Levi, EugeniaABAA
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1911réf. 346900Florence: for the Author 1911. Illustrated with mounted plates after photographs. viii 336 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Vellum wallet binding in imitation of the binding on a copy of Memorie del Convente della Doccia 1685. Rubbed one tie perished. Internally fresh. Illustrated with mounted plates after photographs. viii 336 pp. 1 vols. 4to. for the Author unknown books
1874réf. 564269Boston: N. D. Berry 1874. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Octavo. 351pp. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Both free endpapers are lacking cloth worn down at corners and spine ends one signature a little sprung but holding a solid good copy. Sharply critical expose of 19th century insane asylums. Contemporary reviews indicate that Henry W. Longfellow and William Lloyd Garrison approved of the book. N. D. Berry hardcover books
1821réf. 007864London: Printed for J. Richardson 1821. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Thirteenth Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Thirteenth Edition 1821. Four volumes in contemporary quarter polished calf over marbled boards gilt lettering on black leather labels with gilt rules and tooling in blind at spines the armorial bookplates of Alex. Trotter Esq. of Dreghorn front paste downs. The set Very Good calf at spines a bit darkened toning to end pages from binder's glue marbled boards rubbed. Interiors very clean and unmarked a quite nice set. Printed for J. Richardson Hardcover books
1913réf. 85169Chicago: O. M. Heath & Co 1913. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 19cm. Purple ribbed cloth spine and cover titles in gilt; 3031pp; portrait frontispiece and five unnumbered leaves of photographic plates halftones. A tight clean copy free of markings with just a hint of sunning to spine cloth; very Near Fine. A collection of six short tales each intended to illustrate a different aspect of "the prevalence of degeneracy in the modern era" jacket. Composts of Tradition was self-published and marketed aggressively in contemporary periodicals including The Masses and Pearson's; one such advertisement in the January 1915 issue of Pearson's outlines the book's intention: "It is not a book for prudes either male or female. It is a book for aggressive and advanced thinkers. Among other doctrines it advocates: 1 Sterilization of physical social and mental defectives; 2 Annihilation of the stigma attached to the bar-sinister; 3 Encouragement of reproduction upon the part of the fit; 4 Maintenance of all children by society; 5 Monogamy but marriage ceremonies to be optional not obligatory; 6 Divorce by collusion." At least one of the stories "Maid of the Neptunian Strand" has fantasy elements. Oscar Morrill Heath c.1872-1952 was a Chicago secondary school teacher and lecturer-for-hire on social subjects; beginning about 1905 through at least the 1920s we lose sight of him around 1930 he was the proprietor of a Chicago correspondence school for schoolteachers The Cultural Review School through whose auspices he issued a few ephemeral publications as well as a monthly magazine Teaching As A Profession. Additionally thanks to the trade card mounted in the front we know that Heath was the proprietor of at least two Chicago beauty parlors. From contemporary newspaper acccounts it appears that the current work landed Heath at least temporarily in hot water; the Chicago Tribune for November 6 1913 includes an article stating that Heath's status as an instructor at Englewood High School was "under review" pending publication of a book that was "critical of the nuptial bond" and seemed to condone childbirth out of wedlock. It is quite possible that Heath lost his position over the book as in subsequent years we find him advertising his services as a freelance instructor in a variety of topics including a review course in math for candidates to Army Officers' Candidate School during WW1. Despite its fetching title the current work is somewhat uncommon with fewer than 20 locations in OCLC most apparently in circulating collections. SMITH H-442. Not in Bleiler despite clear fantasy content. O. M. Heath & Co unknown books
1932réf. 88448Youngstown OH: Medical Success Press 1932. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Red cloth hardcover; gilt spine titles; red publisher's top-stain; dustjacket; 1912pp. Darkening to endpapers; spine gilt oxidized else a tight Near Fine copy. Text partially unopened. In the scarce original dustwrapper priced $3.00 on front panel as issued somewhat soiled at folds and edges with slight erosion at crown of spine panel; still complete and presentable Very Good. Future utopia by this eccentric Ohio physician and philosopher whose mostly self-published works ranged from Lost Race fiction to straightforward medical treatises including The Epitome of Ambulent Proctology 1925 and Office Practice for the General Practician 1934. In the current work Blanchard writing in the voice of a woman librarian looking back from 22nd century America envisions a future world made perfect through collectivization land reform the emancipation of women and - sigh - as in so many technological utopias of the period Eugenics: ".Can you imagine a greater folly than asylums and prisons.making more and more criminals more unfits and misfits being born each year then burdening society with their care and support When Altruism gained power we blotted out those hopelessly unfit to live.we removed the cause of crime and purged the nation of its defective taint." Such "blotting out" was a common dream among a certain class of pre-war scientists and physicians turned into a horrifying reality by the Third Reich. An uncommon work especially so in the dust jacket which is rarely seen. HANNA 362. NEGLEY 116. SARGENT p.98. Medical Success Press unknown books
2000réf. 48933Los Angeles: St. Ann's Press 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed and numbered "David Levinthal 2000 22/100" on verso of photograph and frontispiece. Small Folio. 138pp. portfolio. Original black velvet covered boards with color photo pasted to cover with blind-stamped lettering on spine. Black velvet chemise with original signed photograph both housed in black velvet slipcase. Black endpapers. Known for his iconic photographs using miniature figures and toys this volume echoes Edward Hopper paintings and urban life in for Levinthal typical "dreamlike" settings. "Ever the strategist David Levinthal risks seeming idiotic throwing off those who seek to understand him. He likes declaring with innocent aplomb how much "fun" it is to make art with toys. Some apologists play along naively taking him at his word. Others seek to give his method the currently acceptable artistic cachet by grouping it with that of practitioners of goofy postmodernist theatrics." Eugenia Parry. Bindings and slipcase with most minor smudges. St. Ann's Press hardcover books
2000réf. 190181Los Angeles CA: St. Ann's Press 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Number 77 of only 100 specially bound copies. Essay by Eugenia Parry. A collection of 100 color photographs of imagined locations with toy figures in various settings. A fine copy in velvet covered boards with color image inset on the front cover and in a velvet slipcase and with an original color c print housed in a you guessed it velvet chemise. Photograph is in very fine condition and is signed by Levinthal on the reverse side and numbered as well. The book is also signed and numbered as well. No dust jacket as issued. St. Ann's Press unknown books
1900réf. List3734New York City: Brown Bros 1900. Press photo measuring 5 ½ x 6 ½ inches. Publisher's stamps and manuscript "Ellis Island" on verso. Excellent contrast. Slight damage to edges with a few chips to image excellent to Near Fine. Starting in the 1890s restrictions on immigration began to include bars on people determined to be of lower intelligence experiencing mental health conditions or likely to require welfare. These restrictions were reinforced and expanded by the Immigration Acts of 1907 and 1917. As a consequence immigrants arriving at processing stations like Ellis Island were administered tests of their literacy and mental hygiene. This photograph shows a young woman apparently being administered such a mental examination by an American officer on Ellis Island. Physical health was tested as well; a stadiometer is also visible in the photo. At the time the concern of those pushing for these tests was the influx of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and from Asia with the aim being to ensure a "better stronger more intelligent race" of Americans rather than a "weak and possibly degenerate mongrel."1 1 Robert De C. Ward "National Eugenics in Relation to Immigration" The North American Review 192 no. 656 July 1910: 56-67. Brown Bros books
1774réf. 29633London: Eugenia Stanhope / J. Dodsley 1774. Good. London: Published by Eugenia Stanhope / Printed for J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall 1774. First Edition Second Issue with corrected "qui auroit" Vol. I p. 55 line 16. Two volumes; quartos 29.5cm.; 19th-century calf over marbled paper-covered boards black gilt-lettered spine labels; vii1568; 26062pp. lacking half title pages otherwise collated complete with errata leaf at end of Vol. II; engraved portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I title page. Old repair to joints and spine ends though leather significantly dried and flaking brief white soil at spine crown of Vol. I corners badly bumped and scuffed with substantial exposure of boards beneath bottom spine label of Vol. II partly perished 19th-century endpapers heavily toned causing offsetting and some foxing to exposed leaves; contemporary ownership signature to title pages 20th century ex libris to Vol. I pastedown else internally clean and sound. A Good to Very Good set overall. GULICK 2. Eugenia Stanhope / J. Dodsley unknown books
1999réf. 324600New York: Graphis 1999. First edition. Signed on title page; includes original tintype edition 37 of 100 The original tintype is mounted on paper attached to the inside of the box; the paper is signed and numbered by Bidaut. 224 pp. 107 four-color plates from Bidaut's "Academy Figures" "Insects" and "Stereoscopic Nudes" series. 4to. Publisher's red cloth photo tipped onto covers; fine. In black cloth drop box with very light shelf wear else a near fine copy. First edition. Signed on title page; includes original tintype edition 37 of 100 The original tintype is mounted on paper attached to the inside of the box; the paper is signed and numbered by Bidaut. 224 pp. 107 four-color plates from Bidaut's "Academy Figures" "Insects" and "Stereoscopic Nudes" series. 4to. Graphis unknown books
1999réf. 49762New York: Graphis 1999. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good to fine condition. 49/100. Signed Jayne Hinds Bidaut on title page and on limitation page underneath original tintype laid to printed limitation leaf of handmade paper pasted to inside back cover of clamshell box; stiff transparent tissue guard laid in. Quarto. 223 1pp. Original red cloth with offset reproduction of tintype laid to debossed square of cover black lettering on cover and spine blind-stamped publisher's name; housed in black cloth blind-stamped clamshell box. Black endpapers and ribbon marker. With facsimile of handwritten dedication to her parents at rear. "Jayne Hinds Bidaut is a contemporary American fine artist who lives and works in New York and Connecticut. Jayne is best known for mastering the once antiquated process of the tintype. Her fine art monograph Tintypes Jayne Hinds Bidaut 1999 encompasses 108 images from her "Academy Figures" "Insects" and "Stereoscopic Nudes" series." Joseph Bellows Gallery. Notes relating to the essay short biographical statments and acknowledgments at rear. Clamshell box rubbed else in fine condition. Graphis hardcover books
2000réf. 52236Los Angeles: St. Ann's Press 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. 15/25. Signed and numbered "David Levinthal 2000 V # 15" on half-title. Small Folio. 138pp. portfolio. Original red velvet covered boards with color photo pasted to cover with blind-stamped lettering on spine black endpapers. Red velvet chemise with original signed photograph 15/25 / 10 x 7" both housed in red velvet slipcase. Missing second photograph. Black endpapers. Known for his iconic photographs using miniature figures and toys this volume echoes Edward Hopper paintings and urban life in for Levinthal typical "dreamlike" settings. "Ever the strategist David Levinthal risks seeming idiotic throwing off those who seek to understand him. He likes declaring with innocent aplomb how much "fun" it is to make art with toys. Some apologists play along naively taking him at his word. Others seek to give his method the currently acceptable artistic cachet by grouping it with that of practitioners of goofy postmodernist theatrics." Eugenia Parry. St. Ann's Press hardcover books
1909réf. 1417761Philadelphia PA: The John C. Winston Company 1909. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xi 342 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Mild general shelf wear. Mild rubbing to boards. Mild bumping to head and tail of spine. Gilting on spine somewhat faded. Mild fraying to fore corners. Mild age toning to top of textblock. Mild foxing to second back free end-paper. Mild gutter damage between second front free end-paper and the next page. Gutter damage between page 1 and preceding frontispiece. Shelved Case 1. A landmark sociological study on the lives and efforts of Washington DC's poorest residents in the early 20th century. It also offers strategies for improving the conditions of such residents. 1417761. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The John C. Winston Company hardcover books
1798réf. 45354London: Printed for Mr. Hodges Pall Mall and sold by C. Mason 1798. Second edition but the first printed leaves with new preliminary matter. 8vo pp. iii-xi i 281 1. AEG bound in full 19th century polished calf couple of minor spots but a very nice copy. Rare. Although well represented in ESTC not listed in ABPC nor offered on the Internet. Eugenia Stanhope 1730-86 is best remembered for her publication of Lord Chesterfield's letters to his sonsee above. The letters were supposed to be private and Eugenia was attacked for being greedy and immoral. The present work "partly endorses partly rebuts Chesterfield. It argues that husbands are ordained superior that wives should be financially dependent and the world conformed to. Blain. She no longer defends extra maritial sex but does call for freedom of marriage choice. Printed for Mr. Hodges, Pall Mall, and sold by C. Mason unknown books
2003réf. 49515London: Chris Boot 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Initialed "CL 21/100" on imprint page and verso of pigment print 7 x 14 3/4" on glossy paper 11 1/2 x 16 1/4". Original brown cloth with blind-stamped and yellow lettering on cover housed in matching clamshell box with the pigment print. Design by SMITH. "History is a series of monumental panoramas moving from the streets of Baghdad to Ground Zero the embattled landscapes of Afghanistan and the Milosevic trial in the Hague. Evoking 19th Century war photographs and the tradition of history paintings." Science Media Museum. Chris Boot hardcover books
1939réf. 794381939. The Lost English Translation of the 'Citizen of the Americas' on Constitutional Theory Manuscript. Hostos Eugenia Maria de 1839-1903. Hunt Albert. Francis. Jr. 1872-1947 Translator. Constitutional Science: Being the English Version of a Work Entitled "Lecciones De Derecho Constitucional" by Eugenio M. de Hostas. Nahant Massachusetts and Mt. Holly Springs Pennsylvania May 16 1939. 2 volumes. i 229; i 258 ff. Folio 11" x 7-3/4". Typescript bound in stiff textured paper covers with metal brads. Rubbing and light wear to extremities moderate toning to interior light foxing to a few leaves first two leaves of Vol. I loosening. Manuscript corrections additions and redactions in ink and pencil to several leaves in each volume. $2500. An extraordinary and apparently unpublished English translation of the 1887 masterpiece by the "Citizen of the Americas" Eugenio Maria de Hostos. While Hostos is widely celebrated as a pioneer of sociology and pedagogy his Lecciones represents his most rigorous contribution to legal theory synthesizing the development of global constitutional law. In this work Hostos performs a sophisticated comparative analysis utilizing American foundations citing The Federalist Story's Commentaries and the Declaration of Independence to argue for the institutional development of Latin America. The translator Albert Francis Hunt Jr. was a New York University-trained attorney who established a practice in Puerto Rico by 1906 placing him at the epicenter of the island's legal transition following the Insular Cases. Hunt's deep immersion in this post-1898 landscape likely motivated his project to bridge the gap between Spanish civil law and American constitutionalism. In a 1939 centenary tribute Hunt explicitly compared Hostos to Emerson and Lincoln lamenting that his "timeless ideas" remained ignored by the English-speaking world. Despite Hunt's claims of translating other major works by Hostos such as Moral Social and Sociologia no such publications appear in the Library of Congress or major bibliographical databases. This manuscript stands as a vital primary source for the study of 20th- century Pan-Americanism and the intellectual effort to translate Latin American liberal thought for a North American audience. unknown books
1908réf. 469579Oregon Hawaii 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Measuring 8½" x 15". Quarter leather and black cloth with gilt decorations. Contains 250 sepia-toned albumen photographs measuring between ½” x ½” and 7½" x 9½" with captions. Very good album with worn edges rubbing and some removed pages with very good or better photographs with some fading. A photo album compiled by Eugenia Atkinson of Ashland Oregon beginning in 1889. The photographs featured here are views of Oregon California Missouri and Hawaii and do not appear to be in chronological order. Atkinson annotates the photos and includes handwritten captions throughout the album. She begins with images of her hometown with views of Ashland Creek Falls Crater Lakes and a local mill. Atkinson captured daily life in Oregon with images of picnics by the creek interior home scenes and fashionably dressed women posed for a group photo. Atkinson and her friends and family visit Honolulu Hawaii and she includes large format photos of the hotel where they stayed landscapes and local people. Another section of images depicts a trip to Missouri with images of a farm and friends' homes. Atkinson visits the coasts of California and Oregon photographing lifeguards practicing drills the Cliff House in San Francisco Newport Beach and Victorian beachgoers lying in the sand. Other photos show interiors of well-to-do homes portraits of friends family pets and a trip to Stanford. Towards the end of the album a train crash near Ashland is seen; another photo shows an arch constructed for a visit by President Roosevelt. Eugenia was the wife of English-born businessman W.H. Atkinson. According to the National Park Service after arriving in Oregon in 1874 Atkinson became “active in the town's principal industrial and banking enterprises” owning shares in the Ashland Flour Mill and the Ashland Woolen Manufacturing Company. He was one of the founders of the Bank of Ashland and helped organize the Ashland Library. Mr. Atkinson died relatively young at the age of 50 in 1894 and Eugenia spent the next 24 years in the house they had built in Ashland now on the National Registry of Historic Places. A photo dated 1889 shows Eugenia standing in front of her house. This album follows Eugenia during her widowhood during her travels and her activities within the community. A nice collection of photographs compiled by an important Oregon woman at the turn of the century. hardcover books
1958réf. 3732451958. Single unlined 8-1/2 x 11 inch leaf holograph text in blue ink recto and verso; old fold lines with small tear and crease to one edge; in franked autograph envelope with light toning and wear. A punchy humorous letter to Sybil Landeau while she was still an undergraduate student at Hunter College the school Audre Lorde was also attending at the time. Her friend Eugenia begins by apologizing for her "bad French" stating that since she was "on the verge of leaving New Orleans I wanted to make it really abstruse and delay comprehension until I arrived in S.F. which would make me in two places at once" After offering to contact any friends of Landeau's in San Francisco she then writes "What are your present interests aside from Opera exams and Audre Lorde" While it is unknown exactly when the friendship between between Landeau - a passionate opera fan and future lawyer - and Lorde became intimate this letter provides perhaps the first indication that Landeau's feelings toward Lorde had begun to evolve into something far more personal. Their resulting affair continued into their graduate years at Columbia University and though it ended at some point during the 1960s both women carried on working together for civil and gay rights and their friendship endured until Lorde's untimely 1992 death. An important letter in the biography of Audre Lorde sent to one of her earliest girlfriends. unknown books
