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1954réf. 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
1918réf. 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
1974réf. 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
1938réf. 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
1899réf. 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
1934réf. 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
1840réf. 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
1955réf. 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
1992réf. 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
1928réf. 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
1973réf. 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
1843réf. 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
1938réf. 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
1903réf. 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
1805réf. 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
1865réf. 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
1959réf. 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
1990réf. 579462Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Uncorrected proof of first American edition. 489pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Blue printed wrappers. Lightly toned spine small soil mark on rear wrap very good. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1932réf. 553633New York: Samuel French 1932. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. 144pp. Printed tan wrappers. Glossy illustrated pages and corresponding pages foxed spine lightly tanned else very good. Samuel French unknown books
1920réf. 289New York: The Macmillan Company 1920. Hardcover. Very good. Small hard cover 7 3/16" x 4 3/4". Publisher's green cloth binding. 164pp. Very good condition throughout with light shelf wear only to covers. An early instructional manual on the pleasures and practicalities of camping in cold weather with chapters on Personal Equipment Food Shelter and Beds Campfires and Stoves Wildlife in Winter etc.The design on the front cover which wraps around the spine is of a stylized forest with a top border of geese and lower border of salmon. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1976réf. 25943New York: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Very Good dj. c.1976. First Edition. Hardcover. price-clipped moderate wear to book at extremities; jacket a little faded and soiled along spine and adjacet edges of both panels a bit of wear along top edge including a couple of small closed tears and very shallow paper loss at top of spine. B&W photographs INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the colophon page: "For Ann and Del / My special 'Dear Hearts' / whose friendship I / treasure. / Blessings and love / Meta Wilde / March 1 1980." The author's "full story of her romance with William Faulkner which began when she was a script girl for Howard Hawks and Faulkner came to Hollywood to work on the scenario for THE ROAD TO GLORY and continued over the next thirty years whenever time and chance gave the lovers an opportunity." Wilde went on to become one of Hollywood's legendary script supervisors working well into the 1980s sometimes under the name Meta Rebner with an impressive string of credits including TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD THE GRADUATE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT SHAMPOO and TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. The inscribees of this copy were director Delbert Mann and his wife; Ms. Wilde had worked for Mann on the 1960 film THE DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS. Signed by Author . Simon and Schuster hardcover books
1957réf. 36955Austin: University of Texas Press 1957. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xxii 119pp. Very good hardback in a price clipped and lightly rubbed jacket. University of Texas Press hardcover books
1989réf. 300398Richmond VA: Hand Workshop 1989. 8 1/2" square 8pp pamphlet celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Burkholder Carpenter 1889-1985 a folk sculptor. It includes an introduction by Paula Owen the Executive Director of the Hand Workshop - now known as the Visual Arts Center of Richmond VA. Also included is an article about Carpenter written by Jeff Camp Richmond businessman and collector. Very good. ~. Hand Workshop unknown books
1981réf. 11732Boston MA: Houghton Mifflin Company 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. First American Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on half-title from Carpenter to Oliver Sacks. Wystan Hugh Auden 1907-1973 biography. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Chipping and toning to upper/inner flap dj closed tears to dj scuffing to edges else tight bright and unmarred. Black cloth with gilt titling. 8vo. 495pp. Illus. b/w plates. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
2003réf. 11575Baltimore MD: PublishAmerica 2003. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition. Original Wraps. Inscription note attached to cover. Posthumously designed book plate by a friend of Oliver's incorporating his longstanding love of cephalopods. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Minimal shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. 357pp. Illus. b/w. Mounted bookplate on endpapers. PublishAmerica unknown books
