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1941Best.-Nr. 49161New York: The Dryden Press 1941. Very good plus. First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between. Charles Blockson notes that on its publication in 1941 THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" 58. Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s including songs plays narratives of enslaved people poetry essays folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. No dust jacket. xviii 1082 pages including index. Owner name in pencil to front flyleaf "Tyler Long." Binding with mild wear a touch of dampstaining to lower spine. Leaves with a hint of toning and occasional edgewear. Firm. The Dryden Press unknown
1941Best.-Nr. 49161New York: The Dryden Press 1941. Very good plus. First printing of this anthology of works by Black Americans from the 18th-century poetry of Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century essays of Alain Locke and much in between. Charles Blockson notes that on its publication in 1941 THE NEGRO CARAVAN was "the most important single volume of Afro-American writing ever published" 58. Its three editors assembled some of the most influential pieces by Black Americans through the 1940s including songs plays narratives of enslaved people poetry essays folk literature and more. Each section is accompanied by a critical introduction contextualizing the pieces in their wider genres and in Black history. THE NEGRO CARAVAN represents a major early effort at defining a canon of Black literature; this is an unusually nice copy. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original blue cloth boards with gilt and black lettering. No dust jacket. xviii 1082 pages including index. Owner name in pencil to front flyleaf "Tyler Long." Binding with mild wear a touch of dampstaining to lower spine. Leaves with a hint of toning and occasional edgewear. Firm. The Dryden Press unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 78254Helsinki: Eurographica 1972. First edition. 50 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. One of 350 numbered copies on special Michelangelo Paper SIGNED by Elytis. Contemporary Poets in Signed Limited Editions 1. Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. Helsinki: Eurographica unknown
1972Best.-Nr. 78254Helsinki: Eurographica 1972. First edition. 50 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Edited by Rolando Pieraccini. One of 350 numbered copies on special Michelangelo Paper SIGNED by Elytis. Contemporary Poets in Signed Limited Editions 1. Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1979. Helsinki: Eurographica unknown books
1885Best.-Nr. 280891885 Civil War Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant 1st edition 2v Maps "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on." – Ulysses S. Grant An important historical memoir of the Civil War arguably the most important and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. As such it is valuable in its scope its plain and clear analysis and language and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war. Item number: #28089 Price: $750 GRANT Ulysses S Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant New York: Charles L. Webster and Co. 1885-86. First edition. Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. I – 584 <!--endif-->19 illustrations <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. II – 647 1 <!--endif-->31 illustrations <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; secure <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Green cloth <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~9.5in X 6.5in 24cm x 16.5cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! Photos available upon request. Charles L. Webster and Co hardcover
1873Best.-Nr. 19315Washington D.C.: Executive Branch 1873. Signed Political Appointment. Parchment. Good. Signed by President Ulysses S. Grant the political appointment of Charles C. Miller as Deputy Postmaster at Penn Yan New York dated March 26 1873. Document printed on parchment paper seal at bottom left corner. Notable chipping and wear along margins. Document is countersigned by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant along the bottom right with his signature partially obscured by dampstain. The recipient of this appointment Sergeant Charles C. Miller was a Republican political appointee who served as postmaster from 1873 to 1879. Miller served in Company I 148th New York Volunteers during the Civil War. Full document reads: "Ulysses S. Grant President of the United States of America to all who shall see these presents Greeting: Know ye That reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity Ability and Punctuality of Charles C. Miller I do appoint him Deputy Postmaster at Penn Yan in the State of New York and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to law to have and to hold the said Office with all the powers privileges and emoluments to the same of right appertaining unto him the said Charles C. Miller for the term of four years from the day of the date hereof; subject to the conditions prescribed by law. In testimony whereof I have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the City of Washington the Twenty-sixth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-three and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety-seventh. By the President. [Executive Branch] unknown
1873Best.-Nr. 19315Washington D.C.: Executive Branch 1873. Signed Political Appointment. Parchment. Good. Signed by President Ulysses S. Grant the political appointment of Charles C. Miller as Deputy Postmaster at Penn Yan New York dated March 26 1873. Document printed on parchment paper seal at bottom left corner. Notable chipping and wear along margins. Document is countersigned by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. Signed by Ulysses S. Grant along the bottom right with his signature partially obscured by dampstain. The recipient of this appointment Sergeant Charles C. Miller was a Republican political appointee who served as postmaster from 1873 to 1879. Miller served in Company I 148th New York Volunteers during the Civil War. Full document reads: "Ulysses S. Grant President of the United States of America to all who shall see these presents Greeting: Know ye That reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity Ability and Punctuality of Charles C. Miller I do appoint him Deputy Postmaster at Penn Yan in the State of New York and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the duties of that Office according to law to have and to hold the said Office with all the powers privileges and emoluments to the same of right appertaining unto him the said Charles C. Miller for the term of four years from the day of the date hereof; subject to the conditions prescribed by law. In testimony whereof I have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the City of Washington the Twenty-sixth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-three and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninety-seventh. By the President. [Executive Branch] unknown books
Best.-Nr. 51-3727Paris: H. Combes Gérant 54 rue Taitbout 1891. Folio. 25 x 32cm. Qtr. red morocco.Gravure portraits on rag paper hors teste. In-4 demi-chagrin rouge dos fleuronné à cinq nerfs seul le premier plat de la première livraison a été conservé tache d'encre. Paris 9 mai 1891 - 3 octobre 1891.Rare. Only one copy in OCLC 472353504 Portraits en héliogravure: Yvette Guilbert Berthe d'Egreville Marguerite Réter Madeleine Canjerack Jane Caylus Gabrielle Fleury Léonie de Glayeul Zizi Liane de Pougy Hélène d'Omerg Georgette de Riane Blanche Bruney de Saint-Étienne Albanie Rivière Debriège Maria Gentis Antonia Derville Valentine Valti Émilienne d'Alençon Méaly Pâquerette et J. de Clairvaux. Et deux portraits hors texte de Marie Gauthier et Suzanne d'Estrée.Caricatures ou croquis de Maurice de Lambert Maurice Marais G. Guérin Ulysse Roy Vignola V. Morland. La livraison du 19 septembre contient une illustration hors texte sur double page intitulée «Un Collectionneur».Deux ou trois petites déchirures marginales. Exemplaire en bonne condition. Paris: H. Combes, Gérant, 54 rue Taitbout, 1891 unknown
1885Best.-Nr. 34195Boston: Boyle Brothers 1885. A rare original publisher's 'Salesman's Dummy' for the Memorial Edition of this early biography of Grant published almost immediately after his death. Specimen pages include two engraved portraits one with facsimile autograph 62 pages of engraved illustrations maps or facsimile records sixteen pages of facsimile manuscripts and 60 pages of text many of which are also illustrated. Bound in the rear are several ruled pages for recording orders including the subscribers' names addresses and preferred binding ten orders are already recorded. 8vo in the original olive cloth decorated in gilt and black on the upper cover and in blind on the lower cover attached to the front endpaper is the sample spine for cloth binding option and attached to the rear endpaper the sample spines for the deluxe morocco and calf binding options floral endpapers. A very fresh copy especially so. The binding is bright and clean the text is free of foxing stains or other evidence of use. A SCARCE SALES DUMMY AND A BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVED ITEM OF PUBLISHING HISTORY AS RELATES TO THE 18th AMERICAN PRESIDENT AND HERO OF THE CIVIL WAR. These 'dummies' were used by door-to-door publisher's salesmen to pre-sell the upcoming publication through subscription. Thus they are full with illustrations and passages of the book chosen to be the most appealing to potential buyers. Boyle Brothers hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. BN424062Schulthess 2002. 2002. Private Equity Finanzierungsverträge: Funktion Recht Steuern. Private Equity Finanzierungsverträge: Funktion Recht Steuern. Salis-Lütolf Ulysses von Schulthess unknown
1885Best.-Nr. 048 - 122 - 912First edition in the publisher's green cloth binding Publisher and Year: New York: Charles L. Webster and Company 1885 Vol 1 and 1886 Vol 2 Edition: First edition first printing in the publisher's cloth binding. Customers could order their sets in cloth sheep leather three-quarter morocco full morocco and tree calf ranging in price from $7 to $25. Although cloth was the cheapest of these bindings at $7 it was still expensive to consumers amounting to about $234 today when adjusting for inflation. Publisher's Prospectus Condition and Description: Octavos two volumes publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt plain edges floral endpapers frontispieces with tissue guards. Vol 1: 584 pp; Vol 2: 654 pp index errata. Additional in-text plates. Complete with all pages tissue guards and fold-out materials present. Rubbing and handling marks to the boards of each volume including to the gilt medallions. Tips bumped with some exposure. Foxing to the frontispieces tissue guards and title pages. In Vol 1 there is a partially erased prior owner's name to the top-right corner of the front free endpaper and a small bookseller stamp on the front pastedown. In Vol 2 there is a small partially erased note "2 Vols" in pencil to the front free endpaper. No other writing or underlining. Pages exhibit occasional minor imperfections. A handsome set with uncommonly well-preserved covers. "The natural disposition of most people is to clothe a commander of a large army whom they do not know with almost superhuman abilities. A large part of the National army for instance and most of the press of the country clothed General Lee with just such qualities but I had known him personally and knew that he was mortal; and it was just as well that I felt this." Inventory ID: 048 - 122 - 912 Charles L. Webster and Company
1858Best.-Nr. 49829Chur 1858. Nach dem unedirten italiänischen Originalmanuskript bearbeitet mit Anmerkungen erläutert. Beigebunden: Salis-Seewis J.U.von; Gesammelte Schriften zur Bündner Geschichte Zwei Bände in einem Einband-Ecken u. Kanten berieben ansonsten in gutem Zustand Pradella 8°. Hln. marm. Raetica unknown
20048vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations by Paladino; full blue morocco, sides and backstrip blocked in gilt and black, ribbon marker, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1760 COPIES [1750 FOR SALE]. This limited edition was published on 16 June 2004 to mark the Centenary of the day on which the action of the book is set.
1885Best.-Nr. 259311885 Civil War 1ed Memoirs of Union General Ulysses S. Grant Illustrated MAPS 2v "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on." – Ulysses S. Grant An important historical memoir of the Civil War arguably the most important and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. As such it is valuable in its scope its plain and clear analysis and language and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war. Item number: #25931 Price: $795 GRANT Ulysses S Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant New York: Charles L. Webster and Co. 1885-86. First edition. Details: <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. I – 584 <!--endif-->19 illustrations <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Vol. II – 647 1 <!--endif-->31 illustrations <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Language: English <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure <!-- if !supportLists-->o <!--endif-->Green cloth <!-- if !supportLists-->· <!--endif-->Size: ~9.5in X 6.5in 24cm x 16.5cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 25931 Photos available upon request. Charles L. Webster and Co hardcover
1885Best.-Nr. 276301885 General Ulysses S. Grant 1ed Civil War Memoirs of Union Illustrated MAPS 2v "The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and keep moving on." – Ulysses S. Grant An important historical memoir of the Civil War arguably the most important and the best thing that Grant ever wrote. General Norman Schwartzkopf has recently called this the finest memoir of war experiences that has ever been penned. As such it is valuable in its scope its plain and clear analysis and language and its broad conclusions about the conduct of the war. Item number: #27630 Price: $795 GRANT Ulysses S Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant New York: Charles L. Webster and Co. 1885-86. First edition. Details: · Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes o Vol. I – 584 § 19 illustrations o Vol. II – 647 1 § 31 illustrations · Language: English · Binding: Hardcover; secure o Green cloth · Size: ~9.5in X 6.5in 24cm x 16.5cm Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving and we will offer a full refund without reservation! Charles L. Webster and Co. hardcover
1981Best.-Nr. 508300Viking 1981. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. First American Edition first printing. SIGNED by the Odysseus Elytis on the half title and inscribed in Greek to his friend photographer and publisher Stathis Orphanos. 114pp. 8vo beige paper over boards backed in black cloth with silver gilt spine lettering machine-deckled fore edge. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE DJ. Some trivial toning to extremities owner's initials to FFEP and some very faint offsetting to the endsheets otherwise exceedingly clean and sharp with crisp fresh pages. DJ price clipped crisp and bright otherwise. Orphanos a renowned photographer was born of Greek parents and maintained a residence on the Greek islans of Samos. A native of Crete and leader of the Greek resistance to the Nazis Elytis the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. In their presentation the academy stated that his poetry "depicts with sensual strength and intellectual clearsightedness modern man's struggle for freedom and creativeness . In its combination of fresh sensuous flexibility and strictly disciplined implacability in the face of all compulsion Elytis' poetry gives shape to its distinctiveness which is not only very personal but also represents the traditions of the Greek people." Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translated by Edmund Keeley George Savidis Philip Sherrard John Stathatos and Nanos Valaoritis. Viking hardcover
Best.-Nr. 105957Affiche 460 X 305 mm. imprimée recto seul, pliée en 2.
1954Best.-Nr. List3210Greenville Illinois 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages with one signed. Excellent to Near Fine. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin 1871–1955 founder of DeMoulin Bros. a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back to French Revolutionary figure Camille Desmoulins though it appears accurate otherwise. It includes a description of early Sebastopol Highland Illinois with a simple map. In the autobiography which is told in a large number of short anecdotes DeMoulin discusses his childhood and early life in Jamestown and Sebastopol and goes into detail about the early years of his company beginning with the formation of the Modern Woodmen of America fraternal organization for which the company supplied uniforms and items used in ‘rituals’. DeMoulin used the profits from this enterprise to invest in a number of others including a mine near Gold Hill Colorado and oil drilling land in Illinois. However the most interesting portions of the autobiography concern DeMoulin’s role in the development of agriculture in California’s Imperial Valley. DeMoulin first travels to southern California in 1903 happening to meet several engineers involved with the Imperial Irrigation System who take him to see the new town of Brawley: “Here by lantern light we sat around on the ground in the evening discussing many kinds of farm lands and if soft hard or sandy. We slept in ‘remadas’ made by setting posts to protrude about twelve feet above the ground which were then braced and divided into small box-like stalls. The remada was then covered with tree branches and a huge heavy taupalin sic curtain hung over the sides and front at night to keep out the dust of which you might find two or three inches at your door in the morning. A pitcher of water and a bowl were your only means of bathing. There were no streets in Brawley at this time only trails as the town had not yet been surveyed having only been founded in October 1902. People were living in tents while waiting for completion of hotel accommodations and other living quarters under construction.” DeMoulin begins buying land in the Brawley area to rent to farmers and traveling to the area regularly. He describes the building of the Laguna Dam spending a week at the workers’ camp “at which time I slept in the workmen’s crudely-built bunks and ate with them at the long rough pine tables”; and befriends author Harold Bell Wright. He also witnesses several conflicts with the IWW: “In 1908 there moved into Brawley about 200 International Workmen of the World or more familiarly known as ‘I.W.W.’s’ I won’t Work and in command was a Captain Stanley. However as most unwelcome guests they proceeded to join a strike in the cantaloupe sheds and inserting razor blades into apples the strikers threw them at workers. ‘Goons’ also tried to interfere with the trucking operations from the fields to the packing sheds. I recall of one driver telling a goon that if he even attempted to place a foot in his truck he would shoot him. And defying the driver the goon was instantly killed. Naturally this would cause a riot and they sent to El Centro for a tank such as it was in those days - a cannon and several machine guns. But soon after the Mayor had issued orders to shoot anyone getting out of hand an agreement was easily reached.” University of Washington’s IWW History Project documents two IWW actions in Brawley between 1905 and 1920 neither of which match DeMoulin’s description; nor does the event appear in newspapers. However “Captain” William Stanley was in the area serving as the secretary of the I.W.W.’s chapter in the Imperial Valley. In 1911 Stanley was killed in an early battle of the Mexican Revolution assisting Mexican Liberal Party fighters in occupying Mexicali. DeMoulin claims to have traveled with several others to watch the fighting that would end the occupation: “It was suddenly discovered one morning that Captain Stanley and his I.W.W.’s had disappeared during the night and word had gotten around they had settled in Mexicalo sic a Mexican border town and were so strong in number they overpowered the police pillaged the shops and stores defying the Mexican Government by taking over complete possession of Mexicalo. However after putting up with this condition for several months the Mexican Government sent in about 500 Infantrymen with orders to get rid of them immediately under any condition. . Stanley’s men had made a large opening in the river bank to a depth of about five feet which led through to the bank facing south. From this vantage point his men could fire their muskets when the Mexicans advanced towards them and soon took to their heels when Stanley’s men began firing. . Several of us had driven down to sic Brawley to witness the fighting and bullets had been spattered everywhere. Many of the people never thinking of danger stood out in the open so as not to miss what was going on but I was glad to stay in the back of the adobes at least where one was protected from stray bullets. And having heard rumors of their retreating possibly the next day which was Sunday we drove down again but all was quiet and we met with no resistance. Many of the men were swimming and others were entertaining their wives and families in one way or another. We didn’t stay too long on that trip as one never knew what might happen. But it wasn’t long before they disappeared from Mexicalo entirely for which everyone was most grateful and happy.” DeMoulin is none too fond of Mexican workers either describing how the 1928 construction of a primitive border wall “didn’t stop the wetbacks . from swimming across” and complaining that “regardless of having no sense nor education many were hired and the employers would hide them in groves because if they were arrested it would cost $160.00 including court and attorney fees to have each one returned to Mexico.” DeMoulin’s other targets for racial abuse include “a couple of crooked ‘Jewish Kikes’” who were “certainly professionals when it came to putting the money in their pockets” and several Black men who he claims steal from him. DeMoulin credits himself with bringing grapefruit production to the Imperial Valley and describes a scam by the area’s real estate agents to unload inferior farmland onto unsuspecting investors. He recounts his company making leather “‘Red Men’s’ costumes” for a “Chief Gray Eagle” in Oklahoma whose “squaws wouldn’t work for him any more.” Of interest to historians of the Imperial Valley’s development and especially of labor relations in the agriculture industry. unknown
1954Best.-Nr. List3210Greenville Illinois 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages with one signed. Excellent to Near Fine. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin 1871–1955 founder of DeMoulin Bros. a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back to French Revolutionary figure Camille Desmoulins though it appears accurate otherwise. It includes a description of early Sebastopol Highland Illinois with a simple map. In the autobiography which is told in a large number of short anecdotes DeMoulin discusses his childhood and early life in Jamestown and Sebastopol and goes into detail about the early years of his company beginning with the formation of the Modern Woodmen of America fraternal organization for which the company supplied uniforms and items used in ‘rituals’. DeMoulin used the profits from this enterprise to invest in a number of others including a mine near Gold Hill Colorado and oil drilling land in Illinois. However the most interesting portions of the autobiography concern DeMoulin’s role in the development of agriculture in California’s Imperial Valley. DeMoulin first travels to southern California in 1903 happening to meet several engineers involved with the Imperial Irrigation System who take him to see the new town of Brawley: “Here by lantern light we sat around on the ground in the evening discussing many kinds of farm lands and if soft hard or sandy. We slept in ‘remadas’ made by setting posts to protrude about twelve feet above the ground which were then braced and divided into small box-like stalls. The remada was then covered with tree branches and a huge heavy taupalin sic curtain hung over the sides and front at night to keep out the dust of which you might find two or three inches at your door in the morning. A pitcher of water and a bowl were your only means of bathing. There were no streets in Brawley at this time only trails as the town had not yet been surveyed having only been founded in October 1902. People were living in tents while waiting for completion of hotel accommodations and other living quarters under construction.” DeMoulin begins buying land in the Brawley area to rent to farmers and traveling to the area regularly. He describes the building of the Laguna Dam spending a week at the workers’ camp “at which time I slept in the workmen’s crudely-built bunks and ate with them at the long rough pine tables”; and befriends author Harold Bell Wright. He also witnesses several conflicts with the IWW: “In 1908 there moved into Brawley about 200 International Workmen of the World or more familiarly known as ‘I.W.W.’s’ I won’t Work and in command was a Captain Stanley. However as most unwelcome guests they proceeded to join a strike in the cantaloupe sheds and inserting razor blades into apples the strikers threw them at workers. ‘Goons’ also tried to interfere with the trucking operations from the fields to the packing sheds. I recall of one driver telling a goon that if he even attempted to place a foot in his truck he would shoot him. And defying the driver the goon was instantly killed. Naturally this would cause a riot and they sent to El Centro for a tank such as it was in those days - a cannon and several machine guns. But soon after the Mayor had issued orders to shoot anyone getting out of hand an agreement was easily reached.” University of Washington’s IWW History Project documents two IWW actions in Brawley between 1905 and 1920 neither of which match DeMoulin’s description; nor does the event appear in newspapers. However “Captain” William Stanley was in the area serving as the secretary of the I.W.W.’s chapter in the Imperial Valley. In 1911 Stanley was killed in an early battle of the Mexican Revolution assisting Mexican Liberal Party fighters in occupying Mexicali. DeMoulin claims to have traveled with several others to watch the fighting that would end the occupation: “It was suddenly discovered one morning that Captain Stanley and his I.W.W.’s had disappeared during the night and word had gotten around they had settled in Mexicalo sic a Mexican border town and were so strong in number they overpowered the police pillaged the shops and stores defying the Mexican Government by taking over complete possession of Mexicalo. However after putting up with this condition for several months the Mexican Government sent in about 500 Infantrymen with orders to get rid of them immediately under any condition. . Stanley’s men had made a large opening in the river bank to a depth of about five feet which led through to the bank facing south. From this vantage point his men could fire their muskets when the Mexicans advanced towards them and soon took to their heels when Stanley’s men began firing. . Several of us had driven down to sic Brawley to witness the fighting and bullets had been spattered everywhere. Many of the people never thinking of danger stood out in the open so as not to miss what was going on but I was glad to stay in the back of the adobes at least where one was protected from stray bullets. And having heard rumors of their retreating possibly the next day which was Sunday we drove down again but all was quiet and we met with no resistance. Many of the men were swimming and others were entertaining their wives and families in one way or another. We didn’t stay too long on that trip as one never knew what might happen. But it wasn’t long before they disappeared from Mexicalo entirely for which everyone was most grateful and happy.” DeMoulin is none too fond of Mexican workers either describing how the 1928 construction of a primitive border wall “didn’t stop the wetbacks . from swimming across” and complaining that “regardless of having no sense nor education many were hired and the employers would hide them in groves because if they were arrested it would cost $160.00 including court and attorney fees to have each one returned to Mexico.” DeMoulin’s other targets for racial abuse include “a couple of crooked ‘Jewish Kikes’” who were “certainly professionals when it came to putting the money in their pockets” and several Black men who he claims steal from him. DeMoulin credits himself with bringing grapefruit production to the Imperial Valley and describes a scam by the area’s real estate agents to unload inferior farmland onto unsuspecting investors. He recounts his company making leather “‘Red Men’s’ costumes” for a “Chief Gray Eagle” in Oklahoma whose “squaws wouldn’t work for him any more.” Of interest to historians of the Imperial Valley’s development and especially of labor relations in the agriculture industry. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 8076Single sheet exhibition invitation torn into ca. two dozen pieces. Amsterdam: Pieter Brattinga Gallery 1981. One of Ulises Carrión’s rarest mail art projects with the original mailed envelope sent to the collector Tjeerd Deelstra b. 1937. As the artist intended explained below a small torn portion is not present. “In 1981 when the Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga invited Carrión to exhibit his work there Carrión thought of a response project in which he instructed participants to reconstruct in any way they desired the bottom half of an invitation which had been shredded. They were then to sign it and mail it back to the gallery. The lower section of the invitation included a definition of mail art which the artist had torn up and from which he had then removed a small fragment. This way the definition of mail art could never be reconstructed and the instruction given by the artist was impossible to accomplish. The project resulted in 243 responses in all sorts of formats; not only intervened letters but also objects. By making participants reconstruct the invitation the project had a cyclical component that was emphasized by having the word ‘feedback’ in its title. In this way Feedback Pieces takes one step further Carrión’s intentions to reformulate not only the artwork but also the communication system through which it travels.”–Aimé Iglesias Lukin “King Kong Archives: Ulises Carrión on Mail and Art” in Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster 2019 pp. 11-13 pictured. Both the envelope and torn-up invitation are in excellent condition. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 120-35 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 796023 1 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Small folio 288 x 187 mm. self-bound stapled. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1977. One of Carrión’s rarest exhibition catalogues. The artist curated this show at the Galeria Remont in Warsaw a contemporary art space established by the Polish artist and filmmaker Henryk Gajewski b. 1948 in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. Carrión had staged an exhibition called Contents at the gallery the previous December. The present exhibition’s title translates as “Other Books.” Gajewski and Carrión contributed essays to the catalogue both in Polish. The majority of the catalogue consists of an extensive list of artists engaging with the book form and their bookworks. They include Robert Altman John Armleder Daniel Buren Mirtha Dermisache Peter Downsbrough General Idea Michael Gibbs Klaus Groh Ian Hamilton Finlay Dick Higgins Douglas Huebler Alison Knowles Richard Kostelanetz Joseph Kosuth Anna Kutera George Maciunas Raul Marroquin Maurizio Nannucci Clemente Padin Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Carolee Schneemann Mieko Shiomi Telfer Stokes Endre Tot Jiri Valoch Wolf Vostell Herman de Vries Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. Leaves 16-23 present Carrión’s selections of seminal books along with essays theorizing on bookworks and mail art. Among the bookworks shown we note: Carrión’s Looking for Poetry 1973 General Idea’s Manipulating the Self 1971 Hamilton Finlay’s Honey by the Water 1973 Huebler’s Location Piece 2 1970 Kosuth’s Notebook on Water 1965-66 1970 Maciunas’s Flux Paper Events 1976 Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966 Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits 1974 Shiomi’s Spatial Poem 1976 and Weiner’s Various Manners and with Various Things 1976. Near fine copy; staples rusted. The pictorial wrappers added to some examples of this catalogue were never bound with the present copy. ⧠For more information on the Galeria Remont see the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s website page “Art Prints of the Exchange Gallery” then the section on Gajewski and Galeria Remont. U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 209. Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown
Best.-Nr. 9374Seven black & white illus. 11 pp. Small 4to 210 x 150 mm. pictorial printed wrappers staple-bound. Schiedam Netherlands: Stedelijk Museum Schiedam 1981. An uncommon exhibition catalogue published by the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam; the show was curated by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 and the books displayed came from his personal archive the Other Books and So Archive. By 1978 Carrión had closed his intrepid Amsterdam bookstore Other Books and So and converted it into an archive of artists’ books. This is one of a number of exhibitions on artists’ books that the artist organized; others took place in Iceland Poland Denmark and several locations across the Netherlands. This catalogue features an illuminating interview with Carrión in Dutch and English in which he spells out his criteria for what qualifies as a “bookwork” “an object book” and a “book object.” Describing the conception and production of his own bookworks he says: “When realizing my works I’m strongly influenced by my literary background I think. I’m constantly trying to get rid of it. Sometimes I succeed sometimes not. I try to reduce the book as much as possible to its essence – a sequence of signs. To me sequence implies time it means you cannot perceive a book in one time or moment. The second element is visual by nature – that which you see when you open the book. I try as much as possible to use signs other than literary even other than verbal. That’s why I use photography or rubber stamps. I’m very conscious of the paper. I strive towards an evident unfolding of the book. I don’t mean that the message should be evident but rather the book’s structure how the book fits together. You are free to interpret it as you wish but there must be some sort of recognizable structure. I’m not talking of just a pile of loose sheets.” Carrión selected artists’ books by Juan Agius Anna Banana Guglielmo Cavellini Robin Crozier Claudio Goulart Kristjan Gudmundsson Davi Det Hompson Jiri Kolar David Mayor Bruno Munari Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Jiri Valoch Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. A full listing of the works is found at the very end. In near fine condition. Printed in an edition of 350 copies. ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 174 & 214 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8076Single sheet exhibition invitation torn into ca. two dozen pieces. Amsterdam: Pieter Brattinga Gallery 1981. One of Ulises Carrión’s rarest mail art projects with the original mailed envelope sent to the collector Tjeerd Deelstra b. 1937. As the artist intended explained below a small torn portion is not present. “In 1981 when the Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga invited Carrión to exhibit his work there Carrión thought of a response project in which he instructed participants to reconstruct in any way they desired the bottom half of an invitation which had been shredded. They were then to sign it and mail it back to the gallery. The lower section of the invitation included a definition of mail art which the artist had torn up and from which he had then removed a small fragment. This way the definition of mail art could never be reconstructed and the instruction given by the artist was impossible to accomplish. The project resulted in 243 responses in all sorts of formats; not only intervened letters but also objects. By making participants reconstruct the invitation the project had a cyclical component that was emphasized by having the word ‘feedback’ in its title. In this way Feedback Pieces takes one step further Carrión’s intentions to reformulate not only the artwork but also the communication system through which it travels.”–Aimé Iglesias Lukin “King Kong Archives: Ulises Carrión on Mail and Art” in Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster 2019 pp. 11-13 pictured. Both the envelope and torn-up invitation are in excellent condition. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 120-35 pictured. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 796023 1 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Small folio 288 x 187 mm. self-bound stapled. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1977. One of Carrión’s rarest exhibition catalogues. The artist curated this show at the Galeria Remont in Warsaw a contemporary art space established by the Polish artist and filmmaker Henryk Gajewski b. 1948 in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. Carrión had staged an exhibition called Contents at the gallery the previous December. The present exhibition’s title translates as “Other Books.” Gajewski and Carrión contributed essays to the catalogue both in Polish. The majority of the catalogue consists of an extensive list of artists engaging with the book form and their bookworks. They include Robert Altman John Armleder Daniel Buren Mirtha Dermisache Peter Downsbrough General Idea Michael Gibbs Klaus Groh Ian Hamilton Finlay Dick Higgins Douglas Huebler Alison Knowles Richard Kostelanetz Joseph Kosuth Anna Kutera George Maciunas Raul Marroquin Maurizio Nannucci Clemente Padin Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Carolee Schneemann Mieko Shiomi Telfer Stokes Endre Tot Jiri Valoch Wolf Vostell Herman de Vries Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. Leaves 16-23 present Carrión’s selections of seminal books along with essays theorizing on bookworks and mail art. Among the bookworks shown we note: Carrión’s Looking for Poetry 1973 General Idea’s Manipulating the Self 1971 Hamilton Finlay’s Honey by the Water 1973 Huebler’s Location Piece 2 1970 Kosuth’s Notebook on Water 1965-66 1970 Maciunas’s Flux Paper Events 1976 Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966 Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits 1974 Shiomi’s Spatial Poem 1976 and Weiner’s Various Manners and with Various Things 1976. Near fine copy; staples rusted. The pictorial wrappers added to some examples of this catalogue were never bound with the present copy. ⧠For more information on the Galeria Remont see the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s website page “Art Prints of the Exchange Gallery” then the section on Gajewski and Galeria Remont. U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 209. Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 415194Unbound. Near Fine. One legal folio folded at the top to make four pages. Old folds as filed soiling and small tears at the extremities of the folds very good or better. A certified handwritten copy prepared in March 1885 shortly before Grant's death of an 1880 contract between Grant and Lewis B. Brown of New York City. Signed by various clerks with one seal but NOT SIGNED BY GRANT. The document gives Grant ".forever a right of way to the Atlantic Ocean from Seabrook now Ocean Avenue over and upon the lot. and the privilege to erect a bathing house of moderate size upon the Shore of said Ocean. ." Presumably the "bathing house" was what we'd call a cabana. The document has been docketed and stamped in 1887 two years after Grant's death. Grant's shore house served as the Summer White House during his two terms from 1869-1877 obviously this right-of-way was issued after his term was over. unknown
