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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
1940ref. 442Racine Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Co 1940. Staplebound. Very good. Folio; 18pp; full color illustrated textured paper wrapper with three staple binding; full page color illustrations and in text; light scuffing to wrapper a few smudges; very good. Whitman Publishing Co 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
1903ref. 3930Akron: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1903. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint Edition. Fine in a Very Good jacket clipped chipped at the corners lightly toned and discolored on the panels. Olive buckram with a grey black and blue illustration on the front board. Square and firmly bound contemporary gift inscription on the front endpaper clean otherwise. A collection of three moralistic tales for young adults. The Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover 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
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
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
1925ref. 63832NP: np 1925. First edition . 16mo 16 cm. 8 pp. A nostalgic look at the rural institution in America with James Whitcomb Riley's famous poem "The Passing of the Backhouse" printed at the end "a true-to-life human-interest story of an old landmark which has endeared itself in the memory of hundreds of thousands of real American folks" from the foreword. Apparently not recorded on OCLC and we have been unable to find any information on this pamphlet's publishing history elsewhere. Very good. Original illustrated wrappers rubbed central vertical fold stapled. 10307. np unknown books
1725ref. 019172London: J. Darby 1725. Hardcover. Margins shaved not affecting text. Trivial wear. About Fine. Duodecimo 3-1/4" x 5-1/2" in a lovely unsigned binding of full dark green morocco leather with gilt floral decorative devices with small white morocco onlays the spine with five raised bands gilt lettering and decorations gilt dentelles scarlet silk endpapers and doublures all edges gilt; 119 1 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece. A translation of the anonymous French text LE COMTE D'ESSEX HISTOIRE ANGLOISE printed in Paris in 1678 and first published in English in 1680. This edition of a sensational account of Elizabeth's love life seems to be just as scarce. J. Darby hardcover 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
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
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
1752ref. 859861752. First Edition. ANONYMOUS. Le Comte de Dunois. Paris: Chez Loüis Billaine 1671. 12mo contemporary full dark brown speckled calf elaborately gilt-decorated spine covers with the arms of the House of Bourbon-Penthièvre raised bands red morocco spine label. $2200.First edition of this novel preceded by a dedicatory letter to the Duchess of Nemours this copy finely bound in contemporary calf-gilt with the arms of Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon Duke of Penthièvre son of the Count of Toulouse Grand Admiral of France and a renowned book collector.Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon was the son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon and his wife Marie Victoire de Noailles; he was also a grandson of Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan. In 1733 at the age of six he was made a field marshal and the next year a lieutenant general. In 1740 he received the Order of the Toison dOr from the king and in 1742 the Order of the Holy Spirit. He served in the military under his maternal uncle the Duke of Noailles and fought brilliantly at Dettingen in 1743 and Fontenoy in 1745. Penthièvre was one of the wealthiest men of his day and probably the richest in France. He was known to be very charitable. Bibliographers variously attribute authorship of Le Comte de Dunois to Mme. Desjardins Mme. de Villedieu Comtesse Henriette de Murat or to Pierre dOrtigue de Vaumorière. Later engraved armorial bookplate of the House of Rochefoucauld.Expert restoration to corners and spine ends. A lovely volume in excellent condition with noble provenance. hardcover 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
1719ref. 21983New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1917 but 1918. First Edition. Octavo 19.25cm.; original rose paper-covered boards upper cover lettered in gilt unadorned spine; 31pp.; frontispiece. Spine faded to tan gilt lettering a bit dulled else Very Good and sound. One of 1000 copies published. Written anonymously by Eliot and edited by Pound. Eliot's second published work. GALLUP Eliot A2; GALLUP Pound B17. Alfred A. Knopf 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
1964ref. 25136New York: Kanrom 1964. First Edition. Slim quarto 27cm.; original white pictorial card wrappers; unpaged; chiefly illus. General wear to extremities from handling wrappers slightly toned old price sticker inside upper cover else interior fine. About Very Good. Collection of cartoons unflatteringly adorned with the heads of unnamed Hollywood celebrities. Not in OCLC as of January 2015. The record for another collection published by Kanrom Doctor Ratfink M.D. lists a Richard Miller and Viola Ilma as the co-authors. Kanrom unknown books
ref. 19730N.p. Chicago: 1969. Original silk-screened poster in three colors 23" x 29". Professionally backed on archival tissue; minor toning at margins still Near Fine. Brian Flanagan b. 1946 was a member of both SDS and the Weathermen and directly connected to the fatal Greenwich Village apartment explosion in which three Weathermen were killed while preparing for a bomb attack on Fort Dix Flanagan had reputedly left the apartment briefly for more supplies. This rare poster promotes Flanagan's parodic write-in campaign for Mayor of Chicago during the Days of Rage. Following a fateful run-in with City Attorney Richard Elrod on the streets of Chicago in which Elrod was left with a broken neck and partial paralysis Flanagan was tried for attempted murder and inciting mayhem. He was eventually acquitted on all charges but the case became a cause celebre for the Weathermen and other radical left groups. An extremely ephemeral piece likely produced in tiny quantities and posted even less. unknown books
1962ref. 19014Exeter NH: Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group N.D. but ca.1962. Two mimeographed sheets printed in black on goldenrod stock and stapled at upper left corner; 21.5cm X 28cm 8.5" X 11"; 2pp. Horizontal fold at center with minor wear and a few tiny creases to extremities; Very Good. A curious list of questions designed to prepare demonstrators or debaters for issues they might be challenged with in a public forum. The sheets are undated but appear to be compiled around the time of the Cuban Missle Crisis. No imprint but the preliminary sheet bears the rubber stamp of the Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group; it is unclear whether the questions were compiled by the Academy or merely used by them. The questions range from the obvious "Why are you all here" to questions of a more provocative nature "What are you a bunch of commies "Why don't you go back to Russia" and "What would you do if Russia attacks Remember Pearl Harbor". No copies located in OCLC. Philips Exeter Academy Student Peace Group unknown books
1926ref. 19215N.p.: S.i. N.d. before 1926. Original vintage photographic print 4" x 6" with narrow borders. Captioned in image: "Penna. Klan Haven / Harrisburg PA." Slightly bowed; corners rounded; light wear and soill; Very Good. Verso unprinted. Good image of the original "Klan Haven" facility in Harrisburg Pa. The Haven was lost to fire in 1926 then reopened in a new facility about 1930 where it operated through the Great Depression. S.i. unknown books
1945ref. 9015531Chicago: Abraham Lincoln Bookshop 1945. Hardcover. Very good condition. Prefatory Notes by F. Lauriston Bullard. Foreword by Carl Sandburg. One of 500 copies printed at the Norman Press. Spine sunned. Slipcase. Abraham Lincoln Bookshop hardcover books
1757ref. 8493London: E. Withers E. Withers 1757. Hardcover. Fine. Rebound in black cloth with gilt-stamped spine. Fine condition. E. Withers, E. Withers hardcover books
ref. 8494London Jones & Co. n.d. Engraved by Henry Gastineau. Quarter red leather with gilt stamped and decorated spine and mabelized front and back covers. Marbelized front and back endpapers. Fine condition. Over 100 scenic engravings. London, Jones & Co., n.d. hardcover books
