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1860rif. 57986New York: Derby & Jackson publishers no. 498 Broadway 1860. 12mo pp. iii-vi 216-354 4 ads paginated 29 6 5 4; ads on recto of rear free endpaper; frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Brady; original brown blindstamped cloth gilt-stamped spine; spine faded small hole in front free endpaper all else very good. Eugene Field's copy with his signature dated Dec. 6th 1893 at the top of the title page; his forged signature of "A. Lincoln" on the front pastedown an ink certification on the verso of the rear free endpaper by Sonya Garfield a notary public for Cook County Illinois attesting to a statement on the rear pastedown by Eugene Field II viz.: "This 'Life' of A. Lincoln came from the library of my father Eugene Field. It is a first edition and bears the original manuscript signature of A. Lincoln. This volume was presented to my father by H. H. Kohlsaat publisher of the Times Herald who was a very dear friend of my father and was prized by him very highly as a very rare Lincoln item. Eugene Field II June 18 1935." With the pressure stamp of Sonya Garfield signatures of two witnesses one Gillespie and a W. Maxwell and the ownership signature of H. H. Kohlsaat crossed out presumably by Field on the front free endpaper. Laid in is a 5" x 4" photograph of Eugene Field by S. L. Stein Milwaukee inscribed at the top "With very much love to H. H. Kohlsaat from Eugene Field 1894. Derby & Jackson, publishers, no. 498 Broadway unknown books
1954rif. 56486Providence: The Urban League of Greater Providence 1954. 8vo pp. 76; 4 full-page illustrations from contemporary sources; fine in original printed gray wrappers. The Urban League of Greater Providence unknown books
1871rif. 56338Providence: Providence Press Company printers to the state 1871. 8vo pp. viii 94; vignette title page tables throughout; original gray printed wrappers; near fine. Providence Press Company, printers to the state unknown books
1894rif. 57846Boston: B. B. Russell Co 1894. 8vo pp. 3 6-319 1; printed self-wrappers rear wrapper wanting; spine largely perished; stitching sound. Title page inscribed "with love and best wishes of the author." Originally published by J. Howard Brown Co. circa 1882 with the subtitle A story of the blighting curse of polygamy. "The practice of plural marriage commonly known as polygamy stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890 when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882 is both a staunchly antipolygamy novel and a call for the sentimental repatriation of polygamy's victims. Her book traces the fate of a virtuous and educated English immigrant woman Marion Wescott who marries a Mormon elder Henry Northfield. Shocked when her husband violates his promise not to take a second wife Marion attempts to flee during the night toddler son in her arms and pulling her worldly possessions in his toy wagon. She returns to her husband however and the balance of the novel traces the effects of polygamy on Marion Henry and their children; their eventual rejection of plural marriage; and their return to a normal and healthy family structure." University of Nebraska Press Wright III 5347. B. B. Russell Co unknown books
1829rif. 56027Plymouth Mass: published by Ezra Collier Allen Danforth printer 1829. First edition 12mo pp. xii 13-312; contemporary mottled calf; red morocco label; textblock slightly toned; otherwise very good. Ink ownership inscription of Josiah Ames 1834. Parris 1806-1827 began his medical practice in Attleborough MA in 1825 and died only two years later. He composed most of these writings between the ages of 12 and 18 and they were posthumously discovered by his friends and family who desired printed copies. The text is mostly comprised of poems and discourses on various subjects. American Imprints 39969. published by Ezra Collier, Allen Danforth, printer unknown books
1938rif. 90842London: Heath Cranton Limited 1938. 1st edition. Paperback. Very Good. 40p. Softcover in original wrapper. 19cm. Browning on backstrip and cover edges. Moderate foxing. INSCRIBED on hllf-title by Bartlett to Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. Poetry. Heath Cranton Limited paperback books
1810rif. 55963Portsmouth N.H.: printed at the Oracle Office 1810. First edition 12mo pp. xi 2 134-148; bound without Physiognomy a Poem by Joseph Bartlett Portsmouth: printed by William Treadwell 1810 pp. 19 1; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; last gathering extended; good and sound. It has been asumed by some including me that Physiognomy a Poem was issued with Aphorisms. The contemporary binding on this copy with no evidence of any removal belies that assumption. The book is dedicated "To all my enemies . I now most humbly supplicate that you would take this little volume into your malignant keeping I pray you to oppose it do all you can to destroy it . don't fear my anger or my vengeance be inattentive to my mortification and be regardless of my distress: I know your goodness your friendship and attachment and rest assured that your most vigorous opposition and your most virulent slander will be duly appreciated and receive the proper acknowledgment." American Imprints 19474; Sabin 3760. printed at the Oracle Office unknown books
1851rif. 89584New York: Harper & Brothers 1851. 1st American ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis engraved 2nd title-page map 32 steel-engraved plates vi 2 218p. plus 2p. publisher's adverts. Original gilt-decorated blue cloth. 26cm. Partial tear in lower corner of tissue guard for frontis. Former owner's name "Joseph K. Brick" of Brooklyn N.Y. on recto of blank following free front endpaper. An appealing copy. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1988rif. 86847New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company 1988. 1st ed. Hardcover. Fine. 305p. Original black leather. 22cm. Faint lettering title etc. on backstrip. Copy No. 19 of an unstated number which were SIGNED by Giamatti on a special printed page bound in preceding the title-page No jacket presumably as published. W. W. Norton & Company hardcover books
1851rif. 83975London 1851. Paperback. Very Good. 38p. Softcover in original wrapper. 22 cm. Modest gnawed or torn area at center of top edge of front cover and first few pages. Laid in is an orange pasteboard ticket "Lecture on the Lands of the Bible. Admit the Bearer". An illustrated 66-page version was also published -- we don't know if there were any differences in the text. paperback books
1864rif. 46446Boston: Little Brown & Co 1864. 12mo pp. x 480; near fine copy in original green cloth. Presentation copy from Bartlett inscribed on the front pastedown to Joseph A. Willard "from his friend and brother the author or editor. Aug. 27 1864." A year prior to the publication of this edition Bartlett had joined Little Brown and in 1878 became senior partner. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
1848rif. 44581New York: Bartlett and Welford 1848. First edition 8vo pp. xxvii 1 412; original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt spine; a few cracks to spine; hinges reinforced preliminaries foxed else very good and sound. Late 19th-century bookplate on front pastedown contemporary ownership signature on title page. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. Bartlett and Welford unknown books
1849rif. 44402New York: Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith 1849. First London issue the book appeared under the New York imprint only in 1848; lg. 8vo xxviii & 412pp. bookplate on front pastedown front hinge separated at joints cracked at joints chipped at extremities paper label on spine rubbed and partially perished with loss of half of lettering the 12 shilling price remains; otherwise clean and reasonably bright in original blue cloth. Uncommon edition. Vancil p. 20. Bartlett and Welford. London: John Russell Smith unknown books
1848rif. 44488New York: Bartlett & Welford 1848. First edition 8vo expanded to small folio xxvii 1 412; the whole interleaved in folio throughout; 20th-century quarter brown morocco over marbled boards; generally fine; judging from the soiling on the page edges this copy was interleaved at an early date much earlier than the relatively modern binding but there are no annotations on the interleaves. This popular and influential work went through four editions the last in 1878 and was translated into Dutch and German. After Pickering's Vocabulary of Words Peculiar to The United States 1815 which treated a mere 500 words no significant work on Americanisms appeared until this work of Bartlett which Mencken calls "the first attempt at a comprehensive dictionary of Americanisms." Kennedy 11380; Sabin 3738; Vancil p. 20. Bartlett & Welford unknown books
1977rif. 78659New York: Arno Press 1977. Hardcover. Near Fine. frontis illustrations maps 2 folding and 2 double-page index 555p. Original blue cloth. 22cm. Corner bumped. No Jacket. America and the Holy Land Arno series. Reprint of the 1879 New York edition. Arno Press hardcover books
1884rif. 24610New York: Geo. A. Leavitt 1884. 8vo pp. viii 434; fine in recent mustard cloth printed paper label on spine. Includes a 4-p. account of Murphy and his library and more than 3100 lots. Mackay 3051. Geo. A. Leavitt unknown books
1928rif. 32099New York: Scribner's 1928. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 3 519; original red cloth gilt lettering on spine; spine sunned else very good. Bookplate of John H. Barnes. Scribner's unknown books
2011rif. 9033870Chicago: University of Chicago 2011. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Translated and edited by Bartlett and Minkov. First English language edition. Bound in black cloth with spine stamped in silver. Book and illustrated dust jacket are both in fine condition with a tight binding and clean pages. 6 x 9 inches. 167 pages. University of Chicago hardcover books
1983rif. 89264Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press Inc 1983. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; 277pp. Inscribed by editor on front endpaper: "For Janet & Nathaniel with best wishes on your move shhh!!! to Santa Fe / Lee Bartlett Aug. 5 1983". From the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Collection of Everson's forewords and afterwords including those from "These Are the Ravens" "River-Root" "Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury" and "Cawdor / Medea". 89264. The Scarecrow Press, Inc unknown books
1937rif. 88166Chicago and New York: M.A. Donohue & Company 1937. First Edition. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xvi128pp; frontispiece portrait with black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations throughout. Portsmouth Atheaum bookplate May 1987 with withdrawn stamp to front pastedown. Modest shelf-wear with light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $2.00 lightly tanned with modest rubbing and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Former Governor of New Hampshire focuses on The Bonus Army in Capital Hill and the resulting federal reflief with attention to his personal account and secondary sources. Includes 18 photographs of veterans and their loved ones. 88166. M.A. Donohue & Company unknown books
2020rif. 9033257Cambridge UK: Cambridge University 2020. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Illustrated in black and white. 6 x 9 inches. 660 pages. Cambridge University hardcover books
1973rif. 86485Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1973-1974. First Editions. First Printings wrappered issue. Two octavo volumes 22.75cm; original pictorial card wrappers; 1112-1644; 1112-1613pp. Faint production crease to rear wrapper of Vol.I else a clean Fine set. An attractive set gathering Steins uncollected writings spanning the years 1914-1946. MORROW & COONEY 162a & 171a. 86485. Black Sparrow Press unknown books
1987rif. 85704Albuquerque 1987. Quarto. Comb-bound manuscript with clear acetate covers; variously paginated. Xerographically reproduced from typescript. Inscribed on cover sheet: "For Nathaniel / one of three copies of the uncorrected MS - " signed dated 2/5/87. Fine with Tarn's editorial markings throughout and occasional author's corrections in ink. Bartlett's magisterial study of William Everson based on original research as well as dozens of interviews during Everson's lifetime remains the standard biography of the poet. Bartlett a poet editor and Professor of English at the University of New Mexico is considered the greatest authority on Everson; among his numerous published books on the poet are the current title published by New Directions in 1988; William Everson: A Descriptive Bibliography 1977; Benchmark and Blaze: the Emergence of William Everson 1979 and several others. This one of three uncorrected pre-publication manuscripts of The Life is inscribed to Bartlett's friend and New Mexico colleague the poet-translator Nathaniel Tarn. PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from Tarn's library in Santa Fe New Mexico. unknown books
1991rif. 86749New York: W.W. Norton & Company 1991. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii292pp. This copy from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 inscribed to him by the editor on the front endpaper: "For Nathaniel & Janet / some literary lust and gossip - with best love in late May 1991 / Lee." Tarn's pervasive light pencil annotations appear throughout the text. Near Fine in a lightly rubbed Near Fine dustjacket priced $27.50. An interesting association copy; Tarn and Rexroth were friends occasionally read together and Rexroth once called him "One of the most outstanding poets of his generation." 86749. W.W. Norton & Company unknown books
1999rif. 9031691Thrupp UK: Sutton 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated in color and black and white. 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches. 270 pages. Sutton hardcover books
