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1958157729London: Landsborough Publications Four Square Books 1958. 317p. wraps worn pages evenly toned old price stickers on both front and rear wraps else very good first Four Square paperback edition in pictorial wraps. Originally published in the UK by Faber in 1946. A memoir of the Siege of Madrid. Landsborough Publications, Four Square Books unknown books
1715WRCAM39783London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Some foxing. Very good. A rare political leaflet petitioning Parliament for relief of warrant officers who had fought in the recent War of the Spanish Succession. In March 1715 the House of Commons ordered that a list of all the regimental and warrant officers be drawn up but by the time this document was printed numerous warrant officers had not been entered into the list and rumors had begun to circulate that they would therefore not be receiving expected compensation for their service. "Besides the Nature of several of the Warrant Officers Posts was such as they could not be put on a Regimental List viz. Directors of Hospitals Commissaries Officers who have lost their Limbs and many other Officers whose particular Hardships Pretensions and Disappointments are more at large set forth and specify'd in their several Warrants. So that their Condition is very deplorable." This is among the earliest examples of lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC lists only two copies at Oxford and the University of Missouri. HANSON 2212. unknown books
1715WRCAM39768London 1715. Small folio broadsheet. 1p. plus printed docket title on verso. Ornamental initial. Dbd. Early folds and early stab holes in left margin. Mild foxing. Very good. A petition to Parliament by the officers of Lieut. Gen. George Hamilton's Regiment of Foot seeking pay due for services abroad in the War of Spanish Succession. Lord George Douglas-Hamilton 1666-1737 was a Scottish Williamite officer during the Glorious Revolution who later married William III's mistress Elizabeth Villiers became a confidant of William was created Earl of Orkney in 1696 was appointed Governor of Virginia in 1714 and in 1736 was the first British general promoted to the rank of Field Marshal. In 1701 at the beginning of the War of the Spanish Succession Hamilton led the First Regiment of Foot the Royal Scots to the Netherlands where the regiment fought for the remainder of the war. Despite their long service and the high position of Hamilton the officers suggest in the present petition that having been so long overseas they had been forgotten by the British government and charge that they had not received their pay even after frequent petitions. The document is an early example of lobbying literature which first began proliferating in the lobby of the House of Commons at the time of the accession of King George I and the British general election of 1715. ESTC records four copies two at the British Library one at Oxford and one at the National Library of Scotland. unknown books
1898WRCAM56306Manila Philippines 1898. 16pp. printed in double columns. Color illustration on front wrapper uncolored map on rear wrapper. Original pictorial self-wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present. Central vertical fold wrappers with chips and tears in edges upper outer corner of front wrapper repaired with tape on verso. Good. One of three issues of this scarce Spanish- American War periodical published on board Dewey's flagship Olympia in Manila Bay. There was a total of seven numbers of this naval periodical the first two published in Nagasaki the third in Yokohama the fourth in Hong Kong and numbers five to seven in Manila. The present issue entirely devoted to the Battle of Manila Bay is among the most desirable and contains American accounts and a translated Spanish account of the battle several poems and a map of the scene of action made by a sailor "with a couple of sail needles." The magazine was written and edited by Apprentice First Class Louis Stanley Young and printed by Harry B. Glover on paper captured from the "Commandancia General del Arsenal de Cavite." Young a former printer himself improvised a print shop in a torpedo room on board the Olympia. An illustration of the Liberty Bell two flags an American eagle etc. is printed on the front wrapper in black red and blue. "A historic piece one of major proportions" - Moebs. MOEBS AMERICA'S NAVAL HERITAGE 136. unknown books
191118240Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co. Very Good. 1911. 1st U.S. edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket moderate overall wear and external soiling dust-soiling to top page edges light bumping at several corners one-time owner's name on ffep bottom half-inch of spine cloth looks like it might have glued back in place after having been ripped a bit at the bottom spine corners. color frontispiece 3 color plates The first American publication of Blasco Ibañez's classic novel of the rise and fall of a great matador later the basis for two outstanding Hollywood films both using the more marquee-friendly title BLOOD AND SAND: a 1922 silent version starring the gorgeous Rudolph Valentino and the 1940 Technicolor production directed by Rouben Mamoulian for 20th Century-Fox starring the even-more-gorgeous Tyrone Power. Originally published in Spain in 1908 as "Sangre y arena"; following this edition it next saw print in the U.S. in 1919 as "Blood and Sand" in a translation by Mrs. W.A. Gillespie that was designated as the "Authorized American Edition" -- implying that this McClurg printing may have unauthorized. This is mere speculation on my part not based on deep research. . A.C. McClurg & Co. hardcover books
1975123250New York: Harper and Row 1975. First American Edition. About Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light fading to the topstain else book is Fine. Jacket has a hint of rubbing at the spine ends and corners with mild laminate lift to the crown and a crease to the front flap. A bright attractive copy. Harper and Row unknown books
195387802New York: Farrar Strauss and Giroux 1953. Hardcover. xiii 335p. introduction photos very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Farrar Strauss and Giroux hardcover books
189947201New York: Underwood & Underwood Publishers 1899. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Modest wear & soiling to card. A bit of yellowing to image. A VG example. Stereo image separate domed mounted to stiff-stock concave card. Oblong format: 3-7/16" x 7". Rounded corners. <br/><br/> Underwood & Underwood, Publishers unknown books
1930WRCLIT82832Madrid: V. e H. de J. Ratés 1930. 2164pp. Large octavo. Contemporary cloth gilt leather spine label t.e.g. 1846 entries. Spine a shade sunned a Library of Congress duplicate with usual stamps a very good copy. V. e H. de J. Ratés hardcover books
19751321670New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc 1975. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 382; VG-/G; ivory spine with black text; dust jacket has modest sun darkening to exterior edges as is; sunned spine; few chips to edges; small tape mend to rear tail edge; cloth has light toning to exterior; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; illustrated endpapers; interior shows light toning toward edges; profusely illustrated; arts - Modern; additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders.<br /> <br /> <p> This book is part of the overstocked 15's kept in Room X. 1321670. FP New Rockville Stock. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc hardcover books
1920250560Bilbao: Huecograbado 1920. 16p. stapled pictorial wraps 7.75 x 8.75 inches profusely illus. very good condition. Tourist's guide to road-houses inns with restaurants across Spain. None in OCLC as of 4/2020. Huecograbado unknown books
WRCLIT70217London: Friends Service Committee nd. 8pp. Printed wrappers. First edition. Wrappers lightly dust soiled but very good. Friends Service Committee unknown books
1936WRCLIT25517London: Gollancz 1936. Limp printed cloth wrappers. First Left Book Club edition. Wraps a bit handsoiled but a good copy with ephemera laid in. Gollancz hardcover books
2000110892San Antonio: Wings Press 2000. Paperback. 51p. one of 500 copies signed and dated by the Tejana poet very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Wings Press paperback books
194040218Dearborn MI: Ford Motor Company 1940. 1st edition presumed. Stiff black color illustrated covers night scene cover illustration of the Ford Super Deluxe grill comb-bound with white plastic. Two graduated thumb tabs. Still housed in light blue publisher's envelope with white string closure and b/w illustration to upper lefthand corner. Light rubbing and shelf-wear to covers slight warping. Envelope worn and rubbed some small tears. A VG catalogue in an About VG envelope. 102 4 "Indice General" - Index pp. Many color illustrations throughout. Oblong format: 9" x 12-5/8" <br/><br/>This an exceedingly scarce dealership showroom catalogue in Spanish for the 1941 Ford passenger models and trucks which were introduced in October of 1940. These models included the Special the De Luxe and Super De Luxe sedans convertible cabriolet Woody Station Wagon and Coupes and others. These cars came equipped with the new 226 cubic inch L-head straing-6 and rated at 90 horsepower. The 221 cubic inch V8 remained the standard for the De Luxe and Super De Luxe models . Ford thoroughly updated their models for the 1941 model year with wide bodies that nearly covered the running boards. The front and rear fenders came in several pieces instead of just one and were now more integrated into the body and pushed the headlights up and out over the front wheels. Of interest is that this Spanish-market catalogue also integrates the 1941 truck and heavy truck models on the eve of World War II. Those include the 1 ton stake truck commercial panel trucks and vans cab-over heavy trucks and the Heavy Duty Stake among others. No institutional holdings located on OCLC. Rare. (Ford Motor Company) unknown books
189947820New York / Washington DC: Strohmeyer & Wyman Publishers / J. F. Jarvis Publisher 1899. Peach-colored mounts concave. Versos blank. Images generally clear & sharp with mounts showing just minor wear & soiling. Two Jarvis views with 5 language captions to verso. Old prices penciled to verso upper corner. Withal a Very Good set. Individual domed b/w albumen images mounted side by side. Captioned underneath with publisher & distributer imprints to the view sides. 3-3/8" x 7" <br/><br/>A nice cache of views depicting 8 different vessels from the last turn-of-the-century conflicts: Cruiser Minneapolis Battleship Texas Cruiser New York Massachusetts Battleship Iowa Cruiser Brooklyn Oregon 3 & the Raleigh. Strohmeyer & Wyman, Publishers / J. F. Jarvis, Publisher unknown books
1966WRCLIT73055Seattle & London: Univ. of Washington Press 1966. Cloth. First edition. Ink name in corner of free endsheet otherwise about fine in price- clipped dust jacket. Univ. of Washington Press hardcover books
18981081Chattanooga: Times Print 1898. Very good. 29pp. Narrow 12mo. Original red cloth cover gilt. Spine heavily chipped corners worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front pastedown contemporary notations to several leaves. Regimental roster for the Second Nebraska Volunteers mustered into service for the Spanish American War at Lincoln in May 1898. The regiment consisted of forty-six officers and 975 enlisted men each detailed herein by company. The regiment never saw active duty spending time training at Chickamauga before being transferred to Omaha and then mustered out in October of the same year. This copy with the ownership inscription of Irene G. Courtnay dated September 2 1898. Irene has made notations about several of the men -- presumably friends or acquaintances -- in the Remarks section of some pages. On the page for Company B she has written "Ernest G. Briggs drowned in Chickamauga Creek. 1st death in 2nd Neb. Regiment." Rare and likely produced in limited numbers for friends and family. Only a single photocopy reproduction located in OCLC. An interesting piece of Western Americana from this mostly-forgotten episode in American history. Times Print unknown books
2007166808New York: Grove Press 2007. Hardcover. 321p. very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. Cuban American novelist. Grove Press hardcover books
1897262561London: Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry 1897. 23p. stapled wraps 5x7.25 inches wraps lightly foxed bottom edge of front wrap browned staple rusted pp8-17 evenly browned rear wrap lightly silverfished along two edges. Reprinted from "Freedom." On the mistreatment of anarchist political prisoners. Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry unknown books
1897262648London: Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry 1897. 23p. stapled wraps 5x7.25 inches wraps lightly foxed staple rusted else good condition. Reprinted from "Freedom." On the mistreatment of anarchist political prisoners. Published for the Spanish Atrocities Committee by J. Perry unknown books
194724340Toulouse: Movimiento Libertario Espanol 1947. 95p. decorated wraps printed blue black and red on coated white stock with minor shelf wear paper slightly toned. On the conference that brought together exiled Spanish anarchists. Movimiento Libertario Espanol unknown books
21688On February 15 1898 a mysterious explosion destroyed the battleship USS Maine while it was anchored in Havana Harbor killing 260 men and helping to propel the United States into war with Spain. Although the cause of the explosion was unclear American newspapers were quick to allege that the ship had been brought down by a Spanish bomb. Led by William Randolph Hearst in the New York Journal and Joseph Pulitzer in the New York World the press demanded action. Hearst's headline "Remember the Maine!" became a rallying cry that helped turn American public opinion strongly in favor of war with Spain. By April President McKinley had given into to additional pressure from hawkish senators and his own vice-president Theodore Roosevelt and war was declared. Although brief the Spanish-American War had important consequences. It ended Spain's colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere and secured the position of the United States as a Pacific power. "U.S. victory in the war produced a peace treaty that compelled the Spanish to relinquish claims on Cuba and to cede sovereignty over Guam Puerto Rico and the Philippines to the United States. The United States also annexed the independent state of Hawaii during the conflict. Thus the war enabled the United States to establish its predominance in the Caribbean region and to pursue its strategic and economic interests in Asia" Office of the Historian U.S. State Department.<br/><br/>This collection consists of approximately 120 items including original photographs printed and real photo postcards stereoviews commemorative programs patriotic covers postal stamps calling cards song sheets lithographs and other ephemera showing the Maine as she appeared before the disaster the wreckage and salvage efforts the funeral service and burials of the victims first at Cristobal Colon Cemetery in Havana later at Arlington National Cemetery and some of the myriad ways in which the Maine was memorialized and mythologized in American popular culture. Original photographs and real photo postcards capture the ship and crew prior to the disaster crowds of sailors lined up to pay their respects to the victims the coffins being transported the cemetery dotted with freshly dug graves elaborate floral wreaths and memorials and salvage efforts in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and in 1911 when the ship was raised before being towed out to sea to its final resting place at the bottom of the ocean. The wide reach of the patriotic feelings aroused by the disaster can be seen in two cabinet cards of young children wearing U.S.S. Maine hats as well as on items that have no military or national connection e.g. a high school commencement program a blotter advertising corsets yet bear images of the Maine or the "Remember the Maine" slogan. On envelopes and stationery we see images of Uncle Sam punching a Spainiard an eagle dubbed "the New Bird in Havana Harbor" and troops walking toward a ship under the heading "On to Cuba." A mendicant uses the Maine as his theme on a card handed out to solicit alms; a song by a writer of sensational crime broadsides is reported to have been "composed and written during the indecision of the U.S. Government" and urges "Let's show all foreign powers Aye the haughty sons of Spain they will brook no insult like the Sinking of the Maine." A particularly unusual item is an envelope illustrated with an image of the remains of the ship captioned "WHO DID IT" containing illustrated sheets of tissue with instructions to blow them up via a small "fuse" on the back. In all an illuminating collection that helps demonstrate the impact of both the incident and how it captured the popular imagination -- such that many Americans still recognize the "Remeber the Maine!" rallying cry today even if they no longer know what it represents. unknown books
93318First Edition. pamphlet. 36 pages. Slim 8vo printed wrappers; chipped ex- lib. Paris: R. Chapelot 1899.<br/><br/> unknown books
1778WRCAM37240Madrid: Pedro Marin 1778. 219262pp. plus engraved leaf with royal coat of arms. Quarto. Contemporary mottled calf gilt spine gilt extra. Edges of covers slightly worn corners heavily worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown old book dealers' descriptions on front pastedown. Contemporary ownership inscription "Castillo" on titlepage. Occasional minor soiling and dampstaining in upper margins of a few leaves remainder of text fresh and clean with wide margins printed on heavy paper. Very good plus. Detailed rules and regulations governing Spain's late 18th-century commercial policy in Latin America with a preliminary section of nineteen pages providing a summary of the articles and tariffs documented in the main portion of the text. With this REGLAMENTO. the Crown terminated Cadiz and Seville's monopoly of trade with Spanish America allowing other cities of the realm to participate. In addition to much information on commerce and numerous tariffs on a large variety of Spanish and American goods several sections discuss shipping ports and other maritime activities directly related to commercial activity. The work also includes the text of concessions granted to Louisiana. PALAU 255843. SABIN 68890. MEDINA BHA 4845. Pedro Marin unknown books
