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6328600Taylor & Francis Group pp. 180 Index. Papeback. New. Taylor & Francis Group unknown
1850835A67New York: Printed for Stringer and Townsend c1850. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5" . Not Stated . First and second series of this work concerned with the New York scene by Donald Gran Mitchell. Complete with two volumes both the first and second series. Comprising travel letters and journalistic articles mainly dedicated to the New York scene. Written by American essayist Donald Grant Mitchell published anonymously under 'An Opera Goer.' The second edition of this work with frontispieces and illustrations throughout. Dated from Jisc. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with shelf wear bumped to head and tail of spine chipped along front joint second series boards lightly marked. Internally firmly bound. Spotting throughout. Very Good Printed for Stringer and Townsend hardcover
21253United Kingdom Foreign Office Whitehall London. Circa 1953. The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 and the atrocities committed by the rebels were matched by those of the British whose Attorney General in Kenya Eric Griffith-Jones wrote to Governor Baring in 1957 that the colony's detention camps for Mau Mau suspects were 'distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia'. He advised that suspects be beaten mainly on their upper bodies and that those administering violence should 'remain collected balanced and dispassionate' also commenting: 'If we are going to sin we must sin quietly.' Among the victims of British brutality was Hussein Onyango Obama grandfather of President Barack Obama. From a batch of Foreign Office documents including material from the Information Research Department for whose activities financed from the budget of the Special Intelligence Service otherwise MI6 see The Times 17 August 1995; and also Michael Cullis's obituary of Sir John Peck in the Independent 20 January 1995. Duplicated typescript. Headed: 'a The political and economic effect of MAU MAU in KENYA.' 8pp foolscap 8vo. Paginated 'a 1' to 'a 7' including interpolated passage on 'a 2A'. Complete with catchwords to all but the last page. Divided into five sections headed: 'What is Mau Mau' 'Action against Mau Mau terrorism' 'Sir Philip Mitchell's dispatch on East African economic problems' with subsections on 'Population Problems' 'Labour problems and Wages' 'Social Welfare' 'Royal Commission for East Africa' 'Development plans for Kenya'. The first section begins: 'Before considering in detail what the secret society called Mau Mau is and what are its aims; it will be as well to examine traditional background of the tribe of Africans involved – the Kikuyu.' The section includes an 'account of the barbaric rites practised at Mau Mau initiation ceremonies' from 'the Nairobi Correspondent of The Times' 9 October 1952. The section on 'Mau Mau terrorism' begins with a description of the police response to 'the murder of Chief Waruhiu' and discusses the activities of Jomo Kenyatta. The points of Sir Evelyn Baring's 'programme for the economic and social development of Kenya' 28 October 1952 are enumerated in the last section followed by a description of Governor Baring's'defence plans'. No other copy traced. [United Kingdom Foreign Office, Whitehall, London. Circa 1953.] unknown
2013AIB291_BR037369_291Guizhou University Press 2013-01-01. paperback. New. Ship out in 2 business day And Fast shipping Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Paperback. Pub Date :2013-01-01 Pages: 539 Language: Chinese Publisher: Guizhou University Press ' World Classic Literature Youth Reading : Gone with the Wind Set 2 Volumes is mainly about the American Civil War. the South a farm Miss Scarlett 's main love road course . Scarlett loves handsome Ashley . but Ashley has chosen cousin Melanie . Jealousy . Scarlett married Melanie 's brother Charles . After the outbreak of the civil war . Yi Xizha enlisted . and Charles also died . Scarlett beco. Satisfaction guaranteedor money back. <br/><br/> Guizhou University Press paperback
FO-G0HG-4LI9Casa Da Palavra. New. Casa Da Palavra unknown
5600ARTHUR W. MITCHELL 1883-1968. Mitchell was the first Black Democrat elected to Congress. He served Illinois from 1935 to 1943 and he was the only Black member during that time. Born in Alabama he attended the Tuskegee Institute Columbia University and Harvard University. Although Mitchell was a Republican early in life he switched parties in 1932 with the election of Franklin Roosevelt. In 1934 he defeated the Black Congressman Oscar De Priest. Much of his time in Congress was spent introducing anti-lynching and anti-discrimination bills.Scrapbook. Approximately 50 pages. Circa mid 1930s. A scrapbook covering the early political career of Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell; it was kept by Harriet Mitchell in Birmingham Alabama this is likely his sister as Congressman Mitchell was from Alabama. The scrapbook mostly consists of press clippings many with original halftone images of Mitchell. The origin of the clippings is clearly marked and many of them are from prominent Black newspapers such as The Washington Tribune The Afro American with stories like No Rear Door For Mitchell at Abes Tomb and To Attend White House Reception The Pittsburgh Courier Congressman Mitchell Fights Discrimination In The Civil Service The Second Ward Square Dealer of Chicago Millions Laud Congressman Mitchell For Great Act and The St. Louis Argus. There are also pasted-in articles from more mainstream newspapers such as The Birmingham News Chicago World The Birmingham Weekly Review Congressman Mitchell Defies Foes Defends His Pet Bill Time magazine The Chicago Daily Times and others. Also tipped in are ten separates from The Congressional Record Not Printed At Government Expense so the Congressman paid for these. They record Mitchell speeches mostly about lynch mobs but one on Booker T. Washington and another on The Negro and the Democratic Party. There is a photograph of a Franklin D. Roosevelt signed letter to Mitchell. There is also an illustrated political campaign broadside of Mitchells dating from mid 1930s against his opponent DePriest in which he denigrates DePriest for allowing black Gold Star Mothers to be sent overseas via a cattle boat to visit their sons graves. As the scrapbook was ephemeral the pages are brittle and loose from the original binding although no pages are seemingly missing. Some pages have various degrees of soiling. One page uses two rusted paper clips. Despite the condition issues this scrapbook is historic; Mitchells election heralded the future many Blacks found in the Democratic Party leaving behind the party of Lincoln. It is also a family memento indicating the pride that his sister felt for her accomplished brother. unknown
1849E13766New York: Protestant Episcopal Society 1849. Hardcover. Very Good. 24mo. in brown cloth with design in blind spine stamped in gilt. N.d. 1849 Presumed first editon. 2 engraved frontis engraved title 78 2. Decorated capitals and small wood engravings in the text. A scarce mid-19th century chldren's book with moralistic tales; in the title page a boy finds another young boy barefoot and sheltering under a hedge in snow covered countryside--his name is Beppo he came from Italy via England had some little animals to display in order to beg food but the last of them has died: "Are your pretty mice dead" "Yes; and I would like to be the same." His is taken home to shelter with the first boy's family. Tight some spotting to the covers nd more so to the spine strip; occasional staining to a few of the leaves. Original ownership signature and place notation of "Brooklyn L.I." Ornate presentation bookplate front pastedown "Presented by the Church of The Messiah Christmas 1865". OCLC locates 9 copies only. <br/><br/> Protestant Episcopal Society hardcover
1990584132New York: Stux Modern 1990. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalog. Slim quarto. Illustrated in color with one painting by each artist two fold-out. Pollock has two paintings shown. Corners with some wear modest soil very good. One of 1000 copies printed. Also prints a brief introduction by Beth Wilson and excerpts from the "Artists' Sessions at Studio 35" that happened in 1950. The inaugural show of Stux Modern an offshoot of Stefan and Linda Stux's Stux Gallery; their website describes Stux Modern as a downtown "masterworks gallery" dedicated to "art-historically significant work" and this show as "a select but powerful array of early works" by de Kooning Pollock Mitchell Motherwell Kline Krasner and Hoffman. Stux Modern unknown
1916312944New York: Menzies Publishing Company Inc 1916. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Bound in full purple morocco a.e.g. for Asprey spine faded on back pastedown stamped in gilt "Gov. Charles Edison Library. First edition. Frontispiece by Maynard Dixon. 8vo. Inscribed to Thomas Alva Edison; "To Thomas A. Edison with compliments from the author Edmund Mitchell New York Xmas 1916. Menzies Publishing Company, Inc unknown
1966329587Liverpool: Citybird Press 1966. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Cover by Adiran Henri. Octavo. 21pp. Fine in stapled wrappers with errata slip laid in. British literary journal with contributions from Allen Ginsberg Robert Creeley Anselm Hollo Michael Horovitz Adrian Mitchell Harry Fainlight Peter Brown Libby Houston Spike Hawkins Roger McGough Brian Patten Heather Holden Ted Milton and Penti Saarikoski. Citybird Press unknown
200750351London: Hayward Publishing 2007. First edition 4to 137 15 pp. Photographic illustrations signed by Gormley on the title page. Cloth d.w. faint marking to the lower wrapper near fine. (London): Hayward Publishing unknown
1960413361Portland Oregon: Freedom Crusade 1960. Softcover. Near Fine. Quarto. 8pp. Stapled wrappers mimeographed in blue and orange. Light wear very near fine. Brochure and information packet for a Freedom Crusade rally featuring Herbert Philbrick author of "I Led Three Lives" at the Portland Civic Auditorium. Graphically interesting. Freedom Crusade unknown
2022__0414103793Sweet & Maxwell 2022. Paperback. New. 15 edition. 1028 pages. 9.65x7.40x1.97 inches. Sweet & Maxwell paperback
1961552674London: London Poetry Secretariat 1961. Unbound. Fine. Doublesided broadside which is folded into a program. 8.25" x 11.5". One fold a couple of nearly invisible spots still fine. Paper. Two neat horizontal folds likely for mailing fine. Broadside for four poetry readings. London Poetry Secretariat unknown
1964386031London: Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club 1964. Unbound. Fine. Handbill. 5" x 8". About fine. The Michael Garrick Jazz Quartet and others provided background for four actors including Glenda Jackson and three poets Hughes Smith and Mitchell. Hughes' name has been inked over and Anselm Hollo's name handwritten in. Scarce artifact of a performance uniting several luminaries. In the Spalding biography of Stevie Smith that it was at this event "was Glenda Jackson's first and last meeting with the poet she was later to impersonate in Hugh Whitemore's play Stevie on stage and screen." I guess it worked as Jackson won several awards for her performance. Royal Shakespeare Theatre Club unknown
1876318010London: T. Nelson & Sons 1876. viii 9-319pp. 12mo. Modern three quarters mottled calf. Fine. viii 9-319pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> T. Nelson & Sons unknown
19881133Harper & Row 1988. Second printing x 108p. Signed by author/translator on title page signature only. Hardbound red-lettered light gray cloth in fine condition in near-fine unclipped dj with short tear at top of rear panel Harper & Row hardcover
1904249396np: ` 1904. 1-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine some ink smudging. 1-1/2 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Donald Grant Mitchell 1822-1908 is best known has Ik. Marvel or Ike Marvel names that resulted from a misprint of his chosen pseudonym J. K. Marvel. Books on model farming and the pleasrures of rural life such as the present volume and "My Farm of Edgewood" were Mitchell's preferred style though his "Reveries of a Bachelor" and similarly sentiment writings were much more popular. Reading in part: ".I remember your father very well he having been one of the most prominent & popular members of the class of 1841." <br/><br/> ` unknown
187197507New Haven: Printed by Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor 1871. 1871. Good. THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE ESSAY "ON JUPITER AND ITS SATELLITES" BY THE FIRST FEMALE ASTRONOMER IN THE U.S.A. - Octavo 8-1/2 inches high by 5-3/8 inches wide. The contemporary brown calf and marbled boards are detached but present and the spine has perished and is thus lacking. The text block is intact and tight. 978 pages in all with the pagination as follows: Volume I: pages i-viii & 1-484; and Volume II: pages i-viii & 1-480. Pages 327/328 are skipped in numbering as published which collates with the copy at the Peter H. Raven Library at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The volume is illustrated with 3 plates including one folding as well as several textual illustrations. Although the title page to the second volume indicates the presence of a map intended to illustrate E.W. Hilgard's article "On the Geological History of the Gulf of Mexico" page 391 the map is not here present if it ever was included. The endpapers are foxed and there is some light soiling to the title page of the first volume. The edges of the first few leaves are lightly darkened with a tiny spot of dampstaining to the top edge of those leaves. A very good tight copy which would be well worth rebinding. <p>Most noteworthy is the first publication of Maria Mitchell's essay "On Jupiter and its Satellites" illustrated with a plate volume I pages 393-395.<p>The first American scientist to discover a comet Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 was the first female astronomer in the United States. Working as the librarian of the Nantuckett Atheneum Maria Mitchell read through the day and spent her nights with her father at the observatory he built atop the Pacific Bank. Her discovery in 1847 of the comet which came to be named "Miss Mitchell's Comet" brought her international acclaim. She was awarded a gold medal by King Frederick of Denmark and elected as the first woman to join the American Academy of Arts and Sciences the following year. Mitchell traveled throughout Europe after leaving the Atheneum in 1856 meeting with astronomers the world over. She became involved and active in the anti-slavery movement and the suffrage movement and was subsequently instrumental in the formation of the American Association for the Advancement of Women. After the Civil War Mitchell was recruited to join the faculty at Vassar College where with a 12 inch telescope then the third largest in the US she specialized in studying the surfaces of Jupiter and Saturn. She made waves by encouraging her female students to come out at night for classes and celestial observations and brought in noted feminists including Julia Ward Howe to speak on political issues. Continuously championing the advancement of women she gave an important speech entitled "The Need for Women in Science" during the 1876 centennial. Mitchell was one of only 3 women to be elected to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans in 1905. She was also inducted into the National Woman's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls New York. A lunar crater on the moon was named in her honor.<p>Also worth noting is Professor L. Respighi's essay "On the Solar Protuberances" illustrated with a folding plate volume I pages 283-287.<p>The Italian astronomer Lorenzo Respighi 1824-1889 was appointed appointed professor of mechanics and hydraulics at the University of Bologna. In that context his first works were mathematical and included a well-known memoir on the principles of differential calculus. Captivated by astronomy he succeeded Calandrelli as director of the astronomical observatory at the University of Bologna in 1855. After making observations on comets Respighi became director of the Campidoglio observatory in Rome where he devoted his attention to studying solar phenomena. His studies of the spectra of sunspots were particularly important as he observed the splitting of the absorption lines later described by Hale as the result of the Zeeman effect.<p>Henry James Clark's essay "The American Spongilla a Craspedote Flagellate Infusorian" illustrated with a plate is here published on pages 426 through 436 of volume II.<p>The American naturalist Henry James Clark 1826-1873 was a pupil of Asa Gray at the Cambridge botanical garden. He became an assistant to Louis Agassiz after graduating from Harvard and was professor of Zoology and of Natural History at numerous colleges and universities. From 1872 until his death in 1873 Clark was Professor of Veterinary Science at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in Amherst Massachusetts. He contributed to a number of periodicals and authored "Mind in Nature" 1863 and "Mode of Development of Animals" 1865. New Haven: Printed by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1871. hardcover
1836021344Philadelphia: Mitchell & Hinman 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacks as usual the scarce accompanying map. Very Good. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards; 342 pages. Population and census data by county. Early bookplate on front pastedown and signature on front endpaper of John F. Fager of Harrisburg. <br/><br/>Samuel Augustus Mitchell and his sons were the leading publishers of maps in the United States during most of the nineteenth century. Mitchell had come to Philadelphia around 1830 with the intention of improving the standard of geography textbooks. A New American Atlas published in 1831 was his first work. Then in 1845 he acquired the rights to Tanner's New Universal Atlas and in 1846 he published his first edition of the present work. Mitchell continued to publish the atlas until 1850 when he sold the copyright to Cowperthwaite & Co. of Philadelphia who continued to publish it until the mid-1850s when It was purchased by Charles DeSilver. <br /> Mitchell & Hinman hardcover
1834222361Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hinman 1834. First. hardcover. good. 324pp. 8vo contemporary 3/4 calf spine ends and edges of corners worn calf rubbed light foxing throughout. Philadelphia: Mitchell and Hinman 1834. First Edition.<br/> <br/> The map itself is not present. Howes M-684.<br/> <br/> Mitchell and Hinman unknown
66051hardcover. 8vo 1/2 calf. Philadelphia 1836. Stains and foxing throughout cover and spine scratched corners bumped.<br/> <br/> The map itself is not present. Howes M-684.<br/> <br/> unknown
39139This pioneering American physician considered the father of neurology was also a psychiatrist and bestselling writer and poet. Secretarial ALS 2pp lettersheet 5" X 8" Philadelphia PA 1898 August 11. Addressed to Edward Peterson. Near fine. On his "S. Weir Mitchell M.D." letterhead Mitchell's secretary pens a letter on his behalf. In part: "Dr Mitchell has forwarded me some letters for reply as he is always out of the City at this time of the year. He strongly advises you to choose the University of Pennsylvania from which to get your degree. He is one of the Trustees of that institution. During the Civil War he was on duty at the Christian St Hospital." Appears to be signed "MBC. / sec'y." With original envelope. An interesting curiosity. unknown
99053London Lawrence & Bullen 1894 1st. Hardback approx 9 x 6 inches. Pale green cloth with decorative gilt lettering to spine pictorial design to front. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Spine darkened corners bumped cloth chipped at ends of spine. Endpapers cracked between gutters. Some light foxing to prelims occasional foxing spots to pages. Frontis tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. xii 290pp. With B&W illustrations full-page and within text. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1894 (1st.) hardcover
1959457220Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Revised edition. Quarto. Approximately 350pp. Clothbacked card covers bound with threaded metal brads lacking two. Edges with wear and staining else a very good copy. Volume I of II: Albania-Iceland. Includes address officers publications and short remarks usually affiliations. The revised edition of the 1956 first edition published from information gathered in 1955. Government Printing Office hardcover
