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The Grounds and Rudiments of Law and Equity Alphabetically Digested: Containing a Collection of Rules or Maxims.

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THE GIRL WITH THE ROSEWOOD CRUTCHES

191223551New York: McBride Nast & Co. 1912. First edition thus. Hardcover. New. 8vo. Red pictorial cloth. Minor bumping to spine ends and corners; sparse toning/foxing to pages. About near fine. 267pp. Early work featuring an independent and successful disabled protagonist first serialized in 1908. A first-person narrative ostensibly by an anonymous young woman recounting her ambitions and achievements following the loss of one leg in early childhood and the consequent physical and social restrictions imposed on her. Presented as nonfiction and received as such by contemporary reviewers with the publisher responding to one enthusiastic contemporary reader: "Our contract with the author especially provides that we are not to reveal the identity and we cannot give the names of any other books by this author without violating our agreement." "Travel" Jan. 1913. Another memoirist however in her own account of life with a similar disability wrote: "The book proved to be the bastard brain child of a big and bouncing and very jolly New York businessman and writer. He does use crutches having a pair of unreliable knees . but he is definitely not a fascinating little feminine hopper. Although he admits openly to a new legitimate book every year or so he never confesses his paternity to THE GIRL WITH THE ROSEWOOD CRUTCHES that poor love child of his careless youth." "Out on a Limb" Louise Baker 1946. Despite the book's sentimentality and inspirational appeal its treatment of disability is engagingly modern and matter-of-fact in many respects: as the heroine's need for crutches is both permanent and nonprogressive she evades the common literary fates of miraculous recovery or tragic death and holds eternal grudges against well-meaning men who call her a "cripple" to her face. Fighting to make her way in New York 'Kate' endures an interview with a newspaperman who thinks her only fit for desk work: "'I have used them crutches for fifteen years' I told him letting him know how clearly I read his prejudices. 'They are no handicap to me. For the life of me I cannot see how they would affect my ability to work upon a newspaper.'" The narrator finds ultimate success as a concert-hall pianist and singer -- no longer excusing hiding or defending her "wonderful crutches" but proudly using them on stage to applause and acclaim. McBride, Nast & Co. hardcover books

Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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The Full Particulars of the Late Riots with a View of the burning of the Catholic Churches St. Michaels & St. Augustines.

184419364Philadelphia: Published at 23 N. Second st. 1844. First edition. Wrappers neatly reattached with archival clear tape repairs to the tears; wrappers soiled pamphlet somewhat roughly trimmed; in good sound condition. Original printed pictorial yellow wrappers scant 7 x 4 inches 24 pages. Illus. Out of the windows of nearly every Native American and Protestant Irishman in the district hung the American and tri-colored flags. This was regarded as sufficient protection from the mob. Upon some of the doors were observed the words 'Native American' written with charcoal and on others were posted the 'Native American' newspaper--regarding these as better protection than arms of the military. . . . During the afternoon hundreds of families of Catholics moved out of the district; and we observed women and children piled high up on furniture carts upon their goods apparently delighted to escape the scenes of turmoil and bloodshed which presented themselves to their eyes for the last three days." A supposedly non-partisan account of the first round of 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia though the Nativists come out rather better in this minute recounting of the riots than the "priest-ridden" Irish; the report drills down to specific incidents of violence and victims graphic accounts of the firing of the churches as well as a healthy dose of rumor and supposition which priests are stockpiling weapons etc. and altogether a full accounting of the violence leveled against Irish immigrants and Catholic properties over four days in May. The riots of July are not mentioned here. The pictorial wrappers include a wood engraving of "the American Flag Torn at a Meeting in Kensington" as well as crude views of the mobs watching the churches burn. A cursory search of the N. 2nd street address situated in the Old City in digitized Philadelphia newspapers and directories of the period did not yield up any particularly likely candidates for the pamphlet's publisher or distributor. Published at 23 N. Second st., unknown books

Garrett Scott, Bookseller (ABAA) · États-Unis400,00 $US≈ 338,44 €

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The French Impostors: or An Historical Account of Some Very Extraordinary Cases Brought before the Parliament of France Several of which were so Very Surprizing that they for a Long Time Puzzled the Whole Senate

173728073London: Printed by J. Applebee for J. Hazard J. Brindley J. Worrall J. Jolliffe C. Corbet Ward and Chandler E. Withers R. Dodsley and W. Warner 1737 1737. First edition second issue with a cancel title; first published earlier the same year under the title Gallick Reports. This second issue retains the running title Gallick Reports. ESTC N6568 which records six copies of this issue Cambridge Columbia Cornell Harvard Princeton and National Library of Medicine; cf. ESTC T116539 for the first issue. Two leaves misbound following the preface; title-page somewhat soiled and with a small hole not affecting the text; edges of the binding rubbed; very good copy. 12mo contemporary sheep skillfully rebacked red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. Five pages of publisher's terminal advertisements. Ã‚Â¶ An unusual collection of seven "extraordinary" and "surprizing" French criminal cases as recorded by an anonymous English author who has also supplied an interesting 43-page preface on French law. Among the cases is the 16th century story of Martin Guerre later used by Janet Lewis for her novella The Wife of Martin Guerre Colt Press 1941; that's followed by stories of a man who "debauched" a young woman but is saved from execution by that woman; Mary Margaret de Aubrey who poisoned her father and two brothers; the celebrated history of Urbain Grandier condemned as a Magician; a child claimed by two women to be its mother; Madam Tiquet who attempted to "assassinate" her husband. Interspersed with the cases are relevant extracts from French law the king's edicts against witches and poisoners etc. Modern nautical bookplate on the front free endpaper of Robert J. Hayhurst retail pharmacist and book collector. London: Printed by J. Applebee, for J. Hazard, J. Brindley, J. Worrall, J. Jolliffe, C. Corbet, Ward and Chandler, E. Withers, R unknown books

The Brick Row Book Shop · États-Unis975,00 $US≈ 824,95 €

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