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1819718231819. An Interesting Murder and Piracy Trial Joseph Story Presided Trial. Williams John Primary Defendant. The Trial of John Williams Francis Frederick John P. Rog Nils Peterson and Nathaniel White On an Indictment for Murder on the High Seas: Before the Circuit Court of the United States Holden for the District of Massachusetts At Boston On the 29th of December 1818. Boston: Printed by Russell and Gardner 1819. 92 pp. Octavo 9-1/2" x 5-1/2". Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers untrimmed edges. Moderate edgewear a few small tears and chips to wrappers spine abraded wrappers partially detached but secure faint inscription in pencil to head of front wrapper. Moderate toning and light foxing to text faint dampstaining to a few leaves soiling to p.92 and title page which has a chip to its lower inside corner. $1500. Only edition. Tried before Joseph Story in his capacity as the Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts this trial involved murders committed on the merchant schooner Plattsburgh bound from Baltimore to Smyrna. Led by Williams the accused murdered the captain and took the ship to Norway. All the defendants except White were found guilty of murder and piracy and hanged. Cohen Bibliography of Early American Law 13248. McDade The Annals of Murder 1103. unknown books
0765<br/><br/>Walker Anne. Williams William Carlos. The Rewaking. Paris 2002. Unique artist book: Edition 1 of 1. 4 1/2 x 7 1/2". Gouache pastel ink. Painted paper wrappers with paper label on spine. Unfolds to 29". Painted open slipcase.<br/><br/>Anne Walker describes her books as "Folded paintings." These books are designed as continuous accordion-like scrolls each individual page has its own composition but is integrated into the "folded painting" in a progression that slowly changes colors and moods. Most of her books involve poetry by what Walker calls her "living and phantom collaborators."<br/><br/>Anne Walker is a native New Englander who emigrated to France in 1955 after graduating from Smith College. She took up woodcuts in 1956 in Paris and etching and aquatint in 1968. She began making gouache and pastel books in 1989 turning away from printmaking. She has had exhibitions in Belgium Germany Switzerland Sweden and the United States. Walker explains her transition from the precision of printmaking to the more abstract techniques she uses in her gouache and pastel books as a change in her world view. Her initial attraction to printmaking "was a way of creating stability using solid materials that supposed a contained and precise technique that was reassuring in itself. Once released from this need because of being able to accept more or less that the world will always be a fragile place to live in I feel freer and happier with what I am doing now." Many of Walker's books are closely associated with poetry. She has worked with contemporary poets often asking them to hand-letter their poems into her books and she has used poems from late poets such as Emily Dickinson Wallace Stevens Thoreau and William Carlos Williams. If the poet is no longer living or if a contemporary prefers not to write in the book themselves she uses a simple calligraphy so that the writing remains visually neutral. <br/><br/>Reference: The Boston Athenaeum Anne Walker's Painted Books. unknown books
140948454New York: Harper & Brothers 1973. Reprint. Very Good/Very Good. Later printing with renewed copyright. Signed by E.B. White on the half-title page. x 131 pp. Bound in publisher's printed paper-covered boards reproducing book jacket illustration. Very Good with light toning and wear. Abrasion with exposed webbing to front hinge faint scattered foxing throughout. In a Very Good unclipped $4.95 dust jacket with light foxing and toning small stains to spine panel and chipping at head and tail and v-shaped tear to rear flap fold.<br /> <br /> <p>A signed copy of the beloved children's classic. Per the dust jacket White "began Stuart Little in the hope of amusing a six-year-old niece of his but before he finished she had grown up and was reading Hemingway. Harper & Brothers unknown
183325845New York: C.S. Williams 1833. Engraved folding pocket map period hand-colouring in outline statistical table in lower left corner. Folding index sheet. Folds into publisher's cloth-backed paper boards titled on upper cover "Williams' Travellers' Directory.". Boards worn some repaired separations at folds. Scarce map depicting the U.S. as far west as the Rockies.<br/> <br/>This small "Travellers Directory" as it is titled on the upper cover was evidently issued in competition to Mitchell's similar guide of the same year. The two guides are quite similar in terms of format folding sheets of tables facing a folding map but the map in the present guide extends significantly farther west i.e. to present-day Arizona in the southwest with the Gila River named and present-day Idaho in the northwest with Lake Wayton i.e. Lake Coeur d'Alene named. Longs and James Peaks are both named as well as the apocryphal River Buenaventura. Texas is shown as Mexico although is named as the area along the Gulf Coast of eastern Mexico from Galveston to the Sabine River. The map is generally similar in appearance to Melish's 1822 map of the U.S. but with significant differences in nomenclature. Williams would later jointly publish the maps of Texas and Mexico in Mitchell's New Universal Atlas of 1846.<br/> <br/>Streeter Sale 3847. Not in Wheat Mapping the Transmississippi West. C.S. Williams unknown books
1859WRCAM51021London 1859. xii3111pp. plus engraved frontis. Original blue cloth gilt. Minor wear to extremities else fine. Untrimmed and completely unopened. In a blue cloth slipcase. A scarce account of world travel. Williams sailed to India by way of Rio de Janeiro the Straits of Magellan Callao the Sandwich Islands Honolulu and China. He then records military operations during the Indian Mutiny in the north of India. Not in Hill. An exceptional copy of a scarce travel narrative. FORBES 2349. hardcover books
195518791n.p.: n.p. 1955. Fine. Preliminary painting for 'Baby Animals' ca. 1955. On paper. Measures approx. 8 by 16 inches in a mat 12 by 20 inches. Signed by Garth Williams. Overall fine condition and with marginal notes by Williams indicating color values. The illustration shows an elephant carrying bears a mouse a raccoon a fox and followed by a kangaroo and a giraffe with two long-tailed passengers. 'Baby Animals' was printed by Simon and Schuster with a different design in 1956 and is still in print. n.p. unknown books
19492602351949. unbound. Exceedingly rare signed music publishing contract from the vaults of Hometown - Village Music 4 pages 32.5 inches when unfolded fully x 8.5 inches February 21 1949 whereby Spencer Williams and Charles Reade agree to publish their music with Sidney Prosen and agree to divide all proceeds at the rate of 1/3 share each. Boldly signed by all parties including Spencer who has used his address as 115 - 11 173rd street St Albans New York - which was Louie Armstrong's house! Note: Spencer died in 1965 and there is virtually nothing of his on the market. The Schomberg Library arguably the largest repository of Black historical material in the United States possesses not a single signed item. Without a doubt Spencer is much rarer than Charlie Parker and Bix Beiderbecke. Near fine condition.<br/><br/> African-American jazz and popular music composer pianist and singer best known for his songs "Basin Street Blues" "I Ain't Got Nobody" "She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain" and many more. He also collaborated on songs with W.C. Handy Fats Waller and Josephine Baker when both were in exile. Williams was one of the earliest African-Americans to be inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.<br/><br/> unknown books
1947140940918New York: New Directions 1947. Very Good. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper inscribed to former owner with "Lots of luck!" Former owner's name and date 1966 written on paste down. 166 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Seventh printing of the first edition. A Very Good copy lacking the dust jacket with wear to boards small chip at head light foxing and offsetting to endpapers. A rare signed copy of the playwright's most famous work. New Directions unknown books
1955140939522New York: New Directions 1955. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition first printing; no credit to New York Times on verso on copyright page no credits to Mielziner & Ballard on xii. Light brown cloth in black lettering. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. The first appearance of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. New Directions unknown books
196612252JNew York: New Directions 1966. First Edition. This copy is signed by the author Tennessee Williams and belonged to fellow Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lanford Wilson and bears Wilson’s autograph ownership signature as well as Wilson’s ownership ink stamp which reads: “Lanford Wilson - Sag Harbor N.Y.†Lanford Wilson is best known for his plays The Hot L Baltimore The Mound Builders and Talley’s Folly for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. A superb association copy by the author. Near fine in a fine bright dust jacket. New Directions unknown books
19706036691970. "Tennessee" with a 9 word holograph post script in blue ink on pictorial The Royal Orleans Royal and St. Louis Streets New Orleans Louisiana 70140 letterhead August 7 1970. 5 1/4" x 6 1/2"; 4 pages on biofold sheet. Very good. To Audrey Wood; Williams' longtime agent: In part: "Frank Fontis my gardener read me the following cablegram.'Darling Tenn marvelous news. Lindsay Anderson and Paul Scofield both very interested in play. They want to hold scripts and are meeting in London next week.' I think it is a promising new development and we should hold our American horses until Scofield and Anderson have met and come to some conclusion." After detailing his search for a lost 'agreement.' he continues: 'Hayes.also asked me to send him one-act plays and I'm getting a couple typed up to submit to him.I carry a cholesterol diet list to all restaurants now and an almost fanatical in my adherence to it." After signing Williams adds a handwritten post script: 'Will be in Key West till end of August." Williams has also crossed out a partial paragraph about monthly statements on the first page and has made a few handwritten corrections throughout. The play was "Camino Real." Audrey Wood 1905-1985 literary agent from 1920's - 1981 when she suffered a stroke; clients included Williams from 1939 William Inge Preston Jones Robert Anderson Arthur Kopit and Murray Schisgal; known for her devotion to her playwrights persuading producers to do their plays providing emotional support and even lending them money. No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
1945D5943New York: Pharos 1945. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps. A choice association copy inscribed on the half-title page: "To Alan Gardner from J. Laughlin." James Laughlin was a poet and the founder of New Directions Publishing -- and an early publisher of Tennessee Williams's poetry. This is the first issue of "Pharos" a magazine dedicated to creative writing with a note on the play by Margaret Webster and an account of its production in Boston. Cover lightly wrinkled and chipped along yapp edges; rear cover a little soiled along top edge. <br/><br/> Pharos paperback books
193250854Ithaca NY: Dragon Press 1932 . First edition. Hardcover. Very good-/Very good-. Ithaca NY: Dragon Press 1932 . First edition. Inscribed simply - Ò Best of Luck/ William Carlos WilliamsÓ. viii 164 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth with paper labels. Small vertical bubbles in cloth; browning of endpapers; some minor foxing to first few and last few pages else quite good. D j is worn with chips from head and heel of spine and corners and is split along the back spine fold. The printed d j is folded over a tissue d j that is edge-worn. This copy is from the library of Ronald Lane Latimer and has Ò LatimerÕs Book / 1932 Ò in pencil above WilliamsÕ inscription. It also has four titles added in pencil to the list of WilliamsÕ books in front. Most of these added titles I think were of books published by Latimer beginning in 1934. An interesting association copy. Very good-/Very good-. Insurance required to ship this item. Dragon Press hardcover books
1959295736Rutherford 1959. unbound. fine. 1 page 24 lines in three paragraphs on 4to onion skin paper. Rutherford N.J. March 16 1959. Fine.<br/><br/> Important letter about poetry in an apparent answer to an inquiry about whether he has been faithful to Imagist principles. ".Pure Imagism as an influence is dead.the image is paramount in every poem written after the blight of modern magazine verse .No one begins his lines with capitals any more. No one bothers to rhyme any more.I have persisted in writing in the American idiom .and the principle of the variable foot has become more and more important to me. "<br/><br/> unknown books
148865Rare Reach Official American League Baseball signed by 19 members of the 1950 American League All Stars team. Signed by Ted Williams Jerry Coleman Hoot Evers Art Houtteman twice Bob Lemon Ted Gray Bob Feller Tom Henrich Bobby Doerr twice Ferris Fain Jim Hegan Ray Scarborough Phil Rizzuto Allie Reynolds Walt Dropo Tommy Bytne and Vern Stephens. The signatures of Joe Di Maggio and Casey Stengel have been deemed clubhouse versions. In near fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services. The 1950 American League All-Star team represented a concentration of mid-century baseball talent blending established legends with rising stars in a showcase of the sport’s competitive peak. Led by marquee names such as Ted Williams whose disciplined hitting and keen batting eye made him one of the era’s most feared and respected offensive players the roster also featured iconic figures like Joe DiMaggio George Kell and Phil Rizzuto. This team exemplified the postwar American League’s dominance in the Midsummer Classic reflecting both the league’s depth of skill and its ability to captivate national audiences during baseball’s so-called “golden age.†unknown
197713459Frankfort KY: Gnomon 1977. First edition. One of only 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Deborah Bosley of the Bittersweet Bindery & signed by JW & the publisher Jonathan Greene. Jaffe A107. Fine copy. Rare. WHITESEL Carolyn. 12mo illustrations by Carolyn Whitesel cloth-backed boards. Fine copy. Rare. Gnomon unknown
19353038New York: Alcestis Press 1935. First Edition. Near fine. First Edition. in wraps as issue owner's signature and date on front free end paper. Signed limited; "Out of Series Alcestis Press unknown
202387833n.p.: n.p. 2023. Presumed First Edition First printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Unpaginated 66 pages. Table of Contents include The Journey Begins; Goodbye to Trump; Trump Does Not Leave; Rough Start; Trump Interferes; Covid; The "Other Joe" Problem; Presidential Report Card; Tow Notable Trumpists; Trump the Grifter; Is Trump Fading; Miscellaneous End of 2022; and The Future. Includes some poetry. Rare item of pro-Biden anti-Trump rhetoric and polemic. Little could be found about the author or this title which appears to be self published. Rare surviving copy of what is assumed to have been a rather limited print run. During cataloging no copies were located at Amazon or Biblio or through a multi-source book finding search engine. Three poems by AF Williams were located at poethunterdotcom but not additional information on the author was derived. n.p. paperback
51-1850Marfil Guanajuato Mexico: circa 1960s. Gouache on board. 11 x 17 inches. Signed "Garth Williams" in ink . Also included is the proposed text to accompany the image entitled "Bring me a Cross from Yalalag on necklace of old beads. Bring me a RED GLASS NECKLACE LIKE POMEGRANATE SEEDS StRUNG WITH MOONS OF SILVER COIN . . . "Inventory no. 3.09288.Provenance: Estate of the artist.Garth William American Illustrator A Life by E. & J. Wallace Chapter Six. The artist moved to Mexico in 1962 and remained there the rest of his life. Marfil, Guanajuato, Mexico: circa 1960s unknown
51-2045London: 1934. Five original gouaches. 35 x 42.5cm. Titled with annotations. Signed and annotated. Estate nos. 31-14088 to 14092.During the early-mid 1930's the artist lived in London. He was first a student at the Westminster School of Art and then received a scholarship to the Royal College of Art between 1931 and 1934. He worked for the British sculptor Henry Moore for a short time and also taught at the Luton Technical Institution. In 1936 he won a British Prix de Rome prize which included a residency in Rome until 1938.Provenance: Estate of the artist.Garth William "American Illustrator: A Life" by E. & J. Wallace pp. 16-18. London: 1934. unknown
1948D210341948. Very Good. Historically significant literary business letter serving as a contract extension dated October 21st 1948 signed by Tennessee Williams and his agent Audrey Wood during the peak of his career. The letter serves as a formal contract extension related to an agency agreement originally made in 1943 and modified in 1945. The agreement was originally set to expire April 30 1951. Both parties agreed here to extend it to October 15 1953 noting that the agreement remains valid even if one but not both of the parties dies. Williamss greatest play A Streetcar Named Desire had premiered in New York in December of 1947 less than one year earlier. <br/><br/> unknown
1953325632Stuttgart Germany: Jonathan Williams 1953. First edition limited to 200 copies; issued as Jargon 5. 8pp. printed by Ernst Klett Buchdruckerei 'Erbar Grotesk types a Kamerun Papier from Firma Martz'. Folio. Stiff cardstock printed in black and red A very good copy with light soiling to covers moderate crease at upper and lower corner printed text and illustrations are quite fresh and clean. First edition limited to 200 copies; issued as Jargon 5. 8pp. printed by Ernst Klett Buchdruckerei 'Erbar Grotesk types a Kamerun Papier from Firma Martz'. Folio. An elusive early Jargon Society publication. Jonathan Williams unknown
1959337450New York: New Directions 1959. Hardcover. Near Fine. Unbound folded and gathered signatures of the first trade edition. Note on the first leaf from the printer Chas. H. Bohn & Co. asking for approval dated in ink "8/17/59" and marked "OK 8/18" in red pencil. Fine. New Directions hardcover
1956298210New York: New Directions 1956. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. White parchment boards in labeled slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 100 copies Signed by author. A beautiful copy. New Directions hardcover
1944140946391Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1944. First edition. First edition first printing. All points in Johnson The Dark Page I: correct cloth design title page dated 1944 correct size 429 numbered pages of text jacket priced at $2.50. vi 429 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket small chip and tear near head worn along edges unclipped $2.50. Uncommon. The novel that inspired the Technicolor-blasted 1945 hit film. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown
