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1942réf. 2563Providence RI 1942. Cards. Yellow cards with red illustrations. Very good. 23 x 15 cm. Color illustrated folding menu with handwritten note and typed dinner menu attached. The handwritten illustrated veggies holding guns note suggests some food shortages due to the war and "Vegetable are besieging us this time". The note also explains prices have gone up and the need to add cabbage to the salad. Dinner featured a Smörgasbord for $1.10 Braised Short Ribs of Beef for .80 c. and Veal a la Maryland for .85c. Desserts are written in by hand: Prune-filled Layer Cake Chocolate Cream Pie Apple Pie Snow Pudding with egg sauce and Ice Cream. Covers lightly toned. books
1916réf. 2560Providence R.I. 1916. Cards. Illustrated cream cards. Very good. 13.5 x 19 cm. Illustrated menu tendered by the Providence Friars at the Pomham Club in Providence R.I. on Thursday June 8 1916. The menu commences with a Martini Cocktail followed by Clam Broth Clam Chowder Baked Clams Clam Cakes Baked Lobster Broiled Mackerel - along with Rhode Island Johnny Cakes Champagne Beer Cigars & Cigarettes. Speakers include Rhode Island politicians John J. Fitzgerald 1871-1926 State representative & Democratic Mayor Mayor Joseph H. Gainer Artist Hezekiah Anthony Dyer Commissioner Benjamin P. Moultan and Henry A. Carpenter. The "Providence Friars" seems to be a bit of a leg-pull as they all are known entertainers. We know "Abbott" George M. Cohan was no other than the famous vaudeville song-and-dance man playwright director producer comic actor and popular songwriter George M. Cohan. Born in Providence Rhode Island this may have been a welcome homecoming for Cohan. Light toning to cards. books
1931réf. 25641931. Coated paper. Color illustrated broadsides. Very good. 23.5 x 16 cm. Two color illustrated broadsides: Tuesday February 10 1931 & Monday March 16 1931. Illustrating the American affluent class and their recreational habits. Deck sports included Ladies Turtle Race Ladies Nail Driving Contest Ladies & Gentlemen: Shaving Contest Feeding the Baby Children's Pie Eating Contest rounded out by Musical Chairs. Fellow passengers listed served at the Chairman Starter Recorder and Judge. The S.S. Malolo was built by William Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia in 1926. When built the Malolo was the largest and most technically advanced liner of her time and considered the most luxurious liner to have been built in the United States. The Malolo cruised the Pacific Asia and Australia with a West coast trip departing from San Francisco and making its way to Hawaii. One broadside is creased at middle. books
1939réf. 25621939. Cards. Blue and black die-cut cards. Very good. 19.5 x 8.5 cm. The T.S.S. "HECTOR" was a set of four sister ships built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool - part of the Blue Funnel Line. Sister ships were Sarpedon Patroclus and Antenor - all named after characters in Homer's Iliad. This shaped menu featured a combination of both French British and American dishes. Covers lightly rubbed interior clean. books
1856réf. 008138London: Richard Bentley 1856. In signed Riviere & Son binding of half red polished calf over red buckram boards the back ornately gilt with floral decorations marbled end papers all edges gilt bookplate of J. F. Holmes in sporting theme with horse rider and outdoor sporting devices. Very Good front board broken light wear at edges frontispiece portrait starting to separate. . First Edition. Half Polished Calf. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
1890réf. 2495London: Perry Davis & Son c. 1890. Cards. White printed cards. Near fine. 11.5 x 7.5 cm. British/European Branch trade card. Legend has it Perry Davis concocted his "all vegetable" patent medicine in 1839 after becoming ill himself - a combination of mostly alcohol. Card lists agency addresses: General Agency: 74 High Street Providence Rhode Island U.S.A. Western Branch: 7 College Buildings Walnut St. Cincinnati Ohio U.S.A. Canada Branch: 378 St. Paul Street Montreal D.E. European Branch 17 Southampton Row - Holbein London. W.C. Written on verso in ink: 1 Prim Pump 1 flue measure 1. 2. 4. gl Perry Davis & Son books
réf. 2509New York: National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association. Staplebound. White wraps. Very good. 16 pages. 17.5 x 11 cm. Stamped on cover: UNITED WAR WORKERS CAMPAIGN Nov. 11-19. During W.W.I the YWCA was on the seven non-governmental organizations that participated in the United War Workers Campaign and the only one fully dedicated to serving women. Focusing on female workers in the war industries the association also operated Hostess Houses in military training camps - a "home away from home" for wives and mothers visiting active soldiers. This Report discusses the Junior War Work Council Industrial War Work; equal pay for equal work War Work among Colored Girls and Women Social Morality and training at Bryn Mawr College for industrial Supervisors and Managers. Front cover lightly foxed at edge interior clean and crisp. National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association paperback books
1930réf. 2368Oakland CA: H.C. Capwell Co. c. 1930. Cards. Color illustrated paper menu. Very good. Color illustrated folding cardstock featuring a children's menu paper dolls and store highlights. Covers toned interior clean. H.C. Capwell Co. unknown books
1858réf. 007841New Yo K: Harper & Brothers 1858. First American Edition of this important narrative of early travels in Siberia Mongolia and other parts of Central Asia published the same year as the First Edition of London. Very Good Minus wear to cloth at spine ends 3" tear to cloth top edge rear joint 1" tear at front joint prior owner name in pencil dated 1876 fold-out map with 4" edge tear and wrinkled from improper folding. In original black cloth gilt lettering at spine fold-out map 533 pp. 2 pp ads. . First American Edition. Cloth. Very Good Minus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1933réf. 007123Mexico City : Arte Mexicano 1933. SCARCE. Very Good vertical crease to front wrapper light soiling rear wrapper. 47 pp. with 11 prints of watercolors of important architectural sites by Ignacio Gonzalez Mermosilla The English language version by George Godoy. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Arte Mexicano Paperback books
1968réf. 19977Washington DC: U.S. News and World Report 1968. Softcover. Very good. 104 pp. Light cover wear original address label on front cover. A very good copy of an interesting issue from a turbulent time in American history with the headlining article titled "A Landslide of Protest. One-Sided Election" Other topics include poverty Black Captialism "What is it" the current crisis in the Catholic Church an interview with George Wallace and "Growing Reaction to Disorders." U.S. News and World Report paperback books
1808réf. 1951280Impensis M. Carey 1808. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Ink note from previous owner on front endpaper 'The property of Otis Hutchins. purchased second hand. August 22d 1815. price 1.00 No. 77' edges of endpapers toned top corner of front free endpaper removed. 1808 Full-Leather. iv 256 pp. Original full leather red leather spine label gilt titles & rules. Books 1-4 of Tacitus's histories in the original Latin taken primarily from the Brotier's edition with portions from Barbou and Gronovius. Notes by Barbou taken from his 1793 edition. Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman statesman in the first century A.D. whose histories provide an authoritative account of various events within the Roman Empire with the unique insight of a politician living at the time. Impensis M. Carey hardcover books
1914réf. 50454Columbus: Industrial Commission of Ohio 1914. Octavo. Staple-bound self-wrappers; 74pp. Includes information on recently-enacted regulations on workers' compensation and language of the act establishing the Industrial Commission which was formed under the governorship of Archibald Cox to oversee the placement of laborers in essential wartime defense industries. Industrial Commission of Ohio unknown books
1953réf. 47331New York: The Blue Heron Press 1953. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. One of an unstated number of copies signed by the author on a decorative plate tipped onto the front pastedown this being copy no.497. Octavo 21cm; publisher's mauve and white patterned paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip with titles stamped in gilt on spine; mauve topstain; publisher's original glassine overlay; xviii2646pp. Trivial wear to lower corners tiny tear with attendant crease to right margin of half-title page else very Near Fine in a glassine with numerous tears creases and small losses. Handsome edition of this cornerstone sociological work by Du Bois first published by A.C. McClurg in 1903. "Souls Of Black Folk was written beautifully in a style which Du Bois labored to perfect. It is one of the noteworthy books not merely of the period but of the epoch. The monumental work was the opening salvo in the struggle that has dominated the century for black and white Americans: the quest for dignity justice and equality.Every page is filled with spirituality and with spontaneity" Blockson 52. This edition bears a new foreword by Du Bois titled "Fifty Years After" and introductory matter by his wife Shirley Graham Du Bois. The Blue Heron Press unknown books
1920réf. 47938New York: Boni and Liveright 1920. First Edition. Wrapper issue. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; vi9-185pp. Wrappers rather spotted crude spine tape repair textblock a bit toned else Good to Very Good internally sound. Inscribed and signed by the author in pencil on front free endpaper to former Governor of Michigan Chase S. Osborn with his ex libris inside upper cover and three extensive initialed pencil annotations to early leaves of text. Contemporary account of the American steel strike organized by the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers in September 1919 in the wake of the end of World War I in an effort to reorganize the industry though the strike ended unsuccessfully in January 1920. This a significant association copy of the former Republican governor of Michigan 1911-1913 who noted in pencil on p. 17 in response to the massive U.S. Steel Corporation's surplus at the end of 1919: "Thou must not tread on the sensitive toes of dollars; rather on the hearts of men" adding on the following page "rather on the bleeding hearts of mankind." Previous to his political activities Osborn travelled widely discovering iron mines in both Canada and Madagascar; for this one of his memoirs was titled "The Iron-Hunter." Mary Heaton Vorse was herself a radical novelist journalist and editor of "The Masses" and while her relationship with Osborn is unclear we find reference to a few pieces of correspondence dated between 1913 and 1920 in the Mary Heaton Vorse Papers at Wayne University. Boni and Liveright unknown books
1972réf. 48260N.p. ca. 1972. Quarto ca. 28cm.; side-stapled self-wrappers; 5pp. printed mimeograph on yellow stock. Light wear from handling else Very Good. Annotated bibliography of recent publications the latest published in 1972 divided by subject including "Women and the Church" and "the Woman Issue." Concludes with a list of resources among these the Women's Bureau and Know Inc. Though not attributed most likely issued by women members of the General Assembly of the National Council of Churches. Not separately catalogued in OCLC as of April 2020. unknown books
1899réf. 47709New York: Little Brown & Co 1899. First Edition. First printing. Octavo; gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; top edge gilt; xvi320pp. Pencil ownership signature; bit of negligible rubbing to boards; a fresh tight Near Fine copy free of markings or significant wear. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1870réf. 43875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
1871réf. 47582Rome: Forzani et C. 1871. First Edition. Folio 33cm.; publisher's tan printed card wrappers; 18pp. Wrapper lightly soiled faint vertical creasing a few tiny chips to spine ele Very Good internally fresh and fine save the crease. Polemical attack on the state of the French university system written in March 1871 two months after the end of the disastrous for the French Franco-Prussian War. As Pasteur argues whereas in Germany universities proliferated across the country France "stymied by revolution was always occupied with the sterile search for a better form of government giving only distracted attention to her institutions of higher learning" p. 9 our translation. At the root of all this was the regime of Napoleon I who in the early years of the 19th century neglected the country's twenty-eight extant institutions of higher learning in favor of his Université de France a disastrously centralized state-run institution that he established in 1808. The University suffered greatly during the Restoration and with it the quality of education so that by 1868 only £8000 were being spent for "true academic purposes" across the country cf. W. Chandler Roberts et al "Journal of the Society for Arts Vol. 32 no. 1655 August 8 1884 p. 905 creating a lacuna of learned and innovative thinkers to match Germany's. Perhaps in order to combat this downward trend Pasteur later founded the Pasteur Institute in 1887 serving as its director until his death in 1895. This appears to be the only separate appearance of Pasteur's tract published abroad and distributed to various foreign leading scientific figures among these "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Henry Huxley who makes mention of this work in an address delivered in October of that same year. The essay appeared again in print in 1947 following an even more disastrous encounter with Germany in a collection titled "Pour l'Avenir de la Science Française." This publication quite scarce with four physical copies noted in OCLC as of February 2020. COPAC adds one copy at the LEC Library UK. Forzani et C. unknown books
1879réf. 47623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
1895réf. 44165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
1894réf. 44281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
1927réf. 44064New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket red topstain; 316pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Cloth gilt a bit dulled topstain a shade darkened contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper tiny closed tear at top edge of rear jacket panel not approaching text else Near Fine in a superlative copy of the jacket. Autobiography of Aimee Semple McPherson 1890-1944 the evangelical speaker and founder of the Foursquare Church best known for pioneering the use of mass media specifically radio to broadcast her sermons. The present memoir includes McPherson's supposed kidnapping in Mexico an event heavily called into question by contemporary media who conjectured that McPherson and her lover had cooked up the story to cover up their liaison. Boni and Liveright unknown books
1879réf. 45074New York: The World 1879. First Edition. Octavo 18.25cm; red cloth with titling and decorations stamped in black and gilt on spine and front cover; vi8626pp ads. Faint crease to front endpaper mild dustiness to cloth else Near Fine. History of the Seventh New York Regiment's involvement during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 a conflict lasting 45 days before being put down by local and state militias. The World unknown books
1844réf. 44191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
