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200310623Boston: Little Brown 2003. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Mandela on the half-title page. Forewords by President Bill Clinton and Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan. Edited by Kader Asmal Davis Chidester and Wilmot James. Color and black & white photographs. Small faint soil spot on foreedge; otherwise an unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Little Brown Hardcover books
20033068London: Little Brown 2003. First UK edition first prnt Signed by Mandela on the title page. Forewords by President Bill Clinton and Secretary-General on the United Nations Kofi Annan. Edited by Kader Asmal David Chidester and Wilmot James. Color and black & white photographs. Dustjacket with a touch of edgewear not immediately apparent; an unread copy in Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Little Brown Hardcover books
185520582Sacramento CA: B. B. Redding State Printer 1855. 1st edition. Not in Cowan nor Greenwood. Bound in later blue-grey paper wrappers. Overall VG a faint qtr-circle stain to upper left of text paper/'San Quentin / -- 1855 --" written diagonally to lower half of front wrapper. Ex-lib with 2 small stamps to t.p. & a lightly penciled purchase annotation in the gutter after the 1st leaf 10 Nov 61 JR $10.00. 54 2 pp. "Register and Descriptive List of Convicts under Sentence": pp. 12 - 35 beginning with 1851; "Transcript of Received Escaped and Returned Prisoners since the Inspection of State Prison Books": pp 38 - 40. Last leaf blank. 8vo. 23.5 cm x 14 cm. <br/><br/>This an interesting factual account regarding the early days of the prison an era when it wasn't quite impregnable edifice that now stands; in 1854 75 of 520 incarcerated individuals had escaped without recapture. This situation caused Governor John Bigler to write: "Gentlemen: Having learned from various reliable sources that quite a number of escapes have recently occurred from the State Prison which to some extent is in your charge I deem it my duty respectfully to invite your attention to the section of the law regulating your duties. These escapes permit me here to remark give great force to allegations daily and publicly made that the prison building is insecure and that its management is not such as to fully accomplish the object of its erection in prevention and punishment of crime." However since the place is still going strong one can be reasonably confident the governor's concerns were addressed. Rare; Not in Cowan Greenwood nor Rocq. Not in the LoC on-line catalogue. OCLC & Melvyl record but one copy UCSB & no copies have been at auction these last 25 years. No other copies currently offered via the on-line matching services. B. B. Redding, State Printer unknown books
192227498Hartford: Press of the Case Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor 1922. First editions. Cloth. Most copies very good. Ex-library call numbers blacked out bookplates on pastedowns and a few other small interior stamps. Spines sunned on some of the earlier volumes occasional spotting to edges faint dampstain to the edge of a few volumes most notable towards the end of volume 2 scattered foxing but nearly all volumes tight clean and unmarked. A nice set. Illus. with b/w reproductions drawings photos and figures. 8vo. A nearly complete run from the first report of the Board in 1866 to 1922 lacking 1896 1907-11 1914 1918-1920. From 1879 to 1895 the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station report and from 1888 to 1896 the Storrs School report were bound together with the Board report as well as issued separately. Overall thus 72 volumes in 43. An important record of agriculture agricultural thought agricultural practices and agricultural influences in Connecticut from the close of the Civil War to the just after the First World War. Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. / Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor hardcover books
190942908Albany NY: State of New York 1909. First edition. Very good clean copy with long tear repaired on th verso and tiny chips at one fold on map inch tear to fore edge of certificate and along bottom margin. Ink on drafting vellum with colored outlines. 15 x 24 inches. Docket sheet mounted to verso. In 1874 the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company soon named the Hudson River Railway Company was formed to construct tunnels between Jersey City and Greenwich Village the route originally to be about two miles commencing at a point under the Hudson River in the westerly boundaryline of the state of New York opposite the foot of Clarkson street at the termination of the Hudson Tunnel Railroad Company of New Jersey and thence running by a feasible route under the bed of the river and beneath the surface of the city of New York to a point at or near the westerly side of Broadway between Prince and Eighth streets; from whence the line proceeds via Sixth avenue to Thirty-third street New York but stopped construction well before completion. The assets land partially-constructed tunnels trackage etc. were eventually sold to the newly-organized New York & Jersey Railroad incorporated on February 12 1902 under the leadership of William G. McAdoo who was later U.S. Treasury Secretary and which then became the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 1906. The original of this profile was drafted in 1891 before the railroad collapsed and the present certified copy was prepared by the Secretary of State's office on February 25 1909 almost exactly one year after the official opening of the tunnel the Pennsylvania Railroad's North River Tunnels the second to burrow under the Hudson did not open until late 1910. The reason that a copy of the map was requested is not known but what is known is that the railroad was seeking to extend the Sixth Avenue line later as well as other related projects. Perhaps the map was needed to settle some land issue or in some legal negotiations as the pencilled word "referee" appears after two sets of initials. The tunnels still carry a heavy load of PATH train commuters between Jersey City and Manhattan. Similar maps are difficult to locate. The closest a printed "Map of Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Hudson tunnel system January 1908" is located at the University of Chicago and the Jersey City Historical Society. Provenance: Collection of Gerald J. Levy. State of New York hardcover books
1865709471865. New York Laws. Laws of the State of New-York Passed at the Thirty-Ninth to Eighty-Eight Session of the Legislature. From January 1816 to April 1865. Albany: William Gould 1818-1865. 42 books. Eight linear feet of shelf space. Early 20th-century tan cloth with upper and lower black spine labels. Worn many labels chipped internally sound. $950. unknown books
1916007165New York: A.A. Vantine & Co. Inc. 1916. A RARE catalogue and in lovely condition of the major importer of Oriental goods into America from 1866 to 1921. Very Good Plus in original full color pictorial wrappers 120 pp. plus 2 order pages at rear pre-addressed envelope tipped at page 106. numerous black and white and color photographs throughout small tears at spine ends small spot rear wrapper else Near Fine. In 1916 Vantine's was located at Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Clothing furniture housewares fabric toys and other merchandise imported from China and Japan are described in the catalogue and merchandise from Vantine's has been avidly collected over the years. Worldcat locates no copies of the 1916 edition. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A.A. Vantine & Co., Inc. Paperback books
1946005337New York: Rinehart & Co. 1946. SIGNED BY AUTHOR and Bloomington Indiana's legendary composer and actor Hoagy Carmichael on front end page. Very Good slight spine lean boards a bit soiled in a Very Good priced dust wrapper rear panel soiled and minor edge wear. An uncommon SIGNED BY AUTHOR copy !. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rinehart & Co. Hardcover books
186319599Saint Paul: A. Bailey 1863. First edition; 8vo pp. 2 ads 170; contemporary brown morocco over comb-marbled boards; some fading and scuffing but generally very good. From the Preface: "We present to our patrons a new City Directory satisfied that it is as nearly correct as a thorough and systematic canvass could make it. In the Business Directory all business firms we think are correctly represented classified according to the business pursuits and arranged in alphabetic order. The Appendix shows the different Associations Public Buildings Libraries Ward Boundaries Streets . Municipal Organizations etc. In the Spring of 1864 we propose to publish another Directory which we presume will receive the same liberal support." Bailey joined forces with one Groff to publish the 1864 edition after which no more were published in St. Paul. Prior to his coming to Saint Paul Bailey published directories in Quincy Illinois in 1861; and in 1862 he published one for Burlington Iowa. Subsequently he published directories for Winona Minnesota; La Crosse Wisconsin; Milwaukee; Mansfield Ohio; and Cleveland. Martin Minnesota Imprints 521; not in Sabin or Howes. Minnesota Historical is the only non-microfilm copy found in OCLC. <br/><br/> A. Bailey hardcover books
200630699Minneapolis: Mnenomic Press 2006. Edition limited to 40 copies this no. 19 numbered and signed by Harriet Bart; very tall folio approx. 23" x 6½" accordion fold 6 panels printed on rectos only containing 22 visual poems by 15 poets; very fine in original gray printed wrappers with original printed wrap-around band. Designed and printed in collaboration with Phillip Gallo at the Hermetic Press Minneapolis. "The Rondo Library Miscellany was commissioned as a work of public art. These twenty two visual poems are etched into a 20 foot long glass wall in the Rondo Community Outreach Library in Saint Paul Minnesota." <br/><br/> Mnenomic Press unknown books
182812269London: Hunt and Clarke 1828. First edition in English of the author's La decouverte des sources du Mississippi 1824 2 volumes 8vo pp. lxxvi 472-473; ii 545; portrait frontis. 2 engraved folding plans large folding map of the length of the Mississippi and 3 engraved plates for Indian ornaments; ex-library copy with usual markings covers and spine scuffed joints rubbed and cracked speckled edges; good or better in contemporary tan mottled calf black morocco labels on spines. Volume I contains an account of the author's travels in England Germany France and Italy. Sabin 4605 erroneously calling for only 1 plan: "The author accompanied Major Long in his second expedition who remarks: An Italian whom we met at Fort St. Anthony i.e. Fort Snelling attached himself to the expedition and accompanied us to Pembina. He has recently published a book which we notice merely on account of the fictions and misrepresentations which it contains. The Revue encyclopedique 1826 criticized the work severely and doubted the discovery. The author replied in a Lettre sur la decouverte d'un manuscript mexicain which was printed.in the English edition of his Pilgrimage." Howes B-338; Clark II 182; Wagner-Camp 26a.2; Pilling Algonquin p. 42; Field 111: Volume II is almost entirely devoted to the author's travels among the Northwestern Indians of whom he gives some novel particulars. The narrations of what he witnessed are tinged with the peculiar glow of the author's temperament. Beltrami must have moved in a gigantic world if he saw external objects through the same media with which he viewed his own person and accomplishments." <br/><br/> Hunt and Clarke unknown books
196931546Washington D.C. 1969. 8vo 10-p. program string bound inside larger illustrated wrappers inscribed on the front "To Harvey T. Reid for a most valued friend counselor. and companion of riding trails and good dining - and for Agnes - with greetings & best wishes Warren E. Burger Washington August 21 1969." <br/><br/> unknown books
18797175Saint Paul: West Publishing Co 1879. First edition 8vo pp. 48; original gray printed wrappers; a rare presentation copy inscribed "M. Hensen Esq. Hastings compl. of I.D." on the upper wrapper; some soiling else very good. See BAL II p. 478: "In 1878 Donnelly ran for Congress as a Greenback-Democrat from Minnesota and was defeated in the election by William D. Washburn. Donnelly challenged the election on the basis of influence peddling and the buying of votes and demanded a hearing by the House of Representatives which found in favor of Washburn." <br/><br/> West Publishing Co unknown books
192138202Saint Paul: Minnesota Historical Society 1921. First edition limited to 200 numbered copies of which this is no. 51 signed by the author in volumes 1-3; the fourth published posthumously is signed by the editor Solon J. Buck; 4 volumes large 8vo; frontispieces plates and maps some folding; original three-quarter blind-tooled maroon calf over tan boards gilt spine; volume 1 spine fading at top and bottom; minor shelf wear; volume 1 front endpaper gutter stained; Edward Chenery Gale's bookplate and inscription in volume 3; a fine set. <br/><br/> Minnesota Historical Society hardcover books
192129796St. Paul: Minnesota Hist. Soc 1921. First edition limited to 200 copies signed by the author in vols. 1-3; vol. 4 published posthumously is signed by Buck; 4 vols. 8vo plates and maps some folding; original half maroon calf t.e.g.; a fine set. Arguably the best history of the state very highly regarded. This limited edition contains illustrations not included in the trade edition 1922-30. <br/><br/> Minnesota Hist. Soc unknown books
191049372n.p. n.d. 1910. The 14 photographs in this album were undoubtedly produced by a professional photographer using a large format camera. The pictures are well composed sharply focused and unusual in their scale. They picture a family in leisure-time activities such as hunting gathering leaves and observing caged rabbits. Especially noteworthy is their time at a lake cabin and visiting Twin Cities sites. The cabin is a fine Victorian piece of gingerbread with a wrap-around porch ideal for napping and reading. The wife/mother is seen holding a copy of the periodical American Motherhood which was published 1903-1919 making it possible to date these images around 1910. The family includes twin boys one of whom is seen in the same picture reading a copy of the children's magazine Buster Brown. What appears to be a stuffed squirrel appears in three of the images. The album contains 14 beautifully toned photographs including one in which the oldest child assists a workman possibly making maple syrup. Seven loose prints accompany the album one duplicate. Among these are three pictures made at Fort Snelling and Minnehaha Falls suggesting that the family either lived in the Twin Cities or visited there. While the identity of the photographer is unknown there is a clue to the heritage of the subjects. Laid into the album is a newspaper clipping about one Marvin Hughitt 1837-1928 upon his retirement from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad in 1925. It is possible that the family in these photographs were descendants of Mr. Hughitt with the mother or father a likely grandchild. This is an unusually nice album of family photographs. <br/><br/> unknown books
182453948Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea 1824. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xii 2 9-439 1; vi 5-459 1; 15 engraved plates and a folding map; 20th-century calf-backed marbled boards; moderate foxing color pencil marks on p. 15 in volume I; very good sound copy. Stephen Harriman Long graduated from Dartmouth in 1809 entered the U.S. Army in 1814 and became Major of Topographical Engineers in 1816. His exploration of the Minnesota i.e. St. Peter's and Red River valleys and the canoe route from Lake Winnipeg to Lake Superior in 1823 was announced in this important book which was mostly written by Keating. Field 949; Howes K20; Streeter III 1785; Sabin 37137: "The work is almost a cyclopedia of materials relating to the Indians of the explored territory. Nothing escaped the attention or record of the gentlemen who accompanied the expedition; and their statement regarding the customs character and numbers of the Sioux and Chippeway tribes are among the most valuable we have." <br/><br/> H. C. Carey and I. Lea hardcover books
191956738Fort Snelling Minnesota: US Army General Hospital No. 29 1919. 4to 14 weekly issues from vol. 1 no. 1 April 26 1919 to vol. 1. no. 14 July 24 1919 comprising the complete run of the magazine. Each number with 18 or 22 pages photographs and illustrations throughout original printed paper wrappers paper brittle and toned with some shallow chips to edges but no significant loss the occasional library stamp a very good set. The Reveille was established as a magazine for the military hospital at Fort Snelling. In its inaugural issue it makes the following statement: Reveille makes its bow to the people of the Twin Cities and to all well-wishers everywhere. Its success means much for Fort Snelling and for its great Hospital . Through its pages all the progresses made along all lines will be duly reported." Includes general news and essays alongside news about personnel some of it serious but most clearly submitted as jokes by fellow service members "Mystery. How many sisters has Brown got They seem to come and they seem to go." cartoons sports and a section for nurses. The final issue of the magazine was July 24th and the hospital was discontinued in August 1st. A 15th volume was issued after the fact with the title Centennial Memorial of Fort Snelling. Duluth Public Library only in OCLC to which we can add MHS. <br/><br/> US Army General Hospital No. 29 unknown books
199151658Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts 1991. Edition limited to 300 copies this copy being marked in pencil on the colophon "AP 2" and identical to the deluxe edition of 40 copies signed by J. F. Powers and Barbara Harman; this copy also signed by Gaylord Schanilec 'Gaylord / 19 CLB 91' - referring to Campbell-Logan Bindery who did not sign any of the edition except by request; 8vo pp. 4 9-29 2; original black Niger over decorative paper-covered boards a monoprint by Harman gilt lettering direct on spine publisher's leather-edged slipcase; fine throughout. Designed and printed by Gaylord Schanilec assisted by Jim Hinz and Krista Sulkowski; bound by Greg Campbell Campbell-Logan Bindery. Quarter to Midnight A.108.a: "The fourth annual 'Winter Book' published by MCBA. In the special edition there was too much space left between the letters in the imprint "MCBA" and the date. To counter the space GS inserted a wood engraving of a small bird. This does not appear in the issue of 260. <br/><br/> M[innesota] C[enter for] B[ook] A[rts] hardcover books
182422812London: Seeley and Son 1824. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 210 plus 1 leaf errata; engraved frontispiece and 2 plates; an ex-library copy with perforated stamp of the Hill Library St. Paul MN on the title page and p. 41 small rubber stamps on p. iii and the errata leaf and faint call numbers in white on lower spine else very good in later half red morocco over brown cloth titled in gilt on spine the spine a little faded. "West came out as Chaplain of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1820 by way of Hudson Bay and York Factor arriving at Red River his headquarters on October 14. During his term of service he visited each year many of the company's stations and in 1823 went overland from Fort York as far north as Fort Churchill. He sailed back to England from Fort York on September 10 1823. His Journal offers a good picture of life and travel in the Canadian West for the period 1820-1823" Streeter III 3696. Complete with the half-title which was overlooked by Wagner-Camp. Wagner-Camp 27:1; Field 1634; TPL 1307; Peel 81; Sabin 102738; Matthews p. 240. <br/><br/> Seeley and Son hardcover books
1776100869<p>Folio contemporary sheep rejoined and crudely rehinged viii 493 1 6 6 4 4 1 15 pp. Binding is very worn especially at the extremities despite hinge repairs back cover is detached and top cover a bit loose browning and aging marginal dampstaining affecting appendices early ownership signatures including Belmont Perry and Thomas Hendry on title and elsewhere bookplate on front pastedown. Samuel Allison 1739-1791 was a Burlington attorney who had an interest in both politics and the law. In 1762 he was commissioned as one of the surrogates for West Jersey and was put to work compiling a new edition of provincial laws which is the current volume and covers the period from 1702 to 1776. Allison was a Quaker who opposed slavery and secession from the British Empire. He worked throughout his life to end slavery and became a spokesperson for a sizeable Quaker community in New Jersey. The present work includes coverage of relief of the poor raising money for public buildings preventing the waste of timber and the regulation of slaves. There are several manuscript corrections to the text in this copy which according to Felcone appear to be the rule for all copies. New Jersey in the American Revolution. Felcone 158. Evans 14911. Sabin 53046.</p> Isaac Collins, books
179428826Philadelphia 1794. Folio. 13 x 7 3/4 inches. 4pp. Signed in print by J. Wagner Clerk. Contemporary manuscript notations on each page tallying the number of vessels. Unbound<br/> <br/>A contemporary official printed list of American vessels with spoliation claims issued by the Secretary of State in the midst of the negotiations over Jay's Treaty.<br/> <br/>In 1793 and 1794 the British captured numerous neutral American merchant ships during its conflict with France including ships in both European and North American waters. The Secretary of State here issued an official list of 304 American merchant vessels -- including the ship's name as well as the names of the masters and owners -- for distribution among port collectors compiled "from the record of the Cases in the office of the Department of State." The terms of Jay's Treaty would include compensation for the vexations and spoliations with the British eventually paying out over $10000000 by 1802. A rare and ephemeral early American document. OCLC cites but a single copy Library Company. Not in Evans or Bristol. unknown books
56810Boston. Broadside 13 x 8-1/2 on tones paper two small holes obscuring a few words at at old folds two holograph changes with the name of the town of Conway written at the top. Signed in type by J. Warren Speaker and John Avery Dept. Secretary. Good. Shipton & Mooney 15428 locates the AAS copy. This Revolutionary War era broadside calls on each town to appoint "some faithful man of their own number" to secure "good strong pairs of shoes and of yarn stocking and shirts" to be used by the army. unknown books
1855007164Sacramento California 1855. Two manuscript letters in ink both on ruled paper with folding creases the 1855 letter 8" x 12 1/2" with single spaced writing both sides approx. 500 words. The 1856 letter 15" x 10" folded in half to make 4 pp. approx. 300 words with small blindstamp top left corner depicting an eagle. The earlier letter is headed "September 18th 1855 Naperville Dupage County Illinois" and ends "Michael direct your letters Nevada County Nevada post office California". George writes to his brother Michael in Naperville that he has "seen a good dele sins i rote you they last letter" including a hundred "inshins" and some "Buffellow". He adds that "we had good luck all they way of may we left Council Bluff" and that he is not home sick yet. He then talks of the gold mines river mining what they are paying and the cost of things such as board "from five to ten dollars a week" "Beaf" "wors 15 to 20 cents" and "potato" "4 cent per pound". He adds that he intends to have some gold before he comes home and that "girls are not so plenty here as they are in state". He closes by asking his brother to write him and to remain at home in Illinois to care for their parents. The 1856 letter headed Sacramento august 3th 1856 informs his brother that he is well and "down to Sacramento now" working on a farm feeding a "schrasing" thrashing machine and that "they times is verry hard in California now". He adds that he had some money "stole" while he was in the mountains but since coming down into the valley he was making money and will send some home soon. The letter ends with George wishing to see them all soon and that he is not home sick. The third page of the letter bears a drawing of a wing or leaf eleven smaller versions of the same image interspersed on page 2. A fascinating testimonial on California during the gold rush written in a strong hand and in a wonderful vernacular style by a good observer. . HOLOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Manuscript. Very Good. books
1869008935New Haven: Tuttle Morehouse & Taylor Printers 1869. RARE in current commerce a copy last seen at auction 1969 RBH. 151 pages 4 portraits one folded map. Contains pp. 46-48 Indian Names in Connecticut by J. Hammond Trumbull. Very Good Plus light soiling and rubbing to cloth some toning at end papers and associated with plates a period newspaper clipping laid in at p.85 perhaps as a bookmark. Folding Map of Norwich West Farms 1663-1725 is Fine. Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America vol. 7 p. 32 calls for 3 portraits this copy has 4. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers Hardcover books
