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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
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
20091644114Steidl 2009. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used-Very Good. Cloth dj. Slight shelf-wear. Otherwise very good condition. Steidl hardcover
189360749New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1893. 8vo. 10 123 1 pp. Title w/ sepia-tinted vignette. With frontisp. plates and illustrations throughout. Beige-coloured softcovers w/ gray illustrated linen d.j. flaps folded and affixed on versos of front & back covers cover art of young woman at the 1893 World’s Fair fresh in Morning tired and seated at Noon and asleep in a chair by Night minor dustsoiling thumbing splitting at joints of spine ex-lib stamps on pastedown title and rear still G/G- copy w/ The Library Company of Philadelphia bookplate on front pastedown dated 12/5/1893 stamped “Duplicate Sold†from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this nicely illustrated anthology detailing each artist’s experiences and visits to the Columbian Exposition. Millet 1848-1912 displayed work at the 1893 Columbian Exposition and died with the Titanic; Mitchell 1845-1918 was a publisher architect & artist who records his observations of Fair visitors; Low 1853-1932 was a noted Albany NY muralist and Barbizon landscape painter; Gibson 1850-1896 was a noted magazine artist and natural history illustrator whose illustrations graced Harper’s Weekly Scribner’s Monthly and Century magazines and noted for his drawings of the buildings and landscape at the 1893 World’s Fair published by Scribner’s; Smith 1838-1915 traveled extensively exhibited later at the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo and also had contributed earlier to the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. See: Dybwad & Bliss Annotated Bibliography: World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 1992 930. Charles Scribner’s Sons, paperback
197084834San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press 1970-1972. Three issues all 4to all fine in either side-stapled or sewn wrappers. Bruce Boone Bob Rivera Ginsberg Giorno Gunn Schjeldahl Robert Glück and many others along with erotic artworks. For the run: San Francisco: Hoddypoll Press, unknown
1887List1935Mitchell 1887. 8vo wraps 82 pp. Tears to wraps partially disbound contents very good good overall. Good. An unrecorded promotional book written about the city of Mitchell four years after its founding and near the end of the Dakota Boom. The introduction states “No apology is needed for the publication at this point of a pamphlet setting forth the advantages of this city and the country tributary thereto… The east is overcrowded with people… the west presents the opposite condition. Business opportunities are plenty. A little money goes a great ways…†The book is illustrated with woodcut illustrations of the scenes and businesses of Mitchell and a map on the rear wrap shows the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway for which Mitchell provides a junction of two of the branches. We find no record of this book which overall provides insight into the city’s early history and more broadly is an excellent example of promotional literature of the Dakotas in the period just before statehood. unknown
1867919P37New York: Charles Scribner & Co 1867. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. The first edition of Donald Grant Mitchell's charming volume on the beauties of the country signed by Mitchell. The first edition first issue with the final leaf of the preface numbered 'iv'.Author's presentation copy inscribed by the author to the recto of the front free endpaper "To Dr. T. R. Glass with the kind regards of Donald G. Mitchell Sagewood July 26th 1867".'Rural Studies' is a charming volume on country architecture and landscape gardening described by the author as a "tract for homeliness".Illustrated with the occasional in-text illustration. One leaf of adverts to the front and three pages of adverts to the rear. Written by Donald Grant Mitchell better known under his pseudonym Ik Marvel. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities with a small chip and a repair to the tail of the spine. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Very light rubbing to the joints. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few light handling marks. Very Good Charles Scribner & Co hardcover
1864GEN2-D-7New York: Charles Scribner 1864. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. A work of farming history from rural America written by the author and essayist Donald Mitchell. Written by the writer and novelist Donald Grant Mitchell. Many of his works were published under the pen name Ik Marvel. His works often include rural themes and travel writings. He was best known as the author under the pseudonym of "Ik Marvel" of the sentimental essays contained in the volumes Reveries of a Bachelor or a Book of the Heart 1850 and Dream Life a Fable of the Seasons 1851. His other works include About Old Story-tellers 1878 and American Lands and Letters 1897-1899. In this work Mitchell discusses his own farm Edgewood located in New Haven Connecticut. In a full cloth binding with gilt detailing to the spine. Externally generally smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Mild patches of rubbing to the boards and joints. Front and rear hinges are strained but firm. There are bookplates to the pastedown and front blank-end paper. Internally generally firmly bound with the cords visible in several places throughout the volume. Page are generally clean with the occasional handling marks and spots to several pages. Very Good Charles Scribner hardcover
155368Basingstoke: AA Publishing 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition First Printing. Not price-clipped £25 price intact. Published by AA 2011. Folio. Black boards stamped in silver. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Light bumps to top and bottom right corners. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. A nice copy of this book of photography capturing the best of the British Wildlife Photography Awards. 217 pages. ISBN: 9780749571153. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton New York. Basingstoke: AA Publishing, 2011 hardcover
199163701Norwalk CA: Media Concepts 1991. 4to. 247 5 pp. With 100’s of text illustrations diagrams flow-charts schematics. Flexible illustrated covers black wire comb binding as issued faint age toning & minor soiling to covers still a VG- copy. First revised edition stated of this essential book packed full of illustrations troubleshooting data maintenance tips and modifications for tube amplifiers and aspiring rock musicians by this noted electronic technician who managed equipment for Aerosmith REO Speedwagon Dokken Testament Keel and other musical groups. Media Concepts, unknown
195928968Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1959. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with discreet owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear and shallow tears to the extremities. The Bottom of the Harbor is considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells every person he introduces every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city. The stories tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms deserted communities once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. This collection includes Up inthe Old Hotel The Bottom of the Harbor The Rats on the Waterfront Mr. Hunter's Grave Dragger Captain and The Rivermen. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
200029292<p>London:: Jonathan Cape 2000. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Bottom of the Harbor is considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells every person he introduces every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city. The stories tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms deserted communities once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. This collection includes Up inthe Old Hotel The Bottom of the Harbor The Rats on the Waterfront Mr. Hunter's Grave Dragger Captain and The Rivermen.</p> Jonathan Cape, hardcover
