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195841166Minot MA: Anthoensen Press 1958. Inscribed Whitehill pamphlet - "A Fable for Historical Editors" - laid in. Both in fine condition. xv 92 pp. b/w plates and ills. (Anthoensen Press) books
30641<p>Small octavo 127 manuscript pp. bound in original limp leather entries dated 21 May to 13 July 1919 and 25 January to 19 May 1919 written in ink in legible hand; first 50 pp consists of the diary for the time period of 21 May to 13 July 1919; the next 60 pp are apparently entries from another diary copied into this diary for the dates of 25 January to 19 May 1919 giving a total time period of the diary for 25 January to 13 July 1919. The last 17 pp of volume contains various memorandum notes including: "Partial list of books I read in France" the poem "Ladies" by Rudyard Kipling a list of different types of alcoholic beverages a poem "Jim" a quote from "Ben Hur" and "Wicksteed" a poem "To the Unknown Goddess" a poem "Jealousy" plus two other notes about war and food.</p><p> <b>Description of Diary:</b></p><p> The name of the author of the diarist is unknown at present although with research his name could presumably be found. The author is a male who is serving in the United States Army in 1919 as a driver transporting officers to various locales in France near the former frontlines. The war had just ended 11 Nov. 1918 a little over two months before this diary begins 25 Jan. 1919 thus our author sees a number of the former battle fields and entrenchments of the frontlines various destroyed French cities and towns and he makes a tour of Paris. He also visits war cemeteries and attends various events at the Red Cross or at Base Hospital 53 amongst other places. </p><p> There is much about his regular care and maintenance of his car and picking up military officers and travel to other military installations towns or places or simply acting as the driver as the officers go out on the town pick up prostitutes bed them at a local hotel and afterwards driving both the officer and prostitute to their respective homes. </p><p> The diary recounts the various 'joyrides' that the author and his fellow servicemen take to nearby towns the dinners they seek out meeting French girls bartering with the local French population with cash chocolates and cigarettes for various items like watches fruit gloves etc. The diary also recounts the steamer ride home from France to Newport News Virginia which took from 24 June to 5 July.</p><p> <b> Sample Quotes from the Diary:</b></p><p>"From other diary</p><p>Jan 25 1919</p><p>Have neglected diary. Will write only when I feel like it. At noon helped Miss Flagg pack books for another hut. Did not go to dinner but she brought me cocoa & sandwiches. Snow on ground."</p><p>"March 24</p><p>Rain sleet and lightning. Dance at R.C. afraid to try. All sorts of nurses big little short tall stout thin graceful awkward decent and crooked. Some extremely ugly but very sic are passably good looking." </p><p>"April 6</p><p>Up early breakfast and roll pack. Left at 8 for St. Javin by way of Flinville. Rode atop a 'Mack' In barracks all shot to pieces formerly German headquarters St Javin was great German rail head town occupied by Germans for 4 years. Full of German signs. Took walk to Champigneulle. Detonations machine guns grenades etc. We put over a barrage. Sarsfield's gun blew up salvage dump with piles of everything French American and German. Piles of burned German helmuts. After supper walked thru St. Javin heaps of dead unburied horses German machine gunner buried with one leg sticking above ground part of uniforms heap of empty shells an overturned machine gun by his side. Outdoor movies."</p><p>"May 1</p><p>Went to Chaumont this morning. Cole is leaving for home mother sill. Took Lehmer to café. Returned at 7 waited till 8. Good looking 'Catin' prostitute with him. Went to little town and had drinks. One to Rolampont to café de la Patrie. Lieut & girl slept next room to us. Came in to see me before she went to sleep. Moans!</p><p>"May 2</p><p>Breakfast and took L to Chaumont. Returned for girl. Asleep. Had not slightest idea of modesty. My reply to her advances was to get her clothes on or she would not go back with me. September moon in May. Truck trains left Chaumont at 1:30 P.M. was in Langes at 4 P.M. At 10 P.M. took Lieut L. and Capt. Ardon to depot. L was pretty drunk. Met 2 fellows and 2 girls. Took them to town. L had me drive him and them but they could find no rooms. Drove them to Humes but no room there. Left them at depot. One girl about all in. Lieut L in R.C. talking to girl finally got him home at 2:30 A.M. Quite disgusting."</p><p>"May 10</p><p>Drove all day and B.H. at night. At R.C. Peggy asked me to go for a walk. Experiment 'Baso' Muy bien. In at 3 A.M. 'Cracker' had his court martial today."</p><p>"June 5</p><p>Did not make a trip. Farewell party at Y. Close of contests. Band concert & special selection. Fine. Free eats. Date with Miss Lawrence for tomorrow night. Down town in ambulance to round up drunks. </p><p>"June 6</p><p>Woke me up at night to go to Romagne went via St. Dizier Bar le Duc Varemes. Lunch at fine café at Bar le Duc. Romagne at 3:30. Large camp tents largely negroes 'beaucoup' P.W.'s cemetery is very large mainly for those killed in the Argonne to hold 30000 to 40000. Dug up & brought in by negroes search for means of identification. Disagreeable work & place. Very bad smell over entire camp. Motorcycle bicycle mounted and foot M.P.'s no place to stay with them. Loan of bunk & blankets razor & use of barber shop. Lemonade at 'Y' Negro 'Y' & 'Y' women."</p><p> "June 24</p><p> Up for breakfast fair hit most of lines hot chocolate at 'Y' coffee & sandwich at J.W. B. cakes at K. of C. 3 cones ice cream at Premier Hut. Rate of exchange for U.S. silver is same as for French silver. Rolled pack at noon 12:00 physical inspection. Out to parade grounds with full equipment at 4:30 supper march to boat at 8 P.M. cigarettes and chocolate from Y.M.C.A. at wharf gangplank at 9:30 up on deck till midnight."</p><p> "June 25</p><p> A good night sleep tho it is some job to dress & undress. When get back can give exhibition as 'sandwich man' for in these 4 tier bunks one is a living sandwich every night. Fair meals. Mixed indiscriminately with negroes and hate it. They are often unbearably insolent. Rain at 9:30 35 war brides aboard one being a negro. Leave locks at 1 P.M. last glimpse of France late in afternoon a low-lying headland off to right. A very heavy windy &sea steadily getting rougher. Many are getting 'mal de mer.' By night waves dashing over forward hatch & bow In very tip of ship protected from waves by covering overhead. Most motion of any part of ship but I like it. Bed early."</p><p> "June 26</p><p> Up for breakfast fed fine but nearly everyone sick especially the 'smokes.' They are whiter than I thought it possible a negro to get. Still windy and rough. Good dinner. Moderating slightly in afternoon. War brides not in evidence. Oh but they are a hard-looking bunch. One looks like someone's washwoman about 40 years old. I sure don't want anything in that class. Would be ashamed to be seen with one of them. No foreigners in mind…"</p><p> "June 30</p><p> For breakfast boiled eggs first time since I left Wash. Barracks that had eggs in regular mess. But these were so old I expected the chick to peck me when I opened the shell absolutely not fit to eat. Am sure getting tired of this trip every day is a month you read sleep eat talk watch the porpoises or simply look at the sea & think of home what you will do when you get there etc. The boat is so crowded it is very hard to get a place to sit-down & are mixed up with Negroes in everything. And the Y man takes candy & tobacco up on the promenade deck & he and the officer amuse themselves by throwing it to the fellows and laughing at them scrambling for it. It is really disgusting just like a bunch of little kids. But there is always that would do anything if they think they are getting something for nothing. Well anyhow I can stay clear of it…"</p><p> "July 5</p><p> Rolled my pack last night while I had a little room but slept perfectly comfortable. Sighted land at 12:30 debarked at New Port News at 4 P.M. 'Y' with cigarettes & candy. Marched under the 'Victory Arch' & thru town. When we halted people gave us water bought ice cream and cola at drugstore. It seems so strange to hear civilians speak English and especially children. But oh boy! It sure seems good. And everything moves along briskly and in a modern manner street cars locomotives autos & everything are so different. But unless one has spent a year in France he does not know the relief & joy it is to get back…"</p> books
1804045765London: Tabart and Co 1804. Second Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. Leather backed marbeld boards spine rubbed and dry with some loss hinges cracked but boards attached. Bright internally. 146pp Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045765. <br/><br/> Tabart and Co hardcover books
18100456681810. Broadside. Good Condition. Single sheet chipped and torn at the edges mild staining and soiling no loss of text. ca. 10 1/2" x 9". A few very similar copies exist at the AAS but each with a small woodcut of a leprechaun. Undated they suggest Boston 1810-1814 Bunch of Rushes was sung to the tune of the Irish song Cailín ag buaint luachra The Sprig of Shillelah is thought to have been adapted from "The Original Black Joke Sent from Dublin". The last verse with the curious profession of Irish allegiance to England against the French points to the Napoleonic period in which it was adapted. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Americana. Inventory No: 045668. <br/><br/> unknown books
1785045481Madrid: Placido Barco Lopez 1785. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Very Good Condition. Contemporary full vellum browned but sound. Endpapers with notes front pastedown missing a section old ink mark to title scattered foxing a nice clean copy generally. 279pp plus index. Early edition originally published in 1777 of a much reprinted manual. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books for Writers; Inventory No: 045481. <br/><br/> Placido Barco Lopez hardcover books
19382Ca. 1937. 179 images 5 missing ranging in dimension from 2-1/2" x 2" to 3-1/2" x 5-1/2". Artfully arranged and almost fully captioned in white ink with names of subjects and locations; a few items dated 1937 & 1938. C.C.C. Company 297 moved from Kanona New York to Heppner Oregon in late 1936. The images in this album document the cross-country move in detail including way-stops in Denver and Boone Colorado. Includes many captioned of the lads at work laying dams and bridges cutting wood preparing meals etc. A tipped-in meal coupon is issued to one "Joseph Accurie" likely Accurio whom we speculate was the compiler of the album. An unusually well-conceived and captioned CCC scrapbook documenting a significant piece of a single company's history; substantially complete and in excellent condition. unknown books
189710089Toronto: Privately Printed 1897 circa 1905. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Good in Wraps. Moderate shelf/edge wear minor loss at tail chips at spine tidemark at bottom edge last page has closed tear near joint without loss even toning to wraps else tight and unmarred. Cream paper wraps black ink lettering and decorative elements. 12mo. 58pp. <br/><br/>InFamous work first published by Charles Carrington in 1897. Popular enough that an unauthorized sequel was issued approximately thirty years later. Young and bold a proto-flapper Flossie plays the adults around her with effortless skill. Made into film and reprinted repeatedly. <br /> Privately Printed paperback books
19369124No Publisher circa 1936. First Editions. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Single staple bound booklets in original printed paper wraps. Each title is a 3 x 4"; 8-page and is in good to very good condition. <br/><br/>The Tijuana Bibles also known as eight-pagers were small crudely printed eight-page publications of erotic cartoons that were extremely popular beginning in the 1920s-1950s in the United States. This collection features nine titles: 1. “Adventures of a Fuller Brush Man” 2.”Torrid Tess” 3. “Hot Nuts” 4. “Easy Pickins” 5. “Obliging Lady” 6. “Dizzy Desires” 7. missing 8. “Hot Pants” 9. “Ain’t Nature Grand” and 10. “The Amorous Mrs. Twirp.” Normally each issue had a self-contained story with some recurring characters. The Adventures of a Fuller Brush Man chronicled the dirty door-to-door adventures of traveling brush salesman Ted as he peddles his merchandise to young ladies in various states of dress. [No Publisher] paperback books
18582093New York: H. Dayton 1858. Hardcover. Black embossed boards title in gilt. Good. 126 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Similar to earlier edition Ladies' Indispensable Assistant 1852 but with some medical updates and insights into vaccinations. Text provides guidance to recognize various illnesses with treatments with 14 pages listing the medical properties of plants. The Ladies' Domestic Economy and Housekeepers' guide provides copious recipes cookery for the sick the lady's work-box stitching dress work baskets directions for coloring garments with etiquette following the same pattern as earlier editions although the rules for marriage love letters and proposals have been dispensed with. Two pages of recipes from another cook book laid in. Owner's signature on front free end paper. Pages foxed boards heavily rubbed. Lowenstein lists a 1859 copy. <br/><br/> H. Dayton hardcover books
170357338London: Nich. Cox 1703. 8vo pp. 216. Bound in contemporary calf little bent a very good copy. Pages 169-176 omitted from numbering English Short Title Catalog: T60536. On the "Camisards or Cevennois. This is the history of the Camisards rebellion 1702-1705 which carried on organized military resistance to the dragonnads or coversion by torture death and confiscation of property. See Britannica 11th edition vol. 5 pp. 113. Nich. Cox unknown books
193434464Liverpool: Rushworth & Dreaper 1934. Small octavo. Wrappers. 106 pp text. With two folding plates. Wrappers faded and worn; upper joint split. Third edition. Rushworth & Dreaper unknown books
1934160710002London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing stated. Very Good with soiling to edge of page block foxing to prelims and terminals slight toning to spine cloth in a Good dust jacket which is lightly soiled toned and edge worn with insect wear primarily to the rear panel rear flap fold and top edge of the rear flap. Uncommon in the dust jacket. Herbert Jenkins Ltd hardcover books
1930043189Liverpool: Libraries Museums and Arts Committee 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 35 page catalogue bound up in blue cloth. With the 4pp supplement bound in at the rear. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Railways; Inventory No: 043189. <br/><br/> Libraries Museums and Arts Committee hardcover books
1971295182London: Cornmarket Press 1971. Reprint. hardcover. near fine. 8 folding plans. Short thin 4to blue cloth London: Cornmarklet Press 1971. Facsimile reprint. Covers slightly scuffed and dust-soiled still near fine.<br/><br/> Cornmarket Press unknown books
1968282315Dublin: Browne & Nolan 1968. Map. Offset lithograph. 18" x 23 1/2".<br/><br/> This brightly colored tourist map of the city of Dublin folds out of a pamphlet. A colorful border shows 25 important buildings and landmarks including Trinity College St. Audoen's Arch and the National Gallery as well as the dates they were established. The map itself has illustrations of different historical scenes at the locations they took place with explanatory notes. Interesting facts are noted as well for example an arrow pointing to where W.B. Yeats went to school and the hill where according to legend St. Patrick foretold the rise of Dublin City from a small village. A simple cartouche in the bottom left includes the coat of arms of the City of Dublin. Included with pamphlet cover some stains otherwise good condition. A beautiful map.<br/><br/> Browne & Nolan unknown books
180734242Middletown CT: Alsop Riley and Alsop 1807. 8vo pp. 460. Leather. Some foxing throughout cover somewhat worn o/w VG. Imprints 13388. Alsop, Riley and Alsop unknown books
1828CAT000116Amsterdam: F. Kaal 1828. Early Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Contemporary thick printed wraps spine perished binding loose. Pirated edition of a popular Dutch cookbook originally published in 1803. viii 236pp. Size: 8vo octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000116. F. Kaal unknown books
182233013n.p n.d. Lon. 1822. 4to. 4 pp. plus 28 double page sheets of printed abstracts. The title page of the first edition of James Naval History of Great Britain calls for a separate quarto volume of Tabular Abstracts but this volume was not included with the five volumes of the history and is scarce. This is the volume referred to in James. The introductory Notice makes reference to the James history. It features 28 numbered sheets one for each year from 1793 to 1820 containing great amounts of information about British naval vessels. This information is keyed by an alphabetical system to the text in James history. Bound in full calf. Later reback in brown leather. Boards slightly bowed but still VG books
184957324NY: H. M. Ranney 1849. First Edition. 8vo pp. 32. Illustrated with one etching. Paper wraps. Cover somewhat darkened worn at spine occasional foxing within o/w VG. "Wherein an infuriated mob was quelled by the Public Authorities and Military with.the Sudden Death or Mutilation of more than Fifty Citizens." Sparked by the rivalry of two actors and carried forward in an atmosphere of social inequities and the resultant anger. H. M. Ranney unknown books
1915004600Boston: Printer: The Libbie Printing Co. 1915. Brochure. Very Good. A scarce advertisement for a "photo-drama of war" released in 1915 and now mostly lost. The movie was for its day a huge spectacle using as it did a cast of thousands to advance its pro-war message. The plot of the epic was premised on the Central Powers exploited American Pacifists to keep the U.S. from arming itself and then attacking the militarily unprepared and weak U.S. In the movie all kinds of atrocities are then committed against Americans. The movie directed by J. Stuart Blackton and Wilfrid North starred Charles Richman Norma Talmadge Mary Maurice and L. Rogers Lytton. 26.5 by 18.5 cm. 4 pp. but with the qualities of a broadside on the front cover or first page as well as the inner two pages in which a dozen scenes of the movie are set forth with still photos and captions. The back cover has quotes from famous Americans past and present along with an endorsement of the movie by Theodore Roosevelt whose assistance was supposedly instrumental in the producer getting assistance from the War Department. Also listed on the last page are the special effects employed in the movie such as the bombardment of new York whole buildings toppling Wall Street in flames sea battles and much much more. <br /><br /> Printer: The Libbie Printing Co. books
187049306npnd 1870. Broadside 12 x 5-1/8 in Slightly soiled couple of folds with 2 closed tears. A temperance piece listing 45 questions about alcohol: ie. 1. What is the etymology of alcohol 14. What is the chemistry of malting 23. How general is the adulteration of liquors 26. How does alcohol affect the brain and nerves 38. What is the duty of all as citizens in relation to temperance 44. What motives favor total abstinence unknown books
1934040571Akron: Saalfield 1934. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Corinne Ringel Bailey. Light wear at corners internally quite bright; a lovely alphabet book Size: Quarto 4to. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrator: Corinne Ringel Bailey. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Children; Inventory No: 040571. <br/><br/> Saalfield paperback books
182855274Providence: H. H. Brown printer 1828. First edition 8vo pp. 12; self-wrappers stitched as issued; uncut; a few spots on the title; very good. Warns of the dangers of the "monied aristocracy" and urges voters "to give your undivided support to.the Landowner's Prox by whatever name it may be called" and to support the State's current system of indirect taxation on imported goods luxury items profits levying license fees &c. as a way to lessen the direct tax upon land. American Imprints 31893; Bartlett p. 8; Sabin 70529. <br/><br/> H. H. Brown, printer unknown books
171217916London: John Morphew 1712. First edn. 8vo pp. viii 265 139. Bound in recent calf backed boards by Grey Parrot with some scattered soiling and foxing a very good copy. Not in Halkett & Laing. Under the reign of Queen Anne England went to war to wrest the Spanish dominions from Philip of Spain and give them to Austrain Archduke Charles. This caused a split between the British Whigs who supported the war and the Torries who were less interested. Eventually the Peace of Utrecht was signed in 1713 stipulating for the permanent separation of the Crowns of France and Spain. John Morphew unknown books
183719473Boston 1837. One page 4to printed on both sides. Offprint obituary and tribute with contributions by Lydia Maria Child Anne Warren Weston and Mary S. Parker. 7x10". A fine copy. Not in BAL. Ann Chapman was probably the sister-in-law of activist Maria Weston Chapman. She labored in the abolitionist cause which she saw as a fitting exemplification of the great central truth of Christianity " the universal brotherhood of the human race. unknown books
