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1964ref. 628361New York: Simon and Schuster 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. First printing wrappered issue. Small quarto. Spine a bit toned rubbing to the edges and scattered light wear on the rear wrap very good or better. A collection of photographs from the Civil Rights Movement prepared in cooperation with SNCC many of the photos taken by Danny Lyon. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1983ref. 467760New York: New American Library 1983. Softcover. Very Good. First paperback edition. Trade paperback. Edited by Robert Nemiroff. Introduction by Julius Lester. Printed wrappers. Page edges a bit toned and a little rubbing on the wrappers very good or better. Includes three plays: Les Blancs The Drinking Gourd and What Use Are Flowers. New American Library unknown books
1775ref. 1417571London UK: John Boydell Engraver 1775. Pastoral landscape etching in mezzotint on wove paper with inscription along bottom edge with publishing details listed no. 103. Very good minus condition with foxing along bottom edge and some age toning concentrated around lower left corner. Etching measures 8.5 x 10.5in. and mat is 16.25 x 20in. Wrapped in clear plastic protection. English mezzotinter Richard Earlom was commissioned by John Boydell in 1774 to create the two volume collection "Liber Veritatis" etchings of all 200 drawings by artist Claude Lorrain. Praised for their faithful detailed reproduction of the originals they were recommended by drawing teachers to study technique particularly educational among English watercolor artists of the time. 1417571. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Boydell Engraver unknown books
1912ref. 25822London: Lather Pioneer Mission n.d. 1912. Second edition small 8vo pp. xii 274 1; frontispiece portrait map and 14 plates showing 29 photographic illustrations; very good sound copy in original green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Pioneer missionary among the Lakhers a tribe of eastern-most India south of Assam this text deals with the Lather people from Mizoram and the role of the Lather Pioneer Mission in their development. Lather Pioneer Mission, n.d. unknown books
2021ref. 11001Condesa Mexico: Lorena Velazquez 2021. Limited Edition. Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. "With the lockdown we had to shut ourselves away. This is when I decided to observe the building opposite. I chose to invert the images as negatives in order to respect the identity of my neighbors which offers a completely different interpretation when reading the images. The city of Paris appears lifeless. Our expectations are filled with fear. Fear to face the unknown. Enclosed spaces no longer make sense. Knowing the other becomes valuable. We asked ourselves many existential questions during this time of great fragility. We lived through a bizarre time with so much solitude nothingness and despair when faced with the number of deaths around the world. In this context scientific advances take on an unusual scale and acquire great importance in the fight to overcome the darkness." artist statement. Bright and unmarred. Unusual structure altered accordion fold mixed media print photo fabric; housed in a red cloth box with cut-through. 29.5 x 13.0 x 13.5. np. Illus. color and b/w plates. Numbered limited edtion of 12. Signed by the artist. Lorena Velazquez unknown books
1970ref. 44235Houston: Published by the authors 1970. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very good. Octavo 22.8 cm pp. 622. Illustrated wraps green red and blue. Vol I: Life and Remarkable Military Career of Lt. G.C. Doane Vol. II: Discovery and Exploration of Yellowstone / Doane's Journal Vol. III: Winter Exploration of The Snake River / Doane's Journal. Frontispieces and numerous black and white illustrations photos and maps. Each volume with fold-out maps two in volume II. An extensive documentation of the life explorations and journals of Gustavus Cheyney Doane Civil War officer early explorer of Yellowstone and the Snake River and a regimental commander partly responsible for the Marias Massacre. Light rubbing to wraps else fine. Published by the authors paperback books
1949ref. 413909Bronx New York / Bethlehem New Hampshire / Arlington Virginia / Miami Florida 1949. Unbound. Near Fine. A collection of 219 letters 12 postcards and 14 greeting cards between Lorraine Horty Silbiger and Gerry Gersten in 1948 and 1949 during their summers apart from each other along with one 4” x 3” black and white photograph. All items are near fine with light creases from being mailed with clear handwritten and typed text. Gersten 1927-2017 grew up in the Bronx not far from Silbiger 1929-2002. While neither of his Polish Jewish immigrant parents supported his desire to be an artist Gersten persisted attending the Cooper Union Art School and Cooper School of Design. He found success starting in the 1960s as a caricaturist drawing for The New York Times New York magazine Sports Illustrated Time Newsweek Harper's Rolling Stone Esquire Playboy and later MAD Magazine from 1986 to 2009. Gersten and Silbiger married in 1951. During the summers of 1948 and 1949 Gersten worked in Bethlehem New Hampshire at the Park View Hotel bussing tables. During that time he wrote love letters to Silbiger who spent her summers traveling to Arlington Virginia and Miami Florida with family and friends. The couple wrote to each other nearly every day. Both Gersten and Silbiger were going to school for art and their letters to each other are covered in doodles and cartoons of them kissing chasing after each other with plenty of hearts. One particularly adorable drawing by Gersten features the couple kissing on a park bench holding a large heart with their initials inside. Another is of him being held in her arms in the apartment. In one letter Silbiger writes: “I looked at my face in the mirror. My mouth looks different since you haven’t been kissing me. I guess my mouth misses you also.” Gersten’s letters are usually about lamenting his job at the hotel and the guests not tipping him “I used to light his cigarettes with your lighter. The ingrate never knew how close to heaven he was.” But more so he pines for his faraway girlfriend and later wife “I had planned to wait twelve days before answering your letter. I thought I’d play it hard and take you down a full two pegs but I couldn’t hold out. The longer I take to write means I have to wait that much longer for an answer from you. I’m a shadow of my former self. I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t sleep.” During the first summer Gersten counts “pegs” for every couple days he goes without a letter from Silbiger teasing her that she is slacking on writing letters. He affectionately calls her “Horty” “Bigger” and “Tzib” while his nicknames are “Cubbles” and “B.B.” for Beautiful Busboy. While the letters aren’t lewd a few hint at being more adult “Tonight I’m taking a shower to worship my hair – close your eyes and start thinking – dirty boy… Marry me” Included in one letter is a photograph of Silbiger lounging in her bathing suit on a bench by the beach. The pair frequently sent each other post cards and clippings of cartoons from newspapers and magazines. Often their initials will be written on the cartoon characters especially if the cartoon depicts a couple. Silbiger sends little cards illustrated with puppies hearts and kiss marks she also kissed a couple of the envelopes and letters that she sent with lipstick. Some of Silbiger’s letters contain various ephemera. One example is an unopened Pixie: X Ray Roundup bubblegum stick with a small collectable card of Guy Madison starring in When a Man’s a Man. Some other items includes a U.S. Navy recruitment letter from 1945 when Gersten was 18 a physical examination sheet with Gersten’s information on it and a typed poem from Jimmie J. Schneider referenced in some letters from Silbiger as one of her other suitors. An extensive collection of love letters between two young artists in the days following World War II. unknown books
2006ref. 49549Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006. Very Good/Very Good. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006. First Edition Stated. Thick octavo 23cm; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; xxvii1865pp.; halftone illus. Moderate wear to margins notably at bottom fore-edge corner of rear cover else a Very Good and sound example. Cambridge University Press unknown books
1997ref. 13798New York: Times Books 1997. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Inscribed to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell first edition of Nothing's Impossible by Lorraine Monroe. Octavo xii 236pp. Speckled hardcover title in gilt on red spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page with full number line beginning with "2." Solid text block light wear to edges of spine a fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket $23.00 retail price on front flap a fine example. Signed on the front free endpaper "Feb. 10 1998 / Dear Gen. Powell We're about the great work of transforming people's lives. God bless you in your endeavors. Enjoy my book. Sincerely Lorraine Monroe." Colin Powell 1937-2021 served as the United States Secretary of State during the George W. Bush administration the first African American to hold the post. He also served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan 1987-1989 and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989-1993. Powell was discussed as a possible Republican presidential contender in 1996 and 2000 but he declined to run both times. He passed away in 2021 survived by his wife of nearly 60 years Alma Powell. Times Books hardcover books
1954ref. 47083Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press 1954. Very Good/Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company the Riverside Press 1954. First American Edition first impression. Octavo; Walter Lorraine-illustrated dust jacket with flaps lettered in red; blue cloth stamped in gilt; yellow-orange topstain; 423pp.; fold-out map to rear. Dust jacket chipped along edges and spine; dampstaining along spine principally visible at verso; rubbing. Shelfwear to boards; staining along edges of front board and spine; binding sound; moderate to heavy foxing to endpapers and edges of textblock; interior else unmarked; still a Very Good copy. The first volume of Tolkien's epic fantasy was praised by some W.H. Auden and Naomi Mitchison and derided by others Edmund Wilson in his "Oo Those Awful Orcs!" article but nevertheless it remains one of the most popular and beloved works of the twentieth century. Scholar Tom Shippey believes Tolkien's work more than mere escapism observing ".his continuing appeal rests not on mere charm or strangeness. but on a deeply serious response to what will be seen in the end as the major issues of his century: the origin and nature of evil;. human existence in Middle-Earth without the support of divine revelation; cultural relativity; and the corruptions and continuities of language." First printings of either the Mifflin or the Allen & Unwin editions rather scarce in retail. References: Hammond A5 b.i Tom Shipped "J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century." Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 2001. p. IX. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press unknown books
1997ref. 53948New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0786704144 . A Fine first Carroll & Graf edition/first printing in an alike dust-jacket; When Mei-Ling's mother dies she is sent to live with her father in a small town in Taiwan. Mei-Ling is excited to start a new chapter in her life but she quickly realizes that her father doesn't want her around. She spends her days exploring the town and the gardens that surround it. One day she stumbles upon a beautiful flower garden and decides to make it her new home. Mei-Ling grows flowers and herbs in the garden and learns to enjoy the simple things in life. When her father finds out about her new sanctuary he is upset but eventually comes to accept it. Mei-Ling grows closer to her father and learns to appreciate the beauty of the flowers in her garden.; 8vo; 401 pages; MR . Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. hardcover books
2004ref. 1693Stated First Edition/First Printing; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only trivial shelf wear. SIGNED by the author on the title page. An outstanding copy of this debut novel from the highly acclaimed Adams. Not remaindered not price clipped not ex-library; in archival protection. Knopf hardcover books
1959ref. 140946801New York: Random House 1959. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. xii 142 pp. Bound in publisher's tan half cloth with paper-covered boards and mounted photo of actor Sidney Poitier. Near Fine with minor rubbing to spine ends former owner's name in blue ink on the front free endpaper light smudge to margin of half title page. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with toning to spine panel but not the usual fading minor rubbing to covers with tape repair to crown at verso. A great copy of the classic play inspired by Langston Hughes' poem with the lines "What happens to a dream deferred Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun" set in the South Side of Chicago. Random House unknown books
1959ref. 140947613New York NY: Playbill 1959. Near Fine. Signed by Lorraine Hansberry on the front cover. Bound in publisher's stapled pictorial wraps. 48pp. Near Fine with light toning light wear and small spot of staining to front cover. The play had opened in 1958 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger the brother At this point Ossie Davis had replaced Poitier and the play had moved to the Belasco Theatre. Items signed by Hansberry are scarce; the playwright died at age 34 of pancreatic cancer. Playbill unknown books
1948ref. 140946791Chicago: Engelwood High School 1948. First Edition. Very Good. The high school year book of A Raisin in the Sun author Lorraine Hansberry pictured on page 36 and inscribed by her "Good Luck & Best Wishes" with an arrow pointing to her printed name. Hansberry also appears on page 105 in a group portrait of the school's debate forum. Another nationally known author appearing in these pages is Sam Greenlee on page 55; he has not signed this yearbook. Bound in publisher's original padded leatherette embossed pictorial cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good with wear to extremities three vertical lines to the rear cover lightly soiled light foxing to textblock edge. Tear to bottom gutter at rear Autographs page. Additionally signed throughout by many classmates. Owner's name William Sharp to title page and front pastedown. Although she does not appear here in the rolls of the school's drama club Hansberry was just 11 years away from being the first Black woman to have a play produced on Broadway. She died tragically young at age 34 of pancreatic cancer; items signed by her are scarce. Engelwood High School unknown books
1959ref. 140945078New York: Random House 1959. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Original tan half cloth with paper-covered boards and mounted photo of actor Sidney Poitier. Near Fine with slight lean to binding light wear to corners and spine ends foxing to several preliminary leaves at the edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear with a short tear to the bottom edge of the rear panel and shallow chipping to spine ends toning to spine and browning to the blindside light foxing to flaps. Random House unknown books
1989ref. 47667New York: Doubleday 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Advance Review copy with letter laid in. Quarto. Introduction by Walter Cronkite. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Doubleday hardcover books
2016ref. 42669New York: Green Zone Editions 2016. First Edition. Near fine. First printing chapbook of prose poems by Lupo. From an edition of 300 copies. Wraps. Small 8vo. Printed saddle-stapled wraps. Near fine. Trivial surface rubbing. Interior bright crisp and clean. Unpaginated. Green Zone Editions paperback books
1964ref. 1395658New York New York: Simon & Schuster 1964. First Edition First Printing. Softcover. Quarto 127 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Spine is white with black lettering. Wraps have mild general scuffing and rubbing wear moderate creasing and two small closed tears along head edge. Inscribed "To dear Mrs. Challinor who is fighting for 2 things: good photography / civil rights" and dated "April 1965" by an unknown owner on front page. 1395658. Special Collections - Downstairs. Simon & Schuster unknown books
1971ref. 508324New York: Samuel French 1971. Softcover. Very Good. Acting edition. Adapted by Robert Nemiroff. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Sticker shadow on front cover with owner label on verso toning on the spine and edge of rear wrap very good. Samuel French unknown books
1943ref. 346195Rio de Janeiro: Empresa "A Noite 1943. Pamphlet. 30p. stapled wraps 6.25x9.25 inches evenly toned staples heavily rusted wraps lightly foxed and stained center two leaves separated but present. Text in Portuguese. Sections on New York Philadelphia Baltimore and Washington DC plus a brief section on the US's "cult of liberty" and its actions in WWII. Empresa "A Noite unknown books
1974ref. 240327Association for the Study of Negro Life 1974. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners spine and cover edges lightly browned small white spot on front cover possibly paint top corner of rear cover bent. Association for the Study of Negro Life unknown books
1974ref. 240325Association for the Study of Negro Life and Histor 1974. Softcover. Good. Good in wrappers. Paperback lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners browning of spine and cover edges. Association for the Study of Negro Life and Histor unknown books
1946ref. 135830Racine Wisconsin: Whitman 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Later. Illustrated by Hedwig Jo Meixner. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Dustwrapper and book are slightly worn on the edges. Whitman hardcover books
1985ref. 138943New York: Sedgewood Press 1985. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Very light smudges on front endpaper; dust jacket has very light rubbing at spine ends corners folds. Sedgewood Press hardcover books
