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1981rif. 451358New York: Viking Press 1981. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Translated by Edmund Keeley George Savidis Philip Sherrard John Stathatos Nanos Valaoritis. Last page with tape-repaired tear across center small nick in front board spine lightly sunned very good lacking the dustwrapper. Viking Press hardcover books
1977rif. 168345Amsterdam: Kontexts 1977. Softcover. The final issue of "Kontexts" a poetry and art periodical founded in 1969. The periodical published a total of ten issues. About Near Fine in perfect-bound wrappers with a slight lean light age toning on the pages and brief wear at the spine ends. Kontexts unknown books
1886rif. 20527New York: Charles L. Webster & Co 1886. 1/2 leather. Very Good. The 1885 1st edition in the publisher's less common 1/2 deluxe brown morocco over chocolate-brown boards. Complete in 2 volumes the first published in 1885 the second and final volume published in 1886. Both volumes solid and very presentable with lightly-rubbed gilt-titling along the spines and bright gilt-medallions at the front panels. A bit of light wear to the outer hinges and mild scuffing at the panels. Internally all plates present and no writing or markings to speak of save for 2 blank preliminary pages in Vol. II with light crayon. Thick uniform octavos matching edges pastedowns and endsheets. THIS COPY ALSO INCLUDES SOME VERY INTERESTING EPHEMERA such as the original 1885 printed receipt for the purchase of the set and a well-executed late 19th century pencil sketch of the set's "erudite" first owner a woman named Matilda Ziegler. Opposite the sketch is an original pasted-on memorial card of Matilda produced by the family. Charles L. Webster & Co unknown books
rif. 10314Single paper sheet 291 x 158 mm. adhered to beige paper sheet hand-drawn grid & Letraset letters affixed signed & dated. Amsterdam: 1974. A Ulises Carrión language work combining Letraset lettering and a hand-drawn grid. In fine condition; faint bleeding in the corners from the adhesive. Titled in the artist’s characteristic hand in the bottom left and signed on the right: “U. Carrión / 74.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. ⧠G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 111 pictured. unknown books
1941rif. 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
1974rif. 47098Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1974. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. First edition in English of these fifty poems composed over several decades by the Greek poet including selections from AXION ESTI. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth. In original dust jacket designed by Giulio Maestro. 200 pages. Moderate edgewear faint traces of soil to jacket. Temple University Press unknown books
1966rif. acs04Lake Mahopac NY: Lake Mahopac Library Association 1966. Octavo softbound stiff map illus. white wrappers 183 pp music. Very Good with light edgewear. Lake Mahopac Library Association, 1966. paperback books
1968rif. 583988Athens: Ikaros Ikaros 1968. Softcover. Very Good. Third edition. Color frontispiece by Yannis Tsarouchis. Tall octavo. Text in Greek. Neat owner name in blue ink on front blank; one line of one poem and the majority of one single-page poem neatly underlined in red ink. Spine tanned and modest edgewear stub after the first leaf has caught the paper causing two tiny tears near the crown overall very good. Uncommon. Elytis received the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature. Ikaros [Ikaros] unknown books
rif. 11123Ulysses S. Grant. Civil War Union general and 18th U.S. President. Signature on slip of paper 3.5" x 2". Signed "U.S. Grant." Signature very faint. unknown books
1880rif. 104971880. Middlesex Club. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant 1880 records a Boston Republican gathering honoring Ulysses S. Grant four months after his unsuccessful attempt to secure the Republican presidential nomination for an unprecedented third term. Grant had returned to the United States in December 1879 after more than two years of international travel and entered the 1880 Republican convention as a leading candidate. He received 304 votes on the first ballot and remained near that total through thirty six ballots before James A. Garfield emerged as the nominee receiving 399 votes on the final ballot. The October dinner therefore belongs to the closing weeks of the 1880 presidential campaign rather than to Grant's nomination effort itself. Complimentary Dinner to Gen. U.S. Grant by the Middlesex Club at the Brunswick Boston Oct. 13 1880. Middlesex Club. Boston 1880. 11 x 17 inches. Printed seating chart identifying the dinner attendees and assigning their positions at the tables preserving the names and physical arrangement of participants at the event. Rather than simply announcing the dinner the chart records the composition of a political gathering organized around the former president during a presidential election in which Grant's continued standing within the Republican Party remained conspicuous despite his defeat at the national convention. Held less than three weeks before the November 2 presidential election the dinner documents Grant's public prominence during the campaign that elected Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. The named seating assignments permit study of the individuals gathered around Grant in Boston and may support further investigation of Republican political networks in Massachusetts during the 1880 election. Excellent condition. A substantive piece of Grant and Republican Party ephemera that preserves the personnel and seating organization of a precisely dated political dinner. unknown books
rif. 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 books
1851rif. S14070Lausanne :: Georges Bridel; J. Chantrens 1851. 1851. Small 8vo. 349 3 pp. Pages 115-116 with printing error of omission the bottom corner was not printed and the verso has something printed askew perhaps unrelated to the text – so a printer's error – this error of omission on p. 115 is supplemented with a few replacement words neatly inked in manuscript. Contemporary half parchment or other similar substance marbled boards. Ownership signature of C. Stouky 1863. Nice copy. 196 Besides being a nice pocket geography of the entire world it also gives a detailed description of all of Switzerland. / Talk about climate warming: this book describes the conditions of 1851 where the winter temperature in Neuchatel was negative -33 degrees Centigrade whereas now some 175 years hence the lake-side temperature in Neuchatel is often 2 degrees ABOVE zero. Georges Bridel; J. Chantrens, 1851. hardcover books
1886rif. 353811New York: Charles L. Webster 1886. First edition. Illustrated. 584; 647 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Publisher's full tan sheep with contrasting labels marbled edges. Faintest traces of rubbing a near fine set. First edition. Illustrated. 584; 647 1 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. The president and Civil War general's remarkable memoir written in the final years of his life as he was suffering from terminal throat cancer. Suffering both physically and financially as the result of financial misfortune Grant began writing his autobiography in the fall of 1884 and finished in July of 1885 five days before his death. Samuel Clemens Mark Twain encouraged Grant and shepherded the book to publication through the Webster connection. Eagerly anticipated by a public that had been following Grant's illness in the press the book was an immediate success upon its release and has long been considered one of if not the best memoirs written by an American president. Since its publication it has received acclaim from literary figures including Twain and Gertrude Stein and from numerous modern American historians and political commentators from Eric Foner to Ta-Nehisi Coates. Charles L. Webster unknown books
1876rif. 375056Washington D.C. 1876. 44th Congress 1st session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 81. 6pp. 8vo. Modern morocco backed marbled paper boards. 44th Congress 1st session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 81. 6pp. 8vo. Forwarding a report by General Terry this government document was the first official account Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. unknown books
2001rif. 353013London: The British Council 2001. First edition. 156 pp. Illustrated in black and white and color throughout. 4to. White wrappers with teal titles on front and spine with glassine dust jacket. Inscribed on half title by Stephen Coppel; a near fine copy. First edition. 156 pp. Illustrated in black and white and color throughout. 4to. Richard Hamilton 1922 - 2011 made work for over 50 years focused on James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Through a series of drawings etchings and digital prints Hamilton depicted the wanderings of Leopold Bloom. This monograph was made to accompany the exhibition 'Imaging Ulysses at The British Museum February 2nd - May 19th 2002. The British Council unknown books
rif. 333098London: Anvil Press Poetry 1980. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold fine in fine dust jacket with publisher's band the band a bit soiled with one short creased tear. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Odysseus Elytis to Michael Curtis on the title page. Laid into the book is an announcement by the Arts Council Shop in London for a 1980 reading by Elytis and an advertisement for the Anvil Press printing of Selected Poems and The Axion Esti. Elytis won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979. Michael Curtis was editor of the liberal News Chronicle at the age of 34. His opposition to the Suez Invasion led to the paper taking a significant hit in popularity. His attempts to modernize the paper fell afoul of the owners the Cadbury family and he resigned in 1957 after three years. He then worked as executive press aide to the Aga Khan founding the Daily Nation which played a major role in helping smooth Kenya's transition to independence in 1963. He worked for the Aga Kahn's social welfare institution until his retirement. Anvil Press Poetry unknown books
1897rif. 251581Np: Tiffany & Co 1897. 64mm. in diameter. Copper medal. No scuffs or scratches. Very good. 64mm. in diameter. An attractive well preserved example of this medal which was commissioned by the American Numismatic and Archaeological Society by Tiffany & Co. in conjunction with the dedication of the Grant Memorial in New York City on April 27 1897. A lovely medal with design elements that were struck in high relief. Tiffany & Co unknown books
1990rif. 233262Library of America 1990-10-01. hardcover. Very Good. 5x1x8. Third Printing. Blue cloth boards no dust jacket. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. 1199 pages. Library of America hardcover books
rif. 10479New York: The Dryden Press 1941. 8vo 8.25" x 5.75" blue cloth gilt spine and title. xvii 1082 pp. Ownership inscription in ink at front paste-down: "From the Library of T. Earl Pardoe." CONDITION: Very good front cover lightly scratched in two places minimal wear. First edition of this "one-thousand-eighty-two-page anthology that not only defined the field of African American literature as a legitimate academic discipline for the first time but by soberly assessing black authors 'without sentimental allowances' on an equal rather than separate basis 'served notice that the Negro author has come of age" Weinstein. Collects African American writers working across short stories novels poetry folk literature drama speeches biography and essays including works by Frederick Douglass Langston Hughes Chester Himes Charles W. Chesnutt Zora Neale Hurston Phillis Wheatley W. E. B. Du Bois Booker T. Washington Katherine Dunham and many others. The breadth of selection not only represents the range of Black writing but allows readers to "appreciate the evolution of black writing in style subject matter and theme in each genre not to mention having the sheer pleasure of reading works of which one had only heard or had never known existed" Lester. Most importantly this anthology presents a counternarrative to the dominant mode of Black representation-characterization by White persons and authors who "believed that "they knew blacks better than blacks knew themselves." As the editors state in their introduction this anthology claimed for African Americans "the responsibility of being the ultimate portrayers of their own." REFERENCES: Blockson 5948; Weinstein 249; Lester Julius. "Journey Through Black Literature: The Negro Caravan" The New York Times November 30 1969. New York: The Dryden Press, 1941 unknown books
1865rif. 41808New York: Appleton 1865. Stitched in original printed brown wrappers. Photographic portrait of Grant as frontis with original tissue guard. 77 1 blank 2- publ. advt. pp. Near Fine. Grant reports on the last year of the War. Of particular interest are the movements of Sheridan and Sherman and the final exchange of letters between Grant and Lee prior to surrender. FIRST EDITION. Howes G311. Appleton unknown books
1874rif. 37671Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1874. First edition. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good copies with light soiling; first part chipped on top and fore edge of front wrapper; Part 2 stitching loose. 23 pp.; 43 pp. 8vo. 43d Congress 1st session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. 229 including part 2. OCLC locates 6 print copies of part 1 and 1 of part 2. [U.S. Government Printing Office] unknown books
1883rif. 70888Paris: A. Quantin imprimeur-éditeur rue Saint-Benoît 1883. 16mo pp. 4 vi 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border contemporary and likely original full blue morocco by Kauffmann gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 3 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1 t.e.g.; fine throughout. Bookplate of B. Franklin and Helen G. Hadduck. Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series. Laid in is a one-page autograph letter signed dated May 7 1911 from Henry C. Folger to "Dear Dr. Furness -- Emily and I hope the little Horace sent in a separate package has escaped your drag-net; or if you have a copy you will keep this for its condition." Mills College Check List 1874a. A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît unknown books
1883rif. 70569Paris: A. Quantin imprimeur-éditeur rue Saint-Benoît 1883. 16mo pp. 4 vi 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border contemporary and likely original full blue morocco gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners and enclosing a central gilt lozenge gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; the whole lightly rubbed but overall very good clean and sound. Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series. Mills College Check List 1874a. A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît unknown books
1939rif. 68781Bogota: Cooperativa Nacional de Artes Graficas 1939. 8vo pp. 197 1; three color plates tipped in illustrations; printed paper wrappers; wrappers soiled and a little edge-worn textblock evenly toned inscribed on first leaf by Rojas to Calixto Torres Umana father of Columbian pediatrics. Cooperativa Nacional de Artes Graficas unknown books
1885rif. 2340247New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x5x1. First edition. Hinges loosening boards rubbed with a couple tears to spine corners of second volume a few smudges on spine and front board of first volume ink name and date on front endpaper of each volume. Text clean and unmarked. 1885 Hard Cover. 584; 647 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt titles and rules. Engravings and maps throughout text as well as fold-out facsimiles of the original terms of Lee's surrender which Grant wrote himself and of General Buckner's dispatch regarding terms of capitulation with Grant's reply and Buckner's response surrendering Fort Donelson. The famous memoirs of the leader of the Union army during the American Civil War including accounts of his boyhood and early career during the Mexican War. Mark Twain can be partially credited for the release of Grant's memoirs: Grant's health was ailing he soon died of cancer and Twain encouraged Grant to write them as a way to provide for his family after his death. The books were barely completed before Grant passed away and were published posthumously. Charles L. Webster & Company hardcover books
