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1900964H10London: Adam & Charles Black 1900. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce first English edition of Houssaye"s detailed chronicle of Waterloo handsomely bound red cloth and complete with three fold-out colour campaign maps. In the publisher's original red cloth binding with gilt blind-stamp decoration.This volume is the first English appearance of Houssaye"s classic Waterloo study translated from the 31st French edition. First edition thus.This edition features three fold-out colour maps illustrating the general theatre from Charleroi to Brussels the troop dispositions for Ligny and Quatre-Bras and the Waterloo battlefield at midday on 18 June. Collated complete.This is a full-length meticulously sourced study of the Waterloo phase of Napoleon"s Hundred Days beginning with the 15 June frontier crossings and ending with the French retreat on 19 June. His aim was to present an hour-by-hour narrative while defending several controversial French decisions notably those of Ney and Grouchy. Historians such as Peter Hofschröer and John Hussey still cite him for French staff figures and timings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally very smart. Slight discolouration to perimeters of boards and spine. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to cloth at head and tail of spine. The odd slight handling mark to boards and scattered spots of damp staining particularly to rear board. previous owner's bookplate to front paste down "Ex Libris Campbell". Slight offsetting with the odd spot to endpapers. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. The odd spot heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edge. One or two small closed tears to maps. Very Good Adam & Charles Black hardcover
91788Adam & Charles Black 1900 London. ex libris first edition scarce super octavo red cloth boards gilt lettering 455pp 2 folding maps VG foxing and tanning to pages usual library markings and back page has been cellotaped to binding Adam & Charles Black 1900 London hardcover
185135415Georgetown: n/a 1851. Letter. Good. Letter. Approx. 8" x 10". 1 page of writing. Paper previously removed from a glass frame. Tissue repairs on the edges. Paper has multiple folds. According to a note found on the back of the glass frame William Mann addressed this letter to Col. William S. Amweg a pension attorney near Lancaster Pennsylvania area in the years 1849-1851. The number 200 is written top of the paper. Unfortunately the note affixed to the back of the frame is now missing. Col. Amweg's name is not found in this document.<br /> <br /> The letter transcribed as best as possible reads: "Georgetown June 8 1851 Sir Having heard not reading that there was an appropriation being made for the last legislative body appropriating a sum of $30000 dollars for defraying the expenses of the First & Second Pennsylvania volunteers in Mexico and not being to the whole circumstance belonging to the Co. of First Pennsylvania Ridgement under Colonel Wincape and Lt. Col. Samuel Black therefore I wish you to intercede for me and lose nothing. I have great acquaintances in your place Rea Frarer Jones B. Canfuier Dr. Casally &c. which will certify that I was there. Reece was there also. The reference would be to Brigadier General John Bennet of Philadelphia who was my captain in Mexico and who would be a friend in need. Just ask for I cannot say much at present but request an answer respecting these things and oblige yours most respectively William Mann. P.S. I would inform you that when I landed in Philadelphia I was sickly and destitute of friends that I sold my discharge papers for the sake of getting home decently and therefore have no certificate to show but making reference to General Bennet Jr. can be had nothing more at present but remain yours &c William Mann. Excuse my bad spelling for I am no scholar. Please direct to post office. n/a unknown
18530001197COUDERSPORT PENNSYLVANIA POTTER COUNTY 1853. On offer is an original manuscript letter handwritten by an important local Quaker reformer and Underground Railroad figure John S. Mann 1816-1879 who was a Quaker lawyer born in Chester County Pennsylvania. He was a teacher but moved to Coudersport in 1841. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1866-1868 1871; School Director 1858-1872 Coudersport Burgess 1862-1865; and Editor of the Potter Journal 1874-1879. Mann was the Underground Railroad "Stationmaster" for Coudersport which was an important stop on the route used by escaping slaves. Both his home and the building where his wife's bookstore was located were used to hide slaves. The latter even had a secret room. His son Arthur said as a young boy it was "not uncommon to find a colored person at the breakfast table". This letter dated Nov 8 1853 concerns settlers on the owner's lands addressed to 'Dear Sir' but most likely to John Keating elderly land owner of much land in Potter County Pennsylvania. Mann was an agent for John Keating 1760-1856 an Irish-French immigrant who bought 200000 acres in northern Pennsylvania in 1796 and began selling it the next year. "Coudersport Nov 8 1853 Dr Sir On my return I went to your lands as you suggested and made contracts with those settlers which had not already entered into contract. I succeeded in obtaining a contract with all but two and one of them was willing to do so but his improvement had been sold at sheriff's sale and the purchaser did not live in this county. The other one refused to contract and says he will hold by possession . I am satisfied he cannot and I think Mr. Harwick ought to take his lot at his own risk as I can furnish you a purchaser who will take his contract and not ask you to guarantee the possession of any of the lots. It took me so long to get over the tract that I am unable to make out a statement of the amount due on the old contracts and so I enclose thirteen of them herewith. Will send the new contracts by next mail together with a draft of the tracts showing the amount and location of the lots sold Yours truly Jno S. Mann". A receiving notation gives Mann's name again. Fold tear at top center overall G. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. English. unknown
026682191X.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
19405439Bermann-Fischer 1940. Collection of 19 books written by Thomas Mann. They are all written in German. Includes several first editions. <br /> <br /> These books are in good plus condition. Moderate bumping to all spines and jackets. The spine on one of the books is peeling off from the binding. Some books have previous owner's signatures on fthe ront endpaper. Old bookseller's tickets on several front pastedowns. Interior pages are bright and clean. <br /> <br /> Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Bermann-Fischer unknown
1900010662Richmond Virginia 1900. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This business envelope bears the printed return address of Valentine’s Meat-Juice Company of Richmond Virgina. It was sent from Richmond to the Director of the Private Maternity Hospital of Berlin Germany. It is franked with a 5-cent Grant stamp Scott #281 that has been canceled with a Barry Postal Supply Company machine postmark dated 21 February 1900. The reverse is filled with assorted postal labels handstamps in various colors and manuscript annotations related to its delivery despite having an insufficient address. In nice shape.<br /> <br /> <p>In downtown Richmond Mann S. Valentine a prosperous merchant lived with his family in a large neoclassical home. In 1870 his wife Anne Maria fell ill from a “severe and protracted derangement of the organs of digestion†that prevented her from eating solid food. Doctors had given up on curing Anne Maria so Valentine took it upon himself to concoct his own highly concentrated protein and iron tonic which he distilled from a mix of eggs and beef broth. It worked wonders. <br /> <br /> <p>Valentine ever a merchant began to create more which sold well in his store. Seeing the possibility of ever-increasing sales he began to canvass local then regional then nationally known physicians for their endorsements. Some replied with glowing reviews reporting they used it effectively not just as a nutritional supplement but as a treatment for everything from nausea to dysentery and cholera. Valentine began to publish these reviews in advertisements and business boomed. He took his meat juice to the International Paris Exposition in 1878 and introduced it to a global market. Recognizing the importance of physician recommendations Valentine began to contact European doctors for their endorsements. This envelope was no doubt used for that purpose.<br /> <br /> <p>In 1906 the newly created Food and Drug Administration began its crackdown on patent medicines. Seeing the writing on the wall Valentine stopped promoting his meat juice as a curative and began to market it as a cooking supplement for flavoring various dishes. As such it was even more popular than medicine and became a staple on grocery store shelves throughout the country for years until demand finally wore off and the factory located at Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue shut its doors.</p> . Valentine amassed a fortune during the last quarter of the 19th century and became an inveterate collector of art and artifacts. In his will he provided a large endowment to establish a museum to house his collection and it much expanded continues in operation as the famed Valentine Museum in Richmond.</p> <br /> <br /> <p>For more information see “The history of Valentine’s Meat Juice†at the RIC Today website and Castellano’s “In the 1800s Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice†at the Atlas Obscura website.<br /> <br /> <p>Old meat juice bottles are frequently sold on or encountered in antique malls. Company envelopes used to request endorsements from domestic physician endorsements occasionally appear on or in philatelic auctions. Evidence of Valentines attempts to secure international professional recommendations are seldom encountered; this is the first we have seen.</p> . unknown
1397270098.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1397269928.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
6b63163. verbesserte Auflage/ 2. berichtigte Auflage Verlag Technik Berlin 1956/1959. 246/ 460 S. mit zahlr. Abbildungen . - enthalten: Band 1 Fernsehtechnik. Die physikalischen und technischen Grundlagen des Fernsehens und Band 2 Fernsehtechnik Fernsehsender- und Fernsehempfänger-Schaltungstechnik sowie industrielles Fernsehen unknown
1919280497München 1919. Aus dem Nachlass eines Generals welcher u.a. mit Thomas Mann befreundet war. Ein Porträt-Duo von Katia und Thomas Mann 1919 gezeichnet und signiert von Carola Hauschka Spaeth USA 1883-1948. Beide Porträts hinter Glas. Jeweils 29 x 36 cm. Könnte so aufgehängt werden aber auch neu gerahmt werden. Gezeichnet wurde mit Kohle / Kreide auf bräunliches Papier / Pappe. Gemäß der Witwe des Generals schenkte Mann ihm die Bilder in München. Hauschka studierte Musik in Wien wo die Bilder gezeichnet wurden. unknown
20018266821st -- The Journal of Contemporary Photography 2001-01-01. Hardcover. Like New. The signed and numbered Deluxe Edition includes 10 exquisite hand-pulled photogravures 4 full-color planographs on fine tissue and 46 additional tritone and color plates. It is hand-bound in Moroccan goatskin and fine fabric and is encased in a matching portfolio case. Edition is limited to 165 copies in original corrugated box. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. 21st -- The Journal of Contemporary Photography hardcover
19954446523<p>66pp inscribed and signed by all three authors on the half-title page bright unmarked.</p> Bondi Studios paperback
198678747362nd Fighter Group 1986. Second Edition. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. 362nd Fighter Group's History of WWII Mogin's Maulers. Limited to 250 copies. Signed by Gianneschi on front pastedown. Bookplate on front pastedown otherwise clean throughout. DJ in archival cover. Size: 4to - over 9-3/4 - 12' tall. 362nd Fighter Group hardcover
6h10207Verschiedene Verlage und Orte 1919-1948. Insgesamt 804 S. verschiedene einbände ein Rücken erneuert. - gute Exemplare/4 Erstausgaben/enthalten: Herr und Hund. Gesang vom Kindchen. 2 Teile in einem Band/Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull/Neue Studien/Nietzsches Philosphie/Der kleine Herr Friedemann/Tonio Kröger - unknown
11642Various Places: Various Publishers. Very Good. 1958-1983. Hardcover. NOZOMI. The Written Part. No Place: By the Author 1969. 8vo. Typed mimeographed sheets folded and stapled. 'For Ruth Witt-Diamant' inscribed on front endpaper. Typed letter signed by the poet to Witt-Diamant regarding her 27th birthday and preparations to depart Japan for San Francisco State University and ' Do you have a dog Ruth I wish I can have a dog. If I can keep a dog I will call him Jeremiah'. NOZOMI. O Wonder! No Place: By the Author 1970. 8vo. Typed mimeographed sheets folded and stapled. Inscribed in purple pen "To Mrs. Witt-Diamant" above printed quotation front page 'Why do you ask my name seeing it is wonderful ' "from Nozomi Jan. 1970. EDWARD MYCUE: Damage Within The Community. Inscribed with holograph letter geeting card and notes to Ruth Witt-Diamant. San Francisco: Panjandrum Press 1977. 2nd Printing. Unpaginated; illustrated blue wrappers. Inscribed by the author: "for Ruth Witt-Diamant with a love note and a hand full of blossom." Signed also by the author on title page. In addition: a one page h. L. S. 1973 soliciting response on the poem A Fight for Air. Mycue states that he typed up a copy for her but the typescript is not included here. "Your very definitely lucid about your reactions: that's why I would be glad for some kind of response from you." The greeting card note written on a folded Asian Art Museum card reproducing Monkeys by Mori Sosen "Ruth we really enjoyed last evening . . . Here's the poem Root Route & Range this IS included in a 7 page mimeograph seen earlier in its more jack-in-the-box form Ed & Richard; P. S. also enclosed is a poem by Juliet Garfinkel your former student . . . . This piece The Children's Poem is also present in a typed manuscript signed by Garfinkel. The book shows slight age toning to spine. VICTOR M. DI SUVERO: Consider Now. With holograph note to Ruth Witt-Diamant. San Francisco: By the author July 1983. Unpaged; 11" x 8.5; Xeroxed on one side of thick ivory stock; bound in 'report' folder with clear mylar front cover. With a holograph note on the author's letterhead to Ruth Witt-Diamant founder of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. "Dear Ruth Here is this one - I hope you like it and that we'll have a chance to chat again soon - about the Academy and all the rest of it - Best wishes Victor" dated with home address phone etc. ROBERT PETERSON: Leaving Taos. N. Y. : Harper & Row 1981. First Edition. ISBN: 0060908750. 8vo; wrappers. Inscribed by the author "with affection & respect" to Ruth Witt-Diamant. LAWRENCE FIXEL: The Book of Glimmers. Berkeley & London: Cloud Marauder Press; Menard Press 1979. 1st Edition. 53 pp. ; 8vo; white wrappers. Inscribed "for Ruth Witt-Diamant with love Larry February 1980." Laid in is a broadside announcement printed on card stock for "Once and Upon" A Memorial Retrospective of Paintings Madeline Gleason; Gallery Become One Haight Street at Market San Francisco 1980. DIANE MANN ed. 58 Franciscan. Ruth Witt-Diamants copy of the1958 Yearbook for San Francisco State University. San Francisco: San Francisco State University 1958. 209 pp. ; 4to; white fabricoid with alligator illustration on front cover; black & white photos with commentary & name captions throughout; local advertising. Light soil to covers. Ruth Witt-Diamant was the founder of the Poetry Center in 1953 and a long time educator in poetics at San Francisco State University. Her ownership name is written in pen on top edge of front endpaper with a note "see page 23" which is a two page spread featuring the Poetry Center with a photo of her seated in her office along with photos of Center activities showing Charles Olson in front of a classroom Kenneth Rexroth Witt- Diamant and others in discussion and a photo of Lawrence Ferlinghetti Robert Duncan possibly Dan Langton and one fellow we cannot identify. Laid in is a Xerox copy of an article on Ruth Witt-Diamant and the founding of the Poetry Center in West View and an envelope with her written return address in San Francisco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Various Publishers hardcover
2BB-02-3153St. Martin's Griffin. Used - Very Good. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use wear and minor cosmetic defects. St. Martin's Griffin paperback
1905809107.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
0806525169.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2003Q-0806525169Citadel 2003-11-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Citadel paperback
2008Q-0884864359Bristol Park Books 2008-10-20. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Bristol Park Books hardcover
200218657London: A & J Speelman. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. Catalog - 57 items. Color plates throughout. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Ribbon bookmark. . A & J Speelman hardcover
SONG1641701471Familius 2019-10-01. Illustrated. paperback. Used: Good. 8.69x0.85x10.06. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Familius paperback
1641700335.Gspiral_bound. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. unknown
1641701471.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
