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191759495NY: Isaac Goldman Co 1917. 8vo pp. 8. Self wraps. The cover has the large label tipped on: "From The Albany Branch of the N. Y. State Woman Party" A new fine copy. Isaac Goldman Co unknown books
1748WRCLIT54936London: Printed for M. Cooper 1748. 64pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound pamphlet volume. First edition. Slightly dusty but a very good copy. The referenced "second-rate Minister" was Thomas Winnington 1696-1746 one of Walpole's chief supporters. ESTC T43778. Printed for M. Cooper unknown books
11788JOSIAH WEDGWOOD ND. VERY GOOD. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. JOSIAH WEDGWOOD, ND hardcover books
40428Dayton: 1970. Corner-stapled mimeographed sheets; 4ppillustrated cover sheet. Very Good. Proposal following a gender-equallity consciousness raising workshop on the Campus of the University of Dayton for a "Female-Mode Process for Creating Space" also defined as "A sexual revolution on a Catholic campus! The Marianist Power Brokers would be entirely impotent to the whole. OK!." Signed at close of text "The Aggressive Space Creators." The text is sufficiently incoherent that we cannot say whether the authors intended the work as social criticism satire or simply an elaborate keg-party invitation. unknown books
195011759WILMINGTON DU PONT 1950 1950. BLUE CLOTH GOOD. Hardcover. WILMINGTON, DU PONT, 1950 hardcover books
11727LONDON STATION 1949. FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. LONDON, STATION, 1949 unknown books
11728NY SOETHEBY 1974. VERY GOOD. NY, SOETHEBY, 1974 unknown books
11729LONDON SMITH 1967. FINE. LONDON, SMITH, 1967 unknown books
11730NY CHRISTIE'S 1986. FINE. NY, CHRISTIE'S, 1986 unknown books
191120234New York: Harper and Brothers 1911. First Edition. Demi octavo 18cm. Original olive-green cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 231pp; 8 inserted leaves of plates by Arthur William Brown. Bit of dusting to upper edge of text block else a tight Near Fine copy in the scarce pictorial dustwrapper lightly nicked at spine ends and with a small Harper and Brothers unknown books
19704N.p. N.d. Original typescript 5pp on ruled bond. Typed rectos-only. Light soil; single horizontal fold; Very Good. A highly accomplished and moving long poem written in the voice of an unemployed mill-town woman during the Great Depression. Unattributed and undated but apparently based on paper and degree of wear contemporary with the events described.<br/><br/>Whether actually written by an unemployed mill-worker's wife or by a "trained" writer adopting that voice for proletarian effect the poem is remarkable for its unpretentious style and its graphic realistic depiction of the tribulations of unemployed workers during the Great Depression. From its opening line: "All I've ever done in this / Damned life of mine is cry" the poem recounts a series of bleak episodes in a poor southern woman's life: "My man was workin' full - / But now the mill's down / We're all down. / But we still gotta eat / We still got babies to feed . Them big guys up there / They got their bellys full / They got plenty of coal. / Their kids don't have to / Walk tracks lookin' for coal." The author goes on to relate her battles with the "government man" and the WPA but ends the work on a hopeful note: "I'm just so glad that / They give free books at schools / Cause now my boys and girls / Can finish high school And then they'll always have jobs . Too much around me that don't look nice So I'm gonna keep thinking somepin' that is nice."<br/><br/>The poem is unknown to us in any published version though the setting and theme are by no means unique for the period. unknown books
18474980Troy: Published and Sold by L. Willard 1847. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original printed wrappers uncut and unopened; some chipping at margins sporadic foxing. First Edition. 1 - 44 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contains: The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror. Wright I 2444 Published and Sold by L. Willard unknown books
1975264428Studio City CA: Rosslyn News 1975. Magazine. 30p. 5x8 inches 18 b&w erotic drawings lightly-used pulp booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. Story about a redheaded female detective on a sea cruise who gets pulled into lesbian and bisexual spanking wrestling and whipping. Lesbian erotica for straight men. Rosslyn News unknown books
188555657NY: Beers 1885. First Edition. Two volumes. Quarto pp. 701 708. Bound in original leather backed cloth spine well worn with pieces of the leather missing hinges cracked covers lose or separate fold-out map in excellent condition Illustrated. Most of the volume is in clean condition good set in worn bindings. Very heavy. A massive tome with histories of the different towns and prominent citizens of the county. Illustrated with engraved portraits. Beers unknown books
187310250Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co 1873. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Original tan pictorial boards black calf spine. Bottom half of spine perished some cover wear internally fine. 1873 Christmas gift inscription on title. First edition. Frontispiece and 12 plates. 1 vols. Oblong folio. A Resort Summer of 1873 in Drawings and Rhyme. An account of the adventures of a group of friends vacationing at Mt. Desert Maine recounted in humorous verse and equally humorous drawings evidently by two members of the party. Summer romances the hazards of the communal dining table days of genteel ennui and other activities with the first names of the participants indicated as a partial aid to social historians a few of them are named in pencil on the title page are described in double columns of rollicking verse narrative and accompanying plates. A charming period piece and a not insignificant bit of amusing Americana. J.R. Osgood & Co unknown books
184734875Arundel Sussex: Printed by Mitchell & Son 1847. Small octavo. Original green blindtooled flexible cloth boards with "Lindiana" to upper yellow endpapers all edges gilt. 1f. bust-length frontispiece portrait of Lind with tissue guard 1f. recto title verso blank 5-52 pp.<br/><br/>Binding very slightly worn and rubbed edges faded; light offsetting to recto of rear free endpaper with minor staining to edges of verso and rear pastedown. Occasional minor signs of wear and foxing; title and frontispiece moderately browned and stained. First Edition. OCLC no. 1804258.<br/><br/>Dubbed "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind 1820-1887 debuted in 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz. "She made her Viennese début at the Theater an der Wien in April 1846 as Norma. She then toured extensively in Germany taking part with Mendelssohn in the Lower Rhine Festival at Aachen during May and June when she sang in Haydn's Creation and Handel's Alexander's Feast. She also appeared at Munich Stuttgart Karlsruhe Mannheim and Nuremberg. Returning in January 1847 to Vienna she scored an immense success as Marie. Her triumphant London début was at Her Majesty's in May of the same year when she sang in Italian Alice in Robert le diable before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert followed by La sonnambula. and La fille du régiment with even greater success." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. Printed by Mitchell & Son unknown books
184726778Arundel Sussex: Printed by Mitchell & Son 1847. Small octavo. Original green blindtooled flexible cloth boards with printed label "Life of Jenny Lind. With Portrait. Price Two Shillings" to upper all edges gilt yellow endpapers. 1f. bust-length woodcut frontispiece portrait of Lind with tissue guard 1f. title 5-52 pp.<br/><br/>Binding slightly worn rubbed and faded. Occasional minor signs of wear and foxing; preliminary leaves slightly browned. First Edition. OCLC no. 1804258.<br/><br/>Dubbed "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind 1820-1887 debuted in 1838 as Agathe in Der Freischütz. "She made her Viennese début at the Theater an der Wien in April 1846 as Norma. She then toured extensively in Germany taking part with Mendelssohn in the Lower Rhine Festival at Aachen during May and June when she sang in Haydn's Creation and Handel's Alexander's Feast. She also appeared at Munich Stuttgart Karlsruhe Mannheim and Nuremberg. Returning in January 1847 to Vienna she scored an immense success as Marie. Her triumphant London début was at Her Majesty's in May of the same year when she sang in Italian Alice in Robert le diable before Queen Victoria and Prince Albert followed by La sonnambula. and La fille du régiment with even greater success." Elizabeth Forbes in Grove Music Online. Printed by Mitchell & Son unknown books
17147280London: For Richard Wilkin 1714. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 16 218 13 pages. FIRST EDITION. "Mary Kettilby's collection of cookery recipes and medicinal and home remedies from a tasty "green-pease soop without meat" to gooseberry wine. Households that could not afford French cooks or French cooking came to form a growing audience for books by women that contained unpretentious recipes cut to suit a less costly cloth for pickling and collaring rather than ragouts. Where Hannah Woolley had led plenty of female cooks with their eye on the profitable middle market followed with books like Mary Kettilby's collection of recipes 1714 and Eliza Smith's Compleat Housewife 1734" Colquhoun Taste: The Story of Britain through its Cookery 2015. Kettilby's book purported to be a collective effort: the preface stating that 'a Number of very Curious and Delicate House-wives Club'd to furnish out this Collection'. Maclean however pages 79-82 doubts this and notes that evidence from later editions indicate Kettilby to be the main author. Apart from the Preface there is no introduction of any sort: the recipes follow immediately after the chapter headings. The book is clearly divided into chapters of recipes for food and for remedies but within the chapters there is no definite structure. For example the first chapter begins with six recipes for soups followed by recipes for collared beef 'French-Cutlets' collared mutton stewed pigeons broiled pigeons dressed turbot and then patties 'for a Dish of Fish'. The recipes are given either as goals as 'To make Hogs-Puddings' or as titles sometimes with descriptions as 'A very good Tansy'. Quantities are given in whichever units are convenient as 'a Gallon of grated Bread' 'three Pounds of Currants' or 'nine Eggs'. Often quantities rely on the cook's judgment as 'as much Sugar as will make it very sweet'. Temperatures and timings are given when necessary as 'a cool Oven: Half an Hour bakes it'. Later binding in 19th century style. Half-calf gilt-decorated spine marbled endpapers. The front paste-down contains the bookplates of two significant culinary collections: Thomas Scruggs & Margaret Cook and Marian Hatch. The Hatch bookplate was designed and engraved by British engraver Alfred J. Downey. With the bookseller's ticket of Philip C. Duschnes to the rear pastedown. Ink ownership mark to half-title "1718 Eliseab; and inscription on final page of text "illeg. near New College Oxford". OCLC locates eighteen copies; Bitting page 258; Cagle 789; Maclean pages 79-82; Oxford page 54; Wellcome II page 389. For Richard Wilkin hardcover books
185010484NY: Published for the trade 1850. 12mo pp.119. Colored lithograph frontispiece and title page a good copy of this collection of sentimental poetry. Published for the trade unknown books
186110267New York James Miller 1861. 1861. Small 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of an Indian maiden; pictorial title page with vignette of an Indian loading a musket and 10 wood engravings. 252 pages. Original gilt and blindstamped purple pictorial cloth with gilt vignette of two armed Indians attacking four settlers defending their cabin spine faded; yellow endpapers. Ink signature of Oliver R. Clark Jr. Dec. 25 1860 on the front free endpaper. Includes information on Indian etiquette torture famous Chiefs and Florida Indian tribes. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. New York, James Miller, 1861. hardcover books
178057363London: G. Kearsly 1780. First Edition. 8vo pp.4 91 1. Includes the half title removed from a bound volume. Very good. Not in Adams nor Sabin. Refers to the Gordon Riots also called No-Popery Riots that took place in London in June 1780. The Anti-Catholic agitation was instigated by Lord George Gordon. From Wikipedia: "The Gordon Riots of 1780 began as an anti-Catholic protest in London against the Papists Act of 1778 which intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics. The protest evolved into riots and looting. The Gordon Riots by Charles Green. The Popery Act 1698 had imposed a number of penalties and disabilities on Roman Catholics in England; the 1778 Act eliminated some of these. An initial peaceful protest led on to widespread rioting and looting and was the most destructive in the history of London. Painted on the wall of Newgate prison was the proclamation that the inmates had been freed by the authority of "His Majesty King Mob". The term "King Mob" afterwards denoted an unruly and fearsome proletariat.The Riots came at the height of the American War of Independence when Britain was fighting American rebels France Spain and the Dutch Republic. They led to unfounded fears that they had been a deliberate attempt by France and Spain to destabilise Britain before an imminent invasion similar to the Armada of 1779. G. Kearsly unknown books
1897156237Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1897. 407p. first edition original green cloth binding slightly edge worn paper slightly browned previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. "An English aristocrat narrates the history of a colonization movement begun by a mineralogist who discovers a gold mine and two miracle metals. He uses his riches to form a secret brotherhood and to establish the Nationality Confederation in the Midwest and Southwest. After his death the Confederation peacefully spreads over America. The hero's disciples honor him with elaborate oaths and rituals." Roemer p. 202. Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
1897157155Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Company 1897. Octavo pp. 1-4 5-407 408: blank original green cloth front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. "An English aristocrat narrates the history of a colonization movement begun by a mineralogist who discovers a gold mine and two miracle metals. He uses his riches to form a secret brotherhood and to establish the Nationality Confederation in the Midwest and Southwest. After his death the Confederation peacefully spreads over America. The hero's disciples honor him with elaborate oaths and rituals." - Roemer The Obsolete Necessity p. 202. "One of the more pleasant novels of social protest of the period; entertaining reading although the message is not as clear as it might have been." - Bleiler Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1541. Kopp 807. Locke A Spectrum of Fantasy p. 160. Negley Utopian Literature: A Bibliography 402. Rooney Dreams and Visions: A Study of American Utopias 1865-1917 p. 188. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1985 p. 112. Taylor The Economic Novel in America p. 349. Bleiler 1978 p. 142. Reginald 05727. Wright III 2092. Early owner's name stamped on front free endpaper. Cloth rubbed at edges cloth frayed at upper spine end a very good copy. #157155 Charles H. Kerr & Company unknown books
306877New York The Butterick Publishing Company Ltd. 1889. Third edition. 8vo. Frontispiece vignette of a couple in 18th century dress. Original gilt stamped dark green cloth floral patterned endpapers slight rubbing to spine ends and corners. Very good. 392 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Metropolitan Culture Series. Contains chapters on household civilities letters of introduction invitations dining funeral customs debuts chaperons weddings visiting Washington and traveling abroad visiting cards Christenings children's parties balls and dancing. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. New York, The Butterick Publishing Company, Ltd., 1889. hardcover books
123238France: c. 1809-1820. 8vo 36 leaves printed rectos only illustrated. Brown pebbled cloth rebacked leather backstrip with raised bands gilt-stamped bees and the binder's title "Florilége" sic in the compartments green coated endpapers. Cloth considerably stained backstrip rubbed pages lightly toned and foxed but sound overall. § A curious book appearing to be a lithographic facsimile of a manuscript in which pious reflections are inspired by wayside flowers in the format of a flora. With adept illustrations of the flowers and some religious scenes apparently drawn by the author printed on better paper in monochrome in one of three inks and tipped to each facing page. There is no title page instead the book opens with a quote from Chateaubriand's Les Martyrs published 1809 beneath which is the stamp "Déposé" and the handwritten inscription "Propriété de l'auteur." the name that follows is unfortunately illegible. The author appears to have been a French priest appending the suffix "ptre" here and also to the printed name "Jean" which closes the facsimile manuscript. Presumably multiple copies would have been printed but no others have been located. This copy came from the famous eccentrica and erotica collection of Gershon Legman. c. 1809-1820]. 8vo hardcover books