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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
191920877New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1919. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm.; original cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 6376pp.; frontispiece & 3 leaves of plates. Extremities shelf-worn with a few tiny losses and closed tears jacket spine rather sunned else Very Good in About Very Good jacket. Anti-IWW and "anti-labor account of the ruin of a loyal German-American farmer in Washington state by striking I.W.W. farm workers" - HANNA 1504; see also BLAKE pp. 239-40 and MILES 4995. Harper & Brothers Publishers unknown books
194032595Boston: Houghton Mifflin N.d. ca 1940s. Reprint. Octavo red cloth; 517pp. Very Good. An undistinguished reprint except that this copy bears a taped-in accession slip from the Danbury CT Federal Correctional Institution: "This item has been approved for quarters for the following inmate only completed in type: Name: Marzani. No. 7333-Ct. Date: January 15 1950." Signed in ink by William Berg Supervisor of Education. Carl Marzani 1912-1994 a CPUSA organizer and veteran of the Spanish Civil War became the central figure in a noted 1947 espionage trial when it was discovered that he had concealed his Communist Party membership during a three-year period of employment with the OSS precursor to the modern CIA during the Second World War. Marzani was convicted under the Espionage Act and served nearly three years in Danbury Prison. His radical activities did not diminish while he was behind bars; in fact in 1950 he was sentenced to seven months in solitary confinement after being caught attempting to smuggle out the manuscript for his critique of America's anti-Soviet posture during the Cold War later published as We Can Be Friends. After his release Marzani went on to become a leading radical publisher co-founding the radical publishing house Cameron Associates later Marzani & Munsell as well as The Liberty Book Club. A remarkable Cold-War survival the only example of its kind we have encountered. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
192014530New York: Thomas Selzer 1920. First Edition. 12mo 18cm. Original printed paper boards; 98pp. Minor external wear and soil; corners of boards lightly bumped; a tight clean VG copy lacking the dustwrapper. Early work by the prolific British poet-journalist perhaps best known for his later career as a travel writer. Issued as No. 1 in the "Plays For A People's Theatre" series which also included D.H. Lawrence's Touch & Go. Thomas Selzer unknown books
1925WRCLIT83277Vienna: The Golem 1925. 2471pp. Small octavo. Gilt navy blue cloth. Plates. Front inner hinge cracking slightly a few stray marks to cloth faint marginal discoloration to a couple leaves but a good bright copy. First edition ordinary issue of this translation by Harry Schneiderman with a prefatory note by Hans L. Held. There were also one hundred deluxe copies specially bound on handmade paper. The Golem hardcover books
190518331Boston: L.C. Page & Company 1905. First Edition. Octavo 19.5cm; publisher's olive green pictorial cloth boards stamped in colors on spine and front cover; iv 1-415 2pp ads. Color frontispiece by Arthur W. Brown. Rubbing and wear to joints and extremities a few faint stains scattered to boards and both hinges starting mended with clear tape; a clean copy with the pictorial elements of the binding still bright and distinct - Very Good. Strike novel with a strong anti-union message set in the coal fields of southern Illinois. SMITH C-724. HANNA 788. Not in Blake. L.C. Page & Company unknown books
1864WRCLIT17600Philadelphia: Henry B. Ashmead Book and Job Printer 1864. 60pp. Printed wrappers. Upper wrapper stained at edges as are the fore-edges of the first several leaves otherwise a good copy. First edition of this anthology of poetry and prose largely accounts of battle capture and privation by soldiers in the field and in hospital published under the auspices of the Great Central Fair of the Sanitary Commission. Henry B. Ashmead, Book and Job Printer unknown books
186949620Melrose / Edinburgh: Misses S. & C. Cameron / W. P. Nimmo St. James Square 1869. Later edition first published in 1847. Original publisher's purple flexible cloth-covered card-stock covers with gilt stamped lettering to front cover. Lacks rear cover. Spine cloth worn away in upper half. Mid-20th C pos with occasional annotation to text. A Good copy. 4 95 1 blank pp. Frontis. 5 inserted plates. 12mo. 6-3/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>"The original Melrose was Mailros meaning "the bare peninsula" in Old Welsh or Brythonic. This referred to a neck of land by the River Tweed several miles east of the present town where in the 6th century a monastery was founded associated with St Cuthbert. It was recorded by Bede and also in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle with the name Magilros. This monastery and settlement later known as 'Old Melrose' were long abandoned by the 12th century. <br /> <br />King David I of Scotland took the throne in 1124 and sought to create a new Cistercian monastery on that site; however the monks preferred a site further west called "Fordel". So the monastery now known as Melrose Abbey was founded there in 1136 and the town of Melrose grew up on its present site around it. In the late Middle Ages its name was represented by a mell a mason's hammer and a rose for the Virgin Mary to whom all Cistercian abbeys were dedicated. The Abbey fell into ruin after the Reformation but is still a striking structure. Several Scottish nobles are buried there and a casket has been found which is believed to contain the heart of King Robert the Bruce. The casket has been re-buried in the Abbey. The Abbey ruins are cared for by Historic Scotland. <br /> <br />Nearby is the Roman fort of Trimontium Abbotsford House the home of Sir Walter Scott and Dryburgh Abbey where he's buried. Melrose is surrounded by the small villages of Darnick Gattonside Newstead Lilliesleaf and Bowden." Wiki Misses S. & C. Cameron / W. P. Nimmo, St. James Square hardcover books
1805WRCLIT43639London: Printed and Published by Keating Brown and Co. et al 1805. 27pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Stamp of a defunct mercantile library half-title detached bit of offset to blank verso of final leaf a few creased and dusty corners; a good copy. First London printing petitioning for the removal of the discriminatory and exclusionary statutes still in effect. An unidentified editor has provided copious footnotes to the petition. A contemporary reader has penned several comments of the "there can be no doubt" sort in the margins. BRADSHAW 7661. Printed and Published by Keating, Brown and Co. [et al] unknown books
191638743Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1916. First Edition. First printing. Green textured cloth boards stamped in white on spine and front cover; 538pp. Straight well-preserved copy lightly rubbed at board extremities and mildly dusted at text block edges; Very Good to Near Fine and unusual thus. Uncommon New Thought novel set in Utah with a strong anti-Mormon subplot. A contemporary review in The Overland Monthly stated that ".the author believes he has a sacred message for the human race; it is clothed in this book for the purpose of reaching many readers." We doubt he succeeded in that purpose; this is one of the more obscure publications from the Chicago socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr never before seen by us and represented only by some scattered 20 institutional holdings in OCLC one of which - British Library - incorrectly provides a 1914 publication date. SMITH S-799. FLAKE 8357. Missed by Hannah despite clear social content; and by Bleiler despite clear fantasy content; and by Sargent despite probable utopian content. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
180349598London: Printed for Tegg & Castleman at the Eccentric Book Warehouse 122 St. John-Street West-Smithfield; . Hartnell Printer 3 New-Street Borough 1803. 1st Edition. Period full brown tree calf binding with later respining to style. Later eps. Binding - modest wear VG. Text-block - age-toning the occasional smudge short tear to end of frontispiece fold. Overall Very Good. 36 pp. Folding copperplate frontispiece partially hand-colored dated 1803 of Jones shooting Lt Grub "for attempting to strike the Colours in an Engagement." 12mo. 6-7/8" x 4-1/8" <br/><br/>This title is one of 3 titles bound together into one volume: volume also includes Tavistocks Books inventory IDs 49599 & 49600. The price is for the one volume containing the 3 titles. Printed for Tegg & Castleman, at the Eccentric Book Warehouse, 122, St. John-Street, West-Smithfield; ... Hartnell, Printer, 3, unknown books
189446539Toronto Canada & Milwaukee Wisconsin: Printed by Hunter Rose & Co 1894. 1st Printing. Red paper wrappers black lettering stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some chipping and tears to wrappers age toning to leaves overall clean and bright. 64 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>A picture of Rev. John Cairns to title leaf. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co unknown books
189446540Toronto Canada & Milwaukee Wisconsin: Printed by Hunter Rose & Co 1894. 1st Printing. Red paper wrappers black lettering stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some chipping and tears to wrappers age toning to leaves overall clean and bright. 65 66 - 94 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>A picture of Mrs. Mary S. Henry to title leaf. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co unknown books
196547409Detroit: Artists' Workshop Press 1965. First Edition. Quarto 28cm; mimeographed sheets side-stapled into red and black pictorial wrappers; 80pp. Trivial wear to extremities with a few scattered foxed spots to text edges else very Near Fine. An attractive early production of the Detroit Artists Workshop Press including poetry and prose by Magdalene Arndt John Sinclair Bill Cox Ron English George Tysh Jim Semark Gary Johnston Veryl Blatt and others. The last few pages contain Sinclair's lengthy review of several Miles Davis records. Artists' Workshop Press unknown books
1814132641814. n.p. 1814. 80pp Disbound. Tanned scattered light fox else clean and Good. unknown books
182040808New - York: Published by James V. Seaman et al J & J Harper Printers 1820. 1st American Edition thus From the Fourth London Edition Corrected and Improved American Imprints 2004; Austin 1160. One of 3 1820 imprints of this title all printed by Harper no established priority. OCLC records 5 holding institutions of the title. Period brown quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Average wear. Some modest chipping to spine leather at crown. Foxing & staining to paper. Withal a VG copy. xi 1 blank - 303 17 pp. Index last 16 pages 12mo signed in 6s. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4" <br/><br/> Published by James V. Seaman [et al], J & J Harper, Printers hardcover books
194714436New York: Rinehart 1947. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Black cloth boards lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes" followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along front and rear joints external; otherwise just light wear in the original unclipped dustwrapper Very Good. Satirical novel about an American radio troupe touring post-war Germany as part of a USO tour drawing heavily on Freeman's own experience as a writer for the popular radio quiz show Information Please. The lengthy inscription is to American Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim who at this time would have been just seventeen years old. The connection between Sondheim and Freeman is unclear but it is certainly plausible that they could have encountered one another - either through upper class New York circles in which both traveled; or through the progressive preparatory school Sondheim attended Fieldston School; or through mutual acquaintances on Broadway where Sondheim at this time was working his first job in show-business as a production assistant on Rodgers & Hammerstein's Allegro. Sondheim's name does not appear in the finding aid to Freeman's archives at the Hoover Institution. Rinehart unknown books
189932998San Francisco: Sunday Examiner 1899. First Edition. Folio 35.5cm.; pictorial bifolium printed in green yellow and black author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner 1899. Poem famously inspired by the contemporaneous painting "L'homme a la houe" by the French artist Jean-François Millet. The piece was first read at a New Year's Eve party in 1898 launching Markham's career as a poet and lecturer to the working class. The painting recreated on the upper panel of the present edition shows a laborer bent over by the weight of his toil his face anguished and somehow simultaneously expressionless. Of him Markham wrote: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground / The emptiness of ages in his face / And on his back the burden of the world." Presumed first published appearance of the poem according to Markham's biographical history in the Online Archive of California. The poem would also appear in a volume of Markham's poetry the same year The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Sunday Examiner unknown books
198216389Willimantic CT: Curbstone Press 1982. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers; 50pp. Wrappers lightly edgeworn; old price-sticker residue to rear cover; text clean tight and unmarked. Very Good. Essays on revolutionary writing and aesthetics by the poet Cesar Vallejo originally written during his visits to the Soviet Union in the 1920s & 30s. Curbstone 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
185160887London 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations v 214p. Cloth. 17cm. A few small spots on an otherwise bright cover. Spine slightly sloped. Gift inscription. Scattered foxing. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1833WRCAM55040Various places and publishers see below 1833. Broken run of twelve volumes described below. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards spines ruled in gilt gilt leather labels. Front board of volume XII detached bindings of most volumes rubbed and with wear to spine ends. Minimal foxing generally more prevalent in the final volume. About very good. A run of twelve volumes of a leading American periodical. THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE grew out of a weekly newspaper founded in 1818 by Eliakim Littell and R. Norris Henry called the PHILADELPHIA REGISTER. In 1822 it became a monthly under the present name and "for twenty years it was the leading American eclectic" Mott. Like many such periodicals it gained most of its news and information from British magazines. The majority of its contents were reviews poetry literary and scientific news biographical sketches of authors lists of new publications and articles on literature almost exclusively British. "The plates which came to be a prized feature of the magazine began in 1827 but were not published regularly until 1830; they added much to the attractiveness of the periodical" - Mott. In 1833 the name was changed yet again to THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART see Vol. XXII below. <br> <br> The volumes included in this grouping are: <br> <br> 1 Vol. X. January to June 1827. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1827. 572pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 2 Vol. XII. January to April 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 706pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board detached rear hinge loosening. <br> <br> 3 Vol. XIII. July to December 1828. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. Carvill 1828. 766pp. with engraved portraits and illustrations. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 4 Vol. XIV. January to June 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board loosening. <br> <br> 5 Vol. XV. July to December 1829. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. &. C. & H. Carvill 1829. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. <br> <br> 6 Vol. XVI. January to June 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell & Brother; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 574pp. with engraved illustrations and portraits. Front board nearly detached. <br> <br> 7 Vol. XVII. July to December 1830. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1830. 573pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. <br> <br> 8Vol. XVIII. January to June 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 576pp. with engraved plates and illustrations. <br> <br> 9 Vol. XIX. July to December 1831. Philadelphia & New York: E. Littell; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 718pp. including engraved plates and portraits. <br> <br> 10 Vol. XX. January to June 1832. Philadelphia & New York: E. Little; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 669pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. <br> <br> 10 Vol. XXI. July to December 1832. Philadelphia Baltimore & New York: E. Littell; E. J. Coale; and G. & C. & H. Carvill 1832. 584pp. with portraits and sketches. <br> <br> 12 THE MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE SCIENCE AND ART. Vol. XXII. January to June 1833. Philadelphia Boston & New York: E. Little and T. Holden; Kane & Co.; G. & C. & H. Carvill 1833. 837pp. including several engraved portraits and plates. Prevalent foxing else fine. MOTT AMERICAN MAGAZINES I pp.130 and 306-09. hardcover books
1952164303Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company 1952. Paperback. xxv 474p. sewn signatures in plain printed grey wraps light pencillings here and there cover has picked up a little dust- and handling-soil. The Bruce Publishing Company paperback books
1924474301924. ROMAN Frederick William. THE NEW EDUCATION IN EUROPE: AN ACCOUNT OF RECENT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES IN THE EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF GREAT BRITAIN FRANCE AND GERMANY. London: George Routledge & Sons 1924. 8vo. navy-blue cloth stamped in gilt. Second Printing. Signed presentation by Roman as "The Authro" on the front endpaper: "Presented to Mrs. Ella M. Berman with compliments of the Author." Good spine ends & corners worn. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
190945116Boston: Little Brown and Company 1909. 1st Edition. Pale green buckram cloth spine over printed drab paper boards. General wear & soiling to boards. Signs of use to text-block. Very Good. 8 52 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 6" <br/><br/>No copies found on OCLC. Rare. Little Brown and Company hardcover books
