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1918ref. 605308New York: Funk and Wagnalls 1918. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second Authorized edition. New preface by the author. Octavo. 256pp. 13 plates. About fine in near fine dust jacket with some light splitting at the flap folds. Impressions of Middle Eastern and Eastern countries including Turkey Romania Serbia and Bulgaria before WWI. Scarce in jacket. Funk and Wagnalls hardcover books
1973ref. 587224no place: Adventures in Poetry 1973. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Stapled pictorial covers. Staples oxidized a bit of wear along the edges near fine. A group of brief selections most two or three words from Clark Coolidge's poems picked out by Coolidge and Larry Fagin for their resemblance to names. Examples: Pip Oversmokes; The Magic Crease Elf; Rib Wrists Niblet; Sherry Crustacean; Fudge Dormer. (Adventures in Poetry unknown books
1820ref. 5877Bury: Birchinall Printer 1820. First edition. Near Fine. Broadside measuring 245 x 380mm and printed to verso only; the layout and placement of the imprint suggest that this piece was meant to be folded down the center with The Knitting appearing first and Answer appearing at rear. A very nearly Fine example with just a bit of creasing at the corners and faint offsetting along the left margin. Unrecorded by the Bodleian Library of Broadside Ballads or by OCLC the typeface suggests that it was produced toward the end of W. Birchinall's operations 1806-1829. A common thread connecting the Birchinall broadsides recorded by OCLC is the sensational depictions of 19th century true crime -- from the murder of Mary Booty in 1806 to the execution of Thomas South and his companions in 1816 to the burglary trial of James Philips and John Wade in 1822. The Knitting and Answer to the Knitting stand apart from these in a number of ways. Not only are they not sensationalizing identifiable local activities using names and dates clearly within their titles they take a more literary and satirical tone in relating young Susan's education in "knitting" and her resulting pregnancy and rejection by the shepherd Johnny. The Knitting focuses not only on Johnny's seduction but even more so on Susan's public exposure to gossip and social rejection as a result of his refusal to marry her. The text's serious warning to young women -- that whether right or wrong they will ultimately be blamed for the outcomes of unwed sex -- is undercut however by the followup Answer. Unlike The Knitting which opens with a more formal communal overture "come all ye pretty maidens fair" Answer creates a more private conspiratorial tone with its "It's of a young damsel as I have heard say." Lured into gossip by the narrator readers hear how Johnny returns to Susan after being required to pay child support for their son; how he secretly confesses his love in order to lure Susan again into a tryst; and how the couple's intercourse in a grove is a source of humor with Johnny's lovemaking resembling "a man that had fits". Unlike The Knitting's widely shared community knowledge and its use of gossip to warn young women and curb their sexual behavior Answer depicts how gossip spreads individual to individual with the narrator having heard this story from an unnamed friend and then sharing it with the reader among men to warn them against getting caught for their indiscretions. A research rich piece and the only known copy further work could be done on the physical object its typography and its printer. On a literary level further analysis could be done on how the pairing connects to other call-and-response poems such as the 17th century Passionate Shepherd to His Love and The Nymph's Reply and to the pastoral tradition. On a social history level further study could connect the work to 19th century gossip helping historians to understand how the practice of gossip differed in groups of various genders or classes especially surrounding sexuality and shame. Near Fine. Birchinall, Printer unknown books
1932ref. 574477San Francisco: Chinese National Salvation Publicity Bureau 1932. Softcover. Very Good. Offprint. Octavo. 17pp. printed in double columns. Printed blue wrappers. Small number stamped on front wrap a bit of sunning at extremities of the wrappers very good or better. Likely a very early copy of the infamous "Tanaka Memorial" Japanese Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka's supposed plan for world domination "presented" to Emperor Hirohito in 1927. According to the document Japanese domination begins with China and the domination of China begins in Manchuria and Mongolia. The Memorial was first printed in 1929 in a Chinese Nationalist publication. Its first appearance in English seems to be in 1931 in the China Critic a Shanghai publication. Scholars now believe that the Memorial is a clever piece of anti-Japanese propaganda although whether it was created by Chinese nationalists the KGB or someone else remains unknown. Historian Meirion Harries calls the document "one of the most successful 'dirty tricks' of the twentieth century - a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it." Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army 1991. An early printing of an infamous piece of early 20th Century psychological warfare. Chinese National Salvation Publicity Bureau unknown books
1937ref. 574480San Francisco: T.W. Chinn Linotype Composition 1937. Softcover. Near Fine. Offprint. Octavo. 14pp. printed in double columns. Printed pale green wrappers. Small number stamped on front wrap a bit of soiling at extremities of the wrappers else near fine. A copy of the infamous "Tanaka Memorial" Japanese Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka's supposed plan for world domination "presented" to Emperor Hirohito in 1927. According to the document Japanese domination begins with China and the domination of China begins in Manchuria and Mongolia. The Memorial was first printed in 1929 in a Chinese Nationalist publication. Its first appearance in English seems to be in 1931 in the China Critic a Shanghai publication. Scholars now believe that the Memorial is a clever piece of anti-Japanese propaganda although whether it was created by Chinese nationalists the KGB or someone else remains unknown. Historian Meirion Harries calls the document "one of the most successful 'dirty tricks' of the twentieth century - a bogus document so brilliantly conceived that thirty years later Westerns were still being taken in by it." Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Army 1991. T.W. Chinn Linotype Composition unknown books
1732ref. 6120London: Printed for T. Dormer 1732. First edition. Modern quarter morocco over cloth with gilt to spine. Measuring 180 x 111mm and collating complete including frontis folding game board and concluding woodcut: 2 62 2. From the collection of stage magician Ricky Jay with his bookplate to upper pastedown. Top margin trimmed close with consistent loss to running headers and occasional loss to page numbers with no other text effected. Pages somewhat toned with minor marginal chips but otherwise unmarked. A scarce satire playing both on the rising popularity of get-rich-quick schemes and on the economics of the marriage market the present is the only example to appear in the auction record. OCLC locates only twelve institutional copies. The present is the only example currently in trade. A Scheme for a New Lottery warns readers against the dangers posed by get-rich-quick schemes targeting large-scale scams like the recently burst South Sea Bubble sometimes called the world's first Ponzi scheme and the pawn-broking swindle of the so-called Charitable Corporation. These scams were appealing to ordinary people at a time when few were "successful in using wealth from trade to found a landed family" Rapp. Mocking both the conmen and the conned A Scheme satirically proposes "Another Lottery which may prove a general benefit to all concern'd; as there is no better Remedy for a Bite from a Mad Dog than the Liver of the Dog that bit." The proposed lottery filled with abstruse rules and convoluted promises ensures that the cycle continues. A Scheme also mocks marriage as a scam in which women could either make a wise match in a rich man or lose it all by marrying down. The lottery provides "Fifty Thousand tickets to be deliver'd to Maids or Widows or any that appear to be such" in the hopes of winning a financially stable husband represented by the tickets drawn. Such a match could be a good one: "A Ware-House Keeper with the Salary of a Hundred Pounds" or "the Governour." It could also by virtue of lottery be a loss: "2 Scotchmen both Pedlars 500 Broken Booksellers" and a range of other ruinous bounders are also listed as prizes. For those who desire an advance attempt the folding game bound in the book invites blindfolded women to stick a pin in the board to claim their prize. The present copy was played gently with pin marks revealing a Blacksmith and a Valet de Chambre among those husbands won The popularity of A Scheme resulted in a reissue the same year with a canceled title page as The Ladies Lottery and falsely attributed to Swift. ESTC N20921. Printed for T. Dormer unknown books
1960ref. 557976No place: The Author 1960. Unbound. Near Fine. No edition stated. Introduction by the anonymous author. Slim octavo. Four folio sheets folded to make 16pp. Measuring approximately 7" x 8½". Spirit-duplicated. Owner stamp and signature of a noted American psychologist on the cover and title inked on the spine else very near fine. Gives brief diagnoses on issues for each sign of the Zodiac followed by three Manipulative Procedures for the spine. The author is unnamed but in the introduction he thanks Drs. Goetz Dr. J. A. Lange and his father and "Charles Robert Wilson our teacher in Psychosomatic Methods when we attended his Order of the Holy Grail." OCLC locates no copies. The Author unknown books
1910ref. 550603Pittsburgh: Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions 516 Market Street 1910. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 24mo. 11pp. Stapled white printed self-wrappers. Few sewn marks along spine where once bound with other publications else a very good copy. Freedmen's Department of Woman's Board of Home Missions, 516 Market Street unknown books
1854ref. 506176Boston: Redding and Company 1854. Softcover. Near Fine. Second thousand. Octavo. 29pp. Sewn self-wrappers. Early light dampstain at inner margin of most pages chips at the bottom of the wrappers else near very good copy. Redding and Company unknown books
1856ref. 515577New York: Published by Mason Brothers 1856. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Very slight wear to cloth else a fine bright copy. Wright II 836. Novel set in Boston. Published by Mason Brothers hardcover books
1983ref. 456936New York: Grove Press 1983. Softcover. Near Fine. First Grove Press edition. Paperback. A little rubbing on the wrappers and usual page-toning near fine. Grove Press unknown books
1945ref. 454452San Marino California: The Huntington Library 1945. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Octavo. xxiv 66pp. Both hinges neatly repaired some offsetting on endpapers very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with splits and loss and ringmarks on the cover. Written by an anonymous Virginian in 1701 "his proposals for liberty under the British Crown with two memoranda by William Byrd. The Huntington Library hardcover books
1792ref. 68343London: Printed for S. Woodfall 1792. A Collection of Five Political Tracts from the Years 1792-1793 Anonymous. Six essays on natural rights liberty and slavery consent of the people equality religious establishments the French Revolution which were greatly approved and have been in much request since their original appearance in the Public Advertiser. London Printed for S. Woodfall 1792. First edition. 8 48 pp. We could find no copies at auction and only four are listed at libraries according to ESTC N62745 Bound with ANDERSON George. A general view of the variations which have been made in the affairs of the East-India Company since the conclusion of the war in India in 1784. By George Anderson. London Printed in the Year 1792. First Edition. 8 102 2 blank 11 folding appendix tables pp. With half-title and 11 folding appendix tables. There have been no copies at auction since 1978. George Anderson was a colonial official and writer. In 1792 he published this present highly regarded study as to the condition of Indian trade and finance. ESTC T97303 Bound with Anonymous Callender James T. The political progress of Britain; or an impartial account of the principal abuses in the government of this country from the revolution in 1688. The Whole tending to prove the ruinous Consequences of the popular System of War and Conquest. Part first. Edinburgh Printed for Robertson & Berry 1792. First edition. 80 pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. Previous owner's contemporary notes on blank verso of title-page which read "It is impossible that Lord Gardenstone could be so great a rogue as to write this tract as has been universally given out." "In February 1792 Callender published in the Edinburgh Bee the first of eight parts of what was to become a very successful pamphlet The Political Progress of Britain. As an inflammatory critique of imperialism war and corruption with a strong Scottish nationalist flavour Callender's work rivalled Thomas Paine's in its radicalism. It sold well although not in the numbers of the Rights of Man." Oxford DNB. ESTC T43967. Bound with CARLYLE Alexander. A sermon on the death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailles; from Eccles. VII.3. Preached In the Church of Inveresk on Sunday the 9th day of December 1792. By Alexr. Carlyle D. D. F. R. S. E. Chaplain to His Majesty & Minister of that Parish. With an address to the congregation suited to the circumstances of the times. Edinburgh Printed for John Balfour 1792. First edition. 33 1 blank pp. We could find no copies at auction in over 50 years. ESTC T53279. "Carlyle was a Church of Scotland minister and memorialist. During the French Revolution he was equally conservative in regard both to domestic issues.and to foreign issues such as the war with France which he exalted as a divinely sanctioned cause and a test of British virtue and resolve in three published sermons including: Sermon on the Death of Sir David Dalrymple Bart. Lord Hailes 1792." Oxford DNB. Bound with Mallet du Pan M. Jacques. Considérations sur la nature de la révolution de France et sur les causes qui en prolongent la durée. A Bruxelles et se trouve a Londres chez Owen 1793. Early edition. viii 79 1 table pp. ESTC T75704. Mallet du Pan was a Swiss journalist who "Published with the approval of the foreign representatives a work which was to make a prodigious sensation and which is still the best know of his writings his Considerations on the Revolution." Mallet du Pan and the French revolution by Mallet Bernard. He is considered a pioneer of modern political journalism. Octavo 8 1/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 205 x 125 mm. All tracts bound together in contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Some occasional foxing but otherwise very clean. Previous owners old ink notes on front endpapers. Outer hinges cracked but holding. Top of spine chipped. Otherwise a very good copy. HBS 68343. $3500. Printed for S. Woodfall unknown books
1835ref. 61089bdPhiladelphia: Turner & Fisher n.d. ca. 1835. Turner & Fisher’s Edition. The preceeding information from the title page / inside wrapper. An apparent later wrapper has been added: Dame Crump. Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother n.d. ca. 1850. Fisher & Brother’s Golden Toys - 12 Kinds. 16mo illustrated wrappers 8 pp. with second wrapper 12 pp. Both titles and each page illustrated with wood engravings. Good; former-owner signature illustrations amateurishly colored spine amateurishly sewn. Turner & Fisher, n.d. [ca. 1835]. Turner & Fisher’s Edition. The preceeding information from the title page / inside wrappe unknown books
1908ref. 6582fdN.l.: W. E. Scull 1908. Octavo cloth-backed color-illustrated boards hardcover 128 pp. Plates illus. Teddy Bear Alphabet mostly printed with colors the remainder of the book printed in red and blue. Stories and rhymes include: Mary Had a Little Lamb Simple Simon many Mother Goose rhymes The Three Little Kittens The Three Little Pigs Jack the Giant Killer Little Red Riding Hood Little Snowdrop and many others. Good; quite shelf worn yet holding together better than you’d expect. [W. E. Scull, 1908]. hardcover books
1942ref. 423853Zurich 1942. Softcover. Near Fine. Seven leaves folded to make 14pp. 13 illustrations. Stitched with cord. Some spotting on the handwritten wrappers and final leaf slight splitting at the spine ends else very good or better. Handwritten and illustrated on rectos only with cryptic dedication on first leaf. From an unidentified hand a tender work of reassurance dedicated to Frau Anzia Weilenmann the wife of a Swiss psychoanalyst and member of the literary circle that formed around Adrien Turel in 1940s Zurich. Apparently composed to alleviate Mrs. Weilenmann's anxiety over the crisis in Swiss culture precisely at the time of its dark flirtation with Nazism the illustrated poem mobilizes wordplay jocular images and botanical metaphors to playfully insist upon the inevitable resistance of the Swiss people. unknown books
1969ref. 420585San Diego: Nouveau Classique Press / Publisher's Export Co 1969. Softcover. Very Good. First edition.Supposedly translated from the Spanish by Manuel de Ortega. Paperback original. Illustrated green wrappers. Crease on spine rubbing on wrappers pages toned but sound and very good. Purported memoir of a sexy nun from Nicaragua. Spoiler alert: Satan is Hell in bed! OCLC locates no copies. Nouveau Classique Press / (Publisher's Export Co unknown books
1820ref. 4077bdAndover: Printed for the New England Tract Society 1820. No. 34 Part 1. Third Edition one of 6000. Octavo later 19th century plain wrappers 28 pp. Very Good uncut. Printed for the New England Tract Society, 1820. unknown books
1863ref. 4103bdLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Committee of General Literature and Education n.d. ca. 1863. Duodecimo decorated yellow wrappers 48 pp. Twelve color plates by William Dickes in the Baxter Process. The contents include: Germans French Spaniards Portuguese Swedes Greeks and Turks. Good; spine badly chipped some wear. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Committee of General Literature and Education, n.d., [ca. 1863]. unknown books
1870ref. 4102bdBoston: Willard Tract Society n.d. ca.1870. 32mo 4 x 2.5 inches printed self-wrappers 32 pp. Fine. Willard Tract Society, n.d. [ca.1870]. unknown books
1897ref. 413899New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Hardcover. Good. Stories originally published separately first published together here. 16mo. 224pp. Three quarter olive leather ruled in gilt marbled papercovered boards top edge gilt. Front board and preliminary pages detached but present lacking most of the spine only the title remains a fair to good only copy. Containing Doyle's first ever short story Mystery of Sasassa Valley Long Odds by Haggard King Bemba's Point by Landers Ghamba by Scully Mary Musgrave by Anonymous and Gregorio by Hemingway. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1954ref. 405212No place - possibly either Palm Springs or Laguna California: Palm Pub Co 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. Holliday Associates edition presumably a later edition as it bears a copyright date of 1945. 16mo. 16pp. titlepage vignette diagrams. Stapled illustrated red wrappers. Gift inscription "Florence Deinert from Helene Schell" staples a little rusted very good or better. A relatively perfunctory pocket edition of practical advice aimed at golfers with scores between 85 and 110. OCLC locates no copies. Not in Donovan and Murdoch. The Game of Golf and The Printed Word 1566-1985. Palm Pub Co unknown books
ref. 5674fdN.l.: n.p. n.d. Octavo stiff printed wrappers stapled text in German and English 71 black & white plates. Very Good. n.p., n.d. unknown books
1996ref. 112332New York: Random House 1996. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Later printing. Spine slightly cocked near fine in fine dust jacket. A novel of politics. Random House hardcover books
1840ref. 66391Edinburgh: Published by William and Robert Chambers 1840. Early Compilation of Voyages The Sea. Narratives of Adventure and Shipwreck Tales and Sketches Illustrative of Life on the Ocean. Edinburgh: Published by William and Robert Chambers 1840. Early English edition. Octavo. 144 pp. Modern marbled wrappers. Printed in double columns. A few pages with foxing. Otherwise a fine copy of this scarce British edition published the same year as Two Years Before the Mast. Contains stories such as Vasco Nunez Byron's Narrative Alexander Selkirk Mutiny of the Bounty Mocha Dick among many other shipwreck stories. HBS 66391. $450. Published by William and Robert Chambers unknown books
