligence officer and worked on a number of operations for the Office of Strategic Services - the forerunner to the C.I.A. - during World War II. Among these was an operation called the "Yale Library Project" a mission for which Pforzheimer as a member of the Yale Library Associates used his role as a cover to launder money for the O.S.S. In 1956 Pforzheimer founded the C.I.A.'s Historical Intelligence Collection and went on to serve as the collection's first curator. The rear wrapper of this Boston edition notes other speeches on slavery published by Redding and Company including by Henry Clay John C. Calhoun and William Seward. Another edition of Mann's speech appeared the same year in Washington D.C. and the speech was reprinted the following year as part of a collection of Mann's speeches on the subject. A powerful speech attacking slavery from one of the most contentious legislative sessions in the history of the United States Congress. Original printed brown wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Wrappers chipped tanned and soiled. Text lightly soiled with some handwritten textual corrections in ink. Small blue bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer on rear of front wrapper see below. Good. LIBRARY COMPANY AFRO-AMERICANA 6323. DUMOND p.77. ANB 14 pp.424-27. Ernest Cassara "Reformer as Politician: Horace Mann and the Anti-Slavery Struggle in Congress 1848–1853" in Journal of American Studies Vol. 5 no. 3 December 1971 pp.247-63. Robin W. Winks Cloak & Gown: Scholars in the Secret War 1939–1961 2nd ed. New Haven 1996 pp.116-51. unknown books
1999rif. 90210Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press 1999. First edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Nottingham: Slow Dancer Press unknown books
1940rif. 88471np: Friends of the Colleges at Claremont 1940. First edition. 25 pp. Fine in full brown cloth with gilt letting to front panel. Ownership signature of Norman Philbrick on the first leaf. Introduction by Joseph Warner Angell. (np): Friends of the Colleges at Claremont, hardcover books
1945rif. 88470NY: Knopf 1945. First US edition. 63 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with an erasure and strike through the printed price on the front flap. Jacket design by Paul Rand. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1930rif. 86884NY: Brewer & Warren 1930. First US edition. 322 pp. Very near fine in decorated boards. No dust jacket as issued. Translated from the original German by Marion Saunders. Young 2479. NY: Brewer & Warren hardcover books
1999rif. 2vot416Sarasota Florida: Pineapple Press Inc. 1999. First Edition. Review Copy stamped to ffep. Quarto navy blue cloth & gray boards hardcover ix 191 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: This authoritative and wide-ranging book presents for the first time the history of art in Florida from the first European artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues who arrived in 1564 until the end of the Second World War when art in Florida exploded into the modern forms and styles. For many years few artists came to Florida a lingering frontier due to the swampy terrain and subtropical climate. Those artists who did come however were intrigued by Florida’s spectacular sunsets and sunrises exotic forests hung with moss and a myriad of unique flora and fauna all depicted in early Florida paintings. A wide array of these artists and their paintings are presented and written about here for the first time. The early chapters document the artistic offerings of early explorers and naturalists like Mark Catesby and John James Audubon as well as the Seminole Indians and those who painted them including George Catlin and Charles Bird King. St. Augustine the first permanent settlement also came to be the first center of art in Florida. After the Civil War when Northerners began to flock to Florida for health and pleasure art found a place in the thriving business of travel literature. This drew artists like brothers Edward and Thomas Moran who began to paint the beauty of Florida. In the 1880s St. Augustine through the efforts of Henry Morrison Flagler again became the center of artistic endeavor attracting artists like Martin Johnson Heade. At the end of the century many prominent American artsts arrived and painted the Florida they found. This included Frederic Remington George Inness Hermann Herzog and Winslow Homer. In the first half of the twentieth century Florida paintings were created by such notables as John Singer Sargent Jane Peterson Martha Walter Milton Avery William Glackens Ernest Lawson Harold Betts Frank Weston Benson Ralston Crawford Andrew Wyeth and Milton Avery. The final chapter covers government-sponsored art in the 1930s including murals in public buildings and the Index of American Design. Collected here are 160 illustrations of Florida art 100 in color. The illustrated paintings were gathered from public and private collections all over the country many reproduced here for the first time. Pineapple Press, Inc., (1999). First Edition. Review Copy stamped to ffep. hardcover books
1934rif. 81900NY: Knopf 1934. First US edition. 428 pp. Corners bumped bookplate inside front cover; in all very good plus in very good dust jacket with darkened spine and flap folds and chipping along top edge and base and crown. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. NY: Knopf, unknown books
1930rif. 80441NY: Knopf 1930. First US edition. xv 151 pp. Very near fine in decorated full black cloth. Lacks dust jacket. Translated from the original German by H.T. Lowe-Porter. Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. Young 2485 Penguin edition. NY: Knopf, hardcover books
1933rif. 80359NY: Knopf 1933. First US edition. 275 pp. Fine in full decorated black cloth. Lacks dust jacket. NY: Knopf hardcover books
1940rif. 80346London: Secker & Warburg 1940. First UK edition. ix 342 pp. Reader’s pencil notes and underlining to the first 95 pages else near fine in very good dust jacket with small chips to flap folds and sunning to spine. London: Secker & Warburg, unknown books
1934rif. 68381np: Phyllis Baldwin Browne 1934. First edition. 10 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very good only publisher’s slipcase lacking the top edge and with a half-inch missing from the bottom edge. One of 60 copies on Arnold handmade paper designed and printed by William E. Rudge’s Sons. (np): Phyllis Baldwin Browne, hardcover books
1816rif. 5778fdDedham: Printed by H. Mann and Co. 1816. First Edition. Octavo bound in modern cloth-backed marbled boards hardcover uncut 317 i pp. Howes M258. “The primary record of medicine during the War of 1812.” – Garrison & Morton 5th 2161.1. The book bears the ownership signatures of John Whitridge 1793-1878 a practicing medical doctor in Baltimore and a later 19th century medical doctor John W. Partridge. Very Good; the book shows old damp-staining and some toning; the final leaf pp. 317-18 has been professionally repaired. Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816. First Edition. hardcover books
1997rif. 24837NY: Situations 1997. First edition. 16mo. Illustrated stapled wrappers. Unpaginated. Fine. NY: Situations, unknown books
1816rif. 65448Dedham MA: Printed by H. Mann and Co 1816. First edition. 8vo. 317 1 pp. Sabin 44328: "Contains information relative to the war not found elsewhere." HOWES M-258. AUSTIN 1190. American Imprints 38138. Bookplate of prominent Rhode Island physician Irving Addison Beck on front pastedown some light browning to the text but very good. Contemporary calf rubbed and somewhat eroded rebacked with gilt rules and leather label on the spine. 11197. Printed by H. Mann and Co unknown books
1866rif. 64257Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers 1866. 8vo. 23 cm. 120pp. Library withdrawal stamp on titlepage. Waterstain top of pages throughout disbound. McDADE 774: "The Dearing family of six plus a hired boy and woman guest were all brutally hacked to death by him. T. B. Peterson & Brothers unknown books
1968rif. 62502Berea KY: Oscar Rucker Jr. 1968. Facsimile of the 1834 original. 8vo. xi 396 pp. Frontispiece portrait of George Rogers Clark. Howes B-1059: "Disputes many of Humphrey Marshall's findings; contains the journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country." Coleman 3229. Very good. Black cloth simulating leather gilt spine title. 9242. Oscar Rucker, Jr. unknown books
1836rif. 62501Cincinnati OH and Louisville KY: J. A. James and Co. and the author 1836. Second and best edition revised and enlarged by the author. 8vo. lxxii 551 pp. Howes B-1059: "Disputes many of Marshall's finding; contains the journal of Col. George Croghan one of the earliest accounts in English of the Ohio country." Sabin 9654: "Some copies have a Louisville imprint as here." American Imprints 36479 Virginia Miami. Coleman 3229: "The 1836 edition issued without the portrait more desirable than the first contains an appendix with materials on the Treaty at Fort Stanwix and on Col. Richard Henderson." Much scarcer than the first edition OCLC locates 11 copies of this edition and it appears to be wanting in most major southern institutional collections. At the Brinley sale 1881 the first edition brought two dollars the second nine. Very good. Later three-quarter red morocco gilt rebacked with the original spine laid down gilt ornaments and title between raised bands on spine marbled boards and endpapers top edge gilt by R.W. Smith. 9246. J. A. James and Co. and the author unknown books
1852rif. 61667Boston: Commonwealth - Extra at head of first column 1852. Broadsheet 22 x 15 3/4 inches printed on both sides in six columns bearing only Mann's address. Mann 1796-1859; member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts 1848-1853 known as the father of American public education won John Quincy Adams's seat in Congress after he died and served for five years as an anti-slavery advocate; this speech reaffirms his opposition and excoriates the political efforts at the time to silence those in both houses of Congress who supported his views especially those concerning the extension of slavery into the western territories. The "Commonwealth" was a Boston newspaper published 1851-1853 see AAS online catalogue. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana 6316 and 6321 for pamphlet printings only. No printing in Work or Blockson catalogue. OCLC locates two copies of this broadsheet in separate entries New York Historical Society Texas-Austin and a goodly number of copies from several pamphlet printings. Long tear through bottom margin into text with no loss a very good example of a rare separate printing of this important speech. Folded. 8645. Commonwealth - Extra [at head of first column] unknown books
1994rif. 37357Pennsylvania: The Press of Appletree Alley 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Holmes Linda. Holmes Linda. Hardcover. Number 33 of 150 copies. This is a delightful book that draws together letters and writings of Morris Elizabeth Yeats and George Bernard Shaw taken from a collection at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library at Bucknell University. In his introduction Dr. Charles W. Mann describes the letters of Morris Elizabeth and W.B. Yeats as the "active engaged thoughts and hopes of some of the most gifted literary bookmakers of their time." The letters offer new insights into the relationship of W.B. Yeats to his sister Elizabeth's Cuala Press and the role of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in the binding of Kelmscott Press books. Morris's close friend Shaw is represented by his wonderful essay 'The Author's View: A Criticism of Modern Book Printing." Linda Holmes provided 10 charming wood engravings. Printed in Van Dijck and Caslon types on Rives Heavyweight paper. Bound in Morris's Liberty blue and white willow pattern cloth with a black leather spine label. In about fine condition. Measures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 44 1 pages. MOR/070124. The Press of Appletree Alley hardcover books
1973rif. 24902New York: Simon and Schuster 1973. Cloth. Fine/Fine. A superb copy of the 1973 1st edition with the correct number bar at the title page. Exceptionally clean. Tight and Fine in a crisp price-intact Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Octavo 382 pgs. Truly a collector's copy the sharpest this bookseller has seen. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1988rif. 24265New York: Aperture Foundation 1988. Cloth. Very Good /Good . A serviceable copy of the 1988 1st edition. Tight and VG one very small stain --the size of a pea-- along the front panel's fore-edge in a bright Good dustjacket with minor soiling to the panels very light creasing --with one or two smalll closed tears along the edges-- and one chip along the dustjacket's front panel. Still though very presentable. Quarto Introduction by Ann Beattie. Aperture Foundation unknown books
1950rif. 23503New York: F.J. Low Company Inc 1950. Pictorial wrappers. Very Good -. The 1950 first movie tie-in edition. A tight well-preserved copy of this fragile digest-sized paperback original. Bright and VG- to VG in its pictorial stapled wrappers. Tender front hinge very light creasing to the panels. 12mo 120 pgs. F.J. Low Company, Inc unknown books
2000rif. 20757Osceola WI: MBI Publishing Company 2000. Cloth. Fine/Fine. An immaculate copy of the 2000 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto dozens of high-quality color photos throughout. Photography by James Mann edited by Mick Duckworth. MBI Publishing Company unknown books
