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2006UEURHEC00AFFocus 2006. Very Good. . Hecuba. Mitchell-Boyask Translator Robin. Newburyport Massachusetts: Focus 2006. 111pp. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed wraps. Bookstore label across spine and label residue on front cover. Focus paperback books
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1045513. Paperback. Good. Condition: Good; ISBN: 9781324062226; Edition: 13. Once purchased we honor returns due to quality issues but won't accept reasons like 'changed my mind' 'find better price' 'order by mistake' etc paperback
1950168509N.p.: N.p. 1950. Vintage eleven-page ribbon copy typescript short story circa 1940s-1950s subsequently serving as the basis for the 1972 adult film. Rare.<br /> <br /> An iteration of an explicit short story penned by an anonymous author sometime before or during World War II circulated underground in retyped typescript or carbon typescript copies during the 1940s and after.<br /> <br /> "Behind the Green Door" is notable as one of of the first American hardcore pictures to receive widespread distribution in the US and one of the first heterosexual pornographic films to feature an interracial sex scene. A breakthrough role for actress Marilyn Chambers who would go on to become one of the first icons in the adult film industry and even worked briefly in mainstream cinema. <br /> <br /> Eleven leaves last page of text not numbered. Ribbon copy typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Good or better bound with two staples on the top edges. N.p. unknown
186064001London UK: William Tweedie 337 Strand 1860. Small 4to. 5.25 x 7.5 in. xv 1 3-172 xi 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved frontisp. of the author still preserving tissue guard. Publisher’s ribbed plum-coloured cloth dark maroon coloured title label & price of 1 shilling 6 pence mounted front cover very minor chipping head & foot of spine slight fraying title label stamping dimmed and minor bumping to a couple corners still a VG copy w/ London UK bookseller’s label partially removed at gutter margin front pastedown. First edition first printing of the first book wholly devoted to the Underground Railroad published only in England and by an African-American/Native-American author. Mitchell was a pivotal figure in the Underground Railroad who also aided the escaped slave “Eliza†whose escape over the Ohio River ice inspired the key dramatic moment in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s pivotal Uncle Tom’s Cabin. “Eliza†was sheltered originally in the network by noted abolitionist John Rankin passed on to Mitchell who then subsequently ensured her safe passage along the network overseen by Levi Coffin 1798-1877. Ironically the passage of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act which criminalized those aiding in the Underground Railroad to free slaves with fines of $ 1000 and six months imprisonment fueled resistance and forced Mitchell to publish this seminal work in Great Britain rather than the U.S. As a freeborn orphan Black in North Carolina Mitchell was forced into apprenticeship with a North Carolina plantation owner where he witnessed the deprivations of slavery and became inspired to aid African-American slaves to escape to Canada. From 1842-1855 he helped over 1300 slaves reach Canada from his Washington Court House Fayette County Ohio way station. This memoir recounts many anecdotes of the formerly enslaved including: one enslaved woman who died from frostbite while protecting her three children and a former slave John Mason brought Mitchell in just 19 months of that 13 year span “265 human beings whom he had been instrumental in redeeming from slavery.†Mitchell further recounts Mason’s recapture in Kentucky and later escape from New Orleans to Canada. Mitchell estimates in his book that 60000 enslaved peoples escaped into Canada on the Underground Railroad modern estimates range from 40000 to 100000. At the end of the 1850’s he moved to Toronto and began serving as a minister to African-American Baptist Free Mission congregations largely composed of freed slaves and the final section details the lives of these Canadian Black immigrants. In the final appendix he urgently pleads for a boycott of Southern cotton by Great Britain attempting to overcome resistance to the economic impact and hardship it would have on British cotton mills and related industries. Mitchell c. 1826-c.1879 was encouraged to write this historic work by W.H. Bonner A British abolitionist and had toured Britain in 1860 with William Howard Day and British abolitionist George Thompson to oppose the condition of slavery before the outbreak of the Civil War. This work is quite scarce with only 2 copies at auction in the last 50 years and both those appear to have been the 2nd edition which removed the hyphen in “Under-Ground†extended the title and a couple other revisions. William Tweedie, 337, Strand, hardcover
194463533Hutchinson KS & Kodiak Alaska Territory: Carrie B. Mitchell Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society Alaska Steamship Co. 1944-1969. Oblong folio. 11.5 x 17 in. 36 pp unpaginated. on brown sack paper. With over 100 pieces of ephemera neatly affixed with tape including 6 silver gelatin photographs & RPPC’s clippings numerous ALS & TLS on letterhead some preserved in the original envelopes postcards missals programmes and more. Wooden spruce plywood post-binder sewn at gutter margin w/ cord decoupaged front cover w/ pictograms and “Story of Alaska†w/ totem pole motifs leather strap hinges held by brass brads some scuffing edgewear occasional toning scuffing to a few pieces still a VG exemplar. This intriguing scrapbook carefully documents the aspiration of Carrie Mitchell 1890-1979 to travel as a missionary to Kodiak Alaska Territory during World War II where she served as housemother to McWhinnie cottage at the Kodiak Baptist Mission School & Orphanage from 1944-1946. In classical Alutiiq Athabascan and Inupiaq societies orphans were typically adopted into wealthy Indigenous Peoples families as laborers working in return for food clothing and shelter. Often mistreated this would occasionally result in violent revenge against the tribes by the orphans. After 1893 the Kodiak Baptist Mission established their school and cottage system to educate clothe and prepare the orphans or abandoned Alutiiq children for society. Unfortunately the Baptist Mission forbade the Indigenous Peoples spiritual rituals or Russian Orthodoxy -- the predominant religious beliefs of the Kodiak area peoples and forced them to convert to Baptist beliefs. In some cases the children were forcibly removed against the will of their parents and were not orphans to receive vocational instruction and religious training at the Mission. Jan. 25 1944 Alice Crimson Executive Secretary to the W.A.B.H.M.S. wrote to Carrie how she and her staff were wondering if she would be interested “in going to Alaska as Assistant to the missionary in one of our children’s homes. It is not a managing position. It is a position of helping to make a home by assuming a share of the cooking cleaning even the washing as well as the mending of clothes. . . .†Several letters included here pass back and forth discussing Carrie’s interview her need to stay available and not travel to Texas to visit her daughter application for applying for a pass with the Headquarters Alaskan Dept. Base Echelon including fingerprint card and travel instructions. Due to wartime shortages after approval Carrie Mitchell’s travel was delayed after April 1944 because sailing times to Kodiak were curtailed but she would finally reach Kodiak AK in mid-May 1944. The grueling position had been opened because Cecile Tucker who had been housemother to McWhinnie beginning in June 1941 had decided to leave. M. Tucker regularly took care of 12-17 Alutiiq children and before being assigned to Alaska had spent 17 years working the the Mono Indigenous Peoples in the Auberry CA Baptist Mission School. Two original letters from one of Carrie Mitchell’s Indigenous charges George Yosheda 1928-2003 at McWhinnie House writes to her after leaving McWhinnie to attend school in Wrangell AK and she notes on the outside of the envelope that he was “a little homesick I think.†In his second letter from 1945 he writes about how he “can play basketball. . . if I don’t have anything to do I usually go for a walk or play the guitar.†She writes on an ALS from Enid Myers that Enid “gave up the work in Sept. 1944. That left me alone with a houseful of children until the Chandlers came. The other staff members helped me as much as they could.†By March 1946 the workload had worn her down and she wanted to retire from the position. Alice crimson writes her again that “I am very happy that you are staying in Alaska until I can find someone who will go in your place. I realize that it is difficult work physically and I think you would be wise to come out when we can replace you.†Thank you cards notices theatre programmes and several clippings concerning the 1964 Earthquake and Tsunami which struck Alaska appear within the scrapbook. See: Timothy Smith The Evangel Returns to Kodiak for the First 4th of July since Statehood July 1959 Tanignak 2020. Orphan -- Liliya’aq Alutiiq Museum Archaeological Repository 2025. Carrie B. Mitchell, Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society, Alaska Steamship Co., hardcover
193788208New York: International Publishers 1937. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 20cm; pictorial card wrappers 126pp; illus. Mild soild and age-darkening to covers with diagonal crease to rear wrapper else a tight Very Good copy. Ink ex-libris of Pittsburgh writer and activist J. Ernest Wright see note who has also made a few inobtrusive marks in the text. <br /> <br /> A sympathetic biography of Albert Parsons and the Haymarket Martyrs written by a communist fellow-traveler and published by the New York division of the Comintern-backed International Publishers. A classic Popular Front example of the CPUSA appropriating a key historical figure - in this case an anarchist - whose political views would have been considered irreconcilable with Marxism just a few years earlier and would again by the time of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939. Includes a glowing foreword by Lucy E. Parsons who by this time was well into her eighties and five illustrations after original lithographs by Mitchell Siporin. This copy with ownership markings of Pittsburgh labor activist and author J. Ernest Wright director of Pittsburgh's New Theatre and author of an important history of the city's African American community which wasn't actually published until near fifty years after the author's death The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2004. International Publishers unknown
1879221209Pennsylvania. 1879. Lithographed maps on two sides of a single leaf with original hand-colouring 27 x 34 cms map size 31.1 x 37.1 cms sheet with a finely-engraved foliated border margins age-toned one margin tide-marked at the edge not affecting the maps a handsome pair of maps in very good condition. A most attractive pair of late 19th Century maps on two sides of a single leaf: Asia as a whole polar projection with Europe and parts of Africa and New Guinea. Scale 1:1000 miles. It includes steamship routes and mileages from London to destinations in Asia: Zhoushan Chusan Island Hong Kong Manilla Sarawak Bombay etc. along with political and geographical details; and on the verso the map covers the regions of Persia Iran Arabia including parts of the Arabian Peninsula Turkey in Asia Anatolia Afghanistan and Beloochistan parts of Iran Afghanistan and Pakistan and marks key settlements rivers and geographic features. . unknown
200412931ZELHEM, ARBORIS, 1993 ; bande dessinée, 5858 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur.
201610458Paris, Elsevier sequoia , 1977 ; in-8, 414 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. Avec jaquette.
188364253New York NY: Dodd Mead and Co. 1883. Tall thick 8vo. xxxi 1 766 pp. With six colour-tinted phototype collotype plates 296 woodcut-engraved text illustrations & plates. Elaborate pictorial brown publisher’s cloth gilt illustration cover art wrapping around to spine brown clay-sized endpapers minor wear & bumping to corners slight bumping head & foot of spine very slightly shaken still a VG bright copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this well-illustrated work from the noted classical American archaeologist Lucy Wright Mitchell 1845-1888 the first American to publish a work on classical sculpture. Her work encompasses sculpture and art from Ancient Egypt Chaldaea Assyria Persia Phoenicia along with Greek & Roman sculpture. Dodd, Mead, and Co., hardcover
199625653New York:: Putnam 1996. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by astronaut Mitchell on the half-title page. Apollo 14 astronaut Mitchell offers a vision in which technology and intuition are harmonized in pursuit of a more advanced consciousness. When Mitchell was hurtling back to earth after walking on the moon in 1971 he had a profound sense that all things are interconnected and that the universe is an intelligent process with which we need to link up. We hear how Mitchell began a career as a fighter pilot in the years following WW II switched to NASA with the hope of being part of the new space program and came to know the legendary Wernher von Braun whom he believes was a true visionary rather than a Nazi opportunist. Mitchell tells how while returning to earth he carried out a private ESP experiment that seemed to yield positive results. Subsequently he founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in order to test paranormal phenomena scientifically. He offers us a tour of Western thought from Aristotle to Newton arguing that intuition and science were divorced until the advent of Einstein and quantum physics. We hear a lot about synchronicity left and right brain and the concept that psychic events are quantum exchanges in the brain that link us with the larger world. From "Kirkus". Putnam, unknown
192034817Albany New York: Leander McCormick Observatory University of Virginia 1920. Reprint. Wraps. Good. Green printed stapled wraps. Approx. 11.75" x 10". 8 pages. Folded in the middle. Light creases and toning to the covers. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front cover. <br /> <br /> From wikipedia: Samuel Alfred Mitchell April 29 1874 – February 22 1960 was a Canadian-American astronomer who studied solar eclipses and set up a program to use photographic techniques to determine the distance to stars at McCormick Observatory where he served as the director. Leander McCormick Observatory, University of Virginia unknown
184429219Prato: Tipografia Giachetti 1844. First Italian. Hardcover book. Very good overall. 'The entire volume is devoted to Mitchell's explorations in Australia. One volume of a set of voyages published in Italian by Francesco Marmocchi. Large 8vo 282pp ii frontispiece & 12 plates with illustrations in the text. Attractive publishers vellum spine and marbled boards. Gilt spine labels slt chipped board edges rubbed internally clean plates slt toned. Volume 16 of Australia ID 26206468. Tipografia Giachetti hardcover
FORT552871Douglas & McIntyre. Used - Acceptable. W.A.C: Bennett and the Rise of British Columbia Douglas & McIntyre unknown
201215122Genève, Cercle du bibliophile/collection les femmes célèbres , s.d. ; in-8, 316 pp., cartonnage de l'éditeur. L'Ascension du féminisme. Traduit de l'anglais par Claude Othenin-Girard. Préface de Gilles Costaz.
201708442Paris, Editions de La Martinière, 2012 ; in-8, 313 pp., br. Broché très bon état.
20091644114Steidl 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Cloth dj. Slight shelf-wear. Otherwise very good condition. Steidl hardcover
