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1893réf. 460705Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Stout quarto. 1120pp. Illustrated. Folding map affixed to rear pastedown advertisements. Blue decorative cloth stamped in black and gilt. Modest soiling on the boards a very good copy. W.B. Conkey Company hardcover books
1834réf. 436962Connecticut New York Ohio 1834. Very Good. A small archive consisting of one two-page narrative letter and 10 loose sheets about 20 holograph pages of miscellaneous writings by Moses Kimball including one page with pen and ink illustrations. Modest toning and a few tiny tears three manuscript sheets are partially split at the folds including one with a neat Japanese paper tape repair about very good overall. Born in Connecticut in 1741 Moses Kimball served in the Revolutionary War as a soldier under Brigadier General Samuel McClellan 1781-82. A devout Universalist he taught navigation and civil engineering and was a prosperous land owner in Norwich Connecticut. The letter and miscellaneous writings of poetry and short sermons retained here date from the last two years of his life when he left Connecticut to live with a grandson in Norwalk Ohio. In the letter written to a friend in Connecticut Kimball describes in detail his 15-day journey undertaken in May 1835 from Poquetanuck to Norwalk: He left via sloop for Albany then traveled along the Erie Canal and completed the last leg of the trip by steamer on Lake Erie. In his verse and short sermons he lays out his strong Universalist beliefs and philosophy of life. He died happy at the age of 93 in December 1835 just a few weeks after his arrival in Norwalk. A few extracts from the letter together with a sample of his verse follows: 1. ALS. 2pp. Small quarto. Norwalk October 14th 1835. Addressed to John Harkness at Preston Connecticut: "My good friend having an opportunity to give you some account of my journey to this place I gladly embrace it. It is a beautiful country suitable for farming a rich soil . We have an academy of learning for young gentlemen with 108 scholars and another for young ladies with 98 female scholars . We left Poquetanuck the 11 day of May & arrived at my Grandson Moses Kimball's the 25 of May. We went in a sloop . to Albany there I saw great improvements . They have made an Island in the river half a mile long . forming a basin between that & the main land with draw bridges at each end. There we left the sloop and entered on board a canal boat and past on our way drawn by horses day and night. Thus we past on up to Little Falls . and so on to Fort Stanwix . there at the height of land we left the Mohawk River and past a flat level country for 60 or 70 miles without a lock. The country all low and intersected with drowned land . and all along this wet country where the land rose a little . there would be some inhabitants settled with a bridge or two over the canal . when we got to Lake Erie at Buffalo we left the canal boat and got into a steam boat the largest vessel that I ever saw . this boat that cost thirty-five thousand dollars my grandson Moses owns one-tenth part . When we came over the lake . there were seven hundred passengers in her . So you see it is no wonder she earns money . ." 2. Miscellaneous Verses and Short Sermons 1834-35: 10 octavo sheets/about 20 holograph pages including one page with pen and ink illustrations. The following is quoted from a poem written by Kimball on his ninety-third birthday "May 17 A.D. 1834": This day my years are Ninety-three The time is past & gone from me Brought into being here to stay To wait for time to pass away . And when my earthly body dies To God my spirit will arise And live with him and there remain Till Souls to bodies join again . A compelling and historically important small archive of writings that also serve as a testament to Kimball's remarkable physical health and mental acuity. unknown books
1962réf. 421779New York: Collier Books 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. First Collier Books edition. Mass market paperback. Foreword by Perry Miller. Modest edgewear near fine. Collier Books BS 52. Collier Books unknown books
1998réf. 417462New York: Vintage Books 1998. Softcover. Fine. First edition Vintage paperback original. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. Vintage Books unknown books
1817réf. 412850London: Published by J. Taylor 1817. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Quarto. pp. 1 2-16; 1 2-8 publisher's catalogue. With an engraved title leaf and 36 engraved plates. Original boards with printed labels. Stains on the boards and titlepage spine partially perished dampstain to the gutter at the head of the spine and scattered foxing on the plates a good copy. Presumably very uncommon in boards. Published by J. Taylor hardcover books
1810réf. 413795Haverhill Massachusetts 1810. Softcover. Near Fine. Partially printed letterpress documents. 154 documents p. 5 28-177 all but the first five documents are hand-numbered by Wingate. Each document is filled out in the hand of Moses Wingate in his capacity as Justice of the Peace of Haverhill. Formerly bound with sewing and glue marks along the spine otherwise the documents themselves are mostly near fine or better with a few of them exhibiting small chips or tears. Each document contains the names of the adversaries and usually the decision by default which is filled out and Signed by Moses Wingate. A few have extensive notes on the verso but most are straightforward defaults. We suspect most of the plaintiffs were businessmen or shopkeepers and most of the defendants were defaulters on small accounts. Wingate born in 1769 was a distinguished resident of Haverhill in Essex County near the New Hampshire border who lived to more than 100 dying in 1870 and who cast a vote in every presidential election from Washington to Grant. He was at various times a member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives and Senate and Justice of the Peace of Haverhill for nearly half a century. Among the plaintiffs here represented is publisher and printer Daniel Appleton founder of the important publisher D. Appleton and Company; as well as members of the locally prominent Carlton Minot Emerson Ingersoll and Whittier families John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill in 1807; at least three different Whittiers are named here presumably relatives. An interesting historical insight into business and justice in the early days of the Republic. unknown books
1837réf. 408536Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton 1837. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 15 1pp. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing else very good or better. Printed by Gales & Seaton unknown books
1968réf. 410040Amherst Massachusetts: Massachusetts Review 1968. Softcover. Near Fine. Magazine. Small Quarto. 203pp. Perfectbound. Illustrated with black and white plates by James Jacques Tissot. Creases on the spine near fine. Notable contributors include Sterling Stuckey A. Ambrose V. Holesovsky W.R. Moses M. Goldman and others. Massachusetts Review unknown books
1969réf. 215958Piscataway New Jersey: Pharmacia Laboratories 1969. Softcover. Very Good. Reprint. Chapter 37 only. 883-978pp. Illustrated. Stapled wrappers. Covers with light edgewear very good. Reprinted from the author's 1969 Gastroenterologic Medicine published by Lea & Febiger Philadelphia. Pharmacia Laboratories unknown books
1861réf. 381919Portland: Published by the Author. For Sale by Bailey & Noyes 1861. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 349 1 errata pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Contemporary owner's name slight nicks at the crown a handsome very good copy. Published by the Author. For Sale by Bailey & Noyes hardcover books
1940réf. 329736Norfolk Connecticut: New Directions 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine with tanned endpapers in a near very good dustwrapper with a browned spine age-toning on the panels and light edgewear. The first commercial book appearance of these five poets preceding Berryman's and Jarrell's own separate first books by two years. New Directions hardcover books
1975réf. 318038Saint Louis: The C.V. Mosby Company 1975. Hardcover. Very Good. Sixth edition. Quarto. 702pp. Owner's name on front fly corners bumped cloth lightly soiled else very good. The C.V. Mosby Company hardcover books
1745réf. 273905London: John Moon 1745. Hardcover. Fair. Second Edition. Full leather. Fair with well worn and stained boards and spine front board detached spine shows some loss contemporary owners name and date on torn pastedown title page and rear end paper loose overall internally good with first four pages torn and chipped at edges a few sporadic tears and spotty browing. John Moon hardcover books
1940réf. 101090Norfolk CT: New Directions 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. The first book appearance of these five poets. New Directions hardcover books
1967réf. 3733Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press 1967. Limited Edition. 62pp. Octavo 23.5 cm Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Illustrated pastedowns. This book was the first printed history of Dakota. This edition was limited to 526 copies this is copy 196. Ye Galleon Press unknown books
1773réf. S13775London:: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly 1773. 1773. Sm. 8vo. xxxvii 3 136 pp. Engraved frontispiece. On page 121: "Inscribed to Mr. Betteroth". Original calf rebacked with handsome new spine and red morocco gilt-stamped spine label. Bookplate of Hastings Nathaniel Middleton. Some minor ink annotations to the title. Very good. Originally issued in 1729 under a slightly different title and then again reissued in 1739. This is the third edition. "Brown was an enthusiastic angler and in 1750 at the suggestion of Dr. Johnson brought out an edition of Walton and Cotton's "Compleat Angler". . . MOSES BROWNE 1704 – September 1787 was a pen-cutter from Clerkenwell London England who became a poet and eventually rose amongst the ranks of the Church of England. He made various contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine founded by Edward Cave at St. John's Gate in 1731 who awarded Browne several prizes for his contributions. Browne mixed with some distinguished literary figures of his time including befriending Samuel Johnson. Browne was appointed vicar of Olney Buckinghamshire in 1753. In 1764 Browne took on the post of Chaplain at Morden College in Blackheath London. He remained vicar of Olney at the same time as vicar of Sutton Lincolnshire until his death in 1787. See: John Bartlett Catalogue of Books on Angling: Including Ichthyology . . . 1882 page 15; DNB III pp. 52-3; Thomas Westwood Thomas Satchell Bibliotheca piscatoria a catalogue of books on angling. . . 1883 pp. 43-4. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. unknown books
1931réf. 564753Boston: Little Brown and Company 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth gilt. A little spotting on the boards very good. Inscribed on the front fly to author Barrett H. Clark: "The old old story my dear Barrett - another! Sincerely Montrose J. Moses." Clark was an exceptionally important figure in modern American drama aside from authoring many books he served as the longtime literary editor for the drama publisher Samuel French. Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1965réf. 560963Middletown Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press 1965. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. Foxing to the endpapers some rubbing and light wear to the wrappers very good. Author's first book. Poetry. Wesleyan University Press unknown books
1915réf. 59904Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1915. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. x 429pp index3pp. ads. Light offsetting to endpapers else a very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1960réf. 2337348New York: The Heritage Press 1960. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 14x10x1. Vertes Marcel. Includes slipcase and Sandglass insert number X:26. Slipcase and spine lightly toned and lightly soiled. 1960 Large Hardcover. xxvii 96 pp. Two-color illustrations by Marcel Vertes. Translated into English verse by C.S. Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas. "Publius Vergilius Maro 70-19 B.C. known in English as Virgil was perhaps the single greatest poet of the Roman empire-a friend to the emperor Augustus and the beneficiary of wealthy and powerful patrons. Most famous for his epic of the founding of Rome the Aeneid he wrote two other collections of poems: the Georgics and the Bucolics or Eclogues. The Eclogues were Virgil's first published poems. Ancient sources say that he spent three years composing and revising them at about the age of thirty. Though these poems begin a sequence that continues with the Georgics and culminates in the Aeneid they are no less elegant in style or less profound in insight than the later more extensive works. These intricate and highly polished variations on the idea of the pastoral poem as practiced by earlier Greek poets mix political social historical artistic and moral commentary in musical Latin that exerted a profound influence on subsequent Western poetry. The Heritage Press hardcover books
1944réf. 51701Tel Aviv: Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa 1944. First printing. Hardcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. 89pp. Rebound in burgundy half cloth over marbled paper boards with decorative motifs in gilt along seem gilt lettering on spine. Treatise written in 1944 introducing proposals for the Jewish post-war claims offering a systematic and concrete examination of the sections into which the problem of Jewish post-war claims naturally falls and indicating the direction of international legislation to be prepared. The essay presents the line of argument raises the question of nationality and representation of Jewish demands based on general law the Jewish collective claim and the body representative of the Jewish people claims of Jews from countries other than Germany and suggeststs steps to be taken in 1944. The appendices provide information on the discussion and publication of the reparations problem citing Oswald Dutch E. H. Carr Jakob Viner and others from the early 1940s on as well as figures demonstration the reparations problem after W.W.I. Binding with minor wear along edges. Block age-toned. Irgun Olej Merkaz Europa hardcover books
1925réf. 500610Boston: Little Brown and Company 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. xviii 474pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Spine toned a few pages with minor foxing lower hinge neatly strengthened corners and spine ends slightly bumped and fraying about very good lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Barrett H. Clark an influential dramatist author editor and critic. Clark has initialed the title page as well as the rear fly with the phrase "read & marked"; with his underlining throughout and penciled notes on the rear endleaves. One of Clark's works is referenced in the bibliography. A nice association. Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
1962réf. 265463Elisabethville 1962. unbound. Rare and intriguing letter 11.75 x 8.25 inches Cabinet of the President Elisabethville November 6 1962 in English written during his pseudo reign to anti-Communist supporters in Miami Florida recovering from their failure to overthrow Fidel Castro and the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis in full: "I have not much time to write I shall only tell you and your friends how pleased I have been to receive your kind letter. I really do appreciate your sympathy for my Country and myself thanks for your good wishes." Fine condition. Congolese radical Politian who in 1961 became President of the Government of the Province of Katanga eventually seceding from the rest of the Congo. He succeeded in getting military assistance from Belgium and was responsible for Patrice Lumumba being transferred to Katanga where he was executed. After U.N. forces re-captured Katanga in 1963 Tshombe was driven into exile in Northern Rhodesia. He briefly returned as Prime Minister a year later but was eventually dismissed. In 1967 Joseph Mobutu filed charges of treason against him and he was sentenced to death. unknown books
1957réf. 252439NJ: Princeton University Press 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Name blacked out with marker on top of front end paper which shows up slightly on half title page spine ends very lightly rubbed a very light hint on browning on page edges dustwrapper shows light browning of spine and cover edges small tear on bottom corner of back cover a few small brown spots on back cover. Princeton University Press hardcover books
1847réf. 2518361847. unbound. 0.75 x 9.5 inches no place no date circa 1847 -- a narrow entry removed from a muster roll signed: "H.M. Judah - Captain & co. Commander." Docketed on verso: "Staff - 4th Infantry." Signed at the time when such notables who served with the 4th Infantry included U.S. Grant James Longstreet Philip Sheridan George Crook and Delaney Floyd-Jones. Very good condition. Union Brigadier General and Indian fighter best remembered for his role in helping to thwart Morgan's Raid in 1863 and for leading a disastrous attack during the Battle of Rescara. Note: Henry Moses Judah was not Jewish. His father was a Parish Minister in an Episcopal Church of which Henry was a member of the congregation. He fought with bravery and distinction during the Mexican War but suffered heavily during the Indian campaigns and Civil War due to his raging alcoholism. He died at age 45 and is quite scarce in autographic material. unknown books
