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1828ref. 69025Boston: Bowles & Dearborn 50 Washington Street 1828. First edition. 15 cm. 200 pp. Vignette by D.C. Johnson on title leaf. Original printed boards printed paper label chipped. Vignette repeated on front board along with imprint. Front cover nearly detached lacking front and rear free endpapers. Wright I 2083. Johnson 192. Hamilton 1700 expresses uncertainty concerning Johnston but only records the second edition of 1831. Bowles & Dearborn, 50 Washington Street unknown books
ref. 81481Paris: 1927. Original silver-gelatin photographic print 7" x 6". Mounted on thin board 13" x 9-3/4" signed "A. Feny" on mount below image see note. Dated in the subject's hand "17/8/27 - Paris" and inscribed: "To the Beloved couple Grover & Nettie hoping you will continue having success and making friends" signed in full. Some abrasion to the mount especially at corners; small flaw to image at upper left corner still Very Good or better. A lovely jazz-age portrait of Henry Georges Walter playing his trumpet probably in a Paris nightclub around 1927. Walter b.1902 was born in Alabama and studied music in the renowned Harlem studio of Isabel Talafierro-Spiller but seems to have spent most of his performing career in Europe. A brief notice in the Baltimore Afro-American for Oct. 19 1929 advises that Walter "will return to America in October. after being eleven years in Europe;" he was at this time performing with Opal Cooper's "International Five" a popular Paris quintet which also included Samuel Richardson Harvey White and Charlie Lewis. Little else is known of Walter; the 1930 U.S. Census finds him living as a lodger on 151st Street in Harlem with the occupation of "musician" but we find no further record of him after this. The photograph is titled "A Fény" with an address in Hungarian at left: "Váczi U Vaci Utca 11/B." The title which translates to "The Light" is possibly a reference to the influential Hungarian photographic journal of the same name published in Budapest from 1906-1912. We have been unable to satisfactorily identify the photographer. unknown books
1847ref. 9959Hartford: Brown and Parsons 1847. Hardcover. Good. Good. Publisher's binding generally soiled rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners. Square hinges a bit loose but with a firmly bound textblock former owner's name and address on the endpapers foxing throughout. A work "intended as an elegant little present for those who have recently entered the state of 'Holy Matrimony.'" The work consists of quotes about marriage domestic duties and Christianity. Brown and Parsons hardcover books
1803ref. 021561London: Tegg and Castleman 1803. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages toned with scattered soiling and foxing pencil notes on endpapers; binding Fine. Modern calf-backed orange paper boards 4-1/8" x 7"; 72 pages. Frontispiece engraving by I. Taylor after a design by W. M. Craig. Scarce Gothic fiction employing Phantasmagoria developed in the late eighteenth century from the earlier magic lantern: illusionistic exhibitions and public entertainments in which "specters" were produced through the use of a magic lantern. One should not underestimate the horror felt by those whose vision not trained by photography or the cinema revealed to them spiritual entities that one could seemingly touch. According to an article by Terry Castle CRITICAL INQUIRY 15.1 Autumn 1988: page 39 A number of literary works of the period contain episodes in which magic lanterns are used to deceive credulous would-be ghost-seers. Friedrich Schiller's fragment DER GEISTERSEHER 1789 translated into English as THE GHOST-SEER; OR THE APPARITIONIST 1795 is the best known of such works. See also the anonymous Gothic tale PHANTASMAGORIA: OR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MAGICAL DECEPTION London 1803." Scarce early horror fiction. Tegg and Castleman hardcover books
1917ref. 68330New York: The Cortes Society 1917. Number one of the "Documents and Narratives Concerning the Discovery and Conquest of Latin America" series by Cortes Society. This is copy No. 9 of an edition of 250 copies of which ten are on Kelmscott paper. 22 cm. 93pp. Stitched for binding put never bound. Unopened. The Cortes Society unknown books
1901ref. 61480N.p. Kilbourn Wisconsin ca 1901. Oblong octavo 6-1/2" x 9". Bound album of 17 mounted silver-gelatin photographs most 5" x 7" two smaller on heavy pasteboard mounts. Captioned but one; unsigned; apparently the work of a talented amateur or possibly a professional photographer see note below. Binding worn with losses at spine ends and corners; internally quite good though one photograph has fallen victim to the work of an infant graffiti artist fortunately working in pencil; the image is not entirely defaced; another image the first in the album is slightly faded and aged. Overall Very Good and apparently complete as assembled. Of the seventeen views eight are of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo New York. The remainder but for one a view of Niagara Falls are scenes in Wisconsin which would appear to be the photographer's home. Though unsigned the work is of a constistently high quality printed from large-format negatives suggesting a talented and well-heeled amateur working with a view camera. The only place-name referenced other than the Exposition is Kilbourn Wisconsin a mill town on the Wisconsin River that changed its name to Wisconsin Dells in 1931. Kilbourn was the home of the celebrated photographer and publisher of stereoviews H.H. Bennett and the Wisconsin views herein bear a very strong resemblance - both compositionally and in terms of overall quality - to Bennett's work. But while it is tempting to attribute these photographs to Bennett the one biographical detail we have found in the album - an image captioned "Our Boys Playground" - positively eliminates Bennett from consideration; he had two young children at the time of these photos but they were both girls. Amateur 20th-century Exposition albums filled with small-format tourist snapshots are abundant as are published views by professional photographers. But we have seen very few examples like this one: a hand-assembled album of exceptional well-printed views intended only for private consumption. The photographs are all but one hand-captioned in ink as follows: 1. "Court of Fountains" Pan American Expo 2. "The Narrows of the Wisconsin River" 3. "The Old Mill at Kilbourn Wis." 4. "Streets of Venice Pan Amer. Exp." 5. "Down the Lagoon" Pan American Expo 6. "Triumphal Bridge from Illinois Building" Pan American Expo 7. "Niagara above the Falls" 8. "Ohio and Illinois Buildings Pan Amer Exp." 9. "On the Wisconsin River" 10. "Our Wisconsin Farm Buildings" 11. "On the Pan Amer. Exposition Grounds" 12. "Temple of Music where President McKinley was Shot" 13. "The Midway Pan Amer. Exp." 14. "On Littler's Creek" 15. "The Jaws of the Dells of the Wisconsin" with view of The Dell Queen a tourist steamboat 16. Uncaptioned 17. "Our Boys Playground unknown books
1934ref. 7215New York: Farrar and Rinehart Inc 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in an about Very Good jacket unclipped $2.00 generally toned a few chips and bumps at the edges some creases affecting the lettering on the spine. Red buckram lightly rubbed with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a blue top stain clean internally. Rex Stout's anonymously published novel about the president's disappearance two hours before delivering a message about America entering the war. Farrar and Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
ref. 59227N.p.; photographer unknown ca 1990. Three large-format black-and-white photographic prints 11" x 14"; very mild creasing at edges still Near Fine. Three anonymous but excellent images of a Gulf War-era demonstration probably in Manhattan ca. 1990. The photographer is unidentified but the prints are of professional quality and capture close-up scenes of crowds carrying banners and placards opposing military involvement in the Middle East and directly attacking President George H.W. Bush. One placard calls for Bush's impeachment accusing him of ".creating the Gulf War to Cover Up His High Crimes and Misdemeanors;" another appears to read "Liar Liar We Will Set Your Ass on Fire." Several images suggest a New York likely Manhattan locale: one poster connects the marcher to SUNY Old Westbury on Long Island; several placards bear the imprint of the National Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East including a New York City phone number. Though the precise date is obviously uncertain the event captured here is plausibly the October 20 1990 nationwide protest against Operation Desert Storm; rallies took place in several cities simultaneously but New York's was by far the largest as some 15000 protesters gathered at Columbus Circle and marched to Times Square. In general opposition to the first Gulf War was rather muted but significant demostrations did take place in October 1990 and January 1991 as well as a less well-attended counter-protest on the day of the Desert Storm victory parade June 8th 1991. unknown books
1968ref. 6780City of Industry: Collectors Publication 1968. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. CP 21204. Near Fine. Wraps lightly toned. Square and firmly bond with toned pages clean internally. Collectors Publication paperback books
1969ref. 6779City of Industry: Collectors Publication 1969. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. CP 21311. Very Good. Wraps toned lightly bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bond with toned pages clean internally. Collectors Publication paperback books
ref. 58574Milwaukee: Milwaukee Sentinel 1966. Original black and white photographic print 8" x 10". Stamps and composition notes to recto below image; clipping glued to verso with brief ink caption; small loss to bottom right corner well away from image. Very Good overall with image area clean and unfaded. Photo shows the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Fred Bassett Blair at this time Chairman of the Wisconsin Communist Party. A year earlier Blair had been singled out by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as the proprietor of one of "eight major communist bookstores operating in the United States." The shooting was carried out by a 17-year-old boy with a handgun inside Mary's Books a used bookshop owned and managed by Blair's wife which indeed carried a small section of Marxist books. Blair was unharmed but a bookseller colleague Ralph Sacks was injured by three bullets. Blair beat the assailant into submission with a toy baseball bat and in this photo the unidentified youth is seen being carried out of the store on a stretcher. unknown books
1822ref. 55730London: Printed for the author and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington 1822. First Edition. Octavo in fours 20cm. Rebound in black cloth titled on spine in gilt; plain endpapers; ii 97 1pp; with folding advertisement for a Quarterly Muster Pay and Victualing Book sold by Burgess Hunt and Carter Ramsgate. Errata slip laid down on final page. Annotated throughout in pencil. A sturdy copy rebound with minor soiling to intial and final leaves tear in folding table neatly mended: Good or better. Naval impressment was standard pratice in Britain from the mid-seventeenth century until the end of the Napoleonic Wars after which the Navy developed other recruitment methods until the return of conscription in 1916. Printed for the author, and sold by F. C. and J. Rivington unknown books
1914ref. 56961New York: The Century Company 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 20cm. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt and brown; plain endpapers; vi340pp. Straight and sound unfaded but with discoloration to front foxing to endleaves and edges of textblock not affecting pages minor fingersoil: Good or better. "A self-made man contemplates his success and his family without pleasure." HANNA 3550. The Century Company unknown books
1863ref. 66192New York: Office of the Bankers' Magazine 1863. First edition. 8vo. 20pp. Original printed green wrappers some shallow chipping to edges. A Letter to Salmon Chase preceding the text is signed in type "R. S." The author expresses his desire to "point out to the government new facilities for procuring the increased supply of money made necessary by the present wicked rebellion. Office of the Bankers' Magazine unknown books
1971ref. 49912N.p. but Canada: Tree Frog Beer Co. in Conjunction with Sinklairity Foundation 1971. First Edition. Octavo 22cm.; publisher's grey pictorial staplebound card wrappers; 16pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear else Very Good or better. Signed "Sinclair 71" on colophon. Experimental poetry chapbook. Of the nine copies located in OCLC Brown U. only outside Canada. Tree Frog Beer Co. in Conjunction with Sinklairity Foundation unknown books
1820ref. 50095New-York: C.S. Van Winkle 1820. First Edition. 12mo 20.5cm.; removed; 21pp. Stock rather foxed contemporary ownership signature to rear blank verso else Very Good and sound. Response to charges levelled by the conservative Presbyterian minister Gardiner Spring 1785-1873 against the Unitarian clergy in the city of Boston. Attributed to Henry Dwight Sedgwick by Sabin 78821; SHOEMAKER 1527. C.S. Van Winkle unknown books
1845ref. 49890Boston: North American Review 1845. Offprint. Octavo 21cm.; drab stitched wrappers; 349-384pp. Wrappers rather chipped along extremities spine partly perished faint vertical crease else Very Good overall. Offprint book review of the London 1843 edition of Mill's three volume work. Inscribed on upper cover to Congressman from Massachusetts Rufus Choate: "For the Honorable Rufus Choate with the Author's respects." The author of the review has additionally mounted a small manuscript cancel at head of p. 349 "An article of the North American Review October 1845" with his pencil and manuscript corrections throughout text. Though the review has not author attribution we find the text reproduced in a volume of works by James Flint inscribed by him to a John Brazer in the same hand. North American Review unknown books
1816ref. 49924New-Haven: Oliver Steele 1816. First Edition. Octavo 23cm.; recent plain blue wrappers; 96pp. Textblock uniformly toned long shallow loss along bottom margin of title page not quite approaching text else Very Good and sound. Collection of articles written in response to the pamphlet "The Bishop's Fund and Phoenix Bonus" regarding a grant given to Yale College by the state of Connecticut and the question of whether a similar grant should also be given to the Episcopalian Seabury College. A copy at the American Antiquarian Society bears the manuscript authorship attribution of J.H. Jacock. SABIN 96123; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 37016. Oliver Steele unknown books
1830ref. 49953Philadelphia: John Townsend 1830. Octavo 21.5cm; removed; 8pp. Top textblock margin a bit chipped stock uniformly toned and rather foxed else Good and sound. Early reprint of an important popular Hicksite tract attributed to Joseph Parrish a Pennsylvania physician. The work which went through at least nine editions between 1828 and 1890 "remained the most popular Hicksite reply to those outside the Society about the Orthodox charges of 'blasphemy and infidelity'" Patricia D'Antonio "Founding Friends" 2006 p. 214. The Hicksite rift was the first experienced by the Society of Friends though here Parrish preached tolerance stating that as a physician he would never attempt a deathbed conversion of a Catholic or Jew if a priest or rabbi would bring them succor. John Townsend unknown books
1846ref. 50186New York: William H. Graham 1846. First Edition. Octavo 21cm.; removed; 64pp.; text in double columns. Stock rather foxed throughout else Very Good and sound albeit lacking original wrappers. Biographical sketch of the exploits of the American Revolutionary naval commander John Paul Jones 1747-1792 part of a series titled "Remarkable Lives in American History." SABIN 36549. William H. Graham unknown books
1807ref. 50204Portsmouth: Peirce & Gardner 1807. First Edition. 12mo 19cm.; removed; 23pp. Stock a bit toned final leaf starting to separate else Very Good and sound. Contemporary gift inscription on title page verso. Issued in response to George Richards' oration "Masonic and Social Address delivered at the Laying of Corner-Stone of St. John's Episcopal Church Portsmouth N.H. June 24 1807." Quite scarce. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 13703. Peirce & Gardner unknown books
1815ref. 49342New-York: A.H. Inskeep 1815. First Edition. Issue A. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed; 115pp. Light toning and foxing to textblock last leaf of text nearly separated else Very Good. Attack on Great Britain written in response to a series of unflattering articles written by Charles Jared Ingersoll following a trip to the United States. In turn Paulding portrays Great Britain "as a degenerate despotic kingdom burdened by parasitical aristocracy and jealous of America's success J. Eaton "The Anglo-American Paper War" 2012 p. 73. BAL 15692; HOWES P136; SABIN 59215; SHAW & SHOEMAKER 35575. A.H. Inskeep unknown books
1862ref. 49309New York: G.P. Putnam 1862. Offprint. Octavo 19.5cm.; sewn self-wrappers; 33pp. Stitching snapped and signatures separated brief soil to upper cover faint creases and tiny loss at bottom fore-edge corner; Good or better only. Article attributed to a founding member of the American Freedmen's Inquiry Commission formed the following year to investigate the status of slaves newly freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. SABIN 43370 noting this article was first published in the "Rebellion Record. G.P. Putnam 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
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
