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1815ref. 48819New-York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden 1815. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; removed; 72pp. Stock a bit toned else Very Good and sound. Anonymous polemical against the "London Quarterly Review" and the English people in general covering that country's labor educational and moral conditions. For example "The general system of English boarding school education tends much to the formation of their national character. Surly and morose--proud in prosperity--mean and abject in adversity haughty and vindictive--forgetting right when they feel power--affecting to despise the whole human race." p. 31. HOWES R227; SABIN 70283; AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35772. R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden unknown books
1868ref. 47962New York: Moorhead Simpson & Bond 1868. First Thus. Small slim octavo ca. 20cm.; publisher's purple blind-ruled cloth gilt spine; xiv5-63pp.; illus. throughout text printed on pale brown-wash stock. Light shelf wear spine toned to tan with spotting to cloth sizing contemporary ownership ex libris of a Wm. H. Davis accomplished in manuscript to front pastedown else Very Good internally sound. Attributed to the Irish poet and barrister Samuel Ferguson 1810-1886. Though unnamed in this edition the "anti-preface" by American novelist Frederic S. Cozzens quotes from a letter from the unnamed author: "Father Tom and the Pope was written by me in the summer of 1838 just about the time of my call to the Irish Bar. No one else had any hand in it.I have never made any secret of the authorship but as I have constantly endeavored in any literary work I have been able to do for many years back to elevate the Irish subject out of the burlesque I have an indisposition to place my name on the title-page of so very rollicking a piece as Father Tom" p. vii. Erroneously listed in Wright II 649 under the authorship of Cozzens. BAL 4010. Moorhead, Simpson & Bond unknown books
1741ref. 295688London: J. Roberts 1741. unbound. very good. 40 pages. 12mo disbound but still firmly sewn; pages lightly toned. London: J. Roberts 1741. A very good copy. J. Roberts unknown books
1845ref. 46729Boston: Gleason's Publishing Hall 1845. First American Edition. Octavo 21cm.; removed; 66pp.; illus. Extremities a bit chipped and toned apparently lacking half title light foxing else Very Good and sound. "Translated from the French for the Publisher" - title page. Swashbuckling romance of young Adolphe the son of a Marquis and his wife the beautiful slave Blanche with whom he has a son only to be told that their marriage is void due to the lack of parental consent of the union. Gleason's Publishing Hall unknown books
1969ref. 46442New York: Situationist International 1969. First Edition. Broadside 44cm x 57cm. Printed offset in black on white uncoated lithograhic paper; text in two columns beneath headline in Gothic type. Minor wrinkling at margins else Fine. Issued January 10 1969 as a "supplement" to the first issue of the American journal Situationist International the imminent publication of which it announces. Possibly the first official pronouncement of the American Situationists following their admission to the SI in December 1968. The broadside actually pre-dates publication of the first journal issue by some six months; and though earlier materials by the same core group of authors primarily Robert Chasse were published in 1967-8 these were issued prior to the admission of the American Section all under the imprint of "The Council for the Liberation of Daily Life." Not in RASPAUD. Situationist International unknown books
1822ref. 45551Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund by Hilliard and Metcalf 1822. First Edition. 12mo 17cm.; disbound; 51pp. Very faint spotting to title page serving as upper cover else Very Good and sound. The tale of Mr. Merriam an upstanding farmer in New Hampshire and his moral decline after winning $1000 in a lottery culminating in an extended stay in prison. The tale ends happily however thanks to the piety and patience of Mrs. Merriam. SABIN 42155; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 9294; WRIGHT 1733. Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf unknown books
1822ref. 45554Cambridge: Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund by Hilliard and Metcalf 1822. First Edition. 12mo 17cm.; disbound; 60pp. Light soil else Very Good or better. Moralistic tale establishing the "basic situation often used in later temperance fiction--a marriage threatened by the husband's drinking habit" David S. Reynolds and Debra J. Rosenthal "The Serpent in the Cup" 1997 p. 24. We find this title published later for the London Christian Tract Society under the authorship of "A.H." SHOEMAKER 8597; WRIGHT I 893. Printed for the Trustees of the Publishing Fund, by Hilliard and Metcalf unknown books
ref. 45729Np:nd Sarajevo ca 1940s. Original machine-lithographed poster in colors 38" x 27". Horizontal fold at center. On thin paper toned and slightly weak a centerfold and margins; B. A dramatic and handsome post-war Bosnian poster promoting the health-resorts of the newly-formed state along with the treatments associated with each. Among the place-names listed are some that would become infamous during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s such as Srebenice and Sarajevo. unknown books
ref. 45800New York: 1952. Three original black-and-white photographs 4" x 6". Captioned in pencil on versos "10/15/1952". Fine condition. Three snapshots by an unknown amateur photographer depicting a 1952 street protest against Soviet occupation of the Baltic States. The protesters can be seen carrying placards in front of a large Horn & Hardart warehouse possibly in lower Manhattan. Signs read "Soviets Out of Lithuania;" "USSR is NOT Russia!;" "Stalin's Gang is not the Russian People;" "Stop Genocide in the Baltic States" etc. The protest would have coincided with the final throttling of the organized resistance movement in Lithuania following a series of mass deportations to Siberia of Lithuanians and other Baltic dissidents that began immediately following the Second World War and lasted until Stalin's death in 1953. Presumably a localized protest as we have been able to find no published record of it in contemporary newspaper reports; but an evocative glimpse into Cold War-era sentiments among Americans of Easter-European descent. unknown books
1831ref. 44788London: William Kidd 1831. First Edition. Slim 12mo 16.5cm.; late 19th-century maroon cloth gilt-lettered spine original pictorial wrappers laid in; 35pp.; frontispiece and one additional plate by Robert Seymour. A hint of wear to cloth extremities late 19th-century engraved ex-libris of a Gulielmi Gemmell illustration signed in plate "E.G." to front pastedown; mid-20th century ex-libris of Nathan Comfort Starr to front free endpaper; old bookseller's description tipped to p. 36 blank. Very Good or better overall. Satirical verses inspired by Germany's annual Valpurgis night first published in the London paper "Intelligence" with illustrations by Robert Seymour best known for his contributions to the works of Dickens. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA 1831 catalogued under the pseudonym "Facetiae" noting an 1833 edition illustrated by Cruikshank. At least one scholar tenuously attributes the text to author of the "Ingoldsby Legends" Richard Harris Barham based on stylistic similarities see Graham E. Veritt "English Caricaturists and Graphic Humorists of the Nineteenth Century" 1893 p. 216n. William Kidd unknown books
1934ref. 43069n.d. but 1934. Original clean copy typescript poem; 9ll. on onionskin; previous mail folds ex-Mooney Papers Bancroft Library with their small rubberstamps to each leaf else Very Good and sound. Lengthy unpublished ballad of 86 4- and 5-line stanzas recounting the plight of iron molder and IWW leader Tom Mooney from his birth to the present date 1934 based on the penultimate stanza on p. 6 describing Judge Griffin: "all these eighteen years since the 1916 trial / Has fought on Mooney's side". Though no author is provided the poet has a detailed knowledge of Mooney's biography and trial beginning before his birth with his father "A tall trade-union Irishman / Choking his lungs out mining coal"; progressing to Mooney's early childhood helping his widowed mother make ends meet as a paperboy; and the first trial against him after dynamite was found or planted on a boat in the San Pablo Bay a crime for which he was exonerated. The poem additionally recounts the first meetings between Mooney and Warren K. Billings as well as the tireless travel and work his mother and sister shouldered to bring justice after it was revealed that the star witness Frank Oxman had perjured himself. The poem ends with the heartbreaking death of Mother Mooney who was laid in state at the gates of San Quentin and the mournful plea: "Warren Billings is forty years old. / Tom Mooney's hair grows white. / How soon will California turn / Her long long wrong to right" Another five years would pass before liberal Governor Culbert Olson would pardon him in 1939. unknown books
1949ref. 219092St. Gall. : Zollikofer. 1949. . hardcover. A very good copy with no dustjacket. . 4to. 479 b&w illustrations of poster art. Zollikofer. hardcover books
1896ref. 41974New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1896. First Edition. 12mo 16.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in silver foil top edge silver foil; 25406pp.; frontispiece 3 leaves of plates. Light shelf wear corners gently bumped minor foxing to endpapers else Very Good or better. American novel set in a sculptor's Parisian studio. WRIGHT III 1895. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
1970ref. 38410N.p. n.d. ca. 1970s. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; publisher's pictorial staplebound card wrappers; unpaginated; illus. throughout. Wrappers very slightly toned else Near Fine. S&M erotica. unknown books
1849ref. 132599New York: Egbert 1849. Small octavo pp. 1-5 6-53 54-55 56: blank original plain brown flexible cloth. Second edition. An early and apologetically incomplete see anonymous compiler's note on page two attempt to list the entire history of meetings of the Society of Friends in America. Scarce little book only four holdings in OCLC. An earlier edition was dated 1845; a later edition was published in 1858 and many editions followed. Narrow 28 mm strip of loss of cloth along outer rear joint a very good plus copy. #132599 Egbert unknown books
1848ref. 132266New York: Egbert 1848. 12mo original dark brown cloth stamped in gold and blind pale yellow endpapers. First edition. Christian biography of the pious life and death of the daughter of William F. and Phebe Mott. She was born in New York City on 15 August 1835. Cloth worn at edges and along outer front hinge repaired a sound good copy. OCLC reports 4 copies. Scarce. #132266 Egbert unknown books
1919ref. 35535Leipzig: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag 1919. First Edition. Octavo 22.75cm.; publisher's tan printed paper-covered boards blue topstain; 4246pp. Light shelf wear hinges cracked textblock rather toned and brittle due to poor paperstock else About Very Good and sound. Issued as Quellenschriften zur Seelischen Entwicklung Nr. 1. Published anonymously as if written by a young girl whose diary seemed to confirm much of psychoanalytic theory. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag unknown books
1765ref. 154541London: Printed for W. Nicoll 1765. 12mo two volumes pp. 1-2 i-iii iv-x xi-xiv 1 2-336; i-viii 1 2-358 full calf all panels ruled in gold edges speckled red. First edition. Highway robbery piracy on the Thames murder rape a midwife tried for "not doing his duty" and more. Female miscreants are well represented. Many of the cases concern conspiracy forgery. counterfeiting and fraud. ESTC T114036. Half titles present lacks front free endpaper in volume II a very clean attractive copy. Scarce in commerce. #154541 Printed for W. Nicoll unknown books
1893ref. 152991Wien: Verlag des "Industriellen Club" und des "Niederösterreichischen Gewerbe-Vereines 1893. Octavo pp. 1-3 4-55 56: blank original blue-gray wrappers printed in black. First separate edition. Utopian proposal by "practical men" who specifically distance themselves from the impractical utopians to make realistic projections of a future society. Probably an offprint from a larger work also published in 1893. Pressure in the Reichstag by the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands SPD forced a number of social and political reforms in Germany during the late nineteenth century. Ferdinand August Bebel 1840-1913 whose ideas and comments are often mentioned in the text was a German socialist politician writer and orator. He became the leading figure of the social democratic movement in Germany and from 1892 until his death served as chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. See Kretzmann The Pre-War German Utopian Novel 1890-1914 Ph.D. diss. Brown University May 1936 p. 210. Not within the scope of Bloch. A very good copy. OCLC reports 2 copies Harvard; Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek. KVK reports 2 other copies. No copies reported by COPAC. Rare. #152991 Verlag des "Industriellen Club" und des "Niederösterreichischen Gewerbe-Vereines unknown books
1934ref. 20859New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; original red cloth upper cover and spine lettered in blue dark blue topstain; 8296pp.; photographic frontispiece 3 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light rubbing to spine ends else a Near Fine unfaded copy albeit lacking the scarce dust jacket. "A fantasy of future politics. When Congress tries to force the nation into a European war the president disappears and a crisis ensues" HANNA 2935. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1943ref. 29444Glasgow: Strickland Press 1943. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 55pp. Rather dust-soiled small stain to rear wrapper else a Very Good partially unopened copy. Comparison of the British population after years of war-time propaganda and the behavior of the Black-Headed sea gull. OCLC locates 5 copies in the United States as of April 2016 at Kansas Harvard Duke Swarthmore and Minnesota. Strickland Press unknown books
1889ref. 28843New York: Pollard & Moss 1889. Reprint. Octavo 19cm.; original brown decorative cloth embossed in black gilt-lettered spine; 21864adspp. Textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock contemporary gift bookplate of the Salem Lodge no. 100 I.O.O.F. accomplished in manuscript. Very Good to Near Fine. Novel of two sisters from a prosperous rural British family and the struggles they face when their fortunes change. First serialized in The Cornhill Magazine edited by William Makepeace Thackeray. Quite scarce in any edition: OCLC lists Iowa's copy only of this imprint; 5 more for the first Harper edition. Pollard & Moss unknown books
1972ref. 27500Onitsha: J.C. Brothers 1972. First Edition. Slim octavo 24.25cm; pink printed wrappers stapled blue wrappered variants noted with no established priority; 24pp. Original printed price defaced by publisher with their new rubber-stamped price of 5/-; pinpoint wear to corners with a touch of oxidation to staples; Near Fine. "A great majority of people cannot give details of their childhood due to the fact that no records were kept of the early periods of thier lives. It is more so because there was no properly prepared register for this purpose. The family birth recorder has come to supply this greatly required medium through which posterity can not only trace their lives history but also of their forebears" from the foreword. HOGG 514. J.C. Brothers unknown books
1784ref. 26075Londres i.e. Paris: Et se trouve à Paris chez Pissot 1784. First Edition. Octavo; pp. 6264pp.; 4 A-Q8 R4; woodcut title page vignette head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary red imitation morocco double ruled in gilt flat spine decorated in gilt. Extremities rubbed with boards occasionally exposed contemporary blue ribbon marker detached but present. A Very Good attractive copy. Pechmeja's best-selling prose poem published anonymously under the patronage of one Madame de Beauvau presumably the Marquise de Boufflers. The work enjoyed both enthusiastic and scathing reviews from the most celebrated literary figures of the time. Readers admired the work's literary beauty and its touching description of friendship while others found fault with the moral and economic message which would be described as socialist in the modern sense. Among the most notable Télephe detractors was the author Jean-François de la Harpe who wrote "The author seems like Rousseau to make a crime out of private property without which no society could exist. He doesn't want children to inherit their fathers' fortunes as if inheritance wasn't a natural right and as if the fathers themselves didn't work for the sake of their children" my translation. Others including the relatively enthusiastic reviewer the Baron von Grimm were nonplussed by Pechmeja's dour description of the fate of man and the injustices of oppression maintaining that while virtue must always be exercised little happiness can ultimately be experienced even with the purest intentions my paraphrase of Michaud and Grimm. Grimm rejects comparisons made to Fénelon's novel Les Aventures de Télemaque 1699 saying that if Marmontel's Les Incas 1747 is the Télemaque for the age of the encyclopedia then Télephe is the Télemaque for economists. Within three weeks of publication sales had dropped dramatically and while the book was reprinted once in the 1790s and subsequently translated into English and German Télephe never re-experienced its initial popularity. ESTC T132203. References: Baron von Grimm and Denis Diderot's Correspondance Littéraire Philosophique et Economique Vol. XII mars 1794 pp. 80-3. Joseph Fr. Michaud Biographie Universelle Ancienne et Moderne Vol. 33 pp. 244-6. . Et se trouve à Paris, chez Pissot unknown books
1833ref. 26134London: James J. Welsh 1833. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original red cloth printed cream paper cover label; 4693adspp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Expertly rebacked to match original cloth a bit faded along extremities; frontispiece heavily foxed recent bookseller label to front pastedown else Very Good and sound. Errata slip bound in rear. With numerous contemporary holograph corrections throughout most likely made in preparation of the second edition as many are of a semantic rather than purely factual nature for example on p. 12 lines 2 and 3 from the bottom the text reads: ".figures of the poverty-stricken music-professors of Heilbronn haunted their imaginations". A second edition was published by the London firm of C. & H. Senior in 1840 published under the authorship of a John Sayer and revised by "a lady intimately acquainted for a long period with the circumstances of Mr. Eulenstein's life by whom a few additional facts have been supplied." Whether the annotations in this copy are in Sayer's Welsh's Senior's or the lady's hand is unclear. Traces of a contemporary inscription on original pastedown now obscured by new pastedown would potentially reveal the original owner. Short biographical sketch of the popular German musician Charles or Carl/Karl Eulenstein 1802-1890 whose performances gained him celebrity in Great Britain in the late 1820s and whose preferred instrument the Jews' harp Eulenstein also played the guitar is described on p. 1 as both "eminently beautiful" and in a quotation in a footnote more dissonant than "the creaking of hinges or the mewing of cats." Etymologically the Jews' Harp is not in fact a Jewish musical tradition but a corruption of "Jaw's Harp" one of the oldest known musical instruments dating as far back in China as the 4th century B.C. OCLC locates 11 copies as of April 2015 only 4 outside the United Kingdom Iowa Newberry Texas and Western U. Ontario. James J. Welsh unknown books
