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1925rif. 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
1954rif. 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
1918rif. 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
1974rif. 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
1877rif. 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
1962rif. 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
rif. 16337Carpenter Mary. Signed carte de visite portrait circa mid-1860s records the English educational and social reformer during the period in which her work on ragged schools reformatories prison conditions and female education had made her a prominent public advocate for institutional reform. Carpenter devoted much of her career to expanding educational opportunities for poor children and young offenders and argued that reformatory institutions should foster discipline education and personal improvement rather than rely solely on punishment. She was also active in anti-slavery work and later carried her educational and penal reform interests to India where she promoted female education reformatory schooling and prison reform. Albumen carte de visite photograph by T. R. Williams of London circa mid-1860s. A slip of paper bearing Carpenter's name in ink has been pasted across the lower margin of the mount. The portrait dates from a period when Carpenter was widely engaged in public speaking and reform work in Britain and abroad and the signed identification connects the image directly to the sitter rather than relying solely on later attribution. Carpenter's portrait belongs to the visual record of nineteenth-century women reformers whose public authority was built through lectures publications institutional work and transnational advocacy. Her campaigns linked educational access juvenile reform prison conditions women's education and anti-slavery activism across Britain and India. Condition not stated in the supplied description. unknown books
1904rif. 163381904. Two pamphlets concerning the educational and reformatory work associated with Mary Carpenter document the institutional methods developed for juvenile reform in nineteenth-century Britain and their continuation after Carpenter's death. Carpenter established a ragged school at Lewin's Mead Bristol in 1846 and opened the Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls with the support of Lady Byron in 1854 advocating education and rehabilitation in place of purely punitive treatment for juvenile offenders. The earlier pamphlet records a lecture on moral teaching delivered by Carpenter's associate E. A. Manning while the second commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Red Lodge with its program officers Carpenter's portrait and a photograph showing girls receiving instruction in sewing. Two pamphlets 1875 and 1904 relating to educational reform and Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls in Bristol. The 1875 pamphlet comprises 16 pages and prints E. A. Manning's lecture before the Social Science Congress on moral teaching in schools. The 1904 Red Lodge publication commemorates fifty years of the girls' reformatory and includes a portrait of Carpenter a program of anniversary events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph of girls learning to sew. The photograph records the industrial training incorporated into the institution's educational program where needlework formed part of the preparation of girls for employment after leaving the reformatory. 1 Manning E. A. Moral Teaching in Our Schools. 1875. 16 pages. Lecture delivered before the Social Science Congress by an associate of Mary Carpenter. Manning addresses moral instruction within schools during the period in which Carpenter and other reformers were pressing for educational methods intended to alter the treatment of poor neglected and juvenile offending children. The pamphlet records the intellectual arguments accompanying the development of reform schools as educational institutions rather than places organized solely around punishment. 2 Red Lodge Reformatory for Girls Bristol. Bristol December 9 1904. Fiftieth-anniversary pamphlet commemorating the institution Carpenter and Lady Byron established in 1854. Includes a portrait of Mary Carpenter a program of events lists of trustees and officers and a photograph showing girls learning to sew at Red Lodge. Produced nearly three decades after Carpenter's death the pamphlet documents the personnel commemorative culture and vocational instruction of an institution that continued the educational and penal reforms she had advocated. Very Good Condition. The two publications span nearly thirty years of discussion and practice surrounding moral education and girls' reformatory schooling connecting Carpenter's nineteenth-century reform program with the institutional life of Red Lodge at its fiftieth anniversary. unknown books
1938rif. 432614No place: The Author 1938. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. Spine a bit toned else near fine. Issued without dustwrapper. Copy number 204 of 400 numbered copies Signed by the author. The Author hardcover books
1899rif. 423702Port Chester New York / North Dakota 1899. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 21 letters from 1890 through 1899 pertaining to pioneer land debt in North Dakota. Near fine with small tears and some age toning most in envelopes. A collection of letters to Richard Carpenter of Port Chester New York. Carpenter was financing land purchases for new settlers in Lisbon Wisner and La Moure in North Dakota. He would receive a share of the crop until the land was paid off. However most farmers who bought the land were unable to afford paying the money back as the soil was much denser and the weather much colder than many of the southern farming communities. One letter is written on the back of a full page lithographic broadside map of Wisner and pleads with Carpenter to take $200 away from the mortgage that still needs to be paid on the land. Most of the letters are complaints about payments and raising crops "The crop failure and low price for 93 gives this country a bad black eye and paralyzes all lines of trade and the earliest remedy is a bountiful 94" and "I have seen the men from Dakota and the account they give of the country is very discouraging everyone wants to sell and no one wants to buy". Many of the letters are written from J. E. Wisner who arrived in 1880. Wisner had built a flour mill laid out a town site promoted a stillborn railroad and invented a farm implement that made him a wealthy man for his time. His letters are more often strictly letters of payment being sent to Carpenter. The letters offer financial data from farm and land owners during this time as well as insight into the lives of farmers trying to work in unfit conditions before the 20th century. An interesting collection of letters from concerned farmers to a land owner in New York 1890 through to 1899. unknown books
1934rif. 423239New York: American Book Company 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 456pp. Penciled ownership signature of educator and poet Daniel Hoffman on the front fly with his pencil markings on a few pages corners bumped spine sunned very good. American Book Company hardcover books
1840rif. 4022181840. Softcover. Very Good. Oblong octavo. Measuring 8.5" x 6.75". Green red and yellow marbled stiff paper wrappers with paper label. Illustrated. Text separated from spine foxing and staining on the internal top margins of the pages but very good. An album used as a rustic sketch book extensively illustrated by a boy identified as "James Carpenter" with no listed dates but possibly from the Middle Atlantic area in the 1840-50s. Insides of the wrappers have various small drawings of household objects birds and people. The pages in the front of the album feature detailed pencil drawings of houses and buildings with stone walls simplistic fences and trees. One picture depicts a lighthouse on the shore with a small boat out in the distance. Later the drawings focus more on animals with birds and dogs being the primary focus. A very lean and large dog is depicted sitting in front of a small structure looking off to the side possible a greyhound. The drawings are juvenile but otherwise quite good with attention paid to proportion in not only the animals but also in the structure of the architecture. Carpenter's signature is the only written text in the album as many of the illustrations fill up the entirety of the pages. A nicely illustrated rustic album presumably filled with the everyday objects that may have surround Carpenter in his daily life. unknown books
1955rif. 111651Boston: Allyn and Bacon 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later edition. 12mo. With a photographic frontispiece plate. Publisher's salmon colored cloth with a pictorial design stamped in blue and black. Light rubbing to the boards an attractive near fine copy. Allyn and Bacon hardcover books
1992rif. 401315Gardiner Maine: Tilbury House Publishers 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. About fine with slightly faded board edges in a near fine dustwrapper with fading. Poetry. Tilbury House, Publishers hardcover books
1928rif. 375447Garden City New York: Doubleday Doran and Company 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Preface by C.K. Woodbridge. Touch of sunning along the spine else fine in about near fine dustwrapper with toning along the spine and bit of wear at a few corners. Inscribed by the author. A refutation of the sometimes disreputable practices conducted by advertisers and businesses. Very scarce in dust jacket. Doubleday, Doran and Company hardcover books
1973rif. 373680Austin Texas: The Friends of the LBJ Library 1973. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. Illustrated from color photographs. Very good with some creasing near the spine faint rubbing on the rear panel and soft wear along the spine. The Friends of the LBJ Library unknown books
1843rif. 342196Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard 1843. Hardcover. Good. First American edition with additions by Meredith Clymer M.D. Full leather with title written in ink on spine. Spine ends chipped leather dry and worn top page corners water stained owner's name on front fly preliminary pages loose pages foxed thus good only. Lea & Blanchard hardcover books
1768rif. 1219501768. LOMONOSOV Mikhail Vasil'evich. Jean-Baptiste CHARPENTIER. Elemens de la langue russe ou Methode courte et facile pour apprendre cette lanuge conformement a l'usage. 16 368 pp. 8vo. contemporary sheep smooth spine with gilt fleurons red morocco lettering-piece "Grammaire Russe". St. Petersburg: Academie Imperiale des Sciences 1768. First Edition. A key publication in the modernization of Russia and the first significant work on Russian grammar in a Western European language. Charpentier's work is based the book Rossiskaia grammatika published in 1755 and written by the "father" of modern Russian literature Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonsov. Lomonsov 1711-1765 was one of the greatest minds in St. Petersburg during the middle of the eighteenth-century learned also in science and math and one of the founders of the University of Moscow. Elemens de la langue russe was published by the renowned St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences considered the leading publisher of secular works in Russia at the time. Before the publication of this title western visitors had no printed means to learn Russian. Aside from some slight worming through the lower margin of the front pastedown through the title-page a fine unsophisticated copy. Russia Engages the World 40 51. unknown books
1938rif. 48996No place: The Author 1938. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. Preface by Captain Robert A. Bartlett. One of 800 copies. Fine. Issued without dustwrapper. The Author hardcover books
1903rif. 54380New York: D. Appleton & Co 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Front hinge neatly repaired corners slightly bumped else a near fine copy. Ownership signature of Samuel Wright the uncle of co-author Kauffman. Kauffman's second mystery after Jarvis of Harvard Carpenter's first and the only collaboration between these two authors. D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
1805rif. 4040Charleston South Carolina: Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier 1805. First Edition. Fair. 8vo. 3-127 INCOMPLETE: lacking half-title title-page here in facsimile and pp. 93-127 paperstock browned throughout p. 5 stained and a little soiled. Recent sympathetic wrappers title written in ink on upper cover. Described in 1893 as "One of the rarest of American trials" Catalogue of the Extraordinary Collection of Law Trials made by the late Edmund B. Wynn no. 1275. Whereas our copy is significantly incomplete we invite all haters to find another but please be patient because no copy complete or otherwise has appeared at auction since 1963. McDade explains that this is "an unusual case at Goosecreek South Carolina in which the wife's lover murdered her husband outside the house and put the body in bed with the wife who attempted to conceal the crime. He was convicted and hanged. She with Southern consideration for womankind was acquitted" but nonetheless she was scorned shamed and humiliated for violating her marriage vow. But the trial was of national significance because "the Nettles-Cannon Trial gives a preliminary glimpse of the scope of state efforts to transform the criminal justice system in the first decades after the ramification of the Constitution and suggests some of the reasons those efforts remained incomplete" Dale p. 23. "The trial of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon 1805 who presumably conspired to kill Cannon's husband serves as an example to show how key actors in the process from the detection of a crime to the actual trial were ordinary members of the community how legal arguments had little impact on the outcome of the trial how jurors judged the law rather than the facts or how Nettles did not appeal his eventual conviction. The state and the people in this period cooperated in order to achieve justice." Birte Christ 2012 review of Elizabeth Dale's "Criminal Justice in the United States 1789-1939" online at H-Soz-Kult. Dale discusses the significance of the trial on pp. 23-30. Finally: "The S.C. Carpenter reports on these two cases may be the earliest surviving records of full trial proceedings in South Carolina." W. Lewis Burke "A History of the Opening Statement From Barristers to Corporate Lawyers: A Case Study of South Carolina" in: American Journal of Legal History 1993 vol. XXXVII p. 38. This trial was featured in the 2014-2015 exhibition of "Murder and Women in 19th-Century America Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library." COMMENT: This copy contains the complete transcripts of the witness testimonies and cross-examinations and all the arguments of the DEFENSE pleaded by the lawyers of Joshua Nettles and Elizabeth Cannon. It does not contain "The Defense Being Gone Through The Attorney-General Rose in reply and said: May it please your Honor" etc. The Attorney-General's text continues through pp. 93-114; following it is "The Judge's Charge" pp. 115-124 and an unrelated account of the execution of Richard Dennis Jun. which was appended to this edition because "it came too late to be published with the trial of Dennis and is therefore according to promise published with that of Nettles" pp. 125-127. CENSUS OF COPIES ON THE MARKET SINCE 1885: 1. Goodspeed's 1963 Catalogue 511 apparently it had appeared in Goodspeed's 1940 and 1943 catalogues. Prior to that we located the following copies at auction all of which took place 106 years ago or more: 2. John C. Brady Esq. copy sold at Henkels 19 Oct. 1917 lot 380; 3. Maj. Edward Willis copy sold at Henkels 29 Oct. 1914 lot 527; 4. Hon. Samuel C. Cobb copy sold at Anderson Galleries 30 March 1906 lot 560; 5. John H.V. Arnold Esq. copy sold at Bangs 23 April 1900 lot 1362; 6. Edmund B. Wynn copy sold at Bangs 7 Feb. 1893 lot 1275; 7. W. Elliot Woodward's 74th Sale: Trials and Criminal Biography sold at Bangs 19 April 1885 lot 1130. Sabin 11005. McDade Annals of Murder no. 715. Printed at the Office of the Charleston Courier unknown books
1865rif. 49648New York: Trent Filmer & Co 1865. Good. New York: Trent Filmer & Co. 1865. First Edition. Octavo; printed wraps with reversed "a" to title per Monaghan; 12ll. printed rectos only. Worn with chipping to wraps; binding sound; staining throughout; Good only. Includes the Springfield Farewell Speech Emancipation Proclamation the Gettyburg Address and the Second Inaugural Speech. Uncommon in retail and auction records. Monaghan 599. Trent, Filmer & Co unknown books
1966rif. 232551Delacorte Press 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover First edition with a dust jacket. Jacket has modest shelf wear. Internally Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Prompt shipping. Delacorte Press hardcover books
1959rif. 629158New York: Schulte Publishing Company 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 697pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The final anthology of this much-praised and long-running series edited by an African-American poet issued after a 30 year hiatus in conjunction with Braithwaite's 80th birthday. An important compendium representing most active American poets of the period. Schulte Publishing Company hardcover books
1973rif. 140949016New York: Holt Rhinehart and Winston 1973. First Edition. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition first printing. viii 192 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth titled in gilt on spine. Very Good with light mottling to cloth paperclip impression to front board and foxing to textblock edges and scattered throughout. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light wear and foxing paperclip impression to front panel. One of the American anthropologist's major works the inspiration for a 2003 documentary by the same name. A photo-illustrated examination of media technology myth and meaning across cultures inspired by a quote from Don Quixote. Carpenter writes "I think media are so powerful they swallow cultures. I think of them as invisible environments which surround and destroy old environments." To illustrate this point the cover images show Zuni Katchina figurines from 1890 and 1950 the latter clearly a version of Mickey Mouse. The author spent his career studying media ecology and cofounded the iconoclastic academic journal Explorations with the Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan. Holt, Rhinehart and Winston unknown books
