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1865BW-44a<br /><b><i>Excitement in the city is intense-- bells are ringing-- and joy rules the hour. Glory to God on High.</i></b><br /><br />Newspaper: WATERBURY AMERICAN: Extra. Monday April 10 1865 LEE AND HIS ENTIRE ARMY SURRENDERED TO GENERAL GRANT. Let the Merry Church Bells Ring Bring out the Big Gun.<br /><br />Broadside: 9 3/4" x 4"<br /><br />Very good some browning stress at folds. Rare. WATERBURY AMERICAN books
1966WRCLIT70552San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Ink gift inscription on title usual slight rubbing else very good. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number 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. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
1966WRCLIT70387San Francisco: City Lights Books 1966. Whole number three of four in this iteration. Pictorial wrappers. Slight dust smudging to lower wrapper but very good or better. Edited and published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti with associate editors. The third number 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. Herein appear Beck Garson Ginsberg Plymell McClure Olson Guest Ferlinghetti McCord Shattuck Pelieu et al. According to Cook the first printing consisted of 6000 copies and an undifferentiated second printing of 5000 copies was produced in 1967. COOK 57. City Lights Books unknown books
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
191640342n. p. 1916. 1st printing thus i.e. of this issue. Not found on OCLC. Original publisher's grey-green paper wrappers printed in dark green & brown ink to front wrapper. Stapled. Age-toning. General wear & soiling to wrappers with largish stain to lower left portion of front wrapper affecting date text. A VG copy. Unpaginated. Illustrated with many photographic portraits of prominent men in the local butcher trade. 10-3/4" x 7-7/8" <br/><br/>Typical trade journal with topical articles on the business as well as pieces on the local practitioners. unknown books
19262293324Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co. Limited 1926. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #933 of 1500 copies. Former copy of the Clifton Springs Medical Library with a few marks. 1926 Hard Cover. xxxviii 633 1 pp. 8vo. Photographic frontispiece of William Osler. A collection of essays published to honor the influential physician William Osler co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler's creation of the first residency program and emphasis on teaching students through clinical experience rather than lectures led many to call him the father of modern medicine. Privately Printed / Murray Printing Co., Limited hardcover books
193938801Amsterdam 1939. paperback. very good. Orgaan van de Maatschappij tot Bewordering der Bouwkunst Bond van Nederlandsche Architecten B.N.A. en het Genootschap Architectura et Amicitia. 60ste Jaargang. No. 1 - 52. 7 Jan. - 30 Dec. 1939. Illustrated. 52 vols. thin folio printed wrappers; some pp. stuck together else fine. Amsterdam 1939.<br/><br/> One year run of this technical journal edited by H. G. J. Schelling B. T. Boeyinga et al.<br/><br/> unknown books
189042717New York: J. S. Ogilvie Publisher 1890. 1st printing thus cf. Wright III 5689. Printed paper wrappers. Paper loss at head & base of spine. Other modest wear. Age-toning to paper. A VG copy. 9 - 168 pp. Illustrated. 7-1/4" x 5" <br/><br/> J. S. Ogilvie, Publisher unknown books
199574592Atlanta:: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Bumped along the top board edges else near fine in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. . Longstreet Press, hardcover books
199522498Atlanta: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Longstreet Press hardcover books
199517656Atlanta: Longstreet Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1563522349 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Lower corner of rear board is slightly bumped else fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Longstreet Press hardcover 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
184230726London: Royal Asiatic Society 1842. First edition. Removed from a larger volume. Disbound else a very good copy with library stamp on edge of drawing. 172-199 pp. Illus. with one folded b/w drawing. 8vo. Khonds Kandhs were an aboriginal tribe of Orissa who provided protection for the Raja of Goomsur during the Goomsur Wars of 1835 to 1837. Royal Asiatic Society unknown books
18322818baCPhiladelphia PA: Henry H. Porter 1832. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. First presumed edition. Octavo 8vo. 80 pages of text. Hardcover; brown cloth spine lacking; blue-green paper covered boards nearly detached. Original orange printed paper front cover label intact. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Medicine; influenza; rhinovirus. Measures 22.9cm height. Henry H. Porter Hardcover 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
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
189323400New York 1893. Small broadsheet 5" x 7" printed on tan card stock single hole punch at top. Rubberstamp at head of title: 'American Engineer and Railroad Journal' a few letters partly affected by hole punch. Very Good. unknown 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
2005188013Ampersand Publishing 2005-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Ampersand Publishing paperback books
187627149New York: The Aldine Company 1876. 1st thus. Original brown publisher's pebbled cloth with gilt lettering. Bevelled edges. Overall VG edgewear. Ex-lib with usual markings some plates with discrete perforation. 382 pp. Chromolithograph title page. Illustrated with inserted plates & intratextual cuts. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>Bound volume of 12 issues. The Aldine Company hardcover books
3751DS. 4pgs. 7 ½†x 12â€. December 1875. Somerset County New Jersey. A contract for the sale of a Somerset County New Jersey newspaper signed “C J Wilson†“D. W. Wilson†and “V.D. Honeymanâ€. The contract sates in part: “In consideration of one dollar to us in hand paid and for the further consideration to be made as hereafter specified we Charles J .Wilson editor and publisher of the ‘Somerset Gazette’ a newspaper printed and published in Somerville Somerset County New Jersey and David W. Wilson who has an interest therein do agree to sell and convey and do hereby sell convey transfer and assign unto a van Daren Honeyman of the same place all our right title interest ownership and possession of in and to said newspaper and its appurtenances with all its appliances machinery tools and materials presses type cases forms stencils frames inks and stock of paper on hand being everything whatsoever which is now in the office occupied by said ‘Somerset Gazette’…â€. The selling price was $3250.00 which was to be paid in three installments over a period of ten months. All three men signed the bottom of the document. It is in very good condition with several fold lines. unknown books
12719Front Page Headline reads "The Bill Abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia Passed the House." Newspaper "The Detroit Free Press" April 12 1862. 19" x 26" 2 pages. Has a blow by blow account of the debate among the members of the House and the various amendments associated with the bill. It concludes "The bill was passed 93 agains 39." Also includes local national and international news as well as "News From the South." Some small tears at the left hand margin not affecting text. A diagonal crease runs across the top half of the paper and a small piece of yellow tape has adhered to the top margin. Overall in very good condition. unknown books
1839WRCAM41144Boston 1839. 289-579pp. plus three plates. Later wrappers. In a folding cloth box leather label by James MacDonald. Volume 2 numbers 3 and 4 of the BOSTON JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY issued in August 1839. A survey of fish in Massachusetts' waters completed as part of a Zoological Survey of Massachusetts. hardcover books
4689MASSACHUSETTS JOURNEY DIARY AND PHOTOGRAPHY ALBUM. Book. 115pg. 1891. Massachusetts. A travel journal and photography album entitled “Coaching Trip June 5th to 20th 1891â€. There are typewritten notes about a trip from Malden Massachusetts west to the Berkshires and across the Hudson River to West Point and then back to Boston. There are almost a hundred accompanying photographs of the people scenery and activities. The journal concerns the travels of “Mr. and Mrs. H.E. Sawyer Miss Converse Miss Estabrook Captain H.E. Harry Elisha Converse and Messrs G.S. Stockwell J.E. Cochrane and P.W. Sprague†page 91. The scrapbook begins with “Coaching Trip June 5th to 20th 1891. M.B.S. M.C.P. and the scribe meet at the B. & M. Boston and Maine Railroad Station in Malden waiting to be joined by F.E.C. and E.A.E. for the 4:10 train to Boston. We wish we had a photograph of the baggage for we are sure it would be interesting as a souvenir. Bags boxes shawl straps kodaks banjo umbrellas etc. are transported across Boston to the B. & A. Station while the ladies start for Young’s Hotel stopping by the way to purchase finery for Dennis and James. F.E.C. orders dinner and as time is limited thoughtfully orders Broiled Chicken…Dinner is served in Private Parlors – It consists of Milk and crackers. This being insufficient for the insatiable J.E.C. and F.E. another dinner is ordered for them but the report comes back that fire has gone out…â€. The ride continues west seemingly along the path of the modern State Route 2 aka the Mohawk Trail: “…notwithstanding the length of the afternoon drive time passes so pleasantly in talking reading singing etc. that we arrive in Northampton long before any of the party wish to leave the drag. The odometer shows that we traveled 17 miles after dinner…Short walks in some cases after dinner and then we gather on the upper veranda for an hours sing…Bloody Brook House is reached at 12.45 where we dine after which the young ladies devote themselves to letter writing…The gentlemen attend a prize fight in the rear of the house in which one party ‘Jim Carrigan’ a notorious local tough is badly cut up and a visiting tough is completely knocked out or rather kicked out…â€. The party continues through Shelburne Falls Charlemonte up and down the Hoosac Mountain North Adams and into Williamstown. In Williamstown one person makes a long distance telephone call to his father and they attend a baseball game. On June 12th they turn south to Lenox and Great Barrington. On June 15th the narrator mentions that “The young ladies are demoralized this morning because they cannot get alcohol; I never saw girls so dependent upon strong drink early in the morning; this calls to mind the fact that this was to be a dry trip…the heat and dust are almost unbearable…â€. They traveled to Fishkill and then take a boat to West Point where they see cadets and hear a concert. The journal concludes with a listing of the songs they heard on their travels. There are 92 photographs of various sizes. The book was apparently was specially made for the occasion since there is a logo atop every page mentioning “June 5th – 20th 1891â€. The red cloth covers are disbound and the spine is missing; the front cover is gilt stamped with the date of the trip. A fine late Nineteenth Century travel memento. hardcover books
175447288London: J. Payne Bookseller at Pope's-Head in Pater - noster - row 1754. 1st Printing. Printed self-wrappers now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Paper manufacturing irregularities at top & fore-edges. 3 stab-holes to left. Very Good. Bifolium 4 pages. 8-1/2" x 5-1/4" <br/><br/>A rare prospectus announcing the advent of Payne's thrice weekly publication "published Tuesday Thursday and Saturday in every Week; the First Number of which will be GIVEN GRATIS on Saturday March 2d." The paper would cease publication in 1758. J. Payne, Bookseller, at Pope's-Head in Pater - noster - row unknown books
