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183852830New York:: Bufford's Lithography 1838. First edition thus. stitched and enclosed in unprinted blue paper wrappers as issued; enclosed in a custom cloth folding box. . Some scattered inoffensive foxing; beautiful original condition. Rare. Folio. Ten lithographs and five engraved maps. . Deak Picturing America 477. These views and maps illustrate NYS Assembly Document 200 1838 and were also issued separately. Deak: "This early series of ten lithographic views and fine engraved maps constitutes one of the most important keys to the iconography of the Adirondack region." Bufford's Lithography, hardcover
166044488London: Printed for James Davis and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard 1660. 1st Edition Abbott 1043; Wing G351. Later binding by Riviere & Son full red morocco triple gilt border rule to boards. AEG. Spine with elaborate gilt tooling five raised bands. Gilt stamped title to spine. Gilt dentelles. Very minor binding wear. Age-toning to eps & text paper. A handsome & pleasing VG - Nr Fine volume. 8 131 13 pp. A6 blank. 12 pages of bookseller offerings conclude volume. Engraved frontispiece restored lower corner. 12mo; A6 B - G12 A1 = Frontis. 5-1/2" x 3-1/4" 14 cm x 8.3 cm. <br/><br/> Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard hardcover books
1930147544N.p.: N.p. 1930. First White script for the 1930 pre-Code film the first talking picture adaptation of Twain's novel. Screenplay divided into nine alphabetical Sequences A through J omitting I presumably as issued.<br /> <br /> The third screen adaptation of Mark Twain's 1876 classic coming-of-age novel and the first sound version. The top box office attraction of 1930 it prompted the studio to release "Huckleberry Finn" directed by Norman Taurog the following year with largely the same cast.<br /> <br /> In a custom quarter leather clamshell box. <br /> <br /> Wrapper integral with title page dated July 20 1930 noted as FIRST WHITE with credits for author Mark Twain screenwriters Sam Mintz Grover Jones and William Slavens McNutt star Jackie Coogan director John Cromwell and supervisor Louis D. Lighton. 143 leaves with last page of text numbered J-6. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good detached at the punch holes with closed tears and light soiling side stapled with three staples. N.p. unknown
19141239221914. Signed. CROMWELL Adelaide CROMWELL John Wesley. The Negro in American History. Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent. Washington: American Negro Academy 1914. Octavo original gilt-lettered green cloth. $3200.First edition of Cromwell's paramount African American history that ""broke fresh ground"" in its defining biographies of leaders such as Frederick Douglass and Phillis Wheatley a major biography of Reconstruction congressman Robert B. Elliot who crafted a core argument against the 1873 decision in the Slaughter-House Cases along with accounts of the lives and influence of Henry Highland Garnet Denmark Vesey Nat Turner and many more. This important association copy stands within that tradition in its owner signature of Cromwell's granddaughter historian and scholar Dr. Adelaide Cromwell co-founder of the African Studies program at Boston University.Born enslaved in 1846 Cromwell became a teacher before enrolling in Howard University's law school. Admitted to the bar in 1874 in 1876 he founded the newspaper People's Advocate and became a voice for Black education in all-Black schools founding the Bethel Literary and Historical Association and playing a vital role in establishing the American Negro Academy. Cromwell's early writings and leadership were quickly seen as crucial and in 1887 he was profiled in Simmons' Men of Mark alongside Frederick Douglass and Crispus Attucks. Simmons asserted: ""If you ask me for the best English scholar in the United States I would unhesitatingly refer you to John Wesley Cromwell"" Smithsonian. Cromwell's Negro in American History his ""first full-length monograph"" documents the ""history of African Americans from the slave trade through Reconstruction and its aftermath"" ANB. Early recognized as a ""very important work"" it features lengthy biographies of Phillis Wheatley Sojourner Truth Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington as well as figures such as Reconstruction attorney Robert B. Elliott ""who helped draft legislation to fight the KKK in the South"" Smithsonian. Negro in American History is especially significant in its attention to slave revolts as ""a constant menace to the safety and security of slavery."" Cromwell saw Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner as folk heroes and ""maintained that before the American Revolution along approximately 25 insurrections had occurred."" The work of Black historians such as Cromwell ""broke fresh ground by focusing on the slaves' responses to captivity"" and by evincing pride for a Black past that ""laid the foundation for Black protest"": raising questions and ""themes that did not become popular among historians until the 1960s"" Smith Different View of Slavery 303-4. In his life and writings Cromwell combined ""advocacy for the collective uplift of African Americans with a belief in educational advancement and intellectual achievement. His historical work placed him at the nexus of the pre-professional and professional milieus in African American scholarship"" ANB. First edition first printing. With frontispiece and eleven full-page illustrations. This distinctive association copy possesses the owner signature of Adelaide M. Cromwell the granddaughter of its author John Wesley Cromwell and the niece of Dr. Otelia Cromwell the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from Yale. Following in their footsteps Dr. Adelaide Cromwell also broke ground in African American history serving as a distinguished professor at Boston University and pivotal co-founder of its African Studies Programonly the second in the country. In addition to authoring major works on Black history she also became the first African American appointed Library Commissioner in Massachusetts.Interior quite fresh expert repair to rear inner hinge and a sopt at top of rear board. hardcover
18991291281899. First Edition. GARDINER Samuel Rawson. Oliver Cromwell. London: Goupil 1899. Folio 10 by 13 inches contemporary full tan morocco gilt raised bands top edges gilt uncut. $3000.Limited edition of Gardiners highly regarded biography of Cromwell one of 1475 wide-margined copies printed on fine paper illustrated with lithographed color frontispiece portrait 44 engravings most full-page and manuscript facsimiles handsomely bound by Bumpus.When Scotland began to rise up against Charles I in 1637 Oliver Cromwell was poised at the center of this turning point in British history. Soldier and brilliant strategist controversial politician and statesman Cromwell would ultimately be sworn in as Lord Protector in December 1653. Though his is a checkered legacy Cromwell nevertheless made it possible ""for the first time in three and half centuries for Jews to live trade and worship openly in the City of London"" Schama II:235. Prior to Cromwell ""no private person had taken power to rule a great European kingdom no subject had taken it upon himself to sit in judgment on his lawful sovereign condemn him with the formality of a lawful process and publicly execute him as a criminal. In a country governed by custom precedent and the common law Cromwell completely changed the ancient frame of government reforming Parliament and imposing a written constitution"" Cannon 263. Issued same year as a limited edition of 350 copies printed on Japanese vellum. This is an out of series copy marked ""Presentation Copy"" for the limitation number. CBEL III:911. Bookplate.Scattered foxing. Beautifully bound. hardcover
199437511Dundurn Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550022148 . Previous owner's name and address on half title page along with Signature of the Author With Inscription to previous owner a Canadian Oueens Own Rifleman of Canada. Also signed by 15 of the WW2 veterans of the Queens Own Rifles of Canada present in France for D-Day 50 Celebration. Extremely rare! w/djA clean tightly bound hardcover copy. ; 0 X 0 X 0 inches; 192 pages . Dundurn Press hardcover
1948140941350Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1948. First Edition. Very Good/Good. First edition. Association copy signed by Dorothy West on front free endpaper inscribed to Adelaide M. Cromwell whose signature is above this under her married name Hill: "October 1976. With so much love. Thank you for all the years of your friendship signed Dorothy." Cromwell was a prominent sociologist and a granddaughter of John Wesley Cromwell also the first Black instructor at Hunter College and at Smith College. She was the author of several books on Black history and a study of Boston's Black upper class. She would write an afterword for this book decades later upon its republication. <p>iv 347 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with crimson lettering. Very Good with wear at foot cloth slightly soiled and worn at tips slight lean to spine pencil brackets throughout text presumably Cromwell's notes written on rear endpapers in pencil as well. In Good dust jacket worn and slightly chipped along edges price-clipped clear tape reinforcement to verso only.<br /> <br /> <p>The debut novel by a writer generally associated with the Harlem Renaissance for her association with Langston Hughes and other figures of the movement as well as the literary magazine Challenge she published during the Great Depression. In their 2020 reprint of this novel The Feminist Press writes "Written in elegant and piercing prose The Living Is Easy is a classic of American literature by a groundbreaking African American woman writer whose work deserves widespread and enduring recognition. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
19031245491903. First Edition. Signed. DU BOIS W. E. Burghardt. The Negro Church. Report of a Social Study made under the direction of Atlanta University; together with the Proceedings of the Eighth Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems held at Atlanta University May 26th 1903. Atlanta: Atlanta University Press 1903. Octavo original printed gray self-wrappers respined; pp. 212. $2800.First edition of a rare association copy of Du Bois' groundbreaking work on the Black Church with owner signature of Adelaide M. Cromwell influential scholar and granddaughter of renowned 19th-century Black historian John Wesley Cromwell a peer of Du Bois this 1903 work published the same year as his famed ""Talented Tenth"" manifesto key in affirming Du Bois' role in moving ""the Atlantic University Studies to the frontier of social science research virtually single-handedly.""The year Du Bois arrived in Atlanta in 1897 to begin his tenure at Atlanta University he became director of the annual series of conferences and primary editor of the accompanying publications. Particularly ""in both Negro Church 1903 and Negro Family 1908 Du Bois would push the Atlantic University Studies to the frontier of American social science research virtually single-handedly"" Levering Lewis W.E.B. Du Bois 160. There and in his own early writings ""Du Bois created sociological and historical works of lasting significance that set wholly new standards for the sociological study of Black Americans"" New York Times. In Atlanta already ""one of the 20th century's intellectual heavyweights"" he stood in ""the vanguard of social science scholarship in America"" but remained ignored by the academy as the critically underfunded Atlanta University was routinely bypassed by white philanthropists Levering Lewis 713 162.It was in Atlanta that Du Bois created ""the first American school of sociology"" Wright First American School of Sociology 80. Yet in 1910 when he realized ""his presence on the faculty of Atlanta University negatively affected the school's philanthropic outreach efforts he chose to resign from the faculty."" Du Bois increasingly ""saw that 'the cure wasn't simply telling people the truth it was inducing them to act on the truth.' It was not enough to determine truth scientifically; it had to be implemented politically."" This became a cornerstone of his often tumultuous always consequential life and career. Nearly five decades after leaving Atlanta the news of his death across the world in Ghana caused the 250000 Americans gathered at the 1963 March on Washington to grow suddenly silenta ""moment almost cinematic in its poignancy""as Roy Wilkins declared: ""his was the voice calling you to gather today in this cause"" Levering Lewis 162 2. First edition first printing: Atlanta University Publications No. 8; with numerous in-text charts and graphs. Partington 2332. Work 408. Not in Blockson. With owner signature of Adelaide M. Cromwell tipped in from the library binding it was bound into at one time this association copy belonged to the prominent Black historian and sociologist who followed in the footsteps of her grandfather John Wesley Cromwell a pioneering 19th-century lawyer author and civil rights activist. Dr. Cromwell Hill an influential scholar and activist was a distinguished professor at Boston University and pivotal co-founder of its African Studies Programonly the second in the country. In addition to authoring major works on Black history she also served as the first African American appointed Library Commissioner in Massachusetts. Text very fresh expert restoration to original wrappers. unknown
196253293London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1962. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 19cm; red paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 67-1893pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Hint of sunning to spine a few tiny indentations to upper and lower board edges with subtle tanning to text edges and a tiny spot to lower edge of textblock; contents are quite fresh without foxing; Very Good or better lacking the dustjacket. Le Carré's second novel and the second book to feature master spy George Smiley set in a small town and centered around an elite private school. BARZUN & TAYLOR 1361; HUBIN p.249. Victor Gollancz Ltd unknown books
2011103430Editions Akileos. New. 2011. Hardcover. 2355740941 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in French & English. 208 pages; many illustrations most in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . Editions Akileos hardcover
199915750Los Angeles California U.S.A.: Roxbury Pub Co. New. 1999. Paperback. 0935732950 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - BRAND NEW FLAWLESS COPY NEVER OPENED -- 230 pages -- with a bonus offer-- . Roxbury Pub Co paperback
196152161London England: Oxford University Press. As New. 1961. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Text pristine clean & unmarked tight to spine - 219 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . Oxford University Press hardcover
882028Durham EnglandDurham England: 1657 Folio. A lovely manuscript indenture executed under Cromwell's authority and carrying a fine impression of his was seal on parchment. The initial "O" in Oliver decorated with complex scrollwork with the body of the text in a court hand. The seal with coat of arms on obverse with a fine equestrian portrait of Charles IX King of Sweden the Lord Protector. Durham, EnglandDurham, England: , 1657 unknown
WALTER-FILM000019No binding. Very Good. Fine Art Print Vintage original 27 x 41"" 68 x 105 cm. one sheet poster USA. Hed Lamarr Charles Boyer Sigrid Gurie Joseph Calleia Alan Hale Gene Lockhart dir: John Cromwell; United Artists. Hedy Lamarr made her American film debut in this famous classic romantic melodrama. She had made five films in Europe between 1930 and 1933 the last the notorious ECSTASE which caused such a scandal that she did not make another film for 5 years. She was contracted by MGM but Louis B. Mayer loaned her to Wanger for her first American film. It was one of her best and her pairing with Charles Boyer as the notorious jewel thief Pepe le Moko has become legendary and inspired many imitations and caricatures. The film was Academy nominated for Art Direction Alexander Toluboff and Cinematography James Wong Howe as well as Best Actor to Boyer and supporting to Gene Lockhart. Original poster art for this title is very rare. Present are the many elements of the story Pepe Le Moko Boyer the police force searching the streets outside the protected Casbah the Casbah gypsy Ines Sigrid Gurie obsessed with Pepe and the beautiful visitor Lamarr with whom he becomes obsessed. On linen VERY GOOD. unknown books
1659838581659. CROMWELL Richard TO HIS HIGHNESS RICHARD LORD PROTECTOR OF THE COMMON-WEALTH OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND AND THE DOMINIONS AND TERRITORIES THEREUNTO BELONGING. THE HUMBLE REPRESENTATION AND PETITION OF THE GENERAL COUNCIL OF THE OFFICERS OF THE ARMIES OF ENGLAND SCOTLAND AND IRELAND. London: Printed by Henry Hills 1659. 1 7 pp. 1 pp. Printer's note. 4to octavo size binding. Quarter blue cloth with printed paper spine label marbled paper covered boards. Binding fine. Contents very good complete with moderate foxing and age-toning. Edges nicked some shallow chipping not affecting text. The Armies' suffering for want of pay and the besmirching of the "good old cause. unknown books
199437285Dundurn Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550022148 . Signed By the Author With Inscription to previous owner. Very rare! w/djA clean tightly bound hardcover copy. A really nice copy overall. ; 0 X 0 X 0 inches; 192 pages; Signed by Author . Dundurn Press hardcover
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with full-page pedigrees in the text, and pictorial endpapers; cloth (black/black/blue respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. The trilogy comprises Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror and the Light (2020). Bright set of Mantel's prize-winning trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell; the first and second volumes were awarded the Man Booker Prize. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
165722250London: John Field 1657. Hardcover. Very good. Three Acts bound as one in 19th century paper over boards leather label gilt. Fine copies; the the binding is worn at the upper hinge else is in very good condition.<br /> <p><br /> The first Act banned public practice of Catholicism Catholic priests were killed when captured; Catholic-owned land was confiscated and given to Scottish and English settlers and Catholic landowners were relocated to Connacht. Hence the expression attributed to Cromwell: To Connacht or to Hell.<br /> <p><br /> The second Act set forth procedures for soldiers and officers who served in Ireland to recover a "great Arrears of pay". The third Act assessed Ireland the sum of £20000 for support of the Spanish War to be levied and paid "in such manner and form as by the Lord Deputy and Council or any three or more of them shall be Ordered and Directed."<br /> <p><br /> Rare<br /> <p>. John Field hardcover
177045899London: Printed for the Editor. and Sold By J. Swan Et Al. Very Good. 1770. First Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary calf. Chipped label. Gilt decor to spine. Edges worn tape reinforcement to front hinge. Old names to title page which is partially detached. Pp vii 560 5 table of contents. Contents generally VG. Scarce item. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Printed for the Editor. and Sold By J. Swan, Et Al hardcover
16609736London: Printed by J. Cottrell for William Roybould at the Unicorn and Henry Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1660. First edition. 8vo 7 459 I.e. 359pp. Engraved portrait frontis title page in two colors. Bound in half morocco spine lettered in gilt with gilt ruling marbled endpapers t.e.g. Lacks half title. Paper flaw to h4 affecting several words from the ends of about 4 lines on both upper and lower corners but not the sense. Otherwise text clean and complete binding tight and attractive. <br /> <br /> First edition of this important early biography of Cromwell offering a relatively sympathetic account of his military and civil career issued in the year of the Stuart Restoration. This work has been attributed to Henry Fletcher and William Raybould the publishers. There was a second edition in 1680 but the first remains quite scarce in the trade. <br /> <br /> ESTC R18473. Printed by J. Cottrell for William Roybould at the Unicorn, and Henry Fletcher at the Three Gilt Cups in St. Paul's Church-Yard unknown
1660103702London: John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin. 1660. 1st ed. small slim octavo contemporary 17th century full calf calf binding leather hinge cords with later added leather and git title spine label. Some marking to boards and wear to spine mostly at head and foot. Previous bookseller's catalogue description tipped in front endpaper. Very good condition. In custom-made black drop-over box leather gilt spine label. Details reports from Parliament in April 1657 during the Protectorate debating whether the Lord Protector Cromwell was to take the title of King. The book records the speeches arguing that he should take the crown as part of a revised constitution. It includes speeches from Cromwell. His final speech ends: "That I cannot undertake this Goverment with the Title of a King and that is mine answer to this great and weighty business." "Monarchy Asserted" was edited by Nathaniel Fiennes or by Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke both supporters of Oliver Cromwell. The names of the members of the Committee are enclosed in brackets on the title page. The preface "To the reader" is signed: By a lover of his King and Countrey. 1st Edition. Leather. John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and 11 illustrations in monochrome (one double-page); pictorial cloth, gilt back, gilt edges, blue ribbon marker, a fine copy in publisher's gilt board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
39553being a Grant of Probate for "William Searle late of Honiton in the county of Devon Postmaster. said will was granted and remitted to Susannah Searle." 6" x 6" on vellum lacking seals Court of Probate 1st February William SEARLE 1601-1657 was a Postmaster in Honiton. In 1643 the first General Post Office was established in the City. This came just eight years after Charles I made the Royal Mail available to his subjects although it was Oliver Cromwell who formally established the Post Office when he granted a monopoly over mail delivery to the 'Office of Postage' in 1654. In 1655 he appointed his spymaster John Thurloe 1616-1668 to be Postmaster General a post he held until he was accused of treason and arrested in May 1660. In 1657 he fixed the rates. hardcover
2 voll. in 16, pp. (48) + 544; 592 + (16) con 51 tavv. f. t. inc. all'acquaf. tra cui molti ritratti, monete, una carta dell'Inghilterra e alcune vedute di citta'. P. pg. ottocentesca con fr. e tasselli al d. Edizione originale di questa corposa opera del Leti dedicata a Massimiliano II Duca di Baviera. Il Leti, divenuto protestante a Ginevra, passo' , in seguito in Francia e poi, a causa delle persecuzioni verso i protestanti, si trasferi' in Inghilterra. Scrisse il Teatro Britannico per ordine di Carlo II, ma proprio a causa di questa pubblicazione dovette riparare in Olanda (1682). Qui pubblico' la vita di Cromwell. Graesse, IV, 183.
1978446601Virginia Philadelphia 1978. Unbound. Very Good. An archive of 16 pieces of ephemera from Thelma Cromwell's time studying at the Booker T. Washington Night School in 1949 and later nursing school in 1956. All items are very good or better with some small tears and edgewear.<br /> <br /> A small archive following the academic career and later professional career of Thelma G. Cromwell beginning in 1949. Cromwell began her studies at the Booker T. Washington Night School in Norfolk Virginia where she studied business. A class photo and report cards from her time at the school can be seen here. In 1956 she graduated from the Jules E. Mastbaum Vocational-Technical School’s nursing program in Philadelphia. She stayed in Philadelphia and took a course in General Medical and Surgical Nursing under the Veterans Administration. Cromwell spent her career as a nurse at the Veterans Hospital of Philadelphia and certificates for her performance are featured here as well as certificates for additional training she received.<br /> <br /> A modest but interesting archive following an African-American nurse's schooling and later career. unknown