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1947ref. 56194Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1947. First edition. Very good in restored dust jacket. Scarce doubly signed first printing of one of the most beloved horse stories ever told winner of a 1948 Newbery Honor. Based on the true story of the charismatic island-dwelling ponies of Virginia and the people who care for them MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE brought attention to the curious lives of the feral horses. The story was adapted into a film in 1961 and the real Misty even attended the premier. 9.5'' x 6.75''. Original blue cloth binding with yellow pictorial stamping. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a pony running across a sun-dappled wetland. Illustrated in black and white with color pictorial title page. 174 pages. Signed by Henry and Dennis in blue ink to verso of front free endpaper. Jacket with restoration to head of spine and folds; neat archival tape reinforcement to verso along folds spine and some margins. Book with minor edgewear and soil shallow chip at spine head light marginal toning to textblock extremities. Firm. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
1774ref. 1283611774. First Edition. BENEZET Anthony WESLEY John. Thoughts upon Slavery. IN: A Collection of Religious Tracts. London Printed: Re-Printed in Philadelphia: Joseph Cruckshank 1774. Small octavo early full brown sheep. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $12000.First American edition preceded only by the same year's much shorter English edition of Wesley's influential and controversial early attack on slavery and the slave trade the first to contain abolitionist Anthony Benezet's expansive notes and afterword not in the English edition bound with a separate title page with four other works in publisher Joseph Crukshank's A Collection of Religous Tracts.Wesley a ""founder of MethodismÉwas noted not only for outstanding powers of leadership but also for practical holiness social concern and immense courage"" Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1037. He formulated a doctrine of perfection that led to the ""creation of the largest new family of churches to be thrown up by the revival in Britain and in the rest of the English-speaking world"" ODNB. While he was a colleague of leading abolitionists William Wilberforce and Anthony Benezet in Thoughts upon Slavery ""the ethical core of the argument is Wesley's own"" Field John Wesley as a Public Theologian 4. He first witnessed the horrors of slavery as a missionary in Georgia and South Carolina. ""By the time he published his Thoughts upon Slavery he clearly opposed the cruelties and violations of the slave tradeÉ It is striking that in this attack on slavery Wesley explicitly does not use the Bible as the basis for his position. Instead he argues that slavery cannot be reconciled with justice and mercy and derives his understanding of justice from natural lawÉ Jennings reports that Wesley went even further in moving from protest to transformation"" Sample Future of John Wesley's Theology 58-9. Wesley's work also stands out in that he was a political conservative who rejected democracy and ""strongly criticized mass actionÉ here however he legitimated slave resistance and rebellion as an expression of natural liberty in contradiction of biblical injunctions to slaves"" Field 6.This pivotal edition was issued at the urging of Benezet after reading the same year's much shorter English edition. He was especially moved by Wesley's ""exhortation to the ship captains merchants and planters involved in slaving urging them to 'give liberty to whom liberty is due that is to every child of man to every partaker of human nature.'"" Benezet quickly ""arranged with Philadelphia printer Joseph Cruikshank to reprint Wesley's pamphlet but not before he added five expansive footnotes and a lengthy afterwordÉ the general tenor of these additions was to clarify and amplify points Wesley had made"" Crosby ed. Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet 197. In England ""the public response to Wesley's Thoughts upon SlaveryÉ would soon be so great that 229000 people signed petitions against the slave trade to be presented to Parliament"" Jackson Let This Voice Be Heard 126. Yet ""Wesley's attack on the profitable slave trade was riskyÉ his opinions were an affront to those who considered the Africans their inferiors. For the latter group Wesley had further unsettling words: 'The inhabitants of AfricaÉ are not inferior to the inhabitants of Europe; to some of them they are greatly superior'"" Yrigoyen John Wesley. ""Wesley's contribution to the struggle against slavery did not end with the publication of Thoughts upon SlaveryÉ Symbolically the last letter he wrote before his death was to Wilberforce supporting him in his struggle to have the slave trade abolished"" Field 6. Preceded by the same year's 53-page English edition published without Benezet's lengthy notes and afterword. Thoughts Upon Slavery was both published separately and included as ""the second title in: Benezet Anthony. The Potent Enemies of America Laid Open Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank 1774 Evans 13146 and as part of some copies of: A Collection of Religious Tracts as here Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank 1773-1778 Evans 13145"" ESTC W28091. The other titles in this collection each with a separate title page pagination and Crukshank's imprint are: The Plain Path to Christian Perfection by Johannes Tauler translated by Anthony Benezet; The Dreadful Visitation in a Short Account of the Progress of the Effects of the Plague 1774 an abridged version of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year; Benezet's The Mighty Destroyer DisplayedÉ the mistaken Use as well as Abuse of Distilled Spiritous Liquors 1774 and Stephen Crisp's Sermons or Declarations 1773. Sabin 4671 102699. Evans 13145 13762. Hildeburn 3134. Early owner signature. Small early ink notation to the title page: ""Collected by Anthony Benezet.""Minor marginal dampstaining to last leaves of final title Sermons or Declarations; expected age-wear to early sheep binding. Very scarce. unknown books
1978ref. 44571New York: Random House 1978. First edition stated. Near fine in near fine jacket. First printing of Brown's acclaimed first novel edited and championed by Toni Morrison. First novel by the writer playwright and professor praised on its initial publication by James Baldwin Donald Barthelme and Brown's own editor Toni Morrison and recently brought back into print by McSweeney's as the first book in their Of the Diaspora series. A civil rights activist onetime member of the Black Panther Party and objector to the Vietnam War Brown drew on some aspects of these experiences and the political turmoil of the times: In TRAGIC MAGIC's poetic non-linear narrative Melvin Ellington-former radical just released from prison for being a conscientious objector-searches to re-establish himself and come to terms with his old relationships and principles. On the connection between art and life Brown said in one contemporary interview: "If I could explain things at least to myself then I would have more of a handle on my life and not be at the mercy of things." 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter black cloth with bright yellow boards. In original unclipped $7.95 dust jacket designed by Mark Huie. Jacket with lightly sunned spine. Tiny spot of wear to gutters of front endpapers else clean and bright. Random House unknown books
1996ref. 49206New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1996. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed first printing of the story of a detective Tamara Hayle who is seeking some rest and relaxation on a Jamaican vacation - until her new friends turn out to be more dangerous than she thought. 9'' x 5.75''. Original two-tone boards. Original unclipped $21.95 color pictorial dust jacket. 208 pages. Signed by Wesley to first blank. Jacket with mild edgewear. Binding with a touch of bumping to spine ends. Clean. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1793ref. 346018Philadelphia: Parry Hall 1793. First edition of Wilkins' book; Wesley's Primitive Physic. was first published in 1747 this being the twenty third edition revised and corrected. Two works bound in one volume. 97 3; 10311 pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Calf worn rubbed and covers bowed. Toned scattered foxing; good. First edition of Wilkins' book; Wesley's Primitive Physic. was first published in 1747 this being the twenty third edition revised and corrected. Two works bound in one volume. 97 3; 10311 pp. 8vo. First edition of Wilkins' work bound here with the "twenty third edition revised and corrected" of Wesley's work as is usually the case. Both offer treatments for a wide variety of illnesses from gout toothache measles and palsy to abortion how to prevent them cancer diabetes and extreme fat. Cold baths or bleeding are often prescribed but some of the remedies are quite complex and founded upon science. Both works were directed for use by members of the Methodist faith and Wesley's Primitive Physic. was first published in 1747. Scarce. Austin 2046; Evans 26482; ESTC W23219. Parry Hall unknown books
1947ref. 47667Chicago: Rand McNally & Company 1947. First edition. About fine in near fine jacket. First printing of one of the most beloved horse stories ever told winner of a 1948 Newbery Honor - an exceptionally beautiful copy. Based on the true story of the charismatic island-dwelling ponies of Virginia and the people who care for them MISTY OF CHINCOTEAGUE brought attention to the curious lives of the feral horses. The story was adapted into a film in 1961 and the real Misty even attended the premier. This is a particularly nice copy of one of America's favorite horse stories rare to find in such a nice dust jacket. 9.5'' x 6.75''. Original blue cloth binding with yellow pictorial stamping. Original unclipped $2.50 color pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers of a pony running across a sun-dappled wetland. Illustrated in black and white with color pictorial title page. 174 pages. Jacket with light edgewear one short closed tear to front panel; a bit of toning to spine. Binding with only mild shelfwear. Interior clean and bright. Rand McNally & Company unknown books
1994ref. 40821New York: Cane Hill Press 1994. First edition. Near fine. Inscribed first printing of Brown's second novel exploring the collision of of art racism and violence in 19th-century minstrel performance. A work of historical fiction by the author of TRAGIC MAGIC beginning in pre-Civil War Kentucky and following a Black dancer and minstrel show performer through the fraught and dangerous American landscape of the 1860s. Brown offered illuminating commentary on his second novel in a recent interview: "It could be argued that blackface minstrelsy represented much of the popular culture of the 19th century . When Black performers used burnt cork in minstrel shows it was often a mimicry of White actors using demeaning stereotypes to depict Black people. They implicitly mocked those very stereotypes. The reprehensible 19th century image of blackface was embedded in the ways African Americans were represented throughout the 20th century. The disturbing minstrel mask is the past that still stalks the present." 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. 224 pages. Inscribed by Brown on title page: "For Kay With many thanks for your interest. Wesley / 1/26/94". Minor edgewear with a few small creases to wrappers. Cane Hill Press unknown books
1791ref. 221883London: G. Paramore 1791. Second edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Removed. Second edition. 1 vols. 12mo. John Whitehead 1740-1804 was an English physician and lay preacher known as a biographer of John Wesley. ESTC T99370 G. Paramore unknown books
1856ref. 38134Chicago: Keen and Lee 1856. Fourth edition. Lithographic frontispiece A View of St. Paul and title page View of the Falls of St. Anthony. Three plates. Colored folding map Fine tipped in at back. 412 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue blind stamped cloth with an elaborate gilt stamped spine. Spine ends gently bumped minor rubbing to extremities. Fourth edition. Lithographic frontispiece A View of St. Paul and title page View of the Falls of St. Anthony. Three plates. Colored folding map Fine tipped in at back. 412 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Howes 1014 Keen and Lee unknown books
1934ref. 32179Salem MA: Marine Research Society 1934. No. 48 of a limited edition of 97 copies printed on Bruce Rogers rag paper. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Marbled paper boards black cloth spine. Fine copy in slipcase. No. 48 of a limited edition of 97 copies printed on Bruce Rogers rag paper. Illustrated by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Marine Research Society unknown books
1974ref. 220182Provo Utah: Brigham Young University 1974. First edition Number 71 of 250 copies. Frontispiece. port. 83 figs. 32 color plates bibliog. index. xvi 237pp. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Brown airbrush Sanigal Bucksyn faux leather & Bolton Natural Finish Canvas. In Bucksyn slipcase. First edition Number 71 of 250 copies. Frontispiece. port. 83 figs. 32 color plates bibliog. index. xvi 237pp. 1 vols. Oblong 4to. Brigham Young University unknown books
1853ref. 38133New York: Redfield 1853. First edition. Lithographi frontispiece A View of St. Paul and t.p View of the Falls of St. Anthony WITH FINE COPY OF FOLDING MAP LAID IN. 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original cloth spine faded else fine. First edition. Lithographi frontispiece A View of St. Paul and t.p View of the Falls of St. Anthony WITH FINE COPY OF FOLDING MAP LAID IN. 364 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Not in Howes or Graff Redfield unknown books
1982ref. 91216Berkeley: Arif Press 1982. First edition. Two upper corners very lightly tapped else fine in printed paper-covered boards. Three signatures of 24 pages each bound in such a way that the pages can be turned as in a standard book or the boards be accordioned away from each other to create an entirely different experience of the text. Introduction by Tanner printed inside the front cover. One of 125 copies printed in two colors on Caslon Mi-Teintes paper. Berkeley: Arif Press, hardcover books
1970ref. 85765Berkeley: Arif 1970. First edition. 8 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 60 numbered copies. A collage poem. Berkeley: Arif, unknown books
1987ref. 8620New York: Penguin Books 1987. Paperback. Fine. Introduction by Wallace Stegner. Later Printing. Near Fine. Wraps with a faint crease on the front cover. Square and firmly bound clean internally. Powell's classic account of his expedition through America's western canyons. Penguin Books paperback books
2012ref. 9320gcsPensacola Florida: First Methodist Church Pensacola 2012. First Edition. Quarto black & white photo. illus. slick boards hardcover x 753 pp. Good with edgewear. Illustrations throughout. From lower cover: Established in 1821 Florida’s First Methodist Church has a remarkable story. It survived fires thefts wars hurricanes epidemics debts deaths terminations schisms and scandals. Despite the hardships God never abandoned the congregation but guided the church onward. Over 100 ministers served there. For some the appointment was a burden; for others it was a labor of love. They all improved their congregation’s understanding of the Word and provided comfort. Because of talented ministerial and lay leadership the church moved beyond a small rural pastorate and progressively risked larger facilities that would broaden its outreach. Eventually it mothered other churches launched missions elsewhere and became one of the most significant churches in its Conference. Historian Wesley Odom traces the development of this unique Pensacola institution in a masterful way incorporating social economic and political influences detailed analysis and thorough research. He habitually relied upon primary sources and conducted dozens of interviews. His “buttom-up” approach creates an exciting inspirational and fascinating story that reads easily and contains many surprises. Both the casual reader and professional historian can appreciate this epic manuscript. First Methodist Church, Pensacola, (2012). First Edition. hardcover books
1990ref. 49798NY & Los Angeles: Vantage Press 1990. First edition. 261 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Review slip laid in. Three short novels. NY & Los Angeles: Vantage Press unknown books
1972ref. 5301Berkeley: Arif Press 1972. First edition. 4 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 200 copies. A single poem. Berkeley: Arif Press, unknown books
2000ref. 13901Seattle: University of Washington Press 2000. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Essays on Northwest U.S. artists painters and musicians including Mark Tobey Morris Graves Theodore Roethke Elizabeth Bishop Ernest Bloch etc. Seattle: University of Washington Press, unknown books
1903ref. RTRUNAT00drpGovernment Printing Office 1903. Good. Trumbull James Hammond. Natick Dictionary: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 25. Powell John Wesley. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1903. 347pp. 4to. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Good with rubbing bumping and fraying. Pen stain on fore edge. Weak hinges with partial tear in bottom of front tear exposing threads. Rear free endsheet torn in top edge. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1891ref. RPOWSEV00drpGovernment Printing Office 1891. Good. Powell John Wesley. Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology: 1885-86. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1891. 409pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Good with bumped and frayed corners. Light soiling on boards. Weak hinges with sewn stitching partially exposed. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front pastedown. A beautifully colored map of North America showing the linguistic expanse of various Native American nations folded in rear pocket of rear pastedown. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1894ref. UPOWELE00drpGovernment Printing Office 1894. Good. Powell John Wesley. Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 1889-90. Washington DC: Government Printing Office 1894. 553pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Good with bumping and fraying. Small stains on spine and boards. Previous owner's name and bookplate on front pastedown. Torn hinges with threads exposed and old repairs no longer effective. Government Printing Office hardcover books
1974ref. RDIXMAY00drpBrigham Young University 1974. Very Good. Dixon Maynard. Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West. Burnside Wesley M. Provo: Brigham Young University 1974. 1st edition. 237pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. Oblong 4to. Brown leather spine over tan cloth boards. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping. Light fraying in corners. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with rubbing and light chipping in edges of front panel. Bumped spine ends. In DJ protector. Inscribed on title page to local Utah artist Gary Smith by Wesley M. Burnside. Brigham Young University hardcover books
1970ref. RBURMAY00araOhio State University 1970. Very Good. Burnside Wesley M. Maynard Dixon: Artist of the West Dissertation. Columbus Ohio: Ohio State University 1970. 312pp. 4to. Spiralbound softcover. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing. Scuff marks to covers. Ohio State University paperback books
ref. UPOWEXP00drpDover Publications Inc 1961. Very Good. Powell John Wesley. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. New York City: Dover Publications Inc 1961. 400pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with gentle rubbing and small sticker on rear cover. Dover Publications, Inc paperback books
