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2006ref. 143084Cincinnati OH: Cincinnati Art Museum 2006. First edition. Softcover. 119 pages. Includes numerous color illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with a small edge tear to the top of the rear panel and some other slight wear. Uncommon. Cincinnati Art Museum unknown books
1925ref. UCARCAR02TNDoubleday Page and Company 1925. Very Good. Carpenter Frank G. Carpenter's World Travels: Mexico. Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1925. 290pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Doubleday, Page, and Company hardcover books
1925ref. UCARCAR10TNDoubleday Page and Company 1925. Very Good. Carpenter Frank G. Carpenter's World Travels: Uganda to the Cape. Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1925. 261pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Some shelf wear and soiling with a few small closed tears. Doubleday, Page, and Company hardcover books
1925ref. UCARCAR11TNDoubleday Page and Company 1925. Very Good. Carpenter Frank G. Carpenter's World Travels: Cairo to Kisumu. Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1925. 313pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear with some soiling to cover. Doubleday, Page, and Company hardcover books
1925ref. UCARCAR03TNDoubleday Page and Company 1925. Very Good. Carpenter Frank G. Carpenter's World Travels:Java and the East Indies. Garden City New York: Doubleday Page and Company 1925. 278pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Slight shelf wear. Doubleday, Page, and Company hardcover books
1980ref. 629342New York: George Braziller 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Illustrated from photographs of the writers by Mike Bunn. Pages with light tanning near fine in a very good dust jacket with light edgewear and slight interior foxing. Signed by contributor Seamus Heaney on front fly. New work by 44 Irish writers including Samuel Beckett Heaney Denis Johnston Neil Jordan Brendan Kennelly Thomas Kinsella Michael Longley Paul Muldoon Seán Ó Faoláin Frank Ormsby Tom Paulin James Plunkett and more. George Braziller hardcover books
1898ref. 4870Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co 1898. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Very Good. 1898 1st edition in wonderful pictorial boards. Clean and VG with fragile--but still sturdy-- hinges and binding understandable given its age. Octavo unpaginated. "A Companion and Sequel to Mother Goose Melodies M.A. Donohue & Co unknown books
1954ref. 5087Newport Rhode Island: The Preservation Society of Newport County/ Pitt's Head Tavern 1954. Limited. Collectible; Very Good. BEAUTIFULLLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. A handsome copy to boot of the 1954 specially bound and numbered edition. #73 of 125 copies so designated on the limitation page and bound in 1/4 red morocco over marbled boards. Solid and clean and VG. Internally immaculate and just the sightest hint of light fraying at the outer hinges. Quarto 218 pgs. A very presentable copy and scarce as such. Signed by Author. The Preservation Society of Newport County/ Pitt's Head Tavern unknown books
1962ref. 3683New York: Simon and Schuster 1962. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Fine. SIGNED BY ASTRONAUT SCOTT CARPENTER on the half-title. A handsome copy to boot of the 1962 stated 1st printing. Clean tightly-bound and VG in a bright price-intact Near Fine dustjacket. Octavo 352 pgs. Tasteful former owner bookplate to front blank endpaper. Signed by Author. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1988ref. 53520London: Secker & Warburg 1988. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket. First UK edition of this story of a survivalist's attempt to build an ark - à la Noah but with people - by at the time "Japan's foremost living novelist." 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original dark blue cloth silver lettered spine. In original unclipped £11.95 color pictorial jacket designed by Peter Dyer. Lavender endpapers. 4 342 pages. Jacket with trace edgewear. Book with light toning to leaves else crisp and clean. Secker & Warburg unknown books
ref. 05610Nantes: Charpentier Pere Fils & Cie. 1829. The Costumes of Brittany and Other Regions of France 120 Superb Hand Colored Lithograph Plates CHARPENTIER Henri Désiré. Recueil des costumes de la Bretagne & des autres Contrées de la France. Ou la mise des Habitans offre quelque singularité remarquablen dédié a son Altesse Royale Madame Duchesse de Berry Par ses très Humbles Serviteurs. Nantes: Charpentier Pere Fils & Cie. 1829-31. First edition. Two folio volumes bound in one 14 x 10 1/4 inches; 355 x 260 mm. Vol. I. Lithograph title-page on stiff paper original subscription form tipped-in complete with 10 livraison pages of the first volume on different colored paper and the original printed vignette wrappers to livraisons 11-16 second volume Vol. II with vignette calligraphic title on blue paper. 120 60 in each volume lithographic plates by Charpentier each colored by a contemporary hand and within triple ruled borders captioned below title at head numbered and bound by 'Department'. All plates interleaved with tissue. Occasional staining and spotting mainly in blank margins. Late nineteenth century red half calf over marbled boards. Spine with five shallow bands decoratively stamped in black and gilt black calf label lettered in gilt marbled endpapers. Aside from the aforementioned occasional marginal staining and spotting this is a superb example of a very rare and very beautiful costume book seldom found complete. This exceptionally rare and highly attractive work was originally issued in two volumes each with an engraved title-page and sixty plates making a total of one hundred and twenty hand colored lithograph plates. According to OCLC & KVK there are only two complete copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Smithsonian Institution DC US; Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Rare Books NY US. Only three prior copies have appeared at auction within the last 41 years - one in 1975 and one in 2021 Euros 9750. "This set of plates is the earliest work devoted to the costume of the Bretagne region as well as being of the highest quality. Charpentier who had been a traditional engraver in Nantes in 1828 obtained a patent to work as a lithographer. The work includes images of the stilt walkers of Les Landes wrestlers fisherman and their women and many other attractive plates of local trades people." Bobins. Charpentier dedicated the book to Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Two Sicilies Duchess of Berry 1798-1870 an Italian princess who married into the French royal family. "These plates mostly lithographed by H. Charpentier are of very great interest for the regional customs and costumes of the French countryside." Colas. Bobins III 921 this copy; Colas 612; Lipperheide 1195; Rahir 365; Hiler p.160; Vinet 2279. The Plates: Vol.1 60 plates Nantes 1. Mariage des Habitans du bourg de Batz. 2. Paysans de Chateau-Briant. 3. Grand costume des Femmes du peuple et Cuisinières de Nantes. 4. Paysannes de Machecoul. 5. Petit Costume des femmes de chambre et Cuisinières de Nantes. 6. Grande Venue des paludiers Bretons. 7. Paysans de Blain. 8. Grisettes de Nantes. 9. Habitans de Bryères. 10. Demoiselles de la Plaine. 11. Demoiselles de Pornic. 12. Paysans des Environs de Guérande. 13. Femmes de Saillé près Guérande. 14. Paysans de Varades près Ancenis. 15. Femmes du Bourg du Loroux. 16. Paysans de St Lyphard. 17. Paludiers du bourg de Batz. 18. Demoiselles du Croisic. Pays de la Loire 1. Soldats Vendeéns. 2. Dames des Sables-d'Olonne en été. 3. Dames des Sables-d'Olonne en hiver. 4. Grand costume des femmes de Luçon. 5. Femmes de Luçon. 6. Femmes de líle de Noirmoutier. La Rochelle 1. Grisette de la Rochelle. 2. Porteuse d'Eau et Laitière de Rochefort. 3. Femmes du peuple de Rochefort en grand costume. 4. Marchandes d'huitres de Marennes Saujon et la Eremblade. 5. Paysans de St Maurice près la Rochelle. 6. Paysans des Environs de la Rochelle. Bordeaux 1. Femmes de la Classe Ouvrière de Bordeaux. 2. Femmes de Pauiliac. 3. Marchande de Légumes et Cuisinière de Bordeaux. 4. Laitères de Bordeaux. 5. Femmes de Blaye. 6. Paysannes des Environs de Bordeaux. Brittany 1. Paysans de St Chéogonec. 2. Habitans de Cornouailles. 3. Femmes de Plougastel. 4. Paysans de Lesneven. 5. Femmes de St Pol-de-Léon. 6. Veuve et Femme de Lile d'Ouessant. Normandie 1. Femmes de Caudebec. 2. Femmes de St. Valery en Caux. 3. Femmes de Rouen. 4. Paysans des Environs de Rouen. 5. Femmes de Fôtes. 6. Femmes d'Elbeuf. Haute Normandie 1. Femmes d'Evreux. 2. Femmes de Bernay. 3. Ouvrieres des fabriques de draps de Louviers. 4. Paysannes des Environs de Louviers. 5. Femmes de pont-Audemer. 6. Paysannes du port St Ouën. Gascony 1. Habitans des Landes mettant leurs Echasses. 2. Femmes de La Teste. 3. Landais en voyage. 4. Femme de Laroque. 5. Bergers des Landes. 6. Bucheron des Landes. Vol.2. 60 plates 1. Paysans de Plouha en grand Costume. 2. Paysans de Lamballe en grand Costume. 3. Paysannes de Rennes. 4. Habitans d'Antrain. 5. Femme de Cancale. 6. Femme de Dinard. 1. Femmes de Nogent-le Rotrou. 2. Femmes de Chartres. 3. Femmes du peuple de Lyon. 4. Paysannes des Environs de Lyon. 5. Paysannes de la Bresse. 6. Femmes d'Amboise et des Environs. 7. Femmes d'Orléans. 8. Femmes d'Angers. 9. Femmes de Chatellerault. 1. Grisettes de Niort. 2. Laitière et Marchande de Légumes de Niort. 3. Femmes des Environs de Niort en Costume d'Eté. 4. Paysannes des Environs de Niort allant au Marché. 5. Femmes des Environs de Niort en grande Mante. 6. Paysannes des Environs de Niort. 1. Mariage des paysans de Pontivy. 2. Paysans de Neuliac. 3. Paysans du bourg de Noyal. 4. Femmes de Belle - île en mer. 5. Paysannes de Vannes. 1. Anciens Pêcheurs de Dieppe. 2. Femmes de Pêcheurs de Dieppe. 3. Pêcheur de Dieppe. 4. Jeunes Femmes de Pêcheur. 5. Femmes de Granville. 6. Femmes d'Avranches. 7. Femmes des Environs de Coutance. 1. Grisettes de Saumur. 2. Femme des Environs de Saumur. 3. Paysans de Montreuil-Bellay. 4. Lautiere de Bagneux près Saumur. 5. Paysannes des Environs de Saumur. 6. Paysans des Tuffeaux. 1. Femmes de Caen. 2. Femmes des environs de Caen. 3. Paysannes des environs de Caen. 4. Femmes du peuple de Bayeux. 5. Paysans de Laval. 1. Habitant des Montagnes de Lannedern. 2. Grand Costume des Femmes de Fouesnant. 3. Pêcheurs de Concarneau. 4. Femmes de Ker-saint-Ploabenec. 5. Paysans de Dirinon. 6. Femme de Braspars. 1. Mariée de Douarnener. 2. Paysans de Pont-l'Abbé et Environ. 3. Femmes de Pont-l'Abbé. 4. Pêcheurs de sardines de Douarnener. 5. Marchandes de pailles et de foins. 6. Paysans de Brie. Manière de conclure un marché. 1. Jeunes Epoux de retour de l'Eglise du petit Hergué. 2. Lutteurs de Fouesnant. 3. Poissonnier et Filles de la côte. 4. Marchands d'Oignons et Panets du Cap. Bobins III 921; Colas 612; Lipperheide 1195; Rahir 365; Hiler p.160; Vinet 2279. Nantes: Charpentier Pere, Fils & Cie., 1829 unknown books
1991ref. 43300New York: The Ecco Press 1991. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket. First edition a very nice copy of this collection of writings by the Polish author translated by John and Bogdana Carpenter. With praise from Czeslaw Milosz Joseph Brodsky and others on back panel. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Quarter black cloth over black boards in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 162 pages. Interior clean throughout if trivially toned. The Ecco Press unknown books
1986ref. 601681Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Library 1986. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 216pp. Illustrated. Foxing on page edges modest soiling on boards very good. Harvard University Library hardcover books
1996ref. 596785Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press 1996. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Quarto. 281pp. Comb-bound wrappers. Fine. Containing letters to Harriet Monroe Amy Lowell Daisy Fletcher Conrad Aiken Robert Linscott T.S. Eliot Frank Stewart Flint Van Wyck Brooks Sara Teasdale John Cournos Lewis Mumford Donald Davidson Havelock Ellis Glenn Hughes Henry Bergen S. Foster Damon Adolphine Terry Frank Owsley Henry Seidel Canby Van Wyck Brooks Thomas Matthew Pearce Horace Gregory Edwin John Stringham Gerald Sanders James Franklin Lewis Frederic Eugene Haun Scott Greer Raymond and Sara Henderson Hay Holden James Schevill Karl Shapiro Robert W. Stallman Charlie May Fletcher Earl Miner and Jerry Wallace. Fletcher was the first Southern poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. University of Arkansas Press unknown books
1938ref. 584775No place: The Author 1938. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. Quarto. Some modest staining on the boards ink notes on rear endpaper a sound good only copy issued without dust jacket. The Author hardcover books
1986ref. 593793Berkeley California: North Point Press 1986. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected proof. Green wrappers. Fine. North Point Press unknown books
1981ref. 593794New York: Simon and Schuster 1981. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof. Yellow wrappers. Toning on the spine thus very good. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1917ref. 553618New York: Samuel French 1917. Softcover. Good. First edition. 120pp. Printed tan wrappers. Some pages unopened glossy illustrated pages and facing pages foxed wrappers age-toned with yapped edges chipped a good only copy. Scarce in trade. Samuel French unknown books
1925ref. 554741New York: E.P. Dutton and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Octavo. 127pp. Foxing on page edges top corner on front fly clipped offsetting on front endpapers lacking a page after the copyright else a very good copy in a very good age-toned dust jacket with spine and edges sunned. Scarce in jacket. E.P. Dutton and Company hardcover books
1954ref. 533809Newport Rhode Island: The Preservation Society of Newport County 1954. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition wrappered issue. Quarto. 216 2pp. Illustrated. Printed green wrappers. Ownership name of a noted antique dealers light wear near fine. The Preservation Society of Newport County unknown books
1918ref. 522428New York: G. Schirmer 1918. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Quarto. Single bifolium with a single sheet insert making six pages. Some very light edgewear else near fine. For voice and piano. Plate number 28453. Paul Laurence Dunbar is an important African American literary figure remembered in part for writing the lyrics for the landmark musical In Dahomey which according to historian Gerald Bordman was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house. G. Schirmer unknown books
1974ref. 453054Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association 1974. Softcover. Very Good. Magazine. Octavo. Perfectbound in wrappers. Rubbing and eraser mark under the title very good. Contributors include Pamela Alexander Dick Allen Keith Althaus John R. Carpenter Alfred Corn Charles O. Hartman Greg Kuzma Brad Leithauser Robin Magowan Paul Mariah John Matthias Reg Saner Roy Scheele David Steingass and Peter Trower. The Modern Poetry Association unknown books
1877ref. 163421877. Carpenter Mary autograph letter signed dated January 10 1877 documents Carpenter's support for women's participation in school governance during the final months of her life providing direct evidence of her work across women's education juvenile reform prison reform and public advocacy. Carpenter founded ragged schools and reformatories for poor children and young offenders in Bristol advocated for women's education engaged anti-slavery work and traveled to India where she examined schools prisons and female education. Carpenter Mary. Autograph Letter Signed to Alderman Mansfield. Bristol: Mary Carpenter 1877. January 10 1877. 1 page. Original mailing envelope and two obituaries of Carpenter are pasted into the volume. The letter congratulates Mansfield on the election of his wife to the School Board stating "Thanks for sending us the paper containing the very gratifying announcement of the election of Mrs. Mansfield.It is a grand triumph!" A note at the bottom signed M. P. Mansfield explains "This letter was written on the receipt of a paper containing the account of the election of my wife to the School Board." Written months before Carpenter's death in June 1877 the letter links her educational reform career to the expanding civic role of women in nineteenth-century Britain. A biography materially strengthened by Carpenter's own signed letter joining printed memorialization with direct manuscript presence from a major woman reformer. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Strong association copy documenting Carpenter's support for women's public educational authority. unknown books
1962ref. 40401962. Carpenter Scott. Inscribed portrait photograph documents the public image of an original Mercury Seven astronaut who became the second American to orbit Earth during the May 24 1962 Mercury Atlas 7 mission. Piloting the spacecraft Aurora 7 Carpenter completed three Earth orbits and conducted photographic and scientific experiments during the fourth crewed flight of Project Mercury. The photograph supports research into the visual presentation of early astronauts Project Mercury Cold War patriotism and the circulation of personalized astronaut portraits during the formative years of American human spaceflight. NASA identifies Carpenter as one of the seven astronauts selected for its first astronaut class in 1959. Black-and-white portrait photograph undated. 8 x 10 inches. Carpenter appears in a suit and tie beside an American flag presenting a formal civilian likeness that joins astronaut celebrity with conventional symbols of national service. Inscribed and signed in black marker at the upper right "To Daniel Marcus Very Best Wishes Scott Carpenter." The personalized dedication identifies the photograph's original recipient and distinguishes it from an unsigned publicity portrait. The juxtaposition of Carpenter's business attire and the flag emphasizes the civic and representative role assigned to the Mercury astronauts as visible embodiments of the United States space program. Carpenter had served as John Glenn's backup for the first American orbital mission before flying Aurora 7 becoming the fourth American in space and the second to orbit Earth. His mission lasted approximately four hours and fifty-four minutes and concluded with a landing substantially beyond the planned recovery area followed by his retrieval and transfer to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid. No specific defects are identified in the supplied description; image inscription and signature remain dark and clear near fine. Personalized patriotic portrait connecting a founding Mercury astronaut with the public culture of the early American space program. unknown books
1875ref. 163391875. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol 1875 records Carpenter's methods for the education and rehabilitation of girls committed to the Bristol reformatory she established as part of her wider campaign for juvenile penal reform. Carpenter argued that reform depended upon securing each girl's active participation rather than relying on punishment alone: "The will of each individual girl must be enlisted in her own reformation and she should be led to feel that without this the efforts of teachers will be useless. Such confidence must be awakened in the minds of the children toward their teachers." The volume documents an approach that combined discipline with education personal responsibility and sustained relationships between teachers and pupils principles central to Carpenter's work with poor and juvenile offending children. Carpenter Mary. Red Lodge Girls' Reformatory School Bristol. 1875. First edition. Signed "with Miss Carpenter's Complements." Original brown boards with gilt title. Illustrated with an engraving of the school. This slim history describes Carpenter's work at Red Lodge and the institution's mission placing the school within her broader efforts to replace exclusively punitive treatment of young offenders with education and reform. Carpenter also established ragged schools for poor children advocated prison reform and expanded educational opportunities for women and carried her interest in educational and penal reform to Britain India Europe and the United States. Carpenter's writing on Red Lodge provides direct evidence of the educational principles applied to girls within the nineteenth-century reformatory movement particularly her insistence that institutional discipline required the cooperation and confidence of the child herself. The free front endpaper and engraving of the school are separated. A tear to the spine exposes the pages beneath; textblock clean. Overall Good Condition. unknown books
