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1914ST20137Hammersmith: Doves Press 1914. ONE OF 200 COPIES ON PAPER and 12 on vellum. 236 x 165 mm. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". 203 pp. <br/> LOVELY DOVES BINDERY-STYLE DARK BLUE CRUSHED MOROCCO VERY INTRICATELY GILT AND INLAID BY WESLEY D. BAKER verso of front free endpaper stamped in ink: "Baker Bindery for James Cummins Bookseller"; rear turn-in stamp-signed in gilt: "20WDB08" covers with wide frame of inlaid pink morocco Tudor roses a total of 88 inlays on the covers the blossoms linked with sinuous gilt stems with delicate leaves all on a background stippled with tiny stars raised bands spine compartments similarly adorned with inlaid rose at center a trio of leaves at each corner and a background of stars gilt lettering gilt-framed turn-ins with cornerpieces featuring an inlaid rose gilt branches and stars white watered silk pastedowns and endleaves all edges gilt. Printed in red and black. Tidcombe DP-36; Tomkinson p. 58. A PRISTINE COPY.<br/> <br/> This is a refined book full of lovely love poetry offered as an object so gorgeous that its Doves Press imprint has to take an uncharacteristic second place in importance; this is especially true because the binding which clearly derives from Doves Bindery models is a convincing perpetuation of that firm's superb achievements. Ever the perfectionist Cobden-Sanderson personally selected and arranged the poems in the present anthology only after much considered effort. He noted in his journal on 31 July 1913: "I have put 'Bright Star' first for I wish the feeling of the last sonnet to accompany the reader throughout; and at the end revert to Keats' first sonnet and so leave the poet as it were on the peak in Darien." Our binding was done by Wesley Baker in 2008 using tools created by Roy Petit responsible for the roses and Stewart Fields who cut the leaf tools. Baker became interested in bookbinding while in college and attended workshops in the Northeast U.S. but is largely self-taught. From Alabama he has adapted the traditional techniques used in England to the climate of the Deep South where high temperatures and humidity require a different method of gold tooling than would be used in London. The present binding represents the latest attempt we know of to carry on in any thoroughgoing and convincing way the great tradition created by Cobden-Sanderson at the Doves Bindery at the center of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Doves Press unknown
17741283611774. First Edition. BENEZET Anthony WESLEY John. Thoughts upon Slavery. IN: A Collection of Religious Tracts. London Printed: Re-Printed in Philadelphia: Joseph Cruckshank 1774. Small octavo early full brown sheep. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $12000.First American edition preceded only by the same year's much shorter English edition of Wesley's influential and controversial early attack on slavery and the slave trade the first to contain abolitionist Anthony Benezet's expansive notes and afterword not in the English edition bound with a separate title page with four other works in publisher Joseph Crukshank's A Collection of Religous Tracts.Wesley a ""founder of Methodism was noted not only for outstanding powers of leadership but also for practical holiness social concern and immense courage"" Oxford Dictionary of World Religions 1037. He formulated a doctrine of perfection that led to the ""creation of the largest new family of churches to be thrown up by the revival in Britain and in the rest of the English-speaking world"" ODNB. While he was a colleague of leading abolitionists William Wilberforce and Anthony Benezet in Thoughts upon Slavery ""the ethical core of the argument is Wesley's own"" Field John Wesley as a Public Theologian 4. He first witnessed the horrors of slavery as a missionary in Georgia and South Carolina. ""By the time he published his Thoughts upon Slavery he clearly opposed the cruelties and violations of the slave trade It is striking that in this attack on slavery Wesley explicitly does not use the Bible as the basis for his position. Instead he argues that slavery cannot be reconciled with justice and mercy and derives his understanding of justice from natural law Jennings reports that Wesley went even further in moving from protest to transformation"" Sample Future of John Wesley's Theology 58-9. Wesley's work also stands out in that he was a political conservative who rejected democracy and ""strongly criticized mass action here however he legitimated slave resistance and rebellion as an expression of natural liberty in contradiction of biblical injunctions to slaves"" Field 6.This pivotal edition was issued at the urging of Benezet after reading the same year's much shorter English edition. He was especially moved by Wesley's ""exhortation to the ship captains merchants and planters involved in slaving urging them to 'give liberty to whom liberty is due that is to every child of man to every partaker of human nature.'"" Benezet quickly ""arranged with Philadelphia printer Joseph Cruikshank to reprint Wesley's pamphlet but not before he added five expansive footnotes and a lengthy afterword the general tenor of these additions was to clarify and amplify points Wesley had made"" Crosby ed. Complete Antislavery Writings of Anthony Benezet 197. In England ""the public response to Wesley's Thoughts upon Slavery would soon be so great that 229000 people signed petitions against the slave trade to be presented to Parliament"" Jackson Let This Voice Be Heard 126. Yet ""Wesley's attack on the profitable slave trade was risky his opinions were an affront to those who considered the Africans their inferiors. For the latter group Wesley had further unsettling words: 'The inhabitants of Africa are not inferior to the inhabitants of Europe; to some of them they are greatly superior'"" Yrigoyen John Wesley. ""Wesley's contribution to the struggle against slavery did not end with the publication of Thoughts upon Slavery Symbolically the last letter he wrote before his death was to Wilberforce supporting him in his struggle to have the slave trade abolished"" Field 6. Preceded by the same year's 53-page English edition published without Benezet's lengthy notes and afterword. Thoughts Upon Slavery was both published separately and included as ""the second title in: Benezet Anthony. The Potent Enemies of America Laid Open Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank 1774 Evans 13146 and as part of some copies of: A Collection of Religious Tracts as here Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank 1773-1778 Evans 13145"" ESTC W28091. The other titles in this collection each with a separate title page pagination and Crukshank's imprint are: The Plain Path to Christian Perfection by Johannes Tauler translated by Anthony Benezet; The Dreadful Visitation in a Short Account of the Progress of the Effects of the Plague 1774 an abridged version of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year; Benezet's The Mighty Destroyer Displayed the mistaken Use as well as Abuse of Distilled Spiritous Liquors 1774 and Stephen Crisp's Sermons or Declarations 1773. Sabin 4671 102699. Evans 13145 13762. Hildeburn 3134. Early owner signature. Small early ink notation to the title page: ""Collected by Anthony Benezet.""Minor marginal dampstaining to last leaves of final title Sermons or Declarations; expected age-wear to early sheep binding. Very scarce. unknown
19580002131New York NY. Very Good. 1958. On offer is a super original relic of the Civil Rights era and the real bitterness and rage felt by some if not many on the front lines of the Civil Rights movement being the personal copy of the 128 page manifesto-autobiography 'Here I Stand' by Paul Robeson published in 1958 by Othello Associates New York owned annotated and underlined throughout by Wesley A. Williams 1897 - 1984. The target of lifelong racism as the third African-American man ever to join in 1919 the New York Fire Service Williams' ownership signature and despairing annotations fill the book from the front pastedown on: almost every page bears Williams' underlining but it is his commentary as it responds to Robeson's text which is revealing and intensely moving. The pages are stained with his holographic bitterness: he writes regarding the chapter 'Love will find out the way' in the aftermath of the assassination of President Kennedy Williams' comments: 'This Paul is your dream. Today I dream no more as I have lived my 66 years against this brutal white American who lives and dies on the blood of all people. A people who assassinate a good man like their President Kennedy - Kill coloured Sunday school children. Will stop at Nothing. They respect nothing but Force.' Underneath Robeson's suggestion that 'We must wait we are told until the hearts of those who persecute us have softened' Williams has jotted: 'That would be Never'. HISTORICAL NOTES: Wesley Williams joined the New York City Fire Department in 1919 and on the same day the Captain of the Engine Company retired and every other man requested reassignment. Williams persevered in the face of discrimination and became the prime mover in the creation of the Vulcan Society which exposed segregation within the Department. ; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS ERA WESLEY A. WILLIAMS NEW YORK FIRE SERVICE HERE I STAND PAUL ROBESON BLACK CULTURE RACISM RACE RELATIONS AFRICAN AMERICAN AFRO AMERICAN NEGRO STUDIES BLACK STUDIES BLACK CULTURE ICONIC BLACK MEN AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
1908JH1151589Privately printed. 1908. Limited Edition Number 36. . Hardcover. . Moderate wear to extremities pages and boards tanned. else very good condition. /No dust jacket as issued. No Box. Color Illustrations Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy. Privately printed. hardcover
1908856521908. DOW Arthur Wesley & Everett Stanley HUBBARD. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH. Ipswich: Privately printed 1908. No. 103 of approximately 200. 32 pp. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth unmarked with color illustrated front cover only paper covered boards. Covers worn but still attractive; interior near fine small pencil numerals to front pastedown. Eight lovely color woodblock illustrations with other monochrome and two color designs/headpieces. "BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich where he was born and spent most of his life and to his boyhood friend Everett Stanley Hubbard. It is a collaboration somewhat in the spirit of Meteyard Carman and Hovey in their Vagabondia books though Hubbard was undoubtedly a lesser poet and Dow a greater artist. BY SALT MARSHES is his masterpiece and it is evident from the numerous sketches and proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities - some dating back as far as 1895 - that it was a labor of love. Infinite care and craftsmanship were expended on every detail. The illustrations are color woodblock prints such as Dow described in an article in MODERN ART 1896 entitled "Painting with Wooden Blocks." This was a technique Dow had discovered in the course of his study of Japanese art and he was a master of it using as many as four or five different blocks accurately registered thinly inked to show the grain of the wood and printed in subtle gradations of tone to achieve a luminosity that effectively evokes the quality of the light on the marshes. Although the text is printed from small gothic type the lettering on the cover and title page was also cut by hand in woodblocks after the manner of Meteyard and Dawson-Watson's lettering for the COURIER INNOCENT 1897." Finlay - Artists of the Book in Boston 1890-1910. unknown books
1908856521908. DOW Arthur Wesley & Everett Stanley HUBBARD. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH. Ipswich: Privately printed 1908. No. 103 of approximately 200. 32 pp. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth unmarked with color illustrated front cover only paper covered boards. Covers worn but still attractive; interior near fine small pencil numerals to front pastedown. Eight lovely color woodblock illustrations with other monochrome and two color designs/headpieces. "BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich where he was born and spent most of his life and to his boyhood friend Everett Stanley Hubbard. It is a collaboration somewhat in the spirit of Meteyard Carman and Hovey in their Vagabondia books though Hubbard was undoubtedly a lesser poet and Dow a greater artist. BY SALT MARSHES is his masterpiece and it is evident from the numerous sketches and proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities - some dating back as far as 1895 - that it was a labor of love. Infinite care and craftsmanship were expended on every detail. The illustrations are color woodblock prints such as Dow described in an article in MODERN ART 1896 entitled "Painting with Wooden Blocks." This was a technique Dow had discovered in the course of his study of Japanese art and he was a master of it using as many as four or five different blocks accurately registered thinly inked to show the grain of the wood and printed in subtle gradations of tone to achieve a luminosity that effectively evokes the quality of the light on the marshes. Although the text is printed from small gothic type the lettering on the cover and title page was also cut by hand in woodblocks after the manner of Meteyard and Dawson-Watson's lettering for the COURIER INNOCENT 1897." Finlay - Artists of the Book in Boston 1890-1910. unknown
18640002339WITH THE 2ND NEW HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT. Good. 1864. On offer is a superb original historically significant manuscript diary and relic of the Civil War handwritten by noted Chaplain John Wesley Adams born in Townsend Massachusetts in 1832 the seventh generation ancestor of the Presidents Adams. On December 5 1863 Mr. Adams was commissioned chaplain of General Gilman Marston's original command "The Fighting Second". Devoting himself to social and moral welfare of his comrades Adams was renowned for the care of his men. Side by side he participated in the battles at Bermuda Hundred Point of Rocks the second engagement at Fair Oaks Swift Creek Proctor's Creek Drury's Bluff Cold Harbor Siege of Petersburg and entering Richmond under General Devens the day of his surrender. Mr. Adams preached before his regiment on the death of Abraham Lincoln Adams was discharged in 1865 in a testimonial on parchment. Joining the NH Conference Adams was successful with over a dozen notable pastorates. In 1876 he was chosen a delegate to the General Conference in Baltimore serving four years as secretary of his conference. The 42 page coverless diary is comprised of folio sized sheets are in 3 text blocks held by string and are titled as detailed 'excerpts' from the diaries of the renowned pastor. Retrospectively done but very very soon after the dates of the original writings Chaplain Adams provides a factual retelling of his vast service and in fact the writings include for example in one case a riveting word for word passages with a soldier condemned to die for desertion only to exalt in a reprieve to then be shot the next day. Overall G.; Manuscript; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF CHAPLAIN JOHN WESLEY ADAMS BATTLEFIELD DIARY CIVIL WAR BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER TOWNSEND MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL CONFERENCE IN BALTIMORE THE 2ND NEW HAMPSHIRE VOLUNTEERS GENERAL GILMAN MARSTON THE FIGHTING SECOND BATTLES AT BERMUDA HUNDRED POINT OF ROCKS SECOND ENGAGEMENT AT FAIR OAKS SWIFT CREEK PROCTOR'S CREEK DRURY'S BLUFF COLD HARBOR SIEGE OF PETERSBURG RICHMOND UNDER GENERAL DEVENS ABRAHAM LINCOLN HARRIET PATIENCE DAME AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED AUTHORS DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY ARCHIVE DIARY DIARIES JOURNAL LOG PRIMARY SOURCE FIRST HAND ACCOUNT SOCIAL HISTORY PERSONAL STORIES LIVING HISTORY ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPELBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY PERSONAL NARRATIVES . unknown
196353820A Geneva Book/Carlton Press 1963. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. Smaller sturdy book quality blue cloth gilt lettering near-bright on spine 190 stiff lightly browned pages. In neat green ink on half-title page: "To Nicholas & Leone Pedersen Please accept this book as a present from Eleanor with my sincere compliments: Richard Wesley Konter Chief Radioman US Navy Retired; 1897 to 1927." DJ beneath mylar and in archival plastic sleeve a photo of man in formal Navy uniform with guitar on front white and blue background photo at age 80 at top back. DJ has tiny chip at top front tip larger at spine top and top back edge next to spine slight surface wear at spine bottom edge very tiny tear at bottom back edge. Fair DJ/Very Good book. <br/> <br/> A Geneva Book/Carlton Press hardcover
2009834948Fondazione. New. 2009. Hardcover. 8887029431 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 608 pages; over 1000 illustrations most in color. Fondazione hardcover
2493Archive of Diaries Original Writing Original Manuscript Comics Scripts Letters and Ephemera from Actor Wesley Lau 1921-1984<br /> <br /> Archive fits into one banker box. Material primarily dates from Wesley Lau's high school years through college and military service into his early career as actor and screenwriter. Most of the material especially the four diaries and original comics are in very good to fine condition. The small collection of letters and screenplays overall are in good condition with some soiling and overall wear. Ephemeral material from high school report cards certificates etc. in fair to good condition. Other ephemera in generally good condition.<br /> <br /> Tremendous archive of film and television star Wesley Lau from his high school years to early into his film and television career. Anyone who watched television or went to the movies in the 1960's through mid 1970's would recognize Lau for his hundreds of roles. He was probably most recognized for his role as Lt. Andy Anderson in the TV series Perry Mason where he appeared in 81 episodes of the show from 1961 to 1965. One on-line source credits Lau with 91 different television roles often with multiple episodes of each show including Alfred Hitchcock Presents Gunsmoke Bonanza Peter Gunn Twilight Zone Mission Impossible Mod Squad Cannon and Six Million Dollar Man. Lau often was cast as a 'tough guy' or villain.<br /> <br /> His movie credits include I Want to Live! The Alamo The Venetian Affair The Ride to Hangman's Tree Panic in the City Journey to Shiloh The Sweet Ride Airport Green Berets Crosscurrent/The Cable Car Murders Call to Danger Skyjacked Incident on a Dark Street Homebodies and Cry Panic. <br /> <br /> Lau often remarked that he really wanted to be a writer/screenwriter. He is credited with writing scripts for episodes of Perry Mason Ironside Mannix Barnaby Jones Quincy M.E. and Magnum P.I. yet never found steady work in screenwriting relying on his acting skills for his livelihood. <br /> <br /> Wesley Lau was born and raised in Sheboygan Wisconsin where he went to high school graduating from Central High in 1939. High school and college diploma included in archive. Lau was Vice-president of his student body senior year and active in football basketball and acting.<br /> <br /> The archive includes Lau's personal diaries for 1938 thru September 21 1941 when he leaves for college at Madison Wisconsin "here endeth my diary-writing I am not taking it along to Madison; perhaps I'll never write in a diary again." In reading the diaries I am struck by what a prolific reader Lau was probably a book a day usually noting what he was reading and the fact he saw multiple movies weekly again noting titles. There is no question that Wesley Lau in his youth was a fanatical reader and movie buff; we do not recall reading that he watched much television however.<br /> <br /> Lau had a cadre of friends he hung out with but by 1938 we find him spending a lot of time with "Elouise". Many movies walks making out and telephone calls. Still Lau reads prolifically and begins to mention writing short stories and perhaps working on a novel. "This morning I write and rewrite a few of my stories. Geez I wish I could get a real good idea some time and write something of note. I guess I'll just have to keep on writing and maybe someday."<br /> <br /> Acting also begins to take more of his time with rehearsals and performances. As early as January 1939 Lau writes "A girl in Psychology told me I looked and acted like Gary Cooper. Gee a lot of people have told me that. Don't let it go to your head though Bud." In 1941 he is offered a role "with all the work I have to do I am undecided.but I finally can't resist--I take a part.it's just in my blood I guess!!"<br /> <br /> Wesley Lau studied playwriting at the University of Wisconsin received a Master of Arts degree at Yale Drama School and continued his acting studies in New York at the Actor Studio. Lau served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II 1943-1945; the archive includes his Honorable Discharge papers where it notes he received the Victory Medal a European Africa Middle Eastern Theater Ribbon 4 Overseas Bars 1 Service Stripe and a Good Conduct Medal.<br /> <br /> In reviewing Wesley Lau's course records from University of Wisconsin he recorded A's and B's in English Speech and Comparative Literature but received a D and F in Zoology. In two semesters of Philosophy he received a C and D. <br /> <br /> Another fascinating subset in the archive are hundreds of manuscript comic strips and single panel comics/study sketches. Many of them are signed and a few are dated 1937. We find no reference in the diaries although we did not read them completely of this hobby but it certainly received a lot of his time and attention. Many of the sketches are on receipts/paper from several Sheboygan businesses. Thematically many of the sketches portray a heroic chiseled man ala Dick Tracy. Lau does mention reading the Sunday paper weekly. One strip is titled "Thunder Storme--Soldier of Fortune" while another is a 27-page story titled "Captain Stormy--Soldier of Fortune".<br /> <br /> There are four scripts in which Lau acted in the collection: "Harder at Woleai" for the television series "Silent Service" 1958; 1959 The Brothers Brannagan's "Murder Fits the Frame" 1970 script for Aaron Spelling's "The Most Deadly Game" and an undated play titled "House Guests".<br /> <br /> Given Wesley Lau's wish to be a writer it might not be a surprise to find samples of his writing including 7 longer form pieces and many shorter items or conceptual script ideas. We find no record that any of these pieces were published except for a play he wrote for a writing contest was produced in 1947.<br /> <br /> So Far from God--A Screenplay. 75 page typed original manuscript. Plus second original typescript copy of 57 pages.<br /> Peking Man Murders--Script Possibilities Concept Thoughts 2 copies one original 8pp.<br /> I Love You Zea" tentative title A Thriller. Original typescript with manuscript changes 58pp plus 41 pages of handwritten material attached to the typescript.<br /> Typescript copy of "To the First Distant Shore--A Narrative Account of the War with Tripoli 1801-1805 317 pp. in brad binder.<br /> An untitled original typescript copy of a Three-Act Play written Feb. 1947 23pp.<br /> Original typescript one-act play titled "Incident". Written and re-written Nov-Dec. 1946. Produced in the Union Play Circle April 23 and 24. Lau won the Wisconsin Players' play-writing contest. This is the director's copy with comments plus playwright's notes on audience reaction.<br /> <br /> Collection of bound short stories titled "First Short Stories and Poetry" dated 1937. The short stories are dark and macabre--a style unlike what I would expect of Lau from reading his diaries. And I must say the stories are not very good; nor are the poems. <br /> <br /> Collection also includes script ideas for Mission Impossible The Fifth Man and a signed plot for possible movie of the week titled "The House Sitter". Also includes short stories titled "Hex Town" and "The Hexer". There are also numerous snippets scraps and untitled stories. <br /> <br /> We get a glimpse of Lau's early fame from his work in the 1957-1958 TV series Hotel Cosmopolitan with 8 fan letters all women complimenting Lau and asking for stills. One letter was from his cousin Wilma so maybe that does not count. Miss Carol Bages writes "I think you are a very handsome and wonderful actor. I would appreciate it very much if you would send me your picture."<br /> <br /> Finally the archive contains three letters from two of Lau's wives including a letter from Lau's first wife 1957 telling Wesley that she is getting divorced again. "I have always said and repeat that you were a perfect gentleman until the very end and I wouldn't compare this husband to you in that respect." The two letters from Lau's second wife from 1962 and are fairly mundane news filled affairs.<br /> <br /> All in all a fascinating insight into the formative years of one of Hollywood's most prolific character actors from the late 1950's through the mid-70's. <br /> <br /> We find no record that Wesley Lau's papers are held in any institution.<br /> <br /> Extra shipping cost due to size of archive. unknown
1927140942599New York: Longmans Green and Co 1927. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Amos Alonzo Stagg on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original maroon ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light mottling and wear to cloth small puncture to rear board small abrasion to front paste down and pages toned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket perhaps supplied as trimmed slightly shorter than the book with chipping and wear. Stagg was the first to be inducted into the Football Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach. Longmans, Green and Co unknown
19120008211BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS. Good. 1912. On offer is a small original diary of a young man in the early years of the 20th Century. Measuring 4.75 inches by 3 inches it contains 365 pages. It is approximately 33% complete. The cover binding and pages are all in good condition. The handwriting is legible. EDITOR'S NOTE: While there is nothing in this diary to identify the author the item came from an archive related to Wesley Abell who graduated from the University of Vermont was inducted into their Football Hall of Fame and after graduating built a career in the municipal service of Burlington VT eventually becoming City Clerk. In 1912 he is a young man living with relatives and working in Boston MA in 1912. He has secured work as a driver/conductor for the Boston Elevated Street Railway. This is not his long term future goal for in September of 1912 he leaves home to attend the University of Vermont. The entries are fairly straightforward: "Jan 1 '12 finds me working for the Boston Elevated Street Railroad Co. I am staying with Uncle .wn in morning and done my a/ 521 .45 530 .30 Total .75 Excused until 4 o'clock b/ done a 531 .45 & 525 .30 Total .75 c met cars from 6 o'c til 7 o'c Total for day $1.80" Jan 1 1912; "For my A.M. this morn I had 2 534 .60. Was then excused until 4 o'c when I went and done a half for 4 th consisting of 504 and 520 Pay for the day - $1.75" Feb 24 1912; "Today I had a swing beginning at 8:27. Done four trips and then layed off til 6:07. Earl Sunderl was over to see me. Total $2.30 Paid." Mar 3 1913; "After April 5th there are no entries until June. On June 7th it apears that he is running a union picket line - with expected consequences! This morn I went down to run a trip at 5 o'c. On starting out on trip I was met by a bunch of strikers who threw eggs at me. Worked all day mid yells of scab and all sorts of other names. The strikers tried their best to get me to leave my car but I stuck it out". June 7 1912; This entry is significant because it refers to the Boston Elevated Street Railway strike of 1912. This was a serious labour dispute over the organizing of a union there and the demand for better wages. The strike began on June 7th and soon spiraled into violence. Court crack downs were draconian and the strike seemed poised to spread to other cities. The major turning point in the strike however came as a result of charges filed with the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration. The Board released a report which upheld the Union's charges and placed the blame for the strike on the Management. The Board found that the Management had discharged employees solely for their Union activities had brought in strike breakers such as our author and convicted felons who were employed as strong-arm men and had coerced employees against joining the Union. After the Board's report The Governor and the Mayor of Boston became actively involved in settling the strike. The Mayor of Boston in 1912 was John F. Fitzgerald affectionately referred to as "Honey Fitz". Fitzgerald was the maternal grandfather of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Edward M. Kennedy and great grandfather of Congressman Joe Kennedy. In September he is off to university: "This morn I packed my trunks and papa carried me to St. A to take train for college. Earle A and F Stevens went down with me. Met lots of nice fellows in B and spent time with Hayden and Wesley Sturgis at Converse Hall". Sept 24. This diary offers an interesting look into one of the urban transport companies from the point of view of an ordinary worker. For a social historian it provides a flavour and a sense of what work was like in industrialized Boston at the turn of the last century. It also touches on a very key time in labour organizing in the United States. ; Manuscript; 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF; 20TH CENTURY; 1910S; PROGRESSIVE ERA; UNITED STATES; BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; VERMONT; BOSTON ELEVATED STREET RAILROAD; UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT; CONVERSE HALL; JOHN F. FITZGERALD; HONEY FITZ; JOHN F. KENNEDY; EDWARD M KENNEDY; STRIKES IN BOSTON; CONDUCTORS AND MOTORMEN IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY; STRIKES IN 1912; BOSTON ELEVATED COMPANY EMPLOYEES; CARMEN STRIKE IN BOSTON; LABOR ORGANIZATIONS; UNIONS IN 1910S AMERICA; UNION VIOLENCE IN 1910S; UVM ALUMNI; BOULDER SOCIETY MEMBERS; AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown
1907006192London 1907-1913. Full Morocco. Very Good. A strange lyrical manuscript that celebrates the spiritual the mystical and the beautiful. Oblong 25.5 by 37 cm. 49 pages with content many of which are illustrated with watercolors until the last few unfinished pages which have illustrations sketched in pencil. 21 pages have watercolors not counting painted letters. Two pages have finished well-executed pen-and-ink drawings. Followed by blank leaves constituting half of the album. John de Kay 1872-1938 was an American entrepreneur millionaire author and eccentric. With earnings from publishing ventures he invested in the Mexican meatpacking business becoming in the process the "Sausage King of Mexico". By 1909 his meatpacking business in Mexico had a book value of $22 million which translates to about $500 million in today's dollars although he sold his interest in the business to the Mexican government five years later for just $5 million still over $100 million in today's dollars. With his fortune he produced his own play "Judas" on Broadway with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalen. The play with its depiction of a vampish heroine was shut down by the police after its opening night. It was also banned in Boston and Philadelphia. De Kay reportedly infatuated with Bernhardt showered jewelry and other gifts on her. De Kay went on to pen many other works on a wide range of topics including women's rights the labor movement Mexico and world peace as well as at least one work of poetry. As a man of great wealth de Kay owned substantial properties in both France and England as well as having a lavish apartment in New York. We have not been able to discover anything about the presumed illustrator credited in pencil on the cut out back of the FEP Winifred Elliot whose enchanting work is to us the glory of this manuscript. As far as the manuscript this is an anthology of disparate pieces including poetry prose meditations and apercus some of which might be rightly deemed ruminative essays except the organization tends to be somewhat discursive and the purpose is not so much the setting forth of an argument as much as the gathering of loosely linked insights and observations. The writing style can be epigrammatic but also pompous and pretentious perhaps deliberately so as the tone desired would seem at times to be biblical and prophetic. Topics include the law of beauty the soul on being etc. In one essay entitled "On Civilization" de Kay appears to propound rather radical notions. He writes for instance: "The individual is not to expect any help from a Government so long as that Government is organized upon the theory that it is right that a few men may claim the ownership of the earth. . . " If we wish to flatter de Kay we could say some of his writing prefigures that of Kahlil Gibran. On the other hand it shares some kinship with the fusty belletrists of the Late Victorian period as well. However one might assess the writing on its own we would maintain it has merit in how it complements the artwork which it deserves credit for having inspired. The artwork generally has a strong affinity to the pre-Raphaelite style. Here are opulent floral borders seraphs aplenty Medievalist historicism and fantasy. We especially like a page which abounds with butterflies painted with magnificent detail. Condition: Rebacked with matching navy morocco with most of original spine re-mounted but loss of everything from lowest raised band to below from the original spine. Considerable amount of rubbing of leather along edges with a few minor abrasions to leather elsewhere. One shallow but wide ding on rear upper edge. Silk moire endpapers suffering some edge tattering. The FEP is deliberately scooped out neatly so by edge of turn-ins to reveal on back pencilled information about the book. We have relied on this information for the title and also as solidifying the attribution and dating. The pages have light edge toning and an occasional stray mark or smudge. <br /><br /> books
1913006192London 1913. Full Morocco. Very Good. A strange lyrical manuscript that celebrates the spiritual the mystical and the beautiful. Oblong 25.5 by 37 cm. 49 pages with content many of which are illustrated with watercolors until the last few unfinished pages which have illustrations sketched in pencil. 21 pages have watercolors not counting painted letters. Two pages have finished well-executed pen-and-ink drawings. Followed by blank leaves constituting half of the album. John de Kay 1872-1938 was an American entrepreneur millionaire author and eccentric. With earnings from publishing ventures he invested in the Mexican meatpacking business becoming in the process the "Sausage King of Mexico". By 1909 his meatpacking business in Mexico had a book value of $22 million which translates to about $500 million in today's dollars although he sold his interest in the business to the Mexican government five years later for just $5 million still over $100 million in today's dollars. With his fortune he produced his own play "Judas" on Broadway with no less a star than Sarah Bernhardt as Mary Magdalen. The play with its depiction of a vampish heroine was shut down by the police after its opening night. It was also banned in Boston and Philadelphia. De Kay reportedly infatuated with Bernhardt showered jewelry and other gifts on her. De Kay went on to pen many other works on a wide range of topics including women's rights the labor movement Mexico and world peace as well as at least one work of poetry. As a man of great wealth de Kay owned substantial properties in both France and England as well as having a lavish apartment in New York. We have not been able to discover anything about the presumed illustrator credited in pencil on the cut out back of the FEP Winifred Elliot whose enchanting work is to us the glory of this manuscript. As far as the manuscript this is an anthology of disparate pieces including poetry prose meditations and apercus some of which might be rightly deemed ruminative essays except the organization tends to be somewhat discursive and the purpose is not so much the setting forth of an argument as much as the gathering of loosely linked insights and observations. The writing style can be epigrammatic but also pompous and pretentious perhaps deliberately so as the tone desired would seem at times to be biblical and prophetic. Topics include the law of beauty the soul on being etc. In one essay entitled "On Civilization" de Kay appears to propound rather radical notions. He writes for instance: "The individual is not to expect any help from a Government so long as that Government is organized upon the theory that it is right that a few men may claim the ownership of the earth. . . " If we wish to flatter de Kay we could say some of his writing prefigures that of Kahlil Gibran. On the other hand it shares some kinship with the fusty belletrists of the Late Victorian period as well. However one might assess the writing on its own we would maintain it has merit in how it complements the artwork which it deserves credit for having inspired. The artwork generally has a strong affinity to the pre-Raphaelite style. Here are opulent floral borders seraphs aplenty Medievalist historicism and fantasy. We especially like a page which abounds with butterflies painted with magnificent detail. Condition: Rebacked with matching navy morocco with most of original spine re-mounted but loss of everything from lowest raised band to below from the original spine. Considerable amount of rubbing of leather along edges with a few minor abrasions to leather elsewhere. One shallow but wide ding on rear upper edge. Silk moire endpapers suffering some edge tattering. The FEP is deliberately scooped out neatly so by edge of turn-ins to reveal on back pencilled information about the book. We have relied on this information for the title and also as solidifying the attribution and dating. The pages have light edge toning and an occasional stray mark or smudge. unknown
194696045Playbill Incorporated 1946. Rare original playbill from the 1946 production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida starring Marlon Brando and Katharine Cornell. Octavo original wrappers illustrated. Boldly signed on the front panel by Marlon Brando Katharine Cornell Cedric Hardwicke Oliver Cliff Wesley Addy and Mildred Natwick. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by the entire cast of this important production. Katharine Cornell played the lead role of Candida on Broadway in five different productions the last four of which were for her own production company. She became the actress most closely associated with the role and became so acclaimed that the Actor's Guild forbade any other actress from playing the role while Cornell was still alive. In her final production of 1946 a young Marlon Brando played the role of Eugene Marchbanks. Playbill Incorporated unknown books
194696045Playbill Incorporated 1946. Rare original playbill from the 1946 production of George Bernard Shaw's Candida starring Marlon Brando and Katharine Cornell. Octavo original wrappers illustrated. Boldly signed on the front panel by Marlon Brando Katharine Cornell Cedric Hardwicke Oliver Cliff Wesley Addy and Mildred Natwick. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable signed by the entire cast of this important production. Katharine Cornell played the lead role of Candida on Broadway in five different productions the last four of which were for her own production company. She became the actress most closely associated with the role and became so acclaimed that the Actor's Guild forbade any other actress from playing the role while Cornell was still alive. In her final production of 1946 a young Marlon Brando played the role of Eugene Marchbanks. Playbill Incorporated unknown
1945140947526New York: The Viking Press 1945. First Illustrated Edition. Very Good. First illustrated edition. Association copy signed by John Steinbeck on the half-title page and inscribed "with many thanks" to Peter Kriendler owner of the 21 Club in New York. Bookplate of Jeanette and Peter Kriendler to front pastedown. <p>131 1 pp. Bound in publisher's gray-brown cloth boards stamped in slate blue gilt lettering to spine color pictorial onlay to front board. All edges stained blue color pictorial endpapers ivory laid paper. Very Good with light rubbing and toning to covers split to upper front hinge light toning and soft ripple throughout. In the original slipcase plain gray paper with color pictorial onlay lightly soiled and toned and split at upper edge. Goldstone-Payne A9.c unlisted third variant printed by Kipe Offset Process Company and bound by H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company. <p>The 21 Club opened in Manhattan in 1930 as a speakeasy. Patrick Kriendler the brother of one of the two founders became a partner in 1938 after working at the club for most of the previous decade. Steinbeck had a favorite table there and enjoyed Kriendler's legendary customer service. One recent record of the club states that it 'featured sliding doors chutes collapsing shelves and hidden storage areas designed to hide alcohol from law-enforcement officials. Over the years the 21 Club began to attract an elite clientele from the worlds of business entertainment the arts sports and politics. The restaurant was known for its strict code of discipline no staff member was allowed to call a customer by his first name as well as its extravagant expensive menu grouse was served for lunch the day after the shooting season opened in Scotland. The Viking Press unknown
1765mon0000946063William Pine 1765. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. William Pine 1765 first edition by John Wesley English cleric theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. Leather binding firm with minor wear and bumping to the spine and boards. Pages clean and bright no markings with the exception of a monogram ""M.M."" inscribed by a previous owner on the end paper of the fore board. Overall a very good and rare examplar for its age. William Pine hardcover
030231No Binding. Very Good. 609 letters totaling 1979 pages plus over 350 pieces of ephemera and approximately 1000 photographs and negatives all dating from 1928-1973. The correspondence consists mostly of communication between Wesley M. Nagle his wife Mary Elizabeth Ricks Nagle their children William Wesley Nagle and Elizabeth Cameron Nagle plus both the maternal and paternal grandparents of the children the Rev. Dr. William B. ""Daddy"" Ricks and his wife Nora Neal Ricks and Judge Michael Nagle and his wife Leonora Waldrop Nagle. There is also some correspondence of Mrs. Rick's sisters Martha and Lilly Bell Neal as well as from other family friends and business associates of Wesley M. Nagle. The correspondence includes letters from the time that Wesley M. Nagle studied abroad in France and Germany in 1929-1931 and when his daughter studied in France in the 1960s and his son traveled to Germany in the 1970s. The photographs include approximately 800 photographs and 200 negatives mostly of the Nagle family with some of members of the allied families of Waldorp Neal and Ricks of El Paso and Bryan Texas and Gallatin and Nashville Tennessee. The 350 plus ephemeral items include typed and manuscript pages of essays verse memorandum notes reminiscences address book funeral guest book greeting cards calling cards invitations circulars brochures school ephemera receipts newspaper clippings etc. all dealing with the Nagle and allied families. Wesley Michael Nagle 1905-1995 Wesley Michael Nagle was born 12 January 1905 at Bryan Brazos County Texas. He was the son of Judge Michael Nagle and his wife Lenore Waldorp. His father Michael Nagle was born 20 December 1868 at Culpeper County Virginia. Judge Nagle was the son of Irish immigrants Michael Nagle 1833-1903 and his wife Ellen 1833-1908. Judge Nagle's father was a farmer and the Judge spent his young manhood in Bryan Texas where he met and married Lenora Waldorp about 1898. Wesley's father served as county attorney for Brazos County for several terms 1901-1906 before moving to El Paso in 1906 and becoming a member of Kemp Nagle and Smith a leading law firm of El Paso. He was considered prominent in the El Paso legal community at the time of his death and was also the attorney for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He was a life-long Episcopalian. Judge Nagle died 12 December 1938 at El Paso Texas and was buried at Bryan City Cemetery. Wesley's mother was Lenore Waldorp. She was born 26 April 1875 at Bryan Texas. Mrs. Nagle was the daughter of Wesley Virgil 1846-1891 and Sarah McLelland 1853-1929 and the sister of Allister McLelland Waldorp 1877-1936. The McLelland and Waldorp families were pioneers of Bryan Texas the McLellands emigrated to Bryan after the Civil War from Macon Mississippi. Mrs. Nagle also had brother Wesley Waldorp of New York City. Mrs. Nagle was a member of the First Baptist Church of El Paso the El Paso Woman's Club the United Daughters of the American Revolution and life member of Society of Colonial Dames. She died 27 February 1969 at Chester Pennsylvania at the age of 93 She was buried at Bryan City Cemetery with her husband. Wesley M. Nagle was a student at the College of Mines and El Paso High School. He decided to specialize in chemical engineering. He left El Paso to study at Stanford University where he graduated in the Class of 1929. After Stanford he went to study in Europe for a year at Berlin Germany here he was a student at Institut fur Auslander. He also studied at Technische Hochschule in Munich. He did post graduate work at M.I.T. 1931 then went to Bayonne New Jersey to the chemical engineering practice school at the refinery of the Tidewater Oil Co Aug 1931. He won scholarship as assistant in the chemical engineering department of Boston Tech. Upon completing his thesis for doctor of science at M.I.T. in chemical engineering he went to work for Dupont as a research engineer at Gibbstown New books
187571484Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good . 291pp. Quarto 29.5 cm Dark green cloth over boards. With map has a couple of minor fold splits and profile in an envelope at the rear. Both in near pristine condition. Light scratching and scuffing to the monograph's boards. Multiple small faint spots on backstrip. Darkening to p. 180 and the plate opposite. Text block cracked at p. 185 but book remains very sturdy. Complete. In better than very good condition. Powell's 1869 exploration was the first documented expedition to successfully navigate the perilous rapids of the Colorado River through the uncharted Grand Canyon. The expedition set off in 1869 with ten men and four boats under the direction of one-armed American explorer and Civil War veteran John Wesley Powell 1834-1902. After three months and nearly 1000 miles only five of the original party emerged from the depths of the canyon. Their historic journey mapped the last wild untamed river of the American West and named the last unknown regions of American geography. The Henry Mountains and the Dirty Devil River were until the Powell expedition the last nameless mountain range and river in the continental U.S. Carl Wheat writes in "Mapping the Transmississippi West 1850-1861" "As a narrative of adventure this book of 1875 is one of the most justly celebrated documents in the literature of exploration." In recognition of Powell's contributions to American exploration geology and ethnology he was appointed the first director of the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution. He also served as director of the U.S. Geological Survey from 1881 to 1894. Powell Plateau a butte in Grand Canyon National Park is named after him as is Lake Powell. Howes P525. Farquhar 42a. Wheat 1261. Graff 3336. Sabin 64753. Government Printing Office hardcover
18942311448Harrogate Tennessee: Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition #399 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Harry J. Williams.' Signed by John Wesley Hill opposite limitation page. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Volume 1 has very minor discoloration to edges of cloth on rear board minor wear to corners spine a bit faded. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather gilt titles & decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
18942283609Lincoln Memorial University 1894. Limited Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. Limited edition #212 of an unspecified limitation this set 'especially prepared for Ann Emerson Strong to whom it was presented by her father Pritchard H. Strong. Copyright page states 1894 but this is clearly reproduced from the plates of the original - this set is circa 1905. Small chip from spine head of volume 7 1/4 inch tear to spine head of first volume otherwise an excellent set small bookplate with initials A.E.S. on front endpaper of first volume. Complete in twelve hardcover volumes. Red full leather gilt titles & decorations top edges gilt decorative endpapers. A complete collection of Abraham Lincoln's works including speeches letters biographical writings etc. with an introduction by John Wesley Hill and special articles by various other contributors. The editors were Lincoln's private secretary and assistant secretary and also served in various other governmental roles Hay going on to become Secretary of State under McKinley and Roosevelt. Nicolay and Hay are perhaps best known for their ten-volume biographical history of Lincoln's administration originally published serially in The Century Magazine beginning in 1886 -- it remains one of the more exhaustive and personal accounts of the life of the 16th President of the United States and is notable for the inclusion of facsimiles of original drafts of important documents most importantly the Emancipation Proclamation. This set includes facsimiles of original correspondence and documents reproductions of contemporary photographs and engravings etc. Lincoln Memorial University hardcover books
199951773Museum. New. 1999. Paperback. 0937108227 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 86 pages. 60 works catalogued and illustrated -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
200690311Museum. New. 2006. Paperback. 0914357972 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 64 pp. ; 46 ills. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
199525293Terrace Park OH: C. Wesley Cowan. New. 1995. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- with a bonus offer-- . C. Wesley Cowan paperback
