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1802réf. 262991Baltimore: Printed for Thomas Andrews & Butler. W. Pechin & S. Sower 1802. First American edition of the author's first published work. iv 7-172; 155 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound to style in quarter brown calf and marbled boards preserving contemporary red morocco spine label. Foxing throughout very good. First American edition of the author's first published work. iv 7-172; 155 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Garside Raven & Schowerling: 1789:64 mentioning this edition and another in NY in 1802 ; Loeber and Loeber pp. 1134 Location: NUC InND Loeber coll; Block p. 200; Summers p. 163 first edition; Printed for Thomas, Andrews & Butler. W. Pechin & S. Sower unknown books
1883réf. 68938London: Publisher not printed on title pages 1883. Subscriber's Copy. Hardcover. Good. 565; 659pp. Quarto 29.5 cm Green cloth over boards with lettering in gilt and black and blind ruled borders on the backstrip and boards. Underlying boards exposed occasionally along the edges. Endpapers cracked along the hinges and hinges weak. Date in pen on front endpapers near the hinge. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedowns. Tiny numerical notation on the title pages. Text block of volume 2 cracked at the center. Lacks chart. Plate III Map Ancient India and Adjoining Countries has a 4 1/2" tape repair to the reverse. May require extra postage due to weight. Includes detailed information on Tree Worship Serpent and Phallic Worship Fire Worship Sun Worship the Early Faiths of Western Asia and Faiths Exhibited by Western and Eastern Aborgines. James George Roche Forlong 1824-1904 joined the Indian Army in 1843. He was appointed as an Engineer in the army based in Myamar in 1852. In the years 1858-9 he travelled widely in Egypt Palestine Syria Turkey Greece Italy and Spain. Subsequently his engineering skills continued to take him to numerous other locations. He later retired and began writing on comparative religions. "Rivers of Life" is his major work. Publisher not printed on title pages hardcover books
1969réf. 55917New York: Vantage Press 1969. First edition. Very good plus in a very good jacket. Garrulously inscribed first edition of this scarce self-published first-person account of life on the road with the Chicago Outlaws. Unassuming factory worker George "Rock Conte" Mitchell falls in with the notorious Chicago Outlaws seemingly out of nothing but curiosity: "I had never met or encountered anything which split my imagination as this group did." He published this account with Vantage Press at his own expense reporting credulously and forgivingly on the gang "many of the stunts they pulled off just didn't seem to make any sense . I had seen only one member smoke marijuana" some of whom were also seen and heard from in Danny Lyon's THE BIKERIDERS. Inscribing the book six years after publication Conte echoes the also presumably self-penned jacket copy in comparing his mission to that of John Howard Griffin in BLACK LIKE ME but OUTLAWS FOREVER brought no publicity to the divide between the straight world and that of the riders. Perhaps because HELL'S ANGELS had already claimed it all for Hunter S. Thompson several years before. OCLC locates just six scattered holdings. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black cloth boards silver stamped spine. In original unclipped $4.50 pictorial jacket. 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. 216 pages. Inscribed to front free endpaper: "To / Rob & Sue: / I feel like 'John / Howard Griffin' author of / 'Black Like Me'. There is / always another side to a story. / Sometimes one may pay a / dear price & suffer but one / should never give up. / I wish the two of you the best of everything and hope / your dearest dreams come true. / Sincerely Your friend / Always / Rock Conte / 5-24th-75." Jacket lightly toned with minor soil and few small chips. Faint toning to text block. Bit of pushing to spine tail. Overall sound and clean. Vantage Press unknown books
réf. 55097Antwerp: De Schutter 1978. Limited Edition. #287 of 510 copies. Elephant folio 56cm. In half red morocco boards covered in red cloth titled in gilt on spines and on red leather labels on front boards; plain endpapers; vol. I: 9 6-156 4pp; vol. II: vol. II: 6 5-122 4pp; vol. III: 6 5-125 3pp; vol. IV: 1-13 14-387 3pp; with 179 color plates vol. I: 57; vol. II: 60; vol. III: 54; vol. IV: 8. Bilingual edition vol. IV with French and English on facing pages. A beautiful clean set with slight fraying to edges of cloth on vols II and IV one or two minor bumps to corners and head caps and one or two small spots to cloth; contents clean and bright near fine; overall: Very Good or better. A lavish full-size facsimile of the best-loved work of the great botanical illustrators Pierre-Joseph Redouté 1759-1840. Les Roses produced under the patronage of Empress Josephine is simultaneously a scientific compendium and a work of art. This edition is a "complete facsimile reprint of the three folio volumes of the original" edition printed by Didot from 1817-1824 with a fourth volume of biographies bibliographies commentaries and an English translation of the original French text. NOTE: this is a large heavy volume and may not be possible to ship to all destinations. If you wish to place an order from outside the United States please inquire before purchasing. De Schutter unknown books
1914réf. 548772New York: The Knickerbocker Press 1914. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 148pp. Frontispiece and 10 plates. Blue cloth binding titled in gilt. Partially unopened with just a hint of foxing and a few small nicks at the bottom edge of the front board and the foot of the spine very good. Inscribed by the author: "To Mrs. Emerson Compliments of Emma Langdon Roche." Roche born into a prominent Mobile Alabama family wrote this book the first to be based on interviews with Cudjoe Lewis also known as Kazoola a survivor of the Middle Passage as a captive on the last known slave ship Clotilda which a group of Americans used to illegally import slaves into Alabama in 1860 from present day Benin more than a half century after the suspension of the Atlantic slave trade. This book includes a photograph of Lewis and his wife Abache as well as drawings of Cudjo Abache and other survivors. This book was used by later researchers and writers as a resource about the residents of Africatown on the outskirts of Mobile and the history of the Clotilde. Zora Neale Hurston then a student of anthropology interviewed Cudjo Lewis and other Africans in Alabama as part of her research. She published an article in 1927 "Cudjo's Own Story of the Last African Slaver" purportedly based on her interviews with Lewis but later thought to be mostly derivative of Roche's text in Historic Sketches of the South. Exceptionally scarce source material and rarely found signed. The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
réf. 5510Chicago: Cameron Amberg & Co. Printers ca. 1880. Illustrated chromolithographic broadside with map 21.25” x 13.125” plus margins inset map measuring 4.5” x 5.875” illus. measuring 3.25” x 12.5”. CONDITION: Very good margin chipped at upper right corner a few minor stains. A rare and striking broadside issued by the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway advertising the Rock Island through-express route and promoting the railroad’s numerous destinations connections and amenities. Featuring the eye-catching mix of typefaces and colors that characterized railroad advertising in this era this attractive broadside promotes the numerous midwestern stops and destinations accessible via the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R’y. At this time two through-express trains for Kansas and Nebraska ran daily in connection with the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and Union Pacific railroads. As noted here meals were served in palace dining cars for seventy-five cents each and 150 pounds of baggage were allowed on each full ticket and seventy-five pounds on each half ticket free. The line’s various destinations included Iowa City Council Bluffs Denver Salt Lake City and San Francisco as well as “all points in Kansas Nebraska Colorado Arizona New Mexico Utah Montana and California.” Showing the Rock Island R.R. in bold the inset map spans from Chicago and Lake Michigan in the east to Omaha and Council Bluffs in the west and reaches from St. Paul in the north to St. Louis and Kansas City in the south—with Lake Michigan lying in the upper-right corner. One axis of the line extends from Milwaukee and Racine Wisconsin to Leavenworth Kansas and another stretches from Chicago to Omaha. Various spurs connect to both. The lower section of the broadside features a marvelously detailed illustration of the interior of a palace dining car showing numerous fashionably dressed passengers seated and dining among African American waiters who are shown in the small kitchen and serving food. In the far-right end of the train men are depicted in drawing rooms—reading newspapers and smoking—and various railway operators and ticket-men appear at the ends of the car. Also included is a table of connections with various railroads that could be made in “Union depots.” Through-tickets via this route could be found on sale at all coupon offices in the U.S. and Canada. Those seeking additional information folders maps and times-tables are encouraged to contact any of the ten agents and managers of the Rock Island R.R. listed at the bottom who were based in New York Toronto Philadelphia Chicago etc. Established in 1847 as the Rock Island & LaSalle R.R. the company was reincorporated in 1851 as the Chicago & Rock Island R.R. Co.—its rails during this period reaching to Morris Illinois and later Ottawa. After acquiring the Mississippi & Missouri R.R. in 1866 the company was renamed Chicago Rock Island & Pacific R.R. Co. Expanding between 1873 and 1882 the company built more branch lines that reached into Iowa as well as Kansas City. In 1880 the firm was reorganized under the name Chicago Rock Island and Pacific R’y Co. and by 1883 extended nearly to the southern boundary of Kansas. After Congress granted passage across Indian Territory in 1887 the Rock Island R.R. began developing through Texas to Galveston as well as New Mexico Territory. During the 1920s the railroad enjoyed considerable success. In 1926 the company began constructing a freight line between Amarillo Texas and Liberal Kansas which was finished in 1929 and served to make accessible a country of rich grain. While the railroad industry continued fairly steadily through 1930 between 1931 and 1935 the Depression took a toll on the Rock Island R.R. and went into decline. The company ceased operation in 1980. OCLC records just one copy held at Yale. REFERENCES: “Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railway Records” at Kansas Historical Society online. Chicago: Cameron, Amberg & Co., Printers, [ca. 1880] unknown books
1760réf. 263025Babylon Paris 1760. First. hardcover. fine. Two parts in one volume. 16mo old calf later rebacked in leather; marbled end-leaves & edges. Babylon i.e. Paris 1760. First Edition. Fine. A fantasy voyage comparable to Gulliver's Travels and often considered an early work of science fiction predicting both photography and television. Early writing on the title page identifies the author as "M. Tiphaigne Medecin" and notes that the title is an anagram of his name. unknown books
1924réf. 2729Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. First edition. Original wrappers. Very Good. FIRST EDITION of Roche's surreal dadaist roman à clef exposing the misogynistic world of the French avant-garde. With annotations likely in Roche's hand. Like too many women artists of the early twentieth century French writer and artist Juliette Roche 1884 - 1980 has been long overshadowed by her male contemporaries. Roche came of age amidst leading artistic and literary salons of early 20th century Paris. She studied at Académie Ranson then considered the absolute best art school in Paris and was an early adopter of Cubism. However she is most closely associated with Dadaism. Despite Dada being a movement of absolute rebellion it harbored the normalized misogyny of the early twentieth century. Roche's most explicit critique of this discrepancy of rebellion vs repression can be found in La Minéralisation de Dudley Craving Mac Adam her groundbreaking novella. Part satire and part Dada nonsense the thinly veiled roman à clef is a prime example of the daring poetic style that Roche developed while living in New York during World War I. Having watched artistic vanguards come and go in Paris' salons and exhibitions Roche observed the New York City hijinks of Francis Picabia French 1879 - 1953 and Marcel Duchamp 1887 - 1968 with a level of detachment that alluded their American peers. She had close access to Picabia perhaps too close: in 1917 he and his wife Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia moved into an apartment directly beneath one Roche shared with her husband Albert Gleizes a French artist and philosopher who helped popularize Cubism on the Upper West Side. While Roche admired Picabia's iconoclasm she was disturbed by the misogyny she saw in works like his manometres where woman as 'la machine' was at best a manipulable object at worst the butt of a private joke. If taking Roche's ambivalence towards and her neighborly proximity to Picabia into consideration the novella could be inspired in part by an age-old story: pure contempt of one's neighbor. The novella is an indirect indictment of certain illicit behaviors Roche found annoying and dangerous. She synthesizes her fellow expatriates' personalities and physical traits to create the decadent Mac'Adam and the men he encounters on the day of his demise. Picabia becomes Mac'Adam. Swiss writer and boxer Arthur Craven 1887 - 1918 lends his name to the protagonist while becoming Lloyd Willow. Juliette Roche herself appears as Juliette Granite a play on words since roche means rock in French. Roche spins the narrative in poetic and surreal fragments at turns absurd and others told in a stream-of-consciousness style. La Minéralisation moves beyond conventional storytelling to allow readers into the minds of her characters through rich interior monologues revealing in each case her estimation of the particular model's idiosyncrasies. Roche seemed to find the antics of the all-male world of the Dadaists to be too limited and they're wickedly satirized among these pages. Written in ink on the first page is "Publié dans 'La Vie des Lettres' en 1921 / New York 1918" and there are a few words written on page 20 in the same hand. It appears to be Roche's handwriting from the few samples we've seen but we can't guarantee it. Paris: Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost 1924. Thin octavo 33pp terminal blank original printed wrappers stapled as issued; custom box. Small tear and split at top of spine; a near-fine extremely well-preserved copy. EXCEEDINGLY RARE: We can find records of no other copies that have been on the market. References: Burke Carolyn "Recollecting Dada: Juliette Roche." Women in Dada: Essays on Sex Gender and Identity edited by Naomi Sawelson-Gorse MIT Press 1998 557. Imprimerie Croutzet et Depost unknown books
réf. 140949360Guildford UK: Genesis Publications 2013. First edition. First edition trade issue. Signed by Lou Reed and Mick Rock on title page; copy #453 of 2000 total. One of the few early copies in the non-deluxe issue comprising copies numbered 351-2000 and not having a laid-in print to get Reed's signature before he passed away. Unpaginated. Folio. Bound in publisher's black leather with gilt white green and red stamping; vinyl picture disc laid in pocket at rear. Fine with just a hint of rubbing to gilt Near Mint album in a Fine slipcase housed in publisher's cardboard mailing box. Complete as issued. The heyday of the former Velvet Underground frontman's solo period in photographs. Showcases several of Lou's album covers beginning with Transformer one of the most iconic images of modern music. The book also features unseen outtakes studio sessions spontaneous shots and friends including Andy Warhol Mick Jagger Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Genesis Publications unknown books
