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1923Best.-Nr. 30617Soho: Nonesuch Press 1923. Edition limited to 725 copies this no. 619 8vo pp. 20 52 4; 7 engravings by Gooden including the engraved title-page; original parchment-backed paper-covered boards gilt lettering on spine; small snag in the front joint edges rubbed marginal tear in leaf B3; all else very good. Nonesuch Press unknown books
1864Best.-Nr. 23084New York: Sold at 13 Park Row and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices 1864. 8pp caption title disbound a bit of blank margin wear Good. At head of title: 'Document No. 12.' This Democratic Party campaign pamphlet portrays President Lincoln as an incompetent military strategist who perpetually "interfered with General McClellan both when he was general-in-chief and afterward when he commanded the brave Army of the Potomac." Worse Lincoln has "The Taint of Disunion." He not McClellan the Democratic presidential candidate supported the Jeffersonian right of revolution in a speech during his single term in Congress. He and other "ultra abolitionists" are the "original secessionists and disunion men." George McClellan wants the rebel States to return to the Union but Lincoln's policies render that impossible. Lincoln "regards the States as dead and gone. He magnifies and strengthens the position of the Richmond dynasty" by seeking to negotiate "only with Jefferson Davis." Monaghan 326. Not in LCP. Sold at 13 Park Row, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices unknown books
1863Best.-Nr. 1272681863. Washington D.C. March 12 1863 effective September 9 1862. Engraved document on vellum 352 x 450 mm completed in manuscript signed by Abraham Lincoln and countersigned by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton and with blue War Department seal intact. Docketed by Lorenzo Thomas "L Thomas" in top right corner. Lightly age-toned folding creases some extra toning in lower margin. Very good. § A well-preserved Lincoln-signed commission for William Rufus Terrill 1834-1862 a Virginia-born West Pointer who stayed with the Union and his Northerner wife while his family went with the Confederacy. Terrill won notice commanding artillery at Shiloh and was appointed brigadier general of volunteers on September 9 1862 taking command of the 33rd Brigade Army of the Ohio. A month later on October 8 1862 at the Battle of Perryville he was mortally wounded by an artillery shell while trying to hold his brigade's line. He was 28. This commission is dated more than five months after his death suggesting it was issued as a formality with the appointment dated back to his original date of promotion. His younger brother James a colonel in the 13th Virginia Infantry was killed at the Battle of Bethesda Church on May 30 1864 serving the Confederacy. He too had been nominated for brigadier general; the Confederate Senate confirmed the appointment the day after his death. Another brother Philip also died in Confederate service. Civil War folklore long maintained that their grieving father William Henry Terrill erected a memorial stone for his sons bearing the inscription: "This monument erected by their father. God alone knows which was right." In God Alone Knows Which Was Right: The Blue and Gray Terrill Family of Virginia in the Civil War McFarland 2010 historian Richard Armstrong disproves the folklore but records a fitting chronicle of the tragically divided Virginia family and the high cost of their Civil War service. unknown books
1860Best.-Nr. 41812Chicago: Press & Tribune Office 1860. Caption title as issued. 44pp. Stitched. Widely scattered light foxing. Several ink signatures on title page of an early owner named B. Greenwood with some bleedthrough. Otherwise Very Good. Printed in two columns per page. At head of title: "PRICE 5 Cents per Single Copy; $3.00 per Hundred; $25.00 Per Thousand." Housed in an attractive brown cloth box with gilt-lettered spine title. The "stenographic report" Monaghan of the country's most significant political convention with a record of all activities including speeches platform and the balloting for President and Vice President. Unlike modern conventions the winner of this one was far from clear. Several formidable candidates-- including Seward Chase Bates and Fremont--- stood in Lincoln's way. Although he had planned his strategy with great intelligence Lincoln was a true 'Dark Horse.' "Instead of attending in person Lincoln was represented by his friend and campaign manager Illinois judge David Davis whose initiative and deal-making skills despite his candidate's disapproval of such behind-the-scenes maneuvering is widely credited with his eventual nomination. Davis did however follow Lincoln's instruction in forming their general strategy as he maneuvered throughout the building nicknamed The Wigwam. "To make up for his meagre resume compared to Seward and Chase his team thought it prudent to not go on the attack against the frontrunners and instead become 'everybody's second choice.' through the convention's ranked voting system. His campaign also used the convention to start forging Lincoln's image as the Rail-Splitter a reference to his working-class background and a potential golden opportunity to appeal to the common laborers in the industrial Northern states who stood to benefit the most from the Republicans' Free Soil ideology. They also made direct appeals to delegates from the critical swing states of Pennsylvania and Indiana. When voting began on the 18th Davis and his allies felt confident in their chances to pull ahead. The first ballot placed Seward predictably with the highest vote total of 173.5 but not enough to win a majority while Lincoln followed with a total of 102. The second round bumped Lincoln's total number of votes to 181. The momentum on Lincoln's side continued to surge into the third round where Lincoln received a total of 231.5 votes still not enough to be nominated until David Cartter leader of the Ohio delegation announced his decision to switch support from Chase to Lincoln making him the 1860 Republican nominee for President" American Battlefield Trust 'Inside the Wigwam'. Ante-Fire Imprints 504. Monaghan 76. Sabin 65894. Press & Tribune Office unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 87998Madison Minnesota: The American Writers Against the Vietnam War / the Sixties Press 1966. First Edition. Softcover with publisher's prospectus for The Sixties laid in. Octavo 21cm; blue paper wrappers; 45-631pp. This edition includes a black-out effect to front wrapper and throughout text as the "The blackout spaces are in mourning for the poems of E.E. Cummings for which permission was refused by Harcout Brace" see copyright page. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good. Collection of verse includes Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "Where Is Vietnam" William Strafford's "Watching the Jet Planes Dive" and Robert Creeley's "For No Clear Reason". 87998. The American Writers Against the Vietnam War / the Sixties Press unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 88358n.p.: Privately Published 1986. Softcover with A.L.s. dated 1986 from translator laid in. Quarto 28cm; yellow paper wrappers with mylar overlay to front wrapper; printed on recto only; 112pp. Trivial surface wear else Near Fine. Collection of verse by Sutzkever and Manger translated to English by Wolfe includes "Song About an Ant" "I Know Now the Taste" "On the Kolomay Station" and "In the Smoke of My Grandfather's Pipe". This is a typed manuscript sent in advance to Nathaniel Tarn the noted poet translator and anthropologist 1928-2024. The laid-in letter discusses this work requested by Tarn and Wolfe's plans for them to meet again soon. 88358. Privately Published unknown books
1865Best.-Nr. 40934Washington: Designed & Drawn by Bruff. Engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole 1865. Engraved broadside invitation 10-1/2" x 7-1/2" printed on heavy card stock engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole Designed & Drawn by Bruff to the Ball celebrating the second inauguration of President Abraham Lincoln and the inauguration of Vice President Andrew Johnson. The name of the invitee is not filled in. Light browning minor blank corner chip Good plus. We have seen several other examples of this broadside: they are in pristine condition and in our opinion are modern facsimiles. Govern yourselves accordingly! The invitation has engraved portraits of Lincoln and Johnson flanked by two iconic American Eagles perched atop Corinthian columns. The Eagle on the left holds a rattlesnake in its beak reminiscent of the "Dont Tread on Me" flag. The pillars rest on three steps labeled "1777-83" "1812-15" and "1860-65." Beneath the portraits a three-column list of Managers is printed including prominent political and military figures of the time such as outgoing Vice President Hamlin Generals Grant Sherman Thomas Sheridan Doubleday Winfield Scott Hancock and Admirals Farragut and Porter. "E Pluribus Unum" and "We Are One and Indissoluble" are inscribed on banners wrapped around the columns The 1865 Inaugural Ball was held on March 6 1865 not March 4 at the Patent Office in Washington D.C. now home to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. OCLC records about ten locations under several accession numbers. Designed & Drawn by Bruff. Engraved by Dempsey & O'Toole unknown books
1926Best.-Nr. 6332New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1926. First edition. Near Fine. Number 22 of 260 copies printed on Dutch Charcoal Rag Paper numbered and signed "Carl Sandburg" by the author. Two octavo volumes 9 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches; 241 x 161 mm. xvi 480; vi 482 pp. Bound in publishers cream buckram over blue boards spines with printed paper labels blue endpapers top edge gilt others uncut. Spines very slightly darkened otherwise a near fine partially unopened set complete with the publishers duplicate labels at the end on each volume. Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865 was the 16th President of the United States and remains one of the most seminal figures in American History. During his tenure which was cut short by his assassination in 1865 he saw the country through the Civil War and stewarded Emancipation. Carl August Sandburg's 1878-1967 biography The Prairie Years traces the early part of Lincoln's life and the formation of a man who would go on to be president up until his move to Washington. Sandburg would also publish additional volumes covering Lincoln's war years. Hailed as a voice of American Sanburg would win one of his three Pulitzer Prizes for this compelling biography. Monaghan 2877. Near Fine. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 80806Amsterdam: L.J. Veen's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V. 1946-51. Quarto 29cm. Quarter linen over marbled boards containing 44 consecutive issues with original front and rear wrappers bound in individual issues ranging from 8pp to 24pp. Generally good and sound; a few leaves with tape old tape repairs; later issues have been trimmed with occasional loss to printed cover titles but no loss to text. Photo-illustrated throughout. First three issues without editorial attribution; later issues attribute editorship to Abraham van der Vies Rudolf Eschder Albert Bocai Paula Balma and L. Hornstra. Text primarily in Dutch. Uncommon post-war Dutch dance journal billed on its masthead as "The first magazine in the Netherlands devoted exclusively to the dance." Provides extensive coverage of both classical ballet and modern choreography and performance from a global perspective including numerous articles on American dancers and choreographers such as Ted Shawn Katherine Dunham Maria and Marjorie Tallchief Martha Graham and others. Included in the run is a July 1950 extra number devoted to the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of Stravinsky's Petrouchka. The journal appears to have run until 1958. Quite scarce; OCLC notes about six locations all in the Netherlands. L.J. Veen's Uitgeversmaatschappij N.V. unknown books
1994Best.-Nr. 9030090New York: Gryphon 1994. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original full greenish grey leather with spine and covers stamped in decorative gilt. All edges gilt. Green ribbon bookmark. Marbled endpapers. Privately printed for the members of The Classics of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Library. Former owner's bookplate provided by the publisher is tipped in and can be removed upon request. Publisher's original "Notes from The Editors" booklet is also provided. One of the foundational books in psychiatry and the behavioral sciences. 5 7/8 x 9 inches. 336 pages. Gryphon hardcover books
1776Best.-Nr. 49282London: J. Buckland 1776. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; removed; 467pp.; title page serving as upper cover printed within single heavy funereal rule. Very Good and sound overall. Funeral oration by the nonconformist hymn writer including a detailed account of the agonizing death of the young Calvinist Thomas Wilton who appears to have suffered from an infected abscess. ESTC T94248. J. Buckland unknown books
1680Best.-Nr. 46842London: J.M. for Henry Herringman 1680. Sixth Edition. Quarto 30.5cm.; contemporary blind-tooled calf rebacked to style with period endpapers; mixed paginations 1 a-c4 B-3C4 3D2 3E-3Y4 3Z2; engraved portrait frontispiece by William Faithorne decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Boards show evidence of treatment mid-20th century ex libris of an Andrew Davis to front pastedown else a Very Good or better quite attractive copy retaining the contemporary boards. Printed by John Macock according to ESTC R14069; WING C6654. J.M. for Henry Herringman unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 35553V.p. 1907-1921. Five volumes bound in one; octavo 23.75cm.; later black cloth gilt-lettered spine. Fine condition. Contents as follows: 1. Sigmund Freud. Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens "Gradiva." Leipzig: Franz Deuticke 1912. Second Edition. 287pp. 2. Karl Abraham. Traum und Mythus: Eine Studie zur Völkerpsychologie. Leipzpig: Franz Deuticke 1909. 273pp. 3. A. Müller. Bismarck Nietzsche Scheffel Mörike: Der Einfluß nervöser Zustände auf ihr Leben und Schaffen. Bonn: A. Marcus & E. Webers Verlag 1921. V31026adspp. 4. Tim Segaloff. Die Krankheit Dostojewskys: Eine ärztlich-psychologische Studie mit einem Bildnis Dostojewskys. München: Ernst Reinhardt 1907. 54pp. 5. L. Frank. Die Psychanalyse ihre Bedeutung für die Auffassung und Behandlung psychoneurotischer Zustände. München: Verlag von Ernst Reinhardt 1910. 47pp. unknown books
1833Best.-Nr. 31283Philadelphia: James Kay Jun. and Brother 1833. First Thus. Large octavo 22.5cm.; full contemporary speckled calf two black gilt spine labels; 557pp. Boards a bit shelf-worn with old soil spots corners lightly bumped textblock a bit foxed and soiled numerous contemporary and later 1930s ownership inscriptions to front endpapers else a Very Good example. "University Edition" - bottom spine label. Collected lectures delivered by Blair during his tenure as the Chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at the University of Edinburgh first published in London in 1784 shortly after the author's retirement. James Kay, Jun. and Brother unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 29684London: I. Labworth & Co. 1965. First Thus. Octavo 22cm.; original black cloth upper cover lettered in gilt; xxxi224pp. English and Hebrew text on opposite pages. About Fine. Inscribed to Ben Shahn to front free endpaper: "For Chanukah 1965 to Ben. Have a good cry about the daughter of Zion. / Masha and Moishe." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label mounted to front i.e. rear pastedown. [I. Labworth & Co.] unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 9022853Worcester MA: Achille J. St. Onge 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in publisher's original full green oasis goatskin with covers and spine stamped in gilt. Miniature book measuring 2 x 3 inches. One of 1500 copies printed from Momotype Plantin type on Barcham Green hand made all rag paper at the Chiswick Press and bound by Sangorski and Sufcliffe. Achille J. St. Onge hardcover books
1979Best.-Nr. 9005983Franklin Center: Franklin Library 1979. Hardcover. Fine Condition. The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature. Bound in the publisher's original green composition leather with the covers and spine stamped in gilt and with an oxblood leather spine label stamped in gilt. Three raised bands on the spine. All edges gilt. Silk moire end papers. Franklin Library hardcover books
1975Best.-Nr. UHOLTOW00ajsOctogon 1975. Fine. Holtzman Abraham. The Townsend Movement: A Political Study. Cohen introduction Wilber J. NY: Octogon 1975. 256pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Navy cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Octogon hardcover books
1865Best.-Nr. 31223New York. May 5 1865. The main news in this edition concerns the ongoing events in the assassination of President Lincoln. A long story from Springfield Illinois reports on the arrival of the funeral procession and there are several stories about the pursuit of the conspirators in the President's murder. One story calls Jefferson Davis "a fugitive from justice with a price set on his head as an assassin." Another long piece brings news from the South as military action in the Civil War winds to a halt. The last page is taken up by an account of the Irish Independence movement and a profile of "Fenians at Home and Abroad." Large folio newspaper. Split along fold with loss to a few words. About very good unopened. unknown books
1865Best.-Nr. 31127New York. April 29 1865. The assassination of President Lincoln on April 14 1865 came on the same day Gen. Joseph Johnston of the Confederacy contacted Sherman to discuss the suspension of operations under similar terms granted to Lee. The present issue of THE NEW YORK HERALD treats both events with an account of Johnston's actual surrender under desired terms along with a relation of the progress of Lincoln's funeral train across America. The previous day the President's body was in Cleveland on the 29th the body was in Columbus. A poignant slice of America at the close of the Civil War. Large folio newspaper. Tanned moderate foxing old folds. Very good. Long E.B. THE CIVIL WAR DAY BY DAY pp.675-76684. unknown books
1804Best.-Nr. 27029New Haven: Printed for the General Committee of Republicans From Sidney's Press 1804. Commemorating the Louisiana Purchase An influential address on the acquisition of Louisiana highly partisan in outlook: "To federalists this territory for which they would have shed blood now seems a barren waste where no verdure quickens; but to us it appears fruitful abounding in broad rivers and streams producing whatever is necessary to our commerce with foreign nations." Shaw & Shoemaker distinguish two printings of this pamphlet the other originating from Hartford. It is just possible that they are one and the same printing. Modern half morocco and cloth. Small old circular blindstamp on titlepage. Light tanning and staining else very good. HOWES B472 "aa." SHAW & SHOEMAKER 5881. SABIN 5596. EBERSTADT 135:496. hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 48669New York: Library of America 1989. Near Fine. New York: Library of America 1989. Special Edition Privately Printed for the members of the libraries of Gryphon Editions. Two octavo volumes 20.5cm; publisher's full blue gilt-tooled goat all edges gilt marbled endpapers; xix1898; xxxiii1787pp. Just About Fine. Volume I covers 1832 to 1858 including the Lincoln-Douglas Debates. Volume II covers 1859 to 1865 including presidential messages and proclamations. Library of America unknown books
2011Best.-Nr. RVERCUT00tpmAlfred A. Knopf 2011. Fine. Verghese Abraham. Cutting for Stone. NY: Alfred A. Knopf 2011. 541pp. Bibliography. 8vo. 1/4 black cloth. Book condition: Near fine. Gently bumped spine ends. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. In dust jacket protector. Signed by Verghese on the title page. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1928Best.-Nr. 624612New York: Macmillan 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Early edition. 12mo. 135pp. Stamp and signature of noted American psychologist Henry Guze a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex else near fine in moderately worn very good dust jacket with small tears. Macmillan hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 13495New York: Garland Publishing Inc 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Arthur Dee 1579-1651 was the eldest son of the Elizabethan magus John Dee. asciculus Chemicus or Chymical Collections. Expressing the Ingress Progress and Egress of the Secret Hermetick Science out of the choicest and most famous authors is an anthology of alchemical writings compiled by Arthur Dee 1579-1651 in 1629 while resident in Moscow as chief physician to Czar Michael I of Russia. Fasciculus Chemicus was revised by Dee sometime between 1631 and 1633 and translated from Latin into English by Elias Ashmole in 1650 under the anagrammatic pseudonym of "James Hasolle." From the personal library collection of Brian Cotnoir alchemist artist and award-winning. filmmaker. Author of Practical Alchemy: Guide to the Great Work The Emerald Tablet a series of Alchemical 'Zines Alchemical Meditations Alchemy: The Poetry of Matter and most recently On Alchemy: Essential Practices and Making Art as Alchemy. He has presented seminars and workshops around the world on various aspects of the alchemy. Khepri Press was started in 2014 as a place to organize and distribute his work. It is a very small press dedicated to alchemical book arts. Some of this work is publishable and others may exist only in manuscript or object form - alchemical results or talismans. Near fine light shelfwear else tight bright and unmarred. 8vo. 115pp. Gray paper/cloth boards. Former owner library stamp. Lacking dj. Annotations on tp. Garland Publishing, Inc hardcover books
