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1820réf. 55522New York: Printed by G.L. Birch & Co. 1820. Essays by Mordecai Noah An interesting work on saving and thrift by a consequential American diplomat. Most of the essays blame poverty and bankruptcy on moral faults such as reckless spending and devotion to fashion. Among the examples of moral failings Noah offers are rowdy teens at a late-night oyster house and Wall Street wives bidding recklessly at a silverware auction. Mordecai Noah 1785-1851 was U.S. Consul in Tunis during the Barbary Wars and as such was responsible for freeing American seamen. Noah was notable as one of the first Jewish Americans to hold an important diplomatic post and was ultimately removed from office for anti-Semitic reasons. He was editor of the National Advocate in New York for over a decade beginning in 1817. 16mo. Modern paper-covered boards leather label. Leaves a bit tanned else very good. SHOEMAKER 2557. WOLF UNRECORDED JUDAICA 50. BAL 14997. hardcover books
1942réf. M3702Baltimore:: Williams & Wilkins 1942. 1942. 221 x 147 mm. 8vo. ix 134 pp. 20figs. indexes. Red cloth. Bookplate of Harold Owens. Very good. Williams & Wilkins, 1942. hardcover books
réf. 05993Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. 1850. Jokes in Poor Taste CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé. Turlupinades Contrariétés et Autres Amusemens Négatifs Jokes in Poor Taste Par Cham. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie. ca. 1850. First edition. Folio 13 1/16 x 9 3/4 inches; 331 x 249 mm. Hand-colored lithographed title and fifteen full-page hand-colored lithographed plates with captions. Publisher's original yellow cloth over yellow boards printed in black and bronze. A very fine copy. OCLC locates just four copies worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum; New York Public Library; Getty Institute; University of Illinois. CHAM pseudonym of Amédée de Noé 1818-1879. French caricaturist and lithographer published his first book Monsieur Lajeunesse in 1839 and from 1843 began to be regularly published in illustrated magazines such as Le Charivari which in 1835 focused primarily on publishing satires of everyday life thereafter becoming one of the most popular of French caricaturists through entertaining storybooks such as this work which satirized 'jokes in poor taste.' Several artists "followed in the wake of Daumier and Gavarni. Among the most attractive of the former is Amédéé de Noé "known as Cham that is Ham the son of Noah.it was said that he had 'an idea a day' for Le charivari. A good proportion of his thousands of lithographs were gathered into albums. His contributions to the Album du siège 173 in which Daumier was his collaborator are typical of his work" Ray pp. 155-156. Cham had contacts with English artists many of whom had trained on the Continent most in company with English artist and follower of the pioneering German lithographer Alois Senefelder. The Plates: 1. Tout ça c'est bel et bon! It's all well and good! 2. L'éducation es tune bonne chose! Education is a good thing! 3. Hardi! Conscrit la patrie a les yeux sur toi!. Daring! Conscript the fatherland has its eyes on you!. 4. Je veux que mon fils ait un prix! I want my son to have a prize! 5. Mes papiers.mes papiers! My papers.my papers! 6. Tiens tiens elle était pressée c'tte lettre Well well she was in a hurry that letter 7. De de quoi.de de quoi!. From what.from what!. 8. Malheureux! Tu me feras blancher avant l'âge. Unfortunate! You will make me white before my age. 9. Enfin j'en tiens un!. Finally I got one!. 10. Non vous ne vous trompez pas! No you are not mistaken! 11. Je risqué tout tant pis pour moi! I risked everything too bad for me! 12. Ah! Vous êtes ambitieux! Ah! You are ambitious! 13. Qué bonheur m'ssieu! What happiness sir! 14. Cré coquin mes chemises neuves. Naughty creation my new shirts. 15. Y sont drôles les maitres! The masters are funny there! Bobins IV 1349. Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., 1850 unknown books
1994réf. 233168Little Brown & Co 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover with two-toned green and white paper-covered boards. Externally light shelfwear and dust jacket has archival protective wrapper. Internally light sun toning to the endpapers but otherwise clean has a good binding no marks or notations. 470 pages. CS Little Brown & Co hardcover books
réf. 1882First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket in as new unread condition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A pristine copy of this Edgar Award winning novel somewhat scarce signed in F/F condition. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in archival protection and will ship in a sturdy box. Grand Central Publishing hardcover books
1843réf. 4964Montpelier VT: E. P. Walton n.d. but after 1843. Last Revised Edition. Acceptable. 12mo 18 cm; 168 pages. Woodcut frontispiece title page with woodcut ornamental border and seven woodcut vignettes in text. Bound in quarter cloth over printed boards with title page reproduced on upper board. Worn and thumbed yet sound and entire. Published in the year of the author's death. E. P. Walton hardcover books
1828réf. 140938425New York: S. Converse Printed by Hezekiah Howe New Haven 1828. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Complete in two volumes. Contemporary mottled calf with black morocco spine labels lettered in gilt with the "Additions and Corrections" leaf bound at the end of Volume II; November 28 Advertisement absent as is nearly always the case. Engraved frontis provided in sympathetic facsimile lacking tissue guard. Internally Very Good with offsetting and several instances of penciled marginalia. Previous owner name in light pencil on title page. One of only 2500 copies. An extremely important early declaration of American cultural identity which heralded the nation's linguistic independence from Britain inspiring the many dictionaries that to this day carry Webster's name. S. Converse, Printed by Hezekiah Howe, New Haven unknown books
1808réf. List2316Hartford: Hudson and Goodwin 1808. Letterpress broadside measuring 13 x 7 ¾ inches. Some slight toning near fine overall. Fine. A broadside announcing the candidates for the United States House of Representatives a list which includes Noah Webster. Webster received 212 votes in the preliminary election in May enough to get him a spot on the ballot but lost in the general election in a generally difficult time for Federalist politicians. Webster experienced a religious conversion during this period after being a not particularly devout Congregationalist earlier in his life and embraced the church completely perhaps due to the death of his infant son in 1806. Webster would run again for U.S. Representative in 1810 1812 and 1816 losing each time and eventually abandoned politics his last office held being in the Connecticut House of Representatives ending in 1807 shortly before his first campaign for national office. We find no record of this broadside in OCLC or other ephemera relating to Webster's political career in Connecticut in the trade. The collected acts from this session were published in octavo format but we find no other record of this broadside printing. Hudson and Goodwin unknown books
1794réf. 26415Worcester MA: Leonard Worcester 1794. Very Good-. Worcester MA: Leonard Worcester 1794. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 28pp. A4 B-C4 D2 collated and complete; woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Spotting to title page and final leaf serving as wrappers stitching loose and gatherings starting to separate else a Good to Very Good sound copy. Contemporary ownership signature of an Ebenezer Hill at head of title page. Early work by the American Congregationalist minister later turned Unitarian and pacifist. Quite uncommon with none in the trade as of May 2023 and last seen at auction in 1914. ESTC W20491; EVANS 28131; SABIN 105267. Leonard Worcester unknown books
1882réf. 09608NOAH WEBSTER Houghton-Mifflin 1882 first edition spine lightened three very tiny nicks to the head of the spine else a tight vg copy in the publishers original cloth with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt gold-gilt lettering to the spine and front cover as well as an engraved frontispiece of Webster by F. Halpin Part of the AMERICAN MEN OF LETTERS series edited by Charles Dudley Warner. Houghton -Mifflin hardcover books
1926réf. 12464TIP SAMS OF KENTUCKY AND OTHER POEMS AND DRAMAS The Canterbury Club 1926 first edition vg in attractive dust-wrapper with some wear and tear and some chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities. The author was declared the Poet Laureate of Kentucky and indeed this book of quaint Kentuckiana was published in Lexing-ton Ky. Signed by the author. The Canterbury Club unknown books
2002réf. 22795Edison NJ: Castle Books. 2002. Reprint. Hardcover. orig 1998 Fine in fine dust jacket.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 548 pages . Castle Books hardcover books
1814réf. 1406529Northhampton: Printed by William Butler 1814. Other. Octavo 32 unbound pages. In Poor plus condition in clear plastic sleeve. Binding has been removed leaving the pages loose. Without cover. Text block has age tanning to paper marginal notation in ink through page 5. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office Case #2 - New Ephemera Box #5. 1406529. FP New Rockville Stock. Printed by William Butler unknown books
1868réf. 623307Albion New York: The Orleans American 1868. Unbound. Very Good. Large broadside extra. Measuring 23" x 27½". Text in nine columns printed recto only. Old folds a few tiny pinholes at the folds and tiny edge tears a bit of foxing a nice very good or better example. The final 1¼ columns filled with news stories mostly political and the poem "The Bride's Dream" by J. E. Carpenter reprinted from Bentley's Magazine. Noah Davis 1818-1902 a Republican was running for Congress to represent New York's 28th District to replace Lewis Sulye who was not running for reelection. Davis' speech addresses the negative effects of the Democratic Party on the Reconstruction Acts and takes to task the Democratic nominee for President Horatio Seymour who was opposing Ulysses S. Grant in the 1868 election. Davis was elected to Congress in 1868 and served until July 1870 when Grant appointed him U.S. District Attorney for Southern New York. He later served as a justice on the New York Supreme Court presiding over the trials of William H. "Boss" Tweed sentencing him to 12 years for embezzlement and interfering with municipal elections cf. DAB. The Orleans American was a weekly published in Albion New York from 1832 to 1943 the final 33 years under the title Orleans American and Weekly News. A large handsome Reconstruction-era New York political broadside. Seemingly not recorded separately by OCLC. The Orleans American unknown books
1836réf. 1409440New Haven: S. Babcock 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. 6mo 155 pages. In Good minus condition. Quarter-bound in cloth with blue paper boards. Boards have stains age toning moderate rubbing wear and age toning throughout. Textblock has cracking to hinges a tear to the front free end page some pages are partially detached throughout ink writing to rear pastedown foxing throughout and age toning and wear to edges. Shelved in Room A. 1409440. Special Collections - Upstairs. S. Babcock hardcover books
2014réf. 47734Richmond: Chop Suey Books Books 2014. Very Good. Richmond: Chop Suey Books Books 2014. First Edition stated with full numberline. Quarto 23.5cm; illustrated boards; 260pp; color photos & illus throughout. Boards edgeworn with some scattered smudging and spotting. A bit of offsetting to title page along top and fore-edge. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Signed by Scalin without inscription on full title. Chop Suey Books Books unknown books
1990réf. 243613New York: Norton 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Former owner's name on front endpaper. Norton hardcover books
1958réf. 160612New York: Macmillan 1958. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Macmillan hardcover books
1969réf. 200613New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book club. Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean text with light soil on edges cloth covers are clean spine lean dust jacket is worn on edges and corners. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1990réf. 252694New York: Norton 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Both hardcover and dust jacket are in overall nice clean condition. Norton hardcover books
1988réf. 194141New York: Doubleday 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Nice copy. Doubleday hardcover books
1982réf. 239414New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition. Very good or better in very good dust jacket; Book shows slight bumping dust jacket shows slight rubbing/bumping. Doubleday & Co., Inc hardcover books
1969réf. 204695New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book club. Very good in very good dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1908réf. 196153New York: American Book Company 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good. Rubbed and slightly frayed at spine ends and corners. Cover yellowed along edges. American Book Company hardcover books
1965réf. 200609New York: McGraw-Hill 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Very good/-. Clean text cloth covers are rubbed on corners spine is sunned back cover soiled and rubbed lightly text edges browned. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
