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200446769NY: Delacorte Press 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. 477pp index. Pages tanned else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Delacorte Press hardcover books
2004UBAIHOL00CZCDelta 2004. Good. Baigent Michael. Holy Blood Holy Grail: The Secret History of Christ the Shocking Legacy of the Grail. Leigh Richard; Lincoln Henry. New York: Delta 2004. 489pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Good with smudged and bumped edges. Lightly smudged covers. Delta paperback books
1991ULINHOL00EFArcade 1991. Very Good. Lincoln Henry. Holy Place: Discovering the Eighth Wonder of the Ancient World. New York: Arcade 1991. 176pp. Illustrated. Bibliography. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with gently rubbed edges and a tiny sticker remnant on front free endsheet. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and slightly faded spine. Arcade hardcover books
1993264868San Diego: Sunshine Co 1993. Magazine. 104p. includes covers 5.25x8 inches erotic stories b&w and color explicit photos from gay video companies very good digest size magazine in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. Gay one-hander magazine filled with stories stills from explicit gay videos sex ads personals etc. Sunshine Co unknown books
1933WRCLIT74713New York 1933. VI:4. Decorated wrapper. Plates. Wrapper a bit dust soiled but a very good copy. Contributors to this number include Davidson Wheelwright Charlot Tate Winters Stanford Ben Shahn et al. unknown books
1966159234New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation 1966. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with i.d. marks on book block edges some slight foxing on top edge of book blocks; otherwise crisp and clean. 4 vols. Burgundy cloth blue title block on spine with gilt letters and outlines various paginations BW illus. The first four volumes of the seven-volume reprint set of all issues of this American literary periodical which originally ran from 1927-1934. These four volumes cover Vol. I no. 1 September 1927 to Vol. IV no. 4 July-September 1931. Each issue is chock full of poetry prose artwork book reviews and more from a variety of contributors. Many carry names that are recognizable to us today. Kraus Reprint Corporation hardcover books
193358212Camden NJ: Hound & Horn 1933. Periodical. 8vo pp. 205-376 Paper wraps. Cover soiled partially detached from signatures; edges of leaves somewhat soiled and dog-eared or bumped at corners o/w good. Incudes work by Hart Crane Marianne Moore on Emily Dickinson Ezra Pound Elizabeth Madoc Roberts Allen Tate Hound & Horn unknown books
193358213Camden NJ: Hound & Horn 1933. Periodical. 8vo pp. 377-556. Paper wraps. Cover soiled partially detached from signatures; edges of leaves somewhat soiled and dog-eared or bumped at corners o/w good. Incudes work by Allen Tate Yvor Winters and others. Hound & Horn unknown books
193458062Camden NJ: Hound & Horn 1934. Periodical. 8vo pp. 565-746. Paper wraps. Cover soiled taped at spine partially detached from signatures; edges of leaves somewhat soiled and dog-eared or bumped at corners o/w good. Poems by E.E. Cummings Stephen Spender Eric Schroeder; short article with photos of the United States Hotel at Saratog; essay on Marxism by H. B. Parkes etc. Hound & Horn unknown books
18593483New York: Charles Scribner 1859. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in gilt and blind. Faint spotting to boards and gentle fraying to extremities mostly concentrated to the crown of the spine and upper front corner. Binding tight and square. Buff endpapers. Collating xxix 1 blank 31-363 1 blank: complete. Some staining to pages 312-313 and small marginal stains to pages 349-363 else a surprisingly fresh and clean copy without the typical foxing of the era. Inscribed on the front endpaper by the author in the year of publication: "To one of my earliest pupils Mrs. Martha White Gilbert with ever affectionate remembrance of Almira H. L. Phelps. Baltimore MD Oct. 10 1859." A scarce book institutionally and in trade it does not appear in the modern auction record and is the only copy currently on the market. A testament to Phelps' lifelong dedication to women's education the present copy was given to one of the first girls she ever taught. A meaningful association.<br/><br/>A pioneer in American women's education Almira Phelps began her career tutoring students of the all-male Middlebury College in science mathematics and philosophy. "This experience illustrated the disparity between education available for men and for women and Almira spent the rest of her life fighting for more educational opportunities for females" History of American Women. Joining forces with her sister Emma Willard the founder of the Troy Female Seminary in New York Phelps began to teach rigorous humanities and science courses in addition to lecturing publicly on behalf of women's rights for equal education. Phelps established herself as a frontrunner in the field publishing ten books on the education of women. The present Hours with my Pupils came after decades of experience as she reached the pinnacle of her career. "In 1841 Phelps received an invitation.to take charge of the Patapsco Female Institute in Ellicott's Mills Maryland. Phelps became principal and her husband was the business manager of the Institute which soon attained a great reputation due to its high academic standards. Ever a proponent for the betterment of the education of young girls Phelps focused on creating a curriculum.designed in particular to train highly qualified teachers" Dictionary of Early American Philosophers. Retiring in 1855 and settling in Baltimore Phelps continued her work by publishing activist pieces in national periodicals and books like this. A collection of educational addresses from throughout her career Phelps expresses optimism about what her work can still accomplish: "Go then ye written thoughts speed your way to the hearts of the women of my country.teach them the worth of their own souls!" <br/><br/>Ogilvie's Women in Science 147. History of American Women. Near Fine. Charles Scribner unknown books
1980116909Skokie IL: Black Cat Press 1980. full leather title and author gilt-stamped on spine depiction of Lincoln gilt-stamped on front cover. Miniature Books. miniature book 7.0 x 5.5 cm. full leather title and author gilt-stamped on spine depiction of Lincoln gilt-stamped on front cover. 51 3 pages. Limited to 249 copies. Bradbury Black Cat Press 66. The text of the author's celebrated speech. Publisher's note by Norman W. Forgue. Introductiion by Douglas McMurtrie. Binding by Bela Blau. Black Cat Press unknown books
1916448311916. WRENN CHARLES L. LINCOLN Natalie Sumner. I SPY. Illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn. NY: D. Appleton & Company 1916. 12mo. black cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Lincoln on front endpaper: "Dear Mrs. Dowing To a true friend and friendly critic. With deep affection. Natalie S. Lincoln. Major 2nd Battalion National Service School." Very Good bright newspaper-quality photograph of Lincoln tipped to front pastedown that has resulted in even browning to the front endpaper. $125.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
186525618<p>Frank Leslie published this print as a premium for his new family magazine <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and copyrighted it on April 8 1865 just a week before Lincoln's death. The image created by engraver Henry B. Major and lithographer Joseph Knapp portrays Lincoln flanked by the First Lady and Vice President Andrew Johnson greeting Julia Dent Grant wife of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant who stands nearby.</p><p>According to a notice printed at the bottom right corner "<i>Every Person who pays Ten Cents each for numbers 1 and 2 of Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner The New Family Paper is entitled to a copy of this PLATE without extra charge</i>" or individuals could purchase the print for $3.</p> <b>ABRAHAM LINCOLN.</b>Lithograph. "Grand Reception of the Notabilities of the Nation at the White House 1865" New York: Frank Leslie April 1865. 1 p. 19 x 23¾ in.<p><br /></p><p>In the first issue of <i>The Chimney Corner</i> Leslie described the "Grand Reception" image as "the most costly gift plate ever presented by any publisher in the United States having been produced at an expense of $10000."</p><p>"Every family should possess this truly national picture and carefully preserve it" Leslie continued "as it will transmit to future generations the men who have restored our great national unity. It is especially valuable as it contains an excellent likeness of our late lamented President introducing General Grant and his wife to Mrs. Lincoln." The picture contains "nearly 100 portraits of our most celebrated Generals Statesmen and Civilians also of many of our most distinguished American ladies. The likenesses are admirable having been taken from photographs by Brady."</p><p>The key giving the names of each individual portrait was published in issue number 4 of the <i>Chimney Corner</i> on June 24.</p><p>Included in the image are Generals Ulysses S. Grant John G. Foster William T. Sherman Hugh J. Kilpatrick Nathaniel P. Banks Philip H. Sheridan Winfield S. Hancock John A. Logan Joseph Hooker Benjamin F. Butler Oliver O. Howard John A. Dix and Henry W. Slocum. Admirals David Farragut and David Dixon Porter represent the Navy. Members of the cabinet include Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles. Members of Congress include Senator Henry B. Anthony of Rhode Island Senator William P. Fessenden of Maine Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts and Speaker of the House Schuyler Colfax of Indiana. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase represents the U.S. Supreme Court. New York newspaper editors Horace Greeley Henry J. Raymond and James Gordon Bennett are also present. Prominent women include First Lady Mary Lincoln Ann S. Stephens dime novelist and magazine editor Miriam Folline Squier wife of Leslie's former editor-in-chief and Leslie's future wife Julia Dent Grant wife of Ulysses S. Grant Kate Chase Sprague daughter of Chief Justice and wife of Rhode Island Senator and Adele Cutts Douglas widow of Stephen A. Douglas. Others identified in the key include Ephraim G. Squier Leslie's former editor-in-chief archaeologist and U.S. commissioner to Peru Governor Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania and Ambassador to Russia Cassius M. Clay of Kentucky.</p><p>Despite Leslie's copyright Anton Hohenstein created a very similar image entitled "Lincoln's Last Reception" which also featured Lincoln's meeting General Ulysses S. Grant's wife Julia. Published by John Smith in Philadelphia in 1865 and hand-colored "Lincoln's Last Reception" also included more than thirty military and political leaders and a few prominent women among the onlookers in the ballroom.</p><p><b><i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i></b> 1865-1884 was a weekly family newspaper published "every Tuesday" in New York by Frank Leslie. Each illustrated issue of sixteen pages contained serial fiction short stories poetry biographies history travel sketches natural history anecdotes and other subjects. According to the prospectus the newspaper would be "a welcome messenger of instruction and amusement to the young and old in the family and by the fireside—that altar around which cluster our holiest and most cherished recollections." Leslie had copyrighted the title in 1861 but "the great Rebellion now happily closing intervened to put a stop to the enterprise."</p><p><b>Frank Leslie</b> 1821-1880 was born in England as Henry Carter but he adopted the pseudonym of Frank Leslie to keep his artistic activities a secret from his relatives who disapproved. He came to the United States in 1848 and settled in New York in 1853 to engrave woodcuts for P. T. Barnum's <i>Illustrated News</i>. When that publication failed Leslie began work on his own series of illustrated publications including <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> <i>The Budget of Fun</i> <i>Frank Leslie's Chimney Corner</i> and others. At his death he was deeply in debt but his second wife Miriam Folline Squier 1836-1914 continued his publications and again made them profitable even legally changing her name to Frank Leslie in 1881.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Spot-mounted to modern board mat toning moderate foxing minor edge wear. Would benefit from conservation.</p> Frank Leslie books
001855Cambridge MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1894. Second Edition. 641 pp. Upper spine dj 1/4" diagonal tear dj lilght chipping soiling elsewhere. Upper edges gilt. Mostly uncut. Memorial address by George P. Fisher included. Memoirs & published writings of honored classical scholar at Brown University in whose name alumni presented a $100000 fund on the occasion of his 50th anniversary as professor. Frontispiece photo portrait before page 150 which begins esction of published writings. Memoirs include diary from student days in Germany as well as a tour through England Geramny Italy from 1841-1844 on Baptist missionsPapers on Goethe's Faust Sophocles Plato Galileo Froude von Ranke. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1894 unknown books
1940137926Albuquerque NM: Alan Swallow 1940. First edition. Hardcover. 97 pages. A fair copy with some splitting to the top of the spine along the gutter and some minor wear to the paper spine label. No dust jacket. Signed and nicely inscribed by Fitzell on the front free endpaper in the year of publication. Scarce thus. Alan Swallow unknown books
1895TB28062New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1895. First Edition. Very good in light green buckram cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small octavo measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches with very light rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine and foxing to the end sheets. Without a dust jacket. Written in pencil on the title page beneath the pseudonym Heclawa the following inscription appears: "From the author A. Lincoln Himmelwright" The upper edge of the title page bears the name of a previous owner in pencil. Also of interest facing page 172 is a photograph titled "The Return to Kendrick" of six horsemen surrounded by many men standing in front of a building. Someone has drawn in pencil an arrow connected to one of the horsemen to the author's name also written in pencil. Given how obscure the faces of anyone are in this photograph it would have been the author or someone with first hand knowledge to make this identification. 259 pages of text and appendices followed by a fold-out map of the "Clearwater Basin and adjoining Territory" of what is now Idaho and western Montana. Illustrated with a frontispiece eleven engravings eleven photographs and one line drawing. The author published this book using a pseudonym due to the controversy surrounding the discovery of this lost hunting party for leaving their cook George Colegate behind unable to walk and thinking he was close to death. The cook's body was located year later six miles from where he had been left to die. G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
12575PHILA LIPPINCOTT 1928. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. PHILA, LIPPINCOTT, 1928 unknown books
1983193616New York: Dial Press 1983. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Later. Fine in very good dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Dial Press hardcover books
19839014914New York: Dial Press 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine condition / Near fine condition dust jacket. Remainder spray on the bottom edge of the book. Minor wear to the extremities of the dust jacket. <br/><br/> Dial Press hardcover books
1983214899New York: Dial Press 1983. hardcover. very good/good. Illustrated with black & white photos. 557pp. 8vo cloth dust wrapper: cloth corners bumped d.w. worn & chipped. New York: The Dial Press 1983.<br/><br/> Dial Press unknown books
1983015813New York: Dial Press 1983. xvi 557p. b/w illus. dj. Dial Press unknown books
1973016812NY: Four Winds Press. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. A history of jazz for young adults fine in near fine dust jacket with tiny tears at head of spine. . Four Winds Press hardcover books
18871002385New York City 1887. Invitation to Walt Whitman's private reception after his celebrated lecture "The Death of Abraham Lincoln" at Madison Square Theatre on April 14 1887. Whitman had given public readings of his Lincoln lecture variously edited since 1879; one version was published in Specimen Days in 1882-1883. Scheduled on the twenty-second anniversary of Lincoln's assassination the 1887 event was staged as a benefit for the ailing Whitman who remained seated throughout his sold-out tribute to the Union's "Martyr Chief": "there is a cement to the whole people subtler more underlying than any thing in written constitution or courts or armies - namely the cement of a death identified thoroughly with that people at its head and for its sake." As William Pannapacker notes Whitman's passionate public identification with Lincoln was central to his emergence as "The Good Gray Poet" a national treasure: "Whitman's experiments in self-creation finally succeeded with a major segment of the public when he enclosed his persona within the halo encircling the martyred President" Revised Lives 22. The New York audience for Whitman's performance included Mark Twain John Hay Augustus St. Gaudens James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton; Andrew Carnegie could not make it but purchased a box for $350. At the end of his performance Whitman was surprised by a gift of lilacs from poet E.C. Stedman's young granddaughter a reference to his great elegy for Lincoln "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." In New York City for a single night Whitman hosted a reception in his rooms at the Westminster Hotel after the lecture; this invitation was printed for the occasion. The evening was an important one for New York literary society a celebration "at least as spectacular as the event itself" according to the New York Sun. Looking "like a painting of Jove" Whitman entertained a constant stream of admirers relieved only by the performance of the Afro-Cuban violinist Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido "El Paganini Negro" who serenaded Whitman on a seventeenth-century Ruggeri violin: "Walt was mightily pleased with the music." A surprising survival a near-fine artifact of the nineteenth-century American literary scene. Ivory card measuring 2.75 x 3.75 inches printed recto only: "Walt Whitman / At Home -- Thursday Evening / April 14th 1887 / Westminster Hotel Irving Place and 16th St. New York." Penciled bookseller note to verso: "April 14 1887 for his most famous lecture Lincoln / WW in NY for only one 1 night." Card lightly toned; half-inch closed tear to head expertly repaired. Housed in envelope fragment with penciled inventory number bookseller note and collector's note: "Whitman card / gift from Capt. Cohn -- / House of Books / Aug 7 1950.". unknown books
1988184964Washington DC: Brookings Institute 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG ex-lib copy Associated library stamps/stickers on bookblock spine endpages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dj clear mylar cover. xiii 298 pages. Includes bibliographical references and index. Brookings Institute hardcover books
1993297783New York: Oxford University Press 1993. hardcover. near fine/very good. 326 pages 8vo cloth-backed boards d.w. New York: Oxford University Press 1993. Several small spots along top edge still a near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Presentation copy signed by the author.<br/><br/> Oxford University Press unknown books
