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Golem Literature: Bloch ChayimABAA

THE GOLEM . LEGENDS OF THE GHETTO OF PRAGUE

RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LITERATURE COBB Irvin S.ABAA

The Dark Horse or So This Is America Or Homespun - An Original Manuscript Treatment for Our Leading Citizen

193446764N.p.: S.i. 1934. Holograph manuscript composed in dark blue ink on 152 numbered leaves rectos and housed in a bespoke chemise and slipcase by Barrieri. With presentation inscription from Cobb to MGM film produced and screenwriter Samuel Marx in pencil at upper right corner of title leaf: "Original manuscript copy for Sam Marx Esq / with my compliments / Irvin S. Cobb." A heavily-revised draft with extensive holograph additions and elisions in pencil and in pen throughout marking substantial textual differences between this and the final draft of the screenplay. Mild wear and handling; preliminary leaves with faint creasing to extremities with subtle toning to title leaf; Very Good or better. Slipcase with some light wear and minute board exposure to points around opening else Near Fine. Early unpublished manuscript treatment of the 1939 Paramount Studios film Our Leading Citizen directed by Alfred Santell with a screenplay by Jack Moffitt. A "Capital vs. Labor" story set in a once-small town that has evolved into an industrial city and centered around Lem Schofield an attorney and homespun philosopher and Clay Clinton son of Schofield's deceased partner. Clinton in love with Schofield's daughter and anxious for quick success joins the employ of J.T. Tapley the town's corrupt and influential industrialist. "When Tapley imposes a ten percent wage cut at his factory the workers walk out on strike precipitating a labor war. Lem immediately withdraws as Tapley's attorney but Clay ignorant of the nefarious tactics that Tapley is planning stays on. To crush the strike Tapley calls in a gang of strikebreakers led by Shep Muir. While pacifist union leader Jim Hanna struggles to end the strike peacefully communist agitator Jerry Perkins arrives in town to advocate radicalism and violence. Riots break out and amid an atmosphere of fear and suffering Lem steps in to quell the unrest. After insuring the arrest of agitators Peters and Muir Lem works to institute a labor settlement and Clay finally recognizing Lem's virtues nominates him for the position of United States Senator" TCM. While the final script faulted greedy capitalists and violent revolutionaries alike the film was blacklisted by V.J. Jerome head of the communist cultural commission who got an early look at the script and together with film critic Howard Rushmore deemed it potentially anti-communist. S.i. unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis6 500,00 $US≈ 5 499,65 €

WOMEN'S HISTORY & LITERATURE HOLT Luther EmmettABAA

The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses

189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

19th Century Literature By Women AuthorsABAA

The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Madame Charles Reybaud with Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church By Mary Anne G. Murray-Gartshore with Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer

184325566Philadelphia and New York: Various 1843. Three novels by these women writers individually published & separately paginated bound in one volume including: The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Translated from the French of Madame Charles Reybaud. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. 91 pages; with a one-page Preface by the un-named translator. Henriette Etiennette Fanny Arnaud Reybaud 1802-1871 French writer who wrote under the name of Madame Charles Reybaud and other noms-de-plume. Title page with the signature at top margin of V.E. Baudry May 1847. Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church. New York: Burgess Stringer & Co. 1847. 105 pages printed double-column. Author is not noted on title page; by British writer Mary Anne Georgia Murray-Gartshore. d. 1851. Tipped on to the title page are two thin strips of paper with a clipped signature and date of V.E. Baudry Sept. 1847. Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer translated by Mary Howitt. New York Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. 137 pages printed double column. Fredrika Bremer 1801-1865 Swedish writer feminist reformer; Mary Howitt Mary Howitt 1799-1888 prolific English author; nee Botham; published translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books. DNB. Previous owner small bookplate of S.M. DuPont on the front endpaper; binder's note in pencil on back free endpaper "Dupont Â½ roan" Approx. 6" x 9 1/8" size; bound in blue & black striped & marbled paper covered boards black leather spine and corners gilt spine titles and simple rule-lines gilt. Much rubbing and wear to the boards & corners; some foxing and spotting to the contents; in good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Good. Various books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis250,00 $US≈ 211,52 €

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