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1922115719New York: George H. Doran 1922. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Nicholson William. A rare copy in fine condition of the first edition of the children's classic "The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams illustrated by William Nicholson. The paper covered boards with Nicholson's illustrations to the covers. The pictorial endpapers are a colorful riot of many many bunnies. There are 19 pages of text four full-page color illustrations and three double-page illustrations. The illustrations and the text are bright. This first edition is the American issue printed in Great Britain with English sheets with Whitefriar's Press annotation on verso of last page. Published in 1922 by George H. Doran New York and Heinemann London. Quarto 9 ½ by 7 ¼ .The author Margery Williams Bianco was born in London and at the age of seven moved with her family to the United States. The yellow paper-covered boards have a bit of rubbing and chipping along the top and bottom edges. There is no dust jacket. The book is protected by a custom brown cloth-covered clamshell case. There are no bookplates no tears no foxing. The hinges are sound and the binding is tight. This is a rare book in fine condition. The only markings are small pencil notations by a previous bookseller. See photos. <br/> <br/> George H. Doran hardcover
1055333 Broché New York, David Hare, 1942-1944, 4 numéros en 3 volumes 278x215mm, brochés, ex-librid de Robert Duncan.
1925170265New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. The rarest Rackham Deluxe edition number 23 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. A contemporary review of the UK edition stated "the wonderful story of the wonderful wooden dog who was the jolliest toy in the house until he went out to explore the world is much above the ordinary. Miss Bianco. is fortunate to have her work illustrated by such a master-hand as that of Mr Rackham. His full-page plates in colour are a delight". Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text all by Rackham. Original blue boards with vellum backstrip gilt-lettered black morocco label. Original slipcase. Housed in a custom black morocco-backed folding box. Slight toning to spine corners very slightly bumped trace of sunning to extremities slipcase professionally restored with new sections and adhesive tape marks: a near-fine copy in a good slipcase. Latimore & Haskell pp. 59-60; Riall p. 155. Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art 19 December 1925 p. 748. hardcover
1945013757New York: Random House 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Bottom corners of the book frayed with the board exposed a little. The dustwrapper has light chipping along the top and bottom edges but presents quite well. Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper. Bound in the publisher's coarse dark reddish-orange cloth one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama were published. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "To Marshall/ever/Tennessee Williams." Marshall New was one of the directors at the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville Florida in 1979 when Williams visited a week to see a production of his obscure play TIGER TAILS which had its world premiere the previous year in Atlanta. <br/><br/> Random House hardcover
1925113178New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. THE RAREST LIMITED RACKHAM Deluxe edition number 78 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates mounted and with captioned tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text by Rackham. Original vellum spine gilt-lettered black morocco label cornflower blue sides. Housed in a fleece-lined blue quarter morocco solander box. Sides very slightly faded along top edges small neat ink blot at foot of front free endpaper. A lovely copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 59-60; Riall p. 155. hardcover
190024250<p><b><i>"No Crown of Thorns / No Cross of Gold / Equal Rights to All / Special Privileges to None"</i></b></p><p>William Jennings Bryan tried for the White House in 1896 1900 and 1908. The leading supporter of "free silver" against the gold standard and a champion of the "little guy" against moneyed Eastern businessmen and bankers Bryan came closest to victory in 1896.</p> <b>WILLIAMS JENNING BRYAN.</b><i>"The Issue--1900: Liberty Justice Humanity."</i> Columbus Ohio Neville Williams 1900. Chromolithograph printed by the Strobridge Lithograph Company Cincinnati Ohio. 20 x 30 in; edges slightly trimmed very faint mat toning; laid down on canvas.<p>Surrounding the central vignette of the candidate flanked by American flags nearly every theme of Bryan's long political career is represented in fantastic graphics. Quotes from his 1896 "Cross of Gold" speech on monetary policy and the free coinage of silver surround his name; a rooster and plow reveal his appeal to the nation's long-suffering Midwestern farmers; and "Blind Justice" looks longingly at Bryan's portrait. A bronze liberty bell dated 1776 juxtaposes a silver one labeled "1900 No Imperialism."</p><p>Below a white-clad Lady Democracy fashioned as a Jael-style avenger prepares to destroy monopolistic trusts by hacking the tentacles off an octopus that protects large American industries such as the U.S. Biscuit Company American Tobacco the American Steel Trust and perennial progressive punching bag Standard Oil. An octopus representing monopolies dates to the early 1880s but gained traction in the early years of the 1900s notably in <i>Puck</i> magazine's famous 1904 cartoon of Standard Oil's tentacles surrounding the U.S. Capitol building.</p><p>The anti-imperialist plank is shown by figures representing Cuba Mexico and probably the Philippines appealing to the Statue of Liberty shouting "give us liberty or give us death" paraphrasing Patrick Henry's famous line. The print itself boldly proclaims "Equal Rights to All Special Privileges to None."</p><p><b>William Jennings Bryan</b> 1860-1925 of Nebraska was a powerful orator and prominent populist who failed in bids for the presidency in 1896 1900 and 1908. His support for farmers and laborers led him to oppose trusts and seek monetary trade tariff and railroad rate regulation. After his third presidential bid he became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State in 1913. A pacifist in 1915 Bryan resigned after Wilson began to move towards fighting Germany in WWI after the sinking of the <i>Lusitania</i>. Bryan supported Prohibition and was an ardent anti-Darwinist. He died in 1925 five days after the conclusion of the Scopes Monkey Trial where he defended Tennessee's anti-evolutionary position.</p> books
194787896New York: New Directions 1947. Early printing of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. association copy inscribed or signed by several cast members for producer Danny Selznick. Signed by Marlon Brando Kim Hunter Jessica Tandy and Karl Malden. Inscribed by Kim Hunter on the verso of the first blank: "Love and best wishes always Danny- one of my Favorite people- Kim." Selznick's ownership inscription on the lower corner of the half-title page. Danny Selznick is a producer and the youngest son of David O. Selznick; it was Selznick's mother Irene Mayer Selznick who produced the stage version of Streetcar Named Desire<i>;</i> it was she who recommended to film producer Charles Feldman to cast Kim Hunter in the screen version. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by Brando and the other cast members. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano Vivien Leigh and Renee Asherson and was directed by Laurence Olivier. "No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming--and comical!--drama structure" Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover books
194787896New York: New Directions 1947. Early printing of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. association copy inscribed or signed by several cast members for producer Danny Selznick. Signed by Marlon Brando Kim Hunter Jessica Tandy and Karl Malden. Inscribed by Kim Hunter on the verso of the first blank: "Love and best wishes always Danny- one of my Favorite people- Kim." Selznick's ownership inscription on the lower corner of the half-title page. Danny Selznick is a producer and the youngest son of David O. Selznick; it was Selznick's mother Irene Mayer Selznick who produced the stage version of Streetcar Named Desire; it was she who recommended to film producer Charles Feldman to cast Kim Hunter in the screen version. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by Brando and the other cast members. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano Vivien Leigh and Renee Asherson and was directed by Laurence Olivier. “No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming—and comical!—drama structure†Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover
23201USA. A beautifully mounted and framed item depicting a printed photograph of three American Baseball Legends Joe DiMaggio; Mickey Mantle who has added his No. 7 beneath his signature and Ted Williams. Complete with title plaque below the photograph with three baseballs below signed by each player. Frame size approx. 64cm wide x 76cm long - the original Certificate of Authenticity is within the frame. The montage was originally purchased on-board the QE2. Joe DiMaggio Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams stand among the defining figures of twentieth-century baseball. DiMaggio embodied grace and consistency his 56-game hitting streak in 1941 becoming one of sport's most enduring records. Williams the last man to bat.400 in a season .406 in 1941 was widely regarded as the greatest pure hitter who ever lived. Mantle the switch-hitting powerhouse of the Yankees dynasty combined speed and prodigious home-run ability becoming a symbol of post-war American sport. Together they represent excellence charisma and the golden age of Major League Baseball. unknown
1925164847New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. The rarest Rackham Deluxe edition number 12 of 105 copies signed by the author. Unlike many of Rackham's deluxe editions this one was not signed by him nor was it issued in the UK in a deluxe version. This is the rarest of all Rackham limited editions. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 6 colour plates with captioned tissue guards black and white illustrations in the text all by Rackham. Original vellum spine gilt-lettered black morocco label cornflower blue covers. Very slight toning to spine extremities of covers slightly sunned minor tear at head of front hinge slight splitting to rear hinge; a near-fine copy. Latimore & Haskell pp. 59-60; Riall p. 155. hardcover
1945140944723New York: Random House 1945. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the title page. xii 124pp. Bound in publisher's original brick red cloth with gilt lettering on spine black border. Near Fine with slight dulling to spine gilt former owner details to front free endpaper and pages lightly tanned. In a Near Fine unclipped $2.00 dust jacket with fading to the spine and light edge wear. A lovely copy signed by the playwright. Random House unknown
19580002131New York NY. Very Good. 1958. On offer is a super original relic of the Civil Rights era and the real bitterness and rage felt by some if not many on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement being the personal copy of the 128 page manifesto-autobiography 'Here I Stand' by Paul Robeson published in 1958 by Othello Associates New York owned annotated and underlined throughout by Wesley A. Williams 1897 - 1984. The target of lifelong racism as the third African-American man ever to join in 1919 the New York Fire Service Williams' ownership signature and despairing annotations fill the book from the front pastedown on: almost every page bears Williams' underlining but it is his commentary as it responds to Robeson's text which is revealing and intensely moving. The pages are stained with his holographic bitterness: he writes regarding the chapter 'Love will find out the way' in the aftermath of the assassination of President Kennedy Williams' comments: 'This Paul is your dream. Today I dream no more as I have lived my 66 years against this brutal white American who lives and dies on the blood of all people. A people who assassinate a good man like their President Kennedy - Kill coloured Sunday school children. Will stop at Nothing. They respect nothing but Force.' Underneath Robeson's suggestion that 'We must wait we are told until the hearts of those who persecute us have softened' Williams has jotted: 'That would be Never'. HISTORICAL NOTES: Wesley Williams joined the New York City Fire Department in 1919 and on the same day the Captain of the Engine Company retired and every other man requested reassignment. Williams persevered in the face of discrimination and became the prime mover in the creation of the Vulcan Society which exposed segregation within the Department. ; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS ERA WESLEY A. WILLIAMS NEW YORK FIRE SERVICE HERE I STAND PAUL ROBESON BLACK CULTURE RACISM RACE RELATIONS AFRICAN AMERICAN AFRO AMERICAN NEGRO STUDIES BLACK STUDIES BLACK CULTURE ICONIC BLACK MEN AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
19477342New York: New Directions 1947. First edition of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket which has had some expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. "No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming--and comical!--drama structure" Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover books
19477342New York: New Directions 1947. First edition of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket which has had some expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. “No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming—and comical!—drama structure†Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover
198542329HEYNE WILHELM 1985-86. 1. softcover. Pelbar HEYNE, WILHELM paperback
1945574878New York: Random House 1945. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket with very slight toning on the spine lettering and tiny nicks at the crown. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front fly. A nicer than usual signed copy of Williams' first major play. Random House hardcover
1994817KRÜGER WOLFGANG 1994. hardcover. Osten Ard Simon Schneelocke Sirmkovrilo! 2313231623172319 KRÜGER, WOLFGANG hardcover
1947140944410New York: New Directions 1947. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original lavender boards designed by Alvin Lustig. Near Fine with fading to spine and edges light soiling and light edge wear. Pages toned browning to rear endsheet. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with fading to spine and unevenly to rear cover light chipping to spine ends light wear and light chipping at the extremities short split to front flap fold. The first publication of one of the most popular plays of the 20th century which inspired a film in 1951. It tells the story of down-and-out Southern belle Blanche DuBois who has moved in with her sister Stella in the French Quarter of New Orleans. New Directions unknown
147321Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009. First edition of this interdisciplinary collection of essays on women's issues. Octavo original publisher's boards. Association copy inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper "To the Justice With gratitude respect and affection. Susan." From the library of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Arguably the most famous Supreme Court Justice in American history lawyer and jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. Popularly dubbed “the Notorious R.B.G.†a play on the name of famed 90s rapper The Notorious B.I.G. Ginsburg was responsible for some of the most eventful legal decisions of the past half-century. When she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to replace retiring justice Byron White Ginsburg became both the first Jewish woman and the second woman to serve on the Court after Sandra Day O’Connor. Ginsburg was born and grew up in Brooklyn New York earned degrees at Cornell University and Columbia Law School and began her career as a professor at Rutgers Law School and Columbia Law School teaching civil procedure as one of the few women in her field. She spent much of her early legal career as an advocate for gender equality and women’s rights winning many arguments before the Supreme Court and in 1972 co-founded the Women’s Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union which participated in more than 300 gender discrimination cases by 1974. In 1980 President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit where she served until her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1993. During her tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court Ginsburg received increasing attention for her fiery and passionate dissents that reflected liberal views of the law. She authored several important majority opinions related to gender discrimination voting rights and affirmative action in cases such as United States v. Virginia 1996 which struck down the Virginia Military Institute’s male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment Olmstead v. L.C. 1999 in which the Court ruled that mental illness is a form of disability covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Friends of the Earth Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services Inc. 2000 in which the Court held that residents have standing to seek fines for an industrial polluter that affected their interests and that is able to continue doing so. In 2002 Ginsburg was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame she was named one of Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women in 2009 and one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2015. Her powerful and fiery dissent in the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder in which she argued against the majority’s decision to strike down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 emphasizing the continued need for its protections against racial discrimination in voting earned her the nickname “The Notorious R.B.G.†– a moniker she came to embrace which has since become a celebration of her important legal career and legacy. Widely regarded as one of the most remarkable women in American history Ginsburg redefined and transcended the traditional role of Supreme Court justice ascending to the status of intergenerational feminist pop culture icon. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. An exceptional association. Dedicated to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg "who has been for me as for so many others a mentor a role model and an inspiration" Susan H. Williams' 'Constituting Equality' draws a scrutinizing gaze to the issues that arise in constitutional drafting concerning gender equality. The essays in the book address a range of issues of concern to women across the globe which can be and are often overlooked in the drafting of constitutional law. Cambridge University Press hardcover
1904J3TGFTBFFUB5Tripoli 1904. Oil on canvas 51 x 40.5 cm with artists name place and date on the back. Attractive painting of a man in traditional Arab garb in Tripoli by one E.M. Williams from the Royal Academy of Arts. unknown
1850List1929California 1850. With thirteen letters most multi-page written from Monterey in 1850 a 7 pp facsimile transcription of a 1834 Mexican land grant on cloth measuring 11 x 14 inches and and eleven page document on paper in Spanish relating to a Monterey land grant transcribing an 1841 document. Letters heavily worn with some loss at margins but mostly legible land grant in good to very good condition transcribed document in Spanish in fair condition with water damage to margins. Fair. An interesting archive of 1850s-era material relating to the life and career of the surveyor Edward Williams which recently surfaced in the central mother lode region. The group includes his personal letters from the California Gold Rush as well as well two interesting documents form his work for the Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville in 1858 where he transcribed two Mexican land grants. <br /> <br /> Lt. Edward Williams was a member of Company E New York Volunteers under Capt. Nelson Taylor. He came to California around 1847 and found employment as a deputy surveyor later working for the Office of the Surveyor General of the Unites States for California. In 1858 Surveyor General J.W. Mandeville commissioned a report on Mexican-era California Land Grants. Mandeville had Williams copy the original documents exactly - inclusive of an ink copy on linen that is an "exact tracing" of the original documents starting with 1834 up through about 1840. These "copies" were submitted to the Surveyor General in 1858 for use in the report. Williams continued the title work by copying other documents from about 1841 though this time not as a tracing but hand copied on the usual blue paper of the 1850s.<br /> <br /> The documents illustrate the length officials went to while they investigated Mexican Land Grant titles to California properties in the 1850s. The process was difficult and involved two distinctly separate cultures and legal systems that clearly conflicted. The Mexican Government granted rights for these large land parcels in California to various people but clearly stated they could not sell parts of the property. The wording was used many times in litigation of the period in both defense of the land grants and in opposition to how the land grants were handled. The issues were actually quite simple in that the Mexican legal standards for land grants was far different from those in the United States and the two differing forms of written land ownership and use clashed. <br /> <br /> These documents reflect a parcel of land granted to Francisco Mesa at "Corral de Tierra" a large parcel in Monterrey County California. Mesa had requested land for "his personal use and that of his family." In the Grant the title papers reflect "while the land is under Francisco's possession it cannot be divided mortgaged or a levy placed on it nor handed down." These original documents help illustrate the complex story of Mexican Land Grants in California. <br /> <br /> Also included are thirteen letters from Ed aka "Ned" to various family members primarily his mother and sister Alice and vice versa. About half are from Ed the other half are written to him. The dates of the letters are; 1850: February 10th April 15th April 16th April 28th June 10th July 30th October 11th and November 17th and 1851: September 9th. One undated letter with heavy loss is written from Panama. The letters are generally readable but the condition far from perfect with water stains throughout and chips abundant along edges and significant textual loss. The letters are generally at least two pages sometimes four or more inclusive of writing in the crossed line custom to save paper. Most are datelined at Monterrey where he discusses the people the customs setting and more. <br /> <br /> Despite the condition flaws there is much to be gleaned from his correspondence. In his April 15 1850 letter . he describes his trip to San Juan Bautista from Monterrey in detail while he was on his way to San Francisco. Williams writes of his great pleasure on tasting cooked beef by the Indians that he found was the best he ever tasted as they camped on the way to San Jose with the ultimate goal Mission Dolores in San Francisco: “this the beef they put on the embers of the fire and broiled it - I never tasted anything like it before so tender so juicy…†One of his first notes on San Francisco: "There are regular streets filled with all kinds of sorts of stores… The shipping covers the water as far as you can see. And those nearest the shore are converted into store houses the rigging being taken down and the and holes cut in the sides for doors.The best houses in town are occupied by gamblers . a large saloon filled with tables on which are played all kinds of games of chance - at some of the tables are displayed immense amounts of coin and gold in lumps worth from 1 to 5000 dollars which some poor infatuated fool of a miner has at some time lost to them."<br /> In his letter of April 16th he discusses both his difficulties with women in California and his lack of fitting in back east: “The Spanish Girls are very nice and all that sort of thing but the trouble is to find one that is educated. I can’t bear an uneducated wom an and I think I shall have to come to N.Y. and bring one out here… I know one or two in N.Y. but I don’t believe they would have such an uncouth specimen of an ‘hombre’ as me…†In his next letter he describes Carmel in detail. He states: “I haven’t been to the mines nor have I any inclination to go†though he intends to settle in California permanently. In his next letter he discusses the people he’s met and how he detests the anglophone community there: “How do I like the People Those of Spanish whom I call my friends I love with all my soul - there is not much society except among them… the Eng. and Am. population I detest from the bottom of my heart. This may sound strange but you will know the por que when you arrive.†He then praises the climate and scenery of Monterey. One letter written from Panama which has unfortunately sustained heavy losses at margins offers some details of the trip on the Chagres River. The replies to Williams from his family offer details on life in New York and are similarly compromised in condition but overall there is enough to glean from the group to provide a detailed example of family correspondence from the period. <br /> <br /> Overall a very interesting and unusual archive of a young professional who moved to California during the Gold Rush period and rejected the Anglophone mining community with particular interest to historians of Monterey and of the systems of land grants that shaped Mexican and American land policy in the nineteenth century. unknown
1925140941830New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition first printing with the publisher's colophon on the copyright page. Signed and inscribed to a former owner by Margery Williams Bianco on the half-title page. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Very Good soiling and light staining to cloth with rubbing to cloth at extremities several small stains to paged and textblock edge. In a Good dust jacket with chipping and edge wear foxing and a number of small tape repairs made to the verso. Books signed by the author who is best-known for writing The Velveteen Rabbit are scarce. George H. Doran Company unknown
1925140944997New York: George H. Doran Company 1925. First edition. First edition limited issue. Signed by Margery Williams Bianco author of The Velveteen Rabbit. Copy #58 of 105 thus. 2 175 1 pp. With seven tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards and 24 black-and-white illustrations in the text. In quarter vellum-style paper and textured blue paper over boards gilt-stamped spine label top edge gilt endpapers illustrated in blue; housed in original slipcase with correct limitation number marked in pencil at head of spine panel. Spine darkened and lightly soiled edges faintly sunned; minor toning to text leaves tiny spots of soiling to rear endpapers hinges starting but binding remains tight; slipcase soiled and sunned worn and chipped at edges. A Very Good copy in a Good unrestored slipcase. One of the most uncommon Rackham books. Latimore & Haskell p. 59; Riall p. 155. George H. Doran Company unknown
1948457998Birmingham England 1948. Hardcover. Good. Two scrapbook albums. Oblong quartos about 11†x 14â€. Each volume is bound in leather over beveled boards the first has a custom-made paper wrapper. Both volumes are signed: “R.W. Briggs 1928â€. The first album contains 45 leaves or about 90 pages of mounted artworks; the second album has 36 leaves or about 72 pages of mounted artworks. Most of the artworks date from the 1890s - 1910 including several dating up though the early 1920s and a few from the mid-1940s. Five loose pencil sketches and ephemera are laid in. The leather bindings are heavily worn with both spine backs mostly perished covers are loose along the hinges the second album has two detached leaves and detached back cover some dust soiling and light staining to the edges of the leaves both volumes are fair thus with the interior artworks very good overall.<br /> <br /> Two remarkable scrapbooks containing a trove of amateur and accomplished gouache and color wash drawings pen & ink and line drawings book illustrations decorative pen work and various graphic designs cards vignettes book plates letterforms decorative panels borders etc. together with associated photographs and ephemera. The scrapbooks were assembled by Richard Briggs and include several artworks by his brother David Briggs. The gelatin silver photographs were taken by both men and a third brother Harold Briggs. The works by Richard Briggs in particular document the influence of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement and of his teacher at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art Richard James Williams a leading illustrator of the British Art Nouveau. The scrapbooks include an autograph letter by Williams a letter of recommendation for Briggs from October 1900 together with printed examples of his designs and illustrations.<br /> <br /> Also notable are scenes from World War I by Richard and David Briggs including a full-page color drawing by David Briggs of the battlefield of Vimy Ridge. Among the later works are drawings and photographs of the English countryside by all three brothers together with drawings and photographs of various locomotives by David Briggs. A selection of images from both volumes is available. hardcover
1945441j1322New York: Didier Publishers. Good in Good dust jacket. 1945. Second Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author upon title page. "The story of the writer's experiences in the Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen the experimental laboratory where the Nazis perfected the techniques in extermination later applied to victims from all over Europe. It was also the training ground for the personnel recruited from the dregs of Germany's prisons. Shows how human fortitude ingenuity mutual loyalty and the will to live can enable men to survive unbelievable degradation; or if they must die to die like men." - dust jacket. "The impact of your memoir is terrific. I think this book is an achievement equalling Zola's J'Accuse." - Manfred George Editor. "We ought to have these stories preserved. The whole race suffers when such things happen." - Pearl Buck Nobel laureate. "Leon Szalet 1892-1958 made a daring attempt to escape Germany in 1939 but was sent back by the British. On September 13th 1939 he was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin and sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp along with another five-hundred Polish Jews who lived in Germany." - Wikipedia. iv 284 p. Second printing of the 1945 first edition. Black and white reproduction of the Alien's Order 1920 which caused Szalet's expulsion to Berlin from England. Inscribed in New York on July 31st 1947 to I. Z. Melup presumably Irene Melup 1925-2016 of the Crime Prevention & Criminal Justice Branch of the United Nations. She joined the U.N. in 1946 shortly after its founding and established a reputation as a defender of victims' rights the world over. Sources: The International Society of Criminology Online obituary. Tight and unmarked with average wear to original red cloth. Average wear to complete dust jacket now in archival protection. A special copy. Kehr & Langmaid 6239 Weiner Library Cat. 7 1819. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Didier, Publishers hardcover
