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1966WRCLIT61127San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole numbers one through three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Light edgewear and creasing to the spines some shelf smudges to edges a bit of light soiling to the white portions of the wrappers of #s 2 and 3 but very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The first three numbers of this irregular anthology/periodical highlighting authors associated with the imprint as well as a wide range of native and international writers many of them early in their careers. According to Cook the number of copies printed of the first number is not recorded and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the second were printed and it was not reprinted; 6000 copies of the third were printed and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was undertaken in 1967. COOK 39 49 & 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1868329Chicago: Root and Cady Publishers 1868. Single issue. 335 x 260 mm. 13 x 10 inches. 8 pp. folded and unopened some light soiling to the paper otherwise very good. Rare musical newspaper published by Ebenezer Toner Root and Chauncy Marvin Cady the leading music publisher's in Chicago before the fire in 1871. The Song Messenger was printed from 1864 to 1871 when the company went bankrupt after the losses caused by the fire. In addition to advertisements for musical instruments lessons and scores this issue contains an "Introductory Course for Congregational Singing" which include instructions for learning Psalm LXVII "Let the People Praise Thee O God Let all the People Praise Thee." Also included is the song Gathering Home music by C. T. Lockwood and lyrics by H. M. Look. Lockwood was prolific song writer producing scores of melodies and marches for Chicago publishers during the 1860 and early 1870's. This issue of The Song Messenger was printed in August 1868 and according to OCLC in known in one copy at the Newberry Library which also holds the April issue of the same year. Knox College in Illinois and the Library of Virginia also hold one issue from the year 1869. Lockwood's Gathering Home was also printed in Western Musical World: A Journal of Music Art and Literature in 1868 by S. Brainard also of Chicago. One copy of this is located at the University of Michigan. 329. Root and Cady, Publishers unknown books
200735775Buenos Aires: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 2007. Paperback. Very good. Light rubbing else very good in publisher's French fold wraps. Text in English and Spanish. <br/><br/>exc m Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes paperback books
5300CARIBBEAN TRAVEL JOURNAL. Diary. 101 pages. The Caribbean. c. 1908-9. The handwritten journal belonging to C. B. Benson of Hudson New York. The diary recounts Benson’s experience on an organized cruise group visit to Caribbean locations such as St. Thomas Puerto Rico Kingston Jamaica Caracas Venezuela Panama City Panama Port of Spain Trinidad and Martinique. Benson records his experiences in each location including his impressions of the town the locals sights he visited and local travel. He visited forts a school churches a mill a sugar plantation and Carnival celebrations. Benson took his tour during the era of colonial rule the attitudes of which infuse both his experiences and observations. Based on his mention of an earthquake in Kingston Jamaica taking place a year or two before he travelled in 1908 or 1909. “…St. Thomas where we arrived about 6 A.M. mid morning Jan 26 is one of the Virgin group and we found her framed and frescoed in the principal churches. Columbus in 1493 gave the group of 100 islands rocks and…which comprise the group. St. Thomas is 13 miles in length and 3 miles in width at its broadest. And I guess we walked the length of it speaking broadly and in the abstract at this distance.The heat of the tropical sun also takes its toll and blurs our ideas of time and distance somewhat. The town of Charlotte Amelia contains 13000 inhabitants – merchants and black babies and they are all dressed in their Sunday best to receive us properly.Thursday morning at 8 we went ashore at Porto sic Rico.Returning thro the village streets we stopped at the market place and noticed the display of fruits in baskets a couple of men seated on low stools with blacks in front of them.a native woman…was entertaining us in the middle of the road with a dance.When passing the island of Haiti.‘Do you know why we do not stop at the Island of Haiti’ ‘No’ There are cannibals there there are so many fat people aboard you would lose your wife’ At St Thomas the American council held open house and received some of us who dared to invade this solitude.An hour’s railroad ride which was made interesting by stops at every little…and station where the bare legged boy with the oil gun in hand squirted oil…bearings sic of the cars and engine. As it was before the 17 miles came to an end the rear axle of the parlor car so called because it had leather covered reclining seats caught fire. But when this happened we were nearly at the end of our journey and we were not delayed much. At the sugar plantation where we detrained we found we had some distance to walk down…to the sugar mill. As there was no path and the sticky wet ground to soil made worse by the heavy rain of the night before.A sugar mill is never a clean place.The process is somewhat intricate but way he likened to the process of brewing.The cane piled up in the yard is boiled in a number of vats then is run off with barrels and in a black and solid state in shipped to the Refineries at New York. The fiber of the cane is then hardened and dried and is fed to the furnaces to boil…cane. After return to the town San Juan we visited the shops. Walked out to the fort at the entrance of the harbor. The town is excellently policed and paved in the principal streets with telegram blocks.As this day was Thursday we concluded that every day was wash day for the native women and girls who for want of other diversions spend most of their time in this form of dissipation. Even the balconies of the main public street filled with traffic of street cars carriages and drays had their fill of wash some of which are found laying in the street having been carried down by the wind. No one had appropriated it as yet; and we did not add it to our collection of souvenirs. At the officers quarters I applied for a permit of the officer of the day to enter the fort ‘San Cristobal’ the fort commanding the entrance to the harbor.The fort was like most forts. The high tower gave a commanding view of the town and harbor. Then we visited the Governor’s Palace. In the Reception Room hanging on opposite sides facing each other are life sized oil paintings of McKinley & Cleveland. In the garden were some large palms tropical ferns a fountain &.Jan 29. early in the morning we were at Kingston in Jamaica. The channel is narrow and tortuous but well… Taking a local pilot we soon…opposite it…of three vessels one of which was the Princess Louise that was caught in the hurricane here three years ago and…the larger of the three vessels was trying to pick up the light from the light house which had been blown down. This destruction of the hurricane.After driving about a mile thru the city the destruction to the buildings & pavements made by the earthquake here a year or two ago half of the city seems to be in ruins and no attempt has been made apparently to rebuild & restore the city. Thousands of lives were lost here at that time which did immense damage to the fruits. Most of the uninhabitable part of the island belongs to the United Fruit Company a Boston Corporation who ships immense quantities of bananas from Port Antonio. Owing to recent destruction by fire of Hotel Litchfield our stop at the port of San Antonio and stay of night at the Hotel was omitted. An excursion across the island by train to Mandeville was arranged in its place.The town of Colon in its principle streets are paved with brick and appear clean. We noticed many buzzards. The air was clear and there was a delightful cool breeze blowing.We stopped at all of the stations going to Panama and noted the wonderful impressions made by the Sanitary Commission. The well ventilated and screened houses. The plan for disposal of garbage the open drainage the cleared lands…But of course the facts are here – bug and drain – all working to the mutual exclusion of some ideas to the American white employers. Therefore after a few months they must have a reaction in the States to…and detach themselves from all absorbing facts. The fighting for life against…fires. Most things are…between the white employers and the black employees. So we find the ‘White Bar’ and the ‘Black Bar’ ‘The White Employees’ ‘The Silver White Employees’ &c as signs on the cars intended to carry workmen back and forth from the works.Caracas the capital of Venezuela is about 3000 ft up but the sun in the middle of the day we found very hot.Plaza Bolivar was decorated with rows of colored electric lights. They are preparing for the Carnival season which ushers in Lent in Catholic countries. The market place had counters for dry goods highly colored handkerchiefs etc. Another section was devoted to fruits vegetables etc. We noticed some very large apricots. Mr. Bolivar apparently has done a great deal for his native town. He has given his name – while the people furnished the funds – for the largest parks a street and the coinage of the plutocrats.The Spaniard the…Hildago -in his easy subjugation of the…pleasure loving tropical savage has replaced the native of simple taste and left in his place the mongrel half-breed with all the vices of the conqueror and none of the virtues of the…Indian savage…â€. The diary is in very good condition. It is mostly written in pencil but is quite legible. hardcover books
1807CAT000099Paris: Capelle et Renand 1807. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. A mixed set 11 volumes published 1807-1817. Volumes 2-10 in full acid calf worn spines dry and chipped one board detached others loose volume 1 in later half vellum and volume 11 in original wraps worn and chipped. A complete run of this annual of food and drink associated poetry and song. Volume 4 with a portrait of Marc-Antoine-Madeleine Désaugiers who wrote most of the songs laid down and each volume with an engraved frontispiece. Size: 12mo duodecimo. 11-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Music. Inventory No: CAT000099. Capelle et Renand hardcover books
1841166Washington D.C.: Blair & Rives 1841. Good. 423pp. Volume 6 Numbers 1:27 paginated continuously. Folio. Contemporary half sheep and marbled boards. Boards detached with tape repairs. Light dampstaining at upper corner; light tanning and foxing. A complete run of this 1840 Democratic campaign newspaper published weekly as an extra to the District of Columbia periodical the Globe during political campaign seasons. This run of the Extra covers the 1840 presidential election between William Henry Harrison and Martin Van Buren. Content includes speeches and testimonials for Van Buren and against Harrison as well as editorials and other articles and party-related material that address all the principal issues of the campaign. Harrison would go on to sweep the electoral college handily but famously died in office after only four weeks as president to be succeeded by John Tyler. This is the sixth such volume the paper having started the Extra in 1834. It ran to seven volumes ending in 1841. The present volume was published from May 16 1840 to October 26 1840 with the final issue appearing post-election on January 29 1841. The whole was advertised as costing $1 for six months. The editors Francis Blair and John Rives were Jacksonian Democrats initially brought to D.C. by Jackson to be the mouth of the party. Blair & Rives unknown books
191139204Oakland California 1911. 1st edition. Tan suede binding with 3-hole rawhide cord tie. Yapp edges. Binding worn with cover lettering faded. A Good copy. Unpaginated. T.p. & Foreward only text pages. 138 images printed to the recto of each leaf. 8vo. 9-1/2" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>From the Foreword: "Just in fun and in all friendliness we present a book of likenesses of business and professional men of the City of Oakland California and vicinity . The purpose is primarily to present a strking likeness of the subject and then to present more strikingly and effectively than can be done in words the business or profession of the man together with a fad or two. 'Just for fun'". OCLC records just two institutional holdings. Rare. unknown books
1940302898New York Random House 1940. 1940. First edition so stated. 4to. Frontispiece woodcut by Rollin Kirby. Biographical commentaries by Morris Watson and Ernest L. Meyer. Dust jacket unclipped; chip on front panel and base of spine. Very good. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Contributions include John L. Lewis Herbert Swope Fiorello La Guardia Lewis Gannett Edna Ferber Quintein Reynolds et al. Heywood Broun 1888-1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Random House, 1940. hardcover books
1940302899New York Random House 1940. 1940. First edition so stated. 4to. Frontispiece woodcut by Rollin Kirby. Biographical commentaries by Morris Watson and Ernest L. Meyer. Dust jacket unclipped. Very good. 48 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Contributions include John L. Lewis Herbert Swope Fiorello La Guardia Lewis Gannett Edna Ferber Quintein Reynolds et al. Heywood Broun 1888-1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Random House, 1940. hardcover books
1793WRCAM43165London 1793. 4pp. Folio. Neatly silked on both sides. Minor soil. Very good. Includes an account of the trial of Marie Antoinette and an advertisement for several works by Thomas Paine. unknown books
1933M11155Bristol et al.:: John Wright and Sons et al. 1933. 1933. 8vo. ii 183 ad 1 pp. Red cloth gilt-stamped cover and spine titles; spine a bit sunned. Near fine. John Wright and Sons, et al., 1933. hardcover books
1793218222Boston: Belknap and Hall 1793. pamphlet. good. Folio 4 pages light foxing lower right corner of front page with seven inch expertly repaired tear with partial loss of some words center fold repaired in margin. Boston: Belknap and Hall 1793.<br/><br/> An entire issue of a Boston newspaper with mostly political content. The American Apollo was only published from January 6 1792 to December 25 1794. The entire front page is an article by William Fox the political reformer pamphleteer and bookseller from London entitled " Thoughts on the Death of the King of France". Most of the 2nd and 3rd pages consists of a reprinting of a letter from Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State to Gouverneur Morris Minister Plenipotentiary to France. Jefferson writes against French provocations during the "Citizen Genet Affair" and other maritime actions that go against George Washington's policy of neutrality during the War between France and Great Britain. Jefferson writes extensively of the visit of French Minister Edmond Genet to the United States including Genet's attempts to enlist American ships in Charleston South Carolina as privateers against English ships. Jefferson mentions frequently how opposed he is to Genet's actions in America.<br/><br/> Belknap and Hall unknown books
1809WRCAM8213Boston 1809. Vol. XL No. 2048 and Whole No. 2633. Two issues 4pp. each. Folio newspaper. Tanned old folds old ink signature and some wrinkling. Good. The earlier issue includes a brief biography of Lucien Bonaparte and various political notices most importantly regarding the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase its constitutional ramifications for the United States and the reluctance of Spain to recognize the sale of the territory by France to the U.S. News of the purchase had become public on Oct. 17. On Nov. 30 Spain formally delivered the colony to the French colonial prefect who transferred the territory to William Claiborne and Gen. Wilkinson the American commissioners on Dec. 20. BRIGHAM I pp.277-79. unknown books
1768WRCAM16469Boston: Mein and Fleming 1768. 8pp. newspaper. Somewhat soiled and slightly browned else good. An interesting issue of this Boston newspaper mostly devoted to the actions of Gov. Hutchinson and the Council with regard to a riot against Custom House officers and unrest over shipping in and out of Boston. Mein and Fleming unknown books
19771310806New York: The Viking Press 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto; pp 135; VG-/G; black spine with ivory text; dust jacket has slight wear to edges; light rubbing to exterior; light toning to flaps; mylar wraps; cloth is clean; strong boards; text block has slight toning to exterior edges; writing to verso of ffep; interior clean. 1310806. FP New Rockville Stock. The Viking Press hardcover books
197029949Koln: Interfunktionen 1970. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Paperbound quarto. 169 pp. The fifth issue of 12 published of this highly regarded European arts journal from the 1970's. Text mostly in German. Filled with monochome illustrations. This is from the edition of 1000 copies printed for issue number 5. Featuring work by Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Lothat Baumgarten Dan Graham and much more. A most handsome very good copy. Interfunktionen paperback books
1869323251869. APPLETON'S JOURNAL. LONG BRANCH "SEA-SIDE ATTRACTIONS." A full hand-colored page from Appleton's Journal copyright 1869. The 11-inch by 16-inch page depicts a Victorian-era couple and their two children on the beach with other beach-goers and small bathing pavilions in the distance. Could be Long Branch but the location is not noted. Very Good fold down the center- as issued. $85.00. <br/><br/> unknown books
178147574York: Printed by W. Blanchard and Co. for the Booksellers of York 1781. 1st edition thus. Leather wrapped card stock covers. Later respining with black leather label. Later paper label affixed to front board. General wear & soiling. Ex-lib with stamp to ffep. Faded presentation inscription bookseller note states from Wm F. Hanney Engineer Dept ret York. xiii 3 104 59 1 pp. Last section has such information as "A Concise Account of the City of York" "A List of all the Fairs in the Counties of York." & "An Account of the Horse Races . throughout Great Britain in the Year 1781." 12mo signed in 6s. 6-1/2" x 3-7/8" <br/><br/>ESTC & COPAC record just one institutional holding of this inaugural year: British Library. Research suggests 1795 would be the final year of publication for the year 1796. Printed by W. Blanchard and Co. for the Booksellers of York hardcover books
197121814Westhampton New York: Moniebogue Press - Torope Conglomerates 1971. 15 issues of this alternative 'people's press' newspaper from Long Island's east end given to a tongue-in-cheek radicalism and wry Crumb-esque wit with illustrations and cartoons to match; articles on the Shoreham nuclear power plant; oil drilling; Sam Melville obituary; Native Americans free health clinics Black and Latin-American eviction fears; battles over wetlands; farm workers' struggles; Vietnam war reportage and political commentary; irregular voting procedures; local politics including a ".Probe of beatings child labor in L.I. Potato Fields."; environmental notes; report sent from a Ku Klux Klan annual meeting in Lakeland Florida; Gardiner's Island; much local advertisement arts and alternative culture; including issues: Vol. I No. 2 3 5 6 7 9 11; Vol. II No. 1-5 inclusive No. 8 12 and Vol. III No. 1; staff included Dean Speir Lorna Salzman Jay Dudley Van Howell and many guest contributors; average issue 12 pages; 11 1/2" x 15" newspaper format; a listing for this periodical shows up on OCLC however it appears to be for microfilm copies; light wear little browning to newsprint; interesting 1970s ephemeral history. . First Edition. Newspaper. Very Good. Moniebogue Press - Torope Conglomerates Paperback books
200125544Frederic Michigan: George A. Emerson 2001. 16 pages; with some black and white illustrations usually small and embedded within articles or as part of paid advertising. With pieces concerning constitutional rights in Michigan and U.S. citizens concerned with various causes. Letters including one regarding U.S. government occupational authority from Daniel Miller President of the Republic of Texas Provisional Government and others writing their reaction to 9/11; articles in the newspaper quote Ted Nugent the Mackinac Center for Public Policy the 666 found in all bar codes revealed as a sign of the imminent end of the world Free Militia pieces on property rights anti-Muslim rants Right Way L.A.W. of Akron OH concerning the fraudulent law profession; McGuckin and Christine Updates by Edgar J. Steele "Ruth Christine vs. the Reptiloid NWO Baby Snatchers"; a piece by Betsy McCaughey ex-lieutenant governor of NY on biological warfare; various conspiracy theories a maritime advisory concerning invasion fears across the Great Lakes region; "Land Lords of the World by Joseph Adam Gondek; Joe Dougherty on Gun Rights Compared to Civil Rights; also with more innocuous and placid articles for children town meeting notices bowling team standings church listings and various classified and page advertisements for area products and services. Approximately 11 1/2" x 17" size; newspaper format light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. Newspaper. Not Bound. Very Good. George A. Emerson paperback books
185825131Long Island New York: W. R. Burling 1858. Two small 'payment received' for subscriptions to this newspaper one dated 1858- 59 for the Estate of John Tredwell George Burling the agent selling; the other for 1868 Est. of A. L. Sands W. Eldridge the agent. Different type-styles & ornament on each. Approx. 2" x 5" size; old fold lines a little light wear. In good condition and interesting 19th century Long Island newspaper industry history ephemera. Manuscript. Not Bound. Very Good. W. R. Burling paperback books
1935WRCLIT51216Flushing NY 1935. Sixteen unnumbered issues of twenty-four published. Printed wrappers. Three wrappers a bit dusty one wrapper has small corner chip one number marked up in pencil May 1935 has portion of front wrapper clipped but otherwise generally very good to fine. Edited by Frances Frost. Published monthly beginning July 1933 then assumed bi-monthly status with the July/August 1935 and promptly folded. Contributors to these issues include Derleth Holmes Aiken Van Doren Damon Wheelwright Macleod cummings E. Scott Flaccus Quinn Friar W.T. Scott Pillin Larsson Fletcher et al. Issues wanting from this run: July & Aug. 1933; Jan. Oct. & Nov. 1934; Jan.- April 1935. unknown books
1783WRCAM43063Boston: Benjamin Edes and sons 1783. 4pp. Folio. Old fold lines. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good plus. THE BOSTON GAZETTE published weekly was established in 1719 as a competitor to the BOSTON NEWS-LETTER and ran for nearly a century 1719-1798. From April 1756 to December 1793 it was published with the additional "AND COUNTRY JOURNAL." During the American Revolution the GAZETTE was a leading publisher of material protesting British taxes and anti-British sentiment. Contributors included such notable personages as Samuel Adams Phyllis Wheatley and Paul Revere who also did the engraving on the masthead. <br> <br> This issue from the end of the American Revolution contains a lengthy article written by "Grotius" on the evil of a federal impost and the rights of states to be independent. He writes: "For the general court to pass an act which they consider in its nature irrepealable thereby giving Congress the power of levying imposts of the property of this state.is 'delivering up the people to the subjection of a foreign power.'" Power assigned to Congress by the Articles of Confederation - or the lack thereof - would be hotly debated eventually leading to the creation of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. It also contains news from the front including an extract from a letter by General Greene to Congress announcing the flight of the British from Charleston. A nice piece from the Revolution. Benjamin Edes and sons unknown books
1800WRCAM23054Providence: Printed and published by John Carter. 1800. 4pp. printed on folded sheet within heavy black border. Expertly silked reinforced at joining of sheets. Wear at old folds with some loss of text some spotting pencil signature. Else good. This is one of the many newspapers to elaborately announce the death of Washington with each page printed within a heavy black border. Much of the paper is devoted to mourning events. Printed and published by John Carter... unknown books
1943WRCLIT49022Upsala MN 1943. V:2. Small octavo folded leaflet. Very good. Edited/written by George H. Kay as a member of the American Amateur Press Association. unknown books
