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193148087Dallas: The Kaleidoscope Publishers 1931. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from the author to her grandson Edwin Richmond. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt stamping to spine & front board. Cloth & gilt dull. Very Good. 99 1 blank pp. Laid in: 1 Cabinet card photograph Simon New Orleans of Hunter's husband James A. Hunter 1843 - 1922 a Dallas physician. Annotated "Dr James Albert Hunter / Your Grand father"' 2 2 page ALs newsy family matters dated 1930 from Rev. Edwin G. Hunter brother to James to Martha; 70 lines ~ 625 words. 3 9 newspaper clippings 7 of which relate to Martha & her family's activities including one from the Oak Cliff Tribune dated Janury 14 1954 awarding Martha "Woman of the Week". 12mo. 7-3/4" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>Martha Hunter a well-known early 20th C. Dallas writer & poet as well as supporter of feminist causes. In 1906 she became a founding member of the Dallas Women's Forum - the first women's club in Dallas. She is credited with naming the organization and subsequently authored "A Quarter of a Century of the Dallas Women's Forum." More than just a social club the club was responsible for seeing enacted the first pure food law adopted by the city of Dallas as well as organizing the Council of Mothers a forerunner of the Parent Teacher's Association Dallas Women's Forum First Hundred Years. Hunter did not confine her activities soley to the Women's Forum she was also active in the Women's Chamber of Commerce the Dallas Federation of Women's Club the Dallas Pen Women the United Daughters of the Confederacy Chapter No. 6 and a member of the Poetry Society of America. A volume of Hunter's poetry this an ncommon piece of woman's literature; at the time of cataloguing we find no other copies offered on the market. The Kaleidoscope Publishers hardcover books
1840242655Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1840. First American edition published the same year as the London edition. v vi 222 ii ads;. v ads iii 207 i pp. 2 vols. Large 12mo. Cloth covered boards with paper label on spine. Some fading of boards and chipping of paper label. Signed "Mr. J. Ripley Prospect Hill Ulster" on ffep. First American edition published the same year as the London edition. v vi 222 ii ads;. v ads iii 207 i pp. 2 vols. Large 12mo. Carey and Hart unknown books
54088vpub vd. 1 vols. 8vo. Quarter contemporary calf red morocco spine label. Top spine end chipped extremities and boards rubbed but still a sturdy copy. 1 vols. 8vo. All these titles are scarce. The Huet Ruisseau and "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" do not appear in NUC. "Recueil de Stances" does not appear in NUC either though it does locate books by Daniel Rogers 1573-1652 under the pseudonym D.R.B. on similar subjects in English; this may be a later translation into French. NUC does not seem to locate this particular "Ode au Roy". For "Vers Sur la Mort de Louis le Grand" see Brunet V: 1148. An interesting and elusive collection of titles. vpub unknown books
194811989New York: Harper & Brothers 1948. First Edition. Octavo 24cm.; cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean Very Good copy of the first edition in lightly worn unclipped dustjacket Very Good or better. Inscribed by Eastman to his college roommate Ralph Erskine: "For Ralph my poet-brother from Max" dated in year of publication. Also laid in is a TLS on Eastman's letterhead to Ralph Erskine in Tryon North Carolina thanking him for a visit and recalling a conversation: ".it is good news that I persuaded you to be more chary of using the words that divide society into gangs.I felt the warm glow I used to when I was a kid going around reforming everybody. Harper & Brothers unknown books
191018220New York: Henry Holt and Company 1910. First Edition. First Issue per Ahearn one of approximately 613 copies. Octavo; vertical-ribbed maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; 252pp 10 ads. Some trivial rubbing to extremities with light spotting to upper edge of text; Near Fine. A collection of letters written between Mencken and his friend Robert Rives La Monte who worked at the Baltimore News as well as being an editor for the International Socialist Review. La Monte who whole-heartedly believed in the promise of socialism wrote six letters to his friend in an effort to convince him to reject his selfish ways and become a comrade in the revolution. Mencken an avowed individualist presents his fiery responses to La Monte's plea for total equality and universal brotherhood. Scarce in the trade particularly in this condition. APG 011a. Henry Holt and Company unknown books
179622264Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson 1796 1796. Third edition. ESTC T144079; NCBEL II 2021. Fine copy. Uncommon. 8vo later dark blue half morocco by MacLehose of Glasgow marbled paper boards gilt lettering t.e.g. others untrimmed. The considerably expanded third edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce 1746-67 who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate John Logan and published as Poems on Several Occasions in 1770; and for this edition more manuscripts were supplied by his mother. There is an introductory essay on Bruce by William Craig which first appeared in the Scottish literary periodical The Mirror. <br/><br/> Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796 unknown books
197325500New York: Delacorte Press 1973. Loose Sheets. Very Good. Sold here as a stand alone item is a first printing dustwrapper for O'Brien's classic Viet Nam era novel and first book. Jacket is not clipped and has the original $5.95 price printed on the front flap and has the "0373" code at the bottom of the rear flap. Jacket is in very good condition with light color fade to red lettering at spine and a very light small stain near the base of the rear panel. A solid example that would make a good upgrade to someone's unmarried book. Delacorte Press unknown books
1884021436New York: Harper and Brothers 1884. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes 594pp errata; 691pp. Beauregard was a graduate of West Point. He served as an engineer during the Mexican-American War and a U.S. military officer entering the Civil War as the Confederacy's first brigadier general and was placed in command of the defenses of Charleston South Carolina. In this role he ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter April 12-14 1861. Bound in green pebble grained cloth lettered in gilt spine lettering and top edges gilt some rubbing to cloth spine ends with a bit of wear of tiny chips rear inner hinge of volume two starting contemporary owner's name and plate. A very good set. Harper and Brothers unknown books
1933450951933. FRENCH LITERATURE. LE LIVRE DE DEMAIN. Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard 1933 - 1938. 23 vols. 4to. decorated yellow paper wraps. A selection of 23 vols. from this series that includes works by Georges Duhamel Gustave Flaubert Colette Georges Immann Andre Gide and others. Each vol. illustrated throughout with original woodblock prints by such artists as Hermann Paul Valentin Le Campion Jean Lebedeff Roger Grillon and others totaling over 700 original woodblock prints in all. This is a fine collection that shows only occasional foxing at the fore-edges and light soiling at a few wraps. A beautiful and well-preserved set. unknown books
45377London: Frederick Warne and Co n. d. Ca 1870s. Original publisher's green cloth binding with elaborate gilt & black stamping professionally refurbished. Modest wear with faint poi to ffep. Gilt bright a pleasing VG copy. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 24 stunning chromolithographed plates by Petherick Henley &c. 4to. 10-5/8" x 9" <br/><br/> Frederick Warne and Co hardcover books
19161505Havana 1916. Good plus. Eight parts in two volumes. Original half calf and marbled boards spine gilt. Calf scuffed at spine ends; light wear to corners and edges; boards rubbed. Rear board with a dime-sized chip at lower fore-edge. Slightly later pencil ownership inscriptions to initial title pages of each volume. Small chip at fore-edge of first title page. Light tanning. The first eight issues of this scarce Cuban literary periodical which published twice monthly during 1916. The editor of the series Nestor Carbonell y Rivera grew up in the United States before returning to Cuba and obtaining his doctorate from the University of Havana; he was active in several prominent intellectual and literary society of Cuba and later served as ambassador to Argentina and Peru. Each issue of the periodical comprises one previously unpublished work by Cuban author including José Martà Manuel Sanguily and Máximo Gómez. We locate runs of the series at seven institutions as well as scattered holdings of individual issues. This set clearly bound by a contemporary Cuban subscriber one F. Gamboa. unknown books
191834355Rosenberg TX: NárodnÃho Podniku 1918. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm.; publisher's brown pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; 48pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit unevenly toned some wear from handling else Very Good and sound. World War I poetry by the Dallas-based Czech-American author best known for establishing the Slavic Department at the State University of Texas see Miloslav Rechcigal Jr.'s Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography Vol. 1. NárodnÃho Podniku unknown books
192029623Winston-Salem NC: I.J. Brittain N.d. ca 1920. Octavo pamphlet; staple-bound printed buff wrappers; 32pp. External rubbing and wear small chip at fore-corner of wrappers; scuff to front wrapper partially obscuring imprint no loss to sense; text clean solid and unmarked; Good or better. An odd piece of North Carolina mendicant literature published by ".an old disabled Confederate Veteran" who implores his reader: ".never loan this book to any one. I will keep these Books in stock. Tell them to confine four dimes between two Postal Cards or forty cents in Stamps.and this Book will be forthcoming. A premium with every Book." <br/><br/>First title is a reprint of Braxton Craven's account of the celebrated murder of Naomi Wise which first appeared in 1853 and was reprinted frequently throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Craven's narrative became the standard version of this lovers' quarrel ending in death entering into folklore through several different ballads including variations of the one penned by Craven himself which forms the postscript to his narrative though the most famous version made popular by North Carolina folk artist Doc Watson and others differs considerably from that printed here. <br/><br/>The second title a brief celebration of the career of Andrew Jackson emphasizing his North Carolina roots is claimed by Brittain to be of his own composition though it is clearly a cobbled-together account from newspapers and history books. <br/><br/>This pamphlet of uncertain date; Brittain dates Craven's narrative to "75 years ago" which would suggest a 1920s date for this pamphlet however typographically and stylistically it belongs to a much earlier era. This edition not in Thornton Bibliography of North Carolina however for a similar item -- apparently a later expanded edition -- see Thornton 1258. OCLC 4 locations. I.J. Brittain unknown books
192847926New York: Boni & Liveright 1928. First Edition. Octavo ca. 20cm.; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Irving Politzer; 272pp. Light chipping and a few short closed tears to jacket extremities spine very slightly sunned; Near Fine in Very Good still quite brilliant jacket. Hard-boiled novel by the sometime vagrant novelist Maxwell Bodenheim following the fate of Georgie May a "vicious sullen cocotte" living in an unnamed city in Arkansas. The work was published on the heals of Bodenheim and Liveright's obscenity trial for the former's earlier novel "Replenishing Jessica" 1925 advertised on the rear jacket panel: "Bodenheim is certainly an iconoclast--but there is no question of the perfect study he has made of a lustful woman nor is there a single offensive word in the book." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Similarly a contemporary critic wrote "'Georgie May' wallows in a sea of bilge and is bound to nauseate the super-sensitive Bay State censors though paradoxically there is nothing stench-like in Bodenheim's vivid novel" Times Union Brooklyn June 3 1928. HANNA 376. Boni & Liveright unknown books
191121365New York: Max N. Maisel 1911. First edition 12mo 18.25cm.; contemporary black cloth private paper spine label printed in manuscript; 159pp.; hinges weak textblock shaken page edges soiled old crude tape repair to index page; Good. A compilation of Russian "songs of freedom" and revolutionary poems by various authors. Some of the works included here are early printings of Ruzrushennyi Mol' "The Ruined Pier" by Grigorii Gershuni a Russian revolutionary and a founder of the Socialist Revolutionary Party; and Maxim Gorky's Piesnia o Bureviestnikie "The Song of the Stormy Petrel". Undoubtedly however one of the most interesting poems is Fedorushka here erroneously attributed to Leo Tolstoy. The poem was actually written in 1880 by Mikhail Rozengeim for whose poetry the term "liberal accusation" was coined. Tolstoy who disliked this particular poem expressed great displeasure at the incorrect attribution. The mistake was most likely made by the publisher Max N. Maisel whose shop in the Lower East Side was frequented by many political and cultural radicals. E-book format only in OCLC as of October 2014. Max N. Maisel unknown books
193837747New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1938. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author this being copy no.492. Octavo 21.25cm; light gray linen with titles stamped in blue on spine and front cover; blue-violet topstain; dustjacket; xii4664pp. Light offsetting to endpapers else Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $2.75 with some pinpoint wear to corners and spine ends. Stunning copy of the Massachusetts author's second novel. "Ostensibly an account of the Boston police strike of 1922 this is actually a Gothic novel in which murder rape robberty flogging and sexual titillation run wild. By the end of the novel all the major characters have died violently and Armageddon seems to have arrived on the streets of Boston. The policemen's strike releases all restraints and criminals and respectable Bostonians alike become an uncontrolled mob bent on pillage and murder" BLAKE p.265. Uncommon in the trade. HANNA 1406. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
193234722New York: Covici-Friede Publishers 1932. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; pale green and gray cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 2862pp. Hint of a forward lean else Fine and clean throughout. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.00 edgeworn sunned at spine and panels with several losses to spine ends and corners and numerous tears including two long ones on front panel mended with paper-tape on verso and a dozen remnants of cello-tape removed at same; Good to Very Good though substantially complete example. Scarce second novel by the Michigan-born author set in Lansing and Detroit and chronicling the life of a working-class Michigan girl in middle-class society. Herrmann lived in Paris in the 1920's where he was part of the famous expatriate circle of American writers including his first wife Josephine Herbst. Ernest Hemingway a friend of Herrmann's from his Paris years wrote a favorable assessment of the novel in Contact October 1932. HANNA 1699; ANDREWS Michigan in Literature p.211. Covici-Friede, Publishers unknown books
198137941San Francisco: Merlyn Gorky N.d. ca 1981. First Edition. Twenty-four letterpress broadside poems each 16cm x 11cm 5-1/2" x 4-1/4" or the reverse. Loose as issued with no enclosing envelope. Printed in different color inks on various cardstocks; each with imprint on verso. Together comprising Issue No. 2 of Merlyn Gorky a short-lived radical left literary-political journal there appear to have been only two numbers issued edited by the feminist poet Susu Jeffrey. Fourteen of the cards are signed a few with inscriptions; two dated May-June 1981. Complete and fine. <br/><br/>Of particular note is the signed contribution by "Pancho Aguila" - this was the prison pseudonym of notorious poet/criminal Roberto Solis convicted of murder in an armored car heist in 1969 released in 1992 and currently 2018 a fugitive from justice wanted in connection with a $3-million armored-card robbery in 1993. His autograph is uncommon. Issues 1-2 apparently all issued; no. 1 not located in OCLC no. 2 rare with OCLC recording one location only Delaware. Includes the following signed or inscribed where noted: <br/><br/> • Beyond Skinner's box / Steve Abbott signed<br/> • Mummy / Pancho Aguila signed<br/> • Spring Day / Dick Bakken<br/> • An ode to the great migrations / Andrew Benson signed<br/> • The Jew and the gentile / Carol Bergé<br/> • Mission district / Peter Brett signed<br/> • The warmonger's beatitude / Chinweizu<br/> • Nine lines / Geoffrey Cook<br/> • Dialectic / R. V. Cottam signed<br/> • As the general / John Curl signed<br/> • Just a note for the darkness / Tony D'Arpino<br/> • I dreamed I killed a butterfly. / Mathew Forstater<br/> • Postcard V for Susan Roach / Gary Gach signed with initials "ggg"<br/> • It makes all the difference / Phillip Guddemi<br/> • I used to lie on my back / Philip Hackett signed dated 6/1/81<br/> • A broad casting / Susu Jeffrey signed<br/> • Mist / Joyce Jenkins signed<br/> • War is a game / S. Lee<br/> • Why do the young always die / John Mueller signed<br/> • Identity crisis / Peter Pussydog<br/> • Ingredients / John S. Selby<br/> • Fish knot / Calvin Senter signed<br/> • 26 x 76 / David Shevin signed<br/> • Postcard / C. W. Truesdale inscribed: "for the San Francisco Poster Brigade / C.W. Truesdale" dated 20 May 1981. Merlyn Gorky unknown books
192738536New York: The Macaulay Company 1927. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; pale green paper and black cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv15-1864pp; with photographic frontispiece reproducing a still from the stage production. Trivial wear to lower corners touch of dustiness to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine. Dustjacket designed by William Siegel is unclipped priced $2.00 lightly rubbed and gently spine-sunned with a tiny nick at crown and a few very short tears along upper edge; Very Good or better. Early work by the radical playwright former head of the Hollywood division of the CPUSA and one of the "Hollywood Ten." A political farce involving New York gubernatorial candidate Harry U. Collins - the type who wears a Hasidic fur cap with side-curls while addressing a Jewish group and a cheap green party hat while address an Irish crowd. Loud Speaker was first presented by the New Playwrights' Theatre at the 52nd St. Theatre on 2 March 1927 staged by Harry Wagstaff Gribble with sets designed by Mordecai Gorelick. The Macaulay Company unknown books
193446744New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1934. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.75cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and decorative elements embossed to front cover; burgundy topstain; dustjacket; viii3724pp. Tiny crinkle at crown with a touch of offset from jacket flaps onto endpapers else Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped shelfworn gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with shallow loss to crown a small scuff to front panel a faint stain at mid-spine and several short tears six of them neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good only. Traven's own translation of his first novel which was translated from the German by Eric Sutton for the UK edition published by Chatto & Windus. A novel set in the aftermath of World War I centered around a group of merchant seamen who lack citizenship money and papers; it is in equal part an adventure novel and a scathing indictment of abusive labor practices and authority. TREVERTON 32. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
188955988Zürich: Orell Füssli & cie 1889. 7 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half green morocco spines gilt original wrappers bound in. Spines uniformly toned some minor rubbing else very good. 7 vols. 12mo. Orell, Füssli & cie unknown books
184844314Paris: Au Bureau du Populaire 1848. Cinquième Édition. 12mo 18cm.; contemporary plum morocco-backed marbled boards spine in five compartments green morocco spine label marbled endpapers; 4viii600pp. Spine sunned boards a hint scuffed else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. First published in 1840 "Voyage en Icarie" presented in novelistic form the theories of Cabet's Icarian movement in which "society.placed all economic activity under the guidance and control of elected officials and made the family the only other politically influential unit" Richard C.S. Trahair "Utopias and Utopians" 1999 p. 199. By the year of the Revolution of 1848 and the publication of this edition there were some 400000 Icarians in France a handful of whom established a community in Denton County Texas Cabet joining them shortly after in 1850. The Icarians suffered in Texas their numbers far fewer than they had hoped for after the fall of Louis Philippe and the rise of the Second Republic. Furthermore most members chose to reside in New Orleans and the land alloted them was not the million acres they had been promised but two disparate tracts totallying only 10000 acres see Robert S. Fogarty "Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History" 1980 p. 147. Upon Cabet's arrival in the United States the group now totalling only 200 migrated to Nauvoo Illinois which had recently been evacuated by the Mormons. After a short period of prosperity schisms errupted and by 1856 Cabet and his followers had formed a splinter group moving on to Cheltenham Missouri where Cabet died shortly thereafter. ADAMS p. 45 citing this edition though with variant title page; NEGLEY 175; SABIN 9787 also cites the fifth edition though with a different imprint and subtitle. Au Bureau du Populaire unknown books
1923List327New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1923. First Edition. With an autograph letter signed with the envelope affixed to the front pastedown. With the bookplate of John and Rebecca Lowrie on front free endpaper. Lowrie reviewed the work for the New York Post and her review of the book affixed to the half-title. Very Good. Neith Boyce was an author and theater artist who worked across genres publishing a range of works and co-founding the Provincetown Players. Boyce and her husband Hutchins Hapgood were at the social center of a large circle of writers and artists including Gertrude Stein Georgia O'Keefe and Djuna Barnes. Their papers held at Yale provide rich insight into their artistic and literary era. <br /> <br /> Proud Lady was the second-to-last novel Boyce wrote and it was apparently her favorite. The novel is the story of Mary Carlin a woman who seeks spiritual perfection in others and who because of her pride cannot make herself leave her unfaithful husband. Rebecca Lowrie in her review written for the New York Post and included here states "all the vividness of the setting the touches which make the people so sure a part of their surroundings are secondary to the tragic figure of the proud lady and the victims of her pride."<br /> <br /> Boyce's letter to Lowrie effusively thanks her for her review of the book which from her tone appears to have been misunderstood by other critics. She writes "I have just seen your review of my novel Proud Lady. It is the most intelligent and best-written review that I have seen so far and I would like to convey to you my appreciation and the pleasure your attitude toward the book has given me." <br /> <br /> Overall a very nice association and a very good copy of an uncommon book. Some light wear and rubbing a few faint scuffs to cloth on the front board slightest bowing to spine but very good. Letter near fine with minimal wear. <br /> <br /> $450. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
186242292Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co 1862. 1st Edition. Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Advert eps. Square & tight. Pencil pos. Some foxing & staining to paper. Withal a respectable VG copy. viii 9 - 182 8 pp. 8 page publisher catalogue concludes volume. Illustrated with 15 maps 5 folding 5 plates & 31 intratextual figures. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" <br/><br/>"I have undertaken in this little work to give a clear and precise idea of the great maxims of war. It was written for the citizen soldier and officer. To show the application of the principles I have given several examples fully developed." J. B. Lippincott & Co hardcover books
170739858London: Printed by J. Sowle 1707. 1st Edition Smith 2 p. 84. Modern quarter-calf binding with marbled paper boards. Maroon title label to spine second compartment. Renewed eps. Binding - Fine. 30 156 pp. 12mo: A12 a3 B - G12 H6. <br/><br/> Printed by J. Sowle hardcover books
